Michael Wilding

Category: Traffic Generation

  • How NOT to sell

    How NOT to sell

    As you know I’ve been getting back into traffic and lead generation. This is lead generation using mass traffic sources such as pop-unders, push, native and the kind of traffic sources that have millions of impressions available every single day.

    In order to use this kind of traffic you have to track it. 

    In fact, the tracking of it is the most complicated element. If you don’t track it properly then you can’t optimise it.

    If you can’t optimise properly, then you’re never going to make it profitable.

    There’s a lot of tracking software out there these days, but I decided to use Voluum.

    It’s a well known tracker and recommended by everybody I know.

    I also had the benefit of using it briefly many years ago when they were first starting.

    So far so good.

    But then it went wrong, read how as a full member of The Online Hustle.

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    All the best,

    Michael

  • How To Write 50 Promotional Emails And Make Money

    How To Write 50 Promotional Emails And Make Money

    In the last few days I’ve written nearly 5000 words in emails for a product launch that I’ve currently got ongoing.

    And that’s only for the first three days of the launch.

    And… that’s just to the main list!

    It doesn’t include what’s being written by someone else to all our other lists.

    There’s at least another four days of emails, and I’ll probably do more like five or six more days at this kind of quantity.

    Which opens two questions:

    1) How do you keep coming up with content for emails?
    2) Surely you’re sending too many emails?

    The current schedule of emails is four a day to the main list, this may get reduced to two or three for a few days, and may increase to five or six for a few days, I’m keeping an eye on the responses.

    To our other lists we’re sending one email a day to everyone, and then again to un-opens twelve hours later with a different subject line.

    We’re removing anybody on our main list from the other lists, otherwise they’d be getting too many emails.

    To recap on what we’re doing…

    You’ll need to get a full membership for The Online Hustle before this evening’s email is sent aty 6:30pm GMT.

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    All the best,

    Michael
    The Online Hustle

  • F**k Facebook

    F**k Facebook

    Man I get sick of people posting how much money they’ve earned on Facebook.

    Does it work?

    I’m not the person to give you an answer to that.

    For me Facebook is for personal friends. 

    Yes, I have some Facebook pages, but I don’t do as much with them as I should.

    For personal promotion I prefer Twitter, because for me that’s a “stream of consiousness” platform. It’s not for personal connections.

    And there’s absolutely no way I’m going to bombard my personal connections with my newsletters, products I’m selling, or anything else.

    Doesn’t mean it won’t work.

    It means it won’t work for me.

    I know of at least three big marketers who use their Facebook account for business.

    By which I mean…

    * They accept every friend request, even when they don’t know the person

    * They request connections after a single meeting

    * They have thousands of “friends”

    * They promote every day on their own personal wall

    And from a marketing perspective, it makes sense!

    Facebook deems personal conncetions as the highest connection, so if you’re “friends” with someone, they’re much more likely to see what you’re posting than the folk who simply Follow your page.

    The message from these marketers is usually along the lines of:

    “Don’t be a pussy, don’t worry about what others think, if you want to be financially free use everything at your disposal“

    And it works for them.

    But here’s the thang…

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    Ciao,

    Michael
    The Online Hustle

  • REJECTED. That’s the message I kept getting yesterday

    REJECTED. That’s the message I kept getting yesterday

    Yesterday I mentioned that I was starting to drive traffic again using traffic networks.

    I got my first two campaigns up yesterday, and requested for them to be validated.

    What came back:

    REJECTED

    Why?

    There’s a virus scam on your website.

    Hmmm.

    So I contacted the affiliate network and they said that’s not true.

    Odd.

    I created a campaign which was directing traffic to one of my own websites.

    It went in for verification and…

    REJECTED: There’s a virus scam on your website.

    I forgot to mention, along with each of these was a warning that if this happeed twice, my account for the traffic network would be banned.

    In this situation, most new affiliates would stop trying, or they’d start getting worried.

    And quite reasonably.

    And yes… I got a little bit concerned as well.

    However, the only thing that linked both campaigns was the tracking software.

    So I contacted the traffic network and asked them if they were sure this flag wasn’t the tracking software?

    The answer…

    Yes. Sorry. We’ve validated your campaigns.

    What a lot of hassle over nothing!

    Although I am now considering changing the tracking software I’m using before I put them live.

    I’m currently using BeMob, primarily because it’s free for the first 100,000 events.

    But I’ll probably go back to using Voluum, which is by far the best tracker out there.

    Anyhoo…

    Today we want to focus on how to know our audience inside out, even if we don’t know anything about them.

    It can be done quickly and easily using a marketing persona.

    You want to create at least two personas, one male and one female.

    The 12 steps to marketing personas are inside this evening’s Online Hustle members newsletter.

    Become a full member and get the full newsletter Tuesday-Friday for just five bucks.

    Ciao,

    Michael
    The Online Hustle

  • Frankendog

    Frankendog

    Earlier this week BeeBee went to the vet to have a cyst removed. In order to do the operation they had to shave some of her fur.

    Something you can’t get away from is that an operation looks way worse when they’ve had to shave a patch of fur!

    There’s something about the square that’s been shaved with a frankenstein-esque cut sewn together with nylon in the middle of it.

    Here’s BeeBee’s stitches…

    It’s not looking so bad now, but it was pretty gruesome whe she first got back.

    As if that’s not enough woes in one week, I’ve also had a cough for nearly two months and Holly forced me to the doctor yesterday.

    Turns out that it’s acid in the stomach. Well, either it’s that or it’s some kind of nast stomach bug. Time will tell.

    Who knew that acid reflux could you give you a cough. I sure as heck didn’t, but then maybe that’s just my lack of common knowlede.

    Anyhoo… apparently the acid can sit on your throat during the evening and night, causing a cough that won’t go away.

    What is it about getting older that means you get more stomach acid?

    I never used to get it, and now I have to have water with my whisky because I get heart burn otherwise.

    I know, you don’t need to tell me, it’s a hard life 😀

    But that’s enough of my nattering, check out today’s best stories from the world of business, entrepreneurialism and life in general.

    Ciao,

    Michael

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    Trump You Twat

    The Man Gets More Horrific With Every Passing Minute

    I had to start with this story because it just beggars belief.

    What has he done this time?

    Here’s what…

    • President Donald Trump expressed admiration for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s rule over his country.
    • Trump called Kim “a tough guy” for being able to “take over a country” at 27-years-old.
    • In 2017, Trump made similar comments about Kim. Trump described Kim as a “a pretty smart cookie” for cementing his dictatorial rule after his father, Kim Jong-il, died in 2011.

    It seems that he’s forgotten that Kim has killed many people in the path to retaining his grip on power, including his own uncle and half-brother.

    It seems he’s ignored that he’s a dictator who seriously abuses the people in his country.

    Incredibly he has come out saying he admires what he’s doing!

    I mean, if I was living in the US and my president said he admired the work of a murdering dictator, I’d be booking a flight out of the country.

    Here’s the whole story.

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    6 Facebook Advertising Mistakes Every Marketer Makes

    There’s no point in making the same mistakes as other people when it comes to your paid advertising.

    After all, it’s going to cost you money to make mistakes, and if someone else has already spent the money making those mistakes and is happy to share them with you, then you’d be stupid not to listen to them.

    That’s exactly what Convince And Convert has done in this article.

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    Get 60 Percent More Engagement From Your Emails

    9 Email List Segmentation Strategies

    You know me, I love email marketing. Heck, my entire business is based on email marketing.

    There’s still no better way to sell online than to have a responsive email list.

    In the last few years segmentation and engagement has been the all-consuming topic in this industry as email providers give more importance to engagement from your emails when they decide if it’s going to the inbox or the spam folder.

    It’s definitely possible to go overboard on the segmentation process, I know because I’ve done it.

    But there are some segmentations which can make a big different to you, and these are the most important ones