Before I share my point, here’s a major update regarding this blog:

1. I am too busy on my recently launched site (not related with online marketing) so you will just see me write a new post twice or at least once a week. To make up for it, I’ll make sure to give you articles that is really informative and worthwhile.

2. I’ve been asking my other website’s visitors about their biggest problem on their online business and generating traffic comes on top of the list. So I’ll be posting more on this topic and probably would change the whole structure of the site accordingly.

I think that’s about it…now on with the topic – The New FTC Guides Governing Testimonials and Endorsements.

If you haven’t read about it yet, here’s a link to the FTC’s site: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/10/endortest.shtm

Before moving on, I just want to say that what you are going to read here are just my personal opinion. This should not be taken as a legal advice. I am not a lawyer and neither know a lot about laws (I’m not even based in the US!).

Before taking any suggestions, you should first approach your lawyer. Plus, if you do not agree with my site’s TOS, please leave this site now. : )

Whew…a very boring paragraph to read right? But you’ll be seeing a lot of those in the near future so you just might as well get used to it.

I assume that you have read the new guide on the link I gave you above, if you haven’t or is too lazy to click and even glimpse on it (like most people do), you can continue reading…just don’t take it out on me if your business get busted later on.

As you know, these new rules will greatly impact all online businesses that have testimonials (results-driven and income claims – yes, now you can’t use the most effective type unless you include a disclaimer that states the average typical result of  your buyers) and those that are doing endorsements and any product referrals.

Here’s what I have to say:

1. Testimonials.

If you are one of those that do use “specific” results-driven testimonials or post income claims/ proof, you should consider changing it. Unless you want to put a disclaimer after each testimonial stating the average typical result of your buyers which, for most if not all, is pretty embarrassing.

Here’s why:

No matter how good your products are, your average result will always be really really low. A really high quality product with an income proof of $5,000 per month and with customer testimonials showing a result of $1,000 in the first month, may have an average result of $00.01 or probably less.

And it’s not because the claims or testimonials are fake, its because a lot of buyers (we’re talking about 80%+ here) will not finish reading it, will not even follow the information, and will not take any action at all. I’m guilty of it…and I know you are too.

For example, this “Buffettology” book that I purchased two years ago. I haven’t finished reading it until now. I remember reading the first chapter but after that, I just put it in my pile of unfinished books. Why did I bought it? It’s because it’s the current “craze” way back then.

How many ebooks, books, e-courses, etc. do you have in your hard drive? How many of those you actually finished reading and took action til the end?

My solution:

Use other type of testimonials. The one’s that are pretty general and doesn’t convey your customer’s results like “Hey Ricz, I really love your product. Looking forward to purchase another one from you.”

If you really want to use “results-driven” and income claims testimonials, you just have to find a way to state the disclaimer and reveal what your average “typical” result really is in a way that it doesn’t devalue your product.

2. Endorsements/ Recommendations

FTC wants you to fully disclose to your website visitors the real relationship between you and the products you promote/ endorse/ recommend. If you earn any compensation from it (commissions, paid reviews, etc…), you need to tell them. Transparency is key.

My Solution:

This one won’t really affect your sales if you do it right. If you’re targeting other niches (not the make money online/ internet marketing niche), you don’t have to worry about it at all. Of course, disclose to your website visitors that what they are clicking is your affiliate link and that you are receiving a payment from recommending it. Non-IM guys won’t really mind it at all.

If you are in the make money online/ internet marketing niche, find a way to make them buy from you and not from other sources. You can do this by offering high quality bonuses that complement the product your promoting. The only way that they can get these bonuses is when they get the product from your affiliate link.

To reiterate, please don’t use this as a legal advice. Always consult your lawyer regarding this and don’t think that you can get around with this new rule. Do your best to always comply!

I would love to hear your opinions about this new rule. If you have something in mind, you can freely do so by replying below. : )

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Sorry for not posting lately…our group went on a trip to Anvaya Cove, Bataan, Philippines (a really nice place by the way…check it out here. I am not in any way affiliated with them, although one of my colleague is).

Along the way, we were struck by several mishaps and what was supposed to be a day trip became an overnight stay. I have to leave the car there too…

It was all worth it though. The ambiance and scenery were all breathtaking. After finally reaching home, I opened the PC and guess what welcomed me? A list of unfinished tasks…And one of it is this post!

As an internet marketer, we should be effective at managing our time. Is your hard drive a disaster right now? Do you made a plan at the beginning of the year and realized that you are not at least halfway to it?

If you didn’t know, I have a lot of sites to maintain…a total of five sites including this blog. Complete list of things that need prioritization:

• My-Resources.Net – my main site. This is where all my info-products and affiliate pages are stored.
• This blog, RiczSabido.Com – where I place all my shameless plugs : )….. and share all what I know about Internet Marketing.
• Fat-Loss-101.Com – a joint venture with my girlfriend. Although both of us don’t know anything about weight loss. All articles are researched and outsourced.
• LyfCafe.Com – my group’s blog. Self-improvement niche. Really delayed though…
• My girlfriend…
• My family
• My Caring Group

There are several other things not mentioned above the list but these are the ones that I prioritize over others. The real challenge for an internet marketer is managing all these.

I can do it all, however, there are still a lot of things that I do regularly that aren’t productive (one’s that are not contributing any value towards the realization of my goals).

To be an effective internet marketer, one of our main goals should be to manage our time better. We can’t avoid it, some things will just eventually fall through. Sometimes, we just don’t accomplish certain important things and it always cost us money along the way.

My hard drive is in a mess right now. I plan to sort through all of it and get my system of organization back.

I used to be good at organizing things and managing my time, but as I added and changed a lot of things in the process, it messed up the big picture and it never found a smooth transition within. I’m buried and, I must admit, a little scattered.

There was a book that I remember reading a year ago that really gave me a sense of direction and I plan to reread it again this week. The title of the book is Getting Things Done by David Allen. I highly recommend this book if you feel lost in your online business. David shows an incredible approach on how to organize things.

This is probably one of the most useful book I’ve read about time management and the most powerful too. It gives a very simple straight-forward plan to get all the things you need to be done, organize it, and put it into a system (The same process we need as an internet marketer – automation!).

It’s really easy once you have a system in place to take care of all important tasks. And for us internet marketers, time is just as important as making money and building a business. If you’re disoriented right now, focus on rebuilding your system. Work less, Make more!

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Do you own a website? Do you have a blog? What if you want to update it with at least one article a day? Can you handle it?

Well, not everyone could. As much as I wanted to, I can’t…with all the projects I’m working on (I have three other sites aside from this one). You have to come up with new stuffs to talk about and squeeze out that creative juice at least a little further.

Getting Your Website Content

Determine what you want to talk about in your website. Write the topics that immediately come out on your mind. Brainstorm on ideas.

If you can’t think of anything at all, then it’s time to approach good ol’ Google. Search your topic.

Still missing something? Try Amazon.com or Magazine.com and browse for ideas on your topic. Go to your local library and look for books about your topic. Take note of the title, extract its table of contents, and if possible read some of its chapters. This knowledge will help you a lot in the future.

I have my list of topics for my website….now what?

If you are done with your list, narrow it down to a specific niche. Niche that you are more interested about and with less competition. The more niched, the better.

Focus!

You will be able to properly target your market much better and Google will like your website more if you are focused on a very specific niche topic.

After narrowing your list down, sort the topics out in order of relevancy. Only focus on those that are most relevant to your website’s theme. In the future, you might want to add some recent topics concerning your site – new products or news.

I narrowed my list down…what’s next?

Now that you have an organized list, take a topic each day (depending on your posting frequency) and start writing about it.

Don’t have anything to write? It doesn’t matter. Just write! Believe me, it will come naturally. Learn to relax. Let your creative side do the writing.

If possible, create an outline first. But after that you have to just write it all out. It may not be as perfect as you want it to be and you may have to rewrite it again and again but the end point is, you finished it. You took action. And you will get better in due time.

What about keywords?

Keywords don’t really matter that much. If you write a very good article, you don’t have to worry about keyword density. But it doesn’t hurt either if you injected some keywords you want to rank highly on. Most of the time, I include my keywords or key phrase on the title, introduction and conclusion of my post.

Also make sure that you do your on-site SEO (meta tags, title, keywords, etc…) as well.

Don’t overdo it. And being a perfectionist won’t help either. A very informative article with 400-600 words a day is enough for your subscribers to be happy and for search engines to crawl your website and find new content.

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If you’re having a hard time getting additional traffic, then you should try out other ways of increasing the income you get from your online business. I’ve already talked about one method on one of my post which is creating back-end products and adding it to your sales funnel.

Today, I’ll tackle another method which is one of the easiest ways to make more money online in your business without directing additional traffic to your site – split testing.

The Magic of Split Testing

Split testing is very easy to do and most of the time you can do it for free (I’ll show you a free method later on). Split testing, as the name implies, takes the traffic from your site, split it and drive it into different variants (in this case your webpage) that you want to test.

What pages of your site should be tested?

You can actually test any page that you have in your site that requires an action from the visitor – this can be a simple click on a link, opting in forms, or getting them to buy your product.

Most Important Pages To Split Test:

• Opt-in Page – page where you have your opt-in form. This is where people type in their name and email address in exchange of the information you promised.
• Sales Page - your sales letter. Where you advertise your product and entice people to buy it.

Two types of split testing:

• A/B split testing – the simplest way of testing. Compares the performance of two different versions of a page. This is what I’ll discuss further on this post.
• Multivariate testing – Tests the content variations on multiple areas or parts of your web page. One page with multiple testing points.

A/B Split Testing

This type of split testing compares the performance of two different versions of your webpage.

This test equally splits the traffic you get from your site and directs it to the two versions of the web page you want to test. Version A – the original page (we call this the control version), and Version B – the page where you made some changes.

You need to use a split testing tool to do this. There are several tools and softwares that offer split testing capability but the one I use is Google Adwords Website Optimizer which is free if you have a Google Adwords Account.

If you don’t have a Google Adwords Account yet, you can sign up here. Don’t worry, you don’t have to run an Adwords Ad campaign to use its tools. Follow the instructions below to get to the website optimizer A/B split testing tool page.

1. Log-in -> Select tools tab -> more tools.

2. Select website optimizer from the set of tools.

3. Create a new experiment.

4. Choose A/B Experiment

5. Follow the instructions and complete your first split testing experiment.

This split testing tool will track the performance of each version and will tell you which of the two has a higher conversion rate.

What elements to split test?

• Content – heading, sub-heading, P.S., call to action, etc…
• Layout – position of your opt-in form, call to action, etc…
• Colors – background, font, borders, etc…
• Sizes - font, heading, sub-heading, etc…

After putting up your first testing experiment, you need to forget about it for now. Remember that you need a significant number of traffic to really determine the winner. I suggest you select the winning version after having at least a hundred conversions.

Split testing is an ongoing process. Strive to increase your conversion rate by 1-3% per experiment. This way, you increase your income without the need for additional traffic.

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You decided to try out making money online, you browsed the internet then BOOM! Suddendly a truckload of opportunities came banging in your door.

There are too many exciting opportunities online. With all of these stuffs, where do you actually start your money making online venture?

How does a person who just tried making money online decide what to do next? This is really difficult, most especially to newbies. More than a hundred opportunities will be presented to you, and all of these will promise you the same thing – you will make money online within the next few days, weeks, or months if you just give them $9.95, $17, $27, etc…

With these amount of opportunities, how can you make sure that you will get only the best ones? Several newbies never got their website and product up because they are stucked on this step. Some have been scammed, some have been intimidated. You just need to be careful in choosing the starting point of your online business.

Here are 10 steps you need to take in order to find that starting point or the opportunity that you’ve been searching for.

How do you find real “Making Money Online” Opportunities:

• Study and Learn – research and learn everything you can! You can start with the free 4-month subscription of my newsletter. I made it for the purpose of teaching you what works, what opportunities you should really try out and what opportunities to look out for in the future. The newsletter will save you hundred hours worth of research, filtering out all the crap and trash online.
• Invest – only put money on things that will really help you grow your online business. Those that are related and can help you achieve your goals. On my newsletter, I only put the best of the best online stuffs so you are guaranteed to receive the most value out of your investment.
• Learn the art of searching the internet – this doesn’t mean by just typing in the information you want to search on search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN). If you master the art of searching the internet, you will know its language and the exact keyword to search in order to find the precise information you want to appear on the list.
• Look for good, high quality information products – there are hundreds of these, and most of them are FREE! Start with my other website here – Internet Marketing Products. Again, only find those that are related to your goals. As always, be careful. Do not just buy into marketers selling huge internet marketing packages of ebooks for pennies. Most of these are just wasting your money and your time.
• Join in forums that are related to your business – as what I’ve talked about on one of my posts, Saving While Making Money Online, forums are a gold mine of information. Find ones that are active like Digital Point Forums and Warrior Forum.
• Know that not every opportunity is “your” opportunity – do not just jump into every opportunity presented to you. If you see that there are a lot of people being successful on it, it does’nt mean that the opportunity is also for you. Read the second bullet point, Invest, again!
• Find things that you really enjoy doing – what’s your passion? Find the things that you are really interested at and specialize in that area.

Knowing where to start and finding the right opportunity doesn’t mean that your success online is guaranteed. You have to dive in! Once you know your starting point, take action and aim, and jump to it.

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You’ve done choosing your target market, finished researching it, and have chosen a niche that is profitable and unsaturated. Now, you’re ready to create your first info product!

You think the researching part is over? WRONG!

A niche marketer knows that a seemingly lucrative market may not be what it seems after doing product research. After finishing this step, you will find out your target market’s “true potential” – its value may be a lot less or a lot more than you originally thought.

Product research is one of the critical steps you should take as a marketer as it could dramatically increase your chance in dominating your chosen market. This will uncover hidden profitable niches within your chosen niche. Niche that are with  less competition but the same profitability.

Know what your market wants!

Where to get your info product ideas:

• Online Methods:
  • Amazon.com – gives you detailed search results and allows you to browse by subject, watch product trends, sort by best selling titles and more. Look for the best selling titles and subtitles of your chosen niche. You can check the preview of the book you like to based your product on and take note of its table of contents.
  • Magazines.com – provides top categories and ranks titles. Check out the best selling magazines and check its contents. What titles are doing good? Is there a niche within your target niche? Do your research!
  • Community forums – participate in forums within your niche. Know what people are looking for. What problems do they want to be solved? Make sure that the forum is active and has many members.
  • Short Course Catalogs – this is a great idea for upcoming trends. Look for online class directories like “The Learning Annex” and look for courses that are selling fast. You can also look for seminars and events as well.
• Offline Methods:
  
  • Magazine Racks or Stores – look for related magazines in your niche. See if it’s been around for some time. Check for its contents and read the articles. This can give you an idea on your product’s topics.
  • Book Stores – just like magazine stores, check for the best selling books on your local book store. Take note of the nature of how these books were titled and how you can use it to your product.
  • Passionate People - open your radar when someone talks about your niche passionately. This people can be found at parties, at seminars, or at conventions. Listen to how they talk to each other. What are the common problems they’re having and where are they spending the most bucks.
  • Television Programs – watch programs that have general interest topics. TV programs are driven by trend so watch out for something like “The next fastest growing hobby in the US” or “The next big thing in your market”.

Focus on creating one product at first. You can add some bonuses if you want, to increase its value. Bonuses such as products that can complement what you have to offer based on what you have researched.

You now have a wealth of information in your arsenal. Use it to construct your marketing plan and create an info product that will surely sell.

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• August 1, 2009 -- How to Write a Sales Letter That Really Sells (5)
• September 9, 2009 -- Split Testing Basics (2)

Want to be an “expert” to make a lot of sales online? Or you just want to market and brand yourself to have more exposure?

Either way, here are some steps you can follow to become an expert in any niche:

1. Find some forums in your niche and establish yourself as an expert.

Help people out. Don’t just reply, open new threads for each topic you want to tackle. Reply and post with excitement and don’t limit the content you give. Bring all you know in a forum and people will start to follow you and look up to you as an expert.

2. Flash your proof or evidence whenever possible.

When you email your list or members, include pictures of you at a marketing event. If you have a picture with a very known expert in that niche, show it to them as well. Tell them how you and a certain someone met, conversed and established a partnership.

Share your stories of success to your subscribers. Don’t just tell them that you earned this amount of money in this amount of time, tell them how you did it and how it worked. Show some proof by including statistics and income statements. You can also put this in your blog. Which gets us to number 3….

3. Create a blog with your name

Get yourself a domain name. Just like this blog of mine, RiczSabido.Com. Send your list or newsletter subscribers to it often. If you have a product of your own or have an upcoming product launch, post it on your blog as well. By doing this, you are also marketing and branding your name.

Make sure you also place photos of yourself and with other well-known experts on your blog. Strive to create a community of marketers around you by encouraging people to post comments on your topics.

4. Use a redirect tool when promoting your products or affiliate products.

When you have a domain with your name, you can promote while embedding your name on the links. For example, if your product URL is www.my-resources.net, you can brand your name with it using a redirect tool (a software or a script). Instead of www.my-resources.net, you use www.yourname.com/recommends/productname.

This is powerful and can give you a lot of great benefits. People will easily remember you because of it and most of the time, they will check your site after seeing the product you promote (this always worked for me.)

5. Associate yourself with “gurus” or well-known people in your niche.

Go attend some seminars, mingle with them and establish a relationship. You need to be genuine here. Offer assistance, hear them out, share them your thoughts, and so on…Treat them to a lunch or dinner. Remember, you’re making a friend here, not a business partner. Nurture relationships first then the partnership or business will follow!

Becoming an expert in your chosen niche isn’t that hard. It just takes time and a lot of relationship building. In today’s business, it’s not what you know that really counts, it’s who you know.

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Finding the right opportunity isn’t enough to succeed in making money online. Yes, it starts from there, but you need other essential factors to guarantee your success – the path you choose to take, your set of skills, talents, knowledge, and experience.

Your chance will greatly increase if you have all these but if you want to keep and hold that success for a very long time, these factors may not suffice. The internet marketing and online business world changes much faster than its offline counterpart. The techniques that you learned just a few months ago may not work that effectively if you implement it today.

Increasing Your Chance in Any Given Opportunity

1. Expect To Fail

Every successful business owners embrace failures. It’s part of their plan.

Failures are there to teach us to become more successful next time. Before you succeed online, expect a lot of things to happen. And that includes failing. This is a learning curve that every people trying to make money online go through.

Making a sale online is a numbers game. It takes a certain number of traffic to your site to make that first sale. That’s why knowing the conversion rate is essential for us marketers. We welcome those who didn’t make a purchase because we know that it will bring us closer to the one who will buy. You expect to fail because you know that success is just around the corner.

Several people who try to make money online get easily frustrated when their first business fails. You need to understand that opportunities are everywhere, but not all are capable of grabbing one. Finding your opportunity is a great start. However, it will take some time before you can fully take a hold on it.

You may slip sometimes, may fail and start all over again. But remember that now you have this experience to make you more capable in grabbing the next opportunity that will come.

2. Obtain Business Skills and Knowledge

You don’t need to go to school and obtain a business management degree. Educate yourself. Do your homework. Read books, search the internet for free information. It’s all there.

Having a business background is not necessary to succeed in making money online, but make it a part of your future growth. Set time aside for studying and reading business books. It won’t hurt.

3. Prioritize

Learn how to prioritize doing the more important things. Things that are going to make you money.

Several internet marketers’ focus too much on things that they think will build their business but these things don’t give them money. Instead of doing things randomly, practice to do the things that will generate income to your business.

Spend most of your time getting traffic to your site, on creating content, looking for joint ventures, building backlinks, and so on. Spend more on tasks like these, create a system and make sure that you stick to it.

4. Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket

Spread your risk. You can choose the opportunity you liked the most, but build it around a structure that can surpass the change of seasons and the passing of time.

In advertising and marketing your business, use several different methods and channels to secure long term success. Don’t rely on just pay per click traffic or search engine “organic” traffic. Try other stuffs but avoid getting too spread out.

5. Learn Continuously

The only way you are going to stay ahead of the group is by keeping up with new trends and techniques. And you can only do this by learning continuously.

Invest in programs, seminars and courses that you know will help your business and make you more money online. Always read ebooks and articles, be updated with the news related to your business. Participate in online communities and ask questions.

As I said before, being in an online environment is like riding in a bullet train. What you knew a few months back is useless today. New products, new techniques and new ways of doing things will not stop coming. Stay educated and be updated. Don’t get left behind!

Several internet marketers will claim that their product is all you need to make money online. It’s your job to choose a system, know how to use it, integrate it into your online business and stick to it.

One’s failure can discourage anyone. Equip yourself with the right tools and mindset. Know that failure is essential towards success. And I guarantee you that making money online is easier than you think.

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Another Affiliate Internet Marketing Video Uploaded – Using Amazon S3 File Storage Service.

If you have been doing business online for quite some time, you probably own multiple websites right now – each generating its own traffic per month. Constant and massive traffic is good, but if your web hosting can’t handle it, your online business might get into trouble.

With the advent of affiliate internet marketing audios and videos, your website files can get quite large. And many internet marketers choose to upload these kind of files to different web host or server aside from their main host/ server for performance reasons.

This is where a file storage service comes in handy. File storage service allows you to store large amount of data and access large file sizes for a very inexpensive charge. And some of them charge a penny for a click!

The most used file storage service of internet marketers is Amazon S3 (which stands for Amazon Simple Storage Service). This is the one I also use and I am loving it.

Why use Amazon S3 file storage service:

• Your main hosting server won’t have a problem with using too much resources – so that you won’t need to upgrade to a much expensive server (Amazon S3 is way cheaper and you only pay if someone actually access and download your files)
• Allows your website to be up and running as smoothly as possible – even if you have a high amount of traffic coming to your website and have a lot of people downloading your product at the same time
• If you have a major product launch and expects it to be a really big product launch, then this solution is the best to use to avoid site problems on the launch date itself

This video will guide you on how to use Amazon Simple Storage Service from signing up to setting up your first files. Enjoy!

Resources on the video:

• Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
• Amazon s3 http://amazon.com/s3
• Amazon S3 Firefox Organizer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3247
• url to s3 files (sample only) http://bucketname.s3.amazonaws.com/foldername/filename

Amazon S3 is built for storing and accessing your website files. Its not a normal hosting account and it’s way cheaper than applying for another web hosting service. Several people use it for file storage because it’s really meant for it.

Amazon itself use their file storage service to store all of their files and data. If they have a trust in their service, then what’s your reason not to trust them?

Amazon offers three services, all inexpensive so it’s a really good solution for your online business.

If you want to download the unbranded version of this video (without my links at the start and end) with master resell rights, you can download it here – Master Resell Rights. Use it on your site or give it away to your subscribers!

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• September 16, 2009 -- Where To Get Your Website Content (1)
• September 9, 2009 -- Split Testing Basics (2)

New category added! Every month, I’ll post a new affiliate/ internet marketing video. This will tackle various topics ranging from traffic generation, list building, how-to videos, copywriting, and more…

Enjoy the first video – Automatically Back Up MySQL Databases

As an affiliate/ internet marketer, protecting the files on our hard drive is an important step for securing our online business. There are a number of marketers and online business owners whose business got wiped out just because they forgot to back up critical files. And some of these critical files are found on your MySQL databases.

Back up Resources:

Download Auto SQL Backup Here

The video teaches how to automatically back up all of your MySQL databases using only simple, free tools. This will guide you through all the steps and configuration needed to back up your files.

Enjoy the video and start protecting your files!

Want to download the video (unbranded – without my links at the start and bottom) and get master resell rights for it? Download the video here – Free Internet Marketing Products with Master Resell Rights, Resell Rights, Private Label Rights, and Giveaway Rights.

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