Month: November 2016

Sarah Staar IM Newsletter – I Got A Speeding Ticket

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I am convinced the police are raising more money to fund themselves by lowering the levels at which they give you a speeding ticket.

It used to be that if you were doing 10 miles an hour over the limit you got a “pass”

So a couple of months ago I was coming back from a visit to the Tesla office near Crawley and apparently got photographed by a speed camera.

speeding

 

3 weeks later I got a speeding ticket

I was driving 9 miles an hour over the speed limit!

I received a letter three weeks later to tell me I had two choices.

Pay a fine and receive three points on my driver’s license or Attend a driver awareness course.

I chose option 2.

 

 

 

 

Now after I finish this newsletter I’ve got to go and attend this driver awareness course.

Thing is, Dave has just been sent a speeding ticket as well..

He is being ticketed for doing 80mph in a 70 mile zone..

If that was applied everywhere and to everyone then pretty nearly every motorway driver would be prosecuted.

So why this change in increasing sensitivity ?? has to be funding….

 

How to Pay Less Tax  – in 3 Easy Steps

This evening Dave is giving a webinar on how to avoid being done for tax, create assets that you can sell, and give you tax free money back.

Now you may think that this is only for people making big money – you are wrong.

What Dave is going to show you is that anybody can benefit from watching this webinar, anyone from.

– A small bricks-and-mortar business

– An internet marketer that does a few $000 every now and then from affiliate marketing

– A serious affiliate marketer with their own email list

– An internet marketer that has a big product range and a big email list turning over hundreds of $000 s

You can’t get this information online.

It’s the system we use in Sarah Staar Business School and it has given us a multi-million $ value in the US.

And it works in the US and UK !

 

Interested ?

Go here to register 🙂

 

Why are Black Friday and Cyber Monday so close together!

In the UK most Black Friday shopping is done online anyway.. So what’s the point ?

I’ve never done a promotional Black Friday before because it’s one of those days where everybody  is emailing offers and your inbox gets full of dodgy Black Friday emails.

So I guess I always thought there was too much competition, I was wrong.

Last Friday – just as a test – I emailed a Black Friday offer for the first time.

I got an amazing response, and it proved to be a very profitable day.

It just goes to show  that competition  is sometimes a good thing…

So YES – I tried a black Friday sale –  and it worked!

 

100TB of storage and counting!

The control center has been extended…

In the last 2 months i have purchased another 45TB of hard drive storage space.  Why?

To protect myself from ransomware.

 

I do a backup each month of my products and crucial parts of the business – and then I keep the backups offline, I absolutely do not rely on server backups that are stored on the same server that has just been (possibly) hacked !

In other words I do the backups  and then unplug the hard drives from my computer and keep them in a cupboard.

50 TB of storage equates to, 50,000 GB of data!!! This is way too much data to upload to the cloud  for backup.

My next step is to  store my  backup data offsite,  this is to protect me against, a house fire, a flood, or a burglary.

This stuff is “Mission Critical” and needs to be looked after properly.

Got to go now or i will be late for my drivers awareness course,

 

Have a great day whatever you are doing,

 

Sarah Staar

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Affiliate Formula X

A four-week training program teaching everything about affiliate marketing.

Income Blueprint Workshop 

Recording of a live seminar with talks from experts in their fields of Internet marketing.

Get Organized Like A Staar

This course teaches you how to increase your productivity so you can spend more time doing the things that generate you income.


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Sarah Staar IM Newsletter – I Was Wrong….

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Making Facebook Advertising Really Work – Part 1

I want to share with you a little story about the last few days..

This is absolutely true and has more than a few tips and hints in it for you…

So last Monday I decided to set up a brand-new video-based ad campaign on Facebook.

I spent most of Tuesday setting everything up, shooting the video, editing it, creating the Facebook ad campaign and getting everything  perfect.

I was super excited because this was a brand-new technique I was trying out and in my mind  I thought it couldn’t fail…

 

I was wrong….

 

The campaign flopped and didn’t work at all…..

And then I remembered last week’s newsletter all about pattern interrupt, and it occurred to me that my advert looked just like everybody else’s.

I needed to make my Facebook ad stand out and look different, In other words, I needed to use some pattern interrupt to get attention.

The purpose of my advert was to send people to a squeeze page for the “37 Free Marketing Tools” ebook.

So, totally on the spur of the moment this is what I did…

I printed out the cover of the book and glued it to a piece of cardboard.

Got in the car and headed for the beach.

(It was an incredibly windy day and cold)

I figured if I could get some photos standing on the beach holding up my banner for my new product this would be totally different  to most adverts.

Now get this, I had the idea and within one hour I had implemented it…….

No fancy photographers, just  a quick snapshot using my phone…

It was more important to me that I tested the idea before committing lots of time to it…

This is how my advert looked….

37 free tools

 

Straightaway the advert started to convert. After a bit of split testing of different demographics and different targeting  I eventually got my click through rate up to 3%  which is incredibly good for Facebook.

The squeeze page was also converting at between 60 and 75%!! These are some of my best results ever..

So what’s the take-away from this story ?

– Don’t give up, analyse what might be going wrong and try again.

– Measure and evaluate your campaign.

– Keep refining your audience segmentation and targeting.

– Don’t waste time trying to be perfect, just do it !

ITS RESULTS THAT MATTER !

 

Missing the Point – Part 2 of the Story

However, the advert did get some negative Facebook comments.

One guy (a professional illustrator and artist apparently) went on about how bad  they thought the photo was.

I guess he was offended  that I wasn’t using a professional photographer and a lighting setup on the beach???

 

 

(Thanks  Philip for your support – and you clearly understood what was going on !)

I suppose yes the photo isn’t technically  perfect – but the point is that it got the job done.

One of the major things about online marketing is that you can test stuff out quickly, Dave calls it “sandboxing”, without spending lots of time, money and effort.

Time and time again I see people fail online because they spend too much time  doing the wrong things.

Too much time  building their website.

Too much time designing their logo.

Too much time designing their header graphic..

You get the picture, sometimes you just need to throw something up quickly to see if it’s going to work. In my experience, the things I’ve thrown up quickly, kind of on a whim, are the things that get me massive success.

 

And there is one final point.

 

What I have found is that the more slick and professional I make my stuff look, the less well it works, sometimes the less-than-perfect finish lends an air of authenticity…

So I hope that was  a useful little story for you….

 

Movies: The Arrival

the arrival movieOkay before I give my opinion on this film I have to make something very clear.

There will be a lot of people that will absolutely hate this film and find it incredibly boring.

However, there are a lot of people, including myself, that think this is potentially a science fiction masterpiece with a plot and scenario that hails back to the golden era of science fiction – it’s very JG Ballard I think.

I don’t want to give too much away if you haven’t seen the film but I have to say that I think this is one of the best betrayals of truly alien thought patterns that I’ve ever seen.

 

Last night Dave and I went to Chichester to see this film, not expecting very much as the film had had some bad reviews. However we were both stunned.

My one criticism of the film is the fact that they mis-used Forrest Whitaker.

He’s such a great actor but yet they didn’t really give him a decent role, what a shame….

Tools

Case convert

Sometimes when creating squeeze pages or sales pages  you need to write your headlines  in UPPERCASE, lowercase, Or Sometimes You Need to Write in Title Case.

Case convert is a  very simple online tool, you can paste your text into a text box, click a button, and it will convert your text into, uppercase, lowercase, title case. I use this tool all the time. Yes Microsoft Word will do the same thing but it’s too difficult for me to use. Case convert is one of those tools I seem to use all the time and the best part is it’s free  to use.

Have a great day whatever you’re doing,

 

Sarah Staar

Products recommended by Sarah Staar.

The Affiliate Black Book.

This is the product that got me started in this business back in 2008.

This book/manual  was the guide I originally followed and had massive success with when I first started. Why am I recommending it?  Because when I was a beginner  I followed this step-by-step, and it worked…

Watch my video review  of this product  below.

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Some of Sarah Staar’s Products

Affiliate Formula X

A four-week training program teaching everything about affiliate marketing.

Income Blueprint Workshop

Recording of a live seminar with talks from experts in their fields of Internet marketing.

Get Organized Like A Staar

This course teaches you how to increase your productivity so you can spend more time doing the things that generate you income.

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Sarah Staar IM newsletter – Did Trump Use Pattern Interrupt ?

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usa voteIs there anything to Trump’s success, other than he just simply found a group of voters that had been ignored by everyone else, politicians and media especially ?

Some of his interviews have been very revealing, to those of us who are into “why” stuff actually works.

Whether you are for or against Donald Trump you need to take a step back  and think hard about how he actually managed to pull it off, especially when everything was so stacked against him.

Let’s look at the cold facts for a moment….

 

 

Start with Hilary Clinton:

$1.4 B available to spend to give a huge amount of advertising and on-air presence

Lots of celebrities endorsing her

Lots of established politicians endorsing her

Decades of experience in politics and in government office

Now look at Donald Trump;

$795M budget to spend on advertising, way less than Hilary

Very few celebrities endorsing him

Virtually no established politicians  endorsing him

No experience in politics and never worked in government

Logically he should have lost by miles, and that was what the pollsters and the pundits predicted, but events turned out somewhat different.

So how did Donald Trump win the election?

Part of the reason is that he used massive pattern interrupt.

He tried to stand out from the crowd as much as he could!! And that means saying outrageous things…. and he admitted this in an interview with one of the major American networks.

 

I use pattern interrupt quite a lot in my sales videos.

 

See full video here 🙂

I have done them in parks, on the beach, and in my car.

Anything to to look less boring and stand out, and to hold your attention !

Now take a look at politicians…. They all seem very similar,

They dress the same

Have the same sort of message

Use the same sort of language

Try to be as politically correct as possible

However right from the start Donald Trump stood out.

By being deliberately provocative he distanced himself from everyone else AND he got massive media coverage for it.

This media coverage was a kind of free advertising, the sort advertising money can’t buy! . Like him or not, he was the talking point of the world!!!

I think this was his plan all the time… After all he is a businessman with experience of advertising and branding (product differentiation) so he should know what pattern interrupt is all about….

 

So I think there’s a lesson here for all Internet marketers. Try and stand out from the crowd, don’t look like everybody else.

If you make your advertising look different and stand out from everybody else, that’s when you get amazing results.

Hopefully that’s one of the reasons you are reading this Newsletter

 

My New Caffeine fix…

Internet Marketers seems to run on coffee, and I am no exception.

coffee machineThis afternoon the doorbell rang,  I opened the door, and there was a delivery man from John Lewis. This was the delivery of my brand-new espresso coffee machine.

I’ve been wanting a coffee machine for ages as I’ve kind of got sick of instant coffee. I set the machine up half an hour ago and I have  just finished my 1st cup of coffee.

Wow this coffee is as good as any Starbucks or Costa coffee I’ve ever had!

Quick tip, when buying coffee for a coffee machine  always by medium roast coffee, it tastes much better!!

 

 

 

 

Internet marketers cruise – see you in New Orleans !!

Yesterday I booked my flights  to New Orleans for the Internet Marketers Cruise  in January.

This year I’ve decided to take two of my team from Sarah Staar Business School with me, Catherine and Sue, and of course Dave is going to be there as well

So if you are looking for any sort of advice on any aspect of your business, come up and talk to us, so come along and connect with us and share your problems.

And who knows, you might want to spread the word and get a few more of your colleagues to sign up to my newsletter !!

So if you’re going on the Internet Marketers Cruise this January let me know  and maybe we can meet up.

 

All the best,

 

Sarah Staar

Some of Sarah Staar’s Products

Affiliate Formula X

A four-week training program teaching everything about affiliate marketing.

Income Blueprint Workshop

Recording of a live seminar with talks from experts in their fields of Internet marketing.

Get Organized Like A Staar

This course teaches you how to increase your productivity so you can spend more time doing the things that generate you income.

WSO Like a Staar 

This teaches you how to set up a product to sell on the Warrior Forum.