While browsing some blogs to find some info about website creation, I ran across this post in Dave Nicholson’s blog. It gives an excellent tutorial on exactly how to FTP using a program called SmartFTP. Even tells you where to get it for free!
FTP’ing is a means of uploading your files or getting your webpages sent to your webhosts server.
While there are many different ftp programs available to use to do the job, most of them work in a similar manner to accomplish what you need done. This is an easy step-by-step fast read that you could apply to pretty much any FTP program you use.
One of the things I did manage to get done this past week was to finish (mostly) the create a successful website package. It took 15 hours to setup the sales page (homepage at the retail site); make the thank you page; go through, collect, organize & zip all the products (well over 1GB!); set up the payment & download links; etc.
The actual payment links aren’t functional as of yet, but everything is getting there. They’ll soon be done & ready to accept your order for this truly spectacular package offering! Keep watching! Make sure if you want the discount price, you order through the page here: ebook package instead of at the retail site I set up here: create a successful website.
Having a retail site to sell your items will obviously gain you more money per sale than a similar discount site offering the same items.
But consider this: many IM people have duplicate sites. The first website, the retail site, is for any sales they can catch outside of their regular customer base. Sure, these same buyers “could” get the merchandise cheaper if they searched for the discount site. Many will not though, so they pay a bit more.
The discount site, is the exact same site as the retail site, the only difference being is the price. Now, there are a few different ways one can go about accomplishing this. One, you set up the retail site at one domain, then you just copy the entire site, changing the price, then loading it onto a new domain. OR, you could set up the retail site, then just reference it on the discount site telling these (discount) site viewers to NOT buy from that site, but instead, to buy from the discount site. Is it a waste of time doing that? After all, setting up the retail website may not get any sales at all.
Well, consider this: you are showing potential buyers (at your discount site) that you ARE trying to sell (whatever) at the retail price. First off, it shows buyers the value of what they will be getting, only at a reduced price (what a bargain!). Secondly, if you leave the discount website for your regular customers, they will appreciate it knowing that they are getting something at a discount price. Then you should also be promoting your retail website outside of your normal avenues. That may gain you future customers (who will then after be entitled to some discounts from you). You benefit from the retail website by acquiring the retail price. In addition, you may gain even more sales from the discount website “because of” the implied retail site. Everyone loves a discount, and when people see that you are selling (whatever) at your retail website for $xx, but they can get it for $xx (much less) at your discount site, that’s a good buying incentive!
For instance, I have setup the “retail website” for the create a successful website package, offering it for $97. This blog you are reading here, IS my discount site, and you can get this same successful website package off of this site, for just $47! That’s $50 off the normal price!!! Now THAT’S a pretty good discount if I do say so myself! Because you decided to read this experiment website, you are entitled to get the package for less than half off!
Setting up dual sites, a retail website and a discount website may take twice as long, and/or cost twice as much do, but can be very beneficial if you use this technique correctly. Just remember, you’re benefitting in multiple ways; full price from the retail site sales & possible increased sales from the discount site when potential buyers realize they can get it less inexpensively! Especially when they see that you ARE selling it for more somewhere else!
Yes, indeed, I’ve been a victim! You, too, can become a victim to this unless you protect yourself!
What was the crime? A minor one, I suppose, but none the less, I feel like a victim!
After having to take a week off to attend to some things, when I returned to this site to continue on where I left off, I had all the intentions of picking up right where I had stopped. Of course, before I could do that, there were emails I needed to catch up on, as well as some other items. Then, as any good internet marketer should do, is stay abreast of whats happening in the IM world. Newsletters, video’s that have been released to learn from, other blog posts, etc., etc. Before you know it, you’re NOT working on your own stuff, but spending a bunch of time surfing and the like!
It’s great to continue on with your education, learning from others to see what works, what doesn’t, the latest trends, the newest software applications released that are suppose to make your work life easier, and the list goes on and on. Another week has passed for me, catching up with all this, and I didn’t really do much for my own website here!
Don’t fall prey to becoming a victim of this crime! It’s all about balance and scheduling. Sure, you need to get current again after being absent for a time, but you need to work on your own projects as well, otherwise you won’t accomplish your goals that you started in the beginning!
I won’t penalize myself too much because of this, and you shouldn’t knock yourself either when you stray from what you “should be doing” as opposed to “what you ARE doing.” We all have times where it’s just easier to keep on learning, or doing other activities, instead of implementing what we are learning. Just realize if you don’t work ever on your own stuff, you’ll never get to where you want to be! So learn, but utilize these methods too!
I’ve been a victim of this more or less harmless crime, but you don’t have to fall prey to it if you know that there will be times when you don’t or can’t work on your own material, and you just accept that for what it is. Allow yourself a day or 2 to “catch up,” but then on the next day, regardless of how much more catching up you have to do, put it aside, it WILL be there later to get to, promise. Take a day to work on your stuff, that really is more important than the other things! Even if you have to alternate days between catching up & doing your own sites. Eventually, you’ll fall back into your “normal schedule or routine.” And you do have a regular routine, right? Time management is crucial!
I attached one of those cool “exit ad scripts” onto a few of the pages on the website. This is to try and catch some additional sales from those who aren’t interested in any of the other fine products that this website has to offer you (but you really should be interested in this stuff :-) - it’s what you need to make your own websites!).
The total time to implement the exit ad script, including setup of the exit script, thank you page, ipn scripts and uploading the actual product took an hour. It helps to be able to reuse other similar pages as a template, just transferring the new info onto the old page, then upload it all!
The actual exit ad script offer, offers 25+ Wordpress blog themes for a SUPER price! If you’ve never seen one of these scripts in action, just go to the main home page then move your mouse up to the red X at the top of the window, like you would close the page. As soon as your pointer gets close to reaching the X, the window should show you the offer! Cool, huh? Now you should go and actually check out this SUPER offer if you haven’t already!
