AGLOCO
Ever notice on the web that some a small amount of people are making all the money (YouTube, Google, MySpace, eBay, Skype, etc.).
As a users, we usually are not offered anything – well that is changing. I just signed up for AGLOCO and its sole purpose is to give back to its members. They are giving 100% profits in the form of shares to members. Their profits are generated from search and advertising revenue to user-generated content sites.
Go check out AGLOCO to see how it works, but from my point of view I don't change what I do, surf as normal and they work in the background to collect money for me.
One feature I really like is that it is free forever. ALGOCO is rewarding the early people who help build out the network (which is why I am sending I am promoting this. Click on this link to go directly AGLOCO (with my member id#), and I will get credit if you sign up. http://www.agloco.com/r/BBBD0252
My advice: sign up now – invite all your friends and let's make the most of the Internet. Just think if you had shares in google from the start!
Don't you deserve your share to!
Faye Brown
http://www.agloco.com/r/BBBD0252
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Gaining The Trust of Your Business Partners Is Important
Gaining The Trust of Your Business Partners Is Important
© Faye Brown
When you start your own business, you might think you can do everything by yourself. After all, you have likely dealt with a boss for too long and want to get away from the influence of others. However, quickly after becoming a business owner you will likely see that you could use a little assistance in some areas. The best way to get this type of assistance is though business partners. You can form great business partnerships with other business owners and gain trust from your business partners.
The most important part of the whole thing is gaining trust from others. You may wonder why trust is so important. However, in the world of business, everything is important. From the biggest sale to the smallest, everything must be done with integrity. If you don t gain trust from your business partners and refuse to operate your business with honor in mind, you will find your business goes out as quickly as it came in.
So, remember that the most important thing you can possibly do is form great relations with partners and keep those relationships strong. You can gain trust from your business partners by following through with your word, showing them that you need them, and showing them how they too can profit from the relationship.
Once you gain trust from your business partners all you have to do is maintain that trust. As long as you conduct yourself with honor and honesty, this should be no problem at all!
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Faye Brown is a success coach using the Pay It Forward philosophy. For the best in home based business opportunities or to help you and your downline have success! Visit: Paying It Forward
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© Faye Brown
When you start your own business, you might think you can do everything by yourself. After all, you have likely dealt with a boss for too long and want to get away from the influence of others. However, quickly after becoming a business owner you will likely see that you could use a little assistance in some areas. The best way to get this type of assistance is though business partners. You can form great business partnerships with other business owners and gain trust from your business partners.
The most important part of the whole thing is gaining trust from others. You may wonder why trust is so important. However, in the world of business, everything is important. From the biggest sale to the smallest, everything must be done with integrity. If you don t gain trust from your business partners and refuse to operate your business with honor in mind, you will find your business goes out as quickly as it came in.
So, remember that the most important thing you can possibly do is form great relations with partners and keep those relationships strong. You can gain trust from your business partners by following through with your word, showing them that you need them, and showing them how they too can profit from the relationship.
Once you gain trust from your business partners all you have to do is maintain that trust. As long as you conduct yourself with honor and honesty, this should be no problem at all!
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Faye Brown is a success coach using the Pay It Forward philosophy. For the best in home based business opportunities or to help you and your downline have success! Visit: Paying It Forward
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Saturday, November 18, 2006
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Winning the Traffic Exchange Game
by: Shannon Herod
Copyright 2004 by Shannon Herod
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 Want
The 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 Page
A 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.html
Follow Up
O.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/dreams2freedom
Now 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 Sales
In 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. Have a solution to a problem people have and you will get people begging you for more information.
Hint: People at traffic exchanges want more traffic.
About the author:
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Shannon Herod is the CEO http://www.dreams2freedom.com
Do you want a Flood of Traffic to your site? How about a huge Profit Pulling list of subscribers? Well then Shannon Herod Publishes a newsletter for people like You!
Send an email to: traffic_machine@GetResponse.com for more info.
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Shannon offers a really good tip for us on traffic exchnges. Surfing traffic exchanges is not a waste of time as it helps you get hits to your website. the more hits you have the higher you will rank in the search engines. She certainly does have a point about everyone being there for the same reason, so try capture pages and see if it creates interest. This experiment should be interesting.
For many more valuable marketing tips visit
http://growabiz-with-fayebrown.blogspot.com
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Winning the Traffic Exchange Game
by: Shannon Herod
Copyright 2004 by Shannon Herod
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 Want
The 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 Page
A 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.html
Follow Up
O.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/dreams2freedom
Now 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 Sales
In 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. Have a solution to a problem people have and you will get people begging you for more information.
Hint: People at traffic exchanges want more traffic.
About the author:
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Shannon Herod is the CEO http://www.dreams2freedom.com
Do you want a Flood of Traffic to your site? How about a huge Profit Pulling list of subscribers? Well then Shannon Herod Publishes a newsletter for people like You!
Send an email to: traffic_machine@GetResponse.com for more info.
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Shannon offers a really good tip for us on traffic exchnges. Surfing traffic exchanges is not a waste of time as it helps you get hits to your website. the more hits you have the higher you will rank in the search engines. She certainly does have a point about everyone being there for the same reason, so try capture pages and see if it creates interest. This experiment should be interesting.
For many more valuable marketing tips visit
http://growabiz-with-fayebrown.blogspot.com
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Tough Decision To Make? Some Ideas to Help
Greg Balanko-Dickson
Everyday entrepreneurs seek to find a balance between the risks and the rewards. Personally, I have found that it is so easy to fall into the trap of believing my own sheepdip and so anything I can find to help remove my personal bias is a welcome addition. So when I saw that Tony from Success from the Nest had a post over at Lifehack titled Risk versus Rewards I was intrigued.
I am just getting to know Tony and obviously he has been ‘around the block’ in business. For a ‘creative guy’ he seems to have a fair share of analytical skills. You can read his post and get the Risk versus Rewards excel worksheet.
As Tony states “What you end up with is a clear picture, based on your own thoughts about specific factors, of which direction to take.” Therein lies my concern and advice to be cautious in how you interpret the resulting graph.
“As an example, let say you’re trying to decide whether to go skiing this weekend. You’d begin by listing the rewards - such as fun, seeing friends, etc. - along with a weight on a scale from 0-5 on the importance of each reward. Next you’d list the risks - you can’t ski, breaking something, death, etc. - and the weight of each risk. The worksheet uses a simple calculation to determine the outcome, and displays a message along with a simple bar graph of the results.” Via Lifehack
The is nothing wrong with the tool as long as you remember that it simply reflects a picture of the risks versus rewards based on your own thoughts about specific factors - just make sure that you do not start to believe your own stories. Whenever you are making any major decision make sure that you ask yourself quality questions to uncover other factors that you may have missed.
What information are you missing?
What other factors need to be included?
Who do you trust that can review your list and make suggestions and observations on what you may have missed?
Is this a decision that could escalate into a make it or break it situation? If so, you need to look deeper for information and factors you may have overlooked.
Take your time when making major decisions, look for confirmation from various sources, use logic, and tools like Tony’s Risk versus Rewards worksheet.
Greg Balanko-Dickson
The Business Performance Coach
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Looking at a variety of internet business is a good idea. Have a book and take notes on the different business you visit. Always go back through them before making a final decision. The second time through, you know more about what to look for.
For the ultimate home based business opportunity, for new comers or seasoned proffesinals visit : http://growabiz.googlepages.com
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Everyday entrepreneurs seek to find a balance between the risks and the rewards. Personally, I have found that it is so easy to fall into the trap of believing my own sheepdip and so anything I can find to help remove my personal bias is a welcome addition. So when I saw that Tony from Success from the Nest had a post over at Lifehack titled Risk versus Rewards I was intrigued.
I am just getting to know Tony and obviously he has been ‘around the block’ in business. For a ‘creative guy’ he seems to have a fair share of analytical skills. You can read his post and get the Risk versus Rewards excel worksheet.
As Tony states “What you end up with is a clear picture, based on your own thoughts about specific factors, of which direction to take.” Therein lies my concern and advice to be cautious in how you interpret the resulting graph.
“As an example, let say you’re trying to decide whether to go skiing this weekend. You’d begin by listing the rewards - such as fun, seeing friends, etc. - along with a weight on a scale from 0-5 on the importance of each reward. Next you’d list the risks - you can’t ski, breaking something, death, etc. - and the weight of each risk. The worksheet uses a simple calculation to determine the outcome, and displays a message along with a simple bar graph of the results.” Via Lifehack
The is nothing wrong with the tool as long as you remember that it simply reflects a picture of the risks versus rewards based on your own thoughts about specific factors - just make sure that you do not start to believe your own stories. Whenever you are making any major decision make sure that you ask yourself quality questions to uncover other factors that you may have missed.
What information are you missing?
What other factors need to be included?
Who do you trust that can review your list and make suggestions and observations on what you may have missed?
Is this a decision that could escalate into a make it or break it situation? If so, you need to look deeper for information and factors you may have overlooked.
Take your time when making major decisions, look for confirmation from various sources, use logic, and tools like Tony’s Risk versus Rewards worksheet.
Greg Balanko-Dickson
The Business Performance Coach
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Looking at a variety of internet business is a good idea. Have a book and take notes on the different business you visit. Always go back through them before making a final decision. The second time through, you know more about what to look for.
For the ultimate home based business opportunity, for new comers or seasoned proffesinals visit : http://growabiz.googlepages.com
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Tips On How To Overcome Isolation While Working At Home
Rose Mary
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Rose Mary's article gives us strategies to overcome some challenges that we face when working at home. We must communicate with other peple on a daily basis in order to maintain our sanity.
Faye Brown
For mopre tips on marketing your home based business visit.
Faye's Online Marketing Journal
Although working at home provides much peace and quietness, too much time spending alone can have adverse effects on a persons health. Long hours of working alone without much interaction with people can give rise to isolation. If this problem is allowed to persist, feelings of loneliness can gradually develop. Some people quit working at home because of this problem. In order to maintain a high level of enthusiasm while working at home, isolation must be overcome. Appropriate methods can be implemented to achieve this.
As different people have different levels of needs for social interaction in their life, you need to find out the level of social interaction you need to remain healthy and energetic. You have to decide how much time you want to spend with others. Knowing the amount of social contact you want, you can then develop appropriate ways to achieve it. Below are some suggestions on how isolation can be overcome while working at home.
* Keep in contact with friends by using e-mail, sms and telephone. * Create your own blog and invite parties to discuss common topics of interests. * Create online forum discussion groups. * Listen to the radio program while you work, but turn it on at a very low volume. The radio can keep you company while you work. * Run errands at regular intervals. * Take a few minutes break every hour of working. * Take short walks in the neighborhood sometimes for breaks. * Make lunch dates and catch up with friends over a meal. * Organize get-together parties for friends and family. * Take up a short course to increase your knowledge on your work. You can meet more people as well as learn new insights about your work. * Join a professional group. You will get to know more people and build more social contacts. * Involve in some volunteer work organized by community service groups to help needy people. * Participate in sports activities with people who have the same interest. * Develop a group of people doing the same kind of work as you. Hold regular gatherings to share insights and ideas with one another.
The easiness of creating opportunity for interaction with people depends to a certain extent on the environment you stay. If you are staying in an urban area, you can have the opportunity of interacting with your neighbors staying in the same area. When you come out of your house to run errands, you may meet familiar people and can communicate with them. However, if you are staying in a rural area, you have to travel a long way to meet other people. Due to the long journey, you tend to come out of your house less often to run errands or meet friends. This will lessen your opportunities for daily interaction with other people. Perhaps, in this case you will need to depend more on telephone and electronic means, such as emails, sms and internet forums, for daily contacts.
If you are considering working at home but fear that you might suffer isolation, you should be assured that there are ways to overcome this problem. If you are currently working at home and are experiencing isolation, you can try the above tips to improve your situation. In order to maintain a high level of enthusiasm while working at home, isolation must be overcome. Those working at home can still have an active social life. Working at home can be a fulfilling experience if appropriate methods are used to overcome isolation.
Rose Mary. Freelance Writer on various topics. You can get more information on working at home at Free Affiliate Program.
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Rose Mary's article gives us strategies to overcome some challenges that we face when working at home. We must communicate with other peple on a daily basis in order to maintain our sanity.
Faye Brown
For mopre tips on marketing your home based business visit.
Faye's Online Marketing Journal
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Avoiding Home Business Failures
Avoiding Home Business Failures
by: Srinivasan R.G.
It’s been said that 80% of all small business dies within the first 3 years. And the rest are somehow struggling along with meager revenues. Only a handful is successful. Home based business has an even shorter lifespan. Every enthusiastic home based venture starts out with a big promise, a lot of excitement and enthusiasm.
However at the first signs of trouble or a slow take off the people become panicky. Having been accustomed to regular pay check, when the money does not roll in week after week and the bank balance hits the low digits, there is a sense of panic and the exciting home business gets trashed.
My own experience tells me this happens just when you are through with organizing, setting up and the difficult transition period of reaching out to the customers, you decide to wind up the business in favor of a job.
Now here are a few tips to persevere and make a success of your home business.
Plan in advance your finances for running your family for a minimum period of 6 months.
Plan every aspect of your business – right from creating the product to final shipments - on paper. Don’t leave out anything. This is what is called a business plan. Make it elaborate and group each aspect under a heading and subheading.
Home workers need to set a disciplined work schedule. Having no bosses around or compulsions of commuting may make you take things easy and relaxed. At least for the first 6 month work as if you are in employment and put in the required hours. You can relax and cut down on working hours when you start earning enough.
Don’t procrastinate or put things off for tomorrow. Action is one major ingredient for success. If you need to do something do it today. Do it now.
It is essential to keep your motivation high. Read about the success of other small business and home business owners and learn what they did right. Duplicating someone else who has succeeded makes it easy to succeed yourself.
You may suddenly find yourself alone without the social support of colleagues and friends. Even persons you considered your best friends may avoid you if they feel you are in trouble. That is OK. You get to know who’s who in times of adversity. Learn to depend on yourself than outside support.
Be prepared to take the temporary pain and denials. Robert Kiyosaki of ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ fame and his wife slept in their car for a few months and lived in a basement of a friends house for many more months to achieve what they set out - their financial freedom.
Believe in yourself and keep going even if the going gets tough. The rewards far outweigh the pains and temporary sufferings. Remember the darkest hour is just before the dawn breaks out and sun rises.
About the author:
R.G. Srinivasan is a Managerial professional, Writer and Author. He writes a regular blog on home-business resources aailable at http://www.home-businessresources.blogspot.comwith online marketing tips, resources, opportunities and online promotional strategies.
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Lots of people quit thier homebased business just when they are on the verge of making money. I also believe that you have to commit as certain period of time to they business and a dollar amount to grow your business.
6 months sould be the shortest lenght of time that you comitt to making your business work.
You also must see that a business is hard to build for free, and to have a monthly budget set aside to promote your business with.
Faye Brown
For information on the very best in Home Business Ideas Visit:
Faye's Home Business Ideas
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by: Srinivasan R.G.
It’s been said that 80% of all small business dies within the first 3 years. And the rest are somehow struggling along with meager revenues. Only a handful is successful. Home based business has an even shorter lifespan. Every enthusiastic home based venture starts out with a big promise, a lot of excitement and enthusiasm.
However at the first signs of trouble or a slow take off the people become panicky. Having been accustomed to regular pay check, when the money does not roll in week after week and the bank balance hits the low digits, there is a sense of panic and the exciting home business gets trashed.
My own experience tells me this happens just when you are through with organizing, setting up and the difficult transition period of reaching out to the customers, you decide to wind up the business in favor of a job.
Now here are a few tips to persevere and make a success of your home business.
Plan in advance your finances for running your family for a minimum period of 6 months.
Plan every aspect of your business – right from creating the product to final shipments - on paper. Don’t leave out anything. This is what is called a business plan. Make it elaborate and group each aspect under a heading and subheading.
Home workers need to set a disciplined work schedule. Having no bosses around or compulsions of commuting may make you take things easy and relaxed. At least for the first 6 month work as if you are in employment and put in the required hours. You can relax and cut down on working hours when you start earning enough.
Don’t procrastinate or put things off for tomorrow. Action is one major ingredient for success. If you need to do something do it today. Do it now.
It is essential to keep your motivation high. Read about the success of other small business and home business owners and learn what they did right. Duplicating someone else who has succeeded makes it easy to succeed yourself.
You may suddenly find yourself alone without the social support of colleagues and friends. Even persons you considered your best friends may avoid you if they feel you are in trouble. That is OK. You get to know who’s who in times of adversity. Learn to depend on yourself than outside support.
Be prepared to take the temporary pain and denials. Robert Kiyosaki of ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ fame and his wife slept in their car for a few months and lived in a basement of a friends house for many more months to achieve what they set out - their financial freedom.
Believe in yourself and keep going even if the going gets tough. The rewards far outweigh the pains and temporary sufferings. Remember the darkest hour is just before the dawn breaks out and sun rises.
About the author:
R.G. Srinivasan is a Managerial professional, Writer and Author. He writes a regular blog on home-business resources aailable at http://www.home-businessresources.blogspot.comwith online marketing tips, resources, opportunities and online promotional strategies.
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Lots of people quit thier homebased business just when they are on the verge of making money. I also believe that you have to commit as certain period of time to they business and a dollar amount to grow your business.
6 months sould be the shortest lenght of time that you comitt to making your business work.
You also must see that a business is hard to build for free, and to have a monthly budget set aside to promote your business with.
Faye Brown
For information on the very best in Home Business Ideas Visit:
Faye's Home Business Ideas
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Do You Know What Niche Marketing Is
Faye Brown
Do you understand what your niche market is? Do you know
how to target your best prospects?
You often hear people talk about niche marketing, but are you
entirely sure what your niche market is. You have to determine
who is in the greatest NEED of your product or service.
Why would you have to know your niche Market? Well think
about it, you want to get your advertising out to the people that
would benefit and might be interested in your product or service.
If you are selling golf equipment you probably don’t want to
advertise to pet owners looking for dog training items. You
would want to focus your attention on someone who needs a
lighter club or wants the best balls for better accuracy.
What is the age range of your customer or business partners that
you are trying to attract? Is your target audience anyone or is it
geared to a specific age group, mom’s with kids, retired people,
or maybe the baby boomer generation.
You also need to know the demographics of your niche market.
This is determined by what countries or area of you countries that
you are able to do business in. Getting to know more about the
population and income levels of you market will help have you to
better placement of your advertising.
Once you have your niche market understood you could create
advertising that is focused on the your best target market. This
Saves time and money and helps you get the best conversion
rate of your advertising budget.
Do you have more than one niche market? That is entirely possible.
Yes, even if it’s just for one product or service. Multi markets may
be able to benefit from what you offer. To get the most benefit
devote more time or money into your ideal target market and then
follow with the next niche market. Always start with the largest
group first.
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For other related Internet marketing information visit:
Faye's Online Marketing Journal
Do you understand what your niche market is? Do you know
how to target your best prospects?
You often hear people talk about niche marketing, but are you
entirely sure what your niche market is. You have to determine
who is in the greatest NEED of your product or service.
Why would you have to know your niche Market? Well think
about it, you want to get your advertising out to the people that
would benefit and might be interested in your product or service.
If you are selling golf equipment you probably don’t want to
advertise to pet owners looking for dog training items. You
would want to focus your attention on someone who needs a
lighter club or wants the best balls for better accuracy.
What is the age range of your customer or business partners that
you are trying to attract? Is your target audience anyone or is it
geared to a specific age group, mom’s with kids, retired people,
or maybe the baby boomer generation.
You also need to know the demographics of your niche market.
This is determined by what countries or area of you countries that
you are able to do business in. Getting to know more about the
population and income levels of you market will help have you to
better placement of your advertising.
Once you have your niche market understood you could create
advertising that is focused on the your best target market. This
Saves time and money and helps you get the best conversion
rate of your advertising budget.
Do you have more than one niche market? That is entirely possible.
Yes, even if it’s just for one product or service. Multi markets may
be able to benefit from what you offer. To get the most benefit
devote more time or money into your ideal target market and then
follow with the next niche market. Always start with the largest
group first.
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For other related Internet marketing information visit:
Faye's Online Marketing Journal
Friday, November 03, 2006
Amazing Secrets Of A Free Traffic Generation MASTER
by: Willie Crawford
Copyright 2004 Willie Crawford
Without traffic to your website, you're not going to make any money in your online business (unless you're able to tap into someone else's traffic).
For many websites... especially new sites, one of the fastest, surest ways to drive traffic to the site is pay per click search engines. The RISK in using pay per clicks is that you don't know how well that traffic is going to convert before you've paid for it. You can adjust your webpages and your pay per click listing fairly quickly, but today I want to share with you two of my MAJOR free traffic generation methods.
The most powerful weapon I've used in my marketing arsenal lately is actually... blogging. A blog is simply an on-line diary or weblog. Since they are usually updated frequently, the search engines love them and visit them often.
The way that I use my blogs is that when I make a post, I include a link to a site or webpage that I want spidered by the search engines. Google actually visits my blogs daily, and takes snapshots of everything there, and follows links from the pages, and takes snapshots of those pages! So, I make minor changes to pages that I want to get ranked higher, and then I "help" Google to find those updated pages. It's a simple, ethical, and very powerful method.
I'm fairly new at blogging, but I'm quickly getting the hang of it. Most of what I know about blogging I learned from a course by my friend Paul Short. The course is called RSS Exposed. I recommend you get a copy of Paul's course today and set aside 2 hours to digest it. Get it at:
http://www.profitautomation.com/app/adtrack.asp?AdID=109478
Paul is like me... he's very busy, and doesn't have time for fluff. So his course is under 100 pages, and it's all "stuff" that you can read and then immediately implement.
Does this stuff work thought. My friend Stephen Pierce taught me that NOTHING is more powerful than concrete PROOF. So let's look at how I rank for a few keywords that I'm focusing on right now. I'll show you with a few of the more than 100 niches that I have top 10.... often top 3 rankings for. I know that showing you these examples may attract the attention of potential and existing competitors, so I won't show you the most lucrative ones :-)
Readers who know me, know that my real online success started with a simple soul food or southern cookbook! That one cookbook still generates a very nice six-figure income! This season of the year, I know that people are on-line searching for holiday recipes and also gift-giving ideas. My logs show me how my market finds me... keywords and sources. They show that for the cookbook, most find my site through Google, with MSN being a distant second. Here's how I ranked for a few cooking related terms (as of November 21st, 2004):
Soul Food Recipes - #2 out of 1,220,000
Soul Food - #3 out of 8,840,000
Soul Food Cookbook - #2 out of 273,000
Deep Fried Turkey Recipe - #3 out of 257,000
Deep Fried Turkey Recipes - #4 out of 302,000
Sweet Potato Pie - #2 out of 614,000
Sweet Potato Pie Recipe #2 out of 394,000
Fried Chicken Recipe - #2 out of 861,000
Fried Chicken Recipes - #2 out of 1,160,000
Southern Fried Chicken - #2 out of 436,000
Deep Fried Turkey - #14 out of 330,000
Pound Cake Recipe - #2 out of 547,000
Macaroni And Cheese Recipe - #1 out of 207,000
Collard Green Recipe - #4 out of 21,200
Southern Recipes - # 15 out of 4,970,000
... I guess I need to work on that last listing :-)
One of my other markets is "Internet Marketing," and those looking to start or improve upon an online or home-based business. How do I rank there? Here are a few of the thousands of terms that bring me in free search engine traffic (again based upon my website logs):
Internet Marketing 101 - # 1 out of 5,550,000
Internet Marketing Course - #2 out of 10,600,000
Free Internet Marketing Course - #2 out of 11,800,000
Free Internet Marketing Lessons - #2 out of 2,810,000
Homebased Business - #9 out of 1,930,000
Homebased Business Course - #1 out of 522,000
Free Homebased Business Course - #1 out of 483,000
For those of you without your own product, let's see how I do with products I have reprint rights to. One is a web copywriting course by Bob Serling called Power Copywriting For The Internet. When someone is searching for that course they search on very specific terms... but... since their search is so specific, a higher percentage of them will buy when they get to my website. This is a more niche market, but some of my rankings are:
Internet Copywriter + Bob Serling - #1 out of 985
Web Copywriting + Bob Serling - # 7 out of 918
Web Copywriting Course + Bob Serling - #5 out of 16,400
Power Copywriting For The Internet - #2 out of 128,000
Another product that I have reprint rights to is an excellent course on how to increase your website, and advertising, conversion rates. It's called, "Small Changes - Big Profits." Here's my ranking on keywords customers have recently used to find (and buy) this product:
Increase Website Conversion - #6 out of 2,480,000
How to Increase Website Conversion - # 6 our of 2,490,000
Note that when you enter that last phrases, Google tells you that "how to" is a very common phrase and therefore not included in the search. However, notice that Google found an additional 10,000 pages when I gave it that expression. Ok, so I'm confused too :-)
My second most powerful weapon right now is that I write lots of ezine articles... like this one. Since 1998, I would estimate that I've written over 300. Those articles are a very powerful way of getting one-way links to my site. Those articles are a powerful way for people with specific problems or interest to find my sites.
Here's a simple example of how powerful articles can be. I know for a fact that the majority of people in network marketing aren't doing that great. I also know why. The proof that I know what they are doing wrong, and how to correct it, is provided by the fact that I was recently the #2 producing representative in a major network marketing company for 2 consecutive months. The only reason I wasn't #2 longer is that I've only been with the company a little over 4 month, and that in my fourth month, I was the #1 top producing rep in the entire company!
Recognizing what many network marketers are doing wrong... especially those that market over the internet, I wrote an article on the topic. This article targeted those who wanted to know why their network marketing is failing. So if you go to Google and enter...
"Network Marketing Failing" without the quotation marks, you'll see that the returns for webpages featuring my article take up the entire first page. If a person were to type in the statement "My Network Marketing Is Failing" my page ranks #1 out of 312,000. Do people search on these terms? Not as many as search on more competitive terms, but why not go after easier terms... why not go after "the low-hanging fruit."
People do visit my sites after reading the hundreds of articles that I've written, and they do make purchases and join my network marketing team. That's proof that writing and properly using articles is a very powerful traffic generation technique. I have lots of resources on how to properly do this inside my private membership site. If you're not a member, you should join today. Inside the site you'll find lots more solid, usable information like you just gotten in this article.
I've just shared with you two of my most powerful free traffic generation methods. I actually know HUNDREDS but only use a handful. I believe that it's better to get really good at using a few rather than tinkering with (but never mastering) many. You need to do your research and find the techniques that work best for you.
If you'd like a really comprehensive course on website traffic and sales generation methods, I recommend John Reese's Traffic Secrets Course. Check out John's course to learn a ton of ways to outflank your competition at:
http://www.profitautomation.com/app/adtrack.asp?AdID=110203
It's 14 DVD's, so realize that it will throw a LOT of information at you. Make sure that you pick just a few techniques he covers, and then put them into immediate action rather than letting the sheer volume of information overwhelm you.
As I've demonstrated, being a master at generating free, responsive traffic doesn't have to be complicated or even difficult :-)
About the author:
Willie Crawford is a corporate president, published author, seminar speaker and host, tele-seminar speaker and host, retired military officer, karate black belt, master network marketing trainer, and lifetime student of marketing. He shows people how to actually generate substantial income on-line using very simple, easily modeled systems. An example of such a system that you can study and duplicate is at:
http://ProfitMagician.com
Copyright 2004 Willie Crawford
Without traffic to your website, you're not going to make any money in your online business (unless you're able to tap into someone else's traffic).
For many websites... especially new sites, one of the fastest, surest ways to drive traffic to the site is pay per click search engines. The RISK in using pay per clicks is that you don't know how well that traffic is going to convert before you've paid for it. You can adjust your webpages and your pay per click listing fairly quickly, but today I want to share with you two of my MAJOR free traffic generation methods.
The most powerful weapon I've used in my marketing arsenal lately is actually... blogging. A blog is simply an on-line diary or weblog. Since they are usually updated frequently, the search engines love them and visit them often.
The way that I use my blogs is that when I make a post, I include a link to a site or webpage that I want spidered by the search engines. Google actually visits my blogs daily, and takes snapshots of everything there, and follows links from the pages, and takes snapshots of those pages! So, I make minor changes to pages that I want to get ranked higher, and then I "help" Google to find those updated pages. It's a simple, ethical, and very powerful method.
I'm fairly new at blogging, but I'm quickly getting the hang of it. Most of what I know about blogging I learned from a course by my friend Paul Short. The course is called RSS Exposed. I recommend you get a copy of Paul's course today and set aside 2 hours to digest it. Get it at:
http://www.profitautomation.com/app/adtrack.asp?AdID=109478
Paul is like me... he's very busy, and doesn't have time for fluff. So his course is under 100 pages, and it's all "stuff" that you can read and then immediately implement.
Does this stuff work thought. My friend Stephen Pierce taught me that NOTHING is more powerful than concrete PROOF. So let's look at how I rank for a few keywords that I'm focusing on right now. I'll show you with a few of the more than 100 niches that I have top 10.... often top 3 rankings for. I know that showing you these examples may attract the attention of potential and existing competitors, so I won't show you the most lucrative ones :-)
Readers who know me, know that my real online success started with a simple soul food or southern cookbook! That one cookbook still generates a very nice six-figure income! This season of the year, I know that people are on-line searching for holiday recipes and also gift-giving ideas. My logs show me how my market finds me... keywords and sources. They show that for the cookbook, most find my site through Google, with MSN being a distant second. Here's how I ranked for a few cooking related terms (as of November 21st, 2004):
Soul Food Recipes - #2 out of 1,220,000
Soul Food - #3 out of 8,840,000
Soul Food Cookbook - #2 out of 273,000
Deep Fried Turkey Recipe - #3 out of 257,000
Deep Fried Turkey Recipes - #4 out of 302,000
Sweet Potato Pie - #2 out of 614,000
Sweet Potato Pie Recipe #2 out of 394,000
Fried Chicken Recipe - #2 out of 861,000
Fried Chicken Recipes - #2 out of 1,160,000
Southern Fried Chicken - #2 out of 436,000
Deep Fried Turkey - #14 out of 330,000
Pound Cake Recipe - #2 out of 547,000
Macaroni And Cheese Recipe - #1 out of 207,000
Collard Green Recipe - #4 out of 21,200
Southern Recipes - # 15 out of 4,970,000
... I guess I need to work on that last listing :-)
One of my other markets is "Internet Marketing," and those looking to start or improve upon an online or home-based business. How do I rank there? Here are a few of the thousands of terms that bring me in free search engine traffic (again based upon my website logs):
Internet Marketing 101 - # 1 out of 5,550,000
Internet Marketing Course - #2 out of 10,600,000
Free Internet Marketing Course - #2 out of 11,800,000
Free Internet Marketing Lessons - #2 out of 2,810,000
Homebased Business - #9 out of 1,930,000
Homebased Business Course - #1 out of 522,000
Free Homebased Business Course - #1 out of 483,000
For those of you without your own product, let's see how I do with products I have reprint rights to. One is a web copywriting course by Bob Serling called Power Copywriting For The Internet. When someone is searching for that course they search on very specific terms... but... since their search is so specific, a higher percentage of them will buy when they get to my website. This is a more niche market, but some of my rankings are:
Internet Copywriter + Bob Serling - #1 out of 985
Web Copywriting + Bob Serling - # 7 out of 918
Web Copywriting Course + Bob Serling - #5 out of 16,400
Power Copywriting For The Internet - #2 out of 128,000
Another product that I have reprint rights to is an excellent course on how to increase your website, and advertising, conversion rates. It's called, "Small Changes - Big Profits." Here's my ranking on keywords customers have recently used to find (and buy) this product:
Increase Website Conversion - #6 out of 2,480,000
How to Increase Website Conversion - # 6 our of 2,490,000
Note that when you enter that last phrases, Google tells you that "how to" is a very common phrase and therefore not included in the search. However, notice that Google found an additional 10,000 pages when I gave it that expression. Ok, so I'm confused too :-)
My second most powerful weapon right now is that I write lots of ezine articles... like this one. Since 1998, I would estimate that I've written over 300. Those articles are a very powerful way of getting one-way links to my site. Those articles are a powerful way for people with specific problems or interest to find my sites.
Here's a simple example of how powerful articles can be. I know for a fact that the majority of people in network marketing aren't doing that great. I also know why. The proof that I know what they are doing wrong, and how to correct it, is provided by the fact that I was recently the #2 producing representative in a major network marketing company for 2 consecutive months. The only reason I wasn't #2 longer is that I've only been with the company a little over 4 month, and that in my fourth month, I was the #1 top producing rep in the entire company!
Recognizing what many network marketers are doing wrong... especially those that market over the internet, I wrote an article on the topic. This article targeted those who wanted to know why their network marketing is failing. So if you go to Google and enter...
"Network Marketing Failing" without the quotation marks, you'll see that the returns for webpages featuring my article take up the entire first page. If a person were to type in the statement "My Network Marketing Is Failing" my page ranks #1 out of 312,000. Do people search on these terms? Not as many as search on more competitive terms, but why not go after easier terms... why not go after "the low-hanging fruit."
People do visit my sites after reading the hundreds of articles that I've written, and they do make purchases and join my network marketing team. That's proof that writing and properly using articles is a very powerful traffic generation technique. I have lots of resources on how to properly do this inside my private membership site. If you're not a member, you should join today. Inside the site you'll find lots more solid, usable information like you just gotten in this article.
I've just shared with you two of my most powerful free traffic generation methods. I actually know HUNDREDS but only use a handful. I believe that it's better to get really good at using a few rather than tinkering with (but never mastering) many. You need to do your research and find the techniques that work best for you.
If you'd like a really comprehensive course on website traffic and sales generation methods, I recommend John Reese's Traffic Secrets Course. Check out John's course to learn a ton of ways to outflank your competition at:
http://www.profitautomation.com/app/adtrack.asp?AdID=110203
It's 14 DVD's, so realize that it will throw a LOT of information at you. Make sure that you pick just a few techniques he covers, and then put them into immediate action rather than letting the sheer volume of information overwhelm you.
As I've demonstrated, being a master at generating free, responsive traffic doesn't have to be complicated or even difficult :-)
About the author:
Willie Crawford is a corporate president, published author, seminar speaker and host, tele-seminar speaker and host, retired military officer, karate black belt, master network marketing trainer, and lifetime student of marketing. He shows people how to actually generate substantial income on-line using very simple, easily modeled systems. An example of such a system that you can study and duplicate is at:
http://ProfitMagician.com
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