Viral Marketing:10 High-Impact, Viral Marketing Strategies,To Explode Your Sales
December 23, 2007
Hello, do you have any website that is not bringing in a lot of sales?
Would you like to know a few smart and sharp viral marketing secrets to turn it around and explode your sales?
If yes, may I offer you 10 high impact viral marketing strategies to increase your sales!
Viral Marketing is allowing people to giveaway and use your free product or service in order to multiply your marketing quickly over the internet. The idea behind viral marketing is that you include your ad with the freebie people giveaway or use. Below are ten high impact viral marketing strategies:
1. Allow people to reprint your articles on their web site, in their e-zine, newsletter, magazine or ebooks. Include your resource box and the option for article reprints at the bottom of each article.
2. Allow people to use any of your freebies as free bonuses for products or services they sell. Include your ad on all your freebies.
3. Allow people to use your online discussion board for their own website. Some people don’t have one. Just include your banner ad at the top of the board.
I Have A Web Store?? So What?
December 22, 2007
Just because you put up a web store doesn’t mean people will come, take a look and then give you their hard earned dollars. The most successful e-commerce sites have systems in place that entice people to come and buy-again and again. How do they do it. Here are some helpful hints:
First they do everything they can to get people to leave their names and e-mail addresses so they can tell them about upcoming sales, new products and so on. Consider offering a free newsletter or service that sends out updates about your products or services.
Second, they pay close attention to their catalog copy. They try to make it interesting yet concise so that it can be easily understood. Also, their pricing information is very clear.
Third, they also know that their sales strategies on the Web shouldn’t be different from storefront sales strategies, they discount items, have sales and offer coupons for consumers to download.
Fourth, they also let their customers know that real people are behind their Web store. They list their phone and fax numbers-and an e-mail address-prominently on their Web site. They put their customers more at ease about buying from there knowing that they can be reached easily and by a number of different methods.
The Top Ten Checklist For Low Web Site Sales
December 21, 2007
You have good traffic, but low client sign ups and other sales. Web sites are only as good as their copy. If your Web sales are down, check your copywriting.
Next time you think Web site–either putting up a new one, or wanting to improve yours for more contacts and sales–use this checklist:
1. Replace long paragraphs of copy with short benefit-driven headlines.
Incorporate sound bites or questions your visitor will feel compelled to respond to such as “Follow up or Foul Up?”
2. Make your copy beneath the headlines short and snappy.
Your potential clients come for easy-to-read material. Like you, they are in a hurry, and want free information fast.
3. Put yourself in your targeted visitors’ shoes.
Think, “why are they at my site?” They want two things: 1) free content such as articles or tips about your service or product and 2) how you can solve their problem or challenge–the top benefits you offer.
4. Give your web visitors a lot of free information.
Introducing Shareware: Download And Enjoy!
December 21, 2007
Introducing Shareware: Download And Enjoy!
by: Ted Peterson
Attractive images and delicious descriptions are not to be taken for good as not all of them are matters of honor.
If you trust entirely product descriptions and users’ comments you can buy software assuming the risk of disappointment, because not every truth might be expressed in words, although words are able to express everything! Words jongleurs know that “like a veil before my eyes” sounds very romantic but not applicable when talking about investments. Sadly but truly: there is information which seeks to misinform! This is why even regarding the most unimportant issues you should keep your right to be posted.
Now we are talking! One of the most equitable ways to respect you time, money and well feeling is the solution offered by the shareware concept. Thus, before buying a software product, you are given the chance to try it, to test its usefulness and to evaluate its full powers. You have enough time to acknowledge every feature of the software program you are ready to acquire.
The Disease of Google Banning: Are You At Risk?
December 20, 2007
Definition:
Google banning occurs when Google removes your site from its index and flags your domain as ‘banned’, so it won’t spider your site anymore. It is actually a serious disease and may be even life threatening specially for small websites.
Etiology:
Webmasters’ mistakes are almost always the leading causes of google banning; here are some of the common mistakes that will get your website banned:
1. Using small or hidden text in your web pages. Some webmasters will try to use hidden text containing certain keywords inside their site, so that the text is not visible by the human eyes, but visible by search engines.
2. Using popular keywords such as “sex, mp3, yahoo” in the meta tags when the subject of your site has nothing to do with those keywords is commonly called keyword stuffing.
3. Participating in Link farms. Link farms or Free-for-all links pages are pages that consist of links and exist solely to help listed sites gain higher search engine rankings. These pages have no unique content just links. Obviously you can’t control which sites link back to you, but if you link to link farms, your site will get banned.
How Effective is Your Email? How Can You Tell?
December 19, 2007
Is your email getting to your list members? If so, how many of them are opening your message? If the email isn’t getting through, how many of your messages are “undeliverable” because of a bad email address? And how do you find out what these numbers are?
In order to test the effectiveness of an email campaign, you need to use html email. Although I have fought against it for several years, I consented to use it this one time in order to do the necessary tracking.
First, you need to prepare the email. I use the OnlineSuccessCart.com system, so I created the html email in my web creation program and pasted it into the broadcast window. Then I pressed the send button.
I sent a similiar announcement to each of my major lists. And the numbers started pouring in…
Emails sent: this is the total active on the list
Undeliverable: these email addresses bounced or had not completed the newly implemented AOL double opt-in process
Now I had a percentage of the total emails that were undeliverable. My numbers range in the 4-8% range, but I know a lot of Internet marketers who are fighting 25-30% of their lists who are undelivered. Undeliverables is the first figure you want to check.
A Simple Guide to Web Hosting
December 18, 2007
Personal Computers, Servers Or ISP?
You need a server to host your site so that it can be viewed over the internet. This server can either be an Internet Service Provider or of your own. Most websites are hosted by an Internet Service Provider because they can provide powerful server hardware, high speed connections and reliable server support.
Most providers have very fast connections to the Internet such as a full T3 fiber-optic (45 Megabytes per second) connections which is about 1000 high speed (56 Kilobytes per second) modems combined.
For those who are looking to set up their own servers and host their own websites, a personal computer is often not powerful enough to do the job. As the name suggests, a personal computer can hardly handle multiple visitors to your website- servers are needed to handle these visitors simultaneously.
Getting Your Web Hosting
There are thousands of companies that offer web hosting for your website. Which to choose and what to look out for? With the multitude of features and terms in each hosting plan, it can be puzzling for those who are just starting out. The golden rule in choosing your website: Nothing beats reliable web hosting. Many web hosting plans offer more space, more benefits than others. The decision to your web hosting should be based on reliability. We have seen too many disappointed website owners who chose benefits and space over reliability.
Websites for Writers ? Why You Need One and How to Get Started Today
December 17, 2007
It may seem like the publishing industry’s equivalent of Beanie Baby madness- everyone is talking about writer’s websites. Freelancers and authors everywhere are jumping on the bandwagon, publishing sites to promote themselves and their work. This craze leaves many writers wondering if it’s just a fad or if it’s really worth the expense and effort. While it may seem like an overwhelming or frivolous endeavor, there are some solid business reasons why you should consider setting up your own website.
? Editors Like Writer’s Websites. When querying an editor for the first time, you can add credibility to your writing resume by referencing your website. Instead of attaching clips, you can provide a link to clips on your site. This minimizes paperwork and lets you avoid sending email attachments that can get scrubbed or cause your email to be routed straight to the trash bin. It also makes the editor’s job easier- which could cause them to reward you with a new assignment.
? Your Site Can Save You Time. When you put your clips online, you avoid having to copy them over and over again and instead just upload them once to your website. Your clips file can be as current and as varied as you want it to be. This can streamline your query process and ultimately make you more productive.
The Paradigm Shift of Internet Marketing
December 16, 2007
There is a trend going on in the world of internet marketing. If you truly open your eyes and pay attention to everything in the internet marketing world, you will notice this specific trend that is rapidly invading our email inboxes from every internet marketing guru out there. This trend is a marketing shift from text ebooks to more high valued products like multimedia online presentations and software products.
In times past, many people have made tremendous fortunes online selling ebooks only. But the days of making serious money from writing your own text ebooks is now over. It is extremely difficult now to write an ebook that will net you a six figure profit. Many internet marketing experts recognized this and immediately changed their marketing battle plan. A lot of them jumped directly into the software industry to tap into the wealth of income that many individuals like Bill Gates from Microsoft and Larry Ellison from Oracle are already achieving.
Now the software and technology industry has been known to create many multi millionaires and even billionaires. Due to the large number of millionaires in the software industry, I can conclude that a lot of internet marketers who actually dive into this industry and truly use practical internet marketing principles to market their software will also become millionaires. This is why there is a rapid transition from traditional ebooks to high quality software.
Reasons Why You Ultimately Must Have A Website
December 16, 2007
Reasons Why You Ultimately Must Have A Website
by: Winston Yam
One way of marketing products online is via affiliate programs wherein a website may not be needed.
For a lot of affiliates (or “publishers”, as Commission Junction calls them), this has been a successful undertaking and for them has been quite profitable.
Affiliate marketing is a quick, convenient, and painless way of making online income since the internet marketer need not bother with the complexities of building and maintaining a website.
No HTML coding, javascript, autoresponders, pop-ups or web hosting to bother with, set-up, or pay for.
All you need is an affiliate link from your merchant and off you go promoting your chosen product to your niche or target audience.
Personally, however, bothering with such “complexities” in building and maintaining a website has its own advantages and intangible benefits I’m not ready to overlook or give up just yet.
Here are some reasons why up until now I still believe that at the end of the day having your own website is still the way to go if you want to make it Big and be successful online:
