Marketing with Squidoo

Do you want to get started in social networking, but don’t have the time or expertise needed to do it yourself? Now, you don’t have to. You can have your lenses built and promoted and then transferred to you, all in a couple of weeks or so.

Tiffany Dow and Lewis Smile – experts on Squidoo – are now at your service.

Learn more by reading Two Squidoo Titans unite to build your lenses for you on my 21st Century Affiliate Marketing blog.

Act on your dream!

JD

Do you want to attract more visitors to your sites?

Of course you do. I do, too.

Some people tell you the secret or the trick to more traffic. You are probably safer if you ignore them.

Tiffany Dow offers some good advice for building a natural flow of visitors to your lenses, pages, blogs, sites, and whereever else you are promoting something.

It all begins with good keyword research and ends with long-term commitment to dominate your niche.

Her article offers some simple advice that anyone can implement, if you have the drive to do it: Basic Good Old Traffic Advice.

Act on your dream!

JD

If you don’t already know it, I’m a huge fan of Site Build It!, Ken Evoy, and their 5 Pillar Affiliate Program.

I’ve joined and tested hundreds of affiliate programs, and the 5 Pillar Affiliate Program remains at the top of the list.

You can earn generous commissions from each sale, and recurring commissions from each annual renewal. This is true lifetime commissions, and the folks at SiteSell go out of their way to make sure you are credited for the sales you make.

It is a two-tier program, so you can earn residual commissions each time someone you refer to the affiliate program makes a sale.

SiteSell offers outstanding training, a regular newsletter for affiliates, great promotional tools, dedicated affiliate managers, and free members-only forums.

The 5 Pillar Program remains one of my highest paying and most reliable income streams.

Have you joined, yet?

It’s free, you know.

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If I were going to recommend only one affiliate program, this is it.

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JD

After years of earning some nice commission checks from about a dozen companies, I’m ready to move my marketing efforts to a new level, and that involves building mailing lists for each of the products I like and recommend.

Instead of having a one-time opportunity to make a sale, I intend to attract people who are interested in the products I promote and persuade them to trade their valuable contact information in exchange for good information about how to put the product to profitable use.

The goal, of course, is to build relationships with new prospects, provide quality information about the product and how they can use it, and to convert a percentage of those prospects into customers – hopefully happy customers.

This takes a lot of work, but email marketing has been proven time and again to be the best way to educate your readers and help some of them make the decision to purchase.

Now, I want this to be top-quality all the way, so I’m only using Aweber to manage my lists and will only send emails to people who have opted-in to the list and confirmed the decision.

I was looking for a simple way to add a subscribe form to a Squidoo lens, but neither the javascript nor the HTML form method provided by Aweber works in a lens.

After scratching my head, I’m testing a sign-up form on my Private Success Team lens.

This isn’t the optimum way to do this, but I have an image of the subscribe form on the lens. When you click the image, it opens a new window (or tab) with one of my splash pages that has a live subscribe form. Eventually, if this works, I’ll open a link to a page with a subscribe form and more information about the product, but the splash page is convenient, for now.

I was thinking that it would be great if Squidoo and Aweber could work together to build a module that makes it easy for us to add a subscribe form to our lens.

Perhaps there is already a way to do this that I don’t know about. If so, I’d really appreciate a link to it.

So, what do you think? Does what I’m currently doing look like a viable option, for now?

Do you know who to contact at Squidoo to suggest such a module?

I look forward to your feedback and opinions.

Act on your dream!

JD