As you may know, my DVD Case Cover Creation course is available for $10 dollars through Monday. I have a sample video of the course I’d like to share in case you’re wondering what’s covered in the videos.

I hope you’re having a great weekend!

Here’s the link to the sample video:
http://www.aaronbrandon.com/dvdcreationsample/insert/

Here’s the link to order the course:
http://kunaki.com/sales.asp?PID=PX00Z48SXW

I made a new physical CD course called: DVD Case Cover Creation

I’m willing to let my blog readers purchase it for $10 through Monday.

It’s a home study course which shows how to design a DVD case cover, and how to publish it.

If you’re interested in turning your information product into a physical product; this is an opportunity for you.

Included on the CD are seven Flash formatted screen capture videos which guide you through the process.

http://kunaki.com/sales.asp?PID=PX00Z48SXW

The price will go up once the weekend special has ended.

Have a great weekend!

Early this morning I finished recording a video on how to split test two web forms in Aweber. This is important if you’d like to increase your conversions and get more subscribers.

Enjoy…

Aweber Split Test Video

The Blogcast Course Physical CD will be ending at 3:00pm PST. The price will be changed from $15 dollars to $25 after that.

One blog reader asked what format the CD is in. It’s a data CD (not a DVD) which can simply be put into your CD drive. The course is the same as the online version, only on a CD. You’ll be able to open an html document where you’ll be able to play each of the videos.

I’ve just finished turning the Blogcast Course into a physical product.

 For 24 hours, you can purchase the Blogcast Course on CD for $15 dollars.

The price will go up to $25 dollars at 3:00pm PST on Wednesday.

 Here’s the product page: http://kunaki.com/sales.asp?PID=PX00DK57QD

I’m currently finishing up two courses.

You may see one come out tomorrow for a 24 hour special.

The other product will either be released later in the week or next week, I haven’t made a decision.

The coaching program soon? We’ll see…

Eric Graham, The Conversion Doctor, just posted an awesome blog entry about how implementing the Hacker Safe logo on a website or sales page can give you a nice boost in your conversion rate. Check it out here:

Does the Hacker Safe Logo Help or Hurt Conversion Rates? (Test results revealed…)

I just noticed that ClickBank now offer recurring billing. That’s some really great news. Just imagine what you can do to take your products or services to another level. Imagine affiliates promoting your services and having them be rewarded with an affiliate income month after month. For several years now, I’ve seen many product owners at clickbank “pretend” they have some type of membership going on. They say their membership is “$50 a year, which is just $4.16 a month!” but how many customers are they losing because of a non recurring payment plan?

Come to think of it, I still have a few websites on a host doing just that. They charge me about $70 a year for hosting (This is my affiliate link), but they need to send me a number of reminders that I have to renew. Basically, you’re telling your customer to do more work…which isn’t good system.  In fact, I just left another web host (This is my affiliate link) (which wasn’t on ClickBank) because they simply didn’t automatically charge me. I decided it was easier to switch over to an existing web host (This is my affiliate link) which I’m paying a simple fee each month and can host a large number of websites without a hassle.

Can you see the potential recurring revenue streams you can create?

I’m currently in the works of starting a coaching program for those interested in personal consultation for starting an internet business. I believe there is enough demand for such a service and I’d be happy to provide it. I’ll post more on this soon.

I really wasn’t planning on getting involved with this discussion…but here it goes.

On Tuesday, James Brausch asked his blog readers the following:

“Would your Internet Business continue to function and grow if you actually took action and went to some place like Costa Rica for two full months later this year?

http://www.jamesbrausch.com/?p=639

If not, tell me specifically how you could create a plan to fix that in less than three months.”

And apparently some readers failed:

“I’m a little disappointed in the responses I’ve received for the freedom challenge so far.

All of them give long lists of things they would start doing to prepare to take some time off.
That’s not what I teach. It’s not what I do.”

So, instead of doing MORE work for your business (create product, get traffic, etc.) just do this:

Open an intern program.

And…that’s it. I’m not kidding.

Would you believe me if I said I could start my own intern program in just one hour?

How many hours are there until September?

I was browsing a forum yesterday (for research) and came across a marketer who said he/she wasn’t making any sales, even though they were using targeted “buyer” related keywords for the site. I’m not sure what type of traffic they were using whether it was pay per click or search engine traffic. Let’s just assume they were using pay per click. Even though highly targeted keywords were being used to get traffic to the page, that doesn’t mean they’ll receive any sales at all. Unfortunately, this person didn’t give any link to the problem sales page. Without seeing the page itself, there could be an extremely long list of problems such as:

No sales page
The main keyword of the product isn’t in the domain name
Didn’t add an order link
Website looks unsafe
Credit cards can’t be used
PayPal or similar known service isn’t available
The color of the page is bright pink
No Testimonials
Price is too high, or too low

For this problem, I recommended the use of an exit pop-up when a visitor leaves the website. A simple Name, E-mail, and blank field for their answer can give you a tremendous advantage for increasing your sales. However, you need to remember that the data being collected isn’t coming from actual buyers, so their answer isn’t always necessarily going to be valid.

The creation of an exit pop-up can be done in Aweber. I’ll post a video on how to do this procedure shortly.

You’re easily distracted. Remember that the three causes for failure are:

1. Not taking action.

2. Jumping all over the place getting distracted by shiny objects.

3. Not following a proven plan.

That’s more of a note to myself, but I decided you might be able to use that advice for yourself.

Are you creating a product?

Answer: No. In this case, follow a proven plan. Begin with marketing research. Not having an idea for a product is not an excuse. Go to about.com and you’ll find some great markets with a number of ideas there. Do not think about competition. What if you had a friend who happened to have a product in every single market in the world? Would you feel bad if you were promoting products in the same market? I hope not. In fact, it will be to your advantage in many ways. In fact, your next step is to make sure there are other people promoting products in your market.

That’s your first step. Most people won’t get that far. They’ll simply give up because they “Don’t have any ideas”. The next step is following through with your idea… Creating the product.

Answer: Yes. This is good, you’re on track. Make sure you aren’t distracted from completing the product. I know from experience that it’s extremely easy to get distracted from what you’re working on. It may be because you “think” you’ve got a better idea for another product. Please, don’t do that. Stick yourself in a quiet room with nobody else but you and your computer. No phones, no instant messengers, no television. You’re going to finish this course until it’s done…do allow yourself to stretch and use the bathroom from time to time, I’m not telling you to lock yourself in a dungeon. Just make sure you’re moving along with the procedures.

If you can’t do that in your own place, consider using a hotel or motel. I’ve written a previous post about that here: Distractions

Apparently there’s this tagging thing going around on blogs… and I’ve been tagged. By who? Stephen Dean. I remember the game tag as a child, but I haven’t played it in years. Apparently you can play this game on blogs now…

I’m supposed to write 7 random facts about myself now.

I’m not sure what to think about that. Maybe Stephen thinks I don’t talk about myself enough?
Maybe he found out I’ve read his blog.
Whatever the case may be, here are seven random (really random) facts about me:

• I’m 21 years old
• I got a haircut yesterday
• I own a digital elph sd 630
• I haven’t watched TV or listened to the news in at least a month. However, I do occasionally see a movie in theaters or watch a DVD.
• I’m currently reading the novel Turning Angel. (Almost finished)
• I found a dead rat in the back yard today.
• I learned how to play chess for the first time about a week ago. (not a joke)

Now I’m supposed to tag other people…so I’ll give it a try. Here are a few of the blogs that appear in my RSS reader.
James Brausch
Richard Lee
Tom Brownsword
Salter Blog

Are you submitting articles for your internet business? I hope you are. Submitting articles is one of the easiest ways to receive both traffic and links back to your website. Some will tell you it’s a tedious process, or they don’t have anything to write about. Of course, that’s not true. I submit articles at least once per week. When I have a new idea for an article to write, I’ll simply write it down, and work on it sometime during the week so I can submit it.

What if you’re still struggling with a topic? Writers block can and will occur every so often. The solution to that is simple: take one of your blog posts, rewrite it, and submit it to article publishers. Rewriting the article is important to keep off the omitted (duplicated) search results in the top search engines.

I use Artemis Pro for my submissions. Using this software, I’m able to submit my articles to over 1000+ publishers who will add my article to their e-zine if I’m lucky, or they’ll add my article as content for their website. Of course, not every publisher will do this due to the many submissions delivered to their e-mail addresses each day. So, a trick is to stand out a little bit to further gain recognition.

If you’re using software like Artemis Pro to submit articles, you should have a template or a short message you send publishers. Artemis Pro allows you to write a personalized custom message to publishers. Simply write this personalized message as if it were from you to a friend. Make sure you leave your name at the end of the e-mail with your website, e-mail address, and if you feel comfortable with doing this…include your phone number and address. If you submitted a really good, well written article to me, chances are I’ll look out for your next submission. So, I hope you’re including your full name when doing a submission.

Consider Artemis Pro (a good choice), then go write some articles!

I just read a really awesome tutorial on copywriter a href=http://www.michelfortin.com/>Michel Fortin’s Blog. It shows you how to step-by-step create a nifty show/hide javascript. For example, if your sales page is rather long, you could simply use this script to hide all of your testimonials until someone has clicked a link entitled “Show Testimonials”. I can definitely see the benefit of doing this. I was looking for a script just like this several months ago but never got around to implementing it.

Now, I just have to figure out how to implement this feature into MuVar.
Aaron

For some time now, we’ve all heard that having a television or radio on while working is a distraction. That’s still true. But, there are other forms of distractions which we often aren’t completely aware of. In April, I wrote an article entitled Home Vs Business which went over how to separate your home computer workspace from your business, even if you have a one computer. However, I realized I left out some important advice.

Besides the common workspace distractions like noise and visual distractions, other distractions like having a clutter of paper on the desk in front can be distracting. That too is a rather obvious distraction. But I want to go over a few “virtual distractions” with you.

The first distraction is similar to the desk example. Having a cluttered Windows desktop can be distracting. When I cleaned up my desktop by putting unused desktop icons out of site, into the recycle bin, or correctly filed into other folders, I noticed a significant increase in productivity. When you have a number of desktop icons on your desktop, you can easily catch your eye on the wrong icons. Now, I’m not against having some icons on the desktop. A good suggestion for your desktop is to have these icons: My Computer, My Documents, Internet Explorer, and a folder which contains a current project in which you’re working on. When you’re finished with that project, move it someplace else like My documents. And never ever create a folder on your desktop named “desktop” or “stuff” or even “unused”. Just trust me on that one’s a big no-no.

Alright, let’s move on to some more potential distractions. The next one is internet browser favorites or bookmarks. You might think bookmarks are supposed to save you time when looking for a specific saved website. Well, here’s a problem I once faced. If you have a large amount of bookmarks all within one folder, a large amount of useful time is being wasted when trying to find a specific bookmark. Also, while you’re looking for a website, your eyes are scanning over several other favorite websites which you’ve saved over time. I sometimes found myself at another website which was on my favorites instead of the one I was originally looking for. I don’t know how much time I wasted from that single distraction, but it could have easily been at least five minutes.

So how can you fix that problem? It’s rather simple. Spend just a few minutes sorting your favorites into separate folders. I recommend having a “business” folder for websites which are related to any type of work that you do either on the internet, or with your job. Keep this folder at the top of your bookmark list so you won’t have to scan over other possibly distracting bookmarks.

Once you’ve fixed those two distractions, here’s another tip for you. Some people like to have these personalized search pages. I’m sure you’ve seen them. All the major search engines have one. My Yahoo is an example. Within the last few months, I’ve gotten rid of these things. Now I’m highly against them because they’re a distraction to me. I had a Personalized Google page. Unfortunately, I noticed that whenever I went to make a search at Google, I sometimes decided to check the weather (which isn’t too bad) but sometimes I ended up looking at news headline and totally forgot what I was going to search for in the first place. Don’t you just hate when you can’t remember what you were about to do?

Take a few minutes of your time and clean it up. There are usually (more often than not) more bookmarks that you can simply delete. What websites haven’t you been to in a long time? Do you REALLY need that site bookmarked? Good luck!