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I recently launched a PPC campaign in the Hispanic market and decided to do a video squeeze page to see how well it converted. While designing my page I noticed 3 distinct designs that were showing up frequently in Internet Marketing so I decided to split test the 3 versions.

To my surprise the opt in increase from the least to the best converting was 140% and the increase from second place to first place was 25%

To see the three designs I tested and the actual opt in conversion rates CLICK HERE to download the report. It’s pretty simple, no opt in no fancy stuff just a PDF.
Video Squeeze Page Report

BONUS: If I find at least 10 comments under this post I will also share with you how I reduced my cost per opt in from up $1.23 down to $0.40 in average

Personally I “feel” iContact has better deliverability than Aweber. I guess it’s good because they are very strict with spam control and the # of emails ppl can sendout.

Here are some of the controls I’ve found:

1-You can only email out 6 x the “subscriber plan” you have so if you have a 10K subscriber account the max # of emails you can send in a month is 60k. Is this bad? well depends on the size of your list and the frequency you email. so if you have a 3 K list and email them once a day, the 10K plan is too little because you’d be sending out 90K emails a month.

2- If a message has a spam score over 5 it won’t send a broadcast email. This could be because of spam words OR because the domain you are promoting in the email has been blacklisted. Yep  that’s correct, they check the URLs in your message before sending and a blacklisted domain is blacklisted your message get a spam score of 8 if it’s graylisted like Infusionsoft.com you get a spam score of 2. So throw away domains can be very useful in these cases

3- They monitor spam complaints very closely so if there are too many complaints your account will be put on probation and you’ll be notified, if this continues they simply suspend your account. Since iContact is whitelisted by AOL I understand they must have a strict policy so it stays that way.

Something very good in icontact is that it let’s you easily import leads without confirmation, but if you use this irresponsibly you’ll get lots of complaints and get suspended.

What I don’t like is that they don’t count unique emails for the capacity of your account, but they use the sum of all subscribers in all lists even if there are duplicates(that’s the blue SUM in the image). But I guess all services do it this way so it’s ok.

The one thing I DON’T like is the fact that there is no way to automatically  unsubscribe a user from one list when she/he subscribes to another one.

…never update them first I meant to say.

Rapid Action Profits 3.03 update was released today and I decided it was a good day to do the update because there would be less traffic to my sites.

For some *unknown* reason I did it with the domain that has the most products and right after updating all my 15 products when I went to check every sales page was BLANK.

It turns out it was a server specific problem and I’m very thankful with Sid who kindly took a look at it and fixed it in no time. THANK YOU Sid.

So what did I learn?

Well when doing upgrades:
1)ALWAYS do a backup
2)upgrade your smallest site first. When all is verified and working well… then you can move on to the bigger ones.

***IMPORTANT***
Brian will be removing the Overnight Product Creation Manifesto this week. I’m not sure what day, but if you haven’t downloaded it yet, visit:

http://www.osterude.com/OPC

And if you’re interested in my OPC BB (Big Bonus) you can check the details here:

http://www.marketingdad.com/blog/cool-stuff/1-hour-private-personal-coaching-free.htm

Looking forward to this new, productive and profitable week

Best Wishes,

Richard

A friend of mine asked me yesterday about a new “Incredible” software that was being launched this week. I’ll reserve the name of the product because I do think it’s good
BUT…
As I told him, it’s just software and not some magic bullet that will transform your business overnight.

To sell online there are just a few things you need:

-    A product (doesn’t have to be your own)
-    A market interested in your product. (this is a MUST)
-    A way to accept payments

For example if you create a WSO you can easily sell a report, ebook or software with just this; but yes I’m sure you’ll want to at least have a hosting account and a domain, I’m just trying to show you the bare minimum you need to sell something online.

Yes there are a ton of other things you “could” add to this and some are very useful, but at some point we have to TAKE ACTION even if we don’t have the latest and greatest tools. BIG Expensive Software tools are Great to take your business to the next level when you already have something established, but if you haven’t even started there just a waste of money.

So I invite you to take action asap, I promise you’ll see amazing things happening as soon as you do.

Have a great weekend,

Richard
P.S. if you still haven’t downloaded the Product Creation Manifesto hurry because Brian is taking it offline next week.
http://osterude.com/OPC

P.P.S. I haven’t forgotten about the call I owe you, let me schedule my week and I’ll drop you an email on Monday