If you want to build a business, you first need to build a sales funnel, to get potential clients to pay attention to you. You start with a free offer that gets the name and email address You deliver the gift, along with an offer for an upgrade for purchase. After that, you can offer them additional products from time to time. That’s the way online marketing is typically done. And it can work, but it may be slower than you would like, and it may get fewer new customers than you would like. Suppose you modified that process a little. That purchase you ask people to consider when you deliver... [...]

The “sales funnel” or “product funnel” is a central element of online marketing (or any wise marketing, for that matter. Grocery store “loss leaders” are an example from offline marketing.). You attract interest by offering a free (or, occasionally, low-priced) product. Then you offer additional products to those who accept your initial offer. The are called “funnels” because they are wide at the beginning and grow narrow as they go on. That is, many people accept the initial offer, and as additional offers come, with prices growing ever higher, fewer... [...]

Warrior Faraaz and Warrior Faisal just announced Backlink Goldminer, a course showing how to get quality backlinks from some of the highest-ranked sites on the web. In this brand new backlinking course you will discover: ■ How to find these high-PR backlinks from sites relevant to your niche, sites like the Huffington Post, the BBC, Forbes and many others ■ How to use either free tools or paid tools (or both) to do your research ■ How to find expired domains you can register at any registrar, domains that already have backlinks from top sites ■ How to leverage the link juice of the domains... [...]

Barry Rodgers is giving away his Exit Splash Generation Software as a “getting to know you” gesture. He wants you to know him and appreciate the quality of his products. He assumes that if you like this one, you will eventually buy more from him. Rodgers has been mentioned in IM NewsWatch many times, most recently in the ad for his product Funnel Factory Pro #1. If you have (or especially, if you haven’t) invested in one of his products, this free offer is a golden opportunity to get to know him better. Exit Splash Generation Software captures people’s attention when they... [...]

UberQast helps you distribute all of your content through hundreds of: • Video, • Podcast, • Local Map Citations, • RSS, • Social bookmarking, • Article, • Infographic, and • other Submission sites. But at 11 AM EDT, the authors say the price goes up by at least 200%. Under your control, UberQast will spread your content all around the web. And these sites that they send notices about your content to are high-quality sites, so you get two benefits: 1. You get visits from many members of these sites when they see the notice about your content. 2. The search... [...]

Two marketers and a software developer (David Abrams, Joe Troyer and Devin Zander) have just released new software that is aimed at improving your traffic (and ultimately, your sales.) UberQast, they say, “is the most powerful All in One Organic Traffic Generation System that builds a stream of visitors Without [your] ever having to manually build links again.” This is PC software, based on Adobe AIR, so it works on Mac as well as on Windows. Its features include: • Quickly generate attention sucking headlines • Easily break content into “chunks” to save 75% of your... [...]

New software by Andy Black and Simon Greenhalgh, Semantix Pro, offers a “white hat” ethical SEO tool that will stand the test of time. They call it “The Most Complete Semantic Keyword Research Tool Ever Created”. “Semantics” is the study of the meaning of words and the related meanings of related words. For example, “hot”, “sweltering” and “high temperature” are semantically related. Search engines are looking for these semantic relationships and are using them in rankings. If a person searches for “sweltering”,... [...]

If you want to let your clients (or visitors) easily download your products (whether you are giving them away as an opt-in gift or selling them), Ken Reno has a solution for you, his WpCloudSaveIt Plugin. You want them to consume your product, so they need to not only be able to get it easily, but also find it once they get it. These days, many people use cloud storage to store their products and documents. If you can let them download your paid or free content from your site straight into their preferred cloud storage system (either Google Drive or DropBox, etc.) then they will appreciate the... [...]

Brett Rutecky just announced he is running a Two Day Sale on Squeezematic, his squeeze page web-based software. Anybody, regardless of technical skill or marketing expertise can build a slick, professional squeeze page in minutes using this system. Your squeeze page is the first impression people have of you and your business. If it looks amateurish, they will hesitate to do business with you. With Squeezematic, you get 50 professional designs to choose from and 300 additional pieces of professional art that you can add to them to make them unique. You will use the drag-and-drop interface to quickly... [...]

Russell Brunson has a new video and, at the end, he is promoting an upcoming product he calls ClickFunnels. Watch the video; get on his early-bird list; get a free trial. It’s that simple. And you will also get a ticket to his live pre-view webinar so you can see the new  ClickFunnels days before it’s open to the public. Check it out here: ClickFunnels.  [...]