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Where Are You at in Internet Marketing?

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Perhaps you are already making a full time income, and you are going to be able to take something from each of the other sections of this newsletter, and use them to increase your business. That is your next step take at least one idea from this newsletter, and use it to increase your online income.

Perhaps you have just gotten started, and you have a web site, a squeeze page, and you are working on your first product. Congratulations you have taken the first, biggest, and hardest step just getting started. Your next step is to get to know your subscribers, make sure your product will meet their needs and make it available to them.

Perhaps you have been buying ebooks for awhile, studying how to do this internet marketing thing.

You know it can be done you see other people online making money. You probably know someone, either a relative or a friend, who makes a full time income online.

But you just havent started.

Why not? Are you afraid of failure? Get over it.

Are you afraid you dont know enough? Who cares? Do what you know and then when you hit an obstacle, learn what you need to know. You see, right now, you dont have any idea what you dont know. You dont even really know what you need to know.

And the one sure way to find out is to get started.

Here is my basic formula for creating an internet business:

1) Decide on a niche, something you know about and others have a demand for

2) Create a web site with a squeeze page on it

3) Get an autoresponder so you can collect leads

4) Get to know your subscribers

5) Ask them what they want to learn about

6) Create for them something that will answer their questions and meet their needs

7) Sell it to them.

8) Start over.

Folks, that is the basic formula just about every full time income earner online follows, although many skip a step or add one in but that is the basic formula to follow.

I challenge you to start today!

Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have just completed my brand new guide to internet marketing success, Secrets of Internet Marketing for Profit

Download it free here: Internet Marketing Profit

Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 1574 articles in print and 11 published ebooks.

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Impact of Internet on Marketing Research
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Who Can Make It Through Affiliate Marketing?
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How to Make a Million Per Month with Pay Per Play?

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

The invention of any new advertising method brings with it a lot of skepticism and a little glimmer of hope. The phrase \”too good to be true\” is flung around a lot and without proper research. There are industries that take off on day one and there are others who take a while. Pay per play seems to be the former.

Here are the reasons why:

1) 100% conversion

2) Ease of HTML code placement

3) Website visitor friendly interaction

4) Prelaunch referral program

How do you use the above reasons to generate the million dollar per month paycheck without breaking your budget?

1) 100% conversion says it all. You send 1 000 000 or more real visitors you get 25% of the advertising revenue guaranteed. It is so automatic it borders on simple physics. This might prove to be the most expensive and labour intensive because you need to get out there and canvas for your traffic through article writing, website linking (very carefully) and forum posting. There are paid programs that will send you traffic but less than 10% of them actually send you quality visitors and most importantly even less will allow audio that starts automatically. (Please research carefully before buying.) And do not forget to keep an eye on your monthly bandwidth.

2) You can copy and paste the Html code anywhere (preferably just before

tag) on over 100 websites that receive over 10000 visitors per month. This is also labour intensive and costly with bandwidth being less of a problem but multiple hosting fees being the nightmare. The cost of setting up 10 000 visitors per website is doable but very hard.

3) 5 second audio ads are so short that people tend to miss them if they are even reading intently elsewhere while it is playing. This happens while the website with the code is loading and the ad starts playing quickly and the visitor asks themselves what just happened. They should not irritate the visitor and sometimes entice the visitor to reload the page to hear what just happened and send their friends over. Speaking of viral marketing, if you install a tell a friend script on your website sending the invited website visitors to a website with audio ads and a great gift then the viral marketing has potential to explode your income even if the invitees do not pass the message on.

10 000 send 3 friends and only one friend sends a further 3 friends, but you earn ad revenue on everyone who opened the website, even for 5 seconds. That can net you 1000 000 per month in time and it is less labour intensive.

4) Before 1 February 2008 any webmaster (1st level) who joins after you will be able to refer new core partners to join the pay per play program and earn 5% of the advertising revenue from them (2nd level) and 5% from anyone the new core partners refer up to 2 levels. To earn a million you can enroll 10 000 to 100 000 referrals. This will lead to a snowball effect that will nett you 1 million dollars every single month with minimum effort and expenses.

How do you find that many people to sign up? The same way you are going to try to get 1000 000 visitors to your webpage with pay per play HTML code.

This article was published by Thoriso Mashego. If you wish to sign up for with The Pay Per Play Program and become a core partner for absolutely free please click on the above special link before launch day. \r Core partners can claim 25% advertising revenue per month from every visitor and 5% from anyone they refer. Launch date is 1 February 2008. Over 3 million websites signed up for free in December 2007, their passive income in 2008 is going to explode.

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Discover The New Wave Of Internet Marketing

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

If you are looking for a method of advertising that will beat out other\’s, social network marketing is the way to go. This type of marketing is definitely the wave of the future and many marketers are starting to jump on this bandwagon.

You have probably run into Facebook and MySpace sites that are advertising something. These sites are also used, of course, for fun and communication as well. However you look at it, these types of sites are going to be the new way of marketing. The traditional methods are slowly going away.

If you think about a product that you like to use, you probably use it because you know of someone else that has tried it before. For example, your favorite restaurant may be your favorite because someone else first introduced it to you. You heard how they loved it so much and you value their opinion.

Social networking sites work the same way. When people see their friends using a product and see that they really like it and value it, they will join or purchase as well.

Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, are all examples of Web 2.0 marketing. Because these sites are more interactive, marketing will become a more interactive experience. You can use text, audio, and video with these types of sites. What\’s even better is that these sites are free. Your advertising dollars don\’t have to be used for this type of marketing.

Traditional marketing is still alive, but it won\’t be long before it is old news and the social networking sites will be the new wave. If you don\’t already have a plan to start marketing with these sites, you should start developing one now and get ahead of the race.

Jason Pearson is an online marketing expert who wants to share his secrets with the world. To find out more…

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Internet Marketing Training Course Reveals The Marketing Secrets Many Marketers Don\’t Use

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Have you been trying to sell a product like an Internet Marketing Training Course or service on the Internet? If so, you are probably doing this by using an affiliate program, as they are mostly free and widely used. After all, if it is free, and all you have to do is promote it with the tools they give you, what have you got to lose?

Well, nothing really, if you know what you are doing. However, there are many, many newbie affiliate marketers who don\’t know the ins and outs of this business. First of all, they don\’t know that getting the right traffic to your site can be very slow going if you don\’t know the secrets to getting this done.

Now, picture this: You spend lots of your time and advertising money to promote your affiliate site. After a few months, you finally get your first sale. You are a bit discouraged, as it took you this long, but you made $10 with this sale and are excited to make more. However, this affiliate program you are with only pays out when your amount due to you reaches $30. What a disappointment.

Well, if you are in this situation, the key is not to quit, because there are some secrets to this business that you are about to uncover.

First of all, never advertise your affiliate program directly. If you do, you will not receive the sales or the traffic you desire.

People like free things, right? So, offer free product. What kind of product are people looking for? Information is key. People know that information and resources is valuable to them. You can give away free reports, ebooks, etc. Now, the key to this, however, is not to give this information away until you have the person\’s contact information. This would be their email address, as this is an online business.

Now, once this information is given out, you want to keep following up with this person with more information that is derived from the previous information given. This again must be something of value to them. It needs to be relevant to what they are looking for.

After you have done this, and built a good reputation, and business relationship with, it is time to show them what works for you. The product or service that you are promoting hasn\’t been revealed to them until now. All of the information provided to them previously is information that is relevant to what the product can do for them, but the product itself is never actually mentioned. You let your affiliate site do the selling for you. You want to keep their interest and get them thinking how they want to know more.

One way to talk about the product is to personalize it and tell them how it has helped you. People want someone who is genuine to sell them something. This builds their trust with you and leads them on to making a purchase.

If you haven\’t been using these Internet secrets yet with your affiliate business, now is the time to start using a Internet Marketing Training Course. It won\’t take long before your sales become much more frequent.

Click Internet Marketing Training Course to discover how to clobber the competition and dominate virtually any online market or niche. See the amazing marketing strategy that allowed me to personally sponsor 116 people in 60 days…

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Secret to My Success - Discover How To Write A Winning Web Site

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

What does it take to write a web site that wins your visitors? When thinking about writing a web site, you must think about everything that is included in the design and format, even navigation. Many web designers don\’t think about the most important aspects of writing a good web site, and that is why it fails which is a secret to my success.

If you want to create a web site that wins your readers and makes them want to know more and eventually purchase, you must have substantial, informative content that is of great value to the reader. If the content is bad, the web surfer will quickly navigate away from the page and look for something else.

Once you have good content for your web page, you must not forget about how your readers will be directed from one page to another. If this is not done well, you will lose your web surfer quickly.

One way to look at this is to think of a manual for a business. There are many times that updates are needed to the manual, and there are often cross-references made from one page to another. If in the manual, there is a statement that tells the reader to look on page 301 for more information, there better actually be something more there.

Now, think about a web site. A web site is usually a method used to get the visitor interested to eventually buy a product or service. A job manual definitely doesn\’t do this. That is why a web site needs to have good content and navigation even more than a manual does. Just as a manual will have cross-references, your web site will have hyper links, and they must navigate the visitor to the right page, with content that is of value to them.

It is important to remember that when a visitor comes to your web site, they don\’t notice all of the separate entities that make up the site. They notice the web site as a whole package. Content that is of good value to them, a good design that is appealing to the eye, and linking that is well thought out will all work together. The reader sees all of this at once.

Now, as you write your web pages, however, you don\’t see the end result all at once, you will see it bit by bit. You want to remember to keep the content relevant and the navigation easy for the reader. As you add more pages to your site, be thinking about all of these things. When this is all put together in a nice package, you will have a winning web site that helps you get the results you want and is a secret to my success.

Click Secret to My Success to discover how to clobber the competition and dominate virtually any online market or niche. See the amazing marketing strategy that allowed me to personally sponsor 116 people in 60 days..

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Manufacturing And Selling Pet Supplies Online

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

With so many new cat and dog websites popping up every day it is increasingly difficult to compete online. If you plan on breaking into the online pet industry you need to be more creative and control every aspect of the operation. You need to make the right decisions from the start or your website will be a waste of time.

#1. Sell real products. Most of the cat, dog and aquarium websites dont even carry an inventory. Theyre just selling to the consumer and having the manufacturer ship direct. Dont do this. Yes you can make some money reselling somebody elses products but its never going to be lucrative. You need to sell your own products direct to the customers and keep 100% of the profit.

#2. Dont let other people sell your products on their site. It can be tempting to let somebody else market your pet products. At first they would get sales that you cant get on your own however with some work you can drive traffic to your own website. You dont want to have other sites competing against you with your products. It is also annoying to have different sites pulling you in different directions.

#3 Forget the stores. Although selling your cat, dog or aquarium products in stores sounds good. You wont be able to get your costs low enough to compete against the major manufacturers unless you have a huge manufacturing operation. Your profits will be weak and both you and your distributors will be disappointed.

The best route is to have total control over every aspect. Make the products yourself, market them online through your website and dont bother with a retail store. Follow this and your overhead will always be low because you can run this type of business from a two car garage or workshop.

Blaine Lantz owns Lantz Enterprises Inc; a manufacturer of unique pet products. Specializing in unique fish tanks including In-Wall Aquariums and Wall Mounted aquariums plus unique cat products including wall mounted Cat walks and Cat perches.

Hobbies includes a part-time photography and camera business. Specializing in weddings, he also also a passionate event photographer.

Aquarium: http://www.bizarreaquariums.com
\r Cats: http://www.wallcats.com
\r Photo: http://www.isabella-rose.com

Note: Use this information at your own Risk! Lantz Enterprises Inc assumes no responsibility whatsoever.

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Handcrafted Jewelry Business Savvy - The All Important Mailing List

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Selling handcrafted jewelry is a competitive business in a relatively saturated market, so how do you make yourself stand out from the sea of other jewelry makers? One great marketing strategy is to have a mailing list and to actively send out mailings.

Here are 9 great reasons any jewelry artist should build and nurture a mailing list.

1. To remind people that you exist.

People are very busy these days, have a lot on their plate. They are very easily distracted and sidetracked. I know I am, despite my best efforts! I receive a number of newsletters by email, and I am much more likely to return to these companies websites than the ones I bookmark and mean to go back to. Enough said.

2. To make it easy for people to find you and contact you

Sometimes people need help. Even if they mean to call you or order online from you, they may forget, become distracted, or may forget your business name. They may make a mental note to contact you but never get around to it. Make it easy for them by sending them regular mailings.

3. To build trust

This is a very timely concept. People have been scammed, let down, and underserviced so many times that they are naturally wary and suspicious of anyone trying to sell them anything. Getting your name in front of people on a regular basis and sending them quality information with their needs in mind goes a long way towards building trust.

4. To build relationships

In our fast-paced world where everyone is bombarded constantly with advertising from huge impersonal businesses, people seek a connection. If you can make that connection and allow people into your world, they begin to feel they know you. This is of course positive for you and your business.

5. To keep in touch with your existing customers.

You have peoples\’ addresses because they have given them to you either through an online subscription, personal inquiry, by asking to be added to your mailing list, or by in some way asking you to contact them further. If your customers and prospects have shown interest in getting updates from you, you are doing them a disservice if you don\’t follow up.

Have you ever inquired about a product by email and never gotten a response? How did that make you feel? I know that I feel like the company is poorly managed and that they clearly don\’t care about their customers. People get very excited by even basic customer service nowadays so give them a little by sending them newsletters, notifications and updates.

6. To follow up leads.

Leads are people who have shown interest in your work or your business but need more incentive to buy. This goes back to the 7-10 rule which states that people statistically need to become familiar with you by seeing you 7-10 times before trusting you enough to purchase something they want from you.

7. To make more sales from your existing customer base.

It is Easier to Sell to a Customer than a Prospect i.e. It is much easier to convince previous customers to buy more from you than it is to convince someone to buy from you the first time.

This is assuming of course that they had a good experience with you in the past. Regular customers are most businesses bread and butter. Offer them the good stuff first and they\’ll keep coming back. A mailing list is the perfect way to notify them of your promotions and new products first.

8. To target your marketing and make the best use of your time.

Your time is limited and you want to get as much bang for your buck as possible. A mailing list is made up of people who are already interested in you and your products or services so following up with them by email is a great use of your time.

9. To give great customer service and extra value.

Sending out regular mailings is just part of great customer service. If you do it respectfully, regular mailing can make make your customers feel cared for and special.

Christine Gierer is a self-taught jewelry maker, crafter, and Work-at-Home-Mom who has written numerous articles on making and marketing handmade jewelry. To learn more handcrafted jewelry business strategies, sign up for my free e-lessons at http://www.thejewelrysweetspot.com

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Sunday, August 24th, 2008

There is a powerful marketing and networking tool right under your nose. Forums are not only fantastic resources for business advice, they enable you to help others by sharing your experiences and they allow you to market yourself to a highly targeted market. Read on to learn how to unleash the power of forum advertising and receive maximum results.

Forum advertising is frequently overlooked as a powerful tool to develop relationships and lifelong customers.

You likely already know the social benefit of online chat rooms and forums. Social networking has grown by leaps and bounds in the past few years and offers many people the opportunity to connect over a shared interest. Business forums are just as useful for people to connect on a professional level.

What you may not consider when posting or reading comments in a forum, is that they can also be a valuable place to find customers and clients.

Here are 3 tips to unleash the power of forum advertising and receive maximum results

1. Start Small.

Find a forum or two, no more than three, that cater to your niche or target market and register to become a member of the community. Why not register with more? Many reasons, it will take too much time, you\’ll be reaching many of the same people, and your content/posts can begin to sound repetitive.

Begin by posting in the forum introductions section (most good forums will have one) and tell people about yourself. Talk about your business, but don\’t just drop a sales pitch. Let people know what your interests are in the topic beyond your business.

2. Post regularly.

Your goal is to become an active member of your chosen forums, which means that you must post regularly. Set aside time each week to visit your chosen forum. To make sure that you stay on task, give yourself an hour and begin reviewing recent posts, and providing answers/help where appropriate.

In time, the members will see you as an expert in the topic. With more posts, your site/business will have more exposure, and you will see results.

3. Choose appropriate forums.

In addition to searching for forums that are relevant to your business, you can find these by using your favorite search engine and entering your topic, product, or service keyword with the keyword \’forum\’.

Look for forums that have:

A large number of members. This information is usually available on the home page, which means that you don\’t have to register to have access to it.

You\’ll also want to look for a forum has an area for members to advertise in. If an advertiser\’s area is not available, don\’t blatantly post ads in your posts. This is considered extremely rude and can get you banned from the forum.

Make sure that your chosen forum allows you to create a signature. Your signature should include your name, website/business name, web address, contact info, and a detailed description of your business.

There is a lot to be said about the benefits of forum advertising. They cannot all be fit into this article, of course. For really great forum marketing tips, I highly recommend the free e-book: Forum Marketing SuperTips.

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How To Get What You Want For A Minimal Amount Of Money

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

I\’ve always been one to get a bargain where I can. For me there is nothing better than getting something for free, or for a minimal amount of effort. Now I am well aware of the old adage that \”There is no such thing as a free lunch\”

Well I like to know why?

So I did a bit of digging around. And it appears that if you are prepared to look at things with an open mind without dismissing it straight away, then you can have your free lunch and eat it.

What I found, I found about 3 years ago, but like the majority of people I ignored it thinking it was a scam. Then about a year ago it appeared again. So I took a deeper look. Well what I found amazed me, but I was still skeptical. In the end it looked like it wasn\’t going to cost me anything, so I thought what have I got to lose?

I signed up to a site which claimed I could get a free XBOX 360. There wasn\’t much detail on the front page of the site, which I assume is one of their ploys to get you to sign up to get more details. Anyway I signed up and it turns out you need to complete and offer and refer some friends. At this point I was confused about it all as I was so new to it.

Basically the way this works is the site I had just signed up to has a whole list of sponsors that are trying to promote themselves, and it was one of these \”offers\” I had to sign up to. Well looking through the list there were quite a few varied types of offer to sign up to, Gambling, Credit Cards, Movies, etc, etc. Well I signed up to the Lovefilm 2 week free trial as it was one of the companies I had heard of. To do this I had to click on the link on the freebie site which in turn took me to the Lovefilm website.

Once on Lovefilm, I had to sign up and give my name, address, age and Credit Card details, and I was then signed up. Once this was done I had to choose package I wanted to go for, there were 3 at different prices. The cheapest one lets you have 1 DVD at a time, where the most expensive allows you to have 3 at a time. It didn\’t matter which one I chose as the 2 week free trial applied to all of them. I chose the cheapest. Once signed up I had to make a wish list of 10 DVD\’s I wanted and then one of them would be sent on to me. That was it I was signed up. Now I was committed.

Back on the freebie site, within a couple of hours my status went to Pending against my offer.

Now I had to get referrals. What this basically means is I needed to get some people to do the same as I had just done, (Though not necessarily with the Lovefilm offer) So I started thinking about how I was going to do this! And when I\’d finished thinking, I thought some more!

The first thing I did was to create the following website, to show the story of my freebie / bargain hunting. www.jadereynolds.co.uk

The next thing I did was to ask a few friends, and not surprisingly most were reluctant, though I did get a few sign ups, but none did their offer. This is know as \”Going Yellow\”. Completing your offer is known as \”Going Green\”.

However I had 1 good friend who said he would help me out and he did the Gala Bingo offer and within a few hours he had \”Gone Green\” I was now on my way to getting my free XBOX 360. Just 9 more referrals to go. With renewed gusto I continued to promote my referral link and I even built a website, which used to be on this domain. I manged to get loads of yellows and a few greens. but things were going slowly.

Then I found Exceem, this is a forum made by and full of people who are doing the same thing as me. Even some of the members are the owners of the freebie sites. Well I was astonished, especially when I viewed the section \”I received my free gift\” This is full of people who have received their items, and posted photos of what they have received.

Well I was impressed with the forum so far, so I decided to sign up to Exceem Extra, this is their extended section for \”VIP\” members and opens up a hidden section of the forums, here VIP members swap ideas on how to get referals, and I took some tips from it. I promptly signed up to Vistaprint and ordered myself 200 free business cards, printed with my referral link on them. This turned out to be a mistake, I should have just had my own URL printed.

Anyway after a few months things were still going slowly and I had only managed to get 4 greens, and no one was signing up anymore. And due to changes in my life it all fell on the wayside until recently.

About 2 months ago (October) I remembered the freebie site, and decided to log on and have a look. I was amazed, I now had seven greens, and was only 3 away from completing my offer. Well gusto was returned and I decided to start pushing my link again. Now I have 9 greens and 1 on pending. So basically I have my 10 referrals and hopefully my Xbox should be here soon.

I have had one or two problems with some of the sign ups but the owners of the freebie site have been excellent in sorting these problems out.

Since October, I have also signed up to quite a few other offers and I have now received my first gift of a Apple iPod shuffle.

Find out more at http://www.jadereynolds.co.uk

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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

It\’s hard to tell who really knows how to do what in internet marketing. You have some that just write articles and have no experience whatsoever in their field, but give advice by doing research on a subject. Others give advice and haven\’t done any research or have experience either one. So, who do you listen to?

Well, let\’s look at it this way, have you ever tried to cook something from a friend\’s recipe that they gave you? My sister-in-law made the best potato salad that I have ever tasted. She gave the recipe to my girlfriend and my girlfriend tried to make it and it was absolutely awful. Why the difference? Well, because my sister-in-law has the experience to go along with the recipe while my girlfriend never tried making potato salad like that before. My girlfriend didn\’t have a chance to see how my sister-in-law made it firsthand but only had the ingredients of the recipe not the know-how and steps to take.

The same is true in internet marketing. Many people know the ingredients to take in making money on the internet but unless you have the experience of being a successful internet marketer, how can you teach someone else? Just like the recipe example above, you might know the ingredients but not the right steps to take to make a plan work like it should because you don\’t have the experience.

For those wanting to learn how to make money and work at home, it\’s very important that you learn from someone who has done it. More and more people have come into internet marketing and all of a sudden they want to teach you how to become a successful marketer even though they have never done it themselves. They don\’t have the experience it takes to teach you or anyone else. I\’m an avid bass fisherman but how could someone teach me to fish for bass that has never done it? They might know the lures to use and the line and rod and reel but if they have never done it before, how in the would could they teach me? The same is true in internet marketing and ways to make money on the internet.

Don\’t waste your money paying someone for information that\’s going to tell you how to make money at home if they have never done it themselves. Check out the source and see what others are saying about the person before you purchase anything from them. Make sure they have the experience they need to teach you properly.

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