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How To Use The Drip Email Marketing System

One of the unfortunate things about this email marketing system is that it shares the same name as a marketing strategy. I sometimes ask myself if the creators were thinking about that juxtaposition in the strategy of marketing vs the software they created. But, what the video below is about is how to use drip email marketing system.

Now if you haven’t a clue as to what Drip is, then I invite you to press play on the video below and get a taste of the goodness that Drip is. During this video I will take you through how Drip does, or handles the various areas that a marketing email program usually provides for users such as you.

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After watching this I’m sure you have more questions – or your ready to give Drip a trial run by using your full fledged 14 day trial! In that spirit, I did create more videos all about Drip so that you have the best opportunity to know what Drip is and if it’s for you.

So let’s dig in and follow along on the instructional for using Drip.

One of the best things about using drip is that they charge you based on your total amount of subscribers across all your accounts. I know that other companies will charge you based on your accounts and subscribers. Not so with Drip.

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Currently the rate for new business owners starts at $19/mo

I have seen how much Drip has changed their platform so that they are in the conversation with other bloggers.

In the past they have solely been after the e-commerce business owner and they still are making that business owner their avatar.

HOWEVER…

They are now making it much easier to be a blogger, marketer, or most any business owner on the internet to have an interest in using Drip.

I’ve been using them for quite a while now (about 5 years) and love what they have done with the space they own on the internet.

One of the biggest complaints that bloggers had with Drip was the VERY PLAIN LOOKING forms that were the default. They simply told us to find a programmer and get the forms branded or just learn how to use CSS to make the forms look better.

NOW, things have changed so much and I’m very proud to be using these forms that they provide.

If you’ve been around much on my social accounts or on this blog, you know that I LOVE LOVE LOVE automation!

Drip makes automation very simple and basically anyone can do these automations to manage your account. Using workflows to get those who bailed on their shopping cart for one reason or another, to going out to find the “lost” subscribers and inviting them back to your world with a simple automation.

Time Savers For The Win!

Templates are a great way to save time with your emails. I use them for different subject matter to a different campaign format. It just makes it quick and easy to send out a nice looking email knowing all the formatting is done. Just type your email and click send!

Whether you are a beginner business owner or an advanced emailer / business owner, drip can and does make your life better, by presenting a great way to grab subscribers with their forms, to giving great customer service to those who need questions answered.

There are many more instructional posts for Drip on my blog here as well as on YouTube

If you’re searching for a new email system, I know there are steps to finding out everything you need to know about email systems. You first want to know the price and if it’s in your budget and then how does it stack up against the competition.

The Best Review Of The Drip Email Marketing System

In today’s post, we are going to review one of the top email marketing systems around call Drip. So sit back, relax, and let’s dig into this best review of the drip email marketing system.

Are you stuck and not sure what to do with your email marketing? Perhaps digging into your current email system seems like it’s just too much to learn and master?

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Review of The Drip Email Marketing System

so when it comes to doing reviews, I tend to go into the informational part of the review so that you can see how things work and get an idea of where I’m coming from when doing the review.

I know that it’s better to show than write about this and that’s why I have a video for you to watch here:

In case you really want to dig in, This video starts off the series of videos all about Drip.

The first thing that I would like to point out about Drip is Automation. This is what really got me sold in the beginning. I used to be with other email systems that said the automation was superior but when I attempted to apply my marketing to it. I was always going up against workflows not working. I’m hoping that they got their act together (they are still in business).

What Exactly Do You Use In Automation?

Automation is run by workflows. In almost all cases, you’re going to see the use of triggers, tags, goals, lead scores and conversions. This is across the board in email marketing.

However, you will see this presented to the user in a way that makes sense and is easy to use. I’ll be doing videos about this in future posts so that you can get a really good grasp on this for your marketing.

Triggers are a new technology within email marketing and Leadpages and Drip have this in place. What is it?

Triggers That Automate

If you’re new to email marketing, you might be wondering what triggers are and what they do.

In short you are going to love them because they will do more automation for you on different platforms such as your blog.

Triggers are converted links that allow you to place the link anywhere (social media, your blog, or drip account). These converted links will act just as if you were sending an email and the subscriber clicked the link.

One caveat: you have to have a cross-domain tracking setup.

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Now, I mentioned in the video that Leadpages and Drip were both the same company. That is no longer true as Leadpages has split off from Drip. My guess is that there will be many more great things happening to Drip now that they have split off from each other. Time will tell and yes, I will do a video on these new things that come out.

This is a review and not a cheerleading post, so onward with the review of the drip email marketing system

The Downside of Drip

Some of the liquid is the programming language and it is a bit more advanced and needs to have someone who has dealt with this to handle any of this implementation.

Drip Forms For Your Website

The other thing that I didn’t like at all with Drip was the form integration with your blog. The design was flat-out ugly. Of course, you can do some CSS to spruce it up to match your brand but I’m guessing not many bloggers know how to do CSS because they blog, not code or do graphic design.

As of this writing, there are some slight improvements in the embedded form (see above – and subscribe).

If you’re looking for a knock your socks off sort of form, you’re not going to get it (yet – crossing my fingers) from Drip. The forms were a point of contention for me because ConvertKit was much better at doing this for bloggers.

Drip Pricing

The other item I wasn’t excited about was the price. the lowest was set at $49/month. Now that has changed (after the recording of this video on youtube)

Now the prices are much different and start out with better package deals.

This price goes up to $29 and stays there until you reach 2501 subscribers, which THEN it’s a $49/month investment.

If you want a really good email marketing system and don’t want to pay the price of the ultra-expensive, you will be absolutely happy with DRIP.

The integrations that you have access to with Drip is mind-boggling. If you have your own courses to sell and you want to put them into a place such as WooCommerce (which integrates with WordPress seamlessly) you can run automation with this plug into your blog with just a few clicks.

Here are the top integrations listed on Drips website…

Another feature I absolutely love is that in my workflows, I can automatically build my Facebook custom audience by either adding to or removing subscribers.

As you can see on the list to the left, there are many more topics to peruse of integrations.

Does it seem like I’m just overjoyed about using Drip? Well, you’re spot on with that deduction.

There really is so much more to tell you about but, in the interest of time and my ability to create videos that go over such things, I’m going to give you a chance to subscribe to my email and get a notification when I upload a new youtube video. Yes, these will also be here on my blog as well.

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15 Lessons I Learned Using Drip Email Marketing

Deliverability Matters

In every email marketing system, the biggest and most visible stat is deliverability. I have been with a few of these companies that say they deliver at a very high rate. However, that is not true if you get put into their group that does not deliver. So without further delay, here are the lessons I learned by using drip email marketing.

The very stat that everyone works so hard to accomplish and pay for is the very stat that these companies have control over. So if you send a lot of emails that are pitching and no value, you’re going to get spam complaints.

Now obviously, if you know that the rule for marketing is about every 5th email you can and should pitch then you will have great results with your email marketing system. Whether it’s GetResponse, MailChimp, Aweber, Sendlane, Constant Contact, Active Campaign, Drip, or Convert Kit. They all are great at deliverability. However, this is where the similarity begins to change.

Unsubscribes Are Normal

If you’re sending emails, you should know that you WILL get people to unsubscribe from your email list.

It’s natural and to be expected.

I know marketing specialists that average a couple hundred per day to unsubscribe. However in the grand scheme of things that is just drops compared to the flood that they are receiving. Make it your goal to have a list so big that you can average a couple hundred unsubscribes and not really make you flinch at all.

Test Before Sending Emails

One feature that I have been using as much as possible is the ability to send a test email to my email. Using this feature enables me to see what the customer will see in their email program. This also shows me if it will make it to their inbox.

We all know that Gmail and Yahoo are the most popular email (web-based) systems in the world.

That means we need to plan for that. Send your email test to a Gmail, Yahoo, or MSN account to see where it lands. You’ll also want to see what it looks like on a computer and a mobile device. Formatting is important if you want to leave a professional impression.

Segment Automation, Segment Broadcasts, Segment Everything

In today’s world, if you’re emailing via blasting everyone on your list, you’re missing the point.

People want that tailored experience.

That means you need to find out more about your subscriber.

Ask questions in your emails then segment based on those answers (usually clicks from the email).

This is all very easy to do in Drip even if you have no prior programming skill. The segmentation is built-in for broadcast emails by default.

You’ll first want to know the title of the email and then Drip will prompt you with a screen to ask which audience to send the email to.

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Features Are Awesome But What About Usability

I’ve seen many reviews about other autoresponder systems and the biggest complaint that I’ve seen is usability and ease of use with the features.

What I have found is that there are a few things that need to be considered when purchasing the rights to using drip email marketing system. The first of these is quite obvious, especially if you’re brand new.

Cost per subscriber

Drip is a bit more than GetResponse or Aweber, but what you get for the money completely outweighs them every day of the week.

What I really like about Drip is how easy it is to apply segments to emails, create workflows, goals, triggers and all the methods that are used to create a solid email campaign.

This is where I believe MailChimp, Aweber, and ConvertKit lose me. Usability is huge when it comes to implementing an email marketing software system into any business starting on a low-budget.

Do Be Very Creative With Words Not Photos

One thing that may hurt your deliverability is the use of too many photos in the emails that are sent out. When I was with GetResponse many years ago, I was put in the spam group on their service (assigned to a bad IP address) so that only about .5% of my emails would be delivered. They never tell you this nor will they coach you before doing this to you.

My suggestion here is less is more. If you must put in a photo do it at the top as a banner or put in a screenshot of a video and link it to the video itself. Then if you desire to use photos, put them in the blog posts that you send out to your subscribers.

Stay Clear Of Spammy Words

If you see that your stats are going down. The first thing that you should try is to eliminate these words from your emails. Deliverability is ultimately the place we all want to be able to see in our services. I’ve learned the hard way. Not having many emails read, you can’t have a thriving business in any industry.

So when I switched over to the Drip email marketing service, I started seeing up to 40% open rates.

When I was with previous email service, I was not seeing any results. I wondered why I wasn’t getting any engagement. So I attended webinars, searched google, YouTube, and Pinterest for answers. So after I arrived at my wit’s end, I made the decision to switch over to Drip because it was the right choice. Drip is the product creation for entrepreneurs that experienced great systems but something was always missing. So the creators of Leadpages made the Drip email marketing system

Emailing More Often Using Drip Email Marketing Features

There are many opinions out there about what to email and how often you should email your list.

I believe that multiple times per day is over-kill.

and I’ve seen this happen with some success. The theory behind this method is to overwhelm the subscriber so much that they decide to unsubscribe or join you.

I believe that emailing once a week is also too little. Your duty is to get to know your email subscribers and vice versa. So if you email once a week, or month you’re not doing any service to either party.

The best mix of how often to email is, in my opinion, an average of once per day. Sure there will be times that multiple times a day is essential. For example, you will have a webinar coming up. You’ll want to email several times to remind those that signed up to join you.

In the course of regular emailing and providing value, you can get away with emailing every other day but no more.

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Create An Email Mini-Course

If you do not have a mini-course, you’ll want to build one and put this on your blog to get subscribers to your list.

But say you really don’t know how to structure your mini-course, you can get this all resolved by Drip services. The Drip Email Marketing service, aka GetDrip, has a few ideas to get you started. that will write the

As you start your email course, you can always ping support and ask questions, as they are very good at answering and offering suggestions.

Build Your Capture Pages Fluidly With LeadPages

The idea of blogging is to get people to your email list and you do that through providing a ton of value.

When you have a product to value or sometimes referred to as an ethical bribe you need to have a capture page to collect emails. I have been using Leadpages now for about 4 years and have been able to get a ton of usage with this system. Leadpages is an unlimited service which means you won’t be metered on how many times your capture pages are viewed.

The starting package is only $17/month when paid for on a yearly basis. This is the only way to pay (yearly) unless you upgrade to the next tiers.

If you’re not set up with anything to collect the leads to go into your drip email marketing system, you can get a FREE 30 day trial with Leadpages and give them your full attention.

In other words, use only Leadpages for the 30 days and if you decide it’s not what you want, cancel. Besides, if you’re using Drip, why would you use anything other than it’s family member.

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Use Resend To Unopeners

Have you ever wondered if people just don’t have time to view your emails and then they get lost in the shuffle? There’s a feature that is starting to become a regular feature on some of the better email autoresponder systems.

That feature is resending to those that didn’t open the email on the first send.

I will use this on occasion and usually for the next day but if it’s not time sensitive, I’ll schedule it for 2 or more days later with a different subject in the title.

We know that the subject or title is always the key to getting more reads in our open stats, right?

So use this opportunity to see if you can improve your titles. This also gives you more opens for that particular email.

Use Your Resources (Leadpages & Drip Have many)

There’s a ton of resources with the Leadpages system as well as Drip. This company goes overboard on the FAQ’s as well as blog posts on how to do specific things in your Leadpages or GetDrip account.

Split Testing

With The Drip email marketing system, you have the ability right out of the gate to do split testing. They will allow you to split test the time of delivery and subject lines.

WOW!

These are both the pinnacle of getting inbox opens. So, of course, you’ll want to split test these two items.

If you’re not familiar with split testing, you may have seen this referred to as A/B testing on some systems.

It’s just a way to see what works. Marketing is always a test.

Use Automation

I love automation and I suppose this is why I love using Drip so much. I can set up campaigns, workflows, triggers and move people from campaign to campaign without having to touch anything. Each user can also be a part of more than one campaign and never get charged for having multiple email addresses. It’s the best of both worlds in email marketing automation.

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In conclusion, If you have plans to be a big business with little to lots of automation and don’t want to struggle to try to figure out how things work in other systems, you deserve a FREE ACCOUNT using Drip.

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How Does Drip Compare to Other Email Marketing Systems

Drip Email Marketing Review

Hey this is Jon. And today we’re going to talk a little bit about e-mail. In fact, what we are going to do in this post is learn more about how does drip compare to other email marketing systems!

Now, the e-mail automation that I’m using or that I’m going to do a review on the drip e-mail marketing review that I’m going to do, Is called drip. Obviously, because it’s a really good way to do your marketing.

Marketing is also when you are dripping on people. You know there’s a metaphor there. So, they called themselves Drip and they’re also the same people that own Leadpages (at the time of this recording). So, if they do great in Leadpages and they give you the sales tools why wouldn’t they help you further in the process and help you in your email.

Before I get started though I encourage you to subscribe to my channel.

I do a video every single week and we’re going to start out doing some drip e-mails and going through how to use drip and what scenarios are best for certain people and really dig down deep on what kind of things you can do with Drip. Also how to use their liquid programming language.

Customer Service

Drip has the best customer service and it’s as fast as a click down at the bottom right hand part of your screen. You may be seeing a trend of companies going away from the phone method of doing customer service. That’s all by design due to the cost of manning phones. They certainly are doing an amazing job with their offering of email or chat. Usually if i need to get in touch with someone asap, I can check to see if they are on line at the moment. if not, I’ll use the email option which is responded to the next day or as soon as they receive the email.

How Does Drip Compare to Other Email Marketing Systems?

Drip is a forerunner to all the other email marketing systems because it gives us the ability to run campaigns with ease. these campaigns can be made to segment your list so that you are not spending unnecessary money on people that do not respond to your emails.

Sure there are other systems that offer the same segmentation but when it comes to ease of use, I believe that Drip will make your digital email marketing much easier. Take, for instance, Automation.

Automation using Drip

Their automation in my opinion is awesome because you set it up one time and it goes. I’ve learned so much from using the customer service help as well.

Automation is the key to your marketing. if you are marketing well, you know there’s no stress involved when you’ve got your automation running. Drip automation involves workflows, campaigns, triggers, and tags. These are the tools you have to help you deliver the right message at the right time.

There’s so many things you can do with Drip. Automation is where it’s at in today’s marketplace.

There are more and more going towards the ECRM (Electronic Customer Relationship Manager) way of doing things. So the next thing you really want to have in place, and this is huge, is deliverability.

That is another key point in drip because they are 99.9% deliverable and as long as you stay in the value group, you’re going to be at 99.9 percent. This will definitely help you stay relevant in your niche. So when it comes to knowing how does drip compare to other email marketing systems, the feeling is a great one even an hour, day, week, month, year in.

ONE CAVEAT TO DELIVERABILITY

You know it’s only the user that’s going to say things like

“I don’t really want to receive emails from you”
“I don’t really want to see this anymore and now I’ll put you in the spam folder.”
“I get too much email already and don’t have time to read your email.

you just cannot get around people like that because we all have lives to live. It might mean you’re creating too much noise in their world? This is why you should always send an email asking them about their situation. Provide them a way to bundle your communications with them. Drip does this really well by the way.

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Of course, you will definitely need to learn what the average deliverability is for your niche. Some are way different than others. When you know your stats, then you can tell if you are on a platform that has low deliverability or you have been pegged by the platform as a spammer.

How Drip Handles Spammers

I learned this ten years ago when I was spamming a lot of people. When you’re new, you don’t know any different. I had emails that I wanted to get out to my people that were on my list and they weren’t getting them or they were going to the spam/junk folder.

That’s just as bad as not sending an email, right?

I think back then I was at .2 percent that were actually getting the emails and I later found out that this particular platform labeled me as a spammer and they put me in a IP range that didn’t send out that well. So you have to be giving great value and always doing someone that is known for giving value. If you need a little help from a seasoned pro that travels all over, Gary Vaynerchuk is that guy. He’s a bit in your face but maybe that’s what you need to get off your butt to do something. I highly recommend his book that was written several years ago because it’s still relevant: The book is called, “Jab Jab Jab Right Hook“.

Ease of Use

The ease of use is the next on the list. It’s based on a great method of graphical presentation so you can understand what and where things are. You’ve got people instead of subscribers. It’s more personable but you’re going to have so many things presented in front of you when you first log in.

You’re going to see a graph of:

How your blog is doing
Your email stats
First time visitors you have on your blog.

Lastly I would like to point out that the price of drip for a 0-500 subscribers (people) is $19.

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Now I have to admit, at the time of this recording the price was $49 and it wasn’t cheapest because there are other ones out there that were much cheaper. I think when I started it was 12 dollars a month with a different provider, and went up to 15 for others and eventually other ones that start at $30. As far as price, I’ve seen some that I go up to $300 a month. They also have many more things that they can offer and personally I don’t want them handling all of my marketing because if one thing goes down it can wreak havoc on all of your marketing. Simply put, you want to have items of your marketing in different locations.

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My Thoughts On Using Drip vs Other Email Marketing Systems

Now this review is slightly biased but not because Drip is sponsoring me. I would only get a commission when you decide to continue past the 14 day trial period, or just purchase a monthly or yearly subscription. it is my sincere hope that you take the 14 day trial after reading or watching my drip email marketing review.

The others email marketing systems I ‘ve used seem to be out of their league when trying to match what Drip has to offer. The original email systems have been in the business a long time and I would have thought that they would be jumping on the changes in the industry trying to make it easier to market businesses that are using their service.

The only system that I found that is close to Drip is ConvertKit. The ideas they have work well because of the programming language they use. This language is the exact same one as Drip. So, of course, it makes sense how well they match up to Drip.

The others email marketing systems are tough to compare even though they are in the email marketing system niche. So in future blogs and videos, I’ll be doing comparisons of each system that is after your hard earned money.

I’m giving you the review because it’s what i use and I think you could get great value out of using it in your business as well. So, if you’re ready to try out Drip, I encourage you to go for it! See you in the next blog post and/or video.

I know that this is just one topic on using Drip, and you can go through the entire series which is located on either Rumble, or YouTube. There, you’ll be able to go through all the videos – or just search this site for all posts that I have done regarding Drip Email Marketing

Drip Review – Why Drip Is The Best Email Marketing System

Why DRIP Could Be Exactly What Your Business Needs To Improve Your Bottom Line

Email autoresponders are a necessity for any online business. That’s why it’s important to have an email marketing system that can handle all the things that an online entrepreneur wants. This Drip review will tell you exactly why I think Drip is the best Email Marketing System and give you every reason to start using drip. Drip is created by the people at LeadPages) along with how to move your existing email marketing over to Drip.

This is my story about how I learned what products are really there to serve your best interests.

How I Learned What Not To Do

First, I would like to give you a little background as to where I started my journey in the online world.

As a new business owner, I was told to do things offline. By that I mean, go out to your friends and family. Tell them exactly what you are doing and see if they have any interest in coming to a home party.

At the time, I was promoting a company that was in the health industry and had a focus on protein shakes. They are no longer in business as of this writing.

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Say what?! They’re out of business!

Yes, they are and it might say a bit about doing 3-way calls and the quality of the product. I literally watched one of their top producers get cancer and pass away. Not a good omen for a company that was just getting started.

That was a short-lived stay as I learned exactly what not to do.

How Do I Get More Leads And Sales?

So as an entrepreneur, I found that it was not as easy as getting 3 to get 3 and so on.

It’s more along the lines of getting 100 to get 10 maybe’s and then 1 or 2 will say yes. (These are the industry standards)

Let’s dig into this a bit.

I knew that what I wanted was out there but I didn’t know how to get leads.

Online was foreign to me and offline was an unknown that I was very hesitant to step into.

I needed to know how to do advertising. What I did know was that what I was doing wasn’t working. So I made the jump into a company that directly promoted blogging.

Blogging was all the rage (and it still is). Start your own blog the right way because it’s twice the work to fix it all when you don’t start off right. I’ve been in the I/T world for over 20 years now and I show you in the simplest terms how to get started making money with a blog.

That blogging company was awesome because it showed me that there is a way to get leads using a blog. Something I knew nothing about at the time. I always thought that blogging was for big companies.

It’s not.

The idea behind blogging is to get traffic to your blog. Your blog will have reviews, affiliate links, and products that you or someone has created. Write reviews about these affiliate links and promote the products that you create. These are just a few things you can sell on your blog.

What To Do After You Have Leads

The struggle seems to be for new entrepreneurs to market to those who sign up on their lists. These lists are mostly handled by the company autoresponder because having a system of their own to send emails to is a bit foreign.

Hopefully, this isn’t the case anymore.

When I started using an autoresponder, I started with GetResponse. They have a pretty good email marketing system. If you’re just starting out, I would recommend this system to you. However, if you have any sort of list and want to add some automation to your list, then I would definitely suggest you start out with Drip by the makers of Leadpages.

Like I said, I started out with GetResponse and was doing fairly well. I still had a steep learning curve though. My email list wasn’t as responsive as those leaders I was following and I didn’t know why.

So, as I did more research. I realized that I was put on an IP address that didn’t deliver emails to most of my list. This was probably due to the newbie in me trusting the leaders. I would send out email after email that they called swipes.

Now, if I send those out, I edit them to be more my style rather than verbatim.

Email Marketing Systems Are The Wave Of The Future

Actually, the wave of the future is here right now!

It would be my suggestion to start using a marketing system to do your email autoresponder, capture page, and automation. The reason for this is simple.

You want to know when a subscriber buys your product, right? You’ll also want to know that they were automatically moved from one list to another because of their actions.

Not only that but as you email your subscribers, you want to find out why they joined your list, to begin with. This will help you in the segmentation of your list. In the grand scheme of things, you’ll be better off because you’ll be offering something to your subscriber that they already want to buy.

It’s a win-win for both parties involved!

Why Drip Is The Best Email Marketing System

I started out on a great autoresponder that morphed into a marketing system. However, I love what Drip does in offering everything that is important to an email marketing system. The story goes like this from the founders of Drip.

In a nutshell, they were using active campaign. They found it to be the best of what they wanted in an email marketing system but it was never EVERYTHING.

So they decided to build a system that encapsulated what they envisioned in an email marketing system.

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Drip Email Features

What I found with Drip is an advanced software system that you can use without the advanced price point. They are very comparable to the pricing that you would get with a system like Aweber (just released their version of automation) or GetResponse.

However, the drip email marketing system has a price point of FREE if you never go over 100 contacts. Both Aweber and GetResponse have a 30 day trial period which at that point is basically a charge of $29.99.

Free for Life Full Fledged Email Marketing System

Drip also gives you all the tools right up front with the free program so that you can begin to integrate your marketing while you’re building your list up. I found this to be a very low-pressure method to inviting you in to try the product. Which I believe is superior to most other email marketing systems.

One key component with Drip is that they allow affiliate marketing to be done with their system. However, I would say that if you’re marketing affiliate MLM’s they will shut you down with a warning. I have not seen this personally but I know what their stance is on this matter. It’s all to protect their amazing deliverability rates.

Workflow Automation

As with GetResponse, you will have the workflow automation feature. Something that GetResponse does is charge you to use the full ability of workflows. Like I have stated already, Drip gives you full ability to use all features right from the start using your FREE account.

This graphic is pulled from each perspective website. If you want to try drip out and ease into this product without having to feel rushed by a 30-day time limit, you can do so with Drip. However, if you prefer to pay the $49/month right from the start, you will most likely choose GetResponse or Aweber.

Aweber pricing is very comparable and perhaps a few dollars cheaper per month. However, Aweber just published their version of what GetResponse and Drip are already doing with their email marketing system

I do like GetResponse, but Drip is definitely hands over feet better because you are literally able to customize much more. For instance, you can track visitors on your blog and where they are clicking (yes, you can do this on Google Analytics too).

Isn’t that what we want in a system like drip? Customization and tracking.

That’s the only way we know what people are doing on our websites. This allows us to improve each and every day, week, or month depending on when you do your reviews of your website(s).

If you’re still not sure why I believe Drip is the best Email Marketing System, check it out for yourself.

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Tags, Triggers, And Goals

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No, we aren’t talking about any of those types of tags, triggers, or goals. What we are talking about matters of your email marketing system. It’s what pulls your customers through the workflow you’ve set up for them.

My first experience was with GetResponse. I was able to be a beta tester and had full access to the system for a brief period of time. Then figured out that I wasn’t getting the deliverability with Getresponse due to them tagging me as a mailer that pitched all the time.
The brief story on that is basically me starting out as a newbie marketer starting out with my first autoresponder. Having no clue as to what to send and not knowing at the time each pitching email would be hurting my sender rating. This is something that they will not tell you about but it definitely exists.

Having experienced what GetResponse offers with their new marketing system, I know that using tags in their system requires you to upgrade to the next level up from their email level. I was using the entry-level (email) and did not upgrade to the “Pro” level mostly because I was not getting good deliverability of my emails.

Goals Make Automation Work

If you know much about triggers, you know that you can do a bunch with them and the sky is the limit in what you use them for. There is a slight variation that I have not ventured into yet and this variation is called Goals.

Here’s what Drip describes goals as:

Goals are a powerful workflow tool that will help you take your automation to the next level.
A goal is a step in a workflow?that when achieved?removes the subscriber from any step directly above it.

Goals are what you need to make automation work. If you know me at all, you should know that I love to automate what I can without losing out on the human interaction.

So an example goal would be a purchase of one of your products. The goal would pull your subscriber out of any delay or email campaign and into the stage where the goal resides in the workflow.

Integrations

I know that I won’t use all these integrations that Drip has available but it’s good to see that they have close to 100 third-party integrations ready to go for you to add triggers, goals, workflows to in your email marketing.

Things like Facebook ads, Clickfunnels, and of course Leadpages are all part of this amazing email marketing system.

You will be able to integrate a CRM (Customer Relationship Manager) so you’ll have the complete system setup within Drip.

Currently, these 3rd party CRM’s are integrated into Drip.

I’ve worked for large and small companies in the IT field and know how valuable it is for CRM’s to be used to keep your contacts details all in one spot.

Salesforce is one of the big players in the CRM marketplace. For entrepreneurs that are starting out, you may want to consider using something like Insightly.

Insightly is a great choice and most getting started are on a tight budget. This is a big reason that drew my attention to them as a CRM provider.

Since Drip is an email marketing system, it makes sense that they would have as many lead capture programs integrated. here’s a quick list of these 3rd party lead capture integrations

Clickfunnels Leadpages Facebook LeadAds Instapage Interact KickOff Labs Convert Flow

Optin Monster Optin Gun Out Grow Privy RightMessage SumoMe Textiful

Viral Sweep VYPER Landing Cube MailOptin MyThemeShop Thrive Themes Unbounce

This is a pretty extensive list of Capture Page systems.? Of course, Leadpages is their own product and a good one to use too!

Best Email Autoresponder For Bloggers

Email Services for Bloggers

Bloggers are a breed all by themselves. To point a entire company towards them can be risky. However, there are companies that do just that. That’s why I’m going to show you why you need to have an email autoresponder and which company is the best email autoresponder for bloggers.

In a very weird world we live in right now (#2020). Strange enough, Blogging has turned into a much bigger industry that it ever has in the past. This is due to the fact that there are more people working from home than ever before.

In fact, a study that ConvertKit did recently shows that bloggers who use email marketing earn 447% more income than those who do not use email.

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Pretty encouraging to see stats like that roll through to support your blogging dreams and goals!

Drip offers an RSS feature (which must be activated by request) for bloggers. This feature will create an email digest plus the most recent post. All you need to do is review and publish.

There would be a lot less hesitancy to give the company a test drive with your blog.

Experience Matters

I’ve found that if the email marketing doesn’t feel right, then it’s time to move on and look for a better solution. Drip is what I’m using now for about 5 years and haven’t left them. I’m not going to put out a false hope that one company can satisfy your needs for a lifetime, which is why I take a look around occasionally to see what’s out there.

GetResponse was my very first email company, Convertkit, and MailChimp. These are all very good places to land a blog and but with each of them, I was not satisfied with one thing or another.

Let’s dig in to those things and that will explain why I am using Drip, and why I believe it’s the best email autoresponder for bloggers.

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As you can tell from the video above, there’s a reason for my love for Drip. The biggest one was once not a feature (price) but now it surely is.

If you’re not currently setup for a blog, here’s a solid guide to get you started.

Now that the price is in almost everyones reach, the features are going to help you get started with your blog as well as any ecommerce you want to include on said blog. The choice is yours!

Automation

One of the best features of email systems is their ability to use automation. I’ve said this many times before. Automation is what enables the “laptop lifestyle”.

In an email marketing system such as Drip, you will see different things that you can setup but none of them work unless you have a workflow setup with rules.

Workflows are the basis of automation and if your email marketing system doesn’t offer workflows, they are about 10 years behind the curve, and it’s time to find a new system to use.

I’m really not aware of any of these competing companies that do not offer workflows or their variation of what a workflow consists of. Perhaps they call it something different.

Best Email Autoresponder for Bloggers

There are several companies that do a pretty good job with regards to getting your email(s) send and into the inbox. Alternatively, some companies are sending directly to the junk or spam folders. This sort of thing needs you to change companies for at least 6 months and by that time you’re already giving your time to a company that IS working for you.

Companies that I would say are in the best interest for you are

…and there are at least a handful more that you could decide to partner up with to do your email marketing.

Again, the company may have prices out of your budget at the current moment. The other things that help you with deciding which company to land as your email marketing are as follows.

Price (as discussed above)
Ease of use
1. is the graphical interface easy to understand?
2. Can automation be implemented simply?
What topics will get you banned
1. Yes, some email providers will ban you for marketing certain companies, such as CBD.
Customer service
1. Response time
2. helpfulness

The End Result

These are the top of mind items that people use to decide what email provider they are going to choose. However, the one that I left out is one that we don’t think about because it’s what our emotions tell us is the right thing to do.

Granted, this post will not attempt to pull the emotions but rather give you the facts about which email autoresponder is best for bloggers.

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Stay tuned, as I’ll be doing a review on the different email autoresponders that bloggers generally use in future posts. I hope that this post helped you get a sense of what the Best Email Autoresponder for Bloggers are in the marketplace.

3 Favorite Books About Online Business Marketing

I have been one to read a book or two in my adult years. It was actually quite rare for me to read a book as I was growing up in school and even post education years. So, in today’s post, we are going to delve into books about online business marketing.

However, as I grew into my entrepreneurial mindset, I realized that I NEEDED to read to improve my mindset. After all, if you are to provide value to your audience, you’ll need to improve to be better than you were yesterday.

This brings me to the question, Was my mindset bad, to begin with?

Well, I like to think it wasn’t, but then if you asked a successful person where I was at just a few years ago, they’d probably say – “He needs some major fine tuning!”

My Journey Started With…

So my journey to self-improvement began. Something I started doing way back in the early 1990s then quickly gave up because my vision wasn’t seeing the true reason for improving.

Without further ado, here are 3 of my favorite books that will show you to the promised land concerning online business marketing.

GoPro by Eric Worre

This book is a great book to read when you’re just starting out in business. Eric gently goes through some of the best strategies and even tackles some of the ‘old school’ strategies in marketing. He goes on to say that some of the old school marketing strategies are still very viable today but there are some twists to add in that help tremendously. There’s nothing like connecting with people face to face. Something that today’s world has almost long forgotten.

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Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk

Very well written book about how to market using social media. Gary Vaynerchuk sees a problem in the noisy world of social media and it’s very disturbing to see all the noise go out the door and not be used. It’s definitely a noisy world but you can be louder and more prolific if you are able to follow the advice of #GaryVee. I would definitely suggest this book be part of your reading. If you don’t already own this book, I’ve provided a link to it on Amazon.

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Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

This is yet another book that I highly recommend. The mindset that T.Harv Eker tells us about. When I was reading through this book, I don’t think there was a page that I didn’t have one of those “Ah-ha” moments. I’m sure you are that person that loves to ready because you found this blog by searching for “favorite books“

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Reading is a key element to anyone’s success in home business or for that matter, running a business period. You’d want to make sure that the reading is specific to your niche or that it applies to business building.

These Books Are Important Reference Tools

The smart thing is to be able to tell others about what you’re learning in a place that is available for consumption all hours of the day and night.

The place to tell people about what you’ve learned while reading these books is a blog. The blog should include a video along with your post.

What To Do With Books About Online Business Marketing After Reading Them?

There’s a ton of things that happen to you when you’re reading a book. Some have excellent comprehension. I found that I need to write about the book by either taking notes or starting a blog post about the book.

Another great way to do a post is to share a video about the book or course or whatever it is you wish to remember. I have followed a few that will literally just share what they have read in a book and do that on a daily basis.

If you’re looking to build a YouTube audience and be looked upon as an expert, you’ll want to edit your videos to put that cherry on top. It’s the detail that matters in making a name for yourself.

So you’re going to need some place to store your videos. A place that is guaranteed to keep them viable, accessible, etc.

A great place to store your video is on a platform called Sprout Video. This service allows unlimited storage allowing you to essentially back up your youtube videos. We all know someone or are that person who has either had an entire account removed/deleted or specific videos wiped out due to people complaining about videos. This is why you need to have a platform that allows you to own your videos and that these videos are safe.

Other Essentials

The other essential for your blog is to have an Autoresponder that will grow with you. Your trial with the Drip email marketing system?will set you up properly (for FREE) so you can start building your email list.? I know you’ve heard that the money is in the follow-up.? Well, on the internet, the follow up is via email.

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Why Reading is Necessary

Whether it is real estate, network marketing, Internet Marketing, or just a hobby that you want to learn how to create side cash from, book reading is one solid way to learn a skill.

Reading about your topic can make you the expert that everyone wants to follow, get their questions answered and ultimately learn from in anyway possible.

You’ve read about becoming an expert in your chosen niche you have that knowledge from all the reading you’ve done. THen you pull from life experience and you’re the de facto expert.

One of the books that I suggest you start to read if this is the path you’re looking to follow is a book called, “The Millionaire Messenger” by Brendon Burchard.

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That’s the first step into becoming an expert. Read about your endeavor and then follow it. Learn all that you can about that next phase in life you are pursuing.

I wish you all the best in your endeavor and may you achieve greater than your goals!

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Creating Profit Using The 3 C’s of Marketing

Making money online is as simple as using the 3 C’s of Marketing, which I’ll explain here. ?During my tenure as a marketing genius, I’ve been shown many different things on how to market your product of choice.

We are at a time now where more and more people are looking for more or different ways to make money outside of their jobs. ?Because of this, there needs to be a way to show people a sure-footed method of how to go from step one to step…

“I’VE DONE IT!“

So, if you’re like me and want the goods on the how to then pay close attention. (it may pass you by if you’re not fully attentive) 😉

The very concept of marketing is different to many so I want to show you what the definition of marketing is according to Webster’s dictionary.

So as you can see the active awareness that there is a product to be purchased is a good way to sum this definition up. ?In order to make people aware of any product, you need to advertise or if you’re online only you need to drive traffic to your offer.

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1. Create Traffic To Your Offer

There are many ways to drive traffic to your offer and I’ll list a couple here but just know there are so many that you could use that it’s really up to your imagination (the saying, ‘you get what you put out’ mantra.? So, be moral and upstanding on how you do this – as illegal activities have a way of coming back to bite you)

How Do You Drive Traffic To A Cold Offer?
The most obvious method of doing this is to share your product on social media. ?Now there is a caveat to all methods and especially using social media.
Facebook is one of those media outlets where you need to be strategic in how you share your product.
Going from a newbie marketer, doing what the current company I joined told me to do, to now being able to take a step back and really see exactly what was going on is education that I can now say is quite valuable.
I know that when I started I wanted to just have the answers given to me.? But, that’s not the way to really learn the trade of marketing.
Failure does equal success in 99.9% of businesses.? The part that can be taught without having to fail is where to get traffic.
But that’s all you can expect because traffic is different for each business owner.? You’ll need to test all your traffic.
Doing What Your MLM Company Suggests
What most MLM companies do is basically tell everyone in the company to share a status update on their profile page, using their graphics on your social profiles, and even changing the face picture to their logo.
Most newbies would follow this method if they said it was going to make you lots of money, right? ?Well, the opposite was true. ?This only created an interest at first and drove more people directly to the company rather than to the person.
Social Media

Facebook isn’t the only social network on the planet even if it’s the #2 site in the world next to Google. Leverage your advertising with other social outlets, such as – but not limited to – Facebook,?Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter and many others.

For training on each of these venues, click the link you would like to learn more about.

Solo Ads

If you’re not familiar with marketing because you’re new to marketing or you just haven’t spent any time getting to know what these different types of marketing strategies are, you will really get a lot of value out of the rest of this post.

What is a solo ad?

It’s a method of emailing people your product or service using a list generated by someone other than yourself.

If you can find the right person to connect with and is willing to let you use their list, you may be able to gain more subscribers, sales, and more.

On the flip side, you could also be throwing money out the door.

The thing to remember is you have to take a chance if you’re going to learn how to succeed.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
I listed a Company name Google up on option number two. And the?fourth option is going to have a lot to do with Google, Yahoo, BING, and all the other search engines in the world.
SEO is an acronym that stands for search engine optimization. ?It is a really viable method of driving traffic to your website which you can then sell your product. If people are looking for your website they already should know that you have a product to sell or information to give them.
With the different animals that Google keeps coming up with, you’ll have to stay up with the rules on how to be effective in the search engine optimization (SEO) skill.
What does SEO do for you? Well, it’s a way to generate traffic using keywords so that your website gets new visitors and return visitors on autopilot essentially.? Part of doing SEO is to have back links from trusted sources.? When you can find a backlink, it’s best to give them credit from?one of your posts on your blog.? You can do this by saying something like this:
You may have found this website by searching terms like
This is just a small list of search terms that could be used to find this blog. ?Most of the links above are internal to this blog.? However, you’ll want to send out links to other blogs that you find will provide value to your audience.? This will build your trust with your audience and open them up to clicking on your content more often.
Your audience likes variety, so give them variety.? No one man/woman show in your blog posts.
Once you have the grasp on how to create enough traffic to your offer, you can step into the next “C”.

2. Collect Emails

I learned really fast that you need to have a way to collect emails so that you can stay in touch with those that are interested in what you have to offer.

This also means you need to have a different method of emailing your list because a standard email client will not work (webmail, outlook, apple mail, etc).

You will want to start building your list to a size where you have thousands that receive your emails, by consistently sending them to a lead capture page where they will opt-in and subscribe to 2 things.

Learn more about your business on the landing page immediately when they subscribe
The subscription authorizes you to send valuable follow-up email messages (automated and manual), where they are able to get to know, like and trust you and your business. ?They can also unsubscribe at any time.

I have my recommendations of what tools to use in order to be sure to get your business up and running the correct way. ?I say correctly because there is a way to do things on the cheap – in which one of those ways is using webmail (you’ll get shut down faster than lightning can strike the ground).

Yes, there is a way to do things that will not break the bank.

Different Methods of Email Marketing

If you prefer not to use company pages to collect emails, then you can certainly create your own capture pages. ?I use a company called LeadPages. ?They offer the most flexibility in how you put together your capture page.

The other tool you’ll need is an Email autoresponder – which allows you to email hundreds to thousands of subscribers all at once. ?I use a company called Drip Email Marketing and also recommend Aweber as well.

Go ahead and set up your tools for marketing now… ?(I’ll wait…) 🙂

3. Convert Sales

The best and only way to do this is to be consistent in what you do. ?Know what you are doing (blogging, email your list, etc.) and let people get to know, like and trust you. ?This is the way to generate sales on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.

We ALL want to have a secure future. Working the 9-5 is one way to get by on a daily basis. But, what are you willing to give up so that you and your family can have a better future?

This blog post is simply a way to show you what to do to generate a bigger marketing business. ?But, if you want more information on getting your strategies solidified, then you need to get on my email list (only email subscribers get my special tips & strategies).

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After the 3 C’s Are Implemented

Remember, there are several ways to get your content in front of your prospective audience.? The links above will send you to their paid ads section.? Something that most are not willing to do is pay for ads.? I completely get it if you’re a bit hesitant with the paid ads.? But you should definitely make time to learn paid ads.

Facebook can be brutal if you don’t know what you’re doing.? Literally, you can spend all your money with them and not get one sale.? That’s why it’s VERY IMPORTANT to know your target audience.? This will allow you to know the struggles they are going through.? Once you know the struggles of your niche, you’ll be able to give them the answer they are looking for.? Now you’re setting yourself up to be an authority in their life.

Tools For Marketing Your Business

Tools For Marketing to make your online life easier and more automated.

Here’s the down-low on what I use to automate my blog, business, and internet business.

The Tools

1. Blogging Platform

Everyone in the online business niche needs to have a blog and to be quite honest, there are different levels of blogs, ranging from;

Individual setups where you do all the work. This includes:
- Graphic design (can be very expensive but you can find packages for $250-$500 on the conservative side)
- Procurement and purchase of a domain name – The name purchase is the cheapest part of this whole equation
- Hosting of your domain name. This can also be done at the sites above.
- Maintenance on your domain (which I’d suggest you hire this out to a third-party if you don’t know what you’re doing.)
Systems that have high page rank already built-in (like this one) if you know how to use keywords properly.
- The benefit of blogs like this is that you get all the maintenance and hosting inclusive of your monthly fee.
- You also get remade advertising banners to help get the word out to your visitors who are looking for a product to sell and make money.
Systems that are free and you just write blogs such as blogger, and the free accounts at WordPress.
- These types of blogs are great for startups but they have a huge downfall in that the owner of these blog spaces are able to shut you down at any time (read the terms of service for your provider) for any reason. Specifically, marketers are not allowed. MLM company blogs are to be in the marketing space as well.

There is a basic set of rules you need to know in order to succeed in the Network marketing or Internet marketing space. Be sure to start off by getting your domain name from Godaddy as well as your WordPress Hosting.

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2. Autoresponder

The reason you want to have an autoresponder (commonly called AR as well), is that it’s an integral part of your business. The saying is that your business is only as big as your email list – which is true but only to a certain extent.

What does the AR do? It allows you to build an email list, connect with your followers, send them updated information, specials, reminders to upcoming events, and always be adding value by solving their problems.

The autoresponder is a necessary tool to promote your business and help others see why you are different to all the others in this world doing the same things you are doing.

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3. Lead Capture Page Builder

In order to get your setup complete, you will definitely need to get a lead capture page builder. Building a page from scratch is simply for the birds or those that love to do this sort of programming.

The lead capture page builder will fit in nicely with your autoresponder and blog, as they compliment each other in aiding your automation. Lead Pages is the preferred tools for marketing to use when creating capture pages that will place them into your autoresponder.

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Email List Cleaning With GetResponse

There are lots of tasks to do when you are doing email marketing. ?None of them more important than doing email list cleaning. ?Removing inactive email addresses that never open your emails is key to cleaning out your list. So, here’s your quick and simple instruction guide on Cleaning your email list with?GetResponse

For those that want to read through on the subject, here’s your quick guide to email pruning for GetResponse

The first step is to login to your GetResponse account and then head over to the top of the screen and click “Contacts” –> “Search Contacts”

From there you should have a screen that looks similar to the one below.

Now, the next step is to start searching for the contacts that have not opened any of your emails. ?This is done by doing a search on your campaigns (example below)

The only change from the above photo for you is to change the time period. ?I recommend you change it to 30 or 60 days (1 month / 2 months) that way you have a fresh list at all times.

When you’ve got your contacts who are not opening your emails all you do then is click the blue button that says “Show Contacts”.

This will take you to a new screen where you can edit those contacts. (see below)

Select the “Choose all” box at the top, then scroll to the bottom and select “action”, then “Move to Campaign” or Remove from Account / Remove from Campaign.

That is all that it takes to do this manually every 30 days to 60 days. ?Some marketers will say to do this twice a year. However, ?if You are looking to optimize your list for buyers only – get those tire kickers off your list. This will make room for those that are actually interested in your product or service. ?Watch the video on how to do an email list cleaning. ?You’ll want to rinse and repeat this process until GetResponse has an automated way to do this just like the more expensive services have such as Drip.

More than likely you found this post because you have a subscription with GetResponse or you are looking for an autoresponder to use in your business. ?There are a few of them to use and currently I’m using GetResponse and have been using it for almost 5 years. ?There are others you can use such as Aweber, MailChimp, Drip, Infusionsoft, and many others. ?Those are the ones that just came to mind.

IF you are using Aweber or GetResponse, be mindful of the emails you send out.? If you are sending out the same version of every other marketer in your company, you should be shuttering and wondering what to do next.? This post will give you more information on what GetResponse (and most other autoresponders) will do for you and how to play inside of their rules to get the most out of their service.

Both GetResponse and Aweber are probably the most popular autoresponders out in the marketplace. ?So the only precaution that I think you need to be aware of is that due to its popularity. You’ll need to be extra careful about spamming. ?That means you need to be providing value based content in your emails. ?Also, there’s some great tips and strategies that i share with my team to help you get better deliverability.

So, if you’re not cleaning your list (segmenting), you’re doing yourself a disservice and ruining your sending reputation. ?Email List Cleaning With GetResponse is imperative. In fact, list cleaning is imperative in any Autoresponder service. ?People just don’t open your emails all the time.

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So as we are still not living in a perfect world.? We can prepare for those that just are not interested in your content.? Even though it’s the best on the planet. :0

To do this, you’ll need to create a workflow that will get run every day, week, or month.? It all depends on your marketing.? However, you should be cleaning out emails that do not interact with you for 60 days.

I have since switched over to a new Autoresponder called Drip.? They designed their service to fill in the gaps that were not there in other services.? I love that I can get automation, access to all the feature rich service.? You can get started for FREE until you go over 100 contacts.? After you reach that level, it’s just $49/month or you can get a discount by paying yearly.

I moved over to Drip because I was in that group of IP addresses that were not deliverable.? GetResponse will not confirm or deny if you’re in that group because they want to keep you on a subscription.? Don’t get me wrong, GetResponse is a great service, and I know many of my mentors that still use GetResponse to pull in huge incomes via email.

It’s absolutely important to do?email list cleaning with GetResponse.

In a perfect world, your emails would get read all the time, and you’d be providing riveting information all the time as well. ?That’s just not the case.

Hope this helps you get better conversions and sales ultimately.

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Brand Marketing Your Business

Brand Marketing

The subject today is brand marketing. This is what I’m going to address and how you do it as a new or advanced business owner. This applies to all small and large business owners alike in the internet marketing space.

…even if you’re new to the entrepreneurial space, this works for you too!

Most new business owners have a perception that they join up on a business with their sponsor and they can ride the wave that their sponsor has created. Some of that is true but you have to create your brand and know what you stand for in business. It’s the same in businesses you see in your city too.

Target has their way of selling that is different from Walmart or Kmart. It’s their brand that sells people (and location)

So while you may not be a brick and mortar store, setting up shop the proper way is most imperative!

Setting Your Brand Marketing Up

The first thing you need to start doing as a new business owner is

Provide Value This means actually searching places out on the internet and taking notes, and then sharing it via a blog, video, or both on all of your social media outlets.Get focused on who you’re serving and give them what they are searching for. Be consistent because you are their answer to the issues they are having. If you aren’t consistent, you’ll likely miss them on the day they need you most. This is where the sales come from.Providing value on a daily, weekly basis is what you should start your focus on right out of the gate. I’d say a good rule of thumb is to be posting on social media multiple times a day and doing a video at least once a week to multiple times a week.
Encouragement It’s always the positive person that reaps positive actions. I’ve always seen the positive person show up again and again. They never quit doing good, which in turn, pays them VERY WELL. This one skill will keep your business and personal life full of blessing – and not just for you as you speak life into others.Realize that the world we live in right now is one of turmoil and when we leave work for the day, people do not want to sit and listen to you complain and berate on social media. Do you ever hang out on a post that is negative? Most of the time, you’re looking for a reason to laugh, gain knowledge, or to be encouraged.
Problem Solving One of the first questions I had when I started as a business owner online, was where do I find these problems? I’ve been a problem solver for well over 20 years and they usually just put a ticket in and I go fix their problem. (This is the mindset of an Information Technology employee). So in order to start looking for problems to solve, you have to know where to find them. The first place to look is in Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+ groups. You can start a twitter feed using lists to find problems to solve as well. These are just a couple of the many you can use to find problems to solve. The best problems are the ones you find with people you already know.

Final Thoughts

If you need coaching on this, I invite you to get signed up on my email list that shows people how to be problem solver, an encourager, and how to provide value to your niche. Mostly, I look forward to helping you make your first 6 figures online.

GetResponse Email Marketing Auto Responder For Small and Big Business

GetResponse Email Marketing Tutorial

Why Use An Autoresponder?

There are some things in marketing you need to know about in order to stay sane while you learn the internet marketing business.? That one thing that will free your time up is something called an autoresponder – and I am currently?using the Get your GetResponse email marketing?system?as my communication tool of choice.? Now there are several other tools you can use to keep in touch with your followers, customers, and potential buyers. If you are looking for an autoresponder that has easy to use templates to use and very user-friendly interface, you should seriously consider using Get Response.? Not only are they a cheaper method to use for what you get compared to the others.? But you also get great customer service via the telephone or web (chat).? I’ve tried a few of the other autoresponder systems and like what they had as an offer but I feel Get Response rose above the rest. Here are a few?that I have tried:

GetResponse?My choice of Auto Responder in this bunch. ?It has many features that make you look good as a marketer, such as send email based on time or action.? It’s also improved and added workflows, tagging, and segmenting.? GetResponse email marketing is very much in the running for top autoresponder.? It’s not the most expensive, it certainly isn’t the least feature-rich
Aweber? This is a good auto-responder for those that are just starting out on a limited budget – and plan on making money in the first month.? There is a $1 trial for the first 30 days if you choose Aweber.??
Constant Contact?- One of the other choices that you could go with for $15 per month; They offer a free account however, you could get much more for about $12/month with GetResponse.
DRIP – One of the newest autoresponders in the marketplace. ?This service is built with all the things that were left out of the others plus much more.? Its built by the people at LeadPages and have a full version ready for use as a trial.? The trial is free forever as long as you don’t go over 99 contacts.
MailChimp?- An entry-level program to send out emails to your subscribers. ?This is a free autoresponder but they have limits – which is when you start to pay per credit or monthly. If you are on a tight budget, this is the one I would suggest until your list gets too big and/or you are making a decent income to switch to the more feature-rich autoresponder. ?As of September 2017, they allow you to have up to 2000 subscribers for free. ?Also, you get much more value with this service as they allow you to use their workflows at all service levels – free and paid.

How To Use GetResponse For The Beginner:

Getresponse is actually quite easy to use.? It’s one of those more advanced autoresponders that are based on a point and click model.? Much like you are doing when using your windows or mac computer.

The times of emailing everyone your offer and not paying attention to their behavior are over.?GetResponse Email Marketing has addressed this issue by providing workflows, tagging, and rules that watch what your customer or subscriber is doing and modifying the messaging to fit their needs.

After all, the customer / subscriber is there because you are offering them a solution, right?

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What your aim should be is to have a business with several options for your customers to choose from.? The autoresponder of today is built to accommodate your business by learning your customers wants and providing a product that you sell to them.

Autoresponders For Business

Of the autoresponders that are in the marketplace, the best ones usually cost the most.? The reason for this is they have all the features built into their SaaS (Software as a Service).??

For instance, they have the ability to email a subscriber/customer that missed a payment on your monthly subscription.? All this is on autopilot so you don’t have to deal with any of the embarrassing emails or phone calls.

The method is simple to use but if it’s a autoresponder that has just the ability to email your subscribers without segmentation, then they won’t have other feature sets available either.

Fortunately, most of the autoresponder companies are moving their companies up to the present time by adding these features.? Most importantly, tagging.

Tagging is what allows your list to be fluid rather than static.

Businesses need to be fluid in their approach to sell to their online customers.? This all boils down to using tags in all of your?emails? Using tags will create a profile of a subscriber. This will tell you what they click on and what they are buying.? It will also continue to inform you if they are engaged or not.

As you get more information on your customer, you’ll be able to assign workflows to your individual subscriber.? This is what Getresponse Email Marketing is all about.

Who Are The Competitors For GetResponse?

Jon’s Marketing Toolbox

Just like a Mechanic, Doctor, or Surgeon – they all have their toolbox to be successful at what they do. Online Marketing is no different. You need to have a marketing toolbox to be successful and to minimize the time you put into this business. Remember, when you first start an online marketing home based business it takes work, but if you’re using the right tools you’ll save yourself a ton of time and energy. The best part about this type of business is that the rewards start flowing soon after you start your business, and when you have things all set up correctly, all you’re focussing on is creating content, and driving traffic to your website.

I? only provide links to programs I use and have success with, so you can be sure they are worth the money (I am not interested in wasting money and I assume you aren’t either). So without further delay, it’s time to open up my marketing toolbox. (Most of the products on this page are affiliate links. The caveat is if they are already free.)

Marketing Toolbox Necessities

Email Auto-responder

There’s always a tool that you will need for any type of project or business. With online marketing mostly, you will need an email autoresponder to stay in touch with your customers/followers. This is a tool that you can not afford to go cheap on. You need the best. You need mobile-ready templates. GetResponse is the tool to have that provides easy made templates to send to your list. They give you the reports you need to build relationships with people all the while giving you the business numbers you want and need.

I use this as my primary newsletter and autoresponder management tool. If you have signed up for my newsletter, you know how professional these newsletters look! Check out my review and hands-on video!

Advanced Marketing Email Autoresponder

Now, If you’re really a serious marketer. I know you’re already doing email and collecting email subscribers. I suggest using either Aweber or GetResponse if you’re new to email marketing. However, if you’re not new and want to have more control over who gets your emails with automation and segmentation, you should check out Drip.

Drip is a new platform that released in 2016 to a few chosen and now in 2017 have released to the masses. This platform is FREE for anyone that has 100 or fewer subscribers.

Health & Wellness

Essential Oils

Healing can be a daunting task but when there are different ways to manage your health, it seems that you may not have to go see a doctor for a while. Essential Oils can curb everyday knickknacks all the way to be a major role player in reversing disease. Of course, you should do your scheduled recommended checkups. Oils are have shown to be an effective method in reversing conditions that standard methods cannot claim to do. For more information, I’ve found a resource on what Essential oils (EO’s) can do for you. You will have information at your fingertips, as well as a way to buy oils, make money using oils (benefit your sphere of influence in a healthy way).

Statement Disclaimer: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease.

Youngevity

This started as a business for Dr. Wallach. He emphasizes that we need minerals to live. He has a book out that is titled, “Dead Doctors Don’t Lie”.
(Buy the book here)

Youngevity is a Multilevel Company that promotes products such as the 90 essential minerals needed for life.

I have been using these products and have seen my health improve in ways I never imagined would happen. If you have a moment to watch the video about these minerals, I highly suggest getting started with at least the?Healthy Body Start Pack 2.0.

Every man, woman, and child needs 90 essential nutrients just to survive, much less to thrive. To put the odds in your favor to live as long as possible, with the highest possible quality of life, you must get these nutrients every day.
Dr. Joel Wallach

Here’s what Dr. Wallach says about the company and his products.

Web Hosting

SiteGround is a great company that offers the ability to register your hostname as they are an official registrar. If you’re looking for website hosting, you can do this all in-house with their managed WordPress hosting – assuming you’re going to start a blog using WordPress as your core presentation.

I’m using SiteGround for hosting and am on their managed WordPress package. I absolutely love this package for several reasons which are too many to list here.

Otherwise, they have many more options to select from that will definitely help you out.

The ease of getting set up is as instant as your buying experience. If you run a blog and are in the beginning stages, I highly recommend using the managed WordPress hosting for their high-speed servers to helping you out with widgets and picture hosting. They have it all to help you rank your blog much faster!

Beyond the technical or don’t have the time.You may want to check out a paid version of WordPress blog rather than the freebie version.

Tracking Solution For Online Marketers

ClickMagick

This has to be one of the most in-depth programs out there to help you track your links.? However, I have noticed a few times that the link tracking was not working properly.? Now, this could be either something I did or ClickMagick.

One of the benefits of using ClickMagick is that they have a video for most anything you want to learn about tracking your links, rotator, click fraud, and a few other features within ClickMagick.

You probably noticed that I mentioned rotator. This is perfect for those people who sell traffic. You can add as many users to a link as you would like to. This is a full-featured tracking suite that you get for about $12/month when you purchase a full year in advance.

Simple but powerful tracking solution for all your tracking needs. If you have a tight budget, this is the tracking solution to go with while not losing any functionality.

When you visit and put your information in to sign up for an account, you’ll notice that you get a free 30-day trial. What you will soon discover is that there is no free plan with this tracking program nor ClickMagick. If you want free, you’ll have to go to a site called Bit.ly or PrettyLinks. along with a ton of other link shorteners.

Pretty Links

Speaking of link shortening, I use this more extensively than anything on this blog and it really is a great way to track your links and which ones are getting clicked versus the ones that are not getting clicked. I use the pro version here but by all means, you do not need the pro version. The free version does just enough to get you through what you would like to track.

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How To Add Opt In Forms To WordPress

In today’s vastly improving technology we have so much at the tips of our hands. We have email opt in forms that seem like they just appear without doing any real work. So in this post, I’m going to help you get your email opt in forms added so that you can begin collecting emails from your WordPress blog.

I know that this is just one topic on using Drip, and you can go through the entire series, and become a master at drip

Types of Forms

When adding forms to a WordPress blog, you have a choice of whether you want to have a pop up form, embedded form, or in the case with Drip, a slide out form. This will work with WordPress as well. However, if you choose the free plan, it may be more difficult to integrate Drip into the free blogs.

The email provider we will be using today is Drip. This is mainly because that’s who I’m using for emails these days.

…and I absolutely love them!

Here’s how simple it is to add opt in forms to WordPress using Drip.

at the onset, you are telling drip you would like to add a form to your blog. That part is quite simple.

You’ll get a pop up similar to what is pictured above. I’ve gone ahead and typed in the name ‘Test form’ as well as added a tag for those that submit the form. In this case, I’ve added “Blog_visit” as the tag.

In real world situations, you’d probably place a tag describing the form purpose, such as “Best PDF download for my program”.

Next, you’ll need to decide what is the form type that you want to add to your WordPress blog?

In this example, you see that the popup form is selected. However that is not the only choice.

Different Types of Drip Forms

Exit -Intent Popup Form
Side Tab Form (slide in)
Embedded HTML Form (visuals have vastly improved)

after making the selection of which form you what to add to your blog, simply click the create form button.

Subsequently, you will see a screen that looks like the photo above. This is where you will customize the look and feel of the form.

You’ll start off by choosing the fields you would like to collect from your soon to be subscriber.

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After you have customized this, move on to the design portion of the form.

Designing Your Form

As you can see, this process is literally holding you to each step and helping you design the form by using colors, font sizes on the Style tab. Then on the text tab you are able to choose a title for the Form as well as a description.

Lastly, as you can see you are able to choose an image which Drip suggests that it be at least 300px wide. In my photos, I aim to upload an image that is (300px wide by 450px tall) so that it fills up the area that is meant for the image.

Choosing When The Form Pops Up

The next part of creating this form is to tell Drip what the behavior of the form will be. As you can see there’s a time delay, after scrolling to a certain point in the blog, or on the click of a link or button or via the JS API.

What Do You Want The Form To Do?

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Lastly, you’ll need to tell Drip how to proceed once the form is submitted. It’s as simple as that to insert a form to a WordPress blog. This can be done on each blog page or assigned to a certain tag that you create on your blog, The sky is really the limit here on how to apply each form.

7 Blogging Hacks For Better Search Engine Rankings

Blogging Hacks For Better Search Engine Rankings

The best way to start a blog and be successful quickly is to put into place blogging hacks for better search engine rankings in any search engine you choose.

Blogging is a big income producer for many people. Throughout the past several years, there are fewer people creating blogs because they realize that it’s a business and it requires that you be consistent.

Writing blogs for Google, Bing & Yahoo are great for SEO, but let’s not forget your target market and relating to them!

I’ve heard too many times that SEO is not something I want to do. I’d rather just write my story and add photos / video then publish.

The story is a valid part of the equation but you have to keep SEO in the game as well.

Blogging Hacks That Create Better Search Engine Rankings On Google, Bing, and Yahoo

1. Blogging Hack: Be Consistent

The biggest reason a blog starts to get ranked is simply that they are providing Google, Bing, and Yahoo with content.

It’s not just the content that these search engines see, but rather the continuous submissions on a daily or even multiple times per day.

Of course, these posts need to be of high quality or you’re going to see your rankings drop. So if you’re a blogger and want to start seeing results on your search engines by way of 1st-page rankings, then you need to be a performer of great content on a regular basis.

I mentioned that some bloggers are doing daily posts, but understandably, most professionals cannot handle this type of schedule. So if you are able to post just one blog per week or every 2 weeks, that’s great!

Just keep on your schedule and do your SEO so that you can be found.

2. Better Search Engine Rankings From Telling Stories

Have you ever read a blog that was dry or just told you a bunch of facts that you really didn’t know what they had to do with you or your search to answer your issue?

Usually, blogs that give you facts are the ones that are more technically oriented and don’t have to tell stories because they have built-in traffic (techies searching how to solve a problem).

The problem with that is that techies are not necessarily the type of genre that you would want to blog for because when they are looking for answers they aren’t looking for anything to buy – just information.

Most of the time, they are also working but not always.

3. Proper SEO For More Traffic

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization.

This could be one of the best ways to create a passive income using your blog. SEO doesn’t have to be too intensive but it does need to exist in order for your blog to be found.

What do I mean by “it needs to exist”?

Simple.

You need to have a plan of attack and know what you are talking about and it needs to be narrowed down to something as detailed as “purple frogs living in lakes in Hawaii” to get your page ranked. This is called Long-tail keywords, and I’ll get into this in a different blog post (big topic to cover)

You’ll also want to include your keyword in your blog post, photos, URL, and title. All of these need to be at a ratio of about 1-2 words per 100 words in your post.

Now if you are brand new to the blogging world, you may need to also get setup with an email list system.

I’m currently using Drip which I highly recommend you use. It’s basic enough for beginners yet can be expanded greatly if and when you’d like to do that.

4. Image Spacing to Aide Readability

Using WordPress is a great way to get your blog started in the right direction. However, there are a few things that are not quite right about the total package.

One of these is the default spacing for pictures. If you’re like me, and most other bloggers, you know that having the proper amount of padding between the image and your text is great for both eye appeal and readability.

Both of these are essential for readers to be able to decipher your content in a quick and orderly fashion. The best practice to get your images spaced out properly is to check the code. The proper syntax for an image to show up in a blog post is as follows:

*style=”padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; <a href=”http://myblogphotos.com/photogallery”>

There is another part of this text version to putting an image in. The key here is to place the bold text into the statement for your image. ?However, placement is also key, but if you’re not sure, place it at the beginning after the?<a ?so that the web page will know right away, you want?to pad around the image.

5. Spreading the Word About Your Blog

Google pays attention to how well your content is liked and viewed. That being said, you are getting your blog post judged by how many views it gets as well as how many share it to their influence on social media.

A post with the same word length, keyword, and the above-mentioned items will outrank the other post that has identical traits if there are more views and shares.

Shares are akin to backlinks. Backlinks are definitely viewed as a good thing – but don’t go haywire with buying backlinks. Some backlinks will actually hurt your ranking.

How To Get Eyes On Your Blog Post

For starters, you can begin sending out emails with your new DRIP email service built for bloggers and marketing entrepreneurs

This will definitely get eyes on your post and get your post ranking higher as people visit and comment and/or like your post.

Do you want your message on several different places on the internet? Why yes you do!

Post a video about your blog post and embed it. Also, create an audio version of your blog post and embed to your blog post so you will be the one reading the post to your viewer.

each of the outlets should always lead back to your blog where you have control of your marketing. Social media has been a good place to post but you must know that they own any content you post there and have control of how much it gets promoted on their platform.

So when you are posting a blog post, make sure you apply the Blogging Hacks For Better Search Engine Rankings

6. Things To Consider When Blogging

When blogging, there are a few things that need to be in place.

The first and foremost is to be in a great state of mind before starting any blog post. I’ve found that the best way to clear your mind is to do something physical to get your heart rate up.

After the workout, hone your thoughts, focus on being in the moment, and start writing.

The Technical Part of Blogging is Only 20% Your Business

Having the knowledge of how to blog and get ranked is essential. This is key to having a successful blog but not the whole ball of wax.

In order to be successful at blogging, vlogging, or whatever you choose as your business, you need to be 100% all in with your vision. How do you know that you’re 100% in?

That’s where you’re going to need to do some soul searching. However, I have a quick and easy form you can fill out and it will tell you if you’re ready to go full steam ahead.

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7. Have A Domain Name That Has A Lot Of Pull

In the blogging world, having a domain name that has a lot of pull is called Page Rank. This seems to be a great advantage if you’re going to apply the Blogging Hacks That Create Better Rankings.

These hacks will help you make a bigger splash in the blogging world. Currently, the best way to do this with no previous blog is to just get in and have your blog created, then start blogging each and every day.

How are they doing it?

They know the key elements of setting up a blog, to getting each post ranked on the biggest search engines, and how and where to promote these blog posts.

3 Handy Tools To Make Money Online

In today’s world of the not so secure job, people are turning more to the online world of business. In this post, we are going to discuss a few Tools To Make Money Online. Now, I’m going to be the first to tell you that owning your own business is not for the faint of heart.

Any business endeavor will take committed action. That being said, I have a few different ways you may want to consider. These are all suggestions I have done or have seen others do quite well for themselves.

Click Bank

Click Bank is one of those amazing affiliate programs that give you a product to sell on your blog, social media, or in your PPC campaigns. It’s all up to you how and where you advertise.

If you have the right places in line, you can easily pull down a full-time income doing the affiliate sales. That’s a lot of work, however. If you look at the number of commissions you receive from most click bank sales, it ranges between 5% and 60%.

So you would have to choose a high paying product to make any real headway financially. Otherwise, you’re going to be constantly advertising for small commissions.

I’ve seen recently that click bank has tutorials to teach you how to make money online. Even mid to advanced level marketers can get value out of these tutorials. This is, however, one of the tougher avenues to take. It’s because you are constantly selling the same thing to different people.

The other side of the coin with Click Bank is that you can sell or put your product up and have others sell it for you.

Although I have never seen or known anyone personally sells on Click Bank, you’d be amazed at the income that people are pulling down using this one strategy.

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eBay

Now, some people are very casual eBay sellers and that’s alright. For some, it’s a way of life and life couldn’t be any better.

Would you do this for a living if you could be taught in as short as a couple of hours?

The upside to doing a business is that you get tax breaks. This is because you own a business, and you can set your own schedule.

If you were to point out a downside to this sort of business, it would be that you’re always sourcing new products. The entrepreneur is always looking to sell their products. A business has to survive after all. That said, this lifestyle is not for everyone. But for those that can handle this, you could be looking at 4, 5 and even 6 figures a month. However, this is for those who are consistent and smart about how the business is set up.

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Blogging

The best advertising that you can have as an entrepreneur is free advertising, right? That’s why this is one of the best tools to make money online.

Let me preface this by saying it’s the best but not necessarily the fastest. And a word to the wise, nothing fast is really worth your while.

When you start a blog, you have spaces such as space here on the right and the left to advertise what you would like. You can self-promote your stuff/business, or you can put ads up for others for free or for a fee.

The goal when blogging is to get your blog post to rank as high as possible for a search term that gets a fair amount of searches each month. This is part of the equation that makes it so lucrative to blog.

The other part of the equation is that when you are blogging you can place videos, photos and of course lots of text in your blogs. Most blog posts that rank on the first page have a minimum of 2,000 words and up to about 5,000 or more.

But just because you have a blog doesn’t mean people will rush over to read it. You have to put in time to build it up and have valuable content that people want to consume.

Sign up for my blogging course where I teach you all the strategies to getting more traffic. This will turn into buyers from your blog.

Why Go Through All This To Rank A Blog Post?

Short answer: It gives people a chance to get to know you better. When you have this ranking strategy in place, people will know, like, and trust you. When people know, like, and trust you; they buy from you as well.

What type of people do you suppose are buyers? The ones that know, like, and trust YOU!

So, if you’re in business, you may want to get yourself a blog, that has all the right features. This is important because it will get you ranked high on the search engines. Another great benefit is it doesn’t come with a huge price tag. ?

The other necessity is to get setup with an email service provider. They used to be called an auto responder, but that term left about 10 years ago. We now are calling them eCRM’s.

The other benefit of this blogging platform we know as Squarespace, is maintenance isn’t your job. Keeping your blog running fast is also a part of SEO.

In other words, you do not have to be an IT guru to keep your blog running like it should be running. When you are looking for a blog, here are some specs that you should watch out for:

Built for speed

Potential to use as a marketer

Save your time, by helping you get traffic, leads, and sales

Will help you with your bottom line and is part of the tools to make money online

NOTE: Free blogs such as blogger, WordPress.org, etc. do not allow marketing to be done on their platforms. It’s in the fine print and they can and will shut you down.

This has not stopped many from doing ads, and Squarespace has different packages for different types of bloggers. Eventually, you should get your blog hosted and run using WordPress.com. For more on setting things up with WordPress, click here

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Wrap Up: Tools To Make Money Online

If you’re in the marketing space and are struggling, check what you are doing in your business. Next, decide if you could be doing less of something and focusing your attention in some other manner.

Are you constantly having to advertise your business to get any leads?

Perhaps a blog is something you could use to get auto-pilot leads and sales?!?

Are you coming across as being a spammer to your social media followers?

Do you hate selling to people because you’re not sure what to say?

Then you could really benefit from our team building course.

These are just a couple of the things to think about when you are looking for tools to make money online. For starters, remember that when the economy is “bad” your business should be thriving. Peoples needs outweigh what the economy dictates, so they find other ways to meet those needs.

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How To Setup a Website on WordPress

Setup Your WordPress Website

If you’ve never had a website on WordPress or just haven’t figured out how to set up a site on WordPress. You’re missing out on a lot of fun!

Having a blog for your own personal use can give you an outlet to talk to the world. Perhaps the best thing to do is talk to your people

Think of the possibilities…

You get to write about the very things that you are passionate about in your life. What’s not to love about this, right?

For clarification, this blog post is all about setting up a blog on wordpress.com. This is the free blogging option that WordPress offers. If you’re looking to set up a blog using your own domain name and want to use WordPress as your platform, then you should refer to this post.

What a blog is and isn’t

Your WordPress blog is a place to interact with friends, show off photos, and write about your personal experiences.

If you’ve been missing out on the fun and want to get started with your own blog. Here are some tips to help to show you how to set up a website on WordPress.

Keep in mind that wordpress.com will give you several different options ranging from $4/mo to $45/month billed yearly. If you’re serious about blogging, you should stay away from these options. Instead, find a hosting platform to set up your wordpress.org site.

The first thing you’ll want to do is visit the WordPress website. You’ll see a screen below:

The second thing you need to know regarding how to set up a website on WordPress is just as easy.

Click on the get started button and decide on what username and password you want to use. While this is an easy step, don’t rush too fast.

Remember: your username on WordPress will be part of the URL or website address on WordPress. Once you’ve chosen a username you can’t change it unless you want to start again from scratch. This could be a problem. If six months after setting up your WordPress website you decide you don’t like your username…

especially if during those six months you’ve added a lot of posts.

So part of the process regarding how to set up a website on WordPress does require some advance planning.

Make sure your username meets some basic criteria:

Naming Your Website

You’ll have to follow some other basic steps, such as providing an email address and picking a password. WordPress will send a confirmation email to you that will provide you with some easy instructions. Then just confirm who you say you are and that you agree to their terms of service.

Understanding How To Set Up A Website On WordPress

You will need to involve some thought on how you want your website or blog to look. Once you’ve confirmed your account through WordPress, choosing a theme is the next decision you’ll have to make.

It’s not difficult, but understanding how to set up a website on WordPress does involve some advance planning. The theme you choose will say a lot about you or your business. That said, pick a theme that provides a visual statement about you or your business. Take your time, and look around at the options. There’s a lot of themes to choose from so don’t feel like you need to rush.

Choosing Your Website Name

Your username should fit what you’re doing. If it’s for a business, try to use a username that matches your business name.

If it’s a personal blog, try to use a username that matches the theme of what the blog is about.

Once you’ve chosen the theme or design you want. You should set up your front page, also referred to as the welcome page. It’s the first page people will see when they visit your new WordPress blog.

Selecting Your Widgets

One thing that confuses new WordPress users sometimes are WordPress widgets.

Widgets are not all that complicated, once you get a feel for how they work.

They really are instrumental in attracting traffic to your blog. So, if you’re a newbie or just have a very basic understanding of how WordPress widgets work. Get to know the widgets by jumping in and working with them.

Widgets are a big part of understanding how to set up a website on WordPress. Widgets are simple parts of your WordPress blog. These allow you to embed code to internal or external things on the internet.

Linking to other sites

If you already have another website somewhere. Just use a widget to link to it from a different blog,

You can also use widgets to link to your Facebook account; news or whether websites. The options are almost endless. If you found this blog, most likely you found it on Pinterest as it’s my biggest traffic referral site.

Pinterest has many widgets to turn your pins into rich pins.

Rich pins are simply pins located in your blog posts. What makes them rich pins is that your blog is verified with Pinterest.

This blog is verified with Pinterest. It’s more of a way to track your stats from the bloggers perspective. From the reader’s perspective, it says you can trust the blog because it’s verified through Pinterest.

The Dashboard On Your WordPress Website

For picture-based learning, this is the administrative area of your WordPress site. This is also referred to as the dashboard.

You’ll have the option to access the settings, properties and determine how you want your posts to look.

You’ll have the option of other things like

Whether or not you want to allow people to post comments.
Whether you want them to be able to provide links to your site back to theirs and many more options.
Write Pages or Posts.
Ability to set up individual pages.

You don’t need to (and shouldn’t) set up a separate page for each post. A page is more static.

Separate pages on WordPress are for the purpose of posting information that will most likely not change.

Pages are for Information about you or your business, how to contact you, etc.

When you’re learning how to set up a website on WordPress, you’ll see that you only need one or two actual pages on your blog. They will be static pages during your blogging experience.

Pages that are most common to create are about me, thank you, and sales pages.

WordPress.org is the place to go for support and basically anything WordPress. It’s also the place that you go to start a blog with a specialized domain name such as, yourname.com

WordPress Installation

Now, if you’re really wanting to go a step above and have control over your blog posts (content)…

Then you are ready for WordPress to be installed on your personalized blog, such as this website.

Most bloggers don’t make that much money to support this habit in the beginning. However, there are some things that need to be put in place so that you can set yourself up to make money on your blog.

WordPress is installed. What now?

One of the steps that you could start out with is learning how to market your blog. I have found that social media is the best and cheapest way to tell everyone about your new blog. Try it out and see the response you get from your blogging.

Also, if you’re new to this blogging business stuff, leave a comment below. Let me know what your experience has been so far.

Does Your Blog Help Your Bottom Line?

Blogging is a great way to spread your message to the masses. When your blog is setup right for SEO you receive traffic on autopilot. This traffic is all from those looking for your message. The question at hand is does a blog help your bottom line?

As I have already pointed out, a blog helps you get your internet marketing business off the ground. No more warm market leads where you are bugging friends and family to sign up in your marketing business.

Here are some reasons that you should have a blog for your business and/or your personal life.

Social Media

Supposed that Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram all shut down for some crazy reason. For good measure, they shut down all at the same time.

What would you do if you solely relied upon social media marketing? All your followers would be gone. Unreachable. In effect, your business has shut down.

Now if you had a blog along with an email list, you’d be able to let your followers know that social media is not a good way to get in touch with you. Instead, just reply to the email message that the reader is reading.

Attracting New People To Your World

If you have a blog, and you want to affect your bottom line, you have a few things to do in order to get these things rolling.

Get your niche nailed down and start blogging, vlogging, marketing to this niche.
Be consistent with your blog posts.
Serve them better than you did yesterday. The competition is never against anyone other than your previous self.

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I’ve personally seen blogs that have grown so much that the blog owners are full-time bloggers due to the income they are creating.

If you search Pinterest for the term monthly income report, income results are amazing. Ranging from $5 to $200k /month and more.

I hope this blog post has convinced you to start a blog now rather than later.

Below is a graphic that I found on a prolific bloggers site, Neil Patel’s QuickSprout.com

Courtesy of: Quick Sprout

Blogging Isn’t For…

Yes, you know what I was going to say here, but before I typed the complete thought. I had to say that blogging is for everyone. The real question is if you are ready for blogging to be a part of your business.

I’d love to give you a quick overview of how to start a WordPress blog so that you can take advantage of the free traffic that a blog will generate.

Leads and Sales

If you’re in a business, you know that the lifeblood of all businesses is getting leads that convert into sales. Without it, your business is essentially dead.

This is yet another reason you should use the blog as a strategy to get more leads into your email marketing system. The very nature of a blog is to give tremendous value and then help your customers decide that they need your product that you’re selling them.

If you could show how profits are coming from your blog (and you can), you’d be ecstatic over the profits your blog can and will bring into the storehouse.

All it takes is just one sale from your blog to realize the immense positives of having a blog. So, does a blog help your bottom line?

I would say an emphatic YES!

I’m running a 4-week email course that will show you just how to set up a blog and start making money.

Why You Need to Diversify Your Business Now

Diversity your business or get left behind

When you are told to diversify your business by a guru of the moment, What thoughts are you thinking about? Do they suggest a bad thought because it will cost you MORE money to invest in several businesses?

I’d like to invite you to take a step back from your company or brand name and consider the following.

Does your company have a safe business model?

By that I mean, do they serve a customer that only purchases and doesn’t promote the company to gain financially?

Are they setup to give more value than they charge for?

The Arbitrary Answer

The reason I ask these questions is simply that there have been some companies that have been shut down recently (2018) for not providing means for a customer to purchase products. The FTC finds that the customer and the business owner need to be separate and not one in the same.

So, if your company were to get shut down or perhaps the owners decided to close shop, what would you do?

Having the knowledge of what to do before things happens such as a lull in business, is called genius. So before you get those blues of having no sales, start now to future proof yourself from the no sales coming in blues.

You really need to figure out the proper way to diversify your business so that your business grows rather than taking a dump into nothing.

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How To Prepare For Those Lulls In Business?

I believe that there are several things you can do to fill the gap of no sales. One of those things that you must do which to diversify your business is to BLOG. This is not an overnight strategy though. So, plan your strategy carefully.

A blog is not the answer to fill in the gaps immediately. Having multiple income streams is where a business owner should be putting his/her attention.

There are plenty of systems that will help you gain access to these multiple income streams but there isn’t many that incorporate the blog into this strategy for as little as $10 per year to get started.

Another great strategy is to just talk to people out in the real world, and not solely rely on internet sales. During the summertime is typically the slow period for sales on the internet. So, this is the time to really ramp up your business.

As stated above your automation is where you can gain a step or two and if you’re paying attention to the slow times in the year and also making note of the holidays that are slow you can capitalize on them via your email subscription newsletter.

Whether you are using GetResponse, Aweber, ConvertKit, or Drip you have the ability to segment your email list and even schedule them to receive an email series for each holiday set forth.

In these emails, you can do things such as:

Putting together a bundle of your products. Don’t wait for your company to tell you what the promotion is. You’re the Entrepreneur so go and conquer like one would do.
Get creative with your emails and be more than just information to your readers. Be engaging and tell stories that are relative to your business and/or holiday.
Start a competition with your email list subscribers.

There are a few suggestions that you could run with to get your list engaged, and hopefully convert to sales, and team members.

Affiliate Marketing For Consistent Income

So you’ve probably heard that affiliate marketing is always a good back up plan.

Related Reading: The Secret Law of Attraction Marketing

However, the issue with this is that you’re spending all your time promoting an affiliate offer. To make decent money a system that automatically promotes the affiliates for you is the smart way to go.

Of course you can make good money selling affiliate products in places like commission junction, clickbank, and many others.

The downfall is that not everyone knows the strategy or have the tools to promote affiliate after affiliate.

To Diversify Your Business On AutoPilot

There’s one system that I have found to be superior in regards to getting those multiple income streams. But it’s not just the income streams that is attractive.

People from all walks of life are having success in this system because of one simple fact.

There’s an education, step by step that helps even the beginner to improve their mindset, which in turn helps them succeed. Along with that you get daily inbox tips and strategies to help your income streams generate more sales and leads.

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What I have noticed is that the systems that bring each income stream are setup so that you have complete control over them except for the main system. This is the blogging system which provides the free blog.

If there is a lull in one of the income streams, it’s very easy to change it up and promote another income stream right on your blog.

BLogging has been probably the most stable player in internet marketing. But it’s also one of the more challenging to hit that grand slam. Honestly, it takes hard work for any type of business but if you’re ready to put in more time for your future than for someone else’s future. You’re ready to succeed at anything you do.

Stay Focused on Your Business

Like I have said, it doesn’t matter what you do or what you promote online. There will always be more than enough customers to buy your services. So, why not start that blog and get yourself set up for a 24/7 business model so that you can make money while you sleep.

This is the perfect setup for you if you’re looking into starting a blog. As you progress into setting up a blog you’ll realize that this blog is just right because it promotes 5 income streams on autopilot.

Do you have questions about how to promote your blog?

That’s all taken care of by the creator of this system, Stone Evans. The secret is all in the daily emails that you can sign up for here.

As with any business, you should have the expectation that there will be some investing in to your business. Of course, you can start out with the cheapest option.

How Much Does This Blog Cost To Start?

We all know that there’s nothing in life that is completely free. Either you have to invest your time or your money. That’s just how things work in this world.

As of the time of this blog being published, the cheapest route to get started is to get your domain name ($9.99/yr). 0purchase either a year at a time of Aweber @ $194 ($16.10/mo) or monthly ($19.99/mo).

That brings your monthly option total investment to $29.98

The yearly option would bring this to an upfront total of $203.99

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The reason you need to get Aweber or GetResponse

Aweber, GetResponse, or Drip?!

If you’re looking to save some money, you might want to go with the option to start a GetResponse Account. Here’s why.

GetResponse is a tad cheaper on the monthly (1,000 subscribers or less) plans. Both in the monthly and yearly billing.

Monthly plans start at $15/month. Whereas the yearly plan is just $12.30/month billed yearly ($147.60)

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So if you were to purchase the yearly plan of 1,000 subscribers or less at $147.60 and add in the $9.99 for the domain name. Do the math and you get $157.59 and you’re ready to start collecting email addresses and building your blog and business.

Now all that’s left is to apply your skills in blogging or pay for the auto blogging service so that you’re blog has content for people to read when they visit your blog.

If you’d like me to send you my setup for these multiple income stream using Drip. I can do that for you.

Please let me know here:

In order to get your email series sent to you, you’ll need to sign up for a FREE account with Drip. This account will be free for as long as you have less than 100 subscribers.

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During this time you will have time to learn and implement all your workflows, campaigns, goals, tags, and any automations you might want to implement. This is a FULL FEATURED trial. So have at it, have fun and watch your business grow!

Building A Brand As An Entrepreneur

Should Your
Business Be Branded?

Have you ever thought about building a brand for your online business? I have seen so many people just jump in and start sharing links without building that consistent brand that people will know like and trust.

Building a brand in today’s world is not only necessary but it’s a requirement in my opinion. As a newbie in online marketing, I found myself pretty much getting nowhere. I had a tough time getting sales and that was a real bummer.

I attended a Marketing Mastery Event in Las Vegas, Nevada back in 2017. My wife and I went through some pretty awesome training on building a brand and how it literally makes you the authority of your niche.? The way this material was presented was not only on point but also showed us why to build our brand.

When you’re branding is on point your following will grow.? Whether it’s blogging, online marketing, or an offline business.? This is how they (your crowd) associate you and can find you in a busy world.

Why Should We Brand Our Businesses?

Imagine going into a storefront and wanting to buy a cheeseburger, soda, and french fries. You don’t really know anything other than what you followed your nose to find. But you know they sell all of these things you desire to have for lunch.

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Now you have a choice to go to a branded burger establishment or the one you’re in. Most would leave and go to something that they already know because change is tough for people. But if the place you’re in had some sort of branding. They would make more sales because if they like the food, they would tell others about their experience.

This is why I’m also pretty jazzed up that you’re looking to branding yourself. It’s a subject that intermediates and newbies alike are searching online. Essentially, anyone that does not have a brand needs to build a brand immediately.

Being that it’s the new entrepreneur and even some of the more seasoned (intermediates) searching these terms, it’s a viable topic to talk about here.

Building A Brand From The Start

If you were to go to google and search for keyword terms about this topic you would probably see stuff like the following:

How to build a brand
How to build a brand online
How to build a brand on social media
How to build a brand on Twitter
How to build a brand on Facebook
How to build a brand fast
How to build a brand on Instagram

You get the point. People are searching for brands which they can trust.

Because, thousands type this type of question into Google, Yahoo or Bing. You’ll want them to search for your brand there as well.

Branding All Entrepreneurial Endeavors

The last part of the equation is you, the entrepreneur. Let’s dig in so that you can build your brand even if you’re brand new in business.

Are you thinking about branding your business? If not, I would encourage you to do so. Branding will bring about a professionalism that a business needs to be taken seriously. It will also give you a better believe in what you’re doing because, let’s face it, most people have more respect for a branded business.

The general opinion of a self-branded website is that it’s not a fly by night operation looking to make a quick buck. You’re in this to help people become successful too!

What Elements Do You Need To Build Your Brand Marketing?

First off, you should be already aware that if you’re posting on social media, or talking to other people offline – you’re already a brand.

That said…

Your next step is to focus your brand on something that you believe in so that customers can pick you out of a crowd from your branding. Don’t just pick something out of thin air, to begin with. Starting with something that is a passion and you can talk for days about would be your first logical step towards branding yourself and your company.

Other questions you should have answers to are:

What am I all about?
What’s my passion?
What do I want to do that I can talk about all the time?

After you have answered those questions, it’s time to move over to your next step in this process.

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Step 2 – Building A Brand

When I started with online marketing, I thought it was going to be a breeze and that it really doesn’t matter if I branded myself or not. Afterall, that would come out in my videos and my social media post, right?

This is just a half-truth in the world of social media.

What you should do when you’re building a brand for someone or yourself is to go through the questions above and then pick 3-5 people who are authorities in your niche. Follow them and pick out what they are doing that is working.

These people could be competitors, influencers or people already doing what you want to be like.

That’s what you want!

People will find you and already have a great perception of you and your business.

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Step 3 – The Elements Of Building Your Brand

Tagline – This is where you get to tell your customer how you can help them
Colors – Figure out the colors you want to use that both you and your customer will align with. You’ll need to get the hex codes for each color. Typically there are 3 colors used in a brand.
Logo – Can be your name or a graphic representation of you.com
Font(s) – This is where you separate yourself from the pack by selecting 1 or 2 fonts that you use in your business.

These are the basic elements to get your brand up and running like a boss! The tools that I love to use to accomplish the graphics side of branding are, Photoshop CC 2018, Canva, and PicMonkey

As you delve into these elements you’ll want to consider if you want to appeal to male, female, old, young, rich, poor, love to travel, etcetera.

Once you have figured out what your colors are and who you’d like to appeal your brand to fitting. The next step is to get photos done.

Now the question is do you want to get professional photos or are you starting out with a smaller budget and just going to use a friend to take a photo with a camera phone or if you know someone that has a DSLR and is willing to take a few shots of you.

Step 4 – Stepping Into Your Brand

This is where the rubber meets the road and gets very exciting. You have a business that has declared to the world what you stand for and even more important, what you do not stand for.

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The action step here is to start building a following. Find 3-5 topics that you can talk about such as blogging, branding, marketing, Facebook, Instagram, Social Media.

Once you have built your following to 1,000 on ONE PLATFORM (social media is not ONE PLATFORM). You can then find another platform to build a following on. This is very important because this will help you stay laser focused in your business. You’ll begin to find things that work on that one platform and things that do not work.

This is how you master your platform and when you have built that following. Put together a short pdf of what you learned about your first platform that you have mastered. Your followers will love it and you can build more of a following with that short PDF.

Step 5 – Building Your Brand – Email List

You’ve probably heard it said from many successful marketers and I’ll say it here too!

If I had it to do all over again, I’d start building my email list from the very beginning!

Why would they say this to you from the other side of building a list?

I’m going to take a wild stab in the dark 🙂

They see how much more they have left on the table by not building an email list. Don’t make the same mistake. Build your email list now!

Last tip before I close.

BONUS: When you’re out there on social media, provide value but don’t give away the house. In other words, give them enough to build curiosity. Then ask for their email address to give the rest of the information. You’ll find that your email list will start growing faster than you thought and it won’t cost you a dime.

Now, go out and take action.

This is so important that I think it’s worth a tweet:

Build a posting strategy for ONE social media outlet, then MASTER IT. Only when you have mastered one social media strategy should you move over to a different social media platform. #Branding #Marketing Click To Tweet

When I say ‘mastered’ I mean you’re making $1k-5k from that outlet alone.