An Ebook is designed to share ideas, marketing knowledge, advise and expert information. With the growing number of internet users each day, your Ebooks exposure will be able to greatly increase. Ebooks have their own unique importance because of the marketing quality that they possess.
Ebooks are fairly inexpensive and easy to produce, because there is no need for any type of printing equipment or a publisher. All you need is the ability to write and to use the right software. Hiring a writer, would be another option. Ebooks can be written in any niche that you desire.
Ebooks are readily available online, so that they can be easily downloaded. This gives you the advantage of being able to read an Ebook at anytime that you want.
If your Ebook needs to be modified, this can be done easily by going in and changing the text or graphics. In doing these changes, you could add an opt-in form, a web link or offer something for free. This will also give you the advantage of making changes in the current market.
There are many different ways of promoting your Ebook:
1. You can post your Ebook on your blog or website and promote them like a mini-course. This will entice your readers or subscribers to keep coming back for the next course.
2. You can offer your Ebook as a free gift after they make a purchase from you.
3. Copy your Ebook to a disc and send it out with your sales material.
4. Copyright your Ebook and this will give you full control of you being the only one that can offer it.
5. You can do a test for your Ebook and this should be able to be done inexpensively.
The more informative your Ebooks are, then you will be viewed as an expert in your field. This also builds your reputation and establishes a larger customer base.
The use and creation of Ebooks is an inexpensive way of promoting in your niche market. Ebooks can be sold or given away to build your subscriber list. If written properly, Ebooks can boost your expertise in your field and your reputation.
May 30, 2011
Ebooks As A Powerful Promotional Tool
Marketing Tools & Tips
Marketing Tools are an essential part of being successful on the internet. The bottom line of making money online is that you will need these specific tools to run and manage your business more successfully.
Just What Are Marketing Tools?
Tools like a built-in auto-responder system, ad and link trackers, capture pages, url rotators, email campaigns, contact manager. This is just a short list of what is available.
How Do You Use Or Apply Them?
Capture Page�s purpose is to get the name and email address of someone who is interested in what you have to sale or offer. You then can use this information in your auto-responder program.
In this, the capture page will have the product or service that you are offering along with the opt-in form. On this form you can request what information that you think that you will need. Such as, email address, name, phone number, etc.
Auto-responders purpose is to send out your email messages. First you will need to determine what kind of information you want to promote. This could be done by finding your niche or use an affiliate program, just as a few examples. Then you will need to go into your auto-responder program and enter your email messages. Of course, in the messages, you will have your offer and a link. Add as much information as needed, but not recommended to over do it.
As you enter your messages, you can then go ahead and set up what frequency you want to have the messages sent out. Usually you will set them up to go out a day or so apart or whatever time frame you feel that you want your subscribers to receive them.
Ad and Link Trackers are used to track your links or URLs. In this program you will just simply enter your original link and then the system will generate another link for you. This program usually will give you an option of either generating the new link for you or you can select it yourself. This is done by adding a keyword, as such, that will be placed at the end of the link.
This will be the link then that you will promote. You will then be able to go back into your ad tracker system and see how many hits that link has had.
URL Rotators are used to rotate two or more links. If you are advertising and you want to see which link is the most effective, getting the most hits, then this will be where you can use a rotator.
This will simply be done by going into your rotator program and entering however many links you want to promote. Of course the rotator may have a limit and usually about three will be enough.
Contact Manager will help you in keeping your subscribers information on file. Information, such as: name, email address and phone number. Of course, this will depend on how much information that they gave you at the time that they subscribed, via, your capture page. This will allow you to stay in touch with your subscribers and learn more about what they are interested in. You can also set this program up so you can be advised when someone is added to your list.
May 29, 2011
SEO is Easier Than You Might Think
They are just three simple letters but many people become scared when they see "SEO" written down. Search Engine Optimization is dismissed by many as just too difficult but SEO, at least at a basic level, is really easy to understand and implement. At its most basic SEO is simply those things which you can do to make your website more attractive to search engines. Your ultimate goal is to get the search engines to like your site so much that it is elevated to the top of the first page of results for the search term people used to find it.
The primary aim of SEO is to help humans find the information they want most easily from the internet.?All the search engine is trying to do is to anticipate exactly what information a web surfer wants to find when they enter any given phrase into a search box. Therefore all you should be doing with your SEO is making it easier to get high rankings by providing the content that web searchers are looking for when a search and allowing the search engines to recognize that content when they visit your site.
The 'above board' method of SEO is generally referred to as "white hat" optimization and is universally accepted as being good, totally honest and legitimate. The second optimization strategy is really all about getting you a ranking you don't deserve at the expense of another website which is ranked lower as a result of your actions; this is known as "black hat" optimization. Black hat techniques are cheating and if you are found out the ultimate sanction is being banned from the search engine listings altogether.
Whether you do your own SEO, use software to push your site up the rankings or get others to do it for you, it is very wise to ensure that you only ever contemplate employing 'white hat' strategies.
Getting SEO right is so important because it also means that you drive targeted traffic to your site whilst excluding people who are searching for information outside of your niche. This means that a visitor to a highly optimized site is more likely to find exactly what they were looking for on the first attempt. One of the best SEO tips is to decide what the main search term most of your visitors would use and use this as your domain name. So if your site was all about dog grooming tips then DogGroomingTips.com would be an ideal choice. It makes sense because it leaves both search engines and human visitors in no doubt what the site is all about right from the outset.?Now consider a second person whose site contained exactly the same dog grooming tips but that was called "BrianTheDog Owner.com" In this example all you learn from the site title is that it is about a guy called Brian who owns a dog. You have no idea it actually contains dog grooming tips until you actually open it up.
Another good SEO strategy is to have key search terms for your niche contained throughout your site and especially on your home page. Individual page titles could, for example, each be a key search term and articles within your site should also contain the search terms appropriate to their content.?This helps the search engines to accurately determine what your site is about but the overuse of keywords may make your site difficult to read. Also be advised that the intentional overloading of key phrases within your site just to boost your search engine ranking may be regarded as cheating and you can be ranked down as a penalty for such overuse.
Finally utilizing an ongoing process of building back-links to your site is a critical element of SEO. There are numerous ways of doing this and many thousands of pages on the internet devoted to this one strategy alone. Some people are put off building back-links because it takes time and patience and also because the results are not obtained overnight. However persistence pays off and those who do make the effort to employ an effective backlink strategy find that their search engine rankings will remain high over the long term.
Don't be afraid of SEO and don't ignore it because you think it is too difficult to understand.
A Beginner's Guide to Internet Marketing: Not Having A Plan Will Kill Your Business
There are many myths surrounding internet marketing and two of the main ones seem to be that it is incredibly easy to do and that there is virtually no work required to set yourself up in business. In fact many products on the market specifically tell you that all you need to do is buy the product in question, press a few buttons, enter a couple of lines of text on a website and then just wait for the money to roll in.
These product offers are generally short on details explaining exactly what you do need to do but long on lists of things you will not need to know about to set up in business. Sadly, most of them just simply do not work and if they form part of, or even all, of your business start-up strategy then you are setting yourself up to fail from the outset.
The simple fact of the matter is that if you are starting out in internet marketing (and so many people are now that global economic conditions make traditional jobs harder to come by) then you simply must have a plan if you are going to succeed. It need not be the best plan in the world but, believe me, you simply have to have some plan to guide you. I know this only too well because I learned the hard way. Like so many others, I jumped straight in buying random products because they either looked good or the sales letters sucked me right in and convinced me I just must have this product.
And guess what? It took me two whole wasted years to realize that I was getting nowhere fast in building a business and my efforts were just eating away at my rapidly dwindling bank balance. It was only when I sat down and took the time to work out that I had to work hard on setting up my business that I saw the error or my ways. I quickly signed up for a training program which set out the basis of building up an internet marketing business and set about putting what I had learned into practice. In short I got myself an action plan and stuck to it.
When I asked other internet marketers how they had started I was amazed when so many told me they first tried the same initial approach as me and set about buying random products in the hope that it would help them make their fortunes online. If you are doing the same right now then please stop because if there really was a magic product capable of running your business on autopilot with no work required from you then everyone would have one. First you must realize that setting up in internet marketing is exactly the same as setting yourself up in any other business and you will have to plan, plan, and plan again for success. You can initially expect to put in long hours for little or no immediate reward but as you get better at it you will begin to earn an income and see your hard work paying off.
Fall for the hype that you don't need to work and can simply sit back while the latest piece of 'magic software' builds your business on autopilot and all you will achieve is a very efficient means of emptying your bank account of cash.
But spend time getting the right offer, the right products and work hard at driving potential customers to your website and you are well on the way to an exciting career in internet marketing.
The Importance of Keyword Research
In the world of search engine marketing, or pay per click marketing, the actual keyword itself plays an extremely important role. In fact, few would argue against the keyword being the most vital part of search engine marketing on the whole. As such, it is not surprising that most experts agree that keyword research is absolutely essential to planning a successful search marketing campaign.
Search engine marketing, or pay per click marketing, works on the basis of your ads appearing for selected keywords that you opt to bid for. As you can control exactly which keywords your ads will appear for, it is the usual strategy to narrow the list down as much as possible to get the most targeted clicks. However, doing so would require a certain set of data and information that you can work with in order to discover the true money keywords, or ones that are the most highly profitable. The keyword research needed for this can be quite difficult but is absolutely vital.
To make things clearer, let us now think about traditional pay per click marketing. Each time a user searches for a keyword and clicks on the corresponding ads that appear, Google, Yahoo or whichever search engine they are using earns some money. Advertisers can sometimes bid as high as $10 per click, which translates to $10 gross profit for the search engines each time the ad is clicked. The revolutionary keyword ownership system allows you to get that cut instead of Google and Yahoo.
When performing your keyword research, there are generally 3 major factors that you will want to keep a look out for. The first is the search volume. Then, you want to take note of the advertising competition for the keyword. Finally, always make it a point to see if the keyword you are bidding for indicates strong buyer intention.
Usually, keywords with high search volumes and high buyer intention will be much more expensive. The trend these days when doing keyword research is to simply go for those keywords with a lower search volume but just as solid buyer intention. The strategy behind this is to grab as many of these low competition and high buyer intention keywords as possible to generate an obscene Return On Investment.
There are many tools available online which can help you perform your keyword research. Although most of the better ones are paid tools, there is still one very powerful free tool available online. The Google keyword tool is free to use and can extract much of the data required for you to do basic keyword research. In addition, it is a good starting point for those looking to familiarize themselves with the process of keyword research.
Keyword research is probably the most important aspect of a successful search engine marketing campaign.
May 28, 2011
Buying Internet Marketing Products — Two Questions You Must Always Ask
If, like me, you have signed up to several mailing lists from a number of different internet marketers then you will be bombarded with information on new products to buy. Whether you are just starting out in internet marketing or are a veteran in the field then it is a good idea to check out what the competition is up to, but there is a potential downside to all this and it is a very big downside indeed.
You see there is no point in signing up to these lists if you are not going to open the emails and check out the offers being made to you. However doing this reveals the potential downside because you will be bombarded with many slick sales pitches for the very latest 'must have' products on the market. It would be the easiest thing in the world to reach for your credit card and order the product on the spot; after all you want the product and don't want to miss out on all the free 'early bird' bonuses which come to those who take action fast.
Be warned though that you take this approach at your peril because you will end up buying a lot of products which you simply do not need and possibly cannot afford. Remember that the whole point of signing up to all the email lists in the first place is to become a better information marketer and not a better consumer of information marketing products. So, with this in mind, here are the two questions you must always ask yourself before you ever buy another information product online.
Firstly ask yourself: "Can I afford this product I am thinking of buying?" ?If the answer is 'no' then don't be tempted to buy it because you don't want to spend funds you do not have. Instead find another way to build your business and wait until some sales come in from your efforts. You can always then decide to plough back some of these profits into your business and use them to buy a new product which may be useful to you.?If the answer is 'yes' then don't go reaching for the credit card just yet as you have a second question to ponder now.
Secondly ask yourself: "Will this product actually help me with the key area of my business I am working on right now?"?This question is of vital importance because once you have identified that you can afford the product then you must decide whether it will be of any use to you. The best way I can think of to determine the usefulness of a product, which will avoid buying things you will never use, is to limit this concept to the thing you are currently working on.
If the product helps you do what you are currently doing faster, better or more efficiently then it may be worth buying. Equally it may be a wise investment if it saves you time or money or helps you make money faster than you would without it.
Another bonus of this approach is that you will no longer buy things which just might come in useful sometime down the line, perhaps in three or six months time. Why is this useful? Well I have found that often when you come to use a product you bought six months ago you are shocked to discover that it has already been replaced by version 2.0 and the first generation product is already out of date.
So by answering these two simple questions before buying another internet marketing product not only will your buying decisions become much easier but you will only buy products that you can actually afford and will put to good use.
Credit Refusal Letter
Credit Refusal Letter
A credit refusal letter may be sent from one party to another during the course of a business, so as to inform the recipient that his request for credit has been denied. There are several reasons why this request may have been denied, and these reasons need to be clearly stated in the letter itself. This situation commonly arises between business vendors, so refusing credit can be a costly mistake for some parties, hence they should at least take the trouble of wording the letter in a manner that does not offend the recipient.
The aim should be to politely refuse the offer for credit, but also ensure that future transactions are not affected by this decision. In some cases, the credit refusal letter may be sent to an individual who has been denied credit due to his unfavorable credit rating, and this is something that also needs to be clearly stated in the letter. The individual should firstly be informed of the decision, then explained the reasoning behind it and then implored to improve his credit rating and then re-approach the sender of the letter in the future.
How to Write a Credit Refusal Letter
The primary rule for writing any negative letter is to inform the recipient about the sole reason behind the denial, and also to thank him for his interest. All this should be done regretfully and with tact so that the person, or vendor, is not discouraged to carry out a transaction in the future. Here are some general tips for writing such a letter.
1. The name and the designation of the recipient should be clearly stated.
2. The reason why they applied for credit, or for an extension to credit period, should also be mentioned.
3. They should then regrettably be informed that their request has been denied.
4. The honest reason for this denial should also be clearly stated.
5. Necessary thanks should be given to the recipient, and it should be made clear that they are welcome to continue transactions, or to carry out another transaction in the future.
6. If possible, a suitable solution should also be provided.
Credit Refusal Letter Samples
In this first sample, a business organization (ABC Ltd.) is writing a letter to one of its clients (XYZ Ltd.) informing them that their refusal for a credit transaction has been turned down by the organization. These examples of sample letters to creditors will also give you a better idea about such transactions.
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The next scenario is of a credit agency (ABC Ltd.) turning down the credit request of an individual (Mr. Draper), due to the large amounts of dues that he has, which has led to a very low credit score for him.
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These are just some general samples to give you an idea about the wordings of credit refusal letters. The content in them is not important, as different situations will throw up different content in various letters. At the end of the day, the recipient should not feel discouraged and should not hold a grudge against the sender of the letter. Instead, he should strive to improve his situation so that he can gain credit successfully, in the future.
May 27, 2011
Earn Money Through The Internet - Important Information
Like many people you want to learn how to earn money through the internet. There are so many possible ways to make money online that this article will barely scratch the surface. We encourage you to read other articles on this site and explore other related websites to get an idea of more of the choices available to you.
Begin by realizing that the amount of money you earn will generally start on the low end of the scale, but you can increase your rate considerably over time.
Earn Money Through The Internet: 3 Beginning Choices
You'll need to begin your thought process by surveying the internet from a particular point of view. Remember that everything you see or hear online has been created by someone. Identify the kinds of efforts that go into each piece of content and each element that you discover. When you read a classified ad, remember that somebody wrote it and somebody submitted it to the advertising site. Those two jobs may not have been done by the same person. Somewhere you ought to find a number of areas where the many things that need to be done match up with your own skills and interests.
Overall, you have three options in order to generate some online income:
Telecommuting: Find a company that permits its employees to telecommute. That means that the employees work someplace away from the business's main location. Most telecommuters work from home, but they might also work from some other location such as a library or coffee shop. Often in such an arrangement you may be expected to be within reach of your supervisor during some or all of normal business hours (by phone or video-conference). Such an arrangement may not give you quite as much flexibility as you had hoped, though. You might perform all sorts of business tasks in this situation. Perhaps you would research market trends. Maybe you would perform data entry. Perhaps your assignment might be to edit reports or answer emails pertaining to customer service issues.
Freelancing: In this scenario, rather than having a single employer, you offer yourself to perform tasks for a variety of companies. Typically you will contract with a client to perform a clearly specified task, and you will be paid a certain amount for the project (rather than an hourly rate such as is more common in telecommuting). To get a broad picture of the kinds of jobs online freelancers perform, you should check out websites that connect workers with people who need jobs done. Three of those are Guru.com, MTurk.com and VWorker.com. You will be amazed at the variety of tasks that are offered by freelancers and sought by business clients.
Your Own Internet Business: It takes an immense amount of knowledge to run a successful online business. If you do not have a background in that, you can either hire others who do possess the expertise or take the time to learn Internet Marketing on your own. While this might be a gratifying approach, many people choose to engage in free-lance work first so that they can begin to get an overview of what all is involved until they feel sufficiently confident to begin building their own online businesses.
The internet evolves constantly and with great speed. Each change brings about new ways that people can earn money through the Internet. For example, a young company has come up with a new way for people to make money when internet users search for products or information. You can read about that on this website. It deals with the Zib Zoom search engine and "buying" keywords. Whether this appeals to you or not, it is worth reading to get a better idea of how new approaches to the Internet can have a positive impact on your goal of earning money in the online world. Click the link below; I'll bet you'll be inspired!
May 26, 2011
Easy Ways To Make Money Online
Let me be totally upfront about this: the easiest way to make money in the online or offline world is to already have money. However, truly easy ways to make money online cost considerably less than in the brick and mortar world. If you don't have some amount of money to invest, then you have to trade your time as your stake in any investment opportunity. When most people speak of "easy money," they mean methods that will produce revenue with relatively little work involved--something we call "passive income."
We're going to present several relatively easy ways to generate revenue using the Internet that will depend upon the amount of money and/or time that you have to dedicate to your endeavor.
Easy Ways to Make Money Online: Options
Option 1: High Investment of Money; Low Investment of Time
Compare existing websites or businesses that are for sale. A colleague of mine bought an online retail store for less than $3000.00, including substantial inventory that nearly equaled the value of the sale price. The original owner was retiring, and his greatest interest was selling his local, brick and mortar business, so he was willing to bargain. However, operating an online retail store means tracking inventory, packing and shipping orders and dealing with customer service. In other words, although operating the business did not require a great deal of time--usually just a couple hours per day--it was not generating truly passive income.
A better choice is to purchase an existing website for which the revenue streams come from advertising or affiliate marketing, making the operation much easier. Such websites will typically be sold at a cost of one to two years worth of profit. Before making such a purchase, be certain that you can verify costs and revenues through an objective third party. Furthermore, look at the revenue trends that are reported in the data. Some websites promote products that are in vogue for a short period of time. You do not want to buy a passive business if a fad has passed and your revenues plummet. Look for trends that are relatively steady or even increasing.
To find such investment opportunities, you can search "website for sale" and/or open a free account at one of the website auction sites such as Flippa.com. Delay any decision to buy until you have had an opportunity to learn what similar sites have cost other purchasers.
Option 2: Lower Monetary Investment; Medium Investment of Time
New investment opportunities, such as the franchise or MLM company like the new Zib Zoom search engine and related enterprises are arising in the online world all the time as the Internet matures and evolves. They offer several levels of involvement. One, keyword ownership, requires only a short time and a potentially small amount of cash upfront. On the other hand, for a slightly larger investment of time and money, the potential for building income increases. In other words, these sorts of opportunities give you a set of choices in terms of how much time and money you want to invest for an opportunity of ever-increasing income.
Option 3: Very Little Money; High Investment of Time
Build your own empire. Much of the time spent in developing your very own websites from scratch is spent in learning about Internet marketing. This option has a high learning curve, but you need to remember that you are exchanging your time in order to substitute it for investment money. One cautionary note: much of the information that you need to increase your knowledge is available for free via many online sources. You just have to look for them using search engines. Conceivably your costs could be limited to your domain registration costs (approximately $10 per year per domain) and your hosting costs (as little as $5 per month if purchased in an annual contract).
Conclusion:
As is the case with so many things, the middle option (option 2) may be the best alternative for you in your quest to find easy ways to make money online. The buy-in cost is very low, and the amount of time you spend is entirely up to you. If you have no money to invest at this point, your best option might be to work just a few hours for money to set aside so that you can afford this very modest investment, which most people can already easily afford.
Whether you are looking for retirement income, funds to pay for education for your children, just make life easier by bringing in some extra cash each month or you hope replace the income from your current job (over a period of time), one of these options may well work for you. It simply takes some combination of investment money and your time. You might not think that all of these options fall into your definition of easy ways to make money online, but at least one of them should meet your needs.
Network marketing the easiest way to make money
Now although there are a lot of skeptics out there it is true that network marketing is the easiest way to make or create a passive income for yourself. Now why is this? Why do millionaires say that network marketing is the easiest way to make a passive income? Because of 2 things…
1. Low start up costs
2. The system is in place already, you just need to duplicate it!
Both Robert Kiyosaki and Donald Trump dedicated a whole chapter to network marketing in there book, why we want you to be rich. In fact Robert Kiyosaki goes one to call it the perfect business and Donald Trump stated that if he was starting out all over again he would do it with a network marketing company
Robert Allen calls it “The Ultimate Money Making Machine.”
Now although network marketing has been around for a long time it is only recently with the power of the internet have we seen its true potential with people selling across the world to over billions of people. The fact that these millionaires have backed this business model speaks for itself.
Are you Tough Enough?
Now although the business model is simple and easily duplicated, there is a lot to learn and many people, 95% of network marketers fail…Now why is that? Well it is for a number of reasons really,
The think they will be millionaires over night without any work? But where in any world do you know of a business that requires now setting up? No self educating. Doctors and lawyers just didn’t wake up one day and have all their knowledge. They had to study for it. The same is for network marketing, if you don’t know marketing how are you going to market?
They don’t believe in themselves. This is very common and people can get discouraged early on when first starting out. Anybody can do this, you just have to be willing to put a little effort into it! Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither will your empire. Once you have the belief and show it, people will start looking to you as a leader and seek your advice. Thus creating a ripple effect with attracting more and more people to you! Network marketing challenges you to face what is probably your biggest fear: rejection. The people who are making the big bucks had to face a lot of rejection along the way to get to where they are. If you aren’t willing to face your fears and grow as an individual, you might as well stop reading.
Mike Dillard States…This isn’t hard to do, you just can’t give up! If you don’t know who Mike Dillard is, he is a guy who went from waiting tables to making 8 figures a year. Because he believed in himself and he never ever gave up! Many top network and internet marketers are where they are today because they made a choice, a choice to succeed at all costs and now they live a life debt free and stress free with all the freedom they desire!
One thing I have learnt from all of this is that you grow as a person; I am a stronger and more motivated person today that I was 18months ago. I follow through on my actions and thoughts where as in the past I didn’t.
Have you ever wanted to do something but hesitated and then never followed through with it? Have you ever set goals but never made the action plan to achieve those goals?
I use to do that many times and as much as I can kick myself I can only learn from it. Network marketing you learn to become a leader as well as a team player. Something a J.O.B doesn’t show you! Well most jobs out there.
Now my statistics might be a little out but there are a little over 20,000 people in the U.S alone making over a million dollars a year in network marketing! And let’s not forget that there is a lot of passive income involved there.
The passive component of network marketing is in the power of leveraging. As your business grows, the efforts of your work will be multiplied as more and more people help you to make money. Starting out can be slow, but if you are persistent, your business will explode like a volcano. I have seen people achieve six figure incomes on only a few months online. This is down to the fact the success breeds success, so by me helping you become successful I will become successful!
Even though the possibilities are endless, it’s still a business and you have to treat it that way to make money. Successful network marketers keep strict business hours dedicated to building their business. So in order to make you stand out from the crowd you need to learn to brand YOU..Brand Yourself! People buy from those they know like and trust so building relationships is vital in generating a substantial income online.
May 25, 2011
You have to think do I really need this?
Every person that has a business out there is using different tactics to get people to join or buy their latest or greatest gimmick, product or service. You know what you can afford. But you must ask yourself some questions.
Will this really help me? #1 My Health? #2 My Retirement? #3 How Long will it take? #4 Are they debt free? #5 Do they manufacture their own products? #6 How many middle men are involved? #7 Is this in great demand? #8 Is this affordable for everyone? #9 Do they ship direct to my customers? #10 Do they have a good reputation?
I could keep going on but the point is don't join or buy into their trap of making you spend all your hard earned money on worthless junk that you can not make a profit. Stay in your budget! Write out your goals and then break them down into smaller ones, this is a must for everybody.
I look at what they have to offer and it has to help my health. Because if your health is failing you will not perform at your best at all times. Then I look at will it make me enough money to retire comfortably and how will I get paid. Was it easy to understand. Is it in great demand. Is the company going to be here forever. Do I really need this?
You want to make sure that if you join or buy what they have to offer. You can afford it and that it is going to allow you to pay yourself back for the product or service. You do not want keep digging into your own pocket every month. The worst thing to do is keep spending.
Look for people that have experienced the product or service and ask them about it? Then ask them why they did not stay with the product or service? Chances are the product or service was not worth the time or effort and they did not make enough money to keep them in business.
You must do your own research on the company you are thinking of joining. Read everything it will give you a clue if this is profitable or not. If it sounds too good to be true then it is.
May 24, 2011
Banish Your Fear of Article Writing And Watch Your Business Grow
Do you remember at school when you had to write an essay on some random topic decided by the teacher? Maybe it was called something like "What I did on my summer holiday" and I am sure many people recall such assignments as pure mental agony and the task of writing the 500 or so words required seemed to just go on forever.
These days many people can quite happily go through life without ever having to write a formal letter because firing off a quick email or sending a friend a hasty text fills most of our main writing needs.
However if you have a website and need to provide content for it then you will have to dust off your writing skills and put your thoughts down on paper once again. But don't worry because now things are different and you are in control of your writing. For a start you are not having to come up with things to say on a random subject chosen by your teacher. Instead you are now writing about a subject of your choosing, about a topic which interests you and about which you are something of an expert.
Certainly it can be daunting when you stare at a blank text document on your computer and need to find inspiration for your very own article but that screen should not be blank for too long. First of all you just need an idea for something to write about.
Maybe somebody asked you a question about your niche or made a comment on one of your blog posts and this might have set you thinking. Could that question or comment be translated into a worthwhile article which would benefit your visitors generally? If so then jot down some general ideas as they come to you; just vague subjects or areas you could cover in an article. Now put those ideas in some sort of logical order and you have the beginnings of an outline for your article.
Now start writing. You will need an introduction, then the main body of the article and finally a conclusion. The introduction could be something as simple as: "Yesterday somebody asked me what I thought about "x" and this made me realize what an interesting question that really was.
You can see how easily this type of introduction allows you to flow naturally into your answer and allows you to explore the issue you are writing about in the main body of your article. It might be that you can write it all in one go from the knowledge you already have or you may have to break off from time to time to gather facts or do some research on a particular point — either way it does not matter.
Before you know it you will have your first draft completed and may be surprised at exactly how much you managed to write.
To finish you need a conclusion which is just a neat way to summarize what you have said in a sentence or two. A neat trick you can copy from many professional writers is to read your article out loud because this is the best way to highlight mistakes. If you find yourself stumbling over sections then these will need to be rewritten until you can read them easily. (Sometimes changing just one word will do the trick but you may have to rework an entire sentence.)
If you have not written for a while then your first article may take you a long time but the second and third articles should flow more easily. Finally don't be surprised that now you are writing about a subject that you are passionate about you actually grow to enjoy writing and it is not the nightmare you remember from school.
Using Traffic Exchanges To Their Maximum
When it comes to using traffic exchanges there are a few key words that either make or break it. First and for most you should be tracking your traffic from these exchanges to find out if it is even worth using.
You will want to track how many hits/visitors you are getting from the exchange per day along with any conversions that come from it.
The best pages to use in any traffic exchange are you own splash and squeeze pages. By using your own creations they look new and capture attention. Ever notice whenever you do something or see something over and over again you just get used to it and kind of forget it even existed? Same applies here with traffic exchanges. As your splash or squeeze page gets seen over and over again if it did not grab their attention the first few times its more then likely not going to later on.
Change it up and keep it fresh and be sure to track those conversions.
May 23, 2011
How To Promote Your Site On Social Bookmarking Sites
There is one thing that all of us are working for: more traffic! We try to create good content on our site, create informative articles and useful blog posts and would like more people to see them. We want traffic, we want people read what we have put so much work in to. One way to get that traffic is by promoting our content on social bookmarking sites, but it only works if you do it correctly. Below are some useful tips to help you generate more visitors from social bookmarking sites.
1. Excellent content. This is probably the most important point. The better your content is, the more likely it is that users will share your content on social bookmarking sites.
2. Choose an engaging title. Less people will click and read your article if the title is boring. Try to think of an interesting title that tells people how they will benefit from reading your article.
3. Pick relevant keywords. If you want your article to be found it's crucial to first know what people are searching for. Good keywords will make sure that your intended audience finds your content more easily.
4. Reinforce the title with a descriptive summary. Most social networking sites lets you add a short summary or description of the link. Use this description to get people to actually click the link after the title has caught their attention.
5. Be an active user. Become friends with the users on social bookmarking sites and build a relationship with them. If you are an active user your friends can help you promote your links by voting and commenting on them.
6. Add social bookmarking icons to your site. Adding icons at the bottom of every post to the most common social bookmarking sites makes it a lot easier for people to share your article with others.
7. Add more links in your content. You could, for example, put links on the bottom of your blog posts to other related posts on your blog. This will increase the traffic to your site and make sure that users stay on your blog for a longer period of time.
Always keep in mind that your goal should always be to create content that is useful to other people. If the content you create is informative and helpful, people will share it, which will help you bring more visitors to your web site. If you follow the steps above, it will become much easier to gain more quality traffic from social bookmarking sites.
May 22, 2011
How Traffic Exchange Sites Work
How Traffic Exchange Sites Work
traffic exchange is a site where you can get new visitors to your web site in exchange for viewing the sites of other members. There are many hundreds of traffic exchange sites on the internet and finding the ones that are good can be difficult. There are two types of traffic exchanges, manual surfing and auto surfing. Most sites are either a manual or a auto traffic exchange, but some have both options.
Auto surfing: These kinds of sites requires no clicking but some require the browser to be maximized. However, on many sites you can minimize the window, allowing you to do whatever you like while earning credits in the background. The traffic from these kinds of sites is not very good, but they can give your site a lot of page views.
Manual surfing: These sites requires you to click a button every 6-30 seconds in order to view the next page and earn credits. There are usually some kind of security measure to prevent users from resizing the window too small. To prevent bots, the user is often also required to enter a captcha code regularly while surfing. This means that the surfer is much more likely to see your site on a manual traffic exchange and click through to your site.
Credits: Besides surfing, it is also possible to earn credits in other ways on many traffic exchange sites. On most sites, you can earn credits by referring other members. Sometimes you can earn credits by subscribing to a mailing list. Many sites also have regular competitions of different kinds where you can win more credits.
Buying credits and upgrading your membership: Most traffic exchanges offers membership upgrades which gives you benefits such as increased surf ratio, more credits from your referrals and bonus credits. Another option is to buy credits, you can usually get about 10,000 credits for $50. However, before upgrading or buying credits you should always test the traffic first. Assign a couple of hundred credits to your site and see how it works. You should also try to optimize your splash page before buying credits.
Make small changes and see if the conversion ratio improves. Make sure to get the maximum return on your investment, there is no reason to pay for visitors that don't make you any money.
If you start using traffic exchanges and it doesn't work for you, don't dismiss them completely right away. There are hundreds of other traffic exchange sites and what doesn't work on one site, might work on another. And even if you are unsuccessful, all you have lost is a couple of mouse clicks.
Don't Waste $$ Build Solid Relationships
Don't Waste $$ Build Solid Relationships
The Number ONE lesson the money making internet professionals have learned, don't waste a prospect. The best advice any of the so called experts need to share with you is this one essential fact, to succeed you need to master the art of follow up.
If you earned a click to your web site or affiliate program, you PAID for it. Lack of follow up will destroy any chance of your being a successful marketer. If it is just an inquiry for information or a completed sale that prospect or customer is yours to convert to a regular online client.
Nothing so earthshaking about that, easy to understand and even agree. The hard part is the how. First and foremost make sure you give the prospect the opportunity to record their name and contact information for your future relationship building.
Relationship building is communicating with new prospects and customers. This can take on a number of methods. Call it publishing or broadcasting because that is the fastest and most common way of attracting people to your web site or sales offers. Publishing relates to how most of the world has communicated in recent years. News and advertising has been relayed by newspapers, radio, television and now the internet.
Today with the large percentage of people using their computers to communicate, the internet has presented yet another unique opportunity to merchandise goods and services. A totally and completely new industry of advertising and loyalty building programs has been created.
Publishing can come in many forms in each case it takes putting words together and reaching out for prospects. Internet networking is no different than ground based meetings, you bring together people individually or in groups with common interests and goals by written or published words. You inform them, create a desire or need then make it convenient for them to follow through with an order or at the very least register for more information and a follow-up message from you.
Making connections, building relationships by electronic means delivers some very unique opportunities to demonstrate your knowledge, expertise as well as "show off" your products and services. Building credibility and increasing awareness of your business is key to converting the prospects to customers and then maintaining that client base with follow-up before and after any sale.
Networking sites that deliver a number of features and encourages links and association of "friendships" are social networks, GeoString, Facebook and AdlandPro. They are free to join and offer advanced memberships and benefits. Networking and broadcasting your products and services are not the only benefit of these networking sites. Important to your overall success is the contact and exchange with others in your industry. Whether it is additional cost saving measures in production, a new or improved product, perhaps a new advertising media just starting out, your exchange with your fellow e-commerce partners will enhance and build your business.
Hundreds if not thousand of different groups of people are members and trade information and opportunities around the world. Geo String is social networking with a Twist, it pays members! Facebook, well you don't have be told, it has become wildly accepted as a social site for communication. AdlandPro has an online chat room to which hundreds are joining at different times of the day and night to trade business ideas and network building new relationships around the world. AdlandPro offers low cost top notch internet business services for the small operations.
Networking programs offer sales opportunites as you become acquainted with interested people and trade ideas and thoughts. It is just like a few years ago and a little today... going door to door displaying your wares....only now it's faster by electronic internet connections. Broadcasting your business, displaying your wares still means going to your prospects where they are...at home or in their places of business.
Just a few years ago the cry for business success was "location". It was important to ground operations or your "brick and mortor" store. Then it was location, location, location be it main street with lots of traffic or a convenient "strip mall" with quick in and out parking or the massive shopping mall with anchor stores bringing foot traffic and shoppers for your opportunity to sell them. Without foot traffic, or shoppers, your store couldn't make money. Today it is "surfers", we don't make sales and we don't make money until we have attracted prospects.
Just as the sincere approach and purposeful demonstration of your merchandise was the method for the door to door salesman attempting to make sales so is the same need today. Only trust and confidence is a little harder to build in this day and age, but it can and does exist over the internet. The need to build popularity (your product or service over another) and credibility for your brand. The need to build trust that you will deliver as advertised. Your internet promotion will work if your relationship with your customers is solid.
Demonstrating your knowledge, sharing your information and generally just building relationships is still in vogue. It is something when worked little by little that will build a customer base for your business and insure your financial security. Only by increasing your reach and maintaining your hard earned contacts will you expand and profit from the cost you spent to make those contacts.
In many cases just building a solid connection and personal friendship will deliver big dividends over the long term. A successful salesperson has "bird-dogs" or people to refer them business. Your connections can be a great source of support and testimony of your honest and worthy intentions. Trust and support will build you a working data base with "friends" of "friends" to boost your business relationships meaning more sales and expanded income!
Even if you never buy one thing, your value as a friend and your possible referral will pay big dividends in financial rewards in the future. Customers can be asked to allow you to keep in contact for updates and news about the product or service they purchased by subscibing to your newsletters.
New prospects can be rewarded something for free to disclose their addresses and joining your newletter or mailing list. A free offer giving you their e-mail address and permission to contact them further is an important part of your marketing program. Retaining and Relationship Marketing--building an online family will reward in many ways.
Learn to hold your best leads...you paid for them.
