Hey people

Today I wanted to touch on a subject that I think is VERY important …

BUT …

For some reason, not enough people seem to be doing it!!

Are you backing up your Aweber or autoresponder account?

We ALL know that the largest asset of our online business is our email list, so why do people overlook this?

I know many of you will have external drives plugged into your computers and back up everything you do, but are still not backing up your autoresponder account.  You know how much effort has gone into building this, so I just wanted to create a quick video to show you how to do this in Aweber.

The great thing is, Aweber not only backs up your email addresses, but also your broadcast and sequence messages, email lists … basically everything!

It literally takes 2 minutes (if that), so do yourself a favour and put a task in your calendar to do this once a week.  I know of at least one person that has lost their Aweber list for one reason or another.

Don’t let this be YOU…!!  Back up NOW!

Here is a quick video showing you how to do it … no excuses now!

I love reading your comments as usual , leave me one below

Talk soon,

Paul

Hey guys,

A bit belated, but as you may or may not know I have just come back from a few days in Vegas

Well I have actually been back for around 10 days but had some other pressing stuff to deal with …

It took me a few days to get back to reality, but I’m back and full steam ahead!!

I just wanted to write this post to give you a quick insight into Vegas, why I was there, and what I got up to …

Well, I flew out from the UK on Fri 22nd January with my good online friend Marcus Passey.

On the flight we met up with Garry Parkes too which was cool!

After a 10 hour flight we arrived in Las Vegas at 2pm in the afternoon where we got a Limo to out hotel (no expense spared … LOL!!)

We spent the rest of the day chilling and meeting up with other students, and on the Saturday made our way over to the MGM Grand hotel where Mike Filsaime and many other top marketers were hanging out!!

In the evening, we were invited to a club where Mike Filsaime layed on a VIP party!!  Free drinks (if you like vodka …)

Let’s just say it was a VERY early morning … but great to meet some of the gurus of the business!

Enough said on that for now …

Here is a picture of a few of us at the bar on Sunday…

Dean Holland, Marcus Passey, David Chamberlain, David Walker, Gary Simpson, Dan Briffa & Garry Parkes

On Sunday afternoon, we went shootin’ some guns …

We decided driving ferraris was a bad idea in our hungover state … guns though … great idea … LOL

It was freakin’ awesome I have to say!  It’s the first time I have even held a gun!

The main reason for being in Vegas was to attend Alex Jeffreys’s workshop which started on the Monday for two days.  This for me was a great opportunity to meet and network with many of his students past and present along with some other “celebrity” friends.

It all started off with a presentation from Alex himself, just giving an overview of where we are now … Awesome work Alex!

Garry Parkes was doing the intros, and generally making an fanbtastic job of keeping things on time and to plan.

We had two presentations from Stephanie Mulac.  This is the first time I have met stephanie, and I have to say I was very impressed with her presentations.  I have lined up a couple of things for my business as a result.

Jit Upal also made a presentation on list building and adswaping.  This guy is just a genius, and it is amazing to see what he has achieved over the last 12 months!

Adam Speil and Dean Holland also did a presentation on their Turbo Traffic System.  Again, these guys have come a long way and definitely an inspiration to us ALL!  Take note guys!

I also had the privilege of meeting Roger Hyatt from the adswap skype channel which was cooool

There are too many people to mention here, but it was well worth the trip from both a learning standpoint, and also those all important meetings at the bar (oh I mean networking … lol)

I have made many MORE online friends as a result

For those that just had to keep gambling right up to the last minute, here is a picture at the airport!

David Chamberlain, David Walker, Gary Parkes & Alex Jeffreys

For many more pics, head to the My Pics section of this blog!

Finally … my OTO videos are now LIVE … “AT LAST” I hear you say !!

I have emailed all those that commented on my post “Is Video REALLY What You Want?” and all the FREE copies have been sent

My OTO page with my sales video on can be found here

No sales yet as this has literally just gone live within the last few hours, but I would love to hear your thoughts on it …

Until the next time!!

Paul

PS – I have just installed a new theme to my blog – let me know what you think of it!

I will get a header made up in the next few days too so keep heading back and let me know your thoughts

Hey guys,

I haven’t posted here for a while as I have been busy creating my video series as per my last post.

These should be available to ALL that left me a comment within the next week or so, and public release within 2 weeks

I wanted to create this video for you today …

If you are using adswaps as one of the ways to build your list, this if for you!

I just wanted to touch on my experiences and, in my opinion, the do’s and don’ts …

As always I would love to hear your comments, and if you want to set up an adswap feel free to leave me a comment or email me through my contact me page

Talk soon,

Paul

Hey Peeps,

Well, it’s been nearly a month since my last post … (boy how time flies!) … and I just wanted to give you an update of my progress and my plans over the next few weeks …

My list is currently standing at just under 2200 subscribers

I have pretty much been doing much of the same since my last post with regards to list building, and things are starting to move forward much quicker now …

As part of my listbuilding efforts, I have started offering Dean Holland’s “Google Traffic System” as part of my opt-in process.  For those of you that know Dean, you will know the amount of time and effort that he has put into this … and that the quality is top notch, over delivering as always

He is even including his entire coaching program for free as part of this.  If you haven’t already, head over and at least grab the free interview that Dean has done with Lee McIntyre!!

This has resulted in 17 signups to his program in the last 3 weeks alone which is just awesome!

Over the next few weeks, I am planning on creating a video series to complement my ebook “7 Step Success Formula”.  You can download this over to the right of the page if you haven’t already

Just look at all the glowing comments my readers have left!

The exact content of these videos is not entirely fixed at the moment, and I would like you to leave me a comment RIGHT HERE letting me know of things related to my book that you would like me to expand on.  EVERYONE who leaves me a comment will receive a FREE copy of these videos as soon as they are available …

Would you like to see powerpoint presentations, or hands on screen shot videos?  You tell me what you want to see, and I will create it!

I am not promising to include everything, but all ideas welcome.

Rather than guess what people want to see, I want you to tell me!  I don’t want to just go ahead, then find out I wasted my time on the wrong thing.

Remember, I am creating these to help YOU!

That’s it for now, I just thought I would keep you updated on my plans

Don’t forget to leave me your comments.

Talk soon,

Paul

Hey people,

At this second in time, my mailing list stands at 1302 people, and I thought I would write a quick post on how I have achieved this so quickly…

from NOTHING!

My first subscriber on Aweber was on the 22 August 2009. Previous to that I had an account with GetResponse, of which I only managed to move around 20 people over from. Many were VERY old and some were imported from lists etc in a previous lifetime!  I moved to Aweber for the enhanced functionality that they offer over and above other auto responder systems.

So how have I achieved over 1300 subscribers in 9 weeks?

Firstly, I have a ViralHosts account. This is a free hosting program on the surface of it, but you get the ability to email 3000 members every 3 days if you upgrade to the Gold package (which I have done off the back of a VERY high recommendation). This is a OTO of $197.

My first Viral Hosts mailing promoting my 7 Step Success Formula ebook brought me in 72 subscribers (YES you read that correctly) within a couple of days. This has dropped somewhat, but I rarely average less that 30 DOUBLE opt-ins every 3 days from this (It’s mostly 30-40 subscribers!)

Pretty cool HUH?!

ListJoe is another program I am a member of. This also has an upgrade option which works similar to ViralHosts, but I am a free member and will continue to be as I have not found the response to be anywhere near that of ViralHosts.

Even so, you can earn credits by visiting other sites, and mail people once a week from this. This basically equates to around 2000 mailings per week if you visit ALL sites within the emails you receive,  bringing me in another 10 subscribers or so.

You may argue that the quality of these leads are not up to scratch, but I have had 2 upgrades on the Listbuilding With Alex PPP at $47 a pop (and I have only promoted it ONCE to my Viral Hosts list). I normally promote my “7 Step Success Formula” ebook.

I have also been joining pretty much every Giveaway Event I can find, although I do go through stages with this. I am trying to keep my page updated with any new events also. In all honesty, I haven’t found these to bring in bucket loads of subscribers (although I haven’t upgraded many of them), but a slow trickle of a few a day…they all add up

Lastly, I have been doing adswaps at least twice a week ever since I had 400 ish subscribers. I haven’t done any for a couple of days now, BUT will be planning these every 2 days (possibly more) and seeing how this goes!

My plan was 1000 subscribers by the end of October (it’s NOW 1302!!!!), and 3000 by the end of the year. This equates to around 30 subscribers a day from now until the end of the year, which I think can be done easily with all the above in place, and I will be pushing this number FURTHER if I can

Anyway that’s just a quick insight into my list building strategies so far

Just remember to do everything you can to help get your list built FAST. Every little helps, and across many strategies this can soon add up to a ton of subscribers.

I think my best day so far has been 88 opt-ins in a single day…that was a COOOOOL day

We have ALL been told or heard at some stage “The Money is in the List”…

Always remember this, it should be one of your MOST IMPORTANT tasks online!!!

Let me know what you think, or if you have any of your own experiences to add…I would appreciate your thoughts

Until next time,

Paul

Hey guys,

Well, it’s been just over a week since I submitted my Press Release, and I wanted to update you on the results as promised

The official stats from prweb as of Saturday (exactly one week after release) are that I have received 899 reads of it on the official prweb website.  This does not account for reads that have occurred elsewhere (if any!)

I had no idea of what to expect with this…

BUT I am pretty happy with it so far.

So what has this resulted in clicks to my blog?

Well, google analytics has shown 162 unique visitors from prweb itself (over the same period), but overall my traffic seems to have increased to the direct link on my site and I have no idea of where these are coming from.

My graphs have definitely take a hike northwards since this release, so I can only presume many more are coming as a direct result from this

It’s pretty COOL to see it starting to appear around the internet

I recently found it in Yahoo News here

Well the traffic is STILL trickling in from this, and I can only presume that this will continue to do so and hopefully increase in the coming weeks.

All in all I think it was a worthwhile exercise, but will just keep monitoring all my traffic as normal!

In the week since my Press Release went live, I have received just over 200 downloads to my ebook

Some of these came from the press release…

AND some from other sources but this is really cool I think you’ll agree?

That’s it for now, let me know your thoughts!

Paul

P.S. I will be updating my “JV Giveaway Events” page this afternoon, so make sure you join them ALL and get your list building FAST!!

Hey people,

As you may or may not know, I have been talking about doing it for a couple of weeks…

YES, I have finally got round to releasing my FIRST Press Release!

It only went live this morning, so I have no real results to show for it so far.

Oh, apart from the PR is on the front page of google for the search Paul Wilson, which is pretty cool with a common name such as mine…lol

Yeah ok it’s right at the bottom, but i’m pretty pleased with that in just a few hours.

I know a few people have shown quite a bit of interest in this, so I thought I would post and let you know

I have had a few visitors so far, but not sure how long these things take to get moving, PLUS google analytics is always a few hours behind.

A link to the actual release can be found here

I will post again in a few days to let you know how things are going, as I know people are keen to find out what kind of results these produce.

That’s it for now…let me know what you think

Enjoy the rest of your weekend,

Paul

Hey guys,

I mentioned in my previous post about heading up to London for the SpeedCash Seminar over the weekend…

Well, I managed to get there, and I met a few of the guys from Alex Jeffreys coaching course (both past and present)…

Including the famous Alex Jeffreys himself

I am just getting over my hangover now…jeeeeez!

We pretty much spent the time in and out of the seminar, and chatting to some of the cool people that were there.

I have to say I learned a lot, and came out of it with some pretty cool ideas!

Saturday night we all went out for a curry (mmmmm!!), and then on for a few drinkies in town which was cool

Here’s a quick pic of us that went out for the evening…

Left to Right: Me, Garry Parkes, Alex Jeffreys, Dean Holland, Dan Briffa, Marcus Passey

I have also added some more pics on the My Pics page of my blog, so head over and take a look.

It was great to meet all that were there, and well worth the journey…

Looking forward to the Vegas meeting now…can’t wait

Also, as promised in my previous post, I have now added a JV Giveaway page which I will be updating as soon as I know of forthcoming giveaway events.

If you know of any I don’t, please leave me a comment over there and I will get them posted

As usual, I would love to hear your comments!

Until next time,

Paul

Hey guys,

I haven’t posted here for a few days, so thought I would post a quick update on what I have been up to for the last week or so!

WELL…

I’ve updated my blog with a slightly better video than the last, although it’s still not perfect…

The last one had my web address right across the entire video and people said they couldn’t see my ugly mug…

SO I thought I’d put up a new one…

It’s just over to the right, so I HOPE it’s better

Apart from this, I have been concentrating on driving traffic and list building.

I have mainly been commenting on other peoples blogs, and commenting on forums to help drive traffic back to my blog.

This seems to be starting to pay off as the traffic is now GROWING steadily!

If you haven’t already…

I would recommend you head over to MyBlogLog.com

AND install the little widget on your blog.

Mine is down the bottom of the page there somewhere!

This is driving anywhere between a couple of visits to around 10 visits a day, as each time I visit a blog with this installed my picture appears at the top with a link through to my site…

VERY powerful I think you’ll agree ?

I have also been joining every giveaway I can lay my hands on to help build my list. I am not getting tons of opt-ins from this, but hey, it’s growing steadily so I can’t complain. (Not that I’m impatient or anything…!)

I am going to add a giveaway page to my blog over the next few days, and I will post ALL of the giveaways I can find.

Feel free to head back and take a look.

Also, if you find any that I haven’t, be sure to let me know as I am starting to use these in a BIG way!

I am planning on doing a Press Release at prweb.com this week or early next…

I will be tracking my results carefully and will post here as soon as I have anything to share

Finally, I have just discovered today that there are a few guys going to a conference in London this weekend which I am hoping to get to also. I know Alex Jeffreys and Gary Parkes are going, and a few of the students so it will be so cool to actually meet these guys after all this time…and no doubt we’ll have a few beers in the process…

I will make sure I get some pics, and some video if I can…

As always, your comments are appreciated!

Until next time,

Paul

In module 6, Alex Jeffreys explained his “Triple Threat Affiliate System” in great detail, which I wanted to share with you here

This is a VERY powerful way to increase your email open and click through rates using Aweber, and I am pretty sure that the other autoresponder providers don’t include these tools.

I don’t want to rant on for ages, as I have created a video explaining the whole process…

This is just SO powerful it’s unreal!

If there are any other parts of Aweber you would like me to explain in more detail, just ask!!

Leave me a comment with your thoughts!

Take care,

Paul