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Forum: Copywriting 26th November 2015, 04:15 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,212
Posted By Silvestru
Re: The Copywriter's Books / Reading List

I have to agree with Alex.

You don't need that many books to start writing decent copy.

7 out of those MAX.

3 are essential, the rest you can learn more by taking action and failing.
...
Forum: Copywriting 24th November 2015, 01:43 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 3,547
Posted By Silvestru
Re: The Ultimate Video Sales Letter Guide

Very nice analysis Shawn! (and yep, I now see what Ray was saying)

So what about traffic? What is the best traffic that converts on VSLs? Email lists? Is there a way to make Facebook Ads work with...
Forum: Copywriting 22nd November 2015, 10:30 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 3,547
Posted By Silvestru
Re: The Ultimate Video Sales Letter Guide

Of course the principles of good copywriting still apply! But to say that you can just take a regular text sales page and put into slides and expect people to listen to some guy read a letter for 40...
Forum: Copywriting 22nd November 2015, 05:17 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 3,547
Posted By Silvestru
Arrow The Ultimate Video Sales Letter Guide

Probably not the humblest title I could have chosen but I didn't find anything good online on writing VSLs that I could recommend to anyone. So after shelling good bucks for paid courses and writing...
Forum: Warriors For Hire 27th October 2015, 01:30 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 543
Posted By Silvestru
Get a film-director to write your next VIDEO SALES LETTER

I write video sales letters...
...For business owners, product creators and other people…
Who want to make more money with their products and services.

That's it.

Nothing more.

Nothing...
Forum: Warriors For Hire 19th August 2015, 07:01 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 939
Posted By Silvestru
Re: If you want your emails written by a jack-of-all-trades copywriter, DO NOT CLICK ON THIS THREAD

Thanks for the feedback Tim. The email sequence and server setup are two completely separate things. I added that because I thought that it would be something helpful to mailers who send a lot of...
Forum: Copywriting 3rd August 2015, 07:22 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,904
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Copywriter JV

I've tried the Clickbank JV gig thing. Didn't work for me. Most of them don't have the money/aren't educated on the importance of copy. Those who are and have the money and regularly spend decent...
Forum: Copywriting 7th July 2015, 04:40 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 2,422
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Detailed breakdown of a highly converting VSL in the weight-loss niche

http://spartanfatmelting.com/



You're right and that's why I focused only on the tactics rather than the "science" behind it. Some of the stuff is pretty sketchy but I know that this VSL...
Forum: Copywriting 6th July 2015, 02:58 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 2,116
Posted By Silvestru
Re: My First Sales Letter Ever. Is it Any Good?

Instead of a coin, I would put a small baggie of weed*

And then I would proceed to tell them about my wild trip to Amsterdam and I how managed to get there and have fun for less than $300.

And...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd July 2015, 05:50 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 3,926
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Do skilled Copywriters really make good money?

The biggest money goes to the top of the top copywriters (<%2).

Unless you're willing to put the time and effort to become the absolute friggin' best out there, I wouldn't get your hopes up. It's...
Forum: Copywriting 3rd July 2015, 05:38 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 2,422
Posted By Silvestru
Detailed breakdown of a highly converting VSL in the weight-loss niche

So I was browsing the forum a couple of weeks back and I stumbled on a thread where the VSLs of a number of products were being discussed.

Some of you noticed how these products were converting...
Forum: Warriors For Hire 22nd June 2015, 08:50 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 939
Posted By Silvestru
🔥🔥🔥 Get a $3000 sales letter for only $300 !? (CLOSED) 🔥🔥🔥

Did the title get your attention?

Good.

I know your time is short so I'm going to skip the "why you need a good sales letter, email, VSL, bla bla bla" part.

We both know why you're here.
...
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 24th August 2014, 04:23 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,185
Posted By Silvestru
Re: POF flagged my account after payment and are not responding.

Did you mail Ben directly? You might not get a message right the next minute but he always replies.
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 21st August 2014, 06:40 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 486
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Bing charging me and no money goes into account??

Well, it's good (kinda) to know that I'm not the only one. But this is seriously crap. Every other site has no problem with my CC. Then I try to do this and I'm not only rejected but my account is...
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 28th July 2014, 05:58 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 498
Posted By Silvestru
Re: DirectNetPartners

Ah, DNP. My first real buxx were with them. The death rattle was when they switched from CPA to RevShare about a year or so ago. Good times, good times.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th May 2014, 04:24 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 479
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Does advertising through Pop-up ad networks violate Adsense TOS?

I think OP wanted to know if having Adsense on your site along with a couple of pop-ups would constitute a breach of ToS. Pretty clear to me.
Forum: Mind Warriors 27th May 2014, 04:20 PM
Replies: 43
Views: 3,271
Posted By Silvestru
Re: I Started Doing This, And It's As If The LoA Was Put On STEROIDS In My Life!

You know what's funny? You can take this gratitude process and start applying it to whatever illnesses/troubles you're currently having. And not in a masochistic "thanks God for punishing me the...
Forum: Growth Hacking 27th May 2014, 04:07 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 11,212
Posted By Silvestru
Re: OK ... so Growth Hacking. What's the Big Deal?

I'm no expert, but one analogy that is close to me is that growth hacking is to marketing what life-coaching is to psychology.

In essence, yes, they're probably the same thing. But their goals...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th May 2014, 04:02 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 583
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Is it Easier to rank High Authority Websites?

Does the old domain have powerful links and content? Then yes.

But take that with a grain of salt because you can rank new domains just as easily in some niches if you have the right linkbuilding...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th May 2014, 03:58 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 536
Posted By Silvestru
Re: I don't know if it is ok to do 50 articles about the same topic

Although I started out with rewriting 90 articles from 3 sources articles on subjects as drab as "bamboo window blinds" and gotten proficiently good at writing a lot of words without saying anything,...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th May 2014, 03:49 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 611
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Worth it to silo an aged site?

I would add that you can go ahead and silo your site as you can easily write a .htaccess file that 301 redirects the old links to the new ones (Scrapebox + some search/replace in your favorite text...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th May 2014, 03:39 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 717
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Too much SEO footprint?

^ No offense chap, but I think consulting a dictionary would help (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/footprint?s=t).
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th May 2014, 03:34 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 479
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Does advertising through Pop-up ad networks violate Adsense TOS?

From here (https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/1346295?hl=en#Placing_Google_ads_on_a_website_with_pop-ups).
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th May 2014, 03:32 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 2,526
Posted By Silvestru
Re: What is the best way to generate web traffic to my website?

First of all, find your subniche. As it stands right now, I have a hard time figuring what yours is and what is so compelling about your site vs the hundred excellent blogs on the same topic that are...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th May 2014, 03:27 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 833
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Could I Be Banned for Discrimination?

Banned by who?

I'd read the TOS, or better yet, contact support at wherever you're placing your ads.

Actually, I'd wager that the more divisive you can be, the more successful your ad will be....
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th May 2014, 03:21 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 981
Posted By Silvestru
Re: HAs The Ad Swap Community Lost It's Mind? Look At This Mess-

Unfortunately, as long as it makes money, it will keep on going.

The same with spam. And everything else that can be called "easy-money", "automated system" and so on.



I'm so stealing this...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th December 2012, 05:53 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,472
Posted By Silvestru
Re: The best strategy to reverse engineer your competitors websites

Buy a subscription to MajesticSEO or Ahrefs and start spying on their links.

Hard coded links? Have a good website. Ask for a link exchange. If that fails, bribe them. Actually there's so many...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th December 2012, 04:11 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 512
Posted By Silvestru
Re: How to increase interaction with website visitors?

Drive more traffic. Really, the conversion rate for comments is much, much higher than anything else. Great content won't attract traffic by itself and I must have a damn good reason to comment on...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th December 2012, 04:07 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 627
Posted By Silvestru
Forum: Off Topic Forum 19th December 2012, 04:06 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 3,551
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Did you prepare for the end of the world?

Yes. My Y2K sites are still up.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th December 2012, 03:40 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 630
Posted By Silvestru
Re: I need some help with image formatting..

Host the images on your own site. AFAIK most, if not all free image hosts do some compression on large images.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 7th November 2012, 03:01 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 974
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Wordpress SEO Plugins?

Yoast generates XML sitemaps by itself, no need for other plugins. And yes you must submit it manually for it to work properly.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd November 2012, 01:59 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 616
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Using Password Protected Wordpress Page for Premium Content

Password gets shared, boom.

Look into getting a membership plugin. There was a really good one by one of the members here, basically tied an IP to a key & PayPal purchase. The name escapes me but...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd November 2012, 01:55 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 489
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Should I use Virtual Private Server hosting?

What is the basis of your estimate?

Most people, especially in the beginning, overestimate the scale of their launch (yeah, yeah, don't we all?)

The problem isn't bandwidth. That is ALMOST...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st November 2012, 02:42 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 743
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Buying YouTube Views - Country of Origin?

It's not only views. Backlinks play an even bigger role. Focus on getting backlinks from .au domains. Also, social media should help you too.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st November 2012, 02:33 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 431
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Do you use Craigslist Ads?

You'll have to create a new account. You'll have to verify that account with another phone number. You'll have to take care so as to cloak your IP or use an IP range that is from within the area that...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st November 2012, 02:24 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 489
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Should I use Virtual Private Server hosting?

How big do you estimate your launch to be?

~1000 unique hits on launch day, you should be fine with what you've got.

Get W3 Total Cache if you're using Wordpress as your CMS so you can cut down...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th August 2012, 07:05 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,585
Posted By Silvestru
Re: PayPal nudity

Thanks for the replies guys. I'll do this in the morning as I'm already burnt out.

When I make the "undisclosed adult material" claim should I upload the guide somewhere and have PayPal sent a...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th August 2012, 06:34 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,585
Posted By Silvestru
PayPal nudity

Hi guys,

I've bought an ebook from a real sleaze that teaches a guide on how to upload nudes on a website to monetize with AdSense.

The sales page didn't tell me ANYTHING about this. It's a...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th August 2012, 04:25 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,488
Posted By Silvestru
Re: How to collect email addresses with a WSO?

Yes, but did you encounter this problem yourself?

I'm not discounting what you say. I know of people who've made over $100 000 on WSOs with 50% and even lower commissions and had their accounts...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th August 2012, 03:46 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,488
Posted By Silvestru
Re: How to collect email addresses with a WSO?

Hey WillR, I've seen other people speak about avoiding 100% commissions because of fear of incurring the wrath of PayPal but no one ever proves this.

I've done a 100% commissions product using...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th August 2012, 03:36 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 753
Posted By Silvestru
Re: I am a newbie

Welcome!

Just stay out of the WSO area and try to soak up as much info as possible for now ;)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th August 2012, 03:31 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 477
Posted By Silvestru
Re: What Google is trying to do here?

And how did you deduce that?

Fact is, it could be the G bot just indexing your pages for those keywords, checking up or just a Google employee doing a routine check. I wouldn't worry about it.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 20th August 2012, 03:24 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 756
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Facebook Advertising Worked For You?

Incidentally, one of my clients asked me today about advertising on Facebook. The niche is a health niche with a very picky demographic and I wonder if she won't just lose money by buying ads on...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th August 2012, 03:19 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 1,527
Posted By Silvestru
Re: What am I doing wrong?

FOCUS!

It seems to me like you're running all over the place "trying" things, instead of "making" them work.

Pick just ONE thing and stick with it for a while. Analyze, read and do everything...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th August 2012, 03:14 AM
Replies: 78
Views: 2,088
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Is Fiverr worthwhile?

For video testimonials and creative stuff, it's bliss.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th August 2012, 03:12 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 575
Posted By Silvestru
Re: $200 invesment

Right now, those $200 are useless. Might as well give them away (to me, preferably)

What you need is a proven MODEL. A method. Start looking at what people are already doing to earn money.

You...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th August 2012, 03:05 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 511
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Question on lists

Depends on the quality of your list. If this is a list of buyers, you can do well with even 300 people. If it's a list of freebie seekers and/or junk traffic, you'll need thousands, like somebody...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th August 2012, 03:01 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 477
Posted By Silvestru
Re: What Google is trying to do here?

Probably indexing your pages. Nothing to call the feds about.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th August 2012, 02:55 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 906
Posted By Silvestru
Re: YES! Finally some success.

Well, at least you've proved to yourself that it works.

For me, setting up a blog and waiting 3-4 weeks before I see anything is not something I have the patience to do.

What was your main...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th August 2012, 01:07 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 371
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Suckcess!

Anything to break the monotony will peak curiosity.

I myself have started getting more creative with my headlines.

Some will complain though. That's when I invite them to unsubscribe. Nobody...
Forum: Mind Warriors 19th August 2012, 01:04 PM
Replies: 93
Views: 12,105
Posted By Silvestru
Re: You Don't Want to Make Money Online...be Truthful! Yes I'm talking to you!

No surprise there. Very few people actually want to be successful.

Sure, we all want boats of money and expensive cars, but that's only the result... not the actual process.

I mean, for most...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th August 2012, 05:28 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 803
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Got my first forum member, now what?

I think you should follow your own advice, starting right now :rolleyes:

If OP answers "my" question, he'll know exactly what to do.



Did you tell this to your list when you sent out that...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th August 2012, 04:42 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 803
Posted By Silvestru
Re: Got my first forum member, now what?

What's in it for me if I share?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th August 2012, 03:31 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 641
Posted By Silvestru
Re: selling ebooks on fiverr

I guess you didn't get the memo.

Megaupload has been seized by the feds a couple of months ago.

And Slazengeer has the right idea. Forgot you can attach files.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th August 2012, 03:12 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 641
Posted By Silvestru
Re: selling ebooks on fiverr

Put it in a zip and lock it with a p/w.
Then upload it to something like DropBox and give him the link.
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