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Did you have trouble with the links?

Brent Milne

Sep 26

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When I tested today some of the links in the UpNote document didn’t work.

The error message was that the website refused to connect.

When I look at the stats it seems that some of you managed to click through.

Now I’m confused.

If you tried to click and you got a refusal click this link to download a PDF of that document https://usercontent.leadsleap.com/Escape-the-Affiliate-Marketing-Hamster-Wheel-141964.pdf which does seem to work for all the links.

I didn’t shorten this one because I want you to see the full URL in case something else screws the link up..

If you do download the PDF the coupon code probably won’t work past the cut-off time so don’t ignore it.

Did you know that most products are still available for sale long after the launch is over?

That’s true even for many of those that claim that they’ll be taken off the market forever.

It’s just that they don’t get promoted any more so people forget about them and sales stop or dry up to a tiny trickle.

Here is an example from W+.

This was launched 2020-12-15 and is still on sale.

The sales page is https://firelaunchers.com/offers/traffic-booster-secret-with-plr/. That’s not an affiliate link.

If you contact the vendor you may be able to buy it or do a deal to get access.

I also found products that were launched earlier than that and have been relaunched recently.

So why would you care?

Suppose you did buy that product and fed the content into ChatGPT using the prompts in the 60 Minute Money training.

It would take you very little time to re-jig it to make it an current product with a unique twist that you could sell.

Marketers are always looking for new sources of traffic.

Go here to find out how you could do that in 60 Minutes.

https://go.wm-tips.com/sixty

If you want the discount coupon you’ll find it on this page.

https://llclickpro.com/60minutes/em.

Regards,
Brent.

September 25, 2024September 25, 2024

Teach a man to fish…

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Teach a man to fish…

Brent Milne

Sep 25

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…and feed him for a lifetime.

It’s the same with affiliate marketing, except it’s not always so easy.

Many affiliates get caught up in the launch-jacking of the latest and greatest product launches.

The danger with that is that you’re competing against well established marketers with huge email lists and way more money to buy traffic.

For those of us on the lower rungs that’s not usually a great plan.

But, what if you could turn those flash-in-the-pan launches into long-term evergreen affiliate sales?

…More…

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. https://llclickpro.com/60minutes/em

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024

It helps to know a little math.

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It helps to know a little math.

Brent Milne

Sep 24

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I had an email in my inbox this morning that promised me that this “could change your IM journey 360 degree”.

What would be the point in that?

Wouldn’t I then be facing the same way I am now?

I think what he means is 180 degrees, but that’s just as useless, then I’d be going backwards.

So WTF does he mean?

I get that it’s about changing direction, but by how much?

If you take the tracking that a guided missile uses, like the ones the IDF use not the ones the Islamist terrorists use, they constantly adjust by 1 degree increments to stay on target.

I don’t think that’s what he was trying to say.

No, I didn’t bother to click the link in the email.

Simple errors such as these will kill your CTR and conversions.

Your credibility is shot.

Now for an apology.

I was a bit preemptive in yesterdays email.

I’ll set up a bridge page for each of those products and I have been chatting with Trevor, the owner and creator, on your behalf.

Both these products are brilliant and will help, but he has another one that is more generically useful as a ‘Tame polymath’ which he will permit me to share with you.

He has also agreed to a discount coupon exclusively for you.

It might take a day or so to set up but it will be worth it.

Anyway, in the mean time here is a source of low-cost traffic for you.

https://go.wm-tips.com/trafficz. Free video to watch.

Because it’s low-cost and reasonable quality it’s great for testing landing pages and products.

From my testing the traffic quality ranks as good which is fine because I’m targeting world-wide in this campaign.

The important thing is that the traffic is mostly human rather than the bots you’d get with other low-cost traffic.

You can target T1 traffic via this source if that’s what you want, but you will pay a little more for that.

Insider pro tip. There are millions of English speaking people who live in T2 and T3 countries.

Targeting those people is much cheaper than the T1 people and they are under-served because hardly anyone deliberately targets T2 & T3 countries.

Tap into a massive hungry market that almost no one else is touching.

Regards,
Brent.

September 23, 2024September 24, 2024

How being a polymath works for you.

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How being a polymath works for you.

Brent Milne

Sep 23

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A polymath is a person of wide knowledge or learning, according to the dictionary.

Most people have a wide knowledge of more than one subject which makes them polymaths to an extent.

How does this benefit you?

When you bring knowledge from one area into another area you will get insights that others might miss.

That becomes your superpower.

That is how you create a product or an angle into a niche that makes your approach unique.

When you have a unique approach all your offers stand out and attract attention.

You’re the guru of that approach.

You’re the first to market and that puts you in a strong position.

So, you tell me now that you don’t have a wide knowledge of any subject.

What do you do?

What about asking a polymath for some help?

Can you do that?

Yes, it’s easy.

You have immediate and free access to a polymath.

All you have to do is ask them the right questions and they’ll give you the angle and approach you need in any niche.

ChatGPT is a polymath that you have free access to.

Here are two approaches to gaining that insider knowledge that’ll make you stand out.

The first is a system called 60 Minute Money, and it will demonstrate how you can start from scratch and have a unique approach to a product for sale in 60 minutes.

https://go.wm-tips.com/sixty.

The second is called Profitable Pain Points Miner.

You know that to sell any product you need to expose a pain point your potential customer has and show them how your product eases their pain.

This tool makes it simple and fast to find and resolve those pain points.

https://go.wm-tips.com/pain.

Have fun with those an go make some money.

Regards,
Brent.

September 20, 2024September 21, 2024

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Sep 20

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Is that a dumb subject line or what?

In this case it’s what I said to my wife when I saw her with that thousand-mile stare.

“I thought the answer was 42.”

“Yes, 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything, but 7 is a sub-set of those answers.”

“It is. 1/6th of the answers in fact”…

I have always found it amazing that sometimes you can make a comment from left-field and the recipient can catch the reference and respond appropriately in seconds.

The human mind can do things that AI cannot, yet.

In a new chat I typed in 7.

The response was:

Something went wrong.

Please wait a moment and try again.

So I did.

I got the same response for the next 2 tries.

That was in Grammarly’s AI tool.

Let’s try ChatGPT.

The response there was:

It seems like you typed “7.” Could you please clarify what you need help with?

As I said above, AI does not have the capability to do the type of intuitive thinking that humans do all the time.

What they are good at is analysing content, summarising it, and then expanding it into a new document.

Which makes them brilliant tools for speeding up your content creation.

It can create a sales letter on any product when you tell it to use a template or give it some samples to work with.

It won’t be the best sales letter you’ve ever seen but it will be good enough for a test.

It can create a series of emails to promote a product or a series of products based on the content of the original sales letter by expanding on a single bullet point.

You will need to proof read everything before publishing because, as you can see above, they don’t even reliably get the grammar correct.

For those playing along at home the period after the 7 should be after the ” because there was no period after the 7 in the prompt.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. Most people know that making money online is not as simple as coming up with a product and sending people to the landing page.

Well, it is that simple, but not every product sells.

All the successful marketers have multiple test products on the go at any one time.

When one begins to take off they drop the duds and focus on the winner.

Often they don’t even have a product to sell when they’re testing.

It’s just a landing page with an offer.

If the sign-up rate is poor they stop sending traffic.

They often have a follow-up page explaining that this was a test and what they can do now.

You can test a lot of offers if you only need a landing page and a traffic source.

This will show you how to use AI to turn ideas into tests in minutes.

https://go.wm-tips.com/diamond.

September 19, 2024September 19, 2024

Does this bug anyone else?

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Does this bug anyone else?

Brent Milne

Sep 19

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Being given a gift for some activity or product that you have to create an account for?

Because then those companies think they have the right to start emailing you all sorts of rubbish.

All you want is the gift, not their promotional emails.

It would be simple enough to do.

Tag the recipient as a receiver, not a giver.

Make sure they get what they want and nothing else.

In fact, not making them sign up to get their gift, the code on the gift certificate should be enough to get it released.

When you’re forced to create an account to get a gift you should be automatically unsubscribed once the gift has been delivered or after a set period.

Being forced to create an account and then sending anything other than the delivery instructions qualifies as spam, and that’s how I plan to keep tagging the emails.

What’s your thoughts?

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. The one thing that all marketers need is traffic.

A brilliant offer with no traffic will never make more money than a mediocre offer with heaps of traffic.

The singular major skill any marketer must learn is how to get traffic.

Not just any traffic either, it needs to be at least marginally interested in the offer.

Here is one source that’s set and forget: https://go.wm-tips.com/clickcafe.

September 18, 2024September 18, 2024

When spell checkers fail.

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When spell checkers fail.

Brent Milne

Sep 18

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Grammarly and I regularly argue about what changes are required, but if I weren’t brought up by an English teacher I probably wouldn’t argue quite so much with an AI.

Spell and grammar checkers, like Grammarly, are not infallible.

But you must know how and when to use which word because the checkers have no idea.

I get frustrated when I find correctly spelled words in an narrative that are the wrong word.

Today, for example, the book I’m reading uses the word ‘underweight’ where what they mean to say is ‘underway’.

They have even used it as two words, ‘under weight’, where they’d previously used it as a single word.

Now that’s three different meanings with only one being correct for telling me that the journey has started.

Since I’ll be running this email through Grammarly it will be interesting to see what changes are suggested.

Anyway, the bottom line is that you should write the way you speak, but with the caveat that you should also learn how to use the correct word for the message you’re putting across.

Conversely, being too pedantic can make everything as boring as bat droppings.

That’s pretty much where most of my content ends up.

I can’t help it, my Dad was pedantic and my Mum was an English teacher.

What hope did I have?

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. So, I’ve talked about Grammarly and now you, want to check it out.

https://go.wm-tips.com/grammarly.

They have a free forever tier which I used for quite a while before I upgraded.

I wanted the plagiarism checker function which you don’t have in the free tier.

They’ve added AI recently which I haven’t, tried as I have AI tools out the wazoo.

September 17, 2024September 18, 2024

How filling gaps cost $1k.

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How filling gaps cost $1k.

Brent Milne

Sep 17

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Nope, not at the dentist.

The house has moved slightly, most houses do a bit.

There was a gap between the cornice and the wall that let crap fall into the lounge.

Today I was on a step ladder filling the gap.

Up and down, up and down.

Then I didn’t step up properly so I stepped back down hurriedly.

Uh oh.

Crash.

The TV hit the floor.

They are so unstable these days, in the 60’s there is no way I could have knocked one over so easily.

I finished the job, it wasn’t going to fall any further.

When I stood it up I thought it might be OK still as there wasn’t a cracked screen, but the antenna socket was out of alignment.

Nope. No TV signal.

Everything else appears to work fine, at the moment, but TV is important for some in this house, and the cricket season isn’t far away.

So, off we went to replace it.

The base level price for a reasonable TV is just under $1k.

So, that’s how filling gaps costs that much.

I promised my wife I wouldn’t break another TV this week.

She’s happy with the filled gaps, so I’m not in trouble.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. Have you seen those YouTube videos talking about making money watching ads?

Did you know that it is possible, but not the way they talk about.

The way to do it is to watch the ads on TikTok that get a lot of views.

Identify the product they’re promoting.

Find a source that will pay you for the same or similar product.

Make your own video promoting the product, and link to a bridge page that gives a suitable free product for their email, but send them to the product page regardless.

Using the information here, https://go.wm-tips.com/diamond, will help you create the script for your video, the lead magnet, and the landing page in minutes.

September 16, 2024September 16, 2024

Etsy shut down my store.

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Etsy shut down my store.

Brent Milne

Sep 16

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And banned me from opening another or buying from thie site ever again.

Well, I figured that I needed to find out why.

They said they sent me an email with a please explain that I didn’t respond to.

Funny thing about that.

I searched my email account and didn’t find anything from Etsy warning me of a potential shutdown.

So, I emailed them to find out.

It’s bloody difficult to contact anyone at Etsy unless you have an account.

I couldn’t log in because they’ve closed my account.

I can’t set up a new account and then raise the issue because it won’t cross-reference correctly.

I’m not sure yet if I can open another account with a different email address.

Anyway, on Reddit I found a link to a contact form.

I used that, responded to their automated response, and…

…crickets.

There are other store platforms that I can use so I’ll get going on one of those.

But it does tick me off that these people are so arrogant that you can’t contact them unless you have an account.

That’s not called customer service.

Conversely, I had an email discussion with another company who were fully proactive in the discussion until I told them my budget.

At that point the email conversation stopped.

Greedy bastards.

I won’t be doing business with them again either.

All of you who have responded to my email know that I will write back, even if I don’t understand your email.

Yes, that has happened on several occasions.

I’m not too proud to talk to you about anything you like, so feel free to reply.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. I went looking for some of those foam pads that go on headphones and found an interesting thing.

I couldn’t buy a single or a pair, I only needed one, but they come in packs of five, ten, or more.

They only cost around $2 online, but I couldn’t find any locally.

So, I bought a good set of Bone-Conducting headphones.

I have bought others online that have proved to be quite useless, but these are the same as the one’s I bought my wife for her birthday that she uses daily.

Don’t waste time fluffing around with the el cheapos, get a decent set and enjoy them.

https://go.wm-tips.com/bch-a.

They are so worth it.

September 15, 2024September 15, 2024

It would be a pretty crappy move to not tell you about this.

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It would be a pretty crappy move to not tell you about this.

Brent Milne

Sep 15

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As you know I’ve migrated to the Arc web browser.

It does take a little getting used to because there are no tabs across the top, nor can you put them there.

Everything works from the side bar.

All tabs get archived after a set period, you can set that, so if you want a tab to remain accessible you can set them as pinned.

When they’re pinned they remain visible in the side bar to be opened with a click.

Archived tabs do not remain in the side bar so you have to remember to type in the URL again to get them back.

Unlike other browsers you can’t have multiple windows open at the same time which reduces the load on your computer, but you can access any window, called spaces, anytime you like.

As I pointed out last email, plugins are unique to each space so they are not always on in any space you don’t need them.

I was a little reluctant about this one, but now I think it’s brilliant.

Again, this reduces the load on your computer.

It’s too early to tell yet but I’m hoping that this streamlined approach will help me become more productive by reducing the distractions when switching windows.

Have a look and tell me what you think.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. The other thing I talked about was getting human traffic to your landing pages.

We all know that no traffic = no sales or subscribers = no money.

There are many people who will say that getting traffic is easy, just buy it.

While that is true so much of the traffic you can afford to buy is not human and therefore you’re more likely to make sales by giving the money to a homeless person.

Yeah, you’re not going to retire like that, but at least they’re human.

This is a little different, you get traffic via…

…well click the link and read their sales page.

https://go.wm-tips.com/clickcafe.