HollyShop Affiliate Support

If you are looking to register a domain name using certain keywords or just need some brainstorming help, I have a great site for you. I’ve been using it the last couple of days and it is a fantastic resource. The site is called Bust A Name (http://www.bustaname.com). With this site, you can add a list of words that you want in your domain and as you add more words, it starts to display domains that are available. This saves you from having to come up with different combinations and searching each one yourself to see if it is available.

Here is how it works:
- In box # 1, start adding words that are important to you, one at a time
- As you add words, a couple of things start happening. Your words appear in box # 2 when you add them and box # 3 starts looking for available domains. Keep adding words until you start seeing results.
- In box # 2, you can delete any words you want and if you hover over the arrow, it will suggest synonyms of that word to assist you with your brainstorming.
- Underneath the boxes are several options for the domain name generation. You can also save your lists off to your computer for future use.

One of the other tools on this site that I love is the quick domain check. It starts checking to see if a domain is available as you are typing. No more typing in a domain name, clicking submit, scrolling through results, and then doing it all over again for your next try.

I’m very impressed with this site. It is easy to use and everything is all on one page. I hope it is a help to you when looking for your own domain names.

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I’m currently working on ways to help you increase your site traffic. For those of you that have your own version of WordPress hosted somewhere (aside from wordpress.com), I came across a couple of WordPress plugins that can help drive traffic.

The first is the All in One SEO Pack. Instructions on how to use it can be found on the developer’s site. The plugin helps streamline Search Engine Optimization (SEO) best practices for WordPress.

The second plugin is Ultimate Google Analytics. This plugin will help with tracking links and file downloads (such as the PDF files that contain your affiliate links). Documentation can be found on the developer’s site.

I have not tried either of these plugins yet, but I will provide more information once I have.

If you want to get your own hosting site set up with WordPress and don’t know how, contact me or leave a comment here.

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There are a lot of changes and improvements coming to the affiliate program, but I want to hear directly from each of you. I want to know what would make this a better experience for you and what would assist you in becoming more successful.

I would appreciate it if you would head over to the Affiliate Forum and answer this question:

If you could recommend one change to the affiliate program in order to make it better, what would that change be?

You can find this question in the ‘Affiliate Discussion’ section of the forum. If you haven’t registered for the forum yet, I recommend that you do. This will be a central location for discussing issues and ways to increase your sales and profits.

I value your input and I’m committed to making this program work for you.

Regards,
Craig
craig@hollylisle.com

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This is just a very quick note to let you know when you’ll receive notification of your commissions, whether you buy through your own links or someone else buys through them. (I’ve received several questions.)

1) Your link generates a sale notice in the affiliate program.

2) The sale notice goes out to my computer.

3) Minutes or hours or (on holidays and weekends) a day passes before I check my e-mail. (Yes, I’m the holdup.)

4) I receive your notice, go into the Affiliate Admin software to check your sale and see if it will qualify you for a bonus, or if it’s a self-sale.

5) I approve your sale.

6) You receive an e-mail letting you know you’ve made money.

I’m as quick as I can be, but when I’m writing I don’t check my mail. And overnight my time. And when I’m kicking back with my family. So you’ll generally have to wait a little, and sometimes you’ll have to wait for a day or two.

Your commission notices will get to you, though.

Cheerfully,
Holly

affiliates@hollylisle.com

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How To Beat Writer’s Block (and your special landing page at http://howtobeatwritersblock.com) are now both live. If you have a double-opt-in mailing list, go ahead and mail your folks.

If you don’t, here are the banner links I promised:

$60 — HOW TO BEAT WRITER’S BLOCK COVER AD

$10 — 21 WAYS TO GET YOURSELF WRITING WHEN YOUR LIFE JUST EXPLODED COVER AD

$80 — BEAT WRITER’S BLOCK/ CLINIC BUNDLE AD

Cut and paste the red text into your weblog or web page, and the clickable graphics will show up.

You can view and get the code for all three ads here:

http://shop.hollylisle.com/jamaffiliates/members/index.php?req=tools&type=banners

And for personal recommendations, you can use the following text link:

Holly Lisle’s How Beat Writer’s Block (And Have FUN Writing From Now On)

Sorry this was late going out. This whole thing has been way more work than I anticipated. I’m just now wrapping up.

Holly

Holly Lisle
affiliates@hollylisle.com

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I’ve included your first solo email ad for Holly Lisle’s How To Beat Writer’s Block, but DON’T USE IT YET! The campaign won’t kick off until around 9AM EST Monday morning. I’m opening a new website for this, and your links will be the only ones that go to it for the first week of the campaign. The special offer there is just for you to use. You can use your affiliate link at the bottom of the ad to check and see if the site is live yet. (Look at the links. Right now they say things like THIS LINK DOESN’T WORK) Don’t mail your lists until you’re sure the site goes live, because you don’t want your reader to get those links.

As always, something you write to your readers is going to be much more effective than anything I could write. And being able to recommend the program from a position of having used it would be best. You know your folks. You know if this is something they need. But the following ad, personalized with your readers’ names if your mailer will let you do that, can get you started if you don’t know what to say.

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How would you like to beat writer’s block and have FUN writing again?

Hi [FIRSTNAME],

Let me ask you something. How much time do you spend at the keyboard, staring at a blank screen, playing solitaire, surfing the internet—doing anything at all but writing the book you want to write? How many times do you sit down and feel the weight of the world land on your shoulders when you open up your document or get out your pen and notepad? How often does getting the words for your story feel more like having a root canal that pursuing your dream?

What if I told you there was a way to break this painful cycle? And that many people break it in an hour? That ideas start flowing almost at once for them, and that they reported having fun, being full of energy, and being excited about writing again? If they can do it, using a new writing course by full-time novelist Holly Lisle, why not you?

Holly has been a successful full-time novelist since 1992, has been regularly published by major publishers in the US and abroad, and continues to write fiction full-time today. And she has put together a comprehensive audio and written course that will walk you through breaking your writer’s block, creating fresh new ideas for your current work or a new one, and learning how to have fun writing all over again.

Holly has been paying forward by teaching writers how to do what she does almost since she went pro. She’s taught thousands of writers how to plot, how to create characters, how to build worlds, and more … and now she’s put her effort and experience to work to help writers beat the most aggravating, frustrating, and sometimes ruinous problem they face: Writer’s Block.

To your success,
Matt Turano

P.S. You can take the first step toward getting back the fun in your writing, and recapturing your dream, if you click here:
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You HAVE to have a double-opt-in mailing list to use this ad.

I’ll be putting together a few banner ads for folks who don’t have mailing lists—I’ll email the code to you over the weekend. I’m sorry everything is so rushed. I’m still putting the finishing touches on 21 Ways To Get Yourself Writing When Your Life Has Just Exploded, a special report included with the course. If you have an ad size you’d prefer for your website, e-mail me at affiliates@hollylisle.com and let me know. I’ll do my best to get it done before the launch.

More later. Things are just crazy here.

Holly

affiliates@hollylisle.com

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I apologize. Yesterday I sent you a dud link for the mailing-list training freebie.

The correct link is http://www.hollylisle.com/dc/user_files/2.pdf

You can also download this report in the Affiliate Training thread on the Affiliate’s Board:
http://hollylisle.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=4&mode=full&page=

The title of the report is How To Triple Your Opt-In Requests From the Same Amount of Traffic… Without Spending A Penny!

Full disclosure: I liked this guy’s freebies so much I bought several of his products, and liked his products enough that I became an affiliate. He presents materials worth more than what he’s charging–I intend to take that particular page from his book.

The training report is free. The links in it are mine.

All best,
Holly

Holly Lisle
affiliates@hollylisle.com

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I’m just checking in to see if you’ve worked on putting together a mailing list. HOLLY LISLE’S HOW TO BEAT WRITER’S BLOCK debuts on the 19th, and the first week campaign is going to be focused on one mailing to your list that will introduce the product and send buyers to a special affiliate landing page that offers the writer’s block course for the debut price of $59.95, plus all four Clinics for the one-time-only price of $19.95, a savings of $19.85. That discount is only going to be available for the first week. With your 50% commission, the first-week package will bring in just under $39 per sale for you after PayPal fees.

If you don’t have your mailing list set up yet, I’ve found an ebook that details how to create one quickly and encourage people to join. It relies on you having good content, and offering people something worthwhile. You can download the training ebook from my site (pdf, zipped, and virus-free—I checked it before I read it). http://www.hollylisle.com/dc/user_files/1.txt

You can offer the Plot Clinic Preview branded report as an incentive (get your pre-branded copy of that, with your affiliate links already embedded, here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2w5fcn .

As quickly as I can, I’ll be putting together more cool branded freebies that you can give away.

Meanwhile, I’ll also be putting up a handful of standard text and banner links for the How To Beat Writer’s Block audio course if you haven’t started building your list yet, but remember that recommendations from you will result in more sales than just a banner.

IMPORTANT: Remember that to use the solo e-mails, you MUST have an opt-in mailing list. Sending to anyone not in an opt-in list is a violation of this program’s terms of service, and will result in you being kicked out of the program for the first offense. With great new products coming up, and with commissions now at 50%, you’re looking at a bright new source of passive income.

I’ll have more for you sometime between Friday and Sunday, in time for you to pick up your ads for the start of Monday’s campaign kick-off. I’m really excited about this, and I hope you are, too.

Holly Lisle
affiliates@hollylisle.com

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COMMISSION INCREASE
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I’m still working my way through my affiliate management course, and I’ve discovered that, for my sort of business, I should be offering 50% commissions to you. So, effective immediately, you’ll be getting 50% of everything you sell. (Remember, commissions come after PayPal fees, which hit before either of us get paid).

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BONUSES
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The 5% bonus for ten sales deal for this month, and the 10% bonus for twenty sales this month are still in effect.

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SPECIAL DEAL
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Remember, the HOW TO BEAT WRITER’S BLOCK PROGRAM will be debuting on the 19th. By then, I’ll have a special link for you that will go to an affiliates-only landing page that will allow your customers to get the program plus all four of my writing clinics for a special price, and that price will be good for only one week– the 19th through the 25th of this month.

Remember, the WRITER’S BLOCK course will debut at $59.95, which is in itself a markdown of the final price, which will be $69.95. The price will go up after the debut period, which will run until sometime in January. The clinics are 9.95 each. The total for the package if your customers bought everything through the store instead of through you would be 99.75. You’ll be able to offer them the whole thing for 79.95, which is just a hair better than 20% off.

If they buy the package, you’ll get about almost $39 per sale. If they buy the single program, you’ll get about $29 per sale. I may throw in other stuff, too, to increase the value of the deal.

I’ll have an entire thirty-day marketing plan set up for you with specials and specific advertising for the whole debut month.

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YOUR MAILING LIST
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If you don’t already have a double-opt-in mailing list—this is one where members add their name and email address from the sign-up form (or you invite them from the mailing list software), and then they confirm by clicking a link from their e-mail box that they want to be on your list, start building one now. The only way you can send e-mail marketing is to have a double-opt-in list.

IMPORTANT: If you just e-mail your friends with my e-mail marketing, that’s spam. If you post ads to newsgroups that do not permit advertising, that’s spam. If you you post ads to your favorite bulletin board communities in anyplace but a forum they have specifically set aside for advertising, that’s spam. And if you spam, I have to kick you out.

I don’t want to kick you out. I want you to make a lot of money.

Back to the double-opt-in mailing list. There are free ones, there are paid ones. If you have your own web site with access to your server, you can install the free MailMan, http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html , the program I’m currently using for my mailing list. It doesn’t have a lot of options, but it is double-opt-in. (Keep the sign-up record you receive of every person who signs up. If you are accused of spamming, you have to be able to produce the record of the person who has accused you to prove that they signed up for your list AND confirmed that they wanted to be there).

Groupmail offers a free version of their product for Windows users: http://www.group-mail.com

A lot of web hosts have some form of newsletter software already set up and available to you. Check into that.

And if you’re advertising from your weblog on a hosted server, you’re still not out in the cold. Here’s an entire list of options for you, including Yahoo lists and Google lists: http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/mailinglists.shtml

Don’t create your list just to advertise to people, though. Create it to talk to them, to offer information that they want, to have some fun. After years of not doing a mailing list, I’ve just started mine up again, and I’m talking about writing and having a wonderful time. The advertising is a side benefit.

Find a program you can use, think about what you have to talk about, and start inviting your friends, your family, your customers, the people you know from work, and anyone else you think might be interested, to join. Make your list worth their time. Make it fun to be there. Start on that today—you’ll want to have folks you can talk to by the 19th, and building a list takes time.

If you have questions or need help, just ask. I’ll do whatever I can to help you get going on this.

That’s it for today.

Talk to you soon,
Holly

Holly Lisle
affiliates@hollylisle.com

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CONGRATULATIONS
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Let me start right off by congratulating Margaret Fisk, who both earned out her signup bonus and got the 5% bonus commission for three sales at the end of the month this month.

I’d also like to congratulate the other 5% bonus winners, Carter Nipper, Lazette Gifford, and Lee Masterson.

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THANK YOU
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Thanks to everyone who got your links changed over from the old affiliate program to the new one. Remember, this is an entirely new affiliate program, with two exceptions. If you had money in the old one, it followed you here.

If you had a pending bonus, it followed you here.

EVERYTHING else has changed.

Your links, your payment (now 25% commission on all final sales), your cookies (lifetime), your freebie deal (sell ten of anything you really want and get one free for yourself—it’s even more comprehensive than that, so be sure to read your handbook).

Oh. The handbook. (http://shop.hollylisle.com/jamaffiliates/members/downloads.php?id=1) Also new.

My e-mail (affiliates@hollylisle.com).

And me having a clue. I’m still learning. If you can think of things that would improve the program, let me know.

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BETTER PRODUCTS
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Commission-wise, obviously you’d rather be selling bigger products. It’s tough to make much money selling a $9.95 e-book, especially one customer at a time. I’m very pleased to announce, therefore, that November 19th, the HollyShop will be getting its first big product— HOLLY LISLE’S HOW TO BEAT WRITER’S BLOCK (And Have FUN Writing From Now On). This is an audio course that will sell for $59.95, and I’ll be getting you some links for it before it goes up. I have beta-testers lined up, and should have a good landing page for you on debut day. I’ll let you know when the links become available.

I’m doing a three hour seminar this month that will form the backbone of a significantly larger audio course— HOLLY LISLE’S HOW TO WRITE YOUR NOVEL. Applications to attend the course closed today, and I’ll set up the conference call for later this month. I have not put a final price tag on this one yet, but it will probably cost $199.95. It could be more, depending on how many extras I decide to put in. It won’t be less. I’m not sure when I’ll bring WRITE YOUR NOVEL out—I’m weighing costs of doing both the digital version and a more expensive CD + workbook physical version, and I have some sourcing to do. Maybe December. Maybe the first part of the new year.

You’ll make 25% commissions on these, too. There are more big products on the drawing board, as well as one more e-book to finish out the Worldbuilding Clinic—HOLLY LISLE’S HOW TO CREATE A WORLD.

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REMEMBER the BONUS
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If you make ten sales in November, you’ll also get an extra 5% bonus on top of your 25% commission. If you can make twenty sales, your bonus will be 10% on top of your commission.

We have some great things happening this month, and I’m excited about what we have coming up in the next few months. I hope you are, too.

Have a wonderful month,

Holly Lisle
affiliates@hollylisle.com

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