Today's Checklist

* Setup your Brandable Report
* Setup your Autoresponder
* Setup Squeeze Pages

Setup Brandable Report & Squeeze Page

Login to Brian's website:
http://www.sgraffiliatebootcamp.com/

Click on "Rebrandable eBook"

And follow Brian's great video instructions on how to setup your squeeze pages & rebrandable ebook.

Download & Setup both of the Squeeze Pages:
Download Squeeze Page Option 1 (No Audio)
Download Squeeze Page Option 2 (With Audio)

It's fine to signup for a trial at Aweber like Brian suggests, but if you continue after the trial, it will cost $19 a month (minimum), so be sure to read my Autoresponder tips below if you don't want to pay a monthly fee for your autoresponder.

I hate monthly fees!

* This tip will probably take 1-2 hours, or more!

PS - take a look at other SGR Affiliate's squeeze pages for ideas on how to change your own! You can add video, etc.

http://thesecretbehindthesecret.biz/dlxi2s.html
http://thesecretbehindthesecret.biz/

Autoresponder Tips

In your Autoresponder and in Email marketing in general, don't use Dear! .. use Yo, Hiya, Hi, or Hey.
The official affiliate site http://www.sgraffiliatecenter.com/ has some templates for autoresponders that you can borrow and modify. I also highly recommend setting up a free gmail account and signing up to everyone else's  autoresponders to get ideas on how they are promoting. As well as, make sure you actually sign up to the free 5 lessons on your website as there may be some text in there that you can use too.

In the comments below, please share which autoresponder messages you like, I've shared the one that made me signup for SGR in the first place, so it was obviously effective for me :)

What to Write in your Autoresponder

Your autoresponder and followup content is meant to educate your prospects as well as build a relationship with them.
Remember that it often takes several exposures to a product before a sale is made. When writing, use "YOU" more than "I".
Your followup content is designed to foster this relationship by demonstrating your knowledge and credibility.

How to Generate your Autoresponder fast without hurting your brain too much!:

• Step A: Print out all of the content about SGR that you can find online.
• Step B: Pick out the best features and benefits of the content.
• Step C: Re-write content in your own words.
• Step D: Use problem/solution formula of pre-selling... what is their problem? why is SGR the solution?
   

Autoresponder Software

(If you host your own domain only!)

Like I said above, Aweber is minimum $19 a month and I hate paying monthly, so I have been looking for a great autoresponder which has all the features, easy to use, where "I" host it instead of a 3rd party website, fast, and NO MONTHLY FEES!

I was looking at both free and paid versions.
I don't mind paying if it's a great product and only a Once-Off fee, but I was hoping that I could stumble upon a great free one that noone was advertising because it was free lol..

I personally would rather host my own mail rather than have aweber in charge of everything. I'm a control freak. :)

I reviewed every autoresponder that I could find, trying to find the best. I looked at & demo'd:
- GetResponse
- Aweber
- EmailMarketingAssistant
- ListPro
- AutoresponsePlus
- InfiniteAutoresponder
- AutoresponderUnlimited
- And every single one of the autoresponders listed on the PHP scripting websites

It was a crappy, frustrating, couple of weeks :(

And after all my reviewing, I'm still unhappy with everything I found :(  One day I'll get someone to design a good autoresponder, I can't believe how crap they all are.

In the meantime, I'm using AutoresponderUnlimited, which I've uploaded to the Autoresponder Tools page if you want to try it.

It's not great.. but it'll get the job done until someone creates a great one ;) And since I paid for it and have master resell rights, I can give it to you for free.

Pointless if you don't yet have your own domain though...
if you don't have a domain, you might want to stick with aweber because it's hosted with them, but I'm sure there are some free hosts elsewhere that you don't have to pay the monthly fees for.. please share with the group just in case there are others who also can't afford to get their own domain yet.

Tips about web creation software

Don't get too overwhelmed with finding web software, your blog will be your "new" content for a while, as well as your squeeze pages and affiliate redirect.

A great site that I spotted today is SproutBuilder.com - You can build a great quick online mini site, about me page, including multimedia, etc
Sprout is the quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more. Any size, any number of pages. Include video, audio, images and newsfeeds and choose from dozens of pre-built components and web services. The site looks really professional and I'm pretty sure that anyone even those without any technical ability will be able to create a great website with it.

Alternatively, just use Brian's free software at his page, or the 1stpage (below) to modify your squeeze pages enough to get it online to begin with.

Free Web Software: http://www.evrsoft.com/1stpage2.shtml 

If you are interested in what I use, I use a combination of Drupal, Frontpage, Wordpress and XSitePro.

I'm an absolute newbie at Drupal and it is quite difficult to learn, but it's perfect for this website, as in, frontpage and xsitepro is no good for these kinds of "membership sites".

But they are good for affiliate sites.

So if you intend on making your own membership site like mine, you might also want to look into Drupal (http://drupal.org), it does my head in though, I'm constantly strained at wanting to basic things lol.. my head hurts :)

Actually, thinking about it... Wordpress will probably fill the needs of everything you want to do, and it's free :)

XSitePro is software built specifically for affiliate programs, and you can read my review about it when I first bought it on one of my blogs:
http://infoselling.blogspot.com/search?q=xsitepro

or directly to that page if the search above doesnt work:
http://infoselling.blogspot.com/2006/05/xsitepro-ive-bitten-bullet-and-bought.html

And Frontpage is a Microsoft product.

There are so many good web software out there, and most can do everything you'll need it to do. I only use Frontpage because I learnt it first and am the most familiar with it. It's not as fantastic as some of the ones you can buy thesedays.

And I use XSitePro because it's really easy to build lots of pages that are SEO optimized really quickly and has in-built features to save you doing a lot of the manual crap :)

Autoresponder Courses:

I'll upload these shortly.