Monday, June 29, 2009

Review - The Freagle Strategy

I have been away for a little while but wanted to provide an update on my experiences so far with the EHBE solution. When I made decision to join the program I decided I would test all of the recommendations and provide an analysis of my successes and failures.

My first review is of where the Freagle Free Product Offer fits into the overall scheme of things. The strategy involves offering a free product offer in order to generate traffic to your products and services via the interactive banner adds. This has caused some confusing with new members as the strategy was not very clearly explained in the initial overview (this is not the first time things have been missed out but I will get to that in the upcoming clickbank review)

To test the process I decided to do so using my wife's Nutrimetics consulting business as a guinea pig. I therefore offered $200 worth of skincare products and set up the following website (I am no web designer so constructive criticism is welcome)
http://www.yourbeautydirect.com/ it cost me around $100 including hosting the free domain name, ability to setup unlimited domains and bandwidth, $25 of google AdSense credits, search engine listing etc...... after reviewing a number of hosting companies is decided on .... because it gave me the flexibility to host multiple domains.

I chose just host (see below) because of these reasons.




Back to Freagle ..... So after setting up a free product offer I then created a banner add pointing to my webpage with the free product offer. After tracking the stats throughout the last 3 weeks I found that I had more answers to questions (91 correct and 81 incorrect) and only 68 referrals to the website. This would indicate that the majority of the banner clicks resulted in guesses rather then click troughs to the product site. Moreover those click throughs did not result in any sales.

Now I acknowledge this could have been because of the site so I decided to give a more thorough test. I registered for the markethealth affiliate program heading the suggestions of Andrew Clacy to ensure your affiliate programs are close to your product offers



I chose a few affiliate offers from the site and promoted them as banner ads. I received similar results. Idol white generate 148 correct 74 incorrect answers and reversitol resulted in 96 correct and 67 incorrect my stats however did indicate more unique click through which was a positive but no sales.

So in summary I found that while the Freagle system did as promised generate traffic to the desired sites the focus was on the free product offer and I did not receive any genuine buyers. Where I believe Freagle could be improved is if it allowed warm leads to be added to an opt in list for the Free product offers so that email marketing could be done at a later date. This would make the process much more powerful worthwhile paying for.


More to come .... next my clickbank review update.... don't miss this one.

Jury is out on EHBE

After my second month of being on the Easiest Home Business Ever Program I have decided to put a hold on my membership. I want to be clear here, I have not cancelled my membership but put it on hold until the company releases its new process of allowing members to complete the course at thier own pace. While the ocntent thus far has beejn informative it is slow moving and I have no doubt this has been a large afctor in what the company acknowledges has been a large number of cancellations since they advertised the program on Today Tonight (Australian Current Affairs Program).

Due to a lack of teleseminars (last one was 11th June after a number of seminars prior) I have decided that I will reinvest in the company when the content justifies.

More to come....

Friday, May 29, 2009

Global Domains International - Explained

I have put together a short video which you can find below which explains the concept behind the Global Domains International program mentioned in my previous posts. This is for information purposes only and includes a summary of the Global Domains International Organisation, the program that they offer and opportunities associated with it. This video will give you the information necessary to determine if this business is right for you and allow you to make an informed decision.



Should you decide that this is an opportuntiy you would like to take adavntage of, I will personally assist you through the process of getting everything possible out of the program and through this common goal ... Your Success

Response to Recent Negative Feedback

During recent Teleseminars and after reviewing some of the feedback on other blogs as well as twitter relating to the Freagle Easiest Home Business Ever Program. It had occured to me that it was an opportunity to get a feel for how switched on and professional the organisation was.

From a pure PR perspective the negative press needed an appropriate response to avoid loosing more customers. I am glad to say that this evening this was received by way of an email which was professionally put together and indicated that someone with some expertise in customer management and communication was employed. The email to all members explained some of the reasons for the delays in responding to the 15,000 emails that had been received. I can imagine this was a big task, however the main thing this has achieved is restored some level of confidence in the professionalism of the organisation as a whole. Something I am sure the members were happy to receive.

Twitter Topify

In one of my recent posts I noted that during the twitter teleseminar the information that had been provided regarding the use of tweet later, specifically the tweetfollow process was incorrect. I have been doing some following up on that and have found another solution which on testing appears to work very well.

http://www.topify.com/ you are able to setup mail rules to automate responses to twitter follow alerts that you receive in your inbox. It is easy to setup only requiring you just need to enter your email details and then follow the steps from there which includes changing your Twitter email address to route to your assigned topify address.

Goole Keywords Teleseminar

I have just completed the teleseminar which started very slowly and was a little all over the place initially but once the presenters moved into the actual tools and demonstration of the capabilites it was quite informative and I did pick up a number of things I was not previously aware of.

This did come in handy when looking at various Niches and during the teleseminar I was able to identify a couple of Niches which I had previsouly not considered and particularly using the combination of the Google Sktools and Google Insights does work very well.

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Who is Tissa Godavitarne

If your asking who is Tissa Godavitarne and why am I featuring him on my blog let me tell you. Purely and simply that I just received $125 US commission by registering for his program and setting up my GDI domain to host a google people search.

OK how does it work I will try and explain here otherwise please add me to Skype paultownsend1974 and I will be happy to explain how it works in more detail. Basically you sign up to the program via the
intro page at the point where it says "Create your FREE niche search engine for earning affiliate program commissions" there are a couple of steps that you will need to take but essentially you can get at least the first 60 days free (if your having touble working it out let me know by email mikatotrading@optusnet.com.au or sykpe paultownsend1974 and I will help)

Once you have completed the registration then go to referrals page and you will see $125 in comission. I know it sounds too good to be true but its 100% genuine just try it. By the time you have finished you will have your own google people search site just like mine (note the url)
http://mikato.ws an excellent use of the GDI domain btw (but you dont have to use that)

Just go here
http://mikato.ws/tissa.htm to get the ball rolling and remember to contact me if you need to know anything at all.