Testimonials from Clients:
I wavered for over six months - and lost countless thousands - because some friends told me there was no way to make any real money online.
It's simply not true!
I quit my job in September - just a few months after starting my site - and I've never looked back. Online marketing has been one of the best decisions I've ever made and your site was one of the places that inspired me most.
Len Foley
Author of the best-selling,
"Sales Without the Sucker Punch"
I have been a loyal subscriber to your ezines Harmony, and you are one of the very few that I trust and believe who exudes credibility and honesty. That's why I have stuck with you for about 3 years now.
I too am about to start my own Internet business soon, but I need a 'guru' to guide me along, and you are one of those whom I rate highly along with Terry Dean, Marlon Sanders, Jim Daniels, Phil Wiley who I truly believe are sincerely out there to help the public, and us newbies, and not just out to make a quick sale.
I aim to take this business full-time and I was hoping if you could be a 'mentor' and recommend me courses to get me going. If its one of your products that could get me goin', that would be great. I am hoping that one day I could do a Joint Venture with you, as I am already familiar with your honest approach to things.
Anything from you, even a simple piece of advice is worth its weight in gold.
Sincerely,
Mikhail Mansour
mikhail_mansour@hotmail.com
Harmony, in my heart you are one of the most honest and honorable people I have ever communicated with on line.
It appears to me that "some of your readers" are not very familiar with you as a person, and must have very little reason to write you on a personal level. You have always said what you thought/felt about any given issue/circumstance/organization, and you have always in my opinion been very up front.
It is my greatest hope that you will continue to be the "Harmony" I have trusted for over 2 years now ... after all ... where would us newbies be if we didn't have people of your integrity and experience to help guide us in our efforts on line & off line.
Warmest regards
J. Roger Bertrand
I have recommended products and ended up with the same kind of treatment (described in a past issue of my ezine). So much so that I no longer endorse products.
Until now.
I'm not sure if my market will respond but I will be happy to place links to your products on my site. Hope all is well with your family.
Joanne Black
JoanneBlack.com
My Dear Young Lady,
You are the first publisher that I know of who has been so forthright concerning a promotion that had some underlying facts. If everyone selling products on the internet adopted your standards what a great place it would be.
As I have said previously I have always found you to be as honest as the day is long and for that my dear, you can justly take a bow.
As long as I am around NEVER forget that I will gladly give you a testimonial anytime.
With every blessing
Your devoted fan,
Ken Burgess
CEO/FOUNDER
Keys4success.com
ARTICLE:
Using Free Partnerships to Double Your Ezine's Signup Rate
In "How to Double Your Ezine Signups in Less than a Day," I revealed a common sense, 3-step formula for doubling your ezine's signup rate. For maximum results, I suggest you do that FIRST before following the steps in this article. At the end of that article, I mentioned that I got an average of 15 to 18 subscribers a day using that formula.
Now, THIS article reveals how I brought that 16.5 daily average to over 30 subscribers a day, with just a few hours of work.
Here we go:
Step #1: Find partner sites with similar traffic.
You could do this a lot of different ways, but I recommend going to http://www.alexa.com, and downloading the toolbar. Then, go to your own domain to get your traffic rank. (It displays right by the "Info" button on the toolbar.)
Then, click "See Traffic Details."
Near the middle of that page, you'll see a section that says:
Compare: harmonymajor.com vs. [__________] (Compare Sites)
Enter in a few of your colleagues' domains into that box (one at a time, of course), and see how their traffic rank compares to yours.
Add every site with a similar traffic rank to a list to contact later.
Step #2: Contact the site owners.
Ideally, you'll already have some type of relationship with them. But if not, go to the contact page of each site you found, and contact the owner using the form there. (This way, they're less likely to consider your message spam.)
Basically, tell them that your sites are related, that they have very similar traffic rankings (as you've found using Alexa), and that you'd like to know if they'd be interested in swapping subscribe forms to double each others' signup rates.
I went from 18 subscribers a day to 30 by swapping ezine sign-up forms with one site owner. One of my subcategory pages at one of my old sites (HomeBasedHeaven.com) got as much traffic as the HOME page at the old Fawkner.com. (I believe I may have found this out by clicking on the Extreme Tracker counter the site owner had on her page at the time.)
I asked if she wanted to swap ezine signup forms, since the two pages I'd selected got the same amount of traffic.
She agreed!
My form went on the bottom of her short home page, and her form went at the top of one of my secondary pages (to balance out the amount of traffic we both got from each other's respective sites).
My subscription rate *immediately* doubled.
In Conclusion...
This is just one idea to get your mind working as to how you can double your signup rate, and KEEP it high, even doing only a few hours of work.
A lot of the most successful people in marketing are the most CREATIVE ... and you can see why. Simple yet unique ideas like this can really generate HUGE amounts of sales and signups for you. The most challenging part is coming up with the idea. After that, it's a breeze. Good luck!