What’s Covered In The Ebook?

Okay, so in my “How To Use StumbleUpon” ebook, I’m going to be covering some of the super simple steps you need to implement all the way up to some of the more advanced strategies that you can use. The Chapter’s in the ebook so far are:

1. What Is StumbleUpon?
2. How Do I Get Started With StumbleUpon?
3. What Kind Of Traffic Will I Get From StumbleUpon?
4. How Can I Ensure Repeat Visits To My Site?
5. How Can I Increase My Subscribers Using StumbleUpon?
6. How Many Visitors Can I Get From StumbleUpon?
7. 7 Ways To Get A Larger StumbleUpon Network And More Traffic

So if your interested, put your name and email in the subscription box to the right and i’ll send you the ebook as soon as it’s completed.. Plus you’ll get another little gift from me

Back writing I go,
Matt

Reflect, Live & Love,

Matt

I know it can be weird reading or listening to a 19 year old talk about mindset and all that because it come from life experience. When ever I start writing or talking about it I always see people roll their eyes thinking, “he’s 19, he’s had no life experience”.. BUT I beg to differ.. I’m an average’ish 19 year old but am also extremely unique in many ways.

I first left home and learnt what the real world was when I was 17. I got a job with an Australia events company and toured the country helping out at wealth creation events. I learnt alot from the different speakers at the event that to be successful you need to have the right attitude/mindset and you need to be damn persistent.

After working with the events company for awhile I start Internet Marketing which for me was a completely foreign concept, it was nothing like what I had learnt at home or school. To say I was successful right from the get-go would be a lie, I “spent” a large amount of money on Google Adwords to only learn the URL I was sending the traffic to wasn’t my affiliate link so if I was making sales there was no way I could track it. At that point of failure I had two options:

1. Learn from the mistake that I had made and try again
2. Quit, stop trying and go back to school

Being completely stubborn and pig headed I didn’t want 1 little (or large) mistake to stop me for reaching my Goals in life. I was Persistent. I didn’t want to let failure hold me up from becoming successful. If I had of stopped trying, the next day I wouldn’t have made my first online sale and I damn sure wouldn’t be in the position I am in today.

My life experiences put me in the position to be able to speak about mindset/persistence because I’ve been there, I’ve done that. Just because I’m 19 doesn’t mean I haven’t had the same experience as a 27 year old who has done nothing with their life. The only thing in life that will keep you going is continuing to be persistent, continuing to move towards your goals. The moment you stop, that is the moment you become unsuccessful, as long as your moving you’ll get to success.

Failure is NOT an Option

Peace,
Matt

So read below and you’ll understand why how you spell, how you write and what you do doesn’t really matter as long as you do the important things that will make you money online or give you more time. Spelling and grammar wont affect your sales results, trust me I’ve proven that time and time again

Speak Soon,

Matt

P.S – Yes I do like Spongebob Square Pants

Let first get down to the extreme basics of getting anywhere online..

Traffic + Conversion = Making Money

I’ve mentioned this in a previous post but alot of people still dont get that being successful can be so simple so I need to mention it again and again, and again

Actually I lie There is one more thing that you need to be successful and that is Focus. Without focus you’ll never get anywhere, be it online or in life. Now with IM focus is a must, and what I’m going to suggest today is for you to FOCUS on just one Traffic strategy and just one monetization method.

So the method I think everyone should start out with is generating traffic from Search Engines to a site that has Adsense on it. This is a strategy that has been around for years and years and it’s been around for so long because it’s a damn successful one! I personally have over 100 of these kind of sites. So the site are just sitting there after I first built them generating traffic and making me money without doing anything after the first time I built them.

I’ll go into details on how to do this in future posts, but to be honest I’m to tired to do it tonight. And to be even more honest, it’s been awhile since I built a site manually, you see I’m the kinda person that is pretty lazy so we’ve (Dollar Rose my parent company) have built a tool called Sni.pr that makes the process so much easier. Check out the video on http://sni.pr/ to see how easy it is to build a site in 10 minutes. Oh and if you think this is just a promo blog post, think again, at time of writing this post you can’t buy Sni.pr online

Off to bed now,

Matt

Recently though I’ve started to play around with some simple StumbleUpon Marketing strategies, nothing special or “out of the box” but in the short time I’ve been testing I’m getting some amazing results. Now the results aren’t helping me financially yet, but what is interesting is the volume of traffic that I’m now getting from StumbleUpon and the average time on site of a user that was referred by a StumbleUpon link.

I’ve got a site that i use just social marketing to promote to it, I’m currently only using Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit to generate the traffic. Now this is where it’s really interesting for me.

• Facebook is getting me 47% of my traffic which is kind of expected. The average time on site from a Facebook referral is 0.36 minutes (36 seconds) which is pretty low for my standards. I would expect a minimum time on site from any traffic source to this site to be 1.25 minutes.
• StumbleUpon is currently bringing me 34% of my traffic which I personally thing is freaking amazing especially when all I’m doing is Stumbling my post and sharing it with 3 – 5 other friends, and considering the Facebook network I’m reaching out to is over 10k people.. Now this is what blows my mind the most, the average time on site from a StumbleUpon referral is 3.46 minutes! That is completely insane and just blows me away.

The main reason it blows me away is because ALL Internet Marketers (myself included) teach to market on Facebook because of the sheer number of quality targeted traffic you can get to your site. For me I’m looking at my traffic stats in disbelief and am already working on how I can exploit the StubmpleUpon.com traffic to increase my profits. Now I’m not saying to discount Facebook as a traffic source, but what I am saying is open your eyes and minds and start using StumbleUpon.com!

For those of you who are reading this post that are my clients, don’t worry i’ll be sharing strategies with you all shortly on how to maximise your StumbleUpon.com traffic. If your not one of my clients and you want to learn make sure you subscribe to my email list on the right hand side all the way up the top as I might be nice enough to share some awesome strategies with you

Matt Stenning

Traffic Generation & Conversion Optimization

Seriously that is all you need to understand. If you can get traffic to your site and you can convert it you will be successful. Now I know that I’ve really simplified it because traffic generation can be many different things as can conversion optimization but this is where I think many people fail in Internet Marketing, they try to over complicate everything that they do online and really just make life hard. IM isn’t meant to be hard and in all honesty it’s not, but we as humans do everything in our power to make it damn hard for ourselves.

Look at it this way, as long as you can get traffic to come to your site and you know how to convert it you’ll be successful, i’ll go as far as saying that if you can do those two things I will guarantee that you will have success. Now I know that my guarantee is kinda wasted because your reading this for free, but it’s true, IM is so simple if you just stop trying to over complicate it.

How else would a school drop out, that was failing English and Maths now be educating, speaking from stage and training people world wide on Internet Marketing. There is no other explanation other than it really is simple once we take our egos and brain out of the equation.

What are your thoughts on this, let me know if you think I’m outta my mind or if you can also see how true my statements are in the comments below.

Matt

Social Media Optimization is not limited to brand building through social networks or blogs, but businesses are integrating this, as a part of the knowledge management strategy such as recruiting, employee management, customer management, and business development. Basically, there are two categories of social media optimization strategies:

Social media features added to the content. This includes the RSS feeds, user-rating tools, incorporating third party functionalities, and sharing of common themes and news.
Promotional activities such as blogging, commenting on other blogs, discussion groups, and posting status updates on social networking sites

As a part of the social media marketing campaign, follow the eight rules of social media optimization to maximize the results of your social media marketing campaign. They are:

1. Increase the linkability of a website - A major problem with a lot of websites is that they are not dynamic in nature. The content on the site are not updated or changed on a regular basis. If the content remains the same no person would be interested in visiting the site for the same stuff. The easiest option is to add blog to the site and update the blog regularly.
2. Social media optimization strategy - Most companies make the mistake of not approaching the social media optimization without any clear-cut objectives and goals. Any marketing campaign should include social media optimization strategy but with a definite objectives and goals to achieve the desired results.
3. Stay updated – Social media marketing is constantly changing and unique ones stand tall and become successful. Update the media with appropriate tools and content to stay in business. Everyday should be considered a fresh day and that helps to improve traffic to the website.
4. Readability factor – Be it adding new features or buttons or even updating the content, the aim is to improve the features and buttons to enable it to make it user friendly rather reader friendly. People will always share good content.
5. Give value to get value – Social media is a platform where you give value to get value in return. The links should help people in searching the information that they wished to get. People should approach the site as sources of authenticate information. This will lead to get links to the website, which will boost the reputation and improve search engine listing.
6. Active participation – Active participation is the success factor of social media optimization. By participating, it helps to create awareness of the website and spread message on a regular basis.
7. Understand the target audience - The content of the website should be focused on the target audience. The messages should be framed, so that it appeals to the audience.
8. Authenticity - Social media users are now very much aware of fake users and links. Hence, it is necessary to stay genuine.

I love being able to educate people on how to use Internet Marketing  to help change their lives. After speaking in some countries that don’t have the help and support for the elderly like Australia does, it’s clear to see that people must take action in preparing for when they retire. And sadly alot of people just aren’t doing that and they have no idea that they need to. My goal in life is to educate people around the world on how to be financially free using IM. Being 19 and financially free allows me to have this freedom and it’s something that I want people around the world to have aswell.

This is just a short blog post, and i’ll be doing more in the coming weeks about mindset, IM and pretty much anything else I can think of