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Affiliate Marketing 101: Tips For Merchants

2009-08-28T02:19:00.000-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Free Internet Marketing.

As An Online Merchant or Marketer You Should Know That A Well Manage Affiliate Program Is One Of The Best Free Internet Marketing Strategies You Can Use!

Understanding affiliate marketing strategies when you are the marketer is all about make it easy to for web publishers and entrepreneurs to know about it, easy to sign up, to promote, and easy to get support. Specially when your affiliate program is open to all type of online marketers. I said this because there are times when a merchant will hand pick the publishers to partners with, and this can be done in-house or by becoming part of an exclusive associate network, for more information about this read my post title: Affiliate Marketing For Merchants: Affiliate Network Success Elements.

So, you can said that when a Internet merchant wants to integrate affiliate marketing as another medium of web exposure, it comes down to the understanding of three imperative elements:

How to start a program successfully.
How to set it up so it works automatically and follow your marketing goals.
How to manage it to increase program productivity and effectiveness, and..
How to promote it to the right audience of active web publishers.

Now, this type of online referral or associate systems can cost little to no money to implement, but if you compare the same type of system in the real world or offline, which will be a franchise or vendor opportunity like Avon can cost you way more money, time, and resources to build a similar program. Thank God with have the Internet, which makes this process very easy for small businesses and even home based businesses.

The Tips!

OK, let me go directly to some of the most important factors I learn about running a successful performance based system:

1. - Expose Originality.

What I mean with this is that you need to have a brand, product or service that is easy to market. And for something to have a good marketing response from your audience needs to be unique, so focus on creating an USP (Unique Selling Proposition) that have that special benefit that is different from what your competitors are offering. Sometimes a word or even a letter is good enough to make you original, think Google Nemesis which is a PPC training course, and iPhone which is the mobile phone by Apple that turn very popular starting from the name!

2. - Offer Good Commissions.

This is a big one, because most publishers "beginners and advanced" will pick a partnership with the merchant that offers the highest revenues, specially if the associate is going to invest in pay-per-click advertising to market your goods. Many top online retailers like Amazon or Dell offer commissions of 2 to 10% depending on the product sold. But, when it comes to digital goods like ebooks or software marketers expect to get paid more, usually 40 to 80% of the sales.

So, when it comes to commissions you need to also think about what is the right amount that will keep your online sales force strong and active.

3. - Gain Trust.

One of the best ways to build credibility is by using some good PR, article marketing, and social media strategies. Simply, keep your company on the news by submitting at least one press release per month, write one article per day and submit it to some top directories, contribute to high traffic forums, and keep a constant activity in some the top social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc., this can help you build trust and become an authority in your niche.

4. - Set Up A System That Works.

Make sure you create a program that works automatically, and provide supporting tips right at from, this will reduce your customer service giving you more time to work on other important areas. You need to have a good set of pre-selling and advertising material your partners can use to promote your products. Also, remember to offer as much information about your company and services, because a good salesperson is the one that is the most knowledgeable.

This type of Internet marketing strategy can be put to work on any type of market or niche, of course there a few hot trends right now, but any online business should have a referral system in place.

To get unlimited advice about "Effective Affiliate Management Techniques" visit the IE Club. Yes, is all about having a good management process!

Recommended Resources.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.
- Super Affiliate Handbook.

Like I said before in this post, implementing an affiliate program to have other marketers promote your products or services can cost little or a lot of money. But, if your programs is profitable, is almost like having a complete free Internet marketing system in place. So, focus on managing it effectively.

To your success,

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Avoid IWantFollowers.com Or Get Your Twitter Account Suspended Plus 40 Legit Tools

2009-08-12T15:32:00.015-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Free Internet Marketing.

So, Why Avoid Twitter Follower Generator IWantFollowers.com? Simple because it will upset your current friends, and might get your account suspended or in jail like we tweeple like to call it!...

We all love free Internet marketing tools and services, that's why I created this blog to share with you the best resources and tips you can get to start or promote an online small business. But, in the world of the free, some marketers will try to make you paid for their giveaways in unethical ways... One of those services is IWantFollowers!

If you are in any of the groups below you need to hold your horses and please keep reading:

- Are looking to increase the number of Twitter follower or friends?

- Are you looking for some kind of free social media marketing service or tool to help you?

- Have you heard of the "I Want Followers" free service?

- Are you a current user?

- Are you thinking to apply in the near future?

I Completely recommend you to stay away from this service and any other services that uses the Twitter API to send "SPAM" tweets through your account. I understand if you have to send a RT (ReTweet) mentioning the service you just sign up for at the moment of creating a new member file. But, IWantFollowers think that isn't enough marketing exposure for their tool, so they send automatic tweets to every free member about 2 times per day, making tweeps (People using the social network) upsetting their followers and friends. Because the tweet looks like you send it!

So, they make you look like you are the spammer!

If you know me for quite sometime, you might know that I don't recommend anybody to use unethical or illegal marketing methods, is just wrong! And when it comes to social media the best approach is what I call a "Social Marketing Interaction." To know what I recommend my clients to avoid when it comes to social media campaigns, please read my post titled "20 Bad Twitter Marketing Strategies To Avoid" for more information about the wrong ways to use this social network.

Here is what a Twitter that hates this type of non-permission advertising @ON_DEMAND_TECH (Alicia L. Harris) have to said about those unwanted automatic messages:

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Just in case you can read what the image said, here it is: "I just opted out of IWantFollowers.com to stop the obnoxious automatic tweets on my account. Sorry for the bother friends"

As you can see, people don't like this type of promotion... Looks like whoever is the main owner of the site don't know nothing about social media. They should pay Seth Goldin for a consultation or by his book where he explain the birth of "Permission Marketing". Don't you think?

There are other free services that don't use automated SPAM messages generators that you can use to help you find new friends or future business contacts that have same interests. Don't worry I put a list of useful sites to find new followers without the SPAM or any unethical promotion practices right at the end of this post.

Here is what @RATN_110 another user of this so call free web 2.0 application have to said:

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Test Got My Account In Twitter Jail For A Week!

I'm always testing new strategies, tools, and services to see if it work as they said they do, so I can share my findings with my readers. But, this time I made an error... Well, the thing is that I have only one Twitter account, and I didn't open a new account to be use as case study. I know, big mistake...

So, I sign up with follower generator in question, everything look OK, they send a tweet promoting the service, and I thought that was OK, almost every other application does the same thing as a tweet or re-tweet. Then, the day after I saw 2 more tweets promoting the application without my consent, so I erase both messages, and just waited while I was doing my daily posting. Then the next morning I saw 2 more of those stupids ads, then my safety bell started ringing, but I decided to wait till next day... What a big mistake was that!

The next day I try to log-in into my account, and I was send to a page that said:

"Sorry, the account you were headed to has been suspended due to strange activity"

You can see a screen shot of the page, the page that it supose to be my profile page, now is just a embarrasing suspension notice, at least for the next 7 days :-( ...

Apparently, the site was doing some administration work and tech person made the application send a bunch of automatic tweets by using the free and VIP accounts, which soon was notice by the Twitter spam police and they quickly stop the problem by suspending over 1500 member profiles. The profiles will stay there for week, and my profile was also included in the mix.

Here is what their blog had to said:

"Account suspensions? Lost followers?

Yesterday, the technical support for the affiliate system our site uses was making some changes to optimize the program for the high traffic we’ve been seeing recently. One of the technicians was editing one of the automatic process sequences, and mistakenly reset the wrong process cycle.

Our system sends autotweets to our free users once or twice a day. This false reset affected the autotweet cycle, changing it to run eight times a day. Twitter detected the abundance of updates and automatically identified it as spam – the result? Twitter distributed 7 day suspensions to each account sending the tweets. Approximately 1500 to 2000 accounts were suspended for seven days.

Those of you who received suspensions should not worry, they are only temporary. We are trying to contact the Twitter dev team to appeal the mass suspensions and we will have them lifted as soon as possible. The suspended accounts would explain the loss of followers – those who lost a drastic amount of followers will see them return within the next seven days.

All affected VIPs will be given a complementary 3 day VIP pass in light of the event. Once again, we apologize on behalf of that silly technician, and we hope to see you again in the future!

Enjoy your week, Brandon"

Just and case here is a picture with the message on their blog:

How they think that simple apology will fix anything. I'm loosing around 70 new follower per day while in "Jail", plus that's not counting the amount of unfollow's I'm already getting right now! Lucky I'm not one of the VIP or paid members, because that will make thing worst... Well, I hope everything goes to normal soon.

I want to apologize for the unwanted automated promotions that they sent through my profile. I should it check the service a little more, I hope the friend that was using it, already opted out to avoid problems.

The Good List Of Tools.

Here are some great tools you can use to manage, and find follower. (Disclaimer: We are not responsible for any claim made by any of the following services, they made the list just because may top sites give a good recommendation.):

Follow and Unfollow

Flashtweet - Bulk follow/unfollow tool.
Twittangle - Untangling the mess of too many friends.
Refollow - Refollow helps you discover, manage, and protect your social circle.
TwitsLikeMe - Find new friends.
Doesfollow - Find out who follows whom.
Twitroduce – Connect.
MyCleenr - The best way to clean your contact list.
TweeterGetter - Get new followers.
TwitterLamp - The SMART Way To Follow People.
TweetSum - Follow and unfollow people via drag and drop.
TwitterForBusyPeople - Friends at a glance.
Twitter Karma – Find out who is following and unfollowing you.
TweepMe - Get followers.
Twitterless - Get updates when someone stops following you.
Twiping - Contact management software.
Qwitter - Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you.
TwitterRatio - Follower/friend ratio.
FriendOrFollow - Who are you following that’s not following you back? Who’s following you that you’re not following back?
Twitseeker - Who you are looking for by what they are talking about.
TweepDiff - Find out who you are missing.
Twollo - Auto-follow.
Twittermass - Management and optimization services.
Twitnest - Visualization of your followers and theirs.
Twitter100 - With Twitter100, you can see your followers at a glance (up to 100).
Tweepler - To follow or not follow that is the question.
Who follows whom - The quickest way to see who several users have in common.
Buzzom - Social profile management.
Hummingbird - The Pro Tool for Twitter Marketing at $200.
Twubble - Twubble can help expand your Twitter bubble.
WhoshouldIfollow - Find new friends.
Tweepi - A geekier, faster way to manage your profile.
TwitterSnooze - Hit the snooze button on your “verbose” friends.
iFollowBack - Follow back people.
Twitterator - Follow a bunch of people in one go.
Twtrfrnd - Discover your common shared friends.
Mutuality - Allows you to make bulk operations with your account.
TweetPenguin - find new followers with similar interests.
Less Friends – Do the people you follow, follow you?
TweetEffect - When did you lose or gain followers?
WhoTheTweet - Fins out what someone is tweeting about.
Twollow - Auto follow people.
Tweepular - Manage your followers.
TwerpScan - Checks the number of followers on your contact list, the number of people they are following, and the ratio between those.
MyTweeple - Manage your Friends and Followers.
MyTwitterButler - Automatically follows users based on “keywords”.
Twitoria - How many friends are you are following?
ExecTweets - Find and follow top business execs.
TwitHive - Monitor and Interact with the Twitter Hive Mind.
Foller.me – Before you follow..
FollowLists - Create and share lists of your friends.
FriendMePlease - The easiest way to make new friends.
UnTweeps - Unfollow tweeps who have not posted tweets recently.
Sherflock - Find and track your flock.

#followfriday

#followfriday statistics – Lists the most popular tweeps on #followfriday.
TopFollowFriday - See who endorses you and who endorses whom.
NewFollowFriday - Get to know your followers better.
TweeHits - FollowFriday based hitlist.

Maps and Location

Twittearth - Live twitts all over the world.
Twittervision - See where users tweet in realtime.
mmmeeja - Plot Your Followers On A Map.
TwitArea - Sharing places.
TweetMapper - Where your tweets are.
geoTwitterous - Shows where someone is Twittering from.
GeoChirp - Google maps mashup.
Happn.in – Happn.in shows you what people are twittering about in your city.
geoTwitter - Google Maps and Twitter mashup.
Tweetmondo - Find users near you.
TwitterLocal - Find tweets based on location.
Nearby Tweets – Instantly find Twitterers nearby.
TwitterMap - Shows tweets on the map.
TwtMaps - Get a map that shows all your friends locations.
Tmeet.me – Where do you want to meet?
Atlas - See tweets from around the world.
ChirpCity - Local stuff.
LocalTweeps - Help localize the Twittersphere.
Stweet - Integrate with Google Maps.
Geo.ly – Share your maps with short URLs.
Twuzzer - Find out what’s being twittered in your neck of the woods.
Twaller - Discover what travelers are tweeting about.
Tweeple of India - Tweeple of India.
MyTweetMap - Shows where someone is Twittering from.
SadakMap - Messages on a map.
Boarding - Find stranded passengers.

Popularity and Rank

Top tweet – The world’s top personalities, all in one place.
Twitrankme - Profile rank.
DailyRT - The most popular tweets on the web.
Twitturls - Popular links.
TwitterScore - How does your profile score.
Twispot - Hottest tweets in one spot.
Chirpio - A place to rate & follow users.
Twinfluence - Influence Analyzer.
Tweeting too Hard – Where self-important tweets get the recognition they deserve.
Twtpets - Who has the cutest pet.
Tweeple Rank – Ranking the top recommended people.
Twielsen - TV ratings based on social media chatter.
HereBeforeYou - Were you here before your friends.
TrazzlerBuzz - Tracking popular places.
Twittypop - Who is the hottest boy or girl?
Twitemperature - How hot are you.
Tweeght - Popular thoughts and quotes shared.
Tweeterate - Rate the tweets you get from your friends.
Twitrank - Is a list of the top 150 users.
Twitalyzer - Tracking influence and measuring success.
Twitterholic - Find out who the top users are.
Popular Tweets – A compilation of the top 10 tweets.
TwitterLinkr - Popular links people are tweeting.
Twittergrader - Measure the power and authority of your profile.
Top Twitter Friends – Who do you talk to most often.
Tweettop - Who to follow.
Tweetrank - Ranking.
Twigheaded - Find out how big headed someone is.
MrTweet - Your personal networking assistant.
TweetoftheYear - Tweet of the Year.

Retweet

Retweetist - Discovering trends, popular topics and popular people by tracking Retweets across the network.
Retweetit - Retweet Exchange.
ReTwitd - Retweets.
TweetMyLink - Tweeted links.
Retweetrank - Find any user re-tweetrank.
Plzrt - Please retweet me.
Please Retweet Me – Please retweet me.
Retweetradar - Finding trends in the mountains of information ‘retweet’ed.
ReTweetability Index – The ReTweetability Index measures and ranks users based on the infectious power of their tweets.

Spam

Tweetblocker - Cleaning up the twitterverse.
TwitChuck - Taking spam.

Groups

Tweetizen - Filter tweets and create groups.
Twitly - You can seperate the people you follow into groups.
ConnectTweet - ConnectTweet allows the contributors to your central stream.
GroupTweet - Group message broadcasting.
TwitBot - Allows multiple people to publish to a single account.
Crowdstatus - Create your own crowds.
TweetKnot - Tying people togetherTying people together.
Social - For events and groups.
Twitter Groups – Groups.
Twibes - Groups.
ThinkClimbing - Find and connect with Climbers.
Tweetworks - With groups and discussions, TweetWorks helps you get the most out of this social network.
Tweetparty - Group messaging.

This is is just a short part of "The Ultimate List Of Twitter Tools" post, so visit the post to get a complete list of aapplications put together by The Social Media Guide Blog.

To get unlimited advice about "Ethical Twitter and Social Media Marketing" visit the IE Club. I should had listening to my friends at the Internet Entrepreneurs Club.. LOL!...

Recommended Resources.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.
- Search Marketing Lab.

Hopefully my account will be up and running good tweets and conversations in a short time, till then you can find me on Facebook or just leave me a quick comment on this blog and I will get back to you as soon as possible, thank to all my friend and tweends for your support.

To your success,

Luis Galarza, Internet Marketing Consultant In Massachusetts.

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Understand Linking The Way Search Engine's Do To Improve Link Building

2009-08-04T02:21:00.010-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Free Internet Marketing.

Your SEO Efforts Can Become More Effective If You Look At Linking The Way Top Search Engines Do!...

If you are an Internet marketing beginner you may not know what are the golden rules of SEO (Also check Andy Beal's SEO article ) or what link building have to do with promoting your website or blog online... Link building is not other than gathering incoming links to your site in other to increase search ranking and improve organic search results position. So, if those two online strategies aren't part of your marketing plan is time to add them on, don't you think?

And it doesn't matter what niche you are in. What's important is how many good back links are pointing to your site, the more quality back links you get, the better is your position on search results on Google, Yahoo, and Bing will get.

Tips!

Before you continue to the report about understanding linking the way Google, Yahoo or Bing do watch the next video that explain a little more about what's link building and also will give some great tips about how to generate quality ones, enjoy:

Link Building Tips Video - Online Marketing Strategies by ...

Hope you learn some good ways to generate link love for your blog or static website... For more tips or advice about this take a look at the next articles:

The Report!

The report shows that when it comes to linking, is more than just getting a huge quantity of them from every single web source you can find. And relevancy is actually question here... The problem is that your SEO efforts can get confuse for SPAM or black hat tricks, like web farms (sites full of links) that can have you banned from every top online engine. Instead use webrings, which are networks of sites linking to each other.

Here is an excerpt from the post:

"Well sheeeeit… it’s hard to say what constitutes ‘intent’ when it comes to various aspects of linking and search engines. It really isn't that straight forward and understanding 'query intent' tends to be the most researched area for search peeps.
And as far as patents/papers, I doubt there is really much out there specifically on intent beyond some papers such as; Recognizing Nepotistic Links on the Web Or Detecting Nepotistic Links by Language Model Disagreement and there is more in CJ’s post on detecting paid links – there are a whack of papers at the end of that one.

Ultimately though…

It’s all about the spam

Most of such valuations (intent) would be in the link spam world as this is where links are evaluated. From that point out, what is actually ‘intent’ is defined by the engines themselves. What I mean is that an algorithm can merely look for elements common to those manipulating the index via links, it is up to the engineers to decide what to do with pages/sites above a given threshold."

The report refers to specially to Google by analyzing their patent (Document scoring based on link based criteria) where the search giant explain about:

Authority entities.
Temporal factors.
Anchor text anomalies.
Document ranking.

But, the report goes beyond that and also point to other aspects like:

Document relevance.
Excessive reciprocals.
TrustRank/Harmonic Rank.
Page Segmentation.
The human element.

Link spamming is also called Spamdexing, here is the definition by Wikipedia:

"Spamdexing (also known as search spam or search engine spam)[1] involves a number of methods, such as repeating unrelated phrases, to manipulate the relevancy or prominence of resources indexed by a search engine, in a manner inconsistent with the purpose of the indexing system.[2][3] Some consider it to be a part of search engine optimization, though there are many search engine optimization methods that improve the quality and appearance of the content of web sites and serve content useful to many users.[4] Search engines use a variety of algorithms to determine relevancy ranking. Some of these include determining whether the search term appears in the META keywords tag, others whether the search term appears in the body text or URL of a web page. Many search engines check for instances of spamdexing and will remove suspect pages from their indexes. Also, people working for a search-engine organization can quickly block the results-listing from entire websites that use spamdexing, perhaps alerted by user complaints of false matches. The rise of spamdexing in the mid-1990s made the leading search engines of the time less useful."

To access the report go to "Understanding linking intent; the spam connection". There you will get full details about each of the factors I mention here.

To get unlimited advice about "white SEO strategies" visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.
- Search Marketing Lab.

TIP: Now to play it safe is better to stay away from using SPAM and black hat strategies like link farms. Just send press releases or submit useful content to article directories. Of course, don't forget to do a good market and keyword research. So, you can target the best phrases for your company or product.

To your success,

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Social Media 2009 Trends & Top Search Keywords

2009-07-27T06:21:00.008-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Niche Marketing.

Social Media Is A Very HOT Trend That Can Help You Monetize The Internet... Here Are Some Niche Marketing Tips And A Free List Of Top Search Keywords To Get You Started!...

When I said that you can monetize social media, I'm not talking about using new age marketing strategies to promote your Internet business or blog! What I mean was that you can make money online by becoming the next big thing or by publishing niche related content that targets a specific market or trend inside this new huge phenomenon that is call "Social Media".

With the evolution of the Internet and the birth of Web 2.0 a lot happened. First people notice how easy was to generate their own content, to find information, to find new global friends, to create their own fan base, and how easy was for a regular person to start competing in the same level of massive content websites. In short you found the social media marketing power of "YOU".

Newspapers, magazines, and TV all over the world started giving you credit for your constant contribution to the web, and this is called sociology and technology evolution!... This cool new medium have become so popular that now has its own industry, which make it a big mine of golden opportunities for those entrepreneurs that love to take strategic business action steps.

What Do People Love?

Some of the hot niches that you can find through this new medium are base on a service or network that's very popular or can become very popular, and have a big potential to generate a good stream of income for a third person, in this case that third person is you.

So, when you see a new Web 2.0 tool or community network that is trending, do a little keyword and paid search research to see if there is a chance to build a new small business venture from it.

Some of the ways to get a new 2009 start-up or to make money from a hot web 2.0 trend with content or by creating API base tools are:

- Web Applications.
- Mobile Applications.
- API Base directories.

You can also make money blogging:

- Niche blogs.
- Niche social networks.
- Web Apps review blogs.
- Mobile Apps review blogs.
- Niche news blogs.

Now to monetize any of those Internet business ideas you can:

Sell sponsor or advertising spots.
Use affiliate marketing strategies.
Promote legit MLM or Network Marketing businesses.
Put Google Adsense ads.
Sell your own products.
Promote JV partner relevant products.
Use them to generate traffic to your sites.
Use it as branding viral marketing tools.

OK, so what are those popular services or tools full of top search keywords that have everyone talking about, from the news, to TV, to even my grandma' :-) ... Here are the ones you need to keep your eye on this 2009:

Twitter.
Facebook.
Myspace.
FriendFeed.
Bebo.
iPhone Apps.
Mobile Social Networks.
And Google Wave (The new hot).

Top Search Keywords and Topics!

Here is the list of the best key-phrases that web surfers are using to find what they a want to know about this new medium.

NOTE: To avoid repeating some words too many times I decide to replace them with quick abbreviations. SM = Social Media, S = Social and M = Marketing.

Search Count - Keyword.

198 SM.
42 SM M.
29 SM online.
16 what is SM.
14 SM pdf.
13 SM terminology.
9 using SM to promote my business.
7 kraft food and SM.
7 SM analytics.
7 SM and communications planning.
7 SM tools for M.
6 SM spending.
5 david ligon SM.
5 government agenies that use SM.
5 media as a S institution.
5 SM and financial decisions.
5 SM tools.
5 southwest airline SM.
5 starbucks my starbucks idea SM campaign.
4 crisis communications SM.
4 government agencies who use SM.
4 how to use SM.
4 iran election SM theory blogs.
4 SM club.
4 SM for small business.
4 SM gallery.
4 SM guidelines.
4 SM icons.
4 SM M plan.
4 SM news.
4 SM policy.
4 SM rewards programs.
4 SM strategies.
4 SM tools for pr.
4 top SM sites.
4 wachovia SM.
3 corporate SM policy.
3 crisis communications tips SM.
3 fear of SM.
3 intelligence community use of SM.
3 lon safko the SM bible speaker.
3 new media S relation.
3 newspapers and SM.
3 online ommunication and SM as a tool.
3 optimizing SM.
3 SM and toolkit.
3 SM companies.
3 SM customer care.
3 SM expert kevin.
3 SM for chefs.
3 SM health care conferences.
3 SM nonprofit.
3 SM organizer.
3 SM ottawa job.
3 SM plans unme jeans.
3 SM pr.
3 SM services.
3 SM strategy and military.
3 SM vocabulary.
2 10 commandments of SM success - charles heflin.
2 center for SM - remix culture.
2 company SM policy.
2 effects of mass media to the S status.
2 facebook pages SM.
2 glencoe media center S studies.
2 how can colleages use SM.
2 M proposal online internet SM.
2 martial arts SM sites.
2 media ecology online dating S networks technology.
2 pro S effect of the media to the society.
2 professional SM networking.
2 promoting on SM.
2 sample SM M plan.
2 SM + pittsburgh.
2 SM agencies.
2 SM and the national security professional.
2 SM buttons.
2 SM campaign president 2008 statistics.
2 SM club austin.
2 SM corporate policies.
2 SM facts.
2 SM healthcare.
2 SM implementations in long term care.
2 SM jargon.
2 SM louisville ky.
2 SM manager.
2 SM M califorina firm.
2 SM M plan template sample.
2 SM M proposal.
2 SM network effects politics.
2 SM problems.
2 SM resume benefit, need.
2 SM search engine.
2 SM serach engine.
2 SM survey by age.
2 SM tips.
2 SM trusted relationships.
2 S theory affects media.
2 united way SM.
2 united way SM M plan.

You can use this list to help you brainstorm new content for your blog or to find markets for a new venture.

To get unlimited advice about "social media for your business" visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Social Influence For Dummies.
- Blogging To The Bank 3.0.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.
- Search Marketing Lab.

TIP: Don't forget to research each topic before thinking is a good phrase to optimize for I recommend you to use SEO Elite for SEO research and PPC Web Spy for pay-per-click advertising.

To your success,

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Social Media Is The Marketing Power of YOU

2009-07-23T01:00:00.003-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing & Trends.

A Beginners Guide To Social Media Marketing And The Effects Of The Power Of "YOU"!...

Picture by: Gary Koelling.

Before we get into how to use social media marketing, first of all you need to understand that of the heck is social media and why is becoming so important for any size business, online or offline to get involve in it. Web 2.0 which is the technology behind social media is more than just a fancy code word or lingo from the Internet, was the beginning to a new era of personal interaction, business transparency, and permission marketing, plus:

Information distribution.
Communication.
Content interaction.
Content creation.
New Internet marketing strategies.
Brand marketing.
Buzz or viral marketing.
Market authority.
Credibility building.
Team collaboration.
Online reputation management.
Journalism.
Online content sharing.
New laws of social ethics.
New spam movements.
New SEO strategies.
New traffic generation tactics.
Clever web innovations.
And new money making markets and trends.

Please if I forgot any other benefit of social media please share it with us through the comment link above or bellow this post.

In Plain English.

This new communication medium is not other thing than the new way to create online content with easy to use publishing tools. This new Internet technology put the power of content on people "YOU", by helping you distribute, share, find new information that would it be hard or maybe impossible to discover without it.

In this new Internet you aren't just a reader anymore, you became an instant publisher...

Now social media marketing is the effective way of using web 2.0 tools to interact with potential customers and with net authorities that can help you spread the word about your company or product.

Here is a great video I found on YouTube that can help you understand this in plain English:

Hope this video gave you a clear "in plain English" explanation about how this new net evolution works.

The Power Tools.

One of the thing that make this sociology + technology era so useful and popular are the tools available to you, that can help you find, create, distribute, and share information in a very easy fashionable way. Some of those tools are:

Blogs services like Blogger or Wordpress.
Micro-blogging like Twitter.
Podcasting like BlogTalkRadio & Talkshoe.
Video sharing sites like YouTube and Revver.
Picture sharing sites like Flickr and Twitpic.
Social networks like Myspace or Facebook.
Social bookmarking like Digg or StumbleUpon.
Question and answer sites like Yahoo Answers.
Social commenting sites like Blerp.
Custom Social networks like Ning.
Content sites like Squidoo or Google Knol.
Content syndication technology like RSS and Atoms.
And much, much more...

There are tools that help you collaborate on a project, others let you share files and documents publicly or with a team. Also you can find tools that are targeted to professional and business use like Linkedin and PartnerUp.

Marketing That Works.

So, how can you make this new medium of communication work for your business? Is there a secret sauce for success? You may already heard many different marketers talking about the power of this medium, and how it can be use to make money online and send a lot of targeted web traffic to your blog or site. But...

The Fact is: "Traffic that comes from web 2.0 sites don't convert good. If you really want to make money online you need to focus on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) or SEM (Search Engine Marketing), which refers to PPC or pay-per-click advertising."

Now this doesn't mean that you need to stay away from using this new medium to generate quality leads for your business or product. You can easily use it to:

- Increase branding exposure.

- Generate extra traffic of pre-qualify prospects.

- Generate branding buzz.

- Build new business contacts.

- Connect with potential joint venture partners.

- Connect with potential link partners.

- Also you can have community authorities to recommend you to there audience.

This new medium can be really effective as soon you use the right strategies, which need to be focus on a specific goal. So, before jumping in and start creating a profile on every community network you can find, you need to have the answer for each of the next 2 questions.

1. What's your goal from the use of social media? Which is, what you really want to achieve from it. Then...

2. What strategies are you going to use to get to those goals?

After you answer those to questions, the next step is to write down a strategic marketing plan for each goal, this way your efforts will be focus on action steps that eventually will taking to your final goal. For example: If you want to use social bookmarking sites to gain exposure and one way back links to your site so you can increase your search ranking then you need to plan how you are going to bookmark your content, what type of sites are you going to share, which content will be better to bookmark and how many links per day are your going to share. All this and more needs to be in your action plan. Here are some bookmarking tips you can use right now.

To get unlimited advice about "Web 2.0 and social media for small business" visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Social Influence For Dummies.
- Blogging To The Bank 3.0.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.
- Search Marketing Lab.

TIP: Implement the sites that you already know how to use first, then make a schedule of how many time per day, week, and month are you going to use them. Another thing I recommend beginners is to use automation tools that can make your job easier, if you don't know where to find them I will give you a complete list of tools by the end of this week.

To your success,

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Blogging For Money With Google Blogger

2009-07-13T17:56:00.018-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing & Trends.

Stop Searching Here Is A Complete Resource Box With All The Tools You Need To Make Better Google Blogger or Blogspot Blogs!...

By now a lot of online entrepreneurs know that blogging is a must when marketing a small home base business on the Internet, it help you in so many ways, here a few of the benefits you get for blogging:

- Boost your SEO efforts.

- Can have you rank more than one site on search results.

- It help you improve position on search results.

- It help you communicate with potential customers in a personal way.

- Ease your content syndication efforts.

- Help you gain instant feedback from your audience.

- Open the doors to new business networking relationships.

- It give you another stream of income.

- Help you expose your brand faster to a target market.

- Increase your level of web authority in your niche.

- And much more!

The fact is that having a blog can help you and your business expand your marketing reach and exposure to a wider audience, an audience that can become a free source of market data information that can be use to improve your products or offerings and can give you ideas for new ones.

If you don't know how to set up your first Blogger blog, please watch this video that will explain step-by-step how to open your first account and start a blog:

Hope the video was easy to understand, if not please don't hesitate to leave me a comment with your questions or tweet me at @LuisGalarza.

The Truth!

Now, I know many top Internet marketing gurus are telling you, that to make money online you need to have a WordPress blog, with you own domain name, and it needs to be host on a reliable hosting service... All those things are true and false. Yes, you need all that if you want to be like them and turn into a social media or social network's celebrity, the problem there is that it takes more time to make sales, plus you need a lot of social traffic to be able to sell sponsorships at a good price, a price that will pay your rent or mortgage. Why? Because social traffic have the lowest conversion rates for Google Adsense and Affiliate marketing.

Don't get me wrong, the use of strategic web 2.0 or social media marketing is very important to build

So, How Can You Profit From Blogger Blogs?

Anybody can make money with a blogspot blog as soon you concentrate in getting traffic from sources that have the best conversion rates, and those sources are the "Search Engines"! So, if you want to make money online you need to focus your marketing efforts on SEO (Search Engine Optimization)... Here are 22 SEO tips for blogger blogspot blogs to get started!

Yep! That's it!...

I know you was expecting a huge answer, but that truth is that organic search traffic and pay-per-click (PPC) advertisement generates sales, because you are visits from people that are looking specific what you are offering or what you are writing about!

On my next article I going to address the steps you need to take to ensure the success of your blogging venture. Now this post is for beginners or newbies, I will get into more advanced tactics as in my next posts.

To get unlimited advice "blogging for profits" visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Blogger For Dummies.
- Blogging To The Bank 3.0.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.
- Search Marketing Lab.

TIP: Before running and open your first account you need to make sure that you follow what you love or what you have interest in. Then use a keyword research tool to find profitable niches or hot topics that can be the main focus of your blog or sub-topics to write about.

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Cisco Is Calling Luis Galarza A Guru: Funny Video

2009-07-11T15:14:00.006-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Online Business Tips.

Am I A Guru? Well, Cisco Think So! LOL!.

Everyone knows that I'm not a guru or want to be one, I found this awesome viral marketing service when visiting my friend David King's blog, where he post a similar video, but with his face off course, LOL!

Cisco really when all out to spread their brand around the web by leveraging peoples ego and funny minds...

Check the video, and let me know what you think:

That was cool eh! This is one of the best viral campaign I seen so far, specially from a corporate firm like Cisco.

Now the question is:

Can you use the video to spread your own brand as a virus?

The answer is a big YES! You can post the video in all your blogs, social networks, also post it own your site or blog and then post links on places like Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, etc..

Also read "10 Viral Video Marketing Strategies" to learn more about how to use videos effectively as a word-of-mouth weapon.

Hope you like the video, and the quick tips!

To get unlimited advice "buzz marketing" visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.
- Viral Media Strategies.
- Guerrilla Marketing On Steroids.

TIP: You can also use services or tools like Machinima to create your own viral videos.

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David King Marketing Lessons

2009-07-09T20:49:00.005-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Online Business Tips.

What Can You Learn From My Twitter Friend David King? It is Just About Marketing? The Answer Is NO!...

Today I want to introduce you to one of my best online friends and business colleague Mr. David King from DavidBeKing.com a web site and blog dedicated to educate beginners or newbies about different important areas of business and Internet marketing.

David is a very friendly guy and as marketer he love to help others understand how to really build a strong business online or offline. His mind is set to become a successful marketer and putting his "David King" brand in the spot light... Now I don't want you to mistake him as another guru or master! He's someone that has learned everything he knows by taking training courses, applying what he learn, make mistakes, and eventually he learned what works best for his ventures.

He's a true friend, very smart, funny, and really knows the meaning of social media. Plus, he have some great tweets to share, I recommend you to follow him on Twitter on @DavidBeKing you will not regret it!

Here is a little video that he use to welcome his site visitors:

As you can see he is a really cool down to earth guy!

Where are the lessons?

One thing you should about David is that he really knows what he preach, he had tried many different strategies and picked a lot of 'Street Smart" marketing lessons from his successes and failures.

Some of the things you can learn from him and his blog are:

Business procedures.
Marketing strategies.
Money management.
Leadership.
Social media marketing.
Online selling.
And much more...

But...

For me there is more, way more... Just by following his way he promotes his company you pick a lot of valuable lessons that can help Internet marketing beginners and advance entrepreneurs to better expose their company unique selling proposition to a targeted audience.

Here are some of the lessons David also have to share with others:

How to build social authority.
Web 2.o branding techniques.
The marketing power of friendship.
Business organization and Focus.
And the truth behind good Twitter marketing.

Yes, you can get this education just by following him, and keeping track of what he has to say!

Want Proof!

Well, here is a video where he shares some good information about focusing in the best part of your online business:

Hope you enjoy his teaching, as you can see he has a lot of knowledge about the Internet marketing industry that you can learn and apply on your venture and get positive results.

To get unlimited advice "and marketing lessons" visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Bebiz: Niche Business Builder.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.

One more thing you need to know is that Mr. King provides consulting services for new entrepreneurs and small business owners that you can use to have him get a closer look at your company or idea and give you the information you need to start on the right path or grow your current revenue, so hurry to his site at DavidBeKing.com to learn more about establishing a profitable online venture.

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3 Marketing Tips To Build A Strategic Online Business

2009-07-02T19:00:00.014-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Online Business Tips.

The Secret Of a Successful Online Business Is On The Marketing Strategies Behind It!

So, now that you know that success is all about having a strategic marketing plan design to generate exposure with the right target audience, but what is suppose to be behind the strategies? The answer is a well thought out goals. Is no way you can start a business online or offline without a direction or a goal to meet, how will you develop an Internet marketing plan? How will you prepare an advertising campaign?

That will be like driving a car on the road without knowing where you are going... It may sound fun for a road trip with your friends but not if you want to build a serious Internet venture!

I know this is one of the top mistakes made by Internet marketing beginners, and sometimes even veterans in the field make this big mistakes. They start a small home business, they heard someone saying that is money to be make in a niche (any niche) and they buy a domain name, web hosting, sign up with a few affiliate programs or MLM (network marketing) systems or just a regular business opportunity... Then they go all crazy putting banners and ads everywhere they can, and sometimes they will put them where they don't supposed to, which will create problems in the future, like loosing their audience trust, credibility, and eventually their revenue.

They don't know if any of those ad campaigns will work. They don't know what they want to achieve with each campaign... They just wish it will generate an income or at least an extra income.

This way you will make it very difficult to gain any success, because you just shooting darts without a target board. To develop strategic marketing campaigns that have better response rates or web conversion rates you need to be focus on a set of good goals, short and long term goals.

The Tactics!

There are many ways or methods to set goals the for a company, today I want to share a few tips on how to do it strategically. One thing you should know is that when you set your main target, then you need to know that you need to set short term goals for the main one. The way this work is by you creating small steps that will take you to the top of the stairs.

Here are the tips:

Your Mission: Your first goal should be to create a profitable online venture that match you main focus.

So, How will you do this?

One of the easiest way to ensure success is by having a good marketing plan. A good plan is the one that is focus on achieving your company visions by using the best strategies that you can find.

1. The Methods!

To make your companies plan of attack be successful you need the elements that will take help you succeed. Some of the best ways are:

>> You need to use the right mix of strategies.

You need to decide which strategies are the most effective for the type of company you own.
Which of those methods are going to be use the most, or which ones are the most important ones depending on ROI.
As you know each business is different, and some methods will not work as well in some markets, so patients is a virtue in the process of finding the right mix of methods that will work the best for your specific business. So, don't be afraid of errors, because that's part of marketing, keep testing until you find what works.

2. Solid Methods!

What are solid methods? Are the ones that are excellent for the type of business or niche you are into.

>> The best strategies you can use for your online company are the ones you enjoy doing. Why is this?

This way you ensure that each project is finish on time because you like to do it!
Because if you like what you doing you won't have any problem on keep doing it!
Just to give you an example: If you hate receiving unwanted email promotions or spam, you may not want to use email marketing strategies in your mix.
But, you need to know that spam is the illegal and unethical way to use email campaigns. Ethical email marketing is permission or opt-in base marketing which has a high sales conversion rate and is excellent to build long lasting relationships with your customers and prospects. For more information about this method read "8 List Building Elements", "20 Giveaways For List Building: This Is Email Marketing On Autopilot", and "Email Marketing Mistakes You Need To Avoid".

3. Think Out Of The Net!

I said this to remind you about traditional or offline marketing methods, not because your business is run 100% online you can't get the exposure benefits from offline advertising and promotions.

>> So, another good way to apply strategic tactics is by mixing offline and online campaigns.

There are many great offline methods that can be use to market an website or blog effectively, here some of those low cost tactics:

One that can be apply right away are tear-off fliers that you can post on main town spots like stores and non-profit organizations. Just make sure to add good copy, your website or blog URL, and a good reason for people to visit the site.
Another way is by buying newspaper ads or radio ads just make sure your sales copy is design to create hot leads.
Another way is by distributing your business card to as many people as you can and add a sense of urgency or curiosity to make people visit your website. Think viral marketing!

To keep an strategic advantage over your competition you need to keep testing and finding new methods to add to your mix and to your plan.

To get unlimited advice "on how to start a successful online venture" visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Bebiz: Niche Business Builder.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.

The advice above is to help you open you mind to the posibilities in your prmotions that can help you triple the exposure of your company in front of a targeted audience.

To your success,

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Transformers 2 2009 Top Search Keywords And Niche Marketing Tips

2009-07-01T13:14:00.011-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Hot Trends.

This List Of Top Search Keywords Reveal Profitable After Markets and Micro-Niches!

The number one movie in theaters this June 2009 is Transformers 2 film which by the way was awesome! I'm an old fan of the cartoon, comics, and toys, I still remember getting my first toy which was the big ship that transported all of the Autobots. When the first movie came out of theaters 2 years ago, was like a dream come true, and after seeing my and many others excitement about transformers products I notice the income making opportunity behind it.

Many smart online and offline marketers know the power of a hot trend that has a big line of products supporting it. In the case of this movie you have thousand of items that can be sold on the Internet and build a profitable small business venture.

Is all about fast strategic marketing actions if you want to monetize on a hot trend... I make some revenue by just creating an one page website with my thoughts about the new film and different versions of the trailer.

Here is one of the trailers I use on my site:

I just love this film!

Where is the profit?

To generate a revenue from this popular keyword you need to focus on niche marketing strategies which is the way to monetize micro-niches and after market sectors of a popular product or topic.

Micro-niches can be:

Toys.
Movies.
Comics.

After Market can be:

Customs.
Accessories.
Add-ons.

The List.

Well, here is the complete of top Transformers 2 keywords that web users are using to find what they looking for from the movie (Just replace the TF2 for the original word):

Searches - Key phrase.
3043 TF2.
534 TF2 trailer.
346 TF2 the movie.
243 TF2 trailers.
240 TF2 character.
175 TF2 revenge of the fallen.
148 TF2 cast.
106 megan fox TF2.
92 new T movie 2.
88 TF2 blog.
80 TF2 movie.
76 TF2 new robots.
75 TF2 the video game.
71 TF2 release date.
64 T the movie 2.
63 TF2 photos.
62 TF2 wallpaper.
55 TF2 movie trailer.
40 watch TF2 online.
38 TF2 toys.
35 TF2 review.
34 TF2 games.
27 TF2 full movie.
24 TF2 pictures.
24 TF2 reviews.
23 TF2 download.
23 TF2 torrent.
23 watch TF2 online for free.
20 TF2 preview.
19 watch TF2.
17 TF2 megan fox.
17 TF2 pics.
16 TF2 soundtrack.
16 TF2 the game.
14 megan fox in TF2.
14 TF2 robots.
13 TF2 spoilers.
12 TF2 official trailer.
12 TF2 wikia.
12 T movie 2.
12 watch TF2 for free.
11 TF2 movie online for free.
11 TF2 trailor.
10 the new decepticons from TF2.
10 TF2 characters.
10 TF2 clips.
10 TF2 girl.
10 TF2 stars.
10 watch TF2 free.
9 TF2 arcee.
9 TF2 leaked.
9 TF2 official site.
9 TF2 video game.
9 watch TF2 full movie free.
8 cast of TF2.
8 trailer TF2.
8 TF2 cars.
8 TF2 corvette.
8 TF2 revenge of the fallen premiere.
7 free tickets for TF2.
7 TF2 game.
7 TF2 jetfire.
7 TF2 shia labeouf.
7 TF2 wallpapers.
7 TF2 watch full movie.
7 watch TF2 online free.
7 when does TF2 come out.
6 hot girl in TF2.
6 TF2 box office.
6 TF2 full.
6 TF2 gallery megan fox.
6 TF2 movie trailers.
6 TF2 new trailer.
6 TF2 official website.
6 TF2 revenge of the fallen torrent.
6 TF2 script.
6 T the movie 2 new characters.
6 watch TF2 for free online.
6 watch TF2 free online.
5 download TF2.
5 soundwave pics TF2.
5 stream TF2.
5 TF2 bumblebee.
5 TF2 devastator.
5 TF2 images.
5 TF2 movie online.
5 TF2 poster.
5 TF2 release.
5 TF2 revenge of the fallen premiere comments.
5 TF2 rise of the fallen.
5 TF2 sideswipe.
5 TF2 ticket code.
5 TF2 twins.
5 TF2 wiki.
5 T number 2.
5 villain actress in TF2.
4 class 2 T.
4 does optimus prime die in TF2.
4 full stream TF2.
4 meagan fox TF2.

Make sure to do a keyword research to find the profitable phrases, spy on your competition and other affiliates to see where the revenue is coming from. I talk about this a little bit on my "Incredible Hulk In Internet Marketing: Hulk Smash The Recession" post.

Here are a few pics for the fans:

Hope you enjoy the pictures and the movie!

To get unlimited advice "on keyword research and niche marketing" visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Blogging To The Bank 3.0.
- Bebiz: Niche Business Builder.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.

Even with a Blogger blog you can build an authority site that will turn into another stream of income... Example: T Live Blog, and T 2 Trailer. These two blogs focus on SEO to achieve success.

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Branding and Viral Marketing Lesson From Katz's Deli & Bar

2009-06-24T16:28:00.014-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Viral Marketing.

How Can You Use Innovative Viral Marketing To Boost Your Brand Exposure and Generate Buzz!

What can Internet marketers learn from Katz's Deli & Bar restaurants marketing strategies... Well, you will be impress! There are many lessons that we can take from this successful restaurant, but one that I want to point at first is:

"Always apply strategic business and marketing innovation ideas to keep your company, website or blog ahead of the competition!"

By always innovating your business processes and marketing tactics you can keep your online venture ahead of the game instead of always trying to catch up to your competition or the top players in your industry... Every time you want to innovate you need to rethink your business goals (short and long term), that way you will have a clear idea of what you want to achieve with the new tactics and how you want it to happen.

In the case of this restaurant they want to increase their brand awareness by using buzz or word-of-mouth generating marketing, the type of viral campaigns that will turn current buyers or customers into promotional carriers.

Yes imaging how powerful such campaign can be, having a good amount of customers talking and showing your brand to others and making new people visit your site or store. Now what makes their viral promotion so effective is that the people that comes to visit are willing to become carriers or to try their product or service.

How many new customers will you get?
How much money can you make?
How fast do your company will grow?

A promotion like that one will be like hitting the jackpot, don't you think? Well, is time for you to get the facts and see if such a strategy can be apply to your business...

The Video Interview.

Here is a video of the business interview with Marc Katz, the founder and CEO of Katz's Deli & Bar restaurants and Haittie Brynt from Small Business School.

As you can see in the video Mr. Katz's branding promotion method does two more important things, other than just been viral effective and getting new customers, also:

Is design to make customers combat to visit the store again, which...
Helps increase sales and profits from return customers (Loyalty).

Recap.

OK, lets rewind a little bit and check your notes to see what did you learn today. You learn that is very important to apply strategic marketing and business methods to keep your company ahead, also that innovation have to be an imperative part of your process, and we learn that to know if a viral campaign is effective needs to be:

1. Spreadable: Makes "word of mouth" automatic.

2. Remarkable: Needs to have a "WOW!" power.

3. And Profitable: Needs to match your revenue goals.

And Marc did all these by selling promotional products with their brand printed on it and offering a "Lifetime Guarantee" on each selling item. Simple but genius!

Don't forget to keep track of all your promotions and build a system that can be easily measure to track ROI.

Also read:

- Free Tell A Friend HTML Script.
- Viral Marketing Videos Part 1.
- Machinima: Futuristic Viral Marketing Tool.

To get unlimited advice "effective branding and viral promotions" visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Free Micro Continuity Viral Sales Funnel.
- List Profit System.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.

After putting together a system with split testing and tracking, and other metric techniques, you need to write down a few different ways that you can apply this strategies and then write down at least 5 ways to make each strategy work. Then when you finish that you need to create an action plan and start putting it into real life action.

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Increase Email Click Through: Avoid Distractions

2009-06-20T07:37:00.013-04:00

By Luis Galarza - List Building.

New Email Promotion Conversion Research Shows How To Boost Your Click Through Rate!

I was thinking to put this article in my new free Internet marketing magazine that will be providing up to date information for affiliates and web publishers from me and a few top online experts (Magazine will is schedule to launch in July 4th 2009), but I though this research needs to be exposed to my readers so you can get the most out of your email campaigns starting today!

I know many people charge entrepreneurs for information that involved time, research, and usually a lot of money...

I think success bounce back to yourself when you decide to help others get to where you are fro free. That's why I provide free small business and marketing consultation in Leominster, Massachusetts, my local town.

Is about paying forward... Sharing your success with others.

Is that a recipe to success, I don't know... But, is makes me feel great helping others without asking anything in return!

Click Focus.

I'm not saying this as a warning for you to keep you focus on the campaign conversions, which you should from start. What I mean with this is that you need to keep your message focus on only one link, the promotional link, the one that is going to take your subscriber to the sales page.

This single strategy boost our click-through 33% which is a big jump in your sales and leads from one single sales letter.

Did you know that some industries have email click through rates of over 100%!

How you do this?

By using some easy secrets of testing creative email sales promos.

1. Simple, just avoid putting a list of your websites at the end of a promotional message. You need to make your readers clicking decision easier, by keeping the their attention to your promo link.

2. Add your company information at the end of each email promotion with the link to your main site, not to each product or sites you have. Is OK to put the contact information of your business, but on a sales pitch message is better to make it short. You can use something like:

Company name.
Physical Address.
Phone number.
Main site or blog.
Twitter profile.
And another profile like Facebook, Myspace, Linkedin, etc..

3. Leave at least 10 to 15 space lines between your sales copy and your company information to keep your readers eyes on the main link and full attention to the sales pitch.

4. Keep you "Call To Action" to a minimum... We, actually tested that by adding only two links, one at the end of the sales letter and the other one at the end of the "PS." message make more subscribers acting on the promo than when we use 3 or more "Call To Action's".

There is other things we discover, but I going to leave those tips for the magazine. Don't worry it will be available for download the 4th of July, as an Independence Day gift from me to you.

These campaigns tips work well for your own product or affiliate marketing mentions.

Warning!

Now there is one thing that can kill your responses even if you use all this process very well, and that is the use of poor sales copy. I know, is not that easy, but you know that what makes sales is good copy. One thing you can do if you don't have the money to hire a professional copyrighter is write many versions of your message and then have it check by friends or business partners.

To get unlimited advice "on how to boost email promotion results" visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Email Strategies Explained.
- List Profit System.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.

Don't forget to apply split testing techniques to track the results of each message. This way you can tweak to improve responses.

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The Big Adsense Mistake On Content Sites

2009-06-17T03:26:00.008-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Top Search Keywords.

Yes, You Can Monetize Your Content Site or Blog With Google Adsense, As Soon You Avoid Making Big Mistakes!

Specially the mistake I want to point at today. Google made it easy for anyone even Internet marketing beginners to make instant money online.

Now, there is a big different between those marketers that make $10 to $100 per month to those that make $100 to $3,000+ per month. One thing you need to know is that earning an income with Adsense is not just about finding the best place to locate your the ads, is about mixing your content and ads strategically in a way that makes you site user friendly, and your ads optimize to make you some profit!

The Questions!

1. Are you in it to generate a real income or just to get extra money?

This question is very important because if you just looking to earn a few extra bucks here and there then it doesn't matter where you put the ads, and what type of content are you writing about. You will always get some readers to click on the ads they find interesting or is promoting the solution to their problem, either way you will only make a few bucks to help you paid your Internet connection, but not to paid off your car.

In the other hand if you are in it to make big C.A.S.H.! then is very important that you establish a level of comfort for your readers so they can stay on your site long enough to click on the advertisement. To do this you need to position your ads the right way on the best places in your site, which are the top, right sidebar, and the left sidebar.

2. Are you concern about the look of your site or pleasing your readers?

Well my dear online entrepreneur is something you need to know about top performing Adsense sites: They are ugly! So, if you are concern about winning the next prettiest website or blog on the net, you are in the wrong business venture... This opportunity is open to anyone who have what it takes to make it work for them self.

Yes, the secret is pleasing your readers or visitors with your content not your design, with your site structure not your graphics, and of course even with the advertisement.

How you make the advertising please your audience?

By making your content target focus, so your advertising can be relevant to the type of information they are looking for. From:

The domain name.
To the headline of your site.
To the titles of your articles.
To the body content.
To the post tags.
To the link anchor...

Everything in your site have to tell the Google what type of niche you are in so they can serve you better optimize advertisers. Now all this will never work if you not careful to avoid big mistakes...

The Mistake!

This huge error is usually made by marketing newbies that don't know any better, and is usually drive by a need to make money fast, as faster as they can. They have no patience and for that reason they kill their chances to make a good steady revenue.

The error is that they try in your face marketing to the extreme!

What these newbies do is put the ad boxes on at the beginning of the content, in the middle of the article, and again on the middle of the article before the end... And that's not all sometimes they also have affiliate banners all around the information.

What they don't see is that they are interrupting the reading flow, and you are scaring your visitors away.

TIP: Create an easy reading environment, by keeping your ads in great spots without overwhelming your audience... If you want to increase your click-through start by making the content relevant, unique, and useful.

The Right Way!

To get unlimited advice "How To Make Money Online With Google Adsense" visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Adsense Training Videos.
- Find Profitable Adsense Niches.
- Free Adsense Site Builder.
- BeBiz: Niche Business Builder.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.

Always try to tweak the ad boxes color, or use different ad boxes sizes then track your conversions by measuring the impact of the change you made.

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Complete List of Hot Marketing Topics

2009-06-16T23:31:00.009-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Web Marketing Tips.

Full List of Marketing Topics!

Here is the complete list of this blog labels, tags, or categories to help you find what you are looking for.

Remember that you can also use the search box on the top right corner of this site, as another way to find the information you are looking for...

Yours truly,

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2009-06-16T05:53:00.006-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing Tips.

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June 14 2009: 50 Hot Products To Sell Online

2009-06-14T07:44:00.010-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing Tips.

What Can You Do With A List Of 50 Best Selling Items On The Internet?

The answer is profit! But, to profit from the list of hot trends or niches below you need to follow a the Internet marketing fundamentals to success. But just to get you in the right track here a few steps you need if you want to be selling on the Internet like a pro.

This basic but crucial steps are:

1. Research your market.

2. Decide what keywords to target.

4. Write down realistic goals.

3. Take a good look at your competition.

4. Create a marketing plan to keep you focus.

I hope these little steps aren't a difficult task for you... You have to do the research to get the full picture about a market, then you need to decide which keywords to target base on demand and amount of competition, then you need to have a clear vision of your goals (web traffic, sales, net profit), then before jumping into the waters is always recommended to have a good look at your major competition, and finally write a marketing plan, which not other thing than a step-by-step action plan that will keep you focus on your main goals.

Tips about sales goals.

Goals are also refer as projection for many entrepreneurs. What you need to know is that many small business owner and sales managers measure success by analyzing the company's sales profit or total revenue or many measure both. So, it doesn't matter how you want to call it, the important lesson here is that goals are imperative to achieve success.

To make your goal setting an effective element of your success, you need to make sure you set realistic projections... Many entrepreneurs think that by setting unrealistic goals they will work harder and even if they don't achieve them they may still have good results. The problem with this is that will make you and your sales team work hard not smart. Also, if you never achieve your goals then your mind may learn to become underachiever.

So, set realistic goals, and then go for it!

The Hot List!

Well, no more distractions, here is the list of popular products to sell online:

1. Jelly beans.

2. Larry bird jersey.

3. Vinyl tablecloth.

4. Gamepad.

5. Embroidery machine.

6. Maglite.

7. Spoon rest.

8. Illy coffee.

9. Steam cleaner.

10. Napkin holder.

11. Docking station.

12. Radio flyer wagon.

13. Fish oil.

14. Baby booties.

15. Dockers.

16. GPS system.

17. Scented candles.

18. Chocolate coins.

19. Bagless vacuum.

20. Gripmaster.

21. Armani suits.

22. Sushi kit.

23. Apple imac.

24. Knife storage.

25. Bathroom scale.

26. Larry bird jersey.

27. Dresser.

28. Flashlight.

29. Forceps.

30. Wireless speakers.

31. Bouquet.

32. Lunch bags.

33. Kitchen tv.

34. Jewelry boxes.

35. File cabinets.

36. Proxima projector.

37. Clock radio.

38. Chalkboard.

39. Disco ball.

40. Laser pointer.

41. Plasma tv.

42. Maglite.

43. Wireless keyboard.

44. Storage boxes.

45. Bcbg shoes.

46. Aerobie.

47. Loft bed.

48. Sb-50dx.

49. Cordless phone.

50. Glass vase.

There you have it, a good list of today top sellers... Enjoy and profit!

To get unlimited advice about marketing products online visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- PPC Web Spy.
- BeBiz: Niche Business Builder.

- Email Strategies Explained.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.
- Cashmaps Print Newsletter.

Don't forget to set your goals right, test and track your campaigns, and tweak your campaigns so you can improve results.

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20 Bad Twitter Marketing Strategies to Avoid

2009-06-12T04:41:00.018-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing Tips.

So, You Want To Use Twitter As A Marketing Tool. Good, You Should, But Avoid These Bad Strategies!

Almost everyone know that social media has a huge Internet marketing potential, from beginners to advanced online marketers. The web 2.0 trend is so big that has become a whole industry all by itself... And my friend Twitter is one of the top social network sites available, and is a hot trend year.

This web 2.0 tool is completely free just like most social sites out there, and for that reason they attract million of members every week, and that's why marketer and online users and the bad spammers know that they can use it to engage with a lot of people in a short period of time. Specially in Twittervers, where the interaction is a little bit faster than other community sites.

The problem...

The problem is not the service, the problem are spammers, beginners that spam because they don't know better, and also getting advice from the wrong people.

Strategies To Avoid.

Here I collected 17 of the worst marketing tactics and tips I seen marketers use on Twitter. Please if I miss any don't hesitate to share it with us by clicking the "Comment button" located at the top and bottom of this article:

1. Posting famous quotes with links to an affiliate or you own product, which is also completely irrelevant to the quote content. This is actually a little bit upsetting.

2. Using tweets like (I'm reading "book title") and then just link directly to your Amazon or other merchant affiliate link will make you loose a lot of followers.

3. Another very wrong way to post a promotion is by posting a link all by itself... Thinking this curiosity tactic will increase click-through, well you are wrong. Tweeple (people using the twit service) don't click on stand along links, because of fear to be direct to a virus loading site or simple because it can be a waste of their time.

4. Please don't use lame call to action like "visit my site or blog"... This may work if everyone using the service is a prekindergarten student. But, they're not!

5. Tweeting ads with links to your own products or affiliate links, is another big NO, NO! There is a way to post promotions and direct marketing campaigns aren't the one.

6. Using popular product hashtags (wikipedia definition) like #musicmonday to send links to a store sale page. Most of the time this type of hashtags are created so tweeple can share their opinions about an item or topic, and in the case of "Music Monday" is to share what you are listening on the moment or what songs you like, with a link to song or to a video clip, not a sales page.

7. Posting the same promotion over and over and over and over and over again, can turn off people, is upsetting, is boring, is pathetic, and it doesn't work... You will kill the value of your promo by using this technique.

8. Only tweeting different ad promos for the same product or service. This is a huge mistake that can get you from hero to zero followers.

9. Start following every single tweeple you see without any direction or marketing focus. Also, there are many new members that try to follow top users hoping they get the attention of their friends.

10. Putting your account settings and tweets in 100% autopilot! Making your tweets automatic is excellent to save time. But, if you don't interact tweeps will notice and they are going to say bye, bye to you.

11. Most small Internet business owners and beginners use the service without a sense of mission. This is simple without goals and strategies to achieve them you may not see any type of results.

12. Forgetting that you are using the service to expose more people to your message or brand, and not using any type of testing and tracking techniques to see the response that you are getting from the site if there is any.

13. Not replying to tweeps at all! What I mean with this is that if you set up the whole thing to be automatic, and you never visit or check your replies or never replying to anyone can upset your audience and get you many unfollows... Remember this is a social community, and replies is part of being social. And just think how many leads you lost just for not interacting.

"Did you know that if you never say thank you to people that retweet or re-post your messages. Tweeple are going to start posting your messages without a reference to you."

14. Another very important feature of the twit world is "retweets", which is not another thing than a re-post of a tweet that you like and want to share it with your audience. Many beginners forget or don't that retweeting is a great way to get notice, to get retweet, and to increase your audience count.

15. When you are part of this community is a good thing to mention and share your friends and people you like by with "Follow Mentions" hashtags like #FollowFriday, #FF and others. If you send zero follow mentions, you will get zero follow mentions, is that simple.

16. One of the worst tactics I seen is when tweeple submit a post with all the trending topics the moment... Now this is twit-spam, and can get you in trouble... So, avoid it please!

17. Don't use the hot trends of the day to submit ads or completely irrelevant comments. Tweeps can see a spammer miles away! If you have nothing relevant to say or share don't even get in the conversation.

18. Please don't send DM (direct messages) to your audience with reminders of your promotion. This can be consider spam, and will indeed increase your unfollow rate.

19. Another really bad and completely unethical tactics is when marketers post a story about a celebrity death follow by a link to their site, blog, or affiliate links. Extremely bad, stay away from this one!

20. And last but not least is mass follow users as a marketing method to generate an audience for their own messages. This method doesn't really work that well specially if are following the wrong people.

On my next posts I will discus ethical ways to promote your business and get the most out of this fast growing community. Please feel free to share other bad tactics by clicking on the comment button below.

To get unlimited advice about Web 2.0 marketing strategies visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Twitter Traffic Exposed.
- Twitter Traffic Machine.
- Viral Tweets.
- Automated Sales System.
- Subject Line Secrets.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.

Remember to treat Twitter as a social media site not an Internet direct marketing or classified site. This type of communities can help you build a strong long lasting online business if you use it the right way.

To your success,

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8 List Building Elements

2009-06-01T04:45:00.003-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing Tips.

Learn The Elements You Need To Start A List Building Campaign!

As an Internet marketing beginners one of the first thing that you hear from the gurus and experts are that if you want to make money online you need to have you own opt-in email list. Now, this is true to some degree, you don't really need to have your own list to build a profitable Internet business, but using list building as part of your online marketing strategies you can increase your revenue, and you will be able to build a long lasting business by creating long term professional relationship with your customers and prospects.

As you know with all the social media and web 2.0 frenzy around, marketers are expected not just to focus on promotions anymore, but to create social relationships with their audience. And there is where list building can help you better than any Facebook or Twitter profile. Don't get me wrong, you can use social media to help you establish rapport, and start a strong business relationship with hot prospects, but having your own email list can take that relationship to a higher level of trust and of course profitability.

So, it doesn't matter what type of product or service you are promoting, email marketing needs to be one of your main strategies to create a business for years to come... It doesn't matter if you are:

A marketing newbie.
A niche blogger.
A ebook publisher or information marketer.
An affiliate marketer.
A network marketing or MLM sales rep..
A content site owner.
Etc..

It just doesn't matter... List building is design to help you:

1. Build your own contact list of hot prospects.

2. Increase sales with follow up promotions.

3. And build a long lasting relationship with customers and leads.

What List Building Elements Do You Need?

If you already doing business on the Internet for a while you may already know some or all of the elements below, if that is, you should be reading "12 Lead Capture Squeeze Pages Elements Of Success", so you can increase your web conversions and get more subscribers. If you are a beginner, you need to play close attention to each of the items below:

1. An email address exclusive for business and as contact address for your subscribers. You can use the one provided by your hosting company, if not a Google Gmail account will be OK, as soon you don't have any type of important information saved to avoid security problems...

2. You need to get web hosting. This is where your website (squeeze pages) files will be located. Some good hosting companies are: Cogni360 Hosting, Web.com, PowerWeb, and a good free one at Blinkweb.

3. You need a web base or in-house autoresponder management software. This application let you automate your email delivering process. The only thing you have to do is load the information, add a schedule calendar (daily, once per week, every 2 weeks, or monthly). Some good web base applications are Getresponse and Awaber. If you have a limited budget and looking to start with a free service you can use MailChimp (recommended) or FreeAutoBot.

Tip: Don't use Getresponse free service because only let you send 5 follow ups and done, then for you to be able to continue you need to upgrade to the paid service.

Also if you want full control an in-house software or script will better sweet your needs, but you are completely responsible for any spam complains, which and most cases are fake or mistakes, but can still get you in some trouble... The best software I know is Mailloop (Business Automation Software). Whatever you decide to use is imperative to add this element to your marketing toolbox, without it you can't build a permission base email list.

4. Now you need to design a squeeze page (a landing page focus on lead generation through a opt-in email form) don't worry about how it will perform you just need to use some split testing scripts and tactics to track results and improve it while continuing generating prospect's inquiries.

5. You need content... A lot of content to have it pre-load in your autoresponder to be send automatically, this is what in Internet marketing is call an ezine or email newsletter. You don't to load content for a whole year but for at least your first 5 to 10 follow ups.

6. You need to have a web form to get opt-ins constantly. So add your form on your lead capture page of course, your main site, your sales letters, your blog, social profile, etc.. The more exposure to your audience the more prospects you will get.

7. Other that just saying to sign up to your email newsletter for more tips or information, you can boost your opt-in's rate by offering a giveaway like a free report or ebook, a video course, an audio, a free email course, etc.. Or use a promotion that use sense of urgency marketing.

8. You need a "Thank You" page where subscribers are going to be send after they opt-in or after they confirm their subscription to your list. I recommend you to have them confirm the subscription first before sending them to your "Download" or "Thank You" page, this way you avoid spam accusations or mistakes.

For more Information also read:

Here are two videos I found with useful information to help you learn even more about list building:

A video about segmentation. Easy to understand.

How simple is build a email list.

I hope you found those video informative....

To get unlimited advice about opt-in list building and email promotion strategies visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- List Profit System.
- Subject Line Secrets.

- Email Strategies Explained.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.
- Cashmaps Print Newsletter.

Now the only thing to do is put what you learn into action... Just right a mini daily action plan (I will provide some good marketing action plans example later) and stick to them.

To your success,

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12 Lead Capture Squeeze Pages Elements of Success

2009-05-29T16:33:00.010-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing Tips.

Yes, It Will Only Take 12 Elements to Turn Your Lead Capture Squeeze Pages Into a Instant Success!

There are more than 12 ways to increase the success responses from your lead capture marketing campaign but today I want to point at the 12 most important ones, the ones that will boost your lead conversion rate and will give you the opportunity to generate more money from by having a bigger opt-in email list.

Remember that list building is just the beginning of your email marketing campaign, but because is the beginning it needs to provide a good first impression and targeted information and promotion to make your whole system a complete success... I'll be writing more about how to maximize your list building campaign by using strategic promotions on June, right now I just want to help you understand what are the web site design elements or success design tools that every good converting squeeze pages need to have.

Are You A Beginners?

If you are in the Internet marketing beginners or newbies category you might not know what a lead capture landing page is, don't worry is nothing difficult to understand, because you may already seen a few of them on the web, specially if you are searching information about marketing or online business you will see many marketers using lead capture pages offering you some kind of free information or service to have you subscribe.

So, what is a squeeze page? Is not other thing that a mini-site with a little bit of sales copy that will try to sell you into subscribing to their emailing list through a web form that usually ask for your name and email address... But, there are many mini-sites that will ask for more information in order for you to get the free goods, stuff like: Physical address, phone number, web site URL, company name, etc..

Remember to use Internet marketing fundamentals to help you increase your success rate...

I specially in this recession recommend new online marketers and small business owners to focus their Internet marketing campaigns in building a targeted opt-in email list full of potential customers.

12 Optimization Elements For List Building Success.

OK, is time to get to the main factors that your landing pages need to have to deliver better web conversions with higher ROI (return on investment). Here there are:

1. A selling pre-headline.
Make sure your pre-headline have a clear call to action, mention the main benefit for signing up, and if you can tell them how or when they going to get their goods.

2. An attention boosting headline that makes people read more.
Your main headline is very important to the success of your campaign. Make it unique, attention grabbing, big enough for anyone to see, mention the WIFM (What's In It For Me) or main benefit.

3. Use professional ecovers for your giveaway.
To make sure you get a lot of subscribers you need to have some kind of relevant giveaways to promote, something like an ebook, email course, webinar, teleseminar, video, audio, etc.. And to make the product more appeal to your audience is good to use an ecover, which also have been proof to increase your conversion rate.

4. Your name, auto-updating date, and a photo (the photo is optional).
One thing that online marketers can learn from social media is that a real name and a picture can make a big different, why? Because people want to feel comfortable by knowing is a real person behind a web presence. Yes, this is another element that will increase your conversions.

I recommend you to read "Bad Pictures Can Kill Your List Generating Landing Page".

5. Video or audio introduction of yourself and the product (optional).
One thing you can learn from top Internet marketing experts is that they are using video and audio a lot in their salesletters and landing pages, which mean only one thing, it works! Yes, if you want to take your mini site conversion to levels I recommend you to integrate multimedia into your sales process, preferable video.

6. Personal introduction to build maximum rapport with prospects.
Just like the photo, the name, and the video, a written personal introduction can help you get closer to your prospect, because is traditional way for people to start building a relationship.

7. Use bullet points for more attention.
People love to read specially when the content is organize into bullet points. This are great to mention your top benefits... Remember benefits not features!

8. A clear call-to-action and opt-in instructions.
This is just like adding an "Open Sign" on the door of a retail store, makes people take action now. So, tell them that by sign in up with there name and email address on the form below they will be minutes (whatever time will take to deliver the goods) away to get the product that will solve their problem.

9. Add an eye grabbing opt-in form.
By adding a some color, eye popping form border, or a flashy arrow to your form will make it more visible and will also increase your opt-ins.

10. Add opt-in instructions.
This strategy help your leads remember to read your emails. Here you will tell them what to do after signing in, like checking their spam or bulk email inbox for the your email, and tell them to add you to their contact list, so they never miss any important information. Is good to also add this information on your thank you page.

11. Sign off with your name and graphic version of your signature.
This little technique creates more responsiveness, and keep you building more rapport with your audience.

12. Your "contact us", privacy policy, and disclaimer.
Remember that on the Internet success is base on relationships, branding, authority, and trust... So if you want to really make the best out of your list building campaign you need to add links to your "contact us" page, a privacy policy, and to a disclaimer. All this will help you build trust and protect you from any legal troubles.

Also read "8 Squeeze Pages Success Elements" for more lead generation optimization tips.

To get unlimited advice about high conversion lead capture pages strategies visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Cashmaps Print Newsletter. Systematization Strategies.

- Email Strategies Explained. Advanced Email Marketing.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online. New Version.

Another thing you should know is that when you promote on Google Adwords with a lead capture squeeze page you need to have the 12 element that I mention above, specially the privacy policy and the disclaimer. If not, Google will not let you use it until you add those fundamental factors to your site.

To your success,

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May 14 2009 Top Selling Products on The Internet: Make Money

2009-05-13T22:06:00.009-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Internet Business Strategies.

May 2009 Is Full Of Top Selling Products That You Can Use To Make Money On The Internet! Are You Ready?

When you are looking to start selling on the Internet the first thing every smart online marketer should do, is a complete market and keyword research to make sure you are going to sell popular or on-demand products from a good niche with hot trends. When I said hot trends i mean markets with high demand with a lot of search juice and spent money. Is no reason to get in to a market that will not generate enough revenue to help you financially... How can you still provide the service you love to provide if your Internet business will not survive long enough to help as much as you want.

So, starting an Internet business this May 2009 base on top selling products from hot markets is a smart business strategy, which is what makes niche marketing work so well! Just like Mother's Day and other May 2009 top keywords and trends you can have a lot of success starting a new venture focusing on a popular product.

Don't let the recession stop you from keeping your business forward, research shows that consumers still spending in different type of products and services, what you need to make sure is that you are selling the right goods to the right audience...

So, What's The Marketing Secret?

There is no real secret is just simple logic that will help you monetize or increase your current income this year. Is about researching and finding a profitable niche with a long term trend opportunity, then you need to do everything you can t find out exactly what your audience want from a product, then you have to give it to them in a strategic way, not just by putting your message where they going to see it. But, by making your message interact with then, and if your message is spreadable (viral marketing), will mean that your Internet marketing strategies are doing a well done job!

Before I tell you how to make money with this list let's see what are the top selling items on the Internet this month:

Outdoor fireplace.
Push lawn mower.
Underwater camera.
Ray Ban sunglasses.
George Foreman grill.
Wedding cake topper.
Gas generator.
Cross trainer.
Beach chair.
Bass amplifier.
Da Vinci code.
iPod.
Walkie talkie.
Humidifier.
NFL jersey.
High chair.
Smoothie maker.
Golf balls.
Converse high tops.
Dart board.
Garden hose reel.
Thank you cards.
Rain boots.
Pottery wheel.
Tent.
Olympic weight set.
Dog house.
Suntan lotion.
Dog bed.

There are 30 hot niche markets you can target with your promotions right now... Of course if you business have nothing to do with this items you can start a new business venture and start offering any those products to a highly targeted audience...

How to make money online from this popular items list?

Now that you know what people are looking for online you need to move to the next step, which is deciding which trend to follow. This can be done by matching your current skills or knowledge or interests with any of the items above... If you love being in business like me, you may be able to choose any market and turn it into a success without much trouble.

Just make sure to focus on 1 market at a time to ensure your success. I know you don't want anyone to jump in before you, but is not about who's first but who does it better. Remember that Google wasn't the first top search engine and now is the number one! So, focus in approaching the market in a creative way, give something unique that your audience will love, and support your customers with top notch service.

Here are a few ideas of how to generate a profit with those on-demand items:

1. Find two or three good affiliate programs that sell the item you want to promote then set up a web site or blog. Provide reviews, resources, extra information, news.

2. Start an Etsy or eBay store that specialize in one type of product for faster success. Make sure to provide a lot of information about the item you are offering and don't lie. Use paypal as payment option.

3. Start you own ezine or online newsletter, here you can do two things, provide up to date coupons using affiliate program networks like CJ or Linkshare. Or you can provide "how to" info and endorse the product on each email.

4. Set up a niche blog or site with unique quality infomation and use Google Adsense to monetize the site. When you choose micro niches you can espect fast commission check from Google.

5. Use high ranking social content distribution networks like Squidoo, Hubpages, and Knol to build more stream of income from the same market or to use them as your main income source, whaever you decide make sure the content on each site is unique and good.

6. Create free PDF reports that will teach consumer how to purchase or choose the best item for them. Then add affiliate link in to the report content, make sure that you build a opt-in email list this way you can send more information and follow ups to generate revenue over time.

7. See if there is a big enough following for a trend so you can build your own niche social network with sites like Ning... Let people produce the content for you and you can monetize the site with Adsense, affiliate marketing, sponsors, eBay, etc..

To get unlimited advice about making money online from hot markets visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Keyword research tool.
- How To Make Money With eBay.
- Search Engine Marketing Lab.
- Cashmaps Print Newsletter.
- How To Marketing Your Business Online.
- Web Traffic Machines.

No, i didn't forget to tell you about what marketing strategies you can use to make any of those Internet business models work, i just thought will be better to leave them for the end :-)

Well, if you decide to build a content site or blog I recommend you to focus in link building which will make your SEO efforts a lot easier. You can buy or exchange links, just remember that one way links will give you higher ranking.

If you decide to promote your ezine or free PDF report you need to set up a good lead capture page or squeeze page, then for faster results use PPC (pay per click) advertising, not necessary Google Adwords, you can use Yahoo Publishers or MSN Ad Center for cheaper ad rates. Forget about social media marketing if you decide to make money, you can use web 2.0 marketing after to build your brand online.

To your success,

Luis Galarza,
Internet Marketing Consultant In Massachusetts.

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Mother's Day of May 2009 Top Search Keywords and Trends

2009-05-09T00:52:00.004-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Internet Business Strategies.

Is May 2009 And Mother's Day Is Here... One Best Revenue Generating Holidays! Here Are The Top Search Keywords And Trends To Help You Increase Traffic And Sales!

Most large and medium size businesses know that having a promotion calendar with strategic advertising campaigns, needs to be part of every offline or online business marketing plan. Turning a holiday into an Internet sales booster can become one of your most powerful strategies, if is done right... If you do it wrong you can scare potential customers away, and loose current ones just because your promotion didn't tell the message right or confuse your audience, which in the end goes to your competitors. To do it right you need to match and mix Mother's Day or any other holiday in such a clever way that will turn into more web traffic, more hot leads, new customers, increase of sales volume, and increase of your company net income.

I'll be writing more about how to implement an Internet marketing calendar into your business plan and make it work for you, right now I want you to see if Mother's Day 2009 keywords and trends have any micro-markets where you can profit by applying strategic niche marketing tactics.

Also check May 2009 hot trends, top keyword, and popular products list!

Here are the most popular searches for this month holiday (The name of the holiday has been replace by "MD" to avoid keyword saturation):

2603 MD.

1270 MD poems.

1147 MD gifts.

1048 funny MD poem.

702 MD cards.

634 spanish MD poems.

431 poems for MD in spanish.

368 MD flowers.

367 poems for MD for kids.

353 when is MD.

338 christian poem for MD.

319 MD crafts.

303 preschool crafts for MD.

300 MD saying.

293 printable MD cards.

268 free printable MD cards.

186 MD quotes.

169 happy MD.

156 MD gift basket.

154 MD gift ideas.

149 MD cards free.

129 homemade MD gifts.

122 MD gift.

119 MD baskets.

117 MD coupons.

117 MD crafts for kids.

108 MD printables.

100 arts and crafts for MD.

100 easy to make MDs gifts.

86 MD jokes.

83 MD ideas.

78 MD clipart.

69 religious MD poems.

68 crafts for preschoolers for MD.

64 MD cards to print color.

63 MD poem.

61 MD date.

60 MD prayers.

59 short MD poems.

55 MD craft projects.

54 MD sayings.

53 MD poems for children.

51 MD coloring pages.

47 flowers for MD.

47 MD craft kids.

47 MD graphics.

46 MD card sayings.

46 MD songs.

45 MD sermons.

44 MD pictures.

42 MD brunch.

41 bible quotes for MD.

38 MD project.

38 what day is MD.

36 free MD poems.

36 MD poems for nana.

35 craft ideas for MD.

34 origin of MD.

33 MD gift baskets.

32 funny MD poems.

32 MD quotations.

31 mexico MD.

31 MD uk.

31 quote for MD.

31 spanish poems MD.

30 MD jewelry.

28 MD cartoons.

28 MD letter.

28 spanish MD poetry.

27 invitations for MD.

27 MD presents.

26 MD activities

26 MD greetings.

25 funny MD quotes.

25 MD flower bouquets.

24 MD brunch in new hampshire.

24 MD flower craft.

23 free MD clipart.

23 MD card.

23 MD facts.

22 history of MD.

22 julia wad howe MD peace.

22 MD bible verses.

22 MD clip art.

21 MD craft.

21 MD games.

21 MD parties.

21 MD present.

20 poems for MD.

19 funny MD cards printable.

19 MD sermon.

19 MD verses.

18 free MD cards.

18 MD australia.

18 MD craft ideas.

17 date for MD.

17 MD history.

17 MD poems for kids.

16 MD crafts for children.

16 MD crafts for preschoolers.

As you can see Mother's Day have many micro niches that can be taken to start a new Internet business and popular topics to help you increase web traffic for your blog or site. It all depends what your goals are... If you want you can match it with May 2008 results!

To get unlimited advice about marketing calendars and keyword research visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Search Engine Marketing Lab: Unlimited SEO/PPC Advice.
- Cashmaps Print Newsletter. Copy these Online Business Models.
- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online. Complete eMarketing Course.

Just make sure to take the time to do some keyword research to see which mini market have is profitable and which one match with your skills and interest. Selling on the internet becomes easier when you where people are spending their money!

To your success,

Luis Galarza,
Internet Marketing Consultant In Massachusetts.

Feature on the Leominster and Fitchburg MASS News Blog.
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May 2009 Hot Trends, Top Keywords & Popular Products

2009-04-25T14:40:00.007-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Internet Business Strategies.

Can May 2009 Have A Bright Income Opportunity For Online Marketers? See If You Can Monetize This Hot Trends And Top Search Keywords!

I personally think that May have a open opportunity to generate a profit, it all depends if you know how to spot the hot trends for this month and do the right market and keyword research that will uncover money making niches and topics that can become a new start-up or another way to increase your current income.

Some of the factors affecting this month hot markets are the warm season, warm weather sports, outside workout, more walking, more running, holidays, entertainment events, and others (more information about this in the new Trend vs Trends members only blog). Each of this factors can give you many chances to start a new Internet business or create new income streams for your current one. Just make sure is part of your goals and don't take your focus from a current important project. Because as you know jumping from one project to another one you never get nothing done, and you will never make any money that way...

The best way to do this is by starting something new after successfully finishing your current project, or hire extra help to work on the your next venture and you just manage the progress of it. Outsourcing is one the best ways to grow a business on a budget, a little more about that at the end of this post.

Here are some hot trends and keywords from some of the most popular search engines results that represent traffic and niche marketing opportunities:

1. Beyonce.

This celebrity have all kind of hot money making products that can be promoted through affiliate programs like Amazon, eBay, Buy.com, and others... Some of her product are calendars, posters, music CDs, mp3's downloads (Think iTunes), movies, videos, etc..

2. Ali Larter.

3. Mike Tyson.

Looks like Mike Tyson is becoming a hot trend right now because the movie about his life will be in theaters soon. Many people know about his victories but not about his personal and financial failures. This is a flick that not just Mike fans wants to watch but also anyone who love boxing, which makes an excellent micro-niche to generate some good income from, but you need to hurry.

4. Mia Farrow.

5. Don Cheadle.

This is simple just create a fan blog about him and promote his movies... Remember he's part of Iron-man 2 movie.

6. Madden NFL 10.

Put the power of eBay affiliate program work for you here and you can see fast commission checks. Remember to select collectibles, accessories, tickets, cards, clothes, video games, and more.

7. Peanut Butter recall.

Provide news, resources, and useful information to people concern about this and promote similar products that can be use instead of peanut butter.

8. Government Grants.

This recession is making this topic an very hot trend, because there is many people looking for financial help from the Government, and is your duty to help them find what they are looking for.

9. Swine Flu.

This is the number one news now that is on high alert levels for possible pandemic. Many people already jump in the wagon and they're trying to blog about it, but nobody had done a very good job so far...

BLOGGING TIP: Don't just be the news, become the best and only
swine flu online resource center.

10. Carmen Electra.

Her strip tease workout DVDs are very hot and easy sellers, also you can promote posters, calendars, videos, movies, etc..

11. Jamie Lynn Spears.

12. Unclaimed Money.

This is actually a good business opportunity for those who like to do the run around for others and get a percentage of the findings. But, as an online niche marketer you can profit by promoting the business opportunity, books, or earn AdSense commissions by creating a resourceful site.

13. Mexico City Earthquake.

14. NASCAR.

This is another excellent market to be in, because it has a big fan base and is a long term money maker, with collectibles, video games, cards, clothes, and more, is no way you cannot make money online on this market. Just find a unique way to present the information to this audience.

15. Child Obesity.

Just promote healthy food for kids and provide kids healthy eating tips for parents. Huge demand and highly profitable is if done right.

16. Ben Folds.

17. Arlen Specter.

18. Julia Roberts.

She have a good fan base and many movies for you to promote and generate revenue from...

19. Amanda Peet.

20. Aerosmith.

Think CD's, mp3 downloads, ringtones, calendars, posters, concert tickets, you name it! Promote all the products or just focus on one or few micro-niches for faster results.

21. Jeopardy.

22. Bob Dylan.

Of course you can't forget that this most holds one the best sales generating holidays which is "Mother's Day", and as marketer you can base you whole promotions on this holiday to increase your sales this month, or you can use a few other keywords or combine them together in a clever way to boost your Internet marketing campaign conversion rates.

Remember is all about results, so tweak and tune your advertising campaign to help you raise the number of responses you get from an ad. As you know selling on the Internet is all about split testing and tracking to know what needs to be change to improve conversions. Look forward for my article that will reveal some profit potential keywords and niches from the "Mother's Day" holiday.

Take a look at 8 of the most popular products for May and summer 2009:

1. Baby Strollers.

2. Nanny Jobs.

3. Antioxidants.

4. Used RVs.

5. Wolverine Video Game.

6. Surgical Masks.

7. Thank You Cards.

8. Home Gyms.

Here are some of the most popular movies that can give you some web traffic and income benefits this month:

1. Obsessed.

2. Angels & Demons.

3. More Than a Game.

4. The Hurt Locker.

5. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.

6. The Soloist.

As you know you can also add Google AdSense to your stream of income generators, if you don't you will leave money on the table... Just position the AdSense ads and affiliate programs the right way to increase sales and clicks. If you want to increase your affiliate marketing results try to focus the site to recommend relevant products indirectly and directly...

Indirectly, by adding the link in the content of the site without any warning just make sure the anchor and the content of the article is relevant to the product you are promoting.

And directly is by adding a resources area in the site bar with links to related products or services or by writing recommendations, reviews, and also by adding mini recommendation during the content of your article.

MARKETING TIP: Remember niche marketing works best when is
targeting a micro niche per site or category.

After doing all that and still want to use AdSense, just don't be pushy and add the ad unites under each article or blog post, or at the bottom of your site bar.

To get unlimited advice about niche marketing and keyword research visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Small Biz PR Made Easy. Publicity Boot Camp For Entrepreneurs.
- Search Engine Marketing Lab: Unlimited SEO/PPC Advice.
- Cashmaps Print Newsletter. Copy these Online Business Models.
- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online. Complete eMarketing Course.

Don't try to go after the main keywords, trend, or product specially if you looking to generate money fast, instead target a long tail keyword or micro-niche for better and faster results, and then duplicate your success with other micro-niches.

To your success,

Luis Galarza,

Internet Marketing Consultant In Massachusetts.

Feature on the Leominster and Fitchburg MASS News Blog.

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Internet Marketing Tips 2009

2009-04-17T02:31:00.009-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Internet Business Tips and Trends.

This Is Your Daily Resource Of Internet Marketing Tips! Make Sure To Visit Everyday So You Don't Any Tip, Advice, Strategy...

This post will be updated daily with a new Internet marketing tips (new tips will be post at the bottom of the list), that will cover everything from email promotions, online advertising, campaign ideas, business models, and everything to help you attract more web traffic to your site or blog and to get the best results you can from that traffic.

Now this mini tips are excellent to help you put set up action steps for you and your team that can be put on practice on a daily basics. You will also get a few motivation quotes from time to time just to help you keep the fire going. Also you will find some good videos I found that can help you in your journey. I completely recommend to check the rest of the blog if you want more detail information about any of the tips or call me and leave you question at 978-425-1422, I will gladly write a post to answer it on this blog.

Also you can follow me on Twitter for the "Daily Marketing tip" or search Twitter using the that phrase or the hashtag #dimt.

OK let's begin!

For bloggers and content site owners a great way to generate constant targeted traffic is by submitting your articles RSS feed to Zimbio.

Conquer your the search results for your main keyword by building sites or blogs targeting the niche with different information.

If you are the face and brand your company make sure to use professional pictures, or pictures where you look good to do business with.

If you use PPC (Pay-Per-Click) advertising, check organic result for videos in top position, this can take a lot of the traffic you can get. Focus on keywords where videos are not in the search results.

For SEO: Universal search result means you need to mix content syndication and use audio, video, images, PDF files, and text.

Bloggers don't be afraid to link to other blog, people usually visits the blog that is linking to them or is sending traffic.

Make sure to build your Internet business model base on a profit generating funnel. For example: capture page, oto (One Time Offer), up sale, info, backend offers, etc.

On Twitter: Make sure you deliver a sense of quality by sharing only quality stuff, this way you will increase the value of your word and brand.

A Tip on viral marketing... Hire a freelance software developer and have him build a small niche related app., then give it away for free with your information on it!

For SEO and Credibility: Prepare a least one press release every month have it check by a PR expert like "Your Pitch Sucks" and distribute the articles to PR directories like PRWeb.

Also check the following training videos:

Video 1: Increase Traffic.

Video 2: Generate Traffic With Press Releases.

Video 3: Build Web Traffic Channels.

Increase Traffic - How to Increase Web Site Traffic - video powered by Metacafe

To find more details about each mini-tip just use the search box at the top of this blog or call 978-425-1422 and leave your question in the voicemail.

Recommended Courses & Tools.

- Search Engine Marketing Lab: Unlimited SEO/PPC Advice.
- Cashmaps Print Newsletter. Copy these Online Business Models.
- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online. Complete eMarketing Course.

Don't be shy and share your own online marketing tips by clicking on the comment link below this post, or if you think some of this tips are worng or want to add to it please do, the more we share the more we learn, the more money we all make.

To your success,

Luis Galarza,

Internet Marketing Consultant In Massachusetts.
Feature on the Leominster and Fitchburg MA News blog.
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Product Creation Secrets Behind Street Fighter Movies Failures

2009-04-13T18:52:00.015-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Internet Business Strategies.

Do You Think The Street Fighter Movies Failure's Can Teach You Some Product Creation Secrets?

Well, let see! If you are familiar with the Street Fighters classic video games, cartoon show, and comics, you may already know that the franchise released two movies one in 1994 starting one of the top action actors in that time Jean Claud Van Dann, and the second one was release this year (2009) title "Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li". Both films make money, but didn't hit the jockpot like they expected, which was really estrange, because the games are one of the most popular video games in the world and are consider classic collectibles.

Now is time for the good strategies and the bad strategies!

Good Product Development Secrets.

Something good you can learn from their movies failures is that they created multiple type of products that could be sold to the same and larger targeted fan based, all from one single product "The Video Game". First they turn the game into a comic, then they broadcast the TV show all over Japan and the U.S.. And them when they saw that the buzz about the franchise was still strong they decide to make a film.

This is great advice for any new or advanced online marketer who are focus on information products publishing and software development.

For example, as an infoproduct publishing company you can create an ebook or report, them after or during transaction you can offer your customers the opportunity to buy the video tutorial to get step by step demonstrations, also you can develop the software that will make the whole process even easier for your students, and why stop their, now you gut the opportunity to offer a membership base service where you and your team will do all the dirty work for them and make things way more easy. You see the picture... all started with one product!

Quote: "A successful product is never successful until you expand the profit
possibilities of such a product." Luis Galarza :-)

Well, as yo can see you can apply this same strategies to expand the profit generation potential of a product or service. Like Donald Trump said "Think Big, Think Expansive".

So Why The Movies Fail!

There can be different factors, and many experts will try to go deep into the analytic part of the situation, which is is completely irrelevant to what really happened. The movies failure can happened to any kind of information product like ebooks, reports, video tutorials, teleclasses, webcast, podcast, etc., they fail because the creators or publishers didn't provide what their audience wanted.

In the game, the comic, the TV show the main characters were Ryu and Ken, so when fans heard about the production of a movie they got exited, they were waiting for a long time, they when to watch it, and BOOM! The movie crash against the ground because they completely change the story that everyone already knew, and was expecting to see, but instead they got a different plot that put the main characters in second or even third place inside the story. let me tell you that was a killer... The movie was good if it had a different name, not Street Fighter.

Then 2009 comes with another episode of the film that offer another B.S. story, and killed the potential of the product.

Here is exactly what help the movies fail:

1. - Not enough market research.

2. - Not giving what their customers wanted.

3. - Not listening to their current customers.

4. - Not knowing how to spot opportunities from current data.

5. - Bad risk management.

6. - Trying to reinvent the product idea without strong market data.

Secrets To Fix This Developing Problem.

Well done market research is crucial to the success of any Internet marketing campaign or online business idea. Also, you need to learn how to manage the risk, how to analyze the data, and how to spot or find hiding opportunities inside your niche or company. Some thing you can do to help you in your product creation process are:

- Surveys to current customers and leads to know how to improve your offerings, and see what else they want you to provide.

- Polls on site are a fast way to get instant feedbacks on different topics.

- Social networks, leverage the large amount of people in top networks to gain market insights.

- Keyword research, from organic search results and PPC advertising.

- Ask for testimonials to know what people like about your product, so you improve other things.
- Research feedbacks and customer service inquiries to better understand the need of your audience.

- Keep in top of trade news to spot new trends that may help you find ideas to improve your current product or to come out with new ones, depending on where the market is moving to.

Product creation can be simple if you know the secrets to provide exactly what your potential customers want. So, even if you don't have money to invest on research, is OK, the web is now full of free and low cost services that can be use to research a niche based on keyword search counts, hot web topics, news, etc.. you can use tools like the free Wordtracker tool for top search keywords, Affiliate Elite to spy on your competition PPC campaings and more, and IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Search Engine Marketing Lab: Unlimited SEO/PPC Advice.
- Cashmaps Print Newsletter. Copy these Online Business Models.
- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online. Complete eMarketing Course.

Remember to always do keyword research and to keep a file with all the results you get. This is essential to help you come out with new ideas for porduct, articles, and new Internet business ventures.

Here a good video that will open your mind about the furute of product placement, creation, and effective marketing through social media:

Hope you enjoy the video and the post, if you have any question or want to share your own opinion please just click on the comment link below this post and express yourself.

To your success,

Luis Galarza,

Internet Marketing Consultant In Massachusetts.

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4-5-2009 Top Search Keywords And Trends For Creativity Juice

2009-04-05T15:37:00.009-04:00

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing Tips.

April 5th 2009 Top Search Keywords and Hot Topics or Trends!

Every now and then any web marketer, journalist, and blogger needs some creativity juice, why not getting some juice full of top search keywords vitamins and hot trends proteins for your content.

It doesn't matter what you need the content for, a new article for syndication, a blog post, information for your newsletter or site, etc., the things is that you need to know that as an Internet marketers or writer you need constant flow of new content that will keep your audience engage, coming back for more, and let's not forget how important original content has become to improve your organic search engine ranking (SEO efforts).

Content is important even for those entrepreneurs who are trying to create new online videos, podcast, webcast, webinars, teleseminars, online radio shows, etc., for that reason is good to be on top of popular topics or news, and not just those news with information relevant to your market. Because, if you've been reading my posts, you already know that is a good Internet marketing strategy to tide popular topics with your sales message.

The key here is to do it right... For example; topics like the recession, the stock market down turn, unemployment, and others can be easily tide to many kind of online or offline marketing campaigns and articles (like Press Releases or Blog Posts) to maximize the ROI (return on investment) of each campaign.

So, now that we know that content is queen, we can continue to with the list of super hot trends and free top search keywords for April 5th 2009.

From Top Engines.

Popular Searches.

Michelle Rodriguez.
Nefertiti.
Patricia Clarkson.
Cheryl Hines.
George Harrison.
Grocery Coupons.
Palm Sunday.
Acid Reflux.
Mini Laptops.
Yankee Stadium Tickets.

Popular Celebrities.

Leighton Meester.
Minka Kelly.
Kris Allen.
Audrina Patridge.
Adam Lambert.
Blake Lively.

From Twitter.

Hot Trending Topics.

#pawpawty.
Easter.
#wrestlemania.
ACMs.
CM Punk.
Palm Sunday.
Sun Microsystems.
Fast & Furious.
Kid Rock.
Country Music Awards.
Adventureland.

From Other Engines.

Other Top Searches.

Gmail.
Facebook.
Cars.
Youtube.
Travel.
Drudge Report.
Yorkies Adoption.
Infowars.
Land Contract Homes.
Google Maps.
CNN.
Alex Jones.
Supermodels.
GCNLive.
Rense.
Weather.
Craig List.
Pokemon.
Wikipedia.
Poker.
Amember.
Tax Returns.
Hulu.
Exercise Charts.
Coast coast.
Guest Book Message.
Health.
Lowes.
Twitter.
Lookup.
Car paint colors.
Walmart.

So, can you spot a few stand alone money makers? This is just a little piece of paper compare to the information that we are going to be providing in Trends vs. Trend.

To get unlimited advice about keyword research and trend spotting visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Small Biz PR Made Easy. Publicity Training For Beginners.
- Cashmaps Print Newsletter. Systematization Strategies.
- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online. Complete eMarketing Course.

Other than just spotting hot topics that can be mix with your marketing message or web content, you can also find some good new hot money making micro niches for a new venture. Just make sure you check keywords, competition, advertising, affiliates, PPC rates with Affiliate Elite research software. After doing a good research just go for it, if it fits with your goals, business structure, budget, interest.

Oh! Before I forget, earlier in this article I said that "content is queen", I refer to content as queen because to really have massive search engine traffic you need quality one way back links to your site or blog. If you want high ranking in search engines you need a lot of relevant one way back links.

Picture source: ScienceBlogs.

To your success,

Luis Galarza,
Internet Marketing Consultant In Massachusetts.

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