Monday, April 30, 2007

Ways to Increase Email Clickthroughs for Maximum Profits Part I

Email campaigns can be very effective ways of exposing your list to your products, but you have to be able to structure your emails properly, and knowledge of the various ways to increase email clickthroughs for maximum profits can enable you to make maximum use of the lists that you have taken so much time and effort to build up.

Most people on your list will open their email inbox and see dozens and possibly hundreds of emails. That's apart from all those in the spam box. What do you normally do when you have lots of emails to trawl through? Do you open them all? Of course not. You might check down the sender's names to try to spot any you recognize, such as friends or relatives, and then scan down the subject list. Most will not be opened.

How, then, are you going to persuade somebody that filled in your form a couple of weeks ago, in order to get that gift you offered them, to open your email? The only way is to use a compelling subject line. I am assuming that you are using an autoresponder here, because if you are not, your email campaigns are going to take an interminable amount of time.

Autoresponders have a feature whereby you can add the recipient's name to the subject line, such as in "Mike, You've Not Seen This Yet, But You'll Want To". If somebody sees their name as they are scanning down a line of emails, they will likely stop. People stop when they see their own name. It has been proved, and when they do you have to be ready for them with a great subject line that compels them to open the email.

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Saturday, April 28, 2007

Search Engine Optimization Strategies - Keyword Density

Not content with your site's page rank? Of course you want to be on the first twenty search results when somebody typed in the keyword you are targeting. However, you are apparently getting nowhere. Perhaps it's time to do something about it.

--- Keyword Density Misconceptions

One of the first things you should check is your page's keyword density. Check your articles' content. They say, to increase the traffic in your site, you need to maintain a keyword density of 2% - 12% in your articles. The higher the percentage, the better are your chances to be on top.

Since you think this is the best that you can do to increase the traffic in your site, you will keep in mind to maintain such a percentage. Hence, in writing your articles, you will aim to reach a certain percentage that you have set. This would not be a problem as long as it is well-written and organized. However it is more than likely that your articles will not make sense because of such great keyword density.

--- Keyword Spamming

After packing your pages with keywords, you may not still be able to attain your page rank goals. Your articles may be keyword-packed but the search engines may just lump you up with the keyword spammers. This will not do at all.

The key here is to use other words related to your keyword. How will you do it then? Perhaps the dictionary will help you on this. Writing an article can be exhaustive, though, and it will be even more exhausting if you need to seek related words. There may be times when you run out of words and all you can do is to keep on repeating your keyword/s.

--- The Wordtracker Solution

Should you want your site to be top ranking in search results try other means aside from maintaining a certain percentage in word density. Analyze your articles keyword content and variation using a wordtracker.

In case you don't know, wordtracker is a tool that you can use to search for other words related to your keyword or keywords. Just click on the word universe and all the words related to your keyword or keywords will appear. Thus, you will not keep on repeating the same word or set of words over and over again until you finish your article.

Through the wordtracker, your article will appear very well-written and informative without much difficulty on your part. You can now write as many articles as you want, each packed with relevant keywords that would boost your site ranking, without sacrificing the quality of the information you are conveying to your target market or readers. In short, your pages are keyword-rich even while they makes sense to your target readers.

You may wonder how you can be on top of the search engine results pages if your keyword is not mentioned in your article a lot of times. The fact is, search engines can now group keywords and keyword variations. As long as you have a lot of your keyword variants in the article, that article will still be considered keyword dense and thus relevant. This can lead to increased page rank.

There is a bonus, too, to using word tracker. Once your target consumers reach your site, they will find your content and articles informative and easy to read since it is not filled with a recurring keyword or keyword phrases. Your readers will then find your articles worth reading because you don't sound so redundant, and they may be induced to bookmark your page, refer you to others or better yet, buy your products or avail of your services.

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Thursday, April 26, 2007

Backlinks - How to Get Them, How to Use Them



Back links (also backlinks or inbound links) are links found in other websites that when licked will direct the visitor to your site. They are the opposite of �forward links� which are links in your website that direct your visitors to another site.

Backlinks are important because many search engines (especially Google) look at the number and quality of back links to your site to determine page ranking. It would be ideal if you can get backlinks from sites which have many relevant backlinks themselves. This would help increase your page rank which may lead to increased web traffic. Here are some of the best techniques to getting backlinks:

--- Quality Content ---

This is the best way to generate back links. There is nothing better than a good site providing quality content. If you have valuable content, other webmasters will borrow them for their own sites. Your content will of course contain a link to your site for copyright purposes. That�s one backlink for you. Other webmasters may also simply post your link inn their website to provide their visitors more information resources.

--- Forum Posting ---

This means becoming actively involved in forums. Contribute your thoughts, get to know the people on the forum, interact with them. With every post, tag your signature with a link to your site. Make sure though that you write only worthy posts.

--- Article Submission ---

If you�re an expert on your website�s contents (which is usually a given), spend some time preparing and submitting well-written, thoughtful articles for submission to other websites. Every article you write is one back link; if your article is good enough, it will be copied and posted by other sites and thereby give you additional back links.

--- Directory Submissions ---

There are an increasing number of free web directories. Get on the net and visit each and every web directory you can find, and submit your website and URL to them. Of course, you should make sure to submit only under your keywords or niche category.

--- Reciprocal Link Exchanges ---

As the name implies, these are web-based services where you can �exchange� links with other website owners or web masters in a �You place my link and I place your link� approach. There are two things to keep in mind with link exchanges, however. One, make sure you are exchanging links with relevant sites. Second, never do mass mailings to webmasters � most will only ignore you. It is better to make contact individually (especially those whose pages are relevant to yours) and suggest a link exchange.

--- Link Baiting ---

This happens when you post something controversial on your site or post something interesting with the aim of getting people to blog it, and provide links to your page. While some think of this as spam or �black hat SEO�, ignore them � people choose to link to your site; you don�t force them to do so.

--- Provide a �Link to Me� Code ---

Make things easy and convenient for people who want to link to you. �Link to Me� is an HTML code that people simply copy and paste on their websites and blogs to link to you. But don�t use all text � use some graphics, come up with icons or buttons to include in your code. People who look for filler content may just be willing to make use of your sleek, glossy and alluring banner or button on their sites because it�s free and available.

--- Consider RSS Feeds ---

RSS feeds allow you to network your content, or allow other sites to display your content on their sites, with a back link to the original article or page.

--- If Desperate, Buy Text Links ---

If you have the resources, why not simply buy text links? The option is available if you do not want to go through the hassle of the other methods discussed above; on the other hand, this is a worthwhile option if your actual intent is to make money and sell text links to others.

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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Starting And Operating Your Internet Business



To start and operate an Internet business you may need to follow these steps:

Choose and Research a Niche Market For A Product or Service

A niche market is one that you may have expertise in from your work, hobby, travel, etc., experience. If you come up with a product that anyone can buy in a grocery store or a hardware store, you are NOT in a niche market. If you know all about the breeding of moles and you write an ebook on the subject, you ARE in a niche market.

A niche market can be targeted. For example, I give a free table away on resolving defects during the manufacturing of ceramics. I know the market world-wide so I can hit it, not that it does me much good, but it does help those who need help with ceramic manufacturing problems.

My table is so good that nobody buys the ebook that I wrote on the subject. That is called "putting yourself out of business," but my friends like the table and I am not going to charge for it because what would I do with the money anyway? Besides, ceramic people are used to getting free information from me. I was a college professor and editor of an international trade magazine plus I write articles on the subject.

Let's hope your niche market will be more profitable.

Choose a Business Plan and Profit Model

An Internet business is a business. It must be run like a business. The Internet marketers that I know have worked very hard to develop their business. Despite that some of them brag that their business is humming along while they are sipping lemonade on the beach, the business does not hum along without their continued hard work. Yes, some things are automated. Some chores they farmed out. But they must know what is going on with the market, their competitors, and their own products.

Your business, no matter how simple and small, should start with a business plan. Simply stated, it is your road map to success. You may want to buy a book on how to write a business plan. I suggest that you contact your local government or bank and tell them you want to start a business and that you would like some help. You WILL get it.

In simple terms, the business plan states what your business is, what your products are, how the products will be created, how and to whom the products will be marketed, how the products will be retired and replaced with new products, the cost of each operation, the risk, the potential profits, and whatever else you think is important to success.

So start with a business plan even if it is just a bunch of pages in a loose leaf binder. The business plan is not static. You need to rewrite it from time to time. In industry, I wrote business plans for five or ten years ahead. The business plan leads to a schedule of task that need to be completed. Start at the top of your list and move on!

Write Sales Copy And Price Your Product

In Internet marketing your are often selling an ebook, a printed book, or product. You must sell the benefits of your product and not the content. For example, you are selling a book on raising pumpkins. You can not sell the fact that your book has 213 pages and has an orange cover. You can sell the fact that you will be able to GROW THE BIGGEST PUMPKINS IN THE WORLD!

To learn to write is not a major requirement in sales copy writing. Being able to tell your story is. Therefore, write your story and have your sister edit it before you put it on your web page. I suggest you read sales pitches on Internet sites to see what others are doing. Notice how they you color, font, graphics, pics, and testimonials to sell their products.

Should you hire a professional to write your copy? Not this early in the game.

To see what your product should sell for, you need to test market. A higher price or a lower price may bring in higher profits.

Ebooks are easy to market. That is why they are so popular. That is why so many of them ore free. You put the book in .pdf form on your server (your word processor will convert it for you�maybe). You set up a PayPal� or other link. When the customer pays, he is taken to your file for copying or downloading. That's it. You look in your �account and there is the dough. I look in my PayPal� account and find nothing.

Giving away ebooks is a good way to collect name at your web site. To get the ebook a visitor may be required to give his or her first name and email address. Some insist on a telephone number. I never get those ebooks. I hate people calling me during Wheel of Fortune.

Choose and Register a Domain Name, Choose a Web Host, Design Your Site, Accept Orders, Automate Service Chores Using Autoresponders, Etc.

How to perform the above chores is out of the scope of this article but there is some information on my business website. Briefly, your domain name should contain what are called keywords. Note that my business domain contains, "Internet", "Business", "Tool", and "Center."

Hosting can be free or paid. Your ISP may let you put your web page on their server. There are many html editors available to prepare your web pages. However, you can convert a WordPerfect� or Word� document to html and upload it to your server. You will need to FTP your pages to your site. Free programs are available.

Simple codes from PayPal� and other Internet banks will let you accept credit cards and other forms of payment. There are other options here.

You need to collect names of visitors with their email address so that you can hound them later with your autoresponders.

Search Engines, Pay-per-click (PPC), Keywords, Spiders, Search Engine Ratings

You will need to establish your self by listing your web site URl on the major search engines like Google�, Yahoo�, and MSN (which recently changed their name).

Use the meta tags in your html. Make sure your title has key words, that your description really describes your page and also has keywords, and that your meta tag for keywords has only keywords that are included in the information on your site.

Don't repeat your keywords in the meta tags. If you repeat them more than once, the web spiders might blow their web and your site with it.

PPC or Pay-Per-Click is an important way to make money on the Internet but I find it far to complex.
Nothing ever seem to work for me. The competition for keywords is terrific.

The reason I have problems is that I am in several very competitive markets and my competitors are better than I am.

If you picked a true niche market, you will not have this problem. I look for good keywords using WordTracker�. You can try it for free by clicking on the link at my business site.

Obtain Cheap and Free Traffic

There are lots of sites that offer free traffic to your site by sending your ad to websites, opt-in list, directories, etc. I've learned over the years that free or too cheap traffic or even very high priced traffic can be worthless.

It does kill time.

Buying ads on specific newsletters can be profitable. There are many ebooks on the Internet for free that will tell you how to use newsletter advertising.

I've learned over the years that print classified ads bring sales to Internet sites. If you search my article list here at ezinearticles.com you will find the article.

Generate an Opt-in List for Increased Sales, Use a Newsletter, and Use Email Promotion

Email is the preferred way for the gurus to make money. That is why you need to collect names and email addresses. Your autoresponders can continue to sale those on your list or to simply send them your newsletter or ezine. Aweber makes it easy. You can try it free from my business site.

Use Back-end Promotion and Follow-up and Up-sell Offers

You have probably noticed that when you buy a product on the Internet that you are often given another offer that you can't refuge. Well, I usually refuse these offers but I know I will get the offer again if I change my mind. that is calles an up-sell offer.

Some times you will get a follow-up offer by email.

Using up-sell and follow-up offers can make you money.

Use New Strategies To Bring Traffic To Your Site

If you lie down on the job in your Internet business, you will just fade away like an old soldier. You must keep up-to-date on what is going one. You've got to be smart about your business. That is why some of those uneducated, former vagrants are now rich. They are smart about their business.

I could be so lucky!

The End
copyright�J2007 John T. Jones, Ph.D. (Taylor Jones the Hack Writer)

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Sunday, April 22, 2007

Adsense & CTR - Learn How To Cheat Adsense And CTR With Ultimate Adsense Ad Placement Tips

When you're running a website, whoever is surfing it is staring at the screen...but where? One of the biggest questions for website designers and adsense publishers is discovering where their website visitors are going to be looking when they arrive at their website. This article will reveal the answer to this often asked question and explain the trick to adsense ad placement for the highest adsense ctr.

"Where are the user's eyes looking?" Where do your eyes go when you read articles on the Web? What do you notice and what do you miss? Well, we've got some answers for you, because this topic has been studied. Turns out that the upper left quarter of the screen gets the most attention, according to the Eyetrack III research of The Poynter Institute, the Estlow Center for Journalism & New Media, and Eyetools. But that's not all. There's more to it than that.

People's eyes have some very common behaviour patterns. It probably has to do with our hunter-gatherer ancestry.

First, we do reconnaissance, or "recon" as the military calls it. Users' eyes flick over the entire screen at whatever draws their attention. And what draws it most? Well, the first hot spots are headlines, photo captions, subheadings, links, menu items and the logo on the page-doesn't matter if it's a good logo or a bad one, people look at logos.

Then the upper left corner of the screen gets special attention, probably because that's where people expect to find the very best stuff. And the right-hand and lower part of the page almost always gets less attention.

This is info that site developers must know: when you put your most important, vital content outside that critical upper left corner, that important content might as well be invisible when people are making the big decision: whether to stay on your site and read more or go somewhere else.

Yes, people scan a page quickly. But scanning has a purpose: it quickly identifies to a user what they really want to read. The good news is that if you can hook them right off the bat, when they start actually reading a news story on the Web, they read a larger proportion than if they were reading that very same story in the newspaper.

How To Use Frontloading To Attract Your Visitor's Attention

Frontloading means that you start headlines, paragraphs and links with the most important words. The first words should communicate the subject of the headline, paragraph or link. This is not like writing a novel or a story, where you have time to be coy and not get to the point for awhile. You've got about a quarter of a second to grab that user's attention or he won't read the rest of the sentence. Make the most of that opportunity.

If you do this, and you frontload your writing, especially at the top of the page, user's eyes will easily catch the most important info, and they'll keep reading.

Here are some examples of good frontloading:

  • Foo Fighters release new cd
  • Barbeque beef ribs recipes everyone will like
  • Tom Cruise stars in a new movie
Here are some bad examples that are not frontloaded:

  • New cd is being released, it's by the Foo Fighters
  • Everyone will love these great new recipes for barbeque beef ribs
  • New movie is coming out and it'll star Tom Cruise
Just following these simple Google Adsense tips will result in higher adsense ctr and visitors staying for a longer time at your websites.

Check out the website below for the ultimate Adsense tool around.

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Friday, April 20, 2007

Starting With Guerilla Marketing

This article will give you a few nuggets of information
related to marketing your business using Guerilla
tactics.

As a new business owner, one of the first things on
your list of priorities will be how to best market
your product to consumers who will use, enjoy, and
tell others about it. As with most aspects of any
business, there are many avenues to take.
Unfortunately, many business owners take a wrong turn
in terms of the way they approach potential customers.

It costs them valuable time, wasted energy,
unnecessary stress, and often large amounts of cash
they can't afford. That's why it's absolutely crucial
to find the best marketing system from the beginning.

I would like to introduce you to Guerilla Marketing. The benefits are much too numerous to even
mention in this short communication. One aspect I will
speak on briefly is the basics of planning your
initial marketing strategy.

You have probably heard of this kind of marketing but
only in the context of being mentioned with big companies.

You already know how vital that is. So let me quickly
give you just a few tips right from Guerilla Marketing
101 itself. When it comes to your business, there are
some major things you will need to consider when
planning your marketing campaign.

• Location is something you'll definitely need to
think about if you'll be running a business outside of
your home. Parking space, walk-in customers, and ease
of access to other shopping areas is key. If your
business is web based from home, is your website
search engine optimized? Does it rank high enough to
be found and is your website user friendly? Again, all
things to contemplate.

• What will your target market be? What other kinds of
businesses or individuals will most likely use your
product?

• The nature of your product will also play an
important role in the way you'll need to market your
business.

• How is your product unique from others? How can it
be best represented as being distinctly different from
competitors?

These are only a few points discussed in this very
unique marketing system. That's why the best thing
you, as a business owner, can do for yourself and your
business is to click here to learn the other exciting
information that is available in Guerilla Marketing
101.

Your competition is not going to wait for you to learn
these marketing skills first. Don't sit on this
information and let them beat you out. You have
nothing to lose but profits.

Make sure you really digest this information so you
have a firm grasp of the concepts!

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

The Basics of Search Engine Optimization

Gain High Ranking With These Principal Practices

Is your site not showing up in the top rankings? Are you entering in keywords that should bring you to your site? If so, your website can gain higher rankings with the principal practices discussed below. This will optimize the pages within your website for search engines.

Search Engine Optimization

Search engine optimization (SEO) is achieving top rankings in the search engine by building your website with the search engines in mind. Keywords are what searchers type in to the search engines search field to get the results they want. These terms are found according to a search engines logarithms or spiders.

Begin Optimizing

When you are first starting out, browse the web to see what keywords generate the best possible results for your businesses category. Use your research when developing your sites content. This means you should work the words or phrases into your content, placing keywords into each page. Be smart and nonchalant with the structure, you still want it to flow and be unique. Make sure that you are placing keywords in areas that make sense on the page. Do not "keyword SPAM" because this method will actually hurt your ranking.

Follow With Three Basics

1) All your links need to be linked to another page in your site. You want the spider to be able to crawl through your site and never find a "dangling link" or dead end. This allows the logarithm to flow and identify similarities in your pages. This also goes for external links; they as well need a place to link to. The key is to stay organized and to check and recheck your links.

2) Make good use of the title tag. This is the title of each page, found near the top. The titles should use some of the keywords or phrases found during research. This will automatically better optimize your website for better search results.

3) Use your text to your advantage. The combination of words and phrases used in search engines are endless. Besides the keywords that produce the top results the others generate rankings as well. Incorporate those into your text and if you can, place them more towards the beginning. Keep your search terms throughout the content of each page.

Follow these basic rules and watch your sites search engine ranking develop and improve.

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Saturday, April 14, 2007

BOOM - You Just Lost Some More Money Because You Didn't Use Proper Tracking

Tracking, testing, tweaking and all over again, and again, until it's perfect! Well maybe not completely perfect but much better at the least. It is extremely important to track everything as good as you possibly can. Make changes when needed, tweak it, test and track it until you can not find anything to improve on anymore!

For a moment there try to imagine that if you could improve your conversion 1% on only five of your products or pages you would be making about 5% more profit. That is not always going to be easy but, it's absolutely do-able and with some help of fabulous tracking all you practically do, is just wait for the new results to roll in, check them and make some changes. The trick is to have enough traffic (website visitors) to generate new tracking results fast enough. When a website receives only a few clicks a day, it can take a while but, specially then it's important not to loose any visitor if you can!

An example of good testing is a/b Split testing. It will help you define which of your pages convert best. Testing between two exactly the same copies of an article or sales letter for instance. Change only some minor detail like a few words in your header and see if it gets you better or worse results. You could make some text bold or try different layouts, colors and so on. Then throw away the lesser of the two and do it all over with the better converting page and so on. When continuously tracking pages like this you can keep improving your conversion which is what we are all after, one way or the other!

Besides, visitor tracking and a/b split testing are probably the most common used but, good tracking goes way beyond that. Think, where do visitors come from, where do they go to when they leave, what links did they click and in what order, how did they surf through your site and much more, to much to mention and thoroughly explain in just a few words!

What can be explained however, quit easily is, where to find these super tracking machines maybe better known as Content Relation Management systems or CRM! There are a lot of them out there and they all have their own specialization and most of them are pretty good but, in this case we are not planning on spending a single cent for it. One of the more decent and user-friendly options around must be Google Analytics program. It's phenomenal, specially for the price...which is completely free.

Now, realize we are talking about some serious features here. It's absolutely not one of those trashy guru-maybe-it-works-or-maybe-not kind a tool. But real powerful professional tracking. Now! There is a service that will save AND make you some serious cash. Most CRM systems can cost you up to Ten-Thousand bucks or more so, enjoy the freedom!

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Friday, April 13, 2007

Tips to an Effective E-Mail Marketing Campaign

Promoting one's business takes a lot of genuine thinking in order to properly sell your product. A businessperson may take any form of marketing just so his product may capture potential consumers. One of the most potent businesses marketing strategies is thru e-mail Marketing. So easy as it seems like, there are several things that one should remember, though, when indulging into such marketing activity.

The legality of sending e-mail is still in limbo. Remember that there are some countries, which have tight rulings about such activity. Be cautious of this so as not to get into trouble.

One should also remember to properly determine the target audience before sending your e-mail. By doing this, you have an increased probability to capturing a better and wider market. Along with knowing whom your audience are, you have to give them something that entices them to read your e-mail. Make sure that a thought-provoking subject line is used on the e-mail so as to be given proper attention by the receiver, and to the least be read by the ones who get the e-mail. Make sure that your e-mail subject line do not belong to the thousands of "spam looking" ones. Remember that with the advent of Internet technology, people become very cautious of their safety, thus become very vigilant of any PC threats. Make sure, too, that the content of the e-mail really captures the attention of your prospective clients. Gaining the interest of your reader at first makes your marketing campaign at a certain extent a success.

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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Interesting Niche Markets - How To Find The Top Markets

A lot of people with an interest in pursuing Internet marketing find that their main problem in getting started is finding niches – or more to the point an "interesting niche market". First of all what is niche marketing? Focusing on a niche market can be defined as addressing a demand for a product or service that is not being supplied by established providers.

The key to profiting on a niche market is to find or develop a market that has customers who are accessible, that is growing quite fast, and that is not owned by one established business already.
Once the profitability of an interesting niche market is established, marketing to them is the process of locating and supplying (or designing) custom products or services for them.

Finding an interesting niche market on the Internet requires extensive keyword research and analysis, that takes time and effort. And of course it will require some serious thought. Firstly what you need to do is think about what skills or knowledge you possess. It is always easier to start with things that you yourself are interested in, or are knowledgeable about.

Try to find as many answers as possible to the following questions:

What do I enjoy doing?Do I possess any special skills?
What am I good at?

These will form a list of possible areas to target as an interesting niche market, but now you will have to find the ones that will give you the best possible chance of success by looking at demand. How to find the demand for your interesting niche market.

You need to know how many people are looking for information on the topics you have chosen. This is easily done using Overture or another keyword suggestion tool. On entering one of your topics into your Keyword tool it should return figures for the month before.

Let's use "golf" as an example. The word "golf" itself is extremely broad and returns 441712 searches at the time of writing.

"Golf course" has a huge 172260 searches made on search engines, while "custom golf club" has only 5802 searches.

You may just want to jump right in and go for "golf course" as it seems to be an interesting niche market, but don't forget you have to think about your competition. What you must do next is look at the competition involved. To do this all you have to do is visit Google and type in your phrase in the search bar (including the speech marks).

On searching for the term "golf course" we come up with 22,900,000 competitors. You won't corner that niche too easily.

But if you do the same with "custom golf club", it only brings back 206,000. Still a lot - but a lot less competitors than before.

Now we will use the demand supply ratio math formula, which is the number of searches divided by competition, and then times by ten. This should find you the niche you should be targeting. For example lets take a look at our "golf" figures again. If we divide the number of searches for "golf course" (172,260) by the number of competitors (22,900,000) and multiply the number by 10 we get only 0.075. Likewise if we do the same for "custom golf club" we get 0.28. On first looking at the number of searches these both look to be interesting niche markets but on further analysis we realize that neither of them would be easy markets to target.The rule is that the higher the number, the more profitable the interesting niche market will be. Any niche that returns a figure over ten when you apply this formula is a great niche. The lower the number the more difficult the niche will be to conquer as it is already saturated.

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Friday, April 6, 2007

Online Business - Collecting Opt-In Email Addresses

Off the Web, mail marketing is hated by customers. It's unwanted, uninvited and stuffs mail boxes. But it's pretty clear that it's also incredibly popular with advertisers. Why? Because while most potential customers toss away their junk letters with barely a glance, enough take action to make it all worthwhile. They do buy—and in high enough numbers to more than cover the cost of those who don't.

Email marketing is pretty similar, but with one important difference: on the Web, you can only send marketing emails to people who have already chosen to receive them. A bit tricky. On the other hand, because those people have already chosen to receive your emails, you can be confident that they're going to buy.

Email is still the most popular and most used application on the Internet. It's also an efficient means of distributing your message to large numbers of people who have requested that information. As a form of marketing, it generates high response rates—and gives you measurable results with instant feedback.

But because email marketing been so abused, it's just not accepted any more to send emails to people who haven't chosen to receive them. Bust that rule, and there's a good chance you'll be out of business. That gives you the problem of building up a list of willing subscribers.

When you're first starting out, there's often a temptation to simply purchase an opt-in email list. Lots of people sell them and you can easily pick up a million or so addresses for just a few bucks. But while that may appear to be a fast, easy way to build up customers, the names on the list may not be up to date, or even opt-in contacts at all. You could well find yourself inadvertently spamming.

Similarly, there are also programs that surf the Net, recording every email address they find. These will let you quickly build up a huge list of e-mail addresses—none of whose owners will thank you when you stuff their inboxes with marketing material. Forget about them; they're not worth the effort. It's much safer, and much more effective, to take the time to build your own list.

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007

The Ins And Outs Of Internet And Network Marketing

There used to be a day when marketing seemed simple. But in today's day and age of internet technology this is no longer the case. The fact of the matter is that internet marketing is on its way up, and things are changing regularly. And to go along with the way that internet marketing is changing, network marketing is also following suit. The reason that network marketing is going in the same direction is because the internet is dictating the way that people get in touch with one another.

The most important thing to remember about internet marketing is that it is quite diverse. If you think that you know everything there is about internet marketing you are wrong. There is so much to learn that you have probably not even scratched the surface. In order to make sure that you have a good internet marketing plan in place you should take your time before you implement any type of strategy. The majority of people who fail with internet marketing do so because they do not have a solid plan in place before they get started.

When it comes to network marketing the internet has also had a positive effect. All of the social networking sites have really made this form of marketing take off over the past few years or so. More so today than ever before, people can network with others online without any hassle at all. This sure beats having to cold call people on the phone, or meet them in person. If you are not using the internet to help your network marketing strategy you are missing the boat. This has proven to be quite successful for thousands of people from one side of the world to the next. The internet allows you to network with anybody regardless of location, industry, or any other variable.

As you can see there are many details that go into both internet and network marketing. But the bottom line is that both of these forms of marketing go together hand in hand. Sure, you can simply use one or the other, but if you implement both internet and network marketing strategies you will have yourself in a good position to be successful.

Overall, you should let these types of marketing work to your advantage. A lot of people make the mistake of getting set in their ways, and forgetting about new options that are available to them. Take your time to learn about internet and network marketing, and you may be surprised at what it can do for your business. Who knows, you may be able to implement a couple new plans, and in no time at all watch your business explode through the roof.

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