Saturday, November 10, 2007

What You Should Know About Starting An Internet Home Based Business

Are you thinking about starting an internet home based business, but concerned about the details? Here are some things that you should know.

Getting Started

There is the belief held by some that starting an internet home based business is simple and that anyone can do it. Although anyone can do it, I'd be doing you a disservice if I said that it is easy. The truth is that running an internet home business requires hard work and dedication.

Internet marketing does take time, effort, and some initial investment. However, starting a home based internet business is considerably easier than a brick and mortar business. There is little to no inventory to carry and virtually no overhead.

Get Rich Quick?

This is the trap that a lot of new, naive online home based business entrepreneurs fall into. The pursuit of a get rich quick scheme leads to wasting a lot of time, money and energy. Instead of chasing the impossible, do some solid research and find a worthwhile program to promote.

Be careful to avoid the programs that promise you will make millions of dollars without any investment of time or money. If that were really true wouldn't everyone be rich? Success isn't likely to happen overnight.

Hard Work

Thousands of business hopefuls begin internet home based businesses every year. Unfortunately, the majority of these new entrepreneurs will fail. They do not fail because of poor business ideas or services. While their services are very often needed, their business just required more work than they anticipated.

People are unaware of the time, energy, motivation, and dedication that it takes to make your online business a success. There are days when even the most devoted entrepreneurs get discouraged and want to quit. I have felt this way at times, but fortunately I never gave up and success followed.

What To Do Now

Get going! You need to do the research and put in the time that is required to begin and succeed with an internet business. Don't leave your future up to others. If you don't do it for yourself, no one else is going to either.

If you are meeting up with some road blocks and struggling to come up with ideas, find a business partner or mentor. A fresh set of ideas is always helpful.

You have the power to be successful beyond your wildest dreams. So get to work and see what you can achieve!



If you're thinking about getting started with an Internet home based business, visit Brian's Advantage Conferences website.

Brian McCoy is a 6-figure earner in the home business industry who specializes in coaching others on how to create a full time income via the internet while working from the comfort of their own home.

Friday, November 9, 2007

Top Profitable Ways to Use Autoresponders

Autoresponders are remarkable, versatile programs that do so much more than just automatically answer your email.

Here are a few ideas that will help you to creatively and productively use your autoresponder to transform the casual visitor into a profitable customer. Use your autoresponder to:

1. Publish a newsletter. Certain quality autoresponders will manage subscriptions and follow-up with interested prospects.

Your newsletter can keep your visitors informed about your services or products, while building your reputation as a credible expert in your particular business.

2. Publish a newsletter only for your affiliates. Inform them of current sales you are running and of promotional material that your affiliates can use themselves to increase their commissions.

Include tips, advice, and techniques that your affiliates can use to successfully go out and promote your business.

3. Write reviews. Cover books, software, music, e-books, movies, etc., and put each review in an autoresponder. Review your affiliate programs, using a link to your affiliate's page in your autoresponder.

4. Distribute your articles. Writing and distributing targeted articles is a powerful tool to build your business credibility, bring traffic to your site, and increase your sales potential.

If your articles contain valuable information, many editors will print what is known as a resource box for you. A resource box contains your bio and a brief description of your service or product. It can also contain your autoresponder address.

Let's say you've written fifty articles. Put them on separate autoresponder accounts and create a master list that contains the titles of each article, the autoresponder address, and a brief abstract. Then promote your master list.

Additionally, include your publishing guidelines so your affiliates can add their articles to your list, increasing the number of writers who are represented in your article list.

5. Create mailing lists. Inform subscribers to your articles when you've written new ones that they may want to publish in their own newsletter or website.

6. Automate your sales process. Use an ad to insure repeated exposure of your message, which has been proven to effectively increase sales.

In your ad, put your autoresponder address where a visitor will be exposed to numerous marketing materials. This multiplies the chances of converting visitors into customers.

For example, if you're selling a particular product, put testimonials about how spectacular it is on your autoresponder, and add a detailed, enticing description of your product.

7. Distribute advertising. Let's say you sell advertising on your website or in your newsletter or e-zine. Set your autoresponder to send the information about rates and how to place an ad automatically to all prospects' email addresses.

Then have your autoresponder follow-up. It can also send notification of any special deals you are currently offering.

8. Distribute an email course. Each day, have your autoresponder send out another lesson. Just be sure that each lesson has quality content - not a sales pitch.

Your content will do the selling for you, and will do it much more effectively. You can include tips centered on a different topic for each lesson, illustrating how your product will benefit the reader.

Include the tangible benefits the visitor will reap by purchasing your product. Make sure to include a paragraph or two at the end of each lesson enticing your prospect to consider making a purchase.

9. Automate a reminder about your service or product after a visitor has completed your course. This will increase the possibility of sales from visitors who have taken your course but are dragging their feet about actually making a purchase.

You can also use these reminders to promote new products or services, and the products and services of your affiliate programs.

10. Distribute free reports. This gives your visitor an idea of the type of information you can provide and the quality of your product or service. Make sure these reports are not sales letters or you will more than likely lose a potential customer than gain a sale.

11. Create trivia quizzes on your site and place the answers in an autoresponder. Your visitor will then be motivated to request your autoresponder, and you will have a record of the visitors' email addresses who took your quiz.

Or create a contest and have any visitors that enter send their responses to your autoresponder. Your autoresponder can be set-up to send them a confirmation of their entry.

12. Offer a trial version of your product. Give your prospects a sample of your ebook, course, software, membership, etc.

People who are exposed to a little taste often end up wanting the whole pie. You can also capture their email addresses when you offer them a free trial from your website.

Set up your autoresponder to give instructions on how to obtain their free trial, and then make sure to follow-up to try and close the sale.

13. Link to hidden pages on your autoresponder. For example, a hidden page could be your affiliate page that contains graphics, promotional articles, and text links that interested affiliates can make use of.

Inform visitors that they may have free access to your affiliate page by simply requesting your autoresponder. You will then gather a list of visitors who may be interested in becoming your affiliates.

14. Use an autoresponder on your order page. Post a request form for visitors to be notified of special offers or discounts in the future.

This creates a very effective mailing list that contains the names of people who are already your customers.

Now that you have proof that autoresponders can be used creatively, see if you can come up with some brilliant ideas of your own!




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Thursday, November 8, 2007

How to Learn the Greatest Copywriting Skill

The most powerful skill you can have as a copywriter is getting inside your prospects head and talking to them in their language. When you do that, and do it well, they’ll listen to you. When you’re talking to them about their most pressing problems, their most dire needs, and deepest desires…in their language…magic happens.

I’ll tell you exactly how to do that. But first…

You should know it’s not something you read about and then do. If you want to be the best, you must learn how to get to know your markets. In short, you must learn about people.

You’ll need to cultivate and develop a skill that many people lack. It’s the bane of many wives and girlfriends around the world. I’ll show you…

“Honey? Did you remember to make that phone call, today?”

“Honey. Did you make the call?”

“…huh?”

“I SAID…did you make the call?”

“…ummm, who was I suppose to call, again?”

That’s right! Listening. Simply listening to what others say. It’s not hard to do. Most people hear the things “they” want to hear very well, everyday. It’s just a matter of consciously focusing…and perhaps having a bit more courtesy. So just…

Pay attention!

Developing this one skill will serve you very well from now on. But for now you’ll be using it to become a better copywriter. And the more you listen, and less you talk, the more you’ll learn about people. After all, people are your market.

What will you be listening for? Simple.

What they say! Not only what they say…but HOW they say it. Their language, speech patterns, figures of speech, and what’s on their minds. You’ll listen to what’s bothering them, what their problems are, what they like and don’t like.

Basically everything.

Doing this one simple thing, long enough, will teach you how regular Joe’s and Mary’s talk. Not only that…but you’ll begin to understand their problems and concerns. Now I’ll tell you some specific actions to take.

Yes, you may be thinking that all you need to do is talk to people and listen. And you’ll be partly right. But lets take it a little further…

Power Copy Tip #1: Talk to people you know about things they buy. Don’t interview them because it’ll change the way they think. Millions of people do this every single day. I mean…talk to each other about things they buy, want to buy, or recently bought. So just engage them about it.

Pay very close attention to their emotions. Are there any specific benefits about a product that elicits strong emotions? Is there anything they hate about a product? Pay attention to “how” they say things. What words do they use?

Power Copy Tip #2: Talk to strangers. Just engage them in a friendly way and LISTEN to what they have to say. Ask them about something you’re writing about. The product or product ‘category’. Or be direct about it.

Tell them you’re writing about a particular product and ask for their opinions and feelings about the product. Then say nothing. Most people LOVE talking about their feelings, opinions, attitudes, etc. You’ll be surprised at how little you really need to say. Just touch a warm or hot button and stand back! You’ll get an earful.

And then…LISTEN.

The words, the expressions, the feelings, etc. Hey, this is excellent research you’ll be doing.

Power Copy Tip #3: Pop culture is your friend. So let it tell you as much as possible about people and your markets. If you’re researching a particular market try to find some excellent places where they gather. Like…magazines, Google them and go to their web hubs…the places they go for news about their common interest.

Then dig in! Look for topics, themes, or stories that appear more than once. If it appears more than once then you know it’s something important. Keep a sharp eye out for “their language”. You know the drill…their problems, hopes, fears, desires, etc.

There you have it! This is something that’s so very simple to do. And if you’re serious about becoming the best you can be, you’ll do it. You’ll learn a lot and in time you’ll kick your copy a few notches up, or more!



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Monday, November 5, 2007

Internet Marketing Strategy: Find Your Niche!

Have you ever been told to find your niche? With an online business, finding your niche will be your most important Internet marketing strategy.

Getting your website to the top of search engine listings is an important key to bringing more traffic to your website and more traffic means more money. One of the easiest ways to do this is via highly targeted niche marketing. Highly targeted niche marketing can be attained either through marketing to your niche by using longer, less searched for key phrases or by marketing to sub-niches within your niche.

An easy way to get started using a more targeted niche marketing strategy is to research three and four word length key phrases that are particular to your website’s niche and are not being strongly competed for already in the search engines. Remember, the lower the competition, the higher your website will rank by default in the search engines.

Once you have actually found a profitable niche you will need to decide what kind of business plan you want to implement into your niche marketing campaign. Many prefer to market products that are made by others but are related to their niche. They may do this by creating affiliate websites where they promote the product and then send the buyer to the vendor’s site through a link on one of their web pages. Others actually prefer to create their own products. The advantage of selling your own product is you get all the money rather than a small commission.

Anyone who has been involved in niche marketing will tell you that being the first to arrive on a specific market and develop customer loyalty has a huge advantage. Niche markets have a strong habit of being widely accepted and small niches are always the next big thing. Once they become big, they are no longer a niche. This will attract larger companies who have a lot more to invest in capturing the market and will attempt to take over the market place. If you manage to get to the market before the large companies, you stand a chance of competing with them and staying one step ahead before they come with their resources and promotion.

Finally, you need to remember that a successful Internet marketing strategy is not written in stone. You will need to adapt, revise and revamp your Internet marketing strategy as necessary to ensure not only short term but also long term success. Pay close attention to the larger companies. How are they advertising? How often? Can you tell what there target audience is by how they spin there ads? This can lead to clues as to which direction you should take your campaign.



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Sunday, November 4, 2007

Get a Little Search Engine Love for your Web site

The search engines play a crucial role in sending traffic to your website. In fact most of the websites depend on the search engines for their staple dose of traffic although these days it is advised that you should target other websites, blogs, social networking websites, three article directories, online directories, and online forums too.

In order to derive maximum traffic from various search engines you need to make your website search engine friendly and properly communicate to their algorithms what key phrases and keywords are important to your website. Let us quickly go through a few steps that can help you make search engines fall in love with your website.

Write for the people and not just for the search engines: Some people have this misconception that you need to manipulate text in order to rank well on the search engines; partially this is true but most often it is not. The best way to fair well in the search engines is to write and organise your content in such a manner that it is best suited to human reading. The more human-friendly content you have the more search engine friendly content you have. The search engines want you to write relevant, well-organised content so that they can present quality results to their search engine users.

Research your keywords in the beginning You should be very clear about what keywords you want traffic from the search engines; focus on the wrong key words and all your effort will go to waste. If you're not sure about what keywords to focus upon them go head and hire a consultant but never underestimate the importance of keyword-research. Don't postpone the selection of your key words until the completion of your website because during many stages you will need to know what relevant keywords your website is trying to target.

Organise paragraphs under headings and subheadings Headings and subheadings quickly tell your human readers as well as the search engine crawlers what your pages all about. The headings and subheadings often represent the gist of content so be careful what words you use when you formulate your headings and subheadings; preferably use your keywords and key phrases when writing them.

Emphasise your important words When you highlight or emphasise your important words it conveys both to your readers and the search engine crawlers that these words are important to understand your message.

Give distinct titles to your web pages Just as your name is important to your existence, the page titles are important for your web pages. Never have a single title -- your company name, for example -- for all your pages. Your page title should a property represent your web page and in fact use the central sentence of your web page as your page title. Avoid creating esoteric and confusing titles although they may seem attractive. Always use a title that clearly defines the message of your web page. Preferably use your keywords with creating your title but make sure you don't unnecessarily stuff the title with all your important keywords: this will end up spoiling the effect of your title. Organise your keyword-distribution carefully Although he shouldn't manipulate your content for the sake of search engines you can arrange your keywords without seeming spammy. For instance, use your main keywords a new title, in your headings and subheadings, twice or thrice in your first paragraph and then at least once in every paragraph, highlight your keywords once or twice on your web page, use your keywords as hyperlink text when you link to other pages of your website and when you are organising your thoughts using bullets then use your keywords did to.

Submit your link to niche directories There are online directories available to all niche markets and some of these online directories are highly trusted by the search engines, that is, if your website appears in one of these online directories than it automatically gets a higher ranking in the search engines. There are many business and consumer directories; very carefully select the most appropriate category and then submit your website under that category.

Publish a blog Not having some blogs is so passé; a blog is such an effective marketing, branding, combination, awareness and SEO tool that it is highly recommended that you have a blog for your business. Highly targeted blogs are quickly indexed by the search engines and whenever you post your blog posts they get the text quicker than your normal web pages. Also somehow the blog posts get ranked higher than the normal pages for the same sort of content. There are many other numerous benefits of publishing a blog but here are just talking in terms of SEO.

Use bread crumb navigation Bread crumb navigation is a system that you often come across on category-based websites. Take for instance a directory listing: initially ago on the homepage, then you click one of the categories, then you click one of the sub-categories, then you click one of the sub-sub-directories -- and so on -- until you arrive at the desired page. On top of the page you will see something like Main->Clothes->Shirts->Men->Large->Striped. This type of navigation system allows you to click on a parent directory and immediately move to another section of the website. This is good for your SEO.

Search engine friendly URLs You get an SEO boost when your URL contains some of your keywords. The search engines don't appreciate dynamically generated URLs much; they prefer URLs that make sense in the real language. For instance, doublespark-seo.co.uk/search-engine-optimisation/ is always better than doublespark-seo.co.uk/page.php?p=34. Manually it is easy to achieve but if you are using a content management system that make sure that your content management system generates search engine friendly URLs and not dynamic URLs that require a parameter to access a page.

So these are a few things that you can do on your website that will make the search engines fall in love with it.



Gary Mattoc-03 is the CEO of Doublespark Cambridge SEO Services, a Cambridgeshire based Web Design Peterborough and SEO consultancy.