Category Archives: How-To Tutorial

Warning! A Scary Story About Expired Domains

Expired Domains Can Turn Into Nasty Surprises!

I’ve been letting quite a lot of domains expire over the last year or two, and several of them are redirect domains, embedded in giveaway books. Fortunately, most of the expired ones are in books that hardly anyone ever downloaded.

But still…

I have business cards with domains I no longer own. Better check what happened to those.

Expired Domains Trouble Shooting: Damage Control

So the first thing is to fix the special report, replace the one with the “bad” link, and then alert all my list members who own that report and send them the new and improved version. Click here to read more!

Troubleshooting 1Shoppingcart’s New Web Forms

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shopping-cart-clipart4 Generally, I like my shoppingcart with integrated autoresponder, or is it the other way round?

One thing I particularly liked was that it had a nice and plain HTML code that you could customize to any website you wanted it for.

All you had to do was change the autoresponder code (so it would go to a new autoresponder) and the Thank You Page URL, and you were good to go.

Unfortunately, 1Shoppingcart decided to “upgrade” its Web Forms and no longer offers this simple form, at least not unless you request it from the tech team. Grrrr.

Update: They no longer provide it, period, EVEN IF you request it from the tech team! Double Grrrr!

What to do?

How to Get The Old HTML Form Back

Well, I decided to save my old forms and continue using them. And to help someone who joined 1shoppingcart AFTER the new webforms came out, I decided to post a generic copy of the old form right here, so you can do the same thing if you want to.

In the form below, there are 3 places where you need to make adjustments, and I indicated them in all caps:

1) Your Merchant ID
2) Your Autoresponder ID
3) Your Thank You Page

Just replace those with YOUR info, and you’ll be good to go.

Please note that originally, all items called “input name” (with a < in front of it) started a new line, but because this causes spacing issues on my blog, I eliminated all line breaks, which is why these now appear at other places. It works though.

Here’s the form:

The generic 1shoppingcart web form code

Of course the “new” web forms look more spectacular than this one, but there are reasons why I like to keep things simple. Sure, I might use some of the flashier forms sometime, and I have used them once or twice already, but I’d like to have the option to insert JUST the fields without any of the fancy stuff.

I still like 1shoppingcart, in part because it still affords us the most flexibility when it comes to list building, plus of course it offers a perfect integration with the shoppingcart.

And if you want to try it out for 28 days – no charge and no credit cart required – you can do that by clicking here!

Questions? Would you like the form in text format? Just leave a comment requesting it and I’ll send it to you.

How To Build A Money-Making Funnel System Part 2 [Case Study]

What you need before you can build a squeeze page

Let’s just review what we need in order to create a squeeze page:

1) A domain name – Get yours for a discount at Choose Domain Name

2) A hosting account – Get yours at my favorite web host use coupon code HOSTING711

3) An autoresponder I recommend my favorite autoresponder (free trial for 30 days) OR, if you want an integrated autoresponder/shopping cart package, go to my favorite shopping cart and try it free for up to 4 weeks.

4) Decide if you want to use a blog or an HTML page

5) An ethical bribe (a special report or something else that your audience will find very enticing)

6) A very attention-getting and/or intriguing headline that promises something your audience will want

7) A few strong bullets

In addition, you may also want to write up some emails and add them to your autoresponder.

You could also add your (friendly) mug shot so people associate you with the report and will remember you better when they’re getting your emails.

And you might also want an appealing ecover, preferably 3-D.

That’s all! LOL. Click here to read more!

How to Add Twitter Badges to Your Blog

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A few people have asked me how to get those cute Twitter badges posted so that they’re clickable links.

You can either use the badge-creator gizmo on their website, and they’re pre-made for you:

twitter buttons

And here’s the step-by-step.

First, you have to find the badges you like. You can go to one of mine or to the link posted a few posts down (on the other post about Twitter badges) and go straight to the source for lots more where mine came from.

Here’s the step-by-step:

1) Control click (Mac) or right click (PC) to “save as” the image on your desk top. Let’s say your image is called image1.jpg

2) Go to your server and create an “images” folder on your server if you don’t already have one.

2) Upload the image to your server, into the image folder, for example to MyWebsite.com/images

3) Switch to your HTML editing view and find the spot where you want to add the Twitter badge.

4) Add the following code to your blog

Obviously, you need to replace YourTwitterNameHere with YOUR Twitter name, and MyWebsite.com with YOUR website URL, and images1.jpg with YOUR image name. You can leave out the alt=”Twitter Badge 1″ if you like. Make sure you close the bracket though with a > even if you leave it out.

Like so:

Note: some of the spaces look bigger than they’re supposed to be in the above codes. Just leave A SINGLE space where there are spaces.

And you can add a bit about the desired size of the image if you want.

That’s it.

Or not. One last thing. If you want to make sure that Twitter opens in a new window, then add the following code into the first set of brackets:

target=”_blank” like so:

I actually already inserted it into the example, but that’s what it is.

Now THAT’s it.

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Let me know (by way of comments) if this is helpful and/or if you have any questions.

And if you want more information about how to do internet marketing, just sign up for my free e-course and get some surprise gifts too every now and then 😉

Thanks.

Elisabeth