P.S. I hope SmartDD 3 is out soon, and has inventory management to limit how many products for special offers.

How do you come up with all your good ideas?

By the way…
What's happening with SmartDD version 3.
Just around the corner?
Can't wait!

Cheers, Frank

Jan

I know exactly what you mean.  I've bought more than my fair share of junk, but I can pretty well much tell the difference now between something that is nonsense vs something useful.

Even so, occasionally I do buy something that doesn't do what it says "on the tin".  It's always a disappointment and a note to never buy from them again.

The good bit about my offer isn't so much the products, but the methodology behind it.  Put the page up, tweak it a bit to suit you and watch your conversion rate. 

Tweak, wait and compare results.  Rinse and repeat until you get better and better conversions.

-Frank

I don't want to move into the realms of sycophancy but I've become so disenfranchised with all the slick marketing now going on in the IM world (mostly all hot air and no substance) that it is very refreshing to find someone who doesn't just sell products but provides the tools to use them.

I'm sure you are pleased that this offer is "converting at just 6% - actually 6.38%" but it's hardly surprising as you'd have to be brain dead not to see the value in the products offered coupled with a really neat, slightly-outside-the-box strategy to use them.

I'm glad to know that you're finding that, and yes it was slow to begin with for me to begin with, but persistence almost always pays off.

I think we all know what you're talking about being straight with people.  I still read some sales pages and cringe when I see them, especially the ones that are just plain lying to the readers.  I like to think that people can see straight through them, but I know that's not always the case and sadly only bitter experience will make it easier to do.

-Frank

Thanks for that.  Well the good news is that I'll be adding to that offer over time and refining it, and anyone that's bought it will just be able to go pick up the new items. 

The way I intend to use that offer is to give something else in return for a sign up to my blog mailing list, and then provide the upsell.  I may even do as you've suggested and offer it at a discounted price for anyone buying there and then.

-Frank

I think subscribers prefer the honest and upfront approach instead of the "me too" Internet Marketers out there.

My 2c

DesDrec.

I had to remove the URL you put in your comments because this plugin causes the entire comment to display as blank if any URLs are included - even my own.  It's an old plugin, and it may be clashing with another plugin I'm using, so maybe I'll just have to disable it which is a shame.  When I disable it, I'll edit your comment to include the URL.

To answer your questions in order.

#1 - Yes.

#2 - Hmm, you sure about that service?  I know it goes through PayDotCom, but it looks a bit…  If you were going to use it, take out a brand new domain, put up your own offer and get people to double opt-in to your list.  *Then* send them to other places. 

#3 - I was thinking of using the not yet released SDD v3, and then using the free sign up offer first and then sending them to an OTO of the subscriber offer.  I'd probably set it so that the affiliate link would be to /blog (and then maybe do a redirect to the main page).  By then they'd already be cookied.

I guess you could do this with any affiliate software, you don't need to wait for SDD v3.

I'll test it out myself first to see if I can do what I want to do.

-Frank