Blog Profits Made Easy

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Innehåll INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................... 5 A PROFITABLE BLOG ........................................................................................................ 5 FINDING A PROFITABLE NICHE ......................................................................................... 6 RESEARCH #1 – IS THERE A MARKET? ......................................................................... 6 RESEARCH #2 – DOES THE MARKET SPEND MONEY? .............................................. 7 RESEARCH #3 - CAN YOU PROFIT FROM THIS NICHE ONLINE? ............................. 8 FINDING PRODUCTS TO PROMOTE ................................................................................... 8 CREATE A BLOG..................................................................................................................... 9 CHOOSING PLATFORM ..................................................................................................... 9 HOSTED PLATFORMS, THE FREE OPTION ............................................................... 9 SELF-HOSTED DOMAIN, THE BETTER OPTION ...................................................... 9 CHOOSING A DOMAIN NAME ......................................................................................... 9 INSTALLING WORDPRESS ............................................................................................. 10 THE LOOK AND FEEL OF YOUR BLOG........................................................................ 11 PLUGINS ............................................................................................................................. 12 CONFIGURE YOUR SITE.................................................................................................. 12 HELLO WORLD! ................................................................................................................ 13 CREATING YOUR PAGES ................................................................................................ 13 WRITING POSTS ................................................................................................................ 13 ADVERTISING ....................................................................................................................... 14 CREATING A BAIT ............................................................................................................... 15 GET SOME HELP ............................................................................................................... 16 POSTING A JOB ............................................................................................................. 16 MANAGE YOUR FREELANCER ................................................................................. 16 THE AUTORESPONDER....................................................................................................... 16 THE SENDLANE AUTORESPONDER ............................................................................. 17 CREATE YOUR LIST..................................................................................................... 17 CREATE A LANDING PAGE........................................................................................ 18 THE AUTORESPONDER EMAILS............................................................................... 21 BAIT, AUTORESPONDER AND BLOG............................................................................... 23 START BLOGGING ............................................................................................................... 23 DRIVE TRAFFIC .................................................................................................................... 23 FREE TRAFFIC ................................................................................................................... 23 GUEST BLOGGING ....................................................................................................... 24 FORUM AND BLOG COMMENTING.......................................................................... 24 SOCIAL MEDIA ............................................................................................................. 24

YAHOO ANSWERS ....................................................................................................... 25 SOLO AD SWAPS .......................................................................................................... 25 PAID TRAFFIC ................................................................................................................... 25 SOLO ADS ...................................................................................................................... 25 FACEBOOK ADS ........................................................................................................... 25 RECAP ..................................................................................................................................... 26

INTRODUCTION Dear reader! This e-book will guide you through the process of setting up a blog-site and how to start earning some profits from it. Starting a blog isn’t hard at all. And to generate some income from it isn’t that hard either. If you can write a letter, you can blog! You can blog about whatever you like, but if you want to earn some money, you have to choose a topic that is profitable. You can probably make money on any topic you like if you really put the effort in, but it will be much easier if it is a topic that people really spend money on. In this eBook I will give you a step-by-step guide to follow so you can be up and running and start making an income online in days! A PROFITABLE BLOG Many bloggers have their blog as a ventilator, or just to make themselves heard. Personal blogs is great! Humans are curios creatures. They love to share their stories and people love to read about other people’s lives. It’s natural to seek connection with others who share their passions or problems. If you can share your passion and help others to reach their goals, then you are on the right path to be able to make money from your blog. To be a successful blogger, you need to focus on one problem and one solution to that problem. Options lead to confusion, and people don’t buy when they are confused, they leave. To be able to set up a blog that you can profit from, you only need to follow these steps: 1) Come up with a topic, a niche, to write about. 2) Check that the niche is a profitable one. 3) Write posts on your blog to help your readers achieve their goals. 4) Sign up for an affiliate program and write about those products or add some Google Ads to your site. Sounds pretty easy, but this is just the basics. Sure, you can make money this way. When you write about these products and your readers buys it or when they buy a product from the Google Ads, you get a commission. But, you probably won’t earn that kind of money that keeps you happy. Your blog will stay as your hobby. You will have to take this a step further… In order to earn a substantial income you have to have an email list. An email list is a list of subscribers that has joined your newsletter because they want to follow you. Perhaps you have heard of the saying, the money is in the list, and that’s very true, because when you have that list you can send out emails to your list whenever you want. You don’t have to wait for them to get on your blog and read your posts. They, on the other hand, don’t

need to go to your site for the information they want. They receive it in their mailbox! It’s a win – win! So, how do we do this? First, you’ll need to find a profitable topic to talk about. FINDING A PROFITABLE NICHE How do you find out what to write about? First, you’ll have to start within yourself. What do you like? What is your passion? Finding your passion and making a business of it is the best way to generate income. It will help you keep focus and it will be a lot of fun doing it! Sit down for a moment with a pen and paper and write down things you are passionate about. I’m sure you have many things you love to do. I’m also confident that you have things that you can teach others. We all have things we can share! When you have got that list of things you love to do, we need find out if it’s profitable or not. There are four important questions to ask yourself:  Are there products in this niche that you can write about (promote)?  Do people in this niche spend any money?  Can you profit from this niche online?  And finally, ARE YOU PASSINATE ABOUT THIS? OK, let’s do some researching! RESEARCH #1 – IS THERE A MARKET? There are multiple ways to find out if there is a market for your passion. First off you can start by searching for your passion on Google. Just type the word/words in the search bar and hit search. If you, for example search for “healthy foods” you’ll end up with millions of hits. That’s good, but this is a rather rough estimate. You can go to Amazon.com and check the amount of books selling in that niche. You can use Google Trends (Free). Be aware that a search in Google Trends is on exactly that keyword so have a look at related searches as well or add similar keywords to the search. Google Keyword Planner is another great tool (also free). You need to register a google account first. Then choose Tools, Keyword Planner.

Add some keywords and select USA as a country (just for comparing niches) and click Get ideas. Your result overview will be displayed. Click on the Keyword ideas tab. This will give you a result of 33,100 Avg. hits/month in that niche. Also look at the related keywords below. If you find results between 2,000 and 15,000 then that is a good start. The healthy food niche is pretty big, so you’ll have to be more specific. A simple rule is to drill three deep, meaning that if you are in the niche of healthy foods then you are two down. Lvl 1 – foods Lvl 2 – healthy foods Lvl 3 – this could be healthy foods that is good for diabetes or healthy foods that helps you lose weight. Remember one thing: Just because a niche has 100,000 searches/month or more doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the perfect niche to launch your business in. RESEARCH #2 – DOES THE MARKET SPEND MONEY? If you don’t want to waste your energy (and money) you have to make sure people spend money in this niche. You need to find out if there is competition because if there is a competition you know people is profiting from it and so will you! No competition = No money! We start out by going to ClickBank.com. ClickBank is one of the leading companies in providing a marketplace for digital products. They have 6 million digital products to choose from in every profitable niche. They also handle all the commissions you accumulate as an affiliate. It’s a great place to start researching. Click on the menu named Marketplace. Click on a category and ClickBank will show you a list of the top selling products in that category. Now, look at each product. At the bottom it shows some stats. The stat we are interested in is Gravity. Gravity is an indicator of how popular this product is and how good it sells. All the

top products have a high Gravity. We will focus on finding a niche that has at least 5 – 6 products with a Gravity of 30 or more. Check your niches you selected in Research #1 to find out if there is enough products in that niche and if they are profitable enough. If the Gravity drops rapidly, perhaps in the 10th place it has 0.9 in Gravity, then it tells us that only the top products in this category are selling. I could be products of a big brand. RESEARCH #3 - CAN YOU PROFIT FROM THIS NICHE ONLINE? Well, if you found products on ClickBank.com and Amazon.com I think you can say, YES, you can profit from this niche online. FINDING PRODUCTS TO PROMOTE When you write about someone else’s products, you want to earn some money from it, right? The easiest way is to become an affiliate partner for that product. When you sign up for an affiliate program you get a personal link to the product so when you write about the product and embed that link to the product in your article you earn commissions on that sale. The system keeps track of who is the promoter even if the customer buys the product weeks later. There are many companies out there that keep records of affiliate products. ClickBank.com is one of the largest, but here is a few more: OfferVault.com, Commission Junction, JVZoo.com and DigiStore24. All these companies have a massive list of products to promote. Browse these sites to find good products that really help your readers achieve their goals. Once you have found some great products, write them down so you can go back and sign up for their affiliate program when your blog is up and running. If you search a specific niche or product to promote, you can always search for it on Google and add the words “affiliate program” to find out if they have a program you can join to promote their product.

CREATE A BLOG Now that we have found out that your passion is profitable, we are going to create our blog. CHOOSING PLATFORM First, you have to decide if you want your blog on your own domain or you want to have a hosted domain. HOSTED PLATFORMS, THE FREE OPTION If you choose the “free” option to have your blog on a hosted domain, there are some things to have in mind.  You do not have your own domain name. You will get a subdomain, e.g. If you choose WordPress as a host you get “yourblogname.wordpress.com”.  They are lacking of different themes and plugins which means you have limited options to design your blog in a way it suits you.  You do not have any control of your blog. If the host decides that your blog doesn’t fit their policies they can delete your blog without warnings. Some popular hosted platforms are: Wordpress.com, Blog.com, Blogger.com, Webs.com and Weebly.com SELF-HOSTED DOMAIN, THE BETTER OPTION It is a far better option to have a self-hosted domain. There are many domain hosting services on the internet to choose from. GoDaddy.com is the World’s largest domain registrar. They can also host your blog. Hostinger.com is a very popular web host. SiteGround.com is one of my favorite WordPress host because their support team is excellent. For ajffiliate marketing I prefer to use Groove.cm, as it is an all-in-one platform for every online marketing need you have. It’s free to use and it is fairly easy to get started with. It also offers a Lifetime Deal that is pretty awesome. HostSonic is another great solution if you fancy Lifetime Deals.  CHOOSING A DOMAIN NAME Finding a great domain name can be a tricky task. You can do searches on one of the largest domain registrars: GoDaddy.com, Namecheap.com or DomainsBot.com. If you want more help finding domain names, I can really recommend Domains GPT. Domains GPT will use AI to find great domain names. You can also use GoDaddy.com to find domain names. Just write some keywords for your niche, for example, dog training.

In Extensions, tick the .com box. In the right panel there is several suggestions on domain names to choose from.  Write down the domain name you like.  Go to Hosting in the menu and select WordPress hosting.  Review the plans available and select one. I’ll go with Basic.  Select one that you like and click Continue to cart.  GoDaddy Managed WordPress plan comes with a free domain. Enter the domain name you want and click search and then select & continue.  Check your selections and click Proceed to Checkout and follow through the buying process. Once your domain is registered, you’ll get a confirmation email. Log in to your account and go to your web hosting section and select launch. INSTALLING WORDPRESS Now we are going to install WordPress. WordPress is the one of the largest platforms for websites today. It was originally designed for blogs but is now used by some of the largest companies in the world, such as Sony, Facebook, Toyota etc. It’s very versatile and easy to use. On your hosting control panel, click the WordPress icon to install it.

See instructions here on how to do it. Choose the domain name and create your login username and password for your WordPress site. Do not use Admin as your username. Use your name or a combination of your first and last name. Choose a strong password! Also enter your email address you like to associate the site with, and click OK. WordPress will be installed for you. Once installed, you will get a notification about how to login to your new WP site. Login to your site, for example www.yourdomainname.com/wp-admin and enter your username and password. Now you are at the WordPress dashboard. Go into Settings and General and edit the Site Title to the name of your blog and enter a tagline then click Save Changes. THE LOOK AND FEEL OF YOUR BLOG The readers' experience is of outmost importance. A clean, professional looking blog that is easy to read is what you should aim for. A blog with two columns gives you a clean look with a focus on your posts and also gives room for advertising banners on the side. Go to Appearance and select Themes There are thousands upon thousands of themes to choose from. Take a moment and browse around to find one you like and click Install. I like the Point theme. It’s clean and easy and it is AdSense ready. The free version has lots of premium features. Once installed, you click Activate. If you’re not happy with the layout, you can easily change the theme whenever you like. The pages and posts stay as it is when you change the theme, but sometimes you’ll have to reconfigure widgets and plugins to match the new theme. Start by removing the default pages and posts. Go to pages and click on the default page and hit delete. Do the same with posts. Now we can start fresh.

Depending on the theme you choose, you may want to customize your theme a bit. Click Customize in order to change the look. Start by creating the following pages:  Home  Blog  About me  I also choose to have these pages as well: o Privacy Policy o DMCA Notice o Earnings Disclaimer PLUGINS Next, we are going to install some plugins. These plugins, I think, is essential if you have a blog. Click Plugins and then Add New. Install these plugins:  Yoast SEO (for Search engine optimization)  Google Analytics by Yoast (track how many people comes to your blog etc.)  iThemes Security (for securing your site from hackers)  Black Studio TinyMCE Widget (visual editor)  Contact Form 7 (as it sounds, contact forms)  WP Socializer (for social media sharing buttons)  Wordfence (for security) Once installed, select them all and activate them. CONFIGURE YOUR SITE Configure General Settings Go to General – Settings and change the Site Title, Tagline, Timezone etc. to fit your needs and click Save Changes. Click on Reading and check Front page displays. You can either have your posts on the front (Home) page or have a dedicated blog page. Choose Your latest posts or A static page. Click Save Changes. Configure SEO Search Engine Optimization is essential for every site, especially for bloggers. You want people to find you when they search the internet, right? Click on SEO (by Yoast). Click on Titles & Metas and click the Other tab and check the Use meta keywords tag. Go to Homepage tab and write a static title and a description of your site. Click Save Changes. Click on Post Types tab and remove the %%sitename%% on the Title template, then click Save. It’s recommended to fill in the SEO information on all of your post and pages, but if you don’t, Yoast will fill it in for you. At the bottom of each page or post, Yoast SEO will provide a preview snippet of how your post will look like when displayed on Google.

Pay attention to Content Analysis provided by the plugin. This will help you maximize the visibility of your posts. Configure Analytics Click on Analytics (by Yoast) Google Analytics is powerful because it will let you know exactly how many visitors you have, where they’re from and their browsing behaviors. First, you’ll need to configure your Google Analytics account on your Google account. Go to http://www.google.com/analytics/, Login or create an account. It’s free to use Google Analytics. Sign up with your Account Name, Website Name, Website URL, Choose the industry your website is in and your time zone. Leave the rest unchecked and click the Get Tracking ID, accept the terms of service and you’re done. After you signed in, go to Admin, and under your property and tracking info you’ll find your Tracking-ID (Starting with UA-xxx…) Go back to WordPress and enter the Tracking ID in the ‘Manually enter your UA code’ field. Now you got a nice analytic tool so you can keep track of your viewers. You can view some data in the installed tool, but you get the most out of it if you use Google Analytics tool. Configure Security Run the Important First Step of iThemes Security: Backup, Allow File Updates and Secure Your Site. Then Fix the High Priority issues under Security Status. I recommend you to learn more about the plugin to secure your site even more. Read more about the plugins, how they work and how to use them. Yoast SEO Google Analytics by Yoast iThemes Security Black Studio TinyMCE Widget Contact Form 7 WP Socializer SEARCH CONSOLE Add your domain to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. Google: https://search.google.com/search-console - Instructions Bing: https://www.bing.com/webmasters/ - Instructions CREATING YOUR PAGES Start populate the pages you’ve created (leave the Blog page empty. It will be populated by your posts). WRITING POSTS Now you can start creating some blog posts. To make money on your blog you will have to attract readers. Write high quality posts. Mix posts with free information together with posts promoting/reviewing quality products.

I recommend reading top bloggers content to learn how they write. Don’t forget to give your posts your own touch. I can highly recommend using ChatGPT to help you with content creation. If you need more AI power to really get the most out of AI copywriting I recommend Jasper. Jasper is capable of creating high converting copy, ads, landing pages, social media posts and much more. ADVERTISING When you got your site up and running, you can choose to add some advertising. The easiest approach to get started is to let Google handle your advertising. Google has an advertising program called Google AdWords, where advertisers pay money to let Google display their ads. By using Google Adsense you can display those ads on your site. Google Adsense is easy to set up and it is free to join. To get started, go to Google Adsense and click Get Started Now, and sign up with your Google Account. Enter your website and select your language. Read the terms and condition and accept them if you comply. If you have just started your blog and it is still empty, you can select “I don’t have any content to monetize yet” Lastly, enter your contact information and submit your application. You will now be asked to place a piece of code on your website to confirm that you are the owner of the website. Copy that code and follow the instructions how to implement the code. You can just create a widget on your site and paste the code in it. You can remove the code later when you are approved and have started to create some ads on your blog. Now your account is being reviewed. You could get declined since your blog is almost empty. If so, start adding blog posts and try signing up later. When approved, you can start creating your first ad. Go to My ads, Content, Ad units and click New ad unit. You can view or alter the Ad size and the Ad type if you like and click Save and get code. Copy the ad code to notepad so you can paste it later on your blog. You can also choose to advertise affiliate products. Head over to the affiliate program you found earlier and sign on to their program. When you are approved as an affiliate you get access to links and banners. The merchant provides instructions how to add the Ads to your site. Where to put the banner is of most importance. Years of testing have shown where to put your banner, and where not. Take a look at the picture below:

To add an ad to your page you usually use something called Widgets. Widgets are small blocks that performs a specific function. Depending on your theme you can add widgets to different areas of your site. Point theme has dedicated settings for advertising. Go to Appearance – Theme Options and click Ad Management. Paste your ad code in the section you want in to appear. If you don’t use a theme with dedicated areas for ads, you can put it on the left or right panel available on most themes. Head over to WordPress Panel and go to Appearance and click Widgets. Add a text widget to your Primary or Secondary widget area, paste the code from Google Adsense or your affiliate program and click Save. Primary Widget Area is usually on the left panel and the Second Widget Area is on the right panel. There is numerous of plugins to handle your ads. I find Simple Ads Manager pretty easy to set up and use. Give it a try. Now you’ve got an ad on your web page ready to get you some cash. CREATING A BAIT As I talked about earlier, you need to have an email list. To get people to sign up for your list you have to have something in exchange for their email, a bait. A bait is mostly some sort of free eBook on the subject you are writing about. You could write it yourself, but there are other, better ways to do it.

The fastest way I know is to buy a well written eBook that you to rewrite/rebrand/sell/give away as you like. It’s called a PLR, Private Label Rights. It cost only $5-$15 for a good PLR. Just make sure you or a freelance writer to rewrite it and make it unique. Here’s some great PLR resources: plrassassin.com plr.me indigitalworks.com buyqualityplr.com GET SOME HELP Using a freelancer is a great way to get jobs done while you do something else (often at a very manageable cost). You post your job on the site and the freelancers will bid on the job. Make sure the freelancer has a good rating and you read the person’s review. Some great freelancer sites are: Freelancer.com, Upwork.com, Elance.com, Guru.com, Fiverr.com and 99designs.com. POSTING A JOB Write your job description as detailed as you can. Put enough information in the post so you can determine if the freelancer actually reads your description. Most freelancers will send you a private message after they bid on your work. Read the answer to see if they read your post or if they just send you a standard message. You can also send the freelancer a private message to see the response time. MANAGE YOUR FREELANCER When you have chosen your freelancer, stay in touch with him on a daily basis. Freelancers often juggle with several projects at a time and can take on more jobs than they can handle. By staying in touch regularly you make sure your job doesn’t slip away. You also get a chance to check the progress and manage any obstacles quickly. THE AUTORESPONDER Now that you have got your bait (the eBook), you need to have an autoresponder to collect the emails. With an autoresponder you can with just one e-mail reach all of your subscribers. You can set up multiple e-mails in advance and schedule them or you can broadcast them. The autoresponder will handle the rest, including when members don’t want to follow your newsletter anymore (You are required by law to give your subscribers the option to unsubscribe from your mailing list). There are numerous autoresponders to use. Here’s some of the more popular ones; Groove.cm, GetResponse.com, AWeber.com, iContact.com, MailChimp.com, SendLane.com. Autoresponder flowchart:

Visitors (traffic) enter the funnel at the landing page (opt-in page). Users are collected by the autoresponder where you can 1) broadcast all of your subscribers at once, 2) let pre scheduled emails to go out to your subscribers automatically. My personal favorite is Groove.cm because besides being just an autoresponder, it have every single marketing tool you need such as web hosting, funnel builder, payment gateways and much more. THE AUTORESPONDER Depending on which autoresponder you use, it may look a little different, but here is an overall explanation of the most common functions of an autoresponder:  Broadcasts: A broadcast is a type of email sent to an entire email list or segment at once. It's typically used for time-sensitive information, special promotions, announcements, or newsletters. The content is not personalized to the user’s behavior or past interactions, making it less targeted than some other types of messages.  Sequences: Sequences are a series of emails sent to subscribers in a predetermined order and schedule. They're commonly used for onboarding new users, course delivery, or sales funnels. Emails within the sequence can be highly personalized, reacting to user actions and information.  Lists: In autoresponders, a list is a collection of email addresses you have permission to send to. These can be divided into segments or tags for more targeted marketing. Each list may represent a different part of your audience or different types of interactions (such as purchasers vs. newsletter subscribers).  Automations: Automations are a series of actions that take place based on predefined triggers or conditions. For instance, when a user subscribes to a list, it can trigger a welcome email sequence. Automations can get sophisticated, changing what actions occur based on how recipients interact with your emails (like clicking a link or opening an email).  Forms: In the context of email marketing, forms are the tools you use to gather email addresses (and potentially other information) from visitors to your website or other platforms. Once the user inputs their information and submits the form, that data can be automatically added to your email lists, trigger automations, and more. CREATE YOUR LIST First, you’ll have to create your list.

Go to Lists and click Create List. Let’s say you are in the dog training niche, then you can call your list “Dog Training Newsletter” Name: Dog Training Newsletter Default from name, will be Your Name Default from email: Put your own email address here so your subscribers can see who sent them those emails. Default subject: If you like you can set a default subject Remind people how they got on your list: It’s good to add some information about why they receive emails from you. People tend to forget such things. I’ll go with the suggested text. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website www.yourwebsite.com Fill in Company Name or your own name, Address, City, all required information about you. Then click Save. Next we are going to create our first Landing Page. CREATE A LANDING PAGE Go to Landing Pages and click Create Template Here you’ve got a couple of templates to choose from. I select a template that suits my needs. Give it a name and a url-slug (will be suggested automatically to you), and Submit. Now you’ve come to the Landing Page editor.

Now we can edit this template to our likings. It doesn’t take more than a couple of minutes, then you’re done! Hit Save & Continue! Now we are going to do some SEO Settings for this page. First, we set the Page Title: FREE eBook on how to train your dog Description: FREE eBook that teaches you to how to take care of all your dog problem behaviors Keywords: dog, puppy, problem, behaviors, obedience, training, eBook, free And click Save

Then we have the Opt-In form Integration. Here we choose which list to connect to the form. Choose your list that we just created. We also want a Thank You Page. ADDING A THANK YOU PAGE I’m going to show you how to create a simple Thank You Page and how to monetize that page immediately! We are going to leave this as it is for the moment and open another browser tab and go to your ClickBank.com account. If you don’t have one yet, get it! You’re going to need it and it’s free to sign up. Once you’re logged in, you go to the Marketplace and type in the Find Products’ box: dog training. Then you sort your results by Gravity. Look for a proper product that suits your needs. In this case I choose the product: “How To Housetrain & Potty Train Any Dog”. Click Promote and then click Create. You will then get your affiliate link. Copy this link and click Close. Now we are going to create a page that will automatically redirect the subscriber to the offer and hopefully make a sale right away. First, create a new page. Add a text on the page saying something like: Hey! I've got a SPECIAL offer for you! And u Sub-headline like: (Your FREE eBook will be in your mailbox shortly!). Then add a countdown timer on the page. Set the countdown timer to 1 second and add the affiliate link to the redirection URL in the time settings. Lastly, hide the timer. (This is only possible if your page editor have that element available, otherwise just add a simple button). If your subscriber buys this offer, you will receive commission on it. And this is even before you started interacting with your subscribers. Get back to your autoresponder form and paste the link in the Thank You Page URL box and hit Ok. Now your landing page is created.

You can choose the autoresponder to host the page for you. You are given the link here. This is the page you are going to send traffic to! Copy the link and store it for later when we are going to implement it on your site. You can also get it displayed in your social media feed, or you can host it on your own server. Just download the html-file. Now all you have to do is to create some automated series of emails to be ready to go out to your subscribers. THE AUTORESPONDER EMAILS Go to Autoresponders and create a new autoresponder. You have two types of email templates you can choose from, HTML and plain text. Select the regular HTML Autoresponder. Select your list and select All subscribers in this list and click Next. You’re going to select what event will trigger this autoresponder. In this case, when someone subscribes to the list. Select Subscription to list. This first email will be an immediate response to their subscription so we’ll select “within the hour” so the email will be sent out to them right away. Name your campaign and email subject. Name: Day 0 Subject: Here's the FREE Report you requested... Leave the tracking as is and hit Next. Select a template. Start to edit the template to fit your needs. I’ll start by removing all the graphics and start editing.

Your subscribers opted in for that free eBook you promised them. Now we are going to send them the eBook. I add some text, Grab the report here. Highlight the word “here” and click on the chain symbol to create a link. Enter the URL of where your PDF report is located. Most autoresponders doesn’t offer hosting for any files, so if you have your own domain then put the pdf there. Otherwise, you can host your pdf at your own file sharing service, for example Dropbox.com or Google Drive. Paste the link and hit OK. Then continue with editing the email body. Write something like this “But, before you go there, please take a minute to whitelist my email address to ensure you receive future tips to help you to start your online business. Start reading today! Best regards, Your Name” Click Save & Continue The next page is the text version of your mail. Now, some people can’t receive HTML messages so you’ll have to make a plain text version as well. Just tidy up the auto-generated text version and click Next. Review the feedback on your autoresponder and click Start Autoresponder. GREAT! Now you have set up your first email in your autoresponder. Continue to add automated emails to your autoresponder for as long as you want. Mix affiliate offers with free valuable information, and stories about yourself to get your subscribers to know you. The internet marketing gurus out there recommends that you send out emails to your subscriber every day. Aaaah, that’s tedious, you say! An email every day! Man!

It’s not THAT hard! I’ll give you a few tips: Start subscribing yourself to some of the top blogger/marketers out there and study what and how they are writing. Don’t get too excited, buying all their stuff they promote… Study the opt-in pages of the products you find interesting. Use the sales copy as a base for your own emails. They know how to write persuasive emails and sales copy’s, so model them. Use ChatGPT or Jasper to create the emails for you. This tool is a HUGE timesaver! This autoresponder machine is the heart of your business. It’s the list that makes the money! BAIT, AUTORESPONDER AND BLOG Now you’ll have to connect the opt-in page, the bait and the autoresponder to your site. This is easy, Put an image of your eBook somewhere visible on your site and paste a link to your opt-in page. I can also recommend using a plugin called SumoMe. Great plugin to grow your list. START BLOGGING Hey, we are almost there! Your blog articles should have the main goal to get your subscribers on to your list. Now you’ll have to make your blog interesting enough to attract readers. This is done by writing about what you are passionate about. If you are passionate it will shine through in your articles. Let your articles contain a couple of hundred words. Use some keywords in your texts. That will please the search engines and will make your blog easier to find. Use the SEO plugin for each post to maximize your hits on Google. DRIVE TRAFFIC Traffic is essential. No traffic = no readers = no money. Drive traffic to your landing page, your site and directly to your posts, depending on the situation and your goal. You can drive traffic to your site in many ways. There’s two kinds of traffic, free traffic and paid traffic. Both have their own place in a business. What I can say about free vs paid services is that with paid services you buy time. You might just want to do other stuff rather than spending time getting free traffic, or putting up your website or doing research. Free traffic is great because it’s FREE. It just takes more time to build an audience. FREE TRAFFIC

I will give you some great ideas of how to drive traffic for free. GUEST BLOGGING Contact other bloggers and offer to write articles on their blog in exchange for a back link to your blog. This way you will get noticed. It will give you credibility and free traffic to your site. A great community to join is myblogguest.com. Here you can build relationships with other bloggers and exchange articles. FORUM AND BLOG COMMENTING Find forums or Blogs in your niche and write posts to help people overcome their obstacles. Always be polite and friendly. Contribute to the conversation and establish a trust for you as an expert. Don’t market your site/blog upfront, or you may be perceived as a spammer. Make it a little more subtle:  Link your username to your site  “Sign” your comment with a link to your site  Fill in the URL section of your profile with the link If you write good posts/replies, people will check you out. If you subscribe to a blog RSS feed you can act as soon as new articles are posted. This makes your comments show up at the top and it will generate more traffic. You can also use Google Alerts to set up an alert when new blog posts about the topic is published. SOCIAL MEDIA Social networking is a huge marketplace! These communities have all one thing in common, they link people with common interests. Thoughts, ideas and opinions spread like wildfire among a vast number of people. Since people rely more on their friends' opinions than of strangers, the potential is incredible. Share your posts on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc. Get people engaged! Create YouTube videos. Link to your blog for more information. This is a great way to drive easy, free traffic. If you’re not comfortable sharing your face with the world, use a PowerPoint presentation or even draw a sketch and record your voice. Heck, you can even

just make a silent one with just PowerPoint… The importance is that you actually do it. YouTube is a HUGE traffic booster that isn’t as competitive as other media. YAHOO ANSWERS Go to YAHOO Answers and try to help people with their problems. If you are voted “Best answer” you will positioned at the top, right under the question. SOLO AD SWAPS If you have got a small list of followers you can do Solo Ad swap with someone else that have a mailing list about your size and in the same space you are in. Offer to send a solo ad of his to your list in exchange for one of your solo ads to their list. Here are some sources for Solo Ads: Safe-Swaps.com and WarriorForum.com. These are mostly targeted towards Internet Marketing, Home Business and Business Opportunities niches. PAID TRAFFIC SOLO ADS Pay someone to send you traffic. This is probably the most effective way to get traffic and it is not as expensive as you think. Find a good marketer and ask if they sell solo ads to their lists. This will save you a lot of time and kick start your own list. Recommended solo ad vendors: TrafficForMe.com and TrafficDomination.rocks. Remember, when doing Solo ads, YOU provide your ad to the seller. If your ad isn’t well written, you might just spend money and didn’t get that good results. Write a STRONG ad around your FREE gift. Also, remember to track your clicks. A great tracker is ClickMagick. It keeps track of your clicks down to the finest detail. The best thing about paid Solo ads is that you get access to a mailing list that contains people already interested in your niche and is more likely to opt in on your list too. FACEBOOK ADS Facebook ads are incredibly simple to do. Facebook even provide images to go along with your ad. Since Facebook knows its users, you can target your audience effectively and that helps your converting rates. Read more on: https://www.facebook.com/business/ First, you will have to choose the objective of your campaign, for example, “Send to website”. Then design your ad. By selecting multiple images, Facebook will automatically run a split test so you can see which one is the most effective. Facebook has a 20% text rule, which means you cannot have more than 20% of the ad filled with text. Check your ad here: https://www.facebook.com/ads/tools/text_overlay

As I mentioned, you can target your audience very specifically. You only want your ad to show up to those who are potential buyers. Keep in mind that the more targeted audience, the higher the cost will be. You have to balance being too specific against being too general. Send them to your landing page to get them to sign up to your list. Run a small test to see what’s working or not, then you can scale up. RECAP Whether you write posts on your own blog or you write posts on forums or other places, always write good quality posts. If you can exceed expectations, you are on the path to success. Don’t be afraid of making yourself heard. Don’t think you haven’t got anything to share or teach. We all have something to give, even if you’re not an expert. You have your own way to solve a problem. Your own way of seeing things. Remember, there are always people just behind you, looking for that solution you just found out. You are the expert in their eyes! Here’s some additional highly recommended affiliate marketing courses: RHIMS 6.0 OLSP Profit Singularity Project Platinum And one last thing… HAVE FUN! Yours sincerely, Stefan Florin