14
Jan

An Interview with… Me!

Author: Jerry Iannucci

Happy Friday!

It’s been a wonderful week and I would just like to thank everybody for all the positive comments I have received for my new book Autoresponder Profit  System.  Thank you!

It’s been really amazing watching people actually putting this information into practice.  It feels great every time I see someone new building their list with the tools I make available through the site.

Want to know what’s really crazy?

People are now wanting to interview me!

I actually did an interview last Monday with James Holmes who is host of the “Internet Business Blueprint” podcast show.  I think it went well.

Let me just put the disclaimer out there that I loathe talking on the phone.  I like email or skype where I can take a few moments to compose my thoughts.   This was also my first interview so I was a bit nervous.  Lucky for me James is a professional and he somehow managed to keep me talking for a  full 45 min.

Here’s the archived link if you want to listen:
http://askjamesholmes.com/product-review-jerry-ianuccis-autoreponder-profit-system

Don’t ask me if it’s good or not.  I have no idea what I said during those 45 min and I am not interested in going back and listen to myself talk.  So, let me  know if it’s any good.

Also, I believe I am going to be the guest speaker tomorrow morning at the weekly Affiliate Funnel conference.  I assume I will be talking about  autoresponders, list building, and all sorts of good stuff.

If you would like to stop by and heckle me live it starts Saturday at Noon EST and will probably run for about an hour.

Here’s the link:
http://www.hotconference.com/conference,82001688

1
Mar

The Best Safelists for March 2010

Author: Jerry Iannucci

Welcome to March and a whole new month of safelist marketing.  Lots of good stuff to talk about this month so let’s jump right in…

First, the big news last month was all about the rise in popularity of safelist cheat software and the safelists owners efforts to fight it.  Well, I am happy to report that the war is over… and WE WON!  Mostly.  Andrew Baxter, the creator of the most popular software made an appearance at Net Marketing Forum and agreed to stop selling and supporting his software.  You can read the whole thread here.

Andrew also states that the developers of several other safelist cheat programs had sent him very angry emails because he had made his software so public resulting in the safelists adding anti-cheat devices.  I guess that confirms that there are still other cheaters out there but at least the anti-cheat stuff is working.

Also I want to remind everyone that while there are people using bots to click your safelist credit links this doesn’t hurt the effectiveness of safelist advertising.  When you spend your safelist credits your credits are used whether or not someone opens your email.  The bots just allow people to earn credits they don’t deserve.  This could result in more emails in your inbox but that also means more credits for you to earn.

There was a pretty huge launch last month.  List Effects is the new viral list builder from two of the biggest names in the safelist and text ad exchange industry.  To be honest, the site isn’t really pretty.  In fact, it looks a little too much like the inside of a text ad exchange… but it’s the results that matter.  And WOW is List Effects kicking butt.  Check the stats below and you will see why I am so excited about this new program.

A not so new program that I finally joined last month is List Building Maximizer.  I don’t know why I waited so long to join this one.  I guess I figure that newer sites aren’t going to have enough members until they have been around for awhile.  Obviously I was wrong.  Based on the stats below List Building Maximizer is crushing it!  If there are other great safelists like this out there that I am missing out on please let me know.

Ok.  Here are my safelist stats from last month.  These stats come from advertising my video splash page for Safelist Marketing Tactics.

Total Clicks

Unique Clicks Action Sales CTA CTS
List Effects
1,076 818 104 21 12.71% 2.57%
ViralAdStore 1,520 915 61 18 6.67% 1.97%
ListBuildingMaximizer
1,757 894 57 18 6.38% 2.01%
Got Safelist 3,808 1,571 50 10 3.18% 0.64%
Elite Safelist 1,396 682 36 10 5.28% 1.47%
List Auction 1,042 737 34 10 4.61% 1.36%
AdSolutionline 2,338 917 26 4 2.84% 0.44%
FreeSafelistMailer 962 466 13 3 2.79% 0.64%

“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”.  I ranked these safelists by sales but it is also important to look at the other numbers to determine how responsive each safelist really is.

Not counting the two new sites it looks like I had a slight drop in my overall results from last month.  That could be a result of me playing around with my subject lines.  I am surprised that List Auction continues to drop.  This could be a result of how few emails they are sending out which means less credits for me to earn for my own ads.  It’s nice to see Got Safelist and Elite Safelist doing really well again.

Obviously the biggest winners this month are List Effects and List Building Maximizer. If you are not a member of these two programs yet you are missing out on some seriously good traffic.

I guess that’s about it for this month.  As usual my stats are a result of my efforts and the pages I am promoting.  Your results may not be the same but you can use my stats as a guide for deciding where you should be promoting this month.  How do I know which safelists work best for me?  I track my results.  If you aren’t tracking you are wasting a big chunk of your time.  You can get a free link tracker from TEToolbox.

 The Best Safelists for February 2010

1
Jun

T-minus 1 week to launch!

Launch is set for Monday, June 8th @ Noon EST.

Everything is set and ready to go for my first membership site… and much sooner than expected.

Last week I hired Jay Hines (Quick Tab Change) to do a little custom programming on the site.  I knew that was something I was going to need to do after I finished my product but I was factoring in at least a week for him to get it done.  I spotted Jay in the Affiliate Funnel conference room and told him what I wanted.  20 minutes later it was done!

With the site completed I spent some time last week sending out emails looking for JV partners.  I wasn’t expecting a huge response but I was surprised by how many people didn’t bother to respond at all.  The good news is that I got a few people who I know are going to be able to bring in a huge amount of traffic to the site.  The important thing to remember is that it never hurts to ask.

For the last few days I have been writing emails to put into my autoresponder.  That has taken longer than expected.  It’s been almost a year since I have written an entire email series but I think I have gotten much better at it.  I have essentially written an ecourse on Internet marketing that I will be sharing with the members of my site.  I am pretty excited about it.

If you are not sure how to write autoresponder emails I highly recommend reading Soren’s Internet Marketing Success Formula.  Really good stuff.

With everything being done I am not quite sure what to do for the next week.  I’ll probably write a few more promo emails for the members but otherwise I am ready to go.

Maybe I will get a head start on launching my 2nd membership site.