Gary McCaffrey – Internet Marketing

If you sell digital products online you are no doubt aware of the two most popular affiliate networks, ClickBank and PayDotCom.

While both of these are great and I highly recommend each of them, I myself have been working on my own service over the past few months. It’s called PaySpree.com and what makes it different is that ALL its members get paid for their sales instantly by PayPal.

Even affiliates get instant commissions via PayPal for every sale they make.

I expect it to become quite a hit as the lure of ‘instant commissions’  played a big part in the massive success of products such as 7DollarSecrets and the RapidActionProfits scripts.

PaySpree is sort of like RapidActionProfits meets PayDotCom.

I’ve actually come across products for sale that are just lists of affiliate programs that pay instant paypal commission. And I’ve seen many threads in the various internet marketing forums asking about where to find instant commission affiliate programs. Now there is an entire site and marketplace dedicated to them.

As soon as you become a member you can start promoting any product in the marketplace, and you can add your own products so affiliates can promote them for you. All commission payments are handled automatically by PaySpree.

The site is simple to use, and since you’re a reader of my blog, you can get a free Premier account on me.

Just sign up for free at: http://PaySpree.com

With a free account you are permitted to add 1 product, with a premier account you can add an unlimited number of products for life.

To claim your free Premier account, just post a reply to this blog post and I’ll instantly email you the promotion code so you can activate it in the members area.

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There are many techniques you can use to encourage more activity and participation on your blog.

A simple google search will find you plenty of articles from respected bloggers on how to go about it, so instead of me retelling what’s already been told, I’m going to tell you about the best, simplest and fastest way to guarantee you get more blog comments!

I first used this method on my last blog post on how to start a forum and it resulted in over 100 comments within the first 24 hours of the post going live.

Some people say there are no shortcuts in life, well, that’s simply not true, at least where blog comments are concerned anyway.

I’ve created a cool little plugin that helps you get lots of blog comments and optionally builds your list at the same time.

How does it work? Offer an incentive for the comment!

With the plug in I developed, you are able to instantly follow up with all your blog commentors by automatically subscribing them to any autoresponder.

So as soon as somebody leaves a comment on your blog, they can get access to some kind of free gift you offer!

It’s easy to use and you can set up different autoresponders for as many blog posts as you wish.

Just simply leave a comment on this blog post and I’ll email you the plug in instantly.

Well, almost one day. It will take a bit of preparation but once you announce your forum it will be swarming with hundreds of real member and posts from day one… how? Read on…

I developed this method after failing badly when I first attempted to start an online discusion forum.  It’s a pretty much fail proof method for getting a forum started.

If you’ve ever tried or even thought about starting an internet forum before, you will know that it is not easy.

Initially, you are faced with 3 main problems:

1. Getting people to sign up (who wants to join an empty forum?)
2. Getting people to start making posts
3. Keeping momentum and growth of membership and activity going.

Lets look at how I dealt with each issue one at a time:

Getting people to sign up.  This was super simple, I disguised the forum sign up page as a squeeze page!

I just gave away some valuable stuff related to this niche, in exchange all I asked was that they give me their name, email, username and password.

I used a script I had specially designed (more on that later) that secretly added their details into a forum as soon as they signed up. On the thankyou page, they get the items they were promised and I like to add a viral element to perpetuate growth, a tell-a-friend script or something like it, but I don’t mention anything about the forum, not yet.

Getting people to start making posts. I continue sending traffic to this squeeze page until I have around 400-500 or more members. At this point I send an email to everyone announcing the forum and a contest…

… The first 10 members to make 80 legitimate and worthwhile posts get more free valuable downloads, and I like to give position 1-5 some vouchers to spend at a popular store related to the niche, or amazon or somewhere similar.

Still continue sending traffic but now change your thankyou page to encourage people into the forum.

Have a ‘sticky’ thread in the forum and continually update it as winners of the post contest are announced, emailing the members directing them to the post. Insert their username and password into the email and encourage them to get involved.

By the time it comes to having to pay out the prizes, you will have an active forum with hundreds of members and around 1000 or more articles. Of course you could always wait longer before announcing the forum and have a bigger contest to increase this.

Anyway, you’ll have an internet property that’s very saleable or ready to be nurtured.

Keeping momentum. If you just plan on flipping the site, this isn’t really your concern, but if you want to keep it yourself, getting this right is what will make or break the forum.

Most importantly you should have been active in the forum yourself, moving discussions forward and more importantly READING and getting to know your members.

You should have an idea of who knows what they’re talking about when it comes to the forums topic, who gets good debates going, and are fairly mature and intelligent.

You want to approach these people and invite them to be moderators. You can offer them something for doing this but a lot of the time you’ll find most people will be happy to do it for nothing.

This keeps your best members at the site and also gives them a vested interest in its success.

Now you just have to keep sending traffic to the squeeze page, you could run new competitions every now and again. I find article contests work well, just give say a $50 voucher to the winner, let people submit as many articles as they want, announce the winner once around 25 articles have been submitted.

This keeps people interested in visiting the forum, and gets your site lots of great new content.

Another contest idea you could try is a $50 voucher for most active thread. This will have people trying to come up with interesting threads.

Want a copy of the script I use to automate the signup process?

Now I had originally planned to release this method/software, together with some interviews with successful forum owners, tips on running forums, that sort of thing. I was going to sell it all as a package for at least $97.

But my business has gone in a different direction, and I have this script sitting doing nothing.

I actually paid a developer a few hundred dollars to create this script, but you can grab it now completely FREE!

The script was fully working the last time I used it, but I won’t be providing further support or updates. I just don’t have the time to support it.

It’s a great script, and includes a mailer and everything else described in the above method. You only need to install it once and you can use it to start as many forums as you want on different domains.

Its a php/MySQL script.

Just make a reply to this post and you’ll instantly and automatically receive a copy of the script via email.

So just let me know what you think of this method, or talk about other methods you know about creating successful forums, or even just say thanks, and the script is yours! 

You might wonder what the busiest times on twitter are, so you can then time your important tweets to give them the best chance of being seen by more of your followers.

Well, over the past couple of months I have received a LOT of visitors to my websites via twitter, I have charted them below showing how many visitors came at what hour of the day.

The time is set to Pacific Time, to see the difference between pacific time and your time zone, click here.

As you can see, I got most of my referrals from twitter between 1pm and 2pm.

But going on this data, it looks as though posting any time from 9am to 3pm will give you the best chance of getting exposure and traffic from twitter.

The chart shows how you could be cutting your chances of getting exposure on twitter in half depending on when you post your tweets.

Now, I think I’ll wait about 10 hours before I let my followers know about this new blog post!

Have you noticed any particular times or days when twitter seems most busy?

Click here to learn more about how to capitalize on Twitter.

Amid the much recent discussion surrounding my new service TweeterGetter, some of those not in favor of the idea suggested that all it would do is attract a large number of useless and mainly untargetted followers.

For the majority that will not be the case, the entire design of the site has an ‘internet marketing’ style to it, the fact that it is a viral downline builder means it will largely attract and interest a particular group of people… business minded people, internet marketers and entrepreneurs.

Now while I was sure that would be the case, I had no real verifiable way to prove it, until I came across this… TwitterSheep.

TwitterSheep.com allows you to enter someones twitter username and it will generate a tag cloud showing what that users followers are talking about, here’s a shot of the subjects my followers have been talking about.

While there is definitely a wide spectrum of topics there, the main theme is blatantly business related.  Actually you could almost break it down and say my followers are “Online Social Marketers who Love People and Life”.

Cooool.  :)

Try TwitterSheep yourself, find out what your followers interests are so you can then communicate with them more effectivley.

I often get emails from customers and subscribers who need to learn the basics like how to set up their hosting account, upload websites, start accepting orders and other things the more technical among us take for granted.

So instead of sending people to a dozen different websites to learn everything they need to know, I have just put together a complete video training center for newbies at the link below:

Click Here For The Newbie Training Center

If you’re a beginner yourself I’m sure it will be a great resource for you, and if you have your own customers and subscribers who ask for this info, why not send them here, its free, there’s no registration required and it will save you and your clients a lot of headaches.

Click Here For The Newbie Training Center