Integration marketing is very powerful, but a seldom used marketing strategy that can bring in a lot of money on complete auto-pilot. Watch the video below to learn how you can start using integration marketing in your business and make more money.

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Over the last few days, I have been receiving a ton of emails from my readers asking about  the legitimacy of the new Mobile Money Bandit training course.  Please watch the video below for my answer.

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Best wishes,

Gauher Chaudhry

Another year has come and gone and as an Internet marketer, you have to look back at the last twelve months to see what you have accomplished.

Did you get rich with that new $27 Clickbank product that promised to show you all the secrets that the gurus have been hiding from you?

The biggest flaw I see in people trying to make money online is that they want to get rich overnight and with very little effort.

It just doesn’t work that way.

I have been running a successful online company for the last 15 years and the secret formula to making money online hasn’t changed.

So what is it?

Traffic + Optin = Targeted List

Yup.

For years, you may have been distracted by the next shiny object syndrome, but the fact is that the money is and will always be in the list.

Email is not dead and never will be.

There is a very high probability that you are reading this post because of an email that I sent you.

Trust me when I say that I have tested it all.

Twitter doesn’t work as well as email.

Facebook fan pages do not work as well as email.

Youtube doesn’t work as well as email.

Now using these sources to generate traffic and build a list, well that is a smart strategy.

My advice?  Pick a niche and start building a list.  A list is an asset that can be used to make you a lot of money.  The one skill I tell anyone who wants to make money online is learn the art of traffic generation.  Once you have the traffic, build the list.

Besides the list hosting costs (which are cheap), email is free to send out so why wouldn’t you build a list?

That is my focus for 2012. What about you?

I would love to get your comments.

Best wishes for a successful 2012,

Gauher Chaudhry

Everywhere you look, everyone is talking about how webinars are the hottest selling tool right now.

While this is true, what most people don’t know is that the average attendance rate versus how many people registered for a webinar is slowly dropping.  Although this may not be true in all niches, it is definitely happening in a few niches such as Internet marketing.

I remember when upwards of 60-70% of the people who registered for a webinar would actually show up for the live event.  But now, webinar attendance has dropped to about 30-35% of registered attendees.

Why? There are a few reasons for this.

One of the main reasons is that everyone is having a webinar now.  Once everyone is doing the same thing, the novelty and impact wear off.

Most people now know that a webinar almost always closes with a sales pitch and there is nothing wrong with this if the pre-pitch content is valuable.

With so many webinars happening in a particular niche, attendees have gotten more conscious of their time and realize that they can’t attend all of them.

Also most people know that a webinar replay is usually put up within hours of the live webinar and prefer to watch it on their own time.

If you have seen a drop in your webinar attendance, here are a few suggestions to get it back up.

1. Provide rock-solid content before the sales pitch so your webinar attendees actually learn something in exchange for their time.

2. Offer an exclusive bonus for everyone who attends the live webinar.  Maybe a free report or software tool.

3. Offer prizes such as an iPad 2 that will be given to a random live webinar attendee.  People love contests and a chance to win.

4. Engage your webinar attendees with polls and questions so that they feel apart of the webinar.

5. Offer an exclusive deal for the product pitch just for live webinar attendees.

6. Make the webinar replay available for only a limited time period.

7. You may not even want to make a replay available. This may get more people on the live event.

8. Instead of just boring powerpoint slides, spice them up with animations, images and possible video in your webinar presentation.

I still do think webinars are one of the best marketing tools for promotions, but webinar presenters are going to have to become more creative to get attendance back up.

Your thoughts? Can you add to this list? What would make you attend a live webinar?

Comment below.

Gauher Chaudhry

It is no secret that spying on your competitors can save you a large amount of time when it comes to setting up winning affiliate campaigns. The traditional affiliate model requires you picking an offer, setting up a few campaigns on paid traffic sources and then testing to see what converts.

But the problem with this process is that there are dozens of variables to test (i.e. split testing banner creatives) and before you can develop a winning campaign, you have already lost a lot of money. One of the quickest shortcuts to success is watching what is already ready working in the market and simply improving upon it. There is nothing wrong with this and is simply the equivalent of a company going to the supermarket to see their competitor’s new packaging.

There are many tools available that allow you to see which ads have been running for months on pay per click search engines and media buying platforms. The logic is that if the ad has been running for a long period of time, the advertiser must be making money.

As an affiliate, this can also help you identify affiliate programs that are profitable and save you a large amount of time in the testing phase to see what works and what doesn’t. You can then take their ads and banners and build upon them to create even better ones.

There are many spy tools available online that allow you to see what is working today. You can easily click on one of the many successful ads and reverse engineer entire ad campaigns. In fact, many affiliates leave tracking footprints on their landing page, so you can clearly see what paid traffic platforms they are using to send traffic.

As an advertiser, it may be concerning to know that your ads are being monitored, but that is the evolution of Internet marketing. Spy tools are nothing new and have been around for years.

I know at one point there was concern from PPV marketers about PPV spy tools coming out and spying on what was running on the PPV networks.  This was a concern because anytime an automated robot crawls the PPV networks, this costs the advertiser an impression.  And PPV advertisers pay their ad campaigns by impression and not click.  Luckly so far, I haven’t seen this become a major issue – yet.

A new service called MixRank just recently launched and they have catalogued the entire Google Content network so you can see what ads have been running for extended periods of time. I have arranged a $1 trial offer with the guys over at Mixrank for a 7 day membership for my readers.

I highly recommend that you take the $1 trial offer and see if this tool fits in nicely with the rest of your traffic arsenal.

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What are your thoughts on spying and using tools like this? Comment below.

Best wishes,

Gauher Chaudhry

Last night I held a webinar with a good Internet marketing friend, Mark Ling. Mark and I talked about affiliate marketing in 2011 and the different opportunities that still exist to build a lucrative income online by simply doing affiliate marketing. You can watch the entire webinar below.

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Feel free to post your comments.

Best wishes,

Gauher Chaudhry

If you are an active affiliate or CPA marketer, you are probably aware that majority of offers cater to a US audience. In fact, if you log into any major CPA network, you will find that 80% of there offers are for USA traffic only. I did a call with Danay Escanaverino who is head of the international CPA network 7Reach.com a long time ago as part of my Pay Per Click Formula 2.0 training. I have placed the call below for you to listen because I think you will agree that it opens up a world of opportunity.

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A few hours ago I did a marathon three hour webinar with Nick Peall on creating massive Facebook Fan Pages by driving traffic from Facebook Ads for as little as a penny per click. What blew me away during the webinar was when Nick posted to one of his Fan Pages and within 39 seconds there were 7 comments and 25 Facebook “Likes.” By the end of the webinar, he had hundreds of comments and likes. Nick covers how he makes money with these Fan Pages during the webinar and how you can do the same. You can watch the entire webinar below.

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In order to get the bonus webinar, please make sure you email your receipt to me at gauher(at)payperclickformula.com so I can contact you when Nick and I ready to do it.

Please leave your feedback on how valuable this webinar was for you in the comments below.

Gauher Chaudhry

Recently I conducted a training webinar in which I cover what I believe is one of my biggest failures online.  I never concentrated on building a long-term in-house affiliate program for my own products and services which probably cost me millions of dollars in online sales.

You can watch the entire replay of the webinar below:

Looking forward to your comments or thoughts.

Best wishes,

Gauher Chaudhry

The following is a guest post by Max Vorobyov who is a conversion specialist. Max has worked with many CPA networks and their in-house traffic teams to help increase conversions on all in-house PPC, PPV and CPM Media Buys traffic. In this blog post, he shows comparative characteristics on how they managed to double the number of in-house sales by applying 3-level-deep conversion optimization strategies for three types of profitable traffic – PPC, PPV and CPM Media Buys. The three levels are – traffic sources’, creative and landing page optimization.

Each and every day countless millions of dollars, Euros and Pounds change hands in the online universe. Affiliate marketers is one of the largest forces that is responsible for a large chunk of the money being transferred every day between buyers and sellers.

However, not every affiliate marketer is a success. The purpose of this article is to help you become more successful. You will see how a CPA marketer optimizes (maximizes) conversions for different types of traffic. You see, good-old days when a marketer could’ve slap a page/web site together, send some traffic to it and 40 days later cash a check – are long gone now.

This article is not going to talk about SEO (search engine optimization). It will show you what other marketers are doing with traffic, creative and a landing page to literally make their fortunes.

Let’s see what could be done to minimize spend and maximize conversions on the first – traffic sources – level:

PPC: You only deal with one traffic source — a search engine that you buy clicks from. For the sake of giving a solid example let’s look in PPC’s purest form – search engine traffic only. The keywords you bid on are your traffic sources. Traffic source “red shoes” may or may not convert as well as “buy read shoes”. While optimizing a PPC campaign at the traffic source level – a CPA marketer will pause “bad” (non-converting) keywords and only leave those that convert.

PPV: The 800×600 pop-up ad is shown to visitors of a) specified web sites and/or b) specified keywords. Savvy affiliate marketer will watch his conversions like a hawk eventually disabling traffic sources that suck money out of his pocket and leave only those that put money in his pocket.

CPM Media Buys: Display advertising world with its wonders and mysteries. An affiliate marketer picks and chooses web sites (traffic sources) where his IAB standard size banners 300×250, 160×600 and 728×90 will be displayed. After gathering initial data, numbers will clearly show which individual sites (traffic sources) are producing and which aren’t. Sites where traffic doesn’t convert are disabled.

That was easy, wasn’t it? Now, let’s talk about optimizing the creative:

PPC: As we have agreed earlier we’d look at PPC traffic in its purest form – traffic from search engines. While there is a choice over text ads or display ads, search engines mostly display text ads. Smart PPC specialists split-test different ad copies and base their decisions – as to whether or not cut the ad off – on factors like CTR and Conversion Rate. Higher CTR means lover CPC but conversion is the king. Creative is optimized by split-testing of text ad elements such as headline and body copy. Best performing ads that get clicks and convert – stay. Least performing ads – get paused.

PPV: No easy answer because there is at least a dozen strategies affiliate marketers use to make money with PPV traffic. The way you optimize creative for PPV traffic depends on your business’ strategy. The 800×600 pop-up will open whatever page you direct it to. In some cases you may not need any creative optimization at all. Or, on the other hand, if an affiliate marketer is in list building or short-form lead generation – several custom 800×600 landers should be in rotation and constant testing.

CPM Media Buys: Creative optimization for CPM media buys is one step more advanced compared to the PPC example above. An affiliate marketer will need an AdServer. AdServer is a software application that delivers banner ads to the requesting web pages. It is used for displaying and tracking impressions of your banners. The rest of the optimization strategy is similar to PPC creative optimization. But, in CPM media buys case, marketer works with banners. The goal is to maximize CTR while maintaining profitable conversion rate. Banners with low CTR and low conversions get cut off. Banners that produce desired ROI get more impressions… New banners, based on the best converting design/message, should constantly be tested as well.

By now an affiliate marketer has only interested buyers coming from selected traffic sources clicking on the best performing creative.

The next big step is to improve landing page’s conversions:

PPC: Super-affiliates use tools like Google Website Optimizer, Vertster, Split Test Accelerator (to name a few) to increase the number of conversions that a landing page generates. Simple A/B split-tests or more advanced multivariate testing experiments identify the best converting combination of elements. Each and every element of a landing page like: headline, sub-head, product images’, call to action, background colors, audio/video – influence consumer’s decision to buy or not to buy the product. Each and every element is tested by super affiliates. “Killer landers” aren’t stumbled upon, they are engineered…

PPV: Once again – no easy answer. Some affiliate marketers are doing extremely well with direct linking landing pages supplied by the affiliate network. Others doing even better with custom host-and-post pages. Another group of affiliate marketers build huge lists or generate quite a bit leads using custom landers. I’d say the landing page optimization strategy for PPV traffic depends on the campaign’s as well as marketer’s personal goals.

CPM Media Buys: Multivariate testing script or software application absolutely must be used because A/B split testing is not enough. A couple of thousands of clicks will show what combination of elements work. I’ve seen a few landers where 80% of the content was loaded into the multivariate testing tool. It was basically a template full of JavaScript or PHP code where the new combination was showed and tracked every time.

See a more detailed example of how 3 levels of conversion optimization could be applied for the CPM media buys – read the special report with 59 screenshots spread over 25 easy-to-scan-through pages http://bit.ly/kOZYHO . No opt-in required.

Affiliate marketing is fun. It also requires a lot of work. However, the work you put in, the optimization you do can (and will) pay off many times over in the form of money, lifestyle and, most importantly, respect of other marketers.

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