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Archive for December, 2009
How To Create Content For Your List Without Writing A Word
Dec 31st
Have you ever wanted to start a newsletter, but didn’t do it because you hate to write? Or maybe you put it off because you thought that it was hard to come up with content? Maybe you avoided it because you were afraid that you would have a lot of spelling mistakes and you would look foolish?
What I would suggest is doing audio newsletters, or podcasts. Instead of writing and formatting your messages, you could spend a few minutes a couple of times a week and record what you would have written. Think about this: you don’t have to worry about spelling mistakes or formatting issues. And you don’t have to type. All you have to do is speak into a microphone like you would talk to a friend about your subject. Do this for a few minutes – it doesn’t have to be very long at all – and you’ll have your content ready in no time.
There is audio software that you can use that is absolutely free called Audacity. It’s all you need to get started. There are no ads, you don’t have to sign up for a list, and it’s free open source software that you can use right now. So there is no excuse to not try it out if you hate to write and still want a list of subscribers.
There are some benefits you can get from posting audios on your site. All you have to do is send a short email to your subscribers with a link to the page on your site that has the audio posted. On that page, you can include ads for products you are promoting and/or Adsense ads. You can put up a review of affiliate products with a link to the merchant’s site. You could also have links to previous audio posts you have available.
You could even do your reviews with audio posts. On the page you send your subscribers to for your newsletter content, you could have an audio review. Put a title and a brief description of what the audio is about, put a link to the product, and you’re all set.
Even if you have a newsletter that you send out and a list of subscribers, it’s a good idea to add an audio for your subscribers once in a while. It’s a good way to keep them interested. And it also gets them to your site so they can see your product offers and links to other areas of your site that they may be interested in – article pages, video pages, product pages, review pages – that they may not otherwise be aware of.
A list of your own subscribers can be an asset to your business and bring you more profits, and you CAN build a list even if you hate to write. Spend a few minutes a couple of times a week recording an informative message for your subscribers, upload it to your site, and send them to your site. You may be amazed at how easy it is.
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Santa Marlon's Holiday Sale
Dec 26th
If you’ve ever wanted to get one of Marlon Sander’s products and were waiting for a sale, now is the time. For a limited time, until December 31, 2009, you can get 25% off on 7 of Marlon’s products. Save 25% on products that will show you how to design web sites, get traffic, write great sales copy, create products, and give your business a boost for 2010. Here are the seven products:
The Marketing Dashboard – A step by step system that makes it easy to target a market, set up a way to accept payment, set up your web site, promote and get traffic, and manage your business.
Info-Product Dashboard – How to research, create, deliver, and get paying customers from your own information product.
Design Dashboard – Discover how easy it is to create your own web sites, including graphics and special effects, using free and low cost software. You CAN create your own professional web sites, and the Design Dashboard will show you how – guaranteed.
Promo Dashboard – This will show you how to create a list of buyers. Discover how to do the market research to find out where your customers are, how to set up your opt-in pages and your autoresponder, what type of freebie to offer and how to create them, and how to keep your subscribers interested in reading your emails and buying your products.
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The Push Button Letters Software – Software that will guide you through the process of writing your own profit pulling sales letter, or your money back.
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Free And Easy Ways To Do Initial Market Research
Dec 24th
Finding a profitable market is one of the most sought after information that most marketers encounter. There is a lot of software available and monthly sites you can join to help with this. But it’s not real hard to get a good idea of whether or not the niche you’re considering is worth investing time and money into. One big mistake is to ONLY look at keyword search volumes to decide if a market is profitable or not.
The reason I’m bringing this up is because I have done this myself. The way it worked for me is that I started with keyword research and found keywords that had a lot of searches. I figured that if a lot of people were searching for these keywords, I could make sales. So I set up web pages and wrote articles around these keywords. There are two things I failed to do.
The first thing was that I didn’t check to make sure that the keywords I was targeting were keywords that led to sales. What I should have done was to make sure that there were several people advertising on PPC. Then I should have looked at the top search engine listings to see what came up and noticed whether or not there were sites selling products that targeted those keywords. I could have gone to Amazon.com and looked at the top books and magazines related to my keywords.
The second thing was that I didn’t take the time to see where my potential customers were located What forums did they frequent? What blogs did they comment on? What newsletters did they subscribe to? What products were they buying and what problems did they have that they were trying to solve?
The solution is easy, but from what I’ve been reading in the marketing forums, it’s a point that is often missed. As I mentioned, I missed it too.
The reason it’s so important to take the time to do this research is because it will save you time and money. You will ultimately save time because you will be working on offers, ads, and content that will bring you paying customers. Getting a lot of traffic won’t do a lot of good if most of your visitors are looking for free stuff.
It’s also important because once you know that there are people that are willing to pay for what you are promoting, you want to spend all of your time getting their attention. You can do this in several ways. You can find the forums they visit and start contributing. You can do the same thing with blogs. Add your comment to blogs relating to your niche and include a link to your site. In the case of blogs and forums, you can see if they accept advertising, and consider putting up your ads there. Find out what newsletters your market subscribes to and advertise there.
You can only do these things once you know what your market is buying and where they hang out. It’s not hard, and it can mean the difference between success and failure.
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You Don't Have To Wait To Get Access To Your Commission Payments
Dec 22nd
As much as I love affiliate marketing, one of the drawbacks is that you often have to wait to be paid. This can be a challenge, especially if you are paying to get the traffic to your affiliate offer. You have to put the money out up front, and wait to get paid. There’s no way around that, because you can’t expect to get paid until you make a sale.
What makes it a problem is that some affiliate programs make you wait a long time to get paid – sometimes 2 weeks or more.
If you want to get paid in a shorter time frame, here’s good news. There are affiliate programs available that pay you much sooner. And there are some that will pay you immediately into your PayPal account so you can access your commissions right away.
Even better are affiliate programs that offer recurring commissions. That way you promote once, and get paid repeatedly over time. Again, there are opportunities to promote products that pay immediately into your PayPal account.
What I like to do is search out affiliate offers that pay immediately and also look for offers that promote hot products that have a longer waiting period for getting paid. This is easy to do. Every affiliate program should tell you their payment policy.
For example, I might want to promote products related to weight loss. I go to a search engine and type in “weight loss affiliate programs” or something similar to see what I can find. I will also go to affilate networks such as ClickBank or Commission Junction to find offers to promote.
I’ll get a list of 8-10 offers that look promising, and make a note of how much commission I’ll make on each sale, and how often I’ll get paid.
By doing this, I can look at my available advertising funds, and decide how much I can spend to promote these offers and how long I am willing to wait to get paid for my sales. I can also promote a couple of products that pay commissions every 2 weeks and a couple of products that pay commission instantly. That way I can pay for my ads with the instant commission products.
Ideally, I would prefer to only promote offers that pay immediately into my PayPal account, but depending on the market I’m entering, this may not be an option.
The bottom line is that you don’t have to wait to get your commissions. There are affiliate offers that will pay you immediately at the time of sale. All you have to do is search them out and start promoting.
If you’d like to save yourself a lot of time, you can get a listing of over 200 affiliate offers that pay you immediately. It’s called Affiliate Commissions Instantly, and it provides the information you need to find instant commission affiliate programs. A lot of these pay 100% commission directly to your PayPal account. Click here for more…
Marlon Sanders New Video – How To Promote In 3 Easy Steps
Dec 19th
Building a list is one of the most important things you can do to build your business. There IS money in the list. But it can be really frustrating trying to build a list of any size. If you’re trying to build a list and would like some FREE information on how to maximize your list building efforts, you’re in for a treat.
Marlon Sanders, one of the pioneers when it comes to online marketing, has just released a video that you will probably be interested in. Marlon Sanders new video is called “How To Promote In 3 Easy Steps”.
After you watch the video, you’ll be invited to take part in a contest that Marlon is running on his blog. You get the chance to win a grand prize of $300 just for putting up a coment on his blog. And you’ll get more great info delivered right to your inbox. Just being on Marlon’s list is a marketing education in itself.
In this short video, you’ll learn how to promote your product or service. This also works if you are an affiliate marketer. Here’s what is covered in this video:
The first step is finding your prospects. How to find out where your likely subscribers hang out – what blogs they read, what forums they visit, what newsletters they read, and so on. It’s an easy thing to do, and Marlon breaks it down for you.
The second step is your freebie. In other words, the incentive you offer to get people to subscribe to your list. It’s different depending on the market you’re targeting, and Marlon gives you several ideas of what you could offer as a freebie. This is important because it’s a lot more difficult to get people to give up their name and email address these days. A good freebie will help you get them to sign up for your list.
The third step is what Marlon calls the full arsenal. I’ll let Marlon explain it to you in the video. You’re going to get a lot of good ideas from this part of the video.
Here’s the deal:
The video is free. You just have to give your name and email address to get access. You will get additional information and an offer to invest in his products. You can unsubscribe if you want, but you’ll be missing out on some great content. And because Marlon is a pro when it comes to newsletters, you’ll learn a lot just by seeing how he does his email marketing.
So go get your access to “How To Promote In 3 Easy Steps”. It’s free, it’s full of great tips, and it’s a lot of fun to watch. And remember to enter your comments for a chance to win $300. Click here for access…
Step By Step Plan For Article Marketing Profits
Dec 12th
We all know that writing and submitting articles is one of the best ways to get traffic to your site. It’s something anyone can do if they know how to go about it. The good news for you is that there are a lot of people were doing it wrong. If you want to see for yourself go to an article directory and take a look around. You’ll see examples of a lot of articles that are poorly written. This is good news for you, because if you know or are willing to learn how to do article marketing the right way, you can leap ahead of a lot of other article writers.
The whole point of article marketing is to get free traffic and lots of it. Traffic that will lead to more sales and/or more subscribers and more profits for you. Why waste time writing articles that no one is interested in or that will not lead to sales and profit for you. You need to be able to write articles that are informative, useful, and interesting enough so that people will get to the end of your article, read your resource box, and click on your links.
Article Marketing Secrets is a 48 page ebook that shows you everything you need to know to use articles to drive a lot of free traffic to your web site. You’ll learn how to do market research and find the markets where people are spending money. You’ll discover how to find the keywords that will help to get your article ranked well and driving traffic to your site. You’ll know how to write your article, how long it should be, and how to write the all important resource box, which is where you are going to put the links to the site you’re driving traffic to.
You’ll be guided through the process of finding affiliate products that you can sell for a commission of 50 percent of more.
Article Marketing Secrets shows you how to use EzineArticles.com in a way that will make sure your article has the best chance of driving traffic. How to select the correct categories, write effective headlines, and create a compelling resource box. You’ll also learn about submitting your articles to Web 2.0 sites such as Squidoo and HubPages.
Article Marketing Secrets is a guide that will show you what you need to do to get an article written, submitted and listed in the search engines. It’s not enough to just get an article written and submitted to a directory. You want to make sure that if you take the time to research and write an article, your article will get good rankings and free traffic. Article Marketing Secrets will show you the way. Click here to read more…
How Affiliates Can Get Paid Instantly
Dec 8th
Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money. No customer support issues and you don’t have to create a product. You don’t have to collect the money or handle any support issues. It’s a great way to get started in Internet marketing and something that a lot of us continue to do in our marketing efforts.
One of the drawbacks to affiliate programs is getting paid. The time between getting credit for a sale and getting paid for that sale can vary widely. This really becomes a problem when you’re using paid advertising to drive traffic. You have the upfront costs of your ads and you have to wait to get paid. Once you start to make regular income and commissions this probably isn’t a big deal. But it’s still a pain in the neck.
Did you know that there is a better way? There are affiliate programs out there that will pay you your commission instantly into your PayPal account. In other words, you make the sale, and you get paid immediately. All you have to do is find affiliate programs that pay instant commissions. Not an easy task, but it can be done.
Instead of spending your time searching for affiliate programs that will pay you instantly into your PayPal account, there is a much easier way. There’s a nice little piece of software available called Affiliate Commissions Instantly.
What Affiliate Commissions Instantly offers is a listing of over 200 affiliate programs that will pay you instantly, money deposited into your PayPal account so you can use the money right away. No waiting for the check to be sent.
What’s really nice about this software is that there are around 80 affiliate programs that pay 100% commission directly to your PayPal account. Make the sale and get all of the money. Why would someone do this? Because they are willing to give you 100% for getting a new customer that they can sell to in the future. It’s a win win situation.
The affiliate programs are separated into categories according to what percent commission is being offered. For each affiliate program that you click on, you’ll be able to see the percent commission that you will earn, how much money you will earn free sale, a link to the website where you can sign up to become an affiliate, or in some cases the link is already there for you to use — all you have to do is insert your e-mail address.
Affiliate Commissions Instantly also makes it easy to manage your affiliate promotions. You can store your user name and password, and you can insert notes for each affiliate program.
This software is regularly updated so you’re not wasting your time trying to sign up for an affiliate program no longer exists. The commissions you can earn range from five dollars to over $250. Some of these commissions are ongoing payments that you receive monthly — make the sale once, and get paid monthly as long as someone remains a customer.
Affiliate Commissions Instantly is less than $20. The time it saves will be worth every cent you invest. If you’re doing any kind of affiliate marketing, and you don’t want to have to wait to get paid, do yourself a favor and go check out affiliate commissions instantly right now. Get it while it’s less than $20. Click here now.
