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A Beginner's Checklist to Promoting an Online Business
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 Posted: Sun Nov 25th, 2007 07:26 pm

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Thank you very much, even though I have been on the internet for a ridiculously long time, I was not aware the power of forums, websites and blogs had. Excellent Article to share..

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 Posted: Wed Nov 28th, 2007 12:17 pm

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Hello All,

As has already been expertly stated, pay attention to your blog.

I have had great success just leading people to it and then letting them make the decision to join in or just leave.

Nice and cheap!

This article in particular has helped many networkers across the world. Go here to see:

http://vibeguru.blogspot.com/2007/10/rollin-through-numbers.html

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 Posted: Wed Nov 28th, 2007 09:44 pm

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Agreed Tim.  Dirt cheap -- and enjoyable!  I've recently made the switch and started concentrating almost all my efforts toward improving my blog content and having it be the hub that everything else is fed from....

This "focusing" has made a big difference...

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 Posted: Wed Dec 12th, 2007 09:11 pm

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Hey Michael!

Great Article, all true!

Most people today are ADHD and don't know it, due to information overload. There are going to be tweaks we have to make to our marketing in 2008 to accommodate.

I sure appreciate all of the good info on the boards!

Live your Dream!

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 Posted: Tue Dec 18th, 2007 01:09 pm

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Hello All!

I am a big proponent of Mike Dillard and his Magnetic Sponsoring site.

It brings me folks that are interested in building their businesses, it produces "funded proposals" (I only contact the people that purchase, they are the serious ones).

This type of thing is what is working for me.

The next wave will be social networking i.e. my space. I suppose I better bring my 23 and 19 year old sons over to help me with that one ;)

Live your Dream!

Tim

 

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Hi Michael,

 

I'm new to this forum, and am amazed at all the incredible tips, knowledge and resources about network and/or webmarketing that's out there.

Thanks Michael and everyone else who posts!!

I have a new business which should go live in a few months from now, so this forum will be at the top of my favourites.

 



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 Posted: Mon Feb 18th, 2008 06:40 am

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This is awesome info.,  especially for new people like me just starting out.
Thank you much sir.

Warm regards,

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 Posted: Mon Feb 18th, 2008 11:42 am

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Hello All!

Remember to target your "Target Market".

If you are involved with Network Marketing, your target market is not necessarily your friends, relatives and neighbors. They are good "practice", but most likely not your leaders.

Go to Networkers and recruit from that pool. It is the best way to get your business going in the right direction quickly.

Live the Dream!

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This site has helped me and I thank you for that.  I will be visiting more in the future.

Thanks,

Janet



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Hi,

Wonderful posts guys, thanks a tonne, very informative.:);):D



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 Posted: Thu Apr 3rd, 2008 04:51 am

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Hi it's  Mel again:

I just start Internet marketing about three weeks ago.  I try to think of an article idea. I started a blog, but writing an article seems overwhelming.  The C-T-P-M, what a great formula. I will keep by my side as I write my first article. Wow! I have learned something already. My sponsor told me I would. Believe me I am green.

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 Posted: Mon Apr 14th, 2008 05:58 pm

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Angela has a lot more useful internet marketing articles available on her "Online Business Basics" website.  I suggest looking them over to see what may be helpful for you.

http://www.onlinebusinessbasics.com/articles/index.shtml#checklists

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 Posted: Tue Apr 15th, 2008 04:29 pm

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Michael -

Thanks for leading me to Angela's website.  It is very informative.  I will refer to it often.



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 Posted: Sun Apr 20th, 2008 10:46 pm

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This is some great stuff. There is so much quality info on this site. Thanks guys - keep it coming. Cheers



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Interesting concept. I will have to give it try myself.

I already use offline social networking as well. When you talk to people you meet while your out and about, just by talking to them you might find a prospect. I think that most people are open to new ideas and may be looking. You just never know when or where your next lead may come from.

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 Posted: Mon Apr 28th, 2008 10:17 am

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FreedomFire wrote: 3. Niche directories or search engines. Find all the
highly-targeted directories and SEs for your market,
and then work to get listed. You'll be surprised at
how many niche sites there are! Good places to start
looking are http://yahoo.com/ and http://www.dmoz.com/ .


Michael, good article, or should i say articles, excellent content and solid advice. Good luck however with dmoz. If you know a secret for getting an affiliate online mlm site listed there, i would love to hear it. I have a bbq sauce and hot sauce site that has been online for 3 years, and i have yet to get it into dmoz. And it's not an affiliate, it's my site. It was made from a template, i don't know if that hurt it or not. But my affiliate site, i have submitted to dmoz and as of yet, after 6 months, still not listed. Any ideas?



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Phil,

Your affiliate site probably won't be listed by DMOZ.  They don't like those since they're "replicated" sites with affilate url coding that you don't own (company websites).  They prefer "unique" sites with their own domain name, hosting, unique content, etc.

Since DMOZ reviews for inclusion are done by humans nothig slips by them.  You really have to have all your ducks in a row.

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Making money with your website is never easy, but if you know how to do it the right way and do it every day, you will finally achieve your goal.
As an online marketer, you must know the two important things you need to know about promoting your website with online marketing. I assume that you are one of those people who want to make a lot of money without ever having to put on a suit and tie and going to the office. And let’s not deny that we all dreaming of financial independence and be a successful online marketer.

The first thing you need to keep in mind at all times about online marketing is: content rules. You must know how to make your own content and how to come up with quality stuff. Getting surfers to look at your website is not that hard. Making them read more than a couple of lines is a bit harder.

The second most important thing is to gain links that point to your site, which will bounce you up in search engine ratings. Make sure the links are always from web pages that focus on the same topic as the articles they point to, otherwise you are going to lose points with the search engines and that should be avoided at all costs.

Getting It Started:

Pick a niche market, identify some topics and start writing. Get about 10 articles up on your website, get links for every one of them and then keep an eye out and see if people like them or not. Every morning re-read one of the articles and see if your writing style is really crystal clear and if the ideas stand out from the text and are easy to grasp by anyone.

After weeks of doing this re-read your first articles once more. I am perfectly sure that you will be surprised of how poorly written they seem. Feel free to re-write them, or to write new ones that focus on the same topics and solutions, but with a different approach and wording. Don’t strive to be 100% original every time because this is impossible.

In a short while you will notice that your site is getting a lot of attention because of the friendly content. Keep everything simple and make sure your pages can be accessed easily by surfers who don’t land on your main page. Having a website that doesn’t look slick, but has loads of good content tells people that you are a real person and that you aren’t trying to pull anything.

Marketing campaigns, flashing banners and slick ads are nice, but you don’t need them. Just write articles and get links. Then write more articles and get more links. Repeat this until your website becomes a mandatory stop for people who want to be well-informed on the topic you’ve chosen. The links and surfer clicks will give you good ratings and the original content will make you unique.

Write good articles, put in plenty of keywords (don’t use them blatantly), make sure the links to the merchant website stand out and get other websites to link to you. That’s all you need to know to make a lot of money on the internet.

So there you have it, the big list of tasks that you need to do in order to become a successful affiliate marketer. Sounds too simple? Well, it sort of is simple, but not as simple as you’d expect. What you need to do is to write good articles that can really answer the questions your readers have in mind. This means finding a topic, becoming thoroughly acquainted with it and analyzing possible solutions.

After you have done all this, just keep doing it every day and wait for the flood of unstopable  traffic come to your site.

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Good post Minh. Article marketing along with blogging and social bookmarking has really worked for me.

I use SubmitYourArticle.com to get thousands of unique articles into hundreds of directories every month. You can not beat the traffic and search engine bait that creates top rankings for your primary keyword phrases.



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E-zines are electronic magazine with thousands of people
who have deliberately  signed up to receive different offers
in their niche market.

If you are in a network marketing business, the type of e-zine
you should  subscribe to should be focused on home businesses
and network marketing.

If you are a subscriber of these E-zines, you should be receiving
regular  updates, tips, and promotions of different type of home
business opportunities delivered to you weekly or monthly.

These make e-zines a perfect tool for marketing your home
business opportunity.  Therefore network marketing businesses
should be promoted using e-zines because it is a highly targeted
way of getting the attention of your exact or target audience.

However, you need to follow some precautions if you want to get
the best from  your e-zine marketing. To use e-zines, you need to
place an advert that will be delivered with the weekly newsletters
that goes out to the subscribers.

Now, you have to understand that some e-zines have as much as
100,000 or as small as 1,000 subscribers and that only a percentage
of these will open their e-mail for the newsletter.

A good e-zine has a 10% open rate same day and 5% before the
next e-zine. So if you are advertising with 100,000 subscriber expect
about 15,000 eye balls for your advert.

You should also use squeeze page as the landing page where every
e-zine subscribe who clicks on your link will be directed to. This page
should be able to get the contact information of any interested
subscribe to opt-in to your  offer.

When you are promoting, you need to select the type of advert that will
give you the highest return for your money.

Here are some of the type of e-zine advert you can choose from.

A) Top sponsor ad: This appears at the top of the E-zine. It is the very
first message subscribers see before reading the newsletter of the week.

There's also Middle and Bottom sponsor advert which appear at the middle
and bottom of the advert respectively. The top sponsor ad commands more
than the middle advert and the bottom sponsor advert commands the least
ad fee.

B) Solo advert: This type is sent out to the whole subscribers alone. There is
no other advert that comes with it. It also comes on a different schedule with
the newsletter. This type of ad is very expensive depending on the size and
effective response rate of the list.

For network marketers, it is best to utilize the top sponsor advert and not
advertise your company directly as this will get you nowhere. Your aim
should be to build relationships first before you introduce your business
opportunity when the hearts of your prospects have been trained to
appreciate your message and become very receptive to you.

In other words, it is best to give something away for free when you advertise
in e-zines using top sponsor advert. Your only weapon here is to craft a
compelling and hypnotic advert message that will psychologically force
your prospects to give you their e-mail address in exchange for your free gift.

Once you have succeeded doing this, the power to get this person to loyally
listen to you is now in your hands. You have to make yourself as a trustworthy
source of information by living up to it.

You achieve this by delivering 80% high quality content and 20% pitching
them your opportunity. That way, you will build value in the minds of your
prospects.

So if you are going the e-zine advertising route, choose your e-zines wisely
and continue advertising till you attract as many people as people who will
also be willing to join your home business when you make it available.

Last edited on Thu May 8th, 2008 03:37 pm by bigjonny



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