Friday, March 30, 2007

Imagine Yourself Pulling Cash From Your Internet Business - 4 Steps to Go

In this article you'll learn how to set up a wildly profitable internet business in seven days or less.

There are just 4 simple steps to set up an internet business. Once you've mastered these 4 steps there is no way you can fail in this world wide web.

Step 1 - Get Something to Sell for Huge Profits.

It is extremely important to have your own product or service that you can sell and keep 100% profits. It is extremely important to have your own products if at all you want to make some serious money on the internet.

You can sell products and services of other website owners by signing up as an affiliate. By doing this you are limiting yourself to earn a percentage of the sales of the product.

To get maximum benefit and make 100% profits you need to have your own products and services. It is extremely easy to have your own product and get started within days.

You can do this easily with the help of PLR products. With PLR products you get private label rights to the products that you purchase. That simply means you can do anything you wish with the product.

You can include your name in the product as if you have personally created it and sell the product for hundred percent profits. You can even modify the product the way you wish. In short you have complete rights over the product.

For the best return you should sell digital products in the form of the ebooks, softwares or services. Selling such products will give you the power to make approximately 95% profits.

Step 2- Design Websites that Helps You to Present Your Products and Services.

It is extremely important to design professional websites which will present your products and services. You also need good copywriting skills where you can provide killer benefits of your products to your customers and sell them through your website.

You can learn this designing stuff and save money or you would rather pay web site designers to do the work for you. There are many courses online that will help you to learn copywriting.

Step 3 - Web site Automation.

You need to learn how to automate your website. Website automation steps include learning how to set up your auto responders, your follow-up system, ad tracking system, payment processing system, affiliate management system, customer support ticket system, etc.

This will help you to automate your entire website and run your internet business hands-free. This will help you to make money even while you sleep, play golf or move around with your girlfriend.

Step 4 - Generating Traffic to Your Website.

You need to learn how to generate traffic to your website. There are many no-cost and low-cost ways that you can use to generate traffic to your website.

Some no-cost ways include search engine optimization, participating in discussion forums, writing and submitting articles and generating quality content for your website.

Low-cost tactics include advertising in pay per click search engines and ezine ads.

Make sure you apply these four steps and get your internet business started instantly. Whatever you do I wish you all the very best and success in life and business and may your internet business dreams come true.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Email Marketing in 2007

Email marketing has been in the past considered as the last method for product promotion but not anymore, thanks to skyrocketing online awareness and broadband penetration that has taken the internet to another dimension. More and more people across all ages and nationalities are coming to the internet and email has become for most of them a necessity. It is this growing number of online users that has drawn the attention of marketers all over the world who have been craving for new mediums with most of their conventional sources being either saturated or depleted.

The internet promises to be the medium of the future and if present conditions are any thing to be taken into consideration then more actions online are in the offing. The email is a person's online mail box just as the conventional one and has more features and options than the conventional one and the fact that this mail box can be accessed no matter where you are makes it everybody's necessity. Even before the penetration that we see today, email marketing did existed but based on different rules and criteria's. At those times marketers would rather send the same message to thousands of addresses without knowing whether the recipients are interested or whether they will be ever read. The allied applications are technology was rather primitive and they had no other comparatively better choices but to initiate mass mailing like carpet bombing without knowing who is the target.

Then why should go for email marketing if that's waste?

Gone are the days where you lacked the techniques and tools for email marketing and most importantly you can get quality and targeted addresses of people who are likely to respond positively. You can at least know what type of people and there preferences even though arriving at a sale is far more complex.

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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Using ClickBank To Find Winning Product Ideas Part 3

Now that you have all of the components listed above, I want you to write next to each one what it was about that particular component that made it appealing to you. This doesn't have to be a long drawn out description. Just one or two sentences that tell why you thought that component were a good part of the offering.

Now you have a list of the components of a winning product that got your attention specifically and you cause this as your blueprint to creating your own product. What you have essentially done here is reverse engineered the structure of the offer from the product that you analyzed so that you can use it in creating your own product. There is nothing better than creating a product based on a winning product idea.

Next, I want you to re-write the headline at the top of the page under the list you just created but I want you to "really" re-write it, not just copy it. This means I want you to write a new headline that is similar or uses the same structure as the original but customize it to the product that you have in mind that you want to sell. This is going to be your headline for your product!

The headline should promise something big just like the original does. You can actually use the same meaning and get the same point across in your headline, you just can't blatantly copy the persons headline because this is copyright infringement.

Now you have a headline that will power you to create a hot product and you have an outline of all the components that you need to create to have a winning offer that compels people to buy.

The next step is going to be creating your outline for "your" product. You can browse the letter you selected as your favorite again for chapter or content ideas and also use that information as seeds to go drop into Google and find more ideas to write on. Use a separate text document or blank sheet of paper and note down all of your ideas until you have enough to fill out your product.

There it is, the last in the three part series that teaches you how to use Clickbank to come up with winning product ideas with no work, no testing and no out of pocket expense.

The possibilities that lay within this simple system are endless. You can create an unlimited amount of products in all kinds of markets using these tricks of the trade.

If you haven't already, spend an hour or two coming up with your own product idea you know will sale using nothing but the power of ClickBank!

A final word of caution; Do not, and I must repeat, DO NOT copy anyone's sales letters or products; this is illegal and I don't support or recommend it. You can model success and create your own unique product but never steal someone else's

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

How to Create a Link Bait Program

As you go about developing a comprehensive program to increase traffic to your Internet business website, you likely are looking for those tools that can be most useful to you. To this end, you may wondering how to create a link bait. Indeed, a link bait can be very helpful to you in beefing up the volume of traffic to your Internet business website. Through this article, you are provided with an overview of how to create a link bait.

In simple terms, link bait is any content or feature that is included on a website that "baits" or attracts and draws people to place links to the particular website that is featuring this attractive content or feature. Using link bait oftentimes is a part of an overall search engine optimization program and plan. In very simple terms, link bait is anything that ends up being interesting enough to catch attention from other people.

Examples of link bait include placing links to a website within copy that is included within or placed on bulletin boards, social networking website venues and newsgroup websites. Many people have found this type of Internet marketing as part of a link building program to be very powerful and ultimately successful in increasing traffic to a particular website.

Some of the more common link baits include:

Informational Hooks: These types of link baits provide a reader with useful information which causes them to click on a link.

News Hooks: These types of link baits provide tidbits of news that motivate a person to click on a link.

Humor Hooks: By entertaining a reader, a reader many times will take the step of clicking on a link to see "if the story continues" at the referenced website.

Evil Hooks: The making of strong, negative or even harsh statements oftentimes can motivate a person to click on a link.

Tool Hooks: By providing access to some sort of tool that might be useful to a person, you oftentimes can motivate a person to click on a link.

By using these proven link baits, you likely will be able to develop a successful inbound link program that will increase the traffic to your website. Increased traffic will result in an increase in revenues and profits as well -- which is, of course, your ultimate goal when it comes to a Net based business enterprise.

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Monday, March 19, 2007

Customer Service - More Important Than Marketing?

When it comes to online marketing we tend to look at the relevant topics related to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and applicable marketing strategies. These strategies are designed to get online business noticed. They are also designed to deliver customers to your online store. The marketing strategy as a whole is designed to move your business from your mind and make it visible and accessible to others.

One of the problems with a continual focus on marketing strategies is to forget that you are dealing with individual members of the human family. We forget that these individuals have very specific needs. If we can sell a product or service to a client we consider our goal has been achieved when we may actually be ending the war at the end of the first battle.

What I mean by that last comment is today's most successful online businesses have a strong positioning statement on the role of customer service. These businesses adopt a policy that includes follow-up and follow through on all orders and every customer query. These businesses do not end the relationship once the sale has been made.

Businesses are beginning to understand the new role of online ecommerce. Online business is no longer in the driver's seat, primarily because most online stores are not the only 'game' in town. There may be a variety of online businesses that are similar to yours. In a self-evaluation of your business you need to discover what there is about your business that sets it apart from your primary competition.

The consumer is in charge of purchasing decisions and does not have to read any 'hard sell' advertising pitch you might place on your website. In a new world where the customer is master of your 'domain' you need to work in all ways to respond to their needs.

This may mean increased knowledge-based content on your site. It will certainly mean as personal a touch as possible and it will always mean you are careful, thoughtful and deliberate in following up with your customers.

One of the easiest ways to do this is through sequential autoresponders. These timely messages can go out at intervals of your choosing and can be filled with knowledge-based content, tips and money saving ideas for your client.

Online businesses need to see their customers more as business partners and less as disposable consumers. The days of hard sell advertising has given way to a much better informed consumer who is more concerned with how helpful you are before, during and after the sale than they are about the brilliance of your latest slogan or ad campaign.

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Sunday, March 18, 2007

Creative Ways to Get Inbound Links

Creativity is the key. When it comes to making a go of an Internet business enterprise, it is important for you to come up with creative ways to get inbound links. In this regard, this article has been prepared to provide you with creative ways to get inbound links for your Internet business website. By using these creative ways to get inbound links you will be able to enhance your business, increase your revenue and enjoy greater profits in not time at all.

There are a number of different creative and effective ways through which you can garner an increase in inbound links. Three important, creative and effective ways to get inbound links are itemized in this article for your general consideration and review. Indeed, you may end up wanting to implement a comprehensive program that utilizes all three of these creative ways to get inbound links.

First, people from all walks of life appreciate getting something of value for free. Freebies are great, when all is said and done. Therefore, one sure-fire method through which you creatively can obtain and enhance the number of inbound links that you have is to offer something interesting, enjoyable or worthwhile for not charge. Many people have found that this methodology attracts a significant number of new inbound links in a very short period of time. You need to keep in mind that this type of creative program does not have to be costly. You can offer some decent freebies that do not require a significant financial investment on your part.

Second, people like to win. On some level, this can be tied into the first creative way to get inbound links discussed in this article. You can develop a scheme and a program through which those who provide you with inbound links will be entered into some sort of contest. The winner of the contest can be provided with something that will be interesting, enjoyable or worthwhile. As with giving something for free in exchange for an inbound link or links, this program can provide a fantastic way of increasing inbound links in a very short amount of time.

Third, you can attract more inbound links creatively by offering your particular expertise in exchange for the inbound link or links. If you have a particular area in which you do have a special and sought after expertise, many, many people will be more than willing to trade an inbound link or links in exchange for gaining access to your wonderful expertise.

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Friday, March 16, 2007

How to Sell Other People's Products I

If you want to get started selling on the internet, it's a good idea to learn how to sell other people's products. That is called affiliate marketing and is a good way to test the water of internet marketing if you don't have a product of your own yet. Affiliate marketing is an extremely common way of making money online, and a few tips should help you on your way.

You need a website. You will find any form of internet marketing difficult without one, so you are best to start off there. There are lots of web hosts available, but find someone who has their own website and ask for advice, because there are good web hosts and bad ones. I use one costing me under $25 a month for everything I need, include web page design tools, email addresses, autoresponders, a checkout and credit card payment system and lots more.

Once you have a web host you will need a domain name for your website, but first choose your product type. If you want to sell only goods that can be delivered electronically, go to Clickbank.com who have the biggest range of affiliate electronic products in the world. Alternatively, have a look at what is selling on eBay or simply type 'affiliate programs' into your browser, and see what is available.

Having chosen your products, decide on your domain name, which should reflect the products you are selling. If your web host allows you more than one domain, or subdomains, you can add different domain names as you expand your range of product types. Most good hosts allow that.

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Thursday, March 15, 2007

Email, ISP, and the Headaches

Recently I received a support call from a customer who was not receiving mail from one of her partners. After some lengthy troubleshooting, we found that the partner's Internet Service Provider (ISP) was listed on some of the public SPAM blacklists. This actually came as a shock to us since the ISP is a very large telecommunications provider in the South.

Since customer service is our focus, we did not leave the issue as someone else's problem, we attempted to work with the ISP to resolve their problem. Try to imagine our shock when the ISP told us that they were aware of the issue, had no intention of resolving it, and were sorry for the "Inconvenience".

I tell this story because it brings to light one of the major problems with ISP's and their free add-on email services, but the story gets better.

We decided to use a pay for SMTP email service (SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transmission Protocol and is the electronic language used to move email throughout the Internet). We signed up with the service and configured the email clients to send mail to the new service. Once again we got shot down. The ISP was blocking all SMTP traffic through their connection that did not go to their server.

We finally resolved the client's problem with both a short term and a long term solution that did not require them to host their own email server internally.

What this has shown us is that even the biggest ISP's sometimes take the easy path instead of the right path to solutions and that sometimes free add-on email services are not the right solution for a business that considers email to be a vital business tool.

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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Email Lists - Will You Opt to Opt In

One of the most underestimated, underused money making tools regarding internet marketing is opt in email lists. For most marketers who are already successful this comes as no secret. For the rest, those new to internet marketing, it is a little known subject. However, once you realize its potential you will be amazed at its power to help produce income.

Many newbies have either never heard of opt in email, or have never taken the time to learn about it. It is a shame they don't use this vastly important resource. Studies have been conducted and shown, it takes seven visitors to your site before they will buy. Think of something you might have bought on the internet. Did you purchase the first time you encountered something of interest?

So if you have a website and are selling a product, without an opt in email list you are getting one shot per visitor. If it takes seven visits for someone to buy, what do you think your chances for success will be? Granted this is not an easy task. You really have to work at it to get good, but it is well worth the effort.

Creating an opt in page will be one of your first orders of business. This is a form you put on one or more of your web pages to collect names and addresses of subscribers. Or you can create a squeeze page. This is a page that generally describes what your email campaign is about, and also has a name and email form.

The way a squeeze page works, is if someone clicks on your url, the only page they get is the squeeze page. So they can either opt in to your page or opt out. They only have those choices. Even though you may lose some visitors, the ones who due sign up are generally looking for what you have to offer.

Next you will write a series of emails They may be based on a free ebook you are offering. Every four days or so you will send a segment of the book possibly offering more incentives, or a newsletter perhaps.

To pull this altogether you will need an autoresponder. An autoresponder is a nifty tool in which you will load all your emails to be sent out automatically and sequentially. The autoresponder offers other features, one of which is a testing functionality.

To learn more about email list building and many other skills necessary for a profitable internet business, click the link at the end of this article. You'll receive an ebook, "15 Steps to Internet Success," and a series of lessons about topics much like this one. Trust me, you will learn a lot, no matter how long you have been marketing. Just do it!

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Monday, March 12, 2007

How To Dominate Your Niche Market

People are always looking for information that will help them live better, either by helping them make the best decisions or by giving them a new outlook. It doesn't matter what your niche is or how much competition your up against, you can dominate your niche market by providing quality information for hungry information addicts.

Niche marketing isn't so much about selling a product as it is about selling yourself. Once you step into any work at home venture you suddenly became a brand. You want your name to be associated with a product. This is because everyone wants to work with the best. You want to be treated by the best doctors, get advice from the best financial advisors and learn from the best professors. And everyone wants to buy from the best sales person. The beauty of niche marketing is that you don't really need to be the "best" to make money online.

The trick to dominating your niche market is to position yourself as a valuable resource for your
customers. The best way to do this is to "give without want." This is a phrase that you should quickly
become familiar with if you want to dominate your niche market. What this means is you need to give
information to your customers freely.

A sure fire way to establish value on the internet quickly is to write several articles and reports on your niche market. Let's say that your niche was "flattening your tummy," you could write articles with content like:

3 easy ways to tame your tummy
How to fight and win the battle of the bulge
Say bye, bye to belly bulge
Or
Foods that fight flab

Despite your niche market, quality content is essential for niche domination. Be sure to optimize your articles with keywords related to your niche market. Once they are written submit them to all the web article directories. You may also want to try to get published in offline newsletters as well.

When ever someone searches your niche, your article and your name will come up. Now when people are looking for ways to get great abs, or financial information or whatever your information will come up.
Now suppose you offer a book with a "hundred ways to tame your tummy without going to the gym." Because your name has become associated with information relating to that niche people are more than ready to take you seriously. You want to become the "go to guy" in your niche market. Well first you have to establish yourself as a person of value and the best way to do this is to provide people with
valuable information.

You can go beyond publishing articles and create an ezine stuffed with information that people are starving for.

Give "insider information" on the front end. This establishes you as an expert in that niche; you can then sell products and services on the backend.

It's all about branding, the more times your name comes up as the author of content relating to your niche market the more interest people take in you. You don't have to be the "best" you just have to be the best provider of quality information.


Sunday, March 11, 2007

Online Paid Surveys

Online paid surveys are one of the biggest income opportunities that have emerged online. Grandpa and grandmas, retirees, school-going teens, working adults and housewives are all taking surveys online for some extra cash. There is a survey for everyone. Large product and service companies are eager to pay you for your opinion so that they can deliver better quality stuff, things that consumers would not hesitate to pull out their wallets to buy. Let us take a closer look at this income churning opportunity – online paid surveys.

Online paid surveys essentially involve collecting people's feedback or opinion on a certain product or service. Now, why do people want to conduct survey? Or the more interesting question would be, why are people paying for your opinions? Product companies have to vie with one another in a competitive market. Seldom do you see monopolies or oligopolies in a country with tight and fair market regulations. Since products are meant for consumers, whichever delivers what the consumers want gets a larger share of the pie. Makes sense, isn't it? The problem is how do these companies know what the consumers want, unless they ask? This is what fuels the whole online paid survey business.

Online paid surveys are conducted by different market research companies or what we call Tier One survey companies. In fact, some major survey companies even employ smaller companies to carry out surveys for them. There can be many tiers in this online paid survey business. Obviously, the more tiers there are, the more commissions are paid out to these middle men. So even if the payout by the original client companies which require the survey data is generous, the many layers of commissions basically snuff out the profit margin, leaving behind little for you and me, people who do the paid surveys for cash. So it is best that we stick with the Tier One or Two companies.

Searching for online paid surveys can be frustrating if you are new to the game. Most people end up wasting time at so-called survey companies which either pay too little or are pure scam sites. Some online survey sites are set up to collect market data for a short period of time. Once the job is done, they wind up their online businesses and default on payments. This is not uncommon and has left many disillusioned folks wondering if internet paid surveys can really fetch them the extra cash they would love to have.

The truth is online paid surveys are real and do pay out as promised, provided you know which are the reliable and trusted research survey companies. Find out at my blog which survey companies have provided the best paying online paid surveys for many folks like you.

This article may be freely reprinted or distributed in its entirety in any ezine, newsletter, blog or website. The author's name, bio and website links must remain intact and be included with every reproduction.


Friday, March 9, 2007

More Web Site Visitors Using Cheap Reports To Attract Web Site Traffic

Recently we began using a cheap report to drive traffic, introduce our services to people who have never heard of us, and build our house-list database of e-mail addresses.

While we have been online for years and are well established in the search engines the traffic increase resulting from the cheap reports project has dominated since the day we launched it.

Let me start by telling you what we do, in case your one of the billions of people who have never heard of us. We are business consultants and coaches whose practice in limited to the facilitation of small groups and business owners and executives.

This is not an inexpensive process so finding the right prospects has always been tedious and time consuming. Maybe one out of a thousand companies meet our criteria, have the desire, and the resources to participate in a peer group. That has always meant we had to go through 999 to get one.

Historically we've done presentations and workshops at associations where our prospects are likely to see us. We created our web site, have interviewed business owners, and written a zillion articles to reach a wider audience. And these activities work, that's why we're still in business after all these years.

But two things have been on my mind.

1. How to reach an even wider global audience with a message that sorts out the few actual prospects from the many for whom there is a less costly alternative?

2. What about the 999 out of 1,000, wasn't there some way I could provide them with a how-to workbook or report that those serious about their organization's future could use? It's not like this is classified information or anything. The value is in the actions they take, not the intellectual property contained in the process.

Then one day a friend sent me an email and the light bulb went on!

First there was the strategy, make the report really cheap while demonstrating value. If it's cheap enough you'll get impulse buyers and people who've been thinking about starting a peer group process will buy it since it provides every resource and strategy they need to set one up and operate it themselves.

The amazingly simple process for buying the cheap report causes each buyer to opt-in to a series of automatically generated emails. Each email message offers encouragement and insights into the process of establishing their peer groups.

Each message provides additional resources, such as articles and pdf files containing experiences of others using the mastermind alliance principles in their peer groups.

These messages are sent automatically using our database marketing system, so once a person buys the report they get a weekly stream of value from us - eventually inviting them to a live conference call where our professionally facilitated peer groups are described.

Second is the technology involved. Everything was provided in the cheap report I bought including the contact information of people who would install the simple scripts if I couldn't or if it was more cost effective to have someone else do it.

The most amazing technology (and strategy too) is the simple way that anyone who buys my report can re-sell it and receive 100% of the money from the sale INSTANTLY without filling out forms and without having to sign up for anything.

In fact when a person completes their purchase they are taken to a page where they can add email addresses of five people they think would like to know about the report. If these folks buy it then they get the money, instead of me.

What do we get? We get these people added to our opt-in database, for free. If you use pay per click advertising, pay per action or even CPM ads - you will be paying something. Not us, we're just forgoing revenue we would never have received in the first place.

Finally, how we are using our cheap report in this one simple way is radically improving our entire marketing and sales process. As our in-house list grows and as the subscribers move through the series of emails perhaps one or two of them will hire us to professionally facilitate their group, maybe a couple of them will tell their association leaders to talk with us about a presentation at a future event, and it's likely that a few of these large associations made up of small businesses will add a link to our report on their web site - getting paid while our list grows still larger.

By now I bet you're thinking of a bunch of ways you can use this cheap report process to convert strangers to opt-in subscribers and from there to first level customers and eventually to key accounts.


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