Archive for March, 2007

Dear Friend,

Yesterday, I was on the teleconference call with
Henry Gold and several of our friends. We had a BIG
FIGHT with some marketers who ask us to price the
coaching program at $4,997.00.

In addition…

Henry were EVEN argued with them that he is NOT trying
to damage the Internet Marketing industry. Instead,
he was feeling compassion when he saw the posts on
both our blogs.

Where he can feel how you are EXTREMELY serious
on becoming successful. Yet, the price tag of $4,997
seems to be unreachable.
Because of this…

We have decided to cut down the pricing DRASTICALLY.
Because *You* are our main priority, we do NOT care
what marketers think about us.

To me, my subscribers (You) are way more important than
these marketers

I want to give You the chance for the breakthrough
you have been waiting for a long time.

I want you to be able to pingpoint back and tell
everyone that Socrates was the one that gave you
the chance and the boost you needed to take your
business to the next level.

Because it is Your success that matters.

I do NOT want to disappoint you.
I do NOT want to see you suffering.
I do NOT want to see you not achieving your goals
In other words…

If you are serious, go here now:
http://www.socratesblog.com/teleseminar/easy.php

Grab it immediately!

… And I see you on the call.
Partner to Your Success,
-Socrates Socratous

P.S.  Between my members and my
partner’s the notification is going out to almost
200,000 people. So act quickly before everything is gone

Please dont email me after all the spots are
gone asking to make an exception. Room is limited

http://www.socratesblog.com/teleseminar/easy.php

 

 

Posted by: Socrates Socratous

I am about to announce to you the launch of the
telecoaching program I mentioned to you yesterday.
However, I MUST hold it off for one more day.

I am a kind of confused right now in terms of
pricing, as I talked with a friend of mine, who
is also a top-notch marketer about what is a good
pricing for this FOUR-WEEK Intensive coaching
program.

When I mentioned about what I am going to cover.
He did NOT hesitate to tell me, “Socrates, you
MUST charge at least $4,997.00 for this.

“Are you CRAZY?” — I replied.

When he explained to me that I GIVE AWAY all my
knowledge
on how I get more than 2,500 unique
visitors per day
(and monetize hundreds of dollars)
on auto-pilot.

He told me that it is almost like I am giving away
the BLOOD of my business.

You see… He was RIGHT! When there are too many
people KNOWing about the Google Adwords Secret I am
about to reveal to you, it will be like I am creating
my own little monster.

I need your ADVICE!

Be very serious on this, ok?

Many of my friends told me that I should price
$4,997 for this FOUR-WEEK Intensive program. On
the other hand, I think it is NOT that reasonable
I want you to become successful.

On the other hand…

When I think about the time  (Twice a week) and
those SENSITIVE information that I am going to give
you for four weeks straight, I don’t want to
price it too low either. (It will be at least 10 hours of Live
fresh Content
)

This is WHY I want you to do me a big favor. I
need you to post a comment with what YOU personally
think I should be charging for this

Be very honest and be very truthful. Tell me
a reasonable price for this FOUR-WEEK coaching
program, where I anticipate to PUT YOU as my next success
story.

Partner to Your success
-Socrates socratous
P.S. I am postponing the launch till tomorrow 9:00am PST
until I read your comments. It is crucial that you comment
below right now…

Posted by: Socrates Socratous

Does your online business have a tour guide?

I am not talking about the travel industry
I am not talking about putting on your safari boots

If you are doing any type of online business
pay close attention to this article.

If you are doing Adwords, eBay, Affiliate marketing
or anything else, then understanding today’s
concept can be the key to your success.

There are 2 ways to find a hidden city in the jungle.

1. By chance. Meaning that you wonder around the
jungle long enough that you found the hidden city.
Lucky you. Chances of finding the city are slim
to none

2. Get a tour guide. Meaning that someone will show
you the EXACT PATH to the hidden city. Your chances
of NOT  finding it are slim to none.

The same goes for your website as well.

Your Goal is to take your customer by the hand,
through your selling adventure, and make sure
he arrives at the destination on YOUR TERMS.

In other words, become the tour-guide for your customer
and show them the way.

Lets take a look at the following picture
(Told you I was a top notch designer 🙂 )

(Click for full image)

map.gif
As soon as your visitor lands on your website
his journey begins. You can either let them
wonder around or take them by the hand and get
them to do EXACTLY what you want.

Your sales letter is part of your virtual tour guide.
Your sales letter is what is going to help your
customer make a positive desicion at every decision point.

Your journey map must be well designed before
you even create your website. Your website
must be build with the map in mind.

Some keypointers:

1. Eliminate any links on your page that are not
part of the map. You dont want people clicking away
and leaving your process

2. Your sales letter should be constructed to
help the customer make specific action(s)
which
will take them to the next step in the path. If you
fail to do this, you are a bad tour-guide and your
visitors will leave

3. Make the transition between pages uniform.
you want the customer to feel they are in the same
path (website)

4. Carefully test every decision point to know
the exact conversions numbers (how many people
went to the next step out of all people). This is
Extremely important. Keep in mind, without a map,
you wouldnt know what to test, and what effect
it has on your bottom line

5. Make it as easy as possible to go through
the journey
.  The easiest it is to go to the next step,
the more people will do it

6. Take the customer to the next step in the path
as fast as possible.
For example, when paying for
product A, redirect to product B upsell immediately.
People are “hot” when they buy. Dont wait for them to
cool off

7. Make sure you bring “lost” customers back into
the path (get an autoresponder series to keep
bringing people back)

Having a map like this one, and knowing your
numbers at every decision point is the key to
a successful online business.

Lets give a figurative example:

lets say 1000 people go to your page and 50%
optin
(that is decision 1, conv = 50%)
That is a total of 500 people that went to
the next step

from the people that opted in lets say 2%
purchase product A
for $97. so we made 10 sales from
those 500 people. or a total of $970

Say from those 10 people, 20% buy product B
for $197. so 2 people bought for a total of $394

Total Profit: 394+970 = $1364.

Since you tracked all your numbers, lets try
and see what happens if we increased the conversion
of the Decision 2 point to 3%.

We make 15 sales of Prod A
We make 3 sales of Prod B

for a total of 1455+591 = $2046

That is almost $700 more just by working on a
specific part of our process to make it better.
(A small change)

Note: This was done with the same number of visitors.
and not counting the people returning from the autoresponder

If we better other sections of our system, the numbers
go up signifigantly.

You wouldnt be able to do this if you didnt know
your numbers and if you didnt have a map to work
with.
So todays lesson:

Make a Map, take your customer through the journey
and test and track all conversions at desicion points.

Dont forget to look out for my email on thursday 9AM PST

 Please post your comments below.

Best Regards.
-Socrates Socratous

P.S. The lucky commentator from this past week’s comments
was BusyBee. Congratulations Busy Bee, you won a seat at my
upcoming Telecoaching Class.

Please post your comments below.

Posted by: Socrates Socratous

Over the past few years I sold thousands of items
on eBay (all of them digital products) before I
discovered the idea I am going to share with you
in this blog post.

You can sell almost anything you want on ebay as
long as it is legal and not alive.

That includes selling ebooks and other digital
downloads.

I Bet you already knew that…

Am I really wasting my time here?

I dont think so! 

See, I talk with many of my thousands MyDD customers
on a daily basis and I found out that around 95% fail
to see the bigger picture
.

Most of these people are satisfied making a few bucks
per ebook they sell on eBay.  I say satisfied because
they DONT know what I am about to share with you.

eBay is an excellent source of targetted traffic.
Traffic from eBay is very different than the traffic
from PPC and Google Adwords.

WHY?

Because people that browse on eBay are Looking to
BUY something, meaning they are customers.

People that browse Google are mostly looking for free
information.

Got that?
The best way to use eBay is for LEAD GENERATION. in
other words, sell some ebooks on ebay for cheap with
the intention
of taking that new customer you got
for $5 and upsell something that is worth $65.

If it costs you $1 in fees to make that $5 sale, you
will need to sell 1000 ebooks every month in order to
make $4000.

That requires a lot of time and work to reach that level
not including the customer service headache of 1000
people a month, if you actually manage to sell 1000

Most people GIVE UP before they even come close to that

Now if you immediately offer an upsell for $65 to all
of your $5 customers, and lets say 1 out of 4 takes
your offer. that means for every 4 customers you make
((4 * $4) + $65) =$81.

That gives you a profit of about $20 per customer
instead of $4. Now you only need to make 200 sales a
month to reach $4000. that comes down to about 7 sales
a day
. which is very doable on ebay.
Now let me explain how this compares to google adwords.

When you post a listing on eBay you need to pay fees.
Lets say you pay  35 cents to post an ad for 7 days.

If you get 7 people to click on your ad, in reality
you paid 5 cents per click.

The way people find your ad on ebay is by searching
using the eBay search function.

Ebay will look for the search term in all listing titles
in their system and will show all listings that contain the
search term
.

So if you have a keyword-packed title in your ebay
listing, your ad will show every time someone searches
for those keywords, and you will get more clicks for the
same 35 cents.

That my friend, is what ebay and adwords have in common.

Your goal is to setup your listings so that they are
keyword packed to get more clicks for the same money.

THEN, take those leads you generated, and leverage them.

This is the way to make the real money on eBay. It is
also the way to test your sales pages and processes
before moving into Adwords.

That is the secret to eBay and adwords success,

LEVERAGE your LEADS.

Stay tuned for my email tomorrow where I will reveal
the name of the lucky blog poster. Make sure to post
your comments below
to get a chance of winning the
mystery gift

Till Tomorrow,

Partner to Your Success,
-Socrates Socratous

P.S. If you missed my previous emails, you can find them
posted on this blog. Just click on “Home” from the links
above and navigate Throught the previous posts. 
Dont forget to post your comments. Talk to you tomorrow.

Posted by: Socrates Socratous

Everywhere I look, people are eager to generate traffic
to their websites with the hope of making a few bucks.

Is traffic really the holy grail of a successful internet business?

If you answered yes, THINK AGAIN

Traffic is a very important part of a successful website
BUT if you dont have the other parts in places, it will be
a waste of time and money!

In order for your traffic to actually worth anything, you
must do SOMETHING with it.

I call this “The Journey“. The marketing term for it is
“marketing funnel”.

In short, it is the FLOW of traffic to and through your business.
It involves capturing some of the traffic (lead generation)
and moving the leads through different stages in order to
increase their value (value of your lead = how much
money you make from  a lead during the life of their relationship
with you.)

For example:

  • 1000 visitors go to your website (traffic)
  • 500 of them optin for a newsletter (leads)
  • 50 of them purchased a $100 product (customers)
  • 25 of those 50 purchased an additional $500 item (leverage)
  • 10 of the 25 purchased a coaching program for $5000 
    (more leverage)
  • 5 of them pay you $1000/month for continued education
    (Residual income)

The process above will NOT happen on its own. It is a journey
YOU must take your visitors through and do it correctly in
order for it to work.

Note that the numbers of people are decreasing with every step
creating a “funnel” effect.

This is a simplified example to show you how it works.
It can be extended further to increase the value even more.

I created a diagram to show you a metaphorical representation
of this concept which I think will “stick” in your mind and help
you always keep it in mind when you create and optimize
your business.

I call this “The Swimming Pool” concept.

Click on the image below to open in a new window.

swimming-pool-final.jpg

Let me explain what this means and what it means for the success
of your business.

There is a “RIVER“.

You take a “HOSE” and you plug it into the river.

The hose takes water from the river and adds it into your
POOL.

The SUN heats up the pool and evaporates a percentage of
the water inside the pool. (lost water)

there is a PUMP that filters the water from the pool and
adds it back into it.

There is also another HOSE that takes water from the pool
and adds it into the SPA.

The Red arrows show the direction of the flow in the diagram.

This is how a real live swimming pool works. So keep this in
mind…

How Does this relate to your Business?

Lets break it down:

The river represents the traffic source. For example Google Adwords
represents a river of people.

Having a hose bringing water to your pool, is like having an adwords
campaign driving traffic to your website(s).
Some people will opt-in or buy, some will leave. 
People leaving (loss) is represented by the evaporation.

As soon as people are on your customer or mailing list, they are
INSIDE your pool.

When you have an autoresponder series sent to your people from
your pool, is like the circulation pump where you take people from
the pool, fliter them and then put them back in the pool.

The evaporation process happens continuously. meaning that
you always lose people from your list

Your Goal is to bring more traffic in than what is lost through
“evaporation”

AND…

Move people to your higher ticket items (Backend – SPA)

IF you stop bringing traffic in, your pool and spa will eventually
dry.

This is a simplified model.

More things to consider:

  • You can have the people in your pool and spa plug their hoses
    in other rivers and bring traffic to your pool (Affiliate -referral methods)
  • You can plug additional hoses to other rivers and get traffic in.
  • You can create more swimming pools and exchange traffic
    between them. (Cross Selling)
  • You can find other people with swimming pools and get them
    to exchange traffic with you (JV partners)
  • You can physically plug your hose on someone elses  pool
    and get some traffic from there (Integration Marketing)

and so forth…

As you can see from this example, Traffic itself IS NOT important.
Controlling the flow of traffic and converting it, is the
most important thing of all.

Also, knowing the cost of driving the traffic from each traffic
source and how much money that traffic is worth to you,
is FUNDAMENTAL.

Knowing the value of each person in your swimming pool will
tell you exactly how much to pay for advertising without
getting burned.

Sorry for the long post.

This is VERY important to understand in order to move your
business to the next level.

If you like this information and you want to keep it coming, please
post your comment below.

As I said before, If you post a comment, you will get a chance to
win my mystery gift on Sunday. A post on each blog post from
this week, will cound as an additional chance of winning the gift.
So if you posted before, post again to increase your chances.

Till Sunday,

Partner to Your Success,
-Socrates Socratous

P.S. Your comments is what drives me to continue to provide you
with this information. Your Comment COUNTS. So please post your
comment below.

Posted by: Socrates Socratous

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