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2011-01-08T15:40:00.003-05:00

Tips for Web Page Design FREE Tools

This is an article on Web Page Design for beginners and I will be discussing FREE tools available for Web Page Design.

HTML Editor – Before you start the web page design, you will need to have a HTML Editor. Although there are several editors for purchase on the market, in keeping with a low budget project, you can download KompoZer, billed as a complete web authoring system. It combines an easy to use editor with a simple file management system. It’s intended to allow novices to create their pages quickly and easily, without learning HTML coding. KompoZer is an open-source project, so the software is free for users. KompoZer has a good user interface and HELP options if you need help in a specific area. Tutorials can also be found online with a Google search. Just download it and install.

Graphics Editor – Another tool that you will need is a Graphics Editor (i.e., Photoshop) to create graphic headers, banners, etc. If you don’t already have a graphics editor tool, Paint.NET is a FREE free graphics editor and can be downloaded here. Paint.NET is an open-source freeware editor with all the essentials, including tools to crop, rotate, and resize images, adjust colors, and create collages. It supports common image formats -JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and others. Tutorials are available online for Paint.NET; just Google “Paint.net tutorials” and locate several tutorials if you need help.

Another FREE open-source graphics tool is GIMP (short for the GNU Image Manipulation Program), a very capable graphics software package that is favorably compared to what Photoshop can do (even most PS tutorials are useful for GIMP users). GIMP will run on many platforms, including but not limited to Microsoft Corporation’s Windows platform, Apple’s Mac OS X, and Linux. In addition to detailed image retouching and free-form drawing, GIMP can accomplish essential image editing tasks such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. GIMP has a main window and several dialogue windows used for tools, color palettes and so forth; as such GIMP uses a single document interface. In a single document interface, the responsibility of managing additional windows is left to the operating system. Tutorials are available online for GIMP; just Google “GIMP tutorials” and locate several tutorials if you need help. You can download GIMP here.

In summary, three FREE tools you can use for your own web page design projects have been discussed. These tools can save you money while you create your own web pages.

Conley Stallard is the Author of the “Web Page Design Guide” and is the owner and creator of several websites. The 76-page Web Page Design Guide is a “How-to” Step-by-Step Guide for Newbies, including screen shots which speeds up your learning curve. If you enjoyed this article, Click here for more information.

2010-12-30T15:48:00.003-05:00

Website Design Ideas – Tips For Designing Your Own Web Page

This article describes some tips for answering the question “Where do I start?” in regards to web page design. Future articles will delve into the specific elements of the page design itself.

The secret to being successful as an online marketer is to have your own web site selling a product or service. Do you know how to create a page or edit one? There is always a need to be able to Edit a page, even though you did not create the page, and it is not hard to do with some guidance. If budget permits, you can outsource your design, but someone just starting in Internet Marketing may not have the budget to outsource.

Where do I start? There are some things that should be done before you get to creating the page. You should select the niche and the title for your web site.

Set up a project folder (on your hard disk) for your website niche to hold only your website files for the pages you are designing. Work in that folder only (put all of the files associated with the web page design in that folder). For example, if you are creating a page selling “gizmos”, create a folder for your gizmos files. If you are creating a page on photography, create a different folder for this project. It is also good practice (Not necessary) to set up an “images” folder to hold your graphics/picture files associated with your pages. This makes it easier later on to select a graphics/picture for insertion into your page.

You do not need to be connected to the internet to design your web pages. You can write and design your web pages off-line. If all you are doing is designing and creating web pages, you do not need to go on the Internet. You can test them by loading into a browser from your hard disk. Later, you can upload the pages to your domain on the internet.

You need a simple word processor such as NotePad or WordPad. These simple word processors (which are already on a Windows computer) are also called text editors and are ideal for creating web pages. Now you can also use word processors such as WordPerfect or Microsoft Word but they are not simple text editors. They include a lot of formatting which may not be compatible with HTML. Therefore, many web page designers like using NotePad for designing HTML pages when using the code tags.

NOTE: Using a word processor for designing online pages means that you are writing the actual HTML code (typing in all the text and HTML tags) in the word processor. I personally would rather use a HTML Editor which creates all of the HTML code for you.

You need a HTML Editor. Even though a web page can be designed using a Word Processor, you have to know the HTML tag codes for each segment of code. This is where a HTML Editor makes life so much easier in designing a web page. A HTML Editor allows you to design more in What-You-See-Is-What- You-Get mode. You can layout your page (using tables and cells) with the size and content you want and the editor creates all of the HTML code. Your page design is immediately visible to see what the page looks like, with a few exceptions.

Page layout. Before you start creating your web page, sketch the page layout on paper for the page header, navigation links, content and any banners you may want to include. Also determine the page width at this point. The sketch will help you stay focused on designing the page.

Tools. Before you start the web page design, you will need to have a HTML Editor. Although there are several editors for purchase on the market, in keeping with a low budget project, you can download KompoZer, billed as a complete web authoring system. It combines an easy to use editor with a simple file management system. It’s intended to allow novices to create their pages quickly and easily, without learning HTML coding. KompoZer is an open-source project, so the software is free for users. Just download it and install.

Another tool that you will need is a Graphics Editor (i.e., Photoshop) to create graphic headers, banners, etc. If you don’t already have a graphics editor tool, Paint.net is a free graphics editor and can be downloaded here. Paint.NET is an open-source freeware editor with all the essentials, including tools to crop, rotate, and resize images, adjust colors, and create collages. It supports common image formats -JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and others.

Testing. You will need to test your web pages in multiple web browsers. Internet Explorer and Firefox are among today’s most popular browsers for viewing web pages, but they will display some HTML code differently.

In summary, when designing web sites, our overall objective should be to make sure that our web sites look appealing, contain interesting content and are fast to download if we are to ensure that visitors spend time on our site rather than going elsewhere.

Conley Stallard is the Author of the “Web Page Design Guide” and is the owner and creator of several websites. The 76-page Web Page Design Guide is a “How-to” Step-by-Step Guide for Newbies, including screen shots which speeds up your learning curve. If you feel this article has been beneficial, click here for more information.

2009-02-08T09:49:00.003-05:00

Today, no joke, I change your life

How To Get JV’s and Have A Blast Using Tweetdeck
and how to build a LIST at lightning SPEED!

By Marlon Sanders

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This is life changing.

I’m not joking. I’m totally serious.

If you use Tweetdeck, I believe it’ll change your life.
http://www.tweetdeck.com

It’s an interface to use Twitter.

And YES. It works on Macs. Alright? Pc’s, Vista. ALL
of it. Works on everything.

I’ve created a video for you to show you HOW to use it:
http://www.marlonsnews.com/video/tweetdeck

I show you there WHY it’s so powerful.

I’ve already met and reconnected with so many people.
I found out just today about a totally trick piece of
software that submits press releases for seo purposes.

And it costs 7 bux!

I met Fabian Tan who is currently #6 on a huge JV launch.
I exchanged messages with the the guy doing the product
launch.

Now, on the video I give the rules.

1. GIVE before you ask.

2. Do NOT demand I follow you. I follow only close friends
or people who are likely to sell a LOT of my products. I
explain this on the video.

3. Do NOT go in there blatantly promoting your products.

4. Build relationships.

5. Bring POSITIVE energy. Do NOT go in there complaining about
how so and so ripped you off.

6. OBSERVE first before you participate. Learn the culture. Be
smart. Use your brain.

7. Do NOT get pissed at me because I won’t have lunch with you
as a freebie. It’s $1,000. That’s what I do. I sell my time
and what I know.

If you want what I know or you want my time, it’s $1,000.
But I’ll chat on Twitdeck with you if you’re not obnoxious.

Some of our brothers and sisters need to remember their manners.
You do NOT have a right to DEMAND things from me just because
you bought from me.

No more than you have a right to demand something from Bill
Gates because you’ve bought windows all you’re life.

You had a need.

You bought a product.

You fulfilled the need.

End of transaction.

There IS no other obligation.

The payoff of using this is you’ll build a LIST and meet TONS
of people.

THIS is the BEST product hands down that will show you HOW to
build your list using Twitter.

Highly recommended.

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It’s 7 bucks!

Guys and gals. I’m HOPING that url works. Dana for some odd
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Or if you TRUST me for 7 bucks for gosh sakes, then just
order using this link:

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I do NOT make any commissions on that whopping 7 bucks.

But listen, this WILL change your life. I’m serious. It’s
the most amazing thing. Watch the video I made for you.

Now, I AM on there. If you’re polite and intelligent and
articulate, my brother or sister, I’ll be happy to engage
in chat with you.

But be mindful that I’m there for the same reason YOU are
there. To engage with people who can build my list and
sell my products.

I’m not there for customer service, to give freebie advice
or to look at jv pitches. Enough said?

But USE TWITTER.

USE Twitdeck.

Fork over 7 bucks and get Dana’s system and let her show
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This thing will BLOW you away. See my video? See how
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It’s life changing.

AFTER you download and try it out, hit me on my blog and
let me know what you think:

http://www.marlonsnews.com/?p=187

And be sure to watch the video:
http://www.marlonsnews.com/video/tweetdeck

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Marlon Sanders is the author of “The Amazing Formula That
Sells Products Like Crazy.”

Check out all my products here:

http://www.cc-ebiz.com/introduces/ms-pdb-001.html

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2009-02-01T16:41:00.004-05:00

How To Create A "Buyers Only" List
By Jimmy D. Brown, PLRSO

Content is king. It gets to wear the crown. And sit on
the throne. And rule the world. When it comes to
establishing credibility, gaining trust and producing
sales, content is royalty.

While I would never suggest abandoning the concept of
delivering high quality content to your subscribers, there
is another type of list composed of subscribers who couldn't
care less about content.

"What is this type of list?" you ask.

- > The "announcement list".

I've been teaching about the "announcement" list since
at least 2002 (on record at an event). And, yet, it's a
widely untapped asset in most email marketing circles.

The main reason is: nobody's teaching it. And so,
nobody knows anything about it, let alone how to effectively
create one of these lists.

So, we're going to revisit it.

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What Is An "Announcement" List?
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DEFINED: An announcement list is a list whose sole purpose
is to "announce" (I.E. Inform, notify) when something new
is available for review, consumption or purchase.

In other words, it unapologetically says, "Hey, I just
released XYZ. Come check it out!"

Now, at first glance you may be thinking, "Who would join a
list that offers no content and only sales pitch?"

If you say it that way, it doesn't sound too good to me
either! That's why you don't say it that way. Let's take
a look at HOW to "say it"...

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How About An Example "Announcement" List?
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If you go to the PLRSO site, you'll find a textbook example of this concept.
PLRSO stands for "Private Label Rights Special Offers" I established this
list for the sole purpose of informing people anytime I have a new PLR offer
available for them to buy.

That's it.

I don't send out ezine articles to them. No newsletters.
They don't get blog posts. There aren't any special reports.
No content of any kind. What they get, in essence, are
sales messages.

And there are already 2,822 subscribers, many of which
have already purchased some of the PLR special offers that
have been "announced" to the list.

Why does it work? Let me give you plenty of reasons...

1. I took something that was "in-demand" (PLR) and I allow
people to get a head-start on the world by knowing about
new releases FIRST by joining this list.

2. It's not billed as an "announcement list", but rather
a "Free PLR Club". Big, big difference in perception.

3. It has it's own domain name, further adding to the
perceived value and importance to those who join.

4. There is no requirement to buy once you join. Buy the
offers that you want, pass on the ones you don't want.

5. A cost example is provided to show what you can
buy immediately, further illustrating the value of the
complimentary "membership".

And here's the big twist that makes this idea of creating
an "announcement" list a complete no-brainer...

I allow my affiliates to "give away" complimentary memberships
to the PLRSO club!

When someone they refer buys one of the offers, they earn
a commission. And I get other people to promote and build
my list for me. We all win.

So, you may be thinking...

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What Kind Of "Announcement" List can I Build?
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There are a wide variety of "announcement" lists that you
can build. Let's briefly look at ten of them...

* PLR List. You can swipe my idea and create a list of
private label rights buyers.

* New Offers List. Build a list of people who love your
work and want to be notified any time you have a new
offer available.

* Pre-Launch List. Create buzz and anticipation for an
upcoming new product release by building a pre-launch
list several weeks (even months) in advance.

* Ezine Publishers List. Build a list of publishers who
want to know any time you have a new ezine article
that is available for reprint in their ezines.

* Bloggers List. Another idea is to allow bloggers who
are looking for ready-made content to post to their blogs.

* Industry News List. How about becoming the "go to"
guy or gal to share breaking news about your industry?

* Joint Venture List. Develop a list of partners and
affiliates who are ready to promote anytime you have a
new offer.

* Incentives List. Here's a great idea - create a list of
people who you offer "incentives" to when they purchase
someone else's new product through YOUR affiliate link.

* Freebie List. Regularly give away rebrandable content
(reports, articles, videos, etc.) to these subscribers
to earn commissions.

While all ten of these lists aren't necessarily "buyers"
up front, they each can certainly lead to buyers and revenue
for you if you implement them.

Content is king. But let's not forget that there are alot
of queens, princes, dukes and earls out there too.

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Jimmy D. Brown, one of the most respected marketing teachers online,
has been fine-tuning what and how he teaches when it comes
to Internet Marketing since 1999. Now you can benefit from
those years of experience and also get full PLR rights to
many of his best-selling products - at ridiculously LOW
prices (I'm talking Ten Bucks).
Run, don't walk to this website ->
PLRSO

2008-11-16T12:39:00.006-05:00

A Review of CBmall, A Clickbank Information Products Mall

CBmall Is An Online Business Designed for Beginners to Make Money!

How Do You Make Money From CBmall?

CBmall is a giant, electronic book and software store. It is stocked with thousands
of popular eBooks, video tutorials and software programs sold through ClickBank,
a secure online processing company and affiliate network.

In a nutshell, when you send traffic to CBmall and that person buys something, you
get a commission. It's that simple.

A few key facts:

* CBmall is already set up and running.
* You can be in business in a few minutes after sign-up.
* You do not need a website, you do not
need to know HTML, you do not need a list.
* There are no monthly fees.
* We handle all service, support, eMails, etc.
* ClickBank pays your commissions every two weeks.

CBmall Is Designed For Beginners

If you are just getting started in Internet marketing, or you haven't made any money
yet, CBmall is designed for you. It's a fully automated system that sells highly profitable
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CBmall Affiliates Will Be Shown How to Drive Traffic

People aren't born knowing how to send traffic to a website. We all have to learn how
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You'll get sample ads, sample articles, artwork, and proven resources you need to
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CBmall affiliate center will help you find places to advertise and give you the sample ads.

You will also find clever, creative and free methods to drive traffic and earn commissions
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Nobody makes money on the Internet without traffic. This is probably the weakest link
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Full of Products People Want

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The products in CBmall are organized by popular categories. These include topics like:

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You'll learn how to get in front of these people with low-cost or free promotions for CBmall.
They find the information they're looking for and you earn a commission.

Click here to visit CBmall and see exactly what a CBmall storefront looks like.

If you are just getting started in Internet marketing, or you haven't made any money yet,
CBmall is designed for you. It's a fully automated system that sells highly profitable digital
infoproducts. The only thing you do is send traffic.

What I like about CBmall is that you have the opportunity to get involved in an Internet
Business without having a lot of technical knowledge.

In addition, Mr. Jeff Mulligan, Founder and CEO of CBmall, sends affiliates strategies on
how to market the CBmall.

You Can Make Money With CBmall's Unique Search Engine

Your CBmall includes a specialized search engine that catalogs thousands of popular
ClickBank eBook and digital infoproducts. This search engine is built into CBmall. If one
of your visitors uses it, finds something they like and buys it, you earn a commission.

Again, this is fully automated. The CBmall search engine is a powerful revenue generating device.

If You Have A Web Site...

...you can actually put the CBmall search engine to work on your web site in as many
places as you want. One simple line of code is all it takes. If a visitor to your site uses the
search engine and purchases something they find, you earn the commission. It looks
like this on your site:

The generic design lets you add this powerful feature to virtually any website.

CBmall Has More Profitable Features

Massive, fully automated autoresponder system - CBmall includes a built-in
autoresponder system that can make you money when your visitors subscribe. Each
week they will get a new eMail featuring a product they can buy on the Mall. When
they do, you earn the commission. There is no extra charge and you don't have to write
anything. It is all done for you. It would cost thousands to have a professional copywriter
do this for you, but it's built into CBmall.

Automated banner ad system - Many pages within CBmall contain banner ads. If
someone clicks on these banner ads and buys a product, you get the commission. Banners
are rotated and optimized to improve click rates. And it's all automatic.

Professional videos- Many of the products in CBmall include professionally produced
marketing videos. These are designed to get the potential customer interested in buying
the product. Again, there's no extra charge to you and you earn all the commissions.

Security system - CBmall's security system hides affiliate links and protects your
commissions. If you send traffic to CBmall you don't have to worry about someone
replacing your link with theirs to cheat you out of your commission. CBmall's advanced
security prevents this.

Affiliate resources help you get started - When you get CBmall you also get access to
a huge, private affiliate site full of educational resources. These are all designed to make
you a better Internet Marketer and help you learn to easily drive traffic to CBmall or
any other website.

Customer support - CBmall is famous for providing good customer support. You'll
have access to full-featured support systems including fast email response and access
to Jeff Mulligan's direct phone number for personal questions.

* Order processing built-in: You don't need a merchant account, credit card processing
software or convoluted shopping carts. ClickBank does it all for you.

* Fulfillment built-in: Don't worry about downloads, shipping, or any customer service —
it's all 100% handled for you!

Everything You Need To Get Started Making Money Online With A Reputable, Honest,
Valuable Business.

Get started today with everything you need for an online business. When you invest in
CBmall, you will have full access to the money-making power of CBmall, at no risk, and
the tools you need to succeed.

* 100+ page CBmall.com web site
* Powerful search engine
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* Huge affiliate center stocked with resources
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Click Here For More CBmall information.

In summary, CBmall is the quick, easy and inexpensive way for a beginner to start an
online business with the support to make it successful.

Conley Stallard
Internet Marketing Resources
www.cc-ebiz.com

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Conley Stallard is the author of "Hits Without Clicking" and owner of the Digital Products, the The Market Center and Marketing Resources websites, plus others.

2008-11-15T13:46:00.001-05:00

Marlon's In-Depth 16-Point Guide To Hiring Your First Part Time
Virtual Assistant Based On How I Hired My Own Virtual Assisants.

Save this for reference and use it as a checklist

By Marlon Sanders

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Let's talk about hiring your first part time virtual assistant:

-- Can you afford it?
-- Where do you find them?
-- How do you work with them?
-- How do you save 50% on their pay?
-- What country should you hire them from?
-- What if their work isn't up to par?
-- What skills do they need?

One of the big steps in your online career will be
when you make that move to hire your first online
assistant.

There are many ways to outsource your work. You can,
of course, hire freelancers off of elance or other
sites.

That's good for one-off projects.

But very soon in your career, you're going to want
to hire a part time virtual assistant and later a
full-time one. That way, they can learn over time
how you think and what you want.

You get a higher quality result with less work.

As you know, Lisa worked for me for 7 years. I've
had other virtual assistants. And now I have some
employees. But I worked my way up to this point over
time.

Here are my tips for finding and using your first
part time virtual assistant:

1. Hire someone in Canada. They have high speed Internet
and are Internet savvy. If you're in the U.S., they're
on US time.

Lisa was in Canada. Rick Hanson did my technical stuff
for many years. He's in Canada.

2. Hire someone in your relative time zone.

It's hard for me to work with virtual assistants in UK
or Australia because of the time zone difference.

Whatever country you're in, I think you need to look for
someone in the same time zone. That way, you can collaborate
on projects during work hours.

The cool thing is that if you're a night owl, you can find
a time zone where that's someone else's work day.

3. Grab a 50% discount on pay

The great thing about Canada when I started there with Lisa
was I got a 50% discount due to the exchange rate. Over
time, this wilted.

But when you're getting started, look for that exchange rate
discount.

4. Use your resources to find people

a. Craigs List -- That should be obvious. I love using
Craigs List.

b. Newspapers. I ran classified ads in several newspapers
in Canada.

c. Post in forums. Post what you're looking for in forums
like Warriorsforum, Digital Point forums, the Rich Jerk
forum, abestweb forum, Anthony Blake's forum (ablake.com).
There are many other forums you can use, depending on the
talent.

5. Do NOT be scared to hire someone if you have revenue.

As long as you have a profitable sales process, don't be
scared to hire someone part time. You'll NEVER feel like
you can afford it.

But as long as you have a product that's selling, a target
market and a lead generation process, you will very likely
find it pays off.

You WILL be scared to death to hire that first person. But
if you have a sales process that's working, I really believe
it'll free up your time and let you concentrate on higher
return activities.

Face it, answering customer service emails doesn't make you
any dough.

6. Hire talent over pay

I'd rather pay more and get someone really talented than
pay less and get mediocre talent.

You want someone you don't have to train. Trust me on
this one.

7. Find someone with exposure to Photoshop and good writing
skills. When you're hiring that first virtual assistant,
you need a jack of all trades.

Someone whose very computer savvy, has had a little customer
service experience, good writing skills, and a little art
background or Photoshop is great. It's ideal if they can
do the basics in Dreamweaver.

When I hired Lisa, she was already doing customer service
for Internet Marketing Challenge but they let her go when
Corey bought the company. She could do a drop shadow in
Photoshop and had taken a correspondence course on html.

8. Call them first thing every day and plan the day's work.
Even if they're part time, you need to review their work
plan daily. Just call and go over the work for the day.

This is why I say you need someone in your time zone. In
my opinion, Skype doesn't cut it. You need to be able to
talk over the phone.

And you need to be able to EASILY reach the person. If you
have to email them and get a response overnight, this isn't
going to work out long term.

Yes, you can do that for repetitious outsourced projects.
But the virtual assistant person is your RIGHT HAND. You
need them on demand at least during set hours.

9. Here are some tasks you can have them do:

a. Fix html problems
b. Customer service problem solving
c. Compile pdf's
d. Create reseller pages and contests
e. Respond to the needs of affiliates or jv partners
f. Create products
g. Design banner ads for affiliates
h. Write emails
i. Write postcards to resellers
j. Do things you don't want to

10. Dictate your promo emails to your VA.

This is why you want someone you work with every day. You can
dictate your promo emails to them.

Over time, they'll learn how to type these up and you get
promos out to your list just by dictating an email in your
morning call.

11. Set rules upfront about days off, time off, emergencies
and advancing pay.

a. Set a rule upfront that you don't advance pay.
b. Set a rule on time off from work hours for personal errands.

Virtual assistants sometimes don't see it as a job. And you have
crucial tasks for the day when they up and announce they have a
dentist appointment or need to take a family member to the
Pharmacy. Whatever. Set the rules upfront.

c. Decide if there will be vacation time.
d. Have some form of non-disclosure agreement even if it isn't
legally valid. At least you can have a clear, unambiguous
agreement.

12. Be quick to pull the plug.

If junk goes on such as their Internet goes down all the time,
tasks don't get done and you get excuses, critical mistakes are
made, pull the plug.

13. You'll know within one to two weeks if the person is good.
A bad hire will want to take a month to get up to speed and
research the tasks. A good person will hop right in and start
doing work.

14. Let the person in your plans. Brainstorm with them. Let them
experience fun and exciting tasks also. Don't always just give
them boring stuff. Find out what they love to do and see if
you can work some of those things into their responsibilities.

15. Let them grow in the position.

If you see potential, talent or abilities they aren't using,
pay for them to get a little training and see if that talent will
blossom.

I bought Lisa a Photoshop book and in 30 days she had gone through
all the tutorials and was amazing. But she had an art background
and tons of talent.

16. The hardest person you'll EVER hire is your first.

I remember Corey (Rudl) telling me that once over the phone. And
it was so true. And it's true.

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2008-09-26T07:39:00.005-04:00

Product Review: Web Traffic Juggernaut

Web Traffic Juggernaut is a new site that says it guarantees more web visitors and online advertising with very little effort or cost. So I decided to put it to the test...

My first impression was the site looks professional and clean, with an attractive look and feel. It is easy to read and understand. Joining the site was easy and painless--they do offer 2 upgrade options but they are not required to gain the benefits.

The Members Area is very well laid out and intuitive--I could figure out what to do after only a few minutes and was able to get up & running in less than 5 minutes. Inside the site, you create links and ads--the links you simply enter any URL links you use into the generator and it transforms them into "Juggernaut" links. You create ads for anything you want to promote using the Juggernaut Ad Generator, which is very easy to use. You can create as many links and as many ads as you like. And they are organized in a logical way--links are displayed in the order you create them but also your 5 most recent links appear on the main page for quick reference. Also, since the link generator is the tool you'll use most, it is also right at the top of the main page when you login. Very smart!

After you've created at least 1 link and 1 ad you can start to generate traffic. Just use and promote the new Juggernaut link instead of the original source link you had. Every time the Juggernaut link is clicked, the page loads followed by a small ad window in the lower right corner. It displays 3 ads PLUS an image with your affiliate link that goes back to Juggernaut. So if anyone clicks the Juggernaut image they see the site, and if they signup they become your referral. It's a great viral feature because you can build referrals without even trying to just by using the site.

Now every time the ad window displays (your Juggernaut links get clicked) you earn credits that get YOUR ad displayed in the ad windows when other members' links get clicked. So the more clicks, the more times your ads get displayed.

And this works virally--meaning as you make referrals into Juggernaut (either by promoting it or just using it and visitors click the Juggernaut image on the ad window to join) you also earn ad credits on THEIR link clicks. And this works up to 5 levels deep. So you can create a massive amount of free ad views and web traffic by referring others to Juggernaut also.

I didn't get to test the full effect of a big downline yet (I just got the tool) but I can tell you the rest of the site works exactly as stated--my links got clicked, I earned credits, and my ads got displayed. Juggernaut even tracked my results so I know how many clicks and how many ad displays. That was an impressive unadvertised extra feature.

There is one more benefit and feature which might be the best of them all--downline emailing. You can email your downline with offers, promotions, or whatever you like, and here is where Juggernaut really shines. They took time to make the emailing often enough that it's valuable as a user, but no so often that it's a burden to your downline. But the best part about this feature (and actually the credit earning too) is that they use a unique dual-matrix technology that builds your downline in 2 ways. First is the typical way--you refer members, who then refer members, etc. But the 2nd matrix is a "forced matrix" that places all new members in a downline in sequential order. Without getting technical, what it means is that if you join and just stay a member (even if you don't do anything) your downline will grow automatically because new members will fill in your forced matrix. And you earn credits on them too. Now THAT's cool.

Overall I have to say I am impressed with Web Traffic Juggernaut. It is simple yet powerful, and delivers on its promises. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to increase traffic and advertising.

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2008-09-20T15:59:00.000-04:00

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2008-09-15T16:41:00.000-04:00

The Internet Marketing Success Formula Floored Me

I have to tell you right off the bat, Soren Jordansen's Internet
Marketing Success Formula knocked me for a loop when I got my finally
got hands on his free 41 page e-book.

It's bursting at the seams with useful information Soren gleamed from
his own experience and, more importantly, from conducting scientific
surveys of internet marketers.

Basically, the average internet marketer is a new marketer who
desperately wants to make enough money so they can quit their day job
but has doesn't have the foggiest idea on how to actually go about
doing so.

There is one startling finding that many seasoned marketers overlook,
or just plain don't know, and it is from this fact that Soren lays out
detailed proven tested step by step plan

This e-book is written for the new marketer or for any other marketer
who is stuck and hasn't yet experienced success online.

When you can get right down to it, it's a roll up your sleeves and
get your hands dirty how to guide on starting a internet business from
scratch.

Everything, and I mean everything, is covered from choosing a web
host, building a squeeze page, monetizing the list building process,
how to set up a profit pulling email series and what types of
affiliate programs convert the best while creating the trust and
creditability.

The traffic generation system starts with methods that generate tons
of free traffic immediately and progresses through more advanced and
time consuming tactics as well as using paid traffic to build your
business.

The only thing I wished Soren would have spent more time on was the
chapter where he shows you how to take it to the next level. However,
it's really for internet marketers who need to get their basic hands
free affiliate system set up and running first.

Now, what make Soren's report stand head and shoulders above every
other basic how to guide are the real life examples Soren is currently
using in own business. He doesn't waste your time with fictional dog
training case studies or other such nonsense.

And get this, Soren is letting people rebrand this e-book for a
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I'm not kidding when I say using the methods revealed in The Internet
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www.digitalproducts.cc-ebiz.com

2008-08-08T08:39:00.001-04:00

Review of Post Launch Profit Secrets

If you have ever read, listened to or watched a free info product and thought why did I bother wasting my time with that, you have not seen or heard one of Alex Jeffreys free offerings.

His Post Launch Profit Secrets has raised the standard of free. It contains extreme value, in that if you act on what is contained in the audio, you could experience making a life changing amount of money on the Internet.

Now we have all heard the term ‘the money is in the list’, well Alex Jeffreys takes this concept and explains how anyone can create a list. Not just any list, but one that is highly responsive and loves getting their wallets out every time you find a product that you think is worth recommending.

In this free audio the information that Alex gives away is phenomenal. He takes you step by step describing how he found out about this proven money making system. Then he goes into great detail on how we can do it ourselves, without having to pay out the thousands of dollars that Alex did to set him on the path of success he is on now.

Along side him on the audio is Michael Cheney who also gives some invaluable insights into the very same money making system that makes him millions too.

Alex does like to mention a few famous internet marketers’ names and talk about places he has been too, but it is all par for the course and doubles as inspiration for those of us listening and desiring that internet marketing lifestyle.

If you are anything like me, you will be thrilled with information contained within the audio, and it will help you develop a master plan of success. Hopefully in 8 weeks, you too will have the beginnings of a list to be proud of and be able to shoot off an email and make money. I’m sure that sounds good to you too!

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2008-08-01T16:48:00.001-04:00

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2008-07-25T15:21:00.011-04:00

A Review of Jimmy D. Brown's New SR Zone Website

Jimmy's new SR Zone website states that it is...

"Dedicated To All Internet Marketers And Entrepreneurs Who
Want The Information They Need At A Price They Can Afford
In A Language They Can Understand."

He has set up a website dedicated to all Internet Marketers and Entrepreneurs who need budget friendly help with information that is relevant to their current needs.

Jimmy is famous for his Small Reports Fortune empire, in which he expounds that if a person can write 7-15 page small reports, they can build a six-figure information empire. He can back up this statement based on his results.

Now let's get back to the SR Zone website and see how it can help you in your business. Jimmy currently has the following reports on the SR Zone website and is working on more:

Check out these reports and see if they can help you in your business. Based on what I know about the reports, you will find some great ideas for your business.

My assessment of the SR Zone website is that Jimmy D. Brown has done it again - over delivered! Implementing the tips in these reports will make your money back many times over.

Even if you're not in the market today, be sure to stop by and sign up for the notifications list so you don't miss any of the upcoming reports. One of them might be exactly what you've been looking for.

To your success,

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Conley Stallard is the author of "Hits Without Clicking" and owner of the Digital Products, the The Market Center and Marketing Resources websites, plus others.

2008-07-23T09:25:00.003-04:00

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2008-07-19T08:19:00.003-04:00

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Review Of Derek Gehl's "Search Marketing Labs":

Attracting crowds of qualified buyers with a top ranking in Google, Yahoo, and MSN just got a whole lot easier... and cheaper.

The term "search engine optimization" used to be synonymous with difficult and expensive. Not any more.

Because thanks to Derek Gehl's latest release, you do NOT need to be intimidated by terms like "keyword density" and "optimization" anymore. And you certainly don't need to outsource your search engine traffic campaigns to third-party experts for exorbitant fees of $3,000-$10,000!

Instead, you can finally "do it yourself" and enjoy substantial increases in your traffic and sales with the expert guidance of your very own, private SEO consultant...

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All for the ridiculously low investment of just $2.95.

There's absolutely no guesswork.

First, Derek gives you a series of online videos that walk you through the baby step basics of getting your website search engine ready.

Then, using the same clear, no-BS teaching style, you'll be shown how to apply the very same advanced SEO strategies that Derek and his team have used to secure a Top 5 ranking in Google for 3 years running...

... And beat out over 294 Million competitors including many multi-million dollar corporations!

And then, just in case you need some extra hand-holding, you'll have unlimited access to Derek's very own in-house SEO expert in a secret discussion forum, where you can ask unlimited questions about your specific search engine campaign!

This alone is EASILY a $1500-$3000 value -- but Derek's giving you unlimited access to his private SEO expert for the next 30 days for just $2.95.

When Derek first launched his "Search Marketing Lab" approximately one year ago, I didn't pay much attention.

My mistake.

Because today, he's got testimonials lined up around the block -- all regular people who started with ZERO or mediocre traffic, who attract 5,000 to 40,000+ visitors every month using these secrets.

The majority of SEO books, courses, and seminars you'll find out there are a waste of money, not worth the paper they're printed on, because they're not kept up-to-date.

But since "Search Marketing Lab" gives you the same SEO strategies that Derek's currently using on his own site (www.marketingtips.com), which is reported to attract over 1.8 Million visitors every month, you can be sure you'll be the first to know when there's a major search engine change…

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2008-07-18T10:16:00.003-04:00

A Review of the Internet Entrepreneur's Club

"Why I'm Completely FURIOUS At Derek Gehl
and His Team Of Internet Marketing Experts..."

(And How I Managed To Score You Some FREE Stuff
By Laying A Formal Complaint...)

I've been doing business online for a few years now...

So when I saw what Internet marketing guru Derek Gehl started doing about 2 weeks ago, I was more than a little miffed...

... I was downright furious!

See, over the years I've joined a lot of "free" Internet marketing communities. You've probably seen them... Discussion forums and chat rooms hosted by other so-called Internet marketing experts.

You're promised "unlimited access" to these gurus... But you almost NEVER see them online. And they rarely stoop to answer questions from us "little guys."

So you're left talking to other wanna-be entrepreneurs, which is great when you need moral support. But if you want to learn how to make REAL money online, who do YOU want to talk to...?

The guy who is making squat for sales with his brand new website?

Or, the guy who is making MILLIONS online every year?

Yeah, me too! I want to talk to the guy who's making millions!

Until a couple of weeks ago, though, getting access to these millionaire gurus was almost impossible because, not surprisingly, access came with a hefty price!

I don't know about you, but $8,000-$25,000+ for personal one-on-one coaching was waaaay outside my budget when I was getting started.

So that's why, when I saw what Derek Gehl and his team of Internet marketing experts who have generated over $60 MILLION in online sales have started doing...

... I nearly blew a gasket!

Derek has just started giving his private list of customers and subscribers UNLIMITED business advice from his very own team of experts...

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And what's even more amazing is... they do!

Which is why, after seeing all the glowing reviews and raving success stories this members-only club has been generating, I was pretty darn upset to see Derek giving it away to his customers and subscribers ONLY -- for just $3.27!

After all, I've been recommending Derek Gehl and his team at the Internet Marketing Center as a resource for quite some time now...

... What about MY customers and subscribers?

Here's the scoop...

Derek's team has secretly released a membership sign-up page to a very select handful of their business associates... and I managed to get on this exclusive list.

Between all of us, we've been given permission to give away 250 of these $3.27 Trial Memberships...

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But that's it!

Derek is adamant that his team of online experts don't get burnt out -- so he's made it clear that he's considering closing the doors to future members VERY SHORTLY!

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2007-09-09T08:32:00.000-04:00

"The 3 Steps To Success In This Business and How Creating Perceived Value Is Crucial to Your Success"

I like to keep things simple.I think anyone can create complexity. You know, take something simple and make it complex, so people will will deify your knowledge.

I think it's quite another thing to sort through complexity and findthe inherent simplicity. I've always felt all the great ideas weresimple ones.Alexander the Great conquered the world based on the short sword idea,a simple weapon. I could go on and on.

So let's get back to basics and the inherence simplicity of this business. Here are the important things:

1. Targeting a group of people with common wants or needs.

2. Finding out what they perceive as valuable.

3. Offering that to them with a sales process that gets them to buy.

Step one is where most people falter traditionally. But what I've noticed more and more is that step two is a problem. People selltheir product, service or information too cheaply.

Why? Because they don't know how to create perceived value for it.

It cracks me up sometimes. So people wanna buy from the "guru" who gives them the whole ball of wax for next to nothing. Can you see how absurd that is?

If someone doesn't know how to create perceived value for their own products and services and get paid for that value, then HOW, pray tell, are they going to teach YOU to get paid a decent profit forwhat YOU are selling, pimping or marketing?

It mystifies me.

It's buying info on how to sell from someone who can't even selltheir own product to YOU with any method other than the cheapestpossible price!

The question, then is, "How to you create perceived value?" I'll tell you a story that illustrates it.

There's this show on TV in the U.S. called "The Pickup Artist." It's about this guy named "Mystery" who teaches guys how to get dates, meet women, etc. It's an evergreen topic.Anyway, one of Mystery's big themes is that a guy (or girl) has to know how to project VALUE. For example, Mystery says the #1 indicator of value for a guy is a big smile. I'd never thought about it that way. But a smile projects confidence.He goes on to talk about other indicators of value. The show is kinda addictive to watch. I'm really not into TV other than sports and anime. But there are so many parallels to marketing, it's uncanny.

Basically, the same things that apply to marketing a product or service, apply to marketing a person.So let's say you're starting out. You're a newbie. And you have a product or service to sell. You gotta create perceived value for what you sell. Otherwise, you'll be selling $7.00 info products all your life. Not that there's anything wrong with 7 bucks. But you know, there isn't a lot of perceived value there.You create value through packaging, appearance, presentation, the pitch. And just by being convinced you really ARE offering something of value.

The other thing I'll say about the TV show is I never knew that guy Mystery from Adam. But by virtue of the fact he's now on TV, you assume what? The guy must know what he's talking about.

This is why books, publicity, writing articles, and speaking engagements are crucial parts of an info product business. They all create the perception of value.

Opinion leaders read more than the average person. And they attend more social functions, seminars and networking events than others.

That's a fact most people don't know. And it applies to any and all industries, not just Internet marketing. So by putting out articles, books, info products and then speaking at events, you're reaching the opinion leaders.

And those are the folks who influence the opinions of others. This is something few people understand about the info product business. Now, you know. Now, you're on the inside.

Marlon Sanders

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Marlon Sanders is the author of "The Amazing Formula That Sells Products Like Crazy." If you'd like to get on his mailing list and receive tips, articles and information about online marketing, CLICK HERE.

2007-06-16T15:09:00.000-04:00

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2007-04-16T10:12:00.000-04:00

Free Webmaster and Marketing Tools

This article provides tips on FREE webmaster/marketing tools which are
beneficial in running your online business. These tips are directed more to
marketers who have their own web site. I use these tools often and have
no financial gains in recommending them to you.

Free Tools:

Redirect Generator
The Redirect Generator will create an HTML or PHP redirect page
for any URL. Especially handy for long affiliate links or existing
pages you want to redirect. Just fill in the dialog boxes and it
generates a redirect page for you. The page is then uploaded to your
website as a redirect page.

The Redirect Generator, a Brander and a Readme file are zipped.
Download by Right Clicking the following link and Save As. Unzip the file and read the Readme file for instructions.

http://www.cc-ebiz.com/download/RedirectGen.zip

VIGOS Gsitemap (Free Google sitemap generator)

Google, the Internet′s most popular search engine, has launched Google
Sitemaps. This is a new inclusion service designed for webmasters and
website owners. Google Sitemaps enables you to proactively and
automatically submit information about your website to Google to notify
and direct their crawlers. It is meant to create a more
accurate index and deliver better search results of your website.
Learn more about Google webmaster tools and site maps here.
You can download the Free VIGOS Gsitemap generator HERE.
NVU - HTML Editor

A complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as
Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for "new view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical
expertise or knowledge of HTML.

Below are some of the features of the NVU - HTML Editor.
- WYSIWYG editing of pages, making web creation as easy as typing a letter with your word processor.
- Integrated file management via FTP. Simply login to your web site and navigate through your files, editing web pages on the fly, directly from your site.
- Reliable HTML code creation that will work with all of today's most popular
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- Jump between WYSIWYG Editing Mode and HTML using tabs.
- Tabbed editing to make working on multiple pages a snap.
- Powerful support for forms, tables, and templates.
The Free NVU - HTML Editor can be downloaded HERE.

For Windows systems, select one of the following downloads:
nvu-1.0-win32-installer-full.exe - Windows full installer
nvu-1.0-win32-full.zip - Zip version of the above file for those behind restrictive firewalls.
Submit Express Analyzer

The Submit Express Analyzer is actually 5-tools in 1, a Meta Tags Analyzer,
Page Snooper, Link Popularity Checker, Meta Tags Generator, and a
Keyword Selection Tool.

Some of the benefits of the Analyzer are shown below:

- Receive tips on how to improve your Meta Tags
- Check the keywords used on the page and find the keyword density
- Check web server operating system where site is hosted
- Check website load time
- Check website file size
- Check URLs and links found on the page.

You can analyze your site (and others) by accessing the Submit Express
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Enjoy the benefits of these tools if you are not using similar tools.

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Conley Stallard
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www.cc-ebiz.com
www.cds-enterprises.com

2007-03-18T10:09:00.000-04:00

Press Release:

PAY PER CLICK ADVERTISING GONE FREE!

The internet has opened up a world of possibility for anyone with a dream of starting their own affordable business, be it an 80-year-old monk in Tibet to a stay-at-home mom in Kansas. Once their website is out, the key is finding inexpensive advertising. Until now, most search engines feature "pay-per-click advertising." Though certainly an effective marketing tool for any web business, it can also stir up fierce competition for bids on certain keywords. As for small business owners, they are often left in the dust of larger ventures with better strategies and more money. They are unable to make a return on investment and eventually dissolve.

We here at Jigadig were troubled by this: why should smaller businesses lose the opportunity to take advantage of sponsored search advertising, called by many the most effective method of online marketing? So, we built a search engine that will appeal to 120 plus million auction search engine shoppers online, with the revolutionary feature of "the Friend Network," which enables users to shop with friends.

We've developed an innovative keyword-sponsored search advertising system that is absolutely free, with affordable options to upgrade. Other innovative sites like Google, YouTube and Yahoo rely on word of mouth, users like you, to attract traffic. You've helped them achieve their success, yet they take all the profit from the advertising. With Jigadig, you earn your share of advertising by telling others about it, and the resulting domino effect from user to user builds an ever-expanding network and adds to your share of targeted traffic.

It's true, we could have gotten investors and spent millions to attract shoppers, then opened up a full pay-per-click system like every other search engine. Why didn't we? Because it's important to us to give small businesses a shot, and help keep the internet a place where everyone and anyone can profit with their own online business.

Let's fight back and take our share of targeted search traffic!

Click here to learn more about Free PPC advertising.

2007-03-12T10:18:00.000-04:00

Unspoken, But Crucial To Your Online Success

In the beginning there was the marketer. There are certain truths you come to
understand the more time you spend making money online – or trying to.

Witness the evolution of marketing online. Whether you are new to the net game
or an experienced pro, there is one thing you will have in common if you are
moving towards entrepreneurial success.

As you read this article you will realize what you have in common with all the
other million dollar earners online, and what you’re missing that can take you
from where you are to where you want to be.

So let’s get started shall we?

I will begin with a bullet point list and short explanation of the marketing
necessities you want to have:

For starters, most established markets will already be using this by default:

- A Domain: something specific to what you want to promote like (ex.www.mysite.com)

- Hosting: a place to put your site, if you’re planning on making money – find a
paid solution so you look like a credible business and you cut back on high
traffic crashes.

- A website: your image your presence and your marketing message, don’t get
pulled into the trap I see everywhere of trying to put too many choices on your
website. Maximize on the effectiveness by only giving one purpose to a page. For
example if you want to build a list - focus all your efforts and copy on that
singular focus, if you want your site to sell a product, then only put that
focus on your site. You’ll also need a good editing program, and an ftp software
to get this up and moving.

- A merchant account: If you have something to sell, people will need a way to
pay you. There are a ton of great providers out there, but there are a specific
few that give your visitors the security to pull out a credit card with
assurance.

- An Autoresponder: This is a real necessity if you want a business and not just
a hobby. When you have a family to support this is a real no brainer. This is
your email follow up service. You get a name added to your list and this is
where they go. You will use this to stay in touch and build relationships with
your customers and soon-to-be customers.

- A helpdesk: in the beginning when your business and sales are small you can
handle all the little questions and emails yourself. One of the things that will
keep a small business is small is thinking “I can do that myself” if you want to
truly grow; you need to share the workload (petty tasks) and focus on what you
truly want to do creatively for your business.

- Membership Site software: once you’re addicted to the internet marketing
lifestyle, you will realize this oh-so-simple fact, it’s great to make a sale,
but it’s even better to make a sale once and get paid for it every month.
Continuity is king.

- Teleconferencing software: If you want an easy way to create and crank out
high ticket products, audios and a transcript is an easy to make, high-value
product.

Of course everything we’ve touched on so far only scratches the surface, but
these are the necessities that not only get you started but will make you above
average. Keep your eyes peeled for more articles that will take you from
beginner to winner.

We’ll cover resources that will help you stay organized and expand your business
to make you truly prosperous such as:

-PDF creators and converters

- Mind mapping software

- Site tools to make your business a set and forget it – money magnet

- Internet video and audio creating software

- And the how-to’s of outsourcing

Keep learning, and most important: be persistent – it will be a quality you
share with the biggest money makers online today…

To get more information or download your own copy of the Resource Report

Yours In Success,

Conley Stallard
www.cc-ebiz.com
www.cds-enterprises.com

2007-03-05T18:12:00.000-05:00

Explode Your Business With Viral Marketing!
by Justin Blake, CEO
ViralShock.com

Creativity.

This is one virtue a site must possess to lead the race in the ruthless competition in the Internet based business. With so much competition and rivalry going on, every method of marketing must be employed and utilized.

It doesn’t matter if you have a killer product or a fantastically designed website, if people don’t know that you exist, it doesn’t matter, and you are not going to make it big. Worst of all, you business could just get killed.

While there are so many methods and schemes used by so many e-commerce sites today, there are still some of those that can help you with an extra boost in the popularity ratings. One of these is the so called Viral Marketing.

While the term Viral easily depicts a virus, a word very much dreaded by all computer owners, it is not what it seems. You do not actually use a computer virus to spread your business; on the contrary it just might kill you. Everyone has had enough of all those pop up ads and spyware.

Viral Marketing Overview

Viral Marketing also known otherwise as Viral Advertising is a marketing technique used to build the public awareness of one’s product or company. They use many forms of media to reach out to the public without actually promoting the product by riding on in other forms of addictive means that could get a person hooked and be obliged or amused to actually pass it on, with the product or company advertisement along with it.

In a nutshell, companies ride on the idea that if people like the content of a media they will pass it on to their friends and family. They sponsor the certain media, such as a cool flash game, funny video, amusing story and such, which one may pass on to another with the company brand or logo or the products description or any other content to help promote the company or its product.

Viral marketing has become a popular means of advertising and marketing because they are relatively low cost. To avoid being tagged as spam mail, viral marketing counts on the eagerness of one person to pas on the product. If a person sees the name of the person they know as the sender, they won’t block it and open it as well.

Many companies offer incentives such as discounts and rebates when they help in spreading their viral marketing. They rely on the number of recipients a viral marketing gets from one person in determining the amount or number of incentive they can be attributed with.

Using Viral Marketing to your advantage

The main and foremost advantage of viral marketing is that you get a lot of publicity and public awareness about your site and your company. You get to generate a flow of traffic that are potential customers. With a little ingenuity and imagination, plus some incentives or prizes, you can reach out to a great number of people and announce your existence.

Most sites and companies are catching on to the effectiveness of Viral Marketing and Advertising. Not using it could kill your business. Along with other schemes and methods in promoting your site, like Search Engine Optimization and such, viral marketing could easily push you ahead in the rating games.

Viral Marketing could be a sneaky way to get people to know about you and your company. You get them to pass your advertisement along. They are also very low cost that not investing in it could be downright a business suicide. All it takes is a great idea, a good addicting game, a funny story many ideas are still out there. Create gossip or a buzz. Many movies are promoted by using scandals and gossips to make them more popular. Remember the movie “The Blair Witch Project”?

Many big companies have tried viral marketing and have had many success stories with it. A classic example is Microsoft’s Hotmail. They were the first known big company to utilize the scheme and it has worked wonders for them.

Now it’s your turn to use viral marketing to work wonders for you. Act now and reap the benefits Viral Marketing will provide for you and your sales figures.

- Justin Blake, CEO
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Justin Blake is one of the web's foremost experts in Viral Marketing. He has recently created a brand new viral marketing resource to help online business owners radically increase their profits and subscriber base, and you can find out more about this incredible resource here.

2007-02-24T09:14:00.000-05:00

The Proven System to Help You Grow a Hugely Profitable Internet Business...
Without Breaking the Bank!

By: Derek Gehl, CEO
Internet Marketing Center

One of the questions I get asked all the time is "Derek, how do I start a successful Internet business?"

My response? There is a very specific sequence of steps you NEED to follow to guarantee your success.

How do I know?

Because it's the exact same sequence of steps that my team and I have used to grow from a one-man company to a team of over 100 Internet marketing experts... generating more than $60 million in sales!

Over the years, my team and I have continually tested this system, and have proven its effectiveness over and over again.

But this system hasn't worked only for us... Since IMC opened its doors in 1996, we've seen a staggering number of real, everyday people follow these steps to earn life-changing incomes with their Internet businesses. And the numbers keep growing exponentially!

In this newsletter, I'm going to give you a brief overview of the eight steps you need to take in order to start and grow a profitable online business. They are:

1. Find a hungry niche market — BEFORE you decide what to sell

2. Write compelling salescopy that draws in your visitors

3. Design a winning site that converts visitors into buyers

4. Use the 'Net's top search engines to drive tons of targeted traffic to your site

5. Tap into secret sources of cheap (and even free!) traffic

6. Use the power of email marketing to keep in touch with your visitors... and turn them into buyers!

7. Grow your business by selling new products to your existing customer base

8. Harness the power of affiliate programs for hands-free traffic... and sales!

Anyone, from newbie to seasoned Internet marketer, can benefit from going through this proven series of steps. No matter where you are in your business, it always pays to revisit the basics and make sure you're doing everything possible to grow your business to be as good as it can possibly be.

Read on to review this proven eight-step system — and discover how simple it is!

Step #1: Find a hungry niche market — BEFORE you decide what to sell

Most marketers make the mistake of looking for a "hot product" to sell when they're first starting out online — and they end up choosing a product before they determine whether there's a market for it. And this is the reason the majority of Internet startups fail!

The fact is, most people do NOT go online to buy. They go online looking for information or to solve a problem.

What you need to do is find an untapped niche market: a group of people who are going online to solve a common problem, but are not having any luck finding a solution.

By doing some simple research, you can discover EXACTLY what these people are looking for — and then figure out a way to give it to them. That way, you KNOW you'll have a market that's eager to buy your product — before you even know what it is!

Once you've found a hungry niche market and come up with a product that will satisfy their wants, it's time to write your salescopy...

Step #2: Write compelling salescopy that draws in your visitors

Without a doubt, the most important part of your website is your salescopy. It's the only contact most of your visitors are going to have with your business — so you have to make sure it does the job of a top-performing salesperson.

A lot of people don't feel confident about writing. But don't worry! Writing salescopy is a "science," not an "art" — there's a specific formula to follow that will lead your visitors smoothly through the sales process.

You need to focus on how your product or service will solve people's problems or make their lives better. Think like a customer: "What's in it for ME?"

A few key things to remember when you're writing your salescopy:

* Include a headline and subHdrlines that are packed with benefits

* Build credibility with testimonials

* Offer a strong guarantee

* Pile on the bonuses

* Don't forget to ask for the order! Never assume that your visitors will understand what you want them to do on your site — you have to TELL them, and then make it easy for them to follow through with their purchase.

And remember: You want your copy to emphasize the BENEFITS of your product, not its features. What's the difference? Features TELL, benefits SELL.

Say, for example, you're selling low-energy washing machines.

Feature: They use less electricity than conventional machines.

Benefit: You save money with every load!

Do you see the difference? You want your visitors to have a clear idea of how your product is going to help improve their lives — because that is what's going to convince them to make a purchase!

Step #3: Design a winning site that converts visitors into buyers

Yes, it's true: You should only start building your website once you know what you're going to sell and have written your salescopy. That way, your site design will facilitate the sales process, rather than get in its way.

The most important thing to remember when designing your sales website is KEEP IT SIMPLE! You only have 10 seconds when someone arrives at your website to grab their attention — otherwise, they're gone, never to be seen again.

Some important tips to keep in mind:

* Choose a plain, sans-serif font (like Arial or Verdana)

* Use black text on a white background

* Make sure your navigation is clear and simple, and include a sitemap

* Avoid using cheesy or distracting flash or audio (using video and audio is OK so long as it supports, rather than distracts from, your message)

* Make sure you include an opt-in form to collect visitors' names and email addresses — offer something useful, like a free subscription to a monthly newsletter or a free report that's loaded with useful information

Whether you decide to teach yourself a bit of HTML and design your site yourself, or hire a web designer to do it for you, your goal is not to confuse your visitors, but rather to draw them in and lead them step by step through your sales process.

Make it EASY for them to purchase, and they will!

Step #4: Use the 'Net's top search engines to drive tons of targeted traffic to your site

Now that you've got your site built, it's time to start selling. But how do you get traffic to a brand-new site? The answer: search engines!

Over 90% of Internet users start with free search engines when they're looking for information online, so you want to make sure your site ranks as high as possible in their listings.

There are two ways to use search engines to drive traffic to your site: Using pay-per-click (PPC) programs like Google AdWords and Yahoo Search Marketing, and getting ranked in the "organic" search engines. You're going to want to start with PPC, as it's the best way to start driving IMMEDIATE traffic to your site.

Once you have some paid traffic coming to your site, and you've figured out which keywords are performing best, you'll want to optimize your web pages for those keywords so that your site starts showing up in the organic search engine results as well.

Step #5: Tap into secret sources of cheap (and even free!) traffic

As an online marketer, one of your most important assets is your reputation. People need to know who you are, and why they should trust you!

So how do you "spread the good word" about you and your business to the far corners of the Web?

Easy! You can:

* Give away free, expert content! Write a series of short, informative articles packed with useful information and tips, and submit them to online article directories. Include a brief bio and a link back to your website at the end of each one.

* Issue press releases about your business. This is a great way to announce a new product, or report on exciting developments in your industry — and it'll drive traffic back to your site.

* Become an active expert in industry forums. Find out where your target market hangs out, and share your knowledge with them by posting knowledgeable replies to their questions... and remember to include a link back to your site in your signature!

Sending all this great information out — with your name and website URL linked to it — will also help you get a better ranking in the search engine listings, since every site that posts your content will link back to yours. Search engines LOVE inbound links from relevant sites, and they will reward you accordingly.

Step #6: Use the power of email marketing to keep in touch with your visitors... and turn them into buyers!

I hear it all the time: email marketing doesn't work anymore. And when I hear that, I just laugh... because it's not true AT ALL. In fact, according to PostFuture, 82% of online buyers have made at least one purchase in response to an email promotion.

It takes an average of four to seven contacts with someone before they will be comfortable enough to buy something from you, so you need to stay in touch with your visitors and build a relationship with them.

Email marketing is the ideal way to do this. You can show your subscribers you really know what you're talking about and make them feel comfortable enough to make a purchase.

Plus, you can stay in regular contact with your existing customers and keep them informed of new products you have to offer!

Step #7: Grow your business by selling new products to your existing customer base

It's a little-recognized fact that at least 36% of people who have purchased from you once will buy from you again IF you follow up with them. That means one-third of your customer base is just waiting for you to offer them something new!

You have already cultivated a relationship with your customers — you have put in the time and money to get their attention, establish credibility, and close that first sale. That's by far the most difficult part — not to mention the most expensive!

(Think of all the planning, advertising, and promotional activity that goes into getting those initial sales... )

But once you've acquired those customers, you want to develop their "lifetime value." An old marketing adage says that 80% of your sales will come from 20% of your customers.

This means backend selling and upselling are your best bets. You can:

* Offer products that complement their original purchase

* Send out electronic loyalty coupons they can redeem on their next visit

* Include an offer for related products on your "Thank You" page

* Sell affiliate products that complement your product or service

By staying in regular touch with our customers and letting them know about new products we have available, we were able to increase our revenues by over 30%!

Step #8: Harness the power of affiliate programs for hands-free traffic... and sales!

Once you have a profitable business on your hands, you should always be on the lookout for new ways to grow it. And one of the best ways to do that is to launch your own affiliate program.

Affiliates are people who promote your products on their web site for a cut of the selling price. Every time they send you a buyer, you pay them a commission.

With an affiliate program, you have the power to exponentially increase your income. Think of it... You don't have to go out and spend any money on advertising because your affiliates do the advertising for you... and you only pay them when they make a sale. You can't lose!

Final thoughts

This is a very brief overview of everything that's involved in growing a successful online business. It's impossible to go into very much detail here, of course, but I wanted to review the key steps of our proven system so you can confirm whether you're following the right path in your own business-building efforts.

If you'd like to know more about these steps — including detailed information on EXACTLY how to implement them, as well as scores of free and cheap resources to help you do so — check out the brand-new 2007 edition of my best-selling Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet course.

It's packed with the hottest-performing tips and strategies that have been exhaustively tested and retested by my team of experts — in order to guarantee that we're delivering the best possible information to you.

And because we've done all the "grunt" work research, it means you can stay focused on growing your business!

I've also included a ton of bonus materials, including my private "Rolodex" of 267 must-have Internet resources, how to use Google AdSense to increase your profits, and much more.

You can find out more about it here. Be sure to check it out!
___________
This article by Derek Gehl has been published with his permission.

2007-02-21T17:25:00.000-05:00

Explode Your Business With Viral Marketing!

by Justin Blake, CEO ViralShock.com

Creativity.
This is one virtue a site must possess to lead the race in the ruthless competition in the Internet based business. With so much competition and rivalry going on, every method of marketing must be employed and utilized.

It doesn’t matter if you have a killer product or a fantastically designed website, if people don’t know that you exist, it doesn’t matter, and you are not going to make it big. Worst of all, you business could just get killed.

While there are so many methods and schemes used by so many e-commerce sites today, there are still some of those that can help you with an extra boost in the popularity ratings. One of these is the so called Viral Marketing.

While the term Viral easily depicts a virus, a word very much dreaded by all computer owners, it is not what it seems. You do not actually use a computer virus to spread your business; on the contrary it just might kill you. Everyone has had enough of all those pop up ads and spyware.

Viral Marketing Overview

Viral Marketing also known otherwise as Viral Advertising is a marketing technique used to build the public awareness of one’s product or company. They use many forms of media to reach out to the public without actually promoting the product by riding on in other forms of addictive means that could get a person hooked and be obliged or amused to actually pass it on, with the product or company advertisement along with it. I

n a nutshell, companies ride on the idea that if people like the content of a media they will pass it on to their friends and family. They sponsor the certain media, such as a cool flash game, funny video, amusing story and such, which one may pass on to another with the company brand or logo or the products description or any other content to help promote the company or its product.

Viral marketing has become a popular means of advertising and marketing because they are relatively low cost. To avoid being tagged as spam mail, viral marketing counts on the eagerness of one person to pas on the product. If a person sees the name of the person they know as the sender, they won’t block it and open it as well.

Many companies offer incentives such as discounts and rebates when they help in spreading their viral marketing. They rely on the number of recipients a viral marketing gets from one person in determining the amount or number of incentive they can be attributed with.

Using Viral Marketing to your advantage

The main and foremost advantage of viral marketing is that you get a lot of publicity and public awareness about your site and your company. You get to generate a flow of traffic that are potential customers. With a little ingenuity and imagination, plus some incentives or prizes, you can reach out to a great number of people and announce your existence.

Most sites and companies are catching on to the effectiveness of Viral Marketing and Advertising. Not using it could kill your business. Along with other schemes and methods in promoting your site, like Search Engine Optimization and such, viral marketing could easily push you ahead in the rating games.

Viral Marketing could be a sneaky way to get people to know about you and your company. You get them to pass your advertisement along. They are also very low cost that not investing in it could be downright a business suicide. All it takes is a great idea, a good addicting game, a funny story many ideas are still out there. Create gossip or a buzz. Many movies are promoted by using scandals and gossips to make them more popular. Remember the movie “The Blair Witch Project”?

Many big companies have tried viral marketing and have had many success stories with it. A classic example is Microsoft’s Hotmail. They were the first known big company to utilize the scheme and it has worked wonders for them.

Now it’s your turn to use viral marketing to work wonders for you. Act now and reap the benefits Viral Marketing will provide for you and your sales figures.

- Justin Blake, CEO
---
Justin Blake one of the web's foremost experts in Viral Marketing. He has recently created a brand new viral marketing resource to help online business owners radically increase their profits and subscriber base, and you can find out more about this incredible resource here:

==> http://www.cc-ebiz.com/introduces/viralshock-001.html

2007-02-16T16:33:00.000-05:00

How to Make More Money With Information Products Than Ever Before By
Using Three Powerful NO COST Tools

By Jimmy D. Brown of “Small Reports Fortune”

It’s all under your control.

If you sell information products and want to make more money with them, there’s good news:
It’s all under your control.

That’s right, you can make more money with your information products simply by doing something that you have the power to do.

It’s not dependent upon anyone else. It’s up to you.

Let me explain …

While there are a lot of different aspects of selling information products, there are really only two ways to make more money with them …

Sell More Refund Less

Really, it’s pretty much that simple.

In order to make more money with information products youneed to either SELL MORE or REFUND LESS.

Or, better still, do BOTH.

Now, in the many years I’ve been selling information products, I’ve found there are three powerful tools that will help you do just that.

You can use these three tools to SELL MORE by using them on your classified ads, solo mailings, sales letters, autoresponder messages and virtually any sales tool.

You can also use these three tools to REFUND LESS by applying them to the information products you create.

Care to find out what they are?

Read on …

*** Three Powerful Tools ***What makes these tools so powerful is a combination of important benefits

* They don’t cost a penny to use.
* They work over and over again.
* They are under your control.

In fact, you already have them.

These three powerful tools are WAYS TO USE WORDS.

Tool #1. Education. When it comes to information products, nothing comes close to the power and profitability of educating your readers.

I’m talking the distance between the planet Pluto and the computer screen you’re now staring at.
Not even remotely close.

Content is king. Nobody else gets to wear the crown or sit on the throne. Content rules the land of information products.

So, first things first, you gotta give your readers information that educates them. You gotta teach them something.

Do this in your promotion tools (ezine articles, reports, sales letters, etc.) and you’ll have readers thinking “This person knows something … I better take a closer look.”

You’ll SELL MORE.

Educate customers in your information products and show them how to produce results in their own lives and you’ll make them happy, satisfied customers.

You’ll REFUND LESS.

Tool #2. Entertainment. To be completely honest, it’s not enough to solely provide content. Even if it’s good content, that won’t always get the job done.

Think of it this way: your high school civics teacher provided you with (too much) content in a single 55-minute class, but would you really buy anything from him?

Maybe a hall pass or a set of earplugs, but that’s about it. :o)

Nobody likes to read BORING content. We turn off boring television programs, we fall asleep reading boring books and we keep our credit cards tucked firmly inside our pockets when we read boring sales letters, ezine articles, solo mailings or special reports.

Make it fun. Make it entertaining. And you can do that by using …

* Illustrations
* Funny stories
* Analogies
* Outrageous statements

I once wrote an article entitled “I’ll Swallow A Live Grasshopper If This Doesn’t Boost Your Website Traffic”.

Do you think anyone read it?

Ask yourself this: would YOU like to read it?

We love to have a good time, and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t apply that reasoning to your writing.

Keep readers interested as they consume your promotion materials by entertaining them.
You’ll SELL MORE.

Help customers enjoy reading page after page of your product by entertaining them.
You’ll REFUND LESS.

When you add entertainment to education, you’ll make more money with information products …
… faster than you can say “ “LIVE GRASSHOPPER.” :o)

Tool #3. Emotion. Whether it’s outrage over an injustice, excitement over a success or piqued interest over a possibility, our emotions drive us.

Few decisions are based on intelligent analysis, but rather on emotional response. Few actions are based on accurate data, but rather on impulsive feelings.

We are emotional people. And there is no stronger proof of that than to watch what we do and to listen to what we say.

Your job is to get us emotional. Fill us with hope. Empower us. Give us courage. Motivate us. Issue a challenge. Inspire. Get us to do something.

That’s what we really want. More than education, more than entertainment – we want someone to compel us to do something to make our lives better.

And the power and profits go to the ones who can do that.

Fill readers with hope and expectation with your marketing materials.

You’ll SELL MORE.

Give your customers confidence and enthusiasm as they read chapter after chapter of your information product.

You’ll REFUND LESS.

*** Conclusion ***
If you want to make more money with information products, then you CAN do it. You’re in charge. It’s under your control.

Education.
Entertainment.
Emotion.

Three powerful tools that lead to incredible profits.

But, only if you use them.

Some will read this article and discard it like they have done with countless others.
And some will get busy.

I think you’ll be one of the few who will make more money.
Prove me right.
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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of "Small Reports Fortune" - if you can write 7-15 page small reports, you can earn a living online working just a few hours each week from your home.

Look for his EXCLUSIVE formula "Creating A Six-Figure Income With Small Reports" at
http://www.cc-ebiz.com/tracker/srf-001.html

2007-02-06T19:14:00.000-05:00

Page Redirects - Marketing Tips

Page redirects are very useful for a website owner and can solve several types of problems.

1. Use a redirect page to cloak your URL links and hide your affiliate or referral ID.

Using a redirect page for this purpose also has a secondary benefit of driving more traffic to your website. Instead of using a promotional link which goes directly to the affiliate or other site you are promoting, you now get the traffic count applied to your site. This additional traffic to your site improves your site ranking (Alexa).

When redirect pages are used for these purposes, you can upload the redirect pages to your domain and save in a folder. For these examples, I will use folder names such as:

Recommends
Presents
Introduces
Tracker

The link below represents what the original link may look like:

http://www.widgets.com/cgi-bin/ref.cgi?r=xxxxxx

Below is how the URL looks as a redirect link. You can see that the referral ID is no longer visible to the viewer.

http://www.yourdomainname.com/recommends/widgets.html

For those who may be less familiar with HTML, create a redirect page using the HTML Refresh meta tag. Copy and paste the meta tag below as a HTML Insert into a page in your favorite HTML editor. Replace the complete URL within the meta tag with your own referral URL. For this example only, save the file as widgets.html (you can use any file name you want, but the redirect link filename must match).

Upload the redirect page to your domain and folder where you want it to reside. Then use the redirect link for all of your promotion links in your ads.

2. Use a redirect page to track your promotional ads.

It is imperative that a marketer test and track all of his/her promotional ads to determine which ads work and which ones do not work. External tracking sites such as TrackThatAd.com can be used, but for those who have a website, it can be done with redirect pages which can have some advantage.

You can set up a redirect page for each ad source with a code so you will know which ad source is giving you the most hits. Normally, your webhost stats will show this type of information. You can keep a record of each ad link and compare it to the webhost stats. This concept can be used instead of using an external tracking site. I have used external ad tracker sites, but you lose the additional traffic count for your site that redirect gives you. Setting up a redirect page dosen't take much longer than setting up a link in a external tracker site. All you need to do, once you have a redirect page, is load up a previous page, replace the referral link with your new referral link and save it under a new name.

The procedure for setting up a tracking redirect page is the same as #1 above. For tracking purposes, I like to use the Tracker folder and the URL looks similiar to this:

http://www.yourdomainname.com/tracker/xxx-001.html

where "xxx-001" represents the redirect filename. The "xxx" represents the name or abbreviation of the promotion product and the "001" represents the ad source. For example, xxx-001 might represent an ad for widgets you have placed in an ezine, and xxx-002 might represent an ad for the same product placed in another advertising venue. To be able to analyze the results of your tracking, you can record (in Notepad or on paper) the xxx-001 type numbers with the promotion product and the ad source for reference. Your webhost stats should show how many hits you get for each link.

3. When you rename a page or move a page or site from one directory location to another, this results in a change in URL for that page or site.

Whenever you change a page's URL, you can put a redirect page in place at the old URL. Users may have bookmarked the old URL or other web pages may link to it. Without a redirect page, users following links to the old URL will get a 404 (Page not found) error. A redirect page will automatically route the user to the new location, as invisibly as you desire. This redirect page must be uploaded to your site with the same filename as the originial page and saved in the same folder where the originial page resided.In this case, you may want your redirect page to provide a message to the viewer. If not, the simple meta tags shown in #1 and #2 above can be used. Below is sample redirect HTML code which can be copied and pasted into your redirect page. Be sure to change the links and messages to match your needs.

The above meta tag must be inserted between the and the end of head tags .

We have moved! Please update your bookmarks! If you are not automatically redirected to the new address in 5 seconds, please go to http://www.newlocation.com/page.html

The above meta tag must be inserted between the and the end of body tags .

In the "meta http-equiv tag" shown above, the content attribute indicates how many seconds (in this example, 5 seconds) before the user is redirected to the new location specified in the URL attribute. Three to five seconds is recommended on all redirects so the users are made aware that the page has moved and have time to read the short message displayed. Zero second redirects are not recommended if you want your users to update their bookmarks.

This concludes my marketing tips on Page Redirects. I hope it is informative to those who are not familiar with HTML redirect methods.

You can find more marketing tips at my Marketing Tips Newsletter at this link:

http://www.cc-ebiz.com/newsletter/mt-current.html
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Conley Stallard
conley@cc-ebiz.com
www.cc-ebiz.com
www.cds-enterprises.com

2007-01-25T18:36:00.000-05:00

Mini-Sites -- Highly Targeted Sales Generators

By Shelley Lowery

If you're looking for a highly effective method of increasing your Internet sales, then mini-sites may be your answer. Mini-sites are one of the most effective marketing tools online. Not only are they effective, but they're also very inexpensive and easy to create.

The concept is simple. Create a one or two page website that completely focuses on one specific topic. Everything within that page should have one purpose -- getting the visitor to take action.

This page should be neatly designed in standard HTML with no Flash or fancy plug-ins and very few graphics. There should be no banners or outside links of any kind and nothing that will distract your visitor's attention.

The sole purpose of a mini-site is to attract highly targeted traffic. The more targeted the better. For example, if you have a website that sells a number of products, a good mini-site would focus on one specific product instead of all of the products. You could create a mini-site for each product you offer.

Designing Your Mini-Site

Each mini-site you create should be optimized for that one specific product. Concentrate on just a few keyword phrases, as this will help you to tighten your targeting. Remember ... the tighter the targeting the better.

Title - Your "Title" should contain your most important keywords. You've probably heard that before, but I've found a slightly different method for optimizing the title. Since mini-sites focus on just one product, place the "most" important "keyword phrase" first. Not just your most important phrase, but the keyword phrase that you think people will use when they do a search. Instead of capitalizing the first letter, type it in lowercase, as most people type in all lowercase letters when searching. This will assist you in ranking higher in the Search Engine for your targeted audience.

Description - Your description should focus on one specific product and not generalize. Make sure you include your most important keywords towards the beginning of your description. In addition, make sure your description describes your site in detail. You want your potential visitors to know exactly what you're offering. Your description should be less than 200 characters.

Keywords - Concentrate on just a few keyword phrases.

Heading tags - Search Engines pay close attention to the text displayed within the "Heading" tags. Place your most important keyword phrase within a "Heading" tag.

Graphic Alt tags - Place a readable keyword phrase within your graphic "Alt" tags.Text - All of your text should focus on your product. There should be no filler text whatsoever. It should have one specific purpose -- getting your visitor to take action. Make sure you include your keyword phrases throughout your text.

If you'd like to set up your mini-site using tables, try to place your "Heading" text above your "Table" code. If this isn't possible, make sure you include your keyword phrases within your top left "Table cell" to assist you in ranking higher in the Search Engines.

Mini-sites are not limited to just your products. They can also be used with any affiliate programs you may be promoting. You can include extra incentives such as a free bonus for purchasing the product or even your personal recommendation. This is a great way to presell the product.

Hosting Your Mini-Site

Although it is much better to have your own domain name, these sites can be hosted on a free server and still rank high in the Search Engines. Keep in mind, free sites do not build trust and credibility. No matter which option you choose, make sure you place your most important keyword phrase (the keyword phrase that you think people will use when searching) within your web address.

Drive Targeted Traffic to Your Site

Once you have tested the effectiveness of your site and have a good conversion rate, (the number of visitors compared to the number of sales) you can buy targeted traffic. Goto.com is the number one pay-per-click Search Engine and will most likely produce the best results.

For additional options, visit: http://www.payperclicksearchengines.com/ They provide information and reviews on a number of pay-per-click Search Engines.

The key to using this technique effectively is to bid on "very" targeted keywords. This will weed out the casual visitors and only attract your target audience. There's no sense in paying for visitors who really weren't interested to begin with.

In addition to bidding on keywords, you can also advertise in targeted ezines and even purchase some targeted banner advertising. Be creative and take the time to test all of your promotions prior to spending a lot of money.

If you really want to increase your sales, create some mini-sites. They are one of the cheapest and easiest to create profit generators online.

Copyright © Shelley Lowery

About the Author:

Shelley Lowery is the author of the acclaimed web design course, Web Design Mastery. http://www.webdesignmastery.com/ And, Ebook Starter - Give Your Ebooks the look and feel of a REAL book. http://www.ebookstarter.com/ Visit Web-Source.net to sign up for a complimentary subscription to Etips and receive a copy of the acclaimed ebook, "Killer Internet Marketing Strategies." http://www.web-source.net
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This article is published with the permission of the author.
You can view one of my mini-sites at: Push Button Sales Letters

2007-01-21T09:15:00.000-05:00

Valuable Internet Marketing Tools to Build and Promote your Web Site

Author: Joshua Spaulding
Email Address: josh4info@yahoo.

If you have not yet began to build your website and you do not have any knowledge of html then you will have to find a good website builder. There are many tools on the market that will create a website for you like Dreamweaver and Frontpage. My favorite is Dreamweaver; although it can be pricey it will do just about anything you want to do as far as code and design. You can go with free website creators but I have learned that the cheaper they are the less they offer. If you are serious about your web site you owe it to yourself to make the investment and get going on the right track.

Once you have created your site you will need to market it. When creating pages it pays off to create keyword-optimized page. In order to this you will need to know what popular keywords to target. There are several great tools that you can utilize to do this like inventory.overture.com, which will tell you the number of searches done on a particular keyword for the last month. You can find many more such tools but doing a search for keyword selector or keyword tool.

If you have began your research on website promotion then you probably know that submitting articles that you have written to article directories is the best may to get your links out there for the SE's to find. In order to do this you want to submit your articles to as many article directories as possible. The way I do this in order to save a lot of time is by submitting my articles on autopilot to articlemarketer.com They do offer a free submission that submits to a limited amount of directories but it can still be very valuable. You may also stumble upon a program that submits articles for you. These programs can be valuable but they take a lot of work in order to get them set up and going.

Lastly the most valuable tool any Webmaster can utilize is posting and reading in forums. If you can find valuable forums like warriorforum.com you will find more information and learn more about Internet marketing than by any other form of research. These forums are used as a hub for advanced marketers to get together and learn from each other. Although many are advanced they are open to 'newbies' and provide an invaluable source of knowledge.

Joshua Spaulding is an author and webmaster of http://ez-onlinemoney.com where he gives free training on how to Make Money Online. Joshua also owns a Quality Article Directory at http://www.articlesarea.com

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2007-01-21T08:54:00.000-05:00

2007-01-13T18:19:00.000-05:00

"The Basic Dilemma Of Internet Marketers That You'reProbably Struggling With Also -- And What To Do About It"

By Marlon Sanders

There's a basic dilemma all Internet marketers face:

Learn the new methods that get better results

Versus --

Do the basics that you know work.

If you want to make maximum profits, then you need to
learn and use the latest methods on the one hand.

On the other hand, if you want to make maximum profits,
you have to DO things and FOCUS. You can't learn every
thing and do everything.

It's a classic double bind.

If you spend all your money and time learning new things
to get better results, then you don't have time to DO the
things you know work.

At the same time, if you spend all your time DOING, you
often miss out on the easy profits created by newer, more
state-of-the- art methods.

This puts internet marketers in a real time crunch because
a person can't do both -- learn all the new methods
hitting the market practically weekly AND also DO what
needs to be done to make a profit.

What's the solution?

I call it breathing. It's a natural rhythm. You learn.
Then you do. You learn. Then you do.

If you get stuck in learning and don't do, you won't make
the most you can. And vica versa, if you DO but don't
learn, you'll spin your wheels and quite possibly not
succeed.

In my case, I'm devoting this whole entire year to
implementing just one new SYSTEM of thinking in my
business.

I started on this system one year ago. And I let myself
get quickly sidetracked last year. I decided that this
year, I want to take the one concept and fully and
completely implement it.

I talk to some marketers who just don't know what they're
doing. They REALLY need to learn more. They need to learn
about writing copy, graphics, doing surveys, finding
markets and product creation.

On the other hand, there are MANY marketers who HAVE been
in this business 3-5 years and know all the basics and
some of the advanced stuff.

Yet, they just don't get products out. They don't get
promos done. They get caught up in the paralysis of
analysis and don't do ANYTHING.

That's why the natural rhythm of money is to learn and do.

Learn and do. If what you DO doesn't work, it's time to
LEARN some more. But if you haven't DONE what you've
LEARNED, it's time you focus on DOING for awhile.

A lot of people get stuck on that point because DOING is a
pain in the tail end a lot of days. You ALWAYS are going
to be afraid of making mistakes. You are ALWAYS going to
run into frustrations and things that don't work right.

It's ALWAYS going to take longer and be harder than you
THOUGHT.

But the people who succeed can tolerate the PAIN OFACTION.

It's easy to sit back and learn. I love it. But DOING means
you run into obstacles and things that don'twork right.

It means you're confronted with the details of learning
programs. It means you'll screw up and make mistakes.

Worse than that, it means you'll DO things that don't work!

For every 1 thing that WORKS, you'll likely try TEN that
don't.

And I don't care WHO you are. If someone denies that, they
either don't have much experience, they're lying or they
aren't honest with themselves.

I remember discussing this whole topic with Corey in times
past. I would think I was the only one who had such and so
thing not work right. I'd talk to Corey and find out tha
the'd had the same exact issues.

It made me feel a little better that I wasn't the only one
in the world who had things that didn't work as I anticipated.

I hope this article gives you a little more clarity on the
fundamental dilemma of Internet marketers and puts you on
the path to greater profits.

Marlon Sanders
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Marlon Sanders is the author of "The Amazing Formula That
Sells Products Like Crazy." If you'd like to get on his
mailing list and receive tips, articles and information
about online marketing: CLICK HERE

2007-01-07T12:35:00.000-05:00

A New Friend, Letters Written, Well Chosen Words...

Dear Friend,

The year was 1996. The month was June or July if I recall
correctly.

I was on the road speaking in two cities a weekend on the
topic of Internet marketing with my friend Jonathan Mizel
and my new friend (at the time) Declan Dunn.

It was a sweet gig. We'd speak in a city on Friday. Drive
to another city. Speak again. And on Saturday night we got
to go see the city.

Things that stand out in my mind are rainy days in Seattle
and buying coffee at a coffee stand in the parking garage
at the Seattle airport. (I dare say the ONLY coffee stand
in an airport parking garage in the U.S.)

The taste of Chicago sticks in my mind because it's a
spectacular event.

New York was a city I was scared to speak in but later
loved because the people are wonderful.

I could go on and on about St. Louis, Miami, Nashville,
Boston, LA, San Francisco, Cincinatti, and many other
cities with great memories.

Anyway, the point is, my new friend Declan Dunn heard my
speech on how to write sales letters 4 or 5 times.

Before you know it, he'd whipped up his very own pithy
sales letter for his product.

One night in my hotel room when we were hanging out he
asked me what I thought of it.

In no uncertain terms, I told him it was a wreck. And
why it was a wreck.

Next weekend he showed it to me again.

It was better. There were a few tweaks needed.

Next week, my eyes popped out.

He came back with a letter to die for that sold great guns
after he put it up on his web site.

That was the last time I ever critiqued or needed to
critique a letter for Declan. In short order, he was
spitting out copy at furious rates as good or better than
I could write.

I remember an interview with the late comedian Red Skelton
once. Talking about up and coming comedians, he said, "the
cream rises to the top."

How true that is. Dec went out to consult with American
Express and other big name companies. Today he is a very
in demand seminar speaker for good reasons. Basically,
he's a hot shot marketer who gets paid big bucks just for
sharing the wealth of his knowledge.

I can't take ANY credit for his success. Other than I held
a light up and said this is the path you need to take to
make this letter sell your stuff.

What does this have to do with you?

I don't know how high you can jump or what altitude you
can soar to. But like Jonathan Livingston Seagull in the
novel by the same name, you'll never know how high you can
fly unless you try.

And it certainly helps if you seek out a little sage
advice along the way.

A few well-chosen words here or there about your sales
letter, marketing strategy or product idea could be the
catalyst you need to turn you from a green copywriter wet
behind the ears to an in demand pro that gets paid
thousands of dollars to tap out a few words on a keyboard.

I wish I had a lot more Declan Dunn's and Jim Edward's to
talk about.

Maybe you are one of them. If you are, lemme know by
Going Here.

Best wishes,
Marlon Sanders

P.S. If writing sales copy is a major struggle for you as it once
was for Declan then you need to: Click Here

2007-01-06T18:23:00.000-05:00

Are you up to speed on blogs?

Conley Stallard here with another marketing tip.

Did you know you can set up a free blog on
Google's blogger.com? You don't need to know html,
and you don't need a web site. You can get a free
blog account at: www.blogger.com

Did you know blogs can be a simple way to drive
traffic and earn affiliate commissions?

Did you know that blogs are a good place to have
links to your own website? This increases your
link popularity and improves page ranking.

Did you know that blogs are a good place to make
money with Adsense ads?

Here's a link to some blogging information that
can help you get up to speed and even start your
own blog.

Check it out HERE!

Now that you know where you can get a blog at
zero cost, you just need to know what to put on
it to generate traffic and sales.

That page can help.

Conley Stallard
C & C Internet Marketing
www.cc-ebiz.com

2007-01-04T11:42:00.000-05:00

Finally! A Winning Formula for Making Money on the Web!

Review of: The Amazing Formula
Reviewed by Robert G. Gardner, Ph.D

Sure, you should know better, but how many times have you been a victim of the "too good to be true" syndrome? I know I'm not the Lone Ranger when I'm on the receiving end of those 'Secrets of Getting Rich on the Internet!' e-mails that line up in my inbox. They show up almost every day, with screaming subject lines that are rich with promise:

Absolutely Guaranteed!
Surefire Success with Internet Marketing!
Easy Money through Web Selling!
And on and on.

Sometimes I blow these messages away instantly, without even thinking about it. Other times my curiosity (or boredom) gets the better of me and I open the file, follow the links, and spend a few minutes reading the hype. Then I go away disappointed. Lots of sizzle, but I'll have to pay a lot more if I want to taste the steak. If it's there at all! I've quickly reached the point where I don't know who to trust or what to believe. If it looks too good to be true, we're told over and over again, it probably is. Sound familiar?

But, if you're like me, you're more than half serious about making money on the Internet. You may have little more than a web page and a desire to earn more with your computer. Yet, up to now there's been no real plan, no method to the madness. So you keep on searching for 'secrets' you can use, a little bit from this 'guru' and a little bit from that one. All the while, you're wishing for that no-nonsense, soup-to-nuts system that really works. One that's built from successful experience and that covers all the bases. No illusions, no bottled smoke, no 'magic bullets'.

Call off the hounds! The search is over.

I just discovered Marlon Sanders The Amazing Formula that Sells Products Like Crazy. This carefully constructed, gem-packed e-book is the first common sense, how-to system on web-based product marketing I've seen yet. And believe me, with all those spam e-mails coming across my desktop, I've become an expert on what doesn't get it done for me!

First off, Marlon makes no assumptions about his reader's online sales know-how. And he offers no guarantee that his system will make anybody millions from selling products on the web. What he does produce is good, solid guidance (and there's plenty of it) on cutting through all the crap and getting down to business on the Internet. It's a "roll up your sleeves and do it" system that's worked for others in the same boat I'm in. If I follow the formula, I'll increase my odds for success. With a money-back guarantee. That's all anybody could ask for!

Just like a friend talking to you from across the dining room table, Marlon speaks with passion and conviction about a subject he obviously knows a lot about. And he shatters every myth the so-called 'experts' have led me to believe about selling products on the Internet. Here's the biggest myth: Web marketing has to be complicated. It's not rocket science, Marlon tells us at the outset. Then again, he adds, rocket science isn't what makes you money.

No deep diving is required to get these pearls. Every step in Marlon's truly 'amazing' formula is powerful in its simplicity. Here we have a ready-made cookbook for making money online, covering every aspect of web-site marketing. The whole lifecycle of the marketing process is completely and clearly described for you, including how to: understand the important Internet money equation for implementing the formula, obtain hot product ownership, write the killer sales letter, get and build a list, generate leads, create repeat business, and increase your sales ratio.

It's all there, in easy to digest sections that flow so smoothly you actually want to read on and get to the next step. Marlon's system is packed with real-life examples, quick-hit lists of reminders and action items, and links to web sites for more information on a topic he's discussing. Need information on franchise laws The book gives you the URL to click to and get the data immediately. The amazing formula's got it covered. How about a mailings program? A web site is served right up.

Bottom line: The Amazing Formula that Sells Products Like Crazy really works. It promises an 'amazing' formula for success and then delivers it to you in a way that will excite anyone looking to taste that steak behind the sizzle. This is a must-read for e-business entrepreneurs interested in learning from a pro at web-site marketing.

--Robert G. Gardner, Ph.D

Dr. Gardner writes professionally and, as such, was compensated for preparing this review.
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More information on The Amazing Formula is available here.

2006-12-23T14:58:00.000-05:00

A chance meeting, a strange twist of fate, lives changed!

I was on stage in Boulder, Colorado at Jonathan Mizel'sInternet marketing blowout.

You know, sometimes you just get in a zone. And that year, I reckon I was in one.

Zip back in time two weeks before.

I was sitting in a movie theater watching a flick on screen that initially I didn't want to see. You see, it wasn't in English and you had to read subtitles the whole movie.

But everyone raved about this movie. The social proof was overwhelming. So there I sat.

Eyes glued to the screen.

Mesmerized.

The movie was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

And the most important part of the movie was the end. It left you breathless in more ways than one.

Fast forward 2 weeks. I'm back in front of the room of Jonathan's seminar. Doing a rendition of all the stupid marketing mistakes I've made in my life.

And talking about the path to becoming a marketing Ninja.

Mixing that with flying through the air like they do inCrouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

Well, not exactly. When you're 6' 4 1/2", you don't exactly fly through the air. It's a speech that is now infamous.

Anyway, the audience was in total stitches. Falling on the floor laughing. That was ALSO the speech in which I revealed that Sandford Wallace told me over dinner he gets his best ideas in the shower.

Come to find out later, a LOT of people get their best ideas there.

Anyway, in the middle of the speech, two people get up and walk out. They thought it was the worst speech they'd ever heard in their lives!

For others, they sat mesmerized. I got a standing ovation for what it's worth.

Later, out in the hall, I was talking to a guy. I guess you could call it a chance meeting.

We chatted a bit and I told this person (I don't remember the conversation in retrospect) that all they needed was self confidence. They had all the talent they needed.

I could tell this from a brief chat. He had all the talent in the world. All he needed was confidence.

Later that person became a really, really well-knownInternet marketing -- one of the best.

His name I'm proud to say is Jim Edwards.

For the record, I'm NOT taking any credit for Jim's success, other than that I was at the right place at the right time with a word of encouragement a very talented person needed.

Now, what if Jim hadn't gone to the seminar? What if he'd not spent the time or the money. What if he'd not gone because "the speakers sell products and do pitches" (God forbid THAT anyone should sell anything at a marketing seminar...the GALL!)

But Jim Edwards took a chance. He went. And Jim would tell you that a chance meeting and a few well-chosen words in the hall changed in his life that day.

I swear Jim'd tell you that if'n you asked him.

Thing is, that speech wasn't video taped. There's no record of it. You know, at seminars, often the most important things don't happen on stage.

They aren't video taped.

They're the people you meet. The things you hear. The things you say to others.

I'm pretty much an ordinary guy. Not much different than you other than I only work about 30 minutes a day most days, depending on what you call work.

I spend my time doing what I personally enjoy. Which is reading and learning. I'm not a millionaire (I don't work hard enough for that.) But I make more money than most.

But I have a good life. And a good living. I have control over my fate. Freedom to do the things I want. And a few good friends I've met along the way.

This is a good business.

I recommend it to you.

Best wishes,
Marlon Sanders

P.P.S. In a strange twist of fate, Jim has given me some GREAT ideas for my
business. What goes around comes around.

If you want to get your hands on some GREAT ideas for your business,
just CLICK HERE.

2006-12-18T10:27:00.000-05:00

"Your Computer Could Be Infected With Adware

And Spyware Right Now!"

If any of the following apply, then you could have malicious spyware or adware programs on your computer right now...

You have downloaded music online

You have downloaded attachments from your emails

Your PC is running extremely slow

You are pestered by those irritating popup ads

Your homepage keeps changing

Your computer is acting "funny"...

Dangerous spyware or adware can attack your computer while you are surfing the Internet and can do the following...

Cause your computer to crash without warning

Steal your identity

Record your keystrokes, obtaining your Credit Card Number, Bank or retirement information

Obtain account information, or other personal financial information and send it to criminals on the web

Record and share your documents, emails, and Instant Messages.

Remove Dangerous Infections from Your Computer Now!

2006-12-03T16:13:00.000-05:00

How much of a genius do you have to be?

Dear Friend,

Ever wonder how much of a genius you have to be for your marketing know
how to pay off for you?

Here's a story that reveals the answer.

Today I ran into the lady who runs my local computer repair shop.
"That banner you told me to put up WORKED! I've gotten 5 jobs from it just
this week," referring to the big yellow banner outside the shop reading "Virus
Removal Experts."

Now, actually, the headline I gave her was along the lines of "Viruses
Removed -- Guaranteed!" Or something like that.

But what she's running is working, so I ain't tellin' her to change it any time soon.
Flash back in time to 3 weeks earlier. We were talking about how she could get
more customers.

Drawing on my vast storehouse of marketing wisdom, I inquired, "What's the
#1 best seller you got around here?"

"Virus removal," she snapped back.

"See that blank spot on the sign out front? Will they let you put anything on that?"
She replied with a skeptical tone, "Well, you'd have to PAY for that. But they will
let me hang a banner up."

Being the marketing genius I am, I replied, "How 'bout you put somethin' up there
on a yellow banner...like your viruses Removed -- Guaranteed!
"...or perhaps....Viruses Removed in 48 Hours --Guaranteed.
"Or...Free Virus Analysis."

I spouted off some blatantly obvious stuff like that anyone with any knowledge
of and skill in headlines whatsoever coulda come up with.

Anyway, she put the yellow banner up with the relatively lame "virus removal
experts." And it paid off in spades.

"Next time you come in, your repair is free," she offered generously.
Now, you may be thinking that all the money you spend on ebooks, courses and
so forth is a waste if you don't start a business.

Look at it this way.

You can get a lot of free stuff like computer repair, drycleaning or whatever...
Just by having the most basic, simple understanding of marketing.

Anyway, I popped by later and showed her how to run an editorial style ad
dropping into a hotline followed up by a series of letters ala Dan Kennedy/Jeff
Paul model.

Again, this ain't rocket science stuff.

You shoulda seen her eyes light up.

Then I came up with a back end for her since her profit margin is horrible.
And if you've studied headlines a little and know just the basics of lead
generation, you pretty much coulda done the same.

How much of a genius do you gotta be to come up with aheadline like:

"What will YOU do when your wife, kids and friends see P-O-R-N popup
on YOUR computer? We get if off FAST! Guaranteed. Or it's free."

See, all this marketing stuff might end up not bein' awaste for you after all.

Fact is, with a little direct response knowledge, you can appear to be a genius
to a LOT of businesses.

Best Wishes, Marlon Sanders

P.S. If you think I'm a genius for coming up with the stuff above, you need to go
through the Cash Like Clockwork System.
Check out: http://getyourprofits.com/z/269/CD23517/

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2006-11-20T15:01:00.000-05:00

7 Secrets To Make Money Using Nothing Other Than Your List

Author: Brian Lam
Email: marketing@powerlistgenerator.com

An opt-in list can be quite crucial to any website. Even for a small venture such as a niche profit site an opt-in list can make a world of difference and also add some extra income for your pocket. Rarely would you see an e-commerce site, big or small, that is without an opt-in list, especially a responsive one.

An opt-in list allows for a company to market their wares and site via an e-mail. With an opt-in list, a site and a subscriber consents to sending and receiving a newsletter from your company. Through this, you can keep your subscribers abreast of what is currently available in your site as well as whatever is coming out.

And because there is mutual consent between the two parties, any mail sent to the list is not considered as spam mail. There is a great number of successfully read promotional materials such as catalogs, newsletters and such that are sent because the subscribers themselves have signed up for them, meaning, they do want to be sent those items.

Building an opt-in list is crucial, only a small percentage actually subscribes for an opt-in list. Many people find promotional mails annoying but of you provide a good newsletter or promotional material, you will see your list build up and grow. You can also achieve this by having good content on your site. If people like what they see and read on your site, then they surely would want more. Newsletters would be a way to attract them back to your site. A little teaser or appetizer if you will.

But other than marketing your wares and your services, an opt-in list can also be used to earn extra profit. Not all lists can be used though. It would be good to first build a successful list with a huge number of subscribers. The more subscribers you have, the more money you can get.

Here are the seven secrets to make money using nothing other than your list.

1) Place advertisements. There are many corporations who will be willing to pay to put their banners and ads on a list with many subscribers. Selling or renting out lists is not a good idea so rather than doing that, many companies would just rather place ads with lists that have a huge subscriber base. Your newsletter could be placed with many ads and each one spells money.

2) Have affiliations with other companies that have at least a semblance or relation to what your site is about. Here other companies will provide links and brief descriptions of what they offer, products and services. With every click made on the link that directs or leads a subscriber from your list to their site, the company will pay you. This P4P or pay for performance.

3) Make deals with other companies by asking for a small percentage of sales done through your list. With every sale done by customers that have come from your list and have gone there because of your newsletter, the other company will pay you a small percentage of your sales. The more people who buys from them, the more earnings you get.

4) You may also get products from other sites on a consignment basis and sell them to your list via your newsletter. Place descriptions, articles and photos of the product in your newsletter. There will be those who will buy from you and when that happens, you can order the product from the other site and sell it to your buyer.

5) Sell e-books or a compilation of your articles on your list. Manuals and how-to articles are in great demand. Many people will be willing to shell out money to gain knowledge about a certain topic and subject. With your existing list trusting your expertise in that area, an e-book could be offered and sold or used as an incentive.

6) Create a network out of your list. Get people to invite more people to view your site and subscribe to your list. The larger your list is, the more people will be able to click on your links and affiliate links as well as make your advertisement rates higher.

7) Subscribers are willing to pay for information if they know that it can be trusted and relied upon. Use your list to get more and more people to subscribe to you as well as browse your site. Lastly, you can use your list to earn money by making them your partners. Your list will be the bloodline of your growth and increase.

Brian Lam is an online marketer with experience ranging from affiliate marketing, traffic generation to viral list building. Discover how Brian Lam is going to show you how you can boost your opt-in list by up to 1133% immediately with his proven techniques. Now at: http://www.powerlistgenerator.com

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2006-11-08T16:01:00.000-05:00

SEO Help: Why You Might Need It

Author: Scott White

Email Address: swhite@personalpowertraining.net

You open your internet browser and enter: SEO into the search box. In a nano-second you are provided with thousands of results for SEO. SEO tools, SEO books, SEO software programs, SEO consulting firms, SEO forums, SEO website developers, and more. Your head begins spinning with so many choices before you. Especially considering that the success of your business is largely dependant upon choosing the correct SEO procedures for your website. It can be hard to make heads or tails from it all.

At first glance SEO and all of its strategies might seem to be nothing more than just common sense, and how hard could that be? But in actuality, many of the strategies involved in search engine optimization can be difficult to implement in order to benefit your website and your bottom line. It is for this reason that you might need help with the SEO of your website.

It is so easy for those who are inexperienced with search engine optimization to make a mistake that costs their website the high-ranking it needs to generate traffic crucial to high sales, or worse, get their website expelled from search engines. There are those out there on the internet all too eager to lead an unwitting newcomer to the world of internet marketing astray. They happily skip off with your money, while you scratch your head in disbelief. Save yourself from having this happen to you by getting the SEO help you need to optimize your website.

Someone with comprehensive knowledge about how search engines work and what exactly a website needs to meet the requirements for listing and positioning among search engines can ensure your website is meeting those requirements. These experts also know what to do to beef up a website with straight-forward SEO, for websites that would otherwise fall short of the requirements of the search engines.

SEO experts are your #1 resource for information about the newest SEO strategies, services, and software programs coming in to use in the marketing industry. The knowledge you can glean from these experts can save you countless hours of searching for the answers you need about search engine optimization and from wasted dollars on materials that are not necessary.

Most webmasters are busy enough making sure the warehouse is properly stocked with product and fulfilling orders, without the added burden of finding the time to properly monitor all of the things that are involved in the SEO of a website. The last thing you want as a webmaster is to get buried under the avalanche of reports that are produced from using various SEO strategies so that you're unable to use that information to better your bottom line (sales.) Having someone help keep you on-track by organizing, and monitoring the results reported, pays a big dividend in the headaches and missed opportunities to increase sales and profit that won't happen because you have competent help on your side.

The question you should be asking yourself at this moment isn't why you might need SEO help, but when are you going to get the SEO help you and your business deserve? You can find reputable SEO consultants and firms to help you with optimizing your web site online. Ask them to give you a complete proposal of how they can help you with the SEO of your website. Make sure they can show you success stories from other clients and go with the ones who have had the best results with search engine optimization.

Scott White is an SEO specialist that has designed a program to teach you how to rank your website: http://www.seotutorialprogram.com Scott has been consulting big businesses how to rank their websites at the top of the search engines.
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2006-11-03T10:01:00.000-05:00

What's Holding You Back From Your Internet Business Success?

Author: Kevin Riley

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

How relevant still today are the wise words of Mark Twain. Many a person who longs to become a successful Internet marketer never even gets started. They put of taking the first steps to building their business -- day after day. They read all the e-books, listen to all the audios, watch all the videos ... and do nothing.

They suffer from prepare-itis -- the debilitating syndrome that holds back many a wannabe Internet marketer. Why is there such a paralysis amongst new marketers? What keeps them from making the move? From putting into action all the preparation they have done?

== Does Fear Hold New Marketers Back? ==

Fear can be a factor in preventing new marketers from taking that first step. It is a big step into the unknown. There is fear of trying. Fear of failure. Fear of ridicule.

It takes a lot of courage to start your own business. You are stepping away from the security -- even if it is false security -- of a steady nine to five job. You are stepping into a maze of unknown practices and terminology -- things you have never been exposed to before.

You are taking a chance of failing -- not making any money or, worse, losing money. You also set yourself up for ridicule from family and friends. They can't understand your desire to be an entrepreneur, your need to build a business of your own. Some are not ready to face you leaving them alone in their hum-drum work-a-day world -- they may envy you.

== What Is The Biggest Obstacle To Online Success? ==

The biggest fear that can stop most would-be entrepreneurs from taking that first step, is the seemingly overwhelming mountain of work to building a business. Whether it really is a mountain or not, when you first plan to start a business, the tasks can be perceived as a mountain of unsurmountable heights. Suddenly -- in your mind's eye -- you are looking at Mount Everest.

As you get ready to build a business, as you read more and more e-books, you come to see more and more tasks that you believe need to be done to get your online empire on its feet. Stacked one on top of the other, these tasks resemble a great wall, built to separate you from your goal.

== How Can You Break Down The Wall? ==

So, take Mark Twain's sage advice -- break that wall into its individual bricks. Then start! Take one brick at a time, down from the wall, deal with it, set it aside in the "Done" pile. Don't look at the wall, focus on the brick you are working on now. Notice how light the brick is ... how easy it is to move it out of your way.

Before you know it, you have moved a considerable pile of bricks and the wall is not so tall anymore. You can start seeing your goal on the other side.

By breaking a large overwhelming task into small manageable tasks, you soon conquer the monster. Before you know it, a large number of tasks are done and you come to realize something fantastic -- you have started your business!

== What's The Game Plan? ==

Sit down, right now! Take a look at that monster you have to tackle. Write down the steps you need to take. Break them down as much as you can. Now make your "To do" list.

Each day start with the first unfinished task on the list and complete it. Cross it out -- there's a psychological victory every time you cross off a task. As the number of crossed out tasks grows, it's like that pile of bricks you've taken out of the wall.

Steadily tackling one small task at a time is how you will create a successful money-making online empire. Remember another wise old saying -- "Rome wasn't built in a day!"

Kevin Riley is the Mission Leader at Internet Marketing Force (IMF). Discover what you need to do to get started on your successful online business. Apply for your own free Pre-Mission Briefing today, at http://missionmakemoneyonline.com
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2006-10-25T10:53:00.000-04:00

How To Test Your Copywriting Skills in the ClickBank Marketplace Without a Reseller

Author: Ron Jones

If there is any skill that is indispensable to the web marketer it is copywriting. Regardless of how much traffic you can bring to your site, if the words on the page do not convince your prospects to buy your product, or sign up for your mailing list, it all means nothing.

So many webmasters overlook this critical component of a successful site. However, it is one that is easily corrected. A complete course in copywriting is outside the scope of this article, but to point you in the right direction, I would suggest that you start with "Tested Advertising Methods" by John Caples, followed by "Web Copy That Sells" by Maria Veloso.

Once you are comfortable with the fundamentals of copywriting, it's time to test your new skill. I have discovered a simple, yet brutally accurate way to measure your progress.

Go to the ClickBank marketplace at marketplace.clickbank.net and choose a product you'd like to promote. Then, if you haven't already done so, go ahead and sign up for a ClickBank Affiliate ID.

Next, create your landing page somewhere on your site, and write your sales letter. If you really want to get creative, write two versions of your sales letter and use your tracking software to conduct an A/B split-test between the two.

In order to test the effectiveness of your letter, you'll need to send people directly to ClickBank's purchase page. Although it isn't advertised, ClickBank has provided a way for you to do this. Your purchase page link will look like this:
ITEM.AFFILIATE_VENDOR.pay.clickbank.net

Where the item is the item number of the product that you are promoting. Find this number by clicking on the vendor's purchase link, landing on the ClickBank purchase page and viewing the source code in your browser. You are looking for a line that says:
(input type=hidden name=item value="item#") where item# is a number.

So, to recap, you've got the Item number, your affiliate ID, and the vendor ID (if you don't know the vendor id, go back the the source code above and look two lines up from the item number for the vendor ID). Now put them all together to create the purchase link above.

There is a caveat here you must be aware of; this method does not embed your affiliate commission, so if the purchase is not made right there, you will not get the credit.

Track the number of visitors to your sales page, and the number of sales that you get credit for. In this manner, you'll be able to judge the effectiveness of your copywriting skills.

Create sales letters instantly with this amazing tool http://www.ronprefers.com/isl-a1

Ron Jones is the owner of http://www.internetprofit101.com
A free Internet Marketing resource that cuts through the hype and shows you how to succeed online.
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2006-10-24T16:08:00.000-04:00

The Right Headline Makes All the Difference To Your SEO Results

Author: Mark Nenadic

Believe it or not, even though you may be targeting search engine spiders when you search engine optimize your website, when you are writing your content, the best technique is still to write as you would to appeal to an actual human visitor. This is just as true when it comes to your headlines as it is for the rest of your content.

This is the case because not only will you improve the search engine ranking because of the relevancy issue that is being considered by the latest algorithms utilized by the big search engines especially Google but also because your site will attract much more relevant visitors. When it comes down to it, one relevant visitor is worth the same as a thousand visitors who click to your site, and then quickly click away without taking a look at what you have to offer, or, more importantly, making a purchase.

By appealing to the people who will be visiting your website, you'll bring the right visitors to your website, and then your conversion rates will naturally improve.

To write an appropriate heading, you first need to know how to use your heading tags properly. The truth is that you can actually have as many headings as you want, but it is the first heading, "h1" that will really make all the difference when the visitors actually arrive at your site and read what you have to say.

Search engines look at the heading tags as an indication of what a given page is all about. Therefore, if your site heading has not only been search engine optimized with the right keywords, but has also been written in a way that it is relevant to the actual page, then you will achieve a much higher ranking.

All of the big search engines actively search for headings within the content of your website. When your headings are placed within heading tags, the search engines know where to find the information that they want, and you'll have told them directly what your web pages are all about.

Don't try to fool a search engine, however, by trying different manipulative techniques such as placing all of your text into a heading tag, or creating a heading that uses the right keywords, but doesn't actually make any sense. The search engines have been designed to identify this kind of abuse, and will not reference your site the way you'd like it if you try to tamper with the way your headings are laid out. In fact, the big search engines will actually ignore headings altogether if they detect misuse. Worst of all, you may even be blacklisted as a spammer. Therefore, it really is in your best interest to put a real heading into the heading tags.

The next step is to know exactly what you will be using as your heading. The best technique is to identify the best keyword phrase for the page you're working on. It is also a good idea to phrase the heading in a way that encourages site visitors to continue reading your content so that they will progress to the rest of your message, your requests to visit other parts of your site, and ultimately to make a purchase.

One good technique to encourage people to continue reading is to write in a tantalizing way, such as with a question that applies to the reader, so that they will want to know the answer or result of the statement. You may also state your heading in the form of a problem, where you claim that the rest of the article holds the solution. This is especially good for having the right kind of visitor spend time at your site, because the people who relate to the problem which, naturally, your product or service can solve will continue to read the page. Finally, you can also appeal to a person's curiosity in your heading by using techniques such as numbers such as "The 5 Ways to" and teaser terms such as "The Secret to".

By using these techniques to create targeted, functional, and powerful headings, you'll find that not only will your search engine ranking rise, but so will the number of targeted visitors arriving at your doorstep.

Mark Nenadic
Mark is the director and face behind 15Degrees-North http://www.15dn.com where you will find articles and resources to help with Search Engine Optimisation, Internet Marketing and Web Design.
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2006-10-23T08:08:00.000-04:00

A Few More Ways To Improve Your Adsense Earnings

Author: Gaetane Ross

If webmasters want to monetize their websites, the great way to do it is through Adsense. There are lots of webmasters struggling hard to earn some good money a day through their sites. But then some of the "geniuses" of them are enjoying hundreds of dollars a day from Adsense ads on their websites. What makes these webmasters different from the other kind is that they are different and they think out of the box.

The ones who have been there and done it have quite some useful tips to help those who would want to venture into this field. Some of these tips have boosted quite a lot of earnings in the past and is continuously doing so.

Here are some 5 proven ways on how best to improve your Adsense earnings.

1. Concentrating on one format of Adsense ad. The one format that worked well for the majority is the Large Rectangle (336X280). This same format have the tendency to result in higher CTR, or the click-through rates. Why choose this format out of the many you can use? Basically because the ads will look like normal web links, and people, being used to clicking on them, click these types of links. They may or may not know they are clicking on your Adsense but as long as there are clicks, then it will all be for your advantage.

2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Choose a color that will go well with the background of your site. If your site has a white background, try to use white as the color of your ad border and background. The idea to patterning the colors is to make the Adsense look like it is part of the web pages. Again, This will result to more clicks from people visiting your site.

3. Remove the Adsense from the bottom pages of your site and put them at the top. Do not try to hide your Adsense. Put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between Adsense locations can make when you see your earnings.

4. Maintain links to relevant websites. If you think some sites are better off than the others, put your ads there and try to maintaining and managing them. If there is already lots of Adsense put into that certain site, put yours on top of all of them. That way visitor will see your ads first upon browsing into that site.

5. Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your Adsense code in a text file, save it as "adsense text", and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then using SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.

These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. It is important to know though that ads are displayed because it fits the interest of the people viewing them. So focusing on a specific topic should be your primary purpose because the displays will be especially targeted on a topic that persons will be viewing already.

Note also that there are many other Adsense sharing the same topic as you. It is best to think of making a good ad that will be somewhat different and unique than the ones already done. Every clickthrough that visitors make is a point for you so make every click count by making your Adsense something that people will definitely click on.

Tips given by those who have boosted their earnings are just guidelines they want to share with others. If they have somehow worked wonders to some, maybe it can work wonders for you too. Try them out into your ads and see the result it will bring.

If others have done it, there is nothing wrong trying it out for yourself.

Gaetane has thoroughly researched the Internet to locate the best High Income Business Opportunities that will enable you to start making money from your own home. http://4instant-online-business.com http://affiliates.4instant-online-business.com http://4instant-online-business.com/pips.html
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2006-10-22T12:40:00.000-04:00

Online Auctions for Stay at Home Moms and Dads

Author: James Lowe

If you are a stay at home mom or dad you may be getting the urge to do something more with yourself to start a career addition or change. You may want to make more money while staying at home with the children all day.

One of the best ways for any stay at home parent to make money is by using online auctions.

This may sound a bit far fetched, but it is a fact that seven hundred fifty thousand people have turned eBay alone into a full or part time job. Further, there are many people who have become millionaires by using eBay to buy and sell many different items. If you work hard and smart at it, you can be the next moneymaker in line for the profits that are being made everyday of the week.

Some say it cannot be done but they are dead wrong because many moms and dads are making full and part time incomes working the business.

At this point you may be wondering how you can make money doing this. This is something that a lot of people still have not tried or done yet.

Using old auctions with a dramatic new twist to make money is quite simple. You list items for sale, wait for other people to bid on them, or purchase at predetermined prices.

In order to get started with this you will need to have items that you can place into the various online auctions to sale at competitive bids. There are different ways that you can get or make these items.

1. To find items to sell, at first, you may want to become a regular at garage sales, flea markets and sometimes estate sales in your area. At these events you buy items for cheap prices, and then turn around and sell them for a large profit.

This is one option that a lot of stay at home moms and dads opt for when looking for items that they can sell on eBay and other auctions. Many people fall in love with this method and just make their money this way because they like the dickering for prices at the garage sales and flea markets.

2. Another option to consider is making your own products, and then listing them for sale. There are people who like to make their money this way exclusively.

For instance, some people make crafts such as candles and then list them for sale. You may not think that there is a large audience for this type of thing, but there are many people that make a lot of money doing just that. Once again, this group of people is another happy niche making their income with auctions.

3. Many stay at home moms and dads can get their start using this method by selling items that they have laying around the house. Many people are surprised that they are able to sell old clothes in good condition.

Chances are that your garage or attic is full of junk, especially old games, dolls and formerly popular items that you no longer use. Others want these items badly. I bet you can think of old items right now that you would like to buy for yourself from high school or college.

Just because you think that the items you have are junk does not mean that somebody else will. Many people have old major sports collector cards that auction buyers are desperately wanting for their own collections.

By just selling items that you have in your home you may be able to get your start in this fascinating business. With the money that you initially make, you can then buy more items and get better and better at your selling skills. Pretty soon you will notice that your profits are growing.

4.Your next step would be to take an online course with one of the two or three major, high quality online auction trainers on the internet. Two of them are women. One offers an ongoing course for about forty dollars a month. Sometimes you can get in when she is offering a special for as low as twenty dollars a month. It is worth the price.

Another dynamite lady, no exaggeration here, who was the teacher of the lady above offers an excellent course for about a thousand dollars over about an eight week time span. They both will work you hard but you will be a very knowledgeable and proficient online auction buying and selling mom or dad if you carefully do everything she says.

One final note. Almost all other trainers for this field on the internet are duds. I recommend only the two above. eBay has certified trainers also that will cost you less and they are qualified. The two above are the best of the best though. Always ask or look for references. No exceptions.

James M. Lowe writes original articles, press releases, e-books, blogs and websites about home business opportunities. http://www.contenttomarket.com/ArticleWriters/
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2006-10-22T11:33:00.000-04:00

Search Engine Optimization Made Easy For Beginners

Author: Karin Manning

If you are a small business looking for affordable, economical and effective SEO strategies and techniques to get a high ranking in the search engines then you will be pleased to know that there are a few very simple things you can do to boost your search engine ranking.

There is one critical first step that you must follow when creating any website. This crucial first step involves picking the best keywords for your on page optimization and the only way you can decide which keywords will get you the highest rankings for your website is by doing some research.

Your first point of call must be at one or all of the following online keyword research tools:

http://www.goodkeywords.com (Alexa)
http://www.digitalpoint.com (Alexa)
http://www.overture.com (Alexa)
http://www.wordtracker.com (Alexa)

All of these tools are free (there is a free trial for Wordtracker); however, where Wordtracker differs from the other websites mentioned above is it shows you how competitive your keywords are compared to other websites. The higher the KEI analysis number the less competitive the keyword phrase is and the easier it should be to get a high ranking with that chosen keyword.

Using the online tools I've mentioned above it's easy to find a few less competitive phrases that can be a good base for our on page website optimization.

It is also important to repeat the same research process by going to Google and seeing how competitive your chosen keywords are. I will start with the keyword and take a few minutes to analyse the number 1 website for that keyword on Google.

It is also critical to analyze what the page rank is of the number 1 website for your chosen keyword. Page rank is used by Google in ranking websites and generally the more links that you have pointing back to your website by other websites the higher your Google page rank will be. Download the Google toolbar for free to find out what your page rank is and the page rank of other websites at http://toolbar.google.com.

We will then create the right title for your webpage. It's absolutely critical that your webpage title contains ONLY your main keywords and as few keywords as possible. For example, millions of webpages actually have the word "welcome" and "home page" included in their title. Wrong! That's one perfect way to guarantee a very low ranking in the search engines and be doomed to failure.

Now this search engine optimization technique is ignored by many internet marketers, which is unfortunate for them because search engine robots read these tags and give them a lot of weight when listing your webpages. It is important to add header tags to your website, at the very least a heading 1 tag. It is also important to add your most important keyword into the h1 header tag. It is also advisable that your h1 tag be as far towards the top left of your webpage as search engines actually read your web page like most people read any page - from top left to bottom right of the page. So it is important that your h1 header tag appears at the very top of the page.

It's time to work on the content of your webpage. It's recommended that you have at least 250 words on your page because the fact of the matter is that search engines don't read your whole page. If they don't see much information early on on your webpage they're not going to stick around to find out where it is. The bottom line is the shorter your page the less important search engines are going to think it is and you will be penalized for it.

Place your main keywords at the top of your page content and repeat it throughout. Of course, they must make sense. Search engines are not stupid. They know when a webmaster is just trying to include the phrase as many times as possible.

Another effective method for getting a higher search engine ranking is after completing your web page copy going back and highlighting by either bold, underline or italics your keyword phrase once in the copy. Also having your main keyword in a bullet list also helps.

Just following a few of these very simple SEO techinques and strategies will greatly increase your rankings in the search engines, even if you're a beginner. To ensure you get the highest possible search engine rankings that you can it's absolutely critical that you spend a little time finding out search engine optimization secrets of the professionals. Fortunately affordable small business seo techniques and help is readily available if you know where to look.

If you are 100% serious about getting top search engine rankings on Google and other major search engines then you need to get over 130 pages of FREE Search Engine Optimization Secrets at http://www.Affordable-Small-Business-SEO.com today!
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2006-10-21T19:15:00.000-04:00

3 Simple Steps to Affiliate Survival

Every affiliate marketer looks for successful marketing techniques that earn the biggest paycheck. Unfortunately, there is no magic formula readily available for them. The answer actually lies in good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.

There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and are continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing industry of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing world.

What are these three tactics?

1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more. Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do for the user.

Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure to obtain permission first to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website on additional pages. Make the pages attractive and compelling. Include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to read more, even to contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and they will want to know more.

2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page never to return. By sending useful information to their inboxes at certain intervals, you will remind them of the product they looked at and may be grateful for another chance to buy. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word "free" because there are spam filters that will filter this kind of content before anyone reads it. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not purchase your products and services.

3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. If the person who visits your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. Target the publications that are focusing on your target customers and they will send visitors to ypur site that are specifically interested in what you are promoting.

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day. Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, which means you can make 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above do not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

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2006-10-21T09:53:00.000-04:00

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2006-10-17T08:41:00.000-04:00

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One of the quickest and the easiest way to generate extra income is through affiliate marketing on the Internet. You do not even need to stock your own goods or merchandise, you simply sell other people's products, goods or services and in return, receive commissions by doing so. It is even possible to get started on affiliate marketing without having your own merchant number for credit card transactions nor your own website; however, having your own website is highly recommended.

Basically, affiliate marketing is simply promoting a company's products, goods or services on the Internet and by doing this online promotion of company products and services, the website owner gets commissions! There is no need to have a brick and mortar store to showcase the products.

Additionally, setting up an online affiliate business is a lot easier compared to a regular business. Moreover, there are several affiliate networks and affiliate program directories on the Internet and the number increases every day.

Signing up as an affiliate marketer is easy, you simply go to an affiliate network or affiliate program directory to sign up for a partnership that fits your website's area of focus. Major affiliate networks like ClickBank or Commission Junction literally have thousands of affiliate programs in all sorts of categories that you can think of.

You can also promote affiliate programs directly by using Google Adwords. With Google ads, you can literally start a product or service promotional campaign within 30 minutes! However, advertising with Google Adwords is getting more and more expensive as there are many people doing the same and there is so much competition.

Beginner's Tips and Techniques on Successful Affiliate Marketing

1. Focus on a Specific Niche. Make sure that your website content is specifically targeted on a particular product or service niche in order to gain targeted web traffic. By doing this, you can then join all the affiliate programs related to your specialized niche. You can research on focused niches by performing searches on Yahoo!, Google or MSN. A good starting point is NicheBOT, it is an excellent resource and indispensable tool that can help you verify appropriate and specifically focused areas. NicheBOT has tools to research and pinpoint market niches for your website.

2. Provide a Solution. Do not simply engage in affiliate programs; make sure that the one you are promoting provides a solution to the client so that you will have repeat sales. Regardless of the demographics of your target market, the product or service you promote must penetrate and sell in the market in order for you to earn extra income.

Make your own research and then create your own marketing strategy. Identify your target market, their problems and requirements and find products that will provide solutions to their problems. Make sure that the products you find are solution-oriented and have affiliate programs so that you can sign up as an affiliate. Choose affiliate programs that provide solid back-end support in the form of web content to make it easier for you to sell their products and those that allow you to embed your own website links.

3. Use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Judiciously. Create several mini-sites that focus on different keywords or keyword phrases to enable you to get free search engine listings and free traffic. However, do not simply rely on SEO ranking because it is becoming more complex. Stick to the basics and you will see your site's profitability gradually increase over time. Do not waste your money in establishing search engine ranking in a short time. SEO requires knowledge, effort and time.

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2006-10-16T15:13:00.000-04:00

The World's Most Powerful Marketing Model for Freelance Copywriters And Their Clients!

As a copywriter and copywriter's coach, it's my responsibility to offer powerful, on-target advice to my "mentees." For them as well as myself...and for you...I keep a keen watch on the world of freelance copywriting to pick up on changes and trends.I spent last month musing over numerous clues, statements, conversations, experiences, and purchased research pertaining to the business side of copywriting.

My conclusion? The world of copywriter marketing is changing rapidly ...thanks to the Web.

I built my site in 1998. Back then there were few copywriters on the Internet. For a long time, when you keyed "copywriter" into Yahoo, my site would come in at the top along with Bob Bly's and Ivan Levison's. I'm sure there were others, but these are the sites I remember.

With so few copywriters on the Web, I enjoyed a virtual cornucopia of new clients for about four years, until copywriter newcomers started pushing my site down and down and down...until even I didn't look for my site any more.

Like everyone else, I had to start driving business to my site, and as time wore on, it proved a marketing model that worked very well.

But I believe a radical shift is now taking place...

...one that implores you to forget thinking about your WEB SITE as the centerpoint of your marketing and make your FREE EZINE the centerpoint instead!

Why is this?

Because the ezine is emerging as one of marketing's most powerful...and inexpensive...and superfast... marketing tools ever.

Note that free ezines have been around for a long time. Note also that there are hundreds of thousands of them! And note that YOU are subscribed to at least one :)

In the early days of the Internet virtually everyone looked upon this new medium...the Web...as one would look upon an extra-terrestrial. It LOOKS powerful, but where does that power come from?

Companies started pasting their employees' bios on the Web until pirating ran rampant. Then they moved toward wimpy "online brochures." Now enough testing has taken place and enough time has passed to offer clear direction on what works, what doesn't, and what wins.

And guess what wins?

You guessed it...the ezine!

Knowing this, I've gone from suggesting that my coaching students create a highly-targeted, content-rich ezine (or blog), to requiring it.

My own experience with an ezine (thanks to my Freelancer's Business Bulletin subscribers), proves the power of keeping in touch with a group of like-minded people. Because I work hard to bring useful content to my readers, my list grows steadily and my unsubscribe rate is low.

That said, here's what you must know about marketing your freelance business in 2006 and beyond:

Today's business-building writer should select one primary marketing method and strengthen it with other marketing methods that suit their temperament, location, goals, and target market.

I used to believe that one should pick two or three favorite marketing methods and do them exceedingly well.

Now I believe that new copywriters who are entering the business at ground zero, with no name recognition in their marketplace, should use as many marketing tools as they can.

I still recommend direct mail as an essential marketing method because it's the only way to handpick your target audience...to know that the people you're reaching are of sufficient quality to deserve your time.

Your direct mailings and everything else you do...
participation in discussion boards, article publication, face-to-face networking, cold calls, public speaking, and so on...should drive sign-ups to your ezine.

And it's from your EZINE that you do your most effective...and least expensive...selling. Over time, as your ezine readership grows, you can abandon your time-consuming direct mailings altogether.

More evidence that the ezine is becoming the world's most powerful marketing tool...

While on vacation in Oregon I brought along some overdue reading. One piece was Part 2 of Clayton Makepeace's interview with the legendary Gary Bencivenga. They're discussing mailing formats, particularly that of the magalog.

Clayton says, "Everyone's looking for the next big format breakthrough..."

And Gary replies, "I really think it's here already. I think it's an e-zine. I'm finding that with the clients I'm a partner with, I almost don't want to do direct mail anymore. "

It's too tough to send a 24-page magalog to a prospect who doesn't know you. I don't think that direct mail will ever be dead, but rising paper costs, rising printing, and rising skepticism argue against people responding to cold mailings that are trying to sell them something right on the spot.

"I think these factors argue instead for an elongated courtship of an e-zine that is of great value, where the selling process starts more subtly, a lot more softly. Perhaps in the future, the most profitable use of much direct mail will be to drive people into an e-zine relationship."

Gary Bencivenga's take on the ezine only strengthens my long-held position that a free ezine should be an essential part of any copywriter's marketing toolkit.

Gary supports the age-old premise and marketing tactic that in lead-gen, you must lead your prospect down the path with high quality information that is valuable.

Here's another prediction:

The Internet will create more competition for the freelance copywriter.

This sounds scary but it's not. Direct marketers such as AWAI are reaching a vast market of people who want to transition from what they're doing now to a career with greater flexibility, freedom, and financial promise.

On the surface, it may look like lots of new copywriters are flooding the market...and they are!

But most target the obvious markets...the ones we can readily see...such as alternative health and publishing.

And yes, you will see increased competition in the obvious markets as AWAI and other programs create more and more entry-level copywriters.

But this is a perfect example of tunnel vision. You see what's before you...not what actually exists.

And that's one of the things I do for my coachingstudents... I show them how to find lucrative hidden "pockets" in traditional copywriting niches.

But it doesn't stop there.

I also show my copywriters how to discover exciting markets that other copywriters are unaware of...and under certain conditions, I can even show them how to CREATE their own niche markets!

So while it may seem that the market is flooding with new copywriters, the truth is that the new copywriters will flood only the obvious markets. The world of business is full of markets...hidden and not.

The Internet Has Made Marketing Faster, Easier, and Cheaper for Service Providers Such as Copywriters.

I have long marveled over the low cost of maintaining a Web site. Creating a presence in other Web venues (such as discussion groups and blog postings) is virtually free. You can write articles for free and distribute them online for free or at low cost. My own positive experience is proof that the effort to "show up" all over the Web is worth it.

And in a recent conversation with a successful nonprofit copywriter, I learned that email marketing can work well IF you have a reliable source for names and their email addresses.

To avoid spamming, you'll need to find lists where prospects in a target market have "put their names and emails out there," and would not be surprised by a cold contact coming in this way. If you're in a niche market that has associations, this is the most likely place to find such a list.

Local Clients Can be a Good Source of Income for the Beginning Copywriter.

I used to advise against targeting local clients because they usually want you to come to the office for meetings and to "pick up the check." It's a bad use of your time, that's true, but if you have a connection with someone local who you think would hire you, it's money in the door, experience, and a sample for your portfolio.

And no, they don't have to be in your niche market. You do want a "connection," however weak. I once did fun work for Oregon specialty cataloger Norm Thompson. While they usually don't hire freelance, they used me because I lived in Lake Oswego, which was a stone's throw to their Wilsonville location.

If You Have the Stomach, Talent, and Opportunity for Public Speaking, Do It!

It's one of the most effective marketing tools you can use. And because relatively few copywriters like public speaking (including me), there's plenty of opportunity to get before groups that are eager to hear what you have to say.

Board members are always looking for their next speaker. Believe me, you will be welcomed! Just be sure to avoid groups that have little to offer, such as groups of other solopreneurs.

In My Opinion, Networking is Equal in Power to Doing Steady Direct Mail Mailings to Your Target Market.

And that means both online and off. This is where you definitely do want to stick to your target market, especially in any offline efforts. It's simply too time-consuming to hob-nob with groups that you don't have a strong connection with.

It bears repeating...

Make sure ALL your marketing activities send people to your free ezine.

This is the model everyone is using...first it was the small guys, then the mid-size companies caught on, then

I saw Agora's Internet marketing model...now even the big guys are putting the ezine at the center of their marketing!

Just be aware that it takes "multiple touches" before you can expect to see your relationships turn into business. Some say to plan a minimum of nine touches, and for some copywriting markets, you may find that it takes up to two years of continued contact to gain the trust of your prospect.

THIS is why I now advocate using as many marketing tools as you reasonably can when first starting out...touch as many people as possible, always driving to your list...then touch your own list with frequent mailings (at least once a month), while staying in front of your audience in as many ways as possible.

When I say "use as many marketing tools as you reasonably can," I don't mean use everything at your disposal. We're all human and we have time limits.

If you try to use every marketing tool at your disposal you'll dilute your efforts. Best to pick those that are right for you from your burgeoning "package" of possibilities.

This is one place a good coach can help you accelerate your success...by showing you how to create a customized marketing plan. Copywriters are akin to marketers...and smart marketers craft marketing plans that maximum their exposure both online and off.

Chris Marlow publishes a free newsletter for freelancers who want to land the high-quality, high-paying corporate clients. Visit:
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2006-10-16T14:16:00.000-04:00

How To Create Professional Squeeze Pages

As you already know, squeeze pages are created with only one aim in mind: to capture visitors and convert them to subscribers. However a little work should be needed to create a perfectly working squeeze page. You don't need to panic because I am here to teach you all that.

First off, there different types of squeeze pages and also they can have several uses:

1. If you have a newsletter, you can let visitors subscribe to your newsletter through your squeeze page

2. If you have got a freebies, you can tell the visitors that they need to subscribe to your newsletter in order to get the free gift. Here again, you use squeeze pages

3. If you have nothing to offer for free, then too you MUST create a squeeze page. Suppose you are selling a product for $150.You just put up a squeeze page then tell your visitors the main benefits of your product-and then tell them that to get more information n on the product, they need to fill up your subscription form.

You must highlight the main features of the product you are selling, but you shouldn't reveal all of it. Your aim is just to salt their desires and they will eagerly subscribe to your list in order to get more information about your product.

Now see what happens. Suppose out of 500 visitors,200 subscribe to your list and then view your main product sales page. Out of 200,only 50 people purchase your product. Now look at it, didn't you get the other 150 subscribers for free? Now see the scenario in a different light. What would have happened if you haven't used a squeeze page? If you wouldn't have used a squeeze page, you would have lost these extra 150 subscribers!

WHICH SQUEEZE PAGE WORKS BEST FOR YOU?

It totally depends upon your aim of using a squeeze page. If your aim is just to get subscribers for your list, a simple squeeze page will do fine. On the other hand, if your aim is to sell products, then a little craftsmanship maybe needed to craft it.

I also use squeeze pages when my sale is closed, so as to get subscribers who will be interested in my future offers. It's like getting future customers for free.

However, a squeeze page is much more than what you see on the surface. You need to add some elements to add to a squeeze page which will capture the visitor's psycho so that he is ready to get into your list.

Some of these elements are:

1. A short but bold and catchy headline

2. 3-4 bullet points which will describe a little bit about the product or free gift you are offering. In general, a squeeze usually only contains one paragraph of language that could be described as sales copy. In many cases, a squeeze page is simply an opt-in form that contains two or three sentences of copy inside of the actual form.

One thing that you should note is that you MUST treat your squeeze page as a part of your sales copy. You don't need you be a great copywriter to write a squeeze page, just be sure to craft your squeeze page with the same skills that you have used in crafting your sales.

3. A little bit of audio will further enhance the appeal of your squeeze page and if you are an expert, your audio will hypnotize the visitor so that he has no other way but to subscribe to your list. But again, don't over do it. Use it sparingly. Also audios don't work for everybody-if it works for me, it doesn't mean that it will work for you too. Test out every squeeze page. If you see that by adding audio, your conversion levels have dropped, then don't use it.

A good audio software that I always use and recommend is Web audio. It is like Midas's touch-even if your audio is otherwise not up to standard, this software add special effects to your audio so as to enhance its appeal.

HOW TO DRIVE TRAFFIC TO SQUEEZE PAGES

This is very important would recommend you use PPC ads because they work best with squeeze pages. I use and always recommend Google Adwords.

Now, in order for your squeeze pages to work properly with PPC ads, your squeeze pages need to be keyword rich so as to optimize the squeeze pages for Adwords. The more optimized your pages are, the less you will pay to Google.

You can use Overture's free keyword tool to get your keywords.

Arindam Chakraborty is an expert article writer and Internet marketer. Learn more about his email marketing tips and tactics by visiting: http://arinrecommends.com/

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2006-10-15T18:39:00.000-04:00

Free Web Site Traffic Will Not Blow Your Budget!

If you are looking for a way to grow your web site traffic without blowing your budget, perhaps you should look to the free traffic exchanges. Traffic exchanges are basically surfing membership opt-in sites on the web where they will display your advertisement or webpage to other members when they are surfing the site.

Traffic exchanges provide a free traffic and advertising method where a person signs up as a member and sets up a webpage URL to advertise his/her program or product. The traffic exchange will then rotate the URL webpage to its members based upon the amount of surfing you do. In general, traffic exchanges provide a ratio of 0.6:1.0 for each page surfed by a free member. This means that for every page you surf, you get 0.6 page credit for surfing. A few of them provide a 1:1 ratio for free members. Depending on the amount you surf, they may also credit you with bonus credits (i.e., 500 bonus credits for surfing "x" number of pages). Page rotations are timed and the time varies from 10 seconds to 30 seconds, depending on the traffic exchange.

Most traffic exchanges also provide a paid "upgraded membership" (a small monthly fee) which will give you a higher credit ratio and other incentives when you surf.

There are two other advertising tools provided by most traffic exchanges which are beneficial to a website owner. These tools are a referral link to the traffic exchange site and a Safe List advertising option.

1. If you promote the Referral Link, and others join the Traffic Exchange through your referral link, you will receive page view credits when your referrals surf.

2. You can utilize traffic exchange Safe Lists to send your email ads to the Safe List members of that traffic exchange.

You should know that both manual and auto-surf traffic exchanges are available to work with:

Manual Traffic Exchanges -- Manual traffic exchanges generally have a 15 to 30 second timer and you have to click on an icon or text area after the timer runs out to rotate to the next traffic exchange page for viewing. This is done to assure that the pages get viewed by the user. The manual traffic exchanges usually provide a better credit ratio per page than auto-surf traffic exchanges. Manual traffic exchange advertising will get a better click ratio on your ads compared to the auto-surf.

Auto-surf Traffic Exchanges -- Auto-surf traffic exchanges usually have a 5 to 15 second timer and the page views rotate automatically at the end of the timer run out. The auto-surf traffic exchanges usually provide a 0.6:1 credit ratio for surfing. The advantage of the auto-surf rotation is that the user does not have to click once or twice for each page viewed and more page view credits are accumulated as the timer is shorter and allows more page views per minute.

You can cut down on your surfing time by using a free multi-tabbed browser (i.e., Mozilla, Firefox, Crazy Browser).

Traffic exchange advertising may not be considered as "targeted advertising" (i.e., email and ezine advertising or search engine clicks), but it provides free traffic which will improve your site ranking and promotes your program or product at the same time.

Advertising with traffic exchanges is really simple once you start thinking of traffic exchanges as TV ads. You only have the viewer's attention for a few seconds, so your sales page must grab it and give them an action they can take. Some people say that traffic exchange advertising does not work, but traffic exchange advertising is only one aspect of promoting your site. A site owner should diversify site advertising into as many available avenues as possible and track the ads to see what is working best and adjust his marketing strategy accordingly.

Getting free traffic and free advertising through the traffic exchanges is certainly worth considering.
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2006-10-15T16:50:00.000-04:00

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The Butterfly Marketing concept has changed the lives and businesses of hundreds of people in just a few months. The Butterfly Marketing Manuscript provides the tactics and strategies of how to put this concept into action.

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"Mike - first off I just want to say thank you so much! The techniques I learned from Butterfly Marketing played a BIG part in helping me make $63,249 in sales in 24 hours!! As I write this I'm still finding it hard to believe. It seems a lifetime ago that the BFM package landed on my doorstep and I started poring over it with my smile getting larger and wider with each new insight as I realized that as long as I APPLIED what I was learning the principles were going to make something BIG happen! Little did I know just HOW BIG it would be when I launched AdSense Videos...AdSense Videos - 33 Hours After Launch..The site went live. My life changed forever - seriously the results have been incredible Mike - we've grossed over $200,000 in 7 days!! The site got an Alexa ranking on Launch Day of 351! AdSense Videos was ranked Number 1 on the ClickBank Marketplace in the Marketing category just 4 days after the Launch! I've also been getting, on average, one new subscriber every minute of every hour for the past SIX AND A HALF DAYS!!! So - What did I learn from you Mike and from Butterfly Marketing? Where to start! I think one of the biggest things was the step-by-step approach. Everything I created for Affiliates, Joint Venture partners and for people going through the videos themselves has been step-by-step. I made everything as easy as I could and 'muppet-proof' as I like to call it! I also realized that it's paying attention to the smaller details BEFORE launch that really pay dividends AFTER the Launch. And BOY am I seeing that! You gave some absolute gems of advice in Butterfly Marketing which have, without a shadow of a doubt, contributed in a big way to the overall success of AdSense Videos.

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