If you can’t make conversions, you can’t make any money. Landing pages are the lifeblood of your marketing campaign.
Check out this video. It explains how these guys increased conversions without changing any ad copy at all. All they did was move images around.
Pretty interesting results!
A couple months ago I wrote a little something on why buying a blog from someone else is a really a bad idea. I used momscashblog.com as an example. I told you that blogs that get purchased from the original owners usually crumble for various reasons, and I predicted that momscashblog.com would suffer the same fate as other blogs that get purchased from the original owners.
I was right.
I could tell that momscashblog.com was in trouble from the start, and there were problems going on, visitors complaining, etc. It was only a matter of time till it all went down.
Yesterday I checked on momscashblog.com to see how it was going. I was not suprised to find the new owner making a post that was accusing the former owner of ripper her off and not giving her rights to the blog. She also gave a list of excuses for her lack of knowledge and other problems with the blog related to its purchase.
Then the former owner responded, accusing the new owner of being a liar and trying to use her as a scapegoat for her failure. It was getting ugly. It was catty.
Then today, I check in to see how bad things are now. I was suprised to see that all of the new posts the new owner had made in the past two months since she purchased it….GONE. ALL OF IT.
Today is June 23rd. The last post on momscashblog.com is now showing as May 4th.
It told you so. See kiddies. DON’T BUY BLOGS FROM OTHER PEOPLE. IT’S A BAD IDEA.
Start your own blog. Build your own traffic. Build your own following. You will be glad you did.
Some of you may know him as Joe Francis, others may know him as the owner of the softcore porn video video production company, Girls Gone Wild.
Even though you may or may not agree with what Joe Francis does, you have to admit he has great vision for what will sell and he’s a great entrepreur. Joe Francis earns a reported $10 million a year from the sale of the Girls Gone Wild videos.
If you were ever curious about Joe Francis and his empire, he has thrown up a little website to let you know more about him. It’s pretty good.
Back in 2006 Rolling Stone Magazine did an article on Scott Storch about his outrageous fortune. It said he was worth $70 million, owned a $10 million house, wore a $3 million yellow diamond ring, owned a $20 milllion boat, and a fleet of luxury and exotic cars.
Ever since that article, there have been some rumblings about Scott Storch’s financial situation. And the news was not good.
First, his credit cards started getting declined at Miami clubs.
Then he had a $7,000 painting repossessed.
Then, Scott Storch’s boat shows up on Ebay
Then the exotic cars cars vanish, and they too start showing up on Ebay.
Now the icing on the cake. This just came out today….
Scott Storch’s attorney even says “He was a victim of mismanagement of his business enterprises, resulting in his current predicament.”
Folks, there’s your proof. Scott Storch is broke. He’s done. He’s finished. It’s only a matter of time till he loses the house too.
Back when Rich Baily first got into dental school he came up with the idea for Billy Bob Teeth. He did not have access to the dental lab, so he had a friend who did have access sneak him in.
Sneaking into the lab has paid off big time for Rich Baily. His invention, “Billy Bob Teeth” had earned the entrepreneur and inventor a whopping $40,000,000 in sales.
Rich demonstrated his whacky invention on major TV talk shows, such as Oprah, Jay Leno, Conan O’ Brian and the Today Show.
This just goes to show, that no matter how crazy or stupid your invention sounds, don’t let others tell you that you can’t make any money with it.
Back in April, the owner of Moms Cash Blog sold the blog for whatever reason. I think the actual reason for the sale was to make a quick buck off of some sucker, just like what happened with onemansgoal.com. It does not take much time to blog, but takes a lot of time and effort to make money. Krysti obviously was not seeing it, so she cashed out.
Anyways, instead of selling to someone who knows what they are doing and talking about, the owner Krysti sells out to someone who does not know what they are doing, so they can’t question anything because they don’t know anything.
So this clueless lady “JJ” comes along and ponies up some money for this blog after being targeted by Krysti as a sucker.
1) Instead of posting about how to make money online, her first post is some drunken rant that made no sense.
2) She admitted to her readers she does not know how to even operate Wordpress.
3) She admitted she has only made .17 cents online in her life.
4) Her advice to her readers on how to make money online is to “fill out surveys”. BWHAHAHA! This lady is clueless.
5) She has failed to notice that the only reason people leave comments is so they can get backlinks. Others that hang around to comment and not drop a link are just as clueless.
6) Her main promotion on the site is the Free Blog Tutorial. She promotes the Free Blog Tutorial like shes knows what she’s talking about. I honestly don’t think she has even looked at the page it’s on.
Look at this. It’s been THREE MONTHS since she bought the blog, and she has not even changed the giant blue email link at the bottom of the tutorial. The old owners email address is still up. How stupid do you have to be?
I just copied this TODAY. It’s STILL there. She obviously has not even looked at the tutorial, let alone know anything about it.
7) She gives no useful advice that is of help to anyone.
Her Alexa ranking and traffic is dropping. It’s a matter of time till it’s all gone. The only reason she still has any is because the former owner did some decent marketing efforts which JJ is still feeding on. Once they start to see the new blog is worthless, the traffic will stop coming, and mom’s cash blog will dry up and blow away in the wind like an old dog turd.
The lesson here: If you don’t know how to make money online, don’t buy a blog about how to make money online. The whole readership is there to learn from you about making money online. When you don’t supply it, the readership goes away.
So if you don’t know how to make money online. Go start a generic blog and post funny pictures of your cat or something. Funny cats are always going to be funny. But watching someone who does not know how to make money online teach others how to make money online is downright painful.
Momscashblog.com will fail.
Anyone that owns a pet knows that the pet is more like a member of the family than an animal. People these days will do anything and everything for their pet. And that includes spending tons of cash on them. There’s several ways to cash in on such opportunities. The pet business has never been bigger.
One thing you can do is sell pet products. Pet Lane can help you get your foot in the door for under $500. They supply the products, you just have to sell them.
Another company that can help you get in the pet product market is Shure Pets. They can help you become a distributor of their pet products for just $99.
And then there’s Top Dawg Pet Supply who’s another pet supplier. You can become a distributor of their pet products for $299.
All three of these have various degrees of training. Some require you to visit the company headquarters, and some will come to you. You will also have other options such as videos, internet and phone consultations.
Support for these pet product businesses include phone support, sales leads, newsletters, email and meetings.
All three can be run from home either full time or part time.
In the internet world, if you know what your competition is doing you can beat them at their own game. That’s where compete.com comes in. For tracking your competition, most people seem to depend on Alexa, which gives very general results, and is really not much help. Compete.com gives you much finer details.
Similar to Alexa, compete.com gives you a line graph of results when you compare your site against others. Compete.com gives you the option to compare up to three websites.
Compete.com can compare number of visitors to different websites. On compete.com you can compare monthly visits, monthy rank and “people visits” which looks like it means “unique visitors”. I don’t know why they don’t just call it that.
Compete.com can also compare monthly page visits, monthly average stay, daily growth, among a few other things.
So if any of you have a website where you are trying to compete against other merchants or webmasters, you need to look at compete.com
On top of that, compete.com also shows you what the tops ranking keywords you competition is ranking for which is a killer tool to have when you are trying to compete against other websites.
Check out compete.com
