Archive for August, 2009

A Powerful Internet Marketing Technique

A Powerful Internet Marketing Technique

If you are in internet marketing and have ever wanted to send another email to only those on your list that didn’t open your email, here is a video with some great information for you.

For many, including me, the only way to do that is to resend to everyone on your list. What if you could send an email to just the ones that didn’t open your previous email?  Well, for the users of the Aweber autoresponder system, here is a way to do just that.

Visit Vince Craine’s – Marketing Journey blog and watch this video now.

If you use Aweber you will find that this technique will add benefits to your internet marketing effort immediately.

Aweber is a powerful tool for internet marketing and it is applicable across all niches. You should take advantage of this strategy now. Vance has done an excellent job with this video.

Visit Vince Craine’s – Marketing Journey blog and watch this video now.

This powerful technique will be of use to anyone that has a list in Aweber. It is particularly useful for those are using email adswaps as a list building tool. But the technique can be use by anyone that wants to isolate the people that did not open an email. You can segment them and send an email to only those people that did not open your email.

That’s a pretty need feature and Vince shows you exactly how to do it. This will help your internet marketing efforts and your list building efforts regardless of you niche. Take a look at this video now.

To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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3 Keys To Affiliate Marketing Success

3 Keys To Affiliate Marketing Success

Finding affiliates is a critical task for those that are in affiliate Internet marketing. Affiliates make money for you and drive traffic to you business. That is good for you, but another thing that it true for those that become affiliates is that affiliate marketing is one of the fastest and easiest ways to break into internet marketing and start making money online.

Being an affiliate means that you promote and send traffic to a product or products that someone else has created. The product owner provides you with a URL to the product and you develop your business by promoting that URL – referred to as an affiliate link. As an affiliate you receive a commission every time you make a sale from your affiliate link.

How do you insure that you can benefit or profit from being an affiliate? You have already benefitted in several ways by saving in your start up costs and efforts. You didn’t have to create your own product, develop your own sales page with graphics, or many other things.

You were able to start your business with all of these things already in place. Here are three keys to insure that your business as an affiliate becomes successful.

1. Product.

Selecting a product is a task you will have to pay a lot of attention to. And this has to be done well before you start thinking about a marketing campaign . It will require research and effort because you must choose the right product to promote. This is one of the first steps that you must take as an affiliate and it is essential to your future success.

During your research you will find hundreds of affiliate products over a wide range of topics that you could promote. Internet marketers call these niches. Your task is to find one that has a high probability that it will indeed help your business succeed.

You need to consider things like the amount of competition, are there keywords that people are searching for, is the sales page of good quality, do you like the product, would you buy it, can you work and establish yourself as a player in the existing market for the product.

You task is to find an affiliate product you can  actually sell.

2. Prospects.

Just having an affiliate product that you feel will sell does not insure that you will have a successful business. Your next task is just as important. You must start working on building a list of potential customers. You must not overlook this element of your affiliate marketing business.

It is a very big factor in your future. This list will be the people that will buy from your sales letter. As an affiliate marketer you will not be successful if you do not start and continue to build this list of prospects. One technique that has proven to be success in this list building effort is to start off your efforts by directing your traffic to a something that you offer for free.

By offering something for free you can get people to opt into your list. You are exchanging your free gift for their contact information. Once they are on your prospect list, you start to send them information. You use a squeeze page and an autoresponder to obtain these prospects and then you start a long term effort to build a relationship with your prospects  and you offer them additional value over time.

3. Promotion.

Once you have a list of prospects your task is to convert them into customers. Now you start your promotion efforts. This will continue as long as you remain in business and continue to have prospects on your list – you will constantly be adding to your list.

There are many wants to promote your affiliate link. One is to constantly use your autoresponder to send out follow up message that contain promotions for your affiliate product.

Another is to set up a blog. This may be one of the best methods that you can employ to  promote your affiliate products. You can write articles or posts as they are called to emphasize some aspect of you product. You could promote other products that fit with your niche. You can use your blog to link to several different affiliate products and promote all of them right on the blog.

There are more things that you will do over time. However, these three are important if you want to insure that your internet marketing efforts to promote affiliate products take you along a path that will bring you opportunities to make money online.

ToYour Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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Getting Into Internet Marketing For Income

Getting Into Internet Marketing For Income

Internet Marketing has grown into one of the largest methods to make money online that exists. Twenty years ago, not much existed in the way of internet marketing. Now it has boomed into a such a vast market for making money online that new businesses are flocking into it daily.

Anyone that is looking to obtain extra income or that wants to create a business that stands apart from others can get started and find success with internet marketing. It is important to remember that this is still a business and all businesses require time and effort. There is lots of competition but many are continuing to find their way to new customers and opportunities for producing income by becoming involved in an internet marketing business.

If you want to get into this relative new way of building a business, then search for information that can drive your business forward into technology is the path to your success.

One of the main components that any successful Internet business must focus on is the need to develop a system that will drive potential customers and individuals to their website/blog or the main selling point for their products.  This can be effectively achieve by implement systems designed to make sure that visitors respond in the correct way by signing up for the information or product being offered.

For those just getting into the internet marketing obtaining and understanding the information that it takes to succeed will allow you to move forward with many opportunities for developing a successful business.

If you are still undecided about how to build your customer base online, then you should start by looking at the wealth of knowledge that is available for potential customers.  One of the newest options available is “Internet Wealth.”

This report is filled with information which includes everything that you need to know to begin driving customers to your place of business the Internet.  This report is unique because it has built the information around the average user. It has done this while providing you with simple easy to follow steps and formulas that take you to toward being successful with your internet marketing business.

If you are ready to discover your wealth on the Internet, then you can download this free report Internet Wealth.  In this free report you will find a basic introduction to all of the information that you need to help your move forward with your internet marketing business and start creating the potential to make money online.

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To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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How To Find Internet Marketing Success

How To Find Internet Marketing Success

If you are interested in obtaining success in internet marketing, I imagine that that headline caught your attention.  And that is step one in all of your marketing efforts.

Step 1. Get attention.

It doesn’t matter what you are doing your first activity is to get the attention of your audience.

If you want to sell something you need to get the attention of your potential customer. Why do you think all of those sales letters that you see on affiliate marketer’s web sites start off with some big bright red headline? They want to get your attention.

Why do you thing that newspaper ad say 50% off? They want to get your attention.

Think about the many subject lines that you have seen on the emails that you receive. Again, they want to get your attention – this time so that you will open the email.

Probably, your potential customer doesn’t care how much money you make or how smart you are. But he likely will be interested if you can tell him what you can do for him. How will what you are doing and offering help your customer?

Answer that to his satisfaction and you probably have a foot in the doorway to success.

Step 2. Keep attention.

Once you have managed to get someone to pay attention, you need to keep their attention. And you need to keep them interested in what you are doing. You need to keep their mind and interests focus on what you are offering.

You have several assets that will help you in this endeavor. Let’s look at a couple of them.

a. Your blog.

A blog is a place where you can interface with your customers and your potential customers. Let’s say your blog is on internet marketing. Regardless of your subject, the following  principles apply.

Don’t go off subject: in the case of internet marketing don’t start posting about politics. You may know all the ins and outs of politics, but your readers are interested internet marketing. They will watch the news or read the newspaper to get their political information.

b. Your newsletter or emails (list building).

If you are in most any niche and are using the internet to attempt to get sales, you will need some means to stay in contact with anyone that has expressed interest in what you are doing and offering.

You may call it by several different names, but in the end you need a list of prospects and a means to send them information. Remember, you are trying to keep them interested; so, get an autoresponder and set it up so that you can send them emails on a regular basis. Again, make sure your emails are related to what they are expecting.

Then expose them to your content and your offers. If you come up with a new product or service let them know about it. If you find a great affiliate program that fits your area of concentration, let them know about it. The key here is to constantly let them know about the products that you are promoting. Not to overdo it, but expose, expose, expose, and then expose again.

There are many more steps that you will need to take in order to get your internet marketing journey to success. But getting attention and keeping attention are essential. An internet marketing business is just like any other business; people must be made aware of what you have to offer and they must be aware that you still have it to offer or that you have an alternative that will help them to be successful.

To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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Will They Leave – That Is Exit Your Site

Will They Leave? – That Is Exit Your Site

Probably, this is a problem that all internet marketers must address when planning for traffic to their site or blog. A lot of the traffic will look around for a bit and then exit. But that is not what you want to happen.

What if you could capture some of that exit traffic? If you could you might drastically increase the number of visitors that fill out the opt-in box on your site/blog. What is the key to make this happen?

When someone tries to leave your site, they become part of what is known as exit traffic. Now if you could capture part of that exit traffic you would be able increase your conversion rate. This is where using exit traffic scripts come into play.

Many website visitors will exit your site shortly after reaching it, without really taking a good look at what you have posted including your offers. Some internet marketers estimate that as much as 95% of your visitors will leave and never really know what your site is all about.

If you use exit traffic scripts you can tell them about one of your special offers. It’s best to offer them something that requires an opt-in so that you have the opportunity to stay in contact with them in the future.

If your exit traffic script brings up a box that tells the visitor that is about to leave to consider some option before he leaves, he will at least see your offer. He may still exit but at least you will get the opportunity to tell him to consider your offer before he does.

If your exit traffic script does not contain an opt-in box, then it should immediately redirect your visitor to some special offer page. This way you get a second chance for the visitor to stick around and take a look at your offer.

It is estimated that using exit traffic scripts can increase you opt-in rate by as much as 300%. You don’t have to be a programmer to take advantage of exit traffic scripts. Inexpensive, or even free, ones are available on the internet.

There is a free report available that will help you learn how these scripts work and how they can be use in ways that will not be offensive to your visitors. This report is called 3 Easy Steps That Will Increase Conversion Rates By 300%.

If you will take the time to read this report you will find information on which scripts work and which will turn your visitor off and make him exit even quicker than he had planned.

This is a free report and all you need to do to do is Click Here To Dowload Your Free Exit Conversion Report and take advantage of using exit traffic scripts to enhance your internet marketing efforts. If you want to really step up your chances of increasing your conversion rates, look for an exit traffic script that rotates your offers.

To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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Using Social Marketing To Get Targeted Traffic

Using Social Marketing To Get Targeted Traffic

Social marketing or networking is becoming an internet marketing sensation. Well it probably has already obtained it. Twitter is driving it off the scale. But there are many different social marketing applications out there for the internet marketer to use.

Many of the social marketing websites such as article directories, blog directories, Squidoo, and many others are considered by Google as authority sites.

Getting Google’s attention so that they rank your website/blog will lead to traffic coming to your site – especially if you can get ranked high.

Part of Google’s the ranking methodology involves links. These are established by the websites owners and users. In the ranking system each link is given a measure of authority. In the end of what Google’s methodology does, you will get traffic dependent on the search engines determination and evaluation of the information on your pages.

Your pages have the opportunity to receive lots of free traffic if you can put information on the pages that Google deems as worthy of a high ranking.
Google is king among the search engines right now, but the battle rages every day. Regardless, getting your pages to rank high means more traffic.

Google also has a method where you can get more traffic to your site by paying for it. This involves setting up an advertising campaign for your site.
If you can set up an advertising campaign that has really relevant ads, you can achieve a high click through rate for your site. Pay Per Click advertisers spend millions of dollars trying to get exposure for their sites. And they do this every day.

Since Google ranks your ad based on the ads performance, the more relevant you can make your ad and get higher click through rates the cheaper you advertising costs will be. PPC is a good way to get traffic, but you must keep modifying your ads to improve their performance. Relevancy is important and Google wants to make money also. As a consequence they will reward you for making your ads relevant.

You can also use advertising on some of the social networking sites like FaceBook, MySpace, Friendster, etc. to attract traffic to your site. These sites depend on the interaction between their members and the members can help sites get more traffic.

For example some social networking sites have ranking systems where their members determine a ranking for your site. Someone sees you’re your site and gives it a five star rating – you hope. That could entice some other member of the social networking community to visit your site. As more and more people in the community get to know you, your site might get higher ratings and you will get more traffic as a result.

It’s all about the perceive needs of your visitors. If you can figure out what a large segment of the community wants, their psychological needs, you stand a chance of getting a lot of traffic to your site. Just stay relevant to the topic of the community.

Social marketing is all about connecting with the members of the community. When you learn to do that you will see an improvement in your internet marketing efforts. And the beauty of social networking is that the traffic that you get is targeted.

Here is a free report on social networking that will help you with your internet marketing efforts.

To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton