What I Learned at 3AM this Morning...

Live and Learn... or in my case, live and learn and repeat
the lesson numerous times before it sinks in.

My server went down yesterday, not once, but four times.
Apparently it was down for a few hours before the techs
re-booted it the first time.

This is a bummer because I send paid traffic to my sites, 24
hours a day, 7 days a week. It's a blessing that the failure
occured during the middle of the night in North America,
meaning sales were down but not completely out over the
course of the day.

What's the lesson? Don't wait for others to tell you about
site outages... set your own domain as your browser
homepage, or get a site monitoring service.

Speaking of the middle of the night ... after the server
outages, I was REALLY happy to hear my business line ring 3
times at 3AM last night. I let it go the first 2 times,
hoping 'Whoever' would leave a message.

Wrong.

And you'd think 'Whoever' would apologize after learning
they'd just woken you up.

Wrong.

I asked him to call back in six hours, but 'Whoever'
suggested  that because I was already awake, I could help
him immediately.

WRONG!

I might as well have indulged him however. As it was, I lay
awake with new site ideas dancing around in my head for the
next two hours.

I also thought of a way to help folks avoid having to read -
especially critical information about appropriate hours to
phone.

*Note: In the NPC Last week I talked about the importance of
reading your email from merchant partners so as not to miss
critical information that might result in lost revenue.

Well, my 3AM wake-up call, reminded me that I'm not the only
one who doesn't always read ... even the BOLD print.

No problem - can't beat 'em? Join 'em!

I'll use audio. 

Not the courteous, let the visitor push-the-button &
play-the-recording audio - but sound-ON, right-NOW,
let's-hope-the-speakers-are-turned-WAY-UP audio.

Hurray! Sonic Memo to the rescue! Check out my message here:
http://superaffiliatehandbook.com/contact.html

5 Merchants with HOT Affiliate Programs

Fortunately, the arrival of the new issue of Revenue
Magazine this morning brightened my otherwise weary
outlook.

The cover story in the current issue is 'Holiday E-tail
Wrap-Up' - How affiliates and merchants can make the holiday
season a lot happier with the right  mix of products,
design, promotion and pizazz. Included are tips for
promoting:

o Apparel
o Electronics
o Toys and Games
o Books, Music, Movies

Check out "Five Who Drive" about 5 merchants with HOT
affiliate programs and all the other stories in the current
issue of Revenue, the ONLY glossy mag for affiliate marketers here:
Revenue Today

When Rejection Becomes Inspiration

This month's issue of "Secrets To Their Success" features:

 1. Len Foley, who despite a growing stack of rejection
    letters heads an Internet empire that brought in more
    than $120,000 in the last six months!
       
 2. Stormy Knight, who pulls in revenues of $120,000 a year
    selling "consolidator" airline tickets online -- through
    some of the airline industry's darkest years.
       
Check out STTS and/or apply for Corey's next site review at:
Secrets to Their Success

How to Improve Your Site's Conversion Rates

Do your sites convert visitors into buyers as well as
you'd like?

In order to be successful on the web, you need three things:

· Something to sell
· Traffic
· A way to persuade, influence, and convert visitors into buyers

Conversion of those visitors is an art and a science.

Conversion is where marketing meets sales.

Conversion is copywriting, graphic design, headline
massaging, color formatting, 'ps' writing, audio, video,
artful diversion, knowing your clients inside out and
backwards, touchy-feely stuff, and testing, testing,
testing.

Conversion is, hands down, the most complex of all the web
marketing areas, and you need to know as much as you can
about it.

Do you know as much about this aspect of web marketing
as you should?

If not, attend a webinar featuring Mark Hendricks, Alan
Bechtold, and myself moderated by Jack Hughes to be held on:
Wednesday, November 10, 2004 5 pm Pacific, 8 pm Eastern

Alan R. Bechtold has been a mail order marketer and
publisher for more than 30 years. During that time, he has
created and published numerous successful magazines,
newspapers and newsletters, including successful trade
journals for online marketers. He's also acted as a
consultant for thousands of information and Website
marketers. Most incredibly, he has been marketing
information electronically for EIGHTEEN YEARS!  He knows how
to convert visitors...

Mark Hendricks is a business and marketing specialist,
author, speaker, and consultant. For the last 25 years, he's
been using his seven proven marketing secrets in his own
businesses to personally sell millions of dollars of
products and services, as well as help other business owners
get more predictable and profitable results in a wide
variety of industries. Mark is a founder and partner with
Jack Hughes in the Joint Venture Power Circle.

Your moderator, Jack Hughes, has worked as a lawyer,
analyst, research manager, and negotiator, but became hooked
on software development and marketing in the early 90's.  He
is a member of Mensa, where he has worked to encourage
learning and creative thinking, and to create ways of
channeling the results, such as this series of Mastermind
Sessions.

And as you probably already know...

My own sales conversions are 3 to 5 times higher
than those of the average affiliate - and I'll share
what I know with you...so you can get exceptional results
as a marketer. 

Look, no matter what your product, no matter how big your
list, conversion means the difference between success and
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call).

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