I’ve been using Scribe since its introduction and have been so impressed with its SEO capabilities, that I can’t see myself conducting business without it! (Kinda as important as my iPhone )

Scribe helps me to quickly optimize my website content so effectively that my content gets ranked in search results in a matter of an hour or less, rather than days or not at all.

Through the use of Scribe, search engines have become the number one source of targeted traffic to my blog daily!

If you aren’t using it, then SHAME ON YOU!!!

Recently Scribe released an updated version that took their amazing SEO capabilities to a much greater level than I ever would have imagined. Seriously, I thought Scribe was amazing already, but for them to do what they’ve done to improve their service is simply genius for lack of a better word.

Now, I’ve been operating in the SEO industry for nearly two decades helping my small business clients achieve greater search engine results and drive targeted traffic to their websites. And never before have I seen a tool that allows even a novice to achieve such significant results with such ease and efficiently.

With that said, here are the most recent updates to what I already thought was an amazing tool.

Scribe Link Building

Scribe already analyzes your content to ensure efficient keyword and link usage as well as other SEO techniques that will ensure a greater search ranking.

The developers of Scribe have really outdone themselves with this one. Now Scribe goes beyond analyzing your written content and helps you identify authority websites within your industry or that matches the exact content of your website to help you build valuable SEO backlinks.

It is one thing to know you need to build backlinks to increase your search engine ranking, it is a completely different thing to know exactly what websites you can contact and use to successfully achieve those backlinks. The new Scribe helps you do just that!

The more backlinks you have to your website, the more popular search engines believe your site to be and the higher your site will appear in search results.

Keyword Research

Scribe now has a more efficient keyword research tool that helps you to identify the keywords for which you will have a better chance at achieving a higher search engine ranking for.

I’ve promoted keyword research several times on this blog and even recommended various tools for you to research and identify keywords to help you learn how to achieve higher search engine rankings. With Scribe all the work is done for you and all you have to do is select the keywords you intend to use.

Honestly, if you are serious about gaining traction with search engines and want to achieve higher search engine rankings as well as gain significant, industry targeted traffic to your website, you should use Scribe and make the whole process of SEO a whole lot easier.

Summarizing

I can’t say enough about this tool. I use it religiously and never write a blog post or create a sales page without it. It is my main SEO tool and I’d stake my reputation by it. IT JUST PLAIN WORKS!!!

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Get with the program!

Last week I successfully launched LinkedIn Traffic Formula, a product designed to teach you how to drive traffic to your website, build customer loyalty and nurture that traffic until they become repeat buyers all from LinkedIn.

This was my first major launch and I did it in less than a week!

I learned a lot throughout the whole process and wanted to share with you what I learned in an effort to help you make your own product launches more successful and efficient.

Although the launch was successful, it did not go off as smoothly as I would like. After all, there is’nt a universal guide to business success

With that said, here is what I learned and will apply to my next major product launch for Internet Marketers Elite.

Longer Pre-Launch Period

As I said before, I launched LinkedIn Traffic Formula in less than a week. Although the launch was successful, 4 days was not enough time to truly build up the necessary buzz and product awareness to ensure the launch would be more successful than it was.

As a result, sales began to trickle in, rather than having several hundred would be buyers salivating at the chance to purchase the product on launch day.

On the internet it is best to give yourself more time to build up buzz about the launch and release small bits of valuable information to keep potential customers interested and wanting more.

Give your potential buyers to little time and you’ll receive little to no sales come launch day… Give them to much time and they may forget about your product before it even launches.

A good pre-launch period is 4 – 6 weeks in advance. 3 weeks is even a decent period, but any less and you’ll be cutting things awfully close.

This provides you with plenty of time to create the necessary buzz and excitement required to have a more successful product launch.

Release Content of Value During Pre-Launch

Provided you have selected a reasonable pre-launch period, the next step is to plan the release of smaller, high valued informational content or products which you give away for free during the pre-launch phase.

This can be a series of highly informative videos, smaller products, ebooks, worksheets or discounts you provide in exchange for potential customers name and email.

This provides value to your potential customers while building your email list at the same time.

Each piece of free content you release during your pre-launch phase should build the greater value of the overall larger product you intend to provide on launch day. In other words, you want to provide value with your pre-launch content that leaves customers wanting more and looking forward to the launch of your product.

You should schedule the release of this smaller, high valued content throughout your pre-launch period. This allows you to continually communicate about the launch to your email list while providing them with something they want in return.

It is also a great way to build your email list, establish trust and build customer loyalty.

Sell The Event Not The Product

Here’s a little something I learned for Clay Collins, sell the event, not the product…

Now this is something that I did do for the most part during the launch of LinkedIn Traffic Formula. However, because I did not give myself enough of a pre-launch period, there was not enough time to effectively build buzz about the launch day.

Of course you need to provide great products, which I’ve done with LinkedIn Traffic Formula (Believe me its fantastic info!) However, if you’ve built up enough buzz about the event, i.e. your launch day, then the product will sell itself!

It is human nature to get excited about an event.

Steve Jobs of Apple, knows this all to well. He has an expert marketing team who is amazing at selling events and not their products. Sure Apple produces great products.

Take the iPhone for example. Apple produced a great product and come launch day customers were lining up overnight to get their hands on the iPhone. And with each subsequent release of a newer model, again customers line up overnight to be the first to get their hands on the new product.

If customers know when the event is, i.e. your launch day, and you’ve provided them with enough value during the pre-launch phase, they’ll be lining up at the door ready to buy your product.

Clearly Define Your Sales Funnel

Before you even begin to release a new product to the world, you must first determine what steps your customers must go through for them to get their hands on your shiny, new thing.

Clearly defining your sales funnel from start to finish will ensure your product launch goes off without a hitch.

How are your customers going to get to your sales page and what will they do once they are there? What happens when the customer clicks the “Buy” button? Are they taken to your shopping cart or a registration page?

Knowing the sales process in advance will help you direct potential customers and convert them into buyers.

Kill All The Bugs

It is inevitable that you are going to have bugs or issues along the way. The main point here is you’ll want to do everything you can to reduce any glitches that may occur.

When I launched LinkedIn Traffic Formula everything seem to go smoothly. That is until I discovered that some of the videos had been encoded improperly when I converted them for display on the internet. As a result, I’m had to re-record some of the videos to ensure smooth playback for my customers.

Had I done a better job of reviewing these videos, I would not have had this issue come launch day.

Regardless, my customers have been very understanding and patient and for that I thank them. They are a great group of people!

Create a Release Schedule

It is important to note that you do not need to have all the content created if you are releasing an information product. Common practice is to create a minimum of 10% of your overall info product such as videos, ebooks or workbooks and make it available on launch day.

This is how most successful membership websites are done.

Create 10% of the initial content first, launch and then schedule the release of additional content throughout a release schedule. This works well if you’ve communicated to your customers that you will be releasing the content on a set timeline and it will keep them coming back for more.

It is also a fantastic way for you to generate the necessary revenue to create the additional content or products. It is called “sequential learning” or “linear release”.

It’s where customers pay for access to your membership website with the understanding that the content will be released on a timeline and requires them to first view the initial content before being allowed to access more advanced information.

Again, this works well for membership websites where you are releasing information products.

The very nature of Internet Marketers Elite requires I do this simply because it is a coaching program that contains a significant amount of information.

To ensure my customers get immediate access to the knowledge and info they seek in a timely and not so overwhelming manner, I need to create a release schedule. Otherwise, it could take 6 months to a year to create all the content.

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With each product launch we can learn some valuable lessons. I hope you find these tips useful in assisting you with your own successful product launches.

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Powerofmore.net has a fancy new home page and it’s NICE!!!

I’ve been planning the development of a new home page for Powerofmore.net for quite some time now and finally sat down to create it! I have to say, I’m pretty impressed with how quickly I was able to create it using my WordPress theme, Thesis.

This new home page is simple, clean and professional. It has been designed as a launching pad to the most vital areas of the site that will help you gain the knowledge and insight you need about Internet Marketing and how to apply it to your online business.

Featured Content

When you first visit the new home page, you’ll immediately notice the simplicity of it and how it quickly presents the most relevant information up front. A new featured image slider, designed to direct visitors attention to the most valuable resources such as training and coaching material that will greatly assist you in establishing a strong, thriving presence online.

New Announcements

Below the new featured box, you’ll find 3 columns, each designed to give you the most recent information available from Powerofmore.net today.  This includes a new “Announcements” category where you’ll have access to the most recent announcements made by Powerofmore.net.

Most Recent Blog Posts

I’ve also added the most recent blog posts displayed for quick and easy access to all the incredibly valuable content, resources and material added to Powerofmore.net daily. Not to worry,  all that amazing blog content you’ve come to love and use as your Internet Marketing resource is still there and easy to find under the new “Blog” tab found in the main menu.

Connect With Me

And finally, I’ve added a 3rd column on the new home page entitled “Connect With Me” where links are provided for you to connect with me through the various social networks of which I’m a member, such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

The new home page will frequently change as new products are launched and new content is added to the site. So make sure to check back often so you don’t miss out on great content when it is posted. Or you can simply subscribe to Powerofmore.net for instant notification via email as soon as new content is posted.

I hope you’ll find this new home page useful and look forward to hearing any feedback you may have. So please don’t hesitate to share your thoughts on the new home page as a comment on this blog post.

Thanks for your continued readership as I continue to work to improve Powerofmore.net to provide more value for you and bring you the tools, training and resources you need to build a successful business online.

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Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of traveling between Kansas and Texas, as well as throughout Texas.  I like to drive when I travel because it gives me a lot of time to think and reflect on both business and my personal life.

During my latest trip to visit friends in San Antonio, Texas I had an unusual realization.

You see, I noticed that while other states, such as Oklahoma and Kansas, were reducing the number of rest stops they operate and maintain or had very few rest stops in general, Texas on the other hand was beefing up their rest stops and adding more.

This got me thinking, why is it that Texas isn’t following suit with the other states?

Then it donned on me, Texas is the 2nd largest state in the United States behind Alaska. Not only that, the Texas economy has not been hit as hard as most other states by the recession, their economy is thriving.

Armed with this knowledge, I then realized that it would not be beneficial for Texas to neglect their rest stops given the vast size of the state, and the Texas government knows it.

You see, with such a big geographical area to cover and the second largest population in the United States, Texas needs to ensure it accommodates its travelers as they traverse the state. Other states on the other hand do not have the same geological area to cover and therefore it would not benefit them to maintain as many rest stops as Texas.

Texas is doing what is right for them and what works best for the specific needs of its population.

How Does This Applies To Business?

I’m sure you might be asking how this applies to running a business? Well, that answer is remarkably simple…

You see, no matter what type of business you operate, there is always someone out there giving advice on how to best build your business successfully. I’m sure you’ve seen or heard a number of methods on how to best build your business both online and off. There is always some new tip, trick or method to making you or your business a success.

With so much information being flung at you, it is easy to get caught up in the next big trend or method that is guaranteed to make you a success. Over time, you find yourself constantly applying the next big technique over and over. This can become a huge distraction from your original goal and lead to failure.

Like the state of Texas, it doesn’t make sense for you to do what everyone else is doing. Just because others say it will make you a success doesn’t necessarily mean it is a fit for your business.

The key is to have an open mind and only apply what you believe is best for you and your business. Each business is different and it doesn’t make sense for you to be something you’re not.

The point is, there is no universal guide for building a successful business regardless of what industry you operate in. Your business is unique and although you have competitors who may be successful, doing business in the same manner that your competitors do may not work well for you.

So, when the next best thing comes along that is gonna make you rich, remember to take it with a grain of salt and only apply what is actually best for your business.

LinkedIn Traffic Formula has launched and is already pumping out some heavy hitters who are seriously taking their LinkedIn profiles to ROCK STAR status!

Become a LinkedIn Rock Star Now!

This fantastic course is in high demand and provides deep knowledge and insight into how to successfully tap into the social networking industries most professional social network to drive high quality, highly targeted traffic to your website.

LinkedIn Traffic Formula goes beyond the art of driving traffic and shows you how to truly take advantage of the amazing networking capabilities that LinkedIn provides. You’ll learn how to convert LinkedIn into the most successful and coveted source of traffic that your business you’ll ever have.

Here are just a few of the things you will learn:

• How so search engine optimize your LinkedIn profile
• Add interactive video to your LinkedIn profile
• Never before seen techniques to monetize your profile
• How to generate traffic that stays 4 times longer on your site
• How to turn LinkedIn into the strongest source of traffic to your website
• And More!

Don’t wait to get started… LinkedIn is truly the best resource for website traffic you will ever have for your website and your business.

Here’s the link again for more details:

Learn why you should be driving traffic from LinkedIn

I’ve received hundreds of email request for this course. The information and content in this course is so juicy and valuable that I won’t be able to keep at its current price for long. So grab your lifetime membership to LinkedIn Traffic Formula now and start driving greater quality, targeted traffic to your website now.

Here’ the link again, in case you missed

Get Started With LinkedIn Traffic Formula Now!

P.S. One technique will show you how to add a mini product catalog to your LinkedIn profile and make you money!

P.P.S. Another technique will show you how to use video drive traffic and generate new business!

A couple weeks ago, I began work on a training specifically designed to teach you how to drive traffic to your website and generate leads from LinkedIn. I began this effort as a result of the amazing feedback I’ve received about my recent posts where I detailed two techniques I’ve been using for over a year to generate substantial traffic to my blog from LinkedIn.

• Secret Tip To Driving Lots Of Traffic From LinkedIn
• How To Add A Welcome Video To Your LinkedIn Profile

The results I’ve experienced from applying the above two techniques along with many others that I use have made LinkedIn the 2nd largest provider of high quality, targeted traffic to my blog!

Due to the overwhelming requests from many of my readers, I’ve decided to put together this training to help education you on how to generate highly targeted, quality traffic from LinkedIn.

Seriously, LinkedIn is a gem of a traffic generation machine that many individuals and small businesses overlook. When put to use correctly, LinkedIn can drive serious traffic to your website as well as drive your bottom line up!

Checkout these sweet statistics:

• All 500 of the Fortune 500 companies are respresented on LinkedIn.
• LinkedIn users have the highest average household income per user over any other social network
• 31% of LinkedIn members earn $60-100k annually.
• 38% of LinkedIn members earn OVER $100k+ annually.
• LinkedIn users are intelligent, high quality professionals.
• Most LinkedIn members are business decision makers.

If that isn’t enough to wet your whistle, the training will include 5 modules with 25+ total videos showing you step by step how to generate a flood of traffic from LinkedIn to your website. Not only that, you’ll learn how to keep them coming back again and again!

Only 4 Days Till Launch

Subscribers to my blog will be the first to be notified when LinkedIn Traffic Formula launches. So if you aren’t subscribed to my blog yet, do so now so you don’t miss out on this sweet deal!

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As an added benefit to subscribing, you’ll receive my FREE 15 day Internet Marketing training series direct to your email inbox daily! This training is packed full of valuable information to help you marketing your business on the Internet.

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And as always, I welcome your thoughts, comments, feedback and EXCITEMENT about this announcement below in the comments.

Please comment and tweet this post so others can learn the secrets to driving high quality, targeted traffic to their website!

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LinkedIn has risen through the ranks of the various social networking sites to become the premier professional network of choice for business professionals and small business owners. As a result, many businesses are looking for creative and effective ways to build a brand and drive targeted traffic to their websites from LinkedIn.

One of the most effective ways to create buzz around your LinkedIn profile and drive targeted traffic to your website is to add a welcome video to your profile. Check out my profile to see an example.

The simple act of adding a welcome video to your LinkedIn profile which directs visitors to the most relevant and important areas of your profile has a powerful effect on your visitors.

Here are a few things you can do within a video to help boost your LinkedIn profile and drive traffic to your website:

• Welcome visitors to your profile and thank them for viewing it.
• Direct visitors to the most notable and relevant information on your profile.
• Let visitors know they can learn more about you and what you do on your website.

These are only a few ways you can use video on LinkedIn. Be creative, but must importantly be clean, professional and let viewers of your video see your personality.

1. Add Google Presentation App

The first step to adding video to your LinkedIn profile is to install the Google Presentation App from the application directory on LinkedIn.

Log into LinkedIn to edit your profile and click the “Add Application” link to add the Google Presentation App to your profile. If the “Add Application” link does not appear, click the “See All Applications” link displayed in the bottom right corner of the “Featured Applications” box that is displayed on your Edit Profile screen by default.

Either method, will take you to the LinkedIn Applications Directory where you can select from a number of applications to install into your LinkedIn profile.

Find the Google Presentation App and install it.

With this app, you can create presentations that allow you to showcase yourself, your company, your work and more using a Google Docs Presentation. One of the unique features of a Google Docs Presentation is the fact that it will allow you to insert video into your presentations.

This app, will then allow you to display your Google Docs Presentation from within your LinkedIn profile.

2. Record Your Video

Using a handle held video recording device such as a Flip camcorder or a Kodak Zi8, record your welcome video. The video should be less than 60 seconds in length. Be brief and get to the point quickly.

Make sure to welcome visitors to your profile and point them to the most important and relevant areas of your profile to help them get the information they are seek quickly. Tell visitors that they can learn more about you and what you do by visiting your website. Maybe even give away a secret tip that the visitor may find valuable.

3. Upload Your Video To YouTube

If you don’t yet have a YouTube account, now would be a great time to get one. Feel free to friend me on YouTube and subscribe to my channel

Once you’ve finished with your welcome video, upload it to YouTube. If you’ve never uploaded a video to YouTube before, not to worry the process is very simple and easy. Just make sure your video is less than 10 minutes in length.

Once you’ve uploaded your video to YouTube, be patient as YouTube processes the video for display on their website. This can take several minutes.

4. Create Your Presentation

Now that you’ve installed the Google Presentation App within your LinkedIn profile, recorded your video and uploaded it to YouTube, you can now login to Google Docs and Create a new “Presentation”.

Google Docs allows you to create PowerPoint type presentations for free, online. One of the unique features of a Google Docs Presentation is the ability to insert YouTube videos into your presentations.

From within Google Docs, create a new Presentation:

5. Insert Your YouTube Video

Only one slide is required for this to work, so no need to add any more slides.

To insert your LinkedIn welcome video into your presentation, simply click “Insert” > “Video” from the Google Docs menu:

In the search dialog box that appears, search for the title of the video you recorded and uploaded to YouTube earlier. If your video does not come up in the search results, not to worry, YouTube hasn’t finished processing it yet. Simply wait a few minutes and try to insert your video again.

Select your video from the search results and click the “Select Video” button to insert it into your Google Presentation.

Important: Next use the transform handles (the little white squares on each corner of your video) to resize your video to take up the entire area of the presentation slide.

Resizing the video to cover the entire slide ensures the video is properly displayed when you add it to your LinkedIn profile.

Make sure to give your presentation a recognizable name and save it.

6. Insert Your Video Into Your Profile

The final step to adding a welcome video to your LinkedIn profile is to configure the Google Presentation App you added to your profile earlier to display the video.

Log back into your LinkedIn profile to edit it and find the Google Presentation App displayed on your profile in edit mode to add your new welcome presentation to your profile.

Click the “Click here to change the presentation on your profile” link to edit the presentation. If this link does not appear, this may be a result of you not having a current presentation on your profile as I currently do. If that is the case, the link will be something similar to “Click here to add a presentation.” Not to worry, this is very simple to do!

On the edit presentation page, select the newly created Google presentation you just created. You may be asked to log into your Google Docs account at this point so the application can fetch a list of available presentations from your Google Docs account.

Once you select the presentation, make sure the “Send Network Update” checkbox is checked. This will immediately notify all of your connections that you’ve just added the video to your profile once you click the “Post to Profile” button.

Click the “Post to Profile” button to add your newly created welcome video to your profile for all to see!

Optional Steps

One thing you can do to ensure your video is seen is to move the video up on your profile. I like to have my video as one of the first things visitors will see when they visit my profile.

LinkedIn allows you to rearrange content on your profile giving you the flexibility to display what you want. You may need to remove and re-add other applications if your video appears at the bottom of the application stack.

Play around with it and be creative.

I hope you enjoyed this post and know you’ll benefit greatly from it

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I’ve been getting numerous requests from many of you who have seen some of my web designs and multimedia animations produced by my multimedia company. Many of you have indicated that you want to tap into some of that creativity for your own websites and personal projects.

Well, I’ve got some fantastic news for you!

I’ve created a package that allows you to tap into the resources of my high end multimedia company, Rival Media, LLC, without having to pay its prices which can be substantial

I’ve put everything into this package to ensure I give you everything you need to succeed online, including 4 hours of consulting time!

Checkout what’s included:

• Hosting Service Setup
• WordPress Website Installation
• WordPress configuration
• Page Creation and Configuration
• Website Search Engine Optimized
• Plugin Installation and Configuration
• Shopping Cart Setup and Integration
• Custom Theme Design and Integration
• Autoresponder Setup and Integration
• Social Media Presence Setup
• RSS Feed Syndication
• 4 60 Minute Consulting Sessions (That’s 240 minutes of consulting time which would cost $1,000 by itself!)

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Bonus!

As an added bonus for those of you who take advantage of this package, I’ll post case studies featuring your website and project here on Powerofmore.net, giving you brand recognition and a valuable backlink to your newly improved website!

Thanks for all the positive feedback and kind words.  I look forward to bigger and better things as should you!

To Your Success!

Sean M. Smith

Google Analytics isn’t just for tracking the number of hits or visits to your website. It is a powerful analytics tool that will go a long way to helping you increase your bottom line.

Many internet entrepreneurs and small business owners have the understanding that they should use Google Analytics to track the traffic that is flowing to their websites, but they don’t have a true understanding of why they need to do so.

Sure it’s neat to see how much is flowing to your website and watching it grow. Traffic, however, does not make you money unless you know how to direct it to the areas on your website that are designed to convert it into buyers.

Here are some tips to think about that can increase your bottom line the next time you view your Google Analytics account.

1. Know Your Traffic Intimately

Google Analytics not only tells you how many hits, visitors or pageviews your website received, but it can also tell you where those visitors came from. This is highly important as it helps you identify which sites are sending visitors your way. Knowing this allows you to focus your efforts on increasing the traffic from those sources.

Dive deep into the various sources of your coveted website traffic to discover what was most effective. Each source will have peak days where they provided the most visitors. Identify those days to determine what you did on your site that day to cause the larger influx.

Not only can you determine who is sending traffic your way, you can determine if it is high quality and targeted.

For example, LinkedIn is the 3rd largest provider of traffic to my blog behind Google and direct traffic. StumbleUpon comes in a distant 4th. The difference between my Google visitors and my LinkedIn visitors is only 50 visits. However, through Google Analytics I discovered that LinkedIn visitors stay on my blog twice as long as my search visitors and 10 times longer than traffic sent from StumbleUpon.

As a result, I focused a majority of my attention to LinkedIn in an effort to cultivate the higher quality traffic the site was sending me. This never would have been possible without the help of an analytics service such as Google’s.

2. Identify Keywords

If you get a lot of search traffic from Google as I do, Google Analytics will help you identify the keywords that visitors to your site are using when they conducted their search. Knowing this information will help you to fine tune your keyword usage to further cultivate your existing and new traffic.

Some of the keywords being used to find my blog are combinations I never would of thought of without Google Analytics.

Knowing what keywords are being used to find your site will help you increase your search ranking. And the more website traffic you have the more money you can potentially make.

3. Know Your Content

I’ve applied SEO techniques to every bit of content on this blog so you would think I would know which blog posts are going to receive the most eyeballs.

Well, not so my friend!

Google Analytics will help you to discover which of your valuable content pages are receiving the most visits. This will allow you to expand upon the topic further as well as determine what it is about those pages that is working so well and apply it to other pages.

You can take your high traffic pages and create a resource page which provides links to them making it even easier for visitors to find these pages as well as for search engines to index and rank them. I’ve done exactly that with my Facebook and Search Engine Marketing content and still have many others to do.

4. Create Goals

One of the most important parts in running a successful internet business is knowing how to control the flow of traffic that visits your website and direct it to the pages that will convert those visitors into sales.

Creating goals within your Google Analytics account will help you do just that!

Goals can been multilevel spanning a complete sales funnel. They can begin on the product page and track the users behavior all the way through the purchase confirmation page.

If a buyer drops out of your order process midstream, the goal will show you where that occurred helping you identify the area of your sales funnel that can be improved for better results.

Goals can be used in many capacities. Use them and be creative, they can provide you with extremely valuable information!

5. Identify Which Niche Provides The Most Traffic

One of the many valuable pieces of information Google Analytics provides you is a breakdown of the various niche or traffic sources. Ironic as it is, 43% of the visitors sent to my site in recent weeks has been from “Referring Websites” as Google Analytics so eloquently puts it. Where as direct visits is 23% along with search, also at 23%.

Much of the referring traffic I’m receiving is from my own social media marketing efforts, to include social networking sites and backlinks from other websites or blogs.

Identifying the source niche of your traffic will help you fine tune your internet marketing efforts to capitalize on the stronger sources while improving upon the weaker ones.

6. Website Overlay

Google Analytics provides a fantastic tool to help you determine which links are driving the flow of traffic on your website the most. This is extremely useful if your have monetized your site allowing you to see how well your call to action buttons are functioning.

You can see which links visitors are clicking on the most as well as how many clicks it received. This information will help you better organize your navigation features for your site to better direct traffic to the areas that are designed to convert those visitors into sales.

Summarizing

Google Analytics is more than just a resource to find out how many hits you received to your website. It is a powerful tool to help you identify your websites strengths and weaknesses. The information it provides will help you gain a significantly better understanding of how others are responding to your online marketing campaigns as well as how they are interacting with your website.

As always, thanks for reading and please retweet and comment on this post to share your thoughts and feedback.

Building a strong internet business requires, focus, determination, confidence, desire, a deep understanding of Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”. Ok, maybe not Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”, but you get the idea.

With so many Internet Marketing gurus out there shouting that they have the best method or products and services to help you successfully drive traffic to your website it can be very tough to determine fact from fiction. There’s always some new trick, some new technique that no one has ever heard of that is driving ridiculous amounts of traffic to a gurus website.

Well, I’m here to tell you that with all the fancy tricks, methods and techniques that do or do not work, the one thing that I know for sure after nearly two decades of running an internet business, is that RELATIONSHIPS BUILD SUCCESS!

The facts are here on this blog people and that’s the cold hard truth

Sure there are many methods and techniques to syndicate your content, increase awareness or attract a customer’s attention, but the fact remains that no one will buy from you unless they trust you. So how do you build that trust?

If you practice yoga or some form of meditation or mental relaxation, I want you to do that first before reading the rest of this post. Why? Because I want you to clear your mind of all the crap you’ve been filling it with over the years. You know, all the stuff that the gurus have been telling you. The myths, secret, and techniques you’ve been taught since coming online that supposedly guarantee your success. DUMP IT ALL! (At least for right now)

Building Relationships Builds Trust

Internet success truly comes down to relationships. That relationships you’ve have with your customers, partners, colleagues and even your competitors all contribute to your ability to build a successful Internet Business. They are the foundation for every successful internet and small business, regardless of what niche you operate in.

This is the one thing I want you to deeply rooted down to your core. It is that relationships are what wins you the ultimate internet business prize.

Building a solid relationship helps to build trust among your customers, respect among your peers and competitors and ultimately success. The better they come to know you the more they’ll trust you.

The most effective way to build relationships through the internet is through social media, blogging, email list, as well as guest posting and article writing.

Take a Genuine Interest in Others

To build a strong relationship with others you must first take a genuine interest in their wants and needs. Show them you truly care about what they want and help them to get it.

The key is to clearly indicate to your customers that you take a genuine interest in them. Communicate with them. Be flexible and don’t be all about business. It is common practice to show your personal side every once in a while on the Internet. The more intimately connected you are with your customers, the more they can relate to you and the more loyal they will be.

Write about it in your about page, tell them in your blog posts and updates. Give them what they want and all other things will fall into place. Traffic, links, search rankings and more.

Be Yourself

Don’t try to be someone you’re not. Learn from the leaders within your industry, but do not try to be them. You will do much better own your own if you are not afraid to simply be who you are. This is what attracts people to you and what will attract success to you.

Let others see your personality. Share your humor with them and don’t be afraid to give your opinion once in a while.

Provide Them With Value

This is done in many ways, through your blog posts, products, services, trainings and webinars, email, status updates and more. Continually educating and sharing useful content, tips and information that helps them fill a need or solve a problem with be viewed as valuable.

Give away value and the monetary aspect of your business will soon improve.

Ask for Feedback

Asking others for feedback helps them feel as though they are contributing value to your business. Ask for feedback on your products and services, company, customer service and even you!

The more you allow others to share their thoughts and feedback with you, the more you will realize what it is that they truly want. Feedback gives you valuable insight into the mind of your customers. Knowing what they are thinking will help you better develop quality products which they are more likely to buy.

Recognize Others

Publicly thank those who provide great feedback or testimonials. Get their permission to post their feedback on your site or in your promotional material.

Everyone loves a pat on the back and you can take your positive feedback and turn it into a pat on the back for the person who provided it. Trust me, they’ll gladly provide you more positive feedback and willingly continue to do business with you if you do.

Recommended Resources

Chris Brogan, a well respected blogger and author has written a fantastic book with Julien Smith entitled “Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust“ that will help you achieve the proper mind set necessary to truly succeed online. I highly recommend you but it. Knowing how to build relationships and gain trust should be a priority if you are to build a successful internet presence.

Summarizing

The point I hope you take away from todays blog post is that, yes, I’m going to say it again, relationships build success! Start small and grow your circle of influence from there.

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