money: August 2007

Friday, August 24, 2007

Kick-Starting E-mail Profits Growth From One Single Shot!

Perhaps the most critical step in guaranteeing the success of your e-mail promotions is to send your messages to a targeted list of opt-in subscribers who have specifically requested to receive information on a particular topic from you. That's your "in-house" email list.Sooner or later, you'll face the same challenge: how to build a list of qualified, targeted prospects from scratch.When it comes to building an e-mail list, online marketers tend to spread on too many options. Offen, they neglect to focus on a single promotion 'til the endand exploit to the fullest potential. Here's an example. Suppose you run a newsletter and have a web page or popup window which invite prospects to subscribe. As a reward for giving their e-mail address, you offer them a bonus. That's fine -- but not enought! You are loosing money simply by leaving empty profit places in your message. Wouldn't be nice to build actually 3 different mailing lists from one "stroke"? Of course! For better understanding, I'll stick with the same newsletter example. So, clear-up your newsletter invitation and insert couple of extra carefully selected phrases. Follow these steps: Step #1 --> Insert a Newsletter Subscription Obviously, this is your primer objective. A new subscriber is a potential new source of profit. It is a common sense to tell people what to expect up front. The more relevant seems your offer to the desired relationship, the better. Step #2 --> Insert a Special Report Be smart: upload your report to an autoresponder. The trick is to provide high-quality content AND an offer that will earn you a profit! You know the rest: the autoresponder send out automatically additional reports and follow-up messages to those who get the initial report. The results: more sales and profits. Step #3 --> Insert an eCourse Each lesson of the eCourse provides at least one offer (and usually multiple offers) for the reader to consider. Many buy, some don't. But it's another automated profit system. Step #4 --> Insert a Mystery Bonus Mystery bonus? Yes! People universally love mystery. Be sure you won't let the prospects know what is all about up until they subscribe. What you need at this point: an ebook that is coded with your own affiliate links! (Psst... invite them to pass it out as an incentive!) The final results: 3 separate lists (from newsletter subscription, special report, and ecourse) and a viral marketing tool (the mystery ebook)! Everything easy to set- up and ready to upload to your web site in less than an hour of work. Not bad! Things to remember BEFORE you implement this e-mail marketing strategy: - be accurate and clear with your messages. - spell out features/benefits/advantages in your offer. - don't go only after e-mail list quantity. Your e-mail list should balance QUALITY with QUANTITY issues. - ALWAYS provide high-quality content. - implement your system ON EVERY PAGE of your web site. - always use professional sequential autoresponders to PERSONALIZE each of your e-mail messages. - test subject lines and messages until you get the highest results. - check your messages to make sure links work properly. - use high quality graphics to first-impress. - NEVER forget to 'THANK YOU' prospects once they give you their e-mail address. - ALWAYS allow prospects to self-remove from your e-mail lists.

eMail Follow Up System in 3 Easy Steps!

By Denise Ryder Marketing Coachhttp://www.profitspace.com/coach-----------------------------------------------------------The most important asset a eBusiness owner has is...A LISTActually the more lists you have the better off you are. BUTthe key isn't just having several general lists, you want to haveas many targeted lists as you can.What do I mean by that??Well, ummm for all you health and nutritional product peopleout there your targeted lists could be based around each ofthe specific products you offer. Those in themselves make upa "list."If you are selling information products, then the theme ortopic of each of your books/courses can make a sub ortargeted list.Don't look at your products/services as a group, break themdown (if you can) and think of them in terms of a targetedgroup of people (or list). For each group you will send outthe initial information request and then your follow up willinvolve specific information catering to that group.That follow up is pretty straightforward. I mean if youhave a product that is based to help migraine suffers thenyou wouldn't later send a mailing to that list about a newproduct that deals with asthma...they don't relate or tiein. You keep sending that list information relating tosuffering from migraines.There is one other list that you could be building andthat is one that involves a one-time request for information.For example; if you decided to create a list of 50 eZinesDirectories, a person hits your autoresponder once to getthat list. Or how about the second part of your two-partarticle - again a person that hits your autoresponder isafter that one-time request.How on earth do you follow up with these people, whenthey didn't subscribe to receive regular mailings?That is what we are going to go over today. A 3-stepfollow up system which will turn these one-time requestsinto yet another viable list for you ;o)So, let's get at it ;o)Step 1 - First or Initial ContactThis is the information that you are firing out afterthey have hit your autoresponder.You have two ways you can go here. You can either:let the person that you are going to send them futureinformation that is RELATED to the information theyhave requested here. Or, you don't say a thing at all.Best course of action is to tell them upfront...be totallyopen and honest from the get go. Remember people dobusiness with people they know, like and trust and ifyou aren't trusting...you've lost them.Having said that, you still need to give them a chanceto opt-out of receiving more information...here is asample to give you something to look at and use.SAMPLE...Hi ~~NAME~~ (remember personalize)Just wanted to send you out the information you requestedabout the 55 no cost marketing resources. I have listed themall below and I hope you find them useful.In a few days I'll be sending you over a special articlethat I wrote "The Key to No Cost Marketing." Look for thatto come in about three days.I've spent a lot of time researching marketing tactics andlooking for good solid resources that work. I'll be glad toshare this information with you, if you want me to.If you don't want to receive these additional strategies andresources then you can click the REMOVE ME link below.If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.Look forward to sharing this information with you, takecare and good luck with your eBusiness.Sincerely,Denise RyderSo what we have here is your prospect receiving the initialinformation that they requested AND we have let themknow that there is more to come and if they don't want toreceive it then, they can of course, opt out.Most will stay because you have given them a good reason to(remember it's the WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME), a preview ofwhat's to come.Step 2 - AutomateYou're probably thinking, yup I know I need an autoresponderin order to do this. Of course you do, that goes without saying.But, you need to see the bigger picture here. You have a prospectthat has received the information and you have indicated that thereis more "to come." That "more to come" is what I am referring to.Make sure you have it already to go and uploaded into yourautoresponder.Yup, ya got to think ahead...there is no room for "fly-by-the seatof your pants" marketing here. Sit down and plan out a 7 messagefollow up for this list and have it loaded and ready to go.Leave some time between each mailing...something like between7-10 days. Remember this isn't your general list, this is a targetedone with specific information and of course specific offers gearedto them.Through these 7 messages your goal is to keep building upon theinformation that they prospect originally requested. You know theyare interested because they hit your autoresponder in the firstplace, right ;o)So give them the good, solid content RELATING to the originalthat they requested.In our example above I would keep providing them with informationconcerning no cost marketing resources. I would send the articleas I said I would and then the other 6 messages would perhapslook at what to spot in a good no cost marketing resource, howto test a resource, how to track the results, and how to usethe information they have gathered to make money. All thewhile I mention that there is STILL MORE to come and ofcourse provide them with the opt-out option at all times.I also can weave in my offers and because of the way Ihave set my system up, these offers come in the form ofrecommendations, there is no hard sell tactics happeninghere.Step 3 -Special MailingsOk, we have a sublist with a theme of no cost marketingresources. As I release a new product (based on this theme)or find more resources to share, then I will send out aspecial mailing with this information.The idea is that these are "special" so they are not tobe used as some form of "mass or blast" marketing tactic.What we have done with these people is built a good solidrelationship with them. We have sent them fantastic infothat they can use and we keep building by providing themwith even more information and over-delivering. Why wouldwe want to then ruin all that by blasting them every week...WE DON'T.These special mailings should be limited to using themtwice a month. It stands to reason that some months you maynot use them at all. But in this case the idea is that it is specialso make it good. Keep the momentum of good solid informationand tie in a good offer.A good rule of thumb is to think in these terms...A good mailing is something that benefits the list member andthe list owner. It has to be a win/win for both or it just won'twork.When you are thinking in terms of lists, you have to realize thata list can come from anywhere. It is just a matter of seeing it.As I mentioned above, think of your products/services as littleindividual lists. Break them down and build a sublist aroundeach products theme.Do it right and you may find a little niche where you didn'trealize it…now how cool is that!!If you want to gain some further insight into a few more tacticslike this one, then read "How To Become Wildly SuccessfulOnline." This eBook will give you some great ideas.Read about it here:http://www.profitspace.com/wsoThis article may be reprinted with the requirement that it bere-published in it's original form with the attached Resource Boxto be included

eMail Follow Up System in 3 Easy Steps!

HOW TO MAKE A KILLING ONLINE WITH A SHOESTRING BUDGET

This FREE information is very valuable to your online success. For further training please subscribe to my training course for a more in depth way of marketing your site by sending a blank email to: elindabay@getresponse.com.Step 1: Get products that sells like hot cakes. If you have a product then go to the next step to see how to market it. If you don’t then find some high commission affiliate programs that do, SO YOU WILL MAKE MONEY. TIP: Never pay to join an affiliate program until you know which ones are money makers. The highest paying ones are at the bottom of this article under the heading AFFILIATE PROGRAMS (Most are free to join). Be careful the internet is full of scams!Step 2: Promote your product or affiliate program. The very first thing you should do is find a reliable email autoresponder. This way you can get subscribers and give instruction messages on how to sign up for your program or you can advertise your products automatically without spending hours sending emails to clients. TIP: There are some excellent FREE autoresponders on the internet or you can use the one in my program which is already COMPLETELY SETUP FOR YOU FREE.Step 3: Get subscribers to you autoresponder, WHY? Because you can’t get sales or downlines on the internet without sending multiple emails to the same client. Now I know your going to be a bit discouraged when I tell you that you need to buy subscribers.I am the first person who LIKES SOMETHING FOR NOTHING but the cost of not doing this is PROFIT. Don’t worry this is the largest cost you will incur for now and after this step I will tell you some amazing advertising techniques that are FREE. Details of where to buy subscribers are listed under the heading. LIST BUILDERS.Step 4: Write an article/s at www.ideamarketers.com about your site/s. It doesn’t have to be too long or too professional but Google will increase your sites ranking in the search engine. IMPORTANT You must include the word FREE in the title.EG: I can prove this works! Go to google and type in Deadly Disease Prevention. Click on DEADLY DISEASE PREVENTION, POWERFUL SUPPLEMENTS FREE INFO, it is currently number 2 as of the 09/04/2006. You will find my article.Step 5: Promote your ezine that you have setup in your autoresponder. Now go to google and search for ezine directories. Submit your ezine to at least 50 different directories. This will take you a while but it is a great FREE way to get subscribers.Step 6: Now submit your articles to as many places as you can. Search in google under article submission and try and submit in at least 50 different sites. DON’T PAY ANYONE TO SUBMIT AN ARTICLE. Step 7: Send emails to email groups to advertise your ezine. Find as many groups as you can and send details of how to subscribe to your ezine (TIP: send a sample copy of one edition in the email) to as many as you can starting with the ones below under the name EMAIL GROUPS.You can get up to 700 subscribers per week to your ezine using this method.CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU HAVE SETUP A HUGE MARKETING PROGRAM, ALL OF THIS WILL HAVE TAKEN A WHILE HOWEVER MOST OF IT IS FREE!Step 8: Automate yours sales and follow up emails and watch you inbox get flooded with SALES CONFIRMATIONS. You can do this yourself however I suggest you get it automated or you will be spending ALL of your time sending emails instead of doing the most important thing you should be doing, MARKETING YOUR SITE SO THAT YOUR BUSINESS GROWS.Check out my site that is already fully automated and ready to go. The best part is that your website is SETUP FOR YOU ABSOLUTELY FREE.CHECK IT OUT NOW AT:http://www.ElindaBay.com/pips.htmlThank-you for taking the time in read this article. This FREE information is very valuable to your online success. For further training please subscribe to my training course for a more in depth way of marketing your site by sending a blank email to elindabay@getresponse.com.The information in the steps above that I said I would provide are in the headings below GOOD LUCK.AFFILIATE PROGRAMSTraffic Swarm http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?67015 Join FREESFI http://www.moreinfo247.com/8927062/FREE Join FREEInternet marketing centre http://www.marketingtips.com/sr/t.x/837037 Join FREEInternet marketing warriors http://resellers.warriorpro.com/signup.htm?67015Join FREELIST BUILDERSSIGNUP TODAY AND LET SOMEONE ELSE DO THE WORK FOR YOU:http://www.listbuilder.us/13112 Or become an affiliate and have your downlines PAY FOR YOUR SUBSCRIBERS at:http://www.listmedia.com/lists/13112https://www.pushbuttonleads.com/.EMAIL GROUPSList_Builder-subscribe@topica.com1_List_Advertising-subscribe@yahoogroups.comAAnnounce-subscribe@yahoogroups.comadd_your_list-subscribe@yahoogroups.comOTHER GREAT ADVERTISING SITES THAT MAKE YOU MONEYFree net Leads: http://www.FreeNetLeads.com/free/2662612gooJoin FREE

Is Email Marketing Still An Effective Option For Network Marketing?

With email filters, blockers, and simply tons of unsolicited email, is email marketing still a viable option to build and grow your network marketing business? The answer to this question, in my opinion is "Yes, but."Let's deal with the "Yes" first, then we'll deal with the "But." I remember about 5 or 6 years ago putting about 400 leads into my autoresponder and enrolling about 8 - 10 people a month into my nutritional program. Today, if you had 10 times that many leads, you may get a couple of prospects, and maybe, maybe, one enrollment. It is true that times have changed, but that doesn't necessarily mean that email marketing is dead. Let's look at a couple of examples.One colleague of mine from California literally cannot keep up with the large number of prospects inquiring about her program. She is signing up 10 - 15 people per month into her program which costs about $1300 to start. Eighty percent of her efforts are wrapped up in email marketing. She has gone through the learning curve and is what I would call, a professional email marketer. How many emails does she send? About 1 million per month.Another colleague of mine from Georgia is enrolling about 30 people per month into his business, a $20 a month, non-nutritional program. He is not highly sophisticated in what he does, but is effective enough to send out about 250,000 - 300,000 emails per month.What is the biggest difference between now and then? Numbers. With the vast expansion of the Internet and email marketing, it simply requires greater numbers to get results today. It is not uncommon for some folks to get a couple hundred unsolicited emails a day that you must compete with. With the billions of emails circulating on a daily basis, you need massive numbers to get results. So, how many emails should you send out? Keep reading.Now let's talk about the "But."The biggest downside to email marketing is that new recruits are weak. Email marketing is notorious for having a revolving door with new recruits. Why? There is no relationship involved except for exchanging a few emails. Email marketing is very impersonal, and without the relationship, there is no bond (or glue) to hold the new recruit in your business. Many leave as quickly as they come. So how do you overcome this? With both of my colleagues whom I mentioned above, they are both fanatical about picking up the phone within a very brief time that the prospect visits their web site. One of the very first comments out of their mouth is "I wanted to give you a call and let you know there is a real person on the other end of the email." And it works!Picking up the phone, reaching out and touching them, and beginning to bond with the new prospect or recruit is vital. If you are not willing to pick up the phone, then email marketing isn't going to be worth it for you. One of email marketing's strengths is sorting through the prospects, then giving you someone to talk to. So, how many emails should you be sending out in order to get enough prospects to talk to so you can build your business? As many as you can. From my observation, 100,000 leads is minimum. Anything less will not produce results for you. If it is within your budget, 300,000 is a better number. For the "email marketing professional," maybe one million is a better number. Whatever the number, you must be committed to constant, consistent effort, followed up by a personal phone call.One final thought before we wrap this up. If you are going to involve yourself in email marketing, you must take the time and learn how to do it right. Understand that some people will complain about not wanting your emails, you will get undeliverable emails and blocked emails, and your autoresponder company may change their policies on you and you have to switch companies. But take the time to become a professional at what you do.In summary, is email marketing still effective for building your MLM business? Yes. You simply must increase the numbers of emails you are sending out. But, you must also understand that you must pick up the phone and reach out and touch your prospects and new recruits or you will lose them. It is still a viable option for those who want to use this as a means of growing their network marketing business.

Run Profitable Contests Using Autoresponders

Running a contest for your e-zine subscribers or web site visitors is one way you can generate interest and give more exposure for products or services you want to promote. A contest could be as simple as spotting a word or a set of words within an e-zine's issue or searching for a graphic on a site. A contest can run for one issue, or it can last for a month or more. If you plan to run a contest, make sure you have a "contest management response system" in place. This could be as simple as an automated e-mail receipt to let your participants know their entry has been received. Run a contest that asks your participants to send their responses to specific e-mail addresses. Then create an automated receipt confirmation for each account.Include a link to your products, affiliate links, or services in your confirmation receipt. Every time someone enters your contest and sends her entry, she receives a confirmation message. Thus, you've just exposed your products to your contestant. Encourage multiple entries and your contest participants get exposed to your promotional texts multiple times. Ok, what about contest prizes? If you publish an e-zine and you sell advertising space, you can give away free ad space to the winners. If you have your own product, or a product you have resell rights to, you can give away free copies of it to your winners. If you have a service, why not put that up as a prize? In any case, though, let your prospective contestants be interested in the prizes. Yes -- put the complete prize descriptions, along with the contest mechanics, on autoresponder too. And then include links where they can purchase the prizes. Hey, some people might not want to waitto win your contest! So it's good to cover all bases. Run a contest that lets autoresponders handle entries and confirmation receipts and you'll have a promotional tool that can bring in profits for you!

How To Find Deep Discount Pro Online Marketing Tools

You can't row a boat without an oar or build a house without a hammer. And, you can't build an online business without essential Internet marketing tools. Sadly, thousands try (unsuccessfully) everyday.Those who do use online tools are generally paying far too much for them because they haven't yet looked into the alternative. I'll tell you about that in a minute, but first...What's the most important online tool we all need? A website, of course. No brainer. How else would potential online customers find out if we have what they need?Next, we should at least have an autoresponder to help automate our marketing efforts and an ad tracker to keep track of which ads are pulling and which are a waste of time. These two are a "must have".Hold up a minute...Before we go any further, it's important to mention that I don't recommend using a complimentory autoresponder, ad tracker or any other no-cost marketing tool. You never really get something for nothing. We all understand that, right?Who, in their right mind, is going to "give" you a professional marketing tool without somehow extracting something from you in return? A crazy multi-millionaire?No-cost autoresponders, for example, usually have ads at the top of the message your responder sends out. Do you really want your potential customer to see someone else's ad on your promo message?A good autoresponder generally costs around $20 monthly and a decent ad tracker around $20 a month. That's $40 for only two essential online tools. There's no long a need to pay that much!Those who sell online tools at those prices will give all kinds of reasons why theirs are worth the high prices. And, maybe they are. If the product is good and the buyer is happy, I don't have a problem with them charging what the buyer will pay.That's capitalism at work. We once paid those prices. Now we don't. We found a better way.So, what is the alternative to paying high prices for online tools (without having to give up professional quality)?It's called "bundled services". This is when a company takes multiple products or services and bundles them into a neat package so that the consumer gets several services at a considerable lesser price than if they bought them separately.You've probably noticed the major telecommunications and TV cable companies bundling services over the past year. It's very effective. The consumer gets more for less and the companies sell more products and services. Both come out ahead.Warning...Look for an Internet marketing tools company that offers "solid" tools and not "fluff" or hype. Those that offer fluff are only interested in taking your money and giving you as little as possible. This increases their profits, but lightens your wallet and gives you little of substance in return.Fluff stuff can be things like: eCourse training (instead of "live" support), an eBook bonus that you can get anywhere for nothing, "insider secrets" reports, Etc. Things that are not workable tools at all.Solid tools are things like: an autoresponder & list manager, ad tracker, website hosting, URL rotator system, online conferencing system, "live" training & support, Etc. Workable tools and solid support that actually helps in building your business.Note: There is nothing inherently wrong with eCourse training, eBooks, special reports or other informational products (in their right place). Trying to pass them off as a substitute for solid online marketing tools is not the right place.The hallmark of a good online tools company (or any type of company) is one that operates on the "Golden Rule Principle". They give you more in product "use value" than what you pay.The products or services will actually be useful in building your business and the seller makes sure that you receive an abundance of them.This creates a happy and loyal customer who will tell their friends. The customer and seller both win. So do the friends. That's the way to run a business!How can you know when you've found such a company? Look at the product usefulness. Are the tools solid or fluff? Are you getting your money's worth or paying for hype?Are there any Internet marketing tool companies that operate on the Golden Rule Principle and have also bundled a useful arsenal of online tools at a really good price?Not many. There are a few. Only one or two are extraordinary in that they give an abundance of solid tools at a really low price.

Mix Infopublishing And Affiliate Marketing For Massive Profits

Believe it or not, finding a product to market is usually the least of your concerns. There are many ways to find a product. You can create your own information product, sell a service,
or market other people’s products for a commission. While providing a service for people is good, it is often the most time-consuming of the three. For example, if you write resumes for people you only get paid if you work.
But if you sell an already-made product, such as an information product or an affiliate product, after you are set-up you can set your website on autopilot and make sales with little work on your part. Let me be very clear: You will have to work. You must maintain, at an absolute minimum, your advertising. If you do not, your lead generating machine will dry up. You may decide to write your own information products. This is not as difficult as it sounds. You know something about something: What do you do for a career? What hobbies do you have?
What do you like reading about? Correlate these ideas together, and out comes an ebook, an autoresponder course, or a special report! Your product does not have to be long,
especially if it is a specialized product.
For example, a well-written 5 page how-to article on grooming your dog could sell for $15-$20 dollars. Think about it: People are looking for your information because they do not want to go to the groomer’s (probably because they think it is overpriced). If they normally pay $40 per visit,
and they visit once per month, they pay $480 yearly to the groomer. On the other hand, if they buy your information,
even at $20, you will have saved them $460 (minus the cost of grooming equipment they will have to buy) and quite possibly gained a customer for life. You may choose, however,
to market someone else’s product. This is called “affiliate marketing,” and is probably the most popular form of internet marketing. One caveat: Pick you product well,
because some products, especially those sold by the “gurus,” are in over-saturated markets. You could be innovative and combine the two (infoproduct and affiliate marketing). Take the example of the how-to article on bathing and grooming your dog. You have provided your customer with a very well-written explanation of how they can save money by grooming their dog at home. Even though they have saved money, they still need grooming tools and equipment. You could research the various grooming tools, looking for best price and best value, and add one or two pages to your booklet recommending these. Add value to your business by setting yourself up as an affiliate for those products, and recommend your affiliate link in your booklet. Then,
when your customers click on the link to buy the grooming tools, you make a commission. Congratulations! You just experienced multiple streams of income, as you were paid twice: once on the purchase of your infoproduct, and again on the purchase of the grooming tools you affiliated for. This is how to parlay your experiences into multiple streams of income online.

100,000 Subscribers In 30 Days?

Two years ago, I sat in Joel Christopher's "Master List BuilderSeminar" listening to ideas on how to build my list faster. Theroom was filled with seasoned on-line and off-line marketers. Theyall told us that the money was in the list... something we allknew intuitively.People in the room shared just about every method imaginablefor building a list. They covered what worked, what didn't, and what you definitely should not do. They shared their personalexperiences and the results of their latest list building tests.A few of the speakers had tremendous impact on me. One wasPaul Myers, whom I previously knew primarily from on-line discussion forums. I had also enjoyed several LONG phone callswith him. The other speaker whose message intrigued me was Frank Garon. Frank spoke of buying lists of new subscribers for less than a penny a name. He spoke of something called "co-registration." Terry Dean also validated for me the impact writing good ezine articles can have at that seminar. Frank Garon REVEALED that he and other top marketers regularly joined together and bought batches of tens of thousands....maybe 100,000 names. These names were gathered via on-line formsplaced on high traffic websites. The forms offered more informationon the types of products and services that Frank and his friendsoffered. The websites' visitors checked this box requesting moreinformation, and these names (along with datestamp, IP addressand other relevant information) was passed to the opt-inname purchasers.As I listened to this talk of building a list of 100,000 in a month or less, I wondered, if it's so great, why isn't everyone doingit? The answer that later became clear is that many of the top marketers ARE doing it. It's not their only method of buildinga list, but it's definitely one of their most profitable.The next question that popped into my tiny mind was, "Are these really subscribers or will I be accused of spamming ifI send emails to these people?" These people do actually opt-into receive more information about starting an on-line business.They do physically check a box requesting more informationbe sent to them. That does technically make them opt-ins.Later, my coaches and mentors would share with me manySECRETS. One was that when you have access to one ofthese list, it's all about return on investment. We all knowthat names purchased via co-opt systems are less responsive.They are less responsive because the subscribers don't know you - they don't have a relationship with you.These mentors went on to share that there was a properway to legitimately turn these opt-in "LEADS" into subscribers. The method is very simple. In your first,and every email to them, you remind them that theyrequested more information of this type through an on-lineform. It doesn't hurt to include the date, IP address and email address they subscribed from. Then you go on toshare some fantastic information with them... maybe inthe form of your ezine. In every contact with these purchased names you also include an easy method forthem to unsubscribe.If you provide genuine value, over time, you will build arelationship with many of these leads. Many will unsubscribe, but again - the important metric is return oninvestment. that's what you need to track. If you start outwith 100,000 names but 6 months later that list hasdwindled down to 10,000 or maybe even 1000, what is thelifetime value of those list members remaining? That'sthe question you need to ask. You answer that largelybased upon what you currently earn for each subscriberon your list.Another concept that sank into my head at Joel'sworkshop was the concept of building sub-lists. Theseare lists that are kept separated based upon the source.This allows you to send emails/offers to your lists basedupon list demographics or how they were acquired. I now have many sub-lists. These sub-lists are from articles I written, teleseminars I conducted, interviewsI given, course I've authored, website forms, joint ventures,and co-registration purchases. Each list is generallyset up as an autoresponder that I can send select messagesto. My autoresponder system allows me to send out an unlimited number of both scheduled and unscheduled messages. The primary system I use cost me $19 per month for an unlimited number of autoresponders with an unlimitednumber of messages. I can pre-schedule message for up to 24 months. This fantastic autoresponder deal isavailable through http://ProfitAutomation.com ProfitAutomation.com does have very strict policies on how these autoresponders can be used to prevent spam accusationproblems! There is also a limit on the number of new namesyou can import at a time. For that reason, I recommend thatwhen dealing with co-registration emails you use the autoresponders at: http://Therealsecrets.com/co-reg/I also recommend that with co-registration names you notemail to them too often. I send them a few emails, spacedover several months. In those emails, I provide informationof genuine value... on the topic of building an on-linebusiness AND I invite them to join my regular ezine list. Ineach email, I inform them of how and why they are gettingthe email AND provide a convenient unsubscribe link.Over the years, I've spent many thousands of dollars onco-registration lists. The quality has varied. The best dealI have discovered is through the "Nitro Guys." They can deliver 100,000 names in 30 days. If you want less, theyhave an "auto-ship plan" where they send you 25,000 namesa month. These names are in CVS format which mean youcan import them directly into many list management andautoresponder systems. Some systems, including ProfitAutomation.com, mentioned above, do limit the numberof names you can import at a time... so read the termsof service before signing up.I mentioned the "Nitro Guys. I was attracted to them bythe following intriguing headline:"Ever Wonder How Top Marketers Get Thousands Of Subscribers On Their Lists While Everyone Else Struggles To Just Get A Couple Hundred?" I clicked through to their site to complete the education Ihad started at Joel Christopher's workshop…They taught me all about the system a lot of top marketersuse to build their lists fast. Their service provides me witha great return on investment. That's what keeps me going back. For more on their services visit: http://Therealsecrets.com/co-reg/There are no real magic bullets. I've found the names purchasedthrough co-registration services much less responsive than the names acquired from visitors to my website. However, I have grownto consider opt-in co-registration names to be a vital part of my marketing mix. Maybe you will too? Give it some thought. Andnow… you know one of the secrets to building a mailing list of100,000 in 30 days.

Break On Through To The Other Side

Heres ten simple yet very effective
marketing ideas that can help you breakthrough to higher and more consistent profits.1. Create a directory of web sites on
a specific topic. Give people the option of adding the directory to their web site by linking to it. Put your business advertisement at the top of the director's home page.
This technique will get lots of people to linkto your web site and give you free advertising.2. Do you have a product or service that doesn't sell good
? Offer it as a free bonus for someone else's product or service.
Get free advertising by placing your web site or business ad on the product or in the product package.3. Trade autoresponder ads with other businesses. If both of you send out information with auto-responders just exchange a small classified ad to put at the bottom or top of each other's autoresponder message.4. Start a free tip line. Offer a free daily, weekly, or monthly tip recorded on your voice mail.
The tips should be related to your business. Include your ad for your web site or business at the beginning or end of your message. 5. Exchange content with other web sites and ezines.
You could trade articles, top ten lists, etc. Both parties could include a resource box at the end of the content.6. Offer to insert ads into your product package for other businesses.
Just ask, in return that they do the same for your business.
You should only trade insert ads with businesses that have the same target audience.7. Offer a free daily class in your web site's chat room. The class should be related to the subject of your business or web site. This will get people to visit your web site everyday. 8. Do you have a product that doesn't sell good? Offer
it as a free bonus for another businesses product or service. You'll get free advertising by placing your web site or business ad on the free bonus.9. Place different emotional response ads for the same product or service all over your web site. One ad may hit their hot button to buy more than another ad.10. Publish your e-zine in e-book format.
You could offer a larger number of articles per issue.
It also allows you to include graphics with your ezine.
Your advertising revenue would increase because you could charge businesses for large color ads.

Top Three Internet Marketing Two-Tier Affiliate Programs

If you run an Internet marketing web site and sell your ownproducts or services, you probably follow up with yourcurrent customers using autoresponders and upsell them withproducts and services from related affiliate programs?Note that if you don't do this,
you are leaving money onthe table.What Internet marketing
affiliate programs should you joinand endorse to your list in
order to increase your onlinebusiness profit?The answer is - two-tier
affiliate programs.When you promote a 2-tier affiliate program, you earncommissions not only on your
direct sales as in a regularaffiliate program, but you also
earn commissions on salesgenerated by people that
you refer to the program.Here is a list of proven,
free-to-join Internet marketingtwo-tier affiliate programs:http://www.netmarketingstrategies.com/marketingtipshttp://www.netmarketingstrategies.com/nitrohttp://www.netmarketingstrategies.com/implixThe above 2-tier affiliate
programs offer excellentproducts and services, generous
commission and are designedto SELL. These are the most important factors when you arelooking for good two-tier affiliate
programs to join.Some of the above affiliate
programs can even earn youlifetime commissions. It means that you don't just earn acommission on one sale,
you can earn a commission on everysubsequent purchase by your referrals.

10. Lightening Fast Ways To Escalate Your Sales

1. Sell an inexpensive product to sell an expensive product.If people like your inexpensive product, they'll be persuaded to buy your expensive one. 2. Allow your visitors to decided how much they want to pay for your product.
I only recommend it for products that don't sell or ones that hardly sell. 3. Create an extra revenue stream with your web site's articles or content.
Publish the first paragraph of each article and charge people to read the rest. 4. E-mail targeted e-zines and ask them to do a joint venture with you.
Ask them to run your ad and in exchange they get a percentage of the profits. 5. Find a tiny niche for your new free e-zine. There are thousands of free e-zines;
your e-zine needs to be extra specialized to attract new subscribers. 6. Test your ads by using autoresponders.
You can have people e-mail your autoresponders to get more information and you just check your traffic reports. 7. Create credibility and trust with your visitors by telling them something they already know. They'll know for sure you're not lying to them. 8. Make residual income from your customers by selling back end products. If you don't have any,
you could sign up to related affiliate programs. 9. Use a redirect page to boost your sales. People think the long affiliate URLs look
unprofessional in e-mail so you could redirect them to a web link. 10. Create an extra income
from your web site by charging for consulting.
The consulting should be related to your web site's theme.

Top Internet Marketing Techniques

The Internet offers many means of affordable marketing, often with full-color imagery to go along with text. And multimedia components add some spice to the mix and increase online visitors and purchases. Here are some top Internet marketing techniques to help increase your sales and income. 1. DIRECTORY - Create your own directory on a specific industry topic, placing your own ad or banner along the top. Then invite others to add their website links via a link exchange program, listing themselves in your directory. This will result in lots of free advertising for you as your directory expands with links across the World Wide Web. Enter “link exchange software” into your favorite search engine for help with setup.2. TEACH A COURSE – Write out a simple step-by-step instructional class in your area of expertise. Then break it up into smaller segments and set them up in an autoresponder as email messages with your ads included at the top and / or bottom of each message.Invite website visitors to sign up through on online form or email subscription address offered through the autoresponder service. Then as people sign up, they will learn more about you and your products and services.3. EZINE EBOOK – Forget about small daily or weekly ezines. Try publishing one large monthly e-zine as an e-book format, preferably an Adobe .pdf file. Include a large number of articles with each issue and regularly featured areas like inspirational quotes,industry tips, favorite sites and advice from the pros. Also insert full-color graphics, multimedia components like audio file links, if you like, and ads. Then you can charge a monthly rate, with an annual discounted package purchase, and sell advertising spots.4. TIP OF THE DAY – Set up your own Tip of the Daytargeting your own area of expertise, relating to your own products and services. You can set it up on your website ina targeted box, via autoresponder, a blog, an RSS feed, an audio file or others means of communication. Add your own ad along with your tip for whichever product or service you want to target or maybe even your own online store for all. This willgently remind your target audience where to go to learn more.In summary, by using Internet Marketing techniques customized to fit your own products and services,you can reach out and increase your website traffic and purchase opportunities.Internet marketing can mean a moreaffordable way to grow your business.

Free Traffic Course - Day 5

Online statistics shows that about 10 rom online visitors make immediate purchase on the web site. Other 90 f visitors may leave your web site forever, without making any purchase. Do you want to lose 90 f web site visitors that were driven with so many efforts?No!Internet marketing has time-proven tool that catches targeted visitors on your web site and transform them into loyal clients. This tool is known as autoresponder.Autoresponder is very similar to a mailing list. But its aims and functioning differ.Mailing list is used to send the messages to its subscribers; autoreposnder GATHERS subscribers and then sends them messages.For example, you got to the web site about University scholarships, and you are not ready to buy anything from this web site right now. But you see a pop-up window or subscription form saying something like, "Sign up here to get free and fresh updates on new scholarship programs". Hm, you start thinking. If you are a targeted visitor and feel motivated to get a scholarship, you will surely subscribe to free updates about new scholarship programs.So, you submit your name and email to subscription form of the autoresponder. You get free updates, and web site gets your name and email to the base of subscribers. Having your name and email, good marketers will find useful products and services to offer you in future. This is when web site is starting to get lifetime customer value from its visitors.But be careful: do not terrorize your subscribers with useless offers. Otherwise they will unsubscribe from your list, and you will lose them forever.Would you like to grow the base of your web site subscribers? Yes! Are these subscribers targeted? Yes! If they did not make a purchase on your web site from the first visit, it does not mean they will not do it in future. You just need to try other approach or other offer. The subscriber is bound to your web site now.This is only the general idea about how autoresponders work. Look below to see how they can bring money to your web site.DIFFERENT WAYS TO MAKE MONEY WITH AUTORESPONDERSUsing autoresponder you can:1. Sell your own products and services more effectively.2. Get more re-orders from your clients - if you sell something which needs ordering from time to time (health products, movie tickets), the autoresponder will keep in touch with your clients.3. Generate more upsells - if your products/services have updates and upgrades, autoresponder will help you to motivate clients for buying the update or upgrade.4. Create cross-sells - you can sell any complimenting products and services that have any relation to the major offer on your web site. Thus you give a bigger collection of offers, help your joint-venture partners to make more money and get your commission from it. And you have all rights to ask your partners for the same favor: sell something on their web site. In any case, you make more money.5. Recruit and train affiliates - autoresponder is a perfect tool for educating and motivating your subscribers. They get more info with each new message, and you increase your web site credibility.6. Ask for feedback from your clients - make it a usual practise to ask your clients once a month what they need from your web site. You do not even imagine how many good ideas they will give you for free.7. Minimize refunds - when your customer gets more and more info that explains the real benefits and advantages of the offer bought from your web site, this client has less and less desire to ask money back.WHAT FEATURES SHOULD A GOOD AUTORESPONDER HAVE?You can use the maximum profits from marketing potential of autoresponder, only when this autoresponder has the following features:- you can get unlimited number of autoresponders;- you can add new autoresponders or edit the existing ones;- you can choose and set up the mailing list to save the subscribers of your autoresponder (the system will save new subscribers to any mailing list you wish);- you can program autoresponder by days, scheduling to send its messages the way you wish;- you can make autoresponder messages in TXT and HTML formats, and add attachments to them (audio or even vide files);- you can use a huge collection of macros elements to highly personalize your autoresponder messages;- you can get full statistics about sent messages, new subscribers, unsubscribed users of autoresponder;- you can import and export the subscribers to any base, or save them in a separate file.When autoresponder has these features, you can easily turn a simple subscription process into a new source of loyal clients on your web site.The benefits of using autoresponder are evident: you do not visitors from your web site, you grow your base of subscribers and clients, you can motivate your subscribers and client to get more targeted for your offers. Plus, autoresponder automates the whole process of gathering the names and emails from your subscribers, saving them into a database, emailing them under the set delivery schedule, transferring the clients from one base to another, etc.So, if you do not have autoresponder on your web site, you are losing your profits. Think it over...

People accusing you of sending sp*am? FIVE 'Email Marketer must know' tips.

Radhika Venkata (c).People tend to forget their subscriptions. Sometimes they don't even know why they subscribed to your newsletter. Especially if the person is seeking for information,
he/she will subscribe to every ezine or ecourse that will come across their search. They don't remember it after a while. If you send email to them after few months, they simply accuse you of sending spam.So how to safegaurd yourself from this type of accusations?Follow up and Mailing list management software: You can manage your ecourses, broadcasts, follow ups with this single software-http://www.scripts4webmasters.com/follow-up-autoresponder-pro/index.shtml1. Provide their personal details in every email:On top of each email, put their email address, their ip number with which they subscribed, URL of the form where they subscribed, list name they subscribed. This way your subscribers are aware of that you have their details with their permission.You only gets the subscriber ips when he/she subscribes using a form. If they subscribed using email addresses, the ip will not be grabbed by your autoresponder software.2. Use Double opt-in:Some of the marketers say that 'You have to make it easy for the subscriber to receive your emails'. So people tend to neglect to implement double opt-in.They think that it will be a hassle for subscriber to click on the confirmationlink in the email. Remember one thing...
if they are really interested they will click, not one... more than that to receive information from you. This type of list is best to target your information and to get some profits from it.3. 'Unsubscribe' link:Put 'Unsubscribe' link in every email in the footer area. Sometimes subscribers subscribe using subscriberATdomain.com, redirects his email to subscriberATdomain2.com.
Then he tries to unsubscribe using second email, which obviously not in your database and he can't be removed by your software. Then he/she will get upset that you are sending spam. So tell them that use the same email address that they used to subscribe, to unsubscribe. You can put this information under your unsubscribe link.4. Privacy statement:Create a tag in your autoresponder like [privacy_statement], if your software allows it. Then put this tag in all email below 'Unsubscribe' link. Let this privacy statement should be similar that you put on the subscription form web page. If your autoresponder software don't allow tags, then put url to your privacy satement on your web page.5. Authentication Seals:Recently I came across this site where they provide email marketers a special code that goes with headers of your email(s), making them legitimate.http://www.habeas.com/servicesHowSWEWorks.phpThere is another one:http://www.truste.org/businesses/email_services.php

7 Valuable Tips For Article Writers

1. Let your affiliates use your articles to earn commissions.Simply make your articles available to your affiliates to publish in their ezines or on their web sites with theiraffiliate links in your resource box.You'll be able to increase the success of your existing affiliates.You'll also be able to get your new affiliates started on the right track by providing them with a unique and powerful way to begin promoting your business.2. Post your articles on your site.Not all article writers do this, but it's a great way to showcase your expertise and increase your visitor's trust in you.It can also help you to get more new affiliate sign ups. Just let your visitors know that they can use your articles to earn commissions.3. Write to one person.A good way to draw your reader into your article is to write as if you're writing to a friend. By doing this, your article won't turn out like a "business document", and you'll be able to make your writing more personable and get more traffic to your site.4. Do an article swap.You could swap an article to be published in another writer's ezine, or you could swap articles to be published on each others' sites.5. Start an article announcement list.Get more ezine publishers and webmasters to reprint your articles by running an email list that tells them when you've written a new article or articles.Like publishing your articles on your site, your list can help you to get more new affiliates.Your list can also keep your existing affiliates up to date on any new commissionable articles you have for them to publish. 6. Use autoresponders. Make your individual articles and also a "master list" of your articles available by autoresponder.Include your master list email address in your posts to article announcement lists, along with your publishing guidelines nd other information.That way you'll be able to further promote your past articles, and you'll get more of your articles published by webmasters and ezine publishers that enjoy your writing.Autoresponders can also be used to publish your article announcement list (or ezine). With broadcast capable autoresponders you'll be able to double opt in your subscribers, easily send out your announcements, and your autoresponders can easily take care of your subscribe and unsubscribe requests. 7. Create ebooks.For example, you could make an ebook compilation of your best articles on a specific topic such as ezine publishing or copywriting.Add to the profit you get from your new ebook by publishing articles in it where you're able to earn commissions, or bymaking it available to your affiliates to rebrand with their affiliate links.

Winning the Traffic Exchange Game

Winning the traffic exchange game can be done. I was just starting out online and had no money so I was looking for a free way to drive traffic to my site. That is when I first found traffic exchanges.I found the concept to be great and signed up for everyone I found and started clicking and clicking and clicking. After countless hours, a blistered clicking finger and a lot of frustration I found the secret to the game.Traffic Is What They WantThe members clicking for hits at the traffic exchanges are looking for the same thing you are. Traffic to there site. Most are not interested in finding a new opportunity or looking to go shopping they just want traffic. So how do you get their business? The most effective way is by using a lead capture page.Lead Capture PageA lead capture page is a simple site that stands out to the surfer. The object is to not sell your product or information but to create curiosity.At the bottom of the page you will need a form so people can request more information from you. By nature we are curious people so people will sign up. The people that are surfing for hits have 30 seconds on average to review your site it is hard to sell a product in 30 seconds but it is pretty easy to peak someone's curiosity. You can see the page I use in the traffic exchanges at: http://www.dreams2freedom.com/listbuilder.htmlFollow UpO.K. I have a lead capture page but were do I send the people that sign up? An autoresponder. An autoresponder is a program that will automatically follow up with your prospects for you.You can create a number of different messages and have them sent at different intervals to your prospect after they signup through your lead capture page.This is a great tool because it puts your business on auto pilot after you do the initial work to get the lead. The autoresponder I use is GetResponse It is feature-rich and free to set up.You can check it out at: http://www.GetResponse.com/index/dreams2freedomNow that you have an autoresponder you are going to write detailed instructions on how you product works or a report on how you product can benefit the subscriber and split it into at least 5 emails. Most people will not buy on the first contact so you want to give the subscriber at least 5 exposures. You can see an example of what I use by sending a blank email to: traffic_machine@GetResponse.com. Now set the messages to be sent 3 days apart and watch the sales start coming in.Capture Leads Not SalesIn conclusion winning the traffic exchange game is fairly simple,don't try to sell your products just create curiosity and capture their name and email.

Giving It Away For Profit

If you have extensive knowledge on a particular subject, why not create a free course for your web site visitors.The course should be related to the theme of your web site.If you're selling business related products, you would want to giveaway a free course about business. You could offer the course in html, autoresponder, and ebook format.HTML- Your course could be right on your web site. On one web page, create a title page and table of contents.Use clickable chapter links so they can go to the sections easily were they need the most help.You could increase your traffic by allowing people to give away the course to their web site visitors.Just have them link to your web site. eBOOK-Your course could be in a downloadable ebook format. Include your business ad in the ebook. A good ebook software to use is Editor Pro,you can find it at http://www.e-ditorial.com. You could allow other people to give away the ebook. They could just upload it to their own server.Every time someone downloads it, they will see your business ad. AUTORESPONDER-Your course could be published on an autoresponder. You can sign-up to get a free follow-up autoresponder from all the free services on the internet. You can find them by typing in "free autoresponders" in your search engine of choice. Include a lesson of your course on each follow-up message sent. You could increase traffic by allowing advertisers to include their ad in the course. Ask them, in return, to advertise the free course at their web site. Just have them link to your web site.There are many other formats you can use to create your freecourse, downloadable text, pdf, print format, fax-on-demand, cassette,video, etc. You can use all the methods above with all the formats to increase your traffic. About the author:Dan Brown has been active in internet marketing for the past 4 years. Dan currently is working with the Zabang search engine introducing their new affiliate program,which is due out July,2006. http://www.zabangaffiliate.com/

Autoresponders Generate Online Profits

If you ask online marketer how to convert website visitors into buyers, most will give you the same answer: the sales are in the follow-up.It’s much more than just increasing your traffic volume. After all, most of your visitors won’t decide to purchase your products or your services when they first visit your website. But that’s not to say that they won’t be interested in your offer tomorrow or next week, or that they won’t be interested in future offers.Therefore, it is necessary to get your visitor's email addresses so that you can inform them of current and upcoming offers. You do this by using an opt-in system that invites them to subscribe to your mailing list. By gathering their names and email addresses, with their permission of course, you are now able to contact them periodically with information, usually by sending them an ezine as well as an occasional freebie.There are no problems as long as you’re only dealing with ten or twenty subscribers, as you could just email them individually. However, such numbers aren't going to make you many sales. You should aim for a mailing list that could reach into the thousands. That number of subscribers would make it difficult for you to prepare individual emails for each name on your list.The basis of an ideal mailing list, therefore, is an effective autoresponder system that provides the power and flexibility to email your subscribers in a timely and efficient manner.A mailing list of considerable size powered by a good autoresponder system consistently provides earnings for many Internet marketers. A lot of online businessmen make significant profits from their mailing lists alone. Okay, but what is an autoresponder system? An autoresponder system is like a digital secretary. It takes care of your subscribers by providing an opt-in system that allows visitors to subscribe to your mailing list. An autoresponder system also takes care of the sending of emails to your subscriber base.You can prepare your messages in advance, program them into the autoresponder, and preset the intervals by which the messages are delivered. You can even separate your subscribers into various groups. You could have a group for those who have not yet placed an order, for example. You could have another grouping for those who have already made a purchase. This allows you to use two different marketing approaches in dealing with each of the groups.A good autoresponder system can help you build trust in your products or services. With a good autoresponder, you can also provide an efficient technical support program. If your subscribers email you a question about one of your products, for example, you could preset the autoresponder to reply with a general FAQ to send them the information.Not all autoresponders are designed the same and much care should be taken in choosing the right one for your particular needs. Here are some questions you should ask before you decide on a particular autoresponder service:* How many accounts can you create? Some business plans might require that you have different accounts for different products. * How many lists can you build? There are also some business plans where you might need different lists for different groups of subscribers.* How many follow-up messages can you preset? Do you need a lot of follow-up messages or do you know yet? Quite a few autoresponder services provide for unllimited follow-ups. * How many subscribers can the system hold? And also, how many subscribers can the system respond to? * How much customization is allowed? You need to be able to personalize your email messages with each subscriber’s name and other customizable information. * How does the system gather subscriber information? The process should be simple and convenient; otherwise, the visitor will not subscribe. * Will you be able to send your messages in html and text formats? Most autoresponder services allow both formats. * Will you be able to track your subscribers for the purpose of target marketing? This my or may not be important to you. * Is the scheduling system fully automated and flexible enough for your current and future needs? * Is the autoresponder easy to use? Do they have a demo area so that you can try it out? Now, does the autoresponder service you are considering provide answers to all of the above questions? If so and if it is offered at a reasonable price, then you should grab the deal as soon as you can.Remember, if you’re running an online business, a good autoresponder should be one of your primary investments. It could be the key to an excellent conversion rate, more sales and more profits. About the author:Lewis Leake, Jr. is the webmaster of GrowNetProfits.com - http://www.grownetprofits.com. Find out how to skyrocket your sales with unlimited, follow-up autoresponders! http://www.grownetprofits.com/SFAR

Create Your Three Letter Autoresponder Follow-Up

A woman told me this week, "Your advertising is wasted if you don’t follow-up on your leads." Her solution is to use a multiple autoresponder that sends her prospects a new sales message very few days. People need to see your ad message several times before they buy. Those who buy on the first ad have already made up their mind after seeing someone else’s ad. Yours had the good fortune of reaching the customer at just the right time. You can greatly increase sales with a three letter multiple autoresponder. There are a number of places to get these autoresponders free (fastfacts.net, getresponse.com, smartbotpro.net) and others who sell up-graded service at low cost. Make your first letter briefly present your offer. It should be designed to get attention and bring in those who tend to quickly make up their minds to buy. Your second sales letter should arrive the next day. Make it longer and filled with details. About 70 percent of consumers are folks who need ALL the details before they will purchase. List your features and connect them with the benefit your customer will get from those features. Your third sales letter should be scheduled to arrive several days later. Start with "Successful people are busy. I know you probably saw my earlier messages, considered them, but haven’t yet had time to respond." Then give them another rundown on your offer. Bring in a fresh angle so it doesn’t seem like they are reading the same letter they saw a few days ago. More than three sales letters tend to get ignored. If you want to send more, have your fourth and fifth letters arrive weeks or months later. Scheduling a new letter to arrive every month can catch a prospect when they’re ready to buy.Offer Your Own Email Course One of the most successful marketing techniques I’ve found is offering your own course via autoresponders. I introduced my Make Your Website Sell course (yes, before MYSS came out) and it is still getting gobs of sign-ups every day.Here is how to create yours: 1. Pick a problem that lots of your customers struggle with. In my business the big stumpers are getting a site that sells, finding a way to handle email, figuring out search engines, and finding low-cost ways to advertise effectively. A course on any of these is guaranteed to bring lots of interested prospects and customers (and you can bet I’m plugging my ads here and there during the course). Your course could be on how to complete a basement, how to avoid an IRS audit, how to give your kids straight teeth, or anything else that customers often ask about. 2. If you don’t write or have time to pen your own articles,look for others who have written on the topic.It is perfectly legal to put their ideas in your own words (always proper to give them credit). You can also quote the article. It is best to ask in advance, if your course is for commercial purposes. Start your article, then say expert Jane Doe has some valuable information. Include a few paragraphs of what Jane wrote. Be careful not to use so much you give away her entire article and spoil her ability to sell the information. About the author:Need sales letters, web copy, a press release, or your own ezine article (with your name on it)? Let Kevin Nunley write it for you. See http://DrNunley.com/copywriting.aspfor details. Reach Kevin at kevin@drnunley.com

Create Your Three Letter Autoresponder Follow-Up

11 Creative Ways You Can Use Autoresponders

1. Pick 4 or more articles you've written that have a common theme and put them in an autoresponder series. Announce it on your site as an e-mail course on the go.2. If you have a page for related links, create a related links file and put it on autoresponder. This can be a one-page e-mail containing 15-50 links that are of interest to your visitors. Put your own promotional texts or blurbs at the top, middle and bottom of the e-mail.
3. Create a fun or trivia quiz, put it up on your site and put the answers in an autoresponder that your visitors can request. This way, you'll know the people who took your quiz.4. Write reviews of books, music,e-books, sites, software or anything you can think of and put each review (or related reviews) in an autoresponder. If what you are reviewing have affiliate programs, use your affiliate links in the autoresponder.
5. Run a contest on your site or e-zine, then have your visitors or subscribers send their responses to your autoresponder. This way, you won't have to worry about manually sending them a confirmation receipt. 6. Create a frequently updated autoresponder and let your visitors and/or subscribers know about it.
You can put in weekly tips or links to useful resources in the autoresponder and a reminder to the people who request it that you update it every week or on a regular basis (e.g. tell them to request for the same autoresponder again a week from now). You can use this method instead of using autoresponders with limited follow up messages.7. If you've written 20 or more articles and you have them on separate autoresponder accounts, create a master list for your articles. In this master list, list the titles of your articles, their autoresponder addresses and their short descriptions. You can then just promote this master list.8. Put excerpts or free chapters of your e-book, book or paid e-mail courses in an autoresponder series, then include your follow up sales letters at the end.9. If you're selling your own products, put your testimonials on autoresponder, along with the description of your products, an excerpt or a free chapter. This will increase your credibility.10. Keep track of people who download your free e-book, e-report, or free software by putting their download links in an autoresponder. When you promote your free product, you can just promote the autoresponder address.11. Put links to your hidden pages on autoresponder. A hidden page could be the affiliate page where you have all the graphics, text links, promotional articles that interested affiliates can use. Let people know they can have free access to your affiliate page by requesting the autoresponder.This way, you can have a list of people who are interested in becoming your affiliates. About the author:Copyright (c) Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ Shery is the developer of creative,motivating and fun e-mail courses for writers.Sign up and take an e-mail course today -- free! -- at http://WritingBliss.comShe also authored the e-book that lets you create your own original and profitable E-mail Workshops, eCourses and Tutorials in only 3 days! Visit http://EmailWorkshopsHowTo.comfor more info.

Put It On Auto Pilot

An autoresponder course is a group of articles or information set up to be sent out separately over a set period of time by e-mail. People just e-mail your autoresponder to receive the free course and it is sent out automatically over time. You can find free follow-up autoresponders to use by typing it into any search engine. Below are ten ways to use them to increase your traffic and sales.1. Offer your course as a free bonus for purchasing one of your main products or services. People will buy your products quicker when you offer a bonus.2. When you write and give away a free course you will become known as an expert. This'll gain people's trust and they will buy your main product quicker.3. Allow others to add your free course to their own product packages. Their customers will see your ad when they purchase.4. People love to get freebies. A free autoresponder course is perfect. They will visit your web site to get the free valuable information.5. Allow people to receive your course for free, if they give you the e-mail addresses of 3 to 5 friends or associates that would be interested.
6. Allow other people to give away your free course. This will increase the number of people that will see your ad in the course.7. You could trade advertising space in your course for other forms of advertising. It could be banner ads, e-zine ads, web site ads, etc.8. Gain new leads by having people sign up and give you their contact info before they can receive your autoresponder course.9. Give away the autoresponder course as a free gift to your current customers as a way of letting them know you appreciate their business.10. Give away the course to people that join your affiliate program. This will increase the number of people that sign-up.11. Make money selling advertising space in your course. You could charge for small classified ads or sponsor ads.12. Get free advertising by submitting your course to freebie web sites. This will increase the number of people that will see your ads in the course.13. Make money by selling the reprint rights to those people that would like to sell the course. You could make more money by selling the master rights.14. Hold a contest on your web site so people could win your course. You will get free advertising when you submit your contest to free contest directories.15. You'll gain valuable referrals from people telling others about your course. Word of mouth advertising can be very effective.16. Make money cross promoting your course with other people's products or services. This technique will double your marketing effort17. Increase your e-zine subscribers by giving your course to people that subscribe to your e-zine. This'll give people an incentive to subscribe.18. Allow your affiliates to use the free course as a promotional tool for your product. Each lesson could include their affiliate link.19. Promote other businesses affiliate programs you join with your free autoresponder course. Include a different affiliate link on each lesson.20. Advertise a different product or service on each lesson. If you only have one, use different emotional response ads on each lesson.

How much investment is enough

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Internet Marketing VS Forex Currency Trading

Have you ever tried to make money online and failed?Did you follow your guru's advice and still fail?Here's an alternative...Have you noticed that when someone’s trying to sell you something - such as a system for making money - they always make it look far easier than it is? Let’s look at two Internet businesses, almost as diametrically opposed as it’s possible to be – Internet Marketing and Forex Currency Trading.You’ve probably heard the old Internet adage – build a better website and they will come. Well it ain’t true! You could put up a site advertising dollars for a dime and they still wouldn’t come – because they wouldn’t know where to look!Let’s look at what you need to have in place in order to build a successful Internet marketing business.First of all, you need a product. If you’ve been reading the recent Internet marketing blurb you’ll know you need a niche product. Actually, the new thing is sub-niche but whatever they call it, you need a product for which there is high demand but low supply.Finding a suitable niche is the hardest part of the whole process but let’s say you have a killer product, what else do you need?The List. Ask any Internet marketeer and they will say that the most important part of your business is your opt-in list. For people to join your list you usually have to give them something of value such as a free eBook or report on a subject related to your main product line. To keep them interested, you need to keep in touch with them offering them additional information, advice and tips.Website. To promote your opt-in list you need a website (although there are other ways of promoting your list, too) with features that will encourage people to sign up to your list. You also need a killer website with killer copy to describe – and sell - your killer product. This may or may not be the same as the one you use for your opt-in list.Killer copy. Maybe you’re not a good copywriter. There are many eBooks on the subject that can help you or you can pay someone to write copy for you.You need a domain name, preferably one with some relation to the product but good domain names are becoming increasing difficult to find.Ads. To get people to visit your website in the first place you need to register it with the search engines. SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is an art in itself. You can mug up on the subject or pay someone to do the job for you (but be aware that not all experts are!).You might also want to place ads for your list in newsletters and ezines. The better ones will charge you although you might get a free ad in return for an article.Autoresponder. To automate your business you need an autoresponder. These clever devices automatically send emails to everyone on your opt-in list at predetermined intervals, and contain predetermined copy. For example, you could create a series of emails containing, say, five parts of a free course to be sent one a day over the first five days. Then emails would be sent once a week advertising a different product each time. Whenever anyone signs up to your list they automatically start at the beginning so everyone gets the full cycle of marketing material.We haven’t even looked at affiliate sales and marketing but I’m sure you get the picture. The basic idea of selling over the Internet sounds good but there’s a lot more to it than most people realise.Forex Currency TradingSomeone said that trading is the last frontier, the last place where men and women can stand up and pit themselves against the world.It sounds very Wild Westish but most of it is true! You win or lose entirely by your own efforts and if you win, it’s like having your very own bank. However, even owning a bank is a business and you still have to work hard to put the money there – and to keep it!Unlike Internet marketing where all your efforts, in one form or another, are geared towards making people join your list and then selling them stuff, Currency Trading has no customers. That’s worth repeating – with currency trading, you don’t need customers.No customers means you don’t need any of the associated accoutrements that go with Internet marketing such as:ProductsWeb siteDomain nameOpt-in listAdseBooks and reportsAutoresponderAny other marketing aidsSo far so good, but what do you have to do and what do you need? Well, you need to know what currency prices are doing.You can get a list of prices at the close of each trading day free from many web sites. If you want to trade during the day – intraday trading, you can get real-time prices for a nominal fee from several data suppliers. In the foreign exchange currency market, commonly called forex, you can get this data and charting software free from many web sites.Okay, that’s the easy bit. In order to trade currencies, you need to analyse the data and determine which way price is heading. In other words you need a system and this will require study and dedication.There’s lots of other stuff you have to know, too – trading terminology, margin, leverage, money management, order types, trader psychology and more. But all of this is available in eBooks and courses and on the Net.You also need some money upfront to fund your trading account. With forex you can begin with as little as $300-500 although you would be advised to start with more.So while you don’t have the ongoing quest for new customers, new products and inventive sales techniques, you do need some sort of education or training before you begin and you need discipline while you’re trading.For more information on getting started with forex currency trading, go to: www.webkept.comMaking money takes work whether it’s online or off. Make sure you know what’s involved before you start and remember that the more you put into a business, the easier it gets. About the author:From the author of the hit Forex Currency Trading book - "Mechanical Discretion", Amin Sadak has created another masterpiece for Business Opportunists. His new teaching manual "The Affluent Desktop Currency Trader" provides an alternative for people looking for online business opportunities.

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