Archive for November, 2009

How To Start You’re First Email Newsletter

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

One of the biggest problems you face when starting up you’re own news-letter is, not knowing what you want to write.

It is very easy to suffer from “writers block” once the realization hits you that you’re about to embark on the journey of teaching others how to become successful.

Writing my own content was also a BIG problem for me in the beginning, but I eventually overcame my fear by doing what I’m about to show you now.

In Affiliate Marketing, you are constantly bombarded with a lot of information especially if you’ve signed up to a lot of news-letters like myself.

To get my news-letter started all I did was to use the information sent to me by the other top Online Affiliate Marketers.

In other words, I copied a short eCourse that I had signed up for about “Building Your List“ and pasted the contents of that eCourse into my favourite Auto-Responder Service. “Before you ask”

I did make sure that the eCourse was not Copy-Write protected because I hate plagiarism just as much as you,

After copying and pasting the List Building eCourse into the Auto-Responder, all I had to do was select how many days apart that I wanted each part of the eCourse to be sent to my subscribers and that was it.

By setting up my Auto-Responder messages in this way, it allowed me the time to build up my own confidence and quickly led to me writing my own content for my news-letter.

You can find good FREE content all over the Internet. No matter what you’re website is about you can bet that somebody has written an eCourse or ebook about it.

You can easily turn the contents of that eCourse or ebook (PROVIDING THAT THEY ARE NOT COPY WRITE PROTECTED) into you’re first newsletter.

Let me just say, once again that I am not telling you to go out and copy content word for word from every web-master that you see online, because clearly that would be WRONG!

All that I am saying to you is, “just think outside the box a little bit” and you can get you’re own news-letter started a lot sooner than you think.

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Can a Auto-Responder Really Help Your Business?

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
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Did you know, that 90% or more of all visitors to your website will not buy anything on their first visit. You might not be to bothered by this fact if you are not interested in making a profit, but for the majority of website owners (myself included) this is a BIG problem.

Fortunately for you there is a way to substantially increase your chances of making that SALE by using an email auto responder.

If you run you’re web site for business and not for pleasure or fun, then investing in a professional Autoresponder service is essential.

You might of noticed that I said “Professional Auto Responder Service” this is because I don’t want you to think that I meant auto responder software which I strongly recommend that you avoid

The advantages of using an auto-responder service is that it allows you time to build trust with all subscribers who sign up to your news letter.

It also helps you “BUILD YOUR LIST” and enables you to send multiple offers over a longer period of time, which ultimately will lead to more sales for you.

Getting you’re Auto-Responder up and running is very easy. especially if you’re interested in Affiliate Marketing. You can find endless website’s that will provide you with all the pre written email messages and digital products that you need, ready and waiting for you to copy and paste into your favourite auto responder.

Once you have decided on what product or service you would like to promote, and have chosen your pre written email messages. All that is required from you is write your “Squeeze Page” message and you’re good to go.

“Before I go on” I would just like to go into a little more detail about Squeeze Pages and why they are so IMPORTANT.

Your Squeeze Page is the first thing that all of your potential customers will see before deciding if they are interested in signing up to your offer.

After they sign up they are then redirected to you’re auto responder service, which will then automatically post you’re subscribers their first email message.

You can have both long and short copy Squeeze Pages, the length of the page depends on what you are trying to get people to sign up for. From personal experience I have found that short copy works best for FREE offers, and long copy for Paid.

“BENEFIT’S” are the key elements of a good Squeeze Page so make sure that your’s has plenty of them.

If you are not confident in writing you’re Squeeze Page message, then go to one of the popular article directories such as…

 Go Articles.com or Ezine Articles.com.

Find an article that matches up to what you’re offer is about, and then copy and paste that article into the squeeze page template.(make sure that you follow copy right laws and give the author credit for their work)

By investing in an auto responder, you have made a statement that tells all visitors to you’re website that you are a serious business owner who is here to stay.

Just remember that good content is what will make your customers stay subscribed to your news-letter, keep providing it and you will do ok.

There is a very popular marketing and slightly over used term that says “THE MONEY IS IN THE LIST” for the most part this is a true statement…

but you have to remember that the amount of money that you make from your list all depends on the type of relationship that you establish with them.

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Here’s Why You Should Not Buy Website Traffic

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

 

 If you’ve just got your first website up and running, then you are probably eager to get as many eye balls as possible to see it.  

One of the most popular methods that you can use to get a lot of visitors is by way of the “Buy Website Traffic” route.  

Depending on where you decide to purchase your traffic from, You can easily find yourself a few thousand dollars out of pocket with little or nothing to show for your outlay.

I speak from experience because this is what happened to me when I first started out online.

 

Fortunately for me it did not cost me thousands, but only a few hundred pounds.  

 

 The name of the website that ripped me off  was Fast2net.com who have no doubt probably changed their name to something else by now.    

Instead of playing Russian roulette with those type of websites and wasting lots of you’re money.

I’m going to suggest  something slightly controversial to you, which is to use “TRAFFIC EXCHANGES” YES!

 ”I know that you have tried them before and got poor results” BUT did you follow these 4 steps that I’m about to reveal to you now exactly to the letter.

Before I go on, I will freely admit to you that I am far from being a fan of Traffic Exchanges.

However, through a lot of trail and error I believe that by simply following these 4 simple steps

 

 you will get ton’s of  visitors to any website of your choice,  at a fraction of the cost of the “Buy Website Traffic.” type of websites that by nature are costly and fraught with danger.

Anyway on with those 4 steps that I eluded to earlier.

1)Sign up to EasyHits4U.com  

2)Sign up to HitsBoosterPro.com  

 3)Sign up to AffiliateFunnel.com    

4)Sign up to PageSwirl.com

 As I’ve already stated to you, I am not generally a huge fan of using the Traffic Exchanges, but occasionally there are exceptions to the rules.

 

EasyHits4 and HitsBooster Pro both come under these exceptions.

What I like most about these two website’s is that they both offer FREE random referrals when you upgrade.

This is a very important feature, and it is the key to you being able to “BUILD YOUR DOWNLINE” across numerous exchanges that will in time allow you to…

 get potentially THOUSANDS of visitors to you’re website at virtually no expense to yourself.

You can also purchase traffic bundle packages, at EasyHits4u and HitsBooster Pro that are similar to the ones offered at  the Buy Website Traffic sites…  

but the BIG difference is that you can buy them cheaper. Affiliate Funnel is a website that ranks Traffic Exchanges.

What makes this site so interesting is that the ranking positions  are decided by the members of each individual exchange, and they are updated on a monthly basis. 

So you will always know which Traffic Exchanges are performing the best.  

 

PageSwirl is a web page rotator that will save you from hours and hours of tedious surfing for page credits.

 

If managed correctly you can get ton’s of web site traffic at a very fast rate, I personally would not bother using the Traffic Exchanges without a rotator.

Two important points for you to remember here is, that…  

you will continually get poor results in using the Traffic Exchanges unless you “UPGRADE”  

And the second point is that they are a low quality traffic source which means that converting visitors to you’re website into BUYERS will be harder than if you were using traditional SEO methods.

Despite these 2 draw backs, I would still recommend that you start off promoting your website via the Traffic Exchanges… because you will be able to send traffic continuously to your site at very low costs

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