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December 9, 2009 – 9:54 am SEO articles are hot property on the Internet. The reason being is that every self-respecting marketer uses SEO optimized articles (keyword rich) to help their site rank in the organic search engine results.
Writing SEO style articles is easy. It comes naturally if you are knowledgable on the topic. It takes me about 10 minutes to write an optimized quality SEO article on a topic I’m familiar about.
When you know your niche it is easy to come up with content. I see it as telling good friend about the topic in a conversational tone. The only difference between talking or writing the article is that by writing you can focus on inserting your keyword in key positions within the article itself.
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November 28, 2009 – 6:48 am Everybody is talking about link wheels these days. If you are a forum member of an Internet marketing forum then chances are you would have seen a reference made to link wheels. I will try to lighten your knowledge about these important wheels and try to help you understand what it takes to build your own link wheel.
What is a link wheel?
To start with, let’s find out what a link wheel is so that you can take part in the conversation. In short, a link wheel is a number of linked together web 2.0 sites that have been created with the purpose of building backlinks to your make money online site.
Some people say these are a waste of time, but I like to digress. The only way these wheels become obsolete is if you are spamming them.
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November 4, 2009 – 10:50 am Reason #10: Membership Sites Aren’t NOT Magic
When you start a membership site, don’t expect to get rich overnight. You’re not going to earn a million bucks
…in a weekend
…while you’re sitting on the beach
…in your pajamas.
What a membership site will do for you, however, is provide you with a business model that has been used successfully and profitably in offline, “brick and mortar” businesses for hundreds of years.
Here’s what I mean…
I’m a member of an auto club and I’d wager you are too. We pay them a fee – usually once a year – to enjoy all of the resources, facilities, and amenities available only to members of our club. These auto clubs have been in existence for years. And they’re so profitable that credit card companies, auto manufacturers, and even insurance companies are now trying to get a piece of the pie.
Then there are health clubs. Health clubs have been around for hundreds of years. They charged fees which their members paid in return for access to the facilities, the resources, and often the exclusivity of the club. Today, we call them fitness centers and memberships are much more universally available because enterprising businesses saw the potential in offering health club memberships to regular, working class individuals. But the basic concept remains unchanged – members pay a periodic fee for the right to receive the benefits provided by the club.
We pay for golf memberships, we subscribe to magazines and newspapers, and we join discount clubs like Sam’s Club, Costco, and BJ’s just so we can have access to the facilities, resources, and information available only to members or subscribers.
These are all examples of solid, successful, profitable, membership based businesses – real “brick and mortar” businesses that are using the membership model to bring in big-time dollars for their owners.
So, what’s so great about the membership business model?
It’s a business model that inherently does one thing really well. When you start a membership site you’ll be forced into doing the single thing every successful business MUST do – provide ongoing value to your members.
It forces you to refine and improve you products and processes to make sure your members are satisfied and continue to renew their memberships. Unlike the business model most companies are built on – where no one really keeps track of unsatisfied customers or one-shot customers (customers that buy just once and never return) – large numbers of non-renewing members is concrete evidence of a problem with your business.
If you don’t fix the problem… if you don’t start giving real value to your members, you’ll lose them. They won’t renew their memberships your membership site will fail.
If you continually provide an obvious value to your members, they’ll continue renewing their memberships – and continue buying your products – over and over and over again.
Reason #9: Membership Sites Offer a Dependable Income Stream
When you start a membership site, the very nature of the business model forces you to do the one thing every successful business MUST do.
You are forced to provide ongoing value to your members.
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January 31, 2009 – 3:12 pm Admittedly, article marketing may sound like something complicated, but on a very basic level, it really isn’t. The one and only aim of article marketing is to get visitors to visit your website through the backlink of a submitted article.
Of course, in order to successfully do that, it isn’t enough to just submit tons and tons of articles and then hope that people click the backlink. True, if you went by the quantity over quality approach then you’d probably end up getting a couple of visitors here and there, but it would be more time consuming, and less effective, than going about it the smart way.
Really, the only reason that people tend to flop at article marketing is simply because they don’t think it through from the get go.
So, in order to avoid going through the same tedious rigmarole, we’re going to look at article marketing from the ground up; from the theory right down to the practice. By doing so, you should end this eBook with a firm grasp of what you need to go out there and do, and how you can do it.
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January 8, 2009 – 5:19 am Commonly, not having a list is said to be ‘leaving money on the table’, and that much is certainly true.
Take the example of a conventional clothes store. Customers come, browse around, maybe buy something, and then leave. Once they’ve left, the store has no way of getting in touch with them, and maybe convincing them to come back again.
On the other hand, if the store had their contact details, they could notify them when they have a new stock of clothes on the rack, or special discounts, and so on. By doing so, the customer would then feel compelled to perhaps come back, or at very least would consider doing so.
Similarly, in whatever niche that you’re into, if you had a list of previous customers then whenever you have a new product, or some other offer, you’d just be able to shoot out emails and see if anyone is interested. Simple as it sounds, this is amazingly effective.
Think about it in terms of figures, if that helps. Let’s say you have an 8,000 strong list, and you send out an email regarding your latest product that costs $20. Even if only 10% of your list buys your product, that is 800 instant customers and you would have made $16,000.
To sum it up, the reason to build and use a list is to establish a firm base of regular customers to which you can market your products and offers too with great ease.
How to Get Started Building a List
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