How do you get a good search engine ranking? Looks like this guy might know a thing or two about it. Checkout what Richard is up to now:

http://richardlee.com/?p=213

-Jim

Something I found interesting when checking out the stats from one of my sales pages running MuVar… Having a product picture is losing out against not having a picture.

This nice thing is MuVar is handling this all automatically for me behind the scenes, I simply set the variable versions and let it test them for me.

Variable: Picture

Version: 1 - edit
Visitor Count: 44
Sale Count: 0
Sale Dollar: 0
Conversion Ratio: 0%
Visitor Value: $0

Version: 2 - null edit
Visitor Count: 454
Sale Count: 14
Sale Dollar: 81500
Conversion Ratio: 3.08%
Visitor Value: $1.8

-Jim

Richard recently posted a nice thread and some followup videos talking about systematizing your business… You can check those out here:

http://richardlee.com/?p=209

Do you realize you will never be free from your business without systems in place… And most of the time spent in your business is doing remedial tasks anyway. Why would you want to do them!?

If you recall back to your working days in the office what where most people doing? Clerical jobs in the office or labor jobs out on the shop floor… usually doing the same repetitive tasks day after day. Filing papers, banging numbers into a spreadsheet, watching a machine spit out papers or parts, filling out TPS reports.

Sure there are a few positions that have some buzz surrounding them but even then 80% of the time spent in these positions is the same old stuff.

Without some sort of systems in place you are going to be the one doing the remedial tasks in your business or at the very least having to constantly answer questions from those you assigned the tasks to. That is a doom loop all in itself, you only have so many hours in the day and its going to be stuck doing employee tasks.

Get out there and start documenting those tasks, that is the only path for creating business systems. If you are reading this you have all the tools available to get started.

-Jim

I have been going back through the archives on this blog and I like what some of what this guy has been writing… especially when he talks about meeting Gary Halbert:

http://onlinebusinessfreedom.com/

I am posting this here so I don’t forget about it and will write about it later on…

http://www.brenthodgson.com/outsourcing/face-facts-outsourcing-sucks.php

Between now and then, what says you?

-Jim

Here is a quick video I did awhile ago talking about the power and simplicity of using MuVar for your sales pages… If you don’t already know about MuVar here is a perfect chance to see it in action with real data from one of my sales pages.

Would you do me a favor and rate it and make comments on YouTube? Here is the URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es0KWBFS5kA

-Jim

I just checked on the stats for the Articles Into Traffic product and it is currently converting 2.09% of visitors into sales with a visitor value of $0.75. I use MuVar on this page continuously testing new variables so the conversion rate climbs higher becoming more and more profitable.

If you are an affiliate this product is offered through Clickbank and the affiliate ID is “arttraffic” without the quotes. Here is the URL to the sales page:

http://www.articlesintotraffic.com

If you do not have a Clickbank account you can signup here for free:

http://www.clickbank.com

-Jim

Jon Miller writes for the lean and kaizen blog over at Gemba Panta Rei. Although the majority of the kaizen and lean business sites on the net are focused mainly on nuts and bolts manufacturing operations there are still a lot of lessons and principles to be gleaned from them for your own online business.

Recently he posted some photos from the real deal at Toyota Motors, arguably the birth place of kaizen practices and philosophy. Check them out here:

http://www.gembapantarei.com/2008/03/kaizen_photos_now_help_me_write_this_blog_entry.html

I especially like pictures 3 and 4… Look at the visual controls that have been established and how simple these systems are. Everything(!) has a place and a purpose.

-Jim

Do you want to know what grinds my gears?

When I go to someones site and every time it blows up IE. Every time!

Sorry Dr. Martin Russell, I like reading your articles but serious man… I have to wonder how many lost visitors, subscribers and sales you are getting because of it.

Note to Aweber users, fix your freakin pop-in forms! Thanks go to Aaron for reminding me of the title I used for this post.

-Jim