Thursday, March 8, 2007

A millionaire’s personal rolodex is now yours…Free

In the beginning there was the marketer. There are certain truths you come to understand the more time you spend making money online – or trying to.

Witness the evolution of marketing online. Whether you are new to the net game or an experienced pro, there is one thing you will have in common if you are moving towards entrepreneurial success.

As you read this article you will realize what you have in common with all the other million dollar earners online, and what you’re missing that can take you from where you are to where you want to be.

So let’s get started shall we?

I will begin with a bullet point list and short explanation of the marketing necessities you want to have:

For starters, most established markets will already be using this by default:

- A Domain: something specific to what you want to promote like (ex.www.mysite.com)

- Hosting: a place to put your site, if you’re planning on making money – find a paid solution so you look like a credible business and you cut back on high traffic crashes.

- A website: your image your presence and your marketing message, don’t get pulled into the trap I see everywhere of trying to put too many choices on your website. Maximize on the effectiveness by only giving one purpose to a page. For example if you want to build a list - focus all your efforts and copy on that singular focus, if you want your site to sell a product, then only put that focus on your site. You’ll also need a good editing program, and an ftp software to get this up and moving.

- A merchant account: If you have something to sell, people will need a way to pay you. There are a ton of great providers out there, but there are a specific few that give your visitors the security to pull out a credit card with assurance.

- An Autoresponder: This is a real necessity if you want a business and not just a hobby. When you have a family to support this is a real no brainer. This is your email follow up service. You get a name added to your list and this is where they go. You will use this to stay in touch and build relationships with your customers and soon-to-be customers.

- A helpdesk: in the beginning when your business and sales are small you can handle all the little questions and emails yourself. One of the things that will keep a small business is small is thinking “I can do that myself” if you want to truly grow; you need to share the workload (petty tasks) and focus on what you truly want to do creatively for your business.

- Membership Site software: once you’re addicted to the internet marketing lifestyle, you will realize this oh-so-simple fact, it’s great to make a sale, but it’s even better to make a sale once and get paid for it every month. Continuity is king.

- Teleconferencing software: If you want an easy way to create and crank out high ticket products, audios and a transcript is an easy to make, high-value product.

Of course everything we’ve touched on so far only scratches the surface, but these are the necessities that not only get you started but will make you above average. Keep your eyes peeled for more articles that will take you from beginner to winner.

We’ll cover resources that will help you stay organized and expand your business to make you truly prosperous such as:

-PDF creators and converters
- Mind mapping software
- Site tools to make your business a set and forget it – money magnet
- Internet video and audio creating software
- And the how-to’s of outsourcing

Keep learning, and most important: be persistent – it will be a quality you share with the biggest money makers online today…

To get more information or download your own copy of the Resource Report for free visit:
http://the-resource-report.com/?newest_version=2690

Sunday, March 4, 2007

Internet Marketing info and News Updates

New Ecommerce Software Leverages Community Generated Content

Pioneering ecommerce software vendor Elastic Path releases version 5.1 of their flexible and innovative retail platform.Elastic Path 5.1 uses customer written product reviews, smarter search and filtered navigation to help online retailers increase conversions.Customer Weyco Group (makers of Florsheim and Stacy Adams shoes) express their enthusiasm about the new features and announce the re-development of several sites. (PRWeb Mar 2, 2007)

------------------------------------

Webinar on Mining Blogosphere for Brand Insight

Look Who's Blogging: Tapping into the Blogosphere for Brand Insight," a webinar featuring guest speakers Peter Kim, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, and Janet Eden-Harris, CEO, Umbria will be held on February 22, 2007. The AMA (American Marketing Association) webinar will explore how the blogosphere can be segmented by age, gender and sentiment for better insight.

Friday, March 2, 2007

Internet Marketing info and News Updates

High Rankings Search Engine Marketing Seminar Comes to Minneapolis

High Rankings®, Search Engine Marketing seminar led by industry legend, Jill Whalen is coming to Minneapolis, MN March 15 and 16th featuring top search marketing instructors including local SEO expert Lee Odden. (PRWeb Mar 1, 2007)

------------------------------------

Webinar on Mining Blogosphere for Brand Insight

Look Who's Blogging: Tapping into the Blogosphere for Brand Insight," a webinar featuring guest speakers Peter Kim, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, and Janet Eden-Harris, CEO, Umbria will be held on February 22, 2007. The AMA (American Marketing Association) webinar will explore how the blogosphere can be segmented by age, gender and sentiment for better insight.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Learn The 3 Best Traffic Tactics that Won't Cost You a Dime

Are you constantly banging your head in frustration on not receiving all the internet traffic you would like to get to your web site? Are you tormented from information overload listening to all the latest free website traffic tactics and not being able to understand any of it? Are you dejected of people trying day and night to harassing you to max out your credit card and get loans for Google clicks, and in the process loose your credit score? Are you stupefied by the way your website just dropped out of the Google search results? Or are you just too broke and all you have to rely on is getting some free website traffic tactics?

You can employ website traffic tactics without spending dime. However, knowing how is the real deal. Here's the score:

1. Link it
Of all the effective website traffic tactics that can get you best results, linking to and from other websites is the one of the most widely-used method. Just make sure that the Internet business you are exchanging links with is relatively if not utterly related to your own business. And of course, don't overkill as this might ban you from search engines.

2. Meet Meta Tags
Another way of to acquire your desired traffic for your website is through having your Meta tags contain usually used keywords that target your business. Meta tags help search engines in describing your web page. If you're quite adept with the HTML aspect of your web pages, manipulating your meta tags would be a breeze.

3. Keyword-rich AND sensible content
Writing or acquiring articles that provide solid information regarding your business is one of the best ways. Making use of free keyword suggestion tools such as Overture will help you on which keyword or phrases to work on to better lead more traffic to your website. Making these write-ups very readable and genuinely informative will make you many repeat visitors to subsequently become repeat clients.

Submitting these articles to various article directory listings will provide more visibility for your business as long as you keep your resource box in tact to create for yourself numerous back links.

These methods, if employed properly, will not only make your web site popular but will make you achieve your most desirable result - higher conversion rate.

Sunday, February 25, 2007

SEO and Internet Marketing News and Info

eprintwerx Launches Franchisee Seamless Web-Based Direct Mail Postcard Marketing System>

eprintwerx quickly customizes business marketing plans through direct mail postcard campaigns. With this radical new technology, web users can map a target market, locate businesses and households, and apply demographic criteria to seamlessly launch a printed and mailed direct mail campaign quickly. Powerful new customization now enables user's own photographs logos and maps to be uploaded and cropped in seconds. With 250 million households and 115 million businesses available to target with products and services, eprintwerx offers users a 24/7 instant and powerful marketing tool. Now announcing New Home Owner data provided by HomeData corporation seamlessly integrated
--------------------------------------------------

SEATTLE (BusinessWire EON/PRWeb ) February 23, 2007 -- Marchex, Inc. (Nasdaq:MCHX) (Nasdaq:MCHXP) today announced that it is adding conversion tracking, as well as updated reporting tools to two of its pay-per-click (PPC) advertising networks, Enhance Interactive and the Marchex Network, enabling advertisers to more effectively track their return on investment (ROI), access key campaign performance data and make modifications to optimize their campaigns. Marchexs new conversion tracking feature allows advertisers to easily designate and track five different types of conversions, including i) sales; ii) leads; iii) sign-ups; iv) views of key pages and v) clicks on specific links on designated pages. It also enables advertisers to better track performance by keywords and make modifications to their campaigns to improve their conversion rate and ROI.

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Internet Marketing Hot News

Domain Name FN.ORG Up For Auction on SedoWeb Management S.A., an Internet domain investment and development company located in the Republic of Panama, is auctioning off the domain name FN.org this week. The company had acquired FN.org a few months ago with plans to hold the domain name as a long-term investment. Large numbers of unsolicited offers from around the world prompted the decision to auction off FN.org on Sedo.com, the world's largest domain marketplace.

Friday, February 23, 2007

Do you think you understand consumer demand?

There are a lot of armchair entrepreneurs out there who think theyunderstand it.Many have even gone broke thinking they really understood it.There are two sides to this coin.Demand fulfillment.And Demand Creation.If you want to make money online you will focus entirely on demandfulfillment.This involves giving the public "EXACTLY" what they want.Hungry markets have definite characteristics....and wealth can easily becreated bysimply giving the people what they demand.It is a piece of cake driving traffic to these kinds of sites and watchingthe cash register ring.Now demand creation is another story.Fortunes have been lost in the offline and online world by thinking youwere smartenough to create demand. My advice is not to play that game.Consumers purchase what they want not what they need.Trying to make customer want something is a very expensive idea.