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List Building for Newbies

January 8, 2009 – 5:19 am

Commonly, not having a list is said to be ‘leaving money on the table’, and that much is certainly true.

Take the example of a conventional clothes store. Customers come, browse around, maybe buy something, and then leave. Once they’ve left, the store has no way of getting in touch with them, and maybe convincing them to come back again.

On the other hand, if the store had their contact details, they could notify them when they have a new stock of clothes on the rack, or special discounts, and so on. By doing so, the customer would then feel compelled to perhaps come back, or at very least would consider doing so.

Similarly, in whatever niche that you’re into, if you had a list of previous customers then whenever you have a new product, or some other offer, you’d just be able to shoot out emails and see if anyone is interested. Simple as it sounds, this is amazingly effective.

Think about it in terms of figures, if that helps. Let’s say you have an 8,000 strong list, and you send out an email regarding your latest product that costs $20. Even if only 10% of your list buys your product, that is 800 instant customers and you would have made $16,000.

To sum it up, the reason to build and use a list is to establish a firm base of regular customers to which you can market your products and offers too with great ease.

How to Get Started Building a List

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WebmasterEye – homepage for successful marketes

September 29, 2008 – 1:42 pm

Week ago I uploaded site that I was using on my private hidden server to track all webmaster marketplaces.

WebmasterEye.net is feed aggregator for the best webmaster marketplaces.
It should be your homepage if you are serious about making money online.

Visit it now and set as Home Page – http://www.webmastereye.net/

If you have any suggestion about it (what else to include), post comment here.

How to Convert 10 Images into Backlinks

September 29, 2008 – 1:41 pm

I want to share with you quick and simple solution I have just found
to make backlinks from authority sites with only 10 images.

You will use free services in this method:

1. Make free account on www.animoto.com
(this site will make nice video just using images from your computer)

2. Find 10 images and upload it to Animoto

3. Choose one of existing music tracks from Animoto

4. Make free video using this service and choose option to upload it to Youtube

5. Once video is on Youtube (after 10 to 30 minutes) use www.keepvid.com
to download it to desktop (choose .mp4 format)

6. Go to www.tubemogul.com and upload it to more than 20 video sites

7. IMPORTANT: Use your long tail keyword in video title, add other keywords in tags
and your URL in description (when uploading with tubemogul)

* Don’t spam video sites, because your video and account will be deleted !

Final check before site launch

May 21, 2008 – 7:26 am

You new product and site is ready for a big day, everything looks fine on your side, but are you 100% sure ?

1. Cross browser test

Open your site in all browsers you have and check is everything fine.
Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Safari are most popular and you must test your site in all of them.
Install Web Developer Firefox Add-on and test all screen sizes.
Use browsershots.org to preview site in many other browsers and resolutions.

2. Server availability check

Visit host-tracker.com and check is your server available all around the world.
If not, contact hosting support or change server (I would change it).

3. Payment processor test

Set test price for your product to $0.01 and try to purchase it.

4. Product delivery test

Free mail servers like Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail could block emails from small hosting companies.
If your customers don’t receive product in next few hours after purchase, you will be in trouble with refund requests, comments on forums and email contacts.
Open one free email account on each of these services and test it.

Write small php code:

<?php
mail(“test@yahoo.com”, “Email Test”,”Email Test”,”From: your-email@your-domain.com” );
?>

Save it to mailtest.php , upload to your server and visit your-domain.com/mailtest.php
Change “test@yahoo.com” to your new free email and repeat process for each email.

On “Thank You page” mention what is subject of your email and explain that it could be in Junk box.

5. Backup server

During first few days high traffic can crash your server or jealous competitors could make DoS attack.
One DoS attack may take about 48 hours and in that time nobody can see your site.
You need to make copy of your site to another server and in case your main server is down you can quickly change DNS settings inside domain register.
I use PowWeb as backup server because they host site on multiple servers which is more secure for DoS attacks.

Save NS1 and NS2 settings for backup server in online email, so you can react fast.

Top Webmaster Marketplaces

May 11, 2008 – 7:51 am

Update (just my small comment on this post):

This table and graphs show only web traffic on each forum.
Real value of each place in my opinion is different.

WarriorForum WSO
This place made me the highest profit in selling digital products.
Also I learned a lot about IM, reading forum and WSO reports.

SitePoint Marketplace
I didn’t have success selling digital products and services on this forum,
but I made nice income selling web sites.

DigitalPoint (Buy, Sell or Trade)
This place is also good for selling sites but I used it at most for finding cheap resources.
Few months ago I bought image pack for $40 on DP and made custom site with it
and after 3 months sold it for $1200 on SitePoint…

Each forum can convert well depends what are you selling and how.
Try all !
(I used adtrackz to track my sales, but you can find other similar scripts)

I would like to hear your experience about these marketplaces.
What kind of product or service is working the best on which forum for you?

Post comment about your experience.

Webmaster Marketplace Alexa Rank
forums.digitalpoint.com 951
marketplace.sitepoint.com 1,866
www.warriorforum.com 4,059
talk.iwebtool.com 7,535
www.namepros.com 7,736
www.wahm.com 13,462
www.webmaster-talk.com 22,249
www.v7n.com 23,190
www.wickedfire.com 24,227
www.dreamteammoney.com 24,319
www.conqueryourniche.com 66,072
www.iguides.org 69,941
www.adminfusion.com 93,562
forums.ukwebmasterworld.com 98,895
www.webtalkforums.com 117,626
www.webmasters.am 142,833
www.webmastermalaysia.com 178,790
www.e-topic.com 247,180
www.webjuniors.com 491,102
talk4cash.com 776,129
www.webmaster-corner.com 1,616,226

top webmaster marketplaces