Hey guys! I’ve put together a new ShopABot demo today (30th of April) so you can:
- See examples and ideas for each part of the ShopABot
- Watch as I take this from brand new/nothing to profits
- Ask questions for each of the parts that you might be stuck on
- Get feedback on your bits too!
Part 1: The Store => See it here
I’ve built this store super broad… but mostly based around home furnishings and anything for the home.
I got the idea for doing this mostly because right now I’m saving for a new home … lol, so everything to do with home furnishings and making our houses pretty is interesting and inspirational to me right now.
Also, when I was searching using the Discovery tool I found the 7-in-1 pressure cooker and thought anyone who’s interested in getting in the kitchen will also likely be interested in things to do with making their kitchen and home better.
In hindsight… this may have worked better just focusing on kitchen products – you might want to do something like that? Everything online is a testing process, so let me know what you choose to do, how ‘niche’ you’re going and any feedback you care to share about that.
Part 2: The Contest/Giveaway => See it here
This item I’ve chosen costs $100 (including shipping), so I’m running the contest for a while to make sure I can get my money’s worth – and also am only giving away 1 of them.
When I’m doing lead generation, I’m usually happy to spend up to $1 a lead because I know their lifetime value – when I’m mailing them and following up etc – will make it worth it to me. So I’m banking on getting at least 100 leads with this campaign – everything over that makes the cost per lead ridiculously cheap.
I’ve gone live with it about 12 hours ago and have 5 leads so far so we’re off to a great start!
EXTRA RESOURCES IN RESPONSE TO COMMUNITY QUESTIONS:
=> How Do I Find Profitable ShopABot Giveaways?
Part 3: The Blog => See it here
The blog I’ve built is a self hosted one, using a free theme called ColorMag. Self hosted ones require you to get your own domain name, hosting etc. If you’re looking for a free option you’re a little restricted but it is easier. As with anything, cheaper and faster will do the job – and is a great place to start, but if you are up for a challenge setting up your own hosted blog will work the best.
Anyway – there are the three parts.
If you have any questions about ANY of them… need me to drill down further into each bit let me know! I’ll answer them and do whatever we can to make sure your sites are up and running, getting traffic and Amazon sales like crazy!
I noticed the niche you picked for your store. Very nice pick!
Looking at it made me question why you picked it. Some things were obvious, seasonal for this time of year, being a lot of people do things for the home in the spring and high ticket. But I dug a little deeper. And found out the payout percentage from Amazon. And by doing so it became abundantly clear why you picket the niche you did. But more importantly the Keywords and Category you used. Now granted you did not go into what you used to much and so on. But on page one of your store the items shown are at the second highest level of Amazon pay out at 8%. And with most of them being some what higher ticket, your profits should be nice.
I said all this to stress how import what niche, keywords and category’s someone picks for their site can be.
VERY good observations! I’ll pin the comment ’cause hopefully others can check it out – and in all honesty, I don’t mind folks borrowing from my ideas (that’s why i share them!) – just don’t steal my logo … lol
I actually changed the categories up yesterday after talking with Shane Brookes – we recorded the interview and will be sharing it later this month, but basically we’re using my blog to beta test a software he’s been working on for automated content and traffic. So we changed the categories to model it after a couple of ‘competition’ websites and then set everything up on the call. I’m looking forward to seeing how this goes!
Hi Cindy, Appreciate your updates. I am a big user of ShopABot and am confused in two areas. 1) you said that ShopABot shows me how to have unlimited viral traffic. Guess I don’t see that. 2) you said in one of the VSL’s that ShopABot allows me to select from 1000’s of themes. I see header images, and even many of my main category names don’ t have images, but header images are not themes. If both of these are down the road I am ok waiting. Thanks for the updates.
Hey Ray, do you have basic or pro shopabot ?
I have the Pro version.
Hi Ray! I was meaning to send you a message earlier but ran out of time. Next week I’ll go into how to get the most out of your viral traffic system there – we’ve touched a little in the email series, but there are a few things you can do to really ramp it up – i’ll share when I get a chance. I was hoping to get some cool stuff written up for you by today, but am traveling for the next few days and unfortunately.. can’t stop time 🙁 I will definitely have something for you next week. 🙂
Hi
I am loving the Shopabot system and receiving your emails.
Where it says Blog => See it here, the page it brings up says it is not Secure and
there is no Blog,. The browser address shows https://homebestdeals.com/
the https has a semi colon after it but I tried to change it but it still comes up
the warning message. Hope you can fix it as was looking forward to reading the
blog.
Hey oops! I forgot to activate the SSL on the site – you should be able to see it now:
https://homebestdeals.com
Hi Cindy. Looking forward to the Free Credit we will receive. I want to create an Amazon Shop for the Canadian Market. I am still learning ShopABot and trying to come up with an attractive gift to give away that doesn’t cost $100. I too would like to know how our Sites can attract unlimited Viral Traffic… is it by giving product away by using a Contest, and by using a Blog so our Sites will be found?
Also, I feel one of the best ways to improve our Amazon Sites would be to place the SEARCH Bar on the TOP of our pages, not the bottom.
Too many people have not learned how to scroll down to the very bottom of a page yet. 😉
Thanks for such a great opportunity. I hope to finish learning all about this by the end of this week
Hi Pat – thanks for the bunch of suggestions. I’d like to see the search bar at the top too – I’ll see what we can do there.
For finding Amazon products that don’t cost $100, I’ve written something up for you here: https://wildfireconcepts.com/how-do-i-find-profitable-shopabot-giveaways/
I’ll write something about the Viral traffic side of things when I’ve got a little more free time in the next couple of days (hopefully tomorrow, but we’ll see!)
Hi Cindy. Awesome. I like seeing this kind of stuff keep coming in from you. Maybe no one else would do it but I clicked the give away rules link. I assume there is a page or form some place to fill in the tokens?
Ha! Thanks Gary – funny, I noticed that yesterday. We’re getting that fixed later – we will make it autofill. It will be fixed soon 🙂
Hi Cindy
That new demo you showed us, is that a free wordpress bolg? would a blog made from the free wordpress look that good? I am trying to get things together to get my blog going but it is not easy as a first timer.
Hey Angela 🙂 The blog that I created on this demo isn’t free, it’s hosted but I’m using a free theme called ColorMag.
I’ve set up a walk through on how to set up your own WordPress blog using their free option – you can follow along here: https://wildfireconcepts.com/making-a-free-wordpress-blog/
With the free WP blog you can choose some pretty good themes, here’s how to do that
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You can make your blog look really good – give it a try and send me a link when you’ve got something up. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just show me when you have something and I can give you feedback and get it looking even more sharp 🙂
Hello Cindy
Thanks for the instructions on this website on how to create a free wordpress site.
I tried and tried until I finally came up with this one. Tell me what you think. I tried to get a url a little different from what I got in wordpress but every time I typed in what I wanted I got a lot of numbers in between that and wordpress and it did not look good to me so I tried and tried until I got this one. http://makinghealthyeats.wordpress.com I hope the site I came up with is OK.
I now have to try and get approved with amazon and work on my shopabot store.
Angela
Hi Cindy, I emailed you a week ago and i appreciate all of your products especially viral-loops 2.0! but i really would like to know before i actually upgrade, are we allowed to use any of our own 3rd party autoresponders Iike “WP Responder Pro” or “InBoxing Pro Plus” because many of us can’t afford to keep paying monthly fees to such services as (Aweber, GetResponse and so forth).
Hey, thanks! I’m glad you’re digging my stuff 🙂 At the moment we haven’t built out the ability to use 3rd party AR’s – but this is something we’re looking at adding in future updates.
Yes I am using WP Responder Pro and also another self hosted one called MailZINGO — and up to now there has been no solution to use them. I agree, not everything uses the big 4 autoresponders. we don’t want to get tied down with monthly fees for a service we can provide ourselves on our own hosting.
yep, thanks – got it, +1 for using your own AR. 🙂 I’ll see what we can do
Hi there,
I have only just got round to viewing my purchase of Shopabot, please explaine what and where does the store credit come into play. Also are these stores hosted for free indefinately?
thanks
Heather
London, UK
Hey Heather – yep, we’re hosting indefinitely so there’s no problem if you’re just getting started, do this at your own pace.
The free store credit gives you a chance to create two stores, not just one – so you can choose an entirely new niche for each of them. Share your store with us when you’ve picked your niche and got it set up so we can check it out and help you really optimising it 🙂
I have not sold anything yet and I am getting ready to work on my blog but I got a notice from Amazon stating I got 90 days to sell something and I do not want to get cut off. Any ideas?
Ooh, clock is ticking then! OK, first – i’d make a logo for your site – check this out: https://www.freelogodesign.org/index.html you can make a free one there and your niche should make it pretty easy 🙂
Secondly – can you share your giveaway with us? What are you using as the contest to get people excited about sharing for you – and where are you sharing it? For pets I’m pretty sure facebook might be a good place to promote it, join up to some groups for people who love pets and tell them you found a free contest for xxxx they might wanna check out.
Hi Cindy, in a previous post you stated that we could change the name of our store, if we needed to because it was not made clear that it was locked in. I would like to change the name of my shop. How do I go about it? Thanks, Frank 🙂
We’re not able to ‘change’ the name – but we can delete that store and give you a new credit so you can start again. We’re only making that available to folks who created their store before we put the warning message in there to let you know that it can’t be changed. If that’s you, then contact our desk https://shopabot.freshdesk.com and just copy/paste this message if that’s easier and tell them you want to do this. 🙂
Cindy
I also noticed on your Home website you are having the same problem
I have on my site, ( it does not show your whole webpage ( the header is too big )
how can it be fixed? Did you say we will be able to use a web address without using; shopabot
not sure what you mean about the header being too big, can you forward a screenshot to https://shopabot.freshdesk.com and we can have a look.
About the web address, yes – we’re working on making it so that you’ll be able to use your own website address. We will still host it, but to people looking it will seem as if they’re on your website.
I’m confused. I’m watching the training videos, trying to get this going. I cannot figure out why I don’t have “keys” to add the Amazon Affiliate codes.
Amazon has introduced a new rule – we’re working on a solution to this and should have more info to you at the start of next week
I think it would be helpful if we could open our blog in a new tab from the store menu. Hope that makes sense
That’s a good idea, i’ll add that to our notes and see about including that as an option 🙂
I don,t know how to do a screenshot, here is the web address, I’, talking about the blue top part,
with all the option & the Logo- so after I build up the site I could sell it since I have my own domain name ( by the way will I have to register the domain?
Also, I like your site and all the help you give
Thank you
Alexander
I think I forgot to post the address:
https://wantolookbettercom.shopabot.com/
Hi Cindy. Can you tell us the benefits of having an external WordPress blog linking to the shopabot site rather than just making use of the blog features within shopabot? Thanks.
Good question. The ShopABot blog is perfect if you want an easy way to get extra SEO traffic to your store, without having to set anything extra up. It’s the simplest solution.
The free WordPress blog option is kind of a middle area, that gives you more options for customisation, with themes to choose from and also opens up some opportunities to use WordPress for more traffic (see this technique here)
The premium option, takes a little more time – but the one that I prefer to use is to have a self hosted WordPress blog. Using this method gives you the best of everything, you can add your choice of plugins to perform different functions, customise it more and use your own domain name too. You can still benefit from the free traffic method explained above, but you also have a HUGE range of other options open up for you too, with thousands of plugins that can make your blog do pretty much anything you like.
As an entrepreneur it’s all about choice – where you’re going to put your effort in, weighing up the pro’s and con’s – and taking action on what you’re ready to move in to. Let me know if you want more help choosing what’s best for you 🙂
Thanks for the reply. Just a few follow-up questions though. First is I read somewhere that google dislikes affiliate stores and ranks them poorly. Is this because of the description of our products is the same as from Amazon’s? Is this where the self-hosted WordPress blog come in and help with SEO and driving traffic to our shopabot site? Is it possible to link to a product from your blog on the hosted site directly to the specific “product” page on the shopabot website? Also, can we have the option to sort our product listing (ie Most Popular, Low to High, High to Low) Secondly, I’ve tried the giveaway on the demo store and just wanted to suggest to have the customer receive an e-mail confirmation of whether their application was a success, details of the draw and their number of entries they have. Thanks…
Content is always king – Google doesn’t seem to care much about helping you sell things… they want to make sure that the people who are searching for something, find the information they need whey they perform their searches.
So yes, you’re right about the blog coming in, it’s perfect to get organic traffic to your blog and then to your offers.
Posting for individual products is a good idea – writing up a little content and then posting the link for them to check out the item is a great way to deliver value and help them find what the need. To find the link you need, just visit that item on your shopabot store and then copy the link you have in the browser.
At the moment we don’t have the option to filter, but i like it – i’ll talk to our devs about the possibility of adding that in.
Good idea re: the giveaway emails too. If you’re a pro member, you can connect your AR’s and send an automated email to welcome them – but you’re right, at the moment you can’t tell them how many points etc. or give them their share links. This is a bit of an advanced request so i’ll note it down and see what our team think and if we can make that happen without overcomplicating things too much.
Hi Cindy, My question is this. Can you tell me how you get content for your blog. I’m not good at writing so I was wondering what is the best ,fastest and easiest way to fill the blog with content. Thanks for your help and thank you for shopabot!
Hey Jim! Here’s something that I’m doing with my ShopABot demo blog that has been working pretty damn amazingly. https://wildfireconcepts.com/real-specific-software-review-step-by-step-setup/ – I’ll share the results properly when it goes live, but at the moment the software is curating and posting articles automatically for me.
There are a few surprising results with my tests – the biggest one that surprised me was that using the ‘spinner’ function (so that it turns the content into more unique looking articles in Googles eyes) has actually taken my traffic down from about 20 visitors per article to around 10-12… super weird.
Anyway, I’ll update you on all of that when it goes live!
Thanks Cindy!
Hi Cindy. Can you please explain the benefits of using the spinner function as to just plainly curating content and giving proper attribution to the original author/owner. Also with the result of your test, does it mean that google prefers plainly curating content than respinning it? Thanks…
My thinking behind spinning is that Google would look on it as more unique/fresh content. I can’t say for sure what Google likes, since they keep changing their minds… lol, but in my testing I’ve seen little difference in using it or just using the straight curated content. That could be for a variety of reasons though, including the niche, the audience or a bunch of other factors.
Hi, I just started 2 other blogs on different subjects unrelated. Do you think I could just start a new FB page dedicated to this to use for content and advertising, plus post on instagram and pinterest? Would these be as efective as a blog? Can’t spend money on more hosting now.
Hi Mary 🙂 Yeah, you can totally do that. Another option -if you still want to benefit from the SEO juice is to create a free blog at WordPress, I’ve got step by step info showing how to do that here: https://wildfireconcepts.com/making-a-free-wordpress-blog/
Hello Cindy
Thanks for the instructions on this website on how to create a free wordpress blog.
I had sent you a message here and you told me when I get something up to send you the url so you can have a look. I sent it by replying to your message to me but I have decided to send the message again using the top of the comments page.
I tried and tried until I finally came up with this one. Tell me what you think and let me know if there is anything I could change. I tried to get a url a little different from what I got in wordpress but every time I typed in what I wanted I got a lot of numbers in between that and wordpress and they are a lot to remember so I tried and tried until I got this one. http://makinghealthyeats.wordpress.com I hope the site I came up with is OK. I notice though when I go to the site I am seeing at the top right “Create your website at wordpress.com Get started.” I am wondering if that suppose to shown there. Is it that I did the website instead of the blog? If so I will cancel it and start over.
Next I try and get approved by amazon and then work on my shopabot store.