Clickbank Merchant Threatens Me and tells me to stop promoting her product.
Ouch that’s not a nice way to start the weekend is it?
Here’s the story:
I started promoting a clickbank product in february solely via ppc marketing. I made more sales than anticipated and the sales kept rising. I contacted the merchant to get more tips on how to promote the site (banners, emails, basically a little more help..)
I never got an answer. A month later a sent another email stating that i started building a list and was close to 130 people on my list.
This time i got an answer after about a week’s time.
The merchant apologized about the wait and let me know she was updating the site to help out her affiliates.
I replied telling her i got a little annoyed about the fact that i didn’t get an answer the first time. Then i told her exactly how i was promoting her product. I created a squeeze page and populated the autoresponder with her own emails. I just replaced her links with my affiliate id. Then i asked her if she would agree to an interview.
My mistake here is using her emails, they are copy written and i had no rights to use them. But i did thinking it wouldn’t really be a big deal as long as i’m redirecting the traffic to her site.
Moments later i get a call from aweber because she had filed a complaint on me. I was stealing her business model and that i had no rights to do so. I got shocked and explained that i was basically redirecting traffic to her site and made a commission from that effort. I also stated that i was disappointed that the merchant didn’t contact me first and went straight to aweber.
I got an email from the merchant stating that i violated her copyright rules and that she wanted me to stop using her name and stop promoting her book.
The Aftermath:
I’ve erased all emails, I sent a letter of apology to the merchant.
I lost one source of income and i’m left with a site, some subscribers and nothing to promote to them.
Don’t be like me. Do not copy the emails of the merchant even when they don’t reply to your emails. Always ask for permission first.
Make sure you communicate well with the merchant before you buy your own website. Also being sincere about your marketing methods is not always a good thing.
Another lesson learned!
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Use The A9 Process, To Slap Google Around With One Article
I just a read a fantastic post by Mbacak on the warrior forum. He describes some of the steps i used to drive traffic on one of my sites. I’m proud to say it works because i’m constantly getting traffic to that site without anymore effort on my part. No ppc marketing, just pure organic traffic. So i thought i’ll let all my readers know about this method. It’s very effective.
How do I drive free traffic to my websites
with just using 1 (ONE) measly article?I figured that this may help alot of
warriors becuase I always notice the most
of the posts are about Articles.In this warrior post, I am going explain to you
the system that you can use almost immediately and
start implementing to your online business today!In order to get free traffic flowing to your website, you
need to follow the nine steps in the A9 Process.STEP ONE: Write an article.
Your article needs to be between 300 and 500 words long. Make sure you are writing good content about your business. The key is to have your viewers learn and benefit from the information you are giving.
Tips to Writing an Article: If you have an information product you want to sell, you should take your product and break it down into small pieces. These pieces will become the articles, so to speak. If you do not like writing articles, or writing at all for that matter, you have the option to outsource it.
Here are a few places you can outsource your article to:
Elance.com
GuestProfessor.com
TheRealArticleFactory.com
ThePhantomWriters.com
Content-Writer.org
ArticleAuthors.netSTEP TWO: Submit your Article
Once you have submitted your article to one article submission website, other websites will pick up your information and pass it around as well.
Here are a few things you need to do before you submit your article:
Create a summary about your article.
Always create a "Call To Action" section at the bottom of every article.Example: "There are many strategies to making money on the internet, but nothing makes sense unless you have a big list. Email Marketing is the most profitable way to make money on the internet. When you build a list of hot and hungry prospects you control your future. Discover how to use the internet and turn your computer into a cash gushing machine. Sign-up right now for Matt Bacak’s FREE online newsletter to find out how to do exactly that – Go here: http://www.promotingtips.com."
So where do you submit your article to? Well here is a list of 60 article submission sites that you can go register to and start submitting your articles this task is a little time consuming but well worth it!Articlebiz.com
Articlecity.com
Articledashboard.com
Ezinearticles.com
Selfgrowth.com
Articlealley.com
Articlecube.com
Easyarticles.com
Ideamarketers.com
Articles.webraydian.com
Site-reference.com
Submitondashboard.com
The-article-directory.com/index.php
tisoftware.biz/articles/index.php
A1-articledirectory.com
Afroarticles.com
Articlecat.com
Articlepros.com
Articlerich.com
Articlebase.com
Articlesbeyondbetter.com
Articleleson.com
Contentdesk.com
Earticleonline.com
Top7business.com/submit
Webmasterslibrary.com
Workoninternet.com
Ams-skins.morethanarticles.com
Articlecrux.com
Articlesyndicator.com
Local-list.us
Commonconnections.com
Article99.com
Articlebankonline.com
Articlecafe.net
Articleclick.com
Articlecrash.com
Article-directory-central.com
Articlegeek.com
Article-junction.com
Articlenorth.com
Articleretreat.com
Articlesbin.com
Article-submission.us
Article-voip.com
Articlezap.com
Bigarticlepro.com
Bigarticlepro.com
Christiannotepad.com
Crixi.com
Electrictext.com
Ezine-directory-express.com
Freearticlepost.com
Gratisartikler.com
Impactarticles.com
Isysi.com
Marketmyarticle.com
Media13.comSTEP THREE: Rework Your Article into a Press Release and then Submit.
To rework your article into a press release, you need to visit this site: (http://www.prwebdirect.com/pressrel…s.php#format) when you go to this website, it will explain exactly what you will need to do in order to format your press release correctly. A press release needs to be more like an announcement, rather than just news being given (like an article is traditionally written). However, you want to stick with the content you have already come up with, you’re just changing it to fit a different media.
Once you have completed your press release, it is now time to submit it to press release submission websites. There are two different ways you can do this:
1. The FREE way where you go out to all the free press release submission websites and post your information
OR
2. You can use www.prwebdirect.com and pay to have your press release submitted.
Both have equally good ways to submit your article, but obviously the paid is a little less work. Just like submitting your article, you will do the same steps submitting your press release. This step is highly important because press releases get passed around the internet like wild fire. There are thousands of new sites, news rooms, and trade magazines that will pick up your information and post it on their sites.
Here is a list of places you can go to and start submitting your press releases for free today:
i-newswire.com
clickpress.com
free-press-release.com
express-press-release.com
1888pressrelease.com
pr9.net
pressbox.co.uk
pressmethod.com
pressreleasespider.com
malebits.com
prnuke.com
prlog.org
afly.com
press-base.com
pressexposure.com
sanepr.com
prurgent.com
prbuzz.com
prfree.com
freepressindex.com
transworldnews.comSTEP FOUR: Rework Your Article into a Video.
You want to rework your article into a video. This is can get a little complicated. If you are not proficient in using the computer or do not want to learn please hire this stuff out - it will save you loads of time.
What you will need to start out with is some recording equipment maybe a microphone and a program called Sound Forge built by Sony. With this, you can record yourself reading your article. You can also hire a voice talent to do this work; typically a professional voice talent gets paid at least $100 per hour.
When you have your audio created and ready to go, it is time to start creating the video. We use Microsoft Power Point to create template slides to use in our video and we use a program call Sony Vegas Movie Studio to put the audio and template slides all together.
You want to create at least 3 to 5 slides with key bullet points in your article. If more slides are needed, then you can make more (3 to 5 should be enough). When you create your slide make sure to save them as a picture file like "jpeg" so that you can import them into Sony Vegas Movie Studio. Once you have all of these items you will need to import the media into Sony Vegas Movie Studio and start building your video.
If you would like to find the equipment to do this for yourself you can go to: http://www.InternetVideoGuy.com. This is where you can find the right equipment and the right training on how to do this task. Once you’re finished editing your video you will need to create the different video files. You need to make sure to create 3 different file formats. This will help you get more visibility on sites that use different video formats (mpeg1, mpeg2, rm).
STEP FIVE: Submit video.
Now you’re ready to start submitting your videos to video submission websites. To do this, you will need to submit your video to different video submission websites. Just like the article submission, and PR (Press Release) submission websites you will need to create accounts at all the different video submission websites. Then you log into the site and upload your video. This will take a little bit of time because videos take some time to upload. You will then need to create a description for your video so that the video submission sites know what content you have uploaded to them.
The results you get from video submissions are fantastic. Videos have become the staple for the internet today. The Big 3 (Google, Yahoo, MSN) are trying to turn the internet into the next television, so videos get ranked very high.
Here is a list of video sites you can start submitting to:
AtomFilms.com
Blip.tv
BoFunk.com
Eyespot.com
Flurl.com
GoFish.com
GUBA.com
LiveLeak.com
LiveVideo.com
MegaVideo.com
Motionbox.com
Revver.com
Sharkle.com
SPIKE.COM (ifilm)
Stickam.com
SUMO.tv
Twango.com
Veoh.com
Video.google.com
Video.yahoo.com
vidilife.com
vMix.com
YouTube.comSTEP SIX: Turn your audio into a Pod Cast.
Since you already have your audio file created (you used it in the video presentation), you need to pod cast it. Pod casting is one of the quickest ways to start your own radio station. With iTunes having over 200 million users, there should be no reason why you would not want to start pod casting today. When you use iTunes 4.9 or later, Apple has taken pod casting mainstream by building everything you need to find, subscribe to, manage, and listen to pod casts right in iTunes. You can publish your podcast to iTunes (as long as it’s free of copyrighted material and overtly explicit content) and reach a potential audience of millions. There are video tutorials on Apple ’s site to help you get through this task. To make it easier, visit this site: http://www.apple.com/itunes/tutorials/.
STEP SEVEN: Create a blog entry.
By taking the code from your video in YouTube and using the content from your article, you can create a blog entry.
Simply copy your videos code and then paste it into the code section of your blog. Next you need to copy your article and post that in the view section of your blog. Then you hit the publish button and that’s it!
Blogging your content will help you create another media to pass your information. Plus the blog "pings" different blog search engines (which is just a fancy way of saying your blog automatically tells these places that it has content.). These blog search engines will post your information on their site creating more back links to your website.
STEP EIGHT: Create a Squidoo Lens.
To make a Squidoo Lens, you use your video and audio content. Squidoo is an insanely easy-to-build page online. It’s popular way to drive more traffic to your website. If you want to get the word out about something, sell something, share information, or just love to create and express yourself, then you shouldn’t miss out on this task.
It is super easy to do - Squidoo has a wizard that walks you through creating the lens. It’s also very simple to add your video from youtube because you can search for it through Squidoo and they will create the video code for you. This is a great site to be on because it is considered an authority site on the internet and it has a page rank of 7. You can also put links back to your website on their site for free! This should be a no brainier as to why you would want to use this site to drive traffic.
STEP NINE: Bookmark Your Video Links.
The last step entails you to social bookmark your video links. This will help you boost your videos higher in the search engines. Ultimately, this will boost your main site even higher. A social bookmark site is just like using the bookmark tab in your browser. It bookmarks the sites you’re interested in. Although, rather than being on your computer, a social bookmark site allows you to save them online… so you can visit these book marks from any computer.
Just like the other sites, you have to create an account (login and password). Title your link, create a description (that is where you can put your call to action) and create your custom tags (in these are the keywords your are trying to promote). Once you’re finished with one site, you move on to the next and do it again.
Here is a list of social bookmark sites you can use to start posting to:Propeller.com
Slashdot.org
Digg.com
Technorati.com
Del.icio.us
Stumbleupon.com
Twitter.com
Reddit.com
Tagza.com
Fark.com
Newsvine.com
Furl.net
swik.net
Connotea.org
Sphinn.com
Blinklist.com
Faves.com
Mister-wong.com
Spurl.net
Netvouz.com
Diigo.com
Backflip.com
Rawsugar.com
Bibsonomy.org
Folkd.com
Linkagogo.com
Indianpad.com
Plugim.com
Myjeeves.ask.com
Buddy Marks
Connectedy
MyLinkVault
Google Bookmarks
Jumptags.com
Fetch
OYAX
A1 Webmarks
Bookmark Tracker
myVmarks
Mixx.com
Wirefan.com
Danogo.com
Symbaloo
Ximmy
Health Ranker
Ka-Boom-It.comOnce you have completed these nine steps, you are now
ready to start driving free traffic to your website.I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and/or comments
because I am always tweeking this process
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