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Writing Online Classified Ad Descriptions

noreply@blogger.com (rockscene) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:24:00 +0000

Writing Listing Descriptions

Writing you listing descriptions is a sort of art form. It takes some research, technique and a certain level of salesmanship. Listings should follow a few guidelines that we have listed below. Each listing will be different based on the needs of the item being listed and your target audience but, for the most part, these guidelines should help you create a listing that sells.

Keep it Clean: Do not clutter your listing up. It is important that the customer can focus on the item being sold and the important benefits and features you are trying to convey. If you clutter the listing with complicated patterns, irritating colors, or complex layouts you will most likely create a listing that people will not read and in turn leave to find a more pleasing listing. Standard colors should apply. Nothing too shocking. Keep the text black on a white background if possible. This is the preferred color combination for websites that are heavy with text and should be utilized when creating your listing.

Photo Formatting: The format of your photo can make a difference if they are far too big or far too small. Try to keep the size just large enough that you can see what the item is as well as the condition of the item but no so large that it encompasses the entire screen or takes forever to load. Keep the number of photos down as much as possible but make sure you have enough to show any details that are needed.

Text Formatting: The text within a listing should be formatted in keeping with the standard set of guidelines for text. You need to remember that it is important for buyers to be able to read and comprehend the info you are putting in the listing. For this to happen you should avoid "special" text formats for paragraphs such as all caps, all bold, massive fonts, all italics, crazy font colors, multiple font colors, centered text, or any other formats that are intended for titles and to bring out bits of text. These are not intended for paragraphs or large portions of text. Keep it formated as if it were in a magazine or newspaper.

Text quality: The text in your listing should be written to the highest standard your ability allows. Do not have typos, misspellings, or inaccurate information. Keep the information organized and relevant to the item being listed. Keep the descriptions short and sweet. Give them the heart of the description not all the extra information that has no bearing on the item as well (package size, date of purchase, etc.). If the information does not promote the benefits or the features it is not needed. Eliminate it and you will have a much more sleek listing.

In short it is good to create a listing that is short, well written, pleasing to the eye, and easily understood. The listing page is your salesperson. It is the face of your company so make it the best face possible.

What is your problem!

noreply@blogger.com (rockscene) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:01:00 +0000

Allot of people get into online marketing and immediately call themselves a mentor.
Their goal is to "help" other people or to "solve" problems for others.
Many of these people don't even know the first thing about marketing to really help someone else. Some sell products in an area that they don't are experts in. These people might mean well, but they are really don't bring anything of value to the table.

If marketing was like getting a job - they would have to prove experience or knowledge.
They wouldn't be able to jump right in and manage a department of any size right off the bat - why do 1st time marketers thing they can? Why do mentors teach them to "position" themselves as such?

If marketers want to position themselves as an expert - they should start of in the areas that they know. What knowledge or experience do they have now? If they were to get a job - what field would it be in? Maybe they are currently working? In what field?

I spend 80% of my time online most days. Most of that is spent in the same areas:
Marketing: learning and executing a marketing system
Sports/Football/NFL/New York Giants Football,
Trading/Stocks/Options/Currencies

I have multiple blogs. - Not always consistent as to posting to them everyday.
One is on marketing, but one is about my favorite style of music and another is about my favorite football team. I believe in taking what we spend (waste?) the most time on already and use it to:
1)learn to drive traffic
2)getting consistent traffic
3)monetize that traffic in some way

What are your blogs about? Do they relate to what your good at?
If you didn't make any money at it would you still blog about it?

I come to the realization that we are not in competition with each other for each "prospect" or "friends" that we meet in the social network world. There seems to be allot of online marketers trying to sell to other online marketers.

That is like going to a computer school to learn how to fix computers and while we are there, trying to get the other students to pay to fix their computers....

We should help each other learn the business and they go out and help others - plumbers, doctors, small business to medium sized businesses in our local areas to start and maybe pickup some business online too.

It seems like we are trying to learn the marketing business so we can sell eBooks and a video series to other online marketers. Didn't we learn anything from MLM?

Wasn't that one of the big beefs with MLM? All we did was sign up people in our downline only to sell products to them? We were instructed to "grow the business". We were told that we would never make any money just trying to sell products only. I see a conflict of interest there. The only reason to build a downline was to sell to them. That never sat right with me.

Having said that - there are some benefits to joining a group.
We can share knowledge
Bounce around ideas
Motivate each other
Keep up on the latest trends
As a group, in this 'current' Web 2.0 environment, there are some techniques that a group can do together to help "work the system" - to help each other look good for the search engines.

I think we should stop trying to compete against each other and work together to be better marketers so that we can go forth and help others with their marketing needs.

How Not to use Facebook...

noreply@blogger.com (rockscene) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:48:00 +0000

I get real tired of people who only post their business opportunity.
They don't comment anything worthwhile or on any kind of personal level.

We all have some sort of busines (online, mlm, brick-n-morter) to promote, but there is a classy way to do it and a spammy way to do it.

As in life, so too with Social Networks - It truly does go around.
We can make our (facebook) world anyway we want it.

When we see friends that only spam - and never converse - De-friend them. Kick them out into the cold. They show no social-redeeming value. When we see someone of value, we should add them as a friend, check out their links in their profile, subscribe +/or add to their youtube, myspace, and twitter.

Don't stop at subscribing:
Comment on their facebook wall.
Edify them by posting something positive to a another friend's wall.
Bookmark them! Ping their site.
Subscribe to their RSS feed.

These are all forms of Social Networking currency. You don't have to join everyone's business oportunity or buy their product. By doing some or all of these things - you can put a form of money in their pocket.

We should all strive to do that for each other - that's what real friends do for each other.

If we raise up the good people in our Networks and push down the spammy ones, the cream WILL rise to the top for those who truly "get" the social networking thing.

Pat Frazier
My Online Marketing blog
My Youtube Videos
My Business Opportunity

How I do research in Youtube

noreply@blogger.com (rockscene) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:52:00 +0000

As part of my keyword research, I like to check out youtube videos and channels to see how others are doing and how they are using YouTube in their marketing.

Startout by doing a keyword search in Youtube.
Click on advanced options
- Change "Sort Results By" to by view count
- Change uploaded to this month and hit search
You now have a highly targeted list of videos for the keyword or keyword phrase

The next step is to compare the views that the top 5 or 10 are getting. If they are not up in the thousands, you either have a great niche you can corner or one that is not worth your time. Check other search engines to decide.

Start at the top and look at the top 5 or so videos to see the following:
How good is the video?
Click on the more info link to see how they approached the profile section. Some people stuff that section with tons of keywords or description text, others keep it simple. Not sure how much weight this holds. I think it is weighted lower.

Look at the tags.

Scroll down to the comments area - do they have alot of coments?
How about video coments?

How many views?
How is it rated?

Click on Statistics and Data
compare the views with when the video was posted
Has it been favored?
Does it have any Honors?

Does it have any sites linking to it.
This is my favorite section. It gives me other video sites to use in posting my video. It may point to other blog sites to use.
It may point to a person blog that the video producer is using.
I like to check out all of the links to see how they are using their youtube vidoe.

I think Youtube ranks higher when you spread their video around.

Watch this video and please subscribe to my Youtube Channel and post a reply to this blog.

or you can click on the link: How I do research in Youtube

Again, Watch this video and please subscribe to my Youtube Channel and post a reply to this blog.

Thanks
Pat Frazier

Are you in my 5?

noreply@blogger.com (rockscene) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:19:00 +0000

The current Alexa top 5 websites are

1 Yahoo
2 Google
3 You Tube
4 Windows Live
5 Facebook

Are you utilizing these sites? How?
Here are my sites:
Yahoo:
I use my.yahoo.com to recieve rss feeds from my blogs

Google:
I use google for my blogs, some adsense, have used adwords in the past, may get back to it as my ranking for certain keywords increase, just started to use google share thru my google reader

You Tube:
I have started to create various videos,
currently working on getting better at channel and video profile & tag keyword optimization,
also looking into the benefits of creating playlists as a way of drawing traffic

Windows Live:
Haven't used yet

Facebook:
I am now on Facebook and try to be as active as I am.
Alot of my blog ideas come from my interactions with my Facebook friends.
My profile points to one of my business opportunities as well as backlinks to Youtube, myspace and my blogs.

Add more friends or develope the relationship of the friends we already have?

noreply@blogger.com (rockscene) — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:07:00 +0000

What is the balance we should have between adding friends and developing the relationship?

I am trying to stick to a rule of only adding friends thru a mutual friend, and only if we have a strong relationship that friend. If we want to use a mutual friend to add a new friend - they should know us by name. Conversely, we should be faily aquainted with them, their websites, blogs, videos, etc as if we are family members or co-workers, or friends from the gym, etc

I had a friend that I had not built up a relationship yet and recieved an email to join her business opportunity. I'm thinking, who is this person? I did have the person as a friend, so I looked at her info (profile), This person did not contribute to too many walls and her profile is mostly about her great opportunity. I dropped her from my friends list. Maybe if we had an aquaintance list, she could have stayed there. I guess "friends" means too much too me to just have anyone.

Another example was a friends request by someone who (at least) put in a message - that much I liked, but the message was all about his great opportunity. We didn't even have any mutual friends!! rejected!

I think I will go slowly on the adding friends part and work harder at building a relationship with the friends I have. I believe I need to "earn" the right to make friends with their friends.

I've been spending time on youtube learning from others. I am thinking of creating a blog +/or website devoted to the people I am learning from - maybe not their sales pages, but rather, their videos. This will let others see the path I am on in my learning as well as "edify" (I think Eric Green invented that word - just kidding Eric) those that have given me soo much.

Here's another benefit to me - I can create traffic, more content ideas, search engine ranking, and find ways to use and someday own or at least rank high for certain keywords.

3rd video is now up on youtube

noreply@blogger.com (rockscene) — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:49:00 +0000

Imperfect Action - Giovanna Garcia talkes about it all the time.
It's about getting over yourself and getting things done.

Mine was - content? How am I going to come up with new content?
Video? I can't do videos - don't have the equipment, special lighting, don't know what to say...etc
Facebook? Ok, I have friends, now what.....

If you are new to this stuff or stuck in the mud of late here's what you do:

Step 1 (account setup)
Sign up for these free accounts: facebook, blogger or wordpress, youtube

Step 2 (video)
Look up one of your facebook friends or do a keyword search for a topic.
watch a video and take some notes
then do a reply or comment to that video within youtube

You can do this by clicking on account in youtube and then upload
It will let you record a video right there.

After you get done making the video, go back to that video you just watched, click "post a video response"
then choose the link "choose a video"
You will see a drop down box with your video(s) in it.
Select the video reply you just made and then
click respond with this video

Step 3 (blog)
Go into your Blogger or Wordpress account and write about what you just did.
You can even put the video link in your blog.
Tell your reader
Why you created the video. (get some experience creating videos)
What you hoped to accomplish by doing the video. (Get over your fear or procrastinations)
What you want the the reader/video watcher to do (click on a link)

Step 4 (facebook)
Go into Facebook and tell all your friends to please go check your video and blog.
You can even cut and paste your blog into the notes section of facebook.
You can put your links to your blog and videos into your facebook profile.
If you have any technical issues taking these steps - leave me a message on my wall in Facebook and I will get you the answer - probably by video.
　
Today, I created my 3rd video. This one was not a comment on another video.
It was the video on this blog go check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpEUIJKC_mI

Eric Green review

noreply@blogger.com (rockscene) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:59:00 +0000

I finally did my 2nd video.

It was a reply to Eric Green's video on Edification.

I think that doing video comments are a great way to get experience in making video's.
To see my (imperfect action), go to youtube and search for rockscene2 in the channels or click on this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pN1We3nbjc

While you are there, subscribe to my channel.

I am adding a page to my website to give reviews and take some quick notes on some of the videos/pdf's/audios I listen to. This is a great way to monitize the time we spend surfing the net. Take some notes, give your opinion, get used to creating content.
This will also help you get traffic from the search engines.

point links to your blogs, youtube channel and your social networks like facebook.

How to start your online business using Facebook

noreply@blogger.com (rockscene) — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:05:00 +0000

Janeth Duque wrote an article on EzineArticles.com that caught my attention.
101-FREE-Ways-to-Drive-Traffic-to-Your-Website
http://ezinearticles.com/?101-FREE-Ways-to-Drive-Traffic-to-Your-Website&id=1344426

I think if you are just starting out - you should do a couple of these things only.

One of the best ways to get started is on Facebook.
Start by developing relationships with people first.
Find out who is out there. Who know their stuff.
Also, get with people who are on the same path as you.
See who their friends are. Look at their videos. Study how they use Facebook.
Are they active adding friends? Do they write to their notes area or import a blog?
Do they write on other peoples walls? Do they refer others? Do they give what I call "back-handed" compliments?
That is, do they talk well about others to their other friends? I think that is more powerfull than pandering to the people directly. So many people want to get online and start selling to people they no nothing about.
With Facebook, you can find qualified people who fit in with what you are doing and where you are going.

Find your mentors on Facebook. See how they use Facebook and how often are they on there?
You can find right away whether you are putting in enough effort when you see how much others are.

Ultimately, don't spend tons of time agonizing over where to start. Pick one, spend some time learning the ins and outs of using the site and be a regular. Once you've mastered using one social media site, you can consider adding another one to your marketing mix.

Where I spend my time

noreply@blogger.com (rockscene) — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:01:00 +0000

Where do I spend the most time and how do I make a blog entry out of this.
Which blog should this go into?
What other content can I create with this? article? announcement? video?
what are my keywords?
what other keywords should I add?
how can I use this to get more organized?
any free content available to me to give away?

Where do I spend the most time?
gym
basketball
bike
work with Curt
work with Tobbie
Online

work around the house
lawn
dishes
vacuum
cleaning bathrooms
pool
organizing garage

Where do I spend the most time online?
facebook - develop relationships, network with like-minded people
youtube - create and find videos

stocks, yahoo finance, ct
ctfx - checking my paper trades and charts
take ctfx trades and ct stock picks and add to trading blog

giants -
http://www.giants.com
http://www.nj.com/giants
http://www.sportsline.com/nfl

online marketing - action
online marketing -
Hairnation blog, adding youtube videos, creating webpages with banners
classified ads for
1466 roomates
7108 for rent
contractor work

Keywords
online marketing
time management
social networking
free classified ads

classified ads
free classified ads
free classifieds ads
free online classified ads
online advertising marketing
online marketing
online marketing business
online marketing promotion
online marketing strategies
online marketing strategy
online social networking
online time management
place free classified ads
post free classified ads
social network
social networking
social networking site
social networking sites
time management
time management skills

Online Marketing Activity

noreply@blogger.com (rockscene) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:42:00 +0000

This blog is being used as an online activities dump.

I will think thru my ideas and action steps.

I will then post my formulated ideas to my other blogs at:

My heavy metal blog (Info on my favorite music)

http://hairnation.blogspot.com/

Pat's Hot Stock Picks (my daily stock picks, general trend direction, 4x pairs)

http://wizestockpicks.blogspot.com/

MyBlogDiary

This will be my step by step thought process for making driving traffic and money online http://myonlinemarketingposts.blogspot.com/

How I make money

Internet marketing articles and how-to's on how to drive traffic online

http://the-rockscene.blogspot.com/

How Art Buying is related to writing articles and Online Marketing

noreply@blogger.com (rockscene) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:32:00 +0000

How Art Buying is related to writing articles and Online Marketing

On a flight back from Chicago, I was taking a break from my library book "Buzz Marketing for Dummies

with Blogs" by Susannah Gardner.

I decided to read an article in the American way magazine called:
"Art Buying 101 by Tracy Stanton.

I found some interesting correlations between art buying and online marketing.

"This investing game has it's own rules and procedures and its not for the dilettante because following

the rules takes allot of work."

In the marketing game you need to have a plan with procedures that you stick to on a daily, weekly, and

monthly basis. If you are not working on your marketing on a regular basis, you won't generate traffic

and without the traffic = no sales.

Jay Levingston has 2 rules:
1) Design your plan
2) Stick to your plan

Rule # 1
“Too many people buy too fast,” San Francisco art consultant and appraiser Alan Bamberger says. “The

more you see, the better your eye gets".

Too many marketers join every program online without getting good at marketing any 1 thing. They

should learn to be an expert at one type of program by doing that, you'll be able to narrow your

expertise to a niche that has much less competition and gives you the best chances of being the expert

in that niche

Rule # 2
"Once you narrow your focus shift into fact finding mode"

Find out who the guru's are - who are the best marketers, the best guru's, who are the trainers whose

sites, articles & blogs do you see everywhere.
Do more research on them online -
Who what else are they doing who do they hang out with?
Who did they learn from?
Who follows them?
What are they known for market?
What tools do they use?
Who or what were their influences?
Who do they quote in their article - how do they do that?
How often?
Learn how they setup or structure their articles, webpages, email series.

Rule # 3
"Buy the best you can afford"

Once you've done your research, do some testing.
Decide which tactics work the best for you, your budget and your available time.
Then market, market, market but keep tracking and adjust your tactics as needed.

Rule # 4
Trust your (well educated) instincts

Rule #5
"Buy only what you love"
(i.e.: Find your Niche) Write about what you know, your experiences, what you love to do, etc.

Rule #6
"Think long-term"

Don't expect instant results, be in it for the long haul
don't keep changing tactics without giving them time to work out

Here is a tip for all you article and blog writers - look for article ideas everywhere - I found mine a

plane!

When reading an article that you plan on using as the basis of your article - do some research to see if it

was part of a bigger article or book or part of a series of articles on the subject the author has written.

This is an article on how Art buying and Article Marketing are similar.
This article has some simple rules that apply to art buying as well as Online Marketing and Article

Writing. You can also compare this article to the referenced article to get some ideas on how you can

get ideas from other online and offline articles you read. You can find something in a different

niche/topic that could be adapted for your niche.

Art Buying 101
http://www.americanwaymag.com/tabid/2855/tabidext/4060/default.aspx
Tracy Staton is a contributing editor to American Way.

Patrick Frazier
http://myez20dollars.info/

How to Make Money Online the easy way

noreply@blogger.com (rockscene) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:51:00 +0000

95% of the online Business opportunities out there promise that you will make tons of money.95% of the marketers out there claim that they are making thousands of $$ per day and will be a marketing guru and to tutor you.

The reality is that only 5% of the marketers are making any significant money. Those are usually the experienced marketers. Don't be fooled by false claims. This is a tough business.
It takes time.You have to commit yourself. You have to do some work.

If you do, you can and will make money. How long it will take is up to you.

"Becoming a master is not about doing 4000 things but by doing a handful of things 4000 times"- Chet Holmes wrote in The Ultimate Sales Machine

There are many ways to make money online.
Most people try to do too much and don't have a good daily plan.

Here is my plan:
80% of my time is spent marketing online.
20% of my time is spent learning how to market online.

select 1 or 2 websites/blogs to market online
create and post content in articles, ezines, forums etc
use Web2.0 type websites to get you noticed by the search engines and web directories.
Use free traffic exchanges to get additional traffic
Use free safe lists to get additional traffic
Message boards & online forums
go back to step 2 and repeat

Before you join all kinds of programs, You need to learn how to market - I suggest you start your online marketing business with a $20 affiliate program like EZ20: http://myez20dollars.info

It only cost you $20 to join and you get allot of training and marketing tools. You also make $20 every time someone signs up.

Initial Marketing Tactics
Learn some of the mechanics of marketing a sales page provided by EZ20:
start a blog free at Blogger.com see a sample at
http://myonlinemarketingposts.blogspot.com/
setup tracking free at http://sitemeter.com - this tells you how much traffic you are
getting and where it came from

a) The sales page you get from EZ20 comes with instructions
b) The blog is used to post ideas as you learn them - use this like a diary - that will also be used to promote your salespage.
c) You will need to add tracking to your salespage and your blog so that you know where the traffic is coming from and what part of your marketing is working.

Start getting traffic
Article marketing http://ezinearticles.com,
http://www.articlecity.com,
http://www.allthewebsites.org/articles

Forum marketing
Yahoo,
Google,
MSN forums

Traffic exchanges
Vinterchange: http://vinterchange.com/?ref=10087
Deep Sea hits: http://deepseahits.com/index.php?referer=rockscene
Hit Safari: http://www.hitsafari.com/newuser.php?ref=rockscene

Safelists
Croc Ads: http://rockscene.crocads.com
List Joe: http://listjoe.com/j/rockscene

Free classifieds
craigslist,
backpage

Press releases http://prweb.com

You can use forums and article sites to learn how to write articles. You can formulate your own article ideas by reading others and creating your own articles. As your write you not only get better at writing, but you also get a better understanding of the subject matter. When you write an article, you will submit them to the article directories and also mention the article in any posts to the message boards you frequent. Traffic exchanges, safelists and classified sites will teach you how to write little ads and to generate traffic quickly. Press releases are used to draw attention to your new site and blog or to your most recent articles.

This is all you need to do.But you need to do this on a regular basis.Your goal is to increase traffic every day and every week. If you just can't write - start with the traffic exchanges and the safelists above until you learn to write articles. Just make sure you check your sitemeter to see how you are doing.

Patrick Frazier is an online marketer who is NOT a Marketing "guru"!!! and is not making Millions of dollars online yet.
my website: http://myez20dollars.infomy blog
http://tinyurl.com/6c4dnw

Free online marketing training: http://tinyurl.com/3qhguw
More traffic tools can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/4ckj4y

Also check out my blog for some internet marketing tips that you may or may not already know!
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Please Add this blog to your Technorati favorites

noreply@blogger.com (rockscene) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:13:00 +0000

Creating a Technorati ping

noreply@blogger.com (rockscene) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

When setting up a Technorati account, you should claim your blog. I am doing this by posting to my blog per Technorati's instructions when I signed up.

Technorati code
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Real World Strategies

noreply@blogger.com (rockscene) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:52:00 +0000

Decide what is the market.
What is the niche inside that market
what are the keywords that best describe and/or have the highest ranking in the search engines
setup blogs and/or websites utilizing those keywords/niche
setup tracking and capture pages
write articles on those subjects
press releases
forums
classified ads
traffic exchanges
safelists
social networks

What is this Blog for

noreply@blogger.com (rockscene) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:24:00 +0000

This is a new blog that I setup to put all my Online Marketing ideas together.
This is like a blogdump. I will put all my ideas together here and then use these ideas to put together specific blogs on the various marketing tools. I will also use these ideas to create content for articles to publish.

I will try to sumarize at the end of each post.

1) post daily on what ever comes to mind - get ideas from books, pdfs, other blogs, videos, emails etc

2) organize my thoughts daily

3) start putting together common themes that can be organized into coherent content.

4) start thinking about keywords, target markets, resources