Archive for August, 2006
What is the most important skill you can possess as an Internet Marketer?
Your words!
The words you choose to use in your ad copy, in your sales letters and on your website will determine your success in sales!
Improve your “word” skills daily. Read the ads that come to your mailbox (spam) and learn what words others are using to SELL their product. More important read your competitors ads. What words do they use to SELL their product?
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August 31st, 2006
It is really a small wonder why most people fail in the first 90 days on the Internet (which might explain why most products on the Internet come with 90 day money-back guarantee!). After putting up your web pages in cyber space, to expect people to know of your presence without promotion and marketing effort on your part is a fool’s dream. In extreme cases, it is actually a fool’s plan.
Let’s face it ? nobody knows you yet!
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August 31st, 2006
What is an Autoresponder?
An Autoresponder is a program or service that allows you to automatically send pre-written emails to anyone at anytime. It is basically a sequential automated email system. You write messages, load it on your Autoresponder, set the time difference between emails being sent out, then leave your Autoresponder to finish the job. You can then get people to start the email sequence by sending a blank email to your Autoresponders email address or complete a form at your website.
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August 31st, 2006
Among the variety of techniques available to you as a marketer, there is one that is virtually guaranteed to increase your business…testimonials !
To clearly understand why testimonials are so powerful we must first look at the basic perceptions of our audience.
Here’s how “John Q. Customer” might describe his attitude:
“In addition to making me an enticing offer, you must prove to me that you are okay to do business with. You must eliminate any fear that I have about doing business with you. The basis of my fear is doubt and skepticism…two essential components for survival in today’s tough business marketplace.
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August 31st, 2006
What is an Internet Marketing Godfather?
Someone who I *perceive* to know more about Internet Marketing Stuff than me. Usually, my thinking tells me that if they are making more money than me, I should listen to them.
But consider this. How come some Internet Marketing Gurus do not even tell you what script they use to manage their affiliate program?
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August 30th, 2006
Before I address the following questions:
* What is a blog? and
* What can a blog do for my business?
let me pose a few “What if . . .” questions to you.
Keeping in mind that before your prospects and customers buy from you, they need to know you, like you, and trust you. In other words, they need to know, whether overtly or covertly, that they have a trusting and ongoing relationship with you. What better way to accomplish that goal than a blog?
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August 30th, 2006
"For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?" - Luke 14:28
Business is once again thriving in the online scene. It has successfully rebounded from the tragedy of the dotcom bubble burst during the millennium’s turn. This renaissance of promising opportunities has lured many souls to pursue their dreams of electronic prominence by setting sail on the vast seas of cyberspace. They fear neither the turbulent waters nor the ferocious sharks. They have goals to fulfill, and they feel that this desire is enough to make them prosper in this brave new world.
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August 30th, 2006
This is the 2nd day of “Free Traffic Course” and it will explain how you can save much time and efforts on looking for the targeted joint-venture partners and affiliates for your web site.
Today you will learn:
- what are the benefits of joint-venture and affiliate partnership;
- how you will be able to find the best keywords that are related to your niche and what profit potential these keywords will give you;
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August 30th, 2006
Here are some simple and easy tips on how to market and drive traffic to your site.
1. Link Exchange - Exchange links with other relevant web sites. It’s a win-win situation! Link exchange can not only increase your traffic but help build up your page rank on search engines.
2. Free Classified Ads - Find places online to submit free classified ads. One excellent resource is Craigslist, a free online community which has expanded into many different cities. Look for other local free listings or directories in search engines.
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August 30th, 2006
Time To Say Goodbye To Submission Software?
by: Paul Fisher
It’s generally agreed in SEM circles that search engine submission is dead, or at least mass-submission is dead. Firstly, there are only a handful of engines left that are real traffic generators and, secondly, this handful would prefer to find your site than have it forced down their neck. So can someone tell me why are there still submission software titles being sold?
Well, someone did tell me. I recently exchanged a series of emails with Michael Kovnick of Cyberspace HQ, the company behind Addweb, and it provided me with the ideal opportunity to discuss the submission software debate. The latest version of Addweb claims to “Submit your website to thousands of search engines instantly”. Now any SEM professional will know that many of these “search engines” will be nothing more than link farms, and the automated submission of websites to should be viewed as an attempt to spam genuine search engines.
To my surprise, Michael agreed. Apparently the team at Cyberspace HQ are well aware of current consensus, but there is a bigger force at play. Like any product, Addweb is a slave to its customers. A couple of years ago Cyberspace HQ decided to move with the times and cut out the 330,000 search engines that it offered automated submission to. The response was instant. Thousands of email complaints and plummeting sales prompted them to restore the submission feature with haste. Since then they have continued to modify the submission module of Addweb, but with much more care than before.
Most of the submission software titles currently available have diversified from simple submission programs. Addweb now boasts of a suite of 19 software modules from link trader to domain manager. They have also bulked out their submission modules by including paid link submission, and enable engine selection to try and avoid being labelled as a spam promoter. Other titles have taken similar action. Dynamic Submission, for instance, has beefed up its paid submission and is now really just part of the Dynamic Promotion Suite.
So what is the future for submission software? I would wager that the submission components of the major products will gradually disappear - at least for search engines submission. Despite customer resistance, eventually the message will get through that submission is not necessary. Directory submission will prove more durable, although the modules will be much simpler because of the one-time name of directory submission.
However a new breed of submission software titles are beginning to emerge. In these content sensitive times, article and blog comment submitters are rapidly being developed. They pose similar ethical questions to search engine submitters, and we will watch with interest at the reception they receive.
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About The Author
Paul Fisher is a professional in the search arena and is editor of SEO Software - a website dedicated to the independent comparison of SEO marketing software programs.
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