Sunday, June 15, 2008

‘What the Gurus WON’T Tell You!’

Tonight as I sit and write this,
it is Father’s day 2008.

I happened across this brand-new e-book for $4.95
and just HAD to blog about it! It’s THAT GOOD!

If you’re like me,
fed up with being ripped off by ‘Gurus’
and their deceptive, manipulative sales tactics,
take a good look at ‘What the Gurus WON’T Tell You!‘

It’s a total eye-opener from The Profit Clinic,
one of the best online resources for small
and home-based business owners like us.
You can find out more by clicking right here…

At less than $5 it’s the best insurance
I’ve found against online
parasites who’ll bleed you dry!

Check it out at http://ping.fm/wX2wg

Enjoy!

Brad Pollina
http://BradPollina.com

‘What the Gurus WON’T Tell You!’

‘What the Gurus WON’T Tell You!’

Tonight as I sit and write this,
it is Father’s day 2008.

I happened across this brand-new e-book for $4.95
and just HAD to blog about it! It’s THAT GOOD!

If you’re like me,
fed up with being ripped off by ‘Gurus’
and their deceptive, manipulative sales tactics,
take a good look at ‘What the Gurus WON’T Tell You!‘

It’s a total eye-opener from The Profit Clinic,
one of the best online resources for small
and home-based business owners like us.
You can find out more by clicking right here…

At less than $5 it’s the best insurance
I’ve found against online
parasites who’ll bleed you dry!

Check it out at http://ping.fm/wX2wg

Enjoy!

Brad Pollina
http://BradPollina.com

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Is GDI Killing you?

Is GDI killing you? Check out my new page over at http://ping.fm/Bwqmk
Is GDI killing you? Check out my new page over at http://ping.fm/Bwqmk

Monday, May 26, 2008

Today I Will Make A Difference

I got this from Bob Proctor and liked it so much that I thought I'd pass it along:

Today I Will Make A Difference

Today I will make a difference.
I will begin by controlling my thoughts.
A person is the product of their thoughts.
I want to be happy and hopeful.
Therefore, I will have thoughts that are happy and hopeful.

I refuse to be victimized by my circumstances.
I will not let petty inconveniences
such as stoplights, long lines, and traffic jams be my masters.
I will avoid negativism and gossip.
Optimism will be my companion, and victory will be my hallmark.
Today I will make a difference.
I will be grateful for the twenty-four hours that are before me.

Time is a precious commodity.
I refuse to allow what little time I have to be contaminated by self-pity, anxiety,
or boredom.
I will face this day with the joy of a child and the courage of a giant.
I will drink each minute as though it is my last.
When tomorrow comes, today will be gone forever.
While it is here, I will use it for loving and giving.

Today I will make a difference.
I will not let past failures haunt me.
Even though my life is scarred with mistakes,
I refuse to rummage through my trash heap of failures.

I will admit them.
I will correct them.
I will press on.
Victoriously.
No failure is fatal.

It's OK to stumble - I will get up.
It's OK to fail - I will rise again.
Today I will make a difference.

I will spend time with those I love.
My spouse, my children, my family.
A man can own the world but be poor for the lack of love.
A man can own nothing and yet be wealthy in relationships.
Today I will spend at least five minutes with the significant people in my world. Five quality minutes of talking or hugging or thanking or listening. Five undiluted
minutes with my mate, children, and friends.

Today I will make a difference.
Max Lucado
From On The Anvil

Sent to you as a courtesy of:

Bob Proctor
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Thursday, January 17, 2008

The Focus Society

Hello everyone!

Want to know how personal development books written decades ago apply to you in the here-and-now? Look no farther than Chuck Bartok’s FocusSociety.com interactive talk show. Each week Chuck and his partners meet to discuss topics from the legendary books “Think And Grow Rich” and “The Master Key System.”

The discussions are hosted on the TalkShoe interactive podcast system and everyone is invited to attend and participate. I highly recommend it.

By the way, Chuck is also one of the principles behind BeginnersMarketingClass.com. The BMC (I love acronyms!) will have its grand re-opening this weekend, so be sure to check out all they have to offer!

“Build Systems And Prosper!”


Brad Pollina
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Saturday, January 12, 2008

PreSales Videos


















In affiliate
marketing, Videos are HOT these days, but they’re much
tougher to produce than writing a few paragraphs of copy.





I was Wrong.
It was a HORRIBLE business model because there was very little of it I
could hire out to others to do for me.



I spent ALL of my time
making those films, which
leaves very little time to monetize them, and even less time to PROMOTE
them, which is of course the most vital part of an internet
marketer’s
job.



For Every film I made, I had to:




Click here to see PreSale Videos




  • Write the whole Script

  • Create all the graphics

  • Record my Voice-overs in Audacity

  • Put it all together and adjust timing in
    Camtasia

  • Add Effects

  • Edit & tweak

  • Save & render to flash

  • Export to desktop

  • Upload to Server

  • Integrate with Wordpress to display on the page

  • Test, adjust, test, publish etc…



It was a nightmare! I CERTAINLY wasn’t making my
time’s worth back for
all that work. Even with the most lucrative affiliate program on Earth,
I still wouldn’t have broken even, considering my lack of
time to
promote it!


All the while, I know that
video converts better
than anything else on the web, especially when it properly pre-sells
the viewers before they hit a landing page. I’ve seen Oodles
of
statistics showing that such pre-selling with video can raise a 2%
conversion rate to above 10%!


Still, I’m just
too lazy to do all that video
production myself, no matter how good the conversion rate becomes.
I’m
not the first to feel like this, either. The guys behind PreSale Videos
know exactly how I feel.


In case you
haven’t heard of my friend Todd Gross
yet, he was a TV weatherman and the real life inspiration for the
blockbuster film “The Perfect Storm.” He was doing
quite well
financially on his own before coming over to internet marketing, but
now he’s doing even better.


Since he’s been
around cameras and video equipment
all of his adult life, and is so photogenic from being a TV personality
for all those years, he simply put two and two together and decided
that he was the right guy to create Pre-sales videos for affiliates to
use!



So do they work well?



Yes, they are GREAT at converting your prospects…
You’ve got to see
some of these videos, they really are just what is needed to get the
best possible conversion rates on your affiliate promotions.


He’s popping them
out at a rate of about one video
(and therefore one affiliate product) per week. At the time of this
writing he’s got 17 videos to choose from in the membership
area.
(Listed below.)


Members can use any
& all of the videos, either
by embedding them in their own websites, or using their free remote
hosting to send traffic to via a link they give you. Either way, your
affiliate link gets placed on the page with your film. It’s
really
professional looking.


Inside their membership
area, for each film is a
button to view it, your link to your page viewing it, and the embedding
code so you can slap it into your own page. Even if you let your
membership run out, you can still watch all the films there and two of
them even stay active for you to promote forever!



But the best part is that as valuable as this service is, Todd and
Derrick are giving away the first week to you for Free!


They want to make sure that
you make money with them
first BEFORE you pay them one red cent. It’s a great way for
you to
make some fast cash and decide if it’s the right affiliate
strategy for
you.



So which affiliate products have they made films on so far?



All are proven converters:



  • Atomic Blogging

  • My Viral Pop Ads

  • Tellman’s List Building Club

  • Site Builder Elite

  • Viral URL

  • Project Quick Cash (Which you KNOW converts well
    or I wouldn’t rave about it myself!)

  • Newbie Affiliate Secrets

  • Blogging to The Bank (One of the best converting
    products of all time, still going strong!)

  • Zero Effort Graphics

  • Profit From Affiliate Marketing

  • Affiliate Elite (Brad & Matt
    Callen’s latest blockbuster)

  • 15K in 7 Days

  • Affiliate Cash Secrets

  • My Marketing Goldmine

  • Adsense Domination

  • Free Monthly Gifts (Todd’s other great
    Service)

  • And PreSale Videos itself, of course!


As you can see, all the
products so far are in or
near the largest, most lucrative niche market online, Internet
Marketing. (IM2IM) If you have a way to drive such traffic to your
offer page they give you (and that includes free safelists and
listbuilding services!) then you’ll be making money, period.



The Proof is in the pudding…


Well, I’m not
exactly sure what that means exactly,
but at any rate I couldn’t resist trying out a video for a
week just to
find out what kind of conversion rates I would get.



I used three FREE traffic resources, and sent out several messages
until I got 200 clickthrus, which took
less than a week. (One mailing a day to each times 5 days should be
enough for anyone with any writing skills, but it only took me three.)


If you know anything about
free list-builder
services then you know that their traditional conversion rate is VERY
LOW. Usually less than 1/2 of 1% ever buy anything… In fact,
they are
not much better than safelists at all in their conversion rates.


Out of the 200 that landed
on the page Todd and
Derrick hosted there, SIXTY EIGHT people clicked through to the
product’s sales page, (that’s a 34%
pre-conversion!) and ultimately 8 of them
purchased!


Yes, Eight out of 200
overall is only a 4%
conversion ratio, however, consider the source of the traffic! If I had
just written some better-than average sales copy and sent it out to
those same list builders, I’d only expect at most just ONE
sale… So
this effectively multiplied my conversion rates TIMES EIGHT!



(Not to mention, they did all the hard work for me.)


So the bottom line on
PreSale Videos is that you
still need to drive some traffic, but they’re easy to use,
and they
simply WORK. I have no reservation in thinking that each of you can
make some great money using this system, ongoing forever!



So Click Here to try
PreSale Videos FREE for 7 days!






Brad Pollina
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Sunday, January 06, 2008

Newbie Blogging Moron Tells Blogosphere What's What

I'm evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they're letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

  • The best blogging techniques.
  • How to get traffic to your blog.
  • How to turn your blog into money.

I'll let you know what I think once I've had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it's still free.




Brad Pollina
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Friday, January 04, 2008

Azz Cardfile Software gives away free licenses

I have been using AZZ Cardfile for quite some time now to track user ids passwords and the like for my Safelists and Traffic Exchanges that I belong to. It is da bomb!

Check it out!


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