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Affiliate Marketing

Are You Working on You?

Most people think it is hard to succeed online. Did you know “off line businesses” are way harder. Did you know that 20% fail almost right away and another 65% fail after 5 to 10 years. That is 85%. Why do most people fail at business? 

It is not the business. Same business, one entrepreneur fails and another succeeds. It is the character and the habits of the business person, not the type of business. 

At which job do you work harder? Finding the successful business or becoming that successful business person? Do you work harder on your job, or harder on yourself? Success is in you, not the business.

What are some of those Character Traits and Habits that make a person successful? Well here is one.

1. Live within your Means. Some people love to ask me for money in order to launch their SFI business. In other words they want me to launch it. 

If I launch it shouldn’t it be mine? 

Once there was a training conference and Rob C, said he really wanted to go, but could not afford it. It was $17, would I help him? I said sure. I paid his registration and was excited he wanted to learn and grow. 

The night before the conference I needed to give him information. I called him on his cell, and passed on the info. It was noisy in the background so just out of curiosity I asked, “Where are you?” He said he was at the movies and just coming out from the theater. 

At that time movies were $12.00. And I thought, it is not that Rob cannot afford the conference, it is that he wants to go to the movies more. He wants enough money in his pocket to go to the movies and use my money to go to the conference. 

It was not that he could not afford it, it was that he chose to place his business growth behind going to the movies. Today he still struggles financially. 

Are you putting your money where it will help your business, your skills, your knowledge and your experience grow? Or are you going to the movies? 

There is a fun proverb at one of the local Buddhist temples here in Chiang Mai. I love it, “Not yet rich, Live like you are rich, never be Rich. Not yet poor, live like you are poor, never be poor.“

Invest in yourself.

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Affiliate Marketing

Without the right Tools the Job can be Hard.


If you were planting a tomato in a pot on your porch you might use your hands (hobby).

If you’re planting 20 tomato plants in your back yard garden you’ll probably use a shovel.

And if you are running a tomato farm in order to make a living you’d have a tractor.

The same is true for every online entrepreneur. If you want to succeed big you have to be ready to scale up as time goes on. You will not be able to make a living or even feed your family if you stick with just using your own two hands. You have to start acquiring the tools to succeed.

Here is my process. Identify a niche. Build an audience in that niche. Provide that Niche a reason to get onto my email list. Consistently promote value content to that list with my product and opportunity promotions.

Example. I started a Facebook group called I Love Thai Food. In January I began building it. I now have 51,000 members. I promote YouTubes that shared about Thai Food. Here is an example: http://www.syrwebdesign.com/r/geo/Lobster

In that video you will see a banner on the left to get my Cookbook (my list).

Here is another video example, Click on the Hormoke Talaa Recipe to the left. A recipe where you can get my cookbook or buy products: http://www.syrwebdesign.com/r/geo/HorMoke

Once on my list they get a recipe every week and my product ads to go with it.

Among the 51,000 people several people have joined to promote their Thai foods to my audience. I have a sub niche were I promote Flexxity and RECA (A website community for E-Commerse Sites) to these people as well as other promotional skills.

What are my Tools?
1. Social Media Account
2. Web Hosting for Website and Blog
3. TrafficWave Auto-responder for List Building
4. SFI my Affiliate Marketing Resource

Start today with building an Audience.

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Email Marketing

Email Marketing Mondays

Join us for Email Marketing Monday LIVE! with Brian Rooney. This is your opportunity to sit down with TrafficWave CEO, Brian Rooney, and dig in to the power of email marketing for your business.

Imagine stopping by the office to sit down with Co-Founder and CEO, Brian Rooney, to talk about the ins and outs of email marketing with TrafficWave.net. More of a “Meetup” and chat session than a hard core training, this is a great place to feed your vision and become better acquainted with the tools, the company, people using them and the people behind them.

Brian will share his own experiences with email marketing, share his tips, and answer any questions you may have. And if you think he is the only one with ideas and input wait until you meet some of the people using TrafficWave with great success.

Brian endorsed my work asking me to communicate and share what I was doing to achieve success. That significantly boosted my business. (Monday Marketing May 3rd)

Join us for our next live session this coming Monday! (Tuesday Thai Time, Haha).

If you are not in the Central Time Zone (USA) use this to see what time it is in your town. World Clock Meeting Planner

When you open that link you should see Houston as Location 1. Add a big city near you as Location 2 then scroll down and click Show Time Table. Find 7 AM in Houston and see what time that is in your place.

The best part is I get Paid to use this tool. The Affiliate program quickly makes the tool itself Very Profitable to use.

Topic: Email Marketing Monday, 7PM Central
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Meeting ID: 895 2550 6793
Passcode: 428970

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Affiliate Marketing

What Is Content Marketing and Why Is It Important Today?**

George McBride
I Use Email Marketing

I am saying it ALL the Time, Build your Audience. You are probably sick of hearing it from me. But this is how you make money on line.

All the Gurus say Build Your List. And they are right except it is more than that. A List are people you have, an Audience is people who have chosen you. An “Audience” listens, a “List” of unknown people is regularly deleting your emails.

How do you build an Audience? How did I build my Audience around Thai food, now over 42,000 strong?

I listened today to a very good Podcast that provide the steps to getting your audience. Want to listen to it? It will be worth your time. But know it is about 45 minutes long. Here are the High Points and how I did it.

1: Identify Your Sweet Spot

The first step is to find your sweet spot. This involves identifying what expertise you can offer, pinpointing what your audience is struggling with, and making connections between the two.

My sweet spot was Thai Food. I live in Thailand Love Thai food.

2: Find Your Content Tilt

Your sweet spot is just the starting point. Now you need to take it a step further and find your differentiation area, or “content tilt.” You can’t just create the same content that everybody else is offering and expect to stand out.

My Content Tilt was Rats. Well rats play a part. If I did just Thai Food there would be too much competition. I focus on foods few people have had. That includes rats, yes. Everyone knows Pad Thai, Tom Yum Goong and Green Curry. I provide an unusual option. Thais living abroad love see “the real thing.” Others like the unusual aspect.

3: Choose a Platform to Focus on

Now you need to pick your core platform to build your audience. Based on who you’re targeting and your content tilt, choose your content type—audio, video, or text plus image? Then select your content platform. YouTube for video? Apple Music or Spotify for your podcast? A WordPress blog for your text plus image? Instagram for your pictures? Clubhouse for interactive audio?

If your niche does not differentiate you may be your platform can. For example, there are tons of recipe blogs, and YouTube videos so I chose a community approach on Facebook. I built a Facebook Private Group.

4: Build an Audience

The 9-12 months you spend focusing on the base leads to audience-building. This is where social media comes in. If you decide you’re going to be on Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube, remember that you don’t control any of those connections. Those followers or subscribers are Twitter’s, Facebook’s, or YouTube’s, not yours. The platforms are letting you use their audience right now.

You need to have a plan to ascend the subscriber hierarchy and move into email. You’re moving from rented to owned. I have 40,000 plus subscribers and use TrafficWave to manage and mail my list. Any other service provider would be far too costly. TrafficWave is $17.95 no matter how big your subscriber list is. Other services would be 100s per month.

5: Generate Revenue

For the first 9-12 months, you don’t want to have any revenue expectations. It doesn’t mean you won’t get revenue. Just keep your expectations low because it takes time to build a loyal audience.

After about 12-18 months, you’ll be in the revenue sweet spot. With the loyal audience you’ve developed, you can generate revenue in lots of different ways.

My list is now, after 7 months, producing a consistent revenue stream. Bu 90% of that revenue comes from those who have subscribed to my email list. I make 10x moresales from sending an email than from posting to my Facebook Group. But near 80% of my subscriber who I email subscribed from my Facebook Group.

**Footnote: Content Marketing Strategy: A Proven Method to Success by Michael Stelzner Full Article

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Affiliate Marketing

For an Affiliate Marketer, Branding is How People Feel About You

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

Branding is the process of giving specific meaning to an individual, company, or product. A brand is basically the gut feeling about that individual, company or product. For Affiliate Marketers this usually means I must think of myself as the Brand.

What is the “specific meaning” or “gut feeling” I give to those I am engaging?

Many years ago I was at a development conference. It was while I was a student in University and it was a lot of teaching, workshops, and some free time.

Mike G. was there too. It was the first time he ever went. 

A few days after the conference I asked him, “What did you like best? What did you learn?

Mike proceeded to tell me about lunch the last day. He was sitting at a table with 7 athletic guys. The plate of Fried Chicken was in front of him. He saw the biggest piece and he wanted it. One of the guys next to him picked up the plate, took a piece of Chicken and passed it away from Mike. 

He watched it go from guy to guy until it arrived in his hands, that big piece still there. He has never forgotten how those guys made the newest guy at the table feel.

Crazy, isn’t it? All the money, planning, and time invested in the conference and what Mike remembers is the Chicken. Today many years later all I remember is Mike’s Chicken story, I have no idea who the speakers were, or what the topic was that they spoken on. Just Mike and what I felt as he told me that story.

For me and Mike that conference was significant because of how it made us feel, and we now associate that positive response to the organization who ran the conference.

When we win our Affiliates over, when they know, like and trust us. When they feel good about doing business with us and have a positive response toward us, they become our fans who help grow our business. The best advertising, bringing others into the fold, is provided by them. According to Nielsen, more than 90% of Americans believe recommendations from friends and family over all forms of advertising,

So do your affiliates Know Like and Trust you. Have you branded yourself to them in a positive way?

We can complain about inactive affiliates and what we are really saying is, “These inactive affiliates are doing nothing for me.” Let’s think of something this week that will make even just one of our affiliates feel good about being in our business, feel good about having “me” as a sponsor. 

Build or start a Facebook Group with your Affiliates and see your “brand” grow. For some Great Hacks on building and running a Facebook group see Pat Flynn’s Video

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Email Marketing

Owning a Treadmill will not get you in Shape

Buy a treadmill, and watch it collect dust and you will not get in Shape.

To get in shape you MUST use the Treadmill.

Your business is no different. You must learn the tools and use the tools to make money online. Buying the tools, joining a business, and getting signed up is not enough. You must learn how to make money online.

My number one tool is TrafficWave, but it is no different than my treadmill. Buy it but fail to set up the Campaigns, fail to drive traffic to your capture pages, fail to provide your subscribers with value, and you will not grow your business.

I am working so TrafficWave is working for me. And in Marketing Monday you will see Brian Rooney showcase my work. I suggest you watch the entire video, but if you do not roll to the 8 min mark, and you will see my work showcased.

Here is the Video starting at the 7 minute, 50 seconds Mark.
http://www.syrwebdesign.com/r/geo/MonMktMay17

Need help let me know. I am using TrafficWave with great success.

Hanging your Laundry on your Treadmill is not “using it”, you still will not loose weight…

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Email Marketing

How Other Businesses Use Email Marketing To Grow.

Are you wondering how to use email marketing to build your business? From entertainers to manufacturers, authors to online marketers, more and more businesses are beginning to experience the power of email marketing to generate leads and drive sales. Let’s look at some of these exciting examples of how to use email marketing:

sheri lavo email marketing

Sheri Lavo, a Houston area singer, is using TrafficWave to build her list of fans in and around the Houston area. Each Monday, she sends a broadcast out to her fans to let them know where she will be performing that week.

This always brings in more fans which is good for her and the venues where she is performing.

Fans are regularly thanking her for her email updates because they love coming to hear her perform.

alternate mode email marketing

Alternate Mode manufactures a unique set of digital drum and percussion gear. They are  using TrafficWave to build and manage lists of musicians and musical educators.

When they have a new instrument to offer, or a new event to promote, they send out a broadcast to their list and typically see sales coming in within minutes.

Dothan Ice Cream Email marketing

Dothan Ice Cream Company sells unique ice cream pops in Dothan Alabama. From family events, local events, weddings, corporate parties, and more, Dothan Ice Cream Company is dedicated to creating lasting memories.

They use their TrafficWave AutoResponder to send out a regular newsletter to announce new flavors, special offers, and local events. They’ve recently begun shipping ice pops wholesale to retail outlets.

Tony Micelli email marketing

Internationally renowned vibraphonist Tony Miceli has been performing steadily on the jazz scene since 1980.  In All About Jazz, Vic Schermer describes him as … “a vibraphonist of astonishing virtuosity, musical resilience, and inventiveness. His vibes playing is nothing short of phenomenal.”is an accomplished musician and teacher who uses his TrafficWave Autoresponder to keep fans informed, promote workshops, sell educational books, promote events, etc…

Tony uses TrafficWave to build and communicate with his fan base, promote special events, workshops, and more.

shelley hitz email marketing

Shelley Hitz has published over 50 books and has personally authored over 40 of them. In addition to being an author, Shelley has trained many authors to get that next book idea out of their heads an on to the paper.

Shelley uses TrafficWave to promote her books as well as her classes for upcoming authors.

We are excited to have Shelley with us and look forward to her next release.

Ben Olszewski email marketing

Ben Olszewski is a successful swim coach in Washington. Using his TrafficWave AutoResponder, he began building a list of online marketing enthusiasts. He recently put together an online marketing program and ran a broadcast out to his subscribers. His system has already reached the point of creating a 5 figure annual online income.

This is in addition to the other Affiliate offers he sends to his lists and his TrafficWave Affiliate income he earns by referring other business owners and entrepreneurs to our site.

Chase Swift email marketing

Chase Swift has been a professional nature and wildlife stock photographer for over 30 years. His photos, represented internationally by GettyImages.com and iStockphoto.com, have appeared in a wide variety of publications. Chase uses his TrafficWave AutoResponder to build and manage lists of photography and videography fans, online marketers, and cryptocurrency enthusiasts.

He also shows other entrepreneurs how to build their lists with TrafficWave and earns regular ongoing residual commissions as a result.

Would you like to use email marketing to start growing your business? Fill out the form below to receive our free report that shows you how to use email marketing to grow your business.

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Email Marketing

Want to Make Real Product Sales?

As an Affiliate Marketer you must have affiliate products to promote and sell. I want to sell Real Products and get Paid Real Money for doing so. That is why I love this product.

Are you are familiar with Mighty 101 All Purpose Cleaner.? It is the “perfect product”. Why?

First it is very price competitive. One Packet makes one 750ml bottle of all purpose Cleaner. Here are some of the products that you could replace with Mighty101 and just look at the savings.

You could buy Mighty101 for 99 Cents (750 ml bottle) as compare to these Amazon Products you are probably familiar with:

Windex, 680 ml, cost on Amazon, $2.97 a bottle (you must buy 6) plus shipping.
Scotch Guard Carpet Cleaner $6.87
TECH Carpet Cleaner $12.49
Lysol All Purpose Bathroom Cleaner $3.96
Easy-Off Specialty Kitchen Degreaser Cleaner $7.90

All these products are on Amazon check for yourself. And these prices do not include Shipping. Mighty101 ships free and you do not need to be an Amazon Prime member to get that free shipping. Haha!

The second reason it is a Perfect Product is, it is a consumable. People buy it over and over again. So you make money by recruiting new customers and you make money every time an old customer returns to place an order. That is a growing residual income. 

Now how best to promote MIghty101? On all my Social Media I am placing one of two splash pages every day. I use both and I alternate back and forth.

First a straight forward ad Splash Page with a short Video. (You can purchase this at TripleClicks)

Second a Sales Page with a Landing Capture Page, followed up by a short email campaign. Some people want more information others just want to see the product, so I use both. (You can purchase this at Flexxity)

Now what do I post every day. Again I alternate between two “styles”. 

My First “style” is my personal experience with the product. I posted this in my “I Love Thai Food” Facebook Group.

“I love Good Food and My Wife is a Good Cook. We live in Thailand. We cook over charcoal, and over a gas flame. When cooking Thaifood, the Grease Splatters.

This is a Home and Industrial strength Cleaner. Yes in Thai cooking lots of grease splatters. But Mighty 101 will clean it in seconds, even in an industrial kitchen. Here is a quick literally 30 second video. This is an ECO Friendly powerful Pet and Human Friendly All Purpose Cleaner.
http://www.syrwebdesign.com/r/geo/Mighty101“

My Second “style” is the experience of others. Each Day I went to the review section of Mighty101 in TripleClicks and got a review. Here is the first one I used:

Mighty 101 Review

Here is the image link feel free yo steal it.
https://www.servethailand.com/Mighty101/images/Review1.JPG

I then added some personalized text and the link to one of the 2 pages above. I strongly suggest using one of these pages, or one you make yourself, as a bridge between the prospect and the product. But if you do not want to do that you could just use a Share Link out of TripleClicks for the Mighty101 Product.

Here my wife, Awn, used her Twitter feed to make a promotion for me.

Awn's Twitter Feed

This is how I am making sales and growing my prospect list.

If you are an Affiliate Marketer and you need Real Products to promote and Real Cash Commissions then take a look at my Video Resume and see if I am Qualified.

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Email Marketing

Audience is Everything

I am listening to a Pod Cast from Pat Flynn and Clay Collins. The podcast is called Laddering Up. What it is talking about is how Apple, Netflix, and LeadPages all started as something different then they have become. You may remember Apple started as a little gaming computer.

Anyway there are four rungs on the ladder. The first rung is build an email list (TrafficWave). Ladder rung two is start selling your first product.  Ladder rung three is about optimizing and building a real business. Ladder rung four is leveraging the opportunities your new vantage point affords you. 

Ladder rung four for Netflix was production of films and entire character franchises. They began their business competing with Block Buster and now they are contenders with HBO and many other Movie studios.

Collins says, “I’ve heard a lot of people talk about creating a minimum viable product, and a lot of folks start with product creation. In my view that’s absolutely not the right way to go. You should start by learning how to build an audience and then letting your interaction with that audience dictate the product you create or offer.”

Or as I have said a million times, Let the Market tell you what to sell, do not tell the market what it wants.

Even the SFI opportunity is a product. Instead of developing the promotion of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) we should start by developing a Minimum Viable Audience (MVA)

Clay Collins suggests, “What I would encourage folks to do is take three to six months and get an audience of around 2,000 email subscribers.” This is what he defines as MVA.

I agree 100%. People ask me where to start what tools to buy to start, I would start with your email subscriber list. Grow that to 2000 subscribers and you will have:

1. People Buying Product Consistently. I have a list of over 30.000 Thai Food enthusiasts. Not everyone buys consistently but someone is always buying so I am selling consistently.
2. A consistent stream of Affiliates (PSAs) into your primary business (for me SFI). I do not have one off, tire kicking affiliates. I have people join SFI trained, motivated and ready to go.
3. A consistent stream of people using your ad products providing an additional income stream by buying ads and building a huge bank of Credits for you. I have 360 people willing to use Ad Services that I find valuable.
4. A consistent stream of people becoming your TrafficWave affiliates. They need an MVA also. By meeting the needs of fellow Business People, helping them build their audience provides you additional income as well.

This is what I have done.

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Affiliate Marketing

Do you Know your Sponsor?

The Money Is In The Follow Up
No it’s in the Follow-up

I have joined many Free Ad Sites, over 450 to be truthful. Need some ad sites to join? Click Here. If you join, I will be your sponsor and you will be able to say, “I know my Sponsor”

But I was thinking today about Ads-Messenger. I have no idea who my sponsor is. In most my ad sites I have no idea who my sponsor is. Do you know who your sponsor is in any solo list like Ads-Messenger?

But I do know the owner, Gnana Prakash.
How about the Owner of Your Success Advantage? Matthew Graves
How about the owner of Build My Down Lines? Darren Olander
How about the owner of My Free Text Ads? Dave Mosher
How about Free Advertising For You? Jason Wise

I even know most of them by site from their Profile Pictures. But in none of the sites above do I know my Sponsor. There is a problem there. Do you see it?

People like Gnana succeed, and people like you and me fail because… We post affiliate URLs and hope people buy or join. We are not Capturing  the prospect’s email. We cannot FOLLOW-UP with that prospect. But Gnana can.

Our Prospect becomes the Site Owners Customer. Yeah you get some commissions, maybe, but probably not. The Site owner will get the Lions Share of the Money. You get emails from the site owners everyday to join their other sites, right? They even sweeten the pot with Ad credits at their current site. In all these sites they will be your sponsor, not the guy who recruited you to the original site. That’s Okay, But…
 
The money is not in the LIST. The MONEY IS IN THE FOLLOW-UP! And the owner is doing all the followup. In Gnana case he has over 10,000 on the list of Ads-Messenger.

If you are not building your own list, you cannot follow up with your prospects. You are losing Money. Worse you are giving it away to someone else.

Online Marketing is a BUSINESS.  An Autoresponder is a TOOL. You must have the Tool in order to do the business!

A plumber without a wrench would see his business fail. A Carpenter without a hammer would not succeed. 

An online marketer without a list building email auto responder program WILL FAIL.

Get this free step by step. It will have you up and running, building a list in 30 minutes or less.

Don’t waste time reading my post, start launching your own, for real, online business.