Q&A’s about Info Product Killer
Hi,
This is an extra message that is aimed mainly at the many
Kickstart readers who have recently bought the excellent Info
Product Killer strategy.
If you have no interest in this specifically, or in Internet
marketing in general, please ignore this email.
A huge number of Kickstart readers have bought Info Product
Killer over the last few days. It is probably the biggest selling
product that I’ve ever promoted - and rightly so.
You may be one of those who have invested in it - or you may be
still considering it. If so, this email is aimed at you.
I’m really not sending this to try to sell any more copies - this
is to try to answer some of the many questions and comments that
I’ve received up to now. On the principle that if one person
bothers to ask, there are another ten who are wondering the same
thing, I think it will be a useful exercise.
Okay, here goes.
1. Can you use IPK with WordPress?
I see absolutely no reason why not, but equally, as the template
provided is about as optimised as you need it to be, I also see
no particular reason why you’d want to use WordPress.
All my sites are being made with the template (or rather a close
approximation of it; see a later question) and I’ve had no reason
to want to use WordPress.
2. Can you use XSitePro?
I actually think that using XSitePro would be a very good idea. I
don’t think the IPK template can be easily imported into XSitePro
(although I haven’t tried) but creating a site from scratch that
followed the template’s look and feel would be quite simple.
XSitePro would make building these sites very fast, I believe,
and should save you time. It would also handle all uploading to
your hosting account stuff, so would be ideal for people who are
less experienced with FTP.
3. I’m in Australia/Canada/India/[wherever you live] - can I
still use IPK?
The IPK sales page and videos talk a lot about America, and
Craig, IPK’s creator uses his UK sites as examples, so you could
easily think that Info Product Killer is only suitable for those
places.
Nothing could be further from the truth. you an use the IPK
methods from anywhere. All you need is an affiliate account with
AMAzon - and that can be the AMAzon of your country, or of any
other country.
For example, I am in the UK and my current AMAzon account is a UK
one - so all the sites I’m building right now are UK sites. if I
were to open an affiliate account with Amazon US I could build
American sites.
Where you are doesn’t matter - it is where your Amazon account is
that determines where you’ll make money from.
As a matter of fact, opening an Amazon.com account (US) is high
on my priorities because then I’ll be able to target a much
bigger audience.
4. Your example site doesn’t look exactly like the IPK examples.
Are you using the template ‘out of the box’ or have you adapted
it?
Hands up, I’ve made a few small changes. Nothing of any
particular note though. My programmer brain just wanted to make a
few bits of it easier for me to use.
In any case, a few minor changes are probably a good thing if you
know your way around a bit of dead simple HTML. Otherwise, using
the supplied template is perfectly okay and will lead you to less
confusion.
5. This all seems like an awful lot of work. Is it really worth
it?
It is a lot of work. Whoever said that Internet marketing is easy
should be taken outside and severely beaten with a birch twig (or
is that just me?)
Each site you build is likely to take you 90 to 180 minutes when
you get the hang of it, and you will probably need about 15 sites
to get the needed link juice flowing.
As to whether it will make money or not, time will tell. The
figures that Craig shows are very compelling - and having spoken
to him on the phone several times now, I have no reason to doubt
them. If anything, he is making more than his sales page
suggests.
It is early days for me. Only one of the seven sites I’ve built
so far has been indexed and it hasn’t floated very high in the
search engines yet. It is getting a small amount of search engine
traffic though, so the structure of the site seems to work.
From my years of experience of Internet marketing, I can say that
the methods are totally practical and look to me to be logical
and consistent.
I have high hopes, but it’ll be another week or two before I’ll
know for sure.
6. Isn’t it too late for Christmas now?
Not really. The Christmas season is certainly upon us already,
but online sales don’t really explode until mid November. If you
can work your socks off and get your network of sites up in the
next week to 10 days, there is every reason to suppose that
you’ll get a good chunk of the Christmas traffic this year.
And there is always next year!
As a matter of fact, the Christmas strategy is only half of the
IPK product. The other part is all about using a very similar
method, but with a couple of extra twists, to make money from hot
products all year round.
If rushing to get your Christmas sites up is too much work in too
short a time for you, and I respect that time is a finite
commodity for many people, then concentrate on the year-round
strategy, which can be taken at a slower pace.
7. Christmas is all about toys, so aren’t there going to be
thousands of people building IPK networks to compete for the same
niche traffic?
To start with, only a small percentage of the people who buy IPK
now will put the effort in for this Christmas. But even if they
do, the sensible ones will look for other niches that are also
popular at Christmas. It isn’t all about toys.
Here are a few suggestions for non toy networks that should do
very well at Christmas - and all year round:
* Playstation and games
* XBox and games
* WII and games
* Cell phones
* TVs
* Home Cinema
* Digital cameras
* Apple stuff
* SatNav
* Audio Equipment
That’s off the top of my mind and already is far more than one
person could cope with. The opportunities are almost unlimited.
Just think beyond the box that is Christmas.
8. Who is the product creator? You call him Craig, but he signed
himself Aaron on the Warrior Forum.
I asked Craig about this on the phone and he laughed. Apparently
he has been called Aaron for years as a kind of nickname. (He
used to live in a country where they could pronounce Aaron, but
Craig gave them difficulties!) Anyway, on forums he has stuck
with the screen name Aaron.
Nothing suspicious - a lot of people (probably a lot more than
you’d think) use pen names online. In any case, he isn’t hiding
behind anything and is one of the most approachable guys you
could ever hope to deal with.
9. Isn’t this too hard for newbies?
Absolutely not. There are a few steps along the way that will
make you ponder, and some that might actually make you think, but
there is nothing really complex at all.
Any time a part of the strategy has caused anyone any confusion,
Craig has simply created a new video in the member’s area to
clarify things. Pretty much everything that you could ask is
covered now - but if you still have questions or confusions (we
all get confused over this Internet marketing lark sometimes)
just send in a support request and I’m sure you’ll be sorted out
in no time.
10. How much is all this going to cost me?
You will need to buy up to 15 domain names and hosting for them.
That COULD mount up to a pretty penny (about $10 per .com domain
per year) but you can save a lot of money by buying .info
domains, which are currently being sold by GoDaddy for $0.99
each.
See next question.
11. Your example site is on a .info domain. Isn’t that bad for
ranking on the search engines?
In my experience, .info domains are just as likely to get indexed
as .com ones. it is what is on your site that is important. I’m
very comfortable buying .info domains and have done so for all my
IPK sites so far.
12. Now that so many people have bought Info Product Killer,
isn’t it getting hard to find decent domain names?
That fear crossed my mind too, but in practice it doesn’t seem to
be a problem.
I bought 17 great domains for each of the best-selling toys this
Christmas and had absolutely no problem finding ones that I was
very happy with.
13. Getting indexed in the search engines takes weeks, how can
this strategy work in time for Christmas?
Google is really fast at indexing when it wants to be. The trick
is to ’seed’ your site by linking to it from another site that
already has plenty of bot visits.
My www.babybornmagicpotty.info site had a link to it in Kickstart
- which was then placed on my archive. That archive gets several
bot visits a day and the new site was indexed in Google within an
hour or two of it going live.
Once it is first visited, if you have some unique content for the
spiders to see, they’ll keep right on coming back. According to
my stats, in the few days it has been up, the Google Bot has
visited 25 times, Alexa 20 times and Yahoo 11 times.
If you can beg, borrow or steal a link to your first site to get
it started, you’ll soon have a feeding frenzy.
Just concentrate on the content. The search engines won’t like
you is they find rubbish on your site, so give them something to
chew on.
13. Have you made any money yet?
I thought you’d never ask!
With only one of my network sites indexed and the directory ‘hub’
site still under construction, I didn’t expect any sales at all
for a while. But according to Amazon I have already made one sale
(albeit a very small one that has generated only a couple of
Pounds in commission)!
But it has begun!
I think that covers everything I’ve been asked so far, but if you
have any other questions, please let me know and I’ll do my best
to help.
You can view the Info Product Killer sales page and videos at
http://www.urlnex.us/ipk/
Best wishes,
Martin
Update: My directory site is now live at: Hot Toys for Christmas 2008