by Michelle Tukachinsky

Is it true that people are always looking for something free? I would say that this statement surely has a lot of truth to it. Everything is so expensive nowadays, so why not get something for free if you can! It is my belief that giving away something for free can help you in your internet marketing home based business as an attention grabber. Because there is so much competition on the internet, expecially in internet marketing, we all could use a free prospecting tool to get the attention of a potential customer. I think the problem, however, with the work “free” is that it may have some negative connotations attached to it. We tend to believe that when something is “free” that it may have a lower value to it, or may potentially be worthless. We also may believe that if something is “free” that there is some kind of hook or catch to it.. and/or that it could be some type of scam. I have been in situations myself where I thought something was free and it truly was over $100! After having one or more experiences like this, we are sure to become jaded over time. How could we not feel that way, after our trust as a consumer was betrayed. If we are going to offer free incentives in our online marketing business, we must really mean what we say. If something is “free” there should be no more than a nominal cost such as tax or shipping attached to the offer. Sometimes even these added charges can turn people off, even though a small tax or shipping charge is only fair, if a person is being offered a small vacation or an expensive fruit basket! An individual should also NEVER automatically be enrolled in a program after redeeming their offer. This is big NO NO in the world of free business incentives, even though a lot of big Fortune 500 Companies succumb to this underhanded tactic. In summary, free prospecting tools are great for expanding your home based internet marketing business if used correctly, fairly, and with integrity. I use free prospecting tools myself which are reputable, decent, and enticing and this has helped me to successfully make money online in my home based internet marketing business. Michelle Tukachinsky http://www.internetmarketingcoachmt.com http://www.workfromhomemt.com

by Terry Detty

The biggest obstacle faced by any online entrepreneur using safe email advertising methods these days, has to be the slow speed with which email lists typically grow. For example it can take a very long time for an opt-in list to grow to a mere 100 names. Yet one needs thousands of names on their lists pronto to be able to successfully market their products or services using email.

Many Rapid-Building Email List Techniques Don’t Work But the first thing I must caution you against is getting carried away by so-called miracle-working programs that promise heaven on earth and email list building at the speed of light. There are actually thousands of claims we all come across fairly frequently online promising swift, overnight growth of our opt-in email lists. Most of the time they just don’t work as well as they claim. This has frustrated many would-be online email marketers who will naturally get very discouraged when something that they had pegged all their hopes on and maybe even paid a few dollars to get, fails to work.

The reason why many of these so-called miracle email list building programs fail to have any impact is because they are hardly able to attract any significant traffic. The truth of the matter is that without some very high traffic, it is highly unlikely that your list will ever grow.

This is the reason why using viral marketing techniques to build an email opt-in list makes so much sense and usually ends up being so effective.

Start by Building High Traffic The first thing you need to do is to create a viral marketing campaign designed to generate very high traffic to your web site or the web page where you intend to promote your email list.

There are various ways of doing this. You could post a sensational article in high traffic social sites like Digg.com which receives millions of hits every week. The more popular votes your article receives from other visitors to the site, the higher the traffic that you will end up getting. If your article happens to get high enough traffic, people will talk about it and link to it. This is the viral effect that could easily get you hundreds of thousands of hits.

Using Viral Techniques to Directly Build Your Email List This is not the only way to launch a viral campaign. You could for instance offer a valuable report for free on the condition that the recipient leaves you with their email address and the email address of several friends who may be interested in the same report. So if for example the initial 50 people introduce 5 friends each, that will give you 250 free new prospects. If the 250 do the same it will yield a further 1,250. The result is that within a very short time, you will have a huge opt-in email list.

It looks easy, but there are a few key factors that you have to take good care of. Firstly, every effort should be made to ensure that the special report being offered for free is something of great value and highly desirable to a very high number of your targeted audience. This will be a major factor and detail to take care of that will determine how fast your opt-in email list will grow.

Offer Services and Products In Exchange For Referrals One of the fastest conventional ways to build an opt-in email list for safe email marketing is by purchasing names for your mailing list. Why not then find a way to offer valuable services or products in exchange for referrals that you can put into your email list?

This is one of the most effective methods of building an email list rapidly. And remember that with a targeted email list, you will be able to recover your investment many times over within a very short time of regular email messages or ezines being sent out.

Terry P. Detty acknowledges that his Search Engine Marketing and Email Advertising programs are a couple of his passions in life. He also enjoys reading, writing and camping in the great outdoors. Terry’s latest interest is an Press Release Service program he’s been using quite often, which allows him to continue enjoying a stress free life.

About the Author Terry P. Detty acknowledges that his Search Engine Marketing and Email Advertising programs are a couple of his passions in life. He also enjoys reading, writing and camping in the great outdoors.

by Obinna Heche

If you have an online business, chances are your customers are going to be online users and focusing your marketing efforts online is the most logical move. However, while the bulk of your marketing efforts may go to online resources, do not forget the offline customers as well. Many may not react to online marketing but finding your website in a print or broadcast media advertisement may have more integrity with some users.

As people continue to be bombarded with online advertising through pop-up windows, email ads and advertisements playing on the internet whenever they open a new page, they tend to become immune to seeing them. Even news videos offered free of charge are often preceded by a commercial and most people tune them out and watch the play clock until the news footage they requested begins to play.

Research is beginning to show what most web users have known for years that graphic intense pages that take a long time to open, usually never see the light of day. Even with broadband connections some pages can take up to 20 or 30 seconds to load, exceeding the patience level of most want-it-now internet users. It does not matter how great the page looks once it opens, if no one hangs around long enough to see it, it was a waste of time and money to build it.

Flash presentations became the big thing a few years ago and many webmasters were quick to jump on the bandwagon, but with the length of time needed for these pages to load made most web users reluctant to sit and watch a page unfold. Low graphic content and heavy text with a simple message open quicker, increasing the chance a person may actually look at the page.

Keeping the message on your landing page simple will also help people decide if they have any interest in going any further. The first thing people see must relate to their interest and clearly explain what they are going to find on your website. If the page opens instantly and there is nothing grabbing the users attention, the page will close just as fast.

One of the most used means of internet marketing is the use of affiliate programs. With most forms of advertising you pay for a certain number of exposures and hope someone finds the advertisement interesting enough to visit your site. Then you hope they buy something. With affiliate marketing, you only pay for ad placement if a sale is made, usually a small percentage paid as a commission on the amount of the sale.

Numerous websites will host advertising as an affiliate, placing an ad you had designed and when visitors to that site click on your ad and make a purchase, the website owner is paid a commission. You get the advertising free until a sale is made. Additionally, the site becomes a link back to your site, improving your sites position on search engines, drawing more traffic to your site as well.

About the AuthorObinna Heche. Los Angeles – California

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by Carson Danfield

Any internet marketers that aren’t Squidooing don’t realize what they’re missing! Don’t make the mistake of thinking that Squidoo is just another mySpace, full of kids talking about their latest CD purchase or downloading the newest ringtones.

Squidoo is an exciting Web 2.0 application that’s truly an online marketer’s dream come true. Squidoo is sort of like MySpace, but for serious professionals.

A lens is Squidoo terminology for a web page on the Squidoo domain that puts your niche topic into focus in an exciting and dynamic way. Squidoo is a place where you can show off everything you know about your topic, as dramatically as possible.

Beginning in the fall of 2005, within one year, Squidoo had already elevated itself into the top 1000 sites according to Alexa, and it’s been fairly steady ever since, actually even still growing.

A great many internet marketers would tap into the benefits of Squidoo if they just knew about it and understood it’s benefits and power. You can see Squidoo pages appearing near the top of Google for many search terms, even highly competitive keywords.

A few smart marketers have created many lenses, covering all of their favorite topics, so there’s no reason you can’t also crank out one for each of your business ventures or marketing ideas. The more lenses you have, the more likely you’ll be picked up by the search engines and see a nice boost in traffic. If you’ve ever been positioned at the top of the search engines for a popular keyword, you know what that can mean for your business!

When you finish building your first lens, just email their review team. If it’s good enough, they’ll consider making it the ‘lens of the day’, which will get you some serious traffic. A word of caution here – they won’t choose any lens that appears to be straight out advertising.

You can even make a few dollars with your lens. Squidoo shares all advertising generated revenue with you for advertising on your lens! Some crafty entrepreneurs are making lenses as Virtual Real Estate style publishing sites. In theory, you could make hundreds of great lenses and earn a good income just from the advertising revenue.

The primary benefit of using lenses for marketing your websites is clearly the main reason to get involved. The presence you create and the nearly automatic stream of traffic will be well worth the time it takes to build high quality lenses.
About the AuthorCarson Danfield is an “Under the Radar” Internet Entrepreneur who’s been quietly selling various products for the last 8 years.
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by Markus Skupeika
In the modern world Internet is a best option for business. All big and small companies have its own websites and also advertise of a product is done by websites. So it is important to high rank your website among major search engines. This is the main work of SEO. In this website redeveloped to properly and best communicate your keywords to search engines. Most of the popular websites have ranked high based on two major factors: Unique content with relevant keywords in the body and link popularity. Architecture means visibility of your content, and how natural your site appears to the search engines is other important thing. In this section, you should be able to find anything you need to know about Search Engine Optimization.

SEO may work in-house for an organization, or as consultants, and search engine optimization may be only part of their daily functions. SEO may be geared towards increasing either, or both, the total number and quality of visitors from Search Engines. The focus of their work is not primarily to rank the highest for certain terms in search engines, but rather to help site owners fulfill the business objectives of their sites.

Internet marketing services are designed to get your site noticed when potential buyers are looking for the products and services you have to offer. Designed for do-it-yourself novice users with little or no HTML experience, we discuss how to optimize your web pages without utilizing spamming techniques. To improving rank the website we have to do some works. The works of the SEO must culminate with are as follows-

Primary Consultation & Keywords- To list high the website webmasters must think carefully on the keywords which people could use to find the website, and use these keywords in appropriate and relevant places in your site.

Content Creation- Whatever your site is about; the content needs to be unique and or specific enough to appeal to people.

Website Redevelopment- The redevelopment of the website with the adequate changes assist the search engines to send the spiders to the website based on the algorithms.

Link Development- The top search engines view a link to your web page as a vote for the page. The important of the page is depending on, how much important page is link to your website.

Submission- Indexing the website to search engine, is the one other main work of the SEO

Internet marketing tools like the Meta Tags Builder Tool can be a great start in creating Tags for all the pages of your website. There are still a lot of other tools available online. Smart search engine optimizers need not be worrying over Meta Tags creation since there are Meta Tags tools like the Meta Tags Builder to help them out.

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By Terry Schierer

The other day I received an offer for a report called $7 Secrets. Being an affiliate marketer I receive offers every day to promote different products. 99.9% of these offers go to the recycle bin.

This report was different. It was sent to me by one of the old time internet marketers who has been around the block quite a few times and doesn’t promote junk.

The other reason I took a look at it is that it was only $7. Most of the Ebooks run in the hundreds. This was just a report but still only $7. I figured I didn’t have much to lose, $7 is just lunch money so I bought the report.

The report details how to make reports and sell them for only $7. I was amazed at the simplicity of the concept. Here’s what I thought was amazing about the report:

1) It’s easy. The whole concept of producing and selling the reports is so simple. If you have a subject that you are passionate about you could write the report and set the sales page up in less than a day.

2) Even if you need to do some research on the subject your going to write, we are not talking about months, like my last Ebook took, were talking hours

3) Information is the perfect product to market. No inventory to take care of. You just make money on what you already know.

4) You get paid immediately. You don’t wait until the end of the month or the Fifteenth, you get paid now!

5) You build a big opt in list of quality names fast.

6) Affiliates love to sell and promote products like this because they also get paid immediately and these types of products convert easily. That’s an affiliate marketers dream.

7) A $7 product sells easy. You don’t need long sales pages. People will take a chance on a $7 product as opposed to a $99 dollar Ebook that they will think about and need to justify the expense before they buy.

These are just some of the ideas I though were amazing in this report. Like everything there are drawbacks to the system.

You won’t make as much money on a $7 report as you would on a $149 Ebook. But then you won’t have that much time invested in the project either.

This type of marketing is not for everyone. It takes work and perseverance like any money making project.

Quality information is the key. If you produce a report and the information is questionable or of poor quality then you just defeated your purpose. People will only buy junk once. Once you get a reputation for putting out junk you are through as an information marketer.

If you’re just starting out as an information marketer and have a passion for a topic or are willing to do the research to produce a great report then I would recommend the $7 Secrets report.

The author is a full time internet marketer and his main web site is Window Blinds Guide. You can get more information about $7 Secrets here http://7-secrets.info Copyright © 2007 All rights reserved Terry Schierer. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.

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by Jeremy Harrison

In order to get the results you want from email advertising, you need to have a list of people who have opted in to receive your promotions.

Here are five tips to quickly build a large email list, which will be the core of your email advertising efforts:

1. DO… Tap into your existing customer base. This is the most important group for you to include. They already know about your company, and are likely to come back again if you give them a good reason. They are also likely to easily to give their email addresses as a loyal customer.

   You can build this email list by collecting email addresses from your customers when they come and purchase your product or service. If they need a little encouragement, try a monthly drawing for a free gift if they drop their name and email addresses in a drawing. Or, simply tell them about the exclusive benefits of being on the email list, such as the monthly specials.

2. DO… Use coupons and other irresistible offers on your website. When people arrive at your website, they shouldn’t want to leave without joining your email list. You can make this happen by offering coupons or other valuable incentive to people who visit your website. We can help build irresistible signup pages that will maximize the number of people who sign up for your email list.
3. DO… Buy a mailing list and send a traditional postcard. There are list brokers out there who sell lists of prospects for you to do mailings. You should never buy a list of email addresses, because that is spamming, even if the list broker tells you otherwise. However, you CAN buy a mailing list and send a postcard or letter inviting them to visit your website. Then, by offering an incentive, you can get more people to signup for your email list.
4. DO NOT… abuse your email list. The key to growing your list for email advertising is to keep your subscribers happy. Otherwise, you will lose subscribers as quickly as you gain them. You must clearly tell people what they’ll get with their subscription, and then keep your word. If you tell them you’ll send a weekly update with coupons, be sure you don’t send updates daily. The best bet is to write a privacy policy that tells your customer exactly how you will use and how you won’t use their information and email addresses, and then include that privacy policy wherever you invite people to sign up for your email list.
5. DO NOT… buy or sell email lists. If you’re looking for a quick way to lose your credibility, start sending unsolicited e-mail. Even if a list broker has email lists for sale (as some do) never buy or rent them. There’s nothing wrong with buying a mailing list for postal mail. However, if you send unsolicited e-mail you will quickly get the reputation as a spammer. Do not sell your email list to others either.

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About the AuthorJeremy Harrison is the founder of Spire Advertising & Web Design.

By Paul Hooper – Kelly

There are only three ways you can attract traffic to your web site. All three have their merits, but one method stands head and shoulders above the rest. so are you using the right one?
The three ways to getting traffic to your web site are:

• Buy it.
• Steal it.
• Attract it.

There are no other ways of doing it, so let’s look at the pros and cons for each.
BUY IT. This generally means advertising with contextual advertising, such as Google AdWords, but can also be paid advertising on web sites and in ezines.
The advantages are:

• You can be up and running very quickly.
• With the right keywords, you can be sure your ad is in front of a targeted audience.

The disadvantages are:

• You pay for clicks, even if they never convert to sales.
• The expense can rapidly eat into your profits.
• Short lived effect, which requires constant replenishment of advertising budget to keep up the momentum.
• Considerable skill required to balance good keywords against cost, keep within your budget and make sure you convert enough customers to give a profit after advertising and other costs.
• Low conversion rates compared with other methods.
• You pay for clicks by people who might just be tire kickers — not targeted, qualified leads.
• You can be at the mercy of a “Google slap”, if they disapprove of your ad, keyword or landing page.
• No enhancement of your search engine rankings.

STEAL TRAFFIC. This generally means doing a joint venture with the owner of a subscriber list.
The Advantages are:

• Once it’s set up, you can get some great results very quickly, provided you have a JV partner with a good, relevant and responsive list.
• Provided you have chosen your JV partner carefully, their list should provide targeted, qualified names.
• The introductory nature of the marketing implies trust in you and your product, which makes the conversion rate higher than paid advertising.
• There is no up-front money risk, as you only pay for actual sales.

The disadvantages are:

• It can be very time consuming and disheatening to set up a deal, because the top people with the best lists are inundated with JV offers and likely won’t even reply. And the ones that do reply are likely to be those with poor quality or small lists.
• In order to interest the jv partner, you have to offer them at least 50% of your sale price.
• Short lived effect and then you have to start over and set up another deal with another partner.
• No enhancement of your search engine rankings.

ATTRACT TRAFFIC. This involves posting original articles, either written by you or your tame ghost writer, on various sites throughout the internet.
The Advantages are:

• The effects can be almost immediate.
• It can cost from zero (if you write it) to just a few dollars (if ghost written) for an article you can post on up to 100 web sites.
• It’s viral, because there are thousands of web sites and ezine publishers, hungry for content, who may pick up your article and post it on their site, giving you further free exposure and also their implied approval.
• Your article (and your resource box) act as a full page advertisements for you and your web site, yet are totally free.
• Long lasting effect, which can run for a year or more.
• Accumulative. Posting articles on a regular basis will have a snowball effect, constantly increasing traffic levels.
• As a published author, you will be perceived as an expert on the subject. This builds trust and trust pays off in increased response rates.
• Visitors arrive at your web site already knowing something about you and respond accordingly with the highest conversion ratios of all three methods. Some experts put this as high as 7-10 times better than paid advertising. In my own personal experience, it’s around 3.5 times better.
• With the increased emphasis now on web site content, more and more web sites are eager to post your articles.
• Each article can give you a valuable one way link from up to 100 sites where your articles are posted. This will greatly enhance your search engine rankings for no extra effort.
• Your name becomes your “brand”. And if you think that branding doesn’t matter, look at what branding has done for Donald Trump. Because the Trump brand is so famous, the name “Trump” linked to a real estate development will generate faster, higher value sales, even without Mr T’s direct involvement. He just gets a nice royalty for the use of his brand name and all for no extra effort!

The Disadvantage is:

• It takes some time, but not as long — or as frustrating — as tweaking your ads to get a lower bid price or tweaking your website to get a better search engine position.

If I had to distill the many advantages of article marketing into just three outstanding factors, I would say:

• The very low or zero cost.
• The massive response created, when the article is framed correctly.
• The highly responsive nature of the traffic, because people respond better when they know and trust the person they are dealing with and articles engender far more trust than paid advertising and even more trust than joint ventures.

Bearing this in mind, it comes as no surprise article marketing stands out as the clear winner and is the favored method used by some of the biggest names on the internet, including Yanik Silver, Jim Edwards, Steven Pierce, Kevin Bidwell, Michael Cheney and little old me! I’ve added my own tweaks to this tried and tested method, drawn from my forty year marketing career. You can find out more about this amazing method by grabbing the first few chapters of my new book, detailed below.
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By: Melvin Ng

If you have a blog, you’ve probably realized that truckloads of traffic don’t pour in from day one offering comments and criticisms of your carefully crafted prose. In fact, most bloggers are quite fortunate if they get traffic at all for a while without some kind of ‘advertising’. This advertising can come in many shapes and forms but is vitally necessary if you are seeking growth for your blog.

Many people give up after only a few entries with no response without ever really realizing the potential that their blogs had. The problem is that the World Wide Web is a relatively infinite universe in which your words can be eternally lost. That is unless you provide people with a map for finding your words. In the world of the Internet, one good turn often deserves another. Visit blogs of other people, particularly those writing about similar things to which you are writing. Leave comments that are meaningful and valuable to the conversation at hand (not just hi I was here, come see my blog) and you will be surprised at how many visitors you will receive (not only from those bloggers, but also from people who read and subscribe to their blogs.

The Internet is a wonderful place for snowball effects. By visiting other blogs daily and spending at least twice as much time doing that as you spend working on your blog posts you will find that you are doing far better than many people at your stage in the blogging game. Also remember that it is a game to some degree. There are going to be people who do not agree with you and there are going to be those that violently oppose what you have to say. Take it all with a grain of salt and remember that the world is a big place and so is the Internet, move along to the next comment. Comments are a great way to build a base of readers (and they don’t cost a penny).

Another way you can get visitors to your blog is by using keywords and optimizing your posts for those keywords, remember to use the keywords you want associated with your blog in the title as that is what is typically picked up. Keep keyword optimization in mind when creating categories for your blog as well. Each of these things works towards bringing in new traffic on a regular basis and is an important part of the process (keeping them coming back is up to you).

Pinging services are also a great way to announce to the world that you’ve updated, made changes, and added something new to your blog. Some blog software does this automatically, if you are using Blogger, you will need to subscribe to a pinging service. Many of these are free and the service they provide is priceless.

If you want your readers to keep coming back (and of course you do) offer them the opportunity to subscribe to your blog by adding RSS feeds. There are many free services and I recommend that you make use of each and every one of them.

These are just a few ways to bring traffic to your blog but will have you off to a fantastic start.
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By: Sean Ray

Setting up a website is the very first step of an Internet marketing campaign, and the success or failure of your site depends greatly on how specifically you have defined your website goals. If you don’t know what you want your site to accomplish, it will most likely fail to accomplish anything. Without goals to guide you in developing and monitoring your website, all your site will be is an online announcement that you are in business.

If you expect your site to stimulate some form of action, whether it is visitors filling out a form so a representative can contact them, or purchasing a product, there are steps you can take to insure that your website is functioning at peak efficiency. One of the first indicators of how well your site is working for you is finding out the number of visitors in a given period of time. A good baseline measurement is a month in which you haven’t been doing any unusual offline promotional activities.

However, just because hoards of people have passed through your gates does not mean your site is successful. Usually, you want those visitors to actually do something there. It is equally important to monitor the number of visitors to your site who made a purchase. This figure is called the site conversion rate, and it is an essential element of the efficacy of your website.

To find the site conversion rate, take the number of visitors per month and figure out the percentage of them that actually performed the action your site is set up for. For example, if you had 2,000 hits to your site, but only 25 of them purchased your product, your site conversion rate equals 1.25%. To get this figure, take your number of visitors and divide that figure by the number of visitors who made a purchase. Then divide that result by 100 (25 ?00 X 100).

If your website is set-up to get visitors to fill out a form, make sure to then figure out what the difference is between your site conversion rate and your sales conversion rate. This is because not everyone who fills out your form will actually become your customer. However, whether your site is set-up to sell a service or product, or to get the visitor to fill out a form, the site conversion rate will measure the success or failure of your website whenever you make changes to the site.

You may find that you need to implement some additional marketing strategies if you find that traffic to your site is extremely low. There are several effective methods to improve the flow of traffic to your website, particularly launching a search engine optimization campaign. This campaign is targeted at increasing your position in search engine results so that consumers can find your pages faster and easier. You can either research the steps you need to take to improve your search engine rankings, or employ a search engine optimization company to do the work for you. In either case, after your have improved your search engine positions, make sure you keep on top of them by regular monitoring and adjusting of your efforts to maintain high positions.

Another factor to examine is how easy it is for a visitor to your website to accomplish the action the site is set-up for. For example, if your goal is for the visitor to fill out a form, is this form easily accessible, or does the visitor have to go through four levels to get to it? If it’s too difficult to get to, the customer may just throw in the towel and move on to another site. Make sure your buttons are highly visible, and the path to your form or ordering page quickly accessible.

Finally, have a professional evaluate the copy on your website. The goal is, of course, to get your visitor to make a purchase or fill out your form. Website copy must be specifically geared to your online campaign and not just a cut and paste job from your company brochure. The right copy can make the difference between profit and loss in your online campaign.
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