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Viral Marketing – Have you been Infected?

Mar 10th, 2010 by BlogMaster

by Joyce Kuras

According to marketingterms.com, “viral marketing is a marketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message.”

This type of marketing depends upon passionate individuals – passing on your marketing message, increasing its potential of exposure and influence within seconds. Like a virus, its ripple effect is passed on quickly, infecting hundreds and possibly thousands, in a relatively short space of time.

Of course, there was a time the expression “word of mouth” was sort of the same thing. In a way, viral marketing is the Internet parallel, since most of us will be blogging, emailing, using SMS and Skype, to share and announce our latest and most exciting discoveries of products, resources, and specials. With just the multiplicity of email, a company’s ROI can skyrocket within a matter of weeks. With all this potential and power at our fingertips, we need to make our campaigns as effective as possible.

Viral Market Strategies: Here are some effective components to include in your next Viral Marketing Campaign:

1. Free is good:

Free has a powerful pull, but free should never represent poor quality. The free approach draws people in, after that; there are more opportunities for a sale, according to Dr. Ralph F. Wilson, E-commerce Consultant.

2. Easily transmitted:

As a virus spreads quickly and rapidly from person to person in the right conditions, you need create and use the fastest and most seamless vehicle that will spread your message without delay. Using email marketing campaigns to your targeted lists will help expedite that process.

3. Backlinks and Affiliates:

Network with different affiliates. Get your links, ads and logos out there. The more back links pointing to your site, the greater importance your site is deemed by the search engines, thus, giving you a higher standing in the Search Engine Results Pages known as the SERPs.

4. Evoke Reactions:

Your message needs to be a catalyst of emotions and opinions from your audience, piquing their interest and curiosity to read further, and know more. Why not do something unexpected or different. Catching people off guard with the unexpected is great marketing.

5. Market the Social Internet Communities:

The more accessible information can be shared, the more rapidly it will be spread. submit your news on the social networking and bookmarking sites such as StumbleUpon and Digg. They have established niche communities. Find yours. Submit articles, make comments on other stories, be seen, be heard, and be out there!

Have you signed up with Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, or LinkedIn? What are you waiting for? With thousands of people registering per day, it would be foolish to pass up such a lucrative marketplace.

The tables have turned with the evolution of the Internet. The power has shifted from the marketer to the consumer. Within a matter of seconds, their opinions and voice are spread rapidly throughout the world by one single email.

So don’t be a viral marketing casualty as Laura Lake reminds us to:

1. Mean what you say and say what you mean.

2. Stand behind your product or service.

3. Under promise and over deliver … always!

About the Author

Hi, My name is Joyce Kuras. I am presently freelancing as an SEO content writer while I finish a MARCOM certification. I love researching new ideas and concepts. I learn as I go.

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How to Make Money Online With an Ad Driven Website

Mar 9th, 2010 by BlogMaster

by Eric Rowell

It seems like everyone and their uncle these days have some kind of get rich quick scheme to make money online, but very few of them (I would say less than 0.1%) actually understand how real online business models work, in particular with respect to ad driven business models. The purpose of this post is to give people an overview of the two most common ad driven business models while providing some realistic expectations for each.

Free Service Ad Driven Model

This is by far the most difficult business model to accomplish. A free service ad driven website is a site that is free to use that offers a valuable service like online search or social networking, and makes money from advertisers who place ads on their web pages. Great examples of this business model are Google, Yahoo, Myspace, and Facebook. In fact, the largest websites on the net in terms of unique hits per day are free service ad driven websites.

Although this business model might initially seem very attractive because the upfront costs of getting the site up and running is very low (you don’t have to build a stock of inventory to resell for example), the cost of initially bringing visitors to your site is astronomically large (thousands or millions of dollars). This is because you need an extremely large amount of traffic to earn revenue with an ad driven website. On average, you will earn about $1 for every one thousand unique visitors. That’s a lot of visitors! To get this kind of traffic going, you will need to advertise your website (ironic I know) by paying for hundreds of thousands of new potential users. In my experience, if you use a PPC program like Google Adwords, you’ll be paying $3-$5 per user. Furthermore, if you wanted to make just $100 per month, you’ll need to build a website that can generate 100,000 hits per month!

In order to successfully profit from a free service ad driven website, you will either need to be extremely wealthy, or have an investment firm backing you up. However, if you’re fortunate enough to pull it off, your site could be worth millions of dollars in the long run. This type of a business model is a high risk – high reward model.

Free Content Ad Driven Model

This business model usually refers to blogs, which is the most popular of the two models. Unlike the free service ad driven model, you won’t have to spend any money to bring in visitors to your website. This is because most of your visitors will find your site from a popular search engine like Google. Since a blog is content based, and since search engines regularly crawl websites whose homepage content is updated frequently, a lot of people will come across your site just from surfing the net.

Blogging won’t make you a millionaire, but if you’re successful with it, you could supplement your income with an extra $1,000 a month or more. In some cases, the best bloggers in the world can make a full time job out of blogging, earning up $100,000 a year. Generally, a new blogger will start to see a noticeable revenue stream after blogging every day for six months. After about one or two years of steady work, a proficient blogger can earn anywhere from $100 to $1,000 a month. In other words, this is a very low risk – low reward business model.

About the Author

founder of http://www.treefrogpost.com

For more information on creating your first blog, click here.

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Twittering

Mar 8th, 2010 by BlogMaster

by Jaquone Jefferson

Software have been taken in by the Facebooking world for a while now. I can now state that I am fully skilled at maintaining relationships with friends and family, networking with new contacts, marketing and joining groups of interest for business as well as pleasure and also keeping myself fully up to date with my ever more virtual family. To make sure I wasn’t spreading myself too thinly I also only used Facebook as opposed to having profiles on all of the social networking sites available. So when I first heard about Twitter I didn’t immediately see myself signing up to try and keep yet another profile active. However, this did not mean I was not interested in taking a look to see what it was all about.

On first glimpse, Twitter appears to focus solely on the type of status updates you would see on Facebook. In comparison to Facebook though, this is all Twitter appears to offer. There are no photo update pages, no applications to share with friends, no virtual hugs and presents to send out to loved ones, just plain and simple updates. Far from being a prehistoric Facebook though, the beauty of Twittering lies in its simplicity to read, follow and update your own profile page which lists your updates as well as those of your contacts, or those you are “Following”, as they are recognized in the Twittering world.

Unlike Facebook, Twitter allows you to personalize your page to a larger extent, allowing you to brand your page with your logo. Your web address is also more prominent as it can be placed on the front page as opposite to the “Info” tab on Facebook. It is easy to see therefore, why there has been much talk of Twitter as a business tool used for networking, brand awareness and lead generation. This is not to say that Facebook and other social networking sites have not made major contributions to the online business world as they have made incredible differences and it will be fascinating to watch them grow and continue to impact on our businesses but these days in our fast and furious world I can see Twittering offering a direct access and insight into the heart of a company.

As a one line update limited in the number of characters you can use, a Twitter update or Tweet as they are known, is a micro blog; a slice of someone Else’s mind; a spontaneous thought that leaves no space for justification nor explanation and something that is completely effortless and very quickly done and so it is unsurprising to imagine many company CEOs, Directors, Owners and even the next leader of the free world Barack Obama tweeting. The massive progress being made in the world of social networking means that the world is almost getting smaller and we can achieve more direct contact and links with the real decision makers in a company and in a reciprocal way, we can acquire more of a direct line and personal access to the company or person we are needing a product or service from. We all know that bloggers are a community bound by trust, bloggers trust other bloggers and micro-blogging with Twitter is no different.

If you have a company and are looking to enlarge your online exposure, Twitter is an effective tool to employ. Not only can large companies offer concise information on new products or services, worker bees can tweet the latest developments and breaking news in their world, individuals can use the online real estate space to add links of interest and those with a few seconds to kill can simply add a line about what they are up to, just as the “What are you doing?” box requests. All in all, a addictive tool that is not only a lot of fun to use, but also serves an basic purpose all of us in the online marketing world need in the form of ads.

Exposure, increased brand awareness and a personal touch that sometimes makes all the difference. Twittering software and marketing dot com is a hybrid of the Twitter and Facebook social world. The social website community industry is constantly changing and the increased ease of use, makes it almost contagious. I believe twitteringsoftwareandmarketing will be the trend setter for the ever changing social community world.

About the Author

We are the premier twittering software and marketing social website. http://www.twitteringsoftwareandmarketing.com/

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Is Article Marketing Worth the Effort?

Mar 7th, 2010 by BlogMaster

by Jay Allyson

Article submission should be part of any business owners marketing strategy because it increases leads and sales into your business.

This example will blow your mind – how creating 25 articles and social network marketing can generate an additional $30K to your business income.

Let’s say you write 5 articles in your first month to get things going.

Show your visitors what you are offering (e.g. a report to download or your landing page) by putting a link within the resource box in the article submission directory or submission software.

And let’s assume you have a set of keywords you know are highly targeted for buyers not browsers – people seriously interested in what you have to offer – although keyword research is a huge topic in itself!

You are really looking for keywords within your niche that have fairly low competition and currently do not already bring up web 2.0 properties like articles in the first 1-2 pages of search engine listings. These can be used as a basis for creating unique and valuable content that will get noticed.

You use a few core submission and web linking strategies you can use to get your articles out into circulation.

1. Using article submission software you can automate the process of sending your article to many different ezines or article directories.

You can use an automated distribution method, such as article submission software tools to create a unique version for each (article leverage) and automate the form filling submission process.

2. You kick start the viral process by pointing at your articles from your blog posts, forum comments, commenting on other blogs, twittering, facebook posts, pinging, RSS and social bookmarking and all those other lovely social tools.

3. You might also make a video around your article topic when you explain and demonstrate the key principles or messages.

4. Upload a link to your article on your web pages or put up a banner or ad on Facebook.

This should take you about an hour per article at the very most.

OK, so now you’re getting the word out.

Let’s say you generate 15 visitors to each article a week. That’s just over two a day, which is quite conservative if you done the above keyword targeting and social marketing.

It’s true that the number getting to the bottom and clicking on your resource box link to your website, opt in or offer will certainly depend on whether you’ve grabbed their attention with a provocative headline and engaging copy.

You could argue that having only 1 or 2 people a day click on your article is hardly worth the effort, since not all will read the whole thing. But you’d be wrong.

The amateur internet marketer might conclude it’s not a good return on investment. The clever network marketer have a longer term vision. They know that daily visits can really add up and their strategy is around the ‘compound’ effect.

Say you continue writing 1 article a week. At the 6-month mark, with your original 5 articles, that makes 25 articles you have out in circulation.

If we continue the maths based on 2 visitors per article per day … that equates to 350 very targeted prospects a week, nearly 1500 each month, who are highly alert to what you are offering, because they have read your article and see you as an authority through your content and social media if you have done this too.

If ultimately, you convert 5% of those visitors … that’s 50 leads or sales for your business. How much did that cost? Nothing – except an hour or so per article and time networking and twittering your link.

Now, let’s say you’ve done your calculations and the lifetime value to your business of a lead into your system, a customer or new team member is just $50 – you just added $2500 income … every single month.

Let’s put it another way. With 25 articles on the go, your article marketing activity just brought in $30,000.

Bear in mind these figures are fairly conservative as your pipeline grows and you establish your own unique personal brand and online credibility, you should achieve more and more traffic and higher conversions.

Furthermore, the back links to your website or blog domain from your article submissions will help boost your organic listing with Google, Yahoo etc, so you rank higher and get more traffic from the main search engines too.

So is article marketing worth the effort? You bet it is – The bottom line is the value you add to your market as well as the extra profits you generate!

About the Author

Jay Allyson is an Internet Marketing Consultant teaching people to earn $250K a year based on family lifestyle goals. Click here to apply to join Jay’s Exclusive Pro Marketing Group … http://GetRichLifestyle.com

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53 Ways To Make Money Online

Mar 6th, 2010 by BlogMaster

by Satrap

Make Money Trading Forex

Make sure you spend enough time to learn how Forex works, before you get into it. A good place to start is the biggest Forex trading website Forex.com which gives you $50,000 practice money, so you can start trading and learning without risking your own money.

Selling Photographs

If you like photography and/or can take interesting pictures, there are many sites you can upload your images too, and get paid every time someone buys it. The good thing is that a photo can sell over and over again.

Sell unused items on Ebay

I know your getting tired of hearing about ebay, but the truth of the matter is, you can make money on ebay in many different ways. You like most other people may have stuff laying around the house, in the garage or wherever, find them and sell them on ebay.

Sell other peoples stuff on Ebay

There are many people who don’t know how to sell on ebay. You can their stuff on ebay in exchange for a commission.

Designing Logos and Ads

Hundreds of new websites and blogs are born everyday, but most of the blog/site owners don’t know how to make a logo or an ad. Use free classified sites and related forums to provide your service for a flat rate.

Website and Domain Flipping

Buy good domains and resell for a profit. Build a website or a blog, work on it for a while and get it going. Just like flipping houses. When you get the site to a good point, put it up for sale. People like websites that are ready to go, and they do pay good money for it. Hundreds of website are bought and sold every day on sites like Flippa.com

Get paid to take online surveys

Paid surveys are a great way to make extra money. Although you have to be careful and watch out for scammers, there are hundreds of legitimate paid survey companies out there, that you can register with for free, and make money taking online surveys.

Designing Websites

If you are good at building websites, why not make money doing so. Use forums like site points and digital points to offer your service to webmasters.

Design T-Shirts and Other Customizable Items

Good with coming up with a cool catch word or a cool design? You can make a decent amount of money designing and selling T-shirts on sites like Café Press.

Make Digital Scrap Booking Templates

I personally don’t get this, but many People love to scrapbook, and they do pay good money for templates. Make different kinds of templates, and make it easy for people to use them.

Record Songs and Sell Online

Don’t laugh at this one! If you can sing, there is no more worries for finding a record label company who will help you get there. Thanks to the internet and all the video sharing sites, you can easily find your way up, if you are talented an have the voice for it.

Make MySpace Backgrounds

They are all over the internet, those ad for myspace background! That means there is a market for it, if those advertisers are willing to spend money advertising them for this long. Creating MySpace backgrounds isn’t that hard. But many people don’t want to do it, or don’t have the time to do it. You can provide them with this service and customize their MySpace pages, and charge a fee for doing so.

Create videos

With the huge interest in videos online, there is always room for more. Create interesting videos of yourself or whatever, and upload them to Web Sites like Revver and Break. They will share a percentage of their ad revenue with you.

Get Paid to Surf

Not much money, but you don’t really have to do much either. Basically you click on a link and keep it open for 20 sec and move to the next one.

Get Paid To or GPT programs

There are many sites online known as GPT (Get Paid To…), which you can sign up with for free. You earn money or points for doing things you do online. Like registering with freebies sites, shopping and things like that.

Directory Submission

In order for a website or blog to be successful and make money, it needs traffic. There are many ways to work on traffic. One way is to submit your site to website directories. But, many webmaster and blogger are busy with other aspects of running a site, so they don’t have time to do this. That’s where you can come in, and offer to submit their site to directories for a fee. Again use forums like site points and digital point to offer your service.

Make money as an Affiliate Marketer

This is by far the best way to make money online, at least in my opinion. You are basically selling other peoples stuff for a commission. You can find digital products like e-books and short reports to promote on sites like clickbank and paydotcom.

Get Paid To Review

Set up a website or a blog, and start a review site. Website owners and bloggers will pay you to post a review of their site on your site. It helps them get the word out and helps you make money.

Niche Directory

You have seen those directory sites that have a list of specific sites in different categories. Set up one for yourself. Gather a list of site and sources related to a specific niche, and list them on your site. Sell ad space to other webmasters. You can charge a monthly fee to have their ad shown on your site. byuandsellads is a good place to look for potential costumers.

Get Paid to Search

Search engines are big money makers. No wonder every day new search engines pup up everywhere. But since they are not as big as Google and yahoo and some other engines, they pay you to use ther site to search. Basically their sharing their earnings from their advertisers with you. 6 Search Engines that pay you to search

Make Photo Mosaics

If you can make photo mosaics, set up a website and offer your Photo Mosaics service. You will be surprised how many people pay for these things.

Become a Virtual Assistant

Its becoming very popular, as more and more online based businesses are born every day. People use virtual assistant for research, finding things, doing time consuming tasks, making phone calls and etc. Setup a free blog or site to offer your service.

Forum Hosting

Use software like SebFlipper you to host hundreds of separate forums from a single web server. Make money by charging people to host a forum with you, or offer it for free, but show your ads on their forums and make money that way.

Get Paid To Install Applications

Most People have problem with installing different kinds of applications. If you are good at installing a particular app or a software, why not make some money while helping others?

Get Paid To Answer Questions

If you have knowledge about something (which you do, everybody knows about something that others may not know), put it to work for you. There are many websites that you can offer your expertise and knowledge in exchange for money.

Pod casting

Think of it as a voice or video blogging. Talk about interesting topic and make money from ads shown. If you are a good speaker, and have a nice voice, its not that hard to get hundreds of subscribers.

Get Paid To Participate In Focus Groups

Focus group are basically the same as paid surveys, but unlike paid surveys, most focus groups are conducted in a physical location. Focus group studies are held in most major cities. You will be in with a group of other selected people, talking and answering question about whatever product or service the study is about. You can expect to get paid from $60 to $250 for an hour to a full day of study.

Domain Drop shipping!

Its basically selling domain registration for big domain registration sites like TuCows, which makes it easy for you to start your own private label domain registration and make money not only from the initial sale, but from renewals as well.

Create and Sell E-Books

You can make e-books about anything. If you have some knowledge about anything, whether its a recipe or a how to do this and that. Its not as hard as you think. Look at some e-books that are selling for $50-$100 or whatever, and you see what i mean (most of them are crap, but people do pay for them!).

Make money with Amazon Mechanical Turk

Its one of the biggest unknown ways of making money online, yet its so easy to do. You do simple tasks like differentiating pictures from text, and get paid for it. If you have enough time to invest in it, you can make good money with amazon turk.

Software Review

WebSites like SoftwareJudge will pay you for using and reviewing any of the software available in their collection.

Make Money Blogging

Blogging is becoming more and more popular. You can set up a blog in less than an hour. There are many free blogging platforms you can use at first. When you get comfortable, then pay for your own hosting and domain name. You can blog about anything you like, no matter how bizarre and unusual it is, there will be an audience for it, believe it or not. You can make money by showing ads on your blog using advertising programs like Google adsense.

Moderate A Forum

Forums are another great way to make some extra money. You probably already participate in a forum or two, so why not start your own? Make money by showing ads. plus if the forum gets good and popular, you can charge people to join, or have a special room in the forum where one has to subscribe in order to participate. An example of that would be the WarRoom which only paid users of worrier forum have access to.

Get Paid For Data Entry

Not the scam one, we are talking about data entry for Google. Google pays people to take photos of businesses, and enter basic data such as hours of operation. You know how many business are located just next to your favorite grocery store?

Write And Sell Software

Know how to make a software? Then start writing software and plug-ins. One of the hottest plug-in markets is the blogging platforms like word press and blogger. Use forums to find out what bloggers need that you can make a plug-in for. Create your plug-in or software, and set up a free blog to advertise it.

Get Paid as a freelancer

There are tons of places online you can offer your writings. There are even ome websites that pay you for writing exclusive content for them.

Make Money Posting On Forums

People who start a new forums often pay people to post on their forums, so it will look active, therefore attracts more people to join the discussion. Many forums will pay up to $0.25 per post, which can be just a sentence or two. Again you can use established forums to find people who are looking for forum posters.

Ads On Forums

If you like participating in forums or are already a member of any forum, look for “ad share” sign in your user CP. Some forums offer a percentage of their earnings from ads, with their members.

Translate Document

If you speak a second language, why not translate document online and offline, and get paid for it? Free classified sites are the best way to advertiser your service.

Become a Life coach or an Adviser

You don’t even have to set up your own company if you don’t want to, there are already many sites that pay you to advise and couch others over the phone or by chat. You can use your expertise on many different subjects to make money as a coach.

Get paid to play games (game money)

On game sites like Farm Gold and Second Life, you can make virtual money, which can be exchanged for real money. I am sure you have heard of like Ansche Chung, which is the first person who become a millionaire, exchanging her virtual money earned from Second Life for real money, worth over a million dollar.

Become Game Tester

Very easy way to make money by doing something enjoyable. But its hard to find though, but if you look around, you may find a company or two. If I do find one, I will update this page and post it here. So be sure to bookmark this page and check back.

Your own Search Engine

Use Google to build your own custom search engine. Build a search engine for a specific topic like a search engine just for finding information related to music or what have you. To get it going, set up contests for searchers, and give a prize to the biggest searcher. You make your money when people search from your search engine and click on ads.

Get paid to comment on blogs

In order to rank higher and attract more traffic to make money, bloggers need quality links pointing back to their blog from other blogs, more than anything else. You can do that for them by commenting on other peoples blog and charging $0.50 or so for each link back.

Become a Job Referrer

Some firms pay referral bonuses of up to $1,000 for referring the right person for a job. Develop relationships with recruiters, like temporary job finding services and refer people who you know are fit for the specific job. You can do this both online and offline.

Software Plus

Work on already developed softwares and make programs that will make the software better and easier to work with.

Convert Online Money

You can make money by converting, EGold money into Paypal money, etc. people charge up to 5%-10% to do the same thing.

Drop Shipping

Use sites like Café Press to create a free storefront online and be a drop shipper. You don’t have to deal with anything but getting custumer to visit your online store front.

Sell Craft and Art Work online

Have free time on your hand and are good at making things? Well, use your skills to create art work and crafts to sell online. You can sell your art work and crafts either on ebay or classified sites, specially craigslist.

Get paid to Shop as a mystery shopper

Although there are a lot of different opinions about this, mystery shopping is actually growing as an industry. You will be assigned to shop and dine in different places and report your experience back. Depending on specific assignments, you can expect to get paid anywhere from $40 to $300 or more per assignment.

Make money with CPA

CPA is a much easier version of affiliate marketing, which most of the time you don’t have to sell anything, you just have to send leads to advertisers site. For example, some Advertiser will pay you up to $2 each time you send a lead to there page where the person enters an email address or a zip code in order to participate in a survey to win something.

Get paid for sharing files

There are a couple of document sharing sites that you can upload any kind of file you own to, and every time someone downloads it, you get paid for it.

Get paid to Socialize

Now that Social networking sites are becoming more and more popular, a lot of people want to get in the game and make money running their own social networking site. But since they need some members to get the word out and make the site look active, they are willing to pay people to become a member and post messages.

About the Author

Satrap is the founder and author of controversial blog, blogstash.com. A blog full of great how-tos and information about making money online. Visit blogstash today to get your share of this valuable information and learn different ways to make extra money online.

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You Should Be Using a Video Squeeze Page

Mar 5th, 2010 by BlogMaster

by Kalynn Amadio

Critics believe that squeeze pages are the equivalent of herding sheep into a pen for fleecing while blogs are often like throwing a party to meet new people. Squeeze pages are used by every single top internet marketer, and the internet marketers who use them are literally saying, “here, have this, it’s free” and we return the compliment by giving them our email address. There is nothing wrong with this exchange.

Squeeze pages have a distinct element of reward in them, as well as reciprocity. Some offer a free gift in exchange for your email address. It’s a win-win for both parties.

Now, you can drive all the traffic you want to your page, but if it doesn’t convert, you’re never going to make any money. To ease consumer concerns, experienced online businesses create “Squeeze Pages” that detail what the subscriber will be receiving and the businesses privacy standards. Besides free reports, a squeeze page may offer to teach a needed technique or offer a video showing the “how to” for that particular market.

Video in particular is becoming increasingly popular. Savvy internet marketer, Andy Jenkins, has even just opened is incredibly popular “Video Boss” series which promises to teach the most new newbie exactly how to profit from the video squeeze phenomena.

How to Build a List

Experienced internet marketers preach that list building is the most important one of the building blocks for any online venture. You can keep returning to your list with offers, and at some point upgrade your list members to a buyers list, and that means income in your wallet.

The absence of links on the page is used to focus a visitors’ attention on one choice: register for the email list or leave the site. Take a look at an average lead capture page, and you’ll likely see the same old theme that everyone else is doing: long-winded, repetitive copy designed to bore you into opting in to the email list.

As they say, “the money is in the list” and an effective Lead Capture Page will build your list. Mike Filsaime has claimed that his list number equates directly to a dollar value at a one for one equivalent. A list of 1000 names means $1000 in income on average per mailing.

Video Squeeze Pages

Video squeeze pages are all the rage, and prove to convert very very well. Squeeze video pages are much more efficient – and right now, the experts are saying they produce better results. (Note the new Video Boss course that just went live.) Squeeze video pages are the fastest growing marketing tool online for every niche. If you provide a video to watch, which really gives value, and is not only a disguised sales pitch, conversions increase dramatically. It seems that people would rather watch a three minute video than wade through virtual reams of copy.

Lead capture pages are great for generating leads. Remember that squeeze pages are primarily designed to obtain a reader’s name and email address by encouraging users to opt-in to an e-mail list to receive more information about the topic of the website. Squeeze pages are quickly becoming the single most powerful list-building strategy ever devised. There are many professionals who believe that squeeze pages are simply a page where you have a small form that your visitors can fill out, but you know better.

Now that you know exactly what squeeze pages are or what they can be considered, you may be wondering exactly why you should have one. If video squeeze pages are used correctly they can be super effective, and will flood your mailing list with subscribers. Contrary to some opinions, not all squeeze pages are bad, and the strategy is actually sound if you use it as a means to add value to the buying process – and to serve your market.

About the Author

Kalynn is an internet marketer who specializes in bringing squeeze pages to market. Her latest editable squeeze page templates require no HTML skills or Photoshop. Prepare to be amazed by the stunning quality at http://easysqueezepro.com. You can learn how to make a video squeeze page in 4 simple steps.

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The Incredible Promotional Power of Video Marketing

Mar 4th, 2010 by BlogMaster

by Ivana Katz

If pictures speak a thousand words, imagine what a video could say about your business.

Recently video has become a popular way to market a business. The main reason for this is that it can generate traffic and interest very quickly. Unfortunately some people are still afraid to use it and believe it’s difficult to do. So now is a great time for you to get ahead of your competition.

One of the main advantages of video marketing is that it saves your visitors lots of time understanding what is being offered. Hearing and seeing about your products and services has more credibility and helps you to connect to your visitors on an emotional level.

If you use the appropriate keywords in the video’s tags, you have a better chance of ranking high in search engines.

According to www.masternewmedia.org “Video search engines – just like Google – index specifically all videos available online, independently from the source. On the other hand, video directories differentiate themselves from video search engines because they list videos according to specific categories (such as “entertainment”, “sport”, “fun”, etc.)

Some video search engines and video directories automatically detect and index the videos published online, while others also allow you to directly inform them of the existence of a video. There are also several video search engines that let you upload your videos, just like you can do on video sharing sites.

However, it is important to distinguish between video search engines and video sharing sites, since the might appear very similar at first glance. All video sharing site feature a search box on their homepage, but they allow users to search only within the video sharing site directory, and not elsewhere. On the other hand, video search engines collect material from multiple sources, included the above mentioned video sharing sites.

Several video search engines and video directories let users review, rate, recommend, categorize, and ” tag” the videos that they watch. These functions facilitate the cataloguing and organization of content so that users can easily discover new videos based on other users’ recommendations. ”

Video Sharing Sites

video.google.com www.youtube.com

Video Search Engines

video.aol.com/ www.cliproller.com/ www.pixsy.com/ multimedia.alltheweb.com/ scoopvid.com/ www.vdoogle.com/ www.clipta.com/ www.purevideo.com/ www.searchvideo.com/ search.singingfish.com/ www.searchforvideo.com/ video.search.yahoo.com/ www.blinkx.com/ www.altavista.com/video/default tubesurf.com/

Video directories

www.open-video.org/index.php www.archive.org/details/movies

Another great advantage of using videos is their ability to go “viral” and spread your message quickly.

David Ogden of www.theviralsanctuary.com says “A viral video is a video clip that becomes extremely popular and is spread across the Internet through users sharing it in email messages or through an IM service. A lot of these videos are funny and are often shot by amateurs who happen to catch something funny on their camera phones. There have been many viral videos that have caught fire in the cyber world.”

Did you know you can have a simple video designed for under $300? You can either feature it on your website or post it to Video Search Engines and Directories.

Video marketing is so popular due to its ability to engage directly with your audience and it adds a new dimension to other forms of online marketing. So don’t be afraid to try it … you have nothing to lose … except a lot of traffic to your website, if you don’t do it!

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Get Free Targeted Traffic Using These Easy Methods

Mar 3rd, 2010 by BlogMaster

by Ross Goldberg

Even with a low conversion rate, you will make more money with more traffic. If you’ve got 1 out of 100 people that come to your site buying something, sending 100 extra people means you’ll get another sale! This is the most important reason that you have to focus on driving more traffic to any website you have.

Free traffic is easy to get once you realize that there are a few hundred ways to get it.

Writing up an article is the easiest way to get more visitors.

A 400 – 500 word article should take you between 15 and 30 minutes to write.Always know where you are going to take the reader before you start writing.Get them to click on your links by treating your resorce box as an ad for your products.

Now, you can take that article and turn it into a blog post. Your blog should be the cornerstone of your online marketing, anyways, so posting your articles there is a great way to make the work you’ve done in creating the article do even more for your business. Edit your article to encourage a reader to interact with you. Ask a question or give a reason for them to provide their thoughts. It gives you an ability to build a relationship with your audience and will keep them coming back for more.

Video has come a long way on the web.

Using video in marketing your business gives you a deeper connection with your customers and increase the odds of them buying what you sell. Your videos can be made up of anything.Even if you think you have a face for radio, you can still do videos with ease. Do presentations, slide shows, or sit in front of a webcam. Then post it to your blog!

Social Networks allow you to meet people interested in your products and interact with them.

FaceBook and MySpace are a great place to start. Setup your profile to attract the best people by using words they look for when searching for your products.Reveal who you are and your audience will come running to you.

Twitter has turned into the internet’s newest hot spot. Join up, tweet a few times, then go searching for big names in your market.If someone is following them, they should be interested in you, too. Start a conversation with them in public and be sure their followers can see it.

Your customer comes first and remember to always focus on what they need. You need more free traffic today, so do what it takes to get it!

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Viral Advertising Is An Effective And Inexpensive Means Of Internet Marketing

Mar 2nd, 2010 by BlogMaster

by Eric King Frey

When a person addresses viral advertising or marketing they are relating to selling techniques which employ various social networks or related web vehicles to gain increased product awareness that will result in sales. In effect, these processes of promotion upon the Internet are in truth only updated adaptations of age old word of mouth referral advertising. All the same, the ample variety of ways accessible, combined with the vast amount of activity online, make this a form of advertising that is highly powerful.

Viral Marketing can be a very effective and inexpensive way to create exponential growth and quickly increase visibility. If implemented properly, a viral advertising campaign can reach tremendous numbers of potential customers at a low cost and in a short period of time. As the name implies, it relies on spreading information among people who interact with each other.

The primary concept behind viral promotion entails delivering subject matter concerning your specific campaign to a portion of a group of persons who can in turn relay the message to other people in that same group. To put it differently, the primary desire here is to have his promotional material become contagious in a manner that it will be circulated to other people by those it originally was introduced to. In this process, the marketer will be able to reach a broader number of people without enduring the price related to contacting every last one of those people individually.

This operation commences by directing a message to those with a degree of social networking potential. These are the people who frequently spend time in parts of the Internet where acquired data is commonly shared with others who get together there. The most elementary instances would be the assorted social networking sites like FaceBook or Twitter. After content which people find notable is put up on these sites, it is then plausible to circulate it to other people throughout the same system.

In the ideal situation, the following group of those receiving the content will pass it to more people who might forward it on once more. As this advances, an extensive total of viable purchasers could see the information that was shown to a comparatively modest percentage of the population of that particular social network. It is likewise possible for an ad of striking interest to be put across to yet some other network, speeding up the viral outcome to an even greater extent.

Most commonly, viral advertising is introduced in the form of text messages at social networking sites such as MySpace, Digg or Twitter. In some cases the same effect can be gained by simple emails that request the receiver to forward the message on to others. However, some of the advertising campaigns have become very sophisticated and take the form of videos, interactive games or software applications.

The basic requirement to any effective viral effort of every kind embodies distributing something that is sufficiently fascinating to cause consumers to mention it to other people that they expect might also be curious about that specific content. Attempting to distribute items which are old or too common is seldom effectual in viral selling. A product or service that is recent or singular will experience a better probability of being commented about and referred through people in that system to additional prospects. Items that are excessively common are merely ignored.

As with any other sort of online selling, viral advertising had better be engaged with sophistication. Whenever it is put forward well, it has the ability to significantly acquire traffic for an internet web site by being conveyed from computer to computer. It ought to be utilized with care since, like any other word of mouth promoting, any time it is presented badly it may disaffect customers and bear upon the reputation of the whole endeavor.

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Backlinks: What they are and how to get them

Mar 1st, 2010 by BlogMaster

by Angela V. Edwards

Sometimes called inbound links, backlinks are the lifeblood of Search Engine Positioning. In order for a website to be on the top of search engines like Google without the webmaster having to pay big money for advertising, the website has to have a large number of backlinks. Backlinks are links on one website that lead back to another website. The more established, high quality, and high Page Rank the website that contains the link has, the more power it has to help the linked website with its search engine position. If the website that is getting backlinks gets many High Quality and High Page Rank backlinks, the better the chance it has of being in a high position on the Search Engines.

How does a webmaster go about getting high quality backlinks to his or her website? There are many ways this can be done. Some people advocate writing and submitting articles, posting on forums, making comments on blogs. Others talk about submitting their website to various Internet directories. One directory that has an excellent reputation is called DMOZ, or the “Open Directory”. This directory is probably the most respected directory online today. The websites it contains have all been placed there by human editors; there is no “automation” to this directory. The only drawback that’s been discussed about this directory is that it takes so long to have a website included.

Another way that many people build backlinks for their website is to use Social Bookmarking websites. A “Social Bookmark” is a website that usually has a very popular ‘community’ aspect to it. Users sign up and create profiles on the sites that contain photos and information about themselves. They then can save “bookmarks” of favorite websites which can be itemized by ‘tags’, which are one or two word descriptions of what the sites contain, and these bookmarks can be saved to a list that’s private or can be listed publicly, so that everybody can see it.

With the advent of what is known as Web 2.0, gaining backlinks is easier now than in any time in the history of the internet. Most sites now have an “interactive” quality to them nowadays. Readers can often sign in and create profiles. They then are often allowed to post comments on the stories or articles on the website or blog. In many cases, the website or blog owner responds to these comments; thus making this section of the website or blog a conversation.

Backlinking strategies can be easy and fun and the website owner who is working on getting more backlinks for his website can learn new things, meet new people, and have a tremendous amount of fun doing something that was once a chore: building backlinks.

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