As an Internet Marketer, I’m sure you’ll agree building a List of subscribes is one of your most important marketing tasks. The email opt-in form you use on your website is absolutely crucial for building your list.

There are over 9,000 articles on ezinearticles written on the subject and as the saying goes… “The Money is in the List“. Put another way, your List is your #1 Asset, so how you go about building a quality and sizable list requires your best possible effort.

Rule #1

Avoid Pop-ups, Hovers and other animated widgets that can be distracting and pretty annoying to your readers. Don’t get me wrong… animation can be very effective (if) done the right way!

Say your reader is reading your article on Content Writing Made Easy and up pops your email opt-in form. Do you think he will like that interruption?

Or say your reader is checking out your latest blog post on SMS Marketing or How to Build a Mobile Friendly Website and right when he’s ready to copy and past a piece of you content, a cheesy hover-over image spoils his effort. Not good!

One of my favorite blogs is called: Daily Blog Tips by Daniel Scocco. He’s a really good blogger. Daniel advocates NEVER using pop-ups and since his Blog has over 45,000 readers and since I know he knows what he’s talking about, I suggest we follow his advice. Check out his post entitled: 43 Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid

So what’s the Answer?

If you’ve read this far, you’ve been on my site for more than 5 seconds, so you’ve seen how I use the Instant SlideUp tool at the bottom of my site. Instant SlideUp is a highly customizable email opt-in system that will enhance your page’s appearance, increase your sales and help you grow your List.

Instant SlideUp is Simple

Just sign up, configure a few details, embed a few lines of javascript and you’ll see how seamlessly and effectively Instant SlideUp works on your website.

Instant SlideUp Features

• ISU is SaaS tool, so there’s no Software to Install
• Comes with over 30+ Premade Templates and you can…
• Change the Template Images using your Graphics Editor
• Customize your Messages to promote anything you want
• Works on ANY Website | No SQL database install required
• Works with Aweber, Get Response, Mail Chimp and others
• ISU has a simple and Intuitive Administration Dashboard
• ISU also enables you to Split-Test your opt-in Forms

Instant SlideUp Benefits

• Doesn’t give a negative first impression of your website
• Doesn’t annoy, frustrate, or interrupt your web site visitors
• Lets you avoid using obnoxious pop-ups that everybody hates
• Catches your visitor’s eye with movement (converts better)
• Doesn’t block what your visitor is viewing on your site
• Gives your website a professional list building capture form

Instant SlideUp is Word Press “friendly”

I use a WP plug-in called Header-Footer to insert my java script on my Blog. I’m not the most technical savvy guy around, so having this plug-in insert the code without creating any conflicts, comes in handy. With this plug-in, I can add the ISU code to an individual page or my entire Blog. I chose to use Instant SlideUp on every page. After 30 days, I’ll alternate my Instant SlideUp projects, evaluate my Split-Test stats and decide whether its better to insert a SlideUp on every page or if individual pages is better.

Instant SlideUp Advanced Features

SPEED

• Slide Up
• Slide Up then Down
• Fade In
• Fade In then Out

TIME DELAY

• Appear
• Disappear

LAYOUT SETTINGS

• Themed
• Simple

TYPE SETTINGS

• Static
• Vertical Carousel
• Opt-in

AUTO RESPONDERS

• Aweber
• Get Response
• Mail Chimp
• Constant Contact
• iContact

FONTS

• Modifiable on each Field

DISPLAY SETTINGS

• Show again when page is reloaded
• Show again in 1 Day
• Show again in 1 Week
• Show again in 2 Weeks
• Show again in 1 Month

CUSTOM CSS

Instant SlideUp Summary

Building a List is vital to an Internet Marketer’s online success. Instant SlideUp enables you to grab your reader’s attention without interrupting or impairing what he’s reading or viewing on your site. ISU is easy to use, simple to deploy, is highly customizable and comes with powerful analytics and metrics so you can keep track of what works (converts) and what doesn’t.

To download a free copy of Instant SlideUp and test-drive it on your site Click Here

If you need Assistance

Like most Internet Marketers, I use a couple of email marketing services. Namely, Aweber and Mail Chimp. Instant SlipdeUp comes pre-configured to work with Aweber and Get Response. I was having an issue getting my Mail Chimp code to accept my sign-ups, but all I had to do was send Rob Chuah a quick note (via Forum support) and bam, I had my fix. Not only that, but Rob went the extra mile to inspect my form code and make 2 minor changes for me. This is the kind of service I look for in a mutually beneficial Vendor/Partner relationship.

It’s pretty simple to understand why The Instant Money Code is one of the premier “How To” courses on Affiliate Marketing. Its designed to give you the EXACT blueprint that Chad Michaels uses to bring in over $16,000 every month.

I don’t know about you, but I’m not banking that kinda cash on a monthly basis. I really wanted to get in on Frank Kern’s List Contol training, but I didn’t have an extra $1,997 to invest just yet, so the timing of the The Instant Money Code launch is perfect.

If you decide to pull the trigger and buy The Instant Money Code, Chad is going to give you the exact same formula he uses day in and day out to generate an average of $4256 EVERY WEEK. The Instant Money Code covers pretty much everything you you need to know when it comes to making money online as an Affiliate Marketer.

What’s In The Instant Money Code?

Module 1: The Ultimate Internet Marketing Toolkit
Module 2: Marketing Road Map Success
Module 3: Cost Per Action Marketing 101
Module 4: Site Flipping Profit Blueprints
Module 5: Email Marketing Secrets
Module 6: Clickbank Review Cash Blogs

Instant Money Code covers some of the biggest hurdles Internet Marketers face.

• List Building

• Traffic Generation

• Back Link Building

• SEO Optimization

• Product Creation

• Making Affiliate Sales From CPA Offers and a lot more…

The launch date for The Instant Money Code is March 23rd.

I’ll be sending out VIP invites to The Instant Money Code Webinar shortly.

So if you’re already on my LIST, I’ve got you covered.

All the Top Internet marketers earn a small fortune from their LIST of subscribers and YOU should too. Whether you have a Review site, a Sales Page or a Robust Content site, your visitors will typically convert to a sale at 1% or 2%. However, once they leave your site, they may never come back again. The majority will leave without buying. As a matter of fact, statistics show that most people require between 7-8 contacts before they will make a non essential purchase.

But, if you have a good Opt-In Box, it will convert at 30 to 40%, sometimes more. Which means you are capturing 30 to 40 subscribers for every 100 visitors. These are subscribers who are giving you permission to contact them in the future.

Marketers Mantra “The Money is in the List“

The idea is that you MUST collect the names and emails from as many of your visitors as you can so you can stay in contact with them. These subscribers become your “List”. This is your #1 asset in Internet Marketing.

Top 5 Steps of Listing Building

• Collect names and email addresses on your site using an opt-in box

• Send your subscribers follow up messages via an autoresponder

• Your messages include your affiliate links to products

• Some of your list will purchase products through your affiliate links

• Viola! . . . you earn an Affiliate Commission (i.e.) you make Money!

For those who are not experienced php code programmers, creating a professional looking opt-in box can seem a little daunting. Fortunately, there exists COTS (computer off the shelf) tools that make creating an Opt-in Box fast and easy.

I recently clicked a link from one of my Twitter followers taking me to a Word Press plug in that not only creates a Professional and Powerful Opt-in box, but the system give you, the webmaster control over the Opt-in Box look & feel, but also the frequency and sequence of delivery, so you visitor’s are not put off by this powerful List Building tool. The good news is, its 100% compatible with Word Press and doesn’t require any programming skill whatsoever.

With this new Opt-in Box tool, you can get a Free version (add supported) or go with the Pro version for many more advanced features and remove the “powered by” logo in your Opt-in Box.

SUMMARY

The Money is in the List. Without question, your LIST is your single most valuable asset you have as an Internet Marketer. Building a List is a lot easier today than its ever been (if you have the right set of tools and processes) in place. Direct linking to a Merchant’s sales page is NOT the way to go (as many programs out there preach). It’s not serving you well to give your Affiliate Merchant the one thing we all need to ensure our long term success in Affiliate Marketing, that being the name and email addresses of your LIST of qualified active Buyers.

How To Turn ANY Website into an Instant Capture Page

In my next post, I will show you a powerful new tool that will let you create a Capture Page from any website on the Internet, whether you own the site or not!

Scrnch.me is a comprehensive and complete URL Shortening, Organizing, Do-It-All type of redirection service specializing in providing the absolute best URL Shortening experience.

Ever seen a URL link that looked as Nasty as this one?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=48127&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=27.643082,56.865234&ie=UTF8&ll=42.359559,-83.282547&spn=0.100462,0.22213&z=12&iwloc=A

Would you like to see and have to click on or copy/paste the link above?

Or use this one instead: http://scrnch.me/Neil

Would you believe they both go to the exact same location? Scrnch Me helps you create these shorter links! Along with OODLES of more exclusive features!

Creating shortened URLs is NOT just a trend!

In fact, it’s practically a necessity in how we live today. Whether it’s in sending an SMS text, on Twitter or other micro- or normal blogging platforms, or just simplifying how we link to things with easy to remember URLs. Plus, it maintains the integrity of the url itself using SEO friendly redirect scripts – so you don’t have to cloak your URL any other way, plus keep it short and simple! HOWEVER! Don’t be fooled! Shortened URLs are great but make sure they help you promote your brand and don’t hurt you in the long-run!

The Benefits of Great URL Shortening Services

Why You Need to Shorten Your URLs

First off, there many URL shorteners out there, and some have some really neat features, however, you need to choose a URL shortener that will allow you to keep and maintain your brand while giving you all of the flexibility that you NEED as a shortened URL user! Think Stats & Analytics

They’ve compiled a list of the major features that Scrnch Me feels are extremely critical in using a URL shortener service… and that you’ve read this far, it says that you too want to make sure you’re using a high-class service.

Don’t just take my word for it, take a look at the features deemed most important by their users as well as how these features compare to others!

• Less Means More for you and your click-ees!
• Having smaller links means more room to say more… especially in micro blogging platforms or your emails to friends or customers.
• Protect promotion links that contain your Affiliate or specific Tracking ID’s!
• Track Statistics to see which shortened URL is performing better!
• Consolidated Reporting allows you to quickly assess which keywords, links and referring sites (and their specific pages) are performing the best!
• Rock-Solid SEO Friendly Redirects without requiring a database or file system using ‘Best Common Practice’ and Highly-Acceptable Redirect Methods.
• Allows for Creative Link Creation and Use using ‘SEO Candy’ URLs (even though it’s a scrnch’d/shortened URL), while maintaining URL integrity and customer trust, either with branding URLs under your own domain name or at the very least having descriptive enough ‘Personalized Extensions’ and much more! You would probably be extremely surprised to see some of the ways Scrnch Me shortened URLs.

Click HERE to see Tracking Stats

Click Here to see Premium Service

Become a SCRNCH Member and see for yourself.

Watch this video to learn how you too can discover Untapped Hidden Niche Markets that Have Been Overlooked by the Masses and very quickly Dominate these Niche Markets using The New Micro Niche Finder.

This brief video shows you step-by-step how to research a market and narrow your efforts on some of the most overlooked and highest potential keyword phrases in a variety of uncommon Niche Markets.

This two step process is often referred to as Divert and Convert. It doesn’t matter if you use PPC, email, banners or submit your own unique content. Your goal is to divert traffic from one site, and bring it over to your site. From here your mission becomes a process of converting the visitor into a buyer. The converting process isn’t just selling your own products either, you can use other people affiliate programs, AdSense, PPC (pay- per-action), PPL (pay-per-lead) to build a list of email subscribers. For both diverting and converting, you have a number of proven tactics and methods that are enhanced by The New Micro Niche Finder.

Written content, audio, video and email are by far the best ways of accomplishing the conversion phase. However with the diversion phase you will want to narrow the market you are working it.

When you run a search term through the The New Micro Niche Finder you can find the most profitable keywords that you can then dominate in Google and easily divert traffic to your customer converting website. What you are doing is finding those hidden “under-the-radar” keyword phrases that deliver you the very best ROI.

Summary with the New Micro Niche Finder, you can:

• Compete with sites that do not optimize their content to what is being searched in Google. If you are interested in working within a particular keyword phrase then you can run a Clickbank, CB, Neverblue or pepperJam Network marketplace search.
• Optimize your QS by buying a domain with the keyword in the title.
• Use Micro Niche Finder to search for content that you can turn around and use to make ongoing residual AdSense income
• Expand your search and target alternate (Longtail) keyword phrases.
• Search Google for independent affiliate programs that you can use to monetize your content.
• Laser target your content, narrow your keyword phrases to ones that have the least “Exact Phrase Count”.
• Target Keywords that don’tt have exact matches and make a goldmine.

What is The Google Cash Detective System?

Google Cash Detective 2 (GCD) delivers real time stats, so you can make a profit the same day you launch you PPC campaign. Customers can perform wild-card searches to find CPA/PPL campaigns and dozens of different affiliate networks.

GCD has real-time slideshow features (similar to Apple Cover Flow) that reveals the landing pages of your fellow Pay Per Click marketers. All Advertisements, display URLs, destination URLs and even landing pages are indexed by GCD and are fully searchable.

Other PPC Spy Tools make you wait until they’ve collected data before they’re useful, so you have to wait 2 weeks to 1 month until you have useful data! GCD is pre-loaded with keywords that already have 3 months of daily crawls and all you do is search for a keyword or URL and you receive months of historical data right at your finger tips.

Once you’ve found one profitable campaign with GCD you can easily find all of the other campaigns that that advertiser has in GCD. You can’t do this with other tools since you only have a small limit on the number of keywords you have.

Most competitive products have a hard limit of 500 keywords. However, GCD operates inside multi-server cloud infrastructure, allowing you to locate advertisers that are promoting for thousands of keywords! It reveals all of the keywords including those that produce profit, and the ones to avoid.

Who Needs this Product?

1.  Affiliate Marketers who want to consistently roll out profitable PPC campaigns without costly trial and error.

2.  Product owners who want to better understand the PPC environment and best marketing practices in their niches.

Currently, 2.5 million keywords are crawled daily and over 20 million URLs are in the database.  For each keyword and URL, a history of the Google AdWords pay per click activity is available in real time.

You can see every ad associated with a keyword.

You can see every keyword associated with an ad!

You can even do wild card searches and easily uncover profitable pay per click campaigns by the thousands.

How to Find Products to Promote?

Summary

When you use the Google Cash Detective 2 System, there is simply no guessing involved. You have an already proven profitable pathway to follow. Now you can setup a competing campaign in AdWords or you could setup the exact same campaign on Yahoo Search or Microsoft AdCenter. Google Cash Detective 2 identifies Profitable PPC Campaigns with a sustained, rock solid history. This means they produce long-term profit… It is a No-Brainer, Every Time!

The first thing you’ll want to do is shoot over to the Clickbank Marketplace. This is real quick, easy and painless, so if you follow this specific formula you can nearly guarantee the products you choose to promote will be winners (meaning converts well, and low refund rate). So let’s just continue here with our memory improvement niche idea.  Keeping in mind our Profitable Products Strategy. Remember we did a search earlier and it returned back some results for “memory improvement” eBooks.  So let’s take a look at those again:

Here’s what you’re looking for in a product:

A high price point

Surprisingly, the conversion rate on more expensive products isn’t much different from what it is on cheaper ones, and more expensive products give the seller more flexibility to offer higher commissions to you.

Gravity between 20 and 100.

You want popularity, but not not so much competition that you’re squeezed out. Gravity between 20 and 100 is the “sweet spot”. A gravity of less than 20 means the product isn’t popular enough to sell well. A gravity of more than 100 (with a little leeway to the upside) is probably too competitive for you to win, at least when you first start.

Earnings per sale of $20 or more

You can make money with products that don’t pay that much, but it’s harder because your AdWords expenses eat into your profit margin a bit. Remember, you’re going to be paying for your clicks (although as you’ll see, you’re going to be paying vastly less per click than most affiliate marketers).

A High Gravity Figure.

This basically refers to the percentage of sales that are generated by affiliates rather than the merchant themselves. If this figure is higher, it means that affiliates are currently making money promoting this very product. And therefore, since that is our goal, it only makes sense to check this.

As you can see, from the criteria I’ve laid out, none of these products would be stellar choices. But, nevertheless, if most of the figures are close and one is a little off (say, low gravity), then it may be worth testing in your market. Perhaps that particular product just hasn’t taken off yet, and may with a little assistance from you.

And that’s about it. See I told you, quick, easy, and painless – I wasn’t lying. I focused on Clickbank here, because that is what I recommend you use to find products to promote. Reason being is CB usually has quality products for almost any niche you’ll run across. On top of that you get paid every 2 weeks, so it make reinvesting your profits a little easier than being paid monthly.

Of course, there are other stellar networks and here are the ones I recommend:

Commission Junction (pays monthly)

pepperJamNetwork (pays bi-weekly)

Marketleverage (pays monthly)

Azoogle Ads (pays monthly)

The goal is to find at least 3 solid products to promote within the niche you found from completing the niche finding exercise outlined above. IF you can’t find any good products, you have two choices:

1. If the market is red-hot, untapped and just waiting to be taken adventage of, you could create your own product, find JV partners, add your product to affiliate networks like Clickbank, and start cashing in on some serious money.

2. If you’re not sure, or the market doesn’t seem all that particularly hot, then it’s not worth the time and effort it takes to create a product, provide customer service and everything else that comes with it. Simply leave the niche and go onto the next one.

Eventually you’ll find what you’re looking for if you keep at it long enough. Once you’ve found a niche and verified there are in fact sufficiently good products to promote to the market, it’s time to do some more in-depth research. Time to go undercover like 007, and really get to the bottom of what your market really wants.

PPC Web Spy is a new and revolutionary keyword research software created by renowned marketer Brad Callen that allows you to uncover in real-time any Google Adwords advertiser’s keywords in only a few seconds. PPC Web Spy is one of those ‘rose amongst thorn’s’ software applications that rarely come about. PPC Web Spy was inspired from the shortcomings that Affiliate Elite exposed to PPC marketers.PPC Web Spy is a Firefox plug-in that helps you to uncover all of the Keywords that successful businesses (your competitors) are already making money with using Google AdWord campaigns. As we all know, everything these days starts with Keywords. The reason for this this that keywords are how people find your website. PPC Web Spy minimizes the risk by allowing you to replicate successful campaigns ran by your competitors.

PPC Web Spy Comes in Different Versions

PPC Web Spy has a (Free) Standard version, a Silver, a Gold and a Platinum upgrade which presents a very powerful and unique way to position your Affiliate Links on the #1 position in Google every single time. PPC Web Spy has steadily grown to one of the “must have” Internet marketing tools of 2009.  PPC Web Spy can help you in generating thousands of keywords and tageted keyword list which you can widely use for your article marketing,  PPC Advertising and much more.

PPC Web Spy is a FREE tool you can download right now and use for what I personally would call nothing less but “swiping” the well researched keywords in ANY profitable niche. PPC Web Spy is a UNIQUE tool that integrates with your Google Search results and reveals all the keywords your competitors are using on the web. Consider these BENEFITS and VIEW the quick Demo of PPC Web Spy by Brad himself.

1. Many of the current keyword research tools are independent applications requiring that you run a separate application to do your research. PPC Web Spy is a Firefox add-on allowing you to do your data analysis from within your Firefox browser.
2. PPC Web Spy’s results are generated in real-time. You no longer have to depend on historical data or cached results. You data requests in your live Google search and pulled immediately, allowing you to tweak your ad campaigns on the fly.
3. Actual AdWords data for each keyword displayed in Google search results is returned, such as:

• Your competitors’ actual AdWords
  

• Ads for each keyword
  

• Your competitors’ actual Cost Per Click for each keyword

• Your competitor’s AdWords rank. This will give you an idea of what you need to spend to get a similar rank (or Higher rank)

• Your competitor’s daily ad spend

PPC Web Spy generates a list of keywords for you based upon any of the phrases your competition is using. PPC Web Spy pulls a targeted keyword list from your competitor’s domain, giving you an even bigger, more targeted list. You’ll be able to immediately see which AdWords advertisers are promoting affiliate products from Clickbank.com, Paydotcom.com, or Amazon.com.

At the time of this post, PPC Web Spy (Standard version) is available at not cost. The wise thing to do would be to ping over to PPC Web Spy and get an evaluation copy of PPC Web Spy before Brad pulls the plug on this offer.

If you log in to your ClickBank account today, you’ll see a link to ClickBank’s Powerful New Affiliate Tool: HopAds | BuilderHop (filed under the “News” section).

Click through to the Link so you can to start using it today!

Essentially, it allows ClickBank Affiliates to easily create customizable ad boxes (similar to AdSense). This tool allows affiliates to customize both the look and content of ads to match their site. There are two types of Ad formats: Text Ads and Multi-Box Ads

Affiliates Marketers who want promote multiple products in a single listing type format on their websites, this new tool may be just what you’ve been looking for.

Finding High Gravity Clickbank products is a lot easier than it used to be. The fastest and easiest ways to generate revenue from Online Marketing is to get yourself a Clickbank Account and find Products that fit into your Niche Market. I look for Informational and Productivity Products and Tools that have a High Gravity.

High Gravity Clickbank Products

I’ve done the research on each of these Products ( Article Video Marketing, Link Building, Website Design etc.) so you can feel confident adding one or all of these Products to your Portfolio and save yourself the 1-2 hours by not having to search and retrieve and check out each Vendor / Supplier.

• Article Marketing

• Back Link Builder

• #1 Website Designer

• #1 List Building Tool

• Instant Article Wizard

It’s critical that you Protect your Affiliate Links before posting them to your Blog or website.  The best way to do this is use a URL shortening tool. Over the years, I’ve tried and used a variety of tools. By far, my favorite is the Bit.ly solution. Not only will it disguise and shorten your affiliate link, but if you add the Bit.ly sidebar applet to your Firefox browser, you can also instantly post any web page (or affiliate sales page) to your Twitter or Facebook account, with a single mouse click. Notice each of the products listed above are using the Bit.ly URL tool as prescribed.

I did a short YouTube video on this that you can check out. It’s very easy to use and it works like a charm! If you like, I can send you a link to the PDF on how to do this yourself. Make sure you include “Bit.ly How to Guide” in the message box.