Increase Traffic and Conversions

What Internet Marketer isn’t looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Rumors abound about some blogger who started with nothing and now makes a boat load of money. Then there’s the woman who started an online gift business and now has a license to print money–so the rumor goes.

Don’t know about you, but my goal is to be part of that food chain. To be more specific to be at the predator end of the scale rather than the hunted end.

So many Internet Marketing Gurus lure us with the promise of quick riches, but anyone who has stepped into the river of Internet Marketing knows that it takes time and perseverance to get a site ranked well in the search engines. To that end there are endless offers of advice and software programs by gurus. Some gurus are able to fill your sails with advice that set you on a successful journey while others rope you in a car heading for a steep cliff.

In other words, I’m a bit of a skeptic when it comes to Internet Marketing Gurus, so to endorse anyone they have to be outstanding…and I think Ben Hunt is one of them. He’s the author of Convert! Desiging Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion. Where Hunt excels is providing real life examples of taking a not so successful web site and tweaking it so the owner increases his (or her) profits.

Convert! covers everything from web site design to key words to writing content. Wait! But there’s more…

What is especially unique about Convert!, is how Hunt segments the market into six different types of visitors:

  1. People who don’t know they have a problem.
  2. People who know they have a problem, but aren’t aware of a solution.
  3. People who are aware of a solution to their problem, but not the Internet Marketers solution.
  4. People who are aware of the Internet Marketer’s solution, but not the benefits his solution offers.
  5. People aware of the benefits, but not ready to buy.
  6. People who are aware of their problem, aware of the benefits, and would like to buy the solution offered.

The idea is to engage visitors at every level and transition them to the final step. More specifically, to create content that appeals to each step of the process and that content should move the user along the path to conversion.

The book also discusses using Google’s Analytics to measure the site’s performance metrics. In a matter of a few pages the author explains in simple terms how to use analytics to track how well each page is at moving the user along the path to conversion and where the user drops out of the process.  If you’re like me who never quite got how to set up Google Analytic Goals you are in for a real sense of accomplishment.

Needless to say of all the books on building web sites to sell, Convert! deserves your full attention. It is for anyone who is serious about their success!

Contributed by Richard Brassaw, owner of Blog Tool Tips

Salu International Scam

Apparently the leaders of Salu are swiping downlines from other members and IBOs and placing those members underneath their buddies’ downlines.

So, they’re stealing signups and putting them in other people’s downline to play favorites and to boost income of their buddies in the organization,

More information will follow soon

ShopBest Review – Is ShopBest easiest MLM or a Scam?

Shop Best MLM IS no longer with us, like so many other new MLMS that showed promise

ShopBest is a network marketing company with an MLM component to it that has some very unique features to its whole idea.

Here’s how ShopBest works and why it could be the easiest MLM ever:

The whole idea behind ShopBest has to do with online shopping and using the ShopBest toolbar as the portal through which you find some good shopping deals, or just do some online window shopping.

As a paid or free member, you earn points for online “window shopping” and for actually purchasing products from sites you found through the ShopBest browser toolbar.  So either way you earn points, and you don’t have to change any of your habit sin order to earn real points with this program.

You know how some credit card companies offer cash back points if you use their card frequently?  Well ShopBest works very much like that, but your cash back points are real here and with the added MLM Network Marketing component to this, your cash back points are leveraged even more.

ShopBest Launches on March 2010

At the time of this writing it is January 1st, 2010 (Happy New Year!) so Shop Best is something you want to get on board with before the launch begins in order to capitalize on the REAL spillover and potential for great earnings with this.  A lot of programs promise spillover which just never materializes, but I have seen this working already, firsthand…. so I can guarantee you that spillover is expected AND delivered here.

However, my point to mentioning that this is new and the real launch is months away is to advise you to get in now as a free member and watch what happens over the next few days.

What I don’t like about ShopBest and the ShopBest Toolbar

They’re using Yahoo as the search engines that their portal and toolbar doe sits searches through.  Yahoo is a substandard search engine in my opinion so I can foresee a lot of people using this toolbar getting frustrated with not find exactly what they’re looking for when doing their online shopping.

And since ShopBest points get earned get doing some browsing and buying through their toolbar which is reliant upon the Yahoo search engine, this could be a big irritation point with a lot of ShopBest toolbar users and members trying to earn points.

What I like about ShopBest and the ShopBest toolbar:

ShopBest is an international company, therefore there are NO limitations on who can join which means people from the US, Canada, Eurpose, Asia etc… can participate in this program and share it with others easily enough…

ShopBest has relationships with a vast amount of international ecommerce merchants, which means that people from all different countries can realistically earn “online shopping points” with ShopBest.

The ShopBest toolbar is going to get an upgrade that will include some deals of the day, will also include some customization options so you’re presented with some drop-down buttons displaying some deals and offers that are specific to your pre-defined areas of interest (home theatre, DVDs, groceries, Walmart, Ebay auctions etc…)

ShopBest Review from the MLM Network Marketing side of things:

  • This is international, good
  • This is very easy to share, good
  • Has free membership level, good
  • Has real spillover, Excellent
  • and has great earning potential

ShopBest Review from the average online shopper side of things:

You earn points, cash back and real income without changing your daily habits (except maybe for using the ShopBest toolbar to do your online searches and shopping).

So if you’re the “average Joe or Jane” looking for a way to get more income in your pocket without having to build a business, recruit people or feel like you’re selling something, then just become a free member of ShopBest and use their toolbar like any smart consumer would.


Shop Best MLM IS no longer with us, like so many other new MLMS that showed promise

Rebate Processing jobs scams

I clicked on an Adsense ad for something to do with rebate processing jobs and wondered if paid rebate processing jobs were scams.

The ad I clicked on brought me to a site called sitereviewauthority

Now, the word authority in the domain name makes it sound like the site is all on the up-and-up right?

And the extension for the domain name was .org and not .com so it sounded even more like a legitimate site.

So I check out the site, their #1 best recommended program to join is one called rebateprocessors dot com

I went and read the sales page for it and MAN, was it convincing.   It had all the right features on there, from testimonials to audios to really good copy, too.

Then I Googled the term rebate processors and read 2 sites that discussed this.

Both of them give this work at home program a big thumbs down, and the both sites explicitly said that these sites offering paid rebate processing jobs were nothing but rebate processing jobs scams.

Victims stated that they paid an upfront fee anywhere from $40 to over $500 for a trial program earning money by processing rebates from home. By representing that the opportunity is affiliated with 11,000 companies including some household names like Hewlett Packard and Home Depot, complainants are deceived into thinking that the offer is legitimate.

Instead of guidance and a starter kit on processing rebates, victims report that they actually received instructions on how to make money by sending e-mails, posting blogs and paying for ads on the Internet in order to sell various products.

RipOffReport – A Scam In And Of Itself?

Rip Off Report started off with good intentions, to protect people from scams and to give scammed people a voice that would be heard.

A lot of people look for bad reviews about something before buying something in order to talk themselves out of a purchase.

Some people are looking for honest reviews, too.

But what is RipOffReport?

Is it a legitimate place to view people’s opinions about something?

Is it a trust-worthy source of information?

From what I have seen and read, the answer is a resounding NO.

2 of my marketing buddies (Romell Weekly and Folusho Orokunle) are listed there due to no fault of their own.

So why are they there?

Maybe they didn’t have an online helpdesk set up to handle complaints on non-delivery issues from products being ordered…

I doubt that though.

Maybe it was because they didn’t respond fast enough to a request for help…

Who knows…

But this is the Internet and people can safely badger you or malign your (formerly) good name by writing or submitting something to RipOffReport.

Maybe the creators of RipOffReport had good intentions when they started that site/service, as did the people running Scam.com, but what true value are those sites offering people.

The ticked-off people can write whatever they want and get away with it due to having that “internet courage” but what about the people’s whose names are getting dragged through the mud for no good reason.

How would you feel if you were doing business online and  “Googled”your name only to see that one of the first few results listed on Page ONE of Google is a rip-off report submission against you.

If you’re doing business online, I strongly urge you to get some sort of online support system set up to handle all inquiries and complaints.

I also urge you to set up Google alerts and maintain your good name by getting notifications of when your name appears somewhere on the Internet on indexed pages.

Now, it’s human nature for people to exhibit online cowardice people by hiding behind their keywords and computers while irresponsibly slinging harsh words and invective against people who might not have responded ot their help desk tickets on time or didn’t produce a product that lived up to its sales page.

However, people hardly ever get motivated enough to write something GOOD about a program or person so all you really see written these days is the bad things.

And that obfuscates the integrity and the validity of the complaints and the person’s behind them.

This makes TRUTH on the internet hard to find

Mrs Vip Scam VIP Global Marketing is a Scam?

“Mrs Vee” is the person behind the VIP Global Marketing Solutions program.

One part of it is called V-Lane traffic and the other part is the matrix-based referral system for new members.

It’s a hybrid style work for pay, referral based income program and it is unique in several ways.

They’re not based in the U.S., therefore not subjective to US laws regarding their compensation plans.

The higher-ups in the company continually stress that this is really a work-for-pay type of income program because all the members are providing a service for VIP’s corporate clients.

The service that members provide for the corporate clients is done via the V-Lane traffic system and members are working on raising the Alexa ranks for the corporate clients by viewing and rating a certain number of sites each day.

I joined tihs company did the surfing an dsupposedly was going to get paid for my effort.

While I was doing on this useless Alexa-bumping hits generation for them, I wrote a positive review about the company which was approved, then disapproved, then finally they shut my account down for non-complaince.

THEN…

The company switched owners

THEN…

I emailed them back twice to say I hadn’t received back pay

No response to emails

The $$ never came

They found some obsucre reason to dis approve an already approved review post, and of course, they found a reason to not pay me the back monies owed.

To me that makes Mrs, VIP a scammer and it also makes VIP Global Marketing a Scam.

It’ s a paid surfing, paid to click on websites service disguised and reworded as a “work for pay” service…

The serive you provide is to click on websites to bump up their Alexa scores, thereby gaming the Alexa system and making it even less reliable than ever.

And you could spend months and weeks of doing this paid surfing only to find out that they revoked your payments for obscure unknown reasons and won’t pay you for your time due to these alleged violations.  Typcial scam formula seen in most GTP (GetPaidTo) sites

Jeff Paul’s Shortcuts to Internet Millions Scam?

Is Jeff Paul’s Shortcuts to Internet Millions a Scam?

Let me guess, you were up late at night watching some infomercials and saw something for Jeff Paul’s shortcuts to Internet Millions, right?

How hot were those 2 ladies and how “cheesy” did it all sound to you?

I watched the entire infomercial and it was a loop of people saying how easy it was and how much they were making… One guy went from dead broke and unemployed to pulling in 5 figures daily, sometimes even 6 figures in one day.

The entire infomercial was a walking line of testimonials with no real indication being given on what this shortcut is, what this business entails and what’s required.

Aside from the cheesy-looking and bad acting in the infomercial, is the truth behind the claims?

Making money online is possible, in fact many people earn Millions of dollars every year, and some even earn millions a day (think eBay, YouTube, Facebook…). To be honest with you – you need a huge investment and a great unique idea to become the next big thing, so most likely you will not be an Internet millionaire, at least not in the next couple of weeks.

So, making money on the internet is very possible, unfortunately it takes time and effoefore but never saw the success you wanted, it’s probably due to your quest fo rshortcuts like Jeff Paul’s.

Here’s the deal with this…

Jeff Paul’s course gets sent to your house and costs less than $40.00.

There are upsells to this ocurse whic hI’m sure many people buy

The REAL upsell comes when some of their people call you and try to sell you a much pricier item for $5,000.00 or so

Basically, the whole shortcuts promotional infomercial is a hook toget you to buy the lower-priced items in the hopes that you’ll end up getting converted into the next $5,000.00 buyer of thei rhigh-end system that does everything for you.

I cannot imagine anyone giving away a drop-dead-easy system for pulling in $5,000.00 a day.  Forget the price of the most-likely-useless-full-of-fluff course you get for $40.00… Foprget that for a seocnd, the real quality product if one exists here, if the $5,000.00 upsell.

Guess how much a plug-n-play system like thei radvertising is worth in real dollars if in fact it works?

3 X TIMES the monthly income.

So if a site makes $200/day that means it makes $6k/month which means it’s really worth $18,000.00.

People often buy “magic systems” such as Jeff Paul’s Shortcut to Internet Millions not realizing that there is no such thing as overnight millions. If you want to learn how to make money online, you need someone to show you how to do it. Jeff Paul will not that, nor would his over hyped system.