Actionable Items

Thinking about that Subject heading ("Actionable Items") makes me laugh; if you've been paying attention, just about everything I post is 'actionable' meaning 'act now and good things will happen later' in your life and business.

Where to get a great logo...

The first thing I wanted to share with you today is a great and inexpensive resource for creating logos. GotLogos.com is run by a guy named Daniel; I've used his talents for several of my websites' logos. You can get a killer professionally designed logo for $25. Great value, try them out (someday I may ask him to offer a discount for webmasters who visit Cool Site of the Day...stay tuned).

Affiliate Marketing Recommendation...

I ran into Gary McNelley of MarketHealth at the Search Engine Strategies Trade Show last week. Gary's a great guy and his company, MarketHealth, sells natural, herbal health and wellness products (yeah, that's a mouthful but all you need to know is that there's a HUGE market for organic health and beauty products). Anyway, I've been a Super Affiliate of MarketHealth (ever since 2006 when I started generating over $30,000 in monthly commissions as an affiliate of MarketHealth products).

Here's the good news: MarketHealth has created a turn-key affiliate program for people who want to sell their products but don't have the time or talent to start from scratch. All you have to do is visit HerbalBiz and signup to create your own unique storefront (and then use WMC to drive traffic to it ;)

Here are just a few reasons why it makes sense to work with MarketHealth (and, no, this has nothing to do with multi-level marketing or MLM):

• Make 50% of the purchase price
• No Online Experience Required
• No Customer Service
• No Warehouse or Inventory
• Sell over 50 well known Health and Beauty Products
• Unlimited Income Potential
• Work from Anywhere
• Set Your Own Hours

I don't know about you but those are all the reasons that led me to build an online business. And like most people, I wanted to deal with a good and honest program that offers the greatest odds of making money. Well, MarketHealth and their HerbalBiz package is about as good as it gets (in the coming weeks I'll be sharing with you the rest of my highest rated affiliate opportunities). If you have any questions after visiting HerbalBiz, shoot me an e-mail--I'll be happy to help in any way that I can.

One Smart Guy...

I'm saving the best for last but this is quite good also: somehow I tripped over Ian Lurie's web site yesterday, Conversation Marketing. First off, Ian is the kind of guy I'd like to work with someday but, in the meantime, Ian is going to teach me (and you) quite a few things that are essential to building and marketing web sites intelligently. Just check out his list of 59 Things You Should Be Doing But Probably Aren't. Truly great thinking and a list worth reviewing once a week.

Search Engine Traffic. Are You Paying Attention?

Finally, for those of you who took me up on my offer to set up your Web Marketing Concepts account, smart move! I couldn't handle all the requests that came in but you'll be happy to know that whether you use my services or go it alone, the results are worth it.

Here are two screen shots of our traffic stats from cpanel. In this image you can see the number of unique visitors shooting up in the second month of indexing (from 1,672 to 2,740 unique visitors). I gotta tell you, on average, I value a web site visitor at $.25 so that traffic is worth close to $700 to me. What is the cost of a Web Marketing Concepts membership? $49.94 per month (just increased from $29.95 as I said it would. Still a sick deal.). Who's smiling now?


This screen shot shows how many times the pages in this account have been indexed. I know it's hard to see but Yahoo's spider has hit the site over 2,000 times and the Googlebot has visited almost 1,000 times...and we're just getting started. Remember the WMC system builds up to 5,500 content pages per account so when the spiders start indexing all those pages it's 'HELLO TRAFFIC!'


If you haven't signed up for a WMC account yet you're doing yourself a big hurt. I'm putting the finishing touches on my WMC mindmap (explains in detail how to get the most from WMC). If you've opened an account and are ready to fly, send me an e-mail and I'll be happy to send you a free copy.

Sign up today before Jim raises the price again or, as he's suggested, removes WMC from public access.

That's all for today.

Mike

P.S. Some of you have been inquiring about my "Get Google Traffic Risk Free" offer. Visit this page and e-mail me if you're ready for some VIP treatment ;)

Free Publicity.

A quick note to share something very cool that I just discovered...

I came upon AmericanTowns.com and realized that I could promote my online activities for FREE in their 'Community Corner' section.

As it turns out, you can either pay for a business listing (only $139.99 to start) or do what I did and essentially post a free press release. But here's the best part: you can choose to have your press release distributed to MANY print media outlets in your community (I selected at least 100 print publications).

Registration is free. Enter your zip code and you're on your way!

Anyway, here's the link to my press release. I'll let you know if it gets picked up by any print editors.

Mike Corso

Search Engine Strategies Expo

Big day yesterday. I was interviewed at the Search Engine Strategies trade show in New York City (see clip below). Also, tune into WebmasterRadio.fm for an interview I did with them at SES as well (not sure what time it will air but I think they'll be broadcasting yesterday's interviews throughout the day).

Worth Waiting for....

Today (OK, tonight—yeah, I had to work out a few things before putting this post together) is a very important day in our lives; important for you because I’m bringing you one GIANT step closer to realizing your dreams of online success. Important for me because I am about to extend a hand to you in a way I’ve never done before.

Here’s the story: over a year ago I was contacted by Jim MacKinley (‘nirvana man’) about a system he was working on that would make link exchanging easy to do (in case you don’t know, getting links to your site makes the search engines happy but it is also a pain to accomplish).

In any event, Jim came up with the right piece of software so I was excited to get started. Unfortunately, for me, the process of setting up his system to work with my website seemed too complicated and not worth the effort. Well, many months passed and I always had Jim on my radar because I knew he was always doing something to improve his system.

Good for me. Very good for you.

I finally reached out to Jim in January and had a great conversation with him and his partner, Steve. Both Steve and Jim got me up to speed on all the wonderful traffic generating tools they built into their product. It didn’t take long for me to commit some time and start kicking the tires at Web Marketing Concepts. For the past several weeks I have devoured everything about WMC and can honestly say that nothing in the Web marketing world has excited me as much as WMC.

Why? How?

In a nutshell, the WMC system will automatically create up to 5,000 unique search engine-friendly content pages (seen only by the search engines). Because your website will have so much content (which the search engines love to see), your site will rank very high (page one or two of search results) which will cause a flood of traffic.

In my last post, I hinted that pricing was still an issue and that I was trying to figure out how I could support you once you decided to buy the service. Well, I have answers to both those questions (and, by the way, you will buy the service—big budget/small budget, big business/small business, this is a no-brainer. This is, hands down, the most cost effective traffic building tool you will find. The only question is whether you will act in time to take advantage of my offer of personal support).

Okay, now let’s get down to business….

As I said previously, last year I spent $100,000 on pay per click advertising for ONE product and made almost $150,000. I would’ve happily paid Jim $75,000 for his traffic dream machine.

But guess what?

Jim is holding to his introductory pricing until he reaches 500 members.

I’m almost embarrassed to say but the price of WMC is just $29.95 per month. You’ve heard the phrase “it won’t last”? Well, this price won’t last…for two reasons: 1) Jim has huge bandwidth costs that he has to cover; and 2) once you (and everyone else) find out about WMC

Again, once WMC is out of beta (when Jim reaches only 500 memberships) the price is going to skyrocket...and early adopters, like you and me, will pay it gladly.

Truth be told, WMC has a bit of a learning curve attached to it. And that’s where my personal support comes in. I’m so committed to your success that, at this time, I’m willing to setup and install your account for no charge. Consider it a favor. Truthfully, this is the kind of offer you’re not likely to come across again for a very long time.

But here’s a problem….time. I don’t have a lot of it. So, my offer is good for the first 15 people who order WMC from this link and e-mail a copy of their order confirmation to me.

Listen, there’s a lot more for me to post about regarding WMC but I’ve got to be considerate of your time (and I’m about to fall asleep at the keyboard). Over the next couple of days I will be sharing with you my own step-by-step map to mastering WMC.

If you have any questions, e-mail me or hit the ‘Call Me’ button in the right panel ----→

To your success,

Mike Corso
Cool Site of the Day TM
On the Web Since 1994. Over 4,000 Sites Served!

Jim will be able to charge whatever he wants. It’s that good.P.S. If you combine WMC with SBI, you'll be sitting pretty in a matter of months. If you don't know what I mean, you need to e-mail or call me (see the 'Call Me' button in the right panel ---->).