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Business owners have to be creative when it comes to cost effective ways to promote a product or service. Advertising has its place, but it is critical that any advertising and marketing efforts have a return on investment. Joint ventures are an extremely effective and low-cost way to market your business and increase profit.

There are many simple ways to step into the joint venture arena. Think about sharing these ideas with a joint venture partner:

- Exchange links on your websites

- Include information in your newsletters about your joint venture partner

- Display information on counter tops

- Place information in shopping bags, billings or other mailings

- Share a booth at a tradeshow or event

- Write articles for each other’s newsletters

- Provide prizes for fundraising events for various organizations

- Become involved with a local non-profit or non-profit event that allows you to be seen as benefactors.

Find businesses and service providers in your industry or a cross-related industry and approach them about with your joint venture idea. Here are some examples of creative joint ventures to get your juices flowing:

- Make up Artist/ Bridal Shop: The make-up artist kept bridal shop and prom information in her kit and passed it to potential clients when she was out on a job. The bridal store displayed the make-up artist’s information on their counter.

- Travel Agent/ Wedding Planner: The wedding planner kept the travel agent information available for her clients to book honeymoons and received a free trip for every so many clients she sent to the agent.

- Real Estate Agent/ Moving Company: The real estate agent negotiated a discounted moving rate within a local area for her clients. The moving company received additional advertising in the agent’s newsletter.

- Small Pet Shop/ Dog Groomer/ Animal Shelter: The pet shop offered the groomer’s services and helped to promote the local animal shelter fundraising events. The groomer offered services to the shelter and the pet shop. The shelter promoted the pet shop and the groomer to people who adopted pets.

- Travel Agent/ Luggage Store/ Non-wrinkle clothing line: The travel agent promoted both the luggage store and the non-wrinkle clothing line. The luggage store included the travel agent’s card and information about the non-wrinkle clothing in their luggage and on the counter. The clothing line consultant promoted the luggage store and the travel agent during her consultations.

By thinking of scenarios where both parties benefit, joint venture opportunities abound. Pick a target market that you don’t always reach, but your potential joint venture partner does. Then brainstorm as to the type of cross-promotion you would like to do. Bring that to your potential partner and explain what it is that you envision. Be sure to highlight the benefits to him. Also, make sure that you outline what the responsibilities are for each project you work on together. That way, you’ll avoid misunderstandings.

Use joint ventures to increase exposure and profit. Be creative and have fun!

Christian Fea is CEO of Synertegic, Inc. A Joint Venture Marketing
firm. He exemplifies how to profit from Joint Venture relationships by
creating profit centers with minimal risk and maximum profitability.
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Author Robert Byrne said, “There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.” Does that quote describe your role as a trainer of your affiliate marketing downline? Do you undertake training initiatives and then, well, you know, and so on…? Do you initiate wonderful training programs only to let them lapse after a conference call or two. If you do, you are cheating your downline members out of opportunities to grow as Internet marketers.

Training your downline requires consistent effort. Instituting training modules for your downline without a detailed plan and timetable wastes your time and theirs. Procrastination in continuing a training program you began does not speak well of you as a leader either. To build a productive downline you must finish what you start as a trainer.

How can you ensure that your training program progresses towards its stated destination? The following are five ways to make sure you stay the course on any training program you undertake with your downline:

Have a Purpose

Any training program on affiliate marketing must have a purpose. You cannot tell your downline that you’re going to have a general training session, and then wing it. The first thing they will ask you is “A training session on what?” You should have an answer for them and it should be specific. An appropriate answer would be something like, “Our training session will be on how to engage in article marketing successfully.” That tells your downline exactly what the training module will deal with.

Plan

It’s great to have a purpose and know exactly what your training sessions will deliver. However, do you have a plan for your purpose? Having a plan is your roadmap on how the training sessions will progress. You may have a teleconferencing call with your downline once a week. You decide those calls will be on article marketing. You know you will need more than one teleconferencing session to get your message across to your downline.

This is where you plan exactly how the article marketing sessions will play out. You may decide week number one will be on the basics of quality article writing. Week number two may be on selecting a good article distribution service. Week number three may be on fine-tuning your writing and tracking your article submission efforts. With this plan, your downline knows what to look forward to and this encourages participation. It also keeps you focused so you do not lose interest and cancel sessions.

Prepare

You have your purpose, your plan, and now you have to prepare for your planned sessions. This means having your training module agenda before you so you can systematically get your information out. It also means having resources ready to distribute to those who will attend a training session. With a teleconferencing session, you may want to send e-mails with attachments beforehand. This is so your downline can review them before a session.

You may need to send them access codes and passwords to a site. This is so they can videoconference with you and look at multi-media resources. If you’re holding an in-person meeting, you will need to prepare hard copy materials. These could be training manuals, brochures, and articles for handout.

Communicate to Inspire

You have to let your downline know about your training modules. This is the who, what, where, why, and when of your training program. Don’t just tell your downline these things; inspire them about these things. When you inspire your downline to want to take part in training sessions, your enthusiasm is catching. If you find you are one of those who sometimes start initiatives and don’t complete them, an inspired downline will prod you to continue. When they see value in a training program, their interest will inspire you to continue with it.

Encourage Feedback on Training Modules

Let your downline play a role in how training sessions transpire. They may have great suggestions on how to make these sessions more valuable. Heed their advice. Let them know they are an integral part of your affiliate business. Let them know you place a high value on their opinions as part of the overall team. When you encourage feedback and institute your downline’s good suggestions they will stick with your training program. When they want to stick with your training program, you have an obligation to finish the training program you started.

Finish what you start when it comes to training your downline. Don’t be one of those affiliate marketers that goes gung-ho with a program then lets it fall by the wayside. When you finish a training program you started, the result will be a more productive downline team.

Jim Slader manages the affiliate program at Article Marketer, the largest article distribution service on the Internet. Earn commissions on a product that virtually sells it; become an Article Marketer Affiliate today. Join the winning team: it’s quick and easy .

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When it comes to affiliate marketing, being organized is the key to operating your business efficiently. There are several tools available to you to get your message to potential customers. An organized plan will ensure you utilize each tool consistently.

You may have the greatest affiliate product known to humankind. However, does your target market know you have this product? Are you just hoping they’ll find out, somehow?

Your success as an affiliate marketer involves having a schedule of marketing activities. Without one, you will perform haphazard marketing. Haphazard marketing means you do not use any one marketing method consistently. It also means you do not have a timetable for any of the marketing methods you do use. The result is low and inconsistent traffic to your website.

First, you need to write down a list of all the marketing activities you wish to perform. Second, you need to develop a schedule for these activities. The result of your efforts will be a consistent message to your niche. You will always have some form of communication that reaches them. This consistent effort will eventually garner you more sales.

Let’s consider four initiatives you can undertake to promote your affiliate business. These four will form your list of marketing initiatives you want to employ in a month. These four are article marketing, online forum posting, blog writing, and in-home presentations.

You know that for the next month you will concentrate your marketing efforts in these areas. You will devote one week to each activity. This is a concerted effort to reach your target market through varied channels.

Consider your article marketing initiative. You may spend the first week of the month writing a couple of articles a night. At week’s end, you have eight or ten articles ready for distribution. You choose a good article distribution service and get your links out into cyberspace. You devoted one week to this one marketing initiative and got it done. Because you selected an activity and a time to perform it you have part one of your four-part plan for the month now complete.

Okay, now it’s week two. On your list, you wrote online forum posting. You will devote all of your attention this week to visiting different online forums. Of course, these will all pertain to your affiliate product in some way. They will be forums whose users have a need for your affiliate product. You will spend the week talking to these people.

Choose the forums you wish to visit. Make a list of all of these forums, and one by one visit them. At the end of the week, you will find you visited quite a few. You got your message out to your niche markets efficiently. It all began with your plan to devote the week to forum posting.

Now it’s week three and it’s time to concentrate on blog posting. The problem with blogs is the pressure to update them constantly. Some weeks you just cannot get those minimum three postings written. Why not devote a week to blog writing and then schedule the posts for future publication. When you have a plan for blog writing, the blog writing gets done.

Keep a running list of blog topics as you think of them. When blog writing week arrives, get writing. At the end of the week, you may have a dozen or more blog posts. Schedule them for posting at regular intervals and you can spend the next two or three weeks on other marketing initiatives.

It’s week four now. You have scheduled an in-home presentation to display your affiliate products. Spend this week fine-tuning your sales presentation. Spend time making sure you have enough samples. Get your product reviews and check that they are up-to-date. Make sure you also have enough brochures and the like that explain your affiliate product further.

Spend three or four days of this week solely on preparing for your in-home presentation. When the day comes to present you will appear prepared. This will give you the confidence to present yourself and your affiliate product in the best light. All of this is the result of having a plan.

At the end of the month, you will look back and find you accomplished quite a bit. You consistently presented your affiliate products to potential customers. You devoted the time necessary to each marketing tool. Now you can reap the benefits of your work, and begin to plan for next month’s activities.

Jim Slader manages the affiliate program at Article Marketer, the largest article distribution service on the Internet. Earn commissions on a product that virtually sells it; become an Article Marketer Affiliate today. Join the winning team: it’s quick and easy .

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Your website, with well defined objectives and strategies, can be your most effective marketing tool. However, a significant part of your internet marketing strategy should revolve around driving targeted traffic to your site. Without a steady flow of traffic, your website can’t help increase your revenues.

In future issues, I will be sharing lots of tips and ideas to get targeted traffic to your site. This time, I’ll start with the easiest and quickest method: pay per click advertising.

These ads appear at the top and the right column of the search results. Advertisers pay to have them displayed in this prominent place, when people search for a certain term related to the advertiser’s product.

A small fee is charged each time someone clicks on the ad, based on the amount the advertiser bid for each click. The higher bidders appear higher in the search.

Pay per click advertising on search engines is one of the most effective ways to get targeted visitors to your website because the searchers are definitely interested in your topic. The down side, of course, is that it will cost you money.

However, depending on your product or service, it’s probably worth it to spend a portion of your marketing budget this way, if it will significantly and easily increase your revenues. It works best if you have a small and well defined niche, and do keyword research to find the related terms people are searching for. More info on keyword research will be included in future issues of Grow Your Biz.

Google AdWords (http://adwords.google.com) is the most user-friendly and painless way to get targeted traffic to your website. It’s a good one to start with to learn the ropes.

Yahoo Search Marketing also offers pay-per-click ads, and is currently offering a $50 credit to new clients. With proper management, you can get lots of quality traffic for $50. I didn’t see this offer on their main site (http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/), but if you google “yahoo search marketing 50 credit”, you will find the offer.

Finally, here’s an inexpensive way to get your feet wet with pay per click advertising, while driving lots of targeted traffic to your site: check out http://7search.com/. You can get the word out about your website for as little as one penny per click!

This company works with search engines other than Google, Yahoo and MSN. These search engines get about 35% of all searches on the internet, which is a lot of searches, as you know.

They also work with affiliate websites. Therefore, you may get your ad on the search engines when people search for your keywords, or on websites related to your keywords. You can get started with as little as $25.

Regardless of the vehicle you choose for your pay-per-click campaign, target more specific keyword phrases, for less expensive and more targeted traffic.

For example, I don’t know about you, but if I’m looking for printer cartridges, I will search for HP deskjet F380 inkjet printer cartridge, instead of just printer cartridge.

My results will be filtered for me more effectively if I’m more specific. These “long tail” keyword phrases will be cheaper to bid on because they don’t get as many searches, and you will get more targeted traffic. People who are very specific in their searches usually know exactly what they want, and are ready to make the purchase. With general searches, people are just exploring.

Track your results. Make sure you figure out how many sales resulted from the clicks you got from your pay per click campaign. Experiment with the wording in your ad, to improve conversion rates (the number of people who actually do business with you, after clicking on your ad.).

Once you figure out how to improve conversion rates, you may be ready to add to your pay per click repertoire, with Google Adwords and Yahoo search marketing, for even more traffic. After all, if the ads are significantly increasing your revenues, you can spend a little more to increase them even more!

Emilie Nottle is a Graphic/Web Designer, Online Strategist, and Principal at Zooop Design - a full service graphic and web design firm. If you’re ready to make the most of your online presence, automate your marketing efforts, and grow your biz, subscribe to her free monthly eZine here.

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Personalization of search results is very important to the future success of any search engine, and its an effort well underway with many of the big 3 search engines as we speak.

If its true that the key success factors of search are:

a. reliability
b. ease/speed of use

Then it stands to reason that the more often a search engine provides searchers with the exact information they are looking for, the more often they are to use that search engine in the future, and the less likely they are to switch to another search engine.

Crystal Ball

Personalization is not however, a magical phenomenon or crystal ball interpretation. It is purely based on observed patterns, and resulting probabilities. To put this into perspective, here are a number of patterns that search engines are likely to track, and that will permit search engines to calculate probabilities - namely the probability of increasing either reliability or speed of use.

1. Location Based Personalization - serve you personalized results based on your current location (eg. pizza).
Eg. search engines have a very good idea where you are (based on IP) when you perform a search query. So someone searching for “pizza” from a location in London, is very likely looking for a pizza location within 10km (6 miles) of their inferred location. This works well for some types of keywords, and not as well for others (eg. paper manufacturers).

2. Interface Based Personalization - serve you personalized results based on the interface you are using.
Eg. if a search engine knows you are performing a search for “hospitals” from a BlackBerry, they can typically surmize you are looking for a hospital within a given radius of your current location, and could reorganize the results with the closest hospitals first. Keep in mind, small screens aren’t great for general surfing or researching. Large screens are much more efficient.

3. Query History Based Personalization - serve you personalized results based on a logical sequence of keyword queries.
Eg. if you performed a search for “crayons” 10 minutes prior, and now search for “pens”, personalized results should show gel pens results above Mont Blanc pens.

4. Input/Output Mode Based - personalize the mode through which you receive your results.
Eg. if you use Goog411 and input your search query by voice command, then you’re more likely to want to receive the results via voice also (or at least a combination of voice and visual output). This will become more of an issue going forward.

5. Time Based Personalization - serve you personalized results based on times it perceives you are typically working.
Eg. searching for “Trains” has a different meaning at the office (think - book train tickets to Montreal), then when you’re at home with the kids (think Thomas the Train). Perhaps Google has identified the pattern that most of your queries are business oriented between 9:00am and 6:00 pm, and more child oriented in all other hours.

6. Individual User Behaviour Based Personalization - serve you personalized results based on your actions in the past.
Eg. Did you click on this site in the past in response to a similar query? Did you abandon it immediately, or stay on it and interact with it? Your previous interaction with the site offers insight into whether its a better match this time or not.

7. Group Based Behaviour Based Personalization - serve you personalized results based on the actions of all who have made similar queries in the past.
Eg. If 90% of people who click on a certain search result in response to a specific search query abandoned it after 5 seconds (while others hold user attention much longer), then there’s a high probability that the listing in question is not highly relevant to the search query and the search results should be reorganized as a result.

8. Social Search Based Personalization - imagine Google or Yahoo knowing who your friends are (perhaps through Facebook, gmail, or any number of social media sites).
Eg. Then imagine the search engine can either:
a. aggregate all friends positive and negative reviews of certain sites, and reorganize the search results with those sites with the most positive reviews first.
b. aggregate all friends user behaviour patterns associated with sites appearing in the search results, and then reorganize your specific search results accordingly

9. Virtual Personas/Assistants Based Personalization - serve you search results through a virtual persona you created.
Eg. Think of Star Trek or Terminator if you will. When you talk to a computer, it feels uncomfortable. We often feel the need to assign a personality and persona to it. Now imagine we can customize the appearance and sound of that persona. You can choose the accent, the sex, the age, and much more.

Conclusion:
While it is possible to improve the efficiency of search through each of the personalization methods above, they infact work best when operated in conjunction with one another, acting as a checks and balances mechanism. When used in conjunction, the inferences truly become more probable, and lead to dramatically better search results.

If you think this type of personalization is a long way off - think again. Google, Yahoo, and MSN all are trialling various means of personalization. See for yourself - perform a few search queries, then ask a friend in another part of the country to perform the same searches and compare results.

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Lets face it, promoting your website or business online is time consuming and there will come a time when you are unable to meet one or more marketing deadlines. The outcome could very well be losing valuable internet exposure while you concentrate on other needs of your business. The bottom line is finding as many ways possible to gain market exposure while managing your business.

Outsourcing your website’s marketing has long been accepted as a cost effective and viable method to maximize your businesses internet exposure while reducing the number of tasks you must undertake in the overall promotion process. With a solid marketing plan, and some research on finding the right individuals to outsource your marketing tasks to, you can reduce your current workload and concentrate on other portions of your website management.

1. Your first step to success is in developing your marketing plan. Define your site’s needs and what your expectations are for each part of your site’s promotion. Create task lists and general time frames for the completion of each task. You can use this list later as a “check list” for each task in your plan. Once your plan is compete you are ready to begin looking for qualified firms or individuals to outsource your marketing tasks to. There are many reputable outsourcing websites that offer access to posting ads for finding qualified people to undertake your marketing tasks.

2. Recruit blog and forum posters to mass market articles about your websites products and services. You can easily find experienced posters online or at your local community college. There are two basic ways that you can pay these individuals for posting your marketing articles: Either per post or flat rate.

3. Create an affiliate program. One of the easiest ways to drive traffic to your site and increase sales is by starting an affiliate program that pays commissions for each sale or lead to your site. There are a number of free scripts and applications available that can be added to your site to track sales and leads.

4. Ask for referrals from existing customers. Referrals from your existing and past customers offer a wealth of potential new customers. All you have to do is ask them to help you. Start by creating a light request letter and mail or email it to customers asking for referrals. This is one of the most powerful forms of promotion because if your customers are happy with your products and services then they will easily be willing to recommend your website to their family and friends, and co-workers.

Anil Vij is an Expert Author and an Online Marketing Specialist. Visit http://www.onewaylinkexchange.net for more information.

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“Viral marketing? Don’t understand it. It’s not for me. I’m going to ignore it.”

One of my most often repeated errors is to ignore things I don’t understand. When I first watched a DVD recording of a World Internet Summit, people were talking about things I didn’t understand at all.

Someone was talking about how they got their articles written on Elance, but I didn’t understand it. What on earth were they talking about? I ignored it.

Another person was talking about opt-in boxes, but I used direct marketing, classified ads, and free PR. So I ignored it, for a while.

Then there was a captivating speaker who talked about Viral Marketing. I thought his story was brilliant, but I couldn’t relate it to my business, so I ignored it.

More recently I have realised that all aspects of marketing need to be considered when building a robust online business, and I have started to think much more about all the options I have available to me. I just think I might be catching the ‘viral marketing’ bug.

Most people’s definition of Viral Marketing discusses a subject which is so compelling or creates such curiosity or desire, that people feel compelled to tell others about it. The information spreads through ‘word of mouth’ but is commonly using email as its medium.

The most common example is that people send jokes around the world via email. If someone finds something funny they will often forward it to all the contacts in their address book. The ‘proof’ that this is viral, is that you will often receive the same jokes from different unrelated sources, and when you mention the joke at a dinner party everyone has already had it via their email. In fact people don’t tell the joke any more. They just ask whether you’ve received the email with the joke about the …

Whenever viral marketing is mentioned in internet marketing circles, people nod sagely and refer to the hotmail example. When hotmail was first launched, it was the first time that people could register for a free web based email account. They could log on from anywhere in the world and send emails from an internet cafe. It was groundbreaking, and everyone was attracted to it.

At the bottom of every email was a link which said something like ‘want a free hotmail account? Click here’ and hotmail grew so quickly as a result of this, that it was sold to Microsoft for millions of dollars, despite having a ‘free’ product. This was considered ‘viral marketing’ because it mimicked ‘word of mouth’ and spread like a virus.

Consider the growth of a ‘viral’ piece of information. If one person tells two others, and those tell two others each, it will take less than 20 steps to reach a million people. That could happen in days! What if they all tell five people each? You do the math.

A well known online example is TheInterviewWithGod which was started by Morgan Westerman (the ‘captivating speaker’ I referred to earlier). The website features a short presentation which consists of beautiful and dramatic views of nature, set to haunting music, with some text over the images. The text is a poem told line by line, and it’s based on an original poem about an interview with God.

When the website was first launched it did not offer anything for sale. It was just the presentation, available for people to watch. It grew ‘virally’ by word of mouth. It soon had millions of people accessing the site every month. It had truly ‘gone viral’.

People then started to contact Morgan asking for products. Can we have the video as a downloadable file? a screen saver? a calendar? He surveyed his customers to ask them what he should charge (crazy, but it works) and then launched the products they’d asked for. He made millions. He understood viral marketing.

So I’m wondering about the profile of the growth in viral situations. I can’t find anything online that would explain how it happens.

I noticed that lots of people were talking about the ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ last year, and it seems to have gone viral. There are facebook groups devoted to it, and everyone’s fascinated by it.

The interesting thing is that the theory was first proposed in 1929, and people have been conducting studies to try and prove it over the years. And yet, just a couple of years ago most people would have given you a blank stare if you’d mentioned it. What suddenly caused it to go viral?

I’ve been thinking about the generic viral profile recently, and I think it would look something like this:

Early stage: Gestation period. Not yet viral. Profile grows steadily and requires stimulation from usual marketing methods. Rate of growth is dependent on exposure.

Critical mass: Sufficient people involved in the process. Sudden increase in growth. It’s ‘gone viral’

Rapid increase: Gathers momentum. People start to hear the information from multiple sources. Discussions in bars. Subject gains credibility.

Peak/Plateau: Growth peaks. The subject matter is at the height of its popularity

Decline: It’s yesterday’s news. Lots of people are now aware of this information, and have their opinions on it.

Does this profile sound right to you? Come on, I’ve just made it up! But my point here is that no-one seems to know. The information certainly isn’t readily available and I’ve looked.

What’s the relative length of time that each stage lasts for?

How long does it take to go viral?

What determines this?

How many people would be interested to know this information?

Do you know, I’ve got an idea developing:

What if there was an online experiment to study the growth of a viral campaign? It would need to be compelling and satisfy curiosity and desire.

What if people were encouraged to pass on the information about the campaign, because they were going to be party to the results?

How do the ’six degrees of separation’ relate to email distribution lists? How many times would an email need to be forwarded before people in the loop, have it returned to them by people that they know?

Am I mad? Am I deluded? Am I a frustrated scientist? Have people already done this? I can’t find anything on it!

One thing’s for sure. I’m fascinated, and I’ll continue to think about how viral marketing can be used in my business. One day I’ll have it cracked. Then I’ll be the person stood on the stage at the World Internet Summit!

Brian Harvey is an online marketer who provides both physical and information products to niche markets.
http://www.worldfamousviralexperiment.com

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Long term profit from your squidoo is the way to go. Squidoo is one of the most effective marketing ways online. Right there with article marketing and blogging, squidoo has become one of the most well liked tools for endorsement in affiliate marketing.

Squidoo is an online communication of lensmasters. Squidoo members are called lens masters that create content on squidoo via squidoo lenses, one-page information sites that serve to inform people of a certain topic or subject and to point the way, providing links to products, sites or giving product reviews.

Squidoo has a lot of special features, such as member interaction via commenting on lenses, joining relevant groups or rating other members lenses. Squidoo has made promotion of affiliate products and sites very easy. In fact, unlike most sites in online, they welcome affiliate marketers.

One of the best things about squidoo is that the content created on it ranks extremely well in the search engines. It is highly optimized and many lenses to this day have made it to the first page of google and other search engines with virtually no effort beyond making the lens and publishing it. This is probably the most important part of squidoo.

Squidoo lenses give you the ability to rank very high in the search engines for your selected keywords, while giving you the ability to get high quality back links to your site, give your site or blog big exposure. Also, you can make affiliate sales directly from squidoo by providing people info on a certain subject and then directing them to selected products from stores such as amazon and ebay.
If you have your own website, be sure to link to it from your Squidoo lenses and use an anchor text with the targeted keywords that you want your site to compete on in the search engines. This can give a great boost to your site’s search engine rankings.

If you want to make a long term profit from them, there are two reasons for this.

First, updating your lens frequently will make it rank higher on squidoo, which gives you credibility as an expert on the given subject. You need to update your lenses at least one per week.

Second, you can track the click through rate and tweak the content to be more appealing. Be sure to choose the name of your lens carefully, as well as the title of your lens. It must be something that gives the visitors a clear view at the lens content.

Squidoo is a powerful asset for you, if you want to make money online. Use it to get the word out about your site and to build your credibility, to create more presence in the search engines and to make sales.

I don’t know about you but I like simple. If you want a simple way to make money on the internet it’s time to set up your own Cash Machine today!
Anthony

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E-mail marketing campaigns are actually more useful than you might think. Just like blogging which has developed from a hobby into an income generating marketing tool, e-mails has developed into one of the great web marketing tools used to communicate with your targeted market.

Although e-mail marketing has been used inappropriately in the past which has lead to the development of spam filters and blockers, it proved to be beneficial for those who didn’t abuse it. Therefore, it is no longer, and has never been wise to purchase a list of e-mails. Using automated mailing programme such as Aweber is the way to go. You no longer have to waste your time and effort sending mails to people who could care less about your product or service. On the other hand, you are sending updates to people who are interested in your offers.

When you think about it, consumers have a lot of questions about a product or service. That’s where e-mails come in handy for consumers. Although blogs and forums are by the far the most convenient venue for getting answers, there are certain questions that only the merchants or manufacturers can provide legitimate answers to.

And while there are toll free numbers provided by these companies, there are just times that consumers may not have the time to sit by the phone for long periods of time hoping that someone would answer their questions. E-mails better work for those who are always on the go.

And on the merchants’ end, they are given the opportunity to reach their targeted audience anywhere in the world. Moreover, they are also presented with the advantage of being able to establish their businesses’ reputation among their target audiences.

E-mails are no longer limited to formal business letters having three or more paragraphs of sales speech that are likely to bore readers. Marketers have used their creativity and began incorporating images and videos in their e-mails. Also, they have opted for a short yet direct, helpful, and easy to understand statements in their mails.

In fact, one of the best ways to boost the response rates of e-mails is by offering genuine advice to clients. By providing proven helpful tips and sharing information, consumers are likely to develop a certain level of trust. You do not have to hard sell your products and services through e-mail marketing.

Providing updates every once in a while about your new products or services is fine but if you do it frequently, your clients might decide to unsubscribe. Throw in a little fun and learning into the mix to keep your subscribers interested in your newsletters.

Also, as I’ve mentioned, emails nowadays include many features that allow you to put in images, audio, and videos into your mails to make your promotion more interesting. So, with e-mail marketing, not only do you get to reach a specific market composed of potential buyers, you are also given the opportunity to remind them every once in a while of your business’ existence.

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Okay, so you are sticking to building a legitimate e-mail list for your business rather than buying a list of e-mail addresses. Good for you. There’s a huge disadvantage for suing a shortcut in e-mail marketing. Not only will you be wasting your time, money, and effort, but you are also giving yourself false hopes. Besides, you e-mail can get banned in various domains which could ruin your reputation and eventually your business.

The safest way to succeed in e-mail marketing is to build a genuine e-mail list, composed of people who are already interested in your product or service. So, you know that your e-mail campaign is sure to make positive results. And another thing that makes permission-based e-mail so great is that it is not only effective, it is does not cost much as well.

And did you know that there are actually various ways in which you can build your e-mail list? Well, the most common method by far is the newsletter subscription you set up in the pages of your website. And if your website offers more than one product or service, you can actually segment the subscription and provided categorized newsletters by giving web users the option which product or service he wants to subscribe in. This way, you can better provide them with the information, updates, and tips about the product or service in which they are most interested in.

Another way of gathering e-mail addresses online is through e-mail sign up buttons. This is incorporated into the e-mail signature. This is ideal for businesses that usually make transactions through e-mails. For example, a customer might have gotten the company’s e-mail address through a different site or through a referral and was not able to locate the company’s main website.

By providing these customers the option to subscribe, a company is able to determine whether it would be appropriate to send the customers product or service updates or not. However, the company may also want to take one step further and send the customer an invitation to sign up.

And while there are online methods of legitimately gathering e-mail addresses, there are also offline opportunities. For example, in hosting events, the company might have a chance to collect e-mail addresses of potential customers by passing around sheets of paper, kind of like a mini survey wherein visitors are asked to answer questions or make suggestions to make the product or service better for example.

Of course, the company may ask any legitimate and helpful questions other than the one mentioned. Then, somewhere in that sheet of paper, visitors are asked to include their e-mail addresses.

Another way of building a list is by putting up a sign up box. This might work well for shops and restaurants or even for any product or service small businesses that are able to put up sign up boxes in some store areas. This would somewhat apply to promotional events wherein a company can give out freebies and at the same time collect e-mail addresses.

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