Listen in as Kevin Riley of Twitter Vending Machine answers Douglas’ question on how to use Twitter as a marketing tool:
“I know I have these bits and pieces that could make me money, but I don’t know how to put them together and use Twitter to help sell them – or get traffic to them. What would make sense in my situation?”
Make sure you check out Kevin Riley’s Twitter Vending Machine and see how it can improve your niche marketing
Kevin Riley from Twitter Vending Machine answers Joanne Russell’s question on how to use Twitter as a marketing tool: “Is there a way that you can manage all social accounts in one area?”
While Kevin mentions Hoot Suite, there are plenty of other applications that will do this as well. The one that I currently use is Tweet Deck.
Now to be brutally honest, I have not tried Hoot Suite yet, and this may be the better application as I do trust Kevin’s recommendations, so will probably have to check it out.
As a person who has multiple niche related twitter accounts, these tools are invaluable.
When it comes to Twitter should you niche or sub-niche.
Listen in as Kevin Riley answers James Coe’s question on how to use Twitter as a marketing tool: “Should you focus on only one sub-niche on your twitter profile (i.e list building vs. traffic)? So all your tweets are focused on list building only?”
Kevin Riley from Product Creation Labs and Twitter Vending Machine answers Art Remnet’s question about how best to use Twitter to get clients to a marketing firm’s website.
PowerStart 2010 is a new mentoring program that will take you on a 4 week intensive journey that will teach you how to start YOUR Internet Marketing business and be able to have it up and running in just 4 weeks!
Each 4 week session will start on the first Monday of the month with each continuing session the following Monday.
The first PowerStart 2010 session will start on February 1st at 7:00 PM Eastern.
This is not some mamby pamby push a button and make a million dollars gimmick.
You will need to be prepared to work.
Here is what the training will involve:
Week One: GET STARTED!
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Week Two: GET YOUR PRODUCTS ONLINE!
Teleseminar: Products with Master Resell Rights – how to monetize them and get them online fast. PLR products – how to convert them, monetize them fully and get them online fast. Your own products – how to create new products and get them online fast! Complete How-To Videos Included!
Week Three: GET TRAFFIC! Teleseminar: Article marketing, podcasting, video marketing and social media – how to use them and tie them together with your blog to build traffic fast! Complete How-To Videos Included!
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Each week you will be able to attend a live teleseminar where you will be able to ask questions, you will also get a recording of that teleseminar if you are not able to attend the live call.
You will also receive a step-by-step process map for each activity that week, and get step-by-step videos showing you HOW to complete each and every step.
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In this post I am going to cover setting up a Paypal button for your niche site sales page from scratch.
The first thing you need to do is login to your Paypal account. You do need to be logged in for this to work.
1) Once you are logged into Paypal you will need to click on the tab at the top that says ‘Merchant Services’.
2) Once on this screen you can either click on the ‘Buy Now Button’ (2) near the top of the page or you can scroll down a little bit and click on the ‘Buy Now Button’ (3) under the ‘Create Button’ menu.
Step 1: Choose button type and enter payment details
After you click on the ‘Buy Now Button’ from the front page of ‘Merchant Services’ you will see the screen below.
1) You will want to leave this selected as ‘Accept payments for’: Products
2) Make sure you select ‘No; create a ‘Buy Now’ button.
3) Enter the name of your product. (This is what your customer will see on the Paypal page when they go to pay for your item, so make it intuitive.
4) This is an optional field and you do not need to put anything here. If you are using an accounting program and have product id’s setup for all of your products then you might want to put that here.
5) This is where you will put the price that you are charging for your product. Since Paypal will now save your button you can go back and change this at a later time if your like.
6) Make sure you select ‘Secure merchant account ID’. This will create button code that will not have any personally identifiable information in it.
Step 2: Track inventory, profit, and loss.
At the bottom of Step 1 you will see 2 blue bars. You will need to click on each of them to expand these bars and follow each of the next two steps.
1) Make sure this is checked so that your button is saved for later use if needed.
2) Select this if you are having a limited quantity sale or if you wish to track inventory (useful for a physical product like CD’s or DVD’s. You can then set your starting quantity and alert level.
Step 3: Customize advanced features.
This is where you will setup the links back to your download page.
1) Make sure this is set to ‘No’. You don’t want people being able to change the order quantity.
2) Set this to ‘No’ unless you want people to be able to add notes to the purchase.
3) Since we are setting this up for a digital download you would want this set to ‘No’, however if you are selling physical products you will need the physical address and would want to set this to yes.
4) This is where you want the customer to return to if they cancel the payment process before they complete it. I normally set this to the websites home page/sales page, but if you are selling multiple products from the same site you might want to direct them back to the product they came from.
5) This is going to be the actual download page that you want to send your buyer to after they have completed the purchase through Paypal. I normally add some random characters onto the end of this so that it is more difficult for someone to guess and just be able to get to the download page without paying. (NOTE: This has to match exactly with what you have it named on your site).
6) You should never have to worry about this field unless you are trying to integrate with a third party script and then the scripts instructions will tell you EXACTLY what to put in this field.
Step 4: Adding the button code to your site.
Now you have to copy the button code to your webpage.
1) When you click in this field the entire set of text should highlight. You will just need to take this text and copy it to your webpage using your HTML editor of choice. Make sure you are copying it into the HTML view and not the WYSIWYG view. (I will expand on this in another lesson if needed)
2) This is where the code will be that distinguishes your button code from all the rest. DO NOT change this code!
Step 5: Changing the payment button graphic
Finally, once you have your button code setup on your webpage, you might want to change to one of the payment graphics that comes with your niche website.
To do this you will need to change the part of the code below that is highlighted with the path to the graphic you are wanting to use.
I.E. – http://www.mysite.com/image/paymentbutton.gif (or .JPG)
Conclusion:
Hopefully this has helped you somewhat in learning how to setup your Paypal payment button.
If you still have any questions, or any part of this was not clear to you, please leave a comment below.
If you liked this lesson and there are other areas that you would like to see some instruction on, also please leave me a comment below and if it is an area that I am familiar with I will create some instructions similar to what I have done here.
For this and other great niche marketing training check out Niche Site Club.
Not only will you get a complete (and I do mean complete) niche website each and every month, but you also have access to tutorials on Niche Research, Keyword Research, and Niche Marketing with more training being added on a continuing basis.
Check out Niche Site Club today as I am offering a 30 day trial for only $1 during December!
Just wanted to post this and let you know that I am offering a 30 day trial of Niche Site Club for only $1 for the rest of the month of December.
I know that December is a rough time financially for most people so I wanted to do my part to make sure you still had the opportunity to check out Niche Site Club without feeling that you are cutting into your Christmas spending budget.
With Niche Site Club, you get a complete niche website complete with a list of keywords already done for you, a PLR ebook for you to edit and sell, and at least 25 PLR articles for blog posts, Squidoo lenses, Hubpages, or where ever you want to create backlinks to your niche site.
You also get a professionaly done and matching sales page, thank you page, Wordpress theme, affiliate graphics (so you can setup your own affiliate program selling your ebook), and more…
As a member of Niche Site Club you will also have access to over 8 hours (and growing) of videos relating to niche marketing, keyword research, and niche research. I am currently working on adding a set of 20 videos on setting up and using Wordpress as well, so you have no excuse not to put the matching Wordpress template that I am giving you to use.
On a side note:
I just got an email from Liz Tomey this afternoon and she is selling just one of the 4 different sets of videos that are included in your Niche Site Club membership for you to watch at your leisure. Get this, she is selling this set of videos for $27 right here:
http://www.keywordhowto.com/
One more thing:
As a member of Niche Site Club, you will also be able to sign up for the affiliate program inside of the membership and promote Niche Site Club to others and make 75% commission off of your sale of recurring memberships. You will also make 50% commission off of other products that will be sold through the Niche Site Club affiliate program.
P.S. I have included the link to Liz’s sales page for the videos for no other reason that to make a point as to the value of Niche Site Club. This is a raw link and NOT an affiliate link.
In my last post I told you about my new membership site, Niche Site Club.
Well today I’m going to talk a little bit about how Niche Site Club came to be.
It all started when I got an email from a marketer that I have known of for quite some time. I had been a member of one of his membership sites for nearly 2 years and have been on his mailing list/newsletter for almost as long.
The person to whom I am referring to is Paul Evans and the email was about this new product he had just created called ‘Simple Six Figures‘. Now I honestly don’t know what really drew me to this one particular product, but I am glad that whatever it was did it’s thing.
I picked up Simple Six Figures and started going through the videos. Now anyone that knows Paul will immediately recognize the southern accent and his unique way of taking something that at times seems to be very difficult and making it seem, well, simple.
These videos are no different.
Paul takes the process of membership sites and takes you through a very simple process of setting up a membership site that will only take you a few hours (if that) per month to maintain. Now obviously the beauty of this is that you can create multiple membership sites and easily maintain them yourself.
Well anyway, as I was watching these videos, I began to get idea after idea with Niche Site Club being the first. I had just started selling complete niche website packages on a individual site basis and this seemed to fit perfectly with what I was already doing. So I followed along and set up my first membership site.
And I already have ideas for two more at least. My current plan is to set up a membership site every three months.
Why so long between sites?
This allows me to get the site built (which actually happens very quickly) and spend the rest of the time promoting the site and building up my member base. At that point the affiliate side of things will kind of take over and the current members will be promoting to others which in turn will keep my member base growing with just an occasional promotion from me.
OK, so I promised in my last post I would walk you through how the site is setup.
First of all it is done using Wordpress. Yup, it is running on a free content management platform, and one of the best and easiest to use at that.
All I needed to do was add in my content just by adding a few pages to my Wordpress blog.
OK, so I can hear you asking. “How do I protect my content”?
So here is where you will probably want to fork over a little bit of change. Now you don’t have to. Paul shows you a way to do a membership site just by using an autoresponder, but I wanted mine to be a little more flexible.
The product that Paul recommends and which is the one I used is Wishlist Member. This is nothing more than a Wordpress plug-in that takes a Wordpress blog and turns it into a full fledged membership site. It integrates with several payment processors, including Paypal, Clickbank, and several others. I am currently using Paypal, but am working on getting it moved over to Clickbank so that I can incorporate their affiliate capabilities.
Wishlist Member is a fantastic product and one that I am going to be using for all of my coming membership sites.
So there you have it, a full fledged membership site in no time.
In my next post I will give you a look inside WishList Member and how I am using it in my membership site Niche Site Club.
Niche Site Club is the first membership site that I have put together.
As a member of Niche Site Club you will get one complete niche website each month that includes:
PLR ebook
PLR articles
List of Related Keywords
Professional Sales Page
Matching Download/Thank You Page
Matching Graphics
Matching Wordpress Blog Theme
Matching Affiliate Graphics
There may be more included with some packages, but at a minimum you will get the above products.
You will also have access to three sets of videos including Niche Research Videos (nearly 1.5 hours), Keyword Research Videos (1 hour), and Niche Marketing Videos (nearly 5 hours). I will also be adding additional video content over the next few weeks in addition to some personal videos on exactly how to best use the niche website packages that you receive each month.
I have tried to keep it super simple. Doing this allows me to charge a very, very small membership fee compared to some of the others you will find. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised when you see it!
Check out Niche Site Club and then come back here and let me know what you think!
BTW: It was actually quite simple to put this together and in my next post I will go into more detail on just how I set this membership site up.
One reason many of us want to start our own business is to give us freedom – freedom from financial worries, freedom to make our own decisions, freedom to work when we want and play when we want. Kevin Riley is one entrepreneur who knows how to start your own business in such a way that it gives you the freedom to travel and make money on autopilot. Watch this short video he shot in the Swiss Alps and discover his secret.
