SMG Door Closing

Just a reminder that the door closes at 10 am on September 1 Eastern USA time...

After that time, you'll have no chance of getting your copy of the Secret Money Generator software - and the catalog site profits that it produces.

I've spoken before about SMG and the role it can help you play in building your virtual real estate empire (as John Reese decribes it). This software takes the product datafeeds available from some of the most successful companies, and turns them into websites in a matter of seconds.

It literally does in seconds what it would take days - probably weeks - to do by hand. And to keep the marketing edge for owners, it's being withdrawn from sale on September 1.

So if you're serious about setting yourself up properly, grab the software while it's still available.

You can see some examples of what it produces at this gardening site and this footwear site.

Now It's Back To Work - From Home

Hi-ho, Hi-ho, It's Back To Work We Go!

I said I'd tell you what the indefatigable Ken Evoy had scheduled now he's finished loafing around in Italy. Here's particial list - and if you're intregued as to how you could use some of this stuff to speed up your own web income, check out the brand new "Work From Home/Home Business" Site!

Here he goes:
Now it's time to ramp up for the busy back-to-work fall
season. We have a heavy release schedule. The first 4
major releases are all high-profile, important, and highly promotable.
Here they are...


i) Monetize It! -- a brand new way to use Google AdWords
and Yahoo! Search Marketing (formerly Overture) to...

o identify more high-value content opportunities, and/or

o buy keywords low, and sell high, and/or

o build PPC advertising campaigns.


ii) RSS It! -- this major module gives all SBIers the
ability, without creating any new content, without understanding
a lick about the technology behind RSS, to build even more
traffic by moving their site's content through this important
distribution vehicle.


iii) Brainstorm It! as a separate, STANDALONE product --
every business person needs this tool, even if they have a
Web site. Of course, if they don't have a Web site, it's a wonderful way to lead a prospective customer into purchasing the full SBI!. A great intro to the power of C-T-P-M. And a new product to generate a new income source for you!


iv) Multilingual SBI! (all major European languages) -- we
have had so many requests for this, both from North
Americans who speak other languages and from Europeans, that it's been painful to wait until we launch the last of the major new modules. But this one is now slated for release after the above three complete the "primary core" of SBI!.


Many other launches, of course, are scheduled beyond that.
SBI! will never really be "done" -- it will forever be a
work-in-progress. And here's the real beauty of it all...

The more complicated it gets to do business online, the more overwhelmed people feel about building a successful Web site, the more SBI! has to offer and the better SBIers will be doing. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised to one day see
virtually ALL SBIers in the Top 3% instead of a mere 61%!

So shake those summer cobwebs loose and get ready.

It's going to be your best year yet!

How Do You Spend Your Vacation?

Ken Evoy is just back from a 2 month vacation in Italy.

While he was 'goofing off', this is what happened in his Site Build It business:

i) Brainstorm It! (BI!) was steadily tweaked. BI! goes way, way, way beyond merely Supply and Demand and Profitability, although it does do that better than ever, too. This through-the-browser brainstormer is the key to starting SBIers down the right road to building successful BUSINESSES.

ii) Whitelist-filtering launched to complete v1.0 of Spam 'n Virus Blast It!, making SBI!'s WebMail an impenetrable fortress against spam and virus.

iii) Pay-Per-Click HQ underwent a major revamp, updating for the realities of the current marketplace upheavals.

iv) Search Engine HQ... ditto. Big revamp. Total coverage of all the major, proprietary engines, from spider-tracking to index-checking to rank-reporting. We use this information to resubmit automatically, as needed.

v) "Google Sitemaps" launched. No need to build, maintain or worry about this. As always, they do it all for SBIers. :-)

vi) Search It! expanded, extending its lead as the one-and-only, all-you-need, complete e-commerce search tool.

vii) Two very exciting contests are underway...

o the SBI! Video Demo Contest -- this fall, we will roll out video demos for all key parts of SBI!.

o "Non-Secrets Of Their Success" -- a special project for SBIers to share how they've used SBI! to build their success.

viii) Several new must-read articles were added to the Tips 'n Techniques HQ.

viii) Footer launched for SBI!'s simple, block-by-block SiteBuilder. Brand new, this launched yesterday. Wow!

ix) Please note that Web-based SpamCheck has been up and running for a while, but we never announced it. Now folks who are worried about e-mailing for a report can merely get it directly via the Web. Check it out.

Later, I'll tell you what he's be doing now he's back at work! :)

Useful Real World Newsletter Statistics

Tom Kulzer, CEO & Founder of AWeber Communications, has just come out with these real world newsletter statistics. I think they'll interest you:


12,561 subscribers in an average customer opt-in newsletter list.

4 minutes and 24 seconds is the average amount of time between when a
customer queues a newsletter and when AWeber completes delivery.

94% of newsletter broadcasts are finished sending within 5 minutes of
when they are scheduled.

98.4% of newsletter broadcasts are finished sending within 30 minutes
of when they are scheduled.

99.34% of all email was delivered successfully in the last 30 days.

0.66% of all email was undeliverable in the last 30 days. (mailbox
closed, non-existent user, etc.)

Average open rate of HTML and Text/HTML newsletters is 29.7% over the
past 30 days.

Sunday generates the highest average open rate of 41.1%, followed by
Saturday at 36.7% for newsletter sent date.

Average Open Rate by Sent Date: (higher is better)

Sunday 41.1%
Saturday 36.7%
Wednesday 34.0%
Friday 32.8%
Tuesday 29.6%
Thursday 24.6%
Monday 23.2%


Sunday generates the fewest undeliverable bounces at 0.36% for newsletters sent on that date.

Average Undeliverable Rate by Sent Date: (lower is better)

Sunday 0.36%
Saturday 0.45%
Friday 0.47%
Thursday 0.56%
Wednesday 0.77%
Tuesday 0.83%
Monday 0.88%


Monday is the most popular day of the week for customers to send their newsletters with 17.1% of newsletters being sent.

Percent of newsletters being sent by customers weekly:

Monday 17.1%
Tuesday 17.0%
Thursday 16.2%
Wednesday 15.8%
Friday 14.5%
Saturday 10.3%
Sunday 9.0%


An 8:00 AM EST send time generates the highest open rate of 50.6%.
Interestingly sending at 9:00 AM EST has a significantly lower open
rate of 33.7% with the worst time to send being 3-4 AM at only 19%
open rate.

Plain text messages are the most popular format of sending newsletters
with 65.9% of all newsletters sent. Mime format Text/HTML messages
follow at 23.8% and a remaining 10.2% of customers still send HTML
only messages even though it is strongly recommended to always include a plain text version.

Plain text messages generate the fewest undeliverable bounces at
0.46%. Mime format Text/HTML follows at 0.56% and HTML only messages
have a whopping 1.09% undeliverable rate. This is a significant reason
behind our recommendation to always send a plain text alternative with
HTML formatted messages.

Subject line personalization using the date generated an average open
rate of 51.4% compared to personalization using the subscriber's first
name generating 40.9% open rate. Newsletters sent without
personalization of any type in the subject line generated average open
rates of 28.9%.

17% of customer newsletter subject lines sent in the last 30 days
contained date personalization while 19% used the subscriber's first
name. 56.3% of subject lines did not contain any type of
personalization. Interestingly, using the subscriber's full name or
last name generated lower average open rates at 20%.

There's a lot more info like this at their site.

How to build your catalogue site

Have you noticed the volume of junk mail you receive in your physical
mailbox at home?

If you're like us, you get around 20 catalogues delivered, twice a week.

A bit like spam? Not at all. A sticker on your mailbox will stop deliveries
immediately!

The other big difference is who is doing it. Big, reputable companies.
Week after week, year in, year out.

Why? Because those catalogues sell product.

Now, apply that thinking to your online business. Think it'd work?
You betcha! Commission Junction - among others - makes a
healthy living from it, thank you very much.

The hurdle for you and me, though, is building a catalogue
web site. Hundreds, or thousands of pages? No thank you.

Except ... many merchants will provide datafeeds of all their
products, free - and with the right software you can create
comprehensive, product-rich 'showrooms' in just a few seconds.

Surround those catalogue pages with useful, informative articles
about the field the products srvice, and you have spider bait and
hands-off income. As many times as you want.

There's a demo you can try here (the link is about three
quarters of the way down the page) or (half way down) a racier video
that shows how it works.

I've been using the software for some time. Support is excellent,
but there is a little more to it than the videos show to build a unique
long-term site. You do need to use your own templates, and add
your own articles (although you can use something like InfoGoRound
so you don't have to write anything.)

John Reese is telling his 'insiders' to build 'virtual real estate' for
all they're worth. This is one way of doing that, with quality.

Check out the video - web site building ain't what it used to be!