<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 11:30:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>How To Market Online.....</title><description></description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>31</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-4303708630539779137</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-04-16T15:04:54.251-07:00</atom:updated><title>Best Way to Earn With Forex - Forex Auto Money Brief Review!</title><description>&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Let me first start by saying that the reason you&#39;re reading this is  to look for solutions on how to make money online or learn how to make  money with forex. Learning to trade with forex can be very difficult to  master especially when your a newbie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I had my ups and downs in  making money online for the past several years but forex for me was bit  of a task. When I joined forex auto money I had no clue of forex. OK,  after reading some basic training I was able to get the idea of it but  to me it was about understanding the &quot;Signals&quot;(the signals tell you when  to buy or sell). Forex auto money made it a hell of a lot easy to buy  or sell at the correct time but you had to be fast at doing it because  the signals were changing every couple seconds and if you&#39;re slow you  could lose profit instantly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of the reps at forex auto money  gave me a call and qualified me to learn under a mentor (Forex master)  so I gave it a shot and guys it made life much much easier to trade with  forex because he explained the ins and outs of the forex trading. And  along with that he help me with the actual forex auto money system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What  the mentor does is that he trades with you live everyday and makes sure  you master it and helps you to make profit. Anyway guys I hope I&#39;ve  briefly explain the benefits of using forex auto money and I hope you  too can experience the same success I&#39;m getting. But its down to how  much you want this to work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you really want to succeed with  Forex auto money then I highly highly recommend getting a mentor. With  forex auto money, they provide mentors.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;Khalid saheb is from the United Kingdom and hes been a marketer  and a forex trader since 2004.Khalid has worked with several companies  over years.But hes primary focus is on Forex trading online.and he hope  he can help with the forex money making issues that people may  experience.Heres khalid&#39;s main website &gt;&gt;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bestwaytoearnwithforex.com&quot;&gt; earn money&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;http://www.bestwaytoearnwithforex.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/04/best-way-to-earn-with-forex-forex-auto.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-4446993162631382421</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-02-01T15:42:13.017-08:00</atom:updated><title>Become an Email Marketing Success!</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;copyright&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px 0px 15px;&quot;&gt;      By      &lt;a href=&quot;http://howtomarketonline.org&quot;&gt;Eran Dan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Wouldn&#39;t it be great to have software that enables you to take hold of your own bulk email instead of paying an online bulk emailing service or marketing firm to handle your email promotions? Instead of being charged per piece or by these firms, you can use Direct email marketing software.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But, if you decide to use Direct email marketing software than you must have certain profit building tools built within the software. If not, it can be quite annoying if you end up setting up email promotions that fail. You would want to know the exact reasons why your promotions are failures and these required tools will provide you with the explanations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The beauty of email marketing is that it is a rather easy, handy, and inexpensive way to market your company and products. It&#39;s a great option for working with a tight marketing budget as well. If you have a bit of extra time to handle your own email marketing campaign than you can use Self Service email marketing that features do-it-yourself software. This service allows you to create professional campaigns that can be delivered at any time as well as receive detailed tracking reports. It&#39;s really a good option that might really work for some of you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some internet marketers want to make sure that there is an additional confirmation process as added security for subscribers. Those marketers should try Double opt-in. It is a different type of media marketing where the confirmation process is duplicated. This is used quite often to control and stop the increase of unethical practices that take place with other web email marketing practices. It is an anti-spammer technique.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is imperative that your final CRF (Campaign Request Form) test list and final list be sent to the client. This should include any conditions that were mentioned by the client. The CRF includes the campaign name, subject line of the campaign, client name, his email ID, campaign number, the opted format and TAT or deployment date of the final campaign.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is also very important that your marketing emails are delivered in readable form. When you send them to your list, use Notepad to write your messages to ensure that you only have ASCII characters. In addition, your lines should be no longer than 65 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In order to ensure that your email marketing campaign complies with the laws, there are service providers that can help your business with setting up its email. The services are in charge of the subscriptions and removal of individuals from the mailing list. They include templates as well, and supply their clients with valuable information regarding actual number of clicks on the links as well as the number of messages that were opened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Email marketing is also important for affiliates. If their newsletters are designed well it can increase traffic to the affiliate page. This adds to the earning potential of the website whenever a visitor clicks on the ads or the affiliate links.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go over these options and start building stronger relationships with your customer!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;find more email marketing article on ActiveTrail.com email marketing software&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.activetrail.com/&quot;&gt;http://www.activetrail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                   &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/02/become-email-marketing-success.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-4305697497195846087</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-30T07:15:57.110-08:00</atom:updated><title>Online Web Marketing - Is There a &#39;Hidden&#39; Secret?</title><description>By      &lt;a href=&quot;http://howtomarketonline.org&quot;&gt;Jenny Ferns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Unlike many internet marketers, I admit that &#39;Is there some &#39;hidden&#39; secret to achieving online web marketing success?&#39; is one of my favorite questions. I know that most marketers don&#39;t like being asked this question, but I do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let me explain both sides and maybe you&#39;ll understand my point of view. The reason that most marketers hate it is because the person asking is almost always looking for some smart &#39;trick&#39; or &#39;gizmo&#39; that will hand them instant online marketing riches on a plate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;They&#39;ve read some sales page that offers them a &#39;magic bullet&#39; or a &#39;hidden secret&#39; that only costs $47 which &lt;i&gt;guarantees&lt;/i&gt; overnight online marketing success. Put in these stark (and I admit slightly cynical) terms, I hope it&#39;s obvious that this can never have a happy ending.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No-one can guarantee anything on the net. Nevertheless, thousands of people all over the world fall for this &#39;pitch&#39; every day. It&#39;s a given that if you start any kind of online marketing operation, the &#39;secret&#39; of success is exactly the same as it would be in any other business venture.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What&#39;s necessary is a combination of hard work, organization, good planning, dedication and sometimes, a little bit of luck too. But this is where I take a different view to most other marketers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are talking of online web marketing success with a business that is built on the central foundations of hard work, organization etc, I believe that there is a &#39;hidden&#39; secret. The hidden secret is simple.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&#39;s you, or more accurately, the attitude and characteristics that you bring to your business. In my studies of successful online business owners, I have noticed a remarkable synchronicity between the personal characteristics that all these extremely successful internet entrepreneurs exhibit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For instance, every successful online marketer is a doer, someone who takes action rather than thinking about it. To the people who achieve success on the internet, procrastination is a dirty word!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;They would for example rather take a new marketing idea and launch it even if it is untried instead of spending weeks or months trying to &#39;tweak&#39; it to perfection. They know that there is no such thing as perfection and that if an idea (e.g. a product or service) is what the market wants, it will sell irrespective of how unrefined it might be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sell it first, tweak it later is the way an entrepreneur does it. Successful people visualize the person that they want to become too. They have a clear image in their mind of who they will be in the future and they practice fixing this image into their subconscious every day. By doing so, they force the all-powerful subconscious mind to accept this future vision as present reality. Hence, reality is exactly what it becomes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The real online moneymakers take full responsibility for their actions, never blaming failures on anyone else either. They do this because they know that no matter how good you are, it is impossible to be right 100% of the time. It is therefore better to try something, make the mistake, accept responsibility for it and move on instead of wasting time with something that will never succeed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are you beginning to see what I mean about the hidden secret? Most marketers probably think that being a doer, hating procrastination and taking responsibility for your actions is not important.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;From what I know of succeeding in online web marketing, I agree... these things are not important. They are absolutely, fundamentally mission-critical!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;Jenny Ferns M.A.&lt;br /&gt;M3 Master Consultant CCPro/Wealth Masters International&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.jennyferns.net/&quot;&gt;http://www.jennyferns.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:jenny1ferns@gmail.com&quot;&gt;jenny1ferns@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/online-web-marketing-is-there-hidden.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-1750357179564113704</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-28T08:29:28.240-08:00</atom:updated><title>How to Get Your Website Indexed Quickly in the Search Engines</title><description>By &lt;a href=&quot;http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Zaheer Fazal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;It&#39;s no secret that the key to making money online is quality targeted traffic. Possibly the most cost effective way to achieve your goals is to obtain this traffic via natural or &#39;organic&#39; search. Now before, we even attain any rankings, it is crucial to get your site indexed and listed in the search engines. Search engines have an online form which you can fill out to add your URL, however this can generally take weeks if not months. The most effective way is to get indexed via sites that have good authority and those which are indexed on a regular basis. This will allow the crawlers to visit your site quicker. Below are a few of the most popular techniques that are employed;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Article Directories&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because article directories such as EzineArticles have authority in Google&#39;s eyes, you will often find that once your article is approved, it tends to get indexed in Google within 24 hours. You can check this by typing site: &quot;your article url&quot;. If this is displayed then chances are that Google has indexed your URL as well. It doesn&#39;t show up straightaway in some cases but you can almost be certain that the spiders have visited your site, this is assuming you have included the website link in your bio.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Forum Signatures&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Signing up to high PageRank credible forums can get you indexed very quickly. Have personally signed up forums and had my URL indexed within 4 minutes, this isn&#39;t the norm but you can generally expect to be indexed within 24-48 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;RSS Submission&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are plenty of RSS directories where you can submit your XML feed to. This is a great way to get your site content picked up quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Social Bookmarking&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sites such as Digg are loved by Google&#39;s crawlers and they tend to live on those pages. Its always a good idea to use social bookmarking as part of your indexing and backlinking strategy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Web 2.0 Properties&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sites such as Hubpages and Squidoo are another example of credible sites that Google likes, it is also worth submitting your content to these. Not only do they help in getting indexed but can give you some much needed quality backlinks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pinging&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you have submitted your URL to the various properties mentioned above, it is a good idea to &#39;ping&#39; them. This is just a simple way of letting the search engines know that your site exists and acts as a gentle reminder. Pinging can be quite powerful so it is a good idea not to overdo this as it can get you banned for being a spammer. If you have a WordPress blog, this facility is built in.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully the above mentioned techniques should help you get indexed quickly in Google and various other search engines as well as give you some inbound links. To your success.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;Z Fazal has been writing articles for many years. His website &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://bathroomaccessoriessets.net/&quot;&gt;Bathroom Accessories Sets&lt;/a&gt; provides information about the various types that are available such as &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://bathroomaccessoriessets.net/beach-bathroom-accessories.html&quot;&gt;Beach Bathroom Accessories&lt;/a&gt;. Visit the website to learn more.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-get-your-website-indexed-quickly.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-1990680575472306974</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-27T08:08:35.507-08:00</atom:updated><title>Learn how one woman has continued her husband&#39;s work for their home business.</title><description>&lt;object id=&quot;swfclipV3657359&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; data=&quot;http://www.thenewsroom.com/mash/swf/cube.swf?a=V3657359&amp;amp;m=1101502&quot; height=&quot;291&quot; width=&quot;301&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.thenewsroom.com/mash/swf/cube.swf?a=V3657359&amp;amp;m=1101502&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;base&quot; value=&quot;.&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;wmode&quot; value=&quot;transparent&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/learn-how-one-woman-has-continued-her.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-2894890541013245880</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-26T13:13:33.642-08:00</atom:updated><title>How About Starting an Online Business?</title><description>By      &lt;a href=&quot;http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Bob Fletcher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Have you ever considered starting an online business? If so you need to be aware of a few things.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1.] There is no such thing as earning overnight millions.&lt;br /&gt;2.] There is no such thing as putting up a simple one page site, set it for autopilot and you wake up in the morning with thousands of dollars in your bank account.&lt;br /&gt;3.] An online business requires learning many things and learning to use many tools.&lt;br /&gt;4.] An online business requires you to work, normally daily.&lt;br /&gt;5.] An online business does require you to spend money.&lt;br /&gt;6.] You can lose money with an online business.&lt;br /&gt;7.] Before you consider starting an online business, you should acquire guidance from someone who is a professional.&lt;br /&gt;8.] Many who offer the chance for overnight success on the internet sell garbage or are outright scam artists.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here is a list of what you should consider learning before you consider trying to start an online business.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1.] Know yourself. Are you willing to stick with it? Do you honestly believe you have what it takes to keep working to achieve your goals? Test yourself right now and ask yourself, what do I want to market? Can you answer that question? If not, do you have what it takes to keep asking yourself that question until you do know? Would you rather that someone else tell you what to sell for the rest of your life? If so, you will probably not do as well as someone who is willing to do the required work needed to be successful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2.] Knowing yourself is where you begin. The next step is to research the item or items you have chosen to market. If you chose to market roller skates, then roller skates is the keyword you will research. Do you know how to research keywords? Probably not. If I am correct in that assessment, you should seek guidance from someone who knows what they are doing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3.] A minimum knowledge of SEO is needed. SEO is short for Search Engine Optimization. A very small knowledge is needed for a landing page used as a redirect or a squeeze page. A much broader knowledge however is required for multiple page web sites. Many so called courses are sold on the internet and are marketed by trying to make SEO a mysterious dark art known only to a few. It is not. There is no secret recipe nor does one have to shake a dead chicken over ones computer in order to practice good SEO tactics. SEO is nothing more than having a knowledge of how Internet Marketing works, how the search engine spiders function and applying common sense.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4.] Selecting a Domain Name. A domain name is not as important as what some would lead you to believe. There are things you should do and not do of course. For instance, if you really are trying to sell roller skates, you should not use my-tidy-cat.com as your domain name. You should also seek a domain name with.com as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;5.] You should consider having an autoresponder in your arsenal. Autoresponders not only reply for you, they collect a visitors email address as well as name if you have set it up to do so. This list can be very important as it will allow you to contact people with an offer that may interest them in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;6.] Advertising and promoting. There are many, many ways of promoting your web site and product. Some are totally free and require work on your part. Some will cost you money and can cost you a lot of money with zero return, yet also requires work on your part to implement. You also need to be aware of what you can say about a product, whether it&#39;s your own product or not in your promotion. You MUST know your product inside and out. If you chose to resell the product of someone else and used their statements to promote it, you had better know for fact they are being 100% honest in their statements. New laws enacted have made it so that you are just as liable as the person that actually owns the product when you promote it. Therefore if you sell a product that states a buyer will be a millionaire overnight, you had better be a millionaire yourself by using that same product to ensure you are telling the truth in your own promotion of it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;7.] Researching your product. Before you even begin to implement any of the above you need to know what your competition is which is called keyword research. Google offers a free tool for this but if you don&#39;t know how to implement it, it&#39;s worthless to you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The above is merely a condensing of a few things one should acquire knowledge and skills in before entertaining the thought to start an online business. The above is also not the total number of separate skills one would need to be successful with an online business. The skills required can be overwhelming to learn. Even when the means to acquire the skills are laid before you, they can still be overwhelming. You will have questions such as, where do I start? What do I do?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My Advice is learn to do research first. This research should be nothing more than researching to find yourself a tutor. Just by researching you will not only find out if a person making an offer is honest and well thought of, but you will also find out if they are overcharging for their services. I have found online tutors that charge as little as $27.00 a month for their services. They also offer a good many tools and free unlimited hosting for that same $27.00 a month. I have also found others that offer their services for hundreds to thousands of dollars a month and offer little more than a monthly ebook or newsletter or a forum where others answer questions of yours,, when they get to it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once you have found your tutor and feel comfortable with what you have learned, don&#39;t stop researching. There are many avenues that offer totally free information or tools that you can use to your benefit. Doing things the hard way such as trying to teach yourself from the internet or out of a book can lead to disaster for you. You will have no way of knowing whether or not an author actually knows what they are talking about or are merely trying to sell you a product.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Buyer beware!! Good luck to you and I sincerely wish you the very best in all your endeavors. You are also free to contact me with any questions you may have through my website link below.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;Robert &quot;Bob&quot; Fletcher&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.the-article-market.com/&quot;&gt;http://www.the-article-market.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here are some good programs i suggest (Me the owner of this blog)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freeproduct.notlong.com&quot;&gt;http://www.freeproduct.notlong.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cheapestinternetbusiness.com&quot;&gt;http://www.cheapestinternetbusiness.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-about-starting-online-business.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-1187183305625829347</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-25T08:12:24.526-08:00</atom:updated><title>Facebook Marketing - Some Major House Rules</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;By Syvella Brantley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;I think it is time to learn some of the Dos and Don&#39;ts of Facebook. I am so tired of seeing people spamming and being disrespectful to people&#39;s wall. Social Media has become a world of its own and we really need to know how to manage and use it wisely, especially those who are business owners.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, I have decided to put together a list that will help those who are new to Facebook and those who are veterans and breaking a lot of Facebook etiquette rules.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Facebook launched in February 2004 and is one the largest World Wide Social Media site on the Internet. They have over 300 million users and over half of them visit Facebook daily.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dos:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- When requesting a friend always leave a note especially if the person doesn&#39;t know you personally. This will avoid the question &quot;Who are you?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;- If you have a business, only speak of your business on YOUR wall, not others&lt;br /&gt;- Give value and interesting information on your wall post&lt;br /&gt;- Go easy on the updates, every five minutes is a bit much&lt;br /&gt;- Use the chat service wisely; just because you see the green dot next to their name indicating they are online does not mean they are automatically available to chat.&lt;br /&gt;- Choose wisely the type of photos that you share with your friends, I don&#39;t think pictures of you slapping someone one the butt would go over very well, especially if you are looking to business with them or if you are looking for employment&lt;br /&gt;- Be careful in tagging people in pictures in videos they may be offended. If you do tag someone just make sure it&#39;s extremely positive and remove the tag upon request&lt;br /&gt;- If you are not happy about being tagged, stay calm, and just un-tag yourself&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Don&#39;ts:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Do not request friends and then harass them with your business or products. Instead build relationships and offer value to them&lt;br /&gt;- Don&#39;t post your business opportunity or any other type of product/service on other peoples wall&lt;br /&gt;- Don&#39;t poke anyone if you are over the age 18, it&#39;s just silly...LOL&lt;br /&gt;- Don&#39;t start arguments with people on Facebook on your wall or on their wall, just sent them a private message expressing your feelings.&lt;br /&gt;- Don&#39;t comment on someone&#39;s message with an advertisement or business opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;- Don&#39;t post on your wall in all capital letters because it&#39;s considered shouting or loud tone of voice.&lt;br /&gt;- Don&#39;t share all of your game scores with everyone all day long each and every day..this is very annoying&lt;br /&gt;- Don&#39;t get upset over other people&#39;s opinion, just simply state yours and keep it movin&#39;&lt;br /&gt;- As we all like to receive gifts from our friends and family, the virtual gifts on Facebook can be annoying especially if you are sending them every day.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;Syvella Brantley is an expert on &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://mlmtrainingaccess.com/&quot;&gt;Social Media Marketing&lt;/a&gt; and will happy to share with some additional training on &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.syvellabrantley.com/how-to-market-effectively-on-linkedin-generate-free-leads/&quot;&gt;generating free leads online&lt;/a&gt; using Facebook and other social media sites. 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  &lt;p&gt;There is so much to know about list building that you might really be surprised at the number of things that you might have to consider to get the concept working in a way that can be beneficial for you. In many cases, the concept is never truly realized because the list was not built in the right manner or was incomplete in some way. If you perhaps learn all that there is to the list itself, it might perhaps become a little easier to get the list working like the way it is supposed to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first thing that you ought to ensure is that you have used the right kind of list buildings software to get the job done. The age of putting lists together manually is long gone and today, all lists are generated automatically, without the intervention of a human for many things. In fact, the entire process is quite simplified and essentially an important aspect of getting marketing done in the right manner. You cannot expect to get the kind of results from manual lists like how the software can make it happen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, make use of advanced lists like a double opt in list can also help somewhat. These are slightly better than regular lists as it gives more option for people to work with. After all, you wouldn&#39;t want to restrict people to only certain kind of things. In fact, providing options with the list can be beneficial in other ways as well. You might have to simply look for it and see in what way you can build on the list and make sure that it is in fact the kind that you might be happy to work with. In many cases, existing lists can actually be improved upon if you would just take a look at it and get the feedback from the people who might be using it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your company can also make use of what is known as email list management, wherein the lists are managed completely by the computer and there are no problems as such to be worried about with the lists. In this way, you can be sure that there is no mix-up with the lists due to human error and the entire process is automated, right from adding an entity, to removing it and altering it like the way you might have wanted to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the whole, successful lists can really get the interests up and ensure that the product as well as the company is maintained with peak interest levels. You must make use of some skills while getting the lists built and also ensure that it is managed in an efficient way, and nothing is bungled up in the process.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;Listbuildingmaximizer.com provides &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.listbuildingmaximizer.com/&quot;&gt;List building&lt;/a&gt; software for &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.listbuildingmaximizer.com/&quot;&gt;email list management&lt;/a&gt; and free email advertising.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/list-building-how-to-create-lists.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-998489859733441489</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-15T12:49:34.331-08:00</atom:updated><title>Tips - Getting Your Email Opened</title><description>By &lt;a href=&quot;http://cheapestinternetbusiness.com&quot; id=&quot;togglebio&quot;&gt;     Ben M Williams&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;With the possible exception of phone calls, email marketing is the still the number one way that most companies use to communicate with their prospects and customers. While social media tools are quickly providing alternative ways of communication, email is still the easiest and most understood mediums of communication, with the exception of phone calls. It may be a long time before this well-known medium takes a backseat to anything else. Even with social media, millions of people understand, use, and will continue to rely on email.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this post, I am going to give you a few tips to increase your open rates.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Call them by there name. This adds a more personal touch to the email, but don&#39;t use it too much, or it becomes a bit weird!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Have a good, intriguing subject line. For more info on this, read my Subject Line Tricks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Keep it short; in our fast-paced world, no-one has enough time in the working day to read an immensely long email. Keep it short, and to the point&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;After you have wrote your email, re-read it 10 times, and take out any unneeded words, but make sure it still makes sense!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Always make sure that the &#39;from&#39; name appears. You can either put your companies name in here, or your own, if you want it to be even more personal&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Try and keep a sort of &#39;brand&#39; with your subject lines, eg. enveloping it with {} or [] this means that people will see the subject line and they will know instantly it is from you&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully this was helpful, send me an email if you have any feedback.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;If you would like to read more posts, covering topics such as e-marketing, finance and tax, then head over to &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.keepers.info/blog&quot;&gt;http://www.keepers.info/blog&lt;/a&gt;. Thanks for reading!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/tips-getting-your-email-opened.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-4821882575037663304</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-14T10:53:28.070-08:00</atom:updated><title>Tips on How to Promote an Online Business Directory</title><description>By      &lt;a href=&quot;http://howtomarketonlinenow.com&quot;&gt;Adriana N&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;When you set up and publish an online business directory, you cannot just let it sit there and hope businesses will post their listings. It is vital that one promotes their directory to reach businesses that are looking to add their business name and link in an effort to improve their search engine ranking and reach their targeted customer. Fortunately, there are a number of tools one can use to promote their online business directory.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Below is a list of tips on how to promote an online business directory:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. Social Networking: Millions of people are now using social networking sites to communicate. With the increase in popularity of social networking, one has the ability to reach many people and businesses. Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook, are among the most popular social networking sites. You can use these sites to discuss and promote the benefits of listing their business to your online business directory. You can add the link to your directory so that people can go directly there and post their business information and link. You can also post messages on the appropriate blogs, chat rooms, and message boards, where you can list you directory link and highlight the benefits of posting one&#39;s business link to your directory.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. Promotional Email Campaigns: You can use your email contact list or gather the emails of appropriate businesses that would likely list on you directory, and then send out a promotional email highlighting the benefits of posting their link on your directory.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. Free Press Releases: Sending out a press release is an effective way of attracting businesses. There are a number of free online press release services one can use. It is important to make sure that you add your directory URL in your press release and your contact information. You can also narrow your press release distribution to specific categories so you will be targeting those who may be interested in listing their business in you directory.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4. Write Business Articles and Post them to Article Directories: There are a number of popular article sites that allows one to post articles. You can create a profile that includes you business directory. The articles you write can be about relevant business topics such as promotion, advertising, attracting customers...etc. These article sites are normally free.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;5. Post Your Business Directory to Online Classifieds: There many online classifieds available to promote a business directory. As well, many of them are free. It is important that you post in the correct category so that you are attracting the appropriate businesses. You can also post your directory on large search engine directories such as Google and Yahoo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Online business directories are a great way to improve search engine ranking and generate additional income. These directories also allow you to incorporate advertising applications that can give you extra income such as Google AdSense. As with any other business, you have to promote to acquire customers. By implementing an effective marketing strategy, it will not be long before you develop a popular online business directory and start generating income.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;Looking for restaurants or doctors in the Boston, MA area? Then be sure to go online and visit your local &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://search.localtel.com/directory/&quot;&gt;Boston Business Directory&lt;/a&gt; to quickly find Andover Restaurants or anything in the &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://search.localtel.com/&quot;&gt;Boston business&lt;/a&gt; area.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/tips-on-how-to-promote-online-business.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-7245793127527853651</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-13T15:30:04.003-08:00</atom:updated><title>Free Marketing Methods to Drive Traffic to Your Website</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;By      &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com&quot; id=&quot;togglebio&quot;&gt;Mike Heesen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;If you are an online marketer I strongly recommend you begin utilising the free marketing methods to drive traffic to your website. The free methods are a great alternative to the paid marketing methods. I absolutely love the free methods because they are very effective and residual. What do I mean by residual? It means that, once implemented and posted, they remain on the internet for as long as the internet is in existence! Unlike the paid methods, which are only visible on the internet for the duration you are paying for. Let me share with you some of the free marketing methods that you can use to drive traffic to your website.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Article Writing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Find some hot keywords or long tail keyword phrases that are related to your business and write an article about it. The article does not have to be all that long. Keep it short, about 400 words is sufficient. Write the article in such manner that it triggers the reader to want to find out more about your business. I personally post all my articles to ezinearticles as this website is by far the most popular and loved by Google.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Video Production&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another one of the great free marketing methods to drive traffic to your website is video production. It is pretty much the same as article writing but then with images and sound. Find some hot keywords or phrases and make a video about it. You could either opt for recording yourself talking about a particular business related subject, or you could put together a nice &#39;n short slideshow presentation. If you are a MAC user you can use iMovie (pre-installed). For the PC users out there you could use MovieMaker (pre-installed). Once you have your video ready you can post it to YouTube or other video sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blogging&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I personally love blogging. It&#39;s easy and effective. You can put together a blog in less than 10 minutes. Go to a blog site such as Blogger, get an account and create a blog about your business or business related topics. Using free marketing methods to drive traffic to your website is only effective if you use related keywords and or phrases.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Social Media Marketing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This free marketing method can also be extremely powerful to drive traffic to your website. Get yourself an account with some of the social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Squidoo, Bebo, Hi5, etc. Create a profile page and include some info about yourself, your interests, hobbies and include a link back to your own website. Keep in mind though that you are engaging into Social Media and not Business Media. Refrain from throwing your business into peoples faces as they won&#39;t appreciate it. Post interesting things that are business related, or post things related to your hobbies and interests. The key here is to find like minded folks with common interests. By doing so, people will contact you, asking about what business it is you are engaged in. Provided you are utilising the free marketing methods to drive traffic to your website in a professional manner, people will come to you. So instead of being the hunter, you are the one that is hunted. The above methods are very useful provided you have conducted proper keyword research and analysis.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;If you want to know more about free marketing methods, keyword research/analysis, SEO, banner advertising, pay per click and all of the other marketing methods, tools, techniques and strategies that you can use to drive traffic to your website, please visit &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.2wealth-2freedom.com/&quot;&gt;http://www.2wealth-2freedom.com&lt;/a&gt;. Just for visiting I will shout you 3 FREE marketing trainings on the house. Mike Heesen is a home business owner that, is just like you, earning a living to support his family, pay for the mortgage or rent, utilities, needs and other desires. Over the last year we have made some significant marks on the internet which makes 2010 a very promising year for us. You can be part of our team too. I invite you to visit &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://2wealth-2freedom.com/&quot;&gt;http://2wealth-2freedom.com&lt;/a&gt;. Just for visiting I will give you 3 FREE Marketing Trainings on the house, gratis and for free!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/free-marketing-methods-to-drive-traffic.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-7511530487493974993</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-12T11:28:12.977-08:00</atom:updated><title>2 Ways to Build a Mailing List Fast With Free Reports</title><description>By      &lt;a href=&quot;http://howtomarketonlinenow.com&quot;&gt;Denise Million&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Giving away free reports is a super way to build a targeted and responsive mailing list. The money is in the list is as true as the day someone first said it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Two ways of using free reports to build a targeted mailing list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. Offer your report in exchange for an opt-in&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After a person signs up to receive your free report, you can send them to a one time offer page where you can make some money on one of your products or an affiliate product. Many people, since they are already interested in your subject, will take you up on this offer but even if they don&#39;t buy right then, you can follow up with more offers since you now have their contact information.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The way to get the most people to opt in to your list is to make sure your free report is about a topic that they have great interest in...they feel they just have to have it and it&#39;s free so it&#39;s an easy decision to get it. Believe it or not, you have to sell free stuff just the same as if it were a paid for product so make sure you write some persuasive copy on your opt in page to draw them in and make them want your free report.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your free report should be high quality and relevant and of real value to your readers. Make it as good as if you were being paid for it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. Place a link back to your opt-in page report&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a technique that has been used quite successfully. You let people download your report without requiring them to opt-in first. Inside your eBook you&#39;ll want to include a link back to one of your websites where people can then sign-up to your list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The reason why this method can be so effective is that it firstly builds up some trust with the visitor. People download your report, read it, like it, and then want to opt-in for more.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since so many people are more cautious about giving out their email address, the fact that you are not requiring their contact information makes this an easy decision if the topic is one of interest to them. Your free report is a good way to build trust with a new visitor as long as you provide useful quality content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No matter what method you choose to use, you want to get started building your mailing list now. You will find that free reports are one of the best ways to grow your list. This should be a priority if you want more website visitors to turn into buyers.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;Don&#39;t have time or just don&#39;t like to write? Article marketing is quick and easy when you let someone else do it for you. Visit &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.denisemillion.com/&quot;&gt;http://www.denisemillion.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Denise writes for her own business or her customers every day...it&#39;s her passion.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/2-ways-to-build-mailing-list-fast-with.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-3102695967896621849</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-11T12:16:20.100-08:00</atom:updated><title>How to Get Website Traffic on Autopilot</title><description>By      &lt;a href=&quot;http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com&quot; id=&quot;togglebio&quot;&gt;Samuel M Stone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;If you own are an online marketer then is one thing that you can never have enough of and that is targeted traffic and if you can get put your traffic on autopilot then all the better.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this article I am going to show you how to get truck loads of targeted traffic going to your site every day and even better these methods once set up will continue to drive this targeted website traffic to your site on complete autopilot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In fact the longer you leave it the better it will perform over time and your site will start to rank higher in the search engine also giving you even more web traffic for free.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now there are many ways you can generate traffic to your site, there are paid methods like AdWord/PPC which is extremely effective but can cost you a heap if you don&#39;t know what you are doing. There are free methods like commenting on blogs, forum marketing and even leveraging sites like Yahoo Answers by answering question in your niche and driving that traffic to your site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can write articles until you get blisters on your fingertips and submit them all over the web, which also works great. If you can outsource it is very powerful. Another great way is to use video marketing and submitting your video to all the leading video sharing sites and then you have social book marketing and creating a buzz around your content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All these methods should be used to get traffic to your site however to do them all can take a lot of your time and you don&#39;t have enough time to focus on researching others markets, creating higher converting sales funnels and processes, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So what&#39;s the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What you want to do is use website marketing tools and allow software do all the work for you and put it all on autopilot. The best things about website marketing tools is that they are like having employees work for you, but these employees work 24 hours, 365 days a year, never take a break and never complain.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;If you would like to get a full list of &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://ultrabusinessonline.com/blog/115/website-marketing-tools/&quot;&gt;website marketing tools&lt;/a&gt; and learn what two &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://ultrabusinessonline.com/blog/115/website-marketing-tools/&quot;&gt;website marketing tools&lt;/a&gt; I have used for months to drive hordes of targeted traffic to my sites completely hands free.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-get-website-traffic-on-autopilot.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-792669176744775947</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-10T07:57:13.951-08:00</atom:updated><title>Promote Your Business With Perfect Email Newsletters</title><description>By      &lt;a href=&quot;http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Jack Johson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Email marketing is unique form of marketing strategy used by the marketers to obtain fruitful results. This form of promotion fetches more customers from across the world. It also brings the customers in direct touch with the marketer. You can promote customer loyalty towards the company. The advantage with this form of marketing is that you can also retain the present customers and fetch new ones and this widens the customer base of the enterprise. One can establish the brand image of the company not only in the domestic but also foreign market.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are two kinds of mail sent to the customers of the organization. A marketer sends advertisement copies to the prospective or present customers. These mails contain the message that aim at immediate sales of the product and service of the enterprise. Another kind of message is an email newsletter. This type of message aims at promoting the image of the company among the customers. The main reason behind sending such a message is to pave way for long term relationship between merchant and the customers. A newsletter does not aim at immediate selling of the products but seeks to build positive and everlasting brand image of the company. As the name suggests the newsletter contains the latest updates of the company. These messages make the potential customers aware of the latest developments of the organization. The reason of sending the newsletters is to keep in touch with the customers. By remaining in their sight and mind you can promote customer loyalty among them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How to create a perfect newsletter?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are various factors to be kept in mind while creating effective and impressive newsletters. You should first decide the kind of message that you want to convey to the target audiences. Accordingly you can work on the designing of the newsletters. A marketer should highlight the heading in bold letters. One can even use color on the fonts of the heading. You should write fresh and unique content for the newsletters. In this kind of message, you can use comprehensive and useful information as the text. One can also use graphics to make the message attractive and make the text more descriptive. These tips can help you in creating result-oriented and comprehensive newsletters.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;I am expertise into online marketing and having many years experience in web promotion. I am here to provide information about the &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.emailsmartz.com/asp/sender_pro.asp&quot;&gt;email newsletter&lt;/a&gt; that provides different type of email newsletter template for email marketing.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/promote-your-business-with-perfect.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-5532282293044644498</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-09T15:20:17.692-08:00</atom:updated><title>How to Make Money on Internet Like an Expert - Curious? Take a Look</title><description>By      &lt;a href=&quot;http://cheapestinternetbusiness.com&quot;&gt;Brad Stridgeon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;We humans are peculiar animals! It is human nature to be curious and everyday we fall prey to it. Nobody likes humdrum days and weeks melding into a soggy mess, so our curiosity ensures that we get a much needed injection of excitement and certain things get our attention. Whether this be controversial stories, red hot gossip, or watching a group of people stuck in a house, who have no contact with the outside world, for eight weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I know what you are thinking! I am supposed to be telling you how to make money at home online. Well gurus use curiosity to sell their products. In today&#39;s world when are jobs feel as safe as a carcass with vultures hovering above, there are growing numbers of people turning to the web who are highly curious to find out about the &#39;secrets&#39; of how to make money on internet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gurus are not so different to us. In fact the only difference is they know and practice what works and earn or make money online. And it&#39;s not really a secret at all. Gurus understand to sell their products that they need to appeal to peoples emotions, whether this involves shocking, scaring or arousing our curiosity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For example, often their sales letters will ask you about the consequences of losing your job and then describe all the trials that will befall you if this happens, so much so that you are compelled to buy their product to protect your future. If you take a look at a handful of gurus&#39; web pages, you will be told how they were once in your situation and now look at them, as they have completed their journey to make money at home online and no longer need to struggle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Actually, in many cases they will tell you that they have hit rock bottom and been in far worse situations than you and I. You will hear the rags to riches stories from homeless to millionaire, or how they had their turning point in jail, or how they coped with really low paid jobs and then hit it big time on the internet. By sharing this information with you, they are identifying with you and your feelings. In turn this makes you curious to find out more about how they earn or make money online.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another use of curiosity that expert internet marketers utilize to earn or make money online is getting us to open their emails. It is quite likely that you get a mass of emails everyday, do you open all of them, or just the ones that make your curious to read more? I bet it is the second of these options. Next time you reading your emails, take a note of the subjects, and think about what makes you open them. More often than not the answer will be because you are curious to see an answer to a question posed in the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Such is the power of using curiosity in your marketing efforts. Other successful internet marketers will differentiate themselves by being controversial - saying outrageous things, being funny or just refreshingly different from all the other people promoting at you day in and day out. People that provide good information week in and week out in a friendly way or use humor to sell by making an ass of themselves. This kind of thing helps you make money at home online.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not as hard as it seems to achieve. You might be bombarded with the message that nothing is new, but really it all comes down to being unique. The good news is that everyone is unique, you have a unique sense of humor, you know what people like you feel, so harness that uniqueness and create a presence that makes people curious to find out more. Take this advice and you will be well on the way to learning how to make money on internet.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;About the author: Brad Stridgeon is a self-employed writer who also likes to write articles for his websites about &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.partusedrvsforsale.com/RVrent.html&quot;&gt;rv rentals&lt;/a&gt; and the advantages of camping in a &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.travelusedtrailers.com/smalltraveltrailers.html&quot;&gt;small travel trailer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cheapestinternetbusiness.com&quot;&gt;make money online here!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-make-money-on-internet-like.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-776637947084217205</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-08T10:17:12.083-08:00</atom:updated><title>TVI Express Review - is TVI a Legitimate Business Opportunity?</title><description>By      &lt;a href=&quot;http://cheapestinternetbusiness.com&quot;&gt;Kendra Manning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;With all the buzz people are wondering &lt;b&gt; Is TVI Express A Legitimate Business Opportunity?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TVI or Travel Ventures International is headquartered in London, England within the United Kingdom. The company launched in India, China, and Europe in January 2009 and has just recently hit the United States. According to the website, the goal of this company is to provide travel and hospitality products and services as well as offering a built in compensation structure to give MLM distributors a chance to earn extra income.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I looked into this company, I will admit that they have a very professional webpage. I have seen numerous sales videos from the company and I must say they are all put together very well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The company claims to help you every step of the way in this business by providing your own Website, Personal Back Office, Downline Progress Reports, Internet and Offline Marketing Tools.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The cost to join TVI Express is anywhere from $250-$300 depending on who you purchase your voucher from. This a one time out of the pocket expense for a lifetime membership and does not include any recurring charges.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After you join, the first thing you need to do is then invite and sponsor two people into TVI Express. This will qualify you to cycle out of the matrix boards and progress in the Compensation plan. You then need to encourage and teach these two people, whom you have sponsored, to each invite, encourage and teach 2 others. Then duplicate the process over and over.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The compensation plan is what is known as the revolving matrix. Upon joining TVI Express, you are placed on what is called the &quot;Traveler&#39;s Board.&quot; Once the board is full with 15 members it splits, paying out $250 cash and another $250 eVoucher to the person at the top of the board.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once the person at the top of the board has sponsored two people they are then promoted to the &quot;Express Board.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Express Board&quot; works the exact same way as the &quot;Traveler&#39;s Board&quot; only it pays out significantly more if you make it to the top, $10,000 cash plus a $5,000 travel voucher. Once you reach the top of the &quot;Express Board&quot; and cycle off, earning your $15,000, you then get re-entry onto the &quot;Express Board&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So overall, the company appears to be a good business opportunity, with a low start up cost. With only a $250 one-time investment, even if you don&#39;t make your money back, you are guaranteed a voucher for a 6 night, 7 day vacation. So to answer the question: &lt;b&gt; Is TVI Express a legitimate business opportunity?&lt;/b&gt; I would have to say yes it is...BUT.....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What concerns me is the fact that these sort of compensation plans eventually run out of money once the market gets over saturated. I think that those who joined right away will make their money and possibly even lots of it, but I am not so optimistic for those who join later on. I personally do not see this as long term income potential.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although it is only required to sign up two people it is obviously beneficial if you can sign up more. It is extremely important that in order to succeed at this or any business, you know how to effectively market and generate leads. Plenty of people fail simply because they do not know or understand how to market or build their business.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So no matter what business you are in or are about to sign up in, the most important steps you can take is to learn what it takes to market your company and more importantly, yourself, successfully. I have learned that knowledge is the true path to success in this industry!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Global Assist Team (Fasted growing team in TVI) we can join for a fee of $38 only and build a succesful team with GAT&#39;s marketing system.&lt;a href=&quot;http://cheapestinternetbusiness.com&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; for more info.(This will help you get enrolled into TVI very fast with a downline already).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/tvi-express-review-is-tvi-legitimate.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-5811655065016056329</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-08T08:38:23.852-08:00</atom:updated><title>Getting More Website Traffic - Secrets to Finally Getting Thousands of Visitors to Your Site</title><description>By      &lt;a href=&quot;http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com&quot; id=&quot;togglebio&quot;&gt;Jason Nyback&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Everyone wants to get more and more website traffic &amp;amp; the reality is that if you want to make six figures a year from your online marketing you are going to have to get at least a few thousand visitors a month to your site. In this article I want to show you the right way to making this happen...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Getting Thousands Of Visitors To Your Site The Right Way...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The biggest mistake that most people make when they are trying to drive traffic to their site is they follow systems that no longer work. A few years ago you could drive visitors to your site from Google AdWords for $0.05 a click. I remember being able to get over 50,000 visitors a month to my site and never paying more then $0.05 a click.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The problem is those days are long gone. But there are still a lot of people who are trying to use this strategy and are basing their whole profit model on making this happen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Here Is The Right Way To Get Thousands Of Visitors To Your Site:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;#1 - You have to focus on one traffic system until you master it. You need to diversify, but you first have to master one thing and do it well. Never move to another traffic system until you have fully outsourced the one that you are working on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;#2 - Once you have outsourced the first system that you have mastered; find another one and do the exact same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;#3 - Make sure you have an extremely profitable sales funnel that will allow you to maximize your profits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You have to realize that the better you are at getting people to buy from you, the less traffic you need to achieve your goals.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What if you can&#39;t get more website traffic?&lt;/strong&gt; Here&#39;s a &quot;secret snowball traffic system&quot; that has generated over 1,175,000 visitors for my tiny websites. &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.jasonnyback.com/&quot;&gt;Click Here Now&lt;/a&gt; to get this free video that will show you how to make it happen for your sites. &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.jasonnyback.com/&quot;&gt;http://www.jasonnyback.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/getting-more-website-traffic-secrets-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-6554975704716672878</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-07T08:47:25.323-08:00</atom:updated><title>Online Marketing Strategies - Forum Marketing</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;By      &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;David Storer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;What does it takes to make your website stand out amongst the trillions out there? It does not matter if you are an individual doing some home-based online business. Or a small business looking for an additional channel to get the revenues in. We all want to get visitors to have a look at what we are offering. Or maybe, wanting maximum exposure for that hot new marketing campaign that we had just come out with. Of all the online marketing strategies available, let us look specifically into one, forum marketing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Forum marketing is akin to THAT topic that we have had during dinner with our family and friends. It is also something more like, &quot;Hey, have you seen that.... OR maybe.. &#39;Hey, have you tried that.....&quot; If we had ever had that kind of conversations, then we sure know that the opinions are real and definitely influential.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That is forum marketing in essence. But how do we get everyone online to talk about our company, blog, products and services we may ask? That is where online forums come in. There are many different types of forums or communities online. Firstly, we must know what type of exposure we want to get. As there are many online forums out there, it is easy to get into a wrong one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The wrong forum would be like being in the wrong community for our business. We wouldn&#39;t want to be reading comments and how-to&#39;s about roses when our website offers the best fishing sites! It would be like us dining each meal in fast food restaurants and advocating healthy living. We can start by asking our internal customers which online communities they hang out at. Our employees, suppliers, colleagues are the best bet to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once we have identified that, we then need to ensure that the forum is &#39;alive&#39;. We wouldn&#39;t want the forum to be like sitting in a Bingo game. Everyone pretty much keeps quiet, mind their own business and only after some time, we hear &#39;Bingo!&#39; from one corner of the hall. An active forum should have new posts continuously being added daily and it would be far better if there is an expert on the topic giving his comments as well. That can only add to our marketing research on what our targeted consumers actually want.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The replies and comments within the forum cannot be automated. That essentially means we have to put in the time and effort to read and sift through each one. After doing that, we would most likely have the urge to jump in and reply to each and everyone&#39;s comments. Doing that would simply make us a &#39;know-it-all&#39;, and such characters do not really fit well in a social gathering. What would be better however, is firstly to create a credible user name. Then look through the forum and have a &#39;feel&#39; of it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After which, we can start a general introduction, in a sociable manner, and start by giving some background information. Move on from there. By adding to others comments and thoughts and once you are an active member, you will have more comments and link to introduce.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With all this information, look into it and imagine that being in an online forum is akin to that dinner conversation with family and friends and that is what, forum marketing, one of the lesser-known online marketing strategies is all about.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;David Storer is an internet marketing consultant who is committed to coaching and training everyday people how to leverage their existing online business or how to start their very own internet marketing and direct sales marketing business.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To find out the most advanced business model for internet marketing and why it&#39;s the only one I recommend to my personally coached clients and to recieve your free copy of Napolian Hills best selling &quot;Think and Grow Rich,&quot; &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://yourlifestylecreation.com/?t=6&quot;&gt;http://yourlifestylecreation.com/?t=6&lt;/a&gt;. Or to find out more information on direct sales and internet marketing, &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://yourlifestylecreation.wordpress.com/&quot;&gt;http://yourlifestylecreation.wordpress.com/&lt;/a&gt;, to visit my website.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/online-marketing-strategies-forum.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-6386396836318645190</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-06T07:38:09.074-08:00</atom:updated><title>Driving Traffic to Your Website With YouTube</title><description>By      &lt;a href=&quot;http://cheapestinternetbusiness.com&quot;&gt;Dennis Mike&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;YouTube is unquestionably the number one video website on the internet, and follows the Google in terms of search volume. Let me run some quick numbers to show how HUGE is YouTube as a source of potential website traffic. YouTube went from 0 to to 4,000,000,000 MONTHLY visitors within 3 months. More than 75,000 new videos are uploaded every single day and over 100 million videos are watched every day. In January 2009 a survey conducted in US shows that 147 million U.S. internet users watched an average of 101 videos per person. As of March 2009, YouTube reached 100 million viewers in US alone. YouTube ranks fourth in the most visited website in alexa.com statistics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those numbers mean only one thing, YouTube a huge source for potential website traffic. If you&#39;re not using YouTube to market your website or your blog, you are missing a lot opportunities. YouTube is a powerful tool in promoting your website. But the question is how? Here&#39;s how you can use YouTube more effectively in your internet marketing efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 1: Create a video related to your niche&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Create a video related to your niche and suited to the type of target audience you intend to create the video for. If your target audiences are teens or college students, colorful and &quot;MTV&quot; type video are the best to capture their attention. A D-I-Y videos are great if your niche is in household stuff. A more classic presentation will suit the professional and working market.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Think of a video that would tease and attract your target market. Your videos should be short but the message is clear. Avoid making videos of more than 5 minutes, as people are busy and look for instant gratification most of the times.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make them curious, if you can, try to shock and move people out of their usual indifference. Make sure that you are clearly identifying yourself with the video. Your video should have your logo or your company name. You can place your website URL at the bottom of the video, so your viewer can follow you to your site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 2: Go for strategic placement of your video in the Web&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The best way is to get your video in the &quot;Featured Videos&quot; section of YouTube. Featured videos usually stay in this section for about a week and often receive hundreds of thousands views over the days and weeks that follow. With a strategic placement of your videos in YouTube will raise people&#39;s interest and would get them to watch your video. This is where viral marketing would start to work. Your videos will be watched and passed on by more and more people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quality and promotion is important in this aspect.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 3: Build a backlink to your website&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YouTube has PageRank of 9 out of possible 10. YouTube is good way in getting a strong backlink. By creating a full-fledged profile and including a link to your company website in it, you can transfer your increased exposure on YouTube to increased traffic to your site, or your blog, or to any other content that you have created. But you have to avoid a direct sales pitch on your video. Too much marketing is frowned by YouTube. Be subtle in promoting your site or your product.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;Claremont Design is a &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://claremontdesign.com/&quot;&gt;web design consulting&lt;/a&gt; company in California that provides &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.isurftheweb.com/&quot;&gt;professional web design&lt;/a&gt;, SEO services, Custom E-commerce PHP/Web Design in Los Angeles, Orange County, Inland Empire, San Diego and other states.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/driving-traffic-to-your-website-with.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-1050916651060180104</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-05T09:36:32.898-08:00</atom:updated><title>3 Requirements For Effective Marketing Campaigns</title><description>By&lt;a href=&quot;http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com&quot; id=&quot;togglebio&quot;&gt;      James J Higgins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;When small businesses execute online marketing campaigns such as banner ad campaigns, search engine marketing campaigns, or email campaigns, success is often measured without a proper digital strategy to judge upon. Many times, marketers execute a campaign without, first, understanding who they are targeting and why. Of course, there are always several necessary elements that contribute to the success of any online marketing campaign-such as a good offer and a compelling call to action. Yet, even with these components, when a campaign has run its course and a business or organization looks at the results of their efforts, what truly defines success?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is success measured in numbers? Does a 100% click-through rate equal success?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps 1,000,000 people request more information on your product or service. Would that be a strong indicator of a successful campaign?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With any marketing campaign-whether online, mobile, print, radio, or television-there is a desired response, change in perception, or behavior. Often times the response may not be immediate, but rather the culmination of several impressions over the course of time. If the desired response to your campaign is clicks generating visits to your website, a 100% click-through rate sounds unbelievable, but what if the people clicking on your ad, opening your email, or visiting your website were not your desired customer? What if all of those visits are the wrong people?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This leads us to our requirements.... An effective online campaign is one that motivates the right people to take right action at the right time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An elderly woman with no children clicking on an ad for a sports training camp and requesting information is the wrong person taking the right action at the right time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A mom who clicks on your ad, reviews your website, writes down your phone number and calls for more information about an open house at your sports training camp 2 weeks later may be the right person taking the wrong action at the wrong time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A mom who clicks on an ad, fills out a form to sign up for an open house at your sports training camp that very moment is the right person taking the right action at the right time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is critical for any marketing campaign, but particularly one seeking a direct response. Even with television or radio, this holds true. If the right people hear your ad for sizzling dinner specials at your new restaurant and those potential customers all just finished eating dinner, your campaign will not be as effective had the spot aired during the drive home when everyone was still hungry. Likewise, if you run a high-end restaurant and the only people that see your magazine ad are deal-seeking consumers with shallow pockets, your campaign will not be as effective.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is nothing new and something every marketer should know. A huge response to a campaign by the wrong people or by the right people at the wrong time is a giant waste of money. An effective campaign gets you the right people at the right time doing what you want. This is why online marketing campaigns perform so well for any size business. With online marketing, we can get closer than ever to knowing &quot;who&quot; we&#39;re talking to, where the conversation is happening, and when the conversation is happening (real-time)-making it much easier to get the right people to take the right action at the right time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, while the Internet makes it easier to meet these requirements, it&#39;s up to marketers to appropriately target their audience and deliver messaging that motivates desired behavior. Without meeting these requirements, your success is left to chance.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;div id=&quot;sig&quot; class=&quot;sig&quot;&gt;       &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;About The Author:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;James Higgins shares interactive marketing strategies and insights from the world&#39;s largest brands on &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.jameshigginsinteractive.com/&quot;&gt;http://www.jameshigginsinteractive.com&lt;/a&gt; to help entrepreneurs and small businesses excel in new media. James focuses on topics of digital strategy, web design, branding, social media and more. Become part of the conversation and learn from an expert &lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.jameshigginsinteractive.com/2009/12/are-you-an-interactive-marketing-expert/&quot;&gt;http://www.jameshigginsinteractive.com/2009/12/are-you-an-interactive-marketing-expert/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/3-requirements-for-effective-marketing.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793382796760731904.post-3472253209939138569</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-04T11:58:42.623-08:00</atom:updated><title>Pay Per Click Advertising - &quot;Must Know&quot; Secrets For Successful PPC</title><description>By &lt;a href=&quot;http://howtomarketonline.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;     Wolf Benedict&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id=&quot;body&quot;&gt;   &lt;p&gt;This article presumes you know what PPC is. If not, Google it and find definitions for yourself. You can find some pretty decent explanations out there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pay-per-click advertising, or PPC, is one of the most effective ways to get the message out about your product or service. Google is the premiere platform for this, but Yahoo should not be ignored in your marketing arsenal. Using PPC, you can get extremely targeted, high converting people to your website, IF you use the right keywords and word your ad in an appealing way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this post (and subsequent ones), I will show you how to create a PPC campaign that not only attracts, but CONVERTS when people land on your page. I will show examples below.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;First, in order to have a successful PPC campaign, and like with any advertising, you must know your audience and target. You must know what they are searching for and what keywords they are using to find it. I go over how to find out what people are looking for within other articles here on Ezine Articles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a basic recap, you have to get into your customers shoes. Think of what search phrases you would use if you were buying your product or service. As an example, let&#39;s say you sell barbecue grills. Some phrases you may enter in the search engine are &quot;cheap bbq grills&quot; or &quot;gas powered bbq&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Narrow it down to keywords they are using to find what they want using this &quot;in their shoes&quot; method. Write down these keywords on a list. You are going to use them in your PPC campaign.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Google or Yahoo PPC &quot;how to setup a campaign&quot; would be beyond the scope of this post, and there are plenty of tutorials on how to do this in their respective platforms. For the purposes here, I will assume you have a campaign set up already.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here are the &quot;secrets&quot; to a successfully run PPC campaign:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;1) Set a daily budget limit.&lt;/b&gt; This may be obvious, but sometimes beginners overlook this crucial element and get positively KILLED.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For example, both Yahoo and Google have &quot;daily limits&quot; you can set on how much you&#39;d like to spend on your clicks, whether it&#39;s $30 a day or $3000. It&#39;s up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The option that leaves lots of people in the dust when they aren&#39;t paying attention is the &quot;no daily budget&quot; option. You pay for however many clicks you get without a budget limit. In other words, you haven&#39;t put a cap on how much you can spend in a day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For beginners especially, it is very important you put a cap on it until:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A) You know what you are doing with PPC (have mastered it)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;B) Have enough money to spend on virtually unlimited campaigns (money to burn).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For now, put a limit on your daily spending budget. PPC can get pretty expensive pretty quickly. You will get killed if you don&#39;t know what you are doing. Set your budget according to what you deem appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;2) Use keywords related to major keywords.&lt;/b&gt; In any market, there is the potential for saturation. This holds true for keywords, too. Unless you are involved in marketing something completely alien to most people and targeted to an extremely small niche, you are going to have vast amounts of competition for certain keywords.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For instance, &quot;annuity buyer&quot; is a TREMENDOUSLY competitive keyword phrase and the clicks generate up to &lt;b&gt;$100.00 per click!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not many new or veteran marketers would be willing to shell out this amount of money per click. This is why it&#39;s important to experiment and find alternative keyword phrases for your ads. For example, instead of anuity buyer, you could use:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;annuity purchases&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;buying annuities&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;how to buy an annuity&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;annuity documents&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;annuity laws&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;best annuity lawyers&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These are just a few and they&#39;re off the top of my head, and they MAY be less expensive than the $100/click phrase above. You get the idea. Experiment, be creative and most importantly, TEST.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3) Create a compelling ad that sells the click, NOT the product!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a huge distinction and I could write a whole post on this alone since it delves straight into the art of copywriting. For now, you should strive to create an ad that sells the click, not what you are selling. Example:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Want to Sky Better This Winter?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I Have Something For You&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Coolest Techniques and Gear For&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hardcore Skiiers - Visit Now&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PutYourDomainLinkHere.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This ad above targets an audience, creates curiosity and provides a call to action (&quot;visit now&quot;). You haven&#39;t told anyone what you are selling, but you have effectively targeted the skiing niche. You&#39;ve also mentioned techniques and gear which gives them SOME idea of what you are talking about, but not the whole picture.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By the way, if your niche is skiing, I dare you to use the above ad. Let me know how it turns out.:-) The ad itself may be too long, so it may require modification. Just make sure the ad message fits your landing page - a very important attribute we will go over in the next part of this PPC series.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Part 2 should be coming shortly!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://howtomarketonlinenow.blogspot.com/2010/01/pay-per-click-advertising-must-know.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (MyMuslimBook)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>