Attracting traffic to your website is only the first step if your website is a landing page attempting to sell a product or a service. You need to take things a step further by going beyond simply attracting someone to your website – You need to get a conversion. Regardless of whether you are simply trying to capture an e-mail address for a newsletter, trying to sell a product, or trying to sell a service, conversions are going to matter. They are the difference between a quick visit to your website, and actually getting something usable out of the people that come to your website.

Here are some tips for raising your conversions:

- * Make sure that you are using plenty of examples in your copy. This is going to allow your target audience to have a complete understanding of the pitch that you are offering.

- * Build more credibility for yourself by using terms that may not be understood by your readers but that they can easily follow if you explain them simply. This is going to show them that yes, you are an expert in your niche.

- * Take the time to reveal just how excited you are about what you are offering. Use your words, or show a picture of yourself looking excited to show that yes, this is something that you are passionate about.

- * Take the time to tell or show your target audience that you were once in their position. Now take the time to explain to them how what you are offering helped to pull you out of that very position that they are in now.

- * At the end of your copy, make sure that you are challenging your readers in some way. If the product or service isn’t going to solve their problem, offer them something in return – Give them an offer they simply cannot refuse.

- * Ask your audience questions in order to get them involved in the ad copy that you are giving them. They are automatically going to begin to answer these questions in their mind, and their willingness to participate will translate into more conversions.

- * Start your ad copy out with a story, as it will draw people into your ad. They are going to quickly forget that you are selling them anything.

- * You should stick to less than five points in your copy because if you try to touch on too many different topics, then your readers are likely going to become confused or overwhelmed, and this is not going to get you any conversions.

- * Make the ad-reading experience a positive one for everyone that comes to your landing page and reads what you have to say. Educate them on a subject, make them laugh. Touch them in some way and you will reap positive results.
James is a business coach and mentor that assists serious entrepreneurs in building a profitable online business with multiple incomes streams. James and his team have assisted hundreds of people in generating huge profits in their very first year. For more information and to contact James, visit his website.http://thesevenfigurepro.com

Starting a home business in today’s economy makes a lot of sense. I want to offer a compelling case why network marketing should be the home business you choose to start.

Rather than make a top 10 list, or something like that, I want to zero in on the number one reason that an MLM business can help you make your home business more successful.

The reason I’m talking about is leveraging your time through duplication. To understand what that means you need to understand how the network marketing business model works.

You can join a network marketing business for less than $100 today. This will give you everything you need to start and run your business from the comfort of your own home.

Most people who choose to do this do so on a part time basis. This means they have an hour a day or 10 hours a week to work on their business. In your case you may have more or less than that.

With network marketing you personally enroll distributors and get paid on their efforts. You can also build a downline of distributors and get paid on all of their product purchases and sales as well.

Leveraging your time through duplication means you are getting literally hundreds or even thousands of hours of additional work being done besides your own. Here’s exactly how that happens.

Let’s say you have 10 hours a week to put into your business. At the end of one week your business will have grown based on the 10 hours that you worked.

When you enroll a new distributor who also has 10 hours a week to put into their business your business will grow proportionally. Instead of 10 hours being put into your business you now have 20 hours being spent building a network marketing business that you profit from.

Let’s say that you personally unroll five people and those people personally enroll five people. You now have 26 people, counting yourself, and if everybody was to put in 10 hours a week your business would have 260 hours of work being applied to it.

That is the power of leveraging your time to duplication. This is why network marketers spend the majority of their time recruiting new distributors and training their downline.

The most successful home businesses today involve at least one stream of income through network marketing. Instead of hiring employees to work for your home business you can recruit distributors and have hundreds of hours of effort being put into your MLM business.

This makes it possible for the little guy to make money online where otherwise they might not be able to. Instead of taking paid surveys, making money with affiliate programs, blogging, or other types of home businesses, make network marketing the way you get started today!

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I hear many people talking about marketing and promotion in the same breath as being the same thing. I don’t believe them, because in my experience they are very different, but they are linked by a common theme… your business.

In a nutshell, marketing can be described as everything you do to attract clients into your business but a promotion is a specific event and time based activity to get people to buy your products or services. To understand this difference, I am going to show you what is involved in running a promotion.

These are the six key elements you need to consider and how you can include them in your business, or your next promotion.

1 The Reason Why:

Canadian advertising man John E. Kennedy is credited with inventing the term ‘Reason Why Advertising’ as far back as 1905 and every promotion you run should have a strong reason for why you are doing it. Events are the usual ‘reason’ such as product launches and significant anniversaries. More unusually, I’ve seen marketers use the birth of a new baby for a sale and even “I need to pay my taxes” to run a promotion. Yes, it is cheesy, but it works.

So not all reasons are good, BUT they are still reasons and they work far better than the “I’m running a promotion this week because I can or should” angle. Remember that the bigger hook or story you can work into a promotion then the bigger the impact. Your customers will respond to a promotion with lots of BANG and that means it will grab their ATTENTION much faster.

2 Give Them A Discount Or Special Price:

However interesting your customers find your promotion, it is not going to work unless you also give them a reason to act now. You have plenty of options here: you can offer a reduced price, a bundled special deal on your products, or a one on one consult with you.

3 Put An End Date On Your Promotion

Some businesses seem to be in permanent sale mode, so there’s no urgency for the customer to buy. They know that this week, next week and right through the year that business has a sale on. That’s why it’s important you create a deadline for your promotion. If you then you lose credibility. Having a definitive end date creates urgency and a reason for your potential customer to act now or lose out.

4 Give Something Extra Successful:

Online marketers have mastered the art of giving bonuses and any good promotion should contain a bonus item for ordering now. Key points to consider are whether your bonus is relevant to the main item being sold, and does it stand alone in its own value.

Ask yourself whether your bonus item could be sold on its own and does it add value to the promotion you are running?

5 TELL People The Value They Are Getting:

The first time I ‘got’ this I saw my sales increase, and although you may think your bonus is valuable, it won’t always be obvious to the customer so you must make it clear to them.

Even if you do put a value next to the items you are selling, don’t assume your prospect or customer has worked it out for themselves. If the total value is £250 tell them it is £250 because if you leave them to add it up for themselves they generally won’t do it.

6 Finally…Tell People What To Do Next All the above points are meaningless unless you follow through with this one. Tell them what you want them to do. For example; fill in this form, go to this website, click this link.

Never, ever leave it up to the customer to find out how to order your products. If it is not clear then they won’t make the effort, so just let them know what you want them to do.

For example: “To order this Internet Marketing Guide and take advantage of the special price with all of your bonuses worth £350 click on this button now.” No mistakes, no confusion…just sales.

Follow these six steps and you are on your way to your most successful promotion ever.
Neil Stafford is Editor and Publisher of the Internet Marketing Review the UK’s longest running PRINTED Internet Marketing Newsletter. ‘Test drive’ the Newsletter for FREE – Visit this special web page for more information: Internet Marketing Review Newsletter

As simple of a reason as it may seem, writing an effective article can become a turning point for most Internet marketers? businesses today, simply because of the ever growing lack of content and desire to inform shown by most writers and entrepreneurs out there. Actually, a concise and informative article will quickly stand out from the pack and give its author an edge over his/her industry colleagues on the Internet when done with the proper effort and consistency. Behind every single effective article we find four basic things: 1. Correct keywords and keyword phrases – it is very important for your internet marketing article to contain keywords that are related to your website, since 75 percent of the traffic on the Internet today, goes through search engines.

2. Proper keyword density – when done correctly, it will cause different search engines to acknowledge the article?s presence on the web. A piece of writing should have between 1-7 percent keyword density, so if you are writing a 400 word article, then you should be aiming for a maximum of 28 keywords in total. Be careful not to over-do this to avoid been penalized.

3. Good content – an effective article provides useful information, is well written and also entertains readers. It should also include facts and statistics whenever possible to gain its author credibility.

4. Correct bio / resource box – this is one of the most important things for all active Internet marketers when it comes to article writing. It is basically the small 4 line paragraph at the end of the article where you include two sentences about you and why you brought the reader to your piece of written information, together with an unhidden link to your website or business opportunity. Your next step is to get your creative juices going, and there are a number of ways for Internet marketers to achieve this: – Always carry a diary or journal with you – you never know when you will hear, see or smell something that will trigger your creativity.

- Create an organized workspace – this allows you to have a constant flow of ideas when writing. Use pictures you like or your favorite fragrance for a nice finishing touch.

- Be relaxed – take care of any pending issues that might need your immediate attention before writing. This will allow you to think clearly from the start.

Once those aspects are sorted out, marketers should create an outline for their article. This means writing 4 or 5 subheadings under which you will develop your effective article creating an intuitive beginning, middle and end writing structure. This will not only apply to articles, but to videos, blogging and virtually every other method they use to get their message and points across to their targeted market.

There are also a number of formatting specifications to writing effectively:

- Articles should contain short and inspiring paragraphs. – Internet marketers should always include number or bullet points to communicate ideas clearly. – Inspire curiosity in readers by using an attention-grabbing title and by breaking up the text with subheadings.

Applying these techniques will avoid big and tiring blocks of text and keep readers interested from start to finish. On the other hand, there are a couple of things you should avoid when writing on the Internet:

1. Blatantly promoting yourself and not informing – The only immediate benefit for readers is to get informed. Share true knowledge in your article and visits to your website will be a by-product.

2. Not taking full advantage of the promotional opportunities offered by an article – Internet marketers should use keywords and anchor text strategically throughout the article, reaching their audience with branded and quality information without exception.

Keeping these two points in mind, will avoid you setbacks in the process of writing and build a trustworthy image to readers on the Internet.

So there you have it my fellow Internet marketers, you now possess the blueprint and knowledge to creating and writing an effective article on the net. Always remember to plan the work and work the plan consistently; day in day out, week after week and YOU WILL be writing concise and informative articles in no time. Practice makes the master! Understand that, remain focused and get writing! To your success.

Pablo Guessi is an Internet Marketer who specializes in Online Advertising through lead generation and organic traffic techniques. For more information on marketing a unique business opportunity and free valuable gifts, please visit: www.prmarketingteam.com

For example, recently I received a phone call offering to help me make my site number 1 on Google. Intrigued I continued to listen. The caller told me that his company has “cracked the Google code” and can easily make me number 1 – leaving all my competitors in the dust.

Well, “cracking the Google” code was the first tip-off. If these guys were so good at being found on Google, why the hell are they still cold-calling me? I kept on talking, but now I started asking questions.

“That sounds interesting. What’s your website?”

Knowing a little bit about what a marketing savvy website might look like, I new that a peek at their site would help me get a better feel if this company is for real. But instead of getting a domain name, the caller told me to go to Google and type in specific keywords. He said his company would be in the top three spots.

I followed his instructions… Well, with some minor modifications…

Instead of heading straight to Google’s search page, I stopped by Overture’s Keyword Suggestion page to find out how popular that keyword is.

Do you know what I discovered? In the entire previous month only 17 people used that phrase to search the Internet! Now, being in the top three spots for these words suddenly didn’t seem like a very big deal.

The caller seemed a bit unhappy about my discovery. But still, he offered that I search a different phrase. Following the same routine I found 42 searches in the past month. Whoopi! What a deal, right? At this point the caller simply hung up on me!

But several of my friends were not so “lucky.” They are now two or three thousand dollars in the hole. And unfortunately for them – they will never see this money again, and their site will keep getting the same lousy traffic it was getting before! What saved me was a bit of know-how to properly evaluate the offer.

Because there are so many professionals and business owners who want to achieve “cheap and instant marketing miracles,” the most popular scams seem to offer driving traffic to your website, helping you achieve good positioning in popular search engines, showing you how to build a massive email list, and revealing secrets to quickly making a lot of money with your own information products.

These are all needed services, and good information on these subjects is invaluable to your success. Problem is how to evaluate if what you are getting is the real stuff or a bunch of bologna?

Here are a few clues to look for.

1. Use your common sense. If the offer is too good to be true – it probably is! It never hurts to ask a few of your trusted businesses advisors to take a look at it before you commit to pay any money for it.
2. Do your own homework. Don’t take what the company or person tells you for granted. Heck – we all put our best foot forward in our marketing materials. Research both online and offline.

Take a good look at the website. Does it follow the basic rules of good marketing design? Does it have good Alexa (http://www.alexa.com) ratings? Has it been online for a good length of time?

Can you find out any case studies, customer comments, or endorsements from reliable sources? And for testimonials – anything that shows me just the first and last name initials and name of the state the person is from – I completely ignore as not credible. Look for full first and last name, city and state in the testimonial. If you can find audio and video testimonials, that’s even better. Ask around to see if you can “dig out any dirt.” Ask business associates in the same industry if they have heard of the company or the person. Check out industry related discussion boards for any negative feedback from past customers.

You can also contact consumer protection organizations like Better Business Bureau, but I found that they are often more interested in protecting businesses who pay them an annual fee than really looking after consumers’ best interest.

3. Ask a lot of questions. Don’t let them intimidate you with pre-canned answers. You are about to part with your money – make sure you know exactly what you are getting.

If the company is offering you search engine positioning, check their own results for popular and competitive keywords. (You can easily find this out with free tools like the Overture keyword popularity at http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion or this simple free software at http://www.goodkeywords.com )

If they want to help you with your pay-per-click, ask to see their own pay-per-click ads. Find out how many different ads they are testing at a time, and – again – are they using keywords that someone is actually searching for.

If they offer to drive traffic to your site, ask how it will be done. They should give you at least a very good idea even though they may not want to reveal all the details. Ask how targeted the traffic will be. Find out how the results are measured: in “unique visitors” (good) or in “hits” (bad). And these are just the basics. If they offer to make you a lot of money with teaching you how to start your information selling business – find out if they themselves sell any products outside of the “how to sell your products” ebook or course… You get my drift here, right?

If you are hiring a consultant or a coach to help you out – do they have business experience and successful track record with projects like yours or did they just read an ebook about it last week? (Now, some people are just great teachers – and that doesn’t make them wrong – just know that the information will not be as hands on and real-world-tested as you might want it to be.)

4. Can you easily find the contact information? That’s a big red flag for me. When I find great deals online but I can’t seem to find the company’s mailing address or a phone number and all I get is an email – I typically walk away. I want to know that if anything goes wrong I can find the person and pick-up the phone and try to resolve it. But it’s hard to do if they hide behind just an email.
5. Trust your instincts. OK, I know this one is highly unscientific. But if things just don’t feel right – it doesn’t matter how good the offer is – give yourself some time to cool off and take a second look at it when you can actually think logically about it.

Fact is, because there is a huge need for marketing information and marketing help, this market attracts a lot of people who couldn’t spell “marketing” yesterday but today are eager to share their advise with you – for a lot of money.

If there is one simple answer to help you stay safe and avoid being ripped off, I believe it can be summed up in two words: COMMON SENSE and EDUCATION.

If it looks and feels unreal – it likely is. And the more educated you are about good marketing and how it works, the less likely you’ll be to waste your money on shady offers.

The author, Adam Urbanski, teaches service professionals and business owners how to develop better marketing strategies to increase sales and profits. His website offers more how-to articles and free tips to create a winning marketing action plan at http://www.themarketingmentors.com. Once a year, in December, Adam hosts Attract Clients Like Crazy Boot Camp designed specifically to teach entrepreneurs effective marketing strategies. www.attractlientslikecrazy.com

The 1st mindset that you must have is that you are building a long term business. A long term business will requires you to invest your time and money into growing the business. If you are following the proven system and you have the confidence that it will work if you do the work that are required, you should invest in the tools that will make sure that the business work.

You do not want to leave your business to chances as there are many free hosting services that just disappear after a certain period of time. Your business will be gone overnight and all the efforts that you have put into driving traffic back to your website will be gone.

Most free hosting services will not give you complete control over your website. You must understand that there is no free lunch in this world. The majority of the free hosting services will put advertisement on your website in exchange for giving your free account. This will greatly affect your opt in conversion if your main goal is to build your own list of subscribers.

Your credibility will be deeply affected if your customers know that you are using free hosting services. Your customers will have no confident in doing business with you when they know that you are not even willing to your money into your own business.

After all the discussion, the final answer to the question is NO. You should not be using free hosting services as your main goal is to build a long term business. Take full control of your business and you will see the improvements in your business.

Zack Lim is an internet affiliate marketer who owns http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com/FreeEcourse. He has helped hundreds of people to start their own affiliate marketing business.

He’s recently developed a free e-course showing you a step by step process for starting your own affiliate marketing business easier. To learn how to start your own affiliate marketing business without wasting your time and money, visit http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com/FreeEcourse

The Positives

If you are not very resourceful and are always running short of time, this idea can prove to be a boon for you. Buying MLM network marketing leads can save you from wasting your time and money on results that appear very insignificant in the end.

Building proper leads can consume a lot of your time and you only learn to do it successfully with good practice. This leaves you with lesser time to take care of the other stuff for your business. Experienced professionals can get the leads for you much more successfully, helping to increase your profits.

Businesses depend almost entirely on marketing today. By getting professionals to get the MLM network marketing leads on your behalf, you can look at spending more time in contacting and converting the prospects referred to you. This is an ideal situation and can prove to be extremely beneficial for your business.

The Drawbacks

Buying MLM network marketing leads will not assist you to build profits if your business has no prospects. Such a condition generally results from poor business management. In order to reap the benefits of MLM network marketing leads, you must first get your business out of stagnation and then look to spend money on purchasing leads.

The other major drawback of this system is the reliability of the leads seller. It is very easy to be a victim of fraud and scams with so many fakes around. Very careful consideration needs to be made as to which company’s services you are looking to buy. Moreover, you need to be shifting from one seller to another often as even if a seller offers an excellent service initially, it may deteriorate with time.

Sometimes the leads that needed to be transferred to you may even get sent to another business when sellers have many clients on their books. You need to check such a situation with care as well.

Hence, when you consider all these points, it solely depends on you whether buying MLM network marketing leads would be a good option for you or not, depending on the condition of your business and the resources available to you. Once you are aware of the risks and you plan your actions accordingly, spending money on purchasing MLM network marketing leads can be a great help for your business in the long run.

This article may be freely reprinted or distributed in it’s entirely in any e-zine, newsletter, blog, or website as long as the resource box remains intact.

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Mistake #1: Spend too much time and money on ineffective advertising methods

Ineffective advertising methods are the ones that do not bring you any money. Some of them are safe list, traffic exchange programs, guaranteed hits programs, FFA (Free for all) programs.

All these ways of advertising will bring you traffic but targeted traffic. With this kind of traffic, you hardly get any sale.

In other words, your responsibility is to find out the ways which bring you targeted traffic. Before spending your valuable time and money on any kind of advertising methods, consider carefully if those methods bring you targeted traffic or not.

I have listed some good ways of Internet advertising in hope that they can help you a little bit in advertising your online home based business. They are article marketing, ezine marketing (ezine advertising and ezine article), SEO (search engine optimization), Google Adwords.

Mistake #2: Don’t have a website

Many people say that you could make money easily without owning a website. They suggest that you should set up the Google Adwords campaigns and put your affiliate link into ‘destination link’ box. Then, if anyone clicks on your ads, visit the merchant site and buy items when they are at merchant site, you get paid.

Another ‘advice’ is to join affiliate program you like, and then put the affiliate link at the signature file when you post something on Forums, or message board.

Frankly, these ways might generate several sales for you. But, they are surely a waste of time and money in terms of long-term internet income. Besides, having a website will give you a better chance to make internet income.

For example, you can add more affiliate programs on your site or you can also put Google adsense code on your site to make money from Google.

An online home based business is an invaluable asset to anyone looking to a better life that they have dreamed of. The income it offers will help just about any ordinary people live the lifestyle they want. Most importantly, it provides the sense of security that you cannot own if you are doing a 9-5 job.

You want to make money in addition to your current job but do not know how? Dang Vu invites you to visit http://www.sungtuc.com/ to choose the best online home based business opportunities that can help you start an online home based business and make thousands of dollars monthly using your home computer.