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The secret is out — I share really cool stuffs in my newsletters. I maintain a handful of mailing lists. MiniSiteGallery.com, DIYMiniSite.com and OptinDesign.com are the main ones.

And here are some feedbacks I get recently…

Kidino…
Awesome email.
That’s a print-outter.

Jack
JackBorn.com

Kidino,

Yours is one of a very select few newsletters I read faithfully. I appreciate the fact that you do not push a product down my thought every time you send me an email. I have learned a ton from reading your stuff.

Ken Seal

Hey Kidino,

Thanks for your email. I really like the way you always provide good information and seem helpful in your tone. I really appreciate it as I am sure that many others do as well.

Francois Van Der Merwe
Sydney, Australia

Hi Kidino,

What a good informative email… and perfect timing!

Alex Major
911Servers.com

Great email Kidino!
It’s a pleasure to get so much valuable info for free!

Mitch Powell
Powell3D.com

Wow, this is one of the most useful emails I’ve ever received. Even though you are plugging a product, you are still providing valuable information (ex: links to other Wordpress plugins).

Thanks!

Andrew

Well, I know that I can get more content at MiniSiteGallery.com if I publish my newsletters here. But I always thought that my newsletter is something sacred. I like keeping good stuffs those who take the time to subscribe.

Anyway, recently I shared about the two ways to building membership sites using WordPress. And I continued with the 5 plugins out there that can turn your WordPress into a membership site.

Most recently, I shared about how to turn your info-products into DVD products. I wrote about the fulfillment service that I am using right now (and it’s not Kunaki). Also a few tips on how to create better DVD product.

OK, how about we do it this way.

Give me your comment on this. Tell me if you are only my blog reader, or you are my subscriber as well. I want to know who you are and what you think about all these.

I have a new mission. And that is to get more mini-site templates into Mini-Site Gallery. So I approached a number of mini-site designers if they’d agree to do two things — 1) an interview for MiniSiteGallery.com… 2) contribute a mini-site template for the gallery.

And to start this off, I have for you Albert Hallado. Albert Hallado is a Filipino who hails over at Las Vegas. A few weeks ago, he launched the Vegas Traffic Jam, which is a really good guide on how to build a blog and monetize it. I participated in the launch last time because it really is a good guide. Albert went into the details of the many strategies to get traffic and make money from them.

By the way, Albert Hallado contributed the Red Night mini-site template. I am sure you can use them with your projects. Do check it out…

Now, on with the interview…

QUESTION: I understand you are from Philipines. How did you get to US?

ANSWER: Yes I was born and raised in the Philippines and I moved here to the USA (Las Vegas) with my wife (She’s American). My wife and I are thinking about moving back home in the Philippines though one of these days!

QUESTION: Tell me how you got started in Internet marketing?

ANSWER: I started internet marketing in 1998. I was just looking how I could supplement my income and be mobile so I can have plenty of time to spend with my family. Finally I now make a living with my blog (AlbertHallado.com)

QUESTION: What is your approach to designing mini-sites for direct response?

ANSWER: To be able to convey and deliver the message with my graphics and to
catch peoples attention right away so they’ll read your copy and close the deal.

QUESTION: What is your favorite offline activity?

ANSWER: Whoa! I like this question Kidino! Well I love camping, hiking, fishing and
just walking around the mall with the entire family (Wife and Kids). Also I like to volunteer to do some charity service like feeding the homeless and Salvation Army like my wife does!

QUESTION: How can people get in touch with you?

ANSWER: They can go to AlbertHallado.com and they’ll see I have a contact form there.

QUESTION: Any comments about Kidino or MiniSiteGallery.com?

ANSWER: Kidino is a friend of mine. I’ve know Kidino for forever (maybe 5 years!) and he’s always helped me out with whatever I ask him, he’s really nice and has a big heart. I highly recommend him when it comes to internet marketing and any graphics work.

I heard complaints where a lot of the must-have software for mini-sites and internet marketing are created for Windows users. There are not many software for the Mac users.

Well Mac users, you are in for a treat…

Box Shot 3D - for Mac and Windows
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Back in April, I wrote a review on Box Shot 3D. And that was one of the feedback I got about it. It was not available for Mac users. I checked out their website again recently and surprised to a Mac download…

With Box Shot 3D, you can easily create smooth-looking software box shots or ebook covers for your products. Unlike similar products based on Photoshop action scripts which limits your ecover creation, Box Shot 3D is much more powerful. Because it is powered by a 3D engine, you can create your ecover in any way you want, viewing from any angle while controlling a number of other elements like shadows, lighting, etc…

And when comparing Box Shot 3D with similar 3D-based software, Box Shot 3D exceeds in creating a sleak, smooth image. Many similar 3D-based software fail at that. Box Shot 3D will smoothen the image with a state-of-the-art anti-aliasing algorithm, leaving you with something that looks almost like the real thing.

When I think about it, even a real photo can’t come close to what Box Shot 3D will create for you. And you want something better, the only thing I can think of is high-end, commercial 3D software like Maya or 3ds, which has a 5-figure price tag.

So for $60, you really get a good deal. Last time I check, there are over 50 styles and designs that you can create with Box Shot 3D. You can create software box (with and without CD), books, ring binders, flyers, magazines and more…

If you are a Mac user, and have been looking for a good box shot or ebook cover software, checkout Box Shot 3D. In case you are wondering, yes, Windows version is also available.

One more thing, while you do need a graphic software for this to create the flat product cover design, it doesn’t have to be Photoshop. So that breaks your dependency on Photoshop when creating ebook cover. If you are not a Photoshop user, than Box Shot 3D is great for you. A solution for the rest like PaintShop Pro, GIMP, PhotoPlus, Corel, etc…

Box Shot 3D - for Mac and Windows
[ Download ] [ Buy ] [ More Info ]

Hmm… You know what I think when I am thinking about upselling… I think we haven’t been upselling enough. OK, maybe the thought of upselling makes you wanna puke… But you can’t deny that upselling makes you more money…

There’s nothing wrong with upselling. It’s just that you have to do it right.

Upselling could be the difference between earning $10k to earning $100k. It’s not about taking advantage of your customers. It’s about making valuable recommendation and increasing your per customer value…

Even the big corps upsell. And there’s no reason why you should not do it.

Amazon.com upsells… When you browse through books at Amazon.com, Amazon will always make a recommendation. It says something like, “Best Value - Buy Together Today: $19.36″ or maybe “Frequently Bought Together”.. and Amazon will suggest one or two more books to buy with the current book you checking out for a good discount.

GoDaddy.com upsells… GoDaddy will always have something for you to add to your shopping cart. If you are taking the dot-com, GoDaddy will recommend the dot-net, dot-org and the rest. GoDaddy will also recommend other premium domains. If you are buying mywebsite.com, they’ll recommend premium domains like thiswebsitetoo.com or yourwebsite.com…

The thing is with the Internet marketing niche, the only upsell that you normally see is the one-time-offer (OTO). And having seen one too many times, you really feel sick of it.

You know what, OTO is not the only way to upsell…

HOW TO DO IT RIGHT??

I am about to share with you how you can effectively upsell when selling ebooks or any other digital downloadable products. But before that, let me take you through some of the important concepts…

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As an affiliate, when you are up against hundreds of other top affiliates promoting the same things, you final resort is creating irresistible bonuses to lure customers to you instead of your competitors.

In this article, I will share with you quick, easy yet powerful bonus creation strategies so you can capture a bigger piece of the pie, and get yourself bigger affiliate commission checks.

Before jumping into these strategies, I want to give a some general rules that really works with creating affiliate bonuses. I see that some marketers simply pickup PLR products and just throw them at their potential customers. The thing is, those PLR products do not hold any add-on value to that main product they are promoting.

Compliment, that is the word. What ever it is that you offer as your bonus, it has to compliment, enhance, better, work together, or at relate back to your main offer. It makes me laugh when people offer something that really has nothing to do with what they are promoting in the first place.

So, these strategies that I am about to share with you will do just that. And because of that, these are the best affiliate bonus creation strategies.

MISSING CHAPTER STRATEGY

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If you have been keeping your eyes open, you’ll realize that products on the Internet are moving into videos. eBooks are great. They serve its purpose. But videos get people to act, get more conversion, and people want it…

The problem is, to produce a high quality videos without the errr, hmm, or other hiccups, with quality video editing and professional voice over talent… it’s both time-consuming and expensive.

What if you can get your hands on top quality videos that are ready to be sold with private-label rights??

Stephen Luc and Edmund Loh just released a series of high quality PLR videos and I think you should check this out. Each set of videos comes with its own sales website, Powerpoint presentation, AVI and also Flash format.

PLR Gold Videos - High quality private-label video products
http://urlmoo.com/plrvideos

Because this is PLR (private label rights), you can do pretty much anything you want with them. And with the AVI version, you can. You can encode them into a VCD or a DVD. And with that, you can sell them on eBay, use Kunaki, sell it offline, sell it at the back table in seminars, use it for your own offline seminars, and many more if you can get creative.

Apart from the selling the videos, you can use them as additional instructional videos to your own product, or your membership site. You can also use them as bonus for other products are to promote affiliate programs.

And with the Powerpoint, you can even expand the existing package with more videos. You can use the Powerpoint as a template and make sure you will be in the same theme with the other videos.

Having a good sure is handy. And I urge you to take a look at this one. Because this really is of high quality, and will be worth the price.

PLR Gold Videos - High quality private-label video products
http://urlmoo.com/plrvideos

I bought a new private label rights (PLR) product recently. And five days later, I pocketed $1116.25 (gross). Sorry, I am not going to reveal what it is at the moment. Perhaps later. It’s not an ebook. It’s a set of videos. I thought that selling videos is better than selling ebooks. It holds higher perceived value and if I sell them cheap, I can really get a lot of sales.

And topic itself, I thought the topic and the content fits my readers, and it also fits with my own personal experience. I believe that this is going to be a good sale.

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COMMON PROBLEM WITH MOST COUNTDOWN SCRIPTS

Marketers all over the Internet has been using countdown scripts and pre-launches to build anticipation. And it’s a great strategy to build interest around your product while creating buzz.

I am sure you can find a few if you Google for it. But here’s the problem with most of those scripts. It runs on your visitor’s computer clock…

You may have set your countdown at a specific date and time like 10 September 2008, 9.00 am. But you didn’t set the timezone? Without that answer, a visitor in Sydney, Australia may see the countdown ending 17 hours earlier than people in New York, USA. The guy in Australia could see that the countdown ended when your website is not ready yet — you don’t want that!

The safest method for this is to make sure that your script uses the date and time of your server, one specific clock that everyone refers to, and not time from the visitors’ personal computer. So some server-side programming like PHP is required.

A PHP-JAVASCRIPT COUNTDOWN SOLUTION

Alright, obviously I have a solution for you.

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Wood Light is my latest mini-site template. It’s not listed in the gallery (not yet). This is something that I normally get paid for, but I am in the designing mood, and feeling very generous. So you can download and use it for free.

Wood Light includes a nice CSS file for styling, an opt-in box, a testimonial box, Photoshop PSD files, graphical bullet list styling and also a manual for easy understanding and editing.

From 22 to 25 July, NetpreneursOnlineClassroom.com will be doing teleseminars with four different online marketers. If you’d like to reserve your seat, tickets are still selling at this point.

During the event, Kidino, the host, will do four teleseminars with experts covering topics on affiliate marketing, productivity, Facebook and online freelancing. Handouts for the teleseminar will also be given out prior to the event. This will help listeners understand better, and will help with the flow of the teleseminar.

Details on the speakers (or experts) are available from the website.

http://www.NetpreneursOnlineClassroom.com