Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Article Marketing Tips

I have discussed email marketing briefly in my last posting. In this posting I will explain and discuss the power behind

article marketing.

Article marketing is by far one of the free ways internet marketters can draw reliable and targeted traffic to teir website.

Some top notch marketters used this system and they are still using it to build an email list of several thousands of people

to their website. You must have heard the saying that the money is in the list. Hence the more subscribers list you have the

more cash will continue to roll in

The question now is how do you start? The best and the most reliable way to go about it is to identify your NICHE. We are

going to discuss what Niche is in my later posting. However, niche is a particular activities that one is passionate about at

doing.

Hence, if you have a subject you are passionate about, write everythin you know about it and submit. If you are not good at

writing, then you may just locate articles on these areas by doing research work using www.google.com and other relate search

engines such as www.lycos.com, altavista.com etc to find important articles.

When you have the articles using search engines, study them, re-write the articles manually from scratch. It should be noted

that if you download an articles and post them to article directories without re-writing them, you stand the chance of being

banned forever from using article directories

These directories management has spent thousands of dollars and are still spending to install powerful software that

automatically detects when one try spaming a particular directory by posting an article that is already in their archives. So

you must post original content.

However, if you do not have the time, strenght and the ability to write articles, you may consider hiring aghost writer from

www.elance.com or www.scriptlance.com. Usually you will be charged about $5 per 400-500 words article.

Meanwhile, if you are not good in any of these, just think of a niche you feel you can do well and re-write articles on them

or better still you can lay you hands on PRL (Private Label Right) articles and re-edit or re-write and post.

From my experience, I personally bought PRL articles, pick topics that I feel I can confortable work on, and then try working

on the topic for about 3-4hours each day manually re-writing these articles.

Finally, you do need to submit your articles to many directories if you need backlinks and search engine traffic to enable

high ranking of your website or squeeze page.

By doing this, you are on your way to building a profitable list of subscribers that will always buy from you whenever there

is a good offers.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Email Marketing: Tips and Tricks

Email Marketing Tips – How to Persuade and Convince Prospects To Buy

If you plan to exceedingly succeed in you online marketing business, the bitter truth that you have to face is that it requires complete selling!

However, it does not require cold or hot calling. It may interest you to know that you are dealing with people that have given you permission to advertise your offers that you have to them.

Meanwhile, the tip is that you need to understand that in order to maximize your profit, your going to need to convince your subscribers to buy you products and the products that you are promoting.

When done properly, that way, you will not offend anyone, and you will help more people to getting what they needed to solve their immediate problem.

Tips and Tricks to Be More Persuasive

Tip 1 – Believe in the products you are promoting.

Let your subscribers know if you truly believe in the product or service you are promoting! Do not shy away from saying “I know that this will help you if you apply it”

Tip 2 - Tell a Short Story

People can’t help but be attracted to a story. Try finding something in your life relating to a particular product or service your promoting that is worth putting a story in you email.

Note: if you can’t think of something right away for that particular product, the make up a fictional story (and tell your readers that it is a fictional)

Some of the best and renowned sellers are also story teller, so you can start mastering the skill now.

Tip 3 – Emphasize on the products benefits, not features

The most important question that will make up part of your email body is for example, Does the course teach list building, or does it show you how to build your own profitable list that will make you money?

Instead of saying what the products does, say what it will do for the reader when applied. That is a benefit rather than a feature.

Tip 4 – Send multiple emails, and follow up emails.

It is uncommon and weird that I will send only one email to promote a product. From my experience, I have come to realize that by sending four emails instead of one, I can easily double my sales.

If you do not send out the other emails and follow up emails to your subscribers in your mailing list then you are missing out on lost sales. Remember that the act is to enable you to make mores sales.

Tip 5 – Use multiple Methods of Contact

Many of the top and best sellers on internet love email marketing and many have used email marketing to rake in millions of dollars. However, if it is all you do then you are losing out sales.

There are several other ways to persuade your readers: You should consider using audio and video on your pages. Teleseminar, bulk SMS, phone etc and even offline marketing (for example sending out direct mail and placing classified advertisement in the pages of newspaper)

If all these methods are used properly, they will increase your relationship with your subscribers and make you more money.

Tip 6 – Consistency is the Key

Whatever you decide to do and achieve, be consistent. If you email once in a week and then decide to email three times in one week, you should not expect positive results.

It is impossible to say what methods are best for each market (e.g should you email daily, weekly, or monthly) you need to test to see which works best for you.

However, once you start doing something, you should stay consistent at it unless you discover a more effective but lucrative idea or method that proof to generate more money.

For those who are just starting out on email, it is better that you already to be delivered over say every 3 days or 7 days. Spread over a minimum of 30 days or maximum of 90 days period.