Myspace Ad Network
It looks like Myspace’s Pay Per Click platform is live at http://advertise.myspace.com. if you know anything about Facebook the first few weeks their Pay Per Click platform was live there was a mint made on it. Typically the best offers that are going to work with out having to do a lot of trial and error are:
Dating - Singlesnet
Diet - Acai offer
Ringtones - Funmobile
Freebies - Zip/email submits
For those of you that aren’t familiar with Myspace traffic. it usually converts at about 5 x’s what Facebook traffic does. The demographic is much more likely to buy or signup for offers then Facebook users. So get out there and make the easy money before they put a lot of rules in place like Facebook did.
Feel The Freedom Of Doing It
Think back to when you first started dreaming of having your own home-based internet business. Lots of people seem to be making money this way. What a great idea! No more commuting, freedom to work in your pajamas, money for the lifestyle you’d always wanted and more time with your family …
But where do you start? It was all so confusing. You responded to mailings and bought products that promised you would make money fast. But if you are anything like me, you found that nothing seemed to work. You didn’t dare quit your day job. Each year, you would look back and think, “I STILL haven’t made any money”.
So you decided to stop taking other people’s advice and buying other people’s products. You realized that the only way to go was to have your OWN product and your OWN web site.
You developed a product line and paid someone to design an impressive and professional looking web site. And you sat and waited for the money to roll in. But the only problem was, nobody was visiting your fantastic site so they couldn’t see what great products you had.
So why are other people making money online and you are not? You have one thing left to learn. Learn this one lesson and it will change your life.
Your product is something you are interested in and developing it is something you have enjoyed doing. But sadly, you can’t sit there doing what you enjoy. You have to get out there and start doing things you don’t enjoy much.
Building a great site and having great products isn’t all there is in the business. “Build it and they will come” doesn’t work on the Internet. The only way people will know your site is there is through search engines. People who are looking for your product or service will type in keywords and you have to make sure your site is the one they see. Making your site rank high in the search engines means work. Nobody else is going to do it for you. You have to. But because a lot of folks don’t like doing it, they don’t do it. This is where you will have the advantage – because you are going to do it anyway!
So how do you ensure people see your site?
• Links. For your site to rank high in the search engines, you need links pointing to your site. So you have to have a good linking campaign. Place your link in directories – free ones if you are short of money. Place links on your site to other relevant sites and e-mail them to ask them to link to yours.
• Writing articles and submitting them to article directories. Optimize the articles for keywords. That means, find out what words people are using to search for products like yours and use them in the article.
• Forums. Join forums and discussion groups related to your product – find them through search engines. Answer people’s questions or problems and include a link to your site in your posts.
• Press releases. Write press releases about your business. Submit them to offline newspapers and online e-zines. Ensure they are written in the appropriate style for that publication.
Sure, it’s hard work. And it has to be done on a daily basis. It takes discipline. But within a few weeks you will see your business growing. And you will find the success that other people only sit and dream about.
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Reporter vs Expert - Why Most Bloggers Are Stuck Reporting
Yaro Starak is really an upfront guy when it comes to teaching you how he makes money online through blogging, he doesnt hype it, no ferraris or big fast expensive cars, NO NO a real guy with a humble home and nice little car. He has written this article and I ould like to share it ith people who may prefer to go it alone. so here it is below his article on blogging.
There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).
If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.
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I’ll be frank; you want to be the expert.
Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven’t established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it’s easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc… experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.
Most Bloggers Are Reporters
The thing with expertise is that it requires something - experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).
There’s nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it’s a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts - there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.
Don’t Replicate Your Teacher
If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a “guru” (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.
The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry - the Internet marketing industry - not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it’s next to impossible to succeed.
Even people, who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it’s fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche - Internet marketing - and rarely have any key points of differentiation.
How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things - email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It’s a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let’s face it - making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) - your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.
If the key is to become an expert and you haven’t spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.
Report on Your Process, Not Others
The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people’s work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.
It’s okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it’s fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there’s. Frame things using your opinion - your stories - and don’t regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.
Expertise comes from doing things most people don’t do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.
You Are Already An Expert
Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don’t leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.
Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life, who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of…well fear.
Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven’t much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.
Reporting Is A Stepping Stone
If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from “scratch”, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.
Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.
Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it’s okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that’s all most experts really are.
This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.
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10 Traffic Tips For Your Blog
In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.
Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.
It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called “traction”, which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.
Top 10 Tips
10. Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good “how-to” lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.
9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.
You don”t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.
8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need a easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that’’s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you’ve done a good job!).
7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people’s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.
Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.
6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger’’s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it’’s sort of like your blog telling someone else’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.
This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will likely come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.
5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.
4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival often enjoy a spike in new readers.
To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at blogcarnival.com.
3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it’’s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it’’s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!
2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn’t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it’’s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.
How you benefit is through what is called your “Resource Box”. You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.
1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I’ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won’t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.
I hope you enjoyed my list of traffic tips. Everything listed above are techniques I’ve put into place myself for my blogs and have worked for me, however it’’s certainly not a comprehensive list. There are many more things you can do. Finding readers is all about testing to see what works best for you and your audience and I have no doubt if you put your mind to it you will find a balance that works for you.
This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.
To get more information about Blog Mastermind click this link:www.BlogMastermind.com
Aweber
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They’ve all sought out the expertise of the “master of targeted opt-in e-mail,” Jonathan Mizel!
Now you can, too!
Hardcore businesses pay thousands of dollars to hear Jonathan speak, but you don’t have to. Through an exclusive offer with AWeber Communications, Inc., you can hear directly from Jonathan - for FREE!
Right now, the TWO-PART video of Jonathan’s sequential autoresponse seminar in London, England is in the AWeber control panel. In this amazing hour, Jonathan reveals:
* Totally unique ways to use AWeber autoresponders
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This video puts thousands of dollars worth of intellectual material at your fingertips. Take advantage of Jonathan’s expertise right now!
Chatwise - Ari Galper
I was introduced to chatwise by Delmae Bower a colleague from SBI, at first I thought, ok another chat program, whats so special about it. It is much more than a simple chat 
program it is in essence a sales backend system that allows you to see your site visitors that return and are maybe looking for some information or possibly to buy something, it is engaging with people on a human level that have found you.
If you haven’t checked out chatwise, I suggest you head over and sign up for the free video seminars, its an eyeopener in the terms of closing sales.
some of the features he talks about are :
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Connect with visitors in real time • How to start a chat without turning off or scaring away your visitor • Key strategies to identify which visitors on your website are most likely open to chatting • Why creating trust + fixing website holes = more sales • 7 key trust-building key words and phrases you should use in all your chat conversations • How to use the 4-step ChatWise conversation process to quickly identify a buyer |
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Change your Sales Mindset • How the Unlock The Internet Game Mindset makes live chat profitable • Why live chat is uniquely sensitive and different from phone and face-to-face selling • Why using traditional direct selling through live chat is a recipe for disaster • Why you can’t use live chat to jump in and “sell” |
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Use chat to increase your conversions • Why repeat visitors who chat with you are most likely to be buyers • How to spot trends in a chat session indicating an interested buyer • How to track your sales that included a chat conversation to measure your ROI • How to identify when it is appropriate to suggest a live phone call • Key phrases that you can use to move someone from a chat to a live phone call |
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Humanize and fine-tune your website so visitors aren’t skeptical about buying from you • How to take the hype out of your copy so your visitors trust you more • Why a chat box is 100% more effective than just a chat graphic • How to place your chat box IN and around your sales letter to get the most chats • How to create “sweet spots” on your website so visitors will chat with you • How to identify “holes” in your sales process by tracking the paths your visitors are taking • How to use the Mindset to fine-tune your site so visitors will chat with you instead of leave • How to review your chat conversations periodically to find the “holes” in your website • How to improve your website copy based on your chat conversations with your visitors • How to turn autoresponders into “sweet spots” for new chat conversations and more sales |
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The most common mistakes by new affiliate marketers
New Internet affiliate marketers are no doubt ambitious and driven by the idea of being successful and making money from their Internet venture.
While ambition is a good thing, the true key to success with Internet marketing is affiliate marketing It’s imperative that you know what works, what doesn’t and how to put it all together to make your venture work. Here is a short list of some of the most commonly made mistakes by new marketers.
Not having your own top of the line affiliate support site backing you. As with brick and mortar businesses, image is everything. If you’re striving for success your image will suffer using a free site.
Using free e-mail addresses such as Yahoo, gmail, or Hotmail ‘ As with the free websites, using free e-mail services don’t lend professionalism to your image. Unprofessional look on your website ‘ If your website looks like the strip in Las Vegas with flashing banner ads and cheesy graphics people will assume you’re an amateur.
Your site needs to have quality look and quality content. You’ll also want to take care in the layout of your site making sure that it’s easy to navigate and makes sense. Poorly written content ‘
Whether you do your own writing or have someone else do the writing for you, be sure that it’s quality content.
You want to offer your visitors information they want that’s easy to read and grammatically correct. Success as a marketer doesn’t have to cost you a fortune, but it will take some investment on your part, in time and money. Advice to new marketers about email marketing.
Emails are replacing regular mails from the post office. Not only because it is cheaper, since you do not need to buy a stamp, its also definitely faster. Emails can be sent in as fast as five seconds, depending on the server, anywhere in the world.
No doubt emails are being used to distribute news letters, promotional mails, and other stuff. How then would you be able to round up email addresses to send those marketing mails you have? Here is where an opt-in list comes in.
An opt-in list is a directory of email address you can send to those mails to. Though it iseems to be easy to find email addresses, if you are talking thousands in numbers, it is going to be hard. Besides, you have to determine the recipient of the email. You wouldnot want your readers mostly male if you are selling lipsticks, right?
A good opt-in list ishould include the profile of the email address owner. Here are tips on how to create a comprehensive opt-in list for target market.
Set up a promotion or a freebie. Not all the best things in life are free, as they say. But you can definitely try to give something out for sure. You can see this done all over the web. Free screensavers, free games, free download of programs. And what do they need from you? They just ask for an email address, your name and a little something more about you. Then you can place a check box on the registration form for sending of email. For sure, you can think of something to give out as well.
Check others strategy too. It would be better if you can find a partner in generating an opt-in list. This way, you can split the expenses and both of you can share the list generated. It will be best to partner with a company that has a business similar to your own line. Both of you can profit more should that be the case.
Use offline ways too. You can put up a small raffle preferably in a supermarket for a certain item they buy. You can place an email address opt-in part in the raffle entry to add to your list. This way, you’d also know the buying preferences of the participants if you mark the entries systemically.
Creating an opt-in list entails a lot of work and funds. You should outline how much you will spend in creating an opt-in list. People appearing at opt-in lists are sales prospects. They are those interested in a certain product that you may be selling. Obtaining an optimal opt-in list would boost your sales up so these tools are undoubtedly essential.
Acquire an opt-in list now or generate one. Either way, you are reaching to people that can be your one of your treasured customers for a long period time.
Thank you
Graeme Briggs. [briggo]
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