aStroke
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- May 22, 2011
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Hey guys. First method share for me. This is something I've been doing for the past 2 months and it has been making some easy cash for me. What this method consists of is to sell SEO services on your own website, and to use forums to drive traffic to your website. If you're a newbie and complain that you don't know how to make money online, you're full of crap because this method is pretty much foolproof.
First, you want to find the product you want to promote. I user Fiverr because it's cheap as hell and the amount of services there allows for some crazy flexibility on what you want to sell. You can sell things like Article submisisons, social bookmarking, directory submisisons, and etc. Once you choose a service to sell, you want to set up your website.
Find a nice brandable domain. Something that describes your service and memorable. Once you find a brandable service, you set up a website. I used Wordpress to set up my website and found a nice looking, customizable theme. Mine has a slider, which I fill with information about my service, the benefits, and some testimonials. Below, I have blocks that describe a package that I'm selling and links straight to Paypal. The footer consists of more testimonials, an about us, and a disclaimer. Make sure you have a FAQ, contact us page, privacy policy, and a disclaimer page. On the backside, I created an order form that I redirect customers to after they pay with PayPal. The order form will require the following information:
-Name
-Email to send reports
-Transaction ID
-Package bought (if you have more than one)
-Website URL
-Anchor text
-Referrer
You can use your own if you want. As long as you get the information you need from the customer to place the order.
If you don't know how to redirect your customers to your own page after payment, follow the instructions below.
-Log into your Paypal account.
-Click on "Merchant Services"
-Click on the "Buy Now Button"
-Now fill out the information it asks for in "Step 1"
-Next, skip to "Step 3: Customize advanced features (optional)"
-Where it has a checkbox that says "Take customers to this URL when they finish checkout", tick it and enter in your order form URL.
-If you want, you can tick "Take customers to this URL when they cancel their checkout" and redirect them to your homepage if they cancel.
-You're finished! Click "Create Button" and go to the "Email" tab to get the direct link.
-Lastly, put that link on your website under your package blocks of your website.
If you want, you can integrate this with an email marketing service as well so they are automatically added to your subscribers. I used GetResponse because they are free if you are under a certain amount of subscribers. Here are directions to setting it up.
http://blog.getresponse.com/paypal-integration.html
Now that you have set up your website, it is time to promote it. This is the easy part. You have a bunch of options but I will tell you guys the ones that worked best for me.
-Advertise on DP (people are mostly newbies and they are pretty much unaware of Fiverr)
-Buy signature links from DP
-Purchase ads on webmaster forums on BuySellAds
-Design a simple GIF banner that stands out very well and purchase the DP CPM ads.
-Use your current Fiverr gigs to upsell your SEO services.
DP is a place where threads don't bump when posted on so you have to be smart with the one bump you get every month. What I do is offer at least 5 different services on my website and create a different thread every couple days and redirect them to your website so they can browse all the packages available. Also, another strategy I haven't tried yet is to offer something for $5 and create a thread on the "Freebies" section and redirect them to your main website, where they may either purchase a $5 service from you at no profit for you while building your email list, or browse around and purchase a more expensive package from you.
This is a working method and I have tried this exact method myself with some success. After a couple months, if you build your email list and start getting consistent order from past clients, you will be able to stop the external promotions on other forums and just get autopilot income. Good stuff eh? Best part is, if you feel like getting out of the game, you can just flip the website for $XXX on Flippa. Just check out their current listings for backlink services. High demand I tell ya.
Thats all I got for you guys right now. I wrote all of this during class and it's about to be dismissed so I will continue this later if I have any more for you guys. Have fun and good luck to you all who try out this method.
First, you want to find the product you want to promote. I user Fiverr because it's cheap as hell and the amount of services there allows for some crazy flexibility on what you want to sell. You can sell things like Article submisisons, social bookmarking, directory submisisons, and etc. Once you choose a service to sell, you want to set up your website.
Find a nice brandable domain. Something that describes your service and memorable. Once you find a brandable service, you set up a website. I used Wordpress to set up my website and found a nice looking, customizable theme. Mine has a slider, which I fill with information about my service, the benefits, and some testimonials. Below, I have blocks that describe a package that I'm selling and links straight to Paypal. The footer consists of more testimonials, an about us, and a disclaimer. Make sure you have a FAQ, contact us page, privacy policy, and a disclaimer page. On the backside, I created an order form that I redirect customers to after they pay with PayPal. The order form will require the following information:
-Name
-Email to send reports
-Transaction ID
-Package bought (if you have more than one)
-Website URL
-Anchor text
-Referrer
You can use your own if you want. As long as you get the information you need from the customer to place the order.
If you don't know how to redirect your customers to your own page after payment, follow the instructions below.
-Log into your Paypal account.
-Click on "Merchant Services"
-Click on the "Buy Now Button"
-Now fill out the information it asks for in "Step 1"
-Next, skip to "Step 3: Customize advanced features (optional)"
-Where it has a checkbox that says "Take customers to this URL when they finish checkout", tick it and enter in your order form URL.
-If you want, you can tick "Take customers to this URL when they cancel their checkout" and redirect them to your homepage if they cancel.
-You're finished! Click "Create Button" and go to the "Email" tab to get the direct link.
-Lastly, put that link on your website under your package blocks of your website.
If you want, you can integrate this with an email marketing service as well so they are automatically added to your subscribers. I used GetResponse because they are free if you are under a certain amount of subscribers. Here are directions to setting it up.
http://blog.getresponse.com/paypal-integration.html
Now that you have set up your website, it is time to promote it. This is the easy part. You have a bunch of options but I will tell you guys the ones that worked best for me.
-Advertise on DP (people are mostly newbies and they are pretty much unaware of Fiverr)
-Buy signature links from DP
-Purchase ads on webmaster forums on BuySellAds
-Design a simple GIF banner that stands out very well and purchase the DP CPM ads.
-Use your current Fiverr gigs to upsell your SEO services.
DP is a place where threads don't bump when posted on so you have to be smart with the one bump you get every month. What I do is offer at least 5 different services on my website and create a different thread every couple days and redirect them to your website so they can browse all the packages available. Also, another strategy I haven't tried yet is to offer something for $5 and create a thread on the "Freebies" section and redirect them to your main website, where they may either purchase a $5 service from you at no profit for you while building your email list, or browse around and purchase a more expensive package from you.
This is a working method and I have tried this exact method myself with some success. After a couple months, if you build your email list and start getting consistent order from past clients, you will be able to stop the external promotions on other forums and just get autopilot income. Good stuff eh? Best part is, if you feel like getting out of the game, you can just flip the website for $XXX on Flippa. Just check out their current listings for backlink services. High demand I tell ya.
Thats all I got for you guys right now. I wrote all of this during class and it's about to be dismissed so I will continue this later if I have any more for you guys. Have fun and good luck to you all who try out this method.
