My last post showed you how to add an Aweber newsletter sign up box inside your Facebook Fan Page. Now, I’m going to show you how to optimize it to increase the sign up rate.

Facebook is the biggest social network in the world and can be a great source of new opted in leads for your email marketing. At first I thought that everyone who were friends with me on Facebook already read my blog or have signed up for the newsletter. How wrong I was! The newsletter sign up box on my fans page is converting at 10.5%! That is an awesome sign rate by any measures. Here’s how I did it.

Have a Really Nice Sign Up Box

Aweber offers a great deal of control over the look and feel of the sign box. You can take advantage of this by hiring a profession designer to create a really nice newsletter sign up box. Since I am not a designer, that is what I did. I asked Nate Whitehill of Unique Blog Designs for help and he put together one hell of an attention grabbing sign up box.

Offer a Free Incentive for Signing Up

Offering something for free will dramatically increase the number of people who will subscribe to your newsletter. In my case, I offered my Make Money Online eBook. The key is to offer something of perceived value. It should also be related to what you blog about.

Make The Sign Up Box The First Thing They See

Normally, when people go to a Fan Page, the first thing they see are the wall posts. When new Facebook users visit my Fan Page, the first thing they see is the newsletter sign up screen. Putting the Newsletter sign up as the first page increased the opted in rate from 6.5% to over 10%. You can select your default landing page in your Fan Page view settings.

You won’t have to worry about your fans seeing the sign up box every time they check your page. Fans will get the wall posts as their default landing page. The sign up box is the default landing page for people who are not fans yet.

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The Become a Blogger Premium program will be closing its door in less than 24 hours. The door closes at midnight EST, July 3rd. This is your last chance to sign up and take advantage of my free $500 review offer.

Become a Blogger Premium is a world renowned course taught about Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick that shows you, step-by-step, with instructional videos, how to become a successful money making blogger. More than 1,000 people have already gone through the course, and now is your chance to join the new intake of members so that you too can set up your very own successful blog.

Get A Free $500 Review When You Become A Blogger

The Become A Blogger Premium course is six months long and cost only $47 per month. If you’re ready to take your blogger to the next level, you can’t get better than this course. What can make it better? How about me putting you ahead of the game by giving you a free $500 John Chow dot Com review for signing up?

Sign up to Become A Blogger Premium and learn from Yaro and Gideon everything you need to start a money making blog. Then use your free $500 review to kick your blog off to a flying start. Six month at $47 a month comes to $282. Advertisers pay $500 (soon to go to $750) for a review on this blog and you’ll get it for free. Add it all up and you’ll be ahead of the game by a whopping $218 ($468 when reviews goes to $750)!

To qualify for this offer. You must sign up with my link. If you don’t, then you won’t show up in my control panel and I can’t give you the free review. To make sure everything registers correctly, you may want to clear your browser cookies before clicking the link.

You can claim your free review after you’ve completed the Become A Blogger Premium course if you choose the monthly payment plan. If you pay for the entire program upfront, you can claim your review after the 61st day. Become a Blogger Premium is covered by a 60 day no questions asked money back guarantee. It wouldn’t be right for you get a $500 review and then ask Yaro and Gideon for your money back.

However, you must act now if you want to take advantage of this deal because at midnight EST Friday, it’s gone. The clock is ticking… Become a Blogger Will Close in…

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Ever since my review of HasOffers back on June 14, Adapp Solutions has been steadily making improvements to the white label affiliate service. There are so many upgrades that it warrants a new post just to talk about them.

For those who don’t know, HasOffer allows you to create you own affiliate network. Over 1,000 people have used it to set up their own affiliate networks. Big names like Shoemoney are using it to power his affiliate marketing systems. And best of all, it’s FREE! The new features unveiled today include:

• New look and feel for the stat reports. Much more user friendly.
• Advertisers have the ability to manage their own offers now.
• Option to allow offers to convert multiple times.
• Customizable questions for affiliate sign-ups.
• Lead caps can now be disabled.

The best way to see the power of HasOffer is to try it out. You can do that logging into the demo account at demo.hasoffers.com (login: demo@hasoffers.com, password: demo). However, HasOffers also encourage you to set up your own brand as well as take a look at news.hasoffers.com for more recent updates.

New Pricing Structure

With today’s official unveil, HasOffers has a new pricing structure. Those who have already signed up for an account before the unveil will be grandfathered into their original terms of service. The price structure is as follow.

Basic Edition

• FREE $0/ month
• Up to 250,000 Clicks per Month
• Basic Access to Features
• Free Subdomain (ie: yournetwork.hasoffers.com)
• Chat and Email Support
• 99.5% SLA Guaranteed Uptime

Pro Version

• $99/ month
• Up to 500,000 Clicks per Month
• Access to All Features within HasOffers
• Custom Application Domain (ie: www.yournetwork.com)
• Custom Tracking Domain (ie: yourtracking.com)
• Custom Branded Layout by our Graphics Team
• Chat and Email Support plus 5 Phone Tickets
• Data Migration of Offers, Advertisers and Affiliates
• 99.8% SLA Guaranteed Uptime

Enterprise Version

• $799/month
• Unlimited Click Volume
• Unlimited Access to all features within HasOffers
• Extended Chat, Email and Phone Support
• Advanced Data Migration of Offers, Advertiser and Affiliates
• Custom Application Domain
• Custom Tracking Domain
• Custom Branded Layout by our Graphics Team
• Dedicated Server Resources for Increased Performance
• Increased Storage Limits
• 99.8% SLA Guaranteed System Uptime

HasOffers is great for the blogger who needs a free affiliate management solution to sell his eBook or membership site. You can’t beat the starting price. If you want to create your own affiliate network and be the middleman between affiliates and advertisers, HasOffers will allow you to do that as well. Where ever you are in the affiliate game, HasOffers is worth checking out.

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One of my main obstacles when it comes to work is staying focused. There a million sources of potential distraction, especially for bloggers and web entrepreneurs who spend a good deal of their time in font of the computer and on the Internet. There are thousands of interesting pages to visit, videos to see, content to read, etc.

Yet, I have found that a good way to overcome these distractions and stay focused is through making a simple checklist of everything that needs to get done in a given day. I have tried dozens of different approaches from downloading software which tracks how much time I spend a day on certain sites like Digg and Facebook and limits my access to these “time wasting sites” to literally blocking sites in my browser where I spend to much time. However, I have found that the simplest solution of just creating a daily checklist, has been by far the most effective solution. Simplicity is bliss.

To illustrate my point I want to share an example from my blog AMBeat.com. AMBeat was built as the ultimate resource for entrepreneurs. It features advice articles, start-up profiles, interviews, news analysis, and more. Hence, there is a lot of work that needs to be put in to keep the site going strong. I need to write articles myself, which often takes an hour or more per piece, research new start-ups to profile, conduct interviews, find qualified individuals to make guest posts on my website, and more. Not to mention this is just for the content of the website, never mind design and server issues, marketing, or monetization.

As you can imagine, running the website is very time intensive and can get very confusing. Through the use of checklists I have solved both these problems, saving time and getting myself organized.

For AMBeat, I divide my checklist into three different categories, content, promotion, and other issues. I then create a list of short term goals that need to be completed within the next week or so.

For the sake of this example, lets use the “content” category of my checklist. I know that in the short term, I need to have at least five in-depth articles written this week and more planned for following weeks. From here I can make a separate checklist for each article complete with everything which needs to get done for that article (research, interviews, etc.) and the deadline for completion of these activities. With these checklists in hand I can go to work completing everything that needs to get done in a timely fashion.

I have similar checklists for the other categories as well. What this does is create a hierarchy of checklists which organizes all the work that needs to be done. With this hierarchy, I can then create a schedule of what I need to do on any particular day and get to work. Once all the work for the day is completed, then I can surf the web.

I have found that this tactic has cut my work time down by more than half. Tasks which took three hours because I would get caught up with E-Mail and IM, now get completed in less than 90 minutes because I am completely focused. Once I am done with a task, then I sign on to AIM or check GMail.

So, if you are having trouble staying focused or feel like you are wasting time try to use this tactic to help you become more productive. It is dead simple to implement and though it requires a little bit of will power to stay on track, when used correctly it is highly effective.

This post was written by Aditya Mahesh, founder of AMBeat.com, a complete resource for entrepreneurs complete with advice articles, start-up profiles, interviews, news analysis, and more.

Normally, I don’t remember most holidays because everyday is a holiday when you’re living the Dot Com Lifestyle. However, Canada Day is an exception. For one thing, the date is easy to remember – July 1 and it’s three days ahead of the U.S. Independence Day celebration. Like Independence Day, Canada Day is a celebration of our nation and what makes us great.

I received my Canadian citizenship when I was 12 years old and I’m proud to say I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. Happy Canada Day everyone. My name is John and I am Canadian!