Ideas for eZine promotions for your CBmall

#1 - Listen to this call I did with Charlie Page, one of the world's top experts on eZine advertising. He explains how you can run cheap, highly profitable eZine ads.  Note: eZine advertising is typically more effective than PPC for CBmall promotion.

READ - The transcript of the above call.  Click here

New  Endorsement Letter - download this text file, edit it, and send it to your email list or, even better, add it to your autoresponder series.  Endorsements are a powerful way to generate sales.  Download here.  Right click and save this file to your desktop.

Here's a great free eBook filled with articles on writing and placing eZine ads. If you are going to do eZine advertising and want some advice - here it is. eZine Advertising (837k exe file)

  How to hide your links if you don't have your own web  site.  Click here.

Places to advertise. Click here. 

A good eZine directory click here.

I don't have to tell you the importance of building a list of prospects and customers.  This is how every internet marketer goes from surviving to rich. I'm assuming that you have a list now, and want some good ideas for how to promote to your list.

(If you don't have a list, don't worry. Remember that CBmall actually builds a list for you by capturing your ClickBank ID from any subscriber you send.)

First, decide your goal for each promotion.  Do you want to sell product through the CBmall, or do you want to sell storefronts? Each requires a different strategy.

I'd suggest that your first efforts be targeted at driving product sales, and here's why.

If you want to sell CBmall storefronts, which is very easy to do, the most powerful message you can give is that they are easy and profitable.  Which means you have to sell some product.

Selling Products through CBmall

This is easy to do.  After all, the products in CBmall got there because they are the best-selling products in all of ClickBank.  The sales pages for these merchants work - or they wouldn't be selling so much.

Since CBmall organizes products by categories, one of the best things you could do is point your subscribers to a specific, relevant category within the mall that they will be interested in.

For example, if your subscription list is made up of internet marketers, one of the challenges they always face is driving more traffic to their site.

So why not write a short snippet and promote this page:

http://www.cbmall.com/marketing/

For example:

You get the idea.  Promote the fact that the products in CBmall are the most popular in all of ClickBank.  And with over 40,000 products available through ClickBank, that's a pretty strong endorsement from the marketplace.

You can also promote the CBmall Search Engine.  This unique feature spiders the entire ClickBank MarketPlace for its results. To promote the search engine, send traffic to:

http://www.CBmall.com/search.asp?storefront=YourID

Selling Storefronts

If you want to sell storefronts, remember the cardinal rule of affiliate sales: Don't sell, Presell.  That means that your message should relate your own personal experience or opinion of CBmall.  Your job is to get people to the sales page, and let that close the deal.  Conversion rate is currently well over 2% and improving. 

This is why I suggest trying to drive some product sales first.  Then you will have your own experience which you can describe.  A testimonial from you, relating how you made $127 in two days by promoting CBmall will be far more effective than anything else you can write.  Backing it up with real numbers is the most powerful thing you can do.

You might want to consider an article in your eZine. Here's one to get you thinking along those lines:

Or you could download and edit this endorsement letter: (Download)

Two-Step Your Way to Success

In summary, using the two step promotion process above is an excellent way to make your CBmall successful.  Whether you want to focus on selling the products within CBmall, or the mall itself, it is best to have some product sales success under your belt first.

So try some promotions for the products within the mall first. Find a way to be successful there, and you will have a much easier time selling storefronts. (Not to mention enjoying the products sales profits.)

Remember: PreSell on your page. You goal is to get your reader to click to the sales page with a positive attitude and outlook based on your words. The CBmall "open a Store" page has a 2.62% closing ratio - considerably higher than average on the web.  And that is before affiliates soften up the prospect with a nice PreSell message.  Your results could double or triple if you do a good job PreSelling.

Get Rich in the Niche

CBmall has number of niche pages that you can send traffic to. In many cases, these will be more effective than sending people to the home page. For example:

http://www.CBmall.com/marketing/4.asp?storefront=YourID is a page that focuses on eZine products.

http://www.CBmall.com/auction.asp?storefront=YourID  is a page full of auction resources. Great for those involved with eBay and other online auctions.

http://www.CBmall.com/search/engines.asp?storefront=YourID is ideal if you are writing about search engines.

Just go through your mall to discover all the niche pages available to you. You can send traffic directly to any page as long as you include ?storefront=YourID to ensure you get commissions.

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Check back here frequently as I am adding more niche pages all the time.

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