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Here’s an overview of how all the different internet marketing strategies that are out there can all work together to increase website traffic.
Supporting tutorials: Social marketing: How to Profit on Facebook
Email Marketing: How to Build a Profitable Email List
Web Site Tune-Up: How to Increase [...]
There are many places where you can post your articles and pull in all sorts of good traffic and give your site a search engine rank boost. The first place to submit articles is on this list of the most popular article submission sites on the internet.
There are many places where you can post your articles and pull in all sorts of good traffic and give your site a search engine rank boost. The first place to submit articles is on this list of the most popular article submission sites on the internet.
Creating a web site to attract opportunity seekers (for example) is great. People are online all the time looking for ways to supplement their income and start a business and you can bring tons of them to your web site and turn them into leads for your business.
But if you look around at what [...]
If you’re got great content for your emails and blog, it’s time to get it in front of as many people as possible in as short a time as possible. Welcome to Article Marketing…
“Blogging” is more than just an unpleasant sounding word. It represents a new era of the internet where you can easily communicate with your site visitors, get their feedback, and gain an online following.
What’s the big deal with blogs? And how can they be used (and used effectively and efficiently) to bring in the traffic and the money?
Supporting tutorials Behind the Scenes: Choosing and Setting Up a Blog
Advanced Ways to Market Your Blog (coming soon)
How Do [...]
Facebook is a great place to find prospects for your business. It’s free, it’s easy, and it can deliver great results if you know how to use it. Here’s how to use it, and use it effectively.
Supporting tutorials: How to quickly create an effective [...]
The first step to successful Twitter marketing is knowing how to attract a lot of followers.
Here are the top tips to building a huge followers list:
Learn more about automating Twitter here (affiliate link–see my warning on the left). I spent several months and [...]
If you’re going to be in business, you are going to need to own your own domain name. Here’s a collection of tips and advice to help you make smart domain name choices.
It use to be that having your own domain name added to the professionalism and legitimacy of your organization, branded you as a [...]
And you thought espionage was only for fortune 500 companies and American action films. Break out your tinted glasses and pull up your trench coat collar–we’re going hunting for the information your competitors would rather you not know about…
As you consider branching out into new opportunities, I recommend two things:
First: Find businesses that will take your own learning to the next level.
I mentioned this in the video–the route to wealth that I chose looked like:
learn internet marketing –> learn to run a business –> learn real estate investing
Once I identified that, I [...]
As you consider branching out into new opportunities and creating a suite of businesses that make you money, I recommend a couple things:
Network marketing is great, but there’s one major problem you run into.
Many companies have rules against combining your business with other businesses, which stops you from capitalizing on the business building effect [...]
I now present the first edition of “Doctored Baby Photos”.
I know what you’re thinking–and you’re right: “More than one edition of this would be too many…”
Videos, MP3’s, Podcasts, Webinars–each of these mediums can be used to bring traffic to your web site and increase visitor conversion once they arrive. Nothing captivates an audience like a good video or an entertaining / informative audio piece.
The main issues…
But it takes a while to put something like this together, right? And how [...]
Videos, MP3’s, Podcasts, Webinars–each of these mediums can be used to bring traffic to your web site and increase visitor conversion once they arrive. Nothing captivates an audience like a good video or an entertaining / informative audio piece.
The main issues…
But it takes a while to put something like this together, right? And how [...]
This is not your grandma’s email list. Here’s an inside look at what you can accomplish with an email list on steroids.
After creating quite a few email lists I’ve found there are certain things you want to ask from your visitors and certain ways you want to ask them that will make it much more likely that they’ll fill out your form:
You want to ask for their name and email address, of course. Their first name [...]
Millions of people use search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN to find information, products, and services.
Somebody right now is searching for what you offer and, if you know how, you can get your site to pop up at the top of the list of web sites they find.
It doesn’t have to be technical…
Here’s [...]
This video will show you how to give your marketing budget a huge boost, as well as give you ideas on how to identify your best customers and increase your sales. All at the same time…
Syndication is the act of creating something once and then having it automatically broadcast all over the place. The whole idea is that you want to get maximum exposure for the least amount of work.
Newspapers do this with popular columnists and comic strips, radio does this with well known radio programs and personalities, and [...]
Testimonials are one of the key ingredients to successfully launching and selling any service or product. That being the case, you have to be proactive about collecting them. Here are some ways to go about doing that…
Prep for the launch
First off, you want to collect testimonials for your product before it goes live. Don’t launch [...]
Here’s an example, from one of my web sites, of the 3/10/30 Rule in action…
RealEstateInvestingForBeginners.com, is a real estate education and mentoring site. People are online all the time looking for ways to put their free time and money to work and real estate is a great place to do it.
But if you look [...]
If you do things right, a web site can do all the dirty work for you and your business–all the selling, telling, convincing, pitching, and explaining.
So what’s left over for you to do at that point? Why, exactly what you want to be doing of course…
Building a relationship with your customer.
Because in most businesses [...]
As long as you have a blog up and running, you might as well make another stream of income with it…
If you have people coming to your blog on a regular basis, you could make a pretty penny with the following:
AdSense
With one snippet of code you can place Google ads on your blog. It’s simple [...]
As long as you have a blog up and running, you might as well make another stream of income with it…
If you have people coming to your blog on a regular basis, you could make a pretty penny with the following:
AdSense
With one snippet of code you can place Google ads on your blog. It’s simple [...]
There are two ways to get marked as spam–one way is by the people you send your emails to and the other is by the mail services themselves. You need to be aware of both of them to get your messages delivered and read.
The first step to successful email marketing is actually getting your emails delivered so they can be read.
There are several things you want to keep in mind when sending out emails to make sure you stay on an email provider’s good side. If you make too many mistakes, your emails will be sent to [...]
The first step to successful email marketing is actually getting your emails delivered so they can be read.
There are several things you want to keep in mind when sending out emails to make sure you stay on an email provider’s good side. If you make too many mistakes, your emails will be sent to [...]
If you have several different products, but only one web site to sell them with, there is a lot of potential for improvement. Even if you only have a single product or service, there are probably many different groups of people who buy from you for many different reasons. Here’s what to do about that…
Often [...]
There’s a lot of tutorials here on things that search engines like. It’s equally important to know what kind of things will get you banned, blacklisted, and shunned by search engines (such that they won’t return your phone calls or text messages, and they’ll avoid you in public settings…).
These are sometimes called “black hat” techniques, [...]
People will buy from you when they’re ready to buy, not when you’re ready to sell. That being the case, you want to keep in touch with your prospects on a regular basis.
Very few things compare to the ease and cost effectiveness of email marketing when it comes to keeping in touch with people. But [...]
Facebook is a great place to find prospects for your business. It’s free, it’s easy, and it can deliver great results if you know how to use it. Here’s how to use it, and use it effectively.
Supporting tutorials: How to quickly create an effective [...]
I’ve got a great idea–I want to write a program that will instantly create the perfect web site for every business.
The first step to successful Twitter marketing is knowing how to attract a lot of followers.
Here are the top tips to building a huge followers list:
Learn more about Tweet Adder here (this is an affiliate link–see my warning on the left).
I spent [...]
The first step to successful Twitter marketing is knowing how to attract a lot of followers.
Here are the top tips to building a huge followers list:
Learn more about automating Twitter here (affiliate link–see my warning on the left). I spent several months and [...]
Search engines find your web site using little programs called “robots” or “spiders” that search the internet for new content. These are busy little beavers, continually scouring the internet for the latest and greatest information. If you know how to cater to them you’ll get your site noticed by search engines.
If you’re going to be in business, you are going to need to own your own domain name. Here’s a collection of tips and advice to help you make smart domain name choices.
It use to be that having your own domain name added to the professionalism and legitimacy of your organization, branded you as a [...]
You could sit down and brainstorm key words about your business, but why start from scratch? Why not start by seeing what key words your competition is using? If a number of your competitors are using certain key words, it’s likely because they’re getting results with them. Here are a few ways to find out [...]
Testimonials are one of the key ingredients to successfully launching and selling any service or product. That being the case, you have to be proactive about collecting them. Here are some ways to go about doing that…
Prep for the launch
First off, you want to collect testimonials for your product before it goes live. Don’t launch [...]
Want to know how to find new customers before your competition even knows they exist? Here’s how it works:
For most actions that we as human beings take, we generally go through a research phase (where we think about and study up on things) and then we go through the action phase (where we actually do [...]
Sometimes you’ve got traffic coming to your web site, but nobody is biting. How do you figure out what the problem is?
The first thing to look at is where that traffic is coming from. If you have a web analytics package like Google Analytics then you can look at your site statistics and get an [...]
After researching a variety of techniques and measuring the results, here are the best ways to bring traffic to your website through facebook. Because none of us, as business owners, have time to waste, I’ve broken these strategies down into steps you can accomplish in under 10 minutes a day.
Facebook and other social networking sites [...]
“Web site optimization is achieved through monitoring core statistical values to up your conversion metrics.”
Up my what?!? What did you just say???
Nobody has time to decipher the “geek” language, but that’s usually what you have to deal with when you’re learning how to monitor and improve your web site.
That’s often what happens when [...]
Web site optimization is achieved through monitoring core statistical values to up your conversion metrics.
Up my what?!? What did you just say???
Nobody has time to decipher the “geek” language, but that’s usually what you have to deal with when you’re learning how to monitor and improve your web site.
That’s often what happens when [...]
There are a couple of ways you can get a quick feel for a web site and how important it is. If you want to compete in the search engines with a competitor, if you’re deciding whether to try and get backlinks from a particular site, or you want to get a feel for how [...]
You could sit down and brainstorm key words about your business, but why start from scratch? Why not start by seeing what key words your competition is using? If a number of your competitors are using certain key words, it’s likely because they’re getting results with them. Here are a few ways to find out [...]
Here are several different ways you can create a video for you business. These ideas will run the whole gamut–from creating professional quality work (more expensive) to making video that looks like something out of “Creature from the Black Lagoon” (very inexpensive).
Remember: content is the most important aspect, and anyone can create good content. [...]
As long as you have a blog up and running, you might as well make another stream of income with it…
If you have people coming to your blog on a regular basis, you could make a pretty penny with the following:
AdSense
With one snippet of code you can place Google ads on your blog. It’s simple [...]
Search engines find your web site using little programs called “robots” or “spiders” that search the internet for new content. These are busy little beavers, continually scouring the internet for the latest and greatest information. If you know how to cater to them you’ll get your site noticed by search engines.
Here is an invaluable exercise to go through as you create your web site. I do this religiously. It’s time to play the “who do you know” game.
If you want to sell to dentists, who do you know that is a dentist? Is your target small business owners? Who do you know that’s a [...]
The first concern most people have when it comes to blogging is: “What do I write about in the emails I send out?”
Don’t worry. After reading this, you will never want for topics to write about again.
In fact, if you follow what I talk about here, you’ll quickly run into the second concern most people [...]
There are two ways to get marked as spam–one way is by the people you send your emails to and the other is by the mail services themselves. You need to be aware of both of them to get your messages delivered and read
The spam button
The thing that immediately comes to most people’s minds when [...]
There are two ways to get marked as spam–one way is by the people you send your emails to and the other is by the mail services themselves. You need to be aware of both of them to get your messages delivered and read.
The first concern most people have when it comes to blogging is: “What do I write about in the emails I send out?”
Don’t worry. After reading this, you will never want for topics to write about again.
In fact, if you follow what I talk about here, you’ll quickly run into the second concern most people [...]
The first concern most people have when it comes to email marketing is: “What do I write about in the emails I send out?”
Don’t worry. After reading this, you will never want for topics to write about again.
In fact, if you follow what I talk about here, you’ll quickly run into the second concern most [...]
“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer…”
We all know we’re supposed to keep an eye on our competitors, but how is this supposed to help us compete with–and beat the socks off–our competition?
Supporting tutorials: How To Organize And Use Your Competitor’s Information (coming [...]
Backlinks (links from other people’s web sites that go to your site) are a major contributor to how well you rank in search engines. Here’s a method to get more links coming into your web site through finding out where your competitors are getting theirs.
The pages you see on your competitor’s web site are just the pages they want you to see. Very often there is a lot of information on their site that they think you can’t find (and they wouldn’t want you to find), but you can find it. You’ll be surprised what you’ll learn about them…
Even [...]
“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer…”
We all know we’re supposed to keep an eye on our competitors, but how is this supposed to help us compete with–and beat the socks off–our competition?
Supporting tutorials: How To Organize And Use Your Competitor’s Information (coming [...]
What are the search engines looking for on your web site when they decide how to rank your site? The place to start for a search-engine traffic magnet is on your own home page…
If you only do the things talked about in this tutorial, your site is not going to get [...]
Social networking sites are not only a great way to drum up new business, but they’re a great way to find out how to get more people to buy what you offer.
You see, I can use any number of different marketing strategies to drive traffic to my site, and then I can see what [...]
Social networking sites are not only a great way to drum up new business, but they’re a great way to find out how to get more people to buy what you offer.
You see, I can use any number of different marketing strategies to drive traffic to my site, and then I can see what [...]
If you do things right, a web site can do all the dirty work for you and your business. So what’s left over for you to do at that point? Why, exactly what you want to be doing of course…
…building a relationship with your customer.
Because in most businesses that involve sales, there’s a dilemma that [...]
Let’s go over the foundation of successful search engine optimization. For all the work you can do on your own web site to make it search engine friendly, most of what you need to do takes place off of your web site.
The best way to get your web site to rise to the top of [...]
Let’s go over the foundation of successful search engine optimization. For all the work you can do on your own web site to make it search engine friendly, most of what you need to do takes place off of your web site.
The best way to get your web site to rise to the top of [...]
The beauty of Facebook and LinkedIn is that there are methods for finding and building a relationship with potential clients on a couple of different levels.
Most of the time you’ll start out by getting to know people one at a time, which is just fine when you’re new to social marketing.
Start to build a [...]
What’s the secret to successful article marketing? What do the pros know that the rest of us don’t?
Is it really worth the time and effort?
If you market your articles the wrong way, article marketing is a big waste of time and won’t increase website traffic. Luckily, we won’t be talking about the wrong way [...]
What’s the big deal with blogs? And how can they be used (and used effectively and efficiently) to increase website traffic and bring in money?
Supporting tutorials Behind the Scenes: Choosing and Setting Up a Blog
Advanced Ways to Market Your Blog (coming soon)
How Do [...]
Facebook is a great place to find prospects for your business. It’s free, it’s easy, and it can deliver great results if you know how to use it. But it can also be a huge waste of time.
“I don’t have time to figure this stuff out!”
Of course you don’t. None of us, as business owners, [...]
Videos, MP3’s, Podcasts, Webinars–each of these mediums can be used to increase website traffic to your web site and increase visitor conversion once they arrive. Nothing captivates an audience like a good video or an entertaining / informative audio piece.
The main issues…
But it takes a while to put something like this together, right? And [...]
Millions of people use search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN to find information, products, and services.
Somebody right now is searching for what you offer and, if you know how, you can get your site to pop up at the top of the list of web sites they find.
It doesn’t have to be technical…
Here’s [...]
There are a couple of ways you can get a quick feel for a web site and how important it is. If you want to compete in the search engines with a competitor, if you’re deciding whether to try and get backlinks from a particular site, or you want to get a feel for how [...]
You’ll hear the term “keywords” used a lot on this site. If you don’t understand the meaning then you could spend a lot of time feeling like you’ve missed something important.
Because your keywords are the basis of everything you’ll do online.
This part is worth repeating: Your keywords are the basis of everything you’ll do [...]
You’ll hear the term “keywords” used a lot on this site. If you don’t understand the meaning then you could spend a lot of time feeling like you’ve missed something important.
Because your keywords are the basis of everything you’ll do online.
This part is worth repeating: Your keywords are the basis of everything you’ll do [...]
If you have several different products, but only one web site to sell them with, there is a lot of potential for improvement. Even if you only have a single product or service, there are probably many different groups of people who buy from you for many different reasons. Here’s what to do about that…
Often [...]
If you have several different products, but only one web site to sell them with, there is a lot of potential for improvement. Even if you only have a single product or service, there are probably many different groups of people who buy from you for many different reasons. Here’s what to do about that…
Often [...]
Here are several different ways you can create a video for you business. These ideas will run the whole gamut–from creating professional quality work (more expensive) to making video that looks like something out of “Creature from the Black Lagoon” (very inexpensive).
Remember: content is the most important aspect, and anyone can create good content. [...]
Here is an invaluable exercise to go through as you create your web site. I do this religiously. It’s time to play the “who do you know” game.
If you want to sell to dentists, who do you know that is a dentist? Is your target small business owners? Who do you know that’s a [...]
What’s the secret to successful article marketing? What do the pros know that the rest of us don’t?
Is it really worth the time and effort?
If you market your articles the wrong way, article marketing is a big waste of time and won’t bring you the traffic you’re looking for. Luckily, we won’t be talking [...]
Meta tags are little bits of code usually inserted between the <head></head> tags on your web site. There are some very useful meta tags out there while others are a waste of time (one of which surprises most people).
With the exception of the title tag, people don’t see your meta tags unless they look at [...]
Meta tags are little bits of code usually inserted between the <head></head> tags on your web site. There are some very useful meta tags out there while others are a waste of time (one of which surprises most people).
With the exception of the title tag, people don’t see your meta tags unless they look at [...]
There is no end to the things you can write about in emails to people about network marketing (or any other group of people). In addition to the suggestions in the article above, here are some more that I use specifically in my business opportunity.
Just put yourself in the shoes of the person you’ll [...]
This video will show you how to give your videos and other marketing materials the punch they need to stand out and gather a loyal following of viewers and customers.
Videos, MP3’s, Podcasts, Webinars–each of these mediums can be used to bring traffic to your web site and increase visitor conversion once they arrive. Nothing captivates an audience like a good video or an entertaining / informative audio piece.
The main issues…
But it takes a while to put something like this together, right? And how [...]
It had been a while since I’d played a good April Fools joke on anyone. Only three past April Fool’s jokes even come to mind–one time I went into my two sisters’ bedrooms and turned everything upside down, once I turned the water main off at my college dorm house for the day, and once [...]
We’re going to take a quick look at online advertising, including the basics of tackling the 800 pound gorilla of web marketing…
Facebook is a great place to find prospects for your business. It’s free, it’s easy, and it can deliver great results if you know how to use it. But it can also be a huge waste of time.
“I don’t have time to figure this stuff out!”
Of course you don’t. None of us, as business owners, [...]
Here are some questions to ask yourself when you plan to build a network marketing web site. Remember, you can build a web site for any number of purposes and you can certainly build more than one.
The pages you see on your competitor’s web site are just the pages they want you to see. Very often there is a lot of information on their site that they think you can’t find (and they wouldn’t want you to find), but you can find it. You’ll be surprised what you’ll learn about them…
Even [...]
Backlinks (links from other people’s web sites that go to your site) are a major contributor to how well you rank in search engines. Here’s a method to get more links coming into your web site through finding out where your competitors are getting theirs.
There’s a lot of tutorials here on things that search engines like. It’s equally important to know what kind of things will get you banned, blacklisted, and shunned by search engines (such that they won’t return your phone calls or text messages, and they’ll avoid you in public settings…).
These are sometimes called “black hat” techniques, [...]
a.k.a. “Don’t put the shopping cart before the horse”
There are a lot of neat things you can do with web sites nowadays that will save you time and help your business grow. From highly interactive to highly automated, if you can dream it up then it can be built.
But if you have big plans for [...]
a.k.a. “Don’t put the shopping cart before the horse”
There are a lot of neat things you can do with web sites nowadays that will save you time and help your business grow. From highly interactive to highly automated, if you can dream it up then it can be built.
But if you have big plans for [...]
How do you set up your own web site? This video will show you how domain names and hosting companies work, where to find the best deals when you’re first getting started, and what to do if you don’t want to learn web site code (i.e. have your social life gene extracted for the next [...]
Let’s talk about web 2.0, and how to be the life of the social media party (and how to not be “that one guy” that everyone at the party avoids).
People will buy from you when they’re ready to buy, not when you’re ready to sell. That being the case, you want to keep in touch with your prospects on a regular basis.
Very few things compare to the ease and cost effectiveness of email marketing when it comes to keeping in touch with people. But [...]
There comes a time in every web site owner’s life where you’d like to improve the productivity of your web site. You have the feeling that if you changed a few things around, your site might do better, but how do you know if your changes made a difference?
When you’re planning on making a change [...]
Syndication is the act of creating something once and then having it automatically broadcast all over the place. The whole idea is that you want to get maximum exposure for the least amount of work.
Newspapers do this with popular columnists and comic strips, radio does this with well known radio programs and personalities, and [...]
Here’s a list of current tutorials, starting with an overview of how all the different internet marketing strategies that are out there can all work together.
You’ll receive more tutorials by email as well. Enjoy!
More Tutorials
How to Set Up Your Web Site the Smart [...]
This is an old recording of me singing “The 12 Days of Christmas” with some alternate lyrics that my 5-year-old brain came up with on the spot.
I apparently had a pronounced drooling problem as well.
Merry Christmas!
[...]
Sometimes you want to post information on your site that is private in nature. You want it available for certain people to access it but you don’t want search engines to make it public for the rest of the world to see. How do you control what gets indexed and what doesn’t?
When you don’t want [...]
Sometimes you want to post information on your site that is private in nature. You want it available for certain people to access it but you don’t want search engines to make it public for the rest of the world to see. How do you control what gets indexed and what doesn’t?
When you don’t want [...]
There comes a time in every web site owner’s life where you’d like to improve the productivity of your web site. You have the feeling that if you changed a few things around, your site might do better, but how do you know if your changes made a difference?
When you’re planning on making a [...]
Here is a checklist of common issues, problems, ideas, and improvements that are often overlooked.
Testimonials–don’t leave home without them
Something that should never be missing from a business web site are testimonials. I’d sooner forget my kid at a public swimming pool as forget testimonials on my web site (well…almost).
Testimonials are simple yet powerful. They are [...]
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