Posts Tagged ‘Marketing Strategy’
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Ok so you have tried most paid marketing platforms such as ppc marketing adwords, media buying and what not. The affiliate marketer’s tool box for promotions is ever growing resulting in mass confusion. You will find more and more wannabe Gurus advocate the next best thing since sliced bread when it comes to making a quick buck online. If you’ve got more SEO tools than money coming in, it’s time to take a look at your marketing strategies and pay close attention.
Years ago adwords was king with most internet marketers trying to master adwords to make a killing in their niche. Some very smart marketers have made millions using PPC and adwords, Perry Marshall being the classic example.
The problem I see daily is that unless you know what you are doing with paid ppc you will see your campaign budget literally disappear overnight.
There is a science to adwords that not many people can master in a short period of time. Especially newbie’s who are setting up campaigns left right and centre.
With the hefty cost per clicks involved in any adwords campaign you need to be looking at the ROI you are getting for your troubles and money invested. The trouble here is keeping up with Google’s changing algorithms, constantly being slapped and sent to implement black hat underground techniques, which don’t work in the long run.
Yahoo MSN and Bing are following the trend. Although it’s been said that MSN and Yahoo have great conversion rates. There is a better way of getting fast targeted results.
What if you knew of a secret marketing strategy that allowed you to buy traffic at insanely low prices? I’m talking cents here and not $10 dollars a click.
The Internet marketing industry is becoming more a more aggressive with thousands of people joining the online community every single day, backed by wannabe gurus who are teaching them that they can make quick money online. Leaving them out in the cold while they rake in 6 figure commission checks in their sleep.
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You can make money fast if you know the secret marketing techniques used by the real Gurus in the know, quite frankly you will not hear about their secret techniques that they use to rake in thousands of dollars a month.
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
It is important in your online business to always be looking for new ways to market your business. I believe in using both paid and free marketing ideas, if you spend your monthly budget before the end of the month, then you will need to continue your marketing efforts with free marketing strategies. So, with that being said here are my top 5 free marketing ideas.
Marketing idea #1:
Traffic exchanges can be a great way too get some visitors to your site. There are hundreds of TE’s you can use, simply enter the keyword” traffic exchange” into Google and check out the results. Remember this is an exchange system, you click other members sites in exchange for credits which you can use to get other members to click onto your own site. The traffic is not very targeted, but if you devote an hour a day to clicking it will help drive some traffic.
Marketing idea #2:
Safe list marketing is a slow and tedious marketing strategy, but with some effort it can help drive traffic. Here you join a safe list and allow other members to send you emails in exchange you can build up credits and use these credits too send your offer to other members of the safe list. Do not use your primary email address as it will be flooded with offers. A few tips to help you experience some success. You will need to write very attention grabbing headlines in order to get people to open your email, start a database of the safe list you joined and try and email to the group every week at the same time. A much better marketing strategy is list builders, there is an expense involved in joining them, but the response is much higher. Here are a couple of site suggestions if you want to check them out.
The List auction
ViralUrl
Marketing idea #3:
Regardless of what other people may say, classified ads are another great free marketing idea that actually works. There are thousands of free classified ad sites, where you can place your classified ad online and drive traffic to your site. You will need to come up with 3 or 4 different classified ads, you need to keep them short maybe 4 to 5 sentences and a great attention grabbing headline. Your ad will not stay on the top of the page for long, so remember to resubmit your ads on a regular basis or pay a few dollars to get it listed in a premium spot. A few techniques for a great headline. Use a question as your headline, your answer will be your product, use the number of steps formula, I.E. “5 steps to financial freedom“, or you can also use the in under formula. Like “join our team and be profitable in under 3 months“.
Marketing idea #4:
With today internet , you must have a presence on Social network sites. Join Facebook, You Tube, MySpace or Twitter. My recommendations would be too join all four, as they are easy to join and interface with. After joining you will need to set up your profile, do not take this step lightly, fill it out completely. Another mistake most people make with social network sites is blasting their website all over the place, it makes other members feel like you are spamming them. It is OK to occasionally post your link, but you must add value to your post and give something to the community. This way you can start to build relationships and this can lead to someone joining your program. People do not join programs they join other people they trust and see as a leader.
Marketing idea #5:
Video marketing can be a scary marketing skill to implement, but I know of people who earn thousands from their videos and pay nothing for advertising. Your video needs to tell a story, everyone loves to hear a great story and believe it or not you have one to tell. Make your video no more than 3 to 4 minutes long and just simply tell your story. Don’t worry if you think it is unprofessional, people will connect better with you when you are honest and yourself. Google is now listing videos in the organic section of searches on a lot of keywords…free traffic. You can post your videos on YouTube, your blog, Facebook and MySpace. If you want to really get serious about video marketing see this site I highly recommend it.
Traffic geyser
There you have it, my top 5 free marketing ideas, use them, implement them and it will help drive traffic to your site.
To your Success,
Gerald Stidham
Retirebiz@gmail.com
http://www.geraldsonlinebiz.com —— I use all the above strategies to market my site, check it out if you are looking to change your lifestyle and fire your boss
928-606-2801—- call me anytime with your questions
Change your lifestyle, take vacations when you want too, fire your boss and create wealth in your life. To see how I work with a group of professional marketing group and create wealth in my life
http://www.geraldsonlinebiz.com
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
In April 2007, an ebook product called “Get Google Ads Free” was released by retired doctor Jon Cohen of New York. The product detailed a method that Dr. Cohen had developed and used for the previous 9 years to acquire over $93
million in Google Adwords ads for free. He used the ads to market products for 16 different companies he created and built up a personal fortune of over $70 million.
Immediately after the product was released, it created a big controversy in the Internet Marketing business. People on various blogs and forums were highly critical of the product, even calling it a “scam”.
However, after a short few months, people that purchased and bought the product started to post positive comments in the forums and blogs, supporting the marketing claims made by Dr. Cohen. People said that the “secret” of “
Get Google Ads Free” actually lies in an old traditional direct response marketing strategy with a completely NEW Internet “twist” that no one’s ever seen.
One of the most well-known internet marketing forums, WarriorForum.com, had a full-blown, on-line feud going on. The “Get Google Ads Free” controversy had generated over 230 posts and 15,000 views in a very short period of time.
Eventually, the moderator at WarriorForum pulled the entire thread since it was generating “too much” rancorous discussions.
As shocking as it may seem, Google has NO problem with the course that reveals how anyone can get ads on their search engine for Free. After all,
Google makes most of it’s money from
the sale of both AdWords (PPCs) ads and AdSense (where webmasters allow Google to show
their ads on their pages).
One might think that any information that revealed how an advertiser could get their AdWords pay-per-clicks free would be damaging to Google, and therefore Google would not want anyone
finding out about it, right?
WRONG! It seems that the secret system developed by the retired doctor contains an interesting “twist” that while allowing advertisers to eliminate their AdWords costs, it does notreduce a single dollar in AdWords revenue for Google.
In fact, just the opposite! Google actually endorses the “Get Google Ads Free” ebook.
In order to verify this claim, I contacted Mr Cohen’s company. Vice President of
Sales & Marketing, Mr Todd Coutrin, responded:
“We started our launch like we always do with any product online, using Google AdWords to offer our Product.
“We used keywords that contained the word ‘free’ so we anticipated the usual HOLD these keywords usually cause when Google scrutinizes the ads.”
“But when our campaign was paused by Google for a tad more time than what we regularly anticipate, we became concerned.
“I actually placed a call directly to Google at 1-866-2-GOOGLE and spoke at length with a customer services rep who said she’d check into what was
happening.
“She returned my call 16 hours later and informed me that due to the specific nature of the Product in question (i.e., the ebook “Get Google Ads Free!”) their team at Google secured the
product, read it all the way trough, and then realizing it would NOT hurt their revenue but actually increase it, they immediately un-paused and resumed our ads”
So, the fact that Google allowed a product like this to be advertised on their network is pretty convincing evidence that it does what it claims.
But, to be thorough, I purchased a copy of “Get Google Ads Free” to see if it really can enable you to buy millions of dollars worth of Google ads for free.
Due to copyright and non-disclosure rules, I can’t reveal their proprietary information. But I can tell you that with the application of what’s inside “Get Google Ads Free”, that:
– Google loses NO money
– Google actually can make even more MONEY!
– Advertisers gain an instant almost unfair advantage over anyone
not privy to what’s inside “Get Google Ads Free!”
– Advertisers can now afford to outbid their competition.
– Advertisers are not at risk any longer as their advertising
budgets no longer matter.
Overall, this is a very impressive product that is really revolutionary in the Internet Marketing world. Who can benefit from buying this product?
Basically, anyone who runs an online business that buys ads and needs web traffic. So, if you sell your own product or are an affiliate program
marketer, this product could revolutionize your business.
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
Primarily the main tool in article marketing is the article of course It is still the most effective article marketing strategy as it contains the keywords, the links, the resource box and the article contents . In terms of promoting a web site, article marketing is considered as the best as it rises from one page rank to another to gain popularity in the web.
Let us examine each article marketing tool and find out in what way it becomes effective:
1. The Article Content
the article content should be the most creative and most informative tool. It is here where the browser, the product and the links will meet. The contents should capture the interest of the browser. The benefits and the uses of the product’s generic kind can provide answers which the browser has been looking for. Product endorsement will remain subtle, otherwise the browser will see through the ploy and leave.
2. The Keywords
The keywords will literally occupy the article contents since they will appear several times within the article. How they appear is also crucial, as the web browser may get irritated with its redundancy. The keyword will occupy a place in the title, twice in the opening paragraph, several times in the body and once in the end.
3. The Links
The links will provide a portal for the browser to reach other sites. Care should be given in its occurrence as the potential buyer might trip over each link if they appear too often inside the article. The objective of the article is to capture the interest of the browser and too many links can distract. At least two links can find its place within the body of the article and should be strategically placed.
4. The Resource Box
This is the box where the browser personally meets the product as the embodiment of what was being described in the article. Since the browser was already primed with its benefits and uses, the browser became convinced that another meeting at the product’s own website is worth a try. The link appearing in the resource box will be clicked and the browser becomes a visitor to the website. The browser becomes a convert, sooner or later a buyer.
The most effective tool then is the article content, for as long as the words are relevant, factual, informative, entertaining and grammatically correct.
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
If you are just getting started with affiliate marketing figuring out the right affiliate marketing strategy can be challenging. It is very easy to become overwhelmed by all the different options out there: PPC, article marketing, forum marketing, web 2.0 marketing, which one is the best? The truth is, all of them work. However, the best strategy for absolute beginners with a low or non-existing budget is article marketing.
The main advantages to article marketing are that you do not need to invest any money to get started and you can be making money as soon as tomorrow. However the downside is that you will have to work hard and have to write. For some people this can get very boring. However, when you are just getting started, writing articles yourself is the easiest and cheapest way to begin making money with affiliate programs.
To begin promoting an affiliate program this way you will first need to find a good program to promote. Most ebooks will recommend you get started at Clickbank.com, because there you can easily find a product that sells well. However there are so many affiliates who are promoting Clickbank products these days that the competition is very high. This is why you are probably better of looking for affiliate products somewhere else. Good, reliable affiliate networks include Commission Junction (aka CJ), Linkshare and PayDotCom. Just try to pick a product that you think will sell.
Next you will need to build a basic landing page. Just sign up for free blogging service such as Blogger.com. Write a short review of the product you are promoting and put you affiliate link at the bottom.
After this you will need to do some keyword research. Use the Google Adwords Keyword Tool to find low competition keywords related to the product you are promoting. Try to use keywords that people who are looking to buy would use. These will usually convert best. Pick about ten of the best keywords to begin with.
Then it is time to get started writing your articles. Write one article per keyword. Just look online for content ideas (but don´t copy). Then submit the articles to popular article directories like EzineArticles and include a link to your landing page in your author resource box.
This affiliate marketing strategy is relatively simple but does work. Yes you will have to do some boring work, but after you are making some money you can then use your profits to have others write for you.
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
“50 Years Old Guy Making Money With Affiliate Marketing For Real?”
Let me answer this before we even begin. You see, high performance affiliate marketing could well be an e-book or whatever. I’ve not read it but while the statement above is true here is my pick.
You see, all you would ever need to do is to just go out and spend maybe a week or two just sitting down and doing everything step by step. Plus, you do it in a non Internet marketing niche
I’ve talked enough here and we are just going to go really fast on those two dirty little secrets in a moment. Remember that if the 50-year old guy can do it so can you. Just put what you’ve learned into action.
Dirty Secret 1: Lots Of Things Comes Into Play With Affiliate Marketing
You may not really know this yet or you might already know. The fact is, even if you see these marketers making money online you have to remember one thing.
There are a lot of factors that kick in just by running any high performance affiliate marketing campaign. Such as conversion, testing, tracking, research and the list goes on.
Dirty Secret 2: No Rich Marketer Will Tell You Their Niches
Why? Because if they really did tell you they’ll be scared the poop out of their pants! You will become their next competition. Of course, here is another tip from me.
Your best weapon against the competition out there is in being able to drive traffic. This is true in every aspect especially in any affiliate marketing strategy.
Keep This In Mind
Whenever you want to really learn how to run a high performance affiliate marketing business then you need a mentor. An honest one who can teach you and tell you the truth personally about how to run a long term pipeline of profits.
For a step-by-step plan to profiting online, use the true blueprint for High Performance Affiliate Marketing
Vern How has been earning online back in June 2006. He is a professional affiliate marketer who believes in giving back by helping others. To find out how Vern can help you work from home go to Simple Riches
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Keyword Elite 2.0 is the newest product from Brad Callen, who is well known for creating other
powerful software such as SEO Elite. Here are some of Keyword Elite’s features.
Keyword Elite software will allow you to search in all three major search engines Google, Yahoo & MSN. Keyword Elite will also show you a huge list of profitable keywords. In addition to this you will also be able to search different profitable Adwords campaigns and copy what they are doing while finding JV partners online using the JV Diamond Miner.
This JV Diamond program enables you to find websites that are building an email list. You can partner with these websites because these can send some targeted traffic to your website by sending e-mails to their list.
Keyword Elite will allow you to create your initial keyword list by adding long tail and short tail keywords using this program. Then after you have created a list you can filter out the keywords in all the different ways that are used. Keyword Elite software makes it possible for you to use Ask.com, Google Suggestion Tool, Meta Tags and Free Keywords to get keyword ideas.
With the Keyword Elite software you can find out how competitive a specific keyword is in each of the paid “pay per click” search engines, such as, Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and Bing (MSN).
You will no longer need to worry about creating your own marketing strategies, by using Keyword Elite 2.0 you can easily find profitable Adwords advertisers whose marketing strategy you can actually use in your own marketing campaigns.
To read more about Keyword Elite click here
In addition to these other benefits, you will also be able to view the Adwords advertisement history of a keyword for every website that has advertised with that keyword for at least in the past six months. You can also find out how good a specific keyword is in getting you a higher ranking in the 3 big search engines.
The Keyword Elite software also allows you to see what percentage of people searching on your keyword are just surfers or could be potential buyers.
Another important thing that this software will show you are the “on page” optimization elements for each of the top 10 ranked websites for the keywords you input, giving you information on how you should be optimizing your own web page to make it to the top 10.
Keyword Elite will enable you to see different specific keywords/website combinations in Adwords over a period of time. This will give you information about which keywords are used repeatedly by people.
With this program you will able to find CPA offers to match the niche that you’ve found to be profitable niche to pursue. You can search through 13,000 CPA and affiliate offers to find the best one.
When you use the Keyword Elite software for the first time, it may be a bit confusing when trying to work out what each tool can do, but the amount of information it provides is huge.
Keyword Elite 2.0 can be used by both new and experienced marketers to get to identify profitable key words and products. The software comes with a 30 day search marketing elite membership and 8 weeks money back guarantee.
There are so many different keyword research tools available today. If fact there are too many to mention here, but I have found the Keyword Elite software to be the most efficient software and once you learn how to use it the Keyword Elite software can take your campaigns from zero to hero.
The cost for the Keyword Elite is very reasonable. There is only a one time fee of $197 and no monthly fees. I would recommend the Keyword Elite software to anyone who wants to improve their ppc campaign and stop wasting money on keywords that don’t work. This software will give you the advantage you need unleash you marketing campaign. This software can also be used for article marketing campaign keyword research
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
You would probably have come across clickbank.com one way or the other if you use the internet. Clickbank is a large online community of merchants that publish digital products for sale. Publishers can choose these digital products to promote on their website, lists or simply buy adspace on other sites.
This service alone pulls in over a million dollars in sales every single day. It has been estimated that in every 4 seconds at least one clickbank product is sold over the internet. But even with such massive transaction occuring through clickbank marketpalce not very many people are able to tap in to it for profit. The truth be said, there is a major learning curve inolved in using clickbank, what products to sell, how to build websites, and so on. You need to be able do proper niche research, come up with the right niche product, a marketing strategy. You must build websites, presales pages, squeze pages, manage affiliate links, and so on.
CB Fortune is a system that researches high performing clickbank products and gives its members the opportunity to have their own content rich, search engine friendly niche websites, that will build lists and promote high converting products almost automatically .
Developed by Karthik Ramani an internet entrepreneur who owns several top niche based web sites, CB Fortune researches clickbank trends automatically. As it detects a trend, you are immediately alerted and provided with the option of letting the software generate a website specifically for the product and niche market that has been identified as profitable.
Now this site is not a just a one page site with auto gnerated content. These are websites that have everything a niche campain requires and even more. In it is a blog, a review site, a video site, articles, about us, terms and conditions, privacy, a squeeae page and even a free report to build lists. And with a few clicks you will have a profitable campain up and running.
As good as this sounds, this product will not make you rich overnight.you will have to spend some time familiarizing yourself with its functions if you really want to make money with it. You can achieve this in less than a month if you put your mind to it.
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
Becoming a CPA affiliate, or cost-per-action affiliate, is really not much different than becoming an affiliate for any other program. However, there are a few differences that you should consider before making the choice. Ideally, you will be able to add and integrate products from CPA affiliate programs with your current affiliate marketing strategy.
One of the major advantages of becoming a CPA affiliate is that it pays very well and with much less effort than regular affiliate programs. With most regular programs, you are paid when you make a sale, but with CPA programs, you are paid when the potential customer completes an action.
In some cases, this action may be as simple as someone entering a zip code or email address. In other instances, you may get paid when someone orders a free trial of a product. Many of the health and beauty companies pay anywhere from $30 to $50 for completion of trial offers. And it is often much simpler to get someone to agree to a free trial product than it is to get them to pay $97 for the latest eBook on the market. This is the reason many people decide to try their hand at CPA affiliate marketing.
You should understand that companies who promote their products via CPA companies are very selective about who is selling their product. Therefore, you will need to provide the company that you are interested in becoming a CPA affiliate for with lots of details, including your website and marketing plan for the various products. Plus, you will often need to speak with a representative over the phone before you are accepted. This may seem a bit tedious in the beginning, but your diligence and efforts will be handsomely rewarded.
One of the downsides of choosing to become a CPA affiliate is that the offers are constantly changing. An offer that you are promoting today may no longer be available on tomorrow. This is the reason that some affiliate marketers shy away from CPA offers. However, if you design your landing pages properly, often one product can be easily substituted for another.
Let’s consider the Acai weight loss products for a moment. There is almost always some type of Acai or other weight loss offer running through these companies. Simply exchange the expired offer with a current offer. Keeping in touch with your CPA representative will help you stay up-to-date with the various promotions.
There is lots of potential for profit as a CPA affiliate, but it takes work just like other forms of affiliate marketing. If you are looking to expand your income or just seeking some diversity, then becoming a CPA affiliate may definitely be worth considering.
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Article affiliate marketing will be defined and explained. This broad method of marketing has become prevalent in the online world of business and is a great way for many businesses to increase internet traffic. While there are pros and cons to the use of affiliates when marketing your online business, it has proven to be a solid way to increase traffic to your web site.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Web based businesses use affiliate marketing to advertise. They pay an affiliate for generating web site visits or sales. Simply put, the affiliate uses a web site to drive traffic to the web based business’s site. Many people confuse affiliate marketing with network marketing or multi level marketing. In order to avoid this perplexity, some people in the industry have begun to refer to it as performance marketing. It is difficult to change such a widely used name and so there remains some misunderstanding around the name of affiliate marketing.
Why is Affiliate Marketing Popular?
The affiliate marketing strategy has been wildly successful for many web based businesses. It has allowed many businesses to grow from small operations to very large and successful ways to make money online. Many people choose this internet marketing because it is one of the few advertising strategies that provides guaranteed website traffic. In many cases, after the expense of set up, a business owner does not pay unless the affiliate provides internet traffic
Is Affiliate Marketing a ‘Do It Yourself’ Advertising Strategy?
There are companies who have in-house affiliate marketing programs. However, to run a thriving program, you need a team with expertise, time, and energy. The program must be properly managed by someone who has an understanding of the necessary technology and who have the ethics that reflect the nature of your company and the way you want it represented. Because of the skills and time involved, more and more businesses are outsourcing this work to affiliates who are well versed in the industry.
What Gave Some Affiliates a Bad Name?
Unfortunately, many affiliates were not adequately controlled in the past, and they were allowed to perform unethical practices. They were known to use false advertising, spam, and tracking cookies. Search engine spam, or spamdexing came after email spam, which almost everyone is aware of. Spamdexing involves many automatically generated web pages that targeted keywords and improved search engine rankings. The lack of relevant content led to the removal of many such web sites from the search engines or poor ratings.
Affiliates and Pay Per Click
Pay per click advertising was embraced by affiliates early in its conception. Business owners have come to rely on this form of marketing to meet the needs of their individual companies. Often, they go to an affiliate to provide the ‘know how’ to use this tool most successfully. Now there is a change for affiliate marketers using Google Snatch methods.
Affiliate marketing has many faces and in this article, affiliate marketing has been turned several ways to show the good and bad aspects of the practice. There are many complexities and a rich history surrounding this marketing technique.
Article affiliate marketing is a way to gain information on the strengths and weakness of the industry so that you can find your way through successfully.
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