Attain Response F5 Marketing System Review

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I’ve spent the last month or so testing out a new autoresponder with a difference, Attain Response. There are 3 main elements to this impressive, smart media marketing system: Media F5, Mail F5 and Marketing F5.

These so called Tools of Attraction pool together for a unique web-based email & video communication application that will certainly help businesses, online entrepreneurs and marketers leap ahead of the competition.

A quick video overview of Attain Response

Mail F5
The robost hosting solution behind this allows you to send video and audio enhanced email campaigns, upload database lists, use capture forms in web media and follow up with targetted autoresponder emails.

Media F5
All media can be stored and streamed from here enabling you to reach audiences around the world to both emails and websites. with Live Broadcast, Video Conference, and media you can publish to both emails and websites.

Marketing F5
The heart of the system, from here you can launch campaigns, newsletters and capture leads. Integrate that powerful video media into your own branded email templates or choose from a wide selection.

Every marketer and online business should know list building and an autoresponder is one of the most important online marketing elements for building your online business foundations. Most go for Aweber which has excellent deliverability and increasingly intuitive features and Infusionsoft offers an impressive marketing automation system, although a high set up cost may be too much for the small business entrepreneur. You can read a useful review on Infusionsoft right here.

Overview of Marketing F5

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By all means Attain Response does not have the smooth mechanics as Aweber and the amount of html code for the website opt-in is pretty horrendous, and should be a lot lot less.

But this is early days and for a first version this is a pretty awesome system in my opinion.

Lastly, let me state we are  resellers for the Attain Response software, but I have tried to be as unbiased as possible and bear in mind purchasing Attain Response through our link gives you full training in F5 marketing from our team.

5 Ways to Increase Website Conversions

With the western world still struggling to climb out of a self induced recession, every business should be looking at key elements of their online marketing process from website conversion to traffic generation and often a few small changes to increase conversion are all that is needed.

A business website or blog should have a specific function whether it is creating sales, capturing leads or getting users to fill out a form. It is important to know what your websites main function is so that everything on that site can be geared to this main goal and if anything on the page distracts from that, then it should be consigned to the trash bin.

This can be a long process, but once a website is highly optimized for conversions valuable visitors stop getting wasted and the goals of the website will start to be realized. Sometimes increasing the conversion rate can be easier than trying to increase traffic. If you have 1 sale in 100 visitors and you want to increase to 2%, what is easier? Increasing your visitors by another 100 or increasing conversion to 2%?

There are hundreds of ways to increase conversions but let’s keep it simple and concise at 5.

1.    Web Statistics – Implement Google Analytics show you can see what traffic is coming from where, what keywords you’re been found under. You can also tie this in with any Google Adwords Campaigns you’re running and track conversions and results. Using Website Optimizer with Google Analytics allows you to test and optimize site content and design and quickly and easily increase revenue and ROI whether you’re new to marketing or an expert.

2.    Look in the Mirror - Take a long hard look at your website. Is it obvious what you are selling or can solve your reader’s problem? Are there distracting banners, links taking users away from your websites main goal?

3.    Offer Value - In the current climate people are looking for value. Are you offering it? Giving something away for free, free shipping or a similar incentive to order may sound obvious but are you doing it?

4.    Keywords - Is your website targeting the right keyword phrases? If your headlines don’t work or entice. For example: XYZ Florists offer Flowers for every occasion might be better as XYZ Florists of Bristol offer Flowers for Weddings, Funerals, (and depending on the season) Mothers Day / St Valentine’s Day. This would attract more localised results as well as people looking for flowers for a specific occasion.

5.    Testimonials - Are you collecting testimonials from every customer, or as many as you can? Testimonials are a powerful incentive to new buyers. If you can ask for a more in depth testimonial the better. What was it about your service that they liked? How did it benefit them?

Bristol Marketing Workshop

If you are based in the UK and available in May there is a seminar workshop, hosted by Internet Marketer Robert Puddy here in Bristol on the 8th -10th May.

This 3 day event will focus on membership marketing and product creation with some very special guests attending including Simon Hodgkinson who over the last 15 years has sold in excess of ten million dollars worth of products.

Speakers include:
Paulie Sabol is a real estate millionaire, online entrepreneur, and a highly sought after platform speaker.

Donna Fox is the best selling author of “From Credit Repair to Credit Millionaire”.

Soren Jordansen. Soren has been marketing his business online since 2004. A total ideas man, he is always coming up with cool, new innovations.

Robert Puddy who grew his first “official” site to over 20,943 members in 18 months. That’s over 1,000 new members a month.

Amit Mehta. Amit  is a Super Affiliate, speaker, author and blogger. He is currently the lead instructor and coach at PPCClassroom.com.

Jennie Armato Head Coach & Trainer Web Business Academy
A business and marketing entrepreneur first and foremost, she now heads up a world-wide coaching and consulting service helping other entrepreneurs and marketers realize the full potential of the web business opportunity.

The cost for this Bristol Marketing Workshop is extremely reasonable considering some seminars can cost 4 figures, so come along!

Read more here:

http://lfmpireworkshops.com?rid=71

Clickbank Hop Builder

Clickbank have added a nifty new tool for publishers and affiliate promoters (about time really) that gives you an ‘adsense style’ ad box or widget style tabbed box for full commission clickbank products displaying just ad headlines.

Below is an example of a working tabbed widget.

You can specify keywords to control the types of ads that appear and these of course can be any clickbank products and specify different keywords. It’s a straight forward process to set up, just log in and then go to this page:
https://www.clickbank.com/account/hopAdBuilder.htm

Basic Ad block set up:

Affiliate Christmas Cash Strategy

Whilst the ‘crunch’ bites, online sales of Christmas Gifts will rise this year. We’ve been looking at the Christmas gifts market by building a combination of static and blog websites focusing on certain products and toys. Specifically chosen products that we want to target get their own product page, and where possible their own mini-site. Blogs are just too powerful to ignore, so we will be putting a few of those out there too and pushing the feeds to remote content sites using the strategy in our new new media reports.

Specifically focusing on Amazon products works nicely and there is an excellent product Info Product Killer - discount code SPL777 - (although we have nothing against info products!) featuring videos and templates to build this strategy to focus on affiliate marketing of real products and not just for Christmas

A very handy wordpress plugin came to our attention called MultiFeedSnap which easily brings in RSS Feeds to your blog by encasing them in a [feedsnap, 10] tag, so naturally we used Amazon’s product feeds with our affiliate associate ID slapped on there..

Grabbing the Feed:

Most of the main categories on Amazon have their own RSS Feeds which you’ll see on your browser if available.

You can also grab the main RSS feeds from Amazon.com from here. Just copy the URL after choosing your category and don’t forget your associates ID.

You can also get the feeds manually by copying the RSS url and tagging on your associates tag.

Example:

Step 1.
Go to the relevant category on Amazon and copy the URL:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/videogames/ref=pd_ts_h?pf_rd_p=103981591&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_t=2101&pf_rd_i=home&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=0M4DFHDP3P4JFGKKQRC2
http://affiliate-blog.amazon.co.uk/2008/07/create-associat.html

Step 2.
Delete everything in yellow above until you just have:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/videogames/

Step 3: Replace gp with rss and add ?tag=AssocID-21 on the end giving you:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/rss/bestsellers/videogames/?tag=AssocID-21

Warning: This will not work if there is no RSS feed available. You can pick out most categories and there is an excellent post on the UK Amazon affiliate blog which gives you a good idea on how it works.

This feed just goes within your [feedsnap, 10] tags in the html tab of your wordpress post:

[feedsnap, 10]http://www.amazon.co.uk/rss/bestsellers/videogames/?tag=AssocID-21[/feedsnap]

It works pretty well, except occasionally there’s an error instead of a list of lovely products which is usually fixed by a hit on the refresh button. There are many many ways to pull in the feeds to your blog, so if there are any other great plug ins for that, let us know.

2008 UK Focus Marketing Seminar Review

I had looked forward to this for a while, so it was good to get going (even at 5am on Friday morning) to the Radisson Hotel at Heathrow. The hotel was pretty grand and the proceedings kicked off with co-host Internet Entrepeneur, Sean Roach outlining a few house rules -  like mobile phones needing to be OFF - otherwise a donation of £100 to charity was in order. Nothing against charities, but my phone was firmly switched off from that moment on.

Those who’ve seen him know Sean is a highly entertaining speaker and always drives home important points about where we should be going in terms of our online business, asking: what’s your SKOPAS?, a Greek word for target, goal or mark. Explaining how we should choose a niche an inch wide and a mile deep and create a business out of your hobby or something you love. Nothing new to those who know, but it’s always good to see old hat with fresh eyes.

Sean outlined an interesting vision of the near future  Internet with Ebay and Yahoo examples of the bigger picture and lone websites representing unconnected islands on the sea we call the web. People, explained the US entrepreneur, will be drawn to platforms for all their online needs, and examples of this are already evident with social media. This tied in neatly with his social media project GOT ACCESS which looks like becoming a winner, especially with the unique selling points it offers.

Now, how about something completely shocking? We should all know this, and it shouldn’t be a surprise, but I guess it sometimes takes someone to point it out in black and white.

The terms and conditions written by Social Media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Google and I just read Flickr (owned by Google) stipulates that all content posted on these sites is owned by them…Whooaaah there!..,.think of all those photographers that throw up their works…not only that, but they have the right to syndicate this content:

“By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide licence (with the right to sublicence) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise”

Scared yet? And have you ever sent confidential documents, product blueprints or content through Gmail? Yep, they could own that too…read the terms.

So after recovering with a quick shot of Jack Daniels, we moved on:

GotAccess main pointers:

• Your Information is kept private
• Create Clubs (memberships) which you can charge for up to 10 levels if you wish
• Monetize your content
• Sell your products on a Social Technology Platform
• Two separate parts, social and business, so both are separate initially, but as in life, sometimes friends and business does mix.

I suggest you get the whole story at GotAccess for more info

Speaker highlights of the seminar for me Raymond Arron, Glenn Dietzel and Alan Forrest Smith. Raymond was an extremely funny and inspirational man and quite obviously a heavyweight within his profession. Glenn is someone I’d have no problem buying into, because it would suit my own business plan and Alan also, a great storyteller but most importantly someone who stands by his results – which are DAMNED impressive.

Yes, it was a pitchfest, with low entry fee it was bound to be, but as long as you are not easily swayed by sales patter for something that doesn’t suit your plan you can sit back and appreciate the success stories and techniques employed – which brings me to the tears – I’m not sure about the tears from a couple of the speakers. Was it genuine? or an emotional selling strategy to create empathy with the audience? Am I a cynical b*stard? You decide. Personally, I had to eat my twin sibling as a kid when growing up, whilst living in a match-box in Siberia – but I survived.

I caught up with people from last year and some names that are the new generation in Internet Marketing such as Chris Freville, Matt Garret and Alex Jeffreys - and many a beer was had. One thing though - I had a feeling there was a barrier between some of the speakers and everyone else (I’m talking about the bar networking here, not at the seminar) that wasn’t evident last year. Was this my imagination? I can’t remember which speaker pointed out that millionaires hang out with other millionaires or of the same social status and this rang true. Don’t get me wrong though, I’ll be hanging out with a lot more millionaires when I’m one, for sure.

Conclusion: There was tight organization this year that kept the show running smoothly throughout and breakfast, lunch (very nice) and coffee breaks ensured everyone didn’t have to rely on expensive hotel cuisine, which did annoy me last year. But tightening up the ship lost some of the relaxed feel that was associated with previous Focus seminars, in my experience. But the free stuff! Cruises – Books - T-shirts - Prize Draws – Lunch and Speaker Programmes with upwards to $10k were given away like confetti at the end of the Seminar as well as a  five DVD set to everyone, which you cannot fault.

Focus Marketing Seminars UK Event

I’ve talked about the importance of developing networks and relationships before, especially in the Internet business where we spend so much time in front of the screen!

Attending seminars is, of course, the way to go for meeting other Internet entrepeneurs, potential future business partners as well as getting the low-down from marketers who are pulling in vast sums to their business.

I attended the Britpack event last year, which was my first , and met some great contacts whom I still work with today. I can’t emphasis the importance of actually meeting your contacts as opposed to through the internet ‘cloud’

This year, the Focus Marketing Seminar rolls into the UK on October 17th-19th 2008.

Confirmed so far:

Armand Morin: How to generate a $35 Million dollar business starting from scratch online! (Armand used to sell vacuum cleaners door to door)

Alan Forrest Smith: How to take a failed webpage then re-launch the page as a million dollar best seller!

Adam Ginsberg: Number 1. EBay seller with over $20 MILLION in sales over just 3 years!

Sean Roach: Web 3.0 technology and SEO Latest from the Corporate trenches!

Tim Brocklehurst has enthralled audiences worldwide with his step-by-step approach to setting up automatic businesses on the Internet. He is now known as the ‘James Bond’ of Internet Marketing.

Debra Thompson: Building Residual Income into your Business So You Get Paid Over and Over Again - AUTOMATICALLY!

The event takes place at the Radisson Hotel at Heathrow, London.

Book the event here and start opening the doors for Internet Success. Focus Marketing Seminar

Joint Venture Partnerships

Making good JV partnerships is one way you can speed up the success of a product, by having other marketers/businesses promote your product for a commission to their mailing list. This could bring in a vast amount of sales and additions to your list. Setting up JV partners takes work, connections and a willingness to get out there and mix. The worst thing you can do is email the big guns asking them to promote your product. They get countless emails like this everyday and unless you’re extremely exceptional or your product is you’re likely to get a resounding silence in return.

There’s no better way to connect by meeting face to face, and although this is the normal thing to do in the offline business world, online people tend to want to hide behind their machines. Getting yourself to a seminar may not be cheap but will definitely help your JV endeavours and could change your life. The first seminar I attended I met dozens of contacts who I still keep in touch with and do business with on a regular basis.

Anyway, that’s the best way, but failing that try to make yourself known by commenting on their blogs or joining forums. Another great way to get JV’s is to buy their product and relate your feedback to them. You are essentially looking for ways to get to know potential partners and to offer them something – give them value and they’ll look at you differently. Everyone is human.

Giving Your Affiliates Ammo

It’s no secret that having an army of affiliates promoting your product or service can seriously ramp up the traffic and sales! Hordes of people driving traffic for you via GoogleAds, Articles, Blogs and the rest. So it’s important to keep them sweet with lots of goodies that they can use to promote your stuff.

• Consider Banners of all sizes
• Pre-written Emails
• Articles
• Pre-written Press Releases
• Pre-written Forum Signatures
• Google Ads (with Keywords) - trust me they’ll love you for it
• Their own Landing Pages (so they can build their list)
• Viral Reports
• Videos they can brand
• Give them their own domain

It is a bit of work but the results are going to carry on producing for you long after the work done.

Creating Banners
Ok if you don’t do this kind of stuff, it’s probably something you want to include when you have all your product graphics done. There are plenty of internet graphics services out there here are a few:

http://www.ecovermedia.com
http://www.pulpminisites.com

Pre written emails
Well written, bringing in story elements and call to action. Study the emails you’ve received that made you click through. Remember this is not the sales page..that has its own job..you just need to get your readers to click through to it.

Articles
Laser focused on your niche with a strong call to action for the resource box. Articles are low cost to get written! Check out the warriorforum.com and go to Warrior Special Offers (be warned, you may never leave)

Press Releases
OK these are powerful and you should be doing them for your own products for certain. But how about one or two rewritten for your affiliates to use? - Give them a video explaining the submission process to free PR sites such as:

pr-insider.com
pressreleasemonkey.com

Forum signatures need to be snappy and to the point, you’ve got a sentence or two to play with.
Google Ads - make sure they are the right character account that actually fit into the different fields in Google Adwords and a list of well researched keywords will go a long way to giivng you streams of traffic.

Domain name. Give your best affiliates a domain name to forward to your site with their affiliate link. This motivates a stronger campaign on their behalf.

Landing Pages - Ties in with giving them a domain name, giving affiliates the option to host their list building landing page.

Report - OK may as well give them something they can give away and build their list with - so rebrandable viral report.

Use:
http://www.viraldocumenttoolkit.com

Videos
Create a video for your affiliates to distribute check out
http://www.vivaviralvideo.com/
http://www.webvideozone.com/public/department52.cfm

Good luck with your Affiliate Army!

The 30 Day Training Challenge

You might be a newbie or a heavyweight ‘guru’ - either way there is an avalanche of top notch marketing training coming your way and it’s completely free.

The 30 Day Challenge helps people new to Internet Marketing make their first bucks online using the latest social media marketing techniques and strategies. There is nothing else like this in the Internet Marketing community, and there’s not even a launch lurking around the corner..waiting to pounce. Ed Dale and Dan Raine are just giving out fantastic free content and training for Free!

Kick off is August 1st and pre-season has already been in swing for a while now covering Flock browser, Twitter, YouTube, Friendfeed, StumbleUpon and is all great stuff.

http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com

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