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Techniques

Step-by-step methods: list building, forum marketing, product launches and the mechanics behind them.

Techniques15 September 2020 · 4 min read
Using A Resale Rights Product On Your Email Optin Page
Explains why using an existing resale rights product as your optin bribe is quick but usually inferior to creating your own product.
Techniques9 February 2020 · 3 min read
Here’s Why You Need An Email Mailing List As An Online Marketer
Gives three reasons online marketers should build a mailing list: catching prospects who didn't buy, upselling past customers, and a cash lifeline.
Techniques2 December 2019 · 4 min read
How To Set Up An Email Marketing Mailing List
Lays out a three-step process for building a mailing list: get an autoresponder, build a squeeze page, then offer an ethical bribe to opt in.
Techniques6 November 2019 · 4 min read
Improve Your Email Optin Conversions With These Tips
Offers three tweaks to raise optin page conversion rates: a better bribe, a simpler page, and asking for less information.
Techniques4 October 2019 · 4 min read
A Quick Bribe For Your Email Optin Page
Three fast ways to create an optin incentive: give away one of your existing products, pick up a resale-rights product, or record a quick new one.
Techniques15 September 2019 · 2 min read
Establishing Marketing Credibility On a Live Forum
Sets out three steps to build forum credibility for marketing: post regularly, share genuinely useful information, and help the forum thrive.
Techniques17 July 2019 · 3 min read
Reasons For Having A Backend To Your Marketing Funnel
Three reasons a sales funnel should almost always have a backend: extra profit, new life for older products, and training buyers to buy again.
Techniques5 April 2019 · 2 min read
Nobody Buys My Backend Product
Suggests three ways to recover sales when prospects decline a backend upsell: discounted downsells, smaller packages, and email follow-up.
Techniques2 February 2019 · 3 min read
Research Techniques For Up-To-Date Information
Explains how to find current information online using Google's date filters, social media, and news sites.
Techniques4 January 2019 · 2 min read
Reputation – Your Lifeblood As A Forum Marketer
Argues that building a credible, long-term reputation on forums is essential to converting forum members into buyers.
Techniques19 December 2018 · 3 min read
High Perceived Value Backend Products
Suggests three ways to raise the perceived value of a backend product: video training, personal coaching, and group teaching.
Techniques20 October 2018 · 2 min read
Secrets To Finding A Forum To Market On
Suggests three ways to find suitable forums for forum marketing - forums you're already established on, Google searches, and asking niche contacts.
Techniques11 September 2018 · 2 min read
Is Forum Marketing Worth It?
Explains how to judge whether a forum is worth marketing on, by checking its activity levels, niche fit, and existing advertising.
Techniques16 August 2018 · 2 min read
What Sections Of A Forum Provide The Best Marketing Opportunities?
Identifies three places within a forum to focus marketing effort - quality posts, your profile and signature, and any paid advertising section.
Techniques9 August 2018 · 2 min read
How To Find Out If A Forum Allows Your Marketing
Explains three checks to make before marketing on a forum - reading its rules, looking for an advertising section, and checking existing posts.
Techniques10 June 2018 · 2 min read
Paying To Advertise On A Forum
Weighs up whether paying to advertise in a forum's commercial section is worthwhile, based on visitor numbers, pricing and traffic conversion.
Techniques3 June 2018 · 2 min read
Split Testing Backend Sales
Explains how to apply split testing to one-time backend offers by varying sales copy, price points and which product is offered.
Techniques25 April 2018 · 2 min read
You Can Market On These Types Of Forums
Outlines three types of forums worth marketing on: niche forums, online business forums and private membership forums.
Techniques13 April 2018 · 2 min read
This Is When You Don’t Want To Market A Backend Product
Explains when adding a backend offer to a sales funnel doesn't make sense, using membership sites and free lead magnets as examples.
Techniques2 April 2018 · 4 min read
When Google Doesn’t Work
Explains three reasons a Google search can fail to turn up information: it isn't online, it's commercial, or Google hasn't indexed it.
Techniques25 March 2018 · 4 min read
Good Alternatives To Google For Marketers
Recommends alternative research approaches when Google falls short: niche search engines, Bing and the meta search engine Dogpile.
Techniques14 December 2017 · 4 min read
Piggyback Off Other People To Help Enhance Your Online Marketing Credibility
Three ways to build online marketing credibility by working with other people: being interviewed, writing guest posts, and collecting testimonials.
Techniques19 October 2017 · 3 min read
A Look At Integrating Outsourcing Into Your Online Business
A three-stage process for deciding what to outsource in an online business: identify unprofitable work, check the cost, then find the right person.
Techniques29 September 2017 · 2 min read
Here’s How To Demonstrate Your Expertise – Even When You Don’t Know Much About The Subject
A tactic for appearing as a niche expert online by answering forum and Q&A questions, even when you have to look up the answers first.
Techniques8 July 2017 · 3 min read
The Best Things To Outsource In Your Online Marketing Business
A three-part method for deciding what to outsource: tasks you dislike, tasks you're bad at, and tasks someone else can do cheaper.
Techniques25 May 2017 · 3 min read
Considering The Different Places Available To Find The Right People To Outsource To In Your Online Business
Three places to find outsourcing workers for an online business: internet forums, contracting sites, and word of mouth.
Techniques27 April 2017 · 3 min read
All About The Contractor Sites On Which You Can Find Workers To Outsource Your Internet Marketing Tasks To
Explains how contractor sites such as Freelancer and Upwork work, from posting a job request to releasing payment via escrow.
Techniques16 March 2017 · 5 min read
Quick And Simple Secrets To Develop Expert Media Positioning
Lays out a process for getting media coverage: gather original research or opinion, write a press release, then pitch local journalists.
Techniques2 March 2017 · 2 min read
Innovating Your Blog Posts
Compares text, video and audio blog posts and explains why the author sticks mainly to text while trying other formats occasionally.
Techniques12 January 2017 · 3 min read
How To Outsource More Successfully And Avoid Losing Money
Sets out precautions for outsourcing safely: vetting workers by feedback, giving clear instructions and using escrow.
Techniques7 January 2017 · 3 min read
Are Your Old Blog Posts Working For You?
Suggests five ways to get renewed value from old blog posts, from writing follow-ups to repurposing the content elsewhere.
Techniques23 December 2016 · 2 min read
Double Boost List Building
Describes a two-step 'Double Boost' list-building strategy that swaps a short free report and a free audio for opt-ins.
Techniques7 April 2016 · 2 min read
How Special Deals On Writing Services Can Be The Key To A Long-Term Business And Repeat Clients
Suggests pricing a first batch of writing services at roughly half rate, sold as small article packs via a Warrior Special Offer, to attract early clients.
Techniques29 February 2016 · 3 min read
Using Online Research Sources To Get Correct Information To Support Your Business
Sets out three advantages of researching online over visiting shops or libraries: speed, digital note-taking, and access to up-to-date information.
Techniques9 January 2016 · 2 min read
Develop An Online Reputation With Your Own Blog
Recommends setting up a self-hosted blog, posting regularly, and tying content to your product or service to build an online reputation and attract clients.
Techniques7 November 2015 · 2 min read
How To Have A Successful Freelancing Business Getting Writing Clients With No Advertising Costs
Describes building a freelance writing business from a three-article portfolio and forum-marketing signature links rather than paid advertising.
Techniques4 April 2015 · 4 min read
Three Good Places Where You Can Include Your Optin Page To Increase Your Volume Of Subscribers
Recommends placing an optin form on your blog, inside product sales pages, and on your Facebook profile to grow a mailing list.
Techniques7 February 2015 · 4 min read
Techniques To Help You To Afford To Outsource Your Internet Marketing Tasks
Suggests generating quick cash, negotiating percentage-based deals, and adjusting spending as ways to afford outsourcing when funds are tight.
Techniques11 November 2014 · 4 min read
Ideas For Making Money From An Email List Optin Page That You Might Not Have Considered
Describes three ways to earn money directly from an optin process: a download-page offer, a monetised ebook giveaway, and links in confirmation emails.
Techniques18 September 2013 · 4 min read
Is It Worthwhile For A Beginner In Internet Marketing To Outsource Tasks?
Gives three reasons beginners in internet marketing should outsource tasks: saved learning time, faster productivity and quicker income.
Techniques18 March 2013 · 2 min read
Why I’m Building Up My JV Zoo Product Line
Lists the author's reasons for building out his product line on JV Zoo, including quick setup, built-in promotion and cross-selling.
Techniques21 October 2012 · 4 min read
Getting The Best Value For Money When Outsourcing
Compares small versus large outsourced jobs and hourly versus per-job pay to help decide how to structure outsourcing for value.
Techniques14 March 2012 · 4 min read
A Seven Minute Strategy To Make More Affiliate Sales
Describes a quick technique for lifting affiliate sales by offering buyers a PLR-sourced bonus product alongside the affiliate link.
Techniques1 November 2011 · 7 min read
Effective Use Of Private Label Rights Products For Beginners
A step-by-step process for turning a bought PLR report into an original product for sale, from retitling to setting up hosting and payment.
Techniques20 June 2011 · 3 min read
Maximise Your Autoresponder Optin Results
Four touchpoints in the autoresponder signup process - confirmation email, thank-you page, welcome email and follow-ups - that marketers often waste.
Techniques21 April 2011 · 5 min read
Guru Hijacking Tactics
A technique for building credibility by association with better-known marketers, covering interviews, buying out products, paid creation and rights products.
Techniques7 April 2011 · 6 min read
PLR Article Pack Cash Flow System
A step-by-step system for writing themed PLR article packs and selling them profitably as Warrior Special Offers.
Techniques10 March 2011 · 4 min read
Three Methods To Make Cash By Using Squidoo
Three ways to earn money from Squidoo lenses - promoting your own products, promoting affiliate products, or using Squidoo's built-in cash modules.
Techniques20 January 2011 · 4 min read
Three Secrets About Selling That The Pros Won’t Expose
Three points on writing sales copy: preselling prospects before they arrive, being upfront about contents, and writing in your own voice.
Techniques23 December 2010 · 2 min read
Capitalise On Holiday Deals
A short post encouraging marketers to run promotions around Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year, when people are bored and ready to spend.
Techniques31 October 2010 · 2 min read
Create Replicable Systems
Explains how turning a repeated task into a documented step-by-step system can boost productivity and become a sellable product.
Techniques19 October 2010 · 5 min read
Write Your First Physical Book This Afternoon
A walkthrough for compiling existing blog posts into a short book and self-publishing it on Amazon via CreateSpace in an afternoon.
Techniques3 August 2010 · 4 min read
Grow Your List With Your Next Blog Post Idea
A method for turning a planned blog post into a free downloadable report to grow an email list, illustrated with a real Warrior Forum example.
Techniques11 July 2010 · 3 min read
Instant Product System
A method for quickly creating low-ticket products by packaging your own working process as a System product or your results as a Case Study.
Techniques5 July 2010 · 4 min read
Four Steps To Success With Giveaway Events
A four-step guide to using Giveaway Events for list building, from picking a high-value gift to setting up your offer
Techniques17 June 2010 · 2 min read
What Is The Best Way To Learn Online Marketing?
Compares college courses, e-books, and personal coaching as ways to learn online marketing, and argues coaching wins
Techniques11 June 2010 · 1 min read
The $5 Alternative To Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Suggests paying a human $5 on Fiverr to transcribe audio instead of relying on Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition
Techniques18 March 2010 · 2 min read
The $1 WSO – Does It Work?
Reports the views, sales, and costs from a real $1 Warrior Special Offer test to judge whether the tactic works
Techniques20 January 2010 · 1 min read
Become An Expert Quickly
Argues that presenting yourself confidently as an expert matters more than prior knowledge, and shows a shortcut for building it fast
Techniques27 November 2009 · 1 min read
The Pay-Per-Click Winning Formula
Sets out a simple test-and-scale process for checking whether a Google AdWords pay-per-click campaign is profitable.
Techniques20 November 2009 · 1 min read
A Picture A Post
Recommends adding an optimised image to every blog post to pick up extra traffic through Google Image Search.
Techniques15 November 2009 · 1 min read
Make More Use of your User Generated Content
Proposes turning Amazon book reviews into blog content that drives affiliate traffic instead of only benefiting Amazon.
Techniques9 November 2009 · 1 min read
Two Way Linking Strategies – Too Old Fashioned?
Argues that direct reciprocal link exchanges are outdated for SEO and that multi-way or larger link networks work better.
Techniques9 October 2009 · 1 min read
Low Ticket Item Strategies
Explains why marketers sell cheap low-ticket products: to build a list of proven buyers and feed a sales funnel toward higher-priced offers.
Techniques4 October 2009 · 1 min read
Ping Your RSS Feed For Traffic
Explains how submitting RSS feeds to ping services like Pingler can generate backlinks, faster indexing and extra exposure.
Techniques20 September 2009 · 1 min read
A Little Known Source for Finding Quality Writers
Describes finding niche article writers by spotting knowledgeable, active forum posters and approaching them directly.
Techniques16 September 2009 · 1 min read
Answer People’s Twitter Questions
A Google search trick for finding recent how-to questions posted on Twitter, to answer and win new followers in your niche.