Marketing With Chris Imamshah

Boost Your Subscriber Profits

5.5 Tips That Boost Your Subscriber Profits
By Brian Terry

Have you ever wondered how you can make the subscribers on your list
more responsive? Here’s what I mean… I’m sure you’ve done this
before, you send your subscribers one email after another full of
valuable, useful content, then you make a recommendation to a product
and virtually no one orders through your link. Sound familiar?

It took me many years of trial and error to create this list of 5 tips
that help you boost your subscriber profits.

Pay close attention to what I’m about to reveal because it can and will
increase your listbuilding profits.

Tip 1: Use double optin subscriptions
Getting people to confirm their subscription ensures you have people on
your list who definitely want to hear more from you. This is one of the
most important steps to take because it helps you to build a quality
subscriber list. Remember listbuilding is about quality not quantity.

Tip 2: Use personalization
It’s been proven time and time again that personalization significantly
increases the effectiveness of your communication with your
subscribers. By including your subscribers name in the emails you send
them gives the message a sense of it’s being sent just for them and
no-one else.

Tip 3: Train your subscribers
For every 2 emails you send out that are content orientated send out 1
email that’s an honest recommendation you make for a product you think
will help them. Train your list to expect to receive offers from you
that will be of use to them.

Tip 4: Regularly survey your subscribers
Find out what your lists wants, then give it to them. Simple. You could
ask them questions like what’s their biggest problem online as well as
ask other demographic style questions. This helps you to build a
profile of your subscriber and gives you great understanding as to how
you can help them better and what offers they’re more likely to respond
to.

Tip 5: Give your list special offers
It doesn’t matter if you own a product or are an affiliate, make your
list an offer only they’ll be getting. It could be for the next 48
hours you’re offering 20% discount on your product. Or you offer an
extra bonus but only if they order something through your affiliate
link.

Tip 5.5: Keep in regular contact with your subscribers
It’s when you email your list 2 times a month that they begin to forget
who you are. Stay in regular contact and people will begin to know,
like and trust you. Above all don’t forget this one golden rule of
listbuilding… the money is in your “relationship” with your list not
it’s size.
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About the Author
Brian Terry is the Co-founder of ListHero where he provides you with
the fastest, easiest way to build your list for free.
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To Your Success,
Chris

Affiliate Marketing is A Win-Win Proposition

Affiliate Marketing, when working as it is designed to work, is extremely beneficial for both the affiliates and the product owner/developer. It is a very simple concept that works very well for both parties involved.

Here are some benefits of Affiliate Marketing looking at it from both sides.

1. Affiliates Benefit#1: They do not have to have their own product so they can jump right into being in business simply by selecting other people’s products to promote and derive a commission from.
A lot of people don’t have the time, money or expertise or any inclination at all about creating their own product, so affiliate marketing is a great way to make money off other peoples hard work.

Here is a handy guide to help you get started with Affiliate Marketing.

2. Affiliates Benefit #2: No customer support is required (this is one of the major headaches in most businesses so is a wonderful thing to be able to not have to contend with). Anyone who has ever had their own product will tell you that customer support is one of the worst parts of running a business.

3. Affiliates Benefit #3: To get started a very small investment is all it takes relative to traditional businesses. So it is an easy business to get involved with. There aren’t many business models which allow you to start up with virtually no investment, but affiliate marketing is one of them.

4. Affiliates Benefit #4: Working from home / any place of choice.
It is many people’s dream to work from home and be able to control their own hours. This is not something you can do if you have a 9 – 5 job. Affiliate Marketing isn’t paid by the hour, rather you get paid when someone goes through your affiliate link and purchases the owner’s product. So, in many cases, once your have your promotions in place you can choose the hours you want to work.

It is important to remember though, that the more effort you put into Affiliate Marketing (like with any venture really) the greater the rewards are usually.

Now let’s look at some benefits for the owner’s of the product that the affiliates promote;

5. Product Owner’s Benefit #1: Exposure is magnified greatly. With the help of Affiliates the owner’s product is exposed to a much bigger potential audience than the product owner could reach with his/her own marketing efforts so the potential for profit is also much greater.

6. Product Owner’s Benefit #2: Less effort is needed on the product owner’s part to drive traffic to his salesletter / website. Getting traffic to a website can be a time consuming process, so to have a large amount of affiliates doing this for you is a huge advantage for any product owner. Leveraging other people’s effort for your own business is a great way to make a lot of money. The truly wealthy all know this to be fact.

There are many advantages of Affiliate Marketing for both the affiliates and the product owner which is why it has proven and continues to be such a successful business model. Affiliate marketing has generated many people a substantial income in their online businesses, and there doesn’t seem to be any reason that this should change.

To Your Success,
Chris

Here is the link once again to that easy guide on getting started as an Affiliate Marketer.

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To Your Success,
Chris

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To your success,
Chris

Reporter vs Expert - Why Most Bloggers Are Stuck Reporting

There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).

If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I’ll be frank; you want to be the expert. Blog Mastermind

Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven’t established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it’s easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc… experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.

Most Bloggers Are Reporters

The thing with expertise is that it requires something - experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).

There’s nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it’s a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts - there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on. Blog Mastermind

Don’t Replicate Your Teacher

If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a “guru” (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.

The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry - the Internet marketing industry - not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it’s next to impossible to succeed.

Even people, who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it’s fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche - Internet marketing - and rarely have any key points of differentiation.

How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things - email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing.

Report on Your Process, Not Others . Blog Mastermind

The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people’s work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.

It’s okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it’s fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not their’s. Frame things using your opinion - your stories - and don’t regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.

Expertise comes from doing things most people don’t do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.

You Are Already An Expert

Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don’t leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.

Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life, who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of…well fear.

Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven’t much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.

Reporting Is A Stepping Stone . Blog Mastermind

If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from “scratch”, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.

Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.

Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it’s okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that’s all most experts really are.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

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To your success,
Chris