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Platinum Resell Rights Stripped Butt Naked

By Dan (el_passo) · 14 Comments

I have a promotion for you all, but unlike some marketers out there, I do actually know all about the products I’m promoting 😉

And just to give you a little more insight into this product than a regular “pitch” email would, I’ve put together some screen shots of the members area and I’ll show you exactly why this product is so different to anything else you will have been pitched before.

So the product in question is Platinum Resell Rights by Aaron Danker. I’ve known Aaron for ages and promoted tons of his products in the past, any of you that have purchased any of Aaron’s products will know that he always produces the goods.

But don’t take my word for it, keep reading and you can see if with your own eyes!

Now Platinum Resell Rights provides you with brand new resell rights products to sell every month, complete with sales page, promo emails, and the product – nothing out of the ordinary there. There’s a million and 1 sites on the net that do that.

But what makes this so different, is that providing you with the products to sell is just the beginning. Aaron actually wants you to sell the products! He doesn’t just provide you with a product each month, he shows you EXACTLY how to sell them, and how to maximize your profits from each and every sale.

There’s mind maps, video tutorials, getting started guides, tutorials on how to do the technical stuff and so on. Take a look as I strip it down for you.

First off we have the obligatory product downloads, you can download the product, the ready to go minisite, and the pre-written promo emails. You get a new product each month and you also get access to the previous months product to download.

There’s also 3 bonus reseller licenses for 3 popular minisites that you can download, again, complete with pre-written promo emails. There are only 2 in the screen shot because I couldn’t fit the 3rd on the screen, but take my word for it, there’s 3 😉

Then we come to the interesting bits, not to say the products aren’t interesting, they are great. But this is what sets Platinum Resell Rights apart from the competition.

First of all you have a reseller guide that provides you with the basic information you need to get started.

Then, if you click on the “Member Training” link at the top of the members area, you get taken to a very special part of the site!

You are provided with a VERY comprehensive, step by step guide that shows you exactly how to profit and sell the products that Aaron provides you with. It’s perfect for newbies and “veterans” alike!

For example, take a look at a sample mind map below. I’ve had to blur out the details to make it fair on the paying members but you can get an idea of how much time and effort has gone into putting this together.

The information in the training area will not only show you how to sell the product, but also how to profit from it on the back end. Take a look at an example guide below.

You might actually be thinking you probably know all this, the only thing you struggle with is driving traffic to your site….

Well, don’t worry, Aaron has that covered as well 🙂

How does a collection of traffic generation ideas sound to you?

All of the above is included in the package, you don’t have to pay extra for any of it. Everything I’ve shown you today is included in the basic membership.

And now we get to the part I’m sure a lot of you have been scrolling through and trying to find – the price. Well, it’s ISN’T free, but how about this for value – you can try it now for just $0.01!

For just 1 cent you get 30 days access to Platinum Resell Rights, you have full access to everything I’ve shown you on this page. If after 30 days you want to carry on with the membership and receive a new product each month, it’s only $27!

Just one sale of any of the products would cover your hosting fees, as well as the membership fees so I think it’s at least worth giving it a try.

So I’d advise you to head on over to the site, take Aaron up on his $0.01 offer and see what you think.

— Click Here To Try Platinum Resell Rights For Just $0.01! —

As always I’m here if you have any comments or questions.

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What Came First – Quality Service Or Money?

By Dan (el_passo) · 10 Comments

Good news, lambing time is almost over! The bad news is that now it’s time to reseed (is that how you spell it?) some fields so I have mind numbing days of sitting on a bumpy tractor seat to look forward to. But on the plus side I did find an i-pod Nano on a footpath that some careless walker dropped so at least I have something to listen to whilst I do it.

Yes, farmer talk ladies and gentlemen, farmer talk. If you type exactly what’s in your head does it make things more readable, I think it does.

Here, have a picture of a sheep and new born lambs:

If you think the gunge looks tasty, it isn’t.

For those of you that love structure I apologize, but writing an introduction is always a bit of a stumbling block and I can’t not have an introduction, it just aint right!

Have a picture of the Tina Turner concert I went to on Saturday. If any of you get chance, BUY TICKETS to the remaining shows, probably the best live concert I’ve ever been to and I wasn’t exactly a huge fan before I saw her live.

And if you do go to one of the remaining shows, take a good camera with you. Mobile phone cameras just don’t cut the mustard.

Phew, the introduction is done, and I’ve managed to write it without giving you any clue whatsoever as to what this blog post is about, great introduction Dan, great introduction.

**End of BS (maybe), start of content**

When you are starting a new project, be it a website, or a new product, what do you think of first? Do you think how the project is going to make you money, or how the project will benefit the people it’s designed for?

When I look around, I see a lot of people take the money making idea and then try to build a site/product around that without giving much thought at all to what website visitors actually want from the product/service.

Should you provide the product/service first and then think about the ways of making money from it after?

That’s what Google did.

I remember back in the day when Google didn’t have adwords or adsense. They had millions of users because they provided a great service, but they didn’t start making money until bright spark in California came up with the paid advertising idea.

The same goes for pretty much all of the top sites on the Internet – Facebook and Twitter just to name a couple of them.

But if you don’t have an idea of how to make money from the site, then you may end up with a site/service that gets loads of visitors and as such your costs go through the roof and as you have no “money making” plan the awesome service you provide isn’t sustainable.

I’m rambling, I have a point in my head but I’m failing to get it across.

So I’ll turn to examples that we can all relate to.

Butterfly Marketing (BM) seems to have a buzz around it at the minute, and I’m sure a lot of you jumped on the BM 2.0 freebie offer, so I’ll talk about Butterfly Marketing sites.

If you are new to this, the BM model, if you strip it right down to the basics is this:

1. Give away product for free in exchange for email address
2. Show visitor special offer after they enter email address
3. Some will buy, others won’t

That’s it, in a nutshell.

The system works, simple as that. BUT only if you put thought into the service you are actually offering, if you use the Butterfly Marketing system as the “money maker” and then throw in some shoddy product as the “service” you are delivering to the customer it won’t work.

People don’t just want any old crap from you, they don’t care what system you are using. All they care about is what they are going to get out of it, give them a botched up package of resell rights products you sourced in 30 minutes won’t cut it.

You need to spend the time researching, planning and implementing what you are going to deliver to your visitors and the money will come.

Here’s another real life example, this is (probably) one of the most successful Butterfly Marketing sites out there:

https://elpassoblog.com/recs/free_website.php

It’s successful because the creators of the site thought about how they could provide a service to keep the customer coming back for more, rather than looking at it from a purely financial point of view. And because they provide such a good service, everything else falls into place and I’m sure it makes them a very good amount each and every month.

Am I getting there yet…..no…..I think I’ve got out of the way of writing, give me a couple of blog posts for me to get back up to speed 😉

Instead of rambling, I’ll sum it up in 1 sentence.

Think about providing a good service to the website visitor, if you do, the money side of things will fall into place, provide them with a crap/product service and they’ll click away from your site and go somewhere else to find what they are looking for.

It’s something I do feel quite strongly about, too many times I find myself looking on Google for information and rather than clicking a link and finding what I want, I’m presented with some BS marketing page that has no relevance to what I’m looking for.

Stop destroying the Internet Marketers! (double meaning, and it wasn’t intentional)

I might even give you a real life example of my own next week, you’ve probably heard me mention this before, but my most profitable sites provide top quality information that the visitor is actually looking for, and a single one of these sites has made well over $20,000 in just over a year – it can be done!

And that brings to an end a pretty terrible blog post from a purists point of view, but there are some points in there. You just have to do a bit of digging around to find them 😉

Many thanks for reading, and I promise the next blog post will be better!
Dan

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$100 Email Competition – Winners Announced

By Dan (el_passo) · 1 Comment

Before I start, you have to promise me that you’ll imagine the Rocky training music from Rocky 1 playing in the background. If you have a rubbish imagination, go to youtube then come back here whilst it’s playing.

It was March 5th and an open challenge had been laid down to Internet Marketers from all over the world.

The prize was what every marketer dreams of, $100 in their PayPal account!

The challenge was immense, an email had to be written to promote a top quality product that was available for $100 less than normal.

/Tempo increase

As expected, hundreds (well, not quite!) of warriors turned out to do battle, they shed blood, sweat, tears and virtual ink, but they all had one common goal.

The knockout rounds were tough and the quality of the entrants was immense, round by round some fell by the way side until we were left with 2 final warriors ready to do battle for the ultimate prize.

In the red corner: Elmer “hurt machine” Hurlstone

And in the blue corner: Pippa “punch you in the gut” Guppy

Who would climb those famous steps and emerge from the competition as the champion.

The opening rounds were close, but in the 12th round the experience of the “Hurt Machine” took the advantage and scored a decisive points decision to claim the ultimate prize, $100!!!!

By now the music track has probably finished, so I can stop pretending to be Ian Darke.

If I translate the above into something you can actually understand, it goes like this:

Last week I set a competition with a prize of $100 to the person that could write the best email promo for John Thornhill’s eBook website business.

There were loads of entries, but I managed to narrow it down to 2 finalists. And before I go on, THANKYOU to everyone of you that sent in an entry, even if you didn’t make it to the final 2, THANKYOU for taking time out of your day and taking part, I’ll see if I can come up with some sort of discount on some of my products as a prize of something!

So…the final 2 was down to Pippa Guppy and Elmer Hurlstone.

Both emails were really good, and it goes without saying that they were better than my attempt, but the winner just had slightly more content in there and just seemed to have the “edge” for me.

And the winner is:

ELMER HURLSTONE!

And also a very well done to Pippa Guppy who finished in 2nd, I’ve sent you a free copy of my Boomerang List Builder as a prize – check your email inbox and it should be there waiting for you 🙂

So congratulations to Elmer, the $100 is your’s and it would be rude not to show you the winning email so here it is:

***Start of email***

“Hi {firstname_fix},

Some things make so much sense it’s hard to believe that anyone could, or would,
ignore them.

If you really wanted to find out how to build beautiful cabinets you’d try to
hook up with a master cabinet maker…

If model railroads and electric trains were your passion you’d hang out with
the folks that make elaborate layouts…

If you really wanted to increase the amount of money you’re making online you’d
look to truly successful marketers for the information and systems that would
put you over the top…

When it comes to using “systems” and online marketing one of the
absolute best people and most experienced is John Thornhill.

If you don’t know about John let me, sort of, introduce him to you.
A few years ago John made his living plunking parts on cars in a Nissan factory
in Northern England. Not particularly exciting work. John wanted more.

In 2002 John discovered how to make a living online. And he hasn’t looked back
since. Using the system he’s developed he currently brings in six figures a
year. And he does all from home. On eBay! Doing what you’re doing or are
interested in doing. Selling information products.

John is both my mentor and friend. Since 2005 he’s shown me how to use the same
system and methods he uses, on a daily basis, to minimize work and maximize
profit!

For a limited time John is permitting me to save you $100 on membership in the
same program I’ve been a member of since 2005. John is not offering this to the
whole world. Just you, because you’re my valuable subscriber!

I personally thank and credit John for my success. His advice, over the years,
has made all the difference to me and my business.

Take a look at what John Thornhill is offering. By carefully reading the
information you’ll make an informed decision that may change your life and
business forever! For the better.

Here’s the link: http://elpassoblog.com/recs/sms_discount.php

(If you prefer you may simply copy the link and paste it into the address bar
on your browser.)

Regards,
Dan

PS. Please remember, the $100, limited time, discount is only available to you
as my subscriber. It’s not available elsewhere. This offer may be rescinded
without notice.”

***End of email***

Thanks again to everyone that entered, and well done to the winner.

I think the competition went really well so I’ll try and put some more together for you sometime in the future.

Thanks for reading, and apologies for getting the Rocky theme tune stuck in your head.

d d d d d, d d d d d, d d d d d d d d, da da da da, da da da
Dan

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Something Really Annoying Gives You The Chance To Win $100

By Dan (el_passo) · 15 Comments

Hello everyone, and welcome to this very unique blog post. It’s unique because I’m from Yorkshire, I’m a farmers son, and I’m giving away money :-0

But I’m not totally stupid, you do have to do something in order to get the $100 prize, so I’m going to run a little competition for you all. Anyone can enter, there are no restrictions apart from the work has to be your own. Anyone found to be using copy/paste will be thrown down a well.

So then, what’s this madness all about?

Well, it all started a few weeks ago when I found something more annoying than my ingrowing toe nail.

I was looking through my auto responder follow up mails that get sent out to you guys after you’ve signed up to one of my mailing lists.

If you are reading this blog then there’s a good chance you will have experienced these follow up messages first hand, and for that I’M SORRY…really…SORRY, they are incredibly badly written and to put it bluntly, they suck big time.

Take a look at the following example that gets sent out promoting a top quality product that I have an exclusive $100 discount on, you’d think the email would write itself wouldn’t you?….Nope, take a look:

Email Subject: [$100 Discount]

Email Body:

Hi {!firstname_fix},

I hope that you have enjoyed your e-books.

Just a quick email to let you know that after months and months of
nagging my good friend John Thornhill has agreed to give you (my
subscribers) a massive $100 discount on his award winning membership
website.

This discount can’t be found *ANYWHERE* else on the Internet so it’s
definitely worth checking out:

http://elpassoblog.com/recs/sms_discount.php

(If the link wont load please copy/paste the URL into your browser)
Hope you enjoyed the email,

Regards,
Dan

All emails sent out using http://elpasso.aweber.com“

What you have there is an example of what not to do, why would anyone want to join the site after reading that email? All I’ve told them about is the $100 discount, how do they know what the site is about, why should they know who John Thornhill is – and why should they care?

And I only have myself to blame, I WROTE THE EMAIL!

I have no idea what I was thinking when I wrote it, but I do cringe with embarrassment when I look back at it now.

So now we get to the competition part.

As you’ve already guessed the email needs rewriting, but instead of me doing it, and instead of hiring a Ghostwriter, I thought I’d give you guys a chance to get some experience and earn some decent money in the process.

So here are the “Rules” for my $100 Email Rewriting Competition!

What you have to do:

1. Write an email (and a Subject line for the email) promoting the exclusive $100 discount for John Thornhill’s eBook website business membership site.

2. Send it to me via this blog – Click on the “Contact” link at the top of this page.

3. The closing date for entries is a week today – Thursday 12th March, 5pm GMT.

4. The winning entry will be chosen by me and the prize money ($100 USD) will be sent via PayPal

And that pretty much covers it! I know there’ll be loads of questions so rather than trying to think of them all and answer them here, please post a comment and I’ll reply to the questions as they come in!

If you need to find out more about the product the email is promoting, you can view the sales page here:

http://elpassoblog.com/recs/sms_discount.php

Good luck to everyone that enters, fire away with any questions!

Regards,
Dan

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