by Igor KheifetsMarketing Software
Newsletter Booster is a premium WordPress plugin that helps you build your mailing list using your WordPress blog by adding a check box to your comment and user registration forms making it really easy for your readers to sign up for your mailing list or newsletter.
My Newsletter Booster Expectations
Newsletter Booster seems like a magic bullet of WordPress list building. It’s promise is effortless newsletter growth, but as I found out-it’s not so. Although Newsletter Booster makes it much easier to build a list using a blog, it’s still not the only thing you need to grow an email database.
The reason why the promise is so appealing is because readers are becoming immune to sidebar opt in forms and orange RSS feed subscription icons.
However, if someone’s taking action to leave a comment or sign up as a member-it makes perfect sense to offer a free newsletter subscription with a check box. It’s easy. It’s under the radar. It’s genius.
So far, in the last 2 weeks, anyone who has left a comment on my blog has signed up for my mailing list and confirmed their email address. That is quite an impressive result, since I blog to the internet marketing crowd which is very picky and hates sneaky marketing tricks.
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by Igor KheifetsMarketing Software
List building aside, the one thing that’s responsible for making millions of dollars in sales for the gurus is Video Marketing.
It has been over 2 years since Frank Kern used a real sales letter and Ryan Deiss has just announced that in the near future he’s going to change his entire marketing infrastructure to video as well.
Sales letter is dying and video is rapidly taking its place pixel by pixel. But is it enough to have a YouTube account to sell using video? Can you generate enough interest and trust using the same old embedding code we all have been using for the past half a decade?
Video Marketing 2.0
Answer is “No”. You can’t become the best marketer you can be unless you’re different. Using YouTube to host marketing videos is like saying that you’re the best street racing driver while driving ‘96 Honda Civic.
Using a YouTube video on a sales letter gives you an impression of flabbiness. It makes you look cheap, unprofessional and it shows that you either don’t have the money to spend on decent video software or you don’t respect yourself enough to notice.
Either way, to get the most out of your sales letter it needs to be:
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