January 31, 2008

Planning is Essential to Starting a Membership Site

You may be very excited about starting a membership site and be filled with all kinds of ideas about the type of site(s) you wish to start. Before you jump in with both feet, it is best to do some planning and research ahead of time to ensure your work is put into the right place.

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Writing the Perfect Sales Letter - the Basics

Here's a 7-step plan recommended by Internet marketing expert, Armand Morin, for writing the perfect sales letter.

Promoting Your Website With Only $100

As you are starting your own business you may feel like you are the only one in the situation you are finding yourself. Maybe you have a great idea for a blog or website but as far as money goes to promote your site, you may not have a large budget. So what can you do to help promote your website with as little as $100?

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January 30, 2008

Top 5 Mistakes That Affiliate Marketers Make

There is no doubt that it is very easy to start in the business of affiliate marketing. You will put some links on your website after you have joined some affiliate programs. You will then be making the commissions if someone follows a link and make purchase. However, is it really that easy? In fact, it is a bit trickier than that.

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The Drawbacks To Working At Home

Working at home is one of the fastest growing trends in careers today. However, many people jump on the freelancer bandwagon without considering all of the drawbacks to working at home. While some people are naturally inclined to work at home, others find the transition more difficult to make. There are many benefits to working at home, but the drawbacks need to be considered before you make the choice.

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Article Marketing: Turn Your Articles into Whitepapers

You've been in business for a while and have written lots of articles. You have submitted them to article directories and use article marketing to increase visits and back links to your website. Now what? Is there anything you can do with all these articles once they've been published through an article directory?

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6 Ways To Get Your Blog Ranked High On Google

Getting your blog ranked high on Google is a fantastic way to attract potential clients. Here's how it's done…

January 29, 2008

Why Is Article Writing Important For Internet Marketers?

There are still only a relatively small number of internet marketers who actually understand why article marketing is such a powerful strategy for marketing. For others it may seem to be just another piece of work they just can not be bothered to, or afraid to, undertake as they do not see much value in writing articles. Listed below are 7 very valid reasons why internet marketers should write articles on a regular basis.

The Most Crucial Requirement For Internet Marketers

Do you know what the most crucial thing an Internet Marketer needs in order to find their digital gold by working from home in Internet Marketing? If you ask any number of Internet Marketers this question you would probably get just as many different answers.

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Popular Scams Online Survey Companies Use

Anyone who's ever been online should, by now, be aware of the hundreds of "work from home" internet based companies that are consistently advertised in various websites. One of the more popular is "doing surveys for cash."

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Importance of Your Website Coming at Good Position in SERP!

Being an owner of a website is a matter of proud for most of us. A genuine question arises that what is the use of the website, if your website is not getting the visitors? The question is fair enough. If no one (other than you and your near one) is coming to visit your website, then that website is useless.

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January 28, 2008

When Is Website Redesigning Needed?

Redesigning a website is a stressful undertaking. However, effective website redesign can have a positive impact on a business. While there are certainly advantages, change for the sake of change is pointless.

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Ebooks + EBay = Quick List Building Strategy

There are many ways to utilize ebooks and eBay to create an online business. Most think that it consists only of selling ebooks to as many buyers as possible. While that can be the core of your eBay ebook business, especially if you are able to upsell your buyer to maximize sales, there is another less well known strategy utilizing ebooks that could jump start your online career faster than anything else. You can utilize eBay to build your subscriber list.

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January 27, 2008

The Right Time to be a Guest Blogger

Guest blogging is another effective way to increase traffic. It opens a window for you to be recognized especially if you are still in the lower rank. It is also a proof that you can be good article maker. However, finding the right time to do it is quite hard because there are a lot of you waiting for the approval of site owners. Therefore, you must analyze yourself first, and here are some useful clues…

January 26, 2008

Useful Tips for Effective Directory Submission

Submitting your site or blog to directories can help you a lot to earn more traffic, especially if you have the right keywords and useful contents. However, if you submit it the wrong way, chances are you will be just wasting your time. With this, you may want to check out these useful tips before doing such.

Finding A Niche For Your Own Blog The Best Way

There are many people in the online world who have obtained a great interest in the trend of blogging and have started the creation of their own blogs. The creation of any type of blog can be quite an easy process, but the process of turning it into something successful and popular can be somewhat difficult and complicated. In order to turn a blog into a very popular web site, there are a number of different things that you need to do.

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Music Downloads To Be Legalised At Last

An on-going controversy for fans of music downloads is the practice of transferring music from one format to another, ie from the internet downloaded onto a computer and transferred onto mp3 player, iPod or CD.

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January 25, 2008

10 Steps To Avoid Getting Stuck In Traffic On The Information Super Highway

The internet is a super highway of information and just like any highway you can get stuck in traffic. This is called information overload. Every day internet marketers are searching for their share of digital gold and are being bombarded with schemes, strategies, scams and products claiming to be the be all and end all to getting rich fast.

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Using Your Blog to Promote Your Affiliate Programs

Creating a blog is a great way to popularize your affiliate programs because you can achieve greater results for the affiliate program you are working with. When blogging, consider the type of people who may be surfing your blog; find out if they are looking for any specific products or related accessories and find out what it is that may inspire them to make a purchase.

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January 24, 2008

What To Do About Blog Criticism

Every piece of writing that is published will almost always receive some sort of good or bad criticism from people who enjoy reading about new things. As you begin to design a blog page, the exact same thing applies to its design, implementation, and especially the topics that are written about on your site. The ultimate goal of any blog, however, is to get as many people as possible to become interested in your blog and visit it frequently.

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Make Your Resource Box Eye-Catching

Through the recent years many people have learned the secrets of Search Engine Optimization. More and more sites have seen the effects articles have done for the traffic of their sites. Some have even created sites devoted entirely to providing articles that could be read by their website visitors and have links that could lead to many sites that are related to the topics and subjects of the articles.

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January 23, 2008

Outsourcing Your Articles

There are many of those who cannot afford the time to write their own website contents and articles. While writing content and articles specifically designed for the internet may take some getting used to and some researching and learning, there are many writers that can be found all over the world who could do it for you.

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January 22, 2008

How To Increase Your Passion In Internet Marketing

I find it quite hard to say, although Internet marketing is a fun and awesome way to make money online, most marketing beginners or apprentices give up within three to six months after trying out Internet marketing.

This may be due to the lack of passion and interest in this system. This is because of all the strategies that they have tried and implement, it just doesn't seem to work the way they wanted it to be.

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January 21, 2008

Web Design Elements You Should Avoid Having On Your Site

As a web designer, you should design your websites to give your visitors the greatest ease of use, the best impression and most important of all a welcoming experience.

I have highlighted some features of the worst web designs I've come across. Hopefully, you will be able to compare that against your own site as a checklist and if anything on your site fits the criteria, you should know it's high time to take serious action!

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Website Content: Using the King to Explode Your Internet Business

The innovations will continue as the internet keeps evolving. But content is still king and will remain so for a long time. Getting caught up in the latest gadgetry is a mistake business people make online and off. Video is terrific but when the smoke clears, people still want to read information that is well written and highly valuable.

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January 20, 2008

Hosting Features You Must Have to Publish Your Blog

Your website hosting provider may be one of the most important resources you need to consider. Web hosting services vary in cost and features today due mainly to the fact that there are such a large number of webhosting services available.

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January 19, 2008

A Logo Can Help Brand Yourself

As an internet marketer one of your goals is to brand yourself. You want to make sure that you are known as the expert in your niche. You want instant recognition when the subject of your niche comes up. One way to help your branding is to have a logo.

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Videoblogging, Get Started Today

Videoblogging is the next generation to post ideas and products all over the internet. Everybody seems to know about textblogging. Now they can use videos as a better way of expressing themselves. This form of communication may entail resources, but for a far greater reward. If a picture says a thousand words, then videoblogging blows that expression away.

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January 18, 2008

6 Article Strategies To Energize Your Internet Marketing

One of the best ways to build targeted traffic is to use articles. Because articles are so flexible as to their uses, most savvy internet marketers utilize articles in multiple ways. Here are six ways to use articles…

Getting Good Content for Your Blog

Whether you are a first time blogger or an expert in this field, a big goal is having success and having a popular blog amongst most readers. Sometimes it may seem difficult to get the type of hits that you are looking for and have a good, meaningful blog for others to read. But keep in mind that you can always have great content on your blog, no matter what the circumstances are.

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January 17, 2008

Have You Considered an Online Partnership?

There are literally thousands of online joint venture possibilities to pursue. However, they generally fall into a few basic categories: list leveraging, product creation and general sharing. Here are ten online joint venture possibilities…

Pros & Cons of Offering Archived Content to Your Members

There are two basic ways to manage your content. You can maintain all content forever and constantly have it all available to your members. Or, you can keep new content active for a certain period of time and then remove it from member access. There are pros and cons with both choices and you will have to decide what ultimately works best for you.

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How To Profit From Affiliate Marketing

Nowadays, so many people are being involved in affiliate marketing, which sometimes make it harder for new affiliate marketers to earn a substantial income from this marketing way. Nonetheless, there are some things that you can do to make you stand out from other affiliates, which will increase your affiliate earnings along the way.

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January 16, 2008

Make Your Sales Page Convert Better With Graphics

Your sales page, the most important piece of your internet marketing system. It can make you or break you. You can have the most traffic of any site on the internet, but if you have a sales page that does not convert any of your visitors into buyers, all that traffic is for naught. You always need to work on your sales page to make it convert the maximum number of visitors that it can. The proper graphics can make a big difference.

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4 Tips For Successful Affiliate Marketing

Successful affiliate marketing isn't always easy to achieve. In fact, it's not easy at all. Affiliate marketing can be one of the toughest businesses to break in to. It all depends on how hard you are willing to work and how ready you are to learn. If not done right, you'll end up like the rest of the 99% of people who fail at any kind of business. Here are a few tips for becoming a successful affiliate marketer.

6 Benefits of Using Squidoo to Market Your Affiliate Products

When it comes to affiliate marketing, there is one place that you absolutely need to go to, which is Squidoo. It has become the one of the best places to promote affiliate products and services, especially if you are completely new to affiliate marketing.

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January 15, 2008

Your Website Copy Could be Letting You Down!

A professionally presented business website is a powerful and essential marketing tool: it's the first thing prospective customers will look at before they decide to contact you. If the copy on your website is not written to an acceptable standard, it may be losing you customers.

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Working From Home -- The Online Business Reality

According to a recent Harris poll, 72% of American households are thinking about starting a home based business. This is quite frankly a staggering statistic. Almost three quarters of Americans are unsatisfied with their current employment situation for one reason or another. Many of these unsatisfied workers are turning to the Internet to fuel their work from home dream jobs.

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January 14, 2008

The Top 4 Mistakes Made By Internet Marketing Newbies And How To Avoid Them

If you are new to internet marketing you may find yourself a little overwhelmed. There is so much to learn, but there are 4 mistakes that are the biggest barriers to online success. If you can learn to avoid them you will succeed online, because the rest will work itself out.

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January 13, 2008

Do Not Neglect Your Marketing Plan

No matter what kind of business you own, marketing is always a key component. Whether you're the CEO of a major organization or a small business owner that sells vacuums, you need to market your business.

Marketing is essential in reaching consumers. There is no other way to alert them to your presence and willingness to serve their needs. Far too many businesses fail because the lack a marketing plan.

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January 12, 2008

Setting Up Your Home Business Schedule

Do you have a schedule for your home business? If not you will need one. Running a home business is a challenging task. Running any type of business is a challenge. In order to succeed you will need to work in order to build your business. Time management is key. Self discipline is a must when running your business. It is very easy to get sidetracked when running a business. Many business owners end up not succeeding in their business because of bad time management.

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January 11, 2008

What Is The Most Useful And Cost-Effective Internet Marketing Tool?

If you've been involved in internet marketing for any length of time you will know that there are numerous internet marketing tools available to both make your life easier and to help you make more money. But which tool is the most useful and offers you the best return on your investment?

Find the answer here…

January 10, 2008

PLR, MRR And RR Explained!

There are a myriad of products on the internet that you can purchase and sell as your product. Some of them are labeled PLR, some are labeled MRR and some are labeled RR. What do those initials stand for, what is the difference between them and how does that affect your internet marketing?

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January 9, 2008

Thinking About Blog Marketing For Traffic?

If you are just beginning in internet marketing, you are going to find that starting a blog is very easy to do. Anyone can sign up for a free blog, and then proceed to market basically anything that they want to.

Because blogs are free to have and make, this makes blog marketing even better. Whereas if you have a website, and are wanting to market things that way, you would have to pay for your domain, pay for your hosting of the domain, and then know some HTML or hire a website designer.

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One Quick And Easy Way To Create Your Own Product

Internet marketing is based on someone selling a product. Unless you are an affiliate marketer selling other marketer's products, you must sell a product yourself. If you want to sell your own product, the problem becomes how to create your own product.

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Blogs And Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a well known way to make money online. You pick a product, market that product, send leads to the product sales page and collect your commission. Sounds simple right?

Of course, if you have ever tried affiliate marketing, you know that picking a product and collecting commission are the easy parts. The hard part is marketing the product.

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January 7, 2008

How Internet Marketing Came To Be The New Direct Response Marketing

With the advent of the Internet, a new direct response marketing was born. Using the Internet, marketers could now quickly and inexpensively send thousands of emails at the click of a button to potential customers, instead of relying on slower and more expensive snail mail.

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January 6, 2008

Is Pay-Per-Click Really Worth It?

I will just come out and say it. Pay-per-click is the most frustrating, pointless, bone-headed form of internet marketing known to man. Most websites use at least some pay-per-click to attract traffic to their site. Other sites use nothing but pay-per-click to attract traffic to their site. I, on the other hand, detest it. I hate paying for clicks and I have modified my internet marketing strategy accordingly.

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The Traffic Power Keeps on Multiplying with Article Marketing

Newsletter publishers turn to article directories to find much needed content. These sites allow ezine publishers to reprint any listed article in their newsletter for free. All they have to do is give the author credit for the article and include a link back to the author's site. They do this by including a resource box at the end of each article.

The resource box that tells the reader about you and includes a link back to your site is just the starting point for ways you gain traffic through article marketing.

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January 5, 2008

Using Google Custom Search to Create a Revenue Stream for Your Website

The newest and probably most popular trend in today's computer crazy society is the creation of web pages and the publication of them on the Internet. The Internet has completely changed how people act and spend a majority of their time, which could be seen as both positive and negative. Many people have started to use the Internet as a way to earn additional money without a lot of time spent away from home and without a great amount of work.

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January 4, 2008

A Guide To Successful Articles

Articles are an important part of internet marketing. It is one of the best ways to generate free traffic to your websites. But what makes a good article? What do articles need to be accepted by the article directories? Most importantly, what has to be included in every article to make sure the article drives traffic. There are six components to a successful article.

Internet Marketing Mistake #1: The Wrong Way To Build A List

They say, in internet marketing, the money is in the list. Everything you read about, learn about, take courses about internet marketing all say how important it is to build your own list. Knowing how important a list is, many make a fundamental mistake in building a list. If you make this mistake it could cost you big time.

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January 3, 2008

Article Marketing Drives Sales and Improves Search Engine Rankings

Article marketing is, as its name suggests, a form of advertising that involves the distribution of articles. Though we most commonly associate the term with the Internet, article marketing is nothing new, and it actually predates the Internet.

Business owners have been using articles as a means of attracting new customers for years. In fact, article writing has been utilized as a marketing tool since the advent of the newspaper business.

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Internet Marketing: Why You Need A List

There is a mantra you hear often while learning about internet marketing: "The money is in the list". Every successful internet marketer talks about his list. There is all kind of advice on how to build a list. Sometimes lost in all this list building information is "Why do you need a list?"

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Everything You Need To Know About Hiring A Virtual Assistant

As you know, hiring a virtual assistant can help you grow your business. However the first time you hire one can seem somewhat daunting. The following are some tips to help you with the hiring process.

January 2, 2008

The Best Type Of Website To Sell Your Product

When most people think of a website for selling products they imagine a site like Amazon. A mega site where you can buy thousands of items. They imagine a site with lots of products so that no matter what someone is looking for they can find it on the site, and of course buy it. If you think this is the most effective site for selling your product, you are dead wrong.

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January 1, 2008

Mc Donald's And Las Vegas Became Huge Businesses Using Promotional Marketing

Promotional marketing is a great way to build your business. Promotional marketing is often overlooked by many business owners. McDonald's and Las Vegas Casinos have taken full advantage of promotional marketing techniques and you should do the same.

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