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	<title>Marketing Without Making Excuses &#187; Marketing</title>
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		<title>Marlon Sanders Is Giving Away Free Stuff</title>
		<link>http://sssite.net/blog/2010/10/01/marlon-sanders-is-giving-away-free-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Delano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marlon Sanders]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Marlon Sanders is one of the most respected guys on the Internet. He&#8217;s the man behind The Design Dashboard, and The Promo Dashboard, products that I use myself. He also has a lot more to offer. This isn&#8217;t about buying any of his products. Instead I want you to take advantage of his offer of&#8230;]]></description>
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Marlon Sanders is one of the most respected guys on the Internet. He&#8217;s the man behind <a href="http://www.steveprefers.com/designdashboard">The Design Dashboard</a>, and <a href="http://www.steveprefers.com/pd">The Promo Dashboard</a>, products that I use myself. He also has a lot more to offer.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This isn&#8217;t about buying any of his products. Instead I want you to take advantage of his offer of giving you access to FREE podcasts, videos, and PDFs that you download. And you&#8217;ll get his newsletter where every week he shares information that others are charging for.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The reason he&#8217;s doing this is simple:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Once you see the quality content he gives out for free, you&#8217;ll be more likely to spend your money with him the next time you&#8217;re looking for a solution to a problem or strategies to move your business forward.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you&#8217;re doing any business online, you NEED to get to know about Marlon Sanders. Here&#8217;s your chance to do it for FREE. To get immediate access to this collection of free information, just click on the image at the top of the page, or <a href="http://getyourprofits.com/z/2891/CD27861"><strong>click here&#8230;</strong></a></p>
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		<title>Write Once, Get Paid Over And Over Again</title>
		<link>http://sssite.net/blog/2010/09/25/write-once-get-paid-over-and-over-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Delano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Private Label Rights content is hot right now. The problem is finding high quality content. That means that there is a big opportunity for you if you are able to offer good quality PLR content. Tiffany Dow runs a profitable PLR store, and she has just released a course called PLR ATM. In it, she&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Private Label Rights content is hot right now. The problem is finding high quality content. That means that there is a big opportunity for you if you are able to offer good quality PLR content. Tiffany Dow runs a profitable PLR store, and she has just released a course called <a title="PLR ATM" href="http://www.tiffanydow.com/go.php?offer=wssite&amp;pid=30"><strong>PLR ATM</strong></a>. In it, she shows you how you can write once and get paid over and over again, with your own PLR store.</p>
<p>If you want to know what&#8217;s possible with a PLR store, watch this short video:</p>
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<p>Learning how to sell PLR requires you to know a few things, like how to know what topics PLR buyers want, and what format to sell it to them. You have to know how to create the content and technically put it up for sale on the ‘net. And then you have to know how to leverage it for quick cash and promote it to those who need it.</p>
<p>For a complete explanation of how to sell PLR the right way, learn from someone who is already a success story in the world of PLR. Tiffany Dow created <strong><a title="PLR ATM" href="http://www.tiffanydow.com/go.php?offer=wssite&amp;pid=30">PLR ATM</a></strong> to walk even the newest marketer through each and every step of building a PLR store from the ground floor up. <a title="PLR ATM" href="http://www.tiffanydow.com/go.php?offer=wssite&amp;pid=30"><strong>Learn More About PLR ATM here&#8230;﻿</strong></a></p>
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		<title>3 Easy Ways To Make More Sales</title>
		<link>http://sssite.net/blog/2010/09/10/3-easy-ways-to-make-more-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Delano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conversion tactics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Getting visitors to your site is hard enough. It can take a lot of time, effort, and money to get enough traffic so your site can make a profit. Then there&#8217;s the reality that most of your visitors are going to leave your site without buying anything, and they&#8217;ll never be back. If you can&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Getting visitors to your site is hard enough. It can take a lot of time, effort, and money to get enough traffic so your site can make a profit. Then there&#8217;s the reality that most of your visitors are going to leave your site without buying anything, and they&#8217;ll never be back.</p>
<p>If you can get 1 or 2 out of every 100 visitors to buy something, you&#8217;re doing good. It would be even better if you could get 3, 4, or more sales for every 100 visitors. So you need ideas that you can use that you can test to see if they will increase your conversion rates and your profits.</p>
<p>I want to point out that if you&#8217;re selling ANYTHING, there are 3 simple strategies you can use to increase the effectiveness of your sales letter. These strategies will help if you have your own product. They are also effective ideas if you&#8217;ve got products with master resell rights or private label rights products on your hard drive that you want to sell.</p>
<p>What you can do to get more of your visitors to buy from you is to create a sense of urgency, that if they don&#8217;t buy right now they&#8217;ll miss out on a good deal that won&#8217;t be available if they leave your site. Here are 3 ideas that you can use.</p>
<p>1. Offer a time limited special discount. Let your visitor know that if they purchase right now, they are guaranteed a lower price. Let them know what the regular price is, and tell them how much they&#8217;ll save if they buy now. Another way to do this is to offer the discount for a limited number of copies. You could decide that you will sell 100 copies at the discounted price, and then the price will be increased.</p>
<p>2. Offer a time limited bonus. Like the discount offer above, you can offer the bonus until a deadline that is displayed on your site. Or you could offer the bonus to a limited number of copies sold. &#8220;The first 100 customers will receive my $47 bonus absolutely free.&#8221;</p>
<p>3. Limit the number of copies that you&#8217;ll sell, or only sell the product for a limited time and then take it off your site. This creates a sense of urgency because if they are interested in your product, they can&#8217;t afford to take the chance that it won&#8217;t be available if they come back later.</p>
<p>These three strategies are very powerful and can result in a lot more sales for your product. Of course, you have to have a product you believe in and you have to make sure that if you make these offers, you stick to them. You can lose a lot of credibility if your visitors find out that you are misleading them in any way.</p>
<p>Use these strategies wisely, and they could help you to turn your visitors into buyers. To your continued online success.</p>
<p><em><strong>Need to create your web site and sales letter but don&#8217;t know where to start? The Design Dashboard makes it easy, guaranteed.  <a title="Design Dashboard" href="http://www.sssite.com/go/designdashboard" target="_self">Click here for more&#8230;</a><br />
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		<title>Optimizing SEO For Your Blog Posts</title>
		<link>http://sssite.net/blog/2010/06/04/optimizing-seo-for-your-blog-posts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wordpress seo plugins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The use of the Title tag and the Meta-Description tag are easy and powerful ways to get free traffic to your site. It&#8217;s easy to do with an HTML web page. It&#8217;s a little different when it comes to a WordPress blog. If you publish a post or page with a basic installation, what you&#8217;ll&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The use of the <strong><a title="On Page SEO" href="http://www.sssite.com/blog/2010/05/28/using-keywords-in-titles-and-descriptions/" target="_blank">Title tag and the Meta-Description tag</a></strong> are easy and powerful ways to get free traffic to your site. It&#8217;s easy to do with an HTML web page.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a little different when it comes to a WordPress blog. If you publish a post or page with a basic installation, what you&#8217;ll likely end up with is the title of your content and the first few words of your post come up as your search engine listing.</p>
<p>The good news is that you can do essentially the same thing with a WordPress blog by using one of two very popular plugins. And the best part of this is that these powerful plugins are free.</p>
<p>Which one you choose to use is up to you. Both of these plugins will do the job, and they both have tons of happy users.</p>
<p>The first one is All In One SEO and the second one is Platinum SEO. If you&#8217;re not using one of these plugins, go get it now and install it. It&#8217;s that important!</p>
<p>The power of these plug-ins is that they give you the opportunity to enter any title you want for your post. You can choose to use the actual title of your post, or you can use a keyword optimized title instead. Why would you want to do this? Maybe the title of your post is very long. Or maybe the title of your post doesn&#8217;t include your keywords. You can enter a title for your post that is shorter and has your keywords.</p>
<p>You can also write a description for your post. This can be a short summary of your post. The reason to use this feature is because what you enter will likely end up on the search page results. And the job of this description to get people to click on the link and get to your site.</p>
<p>You can get the <strong>All In One SEO</strong> plugin <strong><a title="all in one seo pack" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/" target="_blank">here</a></strong>.</p>
<p>You can get the <strong>Platinum SEO</strong> plugin <strong><a title="Platinum SEO Pack" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/platinum-seo-pack/" target="_blank">here</a></strong>.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t want to download the plugin to your hard drive and then upload it to your hosting account, you can install it inside of WordPress. Click on the Plugin link and select the ADD NEW option. Enter the name of the plugin you want, and you can install and activate it inside WordPress.</p>
<p><em><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Underground marketer lays out the method he uses to create profitable sites in less than an hour, get them indexed in minutes, and earning in less than a week.</span> <a title="Niche Blogging Profits" href="http://www.steveprefers.com/nba" target="_self">Get more here&#8230;</a></strong></em></p>
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		<title>Make Money Selling Your Articles</title>
		<link>http://sssite.net/blog/2010/05/08/make-money-selling-your-articles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 19:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[selling articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing articles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re doing any type of marketing online, you know about the power of writing and submitting articles to get traffic and backlinks to your site. And you also know that if you write the articles yourself, it can take a lot of time. Time spent coming up with titles, time spent researching the topic,&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re doing any type of marketing online, you know about the power of writing and submitting articles to get traffic and backlinks to your site. And you also know that if you write the articles yourself, it can take a lot of time. Time spent coming up with titles, time spent researching the topic, time spent creating an  outline, and the time to actually write and proofread the article.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re able to write an article from start to finish in an hour and you need a dozen articles, you have a lot of time invested. Even if you&#8217;re able to cut that in half and do it in thirty minutes, you still have to set aside that time to do it. And you have no way of knowing ahead of time if you&#8217;re going to get any traffic from the articles after you submit them.</p>
<p>Writing and submitting articles is a powerful marketing strategy, <strong>so don&#8217;t stop doing it. </strong></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s something to think about. Other marketers are always looking for articles they can buy. And you can be the one who provides the articles.</p>
<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the downside:</strong><br />
People don&#8217;t want to pay a lot for an article. They can get them all over the place for around $5. If you write 2 articles an hour, you&#8217;re going to make $10 and hour. If it takes you an hour to write an article, you only get $5 an hour. Not good.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>No, I don&#8217;t suggest that you hire yourself out to write articles for $5 per article. </strong></em></span></p>
<p><strong>There&#8217;s a much better way&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Write a series of articles on a market that is in high demand. It could be a ClickBank product or any other affiliate product. It could be a series on digital cameras, video games, or treadmills. What you&#8217;re after is 5-10 articles that you can write for a market.</p>
<p>For this example, write 5 articles on exercise equipment. You&#8217;re going to be selling these articles for $1 each for a total of $5 for the package. If it takes you 5 hours to write these articles, you&#8217;ll get $5. But there&#8217;s more to it&#8230;</p>
<p>The idea is to sell these articles with private label rights, and to sell several of these packages. To make it more attractive to potential customers, limit the quantity. In this example, promise to only sell 50 copies of these article sets.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re selling 50 sets of 5 articles for $5 each, for a<strong> total of $250</strong>. Not bad for 5 hours of work. Don&#8217;t stop there. Once you get your first package of articles written, move on to another set of articles. You can build this as big as you want.</p>
<p>The demand for content is huge, and you&#8217;ll never run out of topics to write about. Once you have a few sales, ask your customers what other niches they are interested in. That makes your job easy, and if you write quality articles, the word will get out and you&#8217;ll be on your way to making a lot of money selling your articles.</p>
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		<title>The Perils Of Using Free Blog Sites</title>
		<link>http://sssite.net/blog/2010/03/05/the-perils-of-using-free-blog-sites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free blog sites]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, there were a couple of interesting posts on the Warrior Forum that talked about the potential problem of using free blogging sites. One post was about how someone put a lot of work into blogger blogs, and then found out that all of their blogs were deleted. The other post was about using wordpress.com&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently, there were a couple of interesting posts on the Warrior Forum that talked about the potential problem of using free blogging sites. One post was about how someone put a lot of work into blogger blogs, and then found out that all of their blogs were deleted. The other post was about using wordpress.com to post reviews and getting all of their blogs deleted. The links to both of these threads is at the bottom of this article.</p>
<p>The point to remember is that these free sites have policies that you have to follow if you want to keep your account. In the case of wordpress.com, it appears that they aren&#8217;t going to tolerate people using this free as a platform to sell stuff. You can use the site to get traffic to your money pages, but you have to be very careful.</p>
<p>To protect yourself, before you spend a lot of time creating content and posting to any free site, carefully read all of their terms of service to see what they allow and what they won&#8217;t allow. And do a search on related forums to see if you can find tips on using these sites.</p>
<p>If you host your blogs on your own hosting account, you won&#8217;t have this problem. You can promote to your heart&#8217;s content and not have to worry about your sites being shut down. Of course you will have to spend a couple of bucks on hosting, but you won&#8217;t be taking a chance that the time you put into your sites will be wasted.</p>
<p>These sites are worth using, and they can get you good backlinks to your money site. Just make sure that you follow their rules so you can get the full benefit of what they offer.</p>
<p>Important Point:<br />
Wordpress.com is a site where you can create a blog for free, and they have rules you have to follow. A wordpress blog is the blog software that you host on your own domain and hosting account. You do have to abide by the terms of service of your hosting provider, but you have a lot more flexiblility if you host a blog on your own site.</p>
<p>Take a few minutes to read through the following threads so you can avoid having your free sites from being shut down.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/186008-man-google-pulled-all-my-blogspot-blogs-lost-me-over-200-week.html#XX0Isr0GpudqXIhD">Blogspot Blogs Removed Thread</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/185720-wordpress-com-killed-all-my-blogs.html#LzBgTu4pkFSD1mwo">WordPress.com Killed All My Blogs Thread</a></p>
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		<title>Creating A Web Site In 6 Easy Steps</title>
		<link>http://sssite.net/blog/2010/02/27/creating-a-web-site-in-6-easy-steps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design dashboard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to creating a web site, it can seem like a big job. Before you get discouraged and put off learning how to create your own web pages, let me give you an easier way to look at it. When you do anything, it&#8217;s a lot easier if you break it down into&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When it comes to creating a web site, it can seem like a big job. Before you get discouraged and put off learning how to create your own web pages, let me give you an easier way to look at it. When you do anything, it&#8217;s a lot easier if you break it down into steps. Do all of the steps, one at a time, and pretty soon you&#8217;ll have the entire process done, no matter what it is.</p>
<p>Here are 6 steps to creating any web page you need for your site. You don&#8217;t have to do any of them in this order. The important thing is to not get stuck by thinking that there is too much to learn before you can get started. Here are the steps&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Step 1: Create Your Header Graphic</strong><br />
Most web sites have a header graphic. While it isn&#8217;t necessary, it can add a look of professionalism to your site. You can purchase them online or create them yourself. A no-cost way to do this is to use Xheader software. You can choose from over 500 header graphics in several themes. <a title="Xheader" href="http://www.xheader.com" target="_self">More info here&#8230;</a></p>
<p><strong>Step 2: Add Special Effects To Your Header Graphic</strong><br />
This can be as simple as adding your picture, a picture of your product, adding drop shadows to the text, to adding animation. Not necessary, but it is worth looking into.</p>
<p><strong>Step 3: Set Up Your Web Page</strong><br />
You can use free software to create and edit your web pages by using Kompozer. Select a layout for your web page, things such as tables, forms, graphics, and testimonial boxes. Or you can use templates. There are both free and paid templates available for you to use. Often these templates come with graphics included.</p>
<p><strong>Step 4: Create Your Sales Letter</strong><br />
This is where you enter the content for your web pages. It can be a sales letter, an article, or an opt-in page. This is the step where you set up your pages to get your visitors to do what you want them to do &#8211; buy something, fill out a survey, or subscribe to your list.</p>
<p><strong>Step 5: Set Up Your Payment Systems</strong><br />
Decide on how you are going to accept payments. This isn&#8217;t necessary if you&#8217;re an affiliate marketer, but if you decide to sell your own products you need a way to get paid. There are 2 ways easily do this &#8211; ClickBank or PayPal. Once you decide on a way to accept payment, you need to get the code you need for the links to the payment page and payment buttons on your own web pages.</p>
<p><strong>Step 6: Launch Your Site</strong><br />
Here is where you upload your site to your hosting account. There free FTP software that you can use to upload your site, or you can use the file manager on your hosting account. Once you upload your site, look at every page, click on every link, and try out every form. Make sure that your graphics and tables are showing up correctly. If you find a problem, now is the time to fix it.</p>
<p>Now that you&#8217;ve done these 6 steps, you&#8217;re ready to get busy promoting your site. It really isn&#8217;t hard to create your web site if you break it down into these easy to do steps.</p>
<p><strong>Need a little help with any of these 6 steps? There&#8217;s an easy and inexpensive way to learn how to create your own unique web sites without spending money on graphics or web developers. All it takes is the Web Design Dashboard.<a title="Web Design Dashboard" href="http://www.steveprefers.com/designdashboard" target="_self"> Click here for more&#8230;</a></strong></p>
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		<title>Another Free Way To Get Ideas For Your Articles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming up with content for your business can be a real pain in the neck. Some days it&#8217;s almost impossible to get started writing anything. Even if you decide to pay others to write your content, you should give your writers ideas of what they should be writing. Keyword research is one of the most&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Coming up with content for your business can be a real pain in the neck. Some days it&#8217;s almost impossible to get started writing anything. Even if you decide to pay others to write your content, you should give your writers ideas of what they should be writing.</p>
<p>Keyword research is one of the most often recommended ways of getting ideas. If you&#8217;re writing any kind of &#8220;how to&#8221; articles, the best keywords to target are the ones that ask a question. You probably already know search using phrases that will get you ideas for what people are asking questions about:</p>
<p><strong>How to<br />
What is<br />
Stop<br />
Where can I</strong></p>
<p>This will give you a lot of ideas of what questions are being asked right now. If you&#8217;re interested in the questions that are being searched for in a given niche, you&#8217;ll have to sift through the results to find the ones that are related.</p>
<p>I just found about a free tool from WordTracker that you can use that will give you up to 100 of the questions that searchers are asking based on a keyword. I entered &#8220;digital cameras&#8221; and came up with 100 results. Here are a few of them:</p>
<p><strong>digital cameras how do they work<br />
what are the top selling digital cameras<br />
what are digital cameras used for<br />
what type of memory is best for digital cameras<br />
how do digital cameras work</strong></p>
<p>This is a great time saver, because you&#8217;ll have a ton of ideas to write about. To get more information for any of the keyword phrases, enter it into a search engine, and visit the sites that come up to do your research and take notes for your article.</p>
<p>This free WordTracker Keyword Question tool also allows you to download the results to your computer. I&#8217;d go to the site and try it out right away. And remember to bookmark it so you can easily get to it, because it&#8217;s a tool you&#8217;ll be using a lot! <a title="keyword question tool" href="http://labs.wordtracker.com/keyword-questions" target="_self">Click here to get to the site&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>How To Believe You Can Achieve Your Income Goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[income goals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been online for awhile, you have seen a lot of products out there that promise to show you how to quit your job and make a lot of money in your own online business. The dream of working for yourself from home is very appealing. One thing that a lot of us miss&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;ve been online for awhile, you have seen a lot of products out there that promise to show you how to quit your job and make a lot of money in your own online business. The dream of working for yourself from home is very appealing. One thing that a lot of us miss is what we need to do to make enough money to work from home.</p>
<p>It sounds good to think about making thousands of dollars a month while you&#8217;re at the beach. But I think what holds a lot of people back is that they want to make thousands of dollars a month, but since they have never done it, it&#8217;s hard to have the confidence to make it happen.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve never made your first dollar online, it&#8217;s hard to believe that you can make thousands a month.</p>
<p>What makes it a lot easier is to break Internet Marketing down into smaller chunks. Coming up with a goal for the month is a good starting point. Once you do that, break it down into daily goals.</p>
<p>To make it really simple, let&#8217;s look at it this way. Let&#8217;s say you want to earn $3,000 a month. You would have to make an average of $100 a day to get to your goal of $3,000 a month. Your target is $100 a day.</p>
<p>Next you need to take a look at what you&#8217;re going to do to generate $100 today. If you&#8217;re selling products, how many sales will you have to make to meet your goal? Remember to take into account any advertising costs. If you use adwords, and you make $100 in sales, take a look at how much you had to pay for ads. If you had to pay $50 for ads to get $100 in sales, you&#8217;ve really made $50, half of your goal. So you would have to generate $200 in sales to end up with $100 in profit.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also important to find products to promote that are sellng well and are in high demand. If you find that a product that you&#8217;re selling isn&#8217;t getting a lot of sales, move on to another product.</p>
<p>The key to reaching your goals is to decide on a plan, get started, and be willing to change your approach if what you&#8217;re doing is not getting results. And don&#8217;t concentrate all of your efforts on 1 or 2 products. You&#8217;ll never know for sure whether or not a product you&#8217;re promoting is going to do well, so you have to try out a lot of them to find the winners. Break down your goals into daily targets, and execute your plan.</p>
<p><em><strong>Promote over 250 products that will pay you commissions instantly into your PayPal account.<a title="Affiliate Commissions Instantly" href="http://www.steveprefers.com/aci" target="_self"> Get it here now&#8230;</a></strong></em></p>
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		<title>The 3 Easy Steps To Building And Profiting From Your List</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[List Building]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Any time you want to promote a product, you need to get the offer in front of prospective customers. Paid advertising works, but it can cut into your profits. The number one way to get your offers in front of as many people as possible in your market is to have a list of subscribers.&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Any time you want to promote a product, you need to get the offer in front of prospective customers. Paid advertising works, but it can cut into your profits. The number one way to get your offers in front of as many people as possible in your market is to have a list of subscribers. As you&#8217;ve heard many times, &#8220;The Money&#8217;s In The List&#8221;.</p>
<p>First you have to have a list. And if you&#8217;re just starting out, it can seem almost impossible to get 1,000 or more subscribers onto your list. And even if you manage to get a lot of subscribers, if they aren&#8217;t interested in buying anything, you&#8217;re wasting your time. You want your subscribers to be interested in your market and open to spending money on products related to that market.</p>
<p>The good news is that Marlon Sanders has laid out building and profiting from a list into 3 easy steps. And he&#8217;s offering a free report and video that walks you through the 3 steps called<a title="3 steps to profiting from your list" href="http://getyourprofits.com/z/2358/CD27861" target="_self"> &#8220;The Only 3 Steps You Need To Make Tons Of Sales Online In 2010&#8243;</a>.  Here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll discover in the report and video:</p>
<p><strong>Step 1. </strong>Find out where your prospects are. In other words, what forums do they go to, what blogs do they read, what products are they buying. What you&#8217;re after is making the best use of your time and money. Spend your time posting on forums that are related to your market where you can put a link to your opt-in page. Spend your money advertising where your prospects will see your offer.</p>
<p>The Internet is huge, but not everyone is a potential customer. Remember that all you need is a few thousand subscribers to make a really nice living. Don&#8217;t use a shotgun approach by putting your offer on unrelated sites. Targeting your prospects will be the best use of your time.</p>
<p><strong>Step 2.</strong> Create a freebie that will entice your prospects to sign up for your list. It&#8217;s not hard to come up with a freebie, and you have several options, such as video, podcasts, special reports, or email courses. People are hit with offers to sign up for a list everywhere, and you have to make your offer so good that people will sign up for your list. So step 2 is to offer a freebie to get them on your list.</p>
<p><strong>Step 3. </strong>Send emails to your list. Build trust and credibility by giving good information. Put offers in front of your prospects and offer a bonus if they buy from you. And mix it up a bit. Send out a video or podcast once in a while. Create a useful free report for your subscribers. Step 3 is all about keeping your subscribers interested in your content and getting them to spend money with you.</p>
<p>List building is probably the most important asset your business can have, and it all comes down to 3 easy steps. Marlon has created this free report and video that you can access right now. There is the option to buy some of his stuff, but there is enough information in this free information to make it a lot easier to build your list. Get Marlon Sanders free information while it&#8217;s still available by <a title="Easy List Building" href="http://getyourprofits.com/z/2358/CD27861" target="_self">clicking here now&#8230;</a></p>
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