For now, there’s not much to do but accept it, and move on – until hopefully FB comes to it’s senses, if that every happens.  Here’s a link I found that will help, for now:
The Complete Guide to Setting Up The New Facebook Page Design

Here’s a document outlining the new Timeline image dimensions:

Facebook Timeline Image Sizes (Dimensions)

Here are 2 more very useful links:
Facebook Timeline for Business Pages – 21 Key Points To Know 
Facebook Timeline for Pages – Frequently Asked Questions

You also might want to consider buying some custom timeline graphics, and re-working them to your own business. But, as far as applications are concerned, those are all changing too. I suspect it will take 3-6 months before the dust settles on this. Come back and check this post from time to time, I will update it with new tools that I find.

It seems that the large email sender software packages are still available, though pricing has increased quite a bit. Your options in this area are:

•  ListMailPRO ($69.00) – My older standby favorite, I still use it every day and it still works like a charm. I could not live without ListMailPRO – it is that good, and it has stood up to the test of time.  I do provide customization, tuning and setup for ListMailPRO on just about any server that you have, though I still highly recommend a fully managed VPS server, or Dedicated server for larger lists.
• OEMPRO ($299.00) – It still looks like a reliable solution but I have not tried it yet, and the forums do report failures and slow sending on larger lists.
• ActiveCampaign ($499.00) – One of the older sending software suites. I’ve tried/tested it a few times and it worked (though slower than ListMailPRO) at the time, it may be better now.  Provides plugins for triggers, birthday sending and much more.
• Omnistar Mailer ($287.00)  – This one still looks pretty good. I did test this out myself many years ago and it performed reasonably, but again, since I’ve not touched it in many years I’m not sure how reliable it is now.  At the time it could not match ListMailPRO.
• PhpLIST (free) – This free alternative looks like it has found good technical replies in the forums, and it could be considered a good match for ListMailPRO, but I’m still partial to ListMailPRO, and I have tested this myself as well.
• DadaMail ($50 Pro) – This software is still being updated, and it looks like a reliable alternative. The last I looked it ran Perl/CGI, but I’m not sure if it still does.

That pretty much does it for the mail server software packages I recommend, except for one other that is in Beta.  It looks to be real promising and I will write up an entire review of it: Amazon SES (Simple Email Service), which includes these Amazon SES Scripts.  Regarding send rates and validating bounce/spam rates, the two big players are still around and worth trying out as they both have free trials available, here they are.

• Email Reach – one of the best choices for checking your email deliverability. Excellent.
• Sender Score – a part of ReturnPath.net they also provide a free trial to let you check your sending, deliverability and bounce rate.

That’s all for this post. Watch for my new review of Amazon SES coming soon as I test that service out. By my calculations, the pricing on Amazon SES could come in at under $1.00/month for sending text only messages to very large lists, and that is very refreshing!

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This is a sample snapshot of Google taken using a plugin for Windows Live Writer. The advantages here are tremendous. Add, edit and update blog posts offline and publish them at a later date. If you’re really motivated link your blog draft posts to a Windows Mesh account and they will be available to you from any attached device – slick!

Three I am at home working on the blog… You can see from this picture that I have a lot of fun working on my websites, and those of my clients. I like to work near a window at all times, so I can look out and check on nature at the same time as working.

I’ve been a fan of Live Writer for several years, and had heard many good things about it, I’m just not sure how well it does. I created this test post, added an image, and now I am back into my blog online editing the same post, just to see how well it did.  I’m impressed so far.  I tried a few other WYSIWYG editors and they were either very old (and not updated to the latest version of WordPress, or they were not good enough for what I want to do.  Let’s face it, adding and positioning images is not a fun task in WordPress, and using a full what you see is what you get editor makes all the difference in the world.

I’ve got tons of new products to review and I will get to that over the coming weeks. Let’s just say I’ve had a field day on the Warrior Forum, picking up quite a few products recently, most of them being for Facebook, and Social Media, or SMS marketing, or for my offline client gaining business of Web Design which I have been doing for years online for clients around the world.

A lower cost Autoresponder is available!

The biggest problem is that about 2-3 months ago all of the white label autoresponders raised their prices, from the looks of things it seems that Aweber does not allow the lower priced options and they are wanting everyone to signup for their full suite of services.  That’s fine if you have good sales numbers already and you can justify the cost, and if you really need all of the additional services such as: ‘send only’ to those who have not opened previously, or you want tracking statistics that are top-notch.

With the advent of using Google Analytics for email tracking, and the fact that current open rates for email are down, as well as click through rates, you might want to consider the lower cost alternatives, and as an experienced marketer (from way back in 1997), there is only one really good one in town – short of setting up your own mail server (which I can happily do for you if you need it).

That service is MadMimi.  The pricing is fair: get up to 10,000 names for $36.00/month! Their campaign tracking, (additional priced: drip sending is at $5.00/month) and other features set them in a league of their own for the thrifty autoresponder user.

MadMimi is available at: http://www.madmimi.com

It’s not hard to stick an Aweber or GetResponse form on your blog, in fact it’s almost too easy (just setup your list and click over to build a form and choose publish, grab the code – to copy/paste and your done), but it’s not easy enough in my mind – and it was not covering ‘all of the bases’: footer, sidebar, exit pop, lightbox pop, etc…

So, several months ago I started looking at alternatives, I found the excellent UFA (Ultimate Footer Ad) and enjoyed how well it worked, it did draw clicks, and I liked that, but was it converting fully…. well, yes and no.  I knew how to create a great looking Footer and how to get people to click on it, but they were not always taking action.  I also tried the excellent, and free, Optin Crusher plugin.  It also had pretty graphics and was good at getting ‘in the eyes’ of my visitors – and staying there, as it did not go away…

Finally while digging around on a few forums I frequent, I came across Digi List Builder – and I’ve pretty much been in heaven ever since.  Now, you may not feel the same way, so let me review some of the other List Building Tools I’ve tried to help you decide which one is right for you.

Optin Crusher (free) – this excellent free plugin does an excellent job of letting you put Audio/Video in your popup!  It’s great for doing that, and I will say I need to do further testing on using Audio/Video to increase list signups, so I will need to revisit these reviews in time to make that comparison.   Overall, it’s a good choice if Footer Ad is what you want. The argument is that a footer ad is not too obtrusive and it will keep your visitors happy by not being too ‘in your face’ as they read your blog.  I do believe that is the case – but they also do not seem as happy to click either, and that can be a problem. Further testing is required so watch this post for updates.

CodeBanter WordPress Autoresponder Plugin (free) – this is another option which does work well for what you want it to do, let you drop an Aweber or GetResponse form anywhere in your blog. Once you install and activate the plugin you can either use Drag/Drop to place your form, or you can use a 1 line of shortcode (PHP code) to place the autoresponder form in your sidebar. It’s easy, and does it’s job, simple as that.  Again, I have the form placed, but I do not see the sign-ups.

Ultimate Footer Ad ($47.00) – this slick footer ad / slide up script is great for incorporating into your Blogs. The main features that let it stand out are the statistics you can gather for each display, and click of the footer ad. Setup rotating ads and split-test them to find which one works best. It’s excellent at what it does, and if you want to test and know which ads are pulling best, it’s the way to go.  Note that the page does not tout it’s WordPress features but it works just find in WordPress as it does on static pages.  Still, though, I wish I had more signups.

Action PopUp ($47.00) – Robert Plank’s original Action PopUp. One of the first WordPress PopUp plugins. Michel Fortin has really claimed it works wonder, I can see why. You can choose your Lightbox ‘Dimming’ color, cool.  A review will follow soon.

WPSuperPopup ($39.95) – Looks nice and does have a few interesting features (Exit Pop, Live Preview, and only show xx times). I’ve not used it yet, a review will follow.

And that takes me to the winner, in my opinion, just for the sheer capability of it, and that is Digi List Builder, read more below…

Digi List Builder ($97.00) – the king of all WordPress list building plugins as far as I’m concerned. I’ve been using for about 1 month now and it has gathered 4 times as many signups as the others have!  Why? Because it offers a full host of blog interaction. This thing is awesome, you can turn on automatic signup forms 1.) in the sidebar, 2.) at the end of each post/page, 3.) in a slideup or footer ad that slides up on every page, 4.) in a fully configurable lightbox popup, 5.) in an Exit popup (pops up when someone tries to close/exit) your website.  All of these are adjustable on/off with simple checkboxes, and you can turn them all on, if you want to, in about 30 seconds.  It’s brilliant.

I will say I got a little carried away the first week I had it running, but I wanted to make sure it worked, so I turned on everything… then I found that people were not signing up frequently, and were getting a little angry, so I turned off the Exit Pops, and the Footer Ads.  The best part is that they keep adding new features and updating the plugin. I’ve had 3 updates in the 1 month I’ve had it.  They recently added stats, so you can see which form is gathering more clicks for you, and so far I’ve found that the Lightbox Popup is doing the trick – I have configured it to poup on every 2nd page visit.  The best part is that ALL of these popups/forms go away after your visitor signs up, by dropping a cookie, so if they signup they will not be annoyed by any of the popups/forms asking them to signup, signup, SIGNUP!  Because there will not be any… simple as that… a lovely piece of work, I highly recommend it.  By the way, all of the signup forms you notice (in the sidebar, after every post that is on it’s unique page, and in the lightbox popup) were all setup, and are tracked with Digi List Builder (in about 5 minutes of setup).

I will be doing a larger review of Digi List Builder in the next few months after I gather further stats on it’s effectiveness.

And The Winner Is:

All of these scripts are winners, in fact they each do a great job at what they claim to do, including Ultimate FooterAd (stats/split testing) and  OptInCrusher (audio/video) but in my mind there is one overall winner because it does pretty much everything the others do (except for the split testing, and the audio/video), and that is:

1. Digi List Builder ($97.00) – you cannot beat it for what it will do for you, without wasting any time. Install/activate and set a few check boxes and start gathering your list – it really is that simple.  Rating: Excellent

Watch for a more in-depth review of Digi List Builder in the next few months as I put it through all of it’s paces… Happy email list building!

Just last month, from what I remember you could still buy pretty low priced hosting for your email list with the so-called Aweber White Label services (these are ISP services that outsource their work to Aweber and basically they setup and use the Aweber customer service/hosting, but not quite the really good Aweber stats tracking and email list segregation options).

If my memory serves me correctly the old pricing was $19.97 for up to 10,000 subscribers, then an additional $9.95 for each 10,000 subscribers after that… not bad, as you ramp your way up, you can stay at a reasonable monthly price (around $20-$30).  You could get it lower if you paid annually, coming down to $14.92/month for up to 10,000, the additional 10,000 subscriber pricing always added an extra $9.95/month.

As you can see, at the old pricing, it was a pretty good deal.  People were asking me what was lacking from this service that Aweber had. From what I could tell it was the Stats/Tracking details, and the segregation options such as Send Only To Those Who Did Not Open or Send Only To Those Who Did Not Click the last Email sent.  Some of these higher end stats just not something as newbie marketer, or even mid level marketers had a need for…  Heck, I hardly use features like that myself, and if you’re not pulling in steady income from your list, it kind of made paying the extra Aweber fees (from $50/month for 10,000 and up to $130/month for 25,000 subscribers) a bit ‘exhorbitant’ in my opinion.

So, having the option of going with the lower price white label services was something I was in the habit of recommending. I could save my clients a good $25-$50/month and they would still have excellent Aweber customer service. It’s just that some of the more advanced features would not be available to them.

Is Low Price Autoresponder Hosting Gone?

Well, that has all changed…. the last time I went to refer to someone to ProSender I saw the prices had increased considerably, heck they were almost double, and now that I look at them closer, they seem to be almost identical to Aweber pricing. From what I can tell, it seems the White Labels can no longer offer the lower-price autoresponder service packages, and are only offering the high-end Aweber accounts, and in my opinion, that is not good news!

If you’re testing the waters, you don’t want to blow $20/month just to see what you can do, and especially if you start gathering 5,000 or 10,000 subscribers, that is when price becomes a big issue.  As the typical open rates drop (I’m only seeing 7% to 15%), and click rates also drop (.10% to 4.9%) it makes it hard to justify the cost.

As you can see, if you’re not selling a $97 product, or more, just trying to get someone to open/read/click and purchase your product is going to take quite a bit of effort, and you cannot just drop them from the list after 2-3 months (you have to give them at least 6 months to 1 year to make a purchase from what I’m seeing)…

Almost, here are some alternatives

So, where does that leave you?  You should seriously start looking at other alternatives… some that are lower priced, and that will not eat up your advertising budget so quickly.  Some of the better alternatives I have listed below, in the order I suggest you try them…

1. MadMimi – this mailer service is one that I have recently discovered.  The pricing beats all the others for what you get. Well worth it. You can try it out for up to 100 subscribers for free, after that you will have to pay.  I really like the way you can quickly layout a theme and campaign here, and the other great thing, there are no dumb opt-in restrictions required when you Import into your list, so if you have a big list and cannot afford to lose many of them on re-subscribe consider MadMimi.
2. MailChimp – still a good deal, your first 500 subscribers are free, so you can test the waters easily here. After that costs are comparable to Aweber. They have recently added Facebook interaction, and an iPhone app for sending to your lists (nice).
3. ListMailPRO – requires that you run your own mail server, but in the end it’s worth it, if you ask me.  I’ve been running my own mail server for years, what does it amount to, about $40/month for over 200,000 subscribers (my active list is around 49,000), and I mail fairly frequently.  It does require that you ‘warm up’ your IP before sending, and get all of the other things setup properly, but after the first 3-4 months it’s just watching and maintaining your lists (while your host manages the rest, with managed hosting).

I will do custom ListMailPRO server setups and configuration if you need it. Contact me through my web design company website at: BGS Web Design for details.

First, a little background: I’ve been running my own mail servers since late 2003, but I ran my own email server from my local machine before that, managing my lists (up to 25,000 or more) during that time with my own custom database code. I’ve probably used about every type of email software you can purchase that runs in windows.

Email marketing was way different back then (nearly 10 years ago). It used to be possible to do all your own sending – right from your desktop, but now that it is not allowed your best option is to purchase, and setup your own dedicated email server (either a VPS server, or a dedicated stand-alone machine) that is managed by a hosting company.  The ‘Managed’ word here is really important, because if you do not choose the managed option, you may get stuck re-booting your server (remotely) whenever it goes down, or restarting your Domain services, MySQL process, or Exim mail process whenever one of those goes down – and believe me, they do go down!  Not frequently, but enough for it to be a problem.

So, the first thing to look for is a company that will allow large email sends from their servers – this is getting hard to find, but there are still some good ones available (see list below).  A VPS server will usually do just fine, as it’s not incredibly taxing to a server to do this, but it does require that your host understands what you are doing, and that you are doing it responsibly, otherwise you could get shut down, and you do not want that to happen. So keep things clean (as in your email lists), remove unsubscribes promptly, and be responsible about your sending – 1.) choose a reliable software, and 2.) keep it throttled (I tend to throttle around 4,000 emails/hour) to you don’t overload the outgoing send queues.

Still, you may wonder, how can I send to 50,000, or 100,000 at a time, without having it take days?  Well, my friend, that is an entire other side of emailing all together.  In that scenario, you are better of with your own dedicated server, which you will likely have to manage on your own. Still, you will probably also want to consider purchasing email ‘white list’ services from GoodMail, Habeas, or any other type of similar service that can guarantee that your email will go through both reliably, and timely to the big name email ISP’s such as: AOL, Yahoo, HotMail, LiveMail, etc.

Recommended Hosting Services for sending to large lists

When it comes to hosts there are very few these days that understand large email sends, and how to deal with them.  Even some of the better hosts will block, or stop large list sending automatically, so you’re stuck trying to use those hosting services (I’ve tried at least one and it did not work).   So, choose from the list below of hosts that are known to respect larger sending volumes and you will do fine.  If you have to handle extremely large sends (over 100,000 at a time) consider a dedicated, co-located server, or purchase co-location services that are managed (some of the hosts below offer these services as well – but you will still need to check that you can do very large email sends from their servers).

• JTL.net – excellent hosting, choose from VPS, Dedicated or Co-location.  I’ve had good luck with this host, their service is excellent too, and their prices are reasonable.
• Future Hosting.com – another excellent choice.  From VPS to Dedicated, you can also choose your server location, London, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, etc.

Recommended Software for sending to large lists

With software you must be very careful that the software can handle larger sending queues and list data.  Choose from the software listed below to make sure of that.  I have either tested these myself with list sizes up to 215,000+, or I have heard from others, and believe that it is true.

• ListMailPRO – I’ve been using this software for years, in fact I’m now known as the List Mail Pro technical support expert, and I have setup, configured and tuned servers all over the world with ListMail Pro software.  The best part is that Dean (the author) has now made ListMailPro completely free!
• Dada Mail – another free alternative, but you will do better to upgrade to Pro for $50.00.  I’ve heard of this software being used to send to very large lists just fine.
• Active Campaign – A paid solution with extra features (reminders, email triggers, etc) that will also handle larger lists.

Now that you have your server, and your software in place, the last step is to make sure it is tuned properly for large list sending.  I’ve not had much experience in the ‘very large list’ category (100,000+ active subscribers), so, you will have to be patient (as I will post up here as time goes by and I learn more), or you can try some of the services referenced below for consulting with technical experts who can handle your list properly.

Reference Information for Large Email List sending

• Sending larger email lists – a post at Active Campaign forum discussing larger sending lists.

Downside it costs money, however if you want to do 6,000 messages a min you need to pay.

• Sending messages really fast with Dada Mail – a post in the Dada Mail support forums indicating that co-location is your only alternative, especially for very large lists.

The thing to do is invest the money into a co-located server either setup by yourselves, or by a 3rd party at a cost of about $1,000 Canadian Dollars a year, and then you can send emails as fast as the server can go.

For us with a newly configured box and DaDa3 we are doing 200,000 in about two hours

• Optimize your Server, Software (MySQL) and Mail Software – for larger sending, this is required, a post over at Active Campaign forums.

Finally, if you need assistance in setting up your own VPS, or dedicated server please feel free to contact me at my web design company: BGS Web Design – where I can answer your questions, you can contact me through my website at: http://www.bgswebdesign.com/Contact-Us.php

Yes, the single most important thing to consider when signing up, or setting up your own mail server is: Email Deliverability! It should come as no surprise really, when you are paying for a service, the first thing you want to make sure of is that when you send an email, it has a chance of making it into the Inbox of the person you are sending it to – right?

Jeeezsh, and to think I ever forgot that one.  So, that makes my top 3 autoresponder services in order of how much I like them as:

1. Aweber – you cannot get any better deliverability in the marketplace, in my opinion. Support can speak to you directly on the phone (business hours, M-F), or by chat (24/7).
2. Xmailpro – a white label version of Aweber, and much cheaper alternative, it leaves out a few ‘statistics’ and the ability to do things like send email to someone who has not opened, or clicked on a link previously – but I can live without that for now, and save myself a cool $100 or more/month.
3. GetResponse – they are still a top dog, and providing good service, as well as now including audio/video hosting too, but I’m not sure I would host all of my multimedia content there.
4. ListMailPro – I setup and tune installations of this script on LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).  You can see my services for doing this over at my webdesign company website at: BGS Web Design – ListMailPRO support and installation.  ListMailPRO is now also free.
5. ActiveCampaign (previously 1-2 All) – ok, I’m still looking into this script, mostly because it is supported well, and even offers an excellent support forum that is active for sharing ideas on how to increase deliverability, conversion rates, and do other really ‘good’ and automated things with Email (from your own server), or from a Hosted version.
6. PHPList – it’s been around forever, and has an active community of supporters.  A great alternative that is free. I have setup a few lists with this script and they work just fine.
7. DadaMail – one other alternative that is free, with an inexpensive ($50.00) upgrade to Pro version.  It’s been around forever, but I have not setup or tested this application.  It does run under PERL/CGI so, it’s a bit older technology, but that’s just fine. It’s well supported with forums too.

Now, back to the topic at hand…. I’ve found some excellent resources to follow when increasing your deliverability rate over at the ActiveCampaign website, see those below, follow them and you will see more money/profits coming in based on your email marketing campaigns.

Email Deliverability,  Email Marketing Delivery resources at Active Campaign.
Serving Larger Email Lists a great forum post in the Active Campaign forums.
Validate your SPF records if you are using your own server.
SPF lookup over at MXToolbox.com
Emails marked as spam and what to do about it.
Optimizing your Mail Server if you run your own, which I recommend.
Using Port25 – PowerMTA to increase your sending rate, and deliverability.
SPF Setup wizard, if you want one way to increase deliverability from your own server use an SPF record.

So, that leaves the question, do I run my own mail server, or do I purchase a service?  That still depends, and my answer is still ‘up in the air’.  So far I am finding that sending through my own mail server increases my conversion rates, but I’m not yet sure if it is due to the fact that I was sending information only to the Autoresponder list, instead of Offers that I normally send to my own server list, or if it is for some other reason.  Further testing will provide answers – for now, I still believe it is best to maintain both, if you can.

There are basically 4 main competitors, and one two (free) competitors in the Slide In/Slide Up ad market.  These scripts, for the most part do a great job of presenting an offer that will slide in, or up from the bottom of the page (though some will slide in from the side, or top of the page as well), to present a small banner/offer, or even an Opt-In for your autoresponder.

I got curious as to how much they really increase signups, so I had to give them a try – all of them!  I hope I can save you some time as I go over what I found, right here… Here are the main scripts, please note: the most important factor with these scripts is, in my mind, the size of the Javascript File(s) they require to load on your website. Why? Because the larger the scripts, the less that Google will think of your website, and many of these scripts are using HUGE, yes, really HUGE Javascript libraries that will hurt your Search Engine Ranking, and that is not a good thing.

SlideInCode (Price: $14.95-$49.95/monthly)  – Script size: 99,690 bytes . A full service script, with a  login & control panel for tracking your Slide Ins. Unfortunately I’m not sure the monthly price is justified, but it’s worth it to get the upgrade – just to have the graphics.

Ultimate Footer Ad  – UFA (Price $47.00) - Script size: 105,468 27,644 bytes – (note: author promises a reduced size to jquery.min.js on the next release updated and reduced script size version 3.x and beyond: 27,644 bytes) An impressive slide up with a countdown timer, well done.

Instant Slide Up (Price: $77.00) – Script size: 35,564 bytes – impressive slide up, but costly.

OptInCrusher (free – runs on WordPress blogs only) – Script size: unknown. A brand new Slide Up / footer ad script, Opt In Crusher works on WordPress blogs and comes configured to work straight away with Aweber, GetResponse, MailChimp, iContact and several other Autoresponders.  It does a good job of popping up, and even lets you add custom HTML to the PopUp inline page: include audio, video, or anything else.  The stats you get will only be those from your Opt-In service, using tracking images, so the stat tracking is not as sophisticated as some of the other scripts, but overall a very nice implementation at a great price.

TamingTheBeast.net (free – using online slideup generator) – Script size: 36,508. A free solution, if you can deal with visiting the slide-up generator page and using the code – I prefer to install these on my own server, rather then use the script code elsewhere.

Slide Up FX (price $9.99-$17.00) – Script size: 176,232. Not even worth looking at, as the code is enormous.

Oh, and the one software that I have not covered yet, but I think is well worth it?  It’s XSitePro, version 2.x.  I use it for website development and it’s great. It has a PopUp Ad Generator included, the best part is that the Javascript code is a miniscule 8,819 bytes in size!  It’s bound to make you look good in Google’s eyes.

What Is The Best Slide Up Script?

That really depends on if you want to go to the trouble to setup the script on each of your servers. If you do, I really like: Ultimate Footer Ad, for it’s ease of use, and timely updates. If you do not want to setup a script on your server, then SlideInCode may be for you, or if you’re looking to develop an entire website, have a look at XSitePro along with Ultimate Footer Ad.

I will be posting updates in the next few weeks as I put some of these slide in scripts to the test, so stay tuned… Updates have been posted above, and below, I’ve chosen 2 winners, below:

UPDATE (November 18, 2010) – And The Winner Is:

There are 2 Winners, as of November, 2010, (I’ve finally been able to get the DOCTYPE to work properly with XSitePro allowing me to run Ultimate FooterAd on XSitePro websites. The most recent update of UltimateFooter Ad, 3.04 now features a reduced script size (27,644 bytes). I also found a brand new WordPress only Slide In / Footer Ad – OptInCrusher which is excellent for WordPress blogs)

1. Ultimate Footer Ad ($47.00) – for all sites Blogs & static (XSitePro) websites, the new version 3.04 (email me if you need an upgrade link) reduces the script size considerably and adds new options to limit the display of Ads to specific pages and Pause All Ads completely – a great timesaver.  Rating: Excellent
2. OptInCrusher (Free) – a recent Slide In /Footer Ad for WordPress Only has some interesting options including a Popup with embedded Video, Audio or any type of HTML.  OptinCrusher runs in WordPress only.

Here’s an honest review of Info Prodigy. As an internet marketer myself, I make it a point to purchase and use each product so that you can get an idea of it’s value.  Let’s get right into the review.

First, a little bit of background. Tim Godfry and Steve Clayton know their way around the internet marketing world. This is their product (along with a collaborator Kate Anderson), but I’m more familiar with him from previous products of his: Commission Blueprint  and Niche Blueprint, as well as the IM Eye Tool and his IMA (Internet Marketing Advantage) membership website, which is excellent.

This product is a little different. 1.) It contains mostly PDF documents (tons of them), rather than videos as the other products, 2.) It is only available for about 7 days, so if you are interested in it, you must buy it right away, otherwise it will not be available again.

So, what is included?  You login to the Members area and have access to all of the PDF documents, and one video (Module 1 – Finding A Niche that is Profitable).  The rest of the course is made up of many short to medium length (5-30 page) PDF documents, most of them are in the 20-25 page range.  It may seem like a lot of reading, but it is required if you want to pick a market that is valuable, and that you can make money with – for the long-term.  Long-term income is the focus here, it’s important to find the right market, and to pursue the marketing over many months to start seeing income. The 6th module does include details on selling your site (flipping your website), but I would consider this a last resort.

Ok, I know you want to know ‘whats inside’ so here’s a quick look:

Module 1 – Finding A Profitable Niche (1 video, with explanation on how to go deep into finding a market). This is a great video, but I do wish they would have made a PDF of this as well.  It goes into great detail on finding a info product niche that will pay off.

Module 2 – Developing Product (10 PDF manuals + 1 Contact Form).  Includes a great Idea Factory and other tools to help you find niches you may have never thought of previously. Here we have documents on Product Creation, Adding Value to your product, How to Interview others (to create a product), Product Protection and even Outsourcing and using PLR (Private Label Rights products to develop your own product). Most of these PDFs are great and cover tons of material, unlike other Info Product courses I’ve purchased previously. This is a huge module – the PLR development material is excellent and shows you exactly how to take a PLR product and turn it into your own. The Product Protection manual is a little weak, as I would recommend a few more options for locking your content – but I do that for a living, so it’s likely I would know more in this area.

Module 3 – Sales and Marketing – the Meat of the course (6 PDF manuals), here we have a 39 page manual on Backend-System, and a 20 page manual on Pitch Page Layouts.  Just seeing how these guys do it, really helps. These manuals focus on using ClickBank as a payment processor which I would also highly recommend for new marketers.  These manual are all excellent covering how to setup/define your USP (Unique Selling Position), how to Price your Info Product, and more, even how to setup a Continuity Program (membership) to earn additional revenue.

Module 4 – Payment Processing (2 PDF manuals).  This module is a little lite on content, but it does provide the basics, covering ClickBank, PayDotCom and eJunkie – 3 of my favorite processors (I would probably also throw in 2Checkout).

Module 5 – Launching Your Product (7 PDF manuals). A huge 36 page manual on Launching a product is the highlight of this module. I’ve never seen launches covered so thoroughly, and again to see how Steven Clayton and Tim Godfrey do it is just great! Also covered in this module are topics: Affiliate Creatives,  Finding Partners, Generating Buzz, Minimizing Refunds, and Pre-Launch Strategies as well as Post Launch.

Module 6 – Exit Strategy (4 PDF manuals).  If your product is not turning the profit you like this module goes into great detail on using Flippa and a few other web sites to sell your creation. The other manuals cover How To Value your website, Increasing the Value, and Exit Strategies.

Module 7 – Valuable Additions (6 PDF manuals + Legal Docs). Even more details on how to make sure your Info Product (and website) is legally correct, including disclaimers and more details on making a smooth sale and transition of your site if you decide to sell it. These manuals cover a host of details not covered earlier such as: Setting up a ClickBank Account, Hosting and FTP, and Escrow Process (for selling).

Well, that covers it. My recommendation is to consider purchasing this product if you want to learn to create a valuable Info Product that will sell.  There are other similar courses available, and I’ve tried many of them.  Info Prodigy however covers details not found in some of the others, important details, and even exact strategies and techniques that the authors of: Commission Blueprint and Niche Blueprint use to launch their own products.  The details are all here, and there’s little else to go over.  If you are an advanced expert at creating products and have done it before, this course is probably not for you, but you  may learn a thing or to as well, I know I did.

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