Comments on: Lessons From A Guy Who Gets Online Customers To Whip Out Their Credit Cards And Buy – With Gideon Shalwick http://mixergy.com/lessons-direct-marketing-gideon-shalwick/ Entrepreneurs you respect teach how they did it. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Gideon Shalwick http://mixergy.com/lessons-direct-marketing-gideon-shalwick/comment-page-2/#comment-11893 Gideon Shalwick Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:50:27 +0000 http://mixergy.com/?p=3573#comment-11893 Hey Aaron<br><br>Thanks for the great feedback! Much appreciated!<br><br>Gideon Hey Aaron

Thanks for the great feedback! Much appreciated!

Gideon

]]> By: Gideon Shalwick http://mixergy.com/lessons-direct-marketing-gideon-shalwick/comment-page-2/#comment-11087 Gideon Shalwick Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:50:27 +0000 http://mixergy.com/?p=3573#comment-11087 Hey Aaron<br><br>Thanks for the great feedback! Much appreciated!<br><br>Gideon Hey Aaron

Thanks for the great feedback! Much appreciated!

Gideon

]]> By: Build Web Traffic http://mixergy.com/lessons-direct-marketing-gideon-shalwick/comment-page-2/#comment-10586 Build Web Traffic Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:41:43 +0000 http://mixergy.com/?p=3573#comment-10586 Wow. Incredible stuff. Thank you so much for sharing. I would rate your mission as a success. Thanks again and best of luck. Wow. Incredible stuff. Thank you so much for sharing. I would rate your mission as a success. Thanks again and best of luck.

]]> By: Build Web Traffic http://mixergy.com/lessons-direct-marketing-gideon-shalwick/comment-page-2/#comment-9855 Build Web Traffic Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:41:43 +0000 http://mixergy.com/?p=3573#comment-9855 Wow. Incredible stuff. Thank you so much for sharing. I would rate your mission as a success. Thanks again and best of luck. Wow. Incredible stuff. Thank you so much for sharing. I would rate your mission as a success. Thanks again and best of luck.

]]> By: Aaron Wulf http://mixergy.com/lessons-direct-marketing-gideon-shalwick/comment-page-2/#comment-9249 Aaron Wulf Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:00:50 +0000 http://mixergy.com/?p=3573#comment-9249 Surprised to hear someone as experienced as Gideon doesn't do much testing. That seems to be the consistent piece of advice amongst anyone who is succeeding regularly. But I've followed Gideon's work, and I know he is, indeed ,doing well, too. <br><br>Great tip on using YouTube and videos to bring targeted traffic back to your site. I checked out the street-magic tips example Gideon was a part of, and I see why people wanted to learn more. He gave them just enough free info/videos on the YouTube page, which prompted people to go to where the rest of the "magic" was located.<br><br>I've often wondered about the affiliate system - and why people would promote products for you. As Gideon said, it works two ways: They give their readers new, good content, making people trust their opinion and advice, and they benefit monetarily, as well. I feel more comfortable doing this in the future thanks to his clean explanation of it.<br><br>Gideon talked about the "funnel" you grow as you give more value and free info away. This kind of goes against what Wil Schroter said with regards to charging in the beginning, but I see how both approaches work for different purposes. I guess it's just a personal (and scientific) reasoning between which one we will choose to follow for each product/service.<br><br>Informative and well done. Thanks Andrew and Gideon! Surprised to hear someone as experienced as Gideon doesn't do much testing. That seems to be the consistent piece of advice amongst anyone who is succeeding regularly. But I've followed Gideon's work, and I know he is, indeed ,doing well, too.

Great tip on using YouTube and videos to bring targeted traffic back to your site. I checked out the street-magic tips example Gideon was a part of, and I see why people wanted to learn more. He gave them just enough free info/videos on the YouTube page, which prompted people to go to where the rest of the “magic” was located.

I've often wondered about the affiliate system – and why people would promote products for you. As Gideon said, it works two ways: They give their readers new, good content, making people trust their opinion and advice, and they benefit monetarily, as well. I feel more comfortable doing this in the future thanks to his clean explanation of it.

Gideon talked about the “funnel” you grow as you give more value and free info away. This kind of goes against what Wil Schroter said with regards to charging in the beginning, but I see how both approaches work for different purposes. I guess it's just a personal (and scientific) reasoning between which one we will choose to follow for each product/service.

Informative and well done. Thanks Andrew and Gideon!

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