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After yesterday’s advanced steps of setting up an affiliate program, I’m ready to go back to a basic set of steps to optimize my list process. Today, I’ll be working on a customized confirmation page.

Specifically, I’m going to:

• Create a new thank you page (i.e., “confirmation page”)
• Link to the new page from my web forms in Aweber
• Add an image of the download page to the confirmation page
• Add a video to the confirmation page

Let’s get started…

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My friend Lynn Terry over at ClickNewz nudged me to start playing around with Animoto, and I figured for my first video mashup should be photos from live events where I’ve met so many great people.

Hopefully, if you are not in this video, we’ll get a picture at a live event soon. You can check out my schedule over here. I’ll be in New York City at the end of July, and London at the end of August for meetups.

Bob Jenkins

p.s. If you have a picture of us together, make sure it’s on Facebook, and tag me in it. This way, when I create another video like this, I can include it!

p.p.s. Want to know the secret to how I made this movie in under 25 minutes? I used Animoto. Make your own music videos with Animoto. Make unlimited 30 second videos, or get a commercial pass like I did to make longer vids with a redirect button at the end and no logo.

The Twitterverse is in an uproar over the semi-automated methods of attracting new followers to Twitter. Is it all spam? Or a legitimate method of gaining exposure to a wider audience? Or is there a middle ground that can keep the Twitter-purists happy while giving new Twitter users a quicker start on growing their circles of influence?

The argument centers around a few different methods of making it easier to post messages and get followers. Specifically, I’d like to get your opinion on these three methods…

• 1 Click Tweets
• Viral Tweets
• Tweeter Getter

I’ll share my opinion and look forward to your comments below…

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Over the last 12 months, I’ve created effective, action-oriented training courses that have been used by business owners around the world to increase their profits, shorten their learning curve, and exceed their goals.

On Sunday, you’ll be able to get the best lessons from my best training during the second annual Halftime Sale…

Here’s just a few of the courses you’ll be able to learn from:

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This last week of January will be a busy 7 days for sure, filled with opportunities for you to learn powerful ways to increase your profits in 2009.

Be sure to mark your calendar for these learning events I’m teaching or hosting this week:

Rapid Business Acceleration With Carrie Wilkerson (IM Success Radio)
Monday, January 26 (2 p.m. EST) Free
Carrie’s one of the “Best New Business Friends of 2008″, and I can’t wait to get her to share her secrets to rapid business success while overcoming serious challenges along the way. She’ll motivate, inspire, and instruct you to take massive, focused action and never quit til you’ve exceeded the goals you set.

My Profit And Product Creation System (As Ken McArthur’s guest on JV Alert Preview Call Series)
Tuesday, January 27 (8 p.m. EST) Free (quick signup required)
I’ll be revealing specific strategies I’ve used over the last 3 years to build a successful online information business using rapid product creation and delivery methods. This is a preview call for my presentation at JV Alert in Orlando February 6-8.

Massive Targeted Traffic With Ross Goldberg (IM Success Radio)
Thursday, January 29 (8 p.m. EST) Free
Tune into IMSR again on Thursday as I get Ross to share his methods for attracting multiple streams of targeted traffic to his websites.

Second Annual Halftime Sale
Sunday, February 1 (Approximately 8 p.m. – 8:34 p.m. EST)
While the Cardinals and Steelers take their break in the middle of the “Big Game”, you’ll be able to score my extensive, hand-picked library of personally created internet marketing lessons. The score at halftime determines the final price (last year, it was just $10!). Read the Halftime Sale blog for details and a recap from last year.

And I may have 1 or 2 more surprise teleseminars later in the week – so stay connected so you won’t miss out!

Bob Jenkins

p.s. This week is filled with great opportunities to learn. It starts today at 2 p.m. EST with Carrie Wilkerson on IM Success Radio.

So you want to catch the attention of the leading experts in your industry, right? And you want people to visit your website without having to pay for the traffic.

One way to do that is by giving a great testimonial for the products, services, and mentoring most connected to your field.

During the IM Success Cruise, my own mentor, Paulie Sabol, held a special training on how to give a great testimonial. Of course, being the geek that I am, I had my laptop and Freemind software running so I could take good notes.

I’ll show you the map in just a moment, but first, let me explain why sharing your testimonial helps you just as much (or more) than the product owner.

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For the last few years, the #1 skill for building your business online has been list building.

In fact, most internet marketing teachers say without a list, you have no business. This is because it’s very difficult to sustain most online revenue models without having subscribers and customers to communicate with.

Now let’s leave that argument aside and instead debate whether Twitter is more important than list building.

The truth of the matter is, Twitter IS listbuilding. Just in a different sense of the concept. Instead of building a list of subscribers who receive email messages from you whenever you like, Twitter builds a
list of followers who are able to engage in conversation with you and your network.

This may be even more powerful than the traditional list, especially with the tendency for emails to end up getting lost in a sea of Viagra ads and bank transfer requests from the wife of the ambassador of a foreign land.

But more important than getting attention, Twitter and other social networking tools is a relationship builder, not just a list builder.

Whereas the traditional list building mentality is your subscriber list gives you access to wallets…

The new media list building mentality is your follower network gives you access to ideas, connections, market research, partnerships, and profits. This multi-directional approach is more sustainable, and honestly, a lot more fun.

What do you think? Comment below…

Bob Jenkins

p.s. Later today, I’ll be asking this question of one of the leaders of social networking and new media marketing, Deb Micek.

Deb is the author of Twitter Revolution, and Secrets of Online Persuasion. She’s my guest expert to teach you about Twitter during the Discover Social Networking virtual workshop. There’s still time for you to join
us!

You may have a feeling that social networking is a waste of time when it comes to business. Or perhaps that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc., are all “kids stuff” for showing off the inane happenings of their lives.

The truth is, you’re right – if you don’t know how to properly use online social networking sites for business.

Used strategically, both Facebook and Twitter can be very effective tools for communicating your marketing messages to a larger audience. They are also excellent for connecting you with potential customers, and like-minded business people to share ideas with. You may find some viable partnerships form out of these sites.

The key aspect that makes social networking so attractive to business owners “in the know” is

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Have you ever wanted to be at the center of attention, or at least be in the middle of the conversation?

You can do it when you create your own social network – and despite what you may have heard from others, you can create your own social network for free.

The tool I use is called Ning. I use it to run my IM Success Tribe mastermind and coaching program, as well as my peer-to-peer network for any of my subscribers and customers.

Not too long ago, I did a call about Ning with Scott Tousignant, who uses is for his fitness customers as well. Here’s an excerpt from that conversation:

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Have you listened to my new radio show yet?

I’d like to give you a free backstage pass to IM Success Radio, so you’ll always have access to the replays, faster versions, and bonus features not available online.

Get your pass here: IMSuccessRadio.com

Tune in Friday afternoon (tomorrow) for my next show, where I’ll be interviewing Scott Tousignant about how you can use social media to promote affiliate products.

Also, on Monday, the show features a very special guest. In fact, it was his radio show that inspired me to get my own.

Find out who it is here: IMSuccessRadio.com

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I had a great mastermind lunch with my local group organized by my local Wilmington realtor, Alex Paen.

He set the topic today as lead generation strategies and how to get referrals. Now everybody at that meeting is an offline business professional. Home security, financial planning, lawyer/legal, insurance, etc.

So to help them understand how they can use internet marketing for their lead generation, and reduce their costs of customer acquisition, I created a mindmap (you know how much I love mindmaps!).

To make it as easy to understand as I could, I focused the map on the “big picture” so they could see the overall system, and what pieces should be put into place over time. Figured you’d probably get a lot of use out of it as well.

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