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I am pleased to announce the launch of a suite of Internet Marketing sites. The sites are aimed at both those who are new to Internet Marketing and looking for clear and uncomplicated advice as well as the experienced Internet Marketer looking for a refresher.
The hub of the suite can be found at Internet Marketing Essentials and the specific areas of Internet Marketing are covered at:
Internet Marketing Advertising - everything you need to know about advertising including Pay Per Click and much more.
The Basics of Internet Marketing covers everything you need to know to get started in Internet Marketing
Internet Marketing Research examines all aspects of keyword research as well as understanding your competitors
Making Internet Marketing Sales cover affiliate marketing, setting up sales pages and so much more
Avoiding Internet Marketing Scams gives you advice on the various types of scams that you can encounter on the Internet and in Internet Marketing
At Internet Marketing Services you will find information on making the best use of autoresponders, paypal and the various other services available to Internet Marketers
Getting your Internet Marketing Strategy right is absolutely vital and this is covered in detail including business planning, product launches, affiliate programmes and much more
At Internet Marketing Techniques we cover a range of techniques for moving your online activity forward. This includes using services such as Squidoo, Social Bookmarking, Building a Mailing List and much more
We look at the various Types of Internet Marketing in some detail and cover everything from Adsense to Viral Marketing
Search Engine Optimization, Sales Websites, Site Builders, Link Exchanges and much more are covered at Internet Marketing Websites.
We believe that these sites will be an invaluabl resource for those with an interest in understanding the Essentials of Internet Marketing
November 21st, 2006
Do you enjoy sharing with friends and getting to know new people with similar interests?
Do you enjoy making new friends and participating in groups and forums with like minded and interesting people?
Are you interested in Family, Genealogy, Gardening, History or Home?
Have you tried MySpace and been overwhelmed by “Bands” wanting to be your friends?
GenMates - The MySpace Alternative offers Friends around the World a chance to share their interests in a warm, friendly and inviting atmosphere.
July 30th, 2006
Many Internet Marketers are trying to find ways of marketing on MySpace and using a range of ways to get their offering in front of potential customers. GenMates offers a Professional Membership where you can legitamately present appropriate offerings to our Members and for a short period of time that membership is being offered at a 75% off!
Just look at the number of searches that were carried out last month just on the single words:
Genealogy - 143,721
Family - 222,217
Garden - 170,154
Home - 579,935
Free Members of GenMates will not be able to promote Products for sale to other members. However GenMates provides a unique opportunity to Internet Marketers through our Professional Membership. Professional Members will:
Be able to promote their websites and products (including affiliate products) in the Classified Section.
Promote Product Launches and other events in the Events Section
Submit relevant articles which include links to their sites and products
Create their own Groups about relevant subjects and promote their products
Join the Professional Membership Affiliate Scheme, offering a 50% Affiliate Payment, which will launch when the site achieves 1,000 members.
You Can Read More at THe Professional Membership of GenMates
July 25th, 2006
The fundamental mistake made by many niche marketers is they create products based on what they think people want to buy. The correct way of deciding what niche product to create, is to find out what people are actually buying at the moment.
Here are five ways of discovering ideas for niche products which you can sell to make money:
1) Use Forums
With the rapid expansion of the internet, forums (or discussion groups or bulletin boards as they are also called) have proliferated. There are forums hosted all over the internet based on practically every theme imaginable.
Forums are websites where like minded people gather to discuss all sorts of issues pertaining to the theme of the forum. Some of the well moderated forums are extremely active and a good place to conduct research.
When it comes to finding ideas for niche products, you need to use the search engines to locate a number of forums on the theme you are interested in. For example, if you’re interested in needlepoint, you could enter needlepoint+bulletin board into the search engine.
Visit each forum and find out what questions people are asking. In addition, find out how many times similar questions are asked. The more frequently a question is asked across a number of forums, the more likely you have found a topic for your next niche product or website.
2) Visit Your Local Book Store
If you are completely stumped for ideas, a visit to your local book or magazine store is in order. People who are keen on a hobby almost always subscribe to related magazines, and if they buy magazines there’s a good chance they will buy niche products.
Your task is to discover what magazines are being sold and how quickly they move. It is best to visit a number of stores and compare the common magazines sold in all of them. Try to find out from the sales assistants how many copies they sell of the popular magazines you have identified.
A magazine sold in great number by each store, month after month, is a sure sign of a profitable niche.
3) Investigate eBay
eBay is one of the biggest, if not the biggest single market place on the planet. Millions of people buy a gigantic range of products month after month.
Go to eBay.com and scroll down the left hand menu, click on “All Categories” and scroll down to the bottom of the page that opens in your browser until you get to the section titled “Other Ways to Browse”. Included in that section are four sub-sections, each being ways to conduct your research:
i) eBay Keywords (popular terms being searched for)
ii) Common Searches
iii) eBay Pulse (a daily snapshot of current trends)
iv) Popular Products
From these four you will be able to spot a multitude of popular ideas for your next niche product.
4) Survey Your Website Visitors
If you have an existing website which receives a fair bit of traffic, you can survey that traffic using a popup. In order to entice people into taking the survey you will have to offer some kind of reward. You could even offer extra rewards for people who refer others to your survey.
Normally any web survey you conduct would have to be of a similar theme to your website, but it is possible to conduct a survey to find out your visitor’s interests and whether they would be prepared to spend any money on their interest.
They key is to ask simple questions in a manner that won’t lead your respondents to any particular answer. When designing your survey, keep in mind you will have to analyze the data and draw conclusions from it. This means keeping your questions “on topic”.
The simplest surveys to analyze are those constructed with multiple choice questions. The disadvantage of this is you don’t know for sure that the answers are absolute or close (i.e. “second best”).
5) Survey Your eMail List
If you have your own email list, you could survey them to find out what problems they are currently facing, or what interests they have. People on your email list will tend to answer more truthfully because there is a degree of trust between you and them.
This degree of trust not withstanding, you will still have to offer an incentive for your subscribers to take the survey. Design your survey the same as you would for a popup on your website.
June 24th, 2006
There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of generating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money.
BUT, it doesn’t take a whole caboodle of cash to generate website traffic for your site.
Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.
You don’t have to do this if you don’t really have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.
Here I present to you the Top five ways to generate low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors in to client ratio it still works especially if you get a high number of website traffic.
Exchange Links
This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.
A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as the other site. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.
Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines ranks high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website without the high costs.
Traffic Exchange
This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing others traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.
Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another’s site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites contents and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your sites existence is boosted.
Write and Submit Articles
There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias in the internet which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can do the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.
Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.
Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.
Make a Newsletter.
This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.
As your newsletter gets pass around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.
Join Online Communities and Forums
This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.
Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people.
June 7th, 2006
