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So … what is Virtual Smart Agent and how is it going to benefit you?

This technology is so new … it is almost like science fiction, and almost as much fun as well

VSA is the world’s FIRST stand-alone Virtual Sales Agent, software so smart that it enables you to put an automated chat solution on your website WITHOUT having to pay someone else for their services.

But it doesn’t stop there. The guy who created this nonsensically fun tool also made it BETTER than anything else out there by making it possible to train your virtual agent, split-test the results, and even build your opt-in list on autopilot (by linking it to Aweber)!

This technological jabberwock has already been PROVEN to boost sales by up to 40%, and I have little doubt that the marketers who manage to get their hands on it are going to be at a huge competitive advantage.

Not only does it boost sales, but it can also build your list on autopilot,and increase your affiliate commissions to boot.

It’s effectively like having your own virtual “employee” who never sleeps,which is exactly the kind of employee that you want. It just keeps working for you and building your business 24/7 without a break.

It turns out that Dave Guindon, the product owner, is also an experienced online marketer as well as an advanced software developer. So he knows how to deliver quality products along with how to use the products to your advantage.

Not many product owners even attempt to over-deliver as much as Dave does!

Here is a short list of the powerful features this software provides:

• Increase your website conversions up to 20-40% in a little as 2 weeks!
• Dramatically reduce your shopping cart abandonment.
• Instantly increase the value of each website visitor.
• Improve your website visitor’s experience (builds trust and repeat business).
• Increase your customer loyalty and overall satisfaction.
• Quickly grow a highly responsive opt-in list of interested prospects.
• Reduce labor costs.
• Save time by reducing questions and support requests.
• Up-sell or cross-sell similar and/or additional products to boost your revenue.
• Find out WHY customers are leaving your site.
• One installation works on ALL your websites… boost your entire business!
• Builds your opt-in list on autopilot!
• Auto follow-up emails to your web visitors after they leave your chats!
• And a lot more …

And, if that were not enough, Dave Guindon offers an unbelievable LIFETIME money back guarantee so literally anytime between now and the day you shuffle off this mortal coil, you can get your cash back if you decide that VSA is no longer for you! That is totally nuts if you ask me, but there again, what do I know?

So you basically have nothing to lose is the top and bottom of it. The software works great and I am just beginning to install it on most of my sites. It may even turn up here one day.

Look - don’t waste your time reading my inane ramblings - take a look here and then make you own mind up,

Thanks for reading,

Steve

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If PPC advertising could be said to have a ‘Holy Grail’, it would surely be increasing your income whilst seeing your ad spending stay the same or even fall. Improving your ROI, or ‘return on investment’ is what it is all about in other words.

Here’s a great little PPC trick that I started testing a few weeks back that has definitely improved both click through rates and sales as well.

It’s excellent with AdWords and works with some of the smaller, lesser known PPC advertising sites as well, so give it a shot. And whilst I cannot say that this will work in every business and for every product, it is certainly effective for affiliate products and other related internet marketing sales campaigns.

I’m assuming that you know that you should have a keyword list that you are using when you create your PPC ads.

If not, you do!

Okay, so lets say that your keyword phrase is ‘oligopoly killed the cat’

I frankly have no idea at all what kind of product you could ever hope to promote using a phrase like that, but it just came to me and its nonsensical nature appeals, so I’m sticking with it!

In this case, common PPC wisdom would have you place this phrase as close to the beginning of your PPC ad Title header as possible. With AdWords, you have 25 characters available, so that phrase just about does it.

Next, most experts suggest that you should also include it in the body text of your ad as well. This is where I beg to differ.

I find that doing this ‘clutters’ the ad body, so I started using the key phrase that I am trying to get ranked for as the display url!

And, bingo, it worked and carries on working!

So, in this case, my display url would be OligopolyKilledTheCat.com or Oiligopoly-Killed-The-Cat.com. I have, incidentally, tried both url forms and there does not seem to be much difference in results, so I would tend to use the latter, simply because it is easier for humans to read.

There you go. Use the key phrase as your display url – it could not get much simpler than that, really, could it?

Anyway, all I can suggest is that you try it and let me know how you get on with a comment or ten.

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Did you notice the number of new “Giveaway” events over the festive season?

Did you join any? If so, what did you think of the general quality?

I must say that in most cases, I was not particularly impressed.

A lot of the products being given away had certainly done the rounds and I thought that a lot of the events, especially the newer ones, were more ‘glitter and tinsel’ than quality substance.

One that I HAVE found worth looking at, however, is the excellent “New Years Giveaway” that is running from now until the end of January, and I would seriously recommend that you should take a look sooner rather than later.

There’s three hundred or so free gifts on offer and unlike most of the ‘festive season specials’ that I looked at, many of them are actually worth downloading. There are e-books, software programs, video and web authoring tools for everyone from the newest newbie to the most experienced, and (the thing that I most like),a lot of them are new to me too!

Now, you know and I know that the idea of these events is to allow the contributor to add your name to their mailing list, so I would recommend that you create a new gmail or yahoo email account for your sign-ups and that you only download that you can actually use. Downloading something that you ‘might’ use in the future is just cluttering up your disk space, trust me, because you will never use it!

But, anyway, you should definitely take a look at the New Years Giveaway now, if you have not already done so.

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January 1^st, so HAPPY NEW YEAR!

An excellent and thought provoking read:

http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html

And a must watch video if you do not like wasting 25% of your website traffic

http://www.stompernet.net/goingnatural2/

Enjoy and think……

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We all know that this is a common mistake that sales people and Internet Marketers make, but it bears repeating as a reminder.

Fine, it is relatively common to add human interest by telling a story about yourself or your product in your copy and that’s great, but be careful that you do not use ‘I’ too often and forget to use ‘you’.

The bottom line is that your readers do not care about you – naturally enough they care about themselves. This is not to say that they are necessarily being selfish but we are all conditioned to think about ourselves before we think of others. So, you must be focusing on what your product or service can do for your reader, and making sure that you tell them in the clearest and simplest way possible.

You should not say:
‘I have discovered a secret formula…’

When using this would work so much better:
‘You will discover this secret formula…’

The second one is much more powerful because you are telling them what they can get from it, and making sure that it is addressed directly to your reader or listener

Some copy writers even go as far as to analyze their own writings to make certain that the word ‘you’ is the one that is used most in their writing.

A tip is to write your copy as you would normally do and then go through it trying to replace as many ‘I’s’ with ‘you’s’ as you can in as natural manner as possible. This will help your conversions immensely.

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