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Snow is falling again in my old school system. If I was still teaching the ninth graders, I’d be wearing my pajamas inside out and doing the “Snow Day Shuffle” – in the hopes that school would be closed.

Yes, it’s true – teachers love snow days even more than the students.

I’m no longer teaching school, but I can remember how much I took advantage of the snow days in the early days of creating my business.

So here’s a quick list of 10 things you can do in a single snow day to move your online business forward…

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One of my favorite ways to get traffic through Twitter is by using a Retweet This button or text link, so that the traffic to a page can go viral.

In fact, you likely came to this page because of this strategy in action.

Here’s how you do it….

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As a teacher of internet marketing, I strive to help you get the word out about your products and services in profitable ways.

But an important part of generating a growing income is to partner with relevant products and services that you simply can’t offer yourself.

And that means incorporating affiliate marketing into the mix of your service to your customers and clients.

Usually you hear people raving about affiliate marketing as if it’s the only thing you ever have to do. And still others shout from the rooftops that you have to build your own information product line and only sell your own products and services.

As Usual The Truth Is In The Middle

If you have your own products, smart affiliate marketing can increase your bottom line by 50% or more. And if you don’t have your own products yet, promoting other people’s products first in the right way gives you an opportunity to discover what people really want to buy.

I’ll be teaching this hybrid system of information product development and affiliate marketing at the Online Profits Academy in February. But today, I’d like to give you a big tip on my favorite affiliate program to promote.

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A little birdie told me a secret today about what’s coming next week at Aweber Communications.

And to be honest, I’m more than excited about it because it’s going to make it super easy for people who have no clue what they are doing with HTML create great looking opt-in forms right inside Aweber.

Here’s a video to explain a bit about what’s coming.

Then be sure to head over to the Aweber blog and wait for their official announcements next week and release of the new features.

Bob Jenkins

p.s. Just getting started with your list building? Check out the first module of my Discover Autoresponders course for free inside the IM Success Library – and learn how to create your first email list.

If you’re not split testing parts of your webpages, you may be growing your email list slower and earning less money than you could be.

I’d like to share a quick case study of a recent split test I did with a teleseminar.

The Test

For my 30 Day Autoresponder Challenge, I interviewed Justin Premick of Aweber, and invited people to listen in. Before I sent out the invitation to the 30 DAC participants, I created 3 different versions of a web form in Aweber.

All 3 forms were exactly the same except for one thing: how much time did it take for the form to show up?

I was using the “lightbox” form on my Instant Teleseminar page, and wanted to see if it made a difference how fast the form popped in.

The 3 versions were set to pop up after 7 seconds, 15 seconds, and 22 seconds, respectively.

Care to guess which one would be the best?

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My final step in this mini-challenge of creating a rebrandable report is to make the report umm….. rebrandable.

This sounds complicated, and it can be a bit confusing the first time you do it. But it’s a pretty easy process and is worth any of the aggravation you may go through on your first attempts.

First, I’ll be using the Viral PDF Silver ebook rebranding software to do this. I recommend this over the classic version because the file to rebrand requires less steps for your readers. You don’t have to send a .zip file with the rebrander and the PDF; this requires your end user to unzip, open the brander, and drag in the PDF. Yes, that should be simple enough, but it’s amazing how many people still get frustrated with this. ViralPDF Silver makes 1 file (an .exe file) that your user downloads and runs. The PDF is already inside the file.

Although it’s more expensive than the classic, I think this feature makes Silver really worth it. Plus, with the Silver edition, your affiliate link back to ViralPDF is already embedded automatically in the brander, so you’re likely to see your investment come back to you in affiliate commissions – and then some.

I’ll share the steps below for making the report rebrandable, but this also shown step-by-step for customers of ViralPDF.

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I’m in the market for a new membership site script.

You may know that I’m a big fan of Butterfly Marketing, and I’ve been using it for over 3 years. I continue to make mini-sites with the software. But there are a few limitations that are leading me on a journey to creating a membership site with WordPress.

Without customization, Butterfly is great for free front end offers that lead to an obvious upgrade through either follow up messages or a One Time Offer. The ability to create new pages inside the site is good.

The most powerful feature though is the affiliate program. Turning any member into an affiliate instantly is important in viral marketing.

However as the platform for the IM Success Library, it’s showing some limitations. Mainly, there is no customer interaction in a Butterfly Site unless you do custom programming. Since I’m trying to build a community of people who want to learn how to profit from internet marketing, it’s important that I have a community feel.

The other thing is since all the internal pages are hidden, there’s limited search engine optimization available. My IM Success Library contains over 100 pages that can not be indexed by the search engines.

So I’ll continue to use BFM for my single-purpose minisites.

But for my next site, I want to go with WordPress and a membership script add-on that not only allows me to have different free and paid membership levels, but also has an affiliate program and methods for maximizing member experience and search engine optimization.

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Eleanore Duyndam, host of Internet Marketing Luv radio, interviewed me this week on list building with teleseminars. In case you weren’t able to listen in, here’s the complete uncut session!

Get Part 1 Of Teleseminar Formula For Free

Please feel free to comment below with Ah-Ha’s, or questions.

Bob Jenkins
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p.s. If you haven’t done a teleseminar yet, please download this free report.

Every day, I get an email from somebody that promises to help me turn my email list into an ATM – something I can press a button and just get instant cash any time I want.

Usually, these wind up in the spam folder, where they belong.

Regardless, it’s important for you not to take this line of thinking with your online marketing.

If you’re like me (a former high school teacher with no professional training in sales or selling), you may feel funny asking people for money whether in person, on a website, or via email.

So when you’re taught by gurus that your list is an ATM, you get this knot in your stomach, but you figure that’s the way it is.

Well, it’s not.

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I get to grill Adam Urbanski tomorrow about his secrets to attracting clients like crazy. You can sign up for the training (it’s on me!) here.

But I found this “VEE-dee-o” (as Adam likes to say it) that shows you 4 effective components to a marketing strategy. So you can start learning from Adam today.

Discover More Ways To Attract Clients Like Crazy

Be sure to take notes as you watch the video. These tips are especially great if you serve a client base (like in real estate, financial planning, coaching, or consulting).

Enjoy!

Bob Jenkins

p.s. Remember to set aside time Tuesday night for the free training session I’m holding with Adam.

With my final action steps completed yesterday (writing messages 9 and 10), I’m ready to wrap up the 30 day challenge with a review of how far I’ve come in the last month.

Here’s what I want to look at:

• Growth of subscribers
• Optimization improvements
• Celebrations of automated content added
• Bonus interview with Aweber’s Justin Premick
• Make an action plan for the next 30 days

Let’s get started…

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