Simplifying Life

New To Internet Marketing? Take a Step Back and K.I.S.S

Maynzie 1 Comment

We have all been there before, the newbies of the IM world. There is so much information available today for the new marketer, but it seems that the fundamental prophecy written by the gods of affosphere has been lost in translation and newbies are just being ‘pwned’ left, right and centre – killing their motivation to succeed.

And what is this prophecy?

The K.I.S.S  factor!!!!

Now before I explain what it is, grab a marker and write this on your forehead – “Keep it Simple Stuipid”. Now every night before you got to bed and in the morning it is subconsiouslly embedded in your mind.

I can not tell you the amount of times someone has come to me, lacking motivation because their landing page suited to black women with pink hair, who are single moms and want love in Alaska was not working for them….

Or they jump into PPV and spend days on end trickling in 100 views a day because their targeting is so tight and they kill their dreams from 27 cent losses.

If you wanna make some money you have to K-I-S-S!

The first step for the new marketer I would say is jump on social traffic, particularly Facebook and Plenty of Fish.

Forget making custom landing pages, and go into your network and you will see 100’s of offers dedicated to niches, pre-tested by the advertiser to convert!

And you know what? They do convert and they convert well.

So if you are struggling still to make a profit online, even your first $100/day take a step back and leave those ultra mega guru tips to the professionals and build your base with the easier platforms.

Forget wasting hours on end tweaking a $5 campaign and go all out and dominate Plenty of fish’s niche targeting with the pre made niche offers available on your networks 🙂

I hope this helps somewhat and if anyone needs some more help on what I’m trying to convey here, drop a comment, drop an email and myself or Andrew will get back to you and help your poor newbie soul can get on the right track!

~Maynzie

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Can’t Decide on Tracking Software?

I’ve recently switched over to a new tracking platform called Thrive by the guys over at iPyxel which I love. It’s still in development, but is constantly improving and making strides, and the best part about it can be self-hosted. The offer a 30-day trial and it’s $99 a month thereafter which is well worth the investment.

Those on a smaller budget can still opt to go the CPVLab route, another favorite of mine but a little more outdated. It is, however, more suitable for PPV traffic if that’s your traffic of choice.

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Shrink the size of your PPV Landers for more $$

Andy 5 Comments

Another quick post here, I’ve been very busy in the trenches launching campaigns, managing existing ones, dabbling with co-registration and organizing my world-wide-escapade (I’m headed to Canada via Thailand and Tokyo!).

Here are my tips to reduce the load times of your landing pages:

Reduce HTTP Requests

This is quite simple and does not require much work. Where possible, combine your CSS and JavaScript files and remove any references (especially duplicate references, which I’ve seen plenty of times before on other landers) that are not required.

The less connections a browser has to make, the better the page load performance will be. Every millisecond counts.

Compress CSS/JS/HTML

One thing I’ve used to optimize the final output of landing pages is a simple, old, yet effective tactic called compression. Always make a copy of your final product into another directory before trying this (backup).

My favourite tools are online based.

 

Optimize your images for the web

When exporting images for the web from within photoshop, you can actually save the files optimised for web, as well as increase the lossiness of the image in order to shrink the file-size significantly.

Depending on the image, a 20% decrease in quality is far from noticeable to the eye, yet can make a huge difference in the file-size. Another thing this achieves is excluding unnecessary meta-data that JPEGs can hold.

When saving your images, instead of the typical CTRL+S shortcut (Sorry MAC users, I am not familiar with your hotkeys), get used to using CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S.

Alternatively you can use File->Save for Web & Devices from the main menu.

Save for Web & Devices
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I hope this helps!

If you’re looking for further Affiliate Marketing Guidance, check out StackThatMoney. Best community of experienced marketers from around the globe, exclusive meetups, follow along’s, tutorials and the knowledge of a thousand sun-gods.

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Can’t Decide on Tracking Software?

I’ve recently switched over to a new tracking platform called Thrive by the guys over at iPyxel which I love. It’s still in development, but is constantly improving and making strides, and the best part about it can be self-hosted. The offer a 30-day trial and it’s $99 a month thereafter which is well worth the investment.

Those on a smaller budget can still opt to go the CPVLab route, another favorite of mine but a little more outdated. It is, however, more suitable for PPV traffic if that’s your traffic of choice.

Read More