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As an Internet marketer, you’re definitely interested in making money. As such, you might think that all of the content on your website or blog should be sales oriented. While this might seem like the most logical approach, it’s not the way to earn the trust of your readers. If you want to move your readers to being customers, you have to be more valuable to them.
As a valuable resource on your niche topic, your site or blog will become a respected authority. It will be a go to destination for the topic. You’ll increase your backlinks, increase your traffic and increase the trust with your readership. For example, who would you rather get medical advice from? WebMd.com or a paid membership site with a huge sales letter? WebMd.com is a free and valuable resource. Although at the end of the day you want to increase your sales, you can take a page from valuable resource sites just like this to create your own niche resource which will increase sales.
So now that you understand the importance of becoming a valuable resource, you need to make it happen. Follow these five tips to become more valuable and get more sales.
1. Update your content regularly.
It’s been said time and time again, but it deserves to be repeated. Search engines love fresh content. But in addition, people love new content. If you update your content regularly, not only will it be more likely to be ranked well by Google, but you’ll also attract new readers. Fresh content give you the opportunity to share your content on social media, which will show off your usefulness.
2. Start with Basic 101 content.
If you’re just getting started with your site, or are restructuring it, you should start with the bare basics of your topic. Think of what would be involved in a basic introduction class for the topic. What are the main points that should be covered? Developing basic content for your site will be a valuable resource for people who are just getting started.
3. Develop a list of resources.
Many marketers balk at sending their readers to other sites, but developing a list of resources and listing their URLs is a good way to be valuable to your readers. Instead of searching through hundreds of links online, they’ll be able to quickly and easily find what they need on your site.
4. Do interviews and post them on your site.
There are probably several of leaders no matter what your niche is. You can do interviews with them and post them on your site. This will be of great value to your readers who will appreciate getting insider information from experts in the field. In addition, doing interviews will get more traffic to your site from fans of the expert.
5. Create free reports and ebooks.
Free reports and ebooks help you “pre-sell” your product or service to your market, but they will also help you be a more valuable resource. If you have any topics that you need to explore in depth that you can’t do on your site, they are perfect for reports and ebooks that can be given away for free on your website.
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I have created a quick video tutorial to show you how to Assign your own domain name within your GetResponse account. What this allows you to do is change the tracking urls and unsubscribe links from getresponse.com to your OWN domain name. They use a cloaking technique to do this, and by doing this you can increase your brand and click-through rates within your emails.
If you want to do this but don’t have a GetResponse Account (I don’t know of any other autoresponders that have this feature), you can get one here.
Here it is:
Now enjoy your new branded e-mail campaigns!
All the best,
Darren Olander
Affiliate marketing success totally relies upon finding the right affiliate product. It doesn’t matter how much traffic you send to a website; if the product isn’t right for your market or isn’t converting well, you won’t make any commissions at all. That’s why it’s key to find the right product to promote. Many new affiliate marketers make the mistake of selecting a niche and then picking any product they can find to meet the needs of the niche. However, since product selection is so important, here are three things that you need to remember when you are choosing your product to promote.
1. Evaluate the sales letter.
The first exposure your referrals will get to the product in question is the sales letter. If the sales letter is of poor quality, looks too high pressure, has misspellings, bad graphics..etc, it won’t convert well for your traffic. Take a look at the sales letter. Would you buy from this seller? Would you feel comfortable spending money on a product from this sales letter? You have to look at the sales letter through your audience’s eyes. If you trust it, they’ll be likely to trust it and you’ll be more likely to convert sales. Read through it several times to be sure that the copy is persuasive, the graphics look good and the sales letter has trust building elements (like testimonials, guarantees, etc).
2. Evaluate the product.
Don’t think for a minute that you can find success as an affiliate marketer without purchasing and evaluating the product you are about to promote. Although you can get by somewhat with just reading the sales letter and reading other reviews, that can only get you so far. If you are serious about making money with affiliate marketing, you need to purchase the product that you can promote. Buying the product yourself will give you more insight into the product contents and allow you to create better quality promotional material. For example, you’ll be able to write better articles about the product if you’ve actually read it. You won’t have to guess about its main points and advice. You’re less likely to create contradictory promotional material if you know what is already in the product.
3. Check out the competition.
Every niche and product that is worth promoting will have some competition. Don’t let the process of checking out the competition frighten you or scare you away. If you want to see what you are up against, you have to look at the competition. One of the best ways to do this is to type the product name or the product name + review into Google. Pay close attention to the AdWords column on the right hand side. If there is a full column of ads related directly to the product, it’s a safe bet that other people are having success promoting the product. Since they are spending advertising dollars on their own affiliate site, you know they are seeing a return on that investment.
What some new internet marketers fail to realize is that targeted traffic is the key to success. What I mean by targeted traffic does not necessarily come under the normal expectations of normal visitors viewing you website or landing page. Targeted traffic is defined by real human visitors that already have an interest in the niche you are promoting. That is what targeted traffic really is about. That is where the key of success lies.
It holds the very same application to the real world and advertising schemes for example, a real estate agent sends out advertising brochures to several houses, from these brochures, certain individuals who are interested in purchasing property will then respond to these brochures. Those individuals who already have an interest in your niche would be considered as ‘targeted’ individuals thus establishing the importance of targeted traffic.
There have been several changes to this new world of internet marketing whereby individuals are exposed to new systems in order to increase ones website’s page ranking. The only issue in this comes in the fact that bots, scripts and software are developed in order to automatically generate traffic to a particular website. You have to be very careful when thinking about buying from anyone who is promising guaranteed visitors. The reason behind that is due to the ability to switch proxy servers and IP addresses, fake traffic can be generated easily hence you will be paying for fake traffic and not targeted visitors. This is a scam many new internet marketers fall into, so be aware and do not be one of the victims.
There are several methods for which you can drive targeted traffic to your website. Of course, advertising skills and techniques are required for absolute effectiveness. The initial forms of driving traffic may be through buying advertising spots on Google through their advertising campaigns called “AdWords”. This is done through the targeting of keywords to promote your website. Other search engines offer this form of advertising campaigns as well however it all comes down to how much you are willing to pay for the keywords.
Another form of increasing targeted traffic is by working on your website’s Search Engine Optimization. The better the website’s SEO, the higher the page rank it will be for particular keywords for example if your website sells video games and it is focused on the keyword ‘gaming’, whoever types the keyword ‘gaming’ into the web browser will find your website’s rank high in the search results. These forms of advertising marketing skills have proven to be one of the best methods to generate quality targeted traffic as your website will be opened to individuals who already hold an interest in your niche.
There are other methods to generate traffic such as subscribing to Paid Per Click Campaigns, whereby you are opened to a huge network of people willing to view advertisements for some payment in return. PPC Campaigns could be beneficial to you however the probability of a good conversion rate may be low as the audience you are advertising to intend to make money and not spend it hence being assigned to viewing advertisements for money in return.
There are dozens of other ways to generate traffic online… from article marketing, traffic exchanges, safelists or viral list builders, social networking, and much more, but the lesson to learn here is that your message must match the desires of that market in order for it to be targeted traffic. If it’s not targeted you will not get the results you desire.
I’ve gone commando!
But it’s NOT what you think – honestly!
Paul Kinder and Scott Martin have just released
a very impressive new site called TE Command Post.
This is like no other site and fills an absolutely
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It’s something Paul needed to manage his traffic
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* Which url’s are running low on credits
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To your success,
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Subject lines are essential to getting your emails opened and your marketing message read. Without the right subject line, you’re going to have a useless list. It’s always said that the money is in your list, but the list will do you no good if you’re your emails aren’t being opened. If you’re having trouble with getting your list to open your messages, use the follow three techniques to boost your open rates, get more readers and make more money online.
1. Make sure your emails aren’t spammy looking.
Even if an email comes through your recipient’s spam filters, if it looks anywhere close to spam then it’s unlikely the email will get opened. If you want to see what spam email subject lines look like, just take a look at your own email spam folder. You’ll notice that the messages seem to have lots of capital letters and useless punctuation. They all seem very urgent and pleading. In order to make sure that your emails don’t appear spam like, be sure to keep your subject lines personable, friendly and somewhat consistent. This means if you always announce your newsletter name in your subject line (ie: Money Making Newsletter Issue #26) then you should use it each time.
2. Make your subject lines personable.
Virtually every email autoresponder program allows users to insert names into subject lines. There’s no reason why you shouldn’t do it as well. When people sign up for your list, you ask them to insert their name and their email address. Their name that you receive when they sign up can be automatically inserted into subject lines. This level of personalization will make your list members take interest and make them more likely to open your email.
3. Use sales letter techniques to increase curiosity and urgency.
Sales letters are very good at encouraging people to read further and get to the call to action at the end of the letter. Although your call to action in the case of an email marketing message is very small (you just want the person to open the email and read it), you can still learn a lot from sales letter techniques. The headlines are always attention getting and leading into the rest of the sales letter. Your subject lines should attract attention (without being spammy) and want the reader to click the email to open more.
You can accomplish this by asking a question or giving your reader a sneak peak at the content inside.
For example, you can use one of the following for email subject lines:
Is Your Kitchen as Clean as It Should Be?
Read on to Find the Niche You’ve Been Missing Out On….
Of course, you should keep in mind that your success with your list with any of these methods may vary. Each niche list is a little bit different, so you need to test out these methods and track your results. Most autoresponder programs offer comprehensive tracking methods that you can use to test your open rates and track your results.
To your success,
Darren Olander
P.S. – My friend, Michael Rasmussen, has released a set of free online videos that walks you through the process of creating emails that suck the cash right out of your readers’ wallets and into your bank account.
He’ll teach you things like:
* A simple way to create an “email blueprint” that practically writes the email for you!
* The single biggest mistake people make with subject lines that guarantees your email won’t get opened.
* A simple trick that will keep your readers eyes glued to the screen and force them to read every word! Hint: it involves using the three “magicwords”.
And that’s just the beginning!
Social networking is the latest and greatest in Internet marketing but if you feel like you are getting lost in the shuffle, you’re not alone. There are tons of social networking platforms out there and if you try to jump in with both feet into all of them you’re going to spend all of your time connecting without seeing any profit. No matter what your business model is, social networking is only a small part of the picture.
So how do you find a balance between ignoring social marketing completely and getting way too involved? By picking your touch points for social networking and integrating them you can be available to your target market without being totally overwhelmed with communication. The simple five step process outlined below will help you use social marketing effectively.
1. Pick how you’re going to be available.
There are several sites that contain opportunities for you to network with your market but you don’t have to join them all. Twitter and Facebook remain the most popular, but you can also find your target market in other areas. Join at least these two and then try to find something that is more niche specific – for example, a forum or group site based on your topic. Yahoo groups, Google groups and Ning all house groups and sites that are on specific topics. Look for niche specific sites on these major hubs for opportunities to connect.
2. Make your presence consistent.
Once you’ve decided where you’re going to be present, make sure your profiles are consistent across the board. Use the same photo for your social networking sites and people will be more likely to recognize your profile and connect with you when they join these sites.
3. Market your touch points.
Once you’ve established yourself and your profiles, make sure people know how to find you. Put links to your profiles on your blog, your website and in your signature file for your email account. You’ll get more connections this way.
4. Make time for networking on your touch points.
One of the keys to keeping social marketing simple is to time your posts, updates and responses. Make time each week or each day to post and make connections. You can schedule updates to coincide with new blog posts. Some of this can be automated; but make sure to find the time to visit the site manually to check to see who has befriended you and respond to other people’s updates.
5. Manage multiple accounts from one spot.
You can make social networking even easier by having a management tool to help you keep everything balanced and on board. Social-Fly.com will help you keep your social contacts in order with reminders of when you last touched base with someone and important information about them. It’s mainly if you are doing a lot of personal networking on these sites, rather than using them as broadcasting and branding platforms for your business. If you want to manage multiple platforms at once try a tool like HomePuzz.com which will integrate your Facebook, Twitter and other accounts all together.
