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GET THE STANDOUT COMMENTS PLUGIN – FOR FREE!

Two weeks ago, we saw the launch of a brand new blogging tool from John Chow, Alex Shalman and Jeff Rose. Their product called “Standout Comments” is a WordPress plugin that integrates all of the useful features of a comment section into one — in order to help you drive traffic to your newsletters, RSS feeds and marketing lists.

What’s new about this product you ask? NOTHING! And that’s the beauty of it (?). For a limited time… you can own this fantastic repackaging of plugins that already exist for a lower price… for only $67!!!

RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME DEAL ALERT!
Not only is this a killer deal, a few bloggers have upped the ante!

• If you sign up through John Chow’s link you will have a 1-in-10,000 shot at winning an Apple iPad that he doesn’t want!
• If you sign up through ZK of Web Traffic ROI, you get a truckload of eBooks he says are worth a combined $447 on the open market!
• And if you hit up Dan Scocco of Daily Blog Tips you can get his obsolete domain advice eBook for FREE!

But I’ve got ‘em all beat — No… I am not going to provide an illegal download

How to Get “Standout Comments” by John Chow for Free

When I told John Chow that I thought $67 was way overpriced for everyone, he responded: “Then don’t buy it and all day searching for the 2 to 3 free plugins. For others, time is money.” What John didn’t factor in is that I’m not concerned about me not buying it… I’m concerned about people getting taken for a ride because they think they need it. You can get every single feature of Standout Comments for free, and you can do it in less than an hour. Better yet — you can do it in under 15 minutes because I am going to provide you every single component of Standout Comments in a package I call “Jimvesting’s Comment Miracle.”

If your time is worth $268/hour, please disregard this post and buy it.

The Features of Standout Comments

• Subscription Options
• Sharing Options
• Advertising Banner
• Admin Panel
• Aesthetics
• Tweetback URLs
• Money Back Guarantee

Subscription Options
The main component of Standout Comments is that it offers you a way to provide a link to your newsletter at the end of your comment entry section so that any time anyone posts a comment, you are offered a chance to subscribe to a newsletter as well. This can be perfectly replicated by a lot of premium plugins, including: Opt-In Comments ($57), Action Comments ($17) and WP Optin ($27).

I’ve found our free solution (after a LOT of digging, this thing was totally buried!) in “Aweber WordPress Plugin” by Guru Consulting Services. This plugin puts a checkmark in your comments (AND on user registration if you want) to automatically add anyone who comments to our Aweber opt-in list. Bravo! That’s the same thing Standout Comments does!

The second thing that Standout Comments accomplishes is that it adds a checkbox for users to be “subscribed” to the comments, so that whenever anything new is posted they get an email. There are literally dozens of these plugins available for free, my favorites are: 1) Subscribe to Comments and 2) Enroll Comments. Bingo bango… we’re done here!

Sharing Options
Sharing options is something that we discussed a week ago: Linking Your Blog to Your Social Profile. To recap, there are quite a few social plugins that will accomplish exactly what Standout Comments is doing, and my favorites (for the purposes of looking like Standout Comments) are: 1) SexyBookmarks; 2) Socialize This; 3) Sociable.

Advertising Banner
This is another easy one, as everyone and their grandma has thought of doing this. Personally, I’m not a fan of putting an advertising banner by the comment section. However, if you really want to, my favorites for this purpose are: 1) Banner Garden; Max Banner Ads; Ad Minister; Advertisement Management.

Admin Panel
All of our plugins can be edited in seconds through the WordPress admin panel.

Aesthetics
I was kind of surprised that they brought this up “plays nice with your theme, and integrates seamlessly.” Well, so does ours, as all we are doing is adding a few links, boxes and banners. Aesthetics couldn’t be sexier… check!

Tweetback URLs
Plenty of Twitter plugins to go around… I’ve searched for and found a few. For simplicity, I am using Tweetbacks by Yoast.com which allows all of the tweets that mention my posts to be listed as a new kind of trackback (a “tweetback”). Also, I’m going to combine this for maximum effect with the simple added form field for twitter usernames in my comment section with WP Twitip ID.

Money Back Guarantee
They offer a 100% money back guarantee for 30 days… I’ll offer you a 200% money back guarantee for 60 days! In all seriousness, pretty much every marketable product has a return policy, but don’t believe for a second that it means the product is priced effectively.

Introducing: Jimvesting’s Comment MIRACLE!

I’ve compiled my entire guide and all of the plugins in one place, and have made it available for you to download for free! I spent a few hours going through all this and testing to make sure it works… but yes indeed, it has every last feature of “Standout Comments” but you will save yourself the $67 price tag.

In case you didn’t pick up on it, this post is extremely sarcastic and I am only trying to poke fun at John Chow (a good friend of mine) & other bloggers who promoted it for him. While I am upset he didn’t gift me a free copy like those other lucky guys, Standout Comments is actually a damn good release. While I don’t agree with the price tag, it was the first plugin on the market to put everything in one spot for you — easy to install, use and implement. But yes, the Jimvesting Comment Miracle actually is 100% compatibility, real, free and devious!

Where’s the Proof!?
Below is a screenshot of the Jimvesting Comment Miracle plugin working on my test server, which you can access here. I’m not trying to hide anything, and every plugin that I have gathered is indeed 100% free and customizable… making MY package more flexible than Standout Comments if you know your way around.

Download Jimvesting’s Comment Miracle (JCM)
Like What You See? It is darn near identical to the actual plugin.

Download Jimvesting’s Comment Miracle
Jimvesting’s Comment Miracle (Version 1.0): DOWNLOAD HERE!

Promote The JCM Plugin Package
First of all, I’m not exactly sure why you WOULDN’T want to promote this! If you are in the blogging camp that believes these kinds of plugins should be free, than why not show your support by writing a blog article, tweeting about it, or trying to blow up Digg/SU/Facebook with spam for my new plugin. Anyone who helps me to promote this (use my banner if you’d like, link back to this blog post) can shoot me an email and get a free copy of my eBook “Thirty Day Blog.” Sweet!

I hope you enjoyed this feature (I know I did). I’ll be sure to update this post as improvements get added to the world of WordPress plugins (happens on a weekly basis). I’d use this myself if I hadn’t grabbed Optin Comments when it was free. Drop a comment if you use it and let me know what you think.

Stay Bullish on the Net!
-Jimvesting Dot Com

Our blog is ready to go and completely synced to our social media profile… so what’s left? I would have to say that the number one way to deliver the “big money” to your website (while increasing your readership at the same time) is to start into the wonderful world of email marketing!

Creating your first “list” is a task that many feel should be left only to the professionals — but I tell you that this is not so! If you are only capturing leads through your Feedburner RSS feed, then you are missing out on at least 50% of your traffic potential. If is very easy to get yourself a digital product to offer and pull additional leads by gifting them to your subscribers in exchange for their email addresses. The possibilities are endless once you have a user signed up to your email list, and I’m sure that you will find your efforts well rewarded once your list starts growing larger day after day.

Advantages of Building an “Opt-In” Email List

If you own a blog for the purposes of driving revenue, it is definitely in your best interest to own a list. Remember that starting a blog is free, but paying for a newsletter service to help you manage an “opt-in” subscriber base is certainly not. The reason for this? Email marketing is more lucrative. Once someone subscribes (aka “opts in”) to your email list, you have captured their name and email. With this, you can send them targeted offers and promotions built on making you commission off of their sales. It is a lot easier to add subscribers via a list than RSS, so once you start building your listing up… the promotions you offer become a lot more profitable.

People that opt-in to an email list are inherently more willing to pay for a product than someone casually reading a blog. Imagine you have an offer that converts at 8% via email and pays you a $35 commission for each referral. If you have just started a list, you have 100 people and have just made a commission of $280. That ain’t bad for sending an email! Now let’s say you continue building your list and get it to 1,000 members — you are now making $2,800 for that one email! Let’s wrap this up by saying you send your list an email like this just once a week… hardly enough to annoy anyone into leaving your list… you now are making $145,600 in commission every year! Wow.

The Best Email Marketing Hosts

Newsletters run right alongside your blog, and mesh very well with your content, so they are really a no brainer to any blog owner looking to boost revenue at low cost. I’ve used a few of these services throughout the years, and have settled on Aweber as my personal favorite. Aweber is the industry leader and offers a TON of great options at less than $20 a month — a price you should easily be able to gain back after your first offer conversion . Here is my list of the top three newsletter services based on my experience:

1. Aweber – Get Your First Month for Just $1 (LIMITED TIME)
2. Constant Contact
3. Vertical Response

All of these services are excellent, but again I have found that the most cost-conscience decision is with Aweber… whom is the #1 trustee of the affiliate marketing community and a great company to work with. With that, I highly recommend that you check out these options and consider the fee to run a service only in light of the potential profits from these services.

Setting Up Your First Campaign

Okay, so you’ve registered for one of these sites and you want to start building your list. There are literally dozens of different methods out there for getting your list started, but the number one technique that I endorse for blog owners is simply putting an opt-in on their blog. As you can see in my current design, I am offering a free digital download to anyone who simply enters their email address to opt into my email marketing list. This is a quick and dirty way to generate tons of additional subscribers, and I think it is perfect for bloggers even despite the fact that everyone seems to be doing it these days.

Logging into your Aweber account, it is quite easy to set up an opt-in list with one of their pre-defined templates. I would recommend simply asking for the users’ name and email, so that you can target emails to them with subject lines like “Hey Jim, check out this cool offer!” Aweber makes it quite easy to slap their code right into your blog and see it work immediately to start converting offers.

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Need to give your users an incentive to join? Offer them a digital download (software,ebook, etc)! Don’t have an eBook? Subscribe to my newsletter and download one of my books… if you leave my links you can give my book to your readers for free!
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Bottom Line: Now that you have made your blog and have a fully customized & monetized look, it is in your best interest to start to plan for the future and build up your email marketing list. The sooner you start, the more you will be able to profit down the road. Not only are lists useful for pushing commission-based products, but you can also send people broadcasts from your blog to keep them coming back and reading your content. With so much seamless integration, setting up your first email marketing campaign is a must.

-Jimvesting dot com

A few months ago on Jimvesting.com, we launched the “Build A Blog Workshop”… a 30-day program focused on helping you form your own blog on the internet (and the whole thing was sponsored with some great prizes by HostGator). The original intention of this event was to eventually package the 30-day program into a digital product that I could provide for my readers and some new business. Unfortunately, I never got the chance to complete it!

With that, I’d like to re-focus on the Thirty Day Blog system!

I’m not sure why the program stalled out on day 26, but we DO have four more days coming your way… and once we round out the promotion we can start to package what we had and turn it into an internet marketing project. However, I’ve already taken preliminary steps and have begun to work on an opt-in site focused on converting new email leads to my newsletter through the 30 Day Blog system that we created in the past.

Making A Promotional Video

One of the best ways to convince customers that your IM product is worth their while is to make a quick video compilation to throw up on YouTube and your sales page. The point? Well people like having positive reinforcement that you have put your time and effort into the product you are selling. In my case, I’m actually not “selling” anything… it’s a completely free 30-day program to help people start their own blogs. However, I will make opting-in to my newsletter as a requirement, and if I can add a TON of new leads by promoting my system it will be even more powerful than if I had charged $10 a pop.

In my opinion, having a strong user base is much more profitable long-term than trying for force sales through the system in-and-out. With that, I hope to use this video to help promote my 30 day system that I think is one of the best ones out there — not to mention the most cost effective!

This isn’t by any means a work of art, but I think it will do a good job adding to my conversion rate. Please don’t hesitate to leave your comments about the video and how you feel about sales videos.

-Jimvesting