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February 22, 2012 By 32 Comments

Success!

It took some hard work, perseverance and some really helpful help from the helpful forum for Amember (say that with a mouthfull of cheese!) but I have finally completely migrated from Digital Access Pass with all the users, affiliates, payments and commissions intact!

On to new things.

Now that the white elephant is out of the room (at least I think that’s the expression) I can move onwards with the things that I was supposed to be doing before I got sidetracked into firefighting the membership system of Tools To Make Money .

Here’s what I’ve got going on

  • SaleSqueezePlugin
    This is a collaboration between me and Hesham of FamousBloggers.net. It’s turning out to be a nice and meaty plugin.

    What’s it do? It’s a super simple way to create complete landing pages (not just the graphics) by using a simple drag and drop interface. It’ll be as easy as pie for newbies to create ‘proper’ landing/sales/squeeze pages without having to change their theme and it’ll be advanced enough that proficient designers and marketers will be able to create wonderful looking pages.

    There’ll be more about this plugin to come including how you can get your copy for free…

  • Conversion Tracking
    This is an ever going thing but recently I’ve been using goals and conversion tracking in my various analytics packages to see what pages make the most money and why.

    I’m not an expert in this and to be honest, I prefer to concentrate on making things rather than money but it’s fun seeing where people come in to the funnel. I figure if I can make really cool and useful things then the money will come on its own (given a little marketing).


Things to come

  • Contest
    I haven’t done a contest in a long while and it’s fun to give away really cool things.

    Money is good but I’d like to try something different and offer a prize that is completely out of the price range of most hobby bloggers or bloggers who are just starting to make money with products or services.

    I am considering offering a full 5 minute sales video package like you’ve probably seen me do for my plugin launches. You know, the script, design, recording and production of a proper product sales/promotional video.

    1st prize

    (value: $2500+)
    It’d include a 1 hour consultation session to find out all the gory details of your product.
    A full script write using the hook/path/persuasion technique (ol’ cuz Andy Jenkins stylee).
    Professional voice over recording (in genuine Brit speak) :)
    Royalty free background music
    Uploaded to multiple video sharing sites (traffic geyser-esque exposure)

    2nd Prize

    (value: $500+)
    A snazzy video intro/outro that you can bookend your videos with.

    You can see an example on one of Ileanes great videos here http://youtu.be/QKdmwnKN05o (intro starts at 15s)

    whaddaya think? good prizes or not?

  • CommentLuv sales page redesign
    The sales page for CommentLuv Premium has been doing ok but I’m more of a coder than a designer which means that it could probably be a lot better.

    I am in two minds on how to go about this. I don’t need a whole site redesign, just a new look for the sales page (and perhaps FAQ and Affiliates pages).

    I’m luvvin Dan Lew’s Keyword Winner sales page, I really think that looks lovely (and the plugin is pretty good too!)
    see keywordwinner site

  • More plugins!
    I have a whole bag of plugins that I want to release to the world. Some that are complex and some that are super simple.

    I’ve got 3 already coded, 2 that are nearly done and a whole notepads worth that are nothing more than scribbles (oh but such tasty scribbles!)

  • Tasty Tuesday
    I have neglected this a bit but that’s not because I haven’t had plenty of things to put there, it’s just that I’ve been so bloomin busy!

    I have a nice freebie that I can give away and I think it might tie in nice with some IM-Graphics Plugin promotion now that it’s got a new payment system sorted.

  • Webinars!
    I’ve never really bothered with these before but everyone tells me they’re the next best thing to sliced marketing and I’ve been hankering to get some know how out there to a live audience.

    What do you think of webinars, are they worth the salt? If you were to do one, what would you like to see/hear?

  • Courses
    This is another thing I really want to do. Doing a new video course and other related stuff about the things I’ve been learning about and successfully turning in to money this year.

    I have had some failures and some phenomenal successes and I’d love to share what I’ve learned and do it in the ‘ol Andy Bailey way.

    What would you like to see me do a course on?

More?

Yes! there’s a lot more but I’m tired writing all this human speak, if only I could write a plugin that could handle all this for me…. hmmm,

Is there anything that you’d like to see? what do you think of the contest prizes, what would you attend a webinar on or what would you like to learn? and what color is blue? ;) let me know in the comments!

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  1. Jame
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    February 23, 2012 at 4:20 am

    Thank you very much for your information! I’m a new blogger and would like to see you doing a course about SEO and internet marketing. Beside, I’m curious how to build a plug in for wordpress. If you can make a tutorial about it, it would be great! Thanks!
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  2. Ileane
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    February 23, 2012 at 10:23 am

    Yippee!! This all sounds like so much fun. You certainly know how to rally the troupes my dear.
    Now everyone knows my secret sauce about where I got my video intro from and hopefully when they watch it they can give me a thumbs up and leave a comment over on YouTube too. The plugin(s) sounds great and I like the one that sounds like it’s a cool way to make up a niche sales page without getting a whole new domain name or hosting. The whole cheese ball sounds DELICIOUS!! Yum. :)
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  3. L.J.
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    February 23, 2012 at 12:24 pm

    Webinars are a great way to teach lessons or explain things to people who prefer not to read everything on-screen. I’d suggest letting people ask questions in a q&a segment of each webinar. As for topics: you can find out what people want to know based on the most popular material here on your site.

    Courses. If it’s unique and offers great value, yes.

    By the way, the CommentLuv plugin here says it can’t find my RSS.

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  4. Kevin
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    February 23, 2012 at 12:46 pm

    Andy

    Sorry mate I dont agree with you on keyword winner. This software follows the old style of keyword research. Just because it has a low number of competing pages, or visa versa with a high number, does not make it easy or harder to compete.

    You need to run these through a decent software like SECocpit or Longtail Pro to check the competition. They will tell you per keyword how hard it is to get onto the first page of google – regardless of the number of competing pages.

    Those who are hoping to find quality keywords to rank for need to look at software that sorts the men out from the boys.

    Take a look at what Shane Mellaugh has to say. He is spot on and well known for speaking up against the old style pf keyword research.

    The old fashioned way includes Micro Niche Finder, Market Samurai and the new tool from John Leger which still looks at it the old way.
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    • Andy Bailey
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      February 23, 2012 at 2:01 pm

      hey Kevin,
      thanks for your comment about which seo tools to use.

      I’ve never really bothered with doing anything major in SEO , I have seen a lot of nice things said about KW so I passed that on. Nice to hear a differing opinion.

      personally, I concentrate on making cool things. Traffic just comes if I do that , maybe I’m just lucky? :-)
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  5. Chrisi
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    February 23, 2012 at 4:59 pm

    Andy, I want that squeeze page thingymabob today! GIMMY! ;)

    I would love to make a squeeze page from a WP Plugin. The one I have is a pain and I want something simple like you mention. For now I have to work with CSS and totally don’t know it, just sort of tweak my way around it.

    Jame, my tip for SEO as I do actually make money from it. Outsource if you can. What works? Article networks. Not just 1, several. I outsource to people who subscribe to 5 or so of these article networks like Unique Article Wizard etc… works very well.

    I also recommend outsourcing to someone who can submit a quality PR to PR sites. I will quickly create an Animoto video (you can do that free) and then have someone submit those to media sites like Youtube.

    On site SEO is vital, and “your” site should be filled with great quality content such as Andy has here or famousblogger or ((sheepish grin)) found on my site.

    Now then… Andy, WHEN you gonna give us that squeeze page plugin? Me wants!

    :)
    Chrisi
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    • Andy Bailey
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      February 23, 2012 at 8:45 pm

      haha, the squeeze page thingymabob is coming. It’s only really just started to take shape, there is a fair bit to do with it to make it ready for sale.

      it is going to be really good though, I already have that tingly feeling that I get whenever I make something I know is going to get thousands of downloads
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  6. Caleb
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    February 23, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    You doing some webinars is the best idea up here because that alone provides the perfect medium for you to teach some of the things you know like the results you found from using the goal conversation features of GA, how to best use plugins as you come out with them, little coding php type tricks and tips, etc. there’s just so much to mention that you can do with webinars. Plus I think you’ll find the conversion rates on doing them is insane, infact I have a whole navigation pages devoted solely to free webinar trainings and you can check it out to get a feel for how a good webinar flows ;)

    I am also curious as to the plugin you and Hesham got going as there have been many big time marketers lately who have been producing squeeze page and making your own signup forms type plugins…one extremely good one is by Welly Mulia just in case you want to take a look at the competition so to speak..

    All in all it looks like a great year ahead for the ComLuv Community :)
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    • Andy Bailey
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      February 23, 2012 at 8:48 pm

      Hi Caleb,

      thanks for your comment, I’ll check out your site and see what you have there.

      I have a few things by Welly so I know the quality that I need to do but I know Hesham has some serious design skills and when combined with my plugin skillz we are sure to come up with something super easy and super cool!

      yup, I agree it looks great fun for the future for comluv :-)
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  7. elena_anne
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    February 23, 2012 at 9:15 pm

    Hello Andy,
    The salesquezze plugin will be very useful to all of us. How many times did we dream of a “magic wand”, to move, create or insert elements in our blog or website? Drug and drop is perfect!
    Personally I would like to find in comluv, webinars and courses. The strategy, step by step for a successful, money earning blog and stories of success by strong affiliate marketers.
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  8. Robert
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    February 24, 2012 at 5:39 am

    My site is still pretty new, so I’m still a bit away from releasing my own product, but I find the sales page plugin to be really intriguing. There are a lot of newbies like me out there who are a bit intimated by not only creating and releasing a quality product, but also creating a high converting squeeze page. Once I reach the stage of launching my own product, I will definitely be interested in using something user-friendly like the SaleSqueezePlugin.

    I know we will all have a chance to get the plugin for free via a mystery method, but do you have an estimation of how much it may end up costing?

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    • Andy Bailey
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      February 27, 2012 at 9:12 am

      Hi Robert,

      we are working hard on the plugin right now. I imagine it might be ready for a beta release in march and a full on release in April.

      The cost is yet to be determined but usually these things go for 97 to 297 depending on how feature rich they are. keep an eye out on this blog, I’ll be using this to announce the news as and when it happens
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  9. james says:
    February 24, 2012 at 9:25 pm

    i can see this taking off
    really great ideas here

    and i see drag and drop options with alot of programs and sites now…so easy to a range of people, its definitely the way to go

    thanks heaps

    james
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  10. Darshan says:
    February 26, 2012 at 7:28 pm

    Hey Andy,

    I like point out a broken link on this article.

    The word FamousBlogger.net actually points to

    comluv dot com/migration-succesful-what-next/FamousBloggers dot net

    while it should point to www dot famousbloggers dot net

    Hope you will correct it.

    Thanks.
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  11. Karen
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    February 27, 2012 at 7:14 pm

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again! Where the heck do you find all the time to fit everything in Andy. Thanks for keeping us all updated and specially for all the hard work you do ;)
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  12. Becca says:
    February 29, 2012 at 12:56 pm

    All your accomplishments are very impressive. Karen is right where all the time you spent
    coming from? as if you’ve nothing to do but doing all these.
    anyways,great job!

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  13. Enstine Muki
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    March 1, 2012 at 9:34 am

    Hey Andy,

    Congrats for commentLuv. It gave a new phase to commenting on wordpress blogs. It looks like the plugin of the year ;)
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  14. Nicole Schuman says:
    March 1, 2012 at 8:27 pm

    Two thumbs up for CommentLuv! You really did a good job this year. Keep it up guys and best of luck! :)

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  15. Tania Shipman
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    March 3, 2012 at 9:39 pm

    Andy

    I can’t wait to see your plugin for sales pages. I always have trouble with them. There are a few plugins out there but I would love to get yours. The quality and customer service you provide is always the best.

    About contests, the offer of a video as a prize is perfect. Everyone is talking about using videos to sell and about using youtube so that prize would be just right for now. It is out of the range of most people so definitely a prize people would go for.

    Webinars – yes please. A webinar on how to use your new sales page plugin from woe to go would be a great idea ;) . Also I would suggest you post about it and ask for questions for your first one, so you get a chance to see what people are interested in. Most webinars have a Q&A at the end.

    Andy, I would love to see a course about what worked for you and also what failed for you. Learning from other’s successes and failures can allow you to learn what can and can’t be done.

    Looking forward to the future and seeing what you come up with.
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