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Tips 6 to 10… Quick guide to starting your Internet business.
6. You’ve GOT to get an Autoresponder!
Although they aren’t THAT expensive, most newcomers shy away from the inevitable… you HAVE to get an Autoresponder to be really successful. You see, your goal is to not only make sales, but to build up a list of followers to sell to time and again. You may form a bond with them, so that they become even more than just customers, but the point is, without them, you can’t really be guaranteed to make continuous sales. Your autoresponder will be the place where you email lists will reside, and you will be able to send them messages from there.
The best Autoresponder for Internet Marketers has been touted to be Aweber. Aweber has the best deliverability rates, but has gotten a bit pricey as of late. You can still pay under $20 per month for their service, but as your list grows, your costs will grow quickly as well. Nevertheless, it is the Autoresponder of choice. A close second is Get Response. Get Response does not have the incredible deliverability of Aweber in tests that we have performed, but is good enough to get by.
Once you get your Autoresponder service become accustomed to it through the in-house tutorials they have for you. It is vital you understand it inside and out. You will be able to send out “broadcasts” or “blasts” as they are called whenever you wish to your entire list of leads, OR you can schedule them to go out in timed intervals known as “followups”.
Don’t skimp on this. If you get roped into another Autoresponder, you not only are likely to end up with one of these two down the road, but you may lose your list when you make the switch.
7. Starting your affiliate marketing, with Clickbank.
One of the first things you will want to get involved with is affiliate marketing. Although you need to drive traffic to your website, blog, or “mini-site”, getting set up with a Clickbank account is very important.
You see, Clickbank is a huge marketplace of e-products. Someday in the future you may actually make one of those e-products and place it on Clickbank for other affiliates to sell. For now, you are going to want to take products and sell them to others, and you will make a hefty commission, usually at or over 50%, for each sale.
If you go to Clickbank.com you will find it remarkably easy to establish an account. The most difficult part will be choosing a name that may not already be taken. Keep in mind that later on you may use that name when you sell a product, so don’t make it too funky. Something marketing related like myproducts would be good. I believe it is limited to 10 characters.
Now head on over to the Clickbank “marketplace” and you will see that it is divided into various “niches”, or areas of interest. You will be able to create what is called a “hoplink” for each one of those products, that would lead to paying YOU the commission if you were to sell that product. Clickbank recently introduced a way to “cloak” your hoplink so that people will not be able to easily figure out the product name, and place their own affiliate id into this url instead of yours.
There are a huge number of ways to decide on which products to sell, but it depends of course on what you plan to focus on with the subscribers that you will eventually be getting and repeatedly “making suggestions” (selling) to. One thing to look for in product is a high “gravity” meaning that a lot of other affiliates are promoting the product, not just the product owner.
As with most of these newsletters, I’m pointing you in the right direction, but it is up to you to find out as much as you can through the Clickbank marketplace itself and through forums. In my next report, I’ll be talking about forums and how you can use them.
8. Forums
The one Internet Marketing forum that has withstood the “test of time” is known as the “Warrior Forum” at http://warriorforum.com. I have great news and not so great news about that forum. The great news it really IS a place where you can get your questions answered. It is also a place you can introduce new products an a section called Warrior Special Offers. It is also a place you can “kind of” get the word out about your own new releases.
That brings us to the bad news. Because the nature of Internet Marketing can be so “spammy”, with folks jumping in with offers all over the place, it tends to bring down the quality of the discussion if that happens. So, the Warrior Forum “police” as I call them will be scrutinizing every post of yours. If you so much as hint that you are pushing your product outside of the Warrior Special Offer section, the entire “thread” including your initial posting will be annihilated.
One thing you should keep in mind is that folks tend to be overly positive and overly negative about certain products when they are asked an opinion about them, to the point where it is hard to make out the forest from the trees. However, the Warrior Forum is the absolute best place to establish potential partners, and to simply ask questions and learn about what may be a stumbling block for you. Use. It.
9. The not-so-secret, secret in Internet Marketing is the use of Squeeze Pages.
Those are the little minisites (mini web-sites) that are just one page, where you offer a freebie or some other sort of incentive, in exchange for the reader’s name and email. Sometimes you may just collect their email, the name is handy (for personalization later) but not crucial.
The best squeeze pages, also known as opt-in pages are simple with a big fat headline and as few words as possible. A video on a squeeze page can work wonders as well. Some Internet marketers say…
Squeeze Pages are the heart and soul of Internet Marketing because they are the very easiest vehicle to use to start building a list of leads, or subscribers for yourself. If you go down this road one of the best way to get started is to get a hold of products that have “Master Resale Rights” product, or PLR products with “giveaway rights”. That means you can purchase this product (sometimes you can even get it for free (rare), and you can then start giving it out using your squeeze page. The best option here is really PLR product that you can edit to include your own links then your signup bonus become a powerful viral marketing product.
Where can you find Master Resale Rights products and PLR products, you won’t have to look hard, if you join a “Giveaway” which is what we’ll discuss next. But the hands down best option is to Google the term PLR product marketing’ and purchase a quality product you can edit with your style and links.
10. Can Giveaways get you started?
In the last paragraph I mentioned that you can’t easily find products with Master Resale Rights, PLR rights to “give away”. The same holds true if you join an Internet Marketing “Giveaway”. However, follow me for just a moment as I take you through a journey of something you can do that may useful to getting started.
You see, dozens, sometimes hundreds of Internet Marketers just like you want to get you to opt-in to their squeeze pages, as they offer you free gifts in these giveaways. A quick Google search will lead you right to the Giveaways. Some of the most popular include the Easter Giveaway and the 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway, but they are held nearly year-round.
I am not a big fan of ‘giveaway’ events. Most time you do sign up every man and his dog has the same products to download, past experience tells me most on offer are of very little value at all. Same deal applies to building your list using popular giveaway events. Most people who download your product are not ‘buyers’ and most never read your message so you have little opportunity to convert them into paying customers.
That’s all for this post, hope it has helped you a little or at the very least got you thinking about doing some serious research and planing your business launch before you commit to what you may find overtime a waste of time.
If you are in need of in depth mentoring without mortgaging your home to fund it. Go visit my very good friend, veteran of successful Internet marketing business, Graham Hamer.
Graham was practising and teaching ‘Viral marketing’ long before most of todays so called gurus had ever heard of it let alone worked it out. I highly recommend his members site (a members site with an income opportunity) at: “Profit Blaster – Bull free Zone“. Grahams members site has all the proffessional advice you need to make a living online, plus product you can start with today, you will also have access to an in depth tutorial authored by David Valleries.
You can use various link building tools to extensively increase your link(s) popularity. The apt links’ popularity of your websites will draw targeted traffic on your websites. And this will certainly raise your page rank by the search engines. So the tools for link building become your key to top-ranking among the search engines.
Now first things first, what tools can you use for building links to your website? The link building tools can be various. They can range from a link building software to the online services, meant especially for building quality links for you. In fact you can also build links via ezines, link directories and search engines as well. Read on to know how you can use each of these tools judiciously to build your link popularity.
Search Engine: The first tool to look for links is to find out the websites with a good page rank. If you link up with the websites with a good page rank, your ranking can also be raised. You can find out the sites by using a search engine. The software available in the market finds out the right websites with a good page rank for you.
Once you have the URLs and domains of the websites to be linked with, you can add them to your website and also send a link request to them. The websites take their time to reply you back.
Link Popularity Software: Apart from making the search on the search engines, you can also use a special Link Popularity Software. The software is smart and finds out successfully the websites that are willing to have reciprocal link ventures with you. The advanced software is such, that it can find the links and then connects those links to your website automatically. They are adept at searching for the sites related to your website. They also help you to determine the existing competition for reciprocal linking in your business line.
Content Development: Another link building tool is content development. It is the content of your website that is searched by the visitors. The search engine matches the keywords to your content. The link building tools also help you to develop a good content with the help of great keyword searching software.
You can develop a good content with the help of the keywords searching software. The software is programmed to find the most popular keywords for you. You can make the use of keywords to write articles for your website. When the user finds relevant content on your website, your site becomes more popular. It will also encourage other websites to link to your website.
Article Publication: You can get your articles published on any internet magazine or a news journal. Many sites look for articles to publish. Never forget to mention the resource link below your article. The link building tools are available with different features.
The price of each software differs on the basis of the features it incorporates. You can order the software online or can even download it for free.
So, now as you know the essential tools for link building, you can certainly raise the number of good links on your website.
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