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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.

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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Now that I have a plan for creating my new squeeze video, it’s time to actually record it. After I get it uploaded tomorrow, we’ll then be able to see how much that improves (and hopefully doesn’t hurt) conversions.

So today I’ll be talking about…

• What equipment I’m using
• Lighting
• Setting up for the recording
• And…. Action!

Let’s go…

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With a weekly digest of lessons from my blog set up in the RSS Broadcast yesterday, I get to return my attention to conversion today. I’m going to do a two-day process of getting my squeeze page enhanced by adding video.

Today, I’m going to…

• Plan the video content

This may seem like a simple step to take, but as you’ll see, a good plan makes all the difference in how the video ultimately comes out. We’re not going to go overboard with it; but there needs to be a certain flow to get the best results.

Let’s get to it….

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Yesterday, I went through the process of creating a new opt-in offer by re-purposing something I already had in my archive. With a new download page in place (and password-protected), I’m ready to connect the offer to my list.

Today’s 30 Day Autoresponder Challenge steps are:

• Change the language on the squeeze page
• Change message #1 to point to the download page
• Broadcast to existing subscribers where the download is

Let’s get started…

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Now that we have the opt-in forms created and our second autoresponder message written, we can get working on a new squeeze page. I think too many people try to have all their messages written before they activate their list (releasing it to the world) thinking they have to have everything perfect. But you can stay a few steps ahead of your readers and they’ll never know the difference – especially if you have planned out your first 10 messages like we did during Day 3.

We’re now 3 days ahead of our readers at this point!

So today’s tasks are to…

• Create a new squeeze page
• Entice new signups with a good headline, benefit bullets
• Include a webform into the squeeze page

Ready?

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I know it’s the weekend, and you’re likely in a relaxing way, but I’d like you to look at a webpage and really read it carefully.

Do so with three things in mind:

1. It’s a great page to learn how to sell a product
2. What is being offered is great content to learn from personally and well worth what’s being asked
3. Realize that the entire collection of squeeze page templates, reports, articles, screen-capture video tutorials, affiliate marketing and e-coaching courses you can learn from become yours to sell.

What you’re seeing on the next page is the best private label rights package I’ve seen (if it wasn’t, I wouldn’t interrupt your weekend, that’s for sure!). In short: you get to hire Jimmy D. Brown to create your products, squeeze pages, autoresponders, video tutorials and more.

Jimmy’s PLR Package

Here’s a sneak peek for example of the squeeze page templates you can use for yourself and/or sell and keep all the profit:

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Want to know 5 sure-fire ways to get more of your visitors and subscribers to become customers?

This week, I held an exclusive webinar for members of the IM Success Library, and the full replay is available inside the members area.

But I thought you might enjoy an executive summary here:

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If you promote a network marketing business, or you’re open to the idea of understanding the concept that *some* legitimate network marketing companies are powerful affiliate programs, then this post is for you.

My Michigander friend, James Grandstaff is one of those quiet leaders in internet marketing who has successfully bridged the gap between IM and MLM.  For many, MLM is a four-letter word because of their experiences in getting hassled by friends and family or feeling like that’s the only way to share network marketing opportunities.

I don’t claim to be an expert in network marketing, but I do get bill-paying residual checks every month from a couple. And part of my (albeit limited) success is due to automation strategies I learned from James. Plus, I learned when I first got started in network marketing a long time ago that generating your own leads instead of paying for them from someone else was the only real way to build a profitable organization and customer base.

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Ahh, the fun of moving.

For most of my life, I’ve learned to really resent moving. When I was a kid, we moved way too many times for my taste. In the end it’s all been good (builds character). Great people to meet throughout a lot of experiences. But the process has always been stressful, and until now, out of my hands.

This week, I get to move again. But for the first time, it’s completely by my own choice (with a lot of help from Joanna of course).

By the way, would you like to know how we picked North Carolina?

HGTV.

Seriously.

About two years ago, they did a House Hunters on Wilmington. Joanna was watching and over the next 15 months we noticed how often Wilmington kept popping up. She kept dropping hints about how nice it would be to live near the coast (her allergies in Maryland were terrible). After visiting my cousin here last summer, she had me hooked.

So thanks to Joanna’s scouting (and Suzanne Whang, of course), now we’re here, just days away from moving in.

That’s where you come in.

Normally when you move, you call on your friends to help you shlep couches and mattresses and all those books. But since we’re brand new to the area, that’s not much of an option for us. In fact, we’d ask our neighbors, but two of the houses are still flat dirt, and the other two are waiting for buyers (contact Justin King and the Alex Paen Team at Coldwell Banker SeaCoast Realty for Wilmington or Leland Real Estate… :) ).

So we have movers coming to deliver all of our stuff on Friday morning. And finally, Friday night, we get to stay in our brand new place.

There’s just one little problem. The movers expect to get paid. The reason that is a problem is that on Thursday, my down payment is due, knocking my regular bank account way too low. In addition to the moving and packing, I have to pay them for storage for about a month. All total, I’ll be paying them over $5000.

Use a credit card, you say?

That’s the bigger problem. I can’t find any of my credit cards.

Thanks to money-managing lessons from Donna Fox (the Credit Millionaire expert), I’ve stopped using my cards several months ago, and paid them down to under 50% of the credit line. I’m very proud of this as I racked up a lot of debt as a high school teacher over ten years.

So while I’ve been very disciplined not to use the cards, I’ve come to realize this past weekend that I don’t actually know where the cards are. With the hit from the down payment, I have to use one on Friday. But they could be in any one of 73 boxes.

What’s an internet marketer to do?

Well, thanks to Jeff Walker’s teachings I’ve been studying, I’m supposed to give you a lot of great stuff that you normally wouldn’t be able to get for a really low price. This is a very rare circumstance — and it calls for a very rare firesale.

Normally, a firesale is a group of 25 or more resell rights packages that seem to be a) oversold, and b) too much to concentrate on.

You deserve better than rehashed stuff — and I certainly don’t want you to buy something from me, then go on eBay and see that it’s being sold for $1.

So yesterday, I went through all of the recordings I’ve done over the last year. I then tossed aside the files that had already been sold a lot, and certainly anything that’s been given away for free was out of the question.

This had to be a true, killer value for you so that there was no doubt in your mind that you get 5X (or more) of the real value of what I’m offering.

Since writing to you with this blog, I’ve noticed some common questions that keep coming up. These questions led to me picking out the very best audio and video training that I’ve done that would help you at various stages of your business.

I concentrated on these major areas:

• Getting Started – Business Building Foundations
• Online Profits From Your Offline Experience
• Using Forums For Building Your Reputation
• Creating Squidoo Lenses For Credibility And Traffic
• Registering Domain Names Strategically
• Creating Killer Squeeze Pages
• Generating More Traffic And Customer Loyalty
• Installing PHP/MySQL Scripts
• Using Video In Your Marketing

These areas seem to be the biggest targets of the questions I get on my blog, and I’m sure that at least 3 or more of these areas are concerns for you right now.

If you help me pay the movers, you’ll get my best training in these areas for less than 25% of their total value.

Nothing in this sale is an eBook or PDF — they are all audio or video sessions.

They are also not pieces of the sessions, but the complete recordings. All the audios are between 60-120 minutes, and the videos are 12-45 minutes in length.

In addition to learning from me, over half of these recordings are between me and another marketing expert — including Matthew Glanfield, Todd Gross, Glen Hopkins, Martin Salter, and Scott Tousignant.

So – can you help me pay the movers while learning important marketing lessons?

Check out the complete details of what you can get, and help me make sure that Joanna and I don’t have to sleep on the floor.

Please realize this is a very rare opportunity to get what amounts to a complete course of study from me for under $100. To make it a little more interesting, I’ve set the price to raise $10 every time 20 sales have been made. If you’re quick enough, you can still get it all for under $50. This is one way I can help you as a dedicated reader of this blog — you’re more likely to have found this earlier than the rest.

After buying and helping us out, I’d love to hear which of the audio and video presentations is your favorite. Post a comment below, and tell me what ideas came to mind as you listened or watched…

Click here to help us pay the movers…

Thanks again!

Bob Jenkins

p.s. About half of these recordings have only been available for top-level members at some of my sites (paying $97 up to $497). But a few have never been released to the public before, because I simply haven’t had time to complete the rest of the sites. Help us pay the movers, and be the first to listen to some great training.

Wondering where you should put your energy when it comes to making your business known on the internet?

AskBobTheTeacher member Matt Geib asked me a very important question after my last post, that I would like to give a more detailed answer about.

He asked:

“If I have a blog (which I do) can it not serve the same function as a ‘mini web site’ ? Do I really need both as I start out?”

This question raises a few different issues that I’d like to take on today.

First, what are the differences between a blog and a mini-site.

A mini-site has just one purpose, and that is to either generate leads (then it’s really just a squeeze page), or sell a product.  A mini-site has three real pages that guide a visitor from information seeker (landing page), to buyer (sales page), to satisfied customer (download/thank-you page).

Mini-sites are perfect for creating revenue with a specific product.

Blogs, however, are designed to build a conversation with your customers.  Because blogs allow comments and easy updates, they are fresher and more immediate.  As you can tell from my blog here, for example, keeping it up to date and asking for you to respond helps each of us know that we’re in this together.  Mini-sites are pretty lonely, but still needed.

So my answer to Matt is that a blog can’t really serve effectively as a mini-site.  A single page of a blog can act like it, but because of the structure of most blogs (the themed template, to be more specific), they are too distracting to serve as a mini-site.  They have too many links and can be confusing to a new visitor.

The truth is, you can use either one to start out, but it depends on what you are trying to achieve.

If you want to get a specific product to market, or publish a report that generates leads and sales, then a mini-site is perfect.  And each different product/service can be on its own site.  Also, mini-sites are the better way to go when working with joint-venture partners.  They allow you to partner with someone who can promote something specific of value to their list, and perhaps generate affiliate commissions in return.

But if you want to establish credibility in a specific niche with what you have to say, then a blog is better.  You can begin posting right away, the technical skills are minimal (although you do need a little bit), and whatever you say is going to stick around longer.

Another advantage of a blog over a mini-site is search engine results.  Blogs are much better at serving as SEO magnets than mini-sites are.  This is because every single time you post, you are actually creating a completely new webpage.

You can also build your list with a blog, as long as you give people a reason for signing up through your opt-in form.

To get a blog going, you just need a good web host (with cPanel preferably – I recommend HostGator), a MySQL database, and the WordPress installation pack (cPanel hosts usually have Fantastico for one-button installations).

So which should you go with?

If you can swing it, do both.  Use your blog to get to be known and trusted, while having a place for your community members to buy products or learn from you.  And they can both be hosted on the same website.

Now yesterday, I gave you an extensive lesson on Mini-Sites in the form of an interview with Dan Kelly (it’s free, did you get it?).

Today, I’d like to share with you another excellent resource from a good friend of mine, and blogging expert, Mike Paetzold.

In my Eight-Fold Path To Affiliate Profits course (open for enrollment right now), I just had Mike join as a guest teacher this week.  This is a guy who really knows blogging inside and out.

He’s created a beginner’s How-To Blog guide that I recommend for your learning.  It’s called Get Your Blog Going, and features an audio interview between Mike and one of his customers (who asks the same types of questions you would if you had the chance).  Although it’s not free, it will pay for itself quickly with what you’ll learn to do with your blog.

More traffic, better connections with your audience, and a lot more.  I especially like what he reveals about getting Google to index your pages faster.

If you are like Matt, and you want to make your blog the center of your marketing efforts, Get Your Blog Going is a great place to start.

Whatever you decide (mini-sites or blogs), starting is the most important thing to do!

Bob Jenkins

p.s.  I’ll be sharing my top resource for managing your blog soon.  But Mike’s audio training is a must for knowing the big basics first.  Get your blog going now, and be sure to post the address to your blog as a comment below.