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I’ve been busy beyond belief the past couple of days organizing this contest, trying to attract new sponsors, and trying to maintain what little sanity I had prior to all of this. I wanted to take a quick second to get a post out about a fantastic piece of FREE software that I just found out about. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m not a full-time blogger, site flipper, or a web publisher. I’m a marketer… it’s what I’m good at, and it’s what has been profitable. Although all of the above-mentioned titles fall into the marketing category, it’s what I refer to myself as when people ask that magic question… “So what do you do?”.
Selling products online is fascinating to me. It’s like a challenge that I constantly feel that I have to rise to the occassion for. It’s much different than real-world selling… you don’t get the human interaction. So, I think it’s a great bit of fun to try to match wits with buyers with only a bit of sales copy, a product, and a dream! It’s exhilirating!
Well, products are easy to create. I create ebooks constantly that I resell online in every different niche you can imagine. Most of these are simple 10 page books that explain how to do something (not online, I avoid the MMO niche like the plague when selling products), and they are SUPER easy to create. The hard (and expensive) part for me is creating landing pages to sell these products. I used to have to pay freelancers $100 or more to create a simple html web page because I’m code illiterate. Well, thanks to a product I found today… I don’t have to pay ANYONE, anymore!
I got this gem in my email inbox this morning and signed up as soon as I watched the demo video. It’s absolutely free, so there is nothing to lose! Give it a try, and start creating your own sales pages today.
Landing Page Creator
June 24th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Oh great! What the hell am I going to do with myself now??? My job has been taken by the robots! I told my wife that the irobot movie was bull… but now I’ve got to eat my words! Viva La Designer!
Ha ha… Good going… I love the simplicity of their site. Very cool and very we designed! Thanks for the heads up… I’ll know exactly what to use when I launch my new site flipping how to guide for the low low price of 6,000.00
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Bryan Clark reply on June 25th, 2008:
Well, robots could never do the quality of work that you do! Maybe robots will get too busy and start referring business your way
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June 25th, 2008 at 4:21 am
I know how you feel with busy beyond belief Bryan. I am feeling that too. Trying to close of a few things so I can devote myself to winning this site flipping contest you got going.
Having said that, you have just opened up a whole new avenue of work for me with that landing page creator. It’s awesome. Good work with finding that one and thanks for sharing.
Poor old PB
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Bryan Clark reply on June 25th, 2008:
Glad to help! And try to save a bit of time for that lovely girlfriend of yours.
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theaffiliatepost reply on June 26th, 2008:
Yeah thanks Bryan, but it is sleep I never have time for!
As for that lovely FIANCEE of mine, she is heading back to the US for that malarkey you call 4th July Leaving me home alone for 30 days of blog flipping contest. PB should be running scared!
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June 25th, 2008 at 9:50 am
As you might have discovered (from my G34 Media blog) im writing a book, and although i plan on marketing it via an online publisher. It cannot hurt to have as many distribution options as possible, such as creating a site just for the book.
Will take a look at the landing page site you refer to above. Thanxs for the tip! (love that it is free, im cheap as heck)
Missy.
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Bryan Clark reply on June 25th, 2008:
Absolutely Missy. The old cliche of not putting all of your eggs in one basket couldn’t be more true about publishing!
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June 25th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Cheers for this…. I still have not used Landing pages for anything but am currently involved in an affiliate marketing workshop over at Click Consultants forum. They are giving me a bunch of landing pages but I think I will split test with 1 or 2 of these.
Cheers…. I’m really looking forward to the site flip by the way and will have lots of questions.
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June 25th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
This is what i came up with from the landing page site:
http://randombloggingtips101.blinkweb.com/
I got distracted as usual, and instead of creating a sales letter, i ended up creating a regular site with a blog. Arrggg! It is a cool tool and simple to use. But come to think of it, I don’t think it offers anything different than WP though.
What do you think of my quickie site?
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Bryan Clark reply on June 26th, 2008:
I think it looks awesome! That’s quite a piece of work you’ve done. And it doesn’t offer anything “different” than Wordpress, but as you can see, it’s not something you’d have to set up on each domain that you’d have a landing page on either. Plus you wouldn’t want a theme on a landing page for an offer… well, not a Wordpress theme anyway.
PB, get to creating a Wordpress landing page them! That’s your million dollar idea!
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Bryan Clark reply on June 26th, 2008:
I think it looks awesome! That’s quite a piece of work you’ve done. And it doesn’t offer anything “different” than Wordpress, but as you can see, it’s not something you’d have to set up on each domain that you’d have a landing page on either. Plus you wouldn’t want a theme on a landing page for an offer… well, not a Wordpress theme anyway.
PB, get to creating a Wordpress landing page theme! That’s your million dollar idea!
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June 26th, 2008 at 8:34 am
@ AP: LOL LMAO LOL RLMAON!!! I’m shakin’ like a leaf my friend… you sir, might want to make like a tree a leaf!
It’s on baby!
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June 26th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Guys, put the guns away. Fact is mine is waaaay bigger. LOL.
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June 26th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
HAHA Gotta love the friendly rivalry going on here. I should have set up an online casino to offer side bets for this kind of action.
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June 27th, 2008 at 12:33 am
What are you doing man, sitting home and getting fat? The vacations over, this one article a week pace just isn’t cutting it for me.
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Bryan Clark reply on June 27th, 2008:
haha! Yes, I’m sitting here getting fat! And in all fairness, I posted twice this week
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June 27th, 2008 at 4:43 am
The life of fat Bryan!! I like it, but then again I’m a monty python fan.
@ Missy - You had best bring that big gun of yours to the show Like PB says…..it is on!
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June 27th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Fat Bryan! LOL LOL LMAO! He spends a week on the beach and he becomes a tiki goddess! The Jet setter… the life of luxury… the wealthy old guy next door… the dot com mogul… the best selling author… the lazy bum!
Missy… it’s on. bring a flak jacket!
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June 27th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
You guys are hilarious. I guess I should write a post so you’ll get off my butt huh? Alright… here it comes.
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June 27th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
This sounds like a fun crew, so I’m building a blog just so I can post about the contest and enter. lol.
Plus, I could always stand to learn a thing or two…like wtf a piss biscuit is….
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Bryan Clark reply on June 27th, 2008:
Sounds like a plan Jay. But remember, don’t register before July 1st or you won’t be eligible for the prizes! And yes, this is definitely a fun bunch of people!
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Jay reply on June 27th, 2008:
Will do (register the contest entry blog July 1st), but what I meant is, in order to enter, the number 2 step is to:
“Post about this on your blog, and link back to this post”
So I’ll whip up a blog to post on for my entry. lol. I thought maybe I’d document the success you’re going to lead me toward on a separate site
Question: Will entrants be showing everyone their blogs during the contest?
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June 28th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
@ Jay: WTF is a Piss Biscuit?!? Okay, click my name and go and see what a Piss Biscuit is.
I Look forward to mowing down all of you in the competition!
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June 28th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
A Piss Biscuit (noun)- see urinal cake.
Urinal Cake (noun)- the small disinfectant blocks found in urinals.
The purpose of these blocks is to disinfect and deodorize washroom urinals. Placed above the urinal drain, they are air-activated and slowly evaporate when in contact with the air. Since they do not dissolve in water, they do not deodorize the flushing water and urine.
They are usually cylindrical — about eight centimeters in diameter, two centimeters thick, and weigh about one hundred grams when new. This shape is the source of their more informal name (toilet Cookie, Piss Biscuit, or trough lollies), as they somewhat resemble small blocks. They are generally pink in color, although other colors, such as green, blue and white, are seen. Several companies are currently in the process of adding a computer chip to the center of the cakes for use in taverns that would be motion activated and would inform users of the dangers of driving while intoxicated.
The chemicals composing the block may vary. The base is commonly pure paradichlorobenzene or naphthalene. The block’s functionality is enhanced by saturating it with a scenting compound, such as cherry, and quaternary ammonium compounds. Urinal blocks of the size listed above and made of this chemical usually last 30–60 days.
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June 29th, 2008 at 9:57 am
@ PB: Ah yes, It was very clear when I saw your logo. Nice. lol.
Mowing down all of you in the competition??? So your niche is lawn care?
@ Nick: Thank you, sir! You can never have enough details!
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June 29th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
@ Nick: Dude, you have been busting out some quality comments of late. Awesome answer to the PB conundrum. 30 -60 days eh….I wonder where PB will be in 60 days???
@ Jay: Good to see you getting involved. Still not got your blog yet I see, need any help with that?? Looking forward to the competition!
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Jay reply on June 29th, 2008:
Hey
I have a blog but it’s just my personal one that had died quicker than it started because I’ve stayed so busy trying to make money. lol
Real world projects, baby + family stuff set me back for a while as well, but I’m back online 12+ hours a day now, so I might be able to squeeze in more “personal blogging”
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June 30th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Hey Bryan, thanks for sharing this tool.
I want to ask you about the ebooks you create. Do you write them yourself, outsource or do you use any similar tool like blinkweb? And which price do you think would be fair for a short ebook like that?
May I contact you privately to see if you have some advice for an ebook product for a blog I own?
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Bryan Clark reply on June 30th, 2008:
I write all the ebooks that I sell personally. I have dabbled a bit with buying them off sitepoint for a few hudred dollars, but I get the best results from my own stuff.
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Bryan Clark reply on June 30th, 2008:
Sure, contact me and we’ll see what you’ve got.
As far as ebooks go, I generally write my own. I’ve tried to market ones that I’ve bought on sitepoint for a few hundred bucks, but they never work out for me as well as my own stuff.
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