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Reporter vs Expert - Why Most Bloggers Are Stuck Reporting

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:34:00 +0000

There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it's hard for reporters to become experts, but it's easy for experts to report).
If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I'll be frank; you want to be the expert.
Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven't established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it's easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.
Most Bloggers Are Reporters

The thing with expertise is that it requires something - experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).

There's nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it's a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts - there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.

Don't Replicate Your Teacher

If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a guru (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.

The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry - the Internet marketing industry - not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it's next to impossible to succeed.

Even people, who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it's fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche - Internet marketing - and rarely have any key points of differentiation.

How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things - email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It's a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let's face it - making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) - your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.

If the key is to become an expert and you haven't spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.

Report on Your Process, Not Others

The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people's work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.

It's okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it's fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there's. Frame things using your opinion - your stories - and don't regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.

Expertise comes from doing things most people don't do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.

You Are Already An Expert

Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don't leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.

Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life, who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of�well fear.

Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven't much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.

Reporting Is A Stepping Stone

If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from scratch, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.

Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.

Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it's okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that's all most experts really are.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

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14 Ways To Get Your Site Visitors Email Address

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:19:00 +0000

There are so many people who are missing out of the opportinity of a life time.
What did they do?
The question is, what did they not do.
They allow traffic to their sites go untapped.
This alone is the nemesis to many newbie marketers.
The is the well known secret to many great internet marketers.
They ask for the visitors email.
I have had some student say they are getting very little results, well I suggest improvise. There are many ways you can do this.
Here are some 14 surefire ways you can go about this, and if properly done can be of immerse value to you and your business for life
Enjoy.
1. Ask visitors to subscribe to your e-zine. It's a good idea to also give them a freebie when they subscribe.
2. Have them sign-up to get access to download a free ebook. The subject of the ebook should be related to your target audience.
3. Give your visitors a free membership inside your member's only web site. Have them sign-up to receive a user name and password. .
4. Hold a free contest or sweepstakes at your web site. Ask them to give you their contact information to enter.
5. Offer your visitors free consulting via e-mail. Have them fill out a web form to e-mail you with their questions.
6. Hold an interactive poll on your web site. Ask your visitors to e-mail you their vote or opinion.
7. Ask your visitors to sign-up for a chance to get a web site award. Have them e-mail you their contact and web site information.
8. Have visitors fill out a survey on your web site. Give them a free gift as an incentive to complete the form.
9. Offer a free online service from your web site. Have visitors fill out their contact information to sign-up to the free service.
10. Ask visitors to sign your guest book. Tell them they will get a free gift in return.
11. Offer a free affiliate program for your visitors. They will have to sign-up in order to receive marketing materials and commissions.
12. Allow visitors to submit a free classified ad on your web site. Require them to give a valid e-mail address in order to post an ad.
13. Give people who visit your web site a free course sent via autoresponder. Just ask them to fill out their contact information to receive the free
course.
14. Offer your visitors free software to download. Have them sign-up to get an access code to unlock the software.
Hope you see how this can be a pecking and easy stuff! Go implement.
Meanwhile you can have this Ebook for more detail.
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How to Make Money online? Then Don’t Listen to The Gurus.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:41:00 +0000

I know this post will raise some eyebrows and I may receive some knocks for this, but what I really care about know is the truth and helping fellow internet marketers who has been struggling online from time to time only to be fleeced by the so called gurus who main duty is to hype sell and sell and recycle the same methods with different names.
At first all I did was to listen and follow the gurus. I bought a lot of materials and tried all I could but no way. I did all I was told. But I found out some of the gurus advice though ok was too advanced for a beginner like me. The gurus love to complicate simple process; they give simplicity another name by using vocabularies just to advertise their expertise in their field. This I don’t argue is good, but my friend I am not making money online.
Who is this post targeted at?
First of all, if you've struggled with getting your online business up and running and things are getting tough by the day and “information overload” please take this post and the advice I will be sharing with you at heart you have just started online and you don’t want to waste too much time drifting to nothingness, I have observed that the gurus sell us the wrong roadmaps so that we can continue to feed them fat from our ignorance and frustration, so we always come back to them for the latest fad. Whereas all along nothing new is happening just another form of the basic principles.
As the day and night remains winter and summer will never cease, the sun will always rise from the east, nothing new.

I learnt that the gurus are regular people who have learned the basics and perfected them. But instead of advising you to follow the basics they compounded it. The gurus make you believe you can make six figure dollars in a year! Worse still in a month! Then you are fire up and get the e-book, software and CDs, after trying for some time you realise it’s a dream. Yes a long term dream, what the guru didn’t say is that there is a process and the process takes time.

Forget making six figures in a month even in a year if you want to be successful online. Aim at the stars but forget hitting it in your first effort. What makes you a millionaire is not the million dollars you have in your account, but the person you become while making the millions. If you pass through a process to your millions you can replicate that process at any time. And that is the idea.
It's not the first $100,000 - it's the first $1. It's not a 10,000 mail list. It's a list that grows one PERSON at a time, day in and day out. It is a process that works, it produces result, and it’s been tested over time.

The big problem I have with the gurus is that their solutions for making money online can only be use by fellow gurus like them; this completely makes sense as they are now living the guru lives. They have the list, they have the money for testing, resources to outsource and can even have JVs before lunches and get most of these e-books for free to try it first and endorse, they are easily accepted into Cpa networks unlike the regular guy, who is 99% trying to make a dime online.

As the economy condition of the world is facing great challenges many are having a second look at the online business.
Don’t get me wrong the gurus have and will always help to advance the frontiers of internet marketing. What I am advocating in this post is that as a newbie or a struggler what you need is not the so called advance tactics but the first success practical steps not following the guru’s ways of marketing, looking at the basics and following after them.

Instead of copying the gurus, there are basic system that are incremental and don’t change, they are not sexy and flashy as the gurus portray but they work every day.
These are systems that work for REGULAR people. People who want to make money online, but don't want to spend years and years trying to become a guru.
You don't need to work harder. You need to work SMARTER.
Create a SIMPLE system. Then build on it slowly. There's no such thing as "get rich quick". But with the internet, there IS such a thing as "get rich relatively quick..."

Just focus on starting with 1 subscriber and building it a bit each day. And it
will amaze you how quickly your income will grow once you go back to the basics and keep things SIMPLE.
Albert Einstein the greatest scientist of the 20th century defined Insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

The bottom-line is: how bad do you want to change your life? Are you willing to try something different, even if it's not sexy and doesn't promise overnight riches?
I think the writing is on the wall. If you're like most people I've spoken to, you've probably been trying to build an online business for many months (and in some cases, years) with almost NOTHING to show for your efforts...

But all that can change right now! Just follow the basics!

So that brings me to the question in your mind, what are the basics?
Good question.
Here they are:
1. Squeeze Page – A must have. Build the list.
2. Free Gift – Give value to your list and others
3. Build relationship – bond with your list and be involve with them
4. Thank You Page-Appreciate them and create more value for them using OTO especially $1- $5 bills
5. Free Traffic Generation- get traffic easily and learn how to convert them to sales.
6. Taking action- Daily take action on your business is the trick.
7. Mentorship- Go for mentorship with someone who is really got time for you.

That is it? Yes.
Simple but deadly effective. This is all the gurus are selling with different languages, tools and brand names.

I advise you don’t spend any dime online any more for e-books (especially a newer version of a product) except you start seeing results. Only invest in mentorship, your tools for business enhancement and be expectant always. Stop your ears from the noise out there and concentrate on your work-building your online business and in months to come you could easily say like the great musician R. Kelly ‘the storm is over now….’
Follow it and you won’t be wrong.

Share and enjoy.

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noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000

Hi,
I don't have much to say now as I am working on a new material that
will benefit my readers alot. But I saw something of interest to
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...without selling a single thing.

It's called the *Clickbank Affiliate Loophole* and you
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There are raving testimonies about this product and they are real.
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Go see for yourself.

later dude.

How to Make Your Subscribers Stick to You for Life

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:30:00 +0000

Some years ago when I was a bit younger there is this uncle of mine who always likes coming to our house for dinner. He would sneak in with the pretension that he wanted to watch the news at our place, the exact time he knows we would be having dinner. At first his was a welcome development but as time went on we noticed that he was becoming more of a nuisance to us than a needed company. So we planned to put an end to his uncanny act!

Guess what we did?

We simply changed our dinner time to an earlier time and when he came and found that there was no more room for his wiles. He got the message and stopped bothering us!
Why did I tell this story? Correlation.

Yes some marketers wonder why their list is going down instead of increasing due to some subscribers de-listing from their list. This is obvious for the same reason we stopped my Uncle from coming to our house for dinner. This to many is a big problem which I will try to address in this post.

What makes subscribers stick to a list for years without thinking of delisting? Coincidence, carefree attitude of the list owner or chance? I hope you know none of this gives the right answer to this question.

I totally subscribed to the fact that the conscious effort of the list owner to create a lasting relationship with his list eventually creates a bond between them that is mutually beneficial to both parties.

I sincerely believe to be always welcome any where you need to be a value adder, a carrier of good news and a great motivator. These qualities will endear you to the minds of your subscribers and they will long to read your mails and take action on whatever advice you give.

Delisting from your list will never occur to them.
I recently had to unsubscribe from many list just for breaking these simple rules of Email marketing-giving your list value time after time.
Here are the reasons I unsubscribe from some list over the weekend and I noticed there are some list I could not click on the unsubscribed link in their mails.
Why?
These people have done 90-95% of the reasons mention below.
I also noticed some of them are ‘gurus’ and some though not gurus where playing by the rules. So it don’t really matter who you are if you can play by the rules your subscribers will still stick with you.

Now here are the reasons I de-listed from some list over the weekend:

• They were no more creating value for me. Too much hype and promotion stuff.
• Some of them have not positioned themselves in my mind as someone who is serious or an expert that knows what they are doing.
• They were not consistent in their mailing. Some last sent me a mail 3months ago!
• Did not build a relationship with me. Did not make a effort to connect with me.
• Were not sending good stuffs, only sent junks or poor materials or recycle news on the net.
• Not try to be caring and did not really show signs to help or assist in any form
• Be truthful and be simple. Show some mastering, expertise to display at what you do
• Seems to be promoting old stuff and methods not relevant in today marketing techniques.
• Not seeking out great JV partnership, which builds your reputation online
• Video marketing is very persuasive I easily bond with marketers who use it to communicate with me.
• I stayed subscribed with those who asked me to email them at any time and when I did they replied my email.
• I kept those who consistently sent me their own e-books either for free or for a fee.
• I kept those who are recognised as gurus in the niches I am operating in and they have proved it.
• Those whose main job of sending me mails was centre on promotion, I discarded them.
• I kept those who are teachers/ trainers, this you can easily tell through their blogs or emails

So I kept those who I knew are a continuous value adder to me. And if you want your list to do the same to you find a way to implement the above for your list. Working on your list from time to time has a long term rewards, believe me.

As the saying goes good radiance to bad rub…..

Have fun and share around.

46 Things a Great Headline Will Do for You

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:56:00 +0000

A great headline could do so many things for you if you will take the time to write it. A great headline does not just come by; you need to invest time and attention to it. The headline is the only part of your copy or content that your readers has to see if they come across your way through any print media, so its like your PR image maker. So I will advice you invest in it. Here are some 46 things your headline will do for you. These are not by any means exhaustive.

1. Your headlines are attention grabbers for your content
2. They increase traffic to your site
3. You can become an expert for copywriting
4. Helps you gain followers and subscribers
5. They reveal the benefits of your product
6. They provoke your readers to taking action
7. It can summarize your content such that the reader knows what to expect
8. Reveals your promise to the readers
9. It’s a key element in making your marketing a success
10. Reveals what people loves, what their passion is all about at the moment
11. It can reveal the present trend in a particular niche
12. Help you to use space, time and effort
13. It can be use to create a trend
14. Can be a great link to an affiliate page
15. Can help you make more cash easily
16. You can talk to a large crowd of people who may not read your content
17. A good headline will reveal a testimony for you
18. It helps to show what others think about you, your product etc
19. People are attracted to stability, use your headlines to create one for them
20. Headline can be a call to action for the readers to do something
21. Your headline can help in making your readers want to interact with you
22. It can reveal your intentions as a writer
23. It can be a pointer to a particular direction for your readers
24. Can deter your readers from opening the page or arouse curiosity
25. Can help to announce an exciting news or something of high interest to your readers
26. It helps to reveal who you are targeting-your audience
27. Your headlines can create credibility for you
28. Help you present an irresistible offer
29. It can be use to pre-qualify your readers, so eliminating those who will may not benefit from your content
30. Can present you as an authority in your field
31. Can caused an implied effect that can lead to a caused-effect relationship
32. Leads to high search engine indexing, and SEO rankings
33. Can make your readers to like you and increase your likeability in your niche
34. Tells the language of your audience
35. Place you in the minds of your readers who may forget your content but not the headline.
36. Reveals the keywords the writer is targeting
37. As an expert in headlines copy, you can create lots of products from it
38. Helps the writer to think on its content and remain focus
39. Helps you as a writer to write quickly, as it serves as a source of ideas
40. Create an appeal to vanity, opinions, emotions etc
41. Can create a dream, fantasy with your headlines
42. Can create a social proof for the writer
43. It will help you in understanding human nature better
44. Can be use as a brand to propagate your marketing campaigns
45. They can be repeated and reuse all over again
46. A great headline sells like hot cake.

Share and enjoy.

How to Convert Your Content to Cash

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:57:00 +0000

At times new comers to the internet marketing business struggle to make a living online, it becomes a thing that most becomes desperate and others frustrated. Especially if using the content marketing avenue.
Many ask how I convert my content to cash.
Well the answer lies within the writer.

You need to find a way to get to the heart of your readers and let them like you and trust you. Show them that you are after their interest; if that is settled you easily make sales from them. Remember if they are not buying from you they are buying from someone else.
I will try to give some suggestions on how to convert your content to cash.

1. Reward your Readers Always
This seems obvious but not practised. Each time they receive an email from you let them be glad they did. Let they rush to open your mails or click to the sites you are referring them to. Why will they do this?
You reward them always. You surprise them.

You can do this by:
a. By solving a need that they might have presently
b. By entertaining them
c. By giving them suggestions to carry out that will increase their confidence
d. By granting them access to you
e. By making cookies for them- giving them what they really need and want

If this is done consistently it will create a bond between you and your readers and many will like to subscribe to you. And follow your tweets and leads.

2. Show your self as a friend and an expert
People don’t love expert who are not friendly. They believe they are pompous and they hardly learn from them. That is why you probably didn’t like your Math teacher, he knew the subject quite alright but he was not friendly. He was imposing; he didn’t let you learn at your pace he was using the school’s calendar. Well he may be right because he has a lot of ground to cover.
But in real life if you need to make impact you need to first be a friend. Show some understanding to your readers. Empathise with them and admit weakness if there is a place for one that will encourage them to aspire to continue. Don’t give them you are too dumb attitude.

Never claim to be a guru let them call you by that. Let them know where your loyalty lies- the money or their progress.
When people see they are making progress from your advice they will stand to be counted when you suggest an e-book or software that will help them the more. We buy things from those we know and trust.

3. Tell first and Sell later
This principle is the secret of great marketers. They tell you a lovely story first and when they see you are hooked they smartly introduced their product to you and before long you have purchased from them and keep ordering for more.
Don’t try to sell in your first mails, keep your sales skills at bay!
First create a relationship. Tell stories that will lead to your final product introduction. Do a romance with your readers; court them with words of confidence and interest. Point them to great materials and sites. Easily tell them to ask you questions and do try to answers promptly.
Then as you introduce your product tell them the benefits they stand to gain. Tell them how the product has helped you and others you know. Be truthful. Never, ever promote what you don’t trust! form here you can make sales easily. See how phillip mansour uses this to make sales in Banner ad Blueprint.
Give a clear call to action. Tell them what to do. Here is where I see many lose it. They never tell their client what to do next. I noticed people love to follow. They love to be told what to do. So tell them where to click. Tell them what to buy, tell them the guarantees involved in buying that product, and assure them that you will personally give them the money back if the product doesn’t do what it claims to do. You need to be savvy but don’t over sell. Readers hate it when all you do is to sell.
Use your content to build this kind of relationship, and then you can confidently ask for the sale.
Never be afraid to ask when you have the relationship. As someone wisely said you cannot make a withdrawal where you haven made a deposit!

So here you are. What are you going to do with this information?
Apply it or let it slip by? I suggest you make out a plan to see how you implement this promptly then you will likely make your online story a successful one, for knowledge not applied quickly slips away.
Go see if you can build great relationships from your list today.

Happy list building.

The Most Important Thing in Online Business.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:31:00 +0000

There are many arguments on what is most important to do in Internet marketing. Many ramblings and suggestions flying everywhere on the net. To me, what is important is important as the person who is doing the task . What I believe most IM don’t do is to prioritize their efforts.

• Having a great
• squeeze page
• a great sales copy
• a powerful product
• great content blog
• swift marketing

All these are very important in their own way
What many Newbie don’t do is to know what to do at each moment and do it very well.
That leads me to the most important thing in IM.

FOCUS.

Yes you heard me right.
Focusing on a thing per time will bring you great success as you are able to channel all your energies at a given direction and this has a way in producing great result.
Stop trying to do everything at the same time.
Stop pursuing different niches all at once, it will dissipate your energy and break your will to be effective.

So how can you be focus?

• Outline your tasks.
• Prioritize them according to your intended goals.
• plan on paper all you will need to accomplish this task; contacts,
resources, find a way to make sure all is set to help you accomplish this
task.
• Place a time tag on each task and commit to follow through.
• Find a way to measure your progress to ascertain how you are doing.
• Be accountable to someone or a group of people. I will advise you join a
mastermind group, if you can.
• If you are losing focus, find something to encourage yourself with.
• List the rewards you and those that might benefit if you accomplish this
task.
• Look ahead towards the rewards if you accomplished this task.

Then…

Give yourself a pat on the back if you did accomplish the task.
Then repeat the same process for the next task.

Oh, you may be saying this don’t just work for me.

Why?

It could be that you are getting distracted. This is very common if you want to do something worthwhile.
I suggest you don’t whine and give up, if many lazy people I know are doing this, you could fare better.
Let’s see if I could help with some suggestions. Ok let’s see what we have here.
Hmmmmm….

How to avoid distractions
-shut out all unplanned activities, be mean about this!
-go to a place where you are likely not to be distracted
-put off that TV!
-set a timeline to every task you attempt with details
-have some liquid around you for proper memory alertness. This will sure help, trust me.

So there you go. Go ahead and set a task to accomplish this week.
Follow this plan, you will be shocked how much you have accomplish at the end of the day.
Remember take on a task that you can finished in a reasonable time for that task. Don’t take on more than you can chew per time. This can be frustrating and energy sapping.
Enough of talking lets go take some action. Later dude.

Take care.

How to Get Ideas for Niche Topics

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:32:00 +0000

When I decide it’s time to look for a new profitable niche, here’s how I get ideas…I watch TV!

#1: Watch the News!

Turn on your local news channel and CNN and keep your eyes and ears open. Focus on ALL the stories, not just the news items — pay attention to sports (especially controversies), health features, entertainment news, technology and gadgets, human interest…everything!

If you can find some twist or angle in the media that can be tied in with a niche you’re interested in, you can be pretty sure there will be traffic to that niche and readers for your articles!

Also remember that “news” doesn’t have to mean just the headlines of the hour. The results of product tests or research, new product announcements, new techniques, new research results, offbeat or crazy new ideas — all these can be labeled “news.”

You can also use Google’s New Alerts service to get fast news links based on keywords.

Go to http://www.google.com/alerts to sign up.

#2: Watch the Talk Shows

All those funny, weird, interesting or controversial talk show hosts who spin opinions on everything under the sun are a great source of ideas. All Oprah has to do is mention a product or a topic on her show and millions of people are searching for it!

Trust me, watch Oprah’s recommendations and guest names. The search volumes on those skyrocket the day of — and the day after — they appear on the show.

#3: Watch “Niche News” Shows

You can get a lot of great ideas from those entertainment and celebrity news shows, financial news reports, business news segments, and technology news shows. Remember that you’re looking for a way to take something “newsy” and tie it in with your niche.

#4: Watch Infomercials!

It’s 2:00 a.m. and you can’t sleep? Do some niche research by watching infomercials! If a product developer is paying to promote their gadget, weight loss system, self-help system, etc. on TV, then there’s a very good chance of it being a good niche.

And sometimes the products on infomercials have an affiliate program, which is great. You can then write articles that are direct reviews of the product. These types of review articles usually have the highest conversions.

As you watch TV, start making a flat list of ideas, like this:

-Acne
-Wrinkle removal
-Skin care
-Botox
-Scar treatments

So go out there and find some profitable niches for yourself. I will discuss how to get to the front page of goggle next time.

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Great Books for Bloggers & Serious Business Owners 2

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:41:00 +0000

Hi,
I recently came across some great books, which will be helpful for a bloggers. If you are serious about making a living through blog business, you should have at least one of these, having 2-3 will be the best. Make your choice and apply the great lessons contains.

Here are the books.

Blogging Books

Blog Marketing
Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers
The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Get It Right
Blogwild!: A Guide for Small Business Blogging
Blogging for Business: Everything You Need to Know and Why You Should Care
Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))
Money For Content and Your Clicks For Free: Turning Web Sites, Blogs, and Podcasts Into Cash

I will add some more. Just come by and get quality materials here.

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Great Books for Bloggers and Serious Business Owners

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:56:00 +0000

Great books are the separating factor between winners and losers. And to be successful on the net you need to make good investment on great books, they stretch your imagination and produce unparallel ideas source that cannot be gotten elsewhere.

The following post is a list of books that would be helpful for bloggers - particularly those wishing to make a business from their blogging activities, also for serious business people out there.
These are great collections that will help you a great deal in accelerating your blog or other website success.
The topics in the list are quite wide and cover a range of topics including marketing, creative thinking, web development, other business topics as well as a few blog specific books. They are in categories -All books are linked to Amazon.

BUSINESS BOOKS
The Art of War: The oldest military treatise in the world
Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
Power of An Hour: Business and Life Mastery in One Hour A Week
An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths

I will be adding more great books from time to time.

Do check them out as they are great resources for inspiration.

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Marketing on the Fringe--The Web Site Traffic Solution You've Been Searching For

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:35:00 +0000

Web site traffic is the life's blood of any online business. If you get no traffic you will get no sales and your business will soon be in the tank. Getting a steady stream of targeted traffic is a challenge that some of the most experienced online entrepreneurs continues to struggle with but take heart. You are about to learn about an exciting, new traffic course that will shatter all of your out-dated ideas about traffic generation.

The Marketing on the Fringe System has been designed and tested by Bill McRea, who has been successfully marketing online for over ten years now. Bill has proven that these traffic building methods have worked for him as he developed his Internet business and formidable reputation in the Internet marketing industry. He now wants to make this vital information available to you because he is tired of watching people struggle and waste a lot of time on out-dated traffic techniques that no longer cut it.

Using a wide assortment of Internet tools including, blogs, Squidoo lenses, video sharing sites and more, Marketing on the Fringe includes comprehensive video tutorials that will take you step-by-step through the process of developing easy to implement, automated traffic generating machines. Additionally, the eBooks and audio guides are full of actionable information that you can put to use immediately to start attracting visitors to your site who are looking for what you have to offer.
Get the Step by step system here.
A rather unique aspect of this course is that Bill will not only reveal how you can succeed today using this specific set of tools and strategies, but he shares inside information about who you should be keeping an eye on, and where you should be looking in order to stay up-to-date on industry trends.

Since solid SEO practices simply cannot be ignored, it will be covered in this course, but the greater emphasis will be on imparting an integrated approach to generating traffic, which you can then duplicate over and over for all of your web sites and blogs.

You've been searching for a comprehensive web site traffic solution, and now you have found one. Once you have your automated traffic machines set up you will soon be channeling multiple streams of traffic to your sites with no more burning the midnight oil at your computer.
One of the benefits of learning from a true SEO 'ninja' like Bill McRea is that he knows all of the tricks and tactics, but he will show you how to wield them legitimately in order to gain an unfair advantage over your competitors. Make use of these cutting-edge techniques to catapult your site to the top of the search engine rankings long before they get hold of them.

Remember, the more traffic you get the more money you make. It's just that simple. Once you have solved your traffic dilemma for good, your time and energy will be freed up to develop more products and provide more services for your valued customers. Learn from a master of traffic generation how to kiss costly PPC campaigns good-bye and develop your own free traffic

To get more information on free massive traffic, Go here

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7 traffic power secrets
How to pull massive traffic in 24hrs

The 7 traffic Secrets of Million-dollars Affiliates

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:45:00 +0000

If you want to learn about the 7 traffic secrets of million dollar affiliates then read this article all the way to the end.
In this article, I'll cover how they optimize for search engines, do joint venture marketing, and they understanding of the market.
After this article, you should be able to they earn 6 figures yearly as an affiliate and do this easily. 1. They optimize for search engines
This is the number one traffic secrets of million dollar affiliates. They love the search engines. They couldn't even survive without optimizing their sites and contents for search engines.

2. They do popularity linking,
Through popularity linking they get lots of back-links and tons of page rank for their sites. They exchange links which different site, especially sites with high traffic and value content.

3. They write targeted keyword articles
This is quite obvious. These articles bring in lots of traffic for them for years to come. 4. They do joint venture marketing
Million dollar affiliate knows how to do joint venture marketing. they do this to help them quickly leverage on the other peoples list to achieve and earn 6 figures yearly as an affiliate and they do this easily.

They join affiliate networks as a merchant.

They build various lists of subscribers and buyers.

Understanding the market is a huge part of getting the 7 traffic secrets of million dollar affiliates. They create values first as an authority.
They also outsource part of their traffic generation.

Conclusion: the 7 traffic secrets above are very simple and use greatly by million dollars affiliates. You can also tap into this great secret and make you 6 figures income yearly.

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How to Earn More Money from Home with Affiliate Programs

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:23:00 +0000

Ever wanted to learn about how to earn more money from home with affiliate programs? Then sit back and relax, because you're in the right place.
In fact, I'll be telling you about earning money with affiliate programs which is real and big, how to make money as an affiliate, and how can also receive commission base on sales as high as 50% and above. Once I've gone through everything you should be able to earn additional income from home by joining affiliate programs.
Earning money with affiliate programs is real and big is essential to multiple source of income. To start with, you need to find a company that has valuable product and services to sell. Then go research a niche and join high converting products. Both starting with a company that has valuable product and services to sell and research a niche can make us some money as an affiliate.
Earning additional income from home by joining affiliate programs is catching on fast. To do this better display adverts on your site, refer visitors to the company and they pay you per lead is also good. Both displaying adverts on your site and referring visitors to the company are great payment strategies.
Also you can receive commission base on sales as high as 50% and above. Please dont chose any program that is non-converting and choosing both low and high priced affiliate programs are important and some of these programs are high converting.

In Conclusion, how to earn more money from home with affiliate programs is possible just apply the tips shared in these articles and you will be ok.
So now get out there and start earning additional income from home today by joining affiliate programs..

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My challenge: Can you Define your Online Marketing Success?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:53:00 +0000

Success is a relative term for all men. What is success to some is not to another.
If you don’t define this parameter you may be following the wrong things online.
The internet is like a big ocean; so many things to follow and you got to choose what you want else you will be drifting far from success.

What do you think will be your online success point?
For some it’s making dollars (major point for many)
A beautiful website?
Lots of traffic daily?
Fulfillment in adding value to others
A great renowned blogger?
Launching your own product?
Creating your first video and pasting on Youtube?
Making a consistent sales of 5 figures monthly
Having your own forum?
Making your first $5000 online?
Ability to design your own web sites without outsourcing them?
Creating your first software? etc

Whatever it is, I advise you to define it now. And share it with whoever cares to listen.
If you do this singular factor well, it can stand you out in the crowded online world. It will become a brand name for you, which in itself create authority for you in that area.

Also I will also advise that you give your success point a time line for it to propel you to work hard. Tell people this is what I want to do in 3/6/9/12 months time, it creates what we call lifting power( power to do), as others will be reminding you and watching out for this success point and it can become your logo online e.g. if we call the name Ewen Chia, SAW comes to mind. (Secret Affiliate Weapon).
After you achieve this, create another in that same direction until you become a master in that field.

To succeed and grow fast in this crowded business, you need to;
Become a master at something! And know a bit of others.

Here is my next success point,
I want to rank #1 or #2 for 7 of my sites in Google and Yahoo search engines in 3 very profitable niches in the next 90 days.
Tall order? Hmm... Yet achievable.
I am on my way there; just a matter of time.

My challenge to you is do you have a defining success point? If yes be bold to share it here and see the wonders it will proper in you to become effective in your efforts.
If this is your first time here, go ahead and tell us what you will go out and do in the next 7days e.g. open a free website like blogger or wordpress, etc.

In life, until you define it, you can’t get it. It is the law of Essence,
Super affiliates use this all the time.
So what is yours?
Go ahead and Share it here.

Have fun in your efforts,

Discover The Secret To Website Flipping!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:58:00 +0000

Hey Friend,
If this video is gone before you get there I'm sorrybut I had to try and get you a chance to see it sinceyou are a loyal reader...
watch this video now and claim your benefit
The video is about website flipping and it may besomething you never heard of before but average people are quietly making $500 - $700 per saledoing this.

just like real estate except without all the bigexpenses, complicated laws, and licensing stuff.
Since it's digital you can get started for less then$50 and Justin Brooke (guy in the video) teachesyou how to turn that into as much as $5,000 in30 days or less.

There are over 33 different products talking aboutthis method and every 7 days over $250,000 in websitesales is exchanged in the marketplaces. In fact it'sthe only make money online system I've ever seenwhere there are actually overnight success stories.
Justin & his wife have flipped over $100,000 worthof their own websites and are the foremost expertson this business model.

Go watch their video now before it's gone...watch this video now and claim your dollars

You'll Learn How To:
- Build & Sell Blogs For Hundreds Of Dollars Every DayEven If They Have No Traffic Or Income
- Build & Sell Membership Sites For Over $3,000 EvenIf They Have Very Little Subscribers In Them
- Use Already Made Websites With Products AlreadyCreated So You Can Flip Websites Without Ever HavingTo Learn How To Build A Website!!!

This is a proven business model that has just gone unnoticedby most people because of "gurus" with other agenda's.
If you want to have the best holiday season of your life...
If you want to replace your job and work from home...
If you want to take long vacations...

Then go watch Justin's video now before it's too late...
This is red Hot now as people are claiming theirs

Best Wishes,
Dan Ohis

7 Ways to Get Traffic to Your Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:54:00 +0000

by Anik Singal

You’ve put a lot of work into your blog, spending time updating and enhancing it every day. Unfortunately, without a steady stream of traffic, its all for not. Use these seven tips to get more traffic to your blog.

1) Do your SEO and keyword research homework. Make sure the HTML of your site is search engine friendly. Here’s a basic search engine optimization checklist:
• Do your post titles have appropriate keywords?
• Do your anchor links have keywords in them? Using “here” as a link is a missed opportunity.
• Does your domain name include a primary keyword?

2) Submit your site to the 1st and 2nd tier engines like Google, Yahoo, Dmoz, MSN and Looksmart, and to the blog directories. Here’s a short list of sites that offer free blog listings:

Blog Search http://www.blog-search.com/blogclicker-submission.html

Technorati http://www.technorati.com/

Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com/

Blogdex http://blogdex.net/

Blogwise http://www.blogwise.com/

WeBlogALot http://www.weblogalot.com/

Globe of Blogs http://www.globeofblogs.com/

BlogHop http://www.bloghop.com/

Blogarama http://www.blogarama.com/

3) Ping like you mean it. This is a way for you to raise your hand to the blog trackers when you’ve posted new content. You can do it site by site at places like Technorati, or go to Ping-o-matic (http://pingomatic.com/) and mass-ping your blog to over 20 sites. Make sure your blog is set up to ping the appropriate sites every time you publish a post.

4) Feed your RSS. Make sure your blog has one and that it’s working. An RSS feed is a bit of XML that allows your blog to push content to RSS readers. That way people don’t have to visit your site to get your latest insights – they just open their RSS reader and read the news. If your blog is at Blogger.com, don’t worry about an RSS feed – its already been created for you. If you’re not at Blogger.com and your current blog doesn’t have RSS functionality, visit Feedcraft.com and sign up for their free service that will set up an RSS feed from any website (blog or not).

5) Swap links. Make a list of relevant sites you’d love to link to your blog. Write them a short friendly note and offer to let them use a few of your posts as content on their site in exchange for a link back to your site. Also, link to their sites from within one of your posts. Be sure to offer to exchange links in the links section of your blog. Most blog software programs offer this. There are also sites that special in helping bloggers swap links. Web Log Empire (http://www.weblogempire.com/) is a large one. If you’re willing to pay for a link to your site, check out Text-Link-Ads (http://www.text-link-ads.com/)

6) Be part of the blogging community. Go to other blog sites you admire. Contribute to their blogs in ways that add real value. Write good, thoughtful comments that are content rich. Give away what you know. Do it a lot – at least 3 posts a week. Over time you’ll become recognized as someone who has something worthwhile to say. As your reputation grows, people will seek out your blog. This is not an overnight process, but by paying your dues and building an audience you are positioning yourself to become a star. Additionally, if your site doesn’t have the functionality for visitors to add comments, Haloscan (http://www.haloscan.com/) is a free service that will let them do so. It also allows for “trackbacking”, which is a way to manage pings.

7) Write your blog! Put everything you’ve got into it. Make it great! Post as frequently as you can. The search engines will note frequent postings. A blog that has a new post every day is obviously more active – and important – than a blog that was set up in 2003, has 4 posts, and has been dead since 2004. To really make your blog get noticed you’ll need to post at least 2-3 times a week.

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This Post is by Anik Singal, an extremely successful
young internet entrepreneur and affiliate marketing consultant.
Anik has developed his own affiliate marketing system
that helped him earn over $10,466 in 60 days. Enroll in his
free course today... http://Affiliateclassroom.com

Here are 7 Reasons Why You Probably Suck at Making Money with Your Site

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:52:00 +0000

Reason 1: You don't take action.
If you're like most people, you spend all your time on stuff that's NOT IMPORTANT, and never focus on the things that will IMMEDIATELY MAKE YOU MONEY.
You're too busy procrastinating, coming up with excuses, or watching "American Idol" reruns while eating your frozen TV dinners.
It's sad, really.
One of the reasons few internet marketers are very rich and you're not
is because they don't put up with any crap. They take
action and get things done, before cruising
around in their Ferrari. But most affiliates don’t do enough before relaxing to enjoy their crumbs!

Reason 2: You don't understand marketing.
You can make millions of dollars online without ever "selling" anything. But you still need to understand certain principles of marketing. You need to understand the secrets for getting people to reach into their wallets, take out
their money, and hand it over to you.
If you don't learn this skill, you'll be cutting out coupons and shopping at
Wal-Mart for the rest of your life. For websites that have made millions of dollars online they've always used simple marketing approach. Their marketing systems works like crazy EVERY SINGLE TIME. And it's very easy to use. You must find a marketing system that works.

Reason 3: You don't have the resources.
There's an old saying that "It takes money to make money." Well not totally true, because when it comes to getting rich online, that saying is complete Gag. You don't need inventory, you don't need expensive overhead, and you don't need an office. Because all you're really doing is selling "air". Hope is what you are selling.
But even though you don't need money to make it, you do need certain "resources". You need to know WHERE TO GO and WHO TO USE for your various business needs.
For example, do you know where to go to instantly
get incoming links with high page ranks? Do you know which pay-per-click websites (besides Google and Yahoo) you can use to get qualified visitors for cheap?
Do you know which software to use to automate your business?

It takes awhile to figure this stuff out... unless you can find someone who has ALREADY figured it out. And that someone can be a coach/mentor who you need to pay to get Access to these resources, which will cause the desire change you desire,
Do you do this?

Reason 4: This is your first time.
Have you ever made more than a million dollars with one website? Or with all your sites and blog put together?
I didn't think so.
What they say is true: The first million is always the hardest to make. But when you make it first time, it’s become so easy to make millions. But it is doable as many serious internet marketers are doing this. Although just probably 2% of the them,

Reason 5: You buy into Crap!
Ever seen those "mega" how-to courses with all the shiny DVDs, workbooks, audio CDs, and all that other crap?
It's all junk!
Don't waste your time with it. Making money online isn't so hard that you need to listen to some boring marketer ramble on about it for 50 hours.
Wouldn't you rather be able to sit down, quickly get all the strategies and techniques you need, and then start making money IMMEDIATELY?
That's what I thought.
And that's why you need to select the content you read.
Don’t waste your time with anything that won't quickly increase your bottom line. Period. Invest in quality products. I agree they are hard to find, do your due diligence and you will find them in the marketplace. I will be recommending some for your delight.
See below for some cool products.

Reason 6: You don't know the shortcuts.
The nice thing about the Internet is there are
so many SHORTCUTS you can use to make money. For
instance, here are some of the tricks you'll
learn with these product links below:

# How to make money from your FREE website.

# How to make a killing even if you have no
website, and no clue how to make one.

# How to use Google Adwords to advertise your
free website.

# How to use Google Adsense to make even more
money from your free website.

# How to build your own list of email subscribers
and how to send them other offers that earn you
money automatically.

# How to be # 1 ranking website in Google
for years, for competitive terms such as “bad credit”

# How to create your own e-book in just 2 days
with ZERO costs, and how to sell it online.

# How to get affiliates to promote your e-book.
# How to use Cpa networks to promote your products

# How to create your own eBay Power-seller business.

# Examples of websites
that have made millions that you can copy and paste.

Once you learn this stuff, making money online is about as difficult as taking a test with the answer key in front of you. Of course, I'm sure you'll still find a way to screw it up. Please prove me wrong!

Reason 7: You don't listen to good advice.
Millions of dollars online yearly is possible. Do the right thing and get into the club. Until you spend some dollars you are likely not to take your online business very serious. All humans are the same. See what you do when your money is involved!

Don't believe me?
Well that is why I said you don’t listen to good advice. If you think someone else can do a better job of showing you how to make money on the Internet,
then I suggest you put down the crack pipe. And listen to me.

So quit being among the 90% that are just struggling to made a dime online and go get any of these products now. You will thank me later.

I can think of a dozen more reasons why you probably don’t make money with your site/blog, but frankly I'm tired.

I think I'll go get a massage... all that typing sure was hard work.

Here are the links, Go get them:
1. Recommendation 1. Click Here
2. Recommendation 2. Click Here
3. Recommendation 3. Click Here

See you soon.
Dan Ohis.

Product Review: Traffic Python

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:24:00 +0000

Traffic Python is a new site that says it guarantees more web visitors and online advertising with very little effort or cost. More importantly, it promises higher CONVERSIONS--signups and sales. So I decided to put it to the test...

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is one more benefit and feature which might be the best of them all--downline emailing. You can email your downline with offers, promotions, or whatever you like, and here is where Traffic Python really shines. They took time to make the emailing often enough that it's valuable as a user, but no so often that it's a burden to your downline. But the best part about this feature (and actually the credit earning too) is that it tells you exactly how long until you can mail again. Now THAT's cool.

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

See it and join here:

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10 Ways to Sell Your Products Faster

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:07:00 +0000

1. Give people a deadline to order. Tell people if they order by Jan 28, 2000 they will get a discount or free bonuses. This will create urgency so they don't put off buying.

2. Offer people a money back guarantee. The longer the guarantee the more effective it will be. It could be a 30 day, 60 day, 1 year, or lifetime guarantee.

3. Offer a free on-site repair service for products you sell. This is convenient for people because they won't have to send it away for repair and they won't have
to be without the product for a long period of time.

4. Publish testimonials on your ad copy. They will give your business credibility and you'll gain peoples trust. It's important to include the person’s full name
and location with the testimonial.

5. Give people free bonuses when they order your product or service. The free bonuses could be books, jewelry, reports, newsletters, etc.

6. Allow people to make money reselling the product or service.
Tell people they can join your affiliate program, if they order. You could pay them per sale, per click, per referral, etc.

7. Offer free 24 hour help with all products you sell.
Allow customers to ask you questions by e-mail, by toll free phone, by free fax, etc.

8. Provide free shipping with all orders. If you can't
afford it, you could offer free shipping on orders over a specific dollar amount.

9. Give away a free sample of your product. You will gain people's trust when you allow them to try out a free sample of your product. If they like it they won't
hesitate buying it.

10. Offer a buy one get one free deal. If you sell more than one product this type of deal works great. People will feel they are getting more for their money
and order quicker.

Quote of the Day:

"I am still learning." – Michelangelo

Enjoy ,

Dan Ohis

10 Twitters Tips for Small Business owners!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:58:00 +0000

Most people especially business owners don’t see the need for social media, even twitter. I too felt the same way some time ago, until recently.
Twitter is a social media where sharing, learning. Socialization and listening occurs. These are places where you follow people and you also been followed. To me it’s the place where you create your authority you become the ‘leader’ while others follows religiously.

These sites can be a great source of free traffic for business owners. Many still are lost in the twitters game; hence they stay far away, and most are frustrated as their initial dreams are all dashed. To see lots of result one needs to be patience and follow a lot of people.

Here are some 10 tips that could help in your tweeting,
1.Know the purpose of twitter. Don’t miss this. It a place to connect , learn,
listen and get inform

2. Be friendly and show some respect. Return compliments and give same.

3. Define your goals for coming to tweet.

4.Try following known faces and major people which will be suggested
automatically for you. This is a great way to catch up with what is going on and in the process you learn. These people usually has great followership

5.To talk to someone simply send a message @ the person from your homepage, it can be general or personal message. It they respond continue the thread.

6.Don’t be offended if at first no one is following you which is rare though if you follow others

7. Use your personal photo or your company logo or some very good pictures of your activity and let it be your contact point. People love to connect with the people they are dealing with.

8. Always follow others and you will be followed.

9. Using twitter search you can find those who are talking about you or your
business so that you can maximize the opportunity for you and business.

10. Never you tweet to sales page or squeeze page that will be detrimental to your twitter success.

So if you want to grow your business using social media power, There are places you can get help and please do, it will pay you 100x more.

Enjoy.

Social Media Marketing; 4 Vitals Steps to Success

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:54:00 +0000

Social media is catching on very fast on the web and loads of people are beginning to see the marketing power contained in these social sites. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Delicious etc are getting tons of traffic daily. Majority of this people are into business but still fails to make the most out of this sites as promotional tools.

I have many techniques I use to promote products and gets lots of free traffic daily to my sites, but here are the 4 major areas I consider very important to your success online with social media.

The 4 Social Media tips for success

1. Be someone people can trust.
This is not common today, most people are not trustworthy and so if you present your self as one it will go along way to build your credibility. Be a friend; remove all form of dishonesty from you. Spread friendship to variety of people even to those below you. Be nice and generous. Connect with those you are following. Use personal names to sign up. Using dummy names and wield names don’t really come across well to many business people. Don’t be seen as anonymous

1. Have a plan and a goal;
Be strategic in your tweets and those groups you follow. Don’t just sign up for any group. Know hat you are following as it will help you develop fast. Don’t just follow people for selfish reason; always ask yourself what your goals are in participating, It will help your focus and friendliness on the community. You can make a lot out of social sites if you do it right.

2.Ask great questions
Feel free to ask question as this will lead to the answers as you should be willing to learn. Ask open ended questions which are specific and will involve deep and intelligent discussion and answers. Don’t ask mindless questions.

3. When given a referral follow it right away.
It’s a new opportunity, don’t blow it away. Don’t kill the interest of the referral treat the action with proper decorum and respect. Acting fast will help a lot.

These four categories are very major in social media success.

Enjoy.

Dan Ohis.

10 Sure-Fire Phrases That Will Increase Your Traffic

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:45:00 +0000

1 "Bookmark This Web Site Now"
Tell your visitors to a good reason to bookmark your site. For example tell them you add new content everyday.bookmark your web site. They may see your web site listed in their bookmarks and visit again. You should
also give then
2 "Subscribe to Our Free E-zine"
Tell your visitors to subscribe to your e-zine. When they subscribe you'll
capture their e-mail address. Every time they read your e-zine, it will remind them to return to your site.

3. "Participate On Our Discussion Board"
Ask your visitors to participate on your online discussion board. By participating they will meet other people. By meeting other people, they will revisit your web site
on a regular basis to stay in contact with them.

4. "Sign Our Guestbook"
Ask your visitors to sign your guest book. When people sign your guestbook you may
get valuable feedback or constructive criticism on how to improve your web site. This may help you increase traffic to your web site.

5. "Use Our Free Content on Your Site or In Your E-zine"
Allow your visitors to use your articles on their own web site or in their e-zine. Just ask them to include your resource box. This will spread your
advertising all over the internet.

6. "Refer This/Our Web Site To A Friend"
Ask your visitors to refer your web site to a friend(s). They may know someone that would benefit from visiting your web site.

7. "Fill Out Our Online Survey"
Ask visitors to fill out your online survey or questionnaire. You could use it
to get valuable feedback on ways to improve your web site to increase traffic.

8. "Enter Our Contests"
Ask your visitors to enter your online contest or sweepstakes. People love to win stuff, and they will visit your web site to try.

9. "Give Away Our Freebie To Your Visitors"
Allow your visitors to give away your online freebies to people that visit your web site. Include your ad on the freebie and those freebies will multiply your traffic.

10 "Join Our Affiliate Program"
Allow your visitors to make money selling your products or services. This
will increase your traffic because they will link to your web site.

Quote of the Day:

"You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they
may be consecrated at the altar of daily life." -- MacRina Wiederkehr

Enjoy.

10 Sure-Fire Phrases That Will Increase Your Traffic

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:39:00 +0000

1 "Bookmark This Web Site Now" Tell your visitors to
bookmark your web site. They may see your web site
listed in their bookmarks and visit again. You should
also give then a good reason to bookmark your site.
For example tell them you add new content everyday.

2 "Subscribe to Our Free E-zine" Tell your visitors to
subscribe to your e-zine. When they subscribe you'll
capture their e-mail address. Every time they read
your e-zine, it will remind them to return to your site.

3. "Participate On Our Discussion Board" Ask your
visitors to participate on your online discussion board.
By participating they will meet other people. By
meeting other people, they will revisit your web site
on a regular basis to stay in contact with them.

4. "Sign Our Guestbook" Ask your visitors to sign your
guest book. When people sign your guestbook you may
get valuable feedback or constructive criticism on how
to improve your web site. This may help you increase
traffic to your web site.

5. "Use Our Free Content on Your Site or In Your
E-zine" Allow your visitors to use your articles on
their own web site or in their e-zine. Just ask them to
include your resource box. This will spread your
advertising all over the internet.

6. "Refer This/Our Web Site To A Friend" Ask your
visitors to refer your web site to a friend(s). They may
know someone that would benefit from visiting your
web site.

7. "Fill Out Our Online Survey" Ask visitors to fill out
your online survey or questionnaire. You could use it
to get valuable feedback on ways to improve your web
site to increase traffic.

8. "Enter Our Contests" Ask your visitors to enter your
online contest or sweepstakes. People love to win stuff,
and they will visit your web site to try.

9. "Give Away Our Freebie To Your Visitors" Allow
your visitors to give away your online freebies to people
that visit your web site. Include your ad on the freebie
and those freebies will multiply your traffic.

10 "Join Our Affiliate Program" Allow your visitors to
make money selling your products or services. This
will increase your traffic because they will link to your
web site.

Quote of the Day:

"You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles,
the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they
may be consecrated at the altar of daily life." -- MacRina
Wiederkehr

Enjoy.

8 Quick Domain Naming Tricks And Tips!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:03:00 +0000

Choosing a domain name is one of the foremost business decisions you will have to make in your quest for having your own website on the net.

What really makes a domain name stick, special and memorable?
Is it the naming or the people behind the name, what really is in a name?
I have discovered 7 easy tricks for making your domain name stick.

1. Let your domain name be easy to remember.
Let it be very simple. Add prefix or numbers to make use of the already taken names.

2. Let it contain your primary keywords. This will help for traffic generation and people can easily get to find your site when they search for that product in search engines.

3. Let your name suggest your type of product and business.
Here if you cannot use your primary keyword as part of your domain name, then use the product or service in your domain name such that it will be easy to describe your business from your name. This help to build identity.

4. Registers extensions other than .Com
Almost all words in .com are taken. But .net is fast catching up. If you build your site with SEO ranking rules, then you stand a chance to rank well.
Hostgator is a great hosting service you can use, or Hostazar, any is ok.

5. Create a strong trademark through that name. trademarks are of great value to any business. They are unique to you and describe your business and stands longer in the mind of your readers.

6. Avoid using dashes in your domain names as this often will be hard to remember and most of your visitors would have type in your domain name without the dash and your traffic will be going to your competitor.

7. Choose a domain name with meaning; let your domain name speak for it self.

8. Use a name free of legal issues. There are laws which forbid using brand names owned by others as part of your domain name. e.g. www.Ipodsbynokia.com could be available but if used, Nokia management could file a lawsuit which could lead to waste of time and recourses.

Every single domain name is different. But some are with a difference. You can achieve this if you implement this little tips and tricks.
You can check here for great Hosting services.

Dan Ohis

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