A recent study found that 65% of online shop­pers are “win­dow shop­pers,” and take on aver­age up to 33 hours to make a pur­chase — often over secu­rity concerns.

Some inter­est­ing find­ings show that most peo­ple who aban­don their shop­ping carts don’t do so permanently.

They tend to return within the first day to com­plete their pur­chase, likely after they had a chance to shop around, review their secu­rity, or prac­tice some due diligence.

Accord­ing to WebProNews who reported on the study, “65% of all shop­pers will wait a day or more to com­plete a pur­chase.” The most notable find­ing was the idea that just increas­ing secu­rity and buyer con­fi­dence can increase con­ver­sion by 11%.

Inter­est­ing, yes. But far from surprising.

In fact, I often tell my clients and stu­dents that, in order to boost sales, you should be a “con­ver­sion con­trar­ian.” In other words, don’t focus on increas­ing con­ver­sions. Not at first, any­way. Instead, you should focus on decreas­ing some­thing else…

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I met Jason Fla­dien at a recent seminar.

He sat with Sylvie and me dur­ing lunch one day, where we had a chance to chat. One of the top­ics of con­ver­sa­tion was Sylvie’s breast can­cer. And there’s a rea­son why…

You see, recently Jason lost his brother Ryan to brain can­cer. Now, hav­ing had can­cer at 36, in Sylvie’s case, was atyp­i­cal. It’s rel­a­tively unusual for a woman to be hit with this dis­ease at such a young age.

But Ryan was only 8-​​years old!

It sad­dens me deeply when kids are hit like this.

They cer­tainly don’t deserve it. (No one does.) But while their fam­i­lies must cope with such a tragic loss, Ryan’s fam­ily was struck with another blow…

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In case you couldn’t make it this week’s webi­nar, I wanted to give you an “inside look” at the lat­est new 8-​​DVD sys­tem we’re releas­ing, with my col­league Ken Calhoun.

Espe­cially now, in this tough econ­omy, this sys­tem can be your “life­line to sur­vival.” It shows you exactly how to out­com­pete by cre­at­ing more com­pelling sales mes­sages. (Whether it’s in web­sites, emails, direct mail, ad cre­atives, Inter­net video, PPC ads, and more!)

It’s a full stun­ning 8 DVDs packed with dozens of proven, spe­cific tac­tics that can make a big dif­fer­ence to your busi­ness suc­cess. But just for a few short days, we’re mak­ing a very spe­cial offer!

If you order by our offi­cial launch date (that’s in early Feb­ru­ary), you can grab the entire 8-​​DVD, 10-​​hour sys­tem for about two-​​thirds off. That’s a dis­count of over 60%!

Why are we offer­ing this incred­i­ble sys­tem at such a low price dur­ing these next cou­ple of weeks?

Because the economy’s tight and we want to put this busi­ness life­sav­ing sys­tem into the hands of as many entre­pre­neurs and busi­ness pro­fes­sion­als as pos­si­ble, before the launch.

So head on over to watch the 9 video pre­view clips now.

The long antic­i­pated third and final install­ment of my wife’s shock­ing and highly con­tro­ver­sial exposé, Inter­net Mar­ket­ing Sins cov­er­ing five more sins, is finally out.

It took a bit longer this time, and Sylvie explains why in the report. She also clears up a lot of mis­con­cep­tions about why she wrote this report. And in fact, this time she did it a lit­tle differently.

This time, she did it on video!

There are sev­eral reasons.

For one, she wanted to save time. Her recent surgery forced her to post­pone writ­ing this sec­tion, and peo­ple were clam­or­ing for it.

Sec­ond, it would also give you a chance to hear her pas­sion, and some­times, her anger. Plus, she ends with a heart­felt plea you def­i­nitely don’t want to miss!

Like parts one and two, she uses strong lan­guage and doesn’t hold back! Your dis­cre­tion is advised.

She exposes the final five sins, i.e., Tele­sem­i­nar Idiots, Brain­less Free­bie Seek­ers, Coach­ing Addicts, Time-​​Sucking Vam­pires, and Slave Own­ers. The video is on the same down­load page of the first two parts. If you haven’t signed up, do it now…

Go now and watch part #3 of Inter​net​Mar​ket​ingSins​.com.

I recently merged my library with my blog. I had mul­ti­ple resources, books and tele­sem­i­nar record­ings on var­i­ous sites, but decided to con­sol­i­date them all and add them to my blog.

Rea­son? The fact that these resources are no longer as scat­tered makes them eas­ier to find and fol­low. If you want to book­mark these pages or even tell oth­ers about them, please do!

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The lifeblood of your busi­ness is your list of cus­tomers and prospects. Wouldn’t it be great to grow it faster?

Accord­ing to the Inter­net Mar­ket­ing Center’s 2006 sur­vey, online adver­tis­ers are cap­tur­ing con­tact infor­ma­tion from an aver­age of between 5% and 10% of the peo­ple who visit their web­sites, and of those, only 1% to 2% become pay­ing customers.

That SUCKS!

How would you like to uncover a lit­tle known way to do 4 to 7 times bet­ter… with­out hav­ing to attract a sin­gle addi­tional vis­i­tor to your website?

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Just a quick lit­tle note that we added a “prelaunch” blog, where we will be adding pre­views, news, sam­ples, and posts about the offi­cial launch of Suc­cess Chef.

While you’re there, sub­scribe to the RSS feed or join the email list, and view the spe­cial 70-​​minute prelaunch video tuto­r­ial. But if you want a sam­ple, here’s the first 15 min­utes or so of that hour-​​long video tutorial…

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