Archive for July 11th, 2006
I have just heard from Jason Develvis that SaleFlurry has now officially launched!
I have been watching as Jason has been developing this great Marketing Tool for both Affiliates and Information Product Sellers over the past few months. He has put an enormous amount of effort and resources into it and it certainly shows. If you have not already take a look at SaleFlurry then you really do want to because it will make such a difference to you and your Business.
You can take a look by clicking on SaleFlurry
July 11th, 2006
Mention traffic generation and chances are, people will suggest the usual approached. Article marketing, forum posting, reciprocal linking, search engine optimization (SEO), and even traffic buying… these are just some of the choices you always read about in many resource centers in the World Wide Web.
And since information about them is everywhere, you could bet your bottom dollar that your competitors are doing the exact same tactics.
You need something better. You need something new. You need something effective that people have yet to exploit.
And boy, are you in luck!
In this article, we’re going to discuss two powerful traffic generating strategies that you have never heard of before, and chances are, your competitors won’t have a clue about them either. These are tactics that are “hot off the press,” so to speak. They have just been discovered, and they are bound to give you unbridled traffic the likes of which you may not have experienced before.
The Secrets Of MySpace
There are reports circulating that www.myspace.com is generating 2 ½ times the amount of traffic that Google is acquiring. This is mistaken report that grew out of proportions. The real fact is that www.myspace.com is using 2 ½ times the bandwidth of Google, given the many exciting, but bandwidth-hungry, features of this website.
Nonetheless, there is no denying the fact that MySpace is one of the MOST visited websites today.
MySpace is a community/dating website that allows people to create their own profiles and connect the same to other people to build their own virtual network. It’s quite easy to build your network in this community. People claim that they are able to gain 1,500 contacts within two weeks.
Now, how could these statistics help you generate massive traffic for your own website?
Simple.
Create a MySpace profile and build your network. It doesn’t require much effort. There are already quite a number of services out there that could even do the job for you.
Include your main website’s link in your profile page. This would give you a back link on a page that has a very high Page Rank (PR), which is excellent to boost your website’s own PR. For the uninitiated, a high PR would mean a higher placement in search engine results, hence a greater volume of traffic for your website.
But this isn’t enough.
MySpace also has a community billboard feature. If you’d post there, your message would appear in the profiles of all your contacts. Simply include your link in your message. Imagine if you have 20,000 contacts. You could potentially garner 20,000 visitors with just one message. Additionally, you’d have 20,000 back links pointing to your main website! This is a wonderful opportunity to increase your link popularity!
This MySpace route is something that has yet to be exploited. In fact, most of the internet marketing superstars have yet to discover this approach.
Yes indeed.
You’ll be one of the first!
Connecting With CraigsList
The website www.craigslist.com is an online classified ads center dedicated to employment opportunities. However, it accepts all manners of advertisements.
For free, at that!
What does this mean?
Well, Craigslist is a PR7 website. Simply choose the category most appropriate for the subject of your website and place an advertisement that would invite readers to visit your web pages.
They don’t have to click on the link. They don’t have to visit your website.
Having your link in a PR7 website is enough to spike up your own website’s Page Rank! Again, this means a higher position in search engine results pages, and more organic traffic for your online business.
Amazing strategies, aren’t they?
And what’s best is that you’re one of the first people to know about them. So use them well and get the head start on your competition!
July 11th, 2006
Whether you have your own digital product to distribute, or whether you’re running a membership website, or perhaps, even promoting some affiliate products or maintaining some niche pages embedded with PPC advertising codes, you’d need traffic to realize the profits that such monetizing strategies promise. And how could you get traffic?
By promoting your website, of course! After all, internet users won’t get to visit your web pages if they don’t know it exists, right?
Here are some fantastic tactics you could employ to ensure that your website gathers the attention it deserves.
1. On page SEO. SEO stands for search engine optimization. It’s a process of tweaking the components of your website so that it may attract the attention of search engine spiders – those robotic little creatures that search engines dispatch to fetch some websites – for every relevant query. The importance of on page SEO cannot be stressed enough. 80% of the traffic you will ever get to generate for your website would come from the search engines. On page SEO includes choosing and utilizing the correct keywords, implementing proper meta tags, employing ALT tags for your images, and including sub headers in your source code. By doing these, it is believed that you’ll make it easier for the search engine spiders to find your site, ergo, your pages would place higher is search engine results.
2. Off page SEO. If on page SEO is concerned with tweaks that you could do on the pages of your website, off page SEO is all about the tweaks you could do outside of the same. This includes list building. Basically, the rule is that the more pages there are that link to your website, the higher your website’s page rank would be. And the higher your website’s page rank, the higher it would place in search engine results. The number of links pointing to your website is called your link popularity. To check your website’s current link popularity, use the free tool at www.linkpopularity.com . If your number of links is below 1,000, there’s a lot of work that remains to be done!
3. Article marketing. There are thousands upon thousands of article directories in the World Wide Web. By simply submitting a single article with your resource box (containing a link to your website) to each and every one of them, you’d be able to immediately get thousands upon thousands of back links. This may seem like a tedious task, but there are many article submitter programs in the market today which could make this job so much easier.
4. Forum marketing. Posting in forums is also a potent web promotional tactic. Your account with forums often allows you a signature box. In your signature box, you could include your link. This signature box, together with the link, would appear in every post you will make.
5. Press releases. Publishing an objective, newsworthy press release in several newswires on the internet will not only assure you hundreds of back links, but the chance to reach an offline audience as well, if ever your press release is picked up by print publications. A good place where you could start submitting your press releases would be www.prweb.com .
6. Offer an eZine. You’d eventually need to build a mailing list to capture leads and to create a pool of prospects, or even repeat visitors for your website. But before they would subscribe to your mailing list, you must offer them something in return. An eZine, or a newsletter, would be a great come-on of value that could encourage your visitors to sign up.
7. Ad swaps. You could further build you mailing list by seeking out other webmasters maintaining their own eZines. Do an ad swap. Agree to run their ads on your eZine in exchange for them running your ad in their eZines. You could potentially double, triple or quadruple your number of subscribers, depending on how many partners you’d be able to find.
8. PPC advertising. If you have some budget, you could run a PPC ad with Google AdWords or even Yahoo. A link to your website would appear for every query relevant to the primary keyword you have chosen.
These strategies aren’t all work. They could be very enjoyable tasks to undertake. But of course, the best benefit remains to be the exposure that your website stands to gain.
Are you an Affiliate Marketer or Do you Sell Information Products? If you answer Yes to either or indeed both of these then you need to take a look at SaleFlurry! It’s the New Clickbank!
July 11th, 2006
One marketing secret that you should know is how to develop customer loyalty. This is especially challenging when running an online business, given the anonymity prevalent in the World Wide Web as well as the fears that have arose because of the many scams associated with its channels. But building customer loyalty is not impossible. In fact, it has become a necessity if you wish to sustain a high profit rate for a long period of time. After all, you cannot rely on new customers alone. Such will be too limiting.
So how can you develop customer loyalty, exactly? Here are 10 tips that will help you achieve this goal.
1. Be honest in everything that you do, especially in your dealings with your customers. Don’t call a spade a diamond. Tell your customers the advantages and disadvantages of certain options. This may make you lose some sales from time to time, but in the long run, your customers will learn how to trust you, and this will result in continuous sales in the future.
2. Assure your customers that you are a reliable and dependable businessman. Respect deadlines and provide excellent post-sales support. Try your best to entertain any and all queries that your customers will have about your product. Promise them that you’ll always be there to answer their concerns, and live up to such words.
3. Deliver what they have paid for. This is the most obvious step. People have trusted you with their hard earned money. Reciprocate such trust by actually, expediently and efficiently delivering your products in a manner that will be convenient for them.
4. Over-deliver. It pays to give your customers more than what they have paid for. Unannounced bonuses, for example, will build your reputation as a generous businessman. And if they’re given a choice between a generous provider and a conventional one, the former will always end up the victor.
5. Send them your sincerest appreciation. A Thank You email usually does the trick, but you can always do better than this. Perhaps you can consider giving them a discount coupon for succeeding purchases as a token of your gratitude. Such discounts can also pertain to the products of your JV partners.
6. Encourage your customers to leave some feedbacks. This will ensure them that you’re exerting some efforts to improve your service. Their voice counts and you should always remind them of that.
7. Offer incentives for customers who have purchased from you before. People love being made to feel special. Reward their fidelity in kind. Again, this may be in the form of discounts, freebies or extra service. Exclusivity can be one of your selling points as well. You can classify your loyal customers to a special group with special privileges.
8. Follow up. Your relationship with your customers does not end with the sale. On the contrary, it should be treated as the beginning. Capture their contact details and provide them with updates and some sprinkling of generosity from time to time. Building customer loyalty presupposes the fact that you’ll be able to stay in contact with them, after all.
9. Treat your customers as friends. Treat them as family, even, if such is possible. Always go beyond the buyer-seller relationship and try your best to establish a more personal dealing with your customers. A personal approach will result in a tighter bond, and this is critical in building their loyalty to your brand.
10. Show a genuine care for your customers. Let them know that they’re in good hands. This way, you’d be able to reassure them that they’ll be receiving more value for their buck if they’d choose your enterprise in the future.
July 11th, 2006
