It’s been a while, mainly due to the fact I have something to look forward to in the new year, the removal of my wisdom teeth…

I am not sure how this is going to affect me as more often than not I don’t feel too wise anyway!

At least the pain will go.

So what have I been up to in the mean time?

I have integrated a customer registration form into my one time offer, this will allow me to follow up with customers with a different autoresponder sequence – a list of buyers is GOLD!  People that don’t purchase the oto will be followed up with emails written by the one and only Frank Kern (thanks to my Mass Control Monthly membership )

More planning – remember, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

My short term goals to achieve are:

• Drive 100 targeted visitors a day to my blog.
• Increase the page rank of my blog from PR1 to PR2.
• Post to my blog at least twice a week with one post targeted to a specific key phrase.
• Add the follow up series of emails, mentioned above, to my autoresponder.
• Start promoting the hell outta my squeeze page.
• Cover my Aweber cost twice over (already got a check for $50.16 this month)

My longer term goals are:

• Own a responsive 3000 strong mailing list in 90 days.
• Have an autopilot traffic stream in place.
• Create my own product.
• Quit my J.O.B

What are your goals and plans for the future?

And now on to my tip of the day…

In response to Theresa’s tip contest.

How to keep on top of being on top.

There are two important tools I use for this, both from Google.

The first is Google alerts, I have subscribed to my own name for obvious reasons but also any keywords or key phrases that are relevant to my blog and landing pages.  Google emails you an update each time a new web page is indexed that matches your alert.  You can also setup blog alerts using the Google blog search and add these to your alerts in exactly the same way.

The second tool is Google reader, I use this to read all of the rss feeds of all of the blogs I just so happen to be subscribed to, I have organised the feeds in to many different folders, such as Alex Jeffrey’s student blogs, do-follow blogs, blogs with CommentLuv installed, plus others.  You are then able to click on any folder, and in list view, can easily see the blog post titles and view anything that interests you or catches your eye.  (Make a note of the titles that grab your attention and start a swipe file).

Try them out…

You may wonder how you ever lived without them.

Please leave your comments below.

Until next time…

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The money is in the list… The money is in the list.
Everyone is telling you to build a list, then you will make money online.

Crap…

You may make the odd sale here and there but the money just aint gonna flow if you’re promoting, promoting, promoting.

The Money is actually in your relationship with your list.

Let me say that again, the money is in your relationship with your list.

You need to build and nurture that relationship, treat your list as you would a loved one, a mate, your best friend, like your list, love your list.

A relationship is two way, get your list to interact with you, get them to ask questions, answer those questions, send them a link to a cool video on YouTube, direct them to an article on your blog, tell them stories, get them to post comments on your blog, squidoo lenses, twitter, anything to get that two way interaction going.

Provide value…

and be yourself.

Take Frank Kern for example, the guy’s a freakin genius.
He sends out an email to his list promoting a product, tells people NOT to buy from his link because he was too lazy to make a bonus for it, tells them to buy from someone who actually is offering a bonus, and Frank still makes sales, correction, Frank makes one hell of a lot of sales.

Think about it.

Until next time…