What you read here today in this tutorial is a simple yet effective strategy to potentially make a lot more money from your solo ad buys.
This is by no mean a GUARANTEED way to be profitable ( I won’t make such BOLD claims, it would be illegal to do so ) , but I can assure you if you follow some of the strategies laid on in this report you’ll see far far far better return from your NEXT solo ad buy.
Also I was thinking of the Tagline, “the ONLY way to profit from Solo Ads”. I thought of it for awhle before actually deciding on it but decided to go with it because this is by far as I know one of the best way to profit from your solo ad buys. Also this is VERSION 1.0, in the event I do update the guide you’ll have lifetime access to all updates and you’ll be notified via email 🙂
One more thing I need to mention here, if you’ve bought other solo Ad and list building courses and Ebooks in the past, you’ll notice in this guide there will be some similar content or strategies HOWEVER I do have some golden nuggets that’s not found anywhere and these Golden nuggets is where the REAL MONEY IS and is going really make this guide well worth your investment.
I also want to make this a ZERO fluff guide so you won’t see me trying to just add words or chapters which I feel won’t add value to my readers.
Ok So Let’s begin.
Story Behind Buying Solo Ads
For the first 1.5 years when I started trying to make money online, I was so scared of failing and was vey reluctant to put money into my business. I was really scared of any paid advertsing.
Instead I’ll spend hours learning to drive “FREE” traffic to my offers and I can tell you i’ve spent hundreds of hours if not thousands writing blog posts, creating youtube videos and so many other boring inefficent tasks 🙂
After awhile I started to ask myself, why on earth am I doing all these so called FREE traffic method when I could just pay to get the results I want.
My Time Is Worth A Lot More..
My biggest lesson starting an online business is to always learn how to Spend money to SPEED things up.. it can be traffic or outsourcing projects.. just spend the money because you can always earn the money back but you Can never buy back time.
Buying solo ads gives you access to FAST, hyper targeted traffic that you can use to make money and grow your list all day long.
It is extremely SCALABLE and you can start with very small budget to test things out. This allows you to quickly test funnels and offers out and not spend weeks and months driving free traffic and allows you to MOVE on fast if things don’t work out.
Now before we get in to the real meat of this guide.. You first need to know what exactly is solo ads and how it all started so we’re all on the same page here.
A Little History On Solo Ads
Solo advertising is actualy a very old concept and business strategy which Is actually older than the internet itself and has been talked about for decades in the direct response industry.
Back in the day maketers simply collect the names and address of their customers. It is basically the same as having an email address only this time you’re using a real address.
One of the BIGGEST difference between solo advertising then and online solo ad advertsing now is the COST. It is a lot more expensive with the traditional method.. printing, posting and fulfilling costs a lot of money.
The good news about buying online solo ads today is that the cost is so much lower and writing an email and sending it to thousands of people doesn’t cost anything 🙂
Because of the low cost to entry , there are a lot of marketers buying solo ads these days (..it’s an evergrowing business) However to be profitable you definitely need to have a proper sales funnel and follow up email sequence in place.
Some Marketers Are KILLING It With Solo Ads!
If you’re just starting out trying to make money online or you’ve bought some solo ads in the past, you’ll know that is not easy make a profit from Solo Ads. In fact most of the time most solo ad buyers have no clue what their doing and hardly make anything at all wth their solo ad buys.
But let me tell you this.. there are marketers out there that can afford to buy tens of thousands of clicks every now and then because they have a working funnel thats spitting out cash for them.
While some marketers complaint about having low conversion rates with solo ads , these guys are killing it!
So why do some marketers do well with solo ads and some just don’t? Well..
What Seems To Be Working Well For Some Marketers
You see if I’ve been a solo ad seller and marketer for awhile now and I’ve sold a ton of traffic in my entire IM career to many marketers online and I’ve also experimented and tested with selling my own stuff.
I started to notice that some of my solo ad buyers got far better results than some of my other solo ad buyers. By the way when I say buyers I’m talking about NON solo ad vendors. I’m talking about buyers who are selling their own stuff or some business opportunity or affiliate offer.
Oh just in case some of you reading this and you still don’t know what a SOLO Ad is..(Why are you reading this anyways?!..lol)
SIDENOTE: Solo Ads is form of advertisement that get sent out to a list of subscribers that the list owner has permission
to email to. Solo ads typically are bought in packages in the form of CLICK packages. Typical Solo ad click can cost from $0.40 all the way to $2 or more!
When I started to dig deeper I started to notice a very noticeable pattern. Those who were succesful and saw tremendous results were more willing to put themselves “out there” and go all out to build trust and reach out to their subscribers.
These days I can almost say with a certain degree of certainty who will do very well with solos and who won’t.. just by opt-in to their list and reading their
first welcome email, I know who will perform well and who most likely WONT..
Also before we really start to take a closer look on solo ads, you first need to understand who you’ll be marketing to.
Understanding Who Your Subscribers REALLY Are..
This is going to be a very important chapter in this guide.. get this right and it will show in all your marketing efforts today. I see many people marketing offers make this mistake a lot.
The subscribers built with solo ads don’t want flashy lambo’s or Ferraris. All they want is a simple business that they can start to make some income from home..
They are happy if they can even make $1 just to proof that this “make money online” thing actually works.. They are happy if they can even hit $10/day.
These people have probably paid money and join all sorts of make money programs and are just looking for something that ACTUALLY WORKS.
If they were already making good money, they won’t be in a solo ad vendor’s list opening the emails and clciking on your link in the first place 🙂
So in you’re marketing you need to address their biggest fears and give some sort of assurance and small goals that seems achievable for the average person.
The one rule I recommend you follow is this:
The LESSER the Hype the Better.
Think about it, selling stuff online is all about trust building and the worst way to break all that trust is to use extremely hypey headlines , promises and trying to oversell things. A far far better way to market things is to be less HYPEY and make more down to earth realistic promise, one where they can see themselves able to accomplish with reasonable work involved.
It’s that easy!
And while we’re talking about this you’ll also need to first understand CLEARLY
What Type of Offers Works Best with Solo Ads?
Basically anything make money online related that fits our Solo Ad list Avatar mentioned in the previous Chapter.
1) MLM/ network marketing offers (works extremely well)
2) How to make money online with Affiliate Marketing
3) Make Money Online Wit Fiverr
4) Forex
5) Binary Options
6) PLR products
7) Done For You Offers (yours or affiliate offers)
The list above is by no means the ONLy offers. Basically any offer that seems “newbie friendly” and does not appear to be difficult to execute to make money will qualify as a good offer.
Criteria’s When choosing offers to promote
When choosing offers to promote in my follow up or my “Thank You Page” I make sure the offer has on the sales page the following
1) Some Earnings proof ( doesnt have to be big)
2) Social media Proof
3) Video Sales video (Optional)
4) Contact details ( FB, SKYPE, Mobile Number)
If the video has these offers in place there’s a good chance you have an offer that can convert really with solo ads.
Products/programs that Won’t do so well with Solo Ads
1) Hosting
2) Copy writing service
3) Personal development
4) Software & plugins for wordpress
5) Website templates
6) Basically any software that’s website related
7) Graphic creation service
Now let me explain why the above offers won’t work so well. The offers above assume that they already have a business and WILLING to put more money in the business. 99.9% of the people built with solo ads don’t have hosting and don’t even know where to begin. So why do you pitch a website template when they don’t even own a website?
ALWAYS ASSUME that they are willing to start a website but only after they see the need. For now you need to cater to them as a complete newbie looking for ways to make money. Quick fixes and easy to implement strategies is whats going to convert well.
Finding affiliate offers to promote is extremely easy. There are tons of products in the internet marketing scene today to choose from.
Where do you find these offers?
1) Clickbank
2) Jvzoo
If you can come up with your OWN custom made offer , that will be even better since the offer is UNIQUE and you’re the only one offering that same offer.
The Simple HIGHER ROI Strategy In a Nutshell.
The whole goal of this guide is for you to be able to MAXIMIZE your ROI from every solo ad purchase.. and to do this what we want to do is actually get every subscriber that enters your list to actually reply and respond to your follow up emails and assure them and get them to buy or join whatever you’re promoting..
There’s a lot more “personal touch” in your follow up however before I talk about that, YOU Really need to get the basics right and know what kind of funnel to build .. so lets dive in to the solo ad funnel.
The Best Solo Ads Sales Funnel
I created a simple diagram below to illustrate the simple and yet super effective sales funnel you can easily create.
In a nutshell your basic funnel will look like this
Solo Ad Traffic> Squeeze Page > One Time Offer > Ongoing Follow Up Emails
I will go in to more detail touching each element in your sales funnel above later in this guide but for now just understand that you actually only need a few pages to get started buying solo ads. (I know many of you have probably seen this type of funnel in many list building courses but the key here is in the follow up emails and the offer itself.)
1) A Squeezepage/capture page to capture leads
2) An Autoresponder to collect the email leads
3) An offer right after they opt-in ( also called the THANK YOU PAGE)
4) A welcome email with ongoing follow up emails ( I recommend at least 7 to start)
The Ideal Squeezepage For Solo Ad Traffic
Whenever you buy solo ads, ALWAYS send the traffic to a LEAD capture/squeezepage. Many of you reading this may already know this BUT as a solo ad vendor I can’t tell you many first time marketers make that mistake..They don’t collect the email and send it straight to a Sales page.
Sidebar: Squeeze Page/Lead capture Page is a webpage that isdesigned to capture a visitor’s email address.
TIP # 1 Always ONLY collect EMAILS..
Sometimes I see people collect name, email, phone numbers. This only hurts your opt-in rate. Remember we make money with the follow up emails more than anything. Basically the more people gets in to your list.. the more money you’ll make PERIOD. So why would you want to collect name, phone and address?
My honest opinion just make do with a single email field in your squeezepage.
TIP # 2 NEVER use A ready made generic squeezepage provided by any company.
If you’re into MLM or in a business opportunity where a squeezepage is already made FOR you by the company and thousands of others are using the SAME squeezepage. I would STRONGLY advice against using them.
Many MLM or networking marketers may not like me telling this.. but You MUST always use a CUSTOM made squeezepage that does not reference the business opportunity you’re looking to promote because doing so only hurts your opt-in rate.
From my testing selling traffic to network marketers/MLM business owners, each time they use a standard Squeezepage, they usually get lower opt-ins. Which is why these days Solo Ad vendors will always recommend that you use a CUSTOM squeezepage.
Tip #3 Maximizing your OPT-in rate with Exit pop ups and Exit Splash
An Exit pop up can potentially boost your opt-in rate by 5 – 10%. Whats the difference between an “Exit pop Up” and an “Exit Splash”
Exit Pop Up: An exit pop up is a pop up script that appears on top of your squeezepage when your visitor tries to exit the page. Here’s an example of an exit pop up. If you try to exit my squeezepage without opting in you’ll see a pop up which is something similar to the pop up below, which basically give me another try at getting my visitors to enter their email.
Exit Splash: An Exit Splash is a scipt that activates only when you try to CLOSE the page.
Example:
So If the visitor clicks to STAY on this page, he will that be sent to another page where you’ll have a second chance to get them to opt-in.
What I recommend is to redirect to another page which is basically the same freebie optin and offer but WORDED differently and have a different design.
It’s funny how this works . From my testing people who didntoptin to your first squeezepage simply just opt-in to the new squeezepage because it’s a different page with a different feel but essentially the same offer. 🙂
I recommend creating a squeezepage with Instabuilder 2.0. This Is a wordpress plugin
If you dont wanna mess around with Hosting and wordpress and have no idea how to do any of that . You can use ClickFunnels. Many network marketers use Clickfunnels because of it’s simplicity.
The One Time Offer Or Thank You Page
We all want to be able to make money with our OTO and thank you page right?
Now I wished I could give you a BLUEPRINT for the best converting One Time Offer but honestly I Can’t . Because there are so many offers out there and so many angles to approach it would be impossible for me to give you a one size fits all One Time offer BUT I can give you what seems to be working for my clients across the board.
– They made the offer personal,
– They had their Contact details at the end of the sales page
– The offer contain little to no hype.
The one thing I found to convert well if you’re in the Network marketing scene is to have your mobile number and a video at the top of the OTO. If you’re ok talking to people this is a going to boost conversions from my experience working with solo ad clients.
The Freebie Gift ( PDF report In Welcome email)
A freebie gift is one of the most awesome ways to actually make some money. In fact your freebie gift can work as a presell to your offer.
Never underestimate your free gift, people do judge you for your simple reports so you need to add value and your contact details again so they can reach out to you.
I’m not saying to spend months preparing your free report. I’m saying add a ton of value and personality in your free gift and get people to actually to take up on the offer in the free report itself.
Your free report can be a simple 5 page PDF report or even a video series. All it needs to do is just demonstrate value and establish yourself as the person whose going to help the reader.
Again similar to the welcome email, where you talk briefly about yourself and the offer, you want to be able to do the same thing in your freebie gift.
I’ve made a lot of money distributing SHORT free reports with my offers and affiliate links in them its ridiculous if you don’t utilize this valuable asset.
Also although you can most certainly use ready made PLR product as your Freebie gift , I recommend that you customize it and add your personal touch to it. That’s how you’ll be able to make more money and establish yourself very quickly as a trustworthy person.
Here’s a standard structure I would recommend you stick to when creating your Freebie gift
The Structure I Follow
1.About me section
2.Your pain and what you’ve tried in the past that didn’t work
3.How you solved the pain “Your AHA moment”
4.The paid offer or solution that solved that problem
5.Your contact details and getting them to reach out to you.
Follow the simple formula above.
I’ve included a Free report sample in the member’s area you can model after and see how I implement this strategy myself.
The Welcome Email
THIS IS VERY CRUCIAL to get it right! The welcome email is so important and on average gets about 20 – 25% Open rate.
The main element of your welcome email
1) Welcome message and reminder why their on your list
2) Remind them about the offer you’re promoting
3) Reassure them that this stuff works and you’re happy to chat about it and help them succeed with it.
4) Tell them to reply to this email so that you can connect with them
5) Contact details ( Facebook, Skype and your Mobile Number!)
6) A reminder to look out for your NEXT EMAIL.
GOLDEN NUGGET:
If there is anything that you take away from this report is this. Having your mobile number is going to increase your conversions like crazy and even get people calling you!
Most people won’t include their mobile number and thats why MOST people see average results, If you’re very concern about having your mobile number, at least give them your Facebook or Skype contact so they can reach out to you someway. I reveal this in one of my case study
Here Is an Email Sample You can Model After
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EMAIL SUBJECT TITLE: The Only Way To Succed Online.. [Open up]
Hey there, [YOUR NAME] here! 🙂
You recently visited my Website(Insert Link) in which we offered you the opportunity to [Explain what your ofer is about]
If you’re anything like me, you want the ability to make money online in a way that doesn’t have you tied down to a cubicle all day long… You also just want someone to tell you the truth! No nonsense “just tell me what works” kind of someone!
Search no further. I can help you but here’s what you need to do next to get the most out of this newsletter:
STEP 1: Connect with me personally on Facebook and SKYPE because I’m a real person and I want to actually meet/chat with you. I
My Facebook
My Skype
My Mobile number
STEP 2: I have another special gift for you so make sure to open tomorrow’s email titled: [Insert Subject Title here]
My wish for you is that you find success in Online Marketing and start enjoying your new lifestyle. I want to show you exactly HOW to do that! No fluff. Just real talk.
As an insider, we’ll let you know what programs I’m promoting, which programs are paying off, and what programs to stay away from. I’ll also show you the best programs and software to build a list and how to do it the RIGHT way. Trust me, there are tons of people doing it wrong.
And because you are on my list, you are now one step ahead of everyone else, and you now have access to top tier tools, resources, and strategies that if you apply can one day get you OUT of that corporate 9 to 5 or finally just experience online Success!
Speak tomorrow! 🙂 To your success, [Enter YOUR NAME]
Also reply to this email with a simple Hi , I’ll be sure to reply!
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NOTE: In the welcome email above, you see I’ve included Mobile number. This is again 100% optional of course but HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to build trust. You’ll see later in this guide a case study of how a mobile number skyrocketed conversions.
Also you always want them to take SOME kind of action, either to buy the offer you’re promoting or to even reply to you or join a Facebook group etc.
You need to get them to get to know you better, try to connect with them and ask if they need any help with making money online. Do something to get them to reply and be as creative as you can.
I even recommend that you create a Facebook group which they can join and you can later reach out to them on Facebook and have a chat with them.
Head over here > https://www.facebook.com/groups/
And create a new Facebook group and
Email Frequency
So how often should you email your list? MY Answer to this is simple.. Email your list EVERYDAY. I see many marketers make this mistake of not mailing their list enough. If you don’t mail your list you’re losing money every single day.
But Brandon wouldn’t that make them unsubscribe. YES of course but it wouldnt make a difference if you mail them say once a week. If they want to unsusbcribe they will unsubscribe anyway. You mailing less is not going to make them stay subscribed on your list longer.
Plus don’t forget they are probably on many other marketer’s list as well so you best try to mail them as often as you can to get their attention and take action on whatever you’re promoting. THIS IS CRUCIAL.
Follow-up Relentlessly
Your money is made through your follow-ups PERIOD. The more you email the more money you make. I find it crazy that many marketers don’t have a proper follow up email in place. They get all excited buying solo ads but they only BANK all their efforts on that welcome email and Thank you page offer when really there is so many opportunities to pitch your offer over and over again.
In all your follow up emails always get them to reach out to you whenever possible.
Always Enable Single Opt-in Your Autoresponder!
This is super important, ALWAYS enable single opt-in. For those of you who don’t know what Single Or Double Opt-in means.
Single opt -in enabled: The visitor who enters their email in your squeezepage will be added stright to your list without any further action.
Double Opt -in Enabled: The visitor who enters their contact details will be sent a confirmation email to that email and will only be added to your list once he clicks on the confirmation link..
If you have DOUBLE Opt-in enabled, your subscriber is forced to click a confirmation link before they can receive any emails from you!. THIS IS NOT good at all. The fact is a majority of people won’t even bother to click on the confirmation link.
I see many newbie marketers buying solo ads making this mistake. Double opt-in only hurts your ROI.
By turning off confirmed opt in, your subscribers are NOT required to click a confirmation link to confirm that they want to be in your list remember ALWAYS disable/turn off Confirmed Opt-in
To Turn Off On Aweber
Go to List Options>> List Settings>> Confirmed Opt in & Scroll down till you see Require Opt-in and Turn off as below
To Enable Single Optin On Getresponse
Navigate to your campaign and click on the GEAR icon on the far right
(screenshot below) go to Permissions And uncheck the following Email
subscription, Web subscriptions, & API subscriptions.
The Only Autoresponder I Recommend
From years of playing around with autoresponders, it’s safe to say If you’re in the business opportunity/make money online space you need to be using AWEBER..
Don’t use mailchimp or GETRESPONSE
Q:Why not mailchimp?
A: They don;t like affiliate links and “work from home” type businesses. You’re account will get shutdown if you post even a single affiliate link
Q: Why Not Getresponse?
A: Their deliverability has been getting worst over the years. I know of marketers with a 60k List (buyers included) abandoning Getresponse because the delivarbility was just too poor.
That being said .. Just stick to AWEBER.com for autoresponder service. It’s cheap and reliable.
Social Media Traffic Vs Solo Ads
First before we touch on the quality of traffic between these 2 platforms, let me just get this one thing clear. We’re talking specifically about make money online/ business opportunity type offers here.
The problem with most paid traffic platform out there is that they certainly don’t like any Make money online type offers. If you take a traffic source like Facebook for example, if you promote anything remotely close to work from home type offers, your Ad account will get shut down in no time.
PLUS lets just say for some reason you’re able to get clever and get Facebook to approve your ads..If you promote any business opportunity/make money online offer , most of the people viewing or clicking your ad maybe exposed for the first time to ”make money online” type of offers and that may actually only repel them. Majority of the people clicking your ads may not even take action or optin to your squeezepage.(even if they did) they may not take up the paid offers in your follow ups.
The reason why solo ads works so well is because the people in these list are responsive to make money online type offers and some may even have been at it for YEARS.
I’m sure without a doubt Facebook is great for most niches out there but if the make money online space your best bet is actually still Solo Ads.
Fresh “Virgin” Leads Are Better Myth Busted
Here is something I get asked from a lot of people buying solo ads from me, especially network marketers.. “is you list already exposed to [INSERT OFFER NAME HERE]” . Half the time I’ll tell them up front that my list may have been exposed to a similar or even exact same offer but let me tell you why that it doesnt really matter and in fact it’s actually a good thing if they are slightly exposed to a similar offer.
First off, the way we structure our welcome emails and thank you page is designed to build trust and rapport. The offer doesn’t really matter.. is the person( you) who matters most when selling.
And secondly If you’re in the network marketing space you want someone already “exposed” to your offer or a similar offer and is willing to join network marketing offers. Why? Because it converts better.. the people in solo ads list RESPOND and are in most cases ACCEPTIVE to most make money online/network marketing offers.. The fact that they are in that list in the first place makes them qualified.
ALSO the best people to market to are the people who has been at it for more than 6 months who are the REAL big buyers. They have been at it for awhile now and are desperate for something to work for them. If they see your offer and YOU as the solution to their problems they will take the offer.
A person who is brand new on the other hand and not so exposed, may not know what is like to “struggle” trying to make this make money from home thing work so they are most likely not that eager or hungry to start spending money just yet and are just finding FREE methods to make it work.
This doesn’t only apply to just solo Ads by the way. From talking to many coaches in the internet marketing space in most cases prefer to work with people who have been trying to make money online for at least 6 months. Even for me I find that coaching clients that have been in the MMO space long enough to be more qualified and make way better coaching clients than the person who is BRAND new.
The One Thing You Must Have To Explode Your Income
Imagine if you can make $500, $1000, $2000 per sale as an affiliate or selling your own high ticket stuff. There are many high ticket offers in the bizop space you can promote and make some nice big ticket affiliate commissions.
I’m going to talk about 3 types of high ticket offers you can promote:
1)Coaching programs. Coaching programs can cost anywhere from $200 up to $10,000 and if you’re promoting some of this stuff as an affiliate you can stand to make up to $1,000 commission per sale or more.
2)Done for You Service. This can be anything from a Done for you Sales funnel or traffic package or a combination of both. ( Anything make money online related really)
3)Licensing deals. This is where you buy the right to promote a specific range of products.. I love this kinda offer because people see real value in this.
I’ve personally bought several high ticket licensing deals myself.
There are many businesses out there in the make money online space that has a certain licensing deal which gives you the right to use their proven to convert sales funnel which allows you to make big ticket commissions ranging anywhere from 100% up to 50% for a $2,000 program for the entire ever growing sales funnel.
From my testing and years of research the best kind of high ticket offers to promote are once that combine any of 2 of the times above or all 3.
The way you promote is going to be a little different compared to traditional affiliate offer. If you’re going to be promoting the offer directly you’ll need to mail the offer more and reach out to your subscriber and talk about the benefits of buying the high ticket offer.
Sure it’s going to be a little harder to make that affiiate sale but it’s not THAT much harder.
You can also mention in your email that if they purchase via your affiliate link you’ll give them 3 – 6 months worth of coaching etc.
Note: if you personally have a license a to a funnel with high ticket offers in place, all you have to do is promote the front end offer and the funnel will do the rest. The company will do their best to close high ticket sales for each lead that you brought in to their business. If you’re a network marketer promoting a business opportunity working with a company, these days these network marketing companies typically have high ticket offers in place in the funnel so you can make money with those too.
You can also mention in your email that if they purchase via your affiliate link you’ll give them 3 – 6 months worth of coaching etc.
I’ve been involved selling high ticket stuff as an affiliate and my own since 2012 so I have a good understanding what works and what doesnt. The key thing when promoting any high ticket offer is to build huge trust and add a personal touch. You don’t need “GURU” sales funnels. My first ever high ticket commission was a program that sold for $5k or $6k(Can’t recall the exact figure) and gave me a $1,500 Commission as an affiliate and yes its in theMake Money Online space 🙂
Here’s a screenshot of what’s possible if you have high ticket offers to promote. NOTE: I’m not the kinda guy to show off my Paypal earnings online but I just wanted to show that I’m not just giving you theories but stuff that I know works and successfully implemented myself.
The one thing you need to do selling high ticket stuff as an affiliate is to talk to your subscriber ( Via email or Facebook message) tell them about the benefits and just get them to take action.
By the way my first high ticket affiliate sale was done via email. 🙂
Over the years i’ve perfected selling and promoting high ticket offers in the make money online/ internet marketing space and have gotten better at it. I’ve spent a great deal of money and time perfecting my craft and I can tell you keeping things simple and genuine is the best way approach when selling high ticket stuff. No need for fancy GURU funnels thats for sure.
There’s a whole different approach to selling high ticket stuff and I can create an entire full blown course on that but we will save that for another day.
Sidebar: If you’re keen on getting into the High ticket game, selling high ticket stuff and banking high ticket affiliate commissions. Reach out to me and I’ll tell you what offers to promote and how to do it succesfully. If you already have an offer in mind and need help making high ticket affiliate sales you can reach out to me too.
I’m currently documenting (at the time of writing this guide)my progress working with 2 people set up a High ticket funnel, so they too can make high ticket affilate sales.
The high ticket sales funnel is going to be a little more manual but once you set it up, there’s no stopping you 🙂
Booking & Buying Solo Ads
Once you get your funnel up is time to buy traffic!
There are many places you can buy solo ads from Skype groups to Facebook groups and solo ad market places.
1. Facebook groups
2. Solo Ad Marketplace ( Udimi.com)
3. Skype groups ( As of 2014, most of the vendors have shifted to Facebook
Groups
When you’re starting out you may want to try UDIMI.com because they have very good filtering and fraud protection system
Tips: Buy in bulk but buy slowly
Don’t Get Scammed Buying Solo Ads
Many newbies and even veteran marketers get scammed buying solo ads. In my years of marketing I’ve came across a ton of solo ad scams.. Some are even on Clickbank!
I’ve had coaching students in the past fall for all sorts of scam traffic in the course of my coaching and no matter what I do , some students and close IM buddies still get caught buying fraudulent traffic because of the appeal of these scammers.
Here are a few tips and points to keep in mind before buying solo ads.
1) There is no such thing as GUARANTEED SALES. Any solo ad vendor that PROMISES SALES is something you should worry about. In my years of selling solo ads I NEVER promise sales even if the customer buys 10’s of thousands of clicks from me.
2) If the solo ad vendor is persistent and keeps messaging you on skype and facebook or even emails. This Is usually a redflag. IF the solo ad vendor has good traffic why would he/she chase you for traffic? Good solo ad vendors are usually booked days and weeks ahead. I would avoid these solo ad vendors completely.
3) Ask for recommendations from other solo ad buyers. If you’re in the internet marketing scene and know a number of people who buy solo ad regularly. I would recommend
4) Don’t believe testimonials on sites, they are easily faked. Screenshots of earnings and testimonials are easily faked instead always buy through groups especially if you’re dealing with the vendor for the first time.
5) The average LOWEST click price you’ll find is $0.30 per click, any lower then that, this is usually a redflag. I’ve seen scammers sell thousands of clicks for like $0.05 per click which doesn’t make sense at all. If the clicks were so good why would he/she sell at that price in the first place?
Another new trend Is to use attractive female profile pictures to add you as a friend to engage in solo ad traffic deal. HUGE REDFLAG.
Remember if it’s too good to be true. It probably is.
Tracking Click Quality and Opt-in rates
Tracking your solo ad purchase is vital for your solo ad success. I own and use several click tracking tools such as
1) Clickmagick (web based)
2) MyClickBoss (Self Hosted)
3) Quality Click Control (Web based)
From all that I use and tested, I actually highly recommend ClickMagick because of the technical capabilities and also because a lot of solo ad vendors use ClickMagick.
ClickMagick a monthly subscription tool at $17/mth that comes with a ton of features and is simple to use, (no Installation required) and has more advance features that can help your business a lot. And if you work with CPA companies, they have advance pixel tracking which can track when and where each sale came from.
Measuring Click Quality. How Do You Define Quality?
In the solo ads world, click quality is usually measured by the % of TIER 1 traffic. Tier 1 Countries include US,UK,CA,AU & NZ. These are english speaking countries with higher purchasing power than the rest of the world.
The higher the Tier 1 traffic the better. Typically most solo ads have about
75% (minimum) Tier 1 rate and the rest being Non Tier 1 traffic.
Also about 50 ish % of your traffic will be from the US.
With any tracking tools you’ll be able to track the % of tier 1 country traffic
What If I only want to purchase only Tier 1 Traffic?
Yes that’s possible, some solo ad vendors have different rates for Tier 1 Only traffic so you can request that from your solo ad vendor.
Creating A Tracking Link With ClickMagick
NOTE: Before you begin creating a tracking link I Need you to grab your Squeezepage URL and just add this at the end of your squeezepage URL “?/subid=sellername”
so now for example if your squeezepage URL is http://yourwebsite.com/squeeze. It will now look like this
http://yourwebsite.com/squeeze?/subid=sellername This will allow us to track the source of the optin ( if you’re using Aweber)
In Aweber go to manage subscribers and choose the filter “ADD URL” + “CONTAINS” + Subid=sellername (replace sellername) and Hit Search. This should bring up the subscribers from that One solo ad Seller.
Heres a step by step screenshot tutorial on setting up a tracking link with Clickmagick.
NOTE: It;s recommended to use a Custom Domain Name so your links will have your domain name instead of the clickmagick default domain URL on it. Tutorial in the clickmagick Website.First login to your Clickmagick account and hit create new link as shown below.
1) Link Name = I Structure with Seller Name + number of Clicks Sold 2) Tracking Link has to be a CUSTOM DOMAIN and the URL Slug I recommend Sellername +Clicks Sold + Date 3) Primary Link which is your squeeze page URL + ?/subid=sellername (See my example below)
4) Hit create link
Next you’ll see something like the screenshot below. Go to the “GEAR” icon on the link you just created and click on
1) Copy Tracking Link 2) Public stats link
From the screenshot example above my
1) Tracking link is = http://website.com/Sellername100-Date
2) Public Stats link is = http://www.clickmagick.com/share/777777777
Creating Tracking pixel ( One Time Only Set up) Next you need to create a tracking pixel which you need to insert in YOUR THANK YOU PAGE ( Page they see right after they opt-in) THIS IS A ONE TIME ONLY SET UP
Go to the link that you just created and click on the “GEAR” icon and click on “TRACK CONVERSIONS” and go to “Action Tracking Pixel” and copy the entire text.
From the example above my Action tracking pixel code is
<img src=”http://www.clkmg.com/api/a/pixel/?uid=22240&att=28ref=”1”width=”1”/>
I will need to insert this tracking pixel ONLY once in my thank you page. IMPORTANT: For every link you create the tracking pixel is the same so this is a ONE TIME ONLY SET UP!
Case Studies
CASE STUDY # 1 – promoting Mid Ticket in Welcome
Email – DFY Sales Funnels
Back in 2011/2012, I was able to grow a new list to about 2k while profiting with mini JV giveaway events.
AT that time I ONLY had one welcome email with no follow up emails in place. My welcome email was a long email explaining who I am and what I do for a living and then transitioned to the importance of building a list and having a proper sales funnel to monetise that list.
I then proceeded to talk about a DONE FOR YOU SALES FUNNEL Service that Im offeringwithout revealing the price and the only way for them to get to know the price was to reply to the email.
But for them to get to know the price they had to reply to the welcome email. When they replied I sent out an email with some simple text and a LINK to the actual sales package with Multiple sales funnel packages.
I had a $97 and $197 price package and all my offer was is really a DFY PLR sales funnel whereI will create a sales funnel with One time offers and follow up emails and even recommended some affiliate offers they can use to promote in their follow up emails.
In case you’re wondering Here’s a snippet of the $197 Offer
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Here is exactly what you’ll get:
1. I will find and buy right to a high quality private label rights product to use as a free bribe for your squeeze page
2. I will install a wordpress on your domain for you and configure it for you.
3. I will then create a high converting squeeze page for it for you
4. I will set everything up in your aweber autoresponder account( it is essential to use a paid auto responder)
5. I will find a high converting product for you to promote to your new subscribers and I’ll show you how you can do this yourself.
6. I will set up my optimized confirmation page, thank you page.
7. I will apply my most powerful list building strategy to your funnel so you can build your list quickly
8. I will help you get started building your list and answer your questions should you have any.
9. I will add you in Private list building Skype groups ( You’ll have to promise you don’t spam the members in the group)
10. I Will Send Traffic with my list to your new sales funnel!!!
This is priceless.
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I got many people taking up the offer at both $97 and $197 , believe it or not some even paid and I didn’t hear from them again. While many of my JV partners were struggling to even breakeven, I grew my list and profited.
The key thing I had was that I was very responsive and I included my personal SKYPE contact and was willing to reply to a few emails to get the sale . I wasn’t pushy or anything like that.
This one EMAIL brought me a number of $97 to $197 payments from a list build with Mini giveaway events.
NOTE: I couldn’t find that exact welcome email for this case study. If I do I’ll update this guide and release it as version 2.0
From there on, I knew the power of personal touch. Over the years my list building game evolved and I slowly became a solo ad vendor and ventured to a lot of other things online but the ONE thing i do different is that I try to get people to reach out to me , giving that personal touch while MOST people just want to heavily rely on “automated” systems. This was the slight EDGE that I had that gave me a huge kickstart in my online career.
CASE STUDY # 2 – Having Phone number Right After
Opt-in in MLM Opportunity.
This is ONE of the many case study I’ve seen just do so well because of some
VERY Minor tweaks.
One of my solo ad clients who just started buying traffic with various sources wanted to try my traffic but she was having doubts and almost wanted to give up on solo ads and the only reason she wanted to try my traffic because she just so happen to come across my solo ad offer so I gave her some suggestions to improve her conversions.
There was only 2 things we did.
1) Change the welcome email to be talk about herself and to have her phone number and all follow up emails
Follow-up emails comes with her mobile number.
2) Add the phone number in the Thank you Page / After Opt-in Page
After the changes were made she went ahead and purchased 200 clicks. When the traffic started coming in.Her phone was ringining non stop and people were calling her asking about the offer and she was closing them on the phone making up to $200 Commission PER sale..
Also this client of mine didn’t have a phone script or anything like that at all during the call. It was all just casual talk with re-assurance thats it!
I won’t reveal the exact MLM offer but I can give you the overall Layout structure of the page.
But it looks like this Graphic Here
The video was a ready made video given by her sponsor ( it wasn’t even her video) Right below the video there was her contact details, Mobile, FB and SKYPE and a BUY Now button to join the business opportunity
From hardly making any sales in her previous solo ad buys , to KILLING it with solo ads and also worth mentioning here a bulk of the sales came from phone calls.. No sales call, they were CALLING her. The leads were already presold with the video and were just looking for someone to talk to before purchase.
Note: Most of her emails we’re going to spam filters because she was using the company’s generic autoresponder which usually from my experience end up in spam or other promotions tab. Which is why I HIGHLY Recommend that you stick to Autoresponders like AWEBER.com
For those of you who are not in the MLM SPACE.. I know what you’re thinking.. You think maybe you can’t apply this at all.. BUT the reality is you can. If
you’re selling your own stuff or as an affiliate even if you don’t want to include your mobile number, you can always include your SKYPE ID or Facebook contact details. The idea and concept is the same. as long as you let people reach out to you . You can get great results. In fact i do get product owners achieving amazing results applying the same strategy just giving out their Facebook profile and SKYPE ID instead of mobile number and they do well too.
Alright this guide is coming to an end.. so Let’s finish up…
Your Ultimate Profit Plan
You’re ultimate goal is to create a profitable business where you can constantly buy new leads, send them through your funnel and make a nice profit. To build an evegrowing database of subscribers where you can market to your list over and over again.
If it works JUST SCALE it BIG time . This is of course NOT rocket science. Once you’ve purchased a ton of solo ads, you’ve gain some experience and data, and you’ve tweaked your system over time its time to keep scaling and building your online empire.
Remember our goal is to make more than $1 for every $1 spent within 30 days.You dont need any complex funnels to make solo ads work.
Now let me also take the time here to address one thing about buying solo ads which is basically the fear of losing money instead of profiting..
I know how that feels and many of you reading this guide maybe new to solo ads BUT Just keep in mind that this is a real business that could change the way you live forever and also remember that getting started online is seriously cheap compared to setting up a brick and motor business.
The reality is virtually every business needs to spend money first in order to get started. List building and solo ads is no different, the only upside to solo ads is the relatively low cost to entry.
REMINDER : You can easily explode your revenue by having multiple High ticket offers to promote. As I mentioned in this guide if you have some High ticket offer (yours or as an affiliate) always be sure to promote it to your list. Some people I know only became profitable with high ticket offers in their funnel.
Closing Thoughts
There is a lot of disinformation and shiny objects that only serves to distract you from success online. Truth is there is a ton of ways to make money online and building a list with solo ad traffic is just one of the ways thats proven to work for many people.
The one thing I learn is that you really need to DIVE DEEP and take massive action before even dismissing the idea completely. What I’m trying to say is the most of the learning is done by doing things.
The experience & knowledge gain from taking action and executing things is what no shiny objects will ever give you.. No matter how much information or training you consume. You need to get out there and start taking massive action to see what works for you.
Go out there, start tweaking your funnel & buy solo ads using the principles and strategies laid of for you in this guide and start making what’s rightfully yours today!
Oh and one more thing..
One LAST THING…
Lastly before we really finish things up. I’m going to take the time here to mention again about the High ticket Case study I’m currently documenting . Currently working with 2 Beta testers and I know by the time they are done, their going to really fly online.
If you’re keen on making Big pay days with high ticket affiliate offers. Hopefully by the time you’re reading this the case study should be completed and I’ve thought of a better way to present the case study 🙂
Remember solo ads is not a loophole or a “secret” method that’s usually
1) Hard to find
2) Get over-used
3) And worse yet, becomes ineffective rather quickly
Most Loopholes are here today, gone tomorrow and thats certainly not a way to build a business at all.
Solo ads and list building is one of the most sustainable way to build a profitable LONG TERM online business.
With that in mind just remember to keep taking action.
SUMMARY & Key Takeaways
1) Create a simple Solo Ad Funnel designed to build trust
2) Have mobile number or other contact details in emails and your offers
(Optional but highly recommended)
3) Never ever use the ready made generic squeezepage provided by any business opportunity networks. Send traffic to YOUR custom made squeezepage first.
4) All emails should try to get them to reach out to you and start a conversation and pitch your offer in all of em.
5) Always stick to Aweber and only create SINGLE Optin Squeezepages
6) Competition is never a problem, your trust building approach is going to set the stage and make YOU the star of your show. 99% marketers get this wrong
7) Have high ticket affiliate offers to promote, one sale can easily pay for thousands of clicks.
8) Always do your best to get personal and engage in a conversation with your subscriber << This is all you need to do more than anything else.