Would you like to know where millionaires like Richard Rosenblatt, the former owner of MySpace are currently investing their money? Well, he is investing millions of dollars into domain investing. There is a way that you can make money too, with expired domain names!
Business 2.0 magazine reported that domain investing is creating a new class of millionaires who are making as much as $20,000,000 per year in passive income from simple domain investing.
The field of domain investing is a fairly new one which is just ready to explode with profits. The web has become the new real estate boom. Instead of investing in condos and flipping old houses, people are investing in expired domain names.
So what exactly is an expired domain name? It's a domain name that someone had bought and didn't renew for some reason or another. And each day, somewhere between 15,000 and 70,000 domain names are not renewed and fall into the category of expired domain names.
What makes some of these expired domain names so valuable? Well, some have a lot of traffic directed to them already. Some people spent time building a website and a business online, directing taffic to it, exchanging links and developing listings with the search engines. Then they gave up on it or went on to something new. When the original person doesn't renew the domain name, it becomes an expired domain name and anyone can buy it.
You may be thinking. How can I make money with someone else's expired domain name? Well, there are several ways.
My favorite way is the easiest and simplest. Right now, when a domain name has expired, the parking company parks the domain. They put ads on it. When someone goes to that domain and clicks on an ad, they make money. Now if YOU own that domain name, and register it with a parking company, which is free, by the way, YOU can get those checks when someone clicks on one of those ads. It is really that simple to start a residual income. Those checks will continue to come in month after month as long as you own that domain name.
Another way you can profit is to resell expired domain names, the same way that you would resell real estate. For example, the highest reported domain sale in 2006 was $7,500,000. Now chances are that you're not going to stumble onto a million dollar website that no one has noticed, but even if you spend $60 and double your money, that's not such a bad investment!
Here is another idea. Search for domain names with the same keyword list that you use for your own website. Suppose you have a business selling jewelry, for example. You can purchase expired domain names with the same keywords and then point the visitors from the old websites to your new website. This will give you instant traffic!
While there is no way to determine the actual amount of traffic going to a particular expired domain, you can find out its link popularity in the major search engines.
These are just a few ways that you can make money with expired domain names and if you're a creative person, I'm sure you'll think of more. In no time at all, you could be on your way to making a residual income with expired domain names!
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Your Identity - Picking A Domain Name To Register
Perhaps the most poignant scene in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible happens at the end when the protagonist, John Proctor, refuses to sign his name on a false confession. When asked why he refuses to sign the document, even though it could save his life he cries out in anguish, "Because it is my name. It is the only name I will ever have." It is a heartfelt and stunning reminder that our identity begins at birth when our parents name us. A web site also depends on its name, which is why choosing a domain name that best represents your site and its purpose is something to be done very carefully indeed.
Choose the right name
When you are ready to start a web site don't just run to the first registry you can find and type in the first thing you think of. Sit down and do some research about your site and what you hope it will accomplish. What is the goal of your site? What kind of images do you want customers to associate with it? If you could sum up your site in one word, what would that word be? The best domain names tend to be names that are short and easy to remember and something to do with the topic or service your web site provides. If you are going to attempt humor with your domain name, make sure it's a joke that not just you can understand. Overall, the name should add to the quality of your web site not distract from it.
Check availability
As you're picking a name for your web site, one of the common things to happen is you find the absolutely most perfect name possible, go to the registry and type in the name in the lookup box and lo and behold - its already taken. Then you have a problem. You're already sold on the idea, and now it's not workable. Make sure to have a lookup box from the registry available as you are choosing the name for your domain site so you can check availability instantly. You should also check names that are similar to the domain name you are choosing to make sure there won't be confusion later on in and your advertising doesn't accidentally send your customer to someone else's site.
Pick the right extension
Many registrars will also let you choose the extension along with your domain name. That means that you get to choose whether your domain name will be a.com. or .net .biz or any of the other approved for public use extension names. Be sure to pick one that does not mislead your customers or clientele. If you're really selling something, choosing an .org which is largely for nonprofit organizations or a .net which is for social networking, may seem like a brilliant way to get people to your site. However, customers know when they've been conned and it tends to backfire on the business. Choose the proper extension for what you're doing and let your site's integrity sell itself.
What's in a name? Everything. Careful and thoughtful picking and use of the name for your web site will help keep your enterprise on the top of its game.
Choose the right name
When you are ready to start a web site don't just run to the first registry you can find and type in the first thing you think of. Sit down and do some research about your site and what you hope it will accomplish. What is the goal of your site? What kind of images do you want customers to associate with it? If you could sum up your site in one word, what would that word be? The best domain names tend to be names that are short and easy to remember and something to do with the topic or service your web site provides. If you are going to attempt humor with your domain name, make sure it's a joke that not just you can understand. Overall, the name should add to the quality of your web site not distract from it.
Check availability
As you're picking a name for your web site, one of the common things to happen is you find the absolutely most perfect name possible, go to the registry and type in the name in the lookup box and lo and behold - its already taken. Then you have a problem. You're already sold on the idea, and now it's not workable. Make sure to have a lookup box from the registry available as you are choosing the name for your domain site so you can check availability instantly. You should also check names that are similar to the domain name you are choosing to make sure there won't be confusion later on in and your advertising doesn't accidentally send your customer to someone else's site.
Pick the right extension
Many registrars will also let you choose the extension along with your domain name. That means that you get to choose whether your domain name will be a.com. or .net .biz or any of the other approved for public use extension names. Be sure to pick one that does not mislead your customers or clientele. If you're really selling something, choosing an .org which is largely for nonprofit organizations or a .net which is for social networking, may seem like a brilliant way to get people to your site. However, customers know when they've been conned and it tends to backfire on the business. Choose the proper extension for what you're doing and let your site's integrity sell itself.
What's in a name? Everything. Careful and thoughtful picking and use of the name for your web site will help keep your enterprise on the top of its game.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Understanding Different Digital Marketing Techniques
Marketing has always been very important for all businesses. Businesses need customers to survive and will have to try and fend off the competition. Marketing can be used to communicate with your potential customers and help them to understand why they should choose you.
Traditional Marketing
Marketing has been around since the very first business. Traditional forms of marketing involved TV, radio and print advertising. Almost all magazines and newspapers are chocked full of adverts and this can make it difficult to make these ads work.
People have gotten wise to advertising and generally won't listen to it anymore. Ads on TV for example are often ignored when people get up to do something else. Newspaper advertising was also ignored unless tricks were used.
Vouchers could be included in print media which made them much more attractive and memorable. Traditional forms of advertising are not only expensive but they are also a little bit like hit and miss. The business will have to pay whether or not people actually read the ad.
Digital Marketing
When most people think about digital marketing they will only consider the internet. However anything that is electronic can be used for digital marketing. Marketing messages are commonly delivered through email, cell phones, and the internet.
One of the best things about digital marketing is that it's instant. It's also fairly easy to trace the effectiveness of such campaigns.
Digital marketing is also targeted which means only people interested in learning about your products are contacted. You will have to ask permission before you are able to send messages and this ensures that the privacy of your customers is respected.
Digital advertising is becoming very popular and there's good reason for that. It's an instant form of communication, it's flexible, it can be targeted at specific groups of users and sophisticated analysis tools make it possible to work out what's happening.
Internet Marketing
Internet marketing works very well for many businesses. They will first need to choose keywords to promote their business with. It's important to give these keywords some important consideration. Spend some time thinking about the types of terms that your customers may use to describe and search for your business.
Internet marketing makes it possible to create brand awareness and grow your business. You can easily brand your ads to ensure people know who is writing them.
Although keywords are important, it's not the only thing that you should consider. You also need to ensure that the ad is relevant and interesting to the reader. Making any lies in the ad will damage the effectiveness of your campaign. Don't for example offer something for free unless it really is completely free because this won't go down very well.
The content of your site is also extremely important. No matter how much money you spend on advertising if your site is rubbish then nobody will stick around to read the site. Your site design needs to be top notch and the quality of the content also needs to be very high.
Internet marketing doesn't need to seem like a mystery anymore, there are a number of things that you can do to easily promote your site.
Traditional Marketing
Marketing has been around since the very first business. Traditional forms of marketing involved TV, radio and print advertising. Almost all magazines and newspapers are chocked full of adverts and this can make it difficult to make these ads work.
People have gotten wise to advertising and generally won't listen to it anymore. Ads on TV for example are often ignored when people get up to do something else. Newspaper advertising was also ignored unless tricks were used.
Vouchers could be included in print media which made them much more attractive and memorable. Traditional forms of advertising are not only expensive but they are also a little bit like hit and miss. The business will have to pay whether or not people actually read the ad.
Digital Marketing
When most people think about digital marketing they will only consider the internet. However anything that is electronic can be used for digital marketing. Marketing messages are commonly delivered through email, cell phones, and the internet.
One of the best things about digital marketing is that it's instant. It's also fairly easy to trace the effectiveness of such campaigns.
Digital marketing is also targeted which means only people interested in learning about your products are contacted. You will have to ask permission before you are able to send messages and this ensures that the privacy of your customers is respected.
Digital advertising is becoming very popular and there's good reason for that. It's an instant form of communication, it's flexible, it can be targeted at specific groups of users and sophisticated analysis tools make it possible to work out what's happening.
Internet Marketing
Internet marketing works very well for many businesses. They will first need to choose keywords to promote their business with. It's important to give these keywords some important consideration. Spend some time thinking about the types of terms that your customers may use to describe and search for your business.
Internet marketing makes it possible to create brand awareness and grow your business. You can easily brand your ads to ensure people know who is writing them.
Although keywords are important, it's not the only thing that you should consider. You also need to ensure that the ad is relevant and interesting to the reader. Making any lies in the ad will damage the effectiveness of your campaign. Don't for example offer something for free unless it really is completely free because this won't go down very well.
The content of your site is also extremely important. No matter how much money you spend on advertising if your site is rubbish then nobody will stick around to read the site. Your site design needs to be top notch and the quality of the content also needs to be very high.
Internet marketing doesn't need to seem like a mystery anymore, there are a number of things that you can do to easily promote your site.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Adsense - How do I succeed?
So you have heard about the tons of money some people are making with Google Adsense. So you want in on the action. But the question is, how do I do it? What makes one person successful at utilizing Google Adsense and others fail miserably? How do I avoid wasting my time on it if I'm not going to be successful? Are there any guarantees?
These are some of the questions that may be nagging at you if you are considering getting started with Google Adsense. You may have already started, but are not seeing much return for your money and time. In this article we will discuss some of the answers to your questions and give you a hint as to how to successfully use Google Adsense.
First of all, is it true that people have made a lot of money with Google Adsense? Yes, it is true. There are some people who are and have made thousands of dollars per month with Google Adsense. There is even one website I know of that made millions when they sold their Google Adsense Website because it was making so much money per month a big company couldn't resist the opportunity to buy their business.
A business, that's what it is. That is the first thing you need to remember. Google Adsense is a business. It is not a hobby. It is not a sideline. Not if you want to be successful with the Google Adsense program. If you do not plan to treat it as a business, it is not worth any of your time. It is an all or nothing proposition.
There are exceptions. If you already run a successful website and have a lot of incoming traffic, Google Adsense can still work for you and you won't need to put a lot of time into it. By a lot of incoming traffic, I mean if you are already getting thousands of unique hits every day.
If you plan to use Google Adsense as your primary source of income, then you have to work hard at it in order to be successful. You have to treat it as you would any business. That being said, I must warn you. Being your own boss, working for yourself, may not be for you. It is a decision only you can make.
To be your own boss you have to be willing to work hard, invest in your new business, sacrifice a lot of your free time, and do whatever is necessary to make sure you will succeed. That means you will have to learn a lot of new things. You will have to study just like you did back in school, but with even bigger stakes. Your business depends on how much you are willing to work, invest, and learn.
Now, if you have decided you are willing to do those things, then you are ready to have your own business. Google Adsense is one way to get started in your own web-based business.
What do I do first? I'm glad you asked. First you will need to choose a product or topic you will be promoting or you can choose several if you plan on having a portfolio of websites. How do you choose a product or topic that will make money with Google Adsense? Again, I'm glad you asked.
There a re tools online that will give you an idea of how much different Google Adwords cost to buy. That in turn gives you an idea of how much those keywords will pay you through Google Adsense. So first, you go to Google Adwords to find out how much it costs to buy specific keywords.
You don't choose the top paying keywords, though. Why? Because everyone else in the world is doing that and the competition is brutal for the top paying Google Adwords. Choose keywords that are in the medium range. Words you believe will pay you 25-50 cents per click are best in my honest opinion.
Your competition won't be as stiff and you can still make a nice monthly income at those rates. Remember, 5000 click at 5 cents per click is more than 1000 clicks at 10 cents per click.
The next thing you need to do is take your new list of keywords you are thinking of promoting through Google Adsense and find out how many people are actually searching for those keywords through the search engines. If you go to overture.com, they have a tool that will help you. You type in a keyword and it tells you how many people searched for that keyword on Yahoo last month and how many searches were done for that keyword and other words associated with them.
So, to summarize, you choose several Adwords that you think will pay 25-50 cents per click, then find which of those the most people search for, and then add some value to those keywords that you have a personal interest in promoting.
That last thing is important. The reason is that if you are not interested in the topic or products you will be promoting you will not be as effective. You will lose interest in promoting it because it simply does not interest you.
Once you have chosen your keyword or keywords you will be using, it's time to put them to work for you and time to make some Google Adsense money. So, what's next?
You will need a website. This is very important. You do not want a web-based html generated free-hosted website. There are tons of places offering you all this for free. Remember that you get what you pay for.
In any business you wish to start, it takes some investment to do it properly. If you start with nothing at all, you will likely still be in that position a year from now. There is no magic pill or shortcut to success with any business and that includes Google Adsense.
Next you need a domain name. Most people think they need a catchy name like Google and Yahoo, because those companies are successful. Not true. Those companies spent millions of dollars to promote their name. If they had been smarter actually, they would have just registered Search.com.
Your domain name needs to include keywords that are the same or related to the keywords you will be promoting. Remember, with Google Adsense you are not building your company name, you are promoting keyword based contextual advertising and the ads you make money on are based on the words you have in your webpages.
If you have to have hyphens in the domain name to achieve this, then have hyphens in the name. Do not listen to conventional wisdom that tells you that only a dot com domain name and one that has no hyphens is any good. With Google Adsense, that is not the case. A dot net, a dot org, a dot info, or a dot anything else with the right keywords is what you are looking for.
You will need to find a good hosting company for your website. They can be found for $100 per year. If you are offered a cheaper deal than that, it probably is just that, a cheapo deal.
You will need to make sure they have 24-hour support. You want to know if they have an easy admin panel to manage your website with, like cpanel. You want to know if they have install options for things like photo galleries, forums, and blogs. You may not be using those options in the beginning, but you may need that flexibility within that year. Plan ahead.
Once you have your keywords to promote, your domain name, and your hosting, now you need your website. There are several options for this. You can purchase a ready-made Google Adsense website for around $250-$300. Cheaper ones, again, like hosting, are probably too good to be true. You can search Ebay for deals on those or search the web. I recommend affiliatewesitedesign.com.
You can also choose to build it yourself. If you know how to write html then I know you are already going to take that option. It can also be built in FrontPage or Dreamweaver, or some other auto-generator, however, I recommend you have someone who knows html actually fix the mistakes in the code when you are done.
The important thing about your new website is not how it looks! With most websites, a professional looking website is important. If you are selling a product or service that is still true. However, with Google Adsense, you are promoting keywords and need people to click the ads for you to make any money.
If your website is too appealing, they will stay on your website and click around in there burning your bandwidth and making you no money! If your website is very mundane, they will click the ads on the page to leave! You now made money.
Now let me clarify this for you. If you put text into your website that focuses on the keywords you are promoting through Google Adsense, then the right ads for you to make your money are in the page. Not only that, your page will be found in the search engines for searches on those keywords.
Now, when the searcher finds your website and it's beautiful, they want to look around at how great a website it is. They want to read all your FREE information. They will be there for awhile and may even bookmark you! None of those are good things! They are good IF you are selling a product or service on your website. They are not good things if you are trying to make money with Google Adsense!
Your website does not have to be ugly. But it doesn't need to look enticing either. You don't want them to click your links. You want them to click the Google Adsense links because your page is NOT quite what they are looking for. The more they click those links to LEAVE your website, the more money you make.
Experienced Google Adsense people know this and know how to design a website that gets visitors to click the links and leave the page, making you money on the way out.
That is about all I can shock you with for one article, but I hope I have helped you understand what Google Adsense and how to get started successfully.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Top Seven Ways Writing Articles Can Explode Your Business
In today's highly competitive internet universe, the importance of attracting highly targeted traffic to your website cannot be overemphasized. Routing web traffic to your site can be your only means of survival, especially in the cutthroat world of ecommerce. Getting a high search engine ranking can be very difficult. Fortunately, there is plethora of website promotion strategies you can use to drive traffic to your website.
There is a wide variety of strategies you can adapt, from paid advertising to affiliate marketing. However, most of these techniques require payment. Nevertheless, there are ways to promote your website and increase your web traffic without spending anything. Writing articles is one of the best web site promotion strategies you can use, and they can be very effective. How, you may ask, can writing articles help improve your web traffic? Here are the top seven ways in which it can help explode your business.
1.Reach more people
When you write good articles, it would be a shame not to share them with other people. You can post your articles in your website or you can submit them to other sites such as e-zines and online publishers. By submitting your articles to these sites, you give exposure not only to your ideas but also to your website. Simply include a link back to your site or include your information in the resource box. With this, you get exposure and free advertising as well. Submit your articles to popular e-zines and take advantage of their popularity. Other sites who find your article relevant may also link back to you. Thus, you increase your link popularity, which is one of the most important strategies in the internet world. Remember that most people are looking for information online and by filling this need with your quality article; you may reap the benefit of more exposure and higher web traffic.
2.Free Advertising
Submitting your articles to other websites presents an opportunity to advertise your website without paying exorbitant fees. Although you should avoid marketing language in your articles and make it informative and useful to your readers, you can always include your site's link in the resource box. In addition, by making your article relevant and helpful to your readers, you are making a good impression for your website, which could ultimately lead to a visit and hopefully a purchase. Good quality content in an article is far better and more effective than a few lines of ad space. You have a very special opportunity to presell your product or service to your prospective customer.
3.Gain High Search Engine Ranking
Create a new web page for your article in your website. Optimize your article to make it search-engine friendly. Use top-ranked keywords and Meta tags that can give your website a high search engine ranking. As soon as you upload your new webpage to your server, search engines will spider through it and you can gain an increase in search engine ranking. Remember that search engine optimized content is a very effective strategy to gain a high ranking in search results.
4.Increases Link Popularity
Instead of looking for other sites who would want to establish reciprocal links with your site, you can simply submit an article to other sites. Just do not forget to include a link to your site in your resource box. When these websites pick up and publishes your article, you automatically get a link partner. Try to get as many link partners as you can. Link popularity is one of the factors used by search engines in determining search engine rankings. Make your article especially useful and appealing, so that more websites will be encouraged to publish it.
5.Optimizes your site for improved search engine ranking
By making your site keyword rich, you can greatly improve the search engine ranking of your site. Remember that keyword density is one of the most important factors that search engines use when determining the search engine ranking of site. However, you should always provide relevant, useful and pertinent information. Avoid the temptation of overusing keywords just to gain a high ranking as this may turn off most web surfers. Relevance and quality is still the most important things to consider when writing articles and it will be doubly useful to your site if you make these articles search-engine optimized.
6.Establishes a Good Impression and Reputation
By writing excellent, original and relevant articles, you not only give your site exposure, you are also creating a good impression on your prospects. Encourage more people to visit your site and do business with you by establishing an impressive reputation through your articles. Be seen as an expert in the field and your will ultimately gain more customers eager to do business with you.
7.Enhances your credibility through references and testimonies
Certainly, your articles are going to receive feedbacks and testimonies when you publish them in e-zines and free article sites. Record these positive feedbacks and comments and use them as promotional material in your website or in any of your advertising efforts. Your credibility will be greatly enhanced by these feedbacks, as it will create a good impression on your prospects as well as your existing customers. In this highly competitive world, excellent credibility and trust may be the only things you need to attract new customers or make loyal patrons out of your existing customers. Original, relevant, useful and pertinent articles are important tools you should utilize to improve and explode your business
There is a wide variety of strategies you can adapt, from paid advertising to affiliate marketing. However, most of these techniques require payment. Nevertheless, there are ways to promote your website and increase your web traffic without spending anything. Writing articles is one of the best web site promotion strategies you can use, and they can be very effective. How, you may ask, can writing articles help improve your web traffic? Here are the top seven ways in which it can help explode your business.
1.Reach more people
When you write good articles, it would be a shame not to share them with other people. You can post your articles in your website or you can submit them to other sites such as e-zines and online publishers. By submitting your articles to these sites, you give exposure not only to your ideas but also to your website. Simply include a link back to your site or include your information in the resource box. With this, you get exposure and free advertising as well. Submit your articles to popular e-zines and take advantage of their popularity. Other sites who find your article relevant may also link back to you. Thus, you increase your link popularity, which is one of the most important strategies in the internet world. Remember that most people are looking for information online and by filling this need with your quality article; you may reap the benefit of more exposure and higher web traffic.
2.Free Advertising
Submitting your articles to other websites presents an opportunity to advertise your website without paying exorbitant fees. Although you should avoid marketing language in your articles and make it informative and useful to your readers, you can always include your site's link in the resource box. In addition, by making your article relevant and helpful to your readers, you are making a good impression for your website, which could ultimately lead to a visit and hopefully a purchase. Good quality content in an article is far better and more effective than a few lines of ad space. You have a very special opportunity to presell your product or service to your prospective customer.
3.Gain High Search Engine Ranking
Create a new web page for your article in your website. Optimize your article to make it search-engine friendly. Use top-ranked keywords and Meta tags that can give your website a high search engine ranking. As soon as you upload your new webpage to your server, search engines will spider through it and you can gain an increase in search engine ranking. Remember that search engine optimized content is a very effective strategy to gain a high ranking in search results.
4.Increases Link Popularity
Instead of looking for other sites who would want to establish reciprocal links with your site, you can simply submit an article to other sites. Just do not forget to include a link to your site in your resource box. When these websites pick up and publishes your article, you automatically get a link partner. Try to get as many link partners as you can. Link popularity is one of the factors used by search engines in determining search engine rankings. Make your article especially useful and appealing, so that more websites will be encouraged to publish it.
5.Optimizes your site for improved search engine ranking
By making your site keyword rich, you can greatly improve the search engine ranking of your site. Remember that keyword density is one of the most important factors that search engines use when determining the search engine ranking of site. However, you should always provide relevant, useful and pertinent information. Avoid the temptation of overusing keywords just to gain a high ranking as this may turn off most web surfers. Relevance and quality is still the most important things to consider when writing articles and it will be doubly useful to your site if you make these articles search-engine optimized.
6.Establishes a Good Impression and Reputation
By writing excellent, original and relevant articles, you not only give your site exposure, you are also creating a good impression on your prospects. Encourage more people to visit your site and do business with you by establishing an impressive reputation through your articles. Be seen as an expert in the field and your will ultimately gain more customers eager to do business with you.
7.Enhances your credibility through references and testimonies
Certainly, your articles are going to receive feedbacks and testimonies when you publish them in e-zines and free article sites. Record these positive feedbacks and comments and use them as promotional material in your website or in any of your advertising efforts. Your credibility will be greatly enhanced by these feedbacks, as it will create a good impression on your prospects as well as your existing customers. In this highly competitive world, excellent credibility and trust may be the only things you need to attract new customers or make loyal patrons out of your existing customers. Original, relevant, useful and pertinent articles are important tools you should utilize to improve and explode your business
3 Ways to Use Other People's Content to Boost Your Profits
Repurposing your content is an ingenious way to make more money with less effort. So is repurposing other people's content.
I'm not talking about plagiarizing or stealing someone else's ideas. I'm talking about using information that is already out there and repurposing it into a format not already available so it appeals to new and different audiences and directs those audiences back to your core message.
Here are three examples of how to boost your profits by using or repurposing other people's content, including two case studies of successful business strategies.
Compilation Book
Greatest Direct Mail Sales Letters of All Time by Richard Hodgson is a wonderful example of a repurposed book. Richard took all of the sales letters he had accumulated from friends and colleagues during the 40s, 50s and even before and compiled them into a book. It's an amazing book, and it sells for $69.95. It's an incredibly resourceful way to make money from a book. And you can do the same thing with your own books.
Articles
A great example of repurposed articles is AdvantEdge by Nightingale Conant. What is Nightingale Conant? It's repurposing other people's products, whether it's authors like Zig Ziglar, Jay Abraham, Denis Waitley, Brian Tracy or Mark Victor Hansen.
The AdvantEdge newsletter, which goes out to subscribers, includes powerful insights, excerpts and articles from Nightingale Conant's best-selling authors. The newsletter then directs readers back to the AdvantEdge site to purchase books about personal development, business strategy, wealth building, mind and body, spiritual growth and sales training. So by repurposing other people's content, Nightingale Conant is making a bundle.
Other People's Topics / The Public Domain
Your imagination is the limit when it comes to repurposing information in the public domain, or information that's free from copyright protection.
I know there are many books that are public domain. For example, certain books like Sun Tzu's The Art of War are public domain. You can add a few paragraphs or write a special introduction. You can put in a beginning and an end and you can apply it to whatever business you're in. Boom! You now keep 100% of the profit because it's in the public domain. Mozart's work is public domain. If you just hummed Mozart, you could sell it and keep all the profits.
You can use public domain materials to help you in your marketing by not having to reinvent the wheel. For example, you can use a chapter of a book as the basis for an article or use an entire book as the basis of a teleseminar. Because many government materials are public domain, you could base a special report, manual or article on a government-issued booklet or pamphlet.
Using your creativity to repurpose other people's content is an inspired way to leverage existing content and save yourself time, energy and money. Because you and your message are unique, they emanate through the content and continue to help you attract new audiences to you and your message.
I'm not talking about plagiarizing or stealing someone else's ideas. I'm talking about using information that is already out there and repurposing it into a format not already available so it appeals to new and different audiences and directs those audiences back to your core message.
Here are three examples of how to boost your profits by using or repurposing other people's content, including two case studies of successful business strategies.
Compilation Book
Greatest Direct Mail Sales Letters of All Time by Richard Hodgson is a wonderful example of a repurposed book. Richard took all of the sales letters he had accumulated from friends and colleagues during the 40s, 50s and even before and compiled them into a book. It's an amazing book, and it sells for $69.95. It's an incredibly resourceful way to make money from a book. And you can do the same thing with your own books.
Articles
A great example of repurposed articles is AdvantEdge by Nightingale Conant. What is Nightingale Conant? It's repurposing other people's products, whether it's authors like Zig Ziglar, Jay Abraham, Denis Waitley, Brian Tracy or Mark Victor Hansen.
The AdvantEdge newsletter, which goes out to subscribers, includes powerful insights, excerpts and articles from Nightingale Conant's best-selling authors. The newsletter then directs readers back to the AdvantEdge site to purchase books about personal development, business strategy, wealth building, mind and body, spiritual growth and sales training. So by repurposing other people's content, Nightingale Conant is making a bundle.
Other People's Topics / The Public Domain
Your imagination is the limit when it comes to repurposing information in the public domain, or information that's free from copyright protection.
I know there are many books that are public domain. For example, certain books like Sun Tzu's The Art of War are public domain. You can add a few paragraphs or write a special introduction. You can put in a beginning and an end and you can apply it to whatever business you're in. Boom! You now keep 100% of the profit because it's in the public domain. Mozart's work is public domain. If you just hummed Mozart, you could sell it and keep all the profits.
You can use public domain materials to help you in your marketing by not having to reinvent the wheel. For example, you can use a chapter of a book as the basis for an article or use an entire book as the basis of a teleseminar. Because many government materials are public domain, you could base a special report, manual or article on a government-issued booklet or pamphlet.
Using your creativity to repurpose other people's content is an inspired way to leverage existing content and save yourself time, energy and money. Because you and your message are unique, they emanate through the content and continue to help you attract new audiences to you and your message.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Offline Marketing Pro Is Now Here!
August 25th is nearly upon us. Have you ordered your copy of Offline Marketing Pro yet? If you haven't, what are you waiting for? It will be the best investment you will make all year.
Here's what you get:
How to join forces with businesses desperate for your help and land huge up-front cash sums for little effort...
How to amaze your prospects with a stunningly effective follow up strategy (...and no you don't have to make any phone calls if you don't want to!)
Offline marketing Pro will help you deploy a unique marketing strategy to blow clients' socks off and get them desperate to work with you...
How to follow up and present your plan to prospects without any face-to-face meetings or uncomfortable schmoozing...
Offline Marketing Pro will help you scoop up gigantic up-front payments with little work on your part. (Plus how to use their resources to do most of the work for you).
Right about now you might be thinking... "well sure, this stuff works when the economy isn't in the toilet. But not now..."
I totally understand why you think that but... you'd be wrong.
Right now there are hundreds of businesses in your local area.If they're making money then they need your services to further boost their profits.You're their knight in shining armor, ready to save their business from bankruptcy.
And what's more... you'll have the knowledge and the skills to do just that when you follow my simple plan.The beauty of my online system is that you can run it from home and yet have access to every business in the world.
So what are you waiting for? In less than 4 weeks from now you could be cashing your first 5 figure check. That's not hype, it's fact.
Here's what you get:
How to join forces with businesses desperate for your help and land huge up-front cash sums for little effort...
How to amaze your prospects with a stunningly effective follow up strategy (...and no you don't have to make any phone calls if you don't want to!)
Offline marketing Pro will help you deploy a unique marketing strategy to blow clients' socks off and get them desperate to work with you...
How to follow up and present your plan to prospects without any face-to-face meetings or uncomfortable schmoozing...
Offline Marketing Pro will help you scoop up gigantic up-front payments with little work on your part. (Plus how to use their resources to do most of the work for you).
Right about now you might be thinking... "well sure, this stuff works when the economy isn't in the toilet. But not now..."
I totally understand why you think that but... you'd be wrong.
Right now there are hundreds of businesses in your local area.If they're making money then they need your services to further boost their profits.You're their knight in shining armor, ready to save their business from bankruptcy.
And what's more... you'll have the knowledge and the skills to do just that when you follow my simple plan.The beauty of my online system is that you can run it from home and yet have access to every business in the world.
So what are you waiting for? In less than 4 weeks from now you could be cashing your first 5 figure check. That's not hype, it's fact.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Internet Marketing And Your Future Success Online
Regardless of which way you choose to gain higher rankings for your website, remember the real meaning of Search Engine Optimization, and think realistically of how your website separates you with the competition because afterall thats what you are trying to realise here is to beat the competition, not the search engine.
The only thing you will have to do to start making money online by making a website is have an open mind and be expected to learn.
Many successful things have a system for success and in the end its just a matter of mixing the correct items together.
It makes a lot of good sense for you to promote your services using your writing skills and you can write many pieces about it that will be taken up by article directories around the net and this will give you some traffic as well as one way backlinks to your site,this in turn should provide some search engine traffic as well from Google and Yahoo if done correctly.
The outcome of search engine optimization is about creating a web site that reaches the first page of the search results for the particular keywords or keyword phrases you are targeting and so there is no point being the number 1 site in a topic that has no correlation to what you do or offer.
Depending on the complexity of a web site, a search engine compatibility review may be required before you can properly provide an overview for the full search engine optimisation of your site.
I have discovered that over the previous year I have invested an inordinate increasing amount of time gathering together information and products essential required to help me do what I do on the net even better.
It really isn't that difficult to make money fast online, you just need to thoroughly understand the internet and how it works.For any business to grow it will need time and money. And your online business is no exception to that situation.
Many of which means developing your own web site, attracting traffic, processing payments and other things required for generating income.
Several good ideas can move you to outer space, because on the Internet, not even the sun is the limit.
So how do you get the traffic in the first place ? There are many mentors,coaches that specialize in building sites and the marketing training to teach you what to do to get traffic to your website so thats where I would go to get the best non biased information on traffic as that topic could take me all day to confront.
The only thing you will have to do to start making money online by making a website is have an open mind and be expected to learn.
Many successful things have a system for success and in the end its just a matter of mixing the correct items together.
It makes a lot of good sense for you to promote your services using your writing skills and you can write many pieces about it that will be taken up by article directories around the net and this will give you some traffic as well as one way backlinks to your site,this in turn should provide some search engine traffic as well from Google and Yahoo if done correctly.
The outcome of search engine optimization is about creating a web site that reaches the first page of the search results for the particular keywords or keyword phrases you are targeting and so there is no point being the number 1 site in a topic that has no correlation to what you do or offer.
Depending on the complexity of a web site, a search engine compatibility review may be required before you can properly provide an overview for the full search engine optimisation of your site.
I have discovered that over the previous year I have invested an inordinate increasing amount of time gathering together information and products essential required to help me do what I do on the net even better.
It really isn't that difficult to make money fast online, you just need to thoroughly understand the internet and how it works.For any business to grow it will need time and money. And your online business is no exception to that situation.
Many of which means developing your own web site, attracting traffic, processing payments and other things required for generating income.
Several good ideas can move you to outer space, because on the Internet, not even the sun is the limit.
So how do you get the traffic in the first place ? There are many mentors,coaches that specialize in building sites and the marketing training to teach you what to do to get traffic to your website so thats where I would go to get the best non biased information on traffic as that topic could take me all day to confront.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
What You're Needed To Do When Your Sites Are All Running Automatically
If you've reduced all your chores to automated methods and systems, it's time to think about taking yourself out of the equation altogether. While you may have reduced the amount of time you spend on repetitive tasks, you may still be a "bottleneck" when it comes to other aspects of your business. Take a hard look at what's chewing up the majority of your time and ask yourself, "Why am I doing this?"
Perhaps you've heard of "absentee owner" businesses. They have complete systems of executing a business plan on "autopilot", without input from the owner. From something as simple as a balloon-vending kiosk in a tourist attraction to a chain of self-service car washes, people have found ways to make money without having to show up and work for it themselves. By careful planning in advance and accounting for every step in the process, business owners can create automatic moneymakers that take the owner out of the equation. Internet Marketing is ideally suited to this method of doing business.
Content providers, whether they supply writing skills, graphics or Web design can set up a business model that could be run by a manager, freeing the owner to set up other ventures. As long as there is a proven system for handling all the problems that crop up within that business, the owner can rely on automation and trusted employees to handle everything related to running the business. Careful planning and research will show you how to do this.
Copying successful business plans that have proven to be effective is a good start. The idea of creating an "autopilot" business from scratch may seem daunting, at first. Don't do that! You don't have to re-invent the wheel. Go out and find businesses that are already doing what you want to do and "reverse-engineer" their business model. The longer a business has been in existence, making a profit and growing continually, the better the model to copy.
Another important consideration is scalability. Your business model will be able to grow indefinitely large if it can be applied to many different niches. Suppose you are a programmer who has produced a how-to video on installing affiliate management software for "tech challenged" marketers, sold via an automated system that you know works. By creating videos for other niches (sales management systems, content management systems, etc.) and using the same sales methods, you can expand your business as much as you want, with a one-time effort in starting each new niche. All you'll have to do is monitor your bank account and spend the surplus!
Outsourcing will be a very important consideration for you. Getting a team of remote workers to handle your clerical tasks, manage your operation and supply your customer service takes some skill and experience. This is one area where a bit of caution will pay off in the end. You'll need to reduce your tasks to a specific set of instructions that a person of average intelligence can understand and follow without a lot of personal tutoring by you. This can be laborious at first, but once you've done it correctly, those instructions will continue to work long after you've set them up.
No matter whether you hire employees, outsource to India or automate with software, taking yourself out of the process of your business means you are free to do whatever else you want. That includes pursuing a passion that will occupy all your time and energy, along with a big chunk of the cash you make from your autopilot business(es). Give yourself the choice to do so. Get yourself out of the moneymaking equation and concentrate on money spending.
Perhaps you've heard of "absentee owner" businesses. They have complete systems of executing a business plan on "autopilot", without input from the owner. From something as simple as a balloon-vending kiosk in a tourist attraction to a chain of self-service car washes, people have found ways to make money without having to show up and work for it themselves. By careful planning in advance and accounting for every step in the process, business owners can create automatic moneymakers that take the owner out of the equation. Internet Marketing is ideally suited to this method of doing business.
Content providers, whether they supply writing skills, graphics or Web design can set up a business model that could be run by a manager, freeing the owner to set up other ventures. As long as there is a proven system for handling all the problems that crop up within that business, the owner can rely on automation and trusted employees to handle everything related to running the business. Careful planning and research will show you how to do this.
Copying successful business plans that have proven to be effective is a good start. The idea of creating an "autopilot" business from scratch may seem daunting, at first. Don't do that! You don't have to re-invent the wheel. Go out and find businesses that are already doing what you want to do and "reverse-engineer" their business model. The longer a business has been in existence, making a profit and growing continually, the better the model to copy.
Another important consideration is scalability. Your business model will be able to grow indefinitely large if it can be applied to many different niches. Suppose you are a programmer who has produced a how-to video on installing affiliate management software for "tech challenged" marketers, sold via an automated system that you know works. By creating videos for other niches (sales management systems, content management systems, etc.) and using the same sales methods, you can expand your business as much as you want, with a one-time effort in starting each new niche. All you'll have to do is monitor your bank account and spend the surplus!
Outsourcing will be a very important consideration for you. Getting a team of remote workers to handle your clerical tasks, manage your operation and supply your customer service takes some skill and experience. This is one area where a bit of caution will pay off in the end. You'll need to reduce your tasks to a specific set of instructions that a person of average intelligence can understand and follow without a lot of personal tutoring by you. This can be laborious at first, but once you've done it correctly, those instructions will continue to work long after you've set them up.
No matter whether you hire employees, outsource to India or automate with software, taking yourself out of the process of your business means you are free to do whatever else you want. That includes pursuing a passion that will occupy all your time and energy, along with a big chunk of the cash you make from your autopilot business(es). Give yourself the choice to do so. Get yourself out of the moneymaking equation and concentrate on money spending.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Learn More Regarding Offline Marketing Pro
Have been looking for something that actually makes money? Then maybe you should check this out. It’s a program called Offline Marketing Pro. It was created by a man named Steve Mount. Could be just what you are looking for.
If you think that making $15,000 is a feat that’s impossible to achieve from a home based business, then think again. I know that everyone quotes those outlandish sums but if you apply the principals in this program step by step, it can be done. My advice to you is that if you are serious about working in a home business and actually making money, then go to the link below and order a copy of Off Line Marketing Pro. You will be surprised how small the investment is for the course is but how huge the returns can be.
How did Steve come up with this system? Over the years, he bought one business opportunity after another off the internet and to be fair, some worked and some didn't. But, he figured a way to run a cash-spewing offline business entirely from home, without having to talk to a soul or make any nasty phone calls or presentations.
In the package, he provides you with his personal email address! I have never seen that done before as most go to a generic ‘info’ email where you dot get customer service at all. I should know. I have bought a few marketing systems and nearly all of those I never received an email back for my query after I bought their product. How lame!
You have nothing to lose by giving this program a go. I highly recommend this program if you like the idea of a personal touch with real people instead of the impersonal business model of internet online marketing.
If you think that making $15,000 is a feat that’s impossible to achieve from a home based business, then think again. I know that everyone quotes those outlandish sums but if you apply the principals in this program step by step, it can be done. My advice to you is that if you are serious about working in a home business and actually making money, then go to the link below and order a copy of Off Line Marketing Pro. You will be surprised how small the investment is for the course is but how huge the returns can be.
How did Steve come up with this system? Over the years, he bought one business opportunity after another off the internet and to be fair, some worked and some didn't. But, he figured a way to run a cash-spewing offline business entirely from home, without having to talk to a soul or make any nasty phone calls or presentations.
In the package, he provides you with his personal email address! I have never seen that done before as most go to a generic ‘info’ email where you dot get customer service at all. I should know. I have bought a few marketing systems and nearly all of those I never received an email back for my query after I bought their product. How lame!
You have nothing to lose by giving this program a go. I highly recommend this program if you like the idea of a personal touch with real people instead of the impersonal business model of internet online marketing.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Offline Marketing Pro
I have just received a preview copy of this amazing new product called Offline Marketing Pro. I have to say, I am most impressed with the quality of the information in this course. I have to tell you, I'm very hard to impress...just ask my partner :-)
Let me just give you a little background…after enjoying some lightning quick success in
online marketing Steve Mount the author of Offline Marketing Pro, began to look for a new challenge and thanks to some serious upheaval in his life, started to look around at some quicker and easier ways to make serious cash.
After talking to some colleagues in the offline world he began to realize that they were banking
huge checks… for astonishingly little effort. But of course all the reasons he preferred to work online held him back from making the leap into the vast potential of the offline world.
Until he managed to combine the two…
A breakthrough came when he figured a way to run a cash-spewing offline business… entirely from home, without having to talk to a soul or make any nasty phone calls or presentations.
Within the first 3 weeks he landed a $15,000 check… a few months down the line he’d raked in a quarter of a million dollars. But here’s the thing…
If you love working online… you can still do this and see the same kinds of returns he's getting.
Listen, there’s nothing else like this on the market. Plain and simple.
Do yourself a huge favour. If you are struggling to make any money online, even if you are raking it in, check out the link below and order your copy.....NOW!
Near bankrupt father to be discovers 'Untapped Real World' Goldmine of easy money with nothing but a laptop and a hunch.
This will change everything for you. here's how to pull in gigantic lump sums in just 2-3 weeks from now, even if you have zero experience.
You've heard about the secretive offline goldmine. Now reap the obnoxious rewards without having to give up your cosy online lifestyle... Near bankrupt father to be discovers 'Untapped Real World' Goldmine of easy money with nothing but a laptop and a hunch. Starting from scratch he raked in $15,00 in the first 3 weeks, $34,500 on week later and $217,946 total in just the last eight months! All from only 5 clients and all without any
You've heard about the secretive offline goldmine. Now reap the obnoxious rewards without having to give up your cosy online lifestyle... Near bankrupt father to be discovers 'Untapped Real World' Goldmine of easy money with nothing but a laptop and a hunch. Starting from scratch he raked in $15,00 in the first 3 weeks, $34,500 on week later and $217,946 total in just the last eight months! All from only 5 clients and all without any
- Nerve shredding phone calls
- Heart stopping face-to-face meetings or knee-trembling presentations
- In fact, he didn't have to talk to anyone!
Let me lay it out for you...
His story could transform your life in record time. I truly believe that.
And I guarantee you've never seen anything with such high demand, obscene profit potential... and near diddly-squat competition.
Better yet -- you can work from home and don't need to know anything technical, spend long hours in front of the PC or have any experience (in fact, having little or none is an advantage here.)
You simply need to thrust his finely honed strategy in front of people already desperate for your help.
And you only need 5 'sales' to enjoy a six figure income.
It's that easy!
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Tips To Succeed Using Google Adwords
Google Adwords is a popular internet marketing program that helps an Internet Marketer to succeed within a reasonable span of time. This article shares a few strategies to succeed while using Google Adwords.
Google Adwords is a widely used pay-per-click program for advertising on the internet. Unlike regular search engine listings, which are free listings according to "relevance", as defined by the particular search engine involved, Adwords are small text ads which usually appear to the right of the unpaid listings. Google has also introduced graphics ads in the AdWords placement. Advertisers bid on specific "keywords", which determines where the ad is displayed. However, unlike other search engines, where placement is completely determined by the amount of the bid, Google uses a complex calculation which also takes into the account the popularity of the ad. Thus, an ad which gets clicked on a lot can end up in a better position than one with a higher bid. That's how Google rewards the ad for relevancy, so it pays to create an ad that will invite clicks.
Advertising with Adwords has many advantages. First, the ad is displayed immediately, as opposed to waiting for sites to show up in regular listings, which can take months. This is because Google chooses on which site to advertise and not the advertiser. Second, these ads can be highly targeted, meaning you can make sure you're only paying for clicks by customers who are sincerely interested. Third, Adwords allows you to run several ad campaigns simultaneously, so you can test the results and experiment on the fly to constantly improve the quality of the ads. You can even track the "conversion rate," or the actual number of sales generated by a given ad. This is highly important for PPC marketing.
The primary step is to come up with the most effective list of keywords. This is extremely important, because if you bid on the same ones everyone else is bidding on, you will end up with very expensive clicks. You can use any of the many keyword search tools available (wordtracker.com has a popular one) to determine which keywords have lots of searches but not too much competition. You could also use AdWords Analyzer software for this purpose. If you bid on enough low-cost keywords, you can do as well or better than if you had placed an expensive bid on a popular term. You can also place a limit on your budget, so that you can control how much your total expenditure is per month. You can also specify certain words you do not want included, so that you don't attract a lot of clicks from people looking for something related that you don't offer.
If you are starting out with Google Adwords, I will teach you a fairly simple technique that will save you from spending a lot initially on clicks. Under Networks where your ads should be shown, you need to disable Content Network and activate only Search Network. Normally, you get more targeted visitors with Search Network compared with Content Network. When you are dealing with more targeted visitors, then your click through rate (CTR) will increase and wasteful clicks can be avoided.
The Google Ad itself consists of four lines: a title of no more than 25 characters, a description with two lines of up to 35 characters each, and a line for your URL, also limited to 35 characters. The title is what really attracts attention. It should include the keyword you're targeting, and should be as striking as possible so as to stand out from the crowd. If it's truly attention-getting, it will get more clicks than other, duller ads higher up on the page. Some suggest that it should be in all caps but Google TOS does not allow it, and include a price if possible.
The description should include the special features of your product, and also include enough information to discourage clicks by unqualified customers. Make sure they know what you're selling and what to expect, as well as what sets you apart from the competition. This makes it necessary that you should include the price. It will dissuade irrelevant clicks and thereby save on costs.
Finally, make sure the URL listed in the Google Ad takes the visitor to the most relevant page in your site for what they're looking for. Make sure the link is up to date and functioning correctly.
That's it in a nutshell, although the nuances are quite a bit more complex than we can deal with here. Many resources are available on the net which go into greater detail. But now that you understand the basics, you should be armed with the information you need to explore one of the most potentially lucrative marketing tools on the internet.
The best part about Google Adwords is that you do not need a website to use it. Anybody with a little ingenuity and some imagination can succeed in making money using Google Adwords.
Google Adwords is a widely used pay-per-click program for advertising on the internet. Unlike regular search engine listings, which are free listings according to "relevance", as defined by the particular search engine involved, Adwords are small text ads which usually appear to the right of the unpaid listings. Google has also introduced graphics ads in the AdWords placement. Advertisers bid on specific "keywords", which determines where the ad is displayed. However, unlike other search engines, where placement is completely determined by the amount of the bid, Google uses a complex calculation which also takes into the account the popularity of the ad. Thus, an ad which gets clicked on a lot can end up in a better position than one with a higher bid. That's how Google rewards the ad for relevancy, so it pays to create an ad that will invite clicks.
Advertising with Adwords has many advantages. First, the ad is displayed immediately, as opposed to waiting for sites to show up in regular listings, which can take months. This is because Google chooses on which site to advertise and not the advertiser. Second, these ads can be highly targeted, meaning you can make sure you're only paying for clicks by customers who are sincerely interested. Third, Adwords allows you to run several ad campaigns simultaneously, so you can test the results and experiment on the fly to constantly improve the quality of the ads. You can even track the "conversion rate," or the actual number of sales generated by a given ad. This is highly important for PPC marketing.
The primary step is to come up with the most effective list of keywords. This is extremely important, because if you bid on the same ones everyone else is bidding on, you will end up with very expensive clicks. You can use any of the many keyword search tools available (wordtracker.com has a popular one) to determine which keywords have lots of searches but not too much competition. You could also use AdWords Analyzer software for this purpose. If you bid on enough low-cost keywords, you can do as well or better than if you had placed an expensive bid on a popular term. You can also place a limit on your budget, so that you can control how much your total expenditure is per month. You can also specify certain words you do not want included, so that you don't attract a lot of clicks from people looking for something related that you don't offer.
If you are starting out with Google Adwords, I will teach you a fairly simple technique that will save you from spending a lot initially on clicks. Under Networks where your ads should be shown, you need to disable Content Network and activate only Search Network. Normally, you get more targeted visitors with Search Network compared with Content Network. When you are dealing with more targeted visitors, then your click through rate (CTR) will increase and wasteful clicks can be avoided.
The Google Ad itself consists of four lines: a title of no more than 25 characters, a description with two lines of up to 35 characters each, and a line for your URL, also limited to 35 characters. The title is what really attracts attention. It should include the keyword you're targeting, and should be as striking as possible so as to stand out from the crowd. If it's truly attention-getting, it will get more clicks than other, duller ads higher up on the page. Some suggest that it should be in all caps but Google TOS does not allow it, and include a price if possible.
The description should include the special features of your product, and also include enough information to discourage clicks by unqualified customers. Make sure they know what you're selling and what to expect, as well as what sets you apart from the competition. This makes it necessary that you should include the price. It will dissuade irrelevant clicks and thereby save on costs.
Finally, make sure the URL listed in the Google Ad takes the visitor to the most relevant page in your site for what they're looking for. Make sure the link is up to date and functioning correctly.
That's it in a nutshell, although the nuances are quite a bit more complex than we can deal with here. Many resources are available on the net which go into greater detail. But now that you understand the basics, you should be armed with the information you need to explore one of the most potentially lucrative marketing tools on the internet.
The best part about Google Adwords is that you do not need a website to use it. Anybody with a little ingenuity and some imagination can succeed in making money using Google Adwords.
How To Make Money From An Unresponsive List
There's no question that the best way to build your list is to give away a free gift of some kind in return. However, this can present a problem as you're left with a list that contains a fairly high number of freebie hunters who have no intention of buying any products from you. All is not lost, however. You can still squeeze cash out of these subscribers, as I'm about to show you.
The first thing you can do is to use your list as a way of directing traffic to monetized pages of your website or blog. So if you have a list of freebie seekers, then you should consider sending these subscribers to individual web pages that offer valuable content first and foremost, but are also surrounded by strategically placed Adsense ads, for example, so you only need some of your subscribers to click on a few ads to earn you money.
Similarly, depending on your niche, you could also send your subscribers to pay-per lead offers where you can get paid every time you send a lead to a particular company. This can be very lucrative because in most cases they may only need to fill out a simple form, for example, so you don't require them to pay out any money for you to earn commissions.
You can also extend this to pay-per-action offers where you earn a commission every time one of your subscribers carries out a particular activity. This could include things like signing up to a newsletter, downloading a piece of software, requesting a free information pack, joining as a free member, etc.
Finally, if you run your own blog, then you can enlist the help of the freebie hunters on your list to dramatically increase the amount of traffic to your blog. This is where you harness the power of Web 2.0 sites and social networking.
By regularly adding good quality content to your blog, you can email your subscribers every time you make a new post, and crucially in the email itself you can encourage them to bookmark the article on sites like Digg, Netscape and Reddit, if they found the article useful. This is an incredibly powerful method of increasing your blog traffic and will really help bring your blog to a wider audience.
So if you ever find yourself with a seemingly worthless list of freebie hunters, think again because there's plenty of ways to make money from your list, regardless of whether they're buyers or not.
The first thing you can do is to use your list as a way of directing traffic to monetized pages of your website or blog. So if you have a list of freebie seekers, then you should consider sending these subscribers to individual web pages that offer valuable content first and foremost, but are also surrounded by strategically placed Adsense ads, for example, so you only need some of your subscribers to click on a few ads to earn you money.
Similarly, depending on your niche, you could also send your subscribers to pay-per lead offers where you can get paid every time you send a lead to a particular company. This can be very lucrative because in most cases they may only need to fill out a simple form, for example, so you don't require them to pay out any money for you to earn commissions.
You can also extend this to pay-per-action offers where you earn a commission every time one of your subscribers carries out a particular activity. This could include things like signing up to a newsletter, downloading a piece of software, requesting a free information pack, joining as a free member, etc.
Finally, if you run your own blog, then you can enlist the help of the freebie hunters on your list to dramatically increase the amount of traffic to your blog. This is where you harness the power of Web 2.0 sites and social networking.
By regularly adding good quality content to your blog, you can email your subscribers every time you make a new post, and crucially in the email itself you can encourage them to bookmark the article on sites like Digg, Netscape and Reddit, if they found the article useful. This is an incredibly powerful method of increasing your blog traffic and will really help bring your blog to a wider audience.
So if you ever find yourself with a seemingly worthless list of freebie hunters, think again because there's plenty of ways to make money from your list, regardless of whether they're buyers or not.
Great Tips To Get Your Customers Buying From You Over & Over Again!
If all your selling is "one and done", you're leaving a lot of money on the table that you could be putting in your pocket! If a customer buys from you, and you never see them again, you've lost a valuable asset. Then there are the people that view your offer, but don't buy and don't ever come back. All of these missed opportunities to present yourself again can be remedied. Learn how to capture your customer's contact information automatically!
It's been said that it can take up to 7 or 8 repeated exposures to your sales efforts to get a person to actually buy from you. By simply sending follow up emails to your customers and contacts, you increase the likelihood of making a sale and creating a loyal customer that will continue to buy from you and your line of products or services. The trick is to get that information and send out customized emails that reach these people.
Thanks to the miracle of modern computer programs and automation, you can do just that with an "autoresponder". This is a program or service that records a person's email and name (at the very least), and allows you to send targeted and personal email to your list of contacts. Some Web hosting services include an autoresponder program as a part of their suite of services to their customers.
There are also companies that specialize in providing autoresponder services that have just about all the "bells and whistles" you might need. You'll be able to create a truly sophisticated and targeted campaign of follow-ups, e-courses, special promotions, One Time Offers (OTO's) and customizable forms for capturing any and all information you might want about your customers or contacts. They usually charge a monthly fee for this service, but it is often very affordable for the value given.
Because of the bad behavior of a few nasty "spammers" (people who send bulk, unsolicited commercial emails), a new practice has arisen that protects the consumer and marketer from violating laws regarding spam - the opt-in or double opt-in email solicitation. By directing prospects or customers to an opt-in form, the marketer can get that contact information without being in violation of the law. A "double" opt-in is an added measure of security that makes sure that an automated program or "bot" didn't fill in the form. The customer fills in the form, then receives an email that must be responded to in a particular way, to prove that a real person asked to be included in an email list. Double opt-ins are becoming the preferred method of capturing valid, serious list members.
There's a catch to sending out autoresponder emails. Not all of them reach the person intended. Deliverability of emails is a problem most often found with private autoresponder programs from hosting companies. The big autoresponder services make a great deal of effort to work with ISP's (Internet Service Providers), making sure that their emails aren't trapped by spam filters or rejected as undeliverable.
This is, perhaps, another example of "you get what you pay for". Free autoresponder programs are free, but deliverability can be fair to poor. Subscription services can cost around $20 per month, but deliverability can be nearly perfect. Be wary of using "free" autoresponder services to build any substantial list. You may find that you cannot transfer this list to a subscription service, and must get your list members to opt-in to the new list.
No matter what you choose, in the end, choosing an autoresponder is one of the most powerful ways to increase your sales without any increases in your traffic or initial conversions.
It's been said that it can take up to 7 or 8 repeated exposures to your sales efforts to get a person to actually buy from you. By simply sending follow up emails to your customers and contacts, you increase the likelihood of making a sale and creating a loyal customer that will continue to buy from you and your line of products or services. The trick is to get that information and send out customized emails that reach these people.
Thanks to the miracle of modern computer programs and automation, you can do just that with an "autoresponder". This is a program or service that records a person's email and name (at the very least), and allows you to send targeted and personal email to your list of contacts. Some Web hosting services include an autoresponder program as a part of their suite of services to their customers.
There are also companies that specialize in providing autoresponder services that have just about all the "bells and whistles" you might need. You'll be able to create a truly sophisticated and targeted campaign of follow-ups, e-courses, special promotions, One Time Offers (OTO's) and customizable forms for capturing any and all information you might want about your customers or contacts. They usually charge a monthly fee for this service, but it is often very affordable for the value given.
Because of the bad behavior of a few nasty "spammers" (people who send bulk, unsolicited commercial emails), a new practice has arisen that protects the consumer and marketer from violating laws regarding spam - the opt-in or double opt-in email solicitation. By directing prospects or customers to an opt-in form, the marketer can get that contact information without being in violation of the law. A "double" opt-in is an added measure of security that makes sure that an automated program or "bot" didn't fill in the form. The customer fills in the form, then receives an email that must be responded to in a particular way, to prove that a real person asked to be included in an email list. Double opt-ins are becoming the preferred method of capturing valid, serious list members.
There's a catch to sending out autoresponder emails. Not all of them reach the person intended. Deliverability of emails is a problem most often found with private autoresponder programs from hosting companies. The big autoresponder services make a great deal of effort to work with ISP's (Internet Service Providers), making sure that their emails aren't trapped by spam filters or rejected as undeliverable.
This is, perhaps, another example of "you get what you pay for". Free autoresponder programs are free, but deliverability can be fair to poor. Subscription services can cost around $20 per month, but deliverability can be nearly perfect. Be wary of using "free" autoresponder services to build any substantial list. You may find that you cannot transfer this list to a subscription service, and must get your list members to opt-in to the new list.
No matter what you choose, in the end, choosing an autoresponder is one of the most powerful ways to increase your sales without any increases in your traffic or initial conversions.
Friday, August 14, 2009
What Do They Mean By Finding A Niche On The Internet?
Did you know that there are tens of thousands of searches done on the Internet every day that are not satisfied by good content, (Information on that topic)? We all know that there are millions of searches done on the Internet every day. Did you know that all searches on the Internet are tracked by a company called "Wordtracker.com?" In addition to this, search engines keep track of how results they provide for each key word phrase. This is because they have the pages on the websites indexed. In addition they keep track of how long people stay at a site. If a person found what they are looking for, they probably won't keep searching.
Here is an example that might help you see the opportunity better. If I do a search on the internet for "vacation spots" I get 3 million results. If I do a search for "Forest Lake Minnesota Vacation Spots," I get zero results. What does this tell me? It tells me that Google has 2.9 million web sites with lots of information on vacation spots. That means if I wanted to try and build a site around these key words, I have to compete with millions of other sites. It also tells me that there are no sites that have appropriate information on "Forest Lake Minnesota vacation spots." That means if I wanted to build a site based on those key words, I would have no competition.
Let's see if this helps you understand better. If we found out that the key work phrase "Forest Lake Minnesota Vacation Spots" had about six to eight hundred searches every month, and knowing that the search engines have very little to offer for this key word phrase, we know that we will get about six to eight hundred visitors every month to our site. Remember, this is free traffic. You have now found a niche.
This is an opportunity that you can take advantage of for less than $500. Why is this an opportunity? Because you have a web site that provides information to a regular large supply of interested people. This gives you a target market to think creatively about and try and come up with items or services that might fill other needs or wants they have. For example, you could travel to Forest Lake Minnesota, spend some time there enjoying all that it has to offer and then develop a guide for reference to future visitors. "How to make sure you get the most of your trip to Forest Lake Minnesota." For such a small investment, you have a lot of income potential.
The main point is there are tens of thousands of opportunities like this available on the internet right now, just sitting there. What does that mean to you? That you should do a site based on the key words, "Forest Lake Minnesota Vacation Spots?" Not exactly.
What this means is that if you looked at your own interests and you are willing to do a little research, you could probably find a small group of key words on that topic that people are currently doing searches for, which have little or no websites that provide good quality information for those searches.
I hope it make sense to you why you should choose something that you are interested in. You are going to spend a lot of your time working on the research for this topic; it might as well be something that you find interesting. Can you imagine writing content, doing research, writing articles and all of that on a topic that you could care a less about: especially with so many topics available to you to choose from. Find one that you enjoy.
One of the main points of me writing this artical, is I want to make personal contact with other like-minded business people and collaborate on building bigger better business together, with multiple streams of incomes. I can't do that if you don't contact me. But if you do, I will help you any way I can. Let me share with you all of the tools I have learned to utilize.
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