Hey guys.

Last month I relaunched my Safelist Marketing Tactics site.  As part of this promotion I decided to purchase a few safelist solo ads to help spread the word.  Since I always track my ads I thought you might be interested in checking out some of my stats.

I should point out that these stats probably aren’t as reliable as my monthly safelist reports.  Usually my stats are based on a full month of daily mailings.  These solo ad stats are 1-time mailings all sent within a few days of each other.  I probably would have gotten better results if I had spaced them out over a period of time so take that into consideration.

“Clicks” is how many people viewed my splash page.  “Action” is how many people clicked the link on my splash page to go to the main site.  “Sales” is how many people joined my site.  CTA and CTS are “clicks to action” and “clicks to sale”.  “Cost” is how much I paid for the solo ads and CPS is the “cost per sale”.

Not the greatest results.  Especially since I usually try to shoot for $1.00 per sign-up.

European Safelist ended up being the best deal.  I actually sent that solo ad for free as part of my monthly upgraded membership which costs $7.00.  I usually get 7-10 sign-ups from my monthly European Safelist solo ad which is what makes me think all theses results are a little bit weaker than they could have been.

Adsolutionline ended up being a pretty good deal.  It’s a little more expensive than the other solo ads but Adsolutionline has always been a responsive safelist for me.

I’m pretty disappointed in the viral list builders.  I normally get great results from these sites but it appears the solo ads weren’t really worth it this time.  List Joe brought me a lot of sign-ups but if you are going to spend $100 on advertising you’re probably better off with the monthly upgrade.

Just as with my monthly safelist stats please keep in mind that these stats are the results of my own marketing methods.  Your results may vary.  The only way to know for sure what works best for you is to track your results!  You can get a free link tracker from from TE Toolbox.

Here is the list of upcoming JV giveaway events for March 29, 2010.

JV Giveaway Events

*** March 30 – Easter Giveaway 2010
Contributors: 4322  Gifts: 291

March 31 – Peter Cottontail Easter Giveaway
Contributors: 252  Gifts: 176

April 1 – Easter Madness Giveaway
Contributors: 213  Gifts: 182

April 2 – Marketing Associates Giveaway
Contributors: 191  Gifts: 113

* April 2 – New JV Talent Easter Giveaway
Contributors: 440  Gifts: 311

April 2 – The Spring Time Giveaway
Contributors: 116  Gifts: 70

April 12 – No Name JV
Contributors: 89  Gifts: 46

* Recommended

You can always find the latest giveaway announcements at:
http://www.GiveawayTactics.com

Here is the list of upcoming JV giveaway events for March 1, 2010.

JV Giveaway Events

March 3 – Growing Success Gifts
Contributors: 474  Gifts: 182

March 13 – Gift Me My Money Giveaway
Contributors: 162  Gifts: 115

March 15 – Looking Forward to Spring Giveaway
Contributors: 118  Gifts: 81

March 16 – My JV Giveaway
Contributors: 145  Gifts: 102

March 31 – Peter Cottontail Easter Giveaway
Contributors: 91  Gifts: 60

You can always find the latest giveaway announcements at:
http://www.GiveawayTactics.com

Here is the list of upcoming JV giveaway events for February 8, 2010.

JV Giveaway Events

Feb 8 – The Seven Dollar Giveaway
Contributors: 238  Gifts: 228

Feb 9 – Happy Birthday Box of Gifts Giveaway
Contributors: 278  Gifts: 224

*Feb 13 – New JV Talent Valentine’s Giveaway
Contributors: 431  Gifts: 341

Feb 15 – Traffic Tsunami Gifts
Contributors: 227  Gifts: 150

Feb 15 – Members Only Giveaway 2
Contributors: 207  Gifts: 134

Feb 19 – Internet Marketing Giveaway
Contributors: 140  Gifts: 92

Feb 22 – 2010 Prosperity Giveaway
Contributors: 112  Gifts: 93

Feb 28 – St. Patricks Day Giveaway
Contributors: 155  Gifts: 87

March 1 – Luck of the Irish Giveaway
Contributors: 157  Gifts: 97

*Recommended

You can always find the latest giveaway announcements at:
http://www.GiveawayTactics.com

Here is the list of upcoming JV giveaway events for February 1, 2010.

JV Giveaway Events

*Feb 5 – EZ-IM Giveaway
Contributors: 1429  Gifts: 306

Feb 6 – Valentine Giveaway
Contributors: 222  Gifts: 146

Feb 8 – The Seven Dollar Giveaway
Contributors: 171  Gifts: 153

Feb 9 – Happy Birthday Box of Gifts Giveaway
Contributors: 205  Gifts: 146

*Feb 13 – New JV Talent Valentine’s Giveaway
Contributors: 342  Gifts: 257

Feb 15 – Traffic Tsunami Gifts
Contributors: 158  Gifts: 95

*Feb 15 – Members Only Giveaway 2
Contributors: 137  Gifts: 88

Feb 22 – 2010 Prosperity Giveaway
Contributors: 41  Gifts: 43

Feb 28 – St. Patricks Day Giveaway
Contributors: 91  Gifts: 43

*Recommended

You can always find the latest giveaway announcements at:
http://www.GiveawayTactics.com

Here is the list of upcoming JV giveaway events for January 25, 2010.

JV Giveaway Events

Jan 29 – Fair Rainbow Giveaway

Jan 30 – The Bargain Basement Giveaway
Contributors: 334  Gifts: 223

Jan 31 – Be My Valentine Giveaway
Contributors: 253  Gifts: 165

Feb 1 – The PLR Giveaway
Contributors: 224  Gifts: 98

Feb 6 – Valentine Giveaway
Contributors: 198  Gifts: 122

Feb 8 – The Seven Dollar Giveaway
Contributors: 113  Gifts: 93

Feb 9 – Happy Birthday Box of Gifts Giveaway
Contributors: 127  Gifts: 75

*Feb 13 – New JV Talent Valentine’s Giveaway
Contributors: 267  Gifts: 197

*Recommended

You can always find the latest giveaway announcements at:
http://www.GiveawayTactics.com

Here is the list of upcoming JV giveaway events for January 11, 2010.

JV Giveaway Events

Jan 14 – Free Gifts For You
Contributors: 240  Gifts: 199

Jan 15 – Free List Building Event

*Jan 18 – Graphics Giveaway 3
Contributors: 301  Gifts: 84

Jan 31 – Be My Valentine Giveaway
Contributors: 149  Gifts: 94

Feb 6 – Valentine Giveaway
Contributors: 122  Gifts: 68

*Recommended

You can always find the latest giveaway announcements at:
http://www.GiveawayTactics.com

Here is the list of upcoming JV giveaway events for January 4, 2010.

JV Giveaway Events

*Jan 11 – The Naked Giveaway
Contributors: 223   Gifts: 79

Jan 31 – Be My Valentine Giveaway
Contributors: 95  Gifts: 56

Feb 6 – Valentine Giveaway
Contributors: 55  Gifts: 29

*Recommended

You can always find the latest giveaway announcements at:
http://www.GiveawayTactics.com

Launch day!

Ok, you have been waiting a long time for this and so have I.

Introducing… Safelist Marketing Tactics

Hooray!

The site has been up for about an hour now and already 40 new members have joined.  Very cool.

The last few days were spent going over some really minor details to make sure I had all my bases covered.  Also fixed some really dumb errors that I missed after going over the site a few hundred times (thanks Tony Tezak!)

So why safelists?  It just seemed like everything related to traffic exchanges had been done to death but hardly anybody was doing anything new with safelists.  There’s only one other really good safelist ebook that I can think of and very few free ones that are worth reading.  I also get really good results from safelist marketing ever since I started applying the techniques I learned from using traffic exchanges.  I thought that would be something of value that I could share.

What now?  I’m going to go on a bit of an advertising blitz for a few days.  I’ll probably look and see where I am in about a week and then from there hopefully I will move on to my next project.

Until then.. go ahead and click the image below to join Safelist Marketing Tactics.

Just a quick update.

Not too much has changed since my last post.  I did get all of the “little things” done that I mentioned in my last post.  All I have left now is to create the product and write some emails.

I did get fancy shmancy splash page made for me this week that affiliates will be able to use when promoting my site.  I usually try and make my own splash pages but this time I decided to hire Jamison Raymond from Black Hat Graphics.  Jamison is da man when it comes to splash pages because he understands that it takes more than just great graphics to create a high converting splash page.  I am very pleased with how well it turned out.

I had been putting off the product creation part of this project for awhile because I wasn’t sure how to properly format it in order to turn it into a rebrandable pdf file.  Thankfully Sunny Suggs got me into contact with Jay Hines from Quick Tab Change who came up with a great solution for me.  Thanks Sunny!  Now there is nothing holding me back!

Of course I still haven’t started.  I have been doing a lot of shows lately.  Tonight will be my 7th show in 6 days and I am feeling kinda drained.  The good news is that I have Saturday and Sunday off to work on my product… or I could watch the last 6 episodes of LOST that are sitting on my hard drive.

Next week.  Seriously!  I will have something done by next week.

Happy Saturday!

Just a few quick announcements before I shut down for the day.

As of today the big IM Dream Team giveaway event is open to the public and will remain open until November 30! This is your chance to get your hands on some great software and ebooks as well as other cool IM resources that you can use for your business.

I am looking at the site now and there are almost 200 products being given away including some nice PLR packages, some marketing courses, awesome video squeeze page templates… phew! I gotta stop browsing this thing.

Also a large chunk of the proceeds generated by the IM Dream Team will go to a very noble cause. You need to check it out for yourself to truly understand how this is going to changes lives.

So help yourself and others by checking out the IM Dream Team site now.

New Prelaunch

As one JV giveaway event opens to the public another is seeking contributors for an event launching in December.  This JV giveaway is being hosted by Guido Nussbaum who always puts on a great event.  If you have a product with a squeeze page that you would like to have included then click here now.

It’s one thing to read over and over about the benefits of having a blog, case studies about how others have profited or built up heaps of traffic and huge mailing lists using blogs… but it’s another thing to finally take some action and finally do it yourself.

It’s really easy. First, decide what you’re going to blog about. Stock trading? Fishing? Relationship advice? Super-foods? Decide on that, decide on a title for your blog, then think about that blog’s keywords. What would somebody type in a search engine if they were going to find your blog?

Next, buy a domain name. Many web hosting companies will include a domain name as part of their service, but you should register it separately because you might want to move to a different web host later. You want a short domain name that ends in .com and is easy to remember and pronounce.

Then get web hosting. Do a web search for “web hosting wordpress” so you can be sure that your web host will install WordPress FOR you, if you don’t have the technical skills. After signup, they give you the exact instructions you need to go back to your domain name and point its nameservers to your web host, this will connect your .com name with the actual place your web site files are stored.

On your web site, install WordPress. Some hosts install it with one click. You might have to set it up yourself using WordPress.org’s “5 minute install” or pay someone (like your host) $10-$20 to do it.

Login to your WordPress Dashboard and choose a theme for your blog. There are only a few built-in, but they provide a link to browse hundreds of free themes that you can download. Don’t download every single theme, just choose one you like, download, unzip, and upload, then activate it.

Once all that’s done, look at the different plugins you have available to you. For starters, activate the plugin that defends against spam. You can always go back and add more later.

That’s it… now start blogging. After you have a couple of blog posts in the can, go back to the WordPress plugin directory and find some cool plugins to add a contact form, back up your blog, and more. For some great tutorials on how to use WordPress… CLICK HERE.

Everybody is looking for ways to drive affordable web traffic to their sites.

Try this. Head over to the Wordtracker keyword suggestion tool and do a search for the keywords that best relates to your site and check out the results. When people do a search for these keywords in the search engines indexed websites containing articles with these keywords will show up. This is exactly what leads traffic to sites containing keyword rich articles.

You have probably heard the phase “content is king”. It’s true! Surfers just can’t get enough information on various topics. Giving them the information they are looking for through articles is a sure way to drive red hot traffic your websites.

Here are a few of the ways writing articles can benefit your business.

1. It’s free.

Too good to be true? Actually, no! All you need is your thoughts and your computer. If you have those two things then there is nothing that can stop you from typing words that will create articles for your website.

2. Your site will get noticed very quickly.

Search engines are quick to pick up new articles. Submit your article to some high traffic article directories and it won’t be long before your article gets crawled by the search engines. Of course don’t forget to include your resource box in the byline.

3. Automatically obtain back links.

When you submit your articles to the directories other websites will have the option to make use of your article too. According to the copyright terms of your articles the URL of your website should remain in tact and will subsequently direct more traffic to your site.

4. Improve your reputation.

If you plainly display your products on your website there is a good chance that you will not gain much of a conversion rate. Conversion is when your traffic converts to sales. It is important that you show people that you are knowledgeable in your field. An excellent way to show people that you know what you are talking about is by writing articles on your subject.

Get your creative juices flowing and start jotting down some ideas quickly to jump start your article writing momentum. With all of the benefits listed above, writer’s block is the last problem you will ever be able to surmount.

Today I spent a few hours working on making a new squeeze page for my ebook (the last one bombed hard). Now that it is up and traffic is flowing to it I got to spend some time reading. I just finished reading a copy of “15 Day Resell Rights Success” which is an ebook that show you how to make money with resell rights products.

I have been dabbling with master resell rights products for a few years. I admit that for the most part I have been stumbling blindly with very little success. 15 Day Resell Rights Success gives me a road map that I can follow which is broken up into 15 tasks. Complete 1 task a day and in 15 days you will have success.. or so they say.

I was skeptical but 15 Day Resell Rights Success is actually packed with really good information that I have not been able to find elsewhere. The section about how to turn trash into cash was a real eye opener for me.

If you have a collection of resell rights products on your computer or if are looking for the best places to cheaply acquire master resell rights products check out the 15 Day Resell Rights Success ebook.

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I decided to give up on that other WordPress theme. It was so nice but it was just way too buggy. I don’t know how many hours I wasted uninstalling it and reinstalling it only to be constantly plagued with errors.

I settled on this theme instead called “HeyLucy”. Silly name, but after much searching it seems to have everything I want and is easy to read.

So today I have been digging into the widgets and plug-ins, which is really the whole reason why I want my own blog. I have installed 6 new plug-ins in the last 2 hours and I am really starting to like the look of my blog.

Now I just need some content!

Eh, I can do that later. Ideally I want to get Twitter and Tweet by Blog on here but I want to tweak a few more things before I dive into that. Not to mention I have a ton of other stuff I need to be doing. Plus, it’s Monday which means I am doing lights tonight so I probably won’t be as productive as I need to be today (or probably tomorrow if tonight is anything like last week). We’ll see how it goes.