While It’s On My Mind

As a “teaser,” I will publish my results without revealing my squeeze page, email swipe, solo ad vendor or the offer I promote. Of course, this only works if I am showing good results but the bad results are sure to come and to show credibility and improvement or at least adjustment I will post them too.

All these ideas take loads of planning. There are so many options available. There are so many combinations and products to promote that I have to be able to focus on one thing, test it and optimize and do it again.

Testing is not cheap so I am depending on my own products to help me succeed.

Success in a solo ad campaign is to break even on the solo ad cost – while building a buyers list – and also building a list of prospects – both are potential profit sources that didn’t cost you any money.

I am about to embark on a new journey. I am, seriously, entering a new realm where I set up and sell my own products.

My course, Solo Ad Professor, has training on how to use solo ads to promote affiliate products too. That means I have another side of the business to explore and test against (or add to) my current plan.

It is an idea I have for a future product that will be a charge to copy my current campaigns as I send them out or wait and see the results and only copy the most successful campaigns and leave the failures behind.

Seeing my campaigns as I send them and being able to copy me right away may not be the best idea but you can see what I’m doing and have a starting point and change it if you see it as no good from the get go.

You can wait for the results and then copy exactly what I do.

Once I have an accumulation of successful campaigns I will sell a premium list for new subscribers that has all my past (break-even or profit) campaigns.

I need to find a way to get a poll about which path you want me to explore.

I think I can create an AWeber broadcast and put a couple different links where you can vote which path you have more interest in, affiliate products or do-it-yourself PLR products, and when you click a link you will get a tag that will add you to a specific email campaign.

You will be allowed to choose any or all campaign types you’d like data on. I want to do both but I’d like to do the one that has the most interest first.

My first campaign about to go out is to promote Solo Ad Professor that is a PLR product I set up on a subdomain here:

https://SoloAdProfessor.SoloAdsProfit.com

It’s part of a “funnel” that promotes my other PLR product, on another subdomain, Killer Web Copy, that you can check out here:

https://KillerWebCopy.InBoxCopywrite.com

I am still working on my backend product. If someone were to buy my front-end offer and my upsell then I would miss out on revenue because I am not prepared. Writing that down has me deciding not to buy an ad yet.

That means I need to decide on a path to start testing for my subscribers.

I will put together an email broadcast and see what you want.

Then I will decide on a specific report to create that will bring value to you. It may also be called a service where you subscribe to see what I am promoting and copy my successes.

I will run a solo ad 2 or 3 times, 100 clicks each, and report my source of solos and my results. This is my first attempt to promote my own funnel where I set everything up myself. I am using my product to use solo ads to build my list and generate revenue from my list by continuously promoting new products.

Should I broadcast my results now as an example, you give me feedback and see what is the best direction to follow.

One thing I’m not sure how to track is affiliate purchases.

When promoting your own products you can see where every click comes from and where they go – if you know how. If I promote an affiliate product as a front-end product, how am I going to promote an upsell?

I am sure there are creative ways that are waiting to be discovered for solving both of the stated issues and make a good profit by doing this.

I am also reading a Dan Kennedy, kindle book and learning from that work as well. The book I’m reading is about direct mail as in snail mail. It still has plenty of copywriting lessons and templates that are still relevant today.

Oh, I can also use the AWeber share a campaign or landing page to give my MEMBERS a new campaign for clickbank products along with results of solo ad campaigns. I will make a list of data to track and what I can show without violating privacy, make it available as I create it and start my test run.

I can maybe set up a specific website or blog where I discuss how I’m optimizing and why plus how I’m implementing my testing.

I think I am fairly well mapped out on what to do right now:

1. Set up a place to display my results where everyone can see
2. Since I am a rookie at copywriting I am going to start with affiliate campaigns
   1. I will gain experience promoting products without having to deal with customers and complaints or technical issues
   2. I have a systematic approach ready to go

My System:

My first promotion for an affiliate product will require me to create a squeeze page and a follow-up email sequence. Whether or not they buy I will need a new promotion, eventually.

Here’s another opportunity for me to add a guide to my PLR locker and that is one on building landing pages that convert, a guide on how to choose an affiliate product to promote and a service to do this for you!

I guess I’ve sorta chickened out on my own product because I don’t have everything ready. I think there is less work in promoting an affiliate offer. And I just had another idea on a test…

What if I post an SEO advertorial under my squeeze page to generate organic traffic too?

That would add lot’s of value to a website for sale!

This is exciting but I keep on getting too far ahead of myself. I have to be consistent in order to be profitable in affiliate marketing.

I will email my list when I am posting my results from my first experiment as well as what I am setting out to accomplish each step. It may end up being a set of emails or a series of blog posts or maybe a spreadsheet – we’ll see. I may practice my own swipe files and create a new list for people who really want this info and have a “segment” that I can send specialized emails to.

One more thing I’m thinking about is how I am going to send out my next campaigns and get my new subscribers on my prior campaigns, systematically.

I think I will promote my first product and send each follow up as a broadcast. Then I will create a campaign that my next round of subscribers will be sent automatically while I manually send them and my first batch of subs the promo emails for the new product, put those in a new campaign to be sent to the next batch after they are sent through the first 2 campaigns and are being sent the 3rd promo now…, rinse, repeat…

As long as creators keep creating products (or I start creating affiliate products myself) I will have something to give my subscribers.

I can run split tests too and improve some parts of my sales emails, landing pages and solo ad vendor selection.

Asking a simple question to a list of top producing Udimi.com solo ad vendors and giving away a free pdf with their responses may be a good lead magnet I can throw out on Facebook somewhere. Maybe I can find a good keyword to rank an article and give it away too so I can get subscribers without spending money.

I’m off to get to work!