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In the beginning there was the marketer. There are certain truths you come to understand the more time you spend making money online – or trying to.
Witness the evolution of marketing online. Whether you are new to the net game or an experienced pro, there is one thing you will have in common if you are moving towards entrepreneurial success.
As you read this article you will realize what you have in common with all the other million dollar earners online, and what you’re missing that can take you from where you are to where you want to be.
So let’s get started shall we?
I will begin with a bullet point list and short explanation of the marketing necessities you want to have:
For starters, most established markets will already be using this by default:
- A Domain: something specific to what you want to promote like (ex.www.mysite.com)
- Hosting: a place to put your site, if you’re planning on making money – find a paid solution so you look like a credible business and you cut back on high traffic crashes.
- A website: your image your presence and your marketing message, don’t get pulled into the trap I see everywhere of trying to put too many choices on your website. Maximize on the effectiveness by only giving one purpose to a page. For example if you want to build a list - focus all your efforts and copy on that singular focus, if you want your site to sell a product, then only put that focus on your site. You’ll also need a good editing program, and an ftp software to get this up and moving.
- A merchant account: If you have something to sell, people will need a way to pay you. There are a ton of great providers out there, but there are a specific few that give your visitors the security to pull out a credit card with assurance.
- An Autoresponder: This is a real necessity if you want a business and not just a hobby. When you have a family to support this is a real no brainer. This is your email follow up service. You get a name added to your list and this is where they go. You will use this to stay in touch and build relationships with your customers and soon-to-be customers.
- A helpdesk: in the beginning when your business and sales are small you can handle all the little questions and emails yourself. One of the things that will keep a small business is small is thinking “I can do that myself” if you want to truly grow; you need to share the workload (petty tasks) and focus on what you truly want to do creatively for your business.
- Membership Site software: once you’re addicted to the internet marketing lifestyle, you will realize this oh-so-simple fact, it’s great to make a sale, but it’s even better to make a sale once and get paid for it every month. Continuity is king.
- Teleconferencing software: If you want an easy way to create and crank out high ticket products, audios and a transcript is an easy to make, high-value product.
Of course everything we’ve touched on so far only scratches the surface, but these are the necessities that not only get you started but will make you above average. Keep your eyes peeled for more articles that will take you from beginner to winner.
We’ll cover resources that will help you stay organized and expand your business to make you truly prosperous such as:
- PDF creators and converters
- Mind mapping software
- Site tools to make your business a set and forget it money magnet
- Internet video and audio creating software
- And the how-to’s of outsourcing
Keep learning, and most important: be persistent – it will be a quality you share with the biggest money makers online today…
To get more information or download your own copy of the Resource Report for free visit: The Resource Report
March 8th, 2007
It’s amazing to think that just eighteen months ago I was running several MSN Groups which were keeping me very occupied! But you know they were not making me any money at all! Today I have reached the position where I am generating sufficient income from online activity each and every month to be able to give up the day job if I wanted to! It’s a great position to be in and gives me such a sense of freedom!
I have learnt an immense amount in the last twelve months and through Internet Marketing Outlined I will give you access to that learning in a clear and structured way. It’s very true that we all learn from our mistakes as well as our successes. For me the mistakes I have made have been absolutely critical because by learning from them I have been able to achieve so much more.
As a Professional Coach and Trainer I have a wide range of skills that have consistently enabled me to work with others at all levels……to enable them to succeed.
Through Internet Marketing Outlined I will reveal how I have been able to put myself in the position of being able to give up the day job. I will not be revealing the “inside secrets” of some get rich quick scheme. What you will discover are the building blocks of an Internet Business and how you can plan and build your own Internet Business.
My success has been achieved through a passionate desire to empower people through information. This desire to enable people to achieve real change in their lives in both the big and the small ways is what has enabled me to be in the position to be able to give up the day job if I wanted to.
If you are looking to make a regular income online take a look at Internet Marketing Outlined
February 14th, 2007
While viewing web pages on your browser, you may have noticed a feature that will allow you to save a particular URL under your “My Favorites” folder. Click on the “Add To Favorites” button and you’ll be able to save the URL on your hard drive. This process is called bookmarking. The saved URL is called a bookmark.
Social bookmarking websites work the same way. But instead of saving a URL on your hard drive, you’ll be able to save it on a web server, under an appropriate tag.
If you visit a dog grooming website, for example, and you liked it a lot, you can save the URL under the tag “dog” or “dog grooming,” in the space provided by any social bookmarking website.
What makes social bookmarking websites stand out is that you can share your list of indexed sites with other people. They may be looking for information about dogs, and your list can help them out a lot.
Marketing Advantages Of Social Bookmarking Websites
This relatively new technology presents a lot of useful possibilities for an online businessman:
* Experts predict that social bookmarking will soon replace search engines as the information finding process of choice by most Internet users. The best way to capitalize on this emerging phenomenon is by starting to position your online business using its features as early as today.
* Social bookmarking can be used fairly easily. You can place your own websites in favorable positions without being subject to the whims of the search engine algorithms.
* Tags are beginning to establish an interconnectivity that reaches many platforms and many channels. Social bookmarking websites can easily become the launch pad for your conquest of specific tags… which are considered as the “keywords for the new millennium.”
The new generation of internet marketing strategies starts with social bookmarking websites. Master this particular channel and you’re sure to garner an avalanche of traffic from sources which were once unknown.
September 24th, 2006
Tags are the new keywords.
You see them everywhere, in blog directories, in video repositories, in social networking websites. They are often presented as a group of words inside a block. The hottest tags are printed with bigger fonts and at a higher intensity. The less popular tags, on the other hand, have smaller fonts and lighter colors.
But what are tags, exactly, and why should you care?
Tags Are More Than Just Novelties
Introduced a couple of years ago in direct opposition to the mechanical indexing methods performed by search engines, tags are devices that empower the actual internet users themselves to properly categorize content according to their appropriate classification.
Search engines are powered by search engine spiders, robotic little creatures that crawl through each and every web page on the internet. These spiders index the web pages according to the search engine’s predefined algorithms. This is an automated process, one which does not involve human discernment. Everything is in black and white. There is no room for gray areas.
Hence, it was likely that some pages will be improperly indexed. Search engine spiders are machines, after all. They will not be able to appreciate the real intent of the contents they index.
Enter tags. Websites that use tags encourage people to categorize certain pages according to their appropriate groups… which are labeled with tags. A website about insect control, for example, can be indexed by a visitor or by the webmaster himself under the tag “pesticide” or “insecticide.” This makes it easier for other people to find such a web page.
The Marketing Benefits Of Tags
Tags have become useful for online businessmen. There are 2 reasons for this:
1. Websites can be classified under their appropriate tags. This will ensure that they will be found by the people who are meant to view them. Additionally, under the tagging system, the web page with the newest update will appear at the very top of the results. Hence, tagging encourages the addition of fresh content, and allows savvy internet marketers to position their websites favorably well just by regularly updating their web pages.
2. Tags can serve as excellent tools for market research. Hot tags are quite prominently displayed, and the system is amazingly up-to-date. Hot tags are displayed in real time, and any changes to the internal rankings will reflect on the fly. Hence, internet marketers who are looking for hot niches need only to study the hottest tags of the moment.
The Many Applications Of Tags
Currently, tags are being used in a variety of ways. Studying them will ensure that the online businessman will have the requisite knowledge to capitalize on this emerging technology and use the same for the success of his online business.
1. Tags are being used in blog directories to properly classify newly published entries.
2. Tags are being used in social networking websites such as MySpace to cross reference people who share the same interests and passions.
3. Tags are being used in multimedia repositories such as YouTube to make it easier for users to find the audio and/or video files they are looking for.
Experts predict that in a few years time, tags will replace search engines as the information finding method of choice of internet users. The tagging system is more reliable and credible, given the fact that such is implemented using human faculties. Also, tagging is fast. No need to wait for days before a page is properly indexed. Everything transpires instantaneously. You web page will appear under the correct category as soon as you inform the tagging system of your entry’s publication.
If you want to read more about how to benefit from Tags then check out Tagging Secrets
August 13th, 2006
We all know the value of back links when it comes to search engine optimization campaigns. But unfortunately, some myths have developed because of many years of false assumptions brewed in the rumor mills.
The fact is, some linking strategies are labeled as red flags by the search engines. Determining them will help us know what to avoid.
1. When a young website suddenly gets thousands of links within a short period of time. Search engines find it quite uncanny that a newly created website would be able to gain a lot of back links – especially one way links, within a period of a few days. The search engines will just view the same as a red flag, that the website may potentially be involved with unfavorable practices such as link farms and the likes, to be able to amass such links. This does run contrary to what many believe is a sound article marketing tactic: submitting articles everyday as much as possible. The best way to approach things is to submit articles twice a week, at most. Control the growth of your back links and stay under the search engines’ radars. This red flag is only applicable for new websites, however. Older websites, those that have been in existence for years, are expected to gain a lot of links given their more established online presence.
2. Reciprocal links are alright, but too much of the same will penalize your website. If the search engines trace most of your links to web pages that you are likewise linking to, then prepare for a lower page rank. Search engines despise circular paths for their search engine spiders. Also, reciprocal linking is prone to abuse. Webmasters can merely collude to link with one another, or worse, a webmaster can create multiple websites that he’ll link together, instead of relying on the strength of the content to garner the much needed back links.
3. Links hosted in a links page are less valuable than contextually relevant links found in the body of the content. Avoid having your back links placed in a page where other links of different natures are found. The best thing to aim for is to have your link in the content itself, hyperlinked to a relevant keyword.
4. Links that are hosted in a group of websites with similarly high page ranks is a red flag. Most webmasters aim for their links to be displayed in websites with PR 5 or higher. But if all their links come from the same group of high ranking websites, the search engines will start thinking that such links were merely bought. The best way to deal with things is to have links that come from a variety of websites with a variety of page ranks.
5. Links that carry the same description are likewise frowned upon by the search engines. Again, aim for variety. Make sure that when you leave your links, you should try to at least change the descriptions attached to them. This will ensure the search engines that the webmasters of the places where you will leave your links were the ones who chose to have your links displayed on their pages.
You may have read about SEO practices that taught some lessons contrary to what you have heard. Such are borne by a vicious cycle, rumors that festered into facts. What you have read are borne from experience, shared by webmasters who have learned how things really work – and they learned them the hard way.
Are these rules certain?
Let’s put it this way. No SEO tactic is ever certain. Every SEO method is a hypothesis that comes from months of testing. The rules we get to know are products of deduction.
Only the search engine personnel know how search engines really work, how their algorithms are really designed.
August 6th, 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
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