Friday, July 18, 2008

Two things which you make sucess

I struggled for a long time and got nowhere with my online business. But it's now beginning to turn around.

Here are a couple of things that I've personally done that are starting to get me some traction. This is not to say I'm a guru. I'm not. Yet. But things are beginning to go my way.

I hope these will provide some support to people who are in the down period with their online business - when you've discovered that you don't just put up a site and make millions.

Here we go:

1) Listen to your gut feel.

One of the things that attracted me to the business I joined was the promise of a pre-written email sequence to follow up with my opt-ins. In order to understand what people who opted in to my site were experiencing I opted in to my own site. And I was thoroughly dismayed.

The emails that came out were the epitome of 'interruption marketing' (hat tip to Seth Godin). They were full of SCREAMING and orders to DO THIS RIGHT NOW.

Most people who received those emails didn't much like them, so they hit the 'Spam' button pretty regularly. As a result, the delivery rate, which was low a year ago, became so low that by this year it was zero. And the pre-written emails were scrapped.

Luckily (and much to the disapproval of my sponsor at the time) I set up my own lead capture page, wrote or edited my own follow up emails, set up my own Aweber account and kept my optins well away from the 'official' email sequence. And my delivery rate has been consistently over 97%.

This is not meant as a brag. My point is this: there was a lot of pressure for me to use the 'company' system, and that would have been the easy option. But I was very uncomfortable at the thought of emails like that going out in my name, and using my email address as the 'reply to' address.

So I followed my gut feel and did my own thing - as much to protect my reputation as anything.

It's not easy to do your own thing when you're new in a business and your sponsor is encouraging you in the direction of the company system.

But, when your gut feel tells you otherwise, you should listen very carefully. And, as long as you're not breaking any terms or conditions, following your gut feel is usually not going to take you too far wrong.

2) Give others the benefit of your experience so that they can find success more quickly.

When I first set up a blog I thought that it had to be a marketing channel for my business. I was still finding my feet in the business and most of the benefits that I wrote about were simply re-stated from the company conference calls, emails and website.

Nothing I wrote at that time described my own experience. And when I read those early posts now I am, frankly, embarrassed. I also had about 1 visitor a week.

Then I realised that I could use my blog to provide support to others who were at the same stage I was. That I could actually provide something of value. It's also a very efficient way to provide support to people in my downline.

So I started to write about my own struggles and the things I'd learned, rather than pushing the business. The difficulties and successes I'd had and how I'd dealt with them.

Since then, my readership has gone up steadily and I actually enjoy writing my weekly post now - whereas before it was one of those tasks that loomed over me.

If you write about your own personal experiences it's much easier to draw people into your circle because, strange as it may seem, people can 'hear' that what you're writing is real.

It's a lot easier to get sales from people with whom you already have a relationship!

Just be sure to make a clear connection between what you're writing about and the focus of your blog!

So - two things that have helped to get things going my way:

1) Listening to my gut feel.

2) Using my experiences to offer support to others.

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Article Marketing To Grow Your Business

Article marketing is one of the easiest and most effective types of website promotion. Simply by writing articles that center on aspects of your website's theme and submitting them to top article directories, you will begin to see a pickup in website traffic. If you are not a confident writer, then you can easily and affordably hire a ghost writer for your writing projects.

Well written articles can bring you free website traffic from a huge increase in back links. The key to your success with article marketing is twofold. Firstly, your articles need to be well written, informative and relevant to your website. Secondly, you need to write and submit articles to high traffic websites regularly. Article marketing won't work as a website promotion strategy if you are simply doing it occasionally, you have to work to a regular writing and submission routine so that the number of back links increase over time.

The back links from other directories are important for website promotion in two different ways. They are a link from the article to your site that very interested readers of your article can follow and therfore, they are a means for highly targeted traffic to reach your site. They also serve an important SEO (search engine optimization) service because the search engine algorithms use the number of relevant, one way back links to your website as an important factor in assigning your ranking on search results pages.

Article marketing is effective as a website promotion technique because other websites and ezines can find your articles in article directories and publish your articles with a link to your website in the resource bio. Most article directories do not allow you to place embedded links in your article but do allow you to include links and marketing information in your resource box that appears below the article.

Your resource bio info can attract free website traffic by highlighting your expertise and anything you are particularly marketing with a link to relevant pages. People who wish to use your article on their website or in their ezine must agree to keep your resource information intact.

You can choose to write an informative article about some aspect of your business that a reader may be interested in, alternatively you can write a product review designed to encourage your reader to take the next step and buy (or at least consider buying) the product. Many internet entrepreneurs use article marketing to direct people to their website to offer them a free e-book or subscription to a newsletter so that they can build an opt-in email list for ongoing marketing purposes. Article marketing is one of the best ways to pre-sell a product because it allows you to gain enough credibility with your reader that they are more inclined to click on your resource box link to discover more.

Article marketing is a highly effective tactic to attract free targeted traffic to your website. You may have a great product and a excellent sales-pitch, but without targeted website traffic your online business will be going nowhere. However, if you are committed to writing at least one article a day and submit those articles to high traffic article directories as well as directories that have high search engine ranks, you will soon find that you will have incredible website visitors that are knocking on your online door.

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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Making Money With Your Blog Is Possible

As an indication of where we are as a society, there are a number of blogging business opportunities available for people who know their way around the Internet. With all sorts of interesting things like Google AdSense and other ways for people to get paid, the blog business opportunity is bigger than ever. You should be careful if you are going to consider this because you need to know how the rules are played and you need to know what counts and what does not and you need to know how you will get paid. All of these are things to consider and things which should be known when you are considering the blog business opportunity.

Blog is short for "web log", which is basically just someone's account of what happened somewhere. If a business owner wants to give more details about his business and opportunity, that's considered valid. Also considered a legitimate blog would be a theater producer that blogs about the theater. If someone maintains a blog who is a disgruntled graveyard shift worker at a hotel, they have a blog subject that is valid. What's fun about the many business opportunities is the ability to turn them all into cash.

Blogging for money is the same as anything else and it's all about driving traffic to your blog. The more people who read your blog then the more money you are likely to make. There is the added bonus that you can put advertisements on your blog that are related to your topic of your blog or the subjects of your various posts and these can make you money as well. Some would say that with the different ways to make money blogging, the old "website" may start to become a thing of the past. While that statement may be a little bit ahead of its time, there will likely be a day when webpages as we know them today are no longer. The blog is a comfortable format that we are all very familiar with as we've all had to keep journals in grade school and many of us probably kept diaries outside of school. So we all are familiar with the daily entry format of the single thought process that goes along and takes you from one thing to the next to the next.

Fortunately for those of us who enjoy the blog as a medium, they are sort of like the diary of the Internet. Diaries are still around today just as they were hundreds of years ago. So with the introduction of this new technology, turning the blog into a business opportunity seems a great thing to do right now. If you are beginning to wonder where the future is headed, we may already be here; if you are not familiar with the blog as a business opportunity and you have anything at all original to say then you had better get familiar with it really quick. For more information visit to http://sweethealthy.com/ and http://sweethealthy.blogspot.com

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Internet Back Links And Google Ranking

If you are aware of the Google ranking of websites, you must also be aware of certain factors that play a great role in heightening the ranks. You must also know that the backlinks are one of the most effective factors that are very important in improving the Google rank. If you are not quite well aware of the importance of the backlinks, click down this page since it will provide you with the necessary details.

How would you understand if the Google ranking of your website is high or not? You have to notice the page ranking of the pages of your websites. The higher the page rank, the higher the Google ranking of your website. If you are desirous to get your website listed in Google organic results, the important websites have to link to your websites. There are many website owners who generally manage to have a number of websites linked to their websites, bulk by bulk. If those websites are popular and frequently visited, and if the keywords of the backlinks are quite relevant, the linked websites are sure to be more and more popular. The page ranking also is sure to go high.

You might wonder if backlinks form the only factor which is important in deciding the Google ranking of the websites. The fact is that there are some more factors that are also quite important in deciding the Google ranking of the websites. These factors are discussed below.

The most important thing that matters in deciding the Google ranking of the websites or some pages is the quality of the content. It has to be taken care that the content has a uniformed density of keywords. The content has to be informative. The keywords should be used in a way that they should never appear to have been forced in to the content.

The keywords of the backlinks should be chosen after giving much thought to it. They should be attractive so that the visitors feel tempted to click on the backlink and visit the page. The more the number of the visitors is, the better if the Google ranking of the website since the number of the visitors into a website is one of the important factors that decide the Google ranking of the websites. Here lies the importance of the backlinks in Google ranking.

There are certain things that have to be kept in mind. Backlinking helps in facilitating the navigation of the visitor into your website. You have to take care that the websites from which the backlinks of your websites are should be of a high quality. If the quality of that website is too poor, it may harm the Google ranking of your website while if that website is high in quality, the backlinks from that website may heighten the Google ranking of this website. You also have to take care that the website where the backlinks link to your website contain relevant contents.
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