Confirmed Opt-in Myths Exposed

Myth 1: My List Size Will Decrease Because Of Confirmed Opt-In.

Some addresses entered into your form will not confirm — that much is true. The percentage of addresses that don’t confirm depends on many factors, including the quality of your traffic and how effective your thank-you page, confirmation message and incentive for confirming are.
Percentages aside, there are compelling reasons that having fewer addresses on your list is a good thing.

Sometimes Less is Better

I know. You may be asking, “How can a decreased list size be a good thing?” Well, let’s consider:

5-20% of all web form submissions are undeliverable right off the bat.

This means that of your total list size you can cut that by 5-20% because these email addresses are simply dead. Remember these are not temporary undeliverable but permanent dead addresses.
Now, add on the bogus and malicious sign ups that undoubtedly will happen. For example, someone comes to your website and decides to put in bob@aol.com. Well, bob@aol.com was once a real email address and because you were not using confirmed opt-in you are now classified as an unintentional spammer.

A recent study by MarketingSherpa and KnowledgeStorm found that only 68% of users always enter a valid email address. So, nearly a third of respondents knowingly enter bogus email addresses.
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ISPs do not differentiate between unintentional spammers or actual spammers. The potential for you to be blocked or even worse, blacklisted, remains the same.

Less Can Be More Too
A study done by AWeber shows that using confirmed opt-in also reduces unsubscribes and complaints. This means that you keep more of your subscribers (the ones that actually want your email).
Read more about that here.

Myth 2: My Mailing List Is Different! I Don’t Need Confirmed Opt-In.

Let’s be clear, confirmed opt-in is for all businesses, plain and simple. Anyone collecting subscribers and in turn sending email needs to confirm that those people intended to sign up to your mailing list and want to receive your email.
In this age of email regulations and massive volumes of spam email, deliverability can be an issue. Why increase your chances of not getting delivered by putting yourself at risk.

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Myth 3: No One Else Uses Confirmed Opt-In. Why Should I?

This is simply not accurate. Our own campaigns here at AWeber use confirmed opt-in for all email marketing activities. When someone signs up for a Test Drive of AWeber, they must confirm.
After setting up an account, if they want to receive our customer training email course, they must confirm. The same goes for our affiliates and their email training. Even when someone subscribes to our blog, they must confirm.

Ok, but AWeber must practice what they preach, who else?

If you want to sign up for the mailing lists of these organizations you will need to first confirm:

CNN	Microsoft
Oprah	bellagio.com
IRS.gov	weather.com
ign.com	maxim.com
tgifridays.com	olivegarden.com
pbs.org	visitpa.com
Whitehouse.gov	CNet

The list goes on and on!

Myth 4: Subscribers In My Market Don’t Know How To Confirm.

The simple solution is to tell them. The first page after someone fills in an opt-in form, commonly called a “thank you page” should tell the visitor exactly what to do next. Often this is done most effectively with a picture showing visitors what the confirmation email will look like.
An excellent example is our test drive sign up video on the thank you page showing visitors what to do.

One variation of this myth is: “Subscribers in my market don’t know how to click an email link.”

Honestly, if they can’t click a link then you probably should be marketing your business offline. If someone can find your website online I guarantee they can click a link.

Myth 5: My Sales Will Decrease Because Of Confirmed Opt-In.

Have you tested this assumption? The answer is always, “No, but I just assume” or “No, my colleague told me it would hurt sales”.
It’s best not to assume anything, but rather to seek out your own answers by testing and observing your own campaigns. We have found from our own testing that while the raw number of email addresses on our list declined when we switched to confirmed opt-in, sales did not.
This means that the people who did confirm were the ones that truly wanted the information that they had to offer and the ones that didn’t were not left to bloat the mailing list.

Grow Your Business Without Risk

Will your results be exactly the same as AWeber or even anyone else? This can only be determined by proper testing and measuring.
Use confirmed opt-in as an opportunity to make sure that your lists are 100% clean and that you know without a doubt that 100% of the people receiving your mail have specifically requested it themselves.
Spend your time and energy building your business with subscribers who want to hear from you rather than dealing with issues created by people who don’t want to hear from you.

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How To Create A Buy Button

One of the basic things you must learn being an internet marketer is to create a buy button. A buy button will enable you to collect payment from customers for the thing you put on sale in your website or blog. For example, you have a sales page, telling people how good your e-book is and at the end of your page you would most definitely like customers to buy the e-book you are promoting. Without a buy button, all that you are promoting will be in vain as customers will not be able to buy your item.
Having said all these, I will teach you step by step how you can create a buy button and insert it into your website. First, you have to sign up for a paypal account if you haven't already got one. When you have done so, log in to your paypal account. Go to "Merchant Services" on the menu bar. Then under merchant services, click on "website payment standards". Scroll down and you will see 3 types of buttons available, "Buy now" for single item, multiple items "Add to cart" button with paypal cart and a "Subscription button" for automated payment. Choose the type suitable for your item and press "create on now". Under the create paypal payment button page, key in your product name and number. Put in the price you wish to sell your product and the currency you are selling. For example USD. Then you go to step 3, and key in the website URL you want your customer to go to after they have made the payment. This will be the webpage where you give your e-book link for your customer to download! Click "create button" after everything is done. Paypay will have the HTML code for your button ready. You just have to select code and copy it. Paste the code into your blog or website builder. Remember to always test the button you have just created to make sure that the item particulars are correct and the button actually works! Watch the video below to get a better picture and understanding on how to create a buy button.

From Nobody To Sombody?

  When he was 8, he got expelled from school for misbehavior and his parents had to go round the country begging other primary schools to let him study in their school. He was a total misfit. He did so poorly in his primary school leaving examinations that he was rejected from ALL the secondary schools of my choice and was dumped into a school called Ping Yi. He was academically very weak and was always the slowest in class. He failed in four subjects of the eight he was taking and soon enough...


Today he is an entrepreneur, a best-selling author and a peak performance trainer. A self-made millionaire by the age of 26, he owns and runs several businesses in education, training, event management and advertising, all with a combined annual turnover of $30 million. He is the Executive Chairman and Chief Master Trainer of A Learning institution and a director of seven other private companies.

  From nobody to somebody? Well if that guy above can do it, so can YOU!  Too many times in our life, we just gave up on the things we do too early after only a single failure.  Little do we know that success doesn't always comes the first time around.  Even the great Thomas Edison had tried more than 10,000 times until he gets his light bulb to shine. Many great achievements in this world were accomplished by tired and discourage men who kept on working.  Try and fail but do not fail to try - Stephen Kaggwa.  As energy and persistence conquer all things - Benjamin Franklin.  And Age wrinkles the body but quiting wrinkles the soul - Douglas MacArthur.

  Either in internet marketing or any other business you do, working hard is a must and failure is only a temporary obsticle that needs to be overcome by you.  Treat failure as a learning experience and always be ready to work on a higher level after each failure and it will come to a point where success will be inevitable.  In online business, you may not be earning anything in the first few months.  Take some time off and go do some readings and researches.  See what other people are doing, learn from them.  Get ideas will come in the most unexpected time as when you are in a state of relax and continuous learning, you mind will gather information and process it into marvellous ideas that you won't even believe its your own idea!  Be positive and stay focus.  Always stick to your goal and the end result will make you from "Nobody to Somebody"!
 

The Money Is In The List

  Have you ever been to a live internet marketing seminar where you see the gurus perform their miraculous speed money earning act? So how they can, by just sending a email and a few minutes later there is money coming in to their online bank account?  Well, the big secret lies in their mailing list.  Most internet marketing gurus has at least 100,000 names in their mailing list.  People opt-in to their mailing list by providing their email and name in return for a free product or subscription of a newsletter.  People who are interested in that particular niche will normally give their email and name willingly. For this reason, the mailing list collected will be considered as reasonably targeted shoppers. 
  Most internet gurus will have been in the online scene for quite a number of years. Thus they have already built a good relationship with their mailing list.  They provide great useful information to their list and make them ever hungry for more information.  So when the guru recommends a product for them to buy.  Their response will be quite positive.  So let say a guru has 100,000 names in his mailing list.  When he sends out a email recommending a product for $49, let say the conversion rate is 2%, which equals to 2,000 buyers.  2,000 x $49 = $98,000.  Nearly $100k in just under a few minutes?  Well this is very possible.  That is how they can make so much money in such a short period of time.  And that is why we call it, "The Money Is in The List".

Can We Make A Living From Forex Trading

  The simple answer is yes, if we know what we are doing.  Forex Trading can make can make us rich overnight if we have the right trading technique and a capital big enough to trade at a higher lot. However, not all of us have huge sum of money at our disposal.  Thus the best way is to use an amount which we are comfortable of and with no urgency of using this money for our daily living.  If we can generate $50 per day trading forex, in 20 days we will have $1,000 and that is a good additional source of income for most of us.
  So how can we go about making this $1,000 a month a reality for us?  Well, the first step is to learn some basics on forex trading.  Today getting information on forex trading should be relatively easy as we can always "Google" it out.  After we have a basic knowledge on forex, we can then go to the next step, which is trade online using a demo account.  I think almost all trading platform on forex will have a demo account for us to trade in.  It is very important that we use a demo account to practice forex trading initially as we are new and do not have any experience trading.  And we do not want to risk our real money while learning to trade.  By learning through a demo account, we can get our strategies right and experience how forex trading is like before we go on live, using real money.  It is advisable that we practice at least 6 months using the demo account until we are earning consistent income with the demo money before we even want to think of using the real account with real money.  It is said that we need a strong mind to do forex trading as this will be very important to our success of making a consistent income.  A strong mind will control us psychologically not to be greedy but to set a profit target every time we open a trade. The other important issue is that we must set a stop lost on our every single trade.  As we know there is no guarantee of winning every single time we trade as we all cannot predict exactly where the market will go.  So, the only thing we can do if the market moves against us is to cut the lost by setting a stop lost in our trade.  The secret is that if we trade 10 times and have 5 winning trades and 5 losing ones, if we set to take profit at 30 PIPs and cut lost at 15 PIPs, then eventhough we have 5 winning trades only, 30 PIP - 15 PIP = 15 PIP we still have a positive gain overall as set our winning trade 50% higher than our losing ones. We mentioned just now, if we can earn $50 per day on average we can gain $1,000 per month but what if we managed to salvage $100 or even $200 per day?  These will mean $2,000 and $4,000 respectively every month. Ok, I will let you think on your own the earning potential of forex trading for now.  I will discuss more on my future blog post.

Why Online Business Is Better Than Their Offline Counterpart

  First of all starting an online business does not need a huge capital.  We only need a little fee for a domain name and a hosting server which cost less than $20. As for a brick and mortar business, we need at least $20,000 for rental and renovation of premises.  An online business can be set up within days or even hours if you are good at it but offline business may need months to from planning till to open shop.  As there are lots of nitty-gritty things you need to attend to such as license application, water & electricity installation, stock order, shop design and furniture arrangement and many more.
  For an online business selling ebooks for example, there is no need to rent a place to store their books whereas their offline counterpart, a bookshop for example, they need to have a storeroom for putting stocks of books which need a systematic method of storage and personnel to take care of the stocks.  Doing an online shop can be handled by yourself alone where as offline shop needs a handful of staffs to take care of respective departments such as finance, operation, marketing, human resource, store and etc.  To hire such a group of people require further cost every month. Together with other overhead costs like, water & electricity, transportation and handling charges, the monthly revenue will be greatly reduced as compared to an online business which does not need to have all these overhead costs and can enjoy a higher margin of profits. 
  The market for a conventional shop is only within a certain town or location in a particular country where as an online store can sell to anyone, anywhere around the world who has access to internet.  According to statistics there are around 1.8 billion internet users last year and growing.  So you can imagine the earning potential as compared to those in a brick and mortar business.

How to do Keyword Research - Part 3

  With the information on demand for your chosen keywords from Google Keyword Tool, you also need to know how many competition you are going to face.  This is very important as you do not want to use a keyword that is too competitive that people will not be able to see you in the search engine as you would be many pages down in the search result of search engines.
  Let us go to the Google Search page.  From here you type in your chosen keyword.  For example, "Golf". The results will show that there are 537 millions websites out there with this particular keyword.  What this means is that although you have 185 millions searches which equals to demand on your keywords, there are actually 537 millions competitions on the "golf" keyword which roughly comes to 3 times the size of your demand.  This basically means that the "Golf" keyword has too many competitions and it would not be wise to choose such a highly competitive keyword to put in your website unless you can find a way to beat all the 537 millions competitors!
  Well, do not get disheartened by this.  You can always choose another keyword.  In fact other longer keywords may even be more profitable as they are more targeted and not so competitive.  For example you can choose "golf swing".  In Google keyword tool, the monthly search is about 1.2 million while the competition is roughly about 8 millions. Well, still quite competitive, but 8 million is better than 537 million competitions.  Let us try the word "How to perfect your golf swing".  The competition is 276 thousand but the search demand is only 720.  There is hardly enough search to get you sufficient traffic.  The trick here is you need a balance of high enough number of searches to get you sufficient traffic to your website and you do not want too many competitions.  So, something in the middle will be fine.

How to do Keyword Research - Part 2

  The keywords shown are ranked from the highest searched by people around the word to the lowest. You can see that there are 185 million searches globally for the word "Golf" for last month and 55.6 millions searches locally for the same month.  This will tell you what the demand is for the word "golf".  Speaking of demand, well, in business there is always the other side of the equation which is the supply or we called it the competition here.  We will talk about how to see how many competitions for our chosen keyword in our next post.  For the time being, we can see that from column 2, the green bar is full, meaning that the competition is very stiff for the keyword "Golf".  But for the keywords "Golf discount shoe" for example, the green bar is only half, which means the competition is lesser. 
  In the "Local search trend" column, there are 12 mini vertical green bars which represent the search trend for each calendar month of the past 1 year.  From here we can see whether the particular keyword is being searched evenly throughout the year, or whether it is only popular for a particular month of the year.  For example, you type the word how to cook turkey.  The result will show only one high green bar in the "local search trend" column.  What this means is that people are only more interested to know how to cook a turkey during December, which is Christmas season.  So if you want to have constant traffic to your website throughout the whole year, it is advisable to choose those keywords with roughly even green bars on the "local search trend" column. The "Estimated Avg CPC" column is the estimated average cost per click which means if you were to put your ad with Google Adwords, that is how much Google will charge you per click.

How to do Keyword Research - Part 1

  Before you start an online business, it is advisable to do a market research first.  You can start off by selecting a niche that you have interest in.  Choosing a niche within your interest will ensure that you will always have the passion to put in a lot of valuable content in your website and will not give up half way though. Having chosen your particular niche, you can start to do keyword research. Putting the right keyword in your website is essential for the success of your online business as it will affect the ranking of your website in search engines like Google, Yahoo etc. 
   There are many ways of doing keyword research over the internet.  To make things simple, I will use Google Keyword Tools to explain here.  You go to Google search engine and type in Google keyword tool.  Click on the Google adwords keyword tool.  When you are in the page, go to advance search and change the country to "All Countries".  After that you type in a keyword on the word or phrase box and click search.  If your niche is golf, you type in golf and keyword idea will appear.  You then go to columns on the top right corner of your search result and choose, "All Columns". You then click on the "Local monthly search" column to sort it so that the most search keyword will appear on top.  The columns on the search results run like this:  Keyword, Competition, Global Monthly Search, Local Monthly Search, Local Search Trend, Estimated Monthly CPC, etc... I will teach you how to read and interpret these columns on my next post.

The Right Mindset

   Many think that starting up an online business is easy.  Little do they know that those internet marketers that have made it big in the internet world for quite some time.  They have accumulated for themselves at least a couple hundred thousands of leads through their opt-in page and most of their income comes from selling to their leads through email marketing.  As for newbies like you, who has just set up a website and put some products on it for selling.  Do not expect to get any single sale for the first couple of months.  The reason being that you are new to the internet world, nobody has known you and your website is not viewed by many people yet.  So do not think that buyers will just come from nowhere and buy from you.  Most people buy only from trusted website and your website is by no means anywhere near to the classification "Trusted" website yet.
  Having said all these, do not get disheartened.  Trust can be built through time and also how well you get traffic to your website.  Most newbies would have given up already on their online business after a few months as they see no money coming in.  They will think that this online business thing is not for everybody. That is why many have fallen.  We must not have this kind of mindset. And especially the "see no money = no success" attitude.  Do not worry or even think about money for the first couple of months.  Just concentrate on building your website and attracting more traffic.  Sooner or later your website will become known by a increasing number of people online and that is when your business will starts to come and the flowing in of money will ensue.

How to Get Started With Clickbank

  Clickbank is a platform where vendors put their products for sell and people like us to join as an affiliate and promote vendors product in return for a commission.  We can start by registering ourselves and obtain an account nickname or clickbank ID for referral purpose.  Clickbank will send us an email upon approval and we can use the account nickname to create a hop-link for the chosen vendor's product.  

  There are many products in clickbank for us to choose.  They are classified by categories which makes it easier for us to choose.  My advice is to choose those products that we have interest in as we would have more knowledge and can able to promote the product better. Check on the vendor's sales page to get to know the product first.  Also to check on the stats of the product to see how much commission per sell you are getting and the conversion rate etc.  When all is satisfied, you click on the "promote" button to generate your hop-link.  Key in your nickname (clickbank ID) and press create.  Copy and paste the link into your website, blog or email to start promoting the product as siple as that.  See the video clip below for a clearr picture.



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How To Make 5 Figure Income Monthly

  Financial hardship is the most common dilemma suffer by people worldwide.  98% of the people accept it as a fact but do nothing about it.  Only a small minority of 2% population will take action to change their current situation and thus become successful and are set free from their lack of financial freedom.

  So how do we earn 5 figure income and enjoy a financial free lifestyle like the above photos?  The answer lies  in front of us now.  Lets ask ourselves, what are we using right now?  Yes correct, we are using the internet right now.  And do you know how many people in this planet are using the internet right now? Well its around 1.7 billion people using the internet worldwide.  Doing business over the internet is virtually boundriless.  That is our customer can come from any countries in this world.  No regulation or trade restriction from countries to countries.   Only some minor internet rules required.  What to sell, well you can virtually sell anything!  Ranging from ebooks, reports, travelling packages, physical goods like magazines, furnitures or you can even sell "a rotten apple" in ebay?  The limit is in you own mind.

   You maybe thinking, I do not have a product of my own to sell or I am not expert in setting up a website.  Well, there is no need to worry.  You can do Affiliate Marketing to start with.  Affiliate marketing is where you promote other people's product and earn a commission selling it.  There are tonnes of items in the internet to sell.  You can choose products of your own interest as its easier to promote if you have knowledge of the things you are selling.  We can go to places like Clickbank or Commission Junction affiliate products.  You just have to register with them and get an affiliate ID and you can then start selling straight away.  No need to create you own product.

  So, how can you make 5 figure income by selling other people's product?  Let us take this clickbank affiliate as an example.  You choose a product and promote it either by setting up your own website and driving customer to you vendor's website or you can use the sales page they have created for you with banners and links and emails promotion.  In clickbank, affiliate can earn commission up to 75%..  So for example if your product is $60. You will earn $45 per sell.  If one day you make 10 sells. $45 x 10 = $450.  $450 x 30 days equals to $13,500 per month.   Lets say you have 3 hot selling products selling at around $300 per day.  $300 x 3 = $900.  $900 x 30 days willl come up to $27,000 per month.  And that is a 5 figure income every month.  What kind of jobs in this world can you earn $27,000 per month?  Unless you are a top management or a professional, you simply cannot earn that kind of money.  Furthermore, you only need to work 4 hours a day compare to the 8 hours in a 9 to 5 job.   You worked 8 hrs times 5 = 40 hours per week compare to only 15 to 20 hours of that of a internet marketer.  which one do you prefer?

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Cost of Living is soaring!

In this current economic situation, lots of people are trying to make more money by either getting a better paid job, doing extra hours in office to get overtime pay, find a part time job after office hours even sell their belongings to earn that extra cash.  As you can see, things are getting much more expensive nowadays.  Cost of living soar like space rockets.  For example one plate of economy rice costs around 4 to 7 Malaysian ringgit or $1.50-$2 USD.  They were used to 2.50 to 3 ringgit or $0.70 to $0.80 USD.

A person with an income of RM3k.  Will it be enough for him for the month?  Let us see.

Food                500
Car instalment   600
mortgage           800
insurance           250
petrol                200
utilities bills        100
Entertainment      50
Baby expenses  500
Total               3000

So as you can see, he virtually has zero savings every month.  So how can this average person retire when he has no savings each month?  If he has additional expenses for a particular month how can he survive?  More credit card debts?  Well, there is only 2 solutions.  First one is cut down the monthly expenses or second one is find more money!  Well, my blog here is to give ideas to normal people like you and me to try to come out from the box and release your earning potential and free yourself from this financial hardship and be able to conquer and spend your own time doing whatever your like.  Would all of you out there what this kind of lifestyle?  With no more worries about money, bills, expenses or even time?  So come follow my blog for updates and set yourself free from your current situation!   Good luck and see you soon.

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