Monday, March 8, 2010

Most of you might wonder what is wrong with your affiliate website. You really wonder why you still cannot earn any money from home. You have spend hours and hours tweaking it, adding new products, adding new reviews, comparing between products and the list goes on and on. Yet, nothing seems to bear fruit and you are on the brink of giving up.

There is a saying that there is only one thing you need to do to ensure success from your website. Fix this and you will see sales after sales coming from your product or your affiliate products. So what exactly sets you apart from the top 1% of all internet marketers online?

Its creating an email follow up system.

What you need to do is to remind your visitors about your products again. Most of the time, people who visit your website have a specific interest in a product, or they already have what they want in mind. Chances are they are really interested in getting your product but they would like to look for other options before making their decision. They could be many reasons. They might be too busy or forgot about it. And your job is to remind them!

In fact every single product you are promoting or selling should have a good follow up system to remind them exactly what they have 'missed' or forget. Remember, people visit your website for a reason. You might already have good traffic coming in with an average conversion to sales rate of about 5/100. And what if about half of all those 'missed' visitors could have been translated into sales? You do not need me to tell you how much that difference could make.

A good follow up system also helps automates your business. Yes, there are 24 hours in a day but of course you don’t have all the time in the world for your home business. You need to have a system to help automate them. Basically having a well written follow up system is like having a mini sales person doing the job for you everyday throughout the year.

Most of the top internet marketers have a list of subscribers and they always start from their list. Every one of their site has an opt in page to allow subscribers or visitors to put in their details. This is the first step in following up with your prospects. Why do they do it? Because the system works and without a doubt having a good follow up system works and it sells.

So work on your follow up emails. Tweak them, make it personal as if you are having a face to face conversation.

To Your Success,

Bryan Wong YH

Labels: article marketing, email marketing

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Competition on the internet is intense and it’s not changing anytime soon. Therefore it is vital that you do as much as you can to get the upper-hand. One of the most important things about internet marketing is generating traffic to your website and writing or submitting articles is considered one of the most effective ways in achieving this. Here are 5 benefits why you should use article submission software today:

1. Safe Time

The most important reason why you want to use article submission software is because of the time you will save in contrast to submitting to hundreds of article directories which can take hours and hours to complete. However, having an article submission software can cut this time to virtually zero and still allowing you to reap the benefits.

2. Stay organized

Without the help of article submission software, it can be difficult to keep track on articles you have submitted to article directories. This becomes a problem when you are thinking of sending articles to various different directories on the internet on the basis of getting good exposure. Using article submission software makes it easy to keep track on the directories you have submitted. It will also allow you to keep all of the articles you have written organized with author bios

3. Maximum Exposure

The main reason behind submitting articles is to gain exposure and generate traffic. Having submitted your articles to hundreds of article directories gives you exposure to millions of visitors. In addition to this, you also gain credibility with the exposure as well as displaying your knowledge and expertise for various topics.

4. Create targeted traffic

Everyone knows the value of generating as much traffic as possible. However, it is even more important to create targeted traffic. These are people who have already established an interest in a particular product and are already interested in what you are offering and are willing to look at your website. Using article submission software allows you to select a specific category or sub-category to make it easier for your target market to find your content.

The list of benefits with using article submission software is non exhaustive and this is just a list that sums up the real importance of using them. From staying organized to getting quality targeted traffic, in today’s competitive internet market it is definitely worth an addition to your marketing scheme.

Labels: article marketing, article submission, search engine marketing

Saturday, November 28, 2009

1. Establish yourself as a trusted expert. People search online for information and will look to you, as a subject matter expert, to provide it to them. Every week (or whatever schedule works) provides an opportunity to build on this, while reinforcing your brand.

2. Build a relationship with the people on your list. It's common knowledge that people like to buy from people they like. By using ezines to connect with readers in their homes, you can develop a relationship of familiarity and trust. Be sure to share a little about yourself or your company in every issue, whether it is an anecdote, event, or employee spotlight.

3. Keep in touch with prospects and clients. Consideration should be given to eventually developing two ezines: one for prospects and one for clients, as each require different information. This is a great way to notify your readers of weekly specials or upcoming product launches, offer new articles or customer stories, and provide links (or urls) to updated FAQs, blogs and splash pages.

4. Drive traffic to your website or blog. As noted in #3, remember to call attention to new blog posts or other changes to your website with links directly to those pages. Remind readers of your online newsletter archives. Promote special sales (maybe with discount coupon codes only for subscribers) with a link to the sales page. Use links to turn your ezines and newsletters into "silent salespersons"– driving traffic to your website and building your lists around the clock.

5. Build content on your website. Make a habit to adding your ezines and newsletters to your website in an archive area. This serves a several important purposes:

· Visitors can read an issue or two to determine if your ezine will be of interest to them, which could help to increase sign-ups and potential sales.

· If you optimize your article placements, you will not only make your website "meatier", but you'll also bring new traffic from the search engines.

6. Get feedback from your readers. Make it easy for you to stay in touch with prospects and customers and vice versa. Ask them to take action and comment on your articles and offers. Conduct polls and surveys. Start a "Letters to the Editor" column in your ezine. Feedback allows you to fine tune your messages, target your marketing, and expand your product line. It's also great for relationship building!

7. Develop an information product. If you deliver your newsletter once a week and include two articles, at the end of a year you'll have 104 well-researched articles in your portfolio! Pick the best-of-the-best and turn them into a bonus ebook for opting-in to your list, submit to download sites to build your list, or sell in PDF-format!

8. Grow your mailing list. Let your ezine subscribers work for you. Be sure to remind your readers that it's okay to forward your newsletter to anyone they'd like. In addition, it's important to include sign-up instructions for those who received your ezine from viral marketing methods. A simple line titled, "Get Your Own Copy of XXXXXX", with a link to your squeeze or opt-in page is all it takes!

9. Gather demographic data. By offering surveys, feedback forms, and niche reports, you'll be able to get valuable information about your prospects and customers. Learn what makes your readers tick, how to better serve them, and how to give them what they want. Make sure they become repeat customers!

10. Save money! All of the above benefits of publishing an ezine are free or almost free. The small cost of a top-rated ezine publishing system is nothing compared to the cost of brochures, business cards, advertising, direct mail, pay-per-click or other means of promotion. Not only that, but someone has to manage that production! Because your newsletter is delivered online, you can grow your list to be as large as you want without worrying about the expense. Bottom line − it's proven that email marketing is the most cost-effective marketing solution for companies just like yours!

Cheers!

Bryan

Labels: article marketing, email marketing, ezine, internet marketing

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Article Marketing is one of the most important ways to get traffic to your website. But what is article marketing anyway?

Writing articles and submitting them on major article directory sites like Ezinearticles, Goarticles and IdeaMarketers is article marketing. There are many ways writing articles can drive traffic to your website.

The first of which is when people want to search for articles on these sites, they come across your article and read it. Links placed on your articles will direct them to your website and its a source of good free traffic.

Another way is if you've submitted your article on EzineArticles.com and a popular keyword appears on the search results, then you will also get traffic coming to your website. If you are asking which is the most popular article directory site, you guessed it right EzineArticles. Google absolutely loves Ezinearticles. If your article appears on it, chances are it will be on the first page on google search results.

Finally, whenever an article is published on article directories, anyone is entitled to download and republish it as long as the original author's details and link is attached. This will also drive free traffic to your website.

Once your articles get published on article directories, it will stay there for a long time and as long as it stays there you will continue to get traffic for at least a few years

Labels: article marketing, earning money from home, internet marketing

Friday, September 25, 2009

Today I'm featuring an article about building a list fro article marketing by Josh O'Connor

Article marketing is great way to get loads of targeted traffic to your website. At the end of the day, it is all about building your list. You see, article marketing is a top strategy to generate high responsive subscribers and hence more cash in your pocket. Here I'm going to show you how you too can easily do this.

1. Your free product

Before you can start writing articles you need to give your potential subscribers something for free in exchange for their email address. That is the deal! Go to forums and find out what people are asking about. You can then write a report to solve people's problems or maybe offer them a free newsletter.

2. Squeeze Page

You will need a squeeze page so you can build your list. This is simply a webpage which has an opt-in form so people can enter their name and email address. Nothing complicated just a headline, image, few bullet points and an opt-in form.

Setting up a squeeze page is fairly straight forward. The best way is to use a wysiwyg (What You See Is What You Get) web editor like Kompozer (free download). If you can use a word processor, creating the content for your squeeze page is easy. All you have to do then is upload it to the hosting company you are using.

3. Write your articles

This is the fun part, generating traffic by writing articles to directories like Ezine Articles. The great thing about Ezine Articles is that it has a high page rank with Google. You can put a link to your squeeze page and thus generate traffic to your site.

When you are writing your articles, it will need to have an introduction, body, conclusion and of course a resource box. You just need to put the meat of your topic in the body, few lines for the introduction and conclusion. Your resource box will already be set up. So, that is it, quite straight forward.

Think about the benefits in writing articles, you'll generate massive targeted traffic to build your list. The best part is your articles will keep on working for you.

Labels: article marketing, internet marketing, list building

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You might ask. How do you earn money from home? How do you have a successful home based business? There are many reasons why people venture into a home based business. They want to escape from the rat race they hate their 9 to 5 jobs, they hate working in a cubicle 24/7, they hate their bosses or some can only make enough money to survive but have barely enough to spend for anything else.

 Most people want to break out of their boring routine where they will most likely spend the next 30-40 years of their life doing almost the same thing although they might go up their career ladder and become bosses or CEOs one day.

If you are one of these people, chances are you might end up really frustrated, exhausted and you’ll be wondering what you have achieved working in such an environment for three to four decades of your life. Some would choose to continue with this daily routine while some want to try something else that may change the direction of your life which brings us back to the question of what is a home based business?

Basically a home based business does not necessarily mean working online from home to make money. You can have a business without using the internet for example people who are into AMWAY, Herbalife etc can make a living through a business all run from home.

What is essential in running a home based business? For the purpose of this website, let’s focus on a home based business using the internet.

If you want to earn money from home online, you must have the right mindset. As with all businesses, having the right mindset does make a whole lot of difference and this can be exemplified in people who are successful and those who have not make any money online.

What is this right mindset?

The answer to that encompasses a lot of things. But there are a few things you need to be successful.

The first is identifying a reason why you want to have a business at home. What is that single drive that motivates you to do something totally different than all the people around you. Is it curiousity? You are sick of your day to day job in the office? You want a better quality of life? For me I definitely want a better quality of life. I don’t want to be caught up in a mechanical lifestyle where all I do is work and have no time to myself and most importantly to the people I care about, my wife, my family. The important thing to note here is setting up a business online to earn money from home is not as easy as it seems. It is pure hard work. If you have seen all the gimmicks and testimonials of all those who have been successful, you have to wonder how they started. Did they start making thousands of dollars on the first day? The answer is a resounding NO.

Once you have the drive or motivation to start an online home based business, you need to take action. So many people are interested in earn money from home but they fail to take action. Words without action equates to nothing. As long as no action is taken, nothing changes.

So many people are “looking outside the ring” and afraid to enter. As Stone Evans put it, you must be willing to take the leap! Take action and learn from your mistakes. No Internet Marketer in the world became successful without making mistakes and learning from it. With every step you take to change things or improve you go one step further.

You may have doubts about whether or not this is a good time to start a business, or you may doubt your current level of marketing skill or knowledge or personal confidence to start a business. That is only natural and it is good to be cautious. 

However, you must also be careful not to let your self-doubts hold you back from achieving your dreams and aspirations. Remember if you have doubts, people who are successful today once had theirs too but they took action and they were willing to take steps to change.

Taking action without having a sense of confidence or faith in what you are doing does not help you either in your business. I am talking about believing in yourself. If you don’t believe that you can do it, then you can’t do it. I’m sure you have heard about the law of attraction.

I personally don’t believe everything that’s been said in Rhonda Byrne’s discovery of “The Secret”. But essentially, the whole idea of the law of attraction is you are what you think. If you think that you are going to fail than you most certainly will fail. I won’t go into the details of all the psychology behind this. To put this into perspective, if you believe you can succeed in your business, you will succeed but remember to take action. Having a strong sense of belief, taking action and identifying why you want to start an online home based business will certainly keep you in the right direction to earn money from home.

To Your Success!

Bryan Wong

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