Social Media What Works?

How do I get people to click play on my video and opt in to my list?

I wondered if you would give me your opinion on a change to my website that I need to make asap (webmaster standing by). www.autopilotfms.com

I want them to click on the big orange button. But it is just not happening. I need to change the copy on the button. Most people do not get that it is the presentation to learn what the company offers. Any suggestions?

- Babe M.

Some solutions:

First of all you can set your video to auto play so it starts automatically as soon as someone comes to your web page. They do not have to press the button.

If people are not clicking the video it means they don’t like the headline, You’ve got to split test different headlines.

Lastly consider that there are a lot of other links on this page. You give people other things to click on they get confused or they click on the other things. On my landing pages I have my video and my optin box, no other links or clickables because I work too hard to get them to this page. Also I’ve never seen a page with 2 videos on it. People may be overwhelmed and choose not to choose. Even the social media buttons I don’t have on my landing page, the landing page has one goal get them to give me their email and then watch my sales video.

Also your goal should be to get the opt-in.

Don’t over focus on the video. I would make them opt-in first before they even get to see the video. If they watch the video and don’t opt in you have nothing of value from that traffic. I’ve taken video off my landing page and just going with a teaser headline and my optins are soaring. 70% of my sales do not come at the first interaction, it comes after they opt-in, start getting daily emails from me where I proove myself, then they buy typically 5-30 days later. Focus on building the list.

Greig

What suggestion would you have?

JV Alert Live in Orlando - I’m pysched to be going to JV Alert

NOTE: “You must be someone very special because …

This Event Is By Invitation Only, and …
YOU Have My Personal Invitation!”

“2010 is the Year You Will Personally Meet Some Of the Most Successful Marketers in the World — and
Change Your Life …”

Dear Friend,

I get e-mails every day from people who have been struggling to make their first dollars on the Internet or wishing that they could move up to a “REALLY” decent full-time living.

Maybe you’ve felt that way yourself. Well, don’t feel alone. Most people never make it past the first bump in the road, much less the real full-strength roadblocks that can sit right in your roadway to making a decent living online.

It’s not that they aren’t working at it.

Lots of people spend years reading and studying everything that they can get their hands on and from that group an even smaller group actually do something.

Most of those people wind up frustrated and spinning their wheels, wondering all the while why they can’t be successful.

The worst part is that they know that people are successful at making a decent living on-line and yet despite all of the reams of advice that they receive, all of the products they purchase and all of the work that they put in, they just can’t seem to get past the roadblocks.

Maybe some of this rings the bell of truth with you …

• You feel like you just can’t get started.
• You need something to get you off your “behind” and into action.
• You want some big-time help.
• You need some inside techniques that really work.
• You are searching for a clear handle on the basics.
• You see the value of getting joint venture partners to kick you up to the next level.
• You feel a drive to get out of your basement and meet real people that are already doing what you want to do.
• You are looking for answers to a few technical questions.
• You want to have help putting everything together.
• You need some serious feedback on your next project.
• You feel like you just can’t break into the “big-time” success that you see others having.
• You want to meet someone that really “gets” what you are trying to accomplish.
• You want to talk to people who know that good people CAN make a decent living online.
• You’ve bought every course you could get your hands on and STILL can’t make a dime.

If any of this fits you, let me tell you a quick story.

Here’s the real story behind jvAlert Live! and why I put on these amazing events …

You might not have heard this, but the very first jvAlert Live was an accident.

A group of my Internet marketing friends got together for lunch one day.

We had a great time and it got me to thinking that I should see how many jvAlert members in my area would be interested in having some time together. So, I sent out a simple e-mail to ask and people started planning to fly in from places as far away as 3,000 miles.

At that point I knew that I needed to think a little more seriously about how I could help our members meet and partner with each other face to face.

One thing led to another and before I knew what hit me, people were coming from all over the world to sold out events — and returning time and time again.

Why? Because of the special atmosphere of the wonderful group of people that have been coming to these events for years now. I know it sounds like yet another marketing line, but it’s not.

There’s just no other group of people like the people that come to jvAlert Live Events. It’s not me …

It’s not the speakers … It’s not the place or the time … It’s just the perfect mix of people that have good hearts and generous, brilliant minds, all in one place in a setting that is small enough to be able to build the friendships that real partnerships and real profits are based on.

Imagine brilliant marketers helping people who have never made a dime on the Internet — at the same time that they build their own businesses by working with some of the best marketers in the world.

Literally!

The focus is all on you …

Yes, we have speakers who will give you all of the latest and greatest new information, what’s hot and what’s not, while they share “real-life” examples of how people are earning significant incomes from the Internet.

But the real focus is on you and your projects and how we can help take you to the next level — whatever that level is.

You’re probably wondering. “Is this event for me?”

Here’s how to tell if YOU should attend this year’s jvAlert Live Event on February 5th, 6th, and 7th in Orlando, FL

Are you a …

Are you …

SocialFresh.com in Tampa - I’m looking forward to speaking at Social Fresh

I am looking forward to speaking at Social Fresh in Tampa come see me and we will have fun.

Get a $100 dicount for Social Fresh in Tampa by using coupon code emp100. See you there.
http://socialfresh.com/tampa/

Social Fresh Tampa Speakers from jason keath on Vimeo.

Schedule
Time Session Title
7:00 AM Registration Opens
7:30 AM Breakfast Begins
8:30 AM Introduction: Jason Keath, Founder of Social Fresh
9:00 AM Featured Speaker: Spike Jones of Brains on Fire
9:00 AM Real Facebook and Twitter Results Panel
10:15 AM Morning Keynote: The Art and Science of Scaling Social Media Maggie Fox of Social Media Group
11:30 AM Featured Speaker: The Future of Connectivity with Greg Cangialosi of Blue Sky Factory
11:30 AM Branding within Social Media Panel
12:45 PM Lunch Hour
1:45 PM Featured Speaker: The Social Web, Crisis Response, and Reputation Rejuvenation Chris Barger of General Motors
1:45 PM Social Media for Internal and Enterprise Use Panel
3:00 PM Cassandra Jeyaram of Intercontinental Hotels
3:00 PM Corporate Blogging Panel
4:15 PM Featured Speaker: Rick Burnes of Hubspot
4:15 PM Social Media and the Restaurant Industry Panel
5:30 PM Featured Speaker: Precision Targeting on the Social Web with Heidi Sullivan of Cision
5:30 PM The ROI of Community Building Panel (featuring Greig Wells)

Schedule is very subject to change as we add speakers

I cannot remember the e-mail address that I use to create my Facebook account

I cannot remember the e-mail address that I use to create my Facebook account was a question I got today from ALLExperts.com a community I volunteer to help with advice on Social Media questions.

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Topic: Facebook
Question: For the life of me, I cannot remember the e-mail address that I use to create my Facebook account.  (I created a Google e-mail address specifically for Facebook and that is the address I cannot remember no matter what).

When I go to the help page that you have listed specifically for people who have forgotten their e-mail addresses, it it is of no help because that page asks you to input your e-mail address. How can I input my e-mail address when that is what I have forgotten???

Tom

Answer: The easy way.

if you have not set your Facebook information details as private then you can go to your friend’s profile and check your mail id or have a friend look up your email ID for you. I can see all of my friends emails on Facebook.
The other way would be to try to go through gmail to recover your gmail user name which would be your gmail email address. Use this link to try to do this.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=12382

The long way.

The last option would be to contact the Facebook team  and request them to unlock your account by giving them your hint question and the respective answer. Facebook does not have true customer service since they are a free service, so they very well might never respond to you. I would email them every day for 10 days strait, if you don’t get a response, I would send them a certified letter by snail mail.

Alternate:
Just set up a new facebook account with a new email address

Ryan Deiss - Webinar Survey Genius

Ryan Deiss is a genius at leveraging webinars into profits and it make sense to study what Ryan Deiss does to get some webinar tips and I’m going to add some survey tips that you can use.

First off, I want you click on this link from Ryan right now before it goes away, register for this webinar (even though it is past) just so you can see how they do it. I think this will really help you to visualize the offer process you should be using for your webinars and surveys.

http://go.webinarmeetings.com/bullet/

After you register the thank you page gives you an unadvertised bonus $1 offer which funnels people into his $97 per month continuity program. Webinar genius from Ryan Deiss!

The catch with doing free webinars is that only 35-50% of people who register show up. So if you are only making a pitch at the end of the webinar you are missing out on a lot of profits. When you use this Ryan Deiss webinar concept you get to make an offer to everyone who registers which is genius.

I’ve added my own twist to Ryan’s formual, which is to survey your list and social networks. On the survey thank you page you make the exact same type of offer Ryan is doing. You’ll need to upgraded version of SurveyMonkey to do this.

Then I hold a webinar to go over the survey results so I get to make another offer to the audience and I promote the webinar in social media to get new people into my funnel. On the webinar I offer to some bonuses to everyone that participates in a new 3 question survey and this starts the cycle all over again. I never even have to pitch anything on my webinars, I do just a very soft sell.

Everyone should go out and do free webinars using this system and survey their lists and networks. This value added marketing is a lot more effective and then most types of promotional marketing.

I model everything I do in internet marketing after Ryan Deiss, because he is fanatical about testing what really works.

By the way the program Ryan Deiss offers for a $1 trial is phenomenal. Join now, read everything you can in a month and it will only cost you a $1. There is a lot of great content in his Total Access Club unfortunately he doesn’t update it enough to make it worth $97 per month in my opinion.

But I still love you Ryan Deiss you are the Bill Bellichik of Internet Marketing. A lot of people say Ryan is just a front man for my idle Perry Belcher but those are the same people that thought Bill Parcells was a football genius when really it was Bill Bellichik all along. Ryan if you ever want to hire me to help write content for TAC I’d be honored to do it for free just for the privelege of working with you.

Let me know what you think and what is working for you?

What Social Media Site Should I Start With?

What Social Media Site Should I Start With is one of the most common questions I get. The answer is do not limit yourself to one site, this is a big mistake.

Setting up a social site should not be a big project. You should have an MS Word document with a template of what will go into your profile so you can use this over and over again to easily set up profiles on new social sites. More in later blog posts about what makes a GREAT profile.

Each site you are on gives you multiple entry points for inbound leads. If you are 10 sites with a GREAT profile and do nothing at all you may only get one lead per month from each site on average, but that still adds up to 10 leads every month. If you are on only one site you would have to work at that site for 10-20 hours each month to get those same 10 leads. So you are saving this time every month by being on multiple social sites.

Also each site you are on gives you multiple touch points with your connections. The more places they hear from you the faster they will come to know you, trust you, and do business with you. If you are only on one site you will only have one touch point which is not enough.

Connect all of your sites together and you only have to work at building on on site. I only build my network on Twitter because it is fast and easy. I then invite my followers over to LinkedIn, then from LinkedIn I invite them to be friends on Facebook, and finally to see my videos on Youtube. My growth on all 4 of my social sites is driven from Twitter.

I use Ping.FM to send out updates accross all of my sites. The others don’t any extra time to build or maintain. So there is no excuse not to be on multiple social sites. Add a new site into your portfolio every month, make it a goal for 2010.

Yanik Silver UnderGround6 - Why you should go

Here is why I am going to Yanik Silver Digital Undeground instead of any of this years other Internet Marketing events.

From: Yanik Silver
Subject: [maverick] Greig, the dirty secret about seminars…
To: greig_wells@yahoo.com

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http://www.undergroundonlineseminar.com/go2
Urgent Notice:
Deadline for Early-Bird Discount and VIP bonuses expires February 3, 2010
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Good morning Agent Greig:
I’m about to reveal confidential and privileged information that you probably won’t hear
from anyone else (and I know some people definitely won’t like the fact I’m breathing
a single word about this).

You see, I’ve been on the inside of a lot of seminars as a guest speaker and know
exactly how the ‘game’ works.

Here’s the deal: The host will invite a bunch of people to speak at their conference with
two considerations in mind. #1 - How large their list is to promote the event and #2 -
How well they can sell product at the back of the room.
For the most part (with very few exceptions) it’s true and here’s the other dirty secret…
Most speakers are not paid one thin dime to show up at these events. They have to pay
their own pay for travel, hotel and meals.

So before they even step foot on stage they are hundreds if not thousands in the hole. That means the only way for them to get compensated for showing up is to sell, sell, sell! Usually this translates to the fact they *have* to spend lots of time pitching their products and services. Really hammering the audience getting them to buy. Essentially their presentation is a thinly veiled commercial.

Why am I telling you all of this?

To show you yet another reason the Underground® seminar is different. I’m paying for
the speakers to be there. I’m picking up the tab on their airfare, hotel and taking them
out to some awesome dinners. They’re not there to sell you their products or services.
(In fact, many of them have nothing to sell.)

Plus, I didn’t pick my speakers for their ability to fill the room. Many of them couldn’t
sell one ticket because their lists could give a flying fig about Internet marketing. I chose
them strictly for the content they’d deliver to you for their real-world ventures.
—
http://www.UndergroundOnlineSeminar.com/go2
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Actually I’m so serious about delivering immediately useful content here - that I’m even
putting up $10k of my own money. You get to vote for the speaker who gave you the most
directly impactful information you can take straight to the bank. The winner is going to
be awarded ‘Top Underground Marketer’ and they get a huge plaque. Plus they get a
$10,000.00 check that goes to their favorite charity. (THEY sure don’t need the money!)
Now I can tell you one thing for sure - most of these guys and gals are super competitive.
That means, they are going to go all out trying to outdo one another vying for “the crown”
while you sit back and soak it all in.

Remember this event is not bringing in the same usual “suspects”. I’ve managed to
uncover a secretive group of real-people making real money online *NOT* selling “how
to make money online” info.

These ‘under-the-radar’ successes don’t advertise their accomplishments because they
don’t need to nor want to. They are quite content to make their money “in the dark”
(while keeping their mouths shut and their secrets very close to the vest).
Look, it only takes one good idea to make this worth it for you. Don’t you think from a group
of people selling $30 million online, all the incredible attendees and VIP guests you might
pick up one or two new ideas?

My Internet buddies attending are coming here to learn NOT to socialize in the back-of-the-room
like at typical seminars. And you can bet I’ll be taking tons of notes too.
http://www.undergroundonlineseminar.com/go2/
You need to register right away because your Early-Bird discount and bonuses EXPIRE
February 3, 2010:

This is huge because you’ll save a full $1000.00 before the price increase but more
importantly the biggest bonus of all will vanish if you miss this deadline… When you sign
up before the early-bird deadline you’ll receive a special red VIP ticket and confidential
password. You must have both in order to gain admittance into a private, closed-door
dinner and your SPY mission out on the streets.

Plus, you’ll also get the just-added bonus of access to the Underground Licensing Profits
MasterClass series - detailing how to “rent” your content your ideas and get paid a nice
windfall each and every month.

(Details on the Masterclass are at UndergroundOnlineSeminar.com/licensing)
http://www.undergroundonlineseminar.com/go2/
Hopefully - I’ll see you there!
All the best,

Yanik Silver

P.S. Every year the Underground® sells out early and I know a lot of people will wait
until the very last-minute to register for events - but in this case that’s not very smart.

Here’s the page again:
http://www.undergroundonlineseminar.com/go2/

P.P.S. I just added one more Underground Rogue Agent who is coming to speak. He’s
a major player in the Affiliate landscape - but most people have no clue about all the
ventures he’s got going.

Plus don’t forget our two keynote speakers, Gary Vaynerchuk and Jessica Jackley,
co-founder of Kiva.org. This party is going to be bigger than ever!
Are you coming?
http://www.undergroundonlineseminar.com/go2/

Content Traffic Monster Review

Content Traffic Monster

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The Most Powerful Traffic Generation System On The Market ….. Bar None!
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Hundreds of high quality articles written for you in your market! That’s right you get to pick the topic and keywords. These are not old rehashed PLR articles pulled from some database nor garbage articles that couldn’t convert even the first visitor. This content is original and written for you with driving loads of traffic to your website in mind.
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All articles contain your company bio and links to your website, which have huge SEO value in getting your website ranked on Google, Yahoo and Bing.
Automatically have these articles posted to your website in a natural manner throughout the month to comply with Google’s algorithms (worth a fortune in saved time or outsourcing costs).
Automatically have these articles posted to any other site that will accept an RSS feed; for example: HubPages, Squidoo, and countless others.
Articles are pushed out to hundreds of websites across the web creating a significant amount of one way back links to your site without you doing a single thing!
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Now, I want to reiterate something I said before. What you just read is not HYPE. This is exactly what the Content Traffic Monster does and does very well.

How Do I Use Twitter Lists for Business

So a lot of people have been asking me how to I use Twitter Lists? I hear people say they are groups on Facebook or LinkedIn. Not

You put people on a Twitter list, they don’t put themselves on it and they can’t take themselves off the list. Twitter Lists are a way for you to organize your followers into lists just like many of us do with TweetDeck. Once people start using Twitter Lists consistently it will make Twitter truly work like the communication platform is was designed to be, this is a very big innovation.

Set up Twitter lists in various categories that interest you. I have a list of Greig’s Fav Social Media and Greig’s Fav Job Search which are my two main niche audiences. I add experts to these lists and they can see that I put them on the list and so can anyone else. Lists are a great way to find your target audience in that way alone, lists segment your followers just like groups on LinkedIn would.

I can also see all of the people that have put me onto a list, These are the people that really like what I am saying. Look at the lists you are on and follow all of those people, they are your ideal target audience, because they are grouped onto the list.

Also if you regulary follow people from your competitor set up a list to track how many of these people follow you back so you can tell which groups are most interested in your Tweets and focus your efforts where you get the most results.

How are you using Twitter Lists?

Gary Vaynerchuk Inspires Hustle - Live in Tampa GaryVee

Gary Vaynerchuk was live here in Tampa tonight. WOW! This guy is pure energy and inspiration. I am going to another $3000 event in DC in March just because Gary will be the keynote and I’ll have a chance to have lunch with him there. I read his book “Crush It” and honestly it doesn’t do him justice, the book is good, but live he is phenomenal. Thank You GaryVee for inspiring me to Crush It in my niche with social media. I can’t wait to go out and play hoops and out hustle everybody on the courts.