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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th February 2013, 01:24 PM
Replies: 56
Views: 2,321
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Is it worth buying OptimizePress for just one single sales letter?

I'm going to suggest that if all you want is ONE page, don't even use Wordpress. Hire a freelancer to do all the graphics for you and convert to HTML. Get exactly what you want without the hassle...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 23rd January 2013, 05:43 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 444
Posted By Chris Thompson
Tricky SEO question ...

Hi guys,

A business partner and I have had a falling out. Long story short, I have a ton of blog content that Google has indexed on domain that my former partner owns. He removed the blog, and I...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th August 2012, 06:32 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 1,139
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Internet Marketing Power Lies In The VA

Guys - to source VAs there are several options:

1) Craigslist (http://manila.tl.craigslist.com.ph) in the Philippines
2) Paid sites like BestJobs.ph and OnlineJobs.ph
3) Freelance sites like...
Forum: Website Design 31st July 2012, 11:21 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 805
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Wordpress security

The easiest way to protect yourself is two-fold:

1) Keep regular backups of your database and your files (uploads folder)
2) Understand how to do open heart surgery on Wordpress so you are...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th July 2012, 05:41 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 989
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: First time writing an ebook for Kindle - Newbie needs help/is confused!

You're a writer. Spent your time writing. Hire someone to format and convert to .mobi and epub for you. There are plenty of freelancers who do this for a living.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th July 2012, 05:19 AM
Replies: 66
Views: 2,509
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Digg sold for $500,000 (yes, only five 0's)

This article from NYT explaining the sale of Digg is missing something. I call out crappy reporting on this one (not from the OP, from the journalist).

I bet 99.999% chance that there is a huge...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 9th July 2012, 07:51 PM
Replies: 49
Views: 8,210
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Site Sales - Norman Freeman

Hey guys - here is my unbiased opinion. I'm not a customer but I did watch the webinar and I didn't buy it yet (I don't need it yet).

1) If they can iron out the bugs, the price is exceptional. ...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th July 2012, 05:39 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,179
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Where To Outsource Curation Content?

What you should be doing if you want to outsource this is to hire somebody who is a writer, and train them on exactly what you want done.

Here's a video explanation:...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th June 2012, 09:01 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,422
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Super cheap phone line for your business

I created the tutorial on how to do all of this here:

http://blog.outsourcefactor.com/how-to-get-a-business-phone-number-for-about-1-per-month/
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th June 2012, 05:17 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,921
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Does Market Samurai exist for Mac..how much is it?

Market Samurai runs via Adobe AIR, so it works on Mac, PC and Linux. It's a great program.

I own two licenses for it. Each license allows you to run it on two machines, so my first license is...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th June 2012, 06:27 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 1,754
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: VA's & Outsourcing...

I have to agree that the Philippines is a great place to look for a trainable, honest VA strong in English.

The English skills are what make the Phils stand out.

If I look at the jobseeker...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th June 2012, 06:00 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 578
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Powerpoint with Camtasia to Eazy video Player help!

Is your video showing the same problem BEFORE using handbrake?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th June 2012, 06:58 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 749
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: what is Amazon s3?

It amazes me that anyone would ask such a basic question (completely open ended) without either adding specific details that they didn't understand or just going to google and typing "What is Amazon...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th June 2012, 04:19 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 965
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Any YouTube marketing tips please?

I haven't gone and checked this detail myself, but I have seen others suggest that YouTube's TOS don't allow you to use affiliate links in your description area.

I would go check the TOS myself if...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th June 2012, 03:05 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,422
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Super cheap phone line for your business

Ok I'm planning a couple of videos to explain how all this works, but for now here is a very short version.

VoIP = Voice over Internet Protocol (Voice over IP). It used to be unreliable 10 years...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th June 2012, 01:39 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 1,754
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: VA's & Outsourcing...

In response to Tim, when it comes to the Philippines a lot of the online workers really just want a reliable job. They want an employer who will pay them on time every month. They want to feel...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th June 2012, 02:57 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,422
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Super cheap phone line for your business

Skype and Google voice are good options. What I'm talking to about is buying a DID, which stands for direct inbound dialing. It is a phone number. Similar to buying a domain. You need to connect the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2012, 08:36 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,422
Posted By Chris Thompson
Super cheap phone line for your business

I'm curious what everyone is doing with respect to having a phone number for your business. What I'm doing now is purchasing the a phone number (aka DID) at a cost of about $1 per month through...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th June 2012, 09:46 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 1,754
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: VA's & Outsourcing...

Take a look at OutsourceFactor.com (http://outsourcefactor.com) as a completely free site where you can hire a VA directly.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th June 2012, 08:46 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 3,865
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Aweber??- Subscribing 1 subscriber to TWO lists? - How ?

This is a good discussion and there are a couple of important summary points that need to be made.

1) Yes, you can automatically subscribe a user from one list to a 2nd list. But Aweber WILL send...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th May 2012, 04:50 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 492
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Quick Question Looking For A Wordpress Plugin Or Tool That Will Upload Long Video's Any Suggesti

You need to do two things:

1) PROPERLY convert the video into the right format
2) Use Amazon S3

Here are some details:

- Download this software HandBrake (http://handbrake.fr)

- Convert...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th May 2012, 08:25 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 5,581
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: How to monetize site in anxiety/depression/mental health niche?

You mean you don't think someone should earn an income from helping others overcome something as hurtful and damaging as anxiety and depression?

That's sad :)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th May 2012, 04:07 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 716
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Safe place to host a domain

And for the benefit of those wondering about downtime, only your webhost's downtime affects your site. The registrar doesn't have downtime.

You buy a domain. You tell the domain registrar what...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th May 2012, 05:56 AM
Replies: 94
Views: 5,199
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: ClickBank refunds $318 7 in one day - Why do they allow this? Great start to the weekend great!

Rather than complain about the refunds, perhaps reconsider the product. Either it's no good (are you a vendor or affiliate?), or the target customer isn't attractive ...but it isn't CB's fault.
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th May 2012, 04:54 AM
Replies: 79
Views: 4,552
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Do You Think The 4 Hour Work Week Is Possible?

The key to the 4hww is building your asset (business) first. That takes time and effort. Lots of effort. Then, you automate as much as possible and outsource the rest.

The 4hww never happens...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd April 2012, 05:07 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 5,657
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Filipino freelancers - how do you pay taxes? + VAT question

It's not your problem how your freelance virtual employee treats his or her income for taxes. You just send payment. Don't make it any more complicated than it needs to be.

Pay using PayPal, and...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th April 2012, 05:22 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,624
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: How youtube determines which frame to choose for the thumbnail images

They give you 3 choices at random from the beginning middle and end areas of the video. The intention is to avoid abuse by making it somewhat random.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th April 2012, 04:59 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 726
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Weird Clickbank question - can I promote my own products as an affiliate?!

Exactly. I've used a separate account to to test ads. Totally legit.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th April 2012, 05:39 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 13,294
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Looking For Virtual Assistant...Where is the best place to find them?

If you are looking for a freelancer, you've seen plenty of recommendations already.

If you want to help your business with a full time permanent virtual staff member, then you need to avoid...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th April 2012, 04:29 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,096
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: My view on the whole "niche sites are dead" situation.

Anyone who thinks niche sites are dead is clueless. Sonny, you are bang on. Niche sites serve the demands of a niche. If there is demand there is a business model. The only thing that changes are...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th April 2012, 04:55 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 787
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Clickbank Vendors - I have some Q's!

I have no issue sending my Adwords traffic to a sales page. Just make sure there are links on your page to informative articles, etc.

Same with squeeze pages as the landing Page. Works fine for...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th April 2012, 08:15 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 1,933
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Segmenting in Aweber - Follow up is not possible!?

Tris,

Segmenting your list is not complicated at all. You start with your regular autoresponder followup sequence. On a certain message, you start with some information that might be of interest...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 31st March 2012, 05:31 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 920
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: FlexSqueeze: Is it worth it?

I own flexsqueeze. It is a very good theme for sales pages, squeeze pages and blogs. It has great layout flexibility, which optimizepress does not.

But optimizepress has nicer templates in my...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th March 2012, 08:43 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 615
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: How To Oursource And Protect Your Idea At The Same Time?

You're worrying too much. Do it yourself or hire someone. The alternative sucks (doing nothing).

The people who are offering their services to perform this work are looking to get paid for...
Forum: Website Design 29th March 2012, 06:59 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,953
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: OptimizePress users should be doing this (but I can't figure out how)

FYI I submitted a ticket to OptimizePress and they're trying to answer my question about where custom CSS lies in the code. Strangely, they asked for wordpress and FTP access. Shouldn't they have a...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th March 2012, 06:53 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 515
Posted By Chris Thompson
This split test slammed my sales by 45% (yeah, that's BAD)

Hey everyone,

I thought I'd share an experience with you just to remind you of a simple fact when it comes to "doing stuff" on your website.

I come from the perspective of a vendor. But this...
Forum: Copywriting 8th March 2012, 07:27 AM
Replies: 70
Views: 5,416
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Videos are the new sales pages - who's the best at making them?

Adrien - I just used AdToons.com (Vince Palko). He did my video. I'm happy. He also did Geary's truth about abs video.
Forum: Copywriting 6th March 2012, 06:34 AM
Replies: 173
Views: 15,505
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: $10,000 Prize To Beat This Control

Dan,

You and I are both using VSL, both written by ourselves.
I've thought about ways to beat my existing script.

But instead I went in a totally different direction by keeping the EXACT...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th March 2012, 06:25 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 656
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: How/Who to create videos like this?

The process to do this is:

1) Write your script
2) Hire a voice talent to record
3) Storyboard out the video aspect of it
4) Video artist uses voice + storyboard to create vid.

PRICES:
-...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 6th March 2012, 06:18 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,347
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: 7.5 Hours of Power Cuts per day! No Electricity -> No productivity :(

The guy who said "move to another state" ... honestly that's a GOOD idea if it fits your personal situation. You have to think of all possible solutions.

Alternatives are:

1) Make your own...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th March 2012, 10:41 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 751
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Protecting Your Digital Products

This question keeps coming up, which is why I created this extremely detailed tutorial:

http://blog.outsourcefactor.com/digital-download-protection-primer-on-content-delivery-options-for-beginners/
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th March 2012, 10:32 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 378
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Selling/Delivery of eBook?

Why don't you enable digital download via a direct page + an email link?

See this tutorial:...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 3rd March 2012, 02:34 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 4,335
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Banned by Google because of Micro Niche Finder?

It's not a ban at all. It's a temporary inability to process requests via Google ... think of it as a time out.

Very short time out. Not a penalty, doesn't mean you did anything wrong. Means...
Forum: Website Design 3rd March 2012, 12:26 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 702
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: [URGENT] Help needed to find this really simple WP theme!

Pretty much ANY theme can do what you're describing here. Thesis is probably the easiest to buy + have somebody on Fiverr create a custom.css file for you to give you exactly what you're asking for....
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st March 2012, 06:32 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 885
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Clickbank custom page?

Give your header to the vendor. Ask for it to be approved. Attach cbskin=xxx to the order link.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th February 2012, 06:31 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 1,887
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: How much I can sell a website that makes $4k/mo

Why the heck would you sell it if, based on what you're being told, you'll have all that money in 12 months and STILL OWN THE SITE ??

Why do you want to sell it anyway?
Forum: Website Design 22nd February 2012, 06:44 AM
Replies: 36
Views: 8,331
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: How to bypass a Clickbank sales page right to order page

What Alexa said. Completely correct. I just had an affiliate who wanted to direct link and didn't ask me first. Then he emailed me go ask why my download process wasn't working. It's because I use...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th February 2012, 03:32 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 27,359
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Optimizepress Site Examples

OptimizePress is perfectly suited for blogging AND selling. The only think I don't really like is that you can't customize the blog via the admin panel very much. You CAN do custom CSS coding...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th February 2012, 10:00 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,260
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: How to protect a Download page?

This is a very detailed tutorial explaining MANY of the different options available to you for protecting digital downloads.
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th January 2012, 02:07 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 7,372
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Frank Kern New image...

OP - if you actually listen to his message you'll quickly realize that worrying about how to do what he did (technology) is the least of your concerns!
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th December 2011, 06:50 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 703
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Virtual Assistants, do you use one?

Here's a podcast talking specifically about hiring a VA for your online business:
http://blog.outsourcefactor.com/podcast-episode-03-hiring-a-virtual-assistant/

Short version: Hire a full time...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 23rd December 2011, 06:33 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 2,619
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: .info if .com if not available

Bull. .info hold the same SEO power. They are all the same. The only reason it matters is if you want to build a site people remember and talk about. If you are doing SEO work to rely purely on...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th December 2011, 05:37 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,393
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Optimizepress VS Flexsqueeze VS Profits Theme?

DAP is 297 bucks for a multi site license, and much less for a single site.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th December 2011, 05:33 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 1,207
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Need advice on embedding videos to our DAP membership site "Nothings working"

What Kate described is a best in class solution. I also use OptimizePress and EVP. I do not use S3 Vault and im not sure why it is needed.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th December 2011, 05:23 AM
Replies: 43
Views: 2,757
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: How do you market your Kindle ebooks?

Hi guys,

I read this thread after listing my first book in the Kindle store (non-fiction parenting) this last week. Then the Select email went around the very next day. Hence I found this...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th December 2011, 05:18 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,706
Posted By Chris Thompson
Re: Amazon's KDP Select for KDP Authors & Publishers

Hi guys,

Here is my experience with Kindle Select. It was perfect timing for me since I had finished writing a non-fiction book for the parenting market this fall and I just uploaded it to the...
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