Marketing and Promoting Online

Your Own Earn Online Business - For Real

noreply@blogger.com (Johnny Ferreira) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:00:00 +0000

These days there is so much information out there about how to earn money online that it can be very overwhelming
for anyone, especially a beginner.

Does making money using Internet Marketing interest you? It got me hooked a couple years ago and now I have several income streams making me money every single month with my online business.

Maybe you’re already doing it but you’re struggling to make a buck. Maybe you’re really skeptical and believe that there is no bloody way the little guy can make money online.

If I can do it, there is no reason why you can’t do it. Plus you have an advantage... today there is so much more information available to help you make money online. Most of the big names in IM didn’t have all this information available to them and had to figure it all out through trial and error.

I know I personally struggled for well over a year before starting to get results but you can piggy-back off other peoples success by following their valuable advice, like I am about to give you.

So if you are looking for a tested system of how to get started, here is a series of easy to follow videos called "Fast Cash For Newbies" that will save you the pain of trying to figure out everything on your own like many before you had to do.

Start Your Own Earn Online Business For Real!

Get Traffic To Your Website

noreply@blogger.com (Johnny Ferreira) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:59:00 +0000

We all need to get traffic to our website or else what's the point of having one. A lot of people will simply get a Google PPC campaign which is great for immediate traffic but it can cost you especially if you're not too sure of what you're doing with PPC.

I found "Traffic Secrets 2.0" created by John Reese who many call the internet King Of Traffic. It's mind boggling the sources of traffic this guy knows about. Things you never knew existed and his methods are all free. Must check it out if you want to get traffic to your website:
http://iHearTraffic.com

Johnny

Secret To Making Affiliate Marketing Money

noreply@blogger.com (Johnny Ferreira) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:39:00 +0000

There's a lot of people making a affiliate marketing money online. Once you realize this is it can be hard to turn away. I got hooked. As a beginner, I was concentrating on getting my new product (music cd) out to the world.

Immersing myself in all the internet marketing information I could find worked out very well as I got the cd played on major radio stations in 25 countries all over the world and in the US alone played on about 200 blues and jazz stations. All this promo was made possible directly from the internet. After realizing the power one person has promoting just one product, I soon started thinking about other products to promote.

Here is where beginners can get stuck. When most wanna-be affiliate marketers get started they usually don't have their own product to sell. That's OK because the whole concept of affiliate marketing started so one could sell other people's products, and originally this was called associate marketing, today the term affiliate is used.

As you look around at how to get started you'll be bombarded with a ton of information and you will feel like you've got information overload. Now, there's a lot of very good free advice online and after a while you'll start to recognize the good stuff from the crap. One of the most common mistakes beginners make is to try everything everybody's telling them. Even if it's all good it still won't work for you because you'll spread yourself too thin and not follow through on any one method long enough to see it through.

One week it's Pay Per Click, the next it's article marketing, then it's adsense, and then there's a dozen more methods thrown at you. Probably a lot of good, valid ones too but the problem is the successful people will do one until they get it right. In other words, if you have a website trying to make you money on a particular business model, don't start another one till you see that one through to making you some money.

Dabble a bit for fun and then choose a method you like above the rest and run with it. Probably all the methods these guys are throwing at you could work for you and are successful for them but everyone is different and we need to find our own groove.

A huge site with hundreds or even thousands of pages done well can make money but so can a mini site with 2 or 3 pages. You can make a bunch of these or you can grow a big site even bigger, it's all good, but it all takes time so choose wisely what's right for you and then focus on it like a laser beam and you will slowly but surely succeed.

How To Sell CD's Online

noreply@blogger.com (Johnny Ferreira) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:44:00 +0000

To listen to this podcast: http://feeds.feedburner.com/OnlineBigTime

We all have more going for us than we sometimes realize. Never before in history have there been so many possibilities available to us. We're really blessed and yet so few of us are actually doing something to take advantage of the situation.

You wanna make more money, sell more cd's, grow your audience? of course you do, who doesn't.

You have to expand, create multiple streams of income. I'll hit on many different ways in future podcasts but today we're talkin about 2 you can and should have and how to grow them.

Think of your live performances as one stream of income that you have going for yourself. Let's talk about the next best, if not even better, 2nd stream of income. If you have a cd recorded thats great cause you can use that as your 2nd stream.

You can and should be selling as many as possible at your live performances but you could be multiplying yor cd sales by selling them online as well. Ypu can be doing this with or without your own website. As a full-time or wanna-be full time musician you've got to have your own website.

I recommend you sign up with CD Baby.com and get you cd's to them right away weather you're selling them on your website or not. There's 2 main reasons for doing this;
1 - a lot of online buyers won't by from you if they don't know and trust you, no matter how good your music samples sound. This is not something to take personally, it's just a confidence thing to do with money and possibly getting ripped off in some way.

Setting up shop at CD Baby.com you automatically have your buyers confinance because cd baby is a reputable online music distributor.

The 2nd reason is traffic. CD Baby as a website presence gets a lot of quality, highly targeted traffic of people looking for good independant artists they can discover for themselves.

I would say that about half the cd sales I get are from customers just browsing thru the website. What happens is they are looking for something in a particular style or genre and your music will get on that list because upon signing up your cd to cd baby you had to come up with several keywords of sound-a-like bands or singers or whatever.

Now I know some artists dont like to do this, we sound like so and so because they think they're too unique or original for comparison... don't have that mentality cause it's BS. Even the top selling acts in the world emulated or were influenced by somebody else, all of them!

Getting back to selling more cd's... getting the right list of comparative descriptions and keywords will get you more cd's sold because you'll turn up on more people's searches. Simple as that.

Now I'm not an affiliate of cd baby so I won't recommend them over some of the other independant online distributors because you may find one that's as good or even better, I don't know. But the point is to get your music up there woth one of them. CD Baby will take a few bucks as their commission and they take care of the order, shipping etc and send you the money into a Paypal account.

Another thing they do is distribute your music around the net digitaly as well. Sites like iTunes, where people just download an mp3 and not your actual physical product. This is popular because they pay a little bit less for a full cd or can just pick a few tunes from it.

Personally I've never signed up with the many sites that people are downloading my songs from because CD Baby is one the case.

Till the next one I'm johnny ferreira. Remember to put your email address in the opt-in box to get podcasts and informative articles on more great ways to promote your music online!
Rock On
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How To Build a Mailing List

noreply@blogger.com (Johnny Ferreira) — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:51:00 +0000

If you ever thought of how to build a mailing list then read on:

Is your email list growing on a daily basis? Do you even have an email list? Do you need one?
Well, if you want to build your fan base and business you do!

Imagine if you had a list of say, 10,000 serious fans and you just finished a new recording। You send out the news to your list and a few of them buy your new cd, let's be modest and say only 20% buy. By writing a tiny email and pressing the send button you just sold 2500 cd's! What did you sell them for? Let's say the price was $15. You just made $37,500.

Not bad. Now imagine working even harder at building that email list and getting 50,000 subscribers, 100,000 subscribers and do the math again. Are you with me? I thought so. You won't be looking to call any record companies, they'll be calling you! But now you don't need them anymore.

So, the tittle "How To Build a Mailing List" just might have gotten a bit more interesting. What is this list exactly and what's the proper way to go about getting one started? Glad you asked.

I've been doing it a while now and have learned some very important facts that I will share with you so you can start with the right foundations and make the best use of your time and efforts to build and grow your very own list. You'll be glad you did.

Important fact #1

Your list of customers have to be opt-ins. This means that they put in their own name and email address in the opt-in box on your website, or blog. You're not just sending out emails to whoever is in your address book or whatever. This is called spamming and nobody likes that.

On the other hand, when someone opts in to your list that means they are truly interested in what you have to offer so they are pleased as punch when you send them something because they asked for it and that's the difference.

Important fact #2

To have an opt-in box on your site you need the services of an autoresponder. This is a piece of software that takes the customer information and builds the list for you. But it does much more than that. You can program it to automatically send emails at different intervals to a new subscriber, re-direct the subscriber to a thank you or instant download page of a bonus you may have promised or anything like that. This is all previously set up in advance but then is on auto pilot for as long as you want.

You can get an autoresponder by subscribing to one of the many companies online that provide this service. Many to choose from at several different price fees.

Important fact #3

Traffic। You need people to see your site in the first place or there won't be too many signing up onto your list.

There are so many different methods and tactics to get traffic online that there are entire books and courses devoted to the subject so we can't get into that here. Suffice it to say that it's very important and every online business needs it to survive.

Building a mailing list can require some work but it's worth it, remember our math examples from the first paragraph of this article.

I have a list building guide called "Big List Bucks" with 7 videos that shows you step-by-step how to:

- set up your auto-responder
- how to build your list fast
- how to find starving crowds
- how to create a squeeze page that attracts people to opt-in
- how to create emails that people will open
- how to create emails that will encourage people to buy
- how to drive massive amounts of traffic to your squeeze page

Watch the free videos today and start building your list

JF

How To Promote Your Music

noreply@blogger.com (Johnny Ferreira) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:32:00 +0000

Do you want to promote your music to the rest of the world? If you answered no you must be crazy! As musicians/artists/writers we all desire a larger audience, that's why we're doing it, let's be honest.

To promote online successfully you need 2 things; a product and someone to sell it to, simple eh?

Lets assume you have a good product, that should go without saying or else forget about it!

Second you're gonna need traffic and lots of it to sell your product to. This traffic is going to be your buyers but better yet, your customers.

Which brings us to the 3rd point; to get a bunch of customers to buy from you why not get their contact email for future communication about your next product you want to sell. This way you build up a list of your buyers/fans who will most likely buy from you the next time you have something to sell.

This is what every successful internet marketer does, it's called "building a List"
and you can learn with some free information and video here; watch free video

JF