--- Cusimano.Com Affiliate Scripts : Bulletin 2009-11-16 --- In this issue: 1. Twitter.com/c3scripts 2. ClickBank.com Marketplace Products that Sell 3. Animate to Stand Out 4. Watch Weekly Live Online Marketing Show 5. Domain Name Marketplace 6. Build Your Email List Cusimano.Com Corporation -- http://www.c3scripts.com per: David Cusimano -------------------------------------------------- 1. Twitter.com/c3scripts Follow us on our new Twiiter.com page at: http://twitter.com/c3scripts We plan on posting script announcements, affiliate marketing tips, useful software links and resources. -------------------------------------------------- 2. ClickBank.com Marketplace Products that Sell ClickBank.com (http://www.clickbank.com/) is a marketplace that offers tens of thousands of digital products (e.g.: ebooks and software). The problem for affiliate marketers is to identify which products to promote. Well, now you can quickly and easily do that by using the CBengine service. * Identify ClickBank Marketplace "movers and shakers". * Track and pinpoint hidden opportunities before they disappear. * Spot opportunities using predictive analysis formulas. CBengine: http://www.c3scripts.com/go/cbengine -------------------------------------------------- 3. Animate to Stand Out Animated sites (and animated ads) stand out. And the standard for web animation is Adobe Flash (http://www.adobe.com/flash). The problem is that the authoring software from Adobe that creates .swf Flash files is US$699. Fortunately, now there's a far cheaper alternative called "Alligator Flash Designer" from Selteco.com that is only US$149. It enables you to create Flash websites, presentations, slide shows, menus, banners, buttons. The software comes with many practical examples and tutorials. And we were very impressed with how easy it was to generate some impressive Flash animations. The company's technical support staff was very responsive to our questions. Because of the low price and easy of use, we highly recommend this software. Alligator Flash Designer: http://www.selteco.com/flashdesigner/ -------------------------------------------------- 4. Watch Weekly Live Online Marketing Show Watch the weekly live online marketing show hosted by Bill McIntosh to pick up useful affiliate marketing tips and news. He broadcasts his show every Tuesday night at 6:30 PM Pacific Standard Time. We have been listening to him for a few weeks now and we have learned something new each week. The show is usually about 2 hours long. Bill is worth listening to and we recommend his show. Bill McIntosh: http://www.billmcintosh.tv/live -------------------------------------------------- 5. Domain Name Marketplace If you are looking to buy or sell domain names, have a look at Sedo.com. They are a marketplace for buying and selling domain names and websites. If you are looking to sell some of your domains or are looking for domain names to buy, we recommend using Sedo. Domains can be posted with a fixed asking price or set as "make an offer" and with a minimum bid to filter out low bids. We recently started using Sedo to put some of our own domain names up for sale. If you're interested in any of the following domain names that we posted, search for them at Sedo.com: allcomputerstore.com, allmusicboxes.com, allsuperstore.com, american-posters.com, americancollectible.com, bestsportsproducts.com, bookauthors.com, books-movies-music.com, car-repair-manuals.com, collectiblecats.com, collectiblecows.com, collectiblemusicboxes.com, coolcomputerstore.com, dating-books.com, dozenredroses.com, drcr.com, eshoptv.com, find-collectibles.com, games-megastore.com, gifts-finder.com, gifts-under-50-bucks.com, great-collectibles.com, home-improvement-center.com, internetposterstore.com, million-posters.com, movie-soundtrack.com, movies-books-music.com, mycdshelf.com, posterisland.com, posterpeople.com, posters-directory.com, posters-superstore.com, prayonline.com, themagazinelist.com, tshirt-world.com, zposters.com. Note: Sale of these domain names does not include any content. Sedo: http://www.sedo.com/ -------------------------------------------------- 6. Build Your Email List One important tip that affiliate marketing experts will tell you is "build your email list". Once you have your website, you need to create a periodic newsletter or a sequence of prewritten messages that goes out on a regular basis. Why have a sequence of prewritten messages? Because you can write them and enter them once and then forget about them. As a new person signs up, the person basically enters a "pipeline" and is automatically sent the next message in the sequence at the designated time (e.g.: every 7 days). And you can mix the concept of a newsletter with that of prewritten messages. For example, you might create a "Bi-Weekly Yoga Tips Newsletter" that contains useful tips and yoga related products; type up 26 issues, enough for a year, and then just let it run by itself. To manage subscriptions and to automatically send the messages, you either need to use a 3rd-party service or install software on your server. One service that we have used for several months is AWeber; they handle the subscribe/unsubscribe requests, sending out emails, handling bounces, and generating analytical reports. If you prefer to install software on your server then try phplist; even though phplist is a bit "rough around the edges", it does offer most of the same core functionality as AWeber -- and best of all, phplist is free. AWeber: http://cuscom.aweber.com/ phplist: http://www.phplist.com/ -------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, reply with unsubscribe in the email message.