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.

You need a “mobile friendly” website and you know you do. You’ve been reading everywhere that mobile marketing is booming and that 2010 is the year for mobile to finally take off. Now that 2010 is upon us and mobile phones outnumber computers 4 to 1, what should you be asking yourself when as you try to decide if you should in fact, launch your new mobile website?

Does your mobile website render?

FACT: Less than 1% of all small business websites even render on a mobile device. You’d be surprised how many small business owners simply assume their site will render the same way on an iPhone as on a PC and never think to check. If that’s you, then you are unknowingly leaving your customers out in the cold when they try to bring up your site on a mobile device and find it doesn’t load. With so many people using smart phones, iPhones, Blackberry’s and Droid’s to search in today’s mobile environment, you simply can’t afford to guess anymore. You need to be absolutely sure that your site is rendering on mobile devices and if it’s not — you need to take immediate steps to fix it. 10 Reasons Your Website Should Go Mobile

Optimize for Local Search

Make sure your site is optimized for “local search“. This means that people should be able to find you when they are looking for local resources. Update your profile and include links to your mobile site (if you have one) and make it easy for users to find your business and more importantly “reach out and touch your business”. Yellow Pages just aren’t what they used to be. Google Place is free and will drive significant targeted traffic to your website.

What are your customers looking for?

Don’t assume a mobile website visitor has the same needs and wants as a traditional desktop user – because they don’t. Someone accessing your site from their desktop may be interested in reading reference or authority articles and willing to scan your whole site for content. Whereas, a mobile device visitor probably wants to see just the headlines. They want small sound bytes, your location, your office hours, your phone number. You want to find out what exactly their goal is and then customize an experience specifically for them. Unless you already know, the best way to find out is to ask them by adding a form or survey to your mobile site.

Target the Right Customers

The goal for any web site should be to know your customers in order to deliver to them the most appropriate content. This goal is even more important with mobile sites. Not only do you need to know your customers, but you need to know what they are likely to be doing on your mobile site, as well as where they’ll be when they’re doing it. Traditional web site customers are most likely sitting at a desk facing a large monitor that has a decent resolution. Visitors who are browsing your mobile site are unlikely to be in the same circumstances — they might be waiting in line, riding on the train or the bus, running to the departure gate, or lost in an unfamiliar town late at night and trying to get somewhere.

Is your mobile website optimized for mobile search?

Your website should be crawl-able by the Mobile search engines. Here’s the list of mobile search engines:

• Google XHTML
• Google Mobile
• Yahoo Mobile
• MSN/Bing
• AOL Mobile
• ABPHONE

How to Optimize for Mobile Search

Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast

Industry experts predict that the mobile web will overtake the desktop environment in less than 3 years. There’s already twice as many mobile devices as there are PC’s. One of the first things a small business owner should do (before its too late) is to register their unique domain name with the .mobi extension. Our Small Business Package includes registering your .mobi domain and hosting your new mobile website for one year at no additional charge. Click Here for more details.

Build a Customer List

Mobile Marketing is Booming. There are dozens of mobile marketing solutions available. We have researched many service offerings and have found Trumpia to be cost effective and very simple to use. The Trumpia 15 day free trial makes is easy to test-drive. One of the nice things about Trumpia is their credit roll-over program. I like their simple yet robust back office administrator panel for tracking active SMS Marketing campaigns.

Mobile Website for Small Businesses

In mobile marketing, Size and Speed matters. When you first start out, avoid video and high resolution images so your site loads fast and gives the customer instant access to the information they seek. Once your site is established and you’ve worked out the kinks, you can add video and other high bandwidth content. Initially, you want to make it fast and easy for your customers to:

• Find you
• Call you
• Refer you
• Add you to their phone book

Summary

The above represents the key questions and issues every small business owner should ask themselves when thinking about getting a new custom mobile website. It’s simply not good enough to “think” your site loads properly. In today’s on-the-go environment, you not only need a mobile presence, you need an optimized  mobile presence that improves your brand and taps into the fast growing mobile audience.

The number one reason why people fail online is because they do not take the time necessary to investigate the strength of the competition in their marketplace. This means that they never get a front page listing in Google, which in turn means they never get any real traffic to their website and therefore never make any real sales.

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Specifically, you will learn:

• What is a link network and why it has a massive impact on your Google ranking
• 3 factors that influence your link network and why you must understand them
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Keyword Research (Free Video Tutorials)

1. Introduction to Keyword Research

2. Golden Rule #1: How to Find Relevant Keywords

3. Golden Rule #2: How to Find High Traffic Keywords

4. Golden Rule #3: How to Assess Market Competition

5. Golden Rule #4: How to Assess Commerciality

6. Golden Rules Case Study

7. Finding Long Tail Keywords

8. Understanding Match Type Data

9. How to Avoid Targeting the Wrong Keywords

If you decide to take action and get your free trial copy of Market Samurai, if you’re like me, you will find yourself spending quite a bit of time experimenting with all the outstanding features of this amazing tool. To help fast track your cycle time, once you get your free trial copy, send me your confirmation and I’ll send you 30 high quality back links in Social Media Marketing (P5-P6-P7) to help kick start your link building effort.

I recently developed a relationship with a guy I met on the Warrior Forum who “gets it”. His name is Paul Coleman. Paul is the real deal. He recently authored a very compelling eBook entitled: “Instant Product + FAST Traffic”. Some of the concepts I was already using while others are known only the more experienced internet marketer. Get this eBook now, read it (maybe twice) so you take action and use the awesome tips and techniques he outlines in this page turner. I promise, you’ll be glad you did.

Instant Product + FAST Traffic

If there’s one thing that separates the Successful from the rest it’s this: Successful people don’t burn their time on drudge work. They don’t waste their energy trying to do every single little task like an overworked secretary. They delegate the jobs to other people. Then they stay focused on the Plan. They are in charge of the Ideas and the overall Blueprint of the Project. You are the Project Leader. There are many ways to automate and outsource very cheaply, and we show you these in this guide.

Successful People Make Other People Successful

Add value to other People’s Lives and Business and you will always have plenty of Success and plenty of Money. The problems will melt away because people begin to look at you as the Problem Solver. This is the person they to turn to when they need a Boost. Successful people Build a Team. You help the Team be the best they can be, and the Team makes the Project the best that it can be. Everyone wins in this scenario and Quality Products spring to life. Not only that, but the Team also inspires You.

You’ll never want to let the Team down. You’ll come through for them no matter what.

Instant Product + FAST Traffic Contents

• Always Be BOSS
• Product Topic
• Catchy Title
• Quick Creation
• Your Angle
• Put It Together
• Graphics
• Outsourcing
• Twitter Traffic
• Facebook Traffic
• Ezines Traffic
• Go High Profile
• Your Official Site
• Belcher Button
• Conversion
• Your WSO
• Your LIST
• Get Paid!
• Outsource Traffic
• Celebrate

Relationships are Everything

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The Warrior Forum War Room

Since you’re reading my blog, you’re probably active in affiliate marketing or list building or article marketing or video marketing or maybe you’re and early adopter and you’ve joined the Google Wave explosion. Regardless if you’re involved in one or all of these internet marketing efforts, if you haven’t already, I strongly recommend you look into joining the Warrior Forum. You’ll get to connect with guys like me and Paul and other seriously savvy internet marketers, which will help you hone your skills and take your online business to the next level.

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Anything the Mind of Man can Conceive and Believe, He can Achieve

Twitter Expands Lists Beta Testing | A Great New Feature

I recently got an invite from Twitter to paticipate in the “beta” version. The first list I created will be to engage my Twitter followers involved in “Video Article Marketing“. Mostly because I have recently started using a nifty tool that converts my text article into video articles with a few mouse clicks.

I named my first Twitter List: @FerreeMoney/video-article-marketing which translates into the long URL as http://twitter.com/FerreeMoney/video-article-marketing. It’s early in the game on how this new feature will enhance the user experience on Twitter, but my initial impression is that Twitter Lists will go a long way to help me “filter” the massive amount of junk (aka) “buy my stuff” Tweets that I tolerate in order to retrieve quality and relevant content my the Twitter feeds I take the time to read.

If you have received in invitation from Twitter to participate in their early beta testing of this new feature, please leave a comment so we can compare notes on how to leverage this evolving feature set. (or) you can ping me directly by using this form.

Imagine if you could hire and have a full time VIDEO and AUDIO Producer at your disposal who could turn every article you have written into a fully animated Web Video – bringing to life your article’s messages. Thanks to the tool Article Video Robot™ now you can.

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The company claims you can do it in less than 3 minutes. Although, I’ve not been able to produce my content that fast yet, but the truth is, after I created a 1/2 dozen pieces, you do get pretty quick at converting your TEXT articles into impressive video marketing articles.

Article Video Robot™ (AVR) is a web based or SaaS (Service as a Software) solution, so there is no installation required. The clean and simple user interface, makes for a very short learning curve, and very easy for even a non-technical people to be able to use it right away.

From an Internet Marketer’s perspective, one of the main reasons a tool like this is so valuable, is how quickly your content gets ranked by Google, mainly because its VIDEO. Plus, the tremendous times savings as compared to the cumbersome steps involved using conventional SEO techniques for getting a decent page rank. You can opt to have the system uploaded your  content to YouTube, Viddler, Vimeo, Daily Motion and a few other major video sharing sites or you can download the file and host it on your own site/server as well. So far, I’ve found that my AVR content generates much more targeted traffic from my Video Articles than that what I usually get from my routine text only articles.

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Social Bookmarking

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Submitting to the RSS Directories

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• Traffic-Bug gets your site noticed faster
• Traffic-Bug drives more targeted traffic to your website
• Traffic-Bug increases the visibility of your Blog or RSS feed
• Your RSS feed also becomes easy to find in search engines
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The Future of Article Marketing

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!

1. Age- Everything you say and write, including slang, allusions, word difficulty, and topics should be adjusted to meet age appropriateness.

2. Gender- Despite the dual roles men and women tend to fill, most individuals can be segmented (and sold to) based on gender-specific interests or needs.

3. Location- Values and culture tend to vary based on demographics. Having a clear understanding of regional difference will improve your targeted messages.

4. Education Level- Similar to age appropriateness, education levels should determine how you address your prospects and what benefits they will find in your product or service.

5. Income- The needs and wants from one social class to another should be a guide to the types of products and services you should be selling them.

6. Marital Status- The values, needs, and desires of married persons greatly differ from those that are single. Marketing family messages to single persons (and vice versa) can lose the deal for you.

7. What Keeps Them Up At Night- This is the most important one. You’ve got to know your prospect’s fears, worries, concerns, excitements, hopes and dreams. When you know the conversation inside your prospect’s head, you can enter it, speak to it, and build a relationship that leads to a customer.

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The answer is dead-simple. Adding audio to your website smashes the silence of the world-wide-web. Web Audio makes web pages come alive. Adding audio buttons to your web pages allows your visitors to interact more within your website.

This interaction in turn creates more sales and newsletter subscriptions!

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5 Important Improvements Audio Can Make To Your Website

Increase Your Conversion Ratio FACT: Adding your voice to your home page, order form or any other page within your website can increase your visitor to customer conversion rate three fold… Using audio could save you from handing over a fortune to a professional copywriter or wasting hours rewriting your web copy just to get the same effect.

Increase Your Number Of Subscribers FACT: Adding a personal voice message to your website can fast track your online newsletter or eZine sign-ups. Audio leads visitors by the hand into submitting their details. (One recent customer increased the opt-in rate to his email list from around 15 per day to just under 50 a day – just by adding audio!)

Increase Your Number Of Orders FACT: Adding your voice to your website right at the point where your customers complete the final steps of the order process can decrease the number of last minute dropouts from your shopping cart or order pages. These customers were just about to press the button to order, don’t lose them now!

Increase Traffic To Your Website FACT: Adding your voice to HTML e-mail’s and online articles can quickly increase your eZine click-through rates. Encouraging more subscribers to visit your website (or an affiliate site)… meaning you make more sales and earn more commissions.

Increase Your Website’s Product Range FACT: You can use audio on your website to increase your product range. One customer added 4 brand new products to his website in just one day by simply recording audio reports and selling them!

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