Month: April 2008

09
Apr
2008

Survey Results Part 1 – Do You Have A Mailing List?

Way back in November (which doesn’t seem that long ago), I told you a little bit about my background and also asked you if you’d complete a survey.

http://www.frankhaywood.com/mailing-list-survey/

My intention was to:-

#1 – Share those results.
#2 – Help you do something about what came out of the survey.

I wanted to do both together, but I thought the only way I could do so was if I spent a lot of time showing you how to build your own mailing list.

As I’ve been sort of busy since then (yes I know this is just an excuse), I’ve completely failed to come up with the goods and so I’ve hurt myself in the process.

See, my logic is, if I help you build a mailing list, then you’ll be in a position to promote all the lovely things I’ve got coming out this year. Or not.

It’s always up to you of course what you promote to your list, and you should never bow to pressure to promote things you don’t truly believe are worth it. I don’t, and that’s why you don’t see me jumping on every big launch.

(Okay there’s an exception, there was a big launch yesterday, and I am VERY impressed with the product and the guy behind it, but let’s save that for another time.)

So what am I on about then?

Well, there were a few questions in the survey about building a mailing list, and one of them was to rank topics in order of importance. I was a little surprised with some of the results, and over the next few days I’m going to share them with you.

First of all though, let’s take a look at the result for how important list building is to you.

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I think you’ll agree that most people “get it” and you can see that list building is vital to your internet business.

In fact I’ll go a step further and say that your mailing list is your business. I believe that without one, you’re dead in the water.

Now by a nice bit of good fortune, Jonathan Paston wrote to me and asked if he could try my nickel script out. I said okay, but was there something he could do to help you and me out in return.

After a bit of chat backwards and forwards, it turns out that he has a really nice list building product (a set of videos) that he sells for $77.

After a bit more chat I got him to agree to do a nickel sale for it, starting at…

Wait for it…

Two dollars…

Yee-haa! Now that’s what I call a result. 🙂

I’ve just taken a look at the new page he’s set up for it, and he’s thrown in a couple of REALLY nice bonuses to go with it – an ebook and an MP3.

He must have really REALLY wanted to get his hands on my nickel script!

So, we’ve agreed that tomorrow he’ll launch his nickel sale at the usual time of 3.00pm GMT (10.00am EST) as that seems to suit most people.

Sidenote: If it feels like I’ve been involved in a lot of nickel sales recently (it’s only actually 3), it’s because I want to “battle test” the nickel script before letting it out into the wild. There’s one outstanding problem with it over single quotes, and one extra little tweak I’ve asked the nickel script developer (David) to make and I think it will just about be ready for public consumption. So watch out for that one coming soon.

I’ll make sure to set up the blog post with the link to the nickel sale here in advance, and set it to appear automatically at 3.00pm, so even if I get called away (like I did yesterday), you’ll still get the link at that time.

Excited? I am! I just hope there aren’t any problems with the nickel script for Jonathan tomorrow…

-Frank Haywood.

Posted by Frank Haywood in internet business
07
Apr
2008

Nickel Sale – now MASTER Resale Rights to ClickBank Niche Builder

I just thought I’d make a quick post to let you know that tomorrow’s nickel sale for ClickBank Niche Builder now includes Master Resale Rights (MRR).

It’s still not the big MRR, these are for basic rights.  But what it means is that you can now sell resale rights to your customers.  They will also be able to sell, but they won’t be able to sell resale rights on themselves.

The reason for the change of plan is I’ve been talking to the product owner, and he’s very kindly allowed me to pass on the improved rights to you.

I’m sure you realise that this greatly enhances the products value both to you and to your customers, but even so, I’m not increasing the starting price of the nickel sale.

So the sale starts tomorrow (Tuesday 8th April) at 3.00pm GMT (10.00am EST) for just $5.02.

–Frank Haywood

Posted by Frank Haywood in internet business
07
Apr
2008

Nickel Sale – ClickBank Niche Builder

Okay, knowing how popular my recent nickel sales have been, I’ve decided to do another one tomorrow for an amazingly popular product that has bought in sales of $100,000 since launch.

The nickel sale I’m doing tomorrow is for RESALE RIGHTS for the very VERY useful ClickBank Niche Builder.

What is it, and what does it do?

ClickBank Niche Builder is a Windows application that allows you to connect to and download ClickBank databases either by category, or the entire database if you want.

It will then let you browse through it, search by key word and $$$ earned by sale, and filter down to the niche products you’re interested in, saving you a ton of time in the process.

But BETTER than that is you can also get it to build the framework for an entire web site for you, and automatically generate cloaked links to every ClickBank product you’ve selected to be included.

It’s really cool and dead easy to use.

The icing on the cake (as I like to say) is that you get it with resale rights. Not MASTER resale rights, as I’m not allowed to convey that, but you CAN turn it round yourself and resell it for a profit.

Your alternative is to go buy it for $97 from the official site.

The nickel sale will start tomorrow at 3.00pm GMT (10.00am EST) at just $5.02 and will rise by 5 cents with every purchase.

So if you’re quick, you can resell it for three times that amount, but please remember you can’t convey resale rights yourself as my licence currently doesn’t allow me to pass that on.

If the licencing terms ever change, I’ll pass on master resale rights to you directly.

At this price, if you sell just one copy you’ve made a profit and also have a great new tool you can use wisely to make even more money.

In another post later this week (perhaps early next week), I’ll show you how I intend to use this great tool myself to both build my list and my bank account.

Maybe I’ll do a video…

Yeah, I think that will work well with what I want to show you.

In fact, what I WILL show you will blow your socks off if you haven’t seen anything like this before. It will be a password protected blog post, so if you’re not a subscriber to this blog, go to the home page and near the top right are two boxes to fill in your name end email address.

As usual, I won’t hand out the password for free after the event, you’ll have to buy it, so sign up now if you want it for free.

But before we get there, get ready for the nickel sale tomorrow.

3.00pm GMT (10.00am EST) starting at just $5.02.

–Frank Haywood

P.S. Here are the links to my other two nickel sales in case you missed them…

Pre-launch for SmartDD LITE with resale rights:-

http://www.smartddlite.com/rrns/

Pre-launch for Ticket Desk Pro for personal use only:-

http://www.ticketdeskpro.com/tdpns/

Just to remind you, those two products will be $27 and $47 (rising to $97) respectively at their official launches.

Posted by Frank Haywood in internet business
07
Apr
2008

The eBay Slap – Step 2

A couple of weeks ago, I told you I had a plan to help you after eBay slapped all digital goods sellers from the 1st April.

Since then, there’s been a lot going on.

If you bought Dave Lovelace’s special offer, you’ll now know how to create your own CDs and DVDs to sell on eBay. You’ll also know where you can get an international dropshipper that will do Print On Demand (POD) for your CDs and DVDs and then send them directly to your customers.

That still leaves the problem of automating the delivery process.

Well, I now have that solved for you.

My SmartDD developer (Paul) has been working on the solution that will allow you to automatically let that international dropshipper know when you’ve made a sale via SmartDD.

The dropshipper will then send your customer their goods, completely hands off from you.

It’s just like selling digital goods again.

Only this time, you can actually earn more money.

Think about it, the perception of most people is that a physical product has much more value than a digital product.

So instead of charging a dollar or two for a download and building your list in that way, now you can charge $15-$25 for a CD, and still build your mailing lists at the same time.

Plus you get all the benefits of having emails automatically sent out to your customers, including the follow up 24 hours later, and you can even supply them the goods as a download too if you want to.

And the beautiful thing is, you remain within eBay’s new rules.

We’ll be releasing it later this week as SmartDD v2.1 – we’re just doing some final tests to make sure the process works perfectly, and then I’ll make the announcement.

I told you I had a plan.

The good news is, this Step 2 is just the first part… 😉

-Frank Haywood

Posted by Frank Haywood in internet business