Marketing secrets

Use Of Subliminal Messages In Disney Cartoons

2010-06-04T09:50:00.002+02:00

Who doesn't know about Disney?

Everybody knows Disney cartoons but there's a little secret that has been discovered relatively recently...

Disney cartoons contain subliminal messages. Most probable explanation is that it's in an attempt to get people to like them (not very necessary in my opinion).

Some say they weren't put in intentionally and that they are coincidences. Some say that only people that look for them find them and that they are so far fetched it couldn't be true. Others say that bored or angry artists snuck in the messages.

Well, judging from the fact that the messages appear abundantly in many Disney cartoons and that they are sometimes extremely blatant, I think they were put in intentionally and they have a purpose.

Who knows, maybe these messages gave the necessary extra marketing push to make Disney so successful.

You can decide for yourself. Visit the link below to read the full article...

Disney subliminal messages

Talk soon. Keep up with your Internet marketing!

Subliminal marketing secrets

2010-01-28T09:36:00.002+01:00

Hey guys,

I have a special treat for you today.

We just started a new web site dealing with subliminal messages in video. It's a personal development oriented web site but we also share some extremely useful tips and tricks that are used in subliminal marketing...

Here's the newsletter (I suggest you sign up now):

>> Subliminal messages

Here's the web site (when you buy 5 videos you only pay for 3!):

>> Subliminal videos

Take care!

Internet marketing with web directories

2009-01-19T18:56:00.003+01:00

Another Internet marketing strategy is to pay for inclusion in web directories. Now, there are hundreds of companies that sell you hundreds of inclusions in directories...

Well... in my experience they don't tend to work as well as I hoped, so I found a way to screen for directories I want to invest my money in for inclusion of my sites.

What to look for?

When I do my research for relevant web directories I look for these things -- these are my own criteria and aren't necessarily "the best" or "the only way". I just found them to work well in my Internet marketing:

1.) How high is the directory listed in Google for it's name (also look for the number of competing sites for this term!). For example, first I'd search for a list of high PR directories to save me some time. Just do a Google search for "list of high PR web directories" or similar. You'll usually get some forum posts as results. You might want to play with this search a bit. I then take the list, visit the directories and see how they are named. I go back to Google and enter their name in the search bar.

If I get the result on the first page (I tend to look for directories listed on #1) and if I see a substantial competition for the keyword (100.000 or so), I go to step #2...

2.) Check directory categories PR. Now, most sites that sell you inclusion in hundreds of directories will tell you, for example, they will put your site in PR2-PR7 directories. However, as always, there's a catch and that's why I rather do the research myself and invest my money in worthy directories. Here's how...

I click on the most relevant category for my web site and check PR on that site as well. And most of the time I notice the site isn't ranked in Google. Now, this doesn't mean that google hasn't indexed the site or that it won't notice your link... It's just that such a link won't give much weight to your site. I tend to choose directories that also have high PR categories and subcategories where I'll put my site in.

3.) Check what kind of linking directory uses! Here you just simply move your mouse on one of the links in your category and see what kind of link appears in the status bar of your browser. Make sure that the link leads directly to the web sites! For example, in the case of this web site, I'd want the link pointing to: http://insidemarketing.blogspot.com and not to http://dir.somedirectory.com/?ref=138265738&site=8472220 . The second link won't help your SEO as much as the first one.

There is an exception to this last rule, however. Some extremely high traffic directories use the second type of links but are still worth investing in due to the amount of traffic they are likely to bring your site. Also such links still count for something as your original link is usually also listed.

Having said that, here's a list of some of my favorite paid directories:

Best of the web directory
Business.com directory
Gimpsy
inCrawler
Yahoo! directory

There are many others but if you get in these, you'll be on your way to success with your Internet marketing.

Until next time, have a wonderful time!

Internet marketing with search engines and PPC

2008-09-04T17:03:00.006+02:00

Hi, I don't have a lot of time today but I just quickly wanted to add something to the previous post on Pay per click advertising. It will also help your way of thinking about Internet marketing in general and especially search engine optimization (SEO) which we'll look more in detail in later posts.

Whenever you have anything to do with search engines or any other web site you should think about what THEY are providing their customers and set up your web sites or ads accordingly...

So, what does Google want? As a search engine, it wants to serve the most relevant and useful results to the user because if they don't, people will stop using it and Google could go out of business... That's not going to happen, though, because they employ many people that work on algorithms and other ways to improve searching experience for the web surfer.

So, the key in succeeding in search engine marketing is to provide a site that delivers relevant, fresh and useful information. Tricks work, but they only work short term.

The same goes for pay per click advertising. Do you think google wants to display irrelevant results just to make a quick buck and risk loosing millions of users over a very short amount of time? Nope. Can they absolutely control everything at every second? Nope.

So what CAN they do?

Well, they can reward good advertisers and punish bad advertisers. So in the long term only good advertisers will prosper! And they do this by many ways, one of them being: how much an ad costs (based on relevancy obtained by click-through rate, keywords and surfer's reactions -- back button).

One way of succeeding with SEO and PPC is to also imagine being the owner of let's say Google and think of "What would I encourage my customers (in this case webmasters) to do to make Google an even better experience for everyone?"

You certainly wouldn't encourage them to create useless blogs stuffed with keywords and affiliate links, would you?

If you get and implement this small piece of advice, you can't loose in the long term and that's what really counts in Internet marketing!

Internet marketing -- Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC) part 2

2008-09-03T12:51:00.003+02:00

As I mentioned in the previous post, the first thing you need for pay per click advertising are your keywords. There are many ways of getting them and in your Adwords account, you'll find a keyword suggestion tool you can use for your initial set of keywords.

After you have those, you'll have to optimize both keywords and ads to get the cheapest possible clicks as well as the best position compared to your competition.

As I said before, tracking and testing are necessary components of any Internet marketing endeavour. After a while, you'll get an insight of what keywords work, what ads work, and what ads and keywords don't work as well or even at all. I won't get very technical as you probably know much of this and I'll rather concentrate on how to make your ads work and how to get them to the best position for the smallest price...

As I also mentioned in the previous post, Google also ranks and charges for ads depending on RELEVANCY. It calculates relevancy by the context of the ad, by how many clicks it receives and by how many people quickly press the "back" button in their browser! For example, if you bid on the term "Internet marketing" and your ad talks about cats, Google will know it isn't relevant. Furthermore, your ad will receive less licks because people searching for Internet marketing advice aren't interested in cats at that moment. And last but not least, those people that will click on your ad will have a high probability of very quickly pressing the "back" button in their browser to return to the page with relevant ads. All of these three things can and will hurt your campaigns as well as your wallet.

But... here's a simple solution:

Adwords allows you to create multiple ads for the same keyword as well as group several keywords for certain ads. This makes it easy to make your ads as contextual as possible. Besides that, if you create different ads for the same keyword, Adwords will rotate those ads and will measure which ad is doing the best job. After a while, it will serve the best ads most of the time.

So, in short, here's how you can make a good Adwords ad (I'll make all the examples up and I'll base them on the term "Internet marketing")...

Make the title as appealing as possible. It must draw attention. Some use shocking statements such as "Internet marketing scam". Some use precise amounts of money they made... "I made $1395,62 today". Some involve promises: "You'll never work again" and so on. If you can include your keyword in here, good. But rather focus on attention grabbing.

Then there's your first line. This is the first thing the viewer will read after the title of your ad! It's important that it keeps their attention and gets them to read the third line and click on the ad. Here you should state what benefit your client will have by using your product or service. You have 35 characters to do this (including spaces). Try fitting your keyword in this line if you didn't use it in your title. You can also do this in your last line. For example: "Focus on growing your business and" or: "Even a child could do this" -- you can use little tricks like putting "and" at the end of line 1 to get the reader to also read line 2...

In the last line you can continue with the benefits or add some features. Some people also add the dollar value of their product or service to avoid freebie seekers. You can use power words like "underground", "new", "proven"... For example: "let our proven system work for you".

The last line is for your displayed URL address.

So my ad could look something like this:

Internet marketing trick
Even a child could make a fortune.
Let our proven system work for you
http://www.mysite.com

Next time we'll go over some more details and go on with other techniques. Hope this helps with your PPC Internet marketing.

Internet marketing -- Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC)

2008-09-02T12:59:00.002+02:00

In the previous posts we discussed planning your Internet marketing campaign. In the last post, Internet marketing plan III, we generally looked at some ways to drive traffic to your sites through paid advertising.

Here, we'll discuss Pay per click advertising more in detail.

As with all things connected to Internet marketing (I'll say this again and again), pay per click advertising should also be subject to extensive testing.

Just in case you don't know exactly what pay per click advertising is, simply put, it's a way of advertising, where you pay a certain amount of money only if a visitor clicks on the ad presented on some site and comes to your site. Some other forms of advertising are also PPM (pay per thousand views of the ad) -- here you pay for every thousand visitors to the site with your ad on it. It's not necessary that they click on the ad and visit your site. Another form is PPA (pay per action). Here you only pay for each visitor that performs a certain action on your site (for example, joins your newsletter, buys a product etc.).

With PPC, some sites will charge you a fixed amount of money per click (Yahoo!, MSN, ...) and some sites offer a bit different bidding scheme (Google). In both cases this means that generally if you bid more than your competitor, your ad will rank higher and have a higher chance of being seen and clicked on.

The main difference between, for example Yahoo! and Google is that Google implements a special technology where in case of click, you pay only a penny more than the below ad's maximum bid. So, if you bid $0.20 and someone bid $0.15, when your ad is clicked, Yahoo! will charge you $0.20 whereas Google will charge you only $0.16. Furthermore, Google also rewards RELEVANCE of the ad which is what I'll explain below.

Here we'll focus on the most popular pay per click advertising provider... Google. It's PPC program is called Google Adwords and most beginner (also many advanced) Internet marketers are using it as a main "instant" traffic source. After you've read this, you'll have a much better understanding of PPC so your campaigns will work better than 99% of all people beginning to use this method of advertising. I'll also recommend some resources so you'll be ahead of even more advanced users, so pay attention...

OK... the first thing you have to know when using pay per click for your Internet marketing campaign are the keywords. Through testing you'll learn which keywords produce the best results and which don't work at all. Nobody can tell you for sure, you'll have to test!

Thankfully, Google provides us with some awesome free tools to very easily do just that. I suggest you take a minute and sign up for Google Adwords as well as google analytics. Explore the sites for a while and get a feel of what they offer. I'll continue writing about PPC in my next post.

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Come back soon as I'll have some very interesting things for you!

Take care and enjoy your Internet marketing!

Internet marketing plan III -- Getting web site visitors

2008-05-15T13:16:00.004+02:00

Here comes the good part of Internet marketing...

It's time to plan your web site promotion and start getting all the traffic out there so that you can convert it to your customers and subscribers.

Up until now we've established a good looking homepage. It's main purpose is to convince visitors to buy your product and/or to subscribe to your newsletter (very important as that way you can build a relationship with your customers). It's search engine optimized only to a certain point -- point at which it doesn't interfere with your sales letter. Articles and blog is what will (at least initially) drive organic traffic to your site!

It's up to you which of these techniques you'll begin exploiting first, but I'll begin with the fastest and end with techniques that take the longest. At the end you should be using as many different traffic sources as possible for maximum effect.

Here I'll do an overview of traffic generating techniques and in later posts I'll expand on each one and give you a closer look.

OK, first let's look at some paid options as they are the fastest way to get massive amount of traffic to your web site.

1. PAID WEB TRAFFIC SOURCES

As with any other Internet marketing endeavours, paid traffic generation should be subject to extensive and continuous testing. After all, you don't want to throw your money away, do you?

One of the fastest ways to get a steady stream of targeted traffic to your web site is through Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC). The best known are Adwords, Yahoo! ads and some others. With PPC, you can have targeted traffic to your web site in about 15 minutes. After some optimization you can have this traffic dirt cheap! Similar ways of advertising, such as Pay Per Action (PPA), Pay Per Lead (PPL) and so on also exist. Every one has it's good and bad sides in certain contexts. We'll explore those in later posts.

Paying for inclusion in some high traffic web directories not only gives you direct benefits of getting direct visitors, you may also get better ranking for your site. You have to know where to place these links and what kind of links to place... learn this in one of my next posts.

Another way to pay for traffic is through advertisements on related high traffic web sites. The key here is to determine whether a site is worthy of spending money on. I'll go in detail for this in one of the next posts (stay tuned!).

Various Internet marketing firms offer email promotions to their subscribers. This can be an awesome and extremely effective method of getting high quantities of traffic, however there are many catches. We'll go over these in one of the later posts. These are NOT safe-lists. I've used them extensively with very little result. There are people that succeeded with safe-lists and they even sell courses on the topic, but this isn't my pick.

Many on-topic Ezines (electronic magazines) offer ezine ads. These can be tricky as most popular Ezines charge a lot of money for those so you have to be careful to get a good ROI (Return On Investment). The key here is to find Ezines with a medium amount of members and where publishers usually don't charge a lot of money for ads. This way you'll get less visitors, but usually you'll pay much less for each one. Sometimes paying for ads in a few medium sized ezines is more cost effective as paying for only one ad in a huge Ezine.

A huge amount of traffic can be obtained directly by writing and distributing press releases. This method also holds great potential for an editor picking up on your story and publishing it in a newspaper or a magazine. That way you can get enormous amount of traffic. Once a single press release got 75.000 visitors to my web site in three days! What would you do with that kind of traffic? There are certain tricks you should know and I'll share them in one of my next posts.

There are, of course also newspaper and magazine ads, radio ads and so on. There are certain things you should know about these, too. Don't worry, I'll explain everything in one of my next posts.

I saved the best for last... it's one of the most powerful traffic generating techniques available and the best part is -- You only pay for the portion of visitors that buy from you. This method is called having an AFFILIATE PROGRAM. Without proper motivation and some other things, however, this will not work. You guessed it... I'll discuss it in detail in one of my next posts.

Now let's quickly go through what to look out for!

"Cheap traffic" -- Many sites offer "10.000 visitors for $7" packages. Well, it's up to you to test these but I wouldn't invest any money and time in these. Even if they say they are legitimate and they don't use pop-ups and the sort. I was curious once and just for the sake of it tried one of such packages -- after a few days, their records showed I was delivered 10.000 views... well, my records didn't show any!!! Besides that, my subscription rate was exactly the same as before)
Overpriced traffic -- Some sites want much too much money for their traffic. You have to make a calculation - test conversion first with other techniques! Also, I've seen many sites offer monthly ad space. This means that you pay a certain amount a month no matter how much traffic you get. Many times these ads are very poorly placed and almost invisible. I once paid $97 for... get this... 3 visitors! Do you think I could have gotten more through Pay Per Click, for instance? ;)

OK, now we're done with the overview of paid traffic techniques. In the next post we'll go through many of the free web traffic techniques used in Internet marketing and then later we'll go through each technique in more detail. Stay tuned, come back often and invite your friends that are interested to also tune in because it's really going to get good.

Also, post comments, ideas and questions. The more comments you post, the sooner I'll write new posts and the more in detail I'll go --> IT'S UP TO YOU! Comment on this post and let me know what you think.

Have a great time and much success with your Internet marketing.

Internet marketing plan II

2008-02-01T16:45:00.000+01:00

In the previous part of this Internet marketing plan series, we discussed a few aspects of planning the creation your web site. Besides the site structure that we discussed, it's also important to plan your site's navigation.

Your site's navigation will obviously depend on what your intention with the web site is. Always have your reader in mind. For me, it's sometimes very frustrating when I get to a web site, follow some links to get to some deeper pages and when I want to get back to the homepage, there's no link, so I have to click the "back" button in my browser several times or even go to Google and search for the site again. I avoid such sites in the future.

If your online business is about selling ebooks, you'll employ a strategy that works best for selling ebooks, which will contain a sales letter. Sales letters are an exception in the aspect of navigation. Here you'll want to give your potential customers as few choices as possible. The only links on your site will be the "buy now!" link, and on the bottom a "contact me" link, a "legal disclaimer" link and so on. We'll go into more detail on that in future posts. For now, we'll concentrate on content-driven sites for the purpose of displaying Adsense or pre-selling affiliate products or both...

Having good on-site linking strategy is also important for search engine optimization. Make sure all links are consistent. On my sites, I always use the whole path (i.e. "http://mysite.com/innersite.htm" instead of just "/innersite.htm"). Whichever you use, be consistent. Don't put "www." in front of your site name one time and not the other. To search engine software, there's a difference between "http://www.mysite.com" and "http://mysite.com"). Always use either one option, and have it consistent with your web site address.

This brings me to another very important part of planning your web site content. It's keyword research. This is something that's extremely dreaded by newbies because it suggests a lot of work and usually they don't know how to do it. I personally enjoy doing keyword research and it's the FIRST thing I do before creating a website and also before writing each article.

There are many tools on the market to do keyword research. I use and recommend Wordtracker because it's very easy to use, gives a very accurate estimate of searches and competition for each keyword and even better... it comes up with many "long-tail" phrases people actually use in search engines. Now, such phrases are very important for two reasons:

1.) They have less competition than more general phrases
2.) They bring about more targeted visitors that are looking for a very specific solution and are thus MORE LIKELY TO BUY FROM YOU!

For example, it's very hard to rank high for the term "Internet marketing", but it's much easier to rank high for "Work at home Internet marketing business". And besides, the second term tells you more about the reader and what he/she wants so you can make your presentation more compelling for them.

So, if you don't know what long-tail keywords people search for online, you're missing out on very high volumes of qualified and easy-to-get visitors! So, go work on your keyword research and in the next post we'll continue with an Internet marketing plan for your web site promotion...

Internet marketing plan

2006-11-07T18:58:00.000+01:00

How to develop an Internet marketing plan for your web site...

Many Internet marketers still just blindly create web site after website, hoping to collectively get enough traffic to start earning good money online.

The problem?

There's very little chance that their business will get any kind of high results because there are just so many little things to be done correctly in order to skyrocket any online business.

Lets face it. There's a lot of competition out there, not all ideas will give results and there's no way to get all the steps done without a proper plan of action...

Think about it! Without a plan, you're "on your own". People tend to get very excited at the beginning of creating their web site, but very soon they discover that it's a lot more work than they previously thought and if they have nothing to follow, they will usually leave it and get excited about another project that'll similarly go down the drain.

Most of the times it doesn't take much... just a few simple (yet somewhat time consuming) steps and a web site can become a success. This happens when a person develops his or her Internet marketing plan.

Here is what I realized: the difference between very successful web sites and "duds" (= very unsuccessful web sites) in the long run is consistent development (on page and off page).

And this only happens through thorough planning, which we'll briefly discuss here:

Even before creating a single page one should first write the general construction of the site on a piece of paper. Don't panic... very few people know everything that's going to be on their web site before they start designing it.

But a very general structure can be made, for example:

This way you'll now be able to make templates and have a good idea about your internal linking strategy. If you intend to create your whole web site as a blog, then many of these things will already be made for you.

You can very easily install a blog on your web site using Blogger or Wordpress. In my other Web site marketing blog I used Wordpress. It took me about 5 minutes to install it. It's really easy. For my other web sites I use FrontPage. Many people swear on DreamWeaver, it's up to you to decide that. Both of these programs will give you a not so clean code, but at least you'll have a web site.

The next thing you should consider is your graphics. I really recommend having your graphics made by a professional designer. There are many of them and they do a great job. You can get a header and footer done for prices ranging from $50-$97.

This is very important for your sales letters and product images. The whole package will many times cost about $120, but the results in sales are staggering -- I run several other web sites and just recently I received an email from one of the subscribers. I replied and he then immediately replied back thanking me for such a quick reply and telling me that "... other Gurus never take time to answer my questions...". WOW, I'm a Guru now :-)

It's all because my site looks professional. It's also much more appealing to buy from someone that seems to have put some work into his web site (even if he outsourced everything!).

This is it for this post. Hope you enjoyed it.

In the next "Internet marketing plan" post we'll go on with planning our web promotion. Have a great day!

The WRONG way to do Internet marketing

2006-10-18T18:41:00.000+02:00

Long ago, when Internet marketing first started out, people begun to implement some of the offline marketing techniques and applied them to the newly forming online marketplace.

At first, they faced many problems as not so many people were using the Internet and many were very sceptical at that time.

Let's face it, it was something new and webmasters had no reference, no manuals, nothing to compare their business to. They were on their own...

But they got right into it. They created their web sites and started testing things that over time developed into a highly specific form of marketing called: Internet or online marketing.

And, pretty soon they were getting massive success. Many people picked up on that, some of the best wrote courses and in a few years a giant mass of people suddenly came online to start a successful business -- or so they thought...

As it turns out, many people from the non-economical fields joined the "gold rush". New web sites came by the millions out of nowhere and each one was using same tricks (read that word again!) to gain search engine rankings, get people from forums visiting their web sites, developing pyramid schemes and pretty soon everything those first Internet marketers were working for so hard to learn has become utterly useless.

What's more, thousands of people started to "spy"on the most successful people in the Internet marketing community and exactly mimicking what they were doing. This all wouldn't be so bad if some of those guys wouldn't have created ebooks telling the world exactly how to "get to the riches quickly".

Again, the techniques failed to work within a year and it was "back to the drawing board". This pattern seems to repeat itself every year and as a result a few guys make millions and others go home with their hopes down again.

Well, guess what?

Sadly, many people still don't get what it's all about. Instead of running their activities online as a business, they're jumping from opportunity to opportunity, from one "great technique" to another. They get the fundamental thing wrong...

And that is... It's very hard to start an Internet business without any budget and time. I intentionally didn't use the word impossible because there's always some way of achieving that, but 99.999% of time this doesn't happen.

What's worse is that there are many (not all!) people out there intentionally spreading the wrong information to keep their businesses safe and to earn some extra cash while they do it. Good for them, but we didn't come online to make THEM cash, right? We came to earn it ourselves...

My point here is: the wrong way of doing Internet marketing will be very costly and will bring little to no results...

On the other hand, the right way of doing Internet marketing will take some time, study and money at first, but in the long run it will begin to sustain itself and become a fully automated way of earning money.

Now I don't know about you, but I'd take the second way myself (and I did).

My advice to you is this: treat what you do online as a business. Plan, aim for long-term success and make it as automatic as possible. If you can't afford to outsource some of these skills: copywriting, product creation, traffic generation, advertising and so on, learn them yourself.

Some, such as graphics and web site design, I suggest you spend some bucks on to get it well.

And what I also discovered was that the most successful Internet marketers are able to "think out of the box". I'm sure you've heard this many times before, but I urge you to think about it...
Nothing is prohibited (well, there are some things, like SPAM), but don't get all tied up in the current matrices imposed to you by others.

Think, create, test, refine and you'll soon be a true wizard in Internet marketing.

How good the Affiliate Project X really is?

2006-10-14T14:54:00.000+02:00

Do you hate buying ebooks full of advice that doesn't work?

Sadly, there's tons of such garbage ebooks available and produced every day to be purchased by the excited and unwary beginners that want to make it in the Internet marketing business (or any other area).

Let's face it, who in their right mind would actually go out and sell his million dollar advice for less than $100, especially when a giant risk is present that people using his/her techniques will create great competition and soon render ALL of the techniques USELESS?

And on top of it all, most of the so called "Gurus" that write such ebooks have made their fortune by selling people ebooks on how to sell.

You know, it's quite different to sell a hyped up product to so many desperate buyers than trying to sell legitimate, quality products without hype that, in my experience, in MOST niches has a totally reverse effect -- people just don't buy. Period.

By the way, I sell in many different niches (and counting :-) ) and the only three where I succeeded selling with hype was the Internet marketing niche, the seduction niche and the persuasion niche. Now I refrain from using hype in my promotions as I really believe in people making the right decision with their intellect rather than emotion.

As you may already know, there's been quite a huge launch of a new ebook called Affiliate Project X. With all the "buzz" that it created, I decided to purchase it and take it "under my microscope".

And what I discovered was this...

Quite frankly, I already knew most of the techniques presented in the ebook. They're good techniques and I've tested some in the past with great success. Some I'm in the process of testing as we speak and some I didn't know before already proved to be great...

Here's the problem, however: the most valuable of all of the advices was not presented in a completely clear and step-by-step way. Having quite some experiences myself, I was able to quickly catch on and use the technique to generate the first $44.36 in less than 10 minutes. Not bad for a few minutes of work, but I really wondered if someone without the experience would be able to pull the same thing off...

Don't get me wrong, the Affiliate Project X ebook is generally a great read, it contains a lot of valuable information that has proven to me to work consistently. Chris really "tells it like it is" and uses no fluff or filler.

Now, I know what you're thinking... What good is all the information if it'll take me years and additional $1000s to learn how to make it really work like it should?

The biggest "missing link" I see in the Affiliate Project X ebook is the elaboration of how to actually write in such a way that people will be literally stuck to the screen, reading every single word you write so that you can effortlessly gently melt their resistance and help them decide to "buy now" because you really believe in the product you promote and wish many, many people to own it.

This just didn't seem right to me. But because I found the information contained in the Affiliate Project X so good and some things even genius, I decided to do something to help you get the most out of it.

I decided to give you a special bonus if you purchase Affiliate Project X through the special link I'll provide you here...

Let me break this down for you...

There's no doubt that reading Affiliate Project X and implementing the techniques presented will finally give you the edge needed to really succeed online (they're really that good).

Because I want to reward you for taking action and also for purchasing through my link (earning me a commission -- you pay exactly the same amount), I'll throw in a "fast action BONUS" -- a special report written by a professional copywriter that will cover the core part that's missing in the main Affiliate Project X ebook.

Here's what's contained in this short, concise and extremely controversial report:

The Lazy Man's Secret to "Greased Slide" copy (So you can swiftly and easily churn out attention-grabbing copy and pocket more cash without ever breaking a sweat!)
147 Unique "Read Me!" Phrases (So you'll never be at a loss at where to start, and so you can easily and effortlessly write more copy in less time.)
The "Insiders Only" Secret To Deviously Effective Copy
What NEVER to do when you start an important paragraph (Don't make this mistake!)
The tiny little phrases that can turn a copy bust into a profit BOOM (So you can spend LESS time and make MORE money. Who else wants to make more money with less work?)
Why a single-syllable word can make the difference between a paragraph that's ignored and a paragraph that's hungrily read. (Quickly and easily turn your "viewers" into "buyers," so you can spend less time writing and more time counting cash!)

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STEP 1:

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STEP 2:

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STEP 3:

Nothing :-)

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Here's to your success!

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Internet marketing answers

2006-10-10T19:54:00.000+02:00

Hello again!

The winner of the last week's contest will be announced at the end of this post...

Unfortunately I didn't have any time to do a proper promotion for this contest, but non the less, 136 people read it and strangely enough, only two decided to participate. I must admit I expected at least 20 answers as it really took only 10 minutes and the reward was $50.

Nah well, another lesson learned... never do anything in a hurry and make everything stupid-simple. I guess I complicated too much with the reward being through ClickBank and with such a long introduction. Not to mention that the title wasn't really something eye-catching.

I suggest you write these things down as they are very important for success. If something seems right and "a great idea" in your head, it doesn't mean it will WORK in the real world.

Now that I have the results and that I put more thought into it, I would have done the following:

A great eye-catching and motivational title. Maybe "Who else wants to WIN easy $50 directly to their ClickBank account for answering just a few simple questions? Read on to learn how you can do it in 10 minutes from now..."
Clear and very short instructions that should answer the questions: WHY? WHAT? WHO? WHEN? EXACTLY HOW?
Maybe some more hype
Call to immediate action
Promotion: mainly Internet marketing forums (sig files), pushing the entire week
Adding a viral twist to it (e.g. "I am constantly tracking my site stats and have the information about which site people come from. The one that refers the most visitors gets another $197 bonus PLUS a PERMANENT PR4 link back to your site -- I will visit your site and contact you from there by email, so be sure to expect an email from "Blaz Banic" on Tuesday, Oct. 10. 2006!...)

Maybe some more things, but that would have been (and will be soon) a great contest :-)

Now to the $50 prize winner...

This has been a truly hard decision. The ONLY TWO ANSWERS (both ironically by Mikes :-) ) that I got were both very good, so I decided to reward both participants. The winner will get $50 and the second one will get a lesser commission.

As soon as I post this, I'll go to ClickBank marketplace and purchase a product through the winner's ClickBank link that he provided. I'll purchase through the second link some time this month.

So, the winner is (although the decision was very tough) the following response...

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Mike said...

1.) What is in your opinion the single most important thing that's keeping you from succeeding on the Internet?

Time. I have 2 young kids and I'm still at my full-time job for now. Finding serious time to devote to my online business is always a challenge. Many people don't realize that this is more than a hobby. It's a business and you need to spend time building it.

2.) If you could only be revealed one single real "Holy-grail-type" secret regarding Internet marketing, what would your question be?The 'secret formula' I'd like to learn is how to make a great profit and then replicate that success automatically again and again with little effort...to be able to put it all on autopilot so I can have time for other things.

3.) What was the thing that got you to buy the last ebook you purchased online recently (e.g. "the buzz", "proof", "testimonials from respected people", "curiosity"...). If you never bought an ebook, you can write why you haven't bought any yet...

The last ebook I purchased was Jeremy Palmer's "High Performance Affiliate Marketing." Two things convinced me to purchase it. 1. It came recommended by another marketer whose opinion I value highly. 2. The 'proof' he offered in the form of actual awards won by networks such as Commission Junction, including a link to the award with his name on it on CJ's site. It proved he was for real.

4.) What do you expect (and demand?) to learn from a good Internet marketing type ebook?

I expect an interesting read (not a boring and lifeless textbook) that teaches me something I didn't already know. One or two good tips can be enough to justify the price.

5.) What gets you to recommend a site to your list/readers (= to put the link on your web site or even write a short passage or an article about it)?It has to be something that would benefit my readers and something that is relevant to my niche. If it offers good information or saves time, there's a good chance I'll recommend it. Of course, being able to earn a commission on it never hurts. :)

Clickbank ID - mcollins18
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Mike Collins, check your ClickBank account, you should have a sale there in a short while. The purchaser will be Blaz Banic :-) CONGRATULATIONS!

This is it from me for now...

Oh, one more thing for everybody:

If you haven't seen it yet (not very likely), you absolutely must take a look and purchase the Affiliate Project X ebook. The ideas in there are genius and I can personally attest that they work!

Use my link and I'll surprize you with a special bonus (after you purchase, put the email: hypnodoc(at)gmail.com in your "Contacts" list so I'll be reliably able to contact you. As you know, I don't SPAM and you won't be added to any lists. This will be for this one time purpose only)...

--> STEP ONE -- follow the below link
>> http://blazbanic.name/recommends/Projectx

--> STEP TWO -- Add my email (hypnodoc(at)gmail.com) to your "contacts" list and wait a few days... That's it :-)

Have a wonderful day!

Internet marketing questions

2006-10-03T23:09:00.000+02:00

-- Contest ended --

"Suppose for a moment that you've read this post, decided to participate and besides feeling all the excitement, you got your curiosity satisfied and be in a game for a really great "$50 directly in your ClickBank affiliate account" prize... would you want to miss all that? If not, read on..."

Hi, this post is about YOU, so I decided to make it a bit more fun and exciting :-)

Before I go on with the posts on how to establish a successful business on the Internet and how to market it correctly, I'd like to ask YOU, the one that this blog is meant for, a few quick questions...

Let me explain why...

I'm in the middle of writing an astonishing ebook on how to earn money online. But I've set some really high standards for myself. I refuse to write some B.S. 35 page ebook no body's going to read just to make a few lousy bucks (even if it's a few thousand lousy bucks).

No. I want people to not just love my products, but be completely ecstatic about them and to get out of them many times more than they paid for...

So, I want to incorporate your wishes in it so that it will really help you make money online and help you develop excellent marketing for your web site.

Here are the questions:

1.) What is in your opinion the single most important thing that's keeping you from succeeding on the Internet?

2.) If you could only be revealed one single real "Holy-grail-type" secret regarding Internet marketing, what would your question be?

3.) What was the thing that got you to buy the last ebook you purchased online recently (e.g. "the buzz", "proof", "testimonials from respected people", "curiosity"...). If you never bought an ebook, you can write why you haven't bought any yet...

4.) What do you expect (and demand?) to learn from a good Internet marketing type ebook?

5.) What gets you to recommend a site to your list/readers (= to put the link on your web site or even write a short passage or an article about it)?

This is enough. Answering those quick questions is easily worth $50 and free access to the ebook when it's finished.

HOW TO WIN THE PRIZE (= $50 to your ClickBank affiliate account) -- THE RULES:

the contest will run from today, Oct. 3. 2006 till Tuesday, Oct. 10. 2006
the "cash prize" will be awarded to the one that in MY opinion wrote best answers
It's advisable to also leave your email or Warrior forum nick name so I'll be able to contact you if you win
if you don't leave any contact info, come back on Oct. 3. to check out if your post has won
you'll get your reward this way: 1.) I'll contact you if you win 2.) you send me your ClickBank affiliate ID 3.) I'll purchase a product through your Affiliate link so that you get awarded at least $50 commission. I purchase through the marketplace a lot and I know the affiliate payouts for each product
oh yeah... EVERYBODY that participates will get a free copy of the ebook when it's ready!
GOOD LUCK!

WHY SUCH A WAY TO PAY THE PRIZE? WHY NOT JUST PAY THROUG PAYPAL?

Two reasons:

1.) Many countries (mine included) can only use PayPal to purchase products, but not get paid. Many more can become ClickBank affiliates and get checks.

2.) For a vast majority of affiliates it's a great struggle to get that first sale and many loose their faith and strength before they can make any money. I want to give those people a boost. First, they'll see that you can actually get paid if someone buys through your link (at the beginning I remember being very sceptical about this even working right :-) ) and second, having $50 in your account can be a real motivation to get another $50 on your own and get your first $100 check. This is what can make someone devote more energy in their online business and start making serious money online.

WHAT'S CLICKBANK?

:-)

OK, ENOUGH TALK, TIME TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS...

Simply post a comment with your answers on this post. You can choose between "Blogger", "Anonymous" or "Other". Do whatever you wish, but please, please NO SPAMMING. I don't allow any links to your web sites and opportunities. The only links allowed are in the name of the contestant (= choose "Other" and type in your name and URL to your web site).

Great, now it's really the end... happy answering and hope YOU're the one to win the prize...

Subliminal marketing -- something happening online as well...

2006-09-04T00:23:00.002+02:00

Hi, I've been pretty impressed by two clips I saw just a few minutes ago. They are quite shocking. I know for a fact that similar techniques are being used in copywriting and many other areas of Internet marketing as well, so I present the two clips here for you to have something to think about...

Oh, and when you're done with the videos, I wrote some pretty interesting articles on subliminal hypnosis you might be interested in. Enjoy...

The next clip will strike you even more. You'll probably go rewrite the copy on every page of yours :-)

Enjoy...

Both clips are from the Derren Brown show. They show how our mind is fantastically influenced by the subliminal signals. Our decisions can be made based on several subliminal suggestions from the environment!

Think about the ways you can use these techniques as you read through this blog and come back very often for more information.

Also be sure to post some comments and tell us what you think of this!

Have a great day!

The most read posts of Internet marketing secrets

2006-08-29T00:48:00.000+02:00

Hi,

today I've decided to revive some excellent posts from the past that really made quite an impact on my blog and brought many visitors through search engines and through other sources.

They are chronologically ordered from the oldest to the most recent.

Enjoy!

Doing search engines optimization - seo
Here I obviously talk about Search engine optimization (SEO). Nice basics that still hold true for MSN and YAHOO!, but less for Google.

Doing search engines optimization - seo, part 2
The second part of the SEO course.

Four p's of marketing and beyond
This article is on the four "P's" of marketing and how they apply to the Internet. It first started bringing a steady flow of visitors from MSN. At that time it was about 10/day. It did well for months. Not bad for only one post and for a relative beginner at that time :-) It has just recently been revived and gets visitors from Google. Worth checking out.

Rich jerk ebook review
This was a beauty. It also got a lot of traffic from MSN and Google. 10-15/day. I think it was one of the first Rich Jerk reviews, or maybe the longest and that's why it was probably "eaten up" by Google. I still get some visitors here from the search engines.

Copywriting course
I posted about this course on a forum and got quite a few visitors here. A nice, very basic course on copywriting. Worth a read to refresh your mind :-)

15 things you absolutely must do to succeed online
An awesome article that got me a great deal of exposure and even a featured article in an Internet marketing magazine. It was also run in several Ezines and got the most views on some forums and article directories.

Importance of search engine keywords
Actually a rewritten PLR article I got with an ebook I purchased (Shhhhhh! :-) ). I rewrote it quite a bit and learned a lot from it actually. A very good article that I used as the basis for another article for a "Make money" forum where it got good review by the admin.

Is Internet marketing dead
A recent, slightly controversial post that got quite a nice response, even from a well known Internet marketer (to see whom, you'll just have to read it :-) )

The last post, Internet marketing without procrastination was the most successful yet. It brought more than 100 unique visitors to it in 3 days. And people still come by some 10 a day just by a few posts on a few forums. It also taught me a crucial lesson -- think of others first and you will be rewarded (not that I didn't practise that before...).

This is it for now.

Be sure to subscribe to the newsletter (on the Internet marketing secrets main site, below the "bonus box") as you'll get two very special bonuses and of course more to come. I'll give you great content and I will sometimes promote a product, but it will ALWAYS be something I bought myself and believe in 100%. I'll also mention whether I actually tested it or not PLUS I'll often offer additional bonuses of real value, not some B.S. resell rights everyone can get for free anyway.

Have a great day!

Internet marketing without procrastination

2006-08-25T14:20:00.000+02:00

Hi, you're in for a special treat! Read on and enjoy...

After listening to countless interviews and after almost three years of marketing online, I came to the conclusion that the single most important rate-determining step in success is procrastination.

It's not the lack of knowledge, as there are so many great resources out there. It's the unwillingness to implement that knowledge. The problem is that everybody is looking for the "Holy grail". Just a simple twist and we're set... 1.000.000 visitors a month are on their way.

Now, before reading on, turn your speakers on and listen to the recording by clicking on the "play" triangle below. It might take some time for the buttons to load...

-- Running time: 6 min 28 sec --

Please wait a bit for the buttons to load. If it takes too long,
read the article first and then come back. It's worth it!
The funny thing is that there are resources out there that tell you exactly how to get to this level and they are obtainable too (from $97!). The problem: you have to create a product or you have to find JV partners or you have to use some of your imagination or... (whatever the "daunting task" is).

In Internet marketing, like in everything else you want to be good at, you have to invest your time AND your money into it. At the beginning it's usually more time and as you start earning, you invest more money. Unless one or more of the gurus are your close friends or family, you will have to put some time (or money) in creating and marketing your "product" (here meant very in general!). It's just the way it is.

If you can get a guru to send your affiliate link to his list once a month, you can make a living online without any work whatsoever. Bit if you can't, well then you have to get to the level when you can send a link to your own list.

Sure there are "opportunities" out there where you can make a lot with little or no work. But those are very short-term things and usually they are illegal anyway.

I know guys that have a brilliant idea almost every day. And when I say: "Implement it!", they find 1000 reasons why they can't -- ranging from "It'll take too much time" or "But I need the money now" or "It requires too much of an investment" to "I don't have time to do so much work right now...". You name it, they said it!

I even offered a friend to do all the research for him (as this is usually what people hat the most) and he still found an excuse: "Well, I'd love too do this, but what if it doesn't work out as well as it seems right now?". PLEASE!

What I'm saying isn't that you have to work hard or harder, I'm just saying that when you get quality information, act on it. The Rich Jerk ebook was a perfect example. $47 for an ebook with so much quality information is nothing. But people that bought it in 90% of times never even read it. 7% read it but didn't act (me included! Yes, I admit...) and only 3% or even less read it and implemented the tactics... and I bet these people are doing quite fine today as after almost a year I tried one technique and it really worked like a charm!

So, you have many great resources out there that lack of knowledge isn't an excuse. Some are expensive, but the others really aren't (you can go to Amazon.com and get an Internet marketing book for under $30!!!), so money isn't an excuse (at least not a legitimate one). Everybody can take a few hours off their busy week to implement the techniques they learned, so lack of time also isn't an excuse. For the first 6 months, I've been working on my Internet marketing in libraries and bookstores where they provided free Internet access to students, so "not having a computer" also isn't an excuse.

You see, all of the above things are excuses. Procrastination is the only thing standing between you and your success. Almost all of the TOP Internet marketing gurus were employed and started with IM part time. Some of quite successful ones are still employed. And even those who are into Internet marketing full time work many hours every day to stay on top of things and to have their sites where they want them.

I hope that after reading this article and listening to the recording, you'll find motivation to implement your ideas and some day soon become so successful that we'll be buying ebooks and other products from you!

Thanks for reading, come back often for more tips, tricks and techniques of Internet marketing.

How to succeed in Internet marketing, part 3

2006-08-22T15:38:00.000+02:00

Now that you got the main idea behind succeeding in Internet marketing, let's go on to describe the FIRST actual step of any marketing campaign...

RESEARCH

It's almost mind-boggling how many people just go for the first "opportunity" that seems to get in front of them. Does this sound familiar:

1000's of ready Adsense sites. Just put your Adsense code in and you're on your way
master resale rights for 50 Internet marketing products... Fresh, new, get it now!
affiliates join my program! Make up to $3583,29 a WEEK! Join NOW!
the hottest selling items online, join 1000's in making a fortune online!
you get the picture...

The problem with all of these "offers" above isn't always in their idea! You have to do the necessary research to determine whether taking them up will be actually profitable or not.

Let's go now through examples of what can be wrong with the above ofers:

Those same sites could have been already purchased by 100's of people. And even if they weren't yet, the publisher might have already used them. This means that the search engines will not put so much weight on your content and could even penalize your sites for duplicate content. This way they will be very hardly profitable
Well, how fresh are they really, and how long until all the big names will be purchasing them and sending them as bonuses to their huge lists. It just might be that just when you've set up a sit selling such a product, everybody will have gotten it as a bonus from someone else. Also, how many people already sell those items and how many will in the near future?
if his program is really sooooo successful, you should really consider checking for competition. It could be so fierce that you'd have a very slim chance to get in and make a decent profit
same as above
you get the picture :-)

So now you see that research is a very important part of any campaign you might launch.

Of course the same goes when creating your original work (adsense sites, products...). It just doesn't make sense to make a site and target a single keyword that gets no searches per month. How many visitors will you get by the search engines that way?

So, research is the first thing you should do. But what's important? Let's see...

First you have to consider if there's a market for what you're about to offer. This can simply mean -- are there people interested in buying, reading... whatever I want to do. You can easily determine this by visiting online forums and checking what people ask about on and on, check how popular the keywords in your niche are, you can see if there's anyone else selling what you want (a great indicator that there's a demand, especially if the company has been around), check the magazines what they write about -- they research the market thoroughly before deciding what to write about...

When you see that there's a market for what you want to sell (this term includes ads on your site etc.; E.g. targeted content sites with showing ads), you should do some more research and see how much competition is already in this market. There should always be some (unless you go really deep... discussed later) as that way you'll know for certain that your idea sells.

If there's too much of a competition in that particular market, try going for something more specific. There's no reason you should go for something completely else if you see too much competition. There's certainly something more specific you can sell/write about. Just make sure people are looking for it. You can do a great research on huge online stores/market places. Browse the general categories and go deeper for more specific topics.

Now that you've done the research it's time to devise an Internet marketing plan which we'll discuss in one post after the next as the next one will be a special post that will help you obliterate procrastination and give you motivation on demand. Remember to come back for it as there's a very high chance you've never witnessed something like this!

See you tomorrow and I wish you all the best in your Internet marketing endeavors!

How to succeed in Internet marketing, part 2

2006-08-18T15:38:00.000+02:00

Hi, hope you read the first part on how to succeed in Internet marketing. If you haven't, please do it now and return here after you've read it: Success in Internet marketing, part 1

In the last article we left off at the point where I was going to explain what the most important ingredient (or equal to all other ingredients) in Internet marketing is and exactly how to have it in an abundant supply so you'll never be short of it ever again!

This is actually not limited to Internet marketing. It's a virtue of all extremely successful people in the world, so read very carefully!

One of the most important ingredients for success in Internet marketing is MOTIVATION. No amount of knowledge and tools will get you anywhere if you don't have the motivation to use it all and implement it immediately. Now, motivation can be brought about for many reasons, but if there are no results it more often than not diminishes and people start to procrastinate and begin to prolong the distance to their goals.

The problem with Internet marketing and almost everything else is that it's highly unusual for somebody to succeed over night. In fact, we all go through many different levels of knowledge and experience in any given field and often times the first levels can be very frustrating.

For instance, for anyone going into Internet marketing the motivation is money. Everybody wants to make money so that they __________________ (fill in the blank). The problem arises when such a person is really trying and struggling and gets no result (= no money coming in). It can soon become very frustrating and many get very discouraged and quit.

We know from the previous article that persistence and quick implementation are the path to success fast (relatively speaking!). But where to get the motivation? Without motivation we'll not implement anything. Here's an example of what I mean:

When I first heard of article marketing and this was, thanks to Trafficology, about 6 months before anyone in the main stream was using this method of marketing their web site, I was extremely pumped, but I thought I couldn't write and that nobody would read what I had to say. So I waited... and waited... and all of the sudden, after about 6 months, out came promotions for "blasting your articles to 100's of article directories", getting you great exposure and 100's of links back to your site. I saw videos from people getting to the first place in Google for their main keywords that were extremely competitive!

I was shocked! WOW, this really works! I wrote an article and manually submitted it to a few directories. I was getting visitors! A lot of them. Just from the directories. And in a few weeks, I found new links showing back to my blog as some publishers decided to put my article on their web site. I saw results and started to write articles like crazy! I found a submission site that submitted articles for free. It worked. Many visitors and good search engine rankings! But in just a short month -- a new Google update. They said: "Sorry boys and girls, this article thingy became a bit spammy! We've decided to not put so much weight on inbound links from pages with duplicate content".

Blast! It was over almost overnight. It still worked well with MSN and Yahoo! (and still does!), but I was always after Google. I could have had the "first page" position for at least 6 months and that would bring me MASSIVE exposure. But no. I procrastinated. I made excuses and got motivation only when I saw results. But that was a bit too late. Everybody and their cat were "blasting" thousands of articles a day. This almost became a need and not an advantage!

Of course, writing QUALITY articles can still get you a lot of exposure (as ezine owners pick up your article and publish it to their subscribers -- sometimes thousands!). But no, I could never have written SUCH an article, could I?

So, the secret ingredient is motivation... How to have it when it counts? How to have it when you need to implement something immediately and not wait until it's too late? Read on...

How to have motivation when you need it the most...

I realized that I really got motivated when I saw positive results from my work. At the same time I was listening to some recordings on people that are top achievers. They said that one of the virtues of the most successful people was the ability to visualize their goals as if already achieved!

Well, if you put 2 and 2 together -- you have a brilliant way to motivate yourself when you get an idea and something inside says: "Let's not do this now, let's go do something else now, you'll do it tomorrow...".

If you have the ability to already see the positive results of your work manifested, you'll have no problem implementing whatever is necessary to get those results right now!

There's also a little trick that'll even multiply what you've just read...

Make sure that you really vividly visualize your goals (close your eyes, relax and really visualize) and as you do this actually notice all the great feelings this creates in you! Yes, feelings are key -- your subconscious mind always puts what it thinks your best interest is first!

And if you can get yourself to feel really good while visualizing your end results, your subconscious mind will instantly start giving you all the motivation you'll need to have to start your projects right away and finish them as soon as possible.

So, I really suggest you do this when you have an idea but you immediately think "This would be great, but it takes a lot of work..."

In the next post I'll talk about the next step for you to make a lot of money and get really good in Internet marketing!

How to succeed in Internet marketing

2006-08-18T14:25:00.000+02:00

I was thinking of something useful to write on the subject of Internet marketing and all of the sudden, when I least suspected, a story came into my mind. An interesting true story that brought me huge profits online and what I realized then still gives me the "push" I need when creating new projects. I suggest you read it carefully and then immediately start to implement this simple secret that will bring you awesome success -- if only you implement it!

When still beginning with Internet marketing, I was very ambitious and incredibly "pumped" to do whatever it takes to succeed online. I had an image of myself as a very successful Internet marketer and everything that comes with it. I'd read every ebook I could get my hands on, every interview, I subscribed to many Internet marketing related newsletters, one of which cost me $97 a month. I was very eager and willing to "take over the Internet"...

But then Mont's past by, I was learning something new every week, I implemented much of it, but still no success. Not even a single affiliate sale, not a single dollar from advertisements on my sites. Nothing... not even a comment on my blog! My main means of advertising back then were forums and a safe-list I purchased -- where I could email 10.000.000 people every day. I won't even go there...

Soon my motivation fell almost to the minimum. Every now and again I'd purchase the "next best thing", some "great ebook" that was going to show me how to succeed in Internet marketing. I got a little bit hyped up and went to work for a while, but with no results, I'd soon give up and wait for another ebook.

Then one day, I got a new message from one of the marketers I was affiliated with (now I'm a bit embarrassed to say who it was) that he's made an audio postcard (something very new back then) and that I should immediately send it to my list. It was basically an advertisement for his product and all I had to do was embed my ClickBank affiliate link where it said "Click here to start making money online". I said: "What the heck" and I did it. I sent an email to the safe-list and titled the subject: "Hi, there's an audio postcard waiting for you inside... :-)". In the body I wrote just a few lines, something like:

Hi, I've arranged for a special audio postcard for you! Go listen to it now and pay special attention to the third paragraph --- it'll blow your mind!

You can get the postcard here:
>> my link was here

I wrote this and blasted it to other safe-list subscribers. I really didn't think this would work, but I was really hoping it would. The next day I checked my ClickBank account and was blown away -- I made my first sale! There it was, $53. For the first time one of those tiny little coloured lines became bigger! I was ecstatic. I was empowered. I immediately got all of my hopes back. It works, Internet marketing works!

This thought me a crucial lesson -- Persistence is key! If I disregarded the message and didn't blast that mail once more (I've been doing it without success for at least two months on daily basis), I would never have gotten the $53! The other thing I learned was: I have to implement what I want to do immediately! Had I left it "for tomorrow", I'd probably never have gotten to it, besides, the person that bought it might not have looked at the email the next day.

But there was another problem... I must have blasted that same email every day for the next 14 days, but nothing. Not one single sale again. I have written a couple of articles on my blog and hoped for some search engine traffic. After a week of waiting and blasting emails, something interesting happened. I viewed statistics for my blog and noticed all of a sudden I had about 15 visitors a day. And they even started to click on my ads. Again, another breakthrough. My training worked. MSN was sending visitors to my article. For the first time in months I got visitors from search engines... and that wasn't all... in a week or so, Yahoo! started to send me visitors and after a while even Google!

This brought new hopes and I started to write new articles. Then, after those got visitors it motivated me to create even more. I started to see sales! Some other places I advertised worked pretty well, too. I was in business!

Again... PERSISTENCE and IMPLEMENTATION brought results. But this wasn't a real problem with me and I know for certain that it isn't the main problem for the vast majority of people going into Internet marketing. There's another piece of a puzzle that is even more crucial, because without it nothing happens!

And this is what I'll talk about in the next post, so see you soon!

Is Internet marketing dead?

2006-05-13T23:48:00.000+02:00

Internet marketing has become one of the most sought out things online. It's no wonder, when there's been so much hype and so much said about it. But the question is: "Is Internet marketing still alive in 2006?"

Let me answer this question after I tell you a very short, but insanely interesting and powerful story...

There once, not very long ago, was a guy (we'll call him Jay), just starting to make his way on the internet. He was pulled in by investigating some other field of interest. After he bought a course on what he was looking for, the author mentioned something called "Internet marketing". He said he was obsessed with it and has just recently then cracked the code by reading an ebook from one other guy to whose web site he included a link in his ebook.

when Jay opened the web site he was astonished. He started reading... "Who else wants to... internet marketing... anyone can do it". He was very intrigued by the headline and started reading the first paragraph... "Dear friend, if you ever wanted to be your own boss and wanted to make a lot more than just a "normal income", then this is probably the most important letter you've ever read..."

Jay couldn't believe it. This letter was talking directly to him. How did the author know exactly what he wanted. And what could be so important that this letter could offer? So he read on. Paragraph after paragraph he was on a verge of the discovery of a lifetime. And finally the reading led him to a sub-headline "So how much is all this worth to you?". "Great", said Jay to himself "this is something that's probably sold for $1000s. Maybe some day I'll afford it...".

He scrolled down and there was the price: $97. "Yeah, that's what I.... WHAT!?!... $97?!"... his heart started to pump very hard and fast... "Special offer. I can afford this. It's still a bit high for an ebook, but hmmmmm, I thought it would be thousands of dollars..."

Jay was very excited and scrolled back up to the bullets where all the benefits of this ebook were stated... exactly how to make money online... special tricks of Internet marketing... easily make $2375,64 a month without any work...

He spent a whole half an hour on twenty bullets or so. He then scrolled back to the order button and really wanted to push it. He thought I really have to think about. He bookmarked the page and closed the browser. But then something strange happened...

Up popped a new window saying "Congratulations! You just won a special discount! Only every fifth customer gets this opportunity and if you miss it, it will NEVER show again... In the next 10 minutes you can get your hands on this ebook for only $67! You save $30, but only if you act now!"

Jay jumped and hysterically clicked the order button. He was taken to another web site where it said... Save even more and also get these extra secrets for only $27 more! He just clicked the "yes, give me everything!" button and started to enter his credit card number in the special form. After purchase he was taken to a special "Thank you page" where he was congratulated on the purchase and where he could download the ebook and all the bonuses.

He has "fallen victim" to a classical yet extremely effective Internet marketing tactic. And from the ebook he learned even more of them. Needless to say the author had his own selection of other "must have" Internet marketing products. And Jay bought them all, one by one.

Today, Internet marketing techniques have even improved and those "in the know" are creating millions upon millions of dollars with them. And by far not only in the "Internet marketing" niche. There are virtually endless opportunities and Internet marketers are taking full charge at them.

Facts: More and more people have access to the internet every day. More and more are able to purchase things online and more and more are looking to get information or other things online.

So to answer the question from the beginning... If something is dead, it most certainly isn't Internet marketing.

The biggest mistake in Internet marketing

2006-04-20T13:00:00.000+02:00

Dear friend,

what do you think is a single most important mistake people make when they try to go into Internet marketing?

The biggest mistake is that they don't brand themselves!

Let me quickly explain...

In order for people to buy things from you, you have to build trust for you inside their minds. This can be done by branding yourself.

OK, how do you brand yourself, then?

Simple, what you have to do is associate yourself with quality and do it a few times. You could also do it only once if it is really something big. Also, you have to get your name and image in front of people as much as you can. You can achieve this by doing the following things (this holds true in the Internet marketing business):

Write high quality articles on your topic and submit them to article directories
Write press releases to promote your site -- on that site you can have a high-quality incentive for people to sign up for your newsletter. From there on you can build relationship and brand yourself
Have your own official blog where you regularly do high-quality postings
Create quality viral reports (.pdf, MP3, even video...)
Ask a fellow Internet marketers to interview you and be sure to give a lot of value in the interview. Mention your site and have "a surprise bonus" for the listeners ready
Post on forums, in chat rooms and be informative. Always keep people wanting more -- so find a balance between giving quality information and not revealing too much
Other ways...

You see, you have to get people comfortable with you to start buying from you. You must prove yourself to them. It makes sense. People are over-marketed today and are very sceptical. But this can also be an advantage...

If you successfully brand yourself and get the trust of many people, they will much more likely buy from you than from anyone else -- and they will do that repeatedly!

So, do all the steps above and more and you are soon to become a master Internet marketer.

Have a great day!

Internet marketing secret weapon

2006-04-19T20:02:00.000+02:00

Dear friend,

do I have a treat for you today...

If you have a blog... then this is the most important post you'll ever read...

I have come across something GIANT today. It is a masterpiece and if you've ever had trouble getting traffic and high search engine rankings for your blog, then this is a piece of software you'll really want to own...

What it does is it automatically sends your blog's RSS feed to over 100 major blog directories thus creating a stream of high PR incoming links to your blog! That means:

YOUR blog will be indexed by the major search engines in a record time (there have been some reports of inclusion in just 48 hours)
YOUR blog will be on a very high position for your selected keyword in the major search engines (MSN, Yahoo!, Google) in about 7 days! -- that means you'll be getting targeted traffic to your web site (and lots of it) -- for FREE.

I wonder how many high ranking, profit pulling blogs you'll quickly create after you purchase this software!

But you have to act quickly as Rob is letting only 200 or so customers to this product as he wants it to be effective for a very long time.

So, visit the web site by clicking on the image below:

Click here to visit the web site (you will kick yourself later if you don't!)

Have a great day and hope you find this post very useful.

Marketers! Did you see what Joe Vitale did?

2006-04-18T03:32:00.000+02:00

Hi,

I don't know what he's up to...but I want in on it! Did you see the e-mail that Dr. Joe Vitale sent yesterday? He's up to something and I have a feeling that it will be so shocking that it will be talked about for a long time to come.

Heck, this promotion may even change the way that everyone markets on the internet!(something called a S.S.L. about a H.S.S.S.E???) I pasted the e-mail below for you to read just in case you missed it. What do you think he's up to? Whatever it is - everyone is watching Joe's every move because word on the street is that the new promotion he's about to launch will make every other marketing product, book, or course out there look like child's play.

See below...

- Blaz Banic

-- Original Email --

Hi Everyone,

The last promotion I did created such a splash on the internet that my website (see below), was one of the most viewed websites on the internet. I was in shock! During the last week of March, the website sat on the top 10 list of Alexa's 'Movers and Shakers'! Countless e-mails poured in - asking me "how did you do it?".

By far, it was the biggest response that I have ever seen from one little promotion. Why did the website create such a splash? It was because of Hypnotic Marketing. I used one of the secret techniques I teach in my Hypnotic Selling Secrets Course. I know that many of you would love to learn this and the thousands of other ideas I provide you in my course... but you can't. In fact, no one can right now.

I took the Hypnotic Selling Secrets course off of the market to prepare for the most shocking launch that I've ever done. In fact, I took the course off of the market several months ago to gear up for this...

In just a few more days, you can be one of the very few to get access to the new Limited Edition Hypnotic Selling Secrets course. But you must act quickly. Right now you can register to get onto my Priority Notification list.

http://www.hypnoticsellingsecrets.com/g.o/wayup

Only those that register on the list will be given the actual date this month that I will launch. Since it is truly a Limited Edition, I'm sure everything will sell out in just a few hours. To get all of the inside info, and make sure you get in on this too, just go to:

http://www.hypnoticsellingsecrets.com/g.o/wayup

Go for it.

Dr. Joe Vitale

PS. Even if you already own the original version of Hypnotic Selling Secrets, you will not want to miss the hidden marketing lessons that I'll be giving everyone on the priority notification list.

Go to: http://www.hypnoticsellingsecrets.com/g.o/wayup

PS...Once these Limited Edition sets of Hypnotic Selling Secrets are gone, they are gone FOREVER. You'll see what I mean why this could never be duplicated again at: http://www.hypnoticsellingsecrets.com/g.o/wayup

Internet marketing

2006-04-09T19:54:00.000+02:00

Why Internet marketing? What's so different from normal marketing?

Well, there are many similarities, but there are some major differences. For example, in Internet marketing you have to take a different approach at communicating with people. It's more on the personal level. People go online for information. So in order to be able to sell them the site must at first appear as if it contains real information. With reading the sales copy they are slowly lured into really wanting the information on the web site... so much so that at the end they are willing to pull out their wallet and pay instantly.

In the Internet marketing world there's also another very important element -- email marketing. It is almost imperative to capture leads (people's names and email addresses). That way a marketer can easily reach his contacts and bond with them so that they become much more inclined to buy what he's selling.

On the Internet people are in an even greater hurry than in the real world and marketing has to be adjusted to that. People also multitask like crazy online. So if a web site owner wants people's attention, he or she must use certain techniques that are crucial in Internet marketing and not so in off-line marketing.

Most of this points were discussed some time ago in the four p's of marketing post.

So now you can see that internet marketing is a science in itself and it takes some time to get good at it. But let me tell you: it pays off and it pays off good. Once a person gets the basics down and gets what internet marketing is all about he or she can literally build virtual empires and become rich beyond his or her dreams.

For the end, let me in on a secret... most of the internet marketing is in the "appearances"! The way you look and position yourself in the minds of your prospects determines whether you'll be a huge success or a failure. Think about it and do your best to have your web sites look as professional as possible.

Have a great day, write you soon.

Online success report will air on Thursday, April 6. 2006!

2006-04-03T19:12:00.000+02:00

Hi, just a reminder that the free report I'll be launching will go live on April 6. (that's three days from now!). If you haven't subscribed yet, then do so as that way you'll be the first to get it! Rest assured it will give away a lot of secrets of online marketing and making money online.

As a subscribed member you'll also be receiving a special newsletter and some other great "inside information". I suggest you sign up right now. I will give you the report a whole WEEK ahead of everyone else! that means you'll be able to promote it the first and use the information inside the first!

What are you waiting for? Sign up right now (it takes only a few seconds). Make sure you enter your real name ad primary e-mail address. ~~Sign up below:~~

I will never rent, sell or give your information to anyone!

I hate spam with passion.

I swear you'll kick yourself later if you ~~don't~~ didn't subscribe ~~now~~ then (but don't worry, there'll be many other opportunities). Have a great day :-)

Online success breakthrough free report coming soon!

2006-03-01T19:45:00.000+01:00

Dear friend,

welcome to my blog. What I have in store for you is beyond what I have ever imagined to be possible...

Just a few short months ago I would never have thought I could make a total of $408 in affiliate sales in one single day. And that's not all. Although that was my record (before I was averaging about $60 a day), I noticed I finally discovered how the internet marketing game works!

And I am about to share everything with you. Everything.

End of March, I'll release a breakthrough report that will reveal the exact blueprint to a really successful internet business. Don't worry...

Although it requires some work at the beginning -- it is completely hands-free later on and will bring you more cash that you were able to ever imagine. When you've set up your first such "business" (=web site), you'll be quickly able to replicate the same process to multiply your income.

This internet marketing strategy is used by the best and richest internet marketers! Don't miss it.

Who this is for?

This is for serious people who don't mind to do some fun work and who are not afraid to invest some money in their online business (don't worry, we're talking two digits here :-) ).

It is NOT for "get rich quick" opportunity seekers -- you should know by now that they never last and are usually even illegal! Yes, you've read right, they are illegal and you could pay a much greater penalty as you make with such "systems".

That's great, Blaz. How do I sign up?

You must sign up to receive this special report. You'll get all the details and a notification with a download link later (end of March).

You should know that I'm offering this to only 500 people as they will be making "investment" money with the report itself and I don't want too many people getting their hands on it just yet.

To sign up, simply enter your name and email address in the form provided below my picture (top of the sidebar on your right) and click the "Subscribe" button.

You'll start getting your newsletter and on end of March, I'll send you a link to your report.

Thank you for visiting, have a great day.

The "one time special offer" phenomenon

2006-02-27T23:14:00.000+01:00

Dear friend,

today I'm going to briefly touch the "one time special offer" phenomenon that's been going on for some time now.

You probably saw such offers several times as they become very popular in the last 7 months or so. You usually get one of those when you sign up for a free download of a product, sign up for almost anything free or after you've purchased some product.

Why are such offers so popular?

Well, you probably already know the answer to this question... because they are so very effective. Especially the ones where one sells a product and then after the person has purchased it, as a "thank you for buying" the customer gets offered another great product for "a fraction of it's normal cost".

It also works great for free sign ups where a vendor provides a free product or service and after the sign up the customer gets a "one time special offer".

"You will never see this offer again..." is what's usually written there.

Why do such offers work?

They work because they very effectively take advantage of human psychology. There are at least two very powerful "psychological triggers" involved:

Law of consistency
Fear of loss

Law of consistency

When a person has already bought something from you or signed up for something you provide, it's hard to say "no" to that special offer. It would be like contradicting themselves and no one likes to do that. If you make the offer really special, there will be very few who don't buy what you offer -- as opposed to just having the offer flat out there in the beginning.

Fear of loss

Now this is the most powerful drive that helps making a buying decision. Fear of loss is a much, much greater motivator than possibility of gain. Thus if the customer has this great offer, he or she is afraid to loose it if they don't buy. This is why a "one time special offer" is so powerful -- it's now or never... and majority of people will choose now!

For more such techniques, follow this link: The science of Influence (a book by Kevin Hogan, Psy. D.). I very warmly recommend this book. The link will take you to Amazon's site where you can read more on the book and see the customer reviews.

An example...

Follow this link: Underground interviews by Ewen Chia

Thank you for reading. I hope this gave you an idea or two. Again, this method can be a great means to make many "back-end sales" and increase your profits. Just imagine... with such an offer you can turn a free surfer into a customer or a $47 customer into a $64 customer! Not bad, is it :-)

Have a great day.

Viral marketing ideas

2006-02-15T11:22:00.000+01:00

Hi, how are you today?

I'm fine although the weather isn't too great here. Today I'd like to share with you some ideas on viral marketing.

You probably know by now that one of the best ways to get high numbers of quality traffic to your web site is via viral marketing.

Viral marketing is in essence "word of mouth advertising". So in order to have a great viral marketing campaign, you must first make sure you have the following:

a newsworthy web site -- think "Would I want to tell my friends about this?"
quality product or service
a way for people to spread the news faster and to make them want to -- a reward etc.

After you've established the above, you can go about creating your viral marketing campaigns. Here I'll give you some ideas.

Tell a friend script

One way is to simply install a tell a friend script to your web site. This is one of the not so good strategies, but it still works. So why not try it.

Who else do you know...

For some people it works great to put a tell a friend script to their "Thank you page" after people sign up for the newsletter. There you simply put a large heading saing "Who else do you know would be interested in this newsletter?" You can sweeten the pot with an added bonus if they tell three friends about your web site.

Resell rights

Why not sell resell or master resell rights for your ebook to people... In the ebook you could put your web site's URL and description.

Viral reports

These are good, but resell rights books work better. Anyway, you could create a 5 -- 10 page brandable report and give it away. People can change the links to their affiliate links and will have a reason more to give it away to others. Make sure that the report is of real value!

Put a funny video on your site

Funny videos are probably one of the fastest ways to get a lot of traffic. You have to know however that it will probably be much less targeted than with other ways.

Affiliate program

Don't forget to have your own affiliate program (or use services that allow them -- clickbank etc.). It is probably the best way to get a lot of free targeted traffic that's willing to buy your products.

OK, these are some great ideas you can implement right now. It's much less complicated than you think. Just put some effort into it.

Have a great day!

As promised -- LIMITED TIME, HURRY

2006-02-13T16:01:00.000+01:00

Hi again...

As promised, I'll give you two ebooks to download for free. The deal is only good for the next 24 hours. After that it's closed.

You don't have to opt in or anything. Simply right-click on the links and choose "Save Target As" and save it on your computer. The two books are in .exe format, but you will download them as .zip and will have to unzip them. You can use a free trial of Winzip to do that. It's very easy.

BONUS #1: Video ebook that will show you 10 steps to optimize your site for Google.

Right-click on the link and choose "Save Target As" to save the file on your computer.

>> 10 Google Steps Video Ebook (.zip file) -- Sorry, the offer expired. Check back soon for more similar offers.

BONUS #2: Ebook on Google Adsense for beginners.

Right-click on the link and choose "Save Target As" to save the file on your computer.

>> Adsense Guide (.zip file) -- Sorry, the offer expired. Check back soon for more similar offers.

EXTRA BONUS #3: MP3 Audio Course on Copywriting. A must have.

Right-click on the link and choose "Save Target As" to save the file on your computer.

>> Copywriting Course MP3 (.zip file) (33,1 MB) (Only 5 downloads and then this is gone!) -- Sorry, no longer available.

Go ahead, download, read, watch, listen and apply

Now that you have such powerful resources in your possession, apply what you learn and never quit! You will make it.

Have a great day and hope you really succeed!

Respectfully,

Blaz Banic

P.S. In case that you can't download the products immediately, please try again later. Thank you and good luck.

Great news!

2006-02-07T10:05:00.000+01:00

Hi, today is a very special day for me and I really want to share it with you, so read on...

When I woke up this morning something was different. Something I couldn't put my finger on. But in just a few seconds it hit me... OH YEAH, I GRADUATED YESTERDAY!

That's right. Three years of work finally paid off. Yesterday I successfully defended my graduation thesis. I am now an University graduate in biology.

What does this have to do with internet marketing and where's the great news for me, Blaz?

Well, although my thesis has nothing directly to do with internet marketing, I did however, during the whole process of my education, learn the value and the traits of real scientific research and analysis. And that, my friend, is worth gold in internet marketing and in marketing in general.

I learned that a single simple observation without proper analysis and taking other factors in consideration can lead to drastically wrong conclusions and can bring a company to it's knees.

When observing and analyzing something, you must always ask yourself some basic questions:

Do I know exactly how I'll come to my results?
Am I using the right method?
What other methods are out there?
What other factors do I have to consider?
Is my study group large enough and random?
What is my control group? - (you must have a group you study, where you change one variable and see how the group responds and you must have a control group where you change nothing. After the test, you can compare how that single factor influenced the outcome). For example: You want to test your headline against another. First, you'd have to create another identical web site with only one change: the headline. Then, you'd drive the same amount of similar traffic to both web sites and see the conversion rate. Your original web site is here the "control group" or better just "control".

After you have the results, you have too ask yourself the following:

What analysis tool will I use?
Is it the right one?
How do my results compare to other studies (if there were any)?

Only after you've verified all this, you can go and draw conclusions.

OK, now for the great news for YOU... Today, it being a very special day to me, I've decided to give out some incredible ebooks on internet marketing I have resell rights to. I didn't assemble them yet, but come back in a few days and they'll be here for you.

Bookmark this site (put under "favorites") and come back soon.

There will be no "opting in", just right click and "save target as". It will be worth it. See you soon!

Huge Internet Marketing Insider Secret

2006-01-25T18:10:00.000+01:00

Dear friend and subscriber,

today I'll share with you a huge Internet Marketing Insider Secret. After all, my blog is dedicated to internet marketing secrets :) Read on...

In this post you'll learn why and how some marketers succeed and others don't. I've gone through this in my "15 things to marketing success" post and now I'm gonna elaborate on that a bit.

What's the first thing everyone trying to make money online should know?

Well, it's that no matter what ANYONE tells you, you will have to put some effort in your online business if you really want to retire someday with making millions a year. Even if you only want to make $100 a month consistently -- YOU HAVE TO DO SOME WORK FIRST. But don't worry, it could be as little as 2 hours a week...

In fact I work about an hour to an hour and a half every other day and make a pretty good income. The best thing is... it's constantly growing. I'm nowhere near $1.000.000 a year, but am gradually getting there and I have this internet marketing secret to thank...

What secret could this "insider" know to kick YOUR marketing to the sky?

Thought you'd never ask.

Well, I've been in this business for three years now and have probably fallen into every possible trap there is. In fact, as I posted an article on this topic, I got some very good replies and one guy actually said he was committing 5 out of 6 classic newbie mistakes I mentioned.

Now, as I said before, I'm seeing a rapid growth of my online marketing business and want to share with you the secret...

It's a few secrets actually, so here I go...

Internet marketing insider secret revealed...

Internet marketing is actually much like conventional marketing (read the four p's of marketing post), but with a twist. In order to start really make money online, you must fulfill the following criteria:

Learn how to sell! It's easy. Get some books on the topic. They're so cheap you'll kick yourself for not investing in them sooner. Trust me, I was guilty of that. At least buy this one: Psychology of persuasion by Kevin Hogan. Also read all of The Gary Halbert Letter newsletters. An excellent resource on making money online is also The Rich Jerk ebook. Don't buy anything else for now. Focus on the next bullet here...
Have an idea of what you want to do. Do some research on what can be done if you don't have one (affiliate marketing, content pages with ads, online shop, your own product to sell, subscription web site, ezine, forum, become a reseller etc.).
Do the research on your topic -- keywords, what people want (not need!!) etc.
Stick to that idea and see you go through with your plan (which by the way you MUST make). If it's a web site -- create it or have it created for you. Just do it entirely.
Advertise. Now here comes another big insider internet marketing secret: use all means of advertising and make sure you TRACK every source of traffic individually -- so you know exactly where people are coming from and how each source converts. When you know which are the best, work on them more and live the rest. UPDATE: I just came accross a web site that I think you just HAVE to see. You are about to learn underground targeted traffic generating techniques --> http://hypnoticmindtraining.com/Rushhour/ <-- Visit the web site now!
Make sure you capture names and e-mail addresses from your customers and readers -- create a relationship with your people. You need to earn trust with them.
When you succeed -- multiply whatever you're doing. This is another huge secret. Don't think that ANY of the super internet marketers are only doing ONE THING. Nobody is constantly making millions with just one thing. Learn how to make $100 a month and then multiply it 10 times to make $1000 or 100 times to make $10000 a month. The beauty is that with every new project you'll probably be making more faster.

This all can seem as a lot of work.... and it is at the beginning. But then again, what thing isn't hard at the beginning? As you'll progress, you'll find that all the things become easier and that you'll soon develop your own Internet Marketing Insider Secret that you can share with the rest... or not :)

Also, take your time and read other posts on this blog. Bookmark it and subscribe to the newsletter (below my picture at marketing secrets blog home -- well, click there and subscribe! You have to show at least some effort to succeed). You will get top of the line "working NOW" marketing secrets tips and techniques... I value your privacy and hate SPAM with a passion!

Have a great day and hope you succeed beyond your wildest dreams.

Respectfully,

Blaz Banic

The Most Powerful Word In English Language

2006-01-20T20:07:00.000+01:00

Hi,

I bet you're very curious right now :)

That's good. It means you'll remember the things on this blog better. I recommend you bookmark it as there's some more great online marketing content coming your way soon...

OK, now to...
>> The most powerful word in English language... <<
It's a very simple word. You've heard it many, many times before and probably often stopped with everything just to see what followed it...

It is used by marketers to get your attention AND response all the time. You want to know it? OK, read on...

Before I tell you the actual word, I'd like you to go check out this incredible course on internet marketing. Just follow the link now (it will open in a new window):
http://bestmarketingresource.com

...Read the web site? Great, huh. And it's all 100% true. I've verified it myself. Have it on my palm and listen to the interviews almost every day. And with every listening session I learn something new. This was also true with this word I'm about to share with you in a minute. Keep reading...

There's another lesson here fore you. Notice what state you're in right now... How do you feel? Are you eager to learn what the word is? I'm gonna tell you in about 30 seconds, but before that really notice your state of consciousness right now. Your mind is more opened now than it was before you started reading this post. You're curious and that, my friend, is what all great marketers go for with their readers...

It's a powerful lesson and you'll get many more on this blog, so -- visit here often!

Now for the word: "Free". That's right, the word free makes people STOP in their tracks and read or listen to whatever you have to say. Obviously you can't use it if what you're advertising as free isn't really free, but why not create an "introduction" product that is free? And then giving it to people.

Many industries use it: you can get free samples everywhere. And when was the last time you refused to take a free cream or perfume sample? Exactly. It's the same on the Internet. You get free (evaluation) software all the time.

Another great marketing implication would be to offer free bonuses if people buy your product. You must have seen that over and over again. And you know why? Because it works. When you use the word free on your site, sales go up! Tested and proven over time.

I've got three books on creating wealth on my desk now. And two have a "free bonus" inside. In fact I've purchased one of them much faster and with much greater enthusiasm when I saw I'll get $397 worth of free audio and software with it. It simply made my purchase a "no brainer".

Next time you see an advertisment that offers something for free -- remember this post and notice how it really worked on you!

The only down side to this word is that it's become much overused for crapy products and is slowly loosing it's power. But fortunately if someone is really interested in what you're selling, he or she will go for your "evaluation" product rather than buying it from someone else.

At the end I'd like to say that there are actually more powerful words out there, closely following the one discussed here. I go into greater detail for those words in my newsletter. Simply using those words and phrases will sudenly increase your sales, subscriptions and authority. I invite you to sign up and start getting the information you want and deserve. Soon I'll be launching a massive ebook on internet marketing and when I do, I'll delete those sequences from my newsletter as I will be charging people for that exact same information.

So sign up now and be one of the lucky few that gets this info for free!

Why and How to Increase Your Link Popularity

2006-01-15T14:12:00.000+01:00

Utilization of the search engines is a very important aspect of marketing; they are usually the first means by which prospects can find your site. That's why link popularity is so essential. If the customers can't find your web site, you will not see any sales. Read this article carefully, you will benefit a lot from it.

You may be wondering what is so "popular" about links

Well, to be short... a lot! The term "Link popularity" refers to the ranking assigned to your web site by the search engines. It determines the position your page gets displayed on when people search for certain keywords in a search engine. I can already hear you screaming...

"Cool, tell me how to get my link popular!"

So, here I go. Search engines are discretionary. They give status and ranking to sites that have links to their pages from related, quality sites. It's a simple, but a very important formula. Google created the system, and now virtually all the most popular search engines employ it to rank your web pages in their indexes.

The more commonly used your keyword is, the harder it will be to achieve link popularity, but without achieving this step, it is almost certain your site will never rank highly on any search engine. But don't be dispirited; there are tried and true ways of achieving link popularity using the most competitive keywords.

There are a few things you should know about...

The first is that simply linking up with a vast number of other web sites will not achieve link popularity. In fact, it may have quite the opposite effect. This is particularly true when pertaining to web sites that are nothing more than the so-called link farms - pages containing line after line of random links. Search engines may aggressively discriminate against your website if you are associated with a link farm, so steer clear of them!

The next important thing to take into consideration is the quality of the sites you are linking to. Never link to a page you have reservations about your visitors seeing. The last thing you want your website to appear as is indiscriminate and cheap. Linking to sites of poor quality will only lessen your link popularity, if not completely destroy it.
OK, now let's get to what you must do to achieve top link popularity and improve your rankings to stellar status on all the popular search engines...

The first step, and the fastest way to get your foot in the door, is to get a listing in a popular directory, such as Open Directory Project and Yahoo. If your site is business-related, you will want to be listed on Yahoo, and despite the fact that it will cost you around $300 a year, it will be money well spent. If your site is non-commercial, the listing will be free, but it will take time and follow-up to actually get it listed. Open Directory is gives you a free listing whether you are business-related or non-commercial, but be prepared to make a lot of follow-up inquiries before you see your site listed.

You are aiming to get listed in the highest level of appropriate category, and this just takes some common sense. For example, if your company ships Alpaca wool from an Alpaca farm located in the middle of Nowhere, Tiny State, do NOT submit your listing to "Retailers from Nowhere, Tiny State." BIG MISTAKE! All you have to do is look a little deeper - and submit your listing to the "Fine Alpaca Wool" category. You will not only associate yourself with culture and quality, but you will be listed in a national category.

The next step after you have attained directory listings is to locate other quality sites that will increase your link popularity. Try to find sites that are in some way related to yours, so not only will your link popularity increase, but your customer base may also be expanded. You want to avoid your competitors and look for sites that are useful to your site's visitors. Let's look at the Alpaca Wool site example. Linking up to a site that sells knitting supplies would be helpful to your visitors, and the chances of the knitting supply site wanting to link up to your site are also greater. By linking to a related site that will be relevant to your web site's traffic, you are increasing both of your site's business prospects - and both of your sites' link popularity.

Unfortunately not all sites want to link to other sites, so you will have to do some research when you are looking for possible linking partners. Google is an excellent starting place for your search. Make sure you enter keywords that you think quality customers will also enter to find your own site. Remember, your criteria are quality, highly ranked, non-competing websites that have a links or resources page. Go to these sites and objectively assess them. Look at the quality of the product, the graphics, and the ease of use. Then check out the other sites they are linked to, and determine if your own site would fit in with the crowd.

When you decide you have found a good prospect, you must set out to woo them. The first thing you should do is to add a link on your own links page to their site. This is an essential first step; it shows good faith, and ups your chances significantly of their reciprocity. After you have added their link, you must contact the Webmaster of their site. Since this is almost always done by email, you want to make sure it is immediately clear that your message is not junk mail. This requires that you tell them right off the bat that you have added a link to their page on your site. A hook like this almost always insures the reader will read on.

Next, be sure to be flattering and let them know how much you appreciate their website. Make sure you emphasize that you have actually visited their site, and that their site is not just a random pick. Give them the address of your links page, and ask them to check out the link for themselves. It's a good idea to mention that they will not only benefit from the increased traffic your website will direct their way, but you will also increase their link popularity. Briefly, explain why link popularity is so essential, but do this in a sentence or two so you don't sound like a professor! Finally, tell them you would greatly appreciate if they would reciprocally add a link on their own links page to your website.

Go through this process with as many appropriate sites as you can find, bearing in mind the criteria of quality and non-competitiveness. After you have emailed all relevant sites, be sure to check these website frequently to see if they have added a link to your page. Give it about a month, and if no link appears, try another charming email. Then give it another month, and if your site is still absent from their links page, it's time to remove their link from your own links page. The only time you want to pursue a link further than this is if you believe a site is crucial to your link popularity and your business needs. Just remember to keep all your communications complimentary and cordial.

After you've done everything discussed, set up a schedule to check your ranking in search engines frequently to see if your link popularity has improved. This is not achievable in the blink of an eye. It will take some time and a good deal of work. There is no way around the labor-intensive quality of improving your link popularity, which is why search engines regard it with such importance.

Important tool in all SEO endeavors...

There are a few tools out there that claim to help you with your rankings and links management. They can be very useful and will save you tons of time. The one I'd recommend is one of the most complete tools for search engine optimization. And the ebooks you get with it are priceless. You can go to their web site now by clicking on this link: http://hypnoticmindtraining.com/SEOElite. Click now while it's still fresh in your mind.

One last thing though - make sure you have a beautiful, streamlined site or you will never persuade anyone to link up to you. Be prepared to keep plugging away at this process, as long as it takes, until you achieve link popularity stardom!

The Importance of Search Engine Keywords Selection

2006-01-11T19:39:00.000+01:00

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Search engines are the vehicles that drive potential customers to your websites. But in order for visitors to reach their destination - your website - you need to provide them with specific and effective signs that will direct them right to your site. You do this by creating carefully chosen keywords.

Think of the right keywords as the "Open Sesame!" of the Internet

Find the exactly right words or phrases, and presto! Hoards of traffic will be pulling up to your front door. But if your keywords are too general or too over-used, the possibility of visitors actually making it all the way to your site - or of seeing any real profits from the visitors that do arrive - decreases dramatically.

Your keywords serve as the foundation of your marketing strategy. If they are not chosen with great precision, no matter how aggressive your marketing campaign may be, the right people may never get the chance to find out about it. So your first step in plotting your strategy is to gather and evaluate keywords and phrases.

You probably think you already know EXACTLY the right words for your search phrases... think again.

Unfortunately, if you haven't followed certain specific steps, you are probably WRONG. It's hard to be objective when you are right in the center of your business network, which is the reason that you may not be able to choose the most efficient keywords from the inside. You need to be able to think like your customers. And since you are a business owner and not the consumer, your best bet is to...

...go directly to the source.

Instead of plunging in and scribbling down a list of potential search words and phrases yourself, ask for words from as many potential customers as you can. You will most likely find out that your understanding of your business and your customers' understanding is significantly different.

The consumer is an invaluable resource

You will find the words you accumulate from them are words and phrases you probably never would have considered from deep inside the trenches of your business.

Only after you have gathered as many words and phrases from outside resources should you add your own keyword to the list. Once you have this list in hand, you are ready for the next step:

Evaluation

The aim of evaluation is to narrow down your list to a small number of words and phrases that will direct the highest number of quality visitors to your web site. By "quality visitors" I mean those consumers who are most likely to make a purchase rather than just cruise around your site and take off for greener pastures. In evaluating the effectiveness of keywords, bear in mind three elements:

popularity
specificity
motivation.

Popularity is the easiest to evaluate because it is an objective quality. The more popular your keyword is, the more likely the chances are that it will be typed into a search engine which will then bring up your URL.

You can now purchase software that will rate the popularity of keywords and phrases by giving words a number rating based on real search engine activity. Software such as Word Tracker will even suggest variations of your words and phrases. The higher the number this software assigns to a given keyword, the more traffic you can logically expect to be directed to your site.

The only fallacy with this concept is the more popular the keyword is, the greater the search engine position you will need to obtain. If you are down at the bottom of the search results, the consumer will probably never scroll down to find you.

Popularity isn't enough to declare a keyword a good choice. You must move on to the next criteria, which is specificity. The more specific your keyword is, the greater the likelihood that the consumer who is ready to purchase your goods or services will find you.

Let's look at a hypothetical example

Imagine that you have obtained popularity rankings for the keyword "automobile companies." However, you company specializes in bodywork only. The keyword "automobile body shops" would rank lower on the popularity scale than "automobile companies," but it would nevertheless serve you much better. Instead of getting a slew of people interested in everything from buying a car to changing their oil filters, you will get only those consumers with trashed front ends or crumpled fenders being directed to your site. In other words, consumers ready to buy your services are the ones who will immediately find you.

Not only that, but the greater the specificity of your keyword is, the less competition you will face. And that is a good thing :)

The third factor is consumer motivation. Once again, this requires putting yourself inside the mind of the customer rather than the seller to figure out what motivation prompts a person looking for a service or product to type in a particular word or phrase. Let's look at another example, such as a consumer who is searching for a job as an IT manager in a new city. If you have to choose between"Seattle job listings" and "Seattle IT recruiters" which do you think will benefit the consumer more? If you were looking for this type of specific job, which keyword would you type in? The second one, of course! Using the second keyword targets people who have decided on their career, have the necessary experience, and are ready to enlist you as their recruiter, rather than someone just out of school who is casually trying to figure out what to do with his or her life in between beer parties.

You want to find people who are ready to act or make a purchase...

This requires subtle tinkering of your keywords until your find the most specific and directly targeted phrases to bring the most motivated traffic to your site.

Once you have chosen your keywords, your work is not done. You must continually evaluate performance across a variety of search engines, bearing in mind that times and trends change, as does popular lingo. You cannot rely on your log traffic analysis alone because it will not tell you how many of your visitors actually made a purchase.

Luckily, some new tools have been invented to help you judge the effectiveness of your keywords in individual search engines. There is now software available that analyzes consumer behavior in relation to consumer traffic. This allows you to discern which keywords are bringing you the most valuable customers.

This is an essential concept: numbers alone do not make a good keyword; profits per visitor do. You need to find keywords that direct consumers to your site who actually buy your product, fill out your forms, or download your product. This is the most important factor in evaluating the efficacy of a keyword or phrase, and should be the sword you wield when discarding and replacing ineffective or inefficient keywords with keywords that bring in better profits.

Ongoing analysis of tested keywords is the formula for search engine success. This may sound like a lot of work -and it is! But the amount of informed effort you put into your keyword campaign is what will ultimately generate your business' rewards. If you want to save an enormous amount of time, you should check out this excellent tool for search engine optimization: Click here for an amazing, to inexperienced marketers little known solution for complete search engine optimization.

Take care until the next post.

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How To Increase Your Search Engine Ranking

2006-01-10T18:37:00.000+01:00

Hi there,

I've deciced to dedicate my next few posts to increasing your search engines ranking. I noticed many people wanted to know exactly how to get those rankings up, so here goes...

The methods employed to increase your search engine rankings may seem like rocket science to you, so you have probably avoided dealing with this issue. But I am here to tell you: "the time has come to face your website!" A high search engine ranking for your website is so essential that if you have the slightest desire to actually succeed in your business, there is no way you can continue to avoid this issue.

At least 85% of people looking for goods and services on the Internet find websites through search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. The idea of optimizing your pages for high search engine rankings is to attract targeted customers to your site who will be more than likely to make a purchase. The higher your page comes up in search engine results, the greater the traffic that is directed to your website. That's what search engine optimization is about.

You can immerse yourself in all the technical information available online to figure out how to optimize your webpages to achieve higher rankings. Or you can look at a few simple items on your pages, make some small adjustments, and most likely see improved rankings quite rapidly.

Thefirst item you should examine is the title bar on your homepage.

The title bar is the colored bar at the top of the page. Look at the words that appear there when you access your home page. To increase search engine rankings, the words on your homepage's title bar should include the most important keywords or phrases, one of which would include your company name.

Then click on all your links and examine the title bars on the pages you access. Each title bar on every single page of your site should contain the most important keywords and phrases taken from the page itself. However, avoid very long strings of keywords, keeping them to six words or less. Avoid repeating keywords more than once in the titlebars, and make sure that identical words are not next to each other.

The next item to put under your microscope is your web site content. Search engines generally list sites that contain quality content rather than scintillating graphics. The text on your site must contain the most important keywords - the words that potential customers will be typing into search engines to find your site.

Aim to have around 250 words on each page, but if this is not desirable due to your design, aim for at least 100 carefully chosen words. If you want to achieve a high ranking on search engines, this text is essential. However, the search engines must be able to read the text, meaning that the text must be in HTML and not graphic format.

To find out if your text is in HTML format, take your cursor and try to highlight a word or two. If you are ableto do this, the text is HTML. If the text will not highlight, it is probably in graphic form. In this case, ask your webmaster to change the text into HTML format in order to increase your search engine rankings.

Next we come to what is called meta tags. I know this sounds like something out of science fiction, but it isreally just simple code. Many people believe that meta tags are the key to high search engine rankings, but in reality, they only have a limited effect. Still, it's worth adding them in the event that a search engine will use meta tags in their ranking formula.

To find out if your page is set up with meta tags, you must access the code. To do this, click the "view" button on the browser menu bar, and select "source." This will pull up a window revealing the underlying code that created the page. If there are meta tags, they usually appear near the top of the window. For example, a meta tag would read: meta name="keywords" content=. If you do not find code that reads like this, ask your webmaster to put them in.

This may not do much for your search engine rankings, but any little boost helps.

Lastly, we come to the issue of link popularity. This is a factor that is extremely important in terms of search engine rankings and I will deal with it in one of my next posts. Almost all search engines use link popularity to rank your website. Link popularity is based on the quality of the sites you have linked to from your links page.

If you type in "free link popularity check" in a popular search engine, the search engine will then show you what sites are linked to your site. In the case that there aren't many sites linked up to yours, or that the sitesthat are linked up have low search engine rankings, consider launching a link popularity campaign. Essentially, this entails contacting quality sites and requesting that they exchange links with your site. Of course, this requires checking out the rankings of the websites you want to link up with. Linking to popular, quality sites not only boosts your search engine ranking, but it also directs more quality traffic to your website.

Search engine rankings are extremely important for a successful Internet marketing campaign. Before you go out and hire a search engine optimization company, try taking some of the simple steps listed above, and see if you can'tboost your rankings yourself. Don't ever ignore this all-important factor in Internet marketing. Remember, the higher your search engine ranking, the more qualitycustomers will be directed your way.

There are many "search engine position improvement" tools available out there, but most are just some gimicks and will use illegitimate ways to temporarily boost your search engine traffic. But in the long term may get you even banned! So avoid using them. The only tool I would recommend is SEO elite. It is probably the best and only complete tool that will help your rankings soar. I almost can't imagine a serious marketer with out it. The investment is really more than worth it.

Hope you enjoyed this article :)

Next post will deal with Search Engine Keywords Selection. Don't miss that one! Bookmark this site. You can also easily subscribe to this blog by clicking one of the images on the top of this site, or you can subscribe to the newsletter (under my picture - top right :) ).

Top 10 Tips For Generating Big Traffic To Your Blog Today

2006-01-09T00:12:00.000+01:00

Hi, I just came across a great article today and thaught of sharing it with you. Enjoy.

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Let’s face it, blogs (or weblogs) are getting incrediblypopular amongst people with an internet connection due tothe ease and practicality of setting one up.

Despite this however, there is no value in having a blog if no one is visiting and reading it!
Therefore, it is important to know exactly how to drivetraffic to your blog if you desire to increase yourreadership or monetize it.

To do that, here are 10 quick tips to generating moretraffic to your blogs:

Tip 1: Reciprocal Linking
One of the most proven ways to gain targeted traffic is to exchange links with other bloggers or site owners. This is a task which requires a little work – by sending an email request for a link exchange with a few follow ups but the results are worth it.
Another linking method is to simply write a testimonial for a product you have purchased. If your testimonial is good, product owners will usually publish it on their sales page with your blog URL included.

If you want to skip the traditional way of exchanging links and go for the easier way, you can automate the process with various software and services found on the net. Just do a search at Google.com and you will have a list of these.

Tip 2: Blog Commentaries
Do you know that your comments also have high potential in generating targeted traffic to your blog and is an effective linking strategy?

All you have to do is find a blog related to your niche and post your comments. At the end of your comments you can include a link back to your blog, this way people who are interested will be able to visit your blog as well. However you should never misuse this to spam other blogs.

Tip 3: Blog Directories
Blog directories are similar to search engines just that they cater only to searches for blogs. It is advisable to submit your blog to the major directories, some of which include feedster.com, technorati.com and blogstreet.com.

Similarly, there are many blog services like pingomatic.com which you can use to ping your blog. Pinging your blog notifies the service that you have updated your blog. These services will then publish your new posts and you get traffic from interested readers and search engines.

Tip 4: Writing Articles
This is one of the best ways of pulling targeted, steady and long-term traffic to your blog. By writing your own articles and submitting them to article directories, you can invite a lot of targeted visitors to your blog.

In order to generate traffic by writing articles, you need to include your resource box at the end of every article you have written. The resource box is where you promote and introduce your website or blog.

To truly maximize your results, you need a system to create, submit and leverage off your
articles easily. One of the best available is seen at http://EzineArticle.com/aa.htm

Tip 5: Writing Press Releases
Press release is a very effective way of generating instant traffic to your blog. Although press releases only pull in short-term traffic, they can work very well if you continuously write and submit press releases regularly while monetizing the traffic received.

PRWeb.com is one of the oldest and most trusted sources for news distribution on the web. Or you can use an automated press release service like http://www.SubmitYourPressRelease.com to do the work for you quickly.

Tip 6: Start A Blog Mailing List
The phrase “the money is in the list” is true in all businesses. If you want to succeed online, you must start building your own list of targeted subscribers. You can send your subscribers to your blog anytime you have new posts.

By the same token, you can also get your blog readers to subscribe to a ‘blog update’ list which can be used to notify them when you have updated your blog. REPEAT traffic through returning visitors is a key traffic strategy and you cancontrol that with this method.

Tip 7: Publishing Your Own Ezine
You can also provide your subscribers with useful information in several series with an autoresponder. An ezine is often called an online magazine. By publishing your own ezine, you are able to attract readership to your blog when you advertise it in your ezine.

Tip 8: Pay For Traffic
If you have a good monetization strategy for your blog through affiliate programs, Google Adsense and a mailing list, you should consider using paid advertising to drive traffic to your blog.

Recommended options include pay-per-click advertising, ezine advertising and huge banner exposures.

Tip 9: Giving Out Free Reports
Give out free viral reports to promote your blog. Providing useful information in your free reports can trigger readers’ interest to know more about you and your websites. More information on this tactic can be found at http://www.MiniEbook.com.

Tip 10: Niche Discussion Boards
Discussions boards or forums can deliver targeted traffic to your blog. If you have a blog about gardening, try searching for a related niche forum with huge traffic to participate in.
Most forums will usually allow you to include a signature file where you can write a few sentences of words. You can invite people to visit your blog through the signature file by posting more regularly.

In conclusion, realize that getting traffic to your blog should not be viewed as a one time effort.
Commit and focus on a long-term strategy in order to succeed. It is all about gaining the momentum. Once you get a decent amount of traffic to your blog, you will attract more visitors to it everyday as you work on it. As time goes by, you will have an amazing amount of traffic to your blog which you never thought was possible!

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Search engines optimization made very easy :)

2006-01-05T12:26:00.000+01:00

Hi again, Marketing Secrets Club member :)

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Simple. It's the tools they use and the time they save using them. Yes, instead of loosing time to build traffic, optimize, etc. they spend it promoting themselves and making great products to sell and make huge amounts of money from them. They are NOT afraid to invest a bit of money to earn 1000 times more. They simply go for it.

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10 Ways To Get Your Ads Or Messages Noticed

2006-01-03T10:50:00.000+01:00

Hi again :)

Do you post to message boards, e-mail discussion lists, classified ads sites, FFA sites or newsgroups? People will usually read the subject line before they read your ad or message, so it's important they get noticed. Below are ten simple, but powerful tips to get your ads or messages noticed.

1. Use extra white space creatively in your subject line. You can add extra blank spaces between your words or letters.

2. Combine capital letters with lower case letters. Use all capital letters in every other word or use a capital letter between every other lower case letter.

3. Add text symbols in your subject line. You could use them between words and letters. Start and end your subject with a text symbol. ( *, $, >,{,] ). It makes the ad stand out from the others. Be sure to check the web site policy not to break any rules.

4. Begin your subject line with the word "STOP!". People have been trained their whole life to stop what they are doing when they see that word. It also makes them more receptive to your immediate suggestions. It might be a good idea to continue with "click here to..."

5. Ask people a question in your subject line. We all went to school and were repetitively branded to answer questions. Make sure the question can't be answered without clicking on the ad and reading your web site. You'll play on curiosity that way and have a much greater chance of people clicking on your ad. Example: "What's the single easiest way to get 1000's of targeted visitors to your site?" etc. etc.

6. Use the word "FREE" in your subject line. Your offer should be attractive to your target audience. It could be free information, software, trials, etc. The word free is one of the most powerful words in english language! Take advantage of it.

7. Begin your subject line with an "online smile :)". People use smiles offline to gain people's attentionand to win their trust, why not use them online too. It also makes you seem more sincere. And that's a good thing :)

8. Don't use unbelievable claims in your subject line. People have or know some who has been ripped off and trained themselves to ignore those claims. It's especially true when you promote money-making opportunities. Also don't go overboard with "power words" and such. They've somewhat lost their appeal -- have been overused. But certainly use some and make sure they are not used all the time by others.

9. Don't use all capital letters in your subject line. It is hard to read, looks unprofessional, and on theinternet it's considered a symbol for shouting. GET IT? :)

10. Test different subject lines to see which ones draws the most traffic to your web site. Also, readthe FAQ before posting a message or ad anywhere. When it comes to testing, it's very important that you test one thing at a time. It's the only way to know for sure that the tested thing was indeed the one that made the difference.

Well, here they are. Hope you'll use these techniques and get your ads noticed more than ever :)

Take care, see you soon.

Happy Marketing New Year!

2006-01-03T00:04:00.000+01:00

Hi,

I've just returned from my New Year's trip and wanted to wish you a very happy New Year 2006!

There are some very interesting things going to happen in 2006 so stay tuned as I will be discussing them in great detail. If you haven't already, subscribe to my no B.S. marketing secrets newsletter! You'll be surprised at what others aren't telling you ;)

Go for it, you'll enjoy it and probably get a much better success online.

Thank you for being a part of this club and I promise to make it very worthwhile for you.

Take care,

Blaz

10 Awesome Ways To Attract More Orders

2005-12-21T11:34:00.000+01:00

Hi,

you'll never guess what everybody's asking me lately. "Blaz", they say, "please tell me how to attract more orders...". Well, since you've all been asking so nicely... :)

Get something to make some notes as this might seem short, but it's to the point and contains powerful techniques you can use right away to attract more orders from your web site. Here we go:

1. Create a free ebook directory on a specific topic at your web site. People will visit your web site to read the free ebooks and may see your product ad.

2. Turn part of your web site into a members only web site. Instead of charging for access, use it as a free bonus for one of your products.

3. Add a free classified ad section to your web site. You could then trade banner ads with other web sites that have free classified ad sections.

4. Create two versions of your e-zine so people can choose if they want ads included with it or not. This'll attract the people who hate ads to subscribe. With the latter group, always use the "by the way" approach when introducing them with your proposal.

5. Publish your e-zine only on your web site. Have people subscribe to a "new issue" e-mail reminder. This could really increase your traffic and sales. Also create RSS feeds to your site and let people subscribe to those.

6. Sell advertising space in your product package. You could sell inserts, flyers, brochures, booklets, and digital ads for electronic products.

7. Offer daily or weekly visitor bonuses. This will increase your repeat traffic and sales because your visitors will visit regularly to get the visitor bonuses. Kinda what I'm donig here. If you are a subscriber to my newsletter, then you know. If you're not yet, then subscribe now (you'll see a subscription form on the side bar on the main page of this blog).

8. Allow people to download software or e-books from your web site at no cost. Just ask your visitors in return if they'll refer their friends to your web site.

9. Build up the number of people that join your free affiliate program quickly by temporally offering your product for free to the people that sign up.

10. Negotiate with e-zine publishers to get free or discounted ads by letting them join your affiliate program and earn commissions on the ad you run. To pull this one off, you should first have some results and provide the e-zine publishers with them. For example say: "Hi, I've been testing my conversions lately and found out that my site converts 8% of the visitors to customers..." In essence, give them a compelling reason to put an ad for your site in their e-zine. But remember: Never lie! Always really do the research and provide real statistics.

Bonus tip: Nothing of the above will actually get you more sales if your web copy isn't good enough to convert traffic to subscribers/customers... Probably not many people bothered to tell you this key piece of information. Check out the free Copywriting crash course post for more details.

Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did :) You can get some great bonuses and cash prizes if you subscribe to my newsletter. Go to the main page and subscribe. See you inside ;)

Have a great day.

10 Killer Ways To Multiply Your Sales

2005-12-19T15:53:00.000+01:00

Hi,

are you selling something online? It could be your own product or service or a resale rights package. It doesn't matter. Here are 10 things you should do to multiply your sales. Read them carefuly:

1. When you make your first sale, follow-up with the customer. You could follow-up with a thank you" email and include an advertisement for other products you sell. You could follow-up every few months.

2. You could upsell to your customers. When they're at your order page, tell them about a few extra related products you have for sale. They could just add it to their original order.

3. Tell your customers if they refer four customers to your web site, they will receive a full rebate of their purchase price. This will turn one sale into three sales.

4. When you sell a product, give your customers the option of joining an affiliate program so they can make commissions selling your product. This will multiply the sale you just made.

5. Sell the reprint/reproduction rights to your products. You could include an ad on or with the product for other products you sell. You could make sales for the reproduction rights and sales on the back end product.

6. You could cross promote your product with other businesses' products in a package deal. You can include an ad or flyer for other products you sell and have other businesses selling for you.

7. When you ship out or deliver your product, include a coupon for other related products you sell in the package. This will attract them to buy more products from you.

8. Send your customers a catalog of add-on products for the original product they purchased. This could be upgrades, special services, attachments, etc. If they enjoy your product they will buy the extra add-ons.

9. Sell gift certificates for your products. You'll make sales from the purchase of the gift certificate, when the recipient cashes it in. They could also buy other items from your web site.

10. Send your customers free products with their product package. The freebies should have your ad printed on them. It could be bumper stickers, ball caps, t-shirts etc. This will allow other people to see your ad and order.

Well, those are the ten things I believe you should do to multiply your sales.

Most popular from the past 3 months

2005-12-09T14:50:00.000+01:00

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OK, here they are. I've categorised them for you so you'll be able to immediately go to the one
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15 things you absolutely must do to succeed online

2005-12-05T02:39:00.000+01:00

Millions are now turning to the Internet to make them rich, but only a »lucky« few ever make it past the first year and of those even fewer really succeed. I put lucky in quotation marks because as you should probably know by now -- luck has nothing to do with it.

Those who succeeded simply follow or devise a system that works and helps them fill their checking accounts every month. Along the way they must have done at least these 15 essential things discussed below; and it doesn’t matter if they sell their own product or are affiliates selling other people’s products.

Too many people just set something up and hope for the best. Well, wishful thinking doesn’t make millions -- ACTION does.

In order to succeed online, you must do these things:

1.) Actually start doing it now.
So many people are daydreaming on how they succeed online; imagine all the money they earn each and every week, wish they could actually do it… Well you can! Just stop thinking of doing it and do it… now! The longer you wait the greater the chances are you’ll never start.

It really helps if you write down a plan of what steps you intend to take every day and stick to it. Don't worry about it being perfect - you'll re-write it while you go along. No plan was EVER created perfect the first time! Being a perfectionist is a trap in many aspects of Internet marketing! However in some cases, you'll want to perfect certain aspects of your business (for example sales letters, advertisements and so on). But without testing you'll never be able to perfect anything, so with this in mind make yourself start taking action immediately.

2.) Find a product or service you want to sell online.
You must do some research on the topic that interests you. The key is to find a certain niche you can prosper in. If you are just starting out, I would strongly suggest staying away from marketing or “making money online” products or services. This is a very competitive market and unless you are a genius and have superior persuasive abilities, you won’t succeed as well as you would wish.

Get on Google, Yahoo!, Ebay, ClickBank and Amazon and see what others are selling in your niche. See if there are actually people willing to purchase what you intend to sell or promote. Go to niche forums and see what people want.

3.) Register a domain and create your own web site.
This is essential for the next step and is one of the biggest mistakes people do. Without your website you can only do so much. The exception is if you want to sell things on eBay, but still, even in this case, creating your own web site will make you many more sales if you stick to these 15 rules. You can get a domain name and up to five page web site for as little as $8,00-$12,00! Where’s the risk in that? It’s very easy to create a web site nowadays. There is much web creation software out there. Even Word for Windows is capable of creating web sites.

Hostgator is an awesome place to host your web site as you can host unlimited domains you can cheaply purchase with them or with Godaddy. The hosting itself is very cheap and reliable.

4.) Capture names and email addresses.
After you’ve created a good looking, great content web site, you must capture your prospect’s names and email addresses. You HAVE to build a database, because these people are the ones you can sell to on and on. Don’t reinvent the wheel – don’t try getting new prospects to your new products. Simply email the existing ones. How to get people to enter their name and email address into a form? Try giving them a gift if they do. You can very easily get no cost ebooks or other things you could give away. Be innovative. Maybe offer a short course on something.

Most Internet marketers (me included) use Aweber for everything related to list building. It's reliable, has the highest email deliverability in the industry, is easy to operate and comes with a great deal of information on how to get the most out of it. I highly recommend it.

5.) Create a relationship with your subscribers.
This is very easy to do. By that I don’t mean that the subscribers are gullible, but that you can only do the work once (write your newsletter or “mini course”) and have software deliver it to any new subscribers automatically. This software is called ”auto responder software” (included with your Aweber account).

6.) Present yourself as an authority.
You want to come across as an authority to your subscribers. If you fail to do that, you won’t be able to sell them what you want. You can do this easily by saying things like: “I’ve read all the books on the subject out there…” or “After years of trial and error I finally got it…” etc. But don’t ever lie. Try finding a thing you really did that elevates you above others. You can easily do that simply by subscribing to various newsletters and ezines in your field. Also never brag directly! Only subtly indicate that you’ve been doing your homework so to speak.

7.) Start promoting products only after you’ve established a connection with your subscribers.
This one is tough for most people to do. You see, the temptation to send an endorsing email for an affiliate product you promote is enormous. However, never ever do it before sending at least 7 high quality newsletters or ezine issues. It’s in human psychology that we feel like we know someone and feel connected to them after we’ve seen them or read their article 7 times. This is of course a bit different if you’re promoting your own product. In this case have at least 7 newsletters ready and just put a simple line at the end of each referring them to your product. Something in the lines of “To really get good at this, visit [my web site] and get [my product]…”

8.) Create a great sales letter for anything you promote.
Your job as an affiliate is to pre-sell the product you are promoting. A great way of doing it is through a story or a how-to article. Just show your people exactly what you do to succeed at something and point them at the “essential tools” they should use. The links are your affiliate links, of course. What works great for me is writing ebook reviews and recommending the really good ones. Key here is to actually buy the ebook and read it. Test its usefulness and then write about it. Sometimes the ideas presented in them sound great and logical, but in reality they rarely work! Be careful not to suggest such a book. Your readers will be disappointed. Also never suggest an ebook showing how to do something and demanding of the readers to purchase additional “tools” to do it, especially if the cost of the tools exceeds the cost if the ebook.

9.) Get known.
You must get known in order to do the next step right. Join forums and discussion boards for your topic and help people there. Really help them with all your wisdom. Pretty soon you will make a name for yourself and get known amongst others in your field. Also brand yourself, not just your company. Your name is very important. Put it out for everyone to see. And make sure you associate it with great, valuable things – don’t sell worthless things! Make as much friends online as possible.

Create a blog and regularly post helpful information. Submit articles to article directories, write press releases and so on.

10.) Do joint ventures.
This is a great one. Once you get known a bit, you can start contacting the gurus with long, long lists of people to help you promote your product. They will gladly do it as they will have a lot to gain and they will know you. You can also try this if you are not so well known, but make sure you sell an outstanding product at a very fair price.

11.) Never cheat.
I don’t think I have to go into too much detail here. Always have your prospect’s interests in mind, never your own! Of course, you want to sell things, but do it in a way that it helps your customers rather than riping them off. Besides if you get known for cheating - and you will if you do it - you will rarely if ever get people to help you.

12.) Educate yourself.
Always educate yourself on the subject you’re interested in and in the subject of Internet marketing. Don’t ever let yourself get rusty.

13.) Always create new opportunities.
Notice how this "thing to do" suggests being active rather than waiting for opportunities to happen. HINT: Every Newsletter you get is an opportunity for you to contact the (probably) super affiliate sending it and get to know him or her!

14.) Have a success oriented mindset and never quit!
Work on your mindset every day. Never allow negative thoughts and feelings overwhelm you. If you don’t make immediately don’t quit. The most successful people made many mistakes before they got to the top. In fact on average an adult person makes 53 mistakes before he or she really succeeds in something.

15.) Know this: People don’t buy FROM you, but they buy YOU.
This one is something every successful marketer will tell you. The majority of these “15 things you have to do in order to succeed” is making a better connection with your prospects. Think about this. Although technically this last thing isn’t something you do, but is also very important that you become aware of it.

That’s it. These are the 15 things you absolutely must do in order to succeed online. This post will grow bigger and some new links will be added soon so come back.

Don't underestimate the power this article holds in for you. Re-read it in a few days. You'll find new stuff in you didn't notice now. I also strongly recommend you also go see this site: http://bestmarketingresource.com/.

Take care.

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2005-11-28T16:18:00.000+01:00

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2005-11-20T16:32:00.000+01:00

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Copywriting course

2005-11-14T20:08:00.000+01:00

Hello, future copywriter!

What an interesting topic I've got for you today. With this quick copywriting course you will be able to at least triple your subscriptions, sales etc. That is, if you are a beginner and you haven't got a clue about copywriting. However, this copywriting course should also help somewhat more experienced webmasters.

What is copywriting?
Copywriting is the art of writing sales and marketing related materials. Copywriting is used in every major area of business such as Sales Letters, Business plans, advertising etc.

Who is this copywriting course for?
It is for all the beginners and even the more advanced webmasters who want to improve their web copy.

OK, having said that, let us begin the course.

- One.

The first thing you should consider is what do you want from your prospects. Is it to buy something from your site, is it to subscribe, is it to tell a friend about this web site you are working on etc.

- Two.
The second and most important thing you have to consider is what kind of customers is your site targeted for and exactly what will they gain if they take your desired action. This is so very important that I ask you to stop reading now and literally take a piece of paper and a pencil and write down as many benefits your customers will have from taking your desired action. DO IT NOW.

OK, back? Did you do it? Great, let's go on then.

- Three.
So, now you have what you need to start your copy. The single most important thing when writing a copy is the headline. The headline will make or break the sales letter. Over 75% of people decide wether they will buy a product or not after only reading the headline. In fact, very few will even bother to read the rest of the sales letter if they aren't captivated and intrigued by the headline. It is the most important step in copywriting. Most of the best copywriters take days to write and polish their headlines.

Do not write another word of your sales copy if you don't have your headline written. Go through some of the next pages and read the headlines, then come back. You will get the feeling of what works:

- Fire sale profits (and exellent example)

- Trafficology (another great example)

- Advertising headlines that make you rich (self explanatory ; ))

Notice that some headlines use "". This actully increases the sales, because it seams the text won't be so technical and hard to read. It's a psychological trigger and it is well worth using it.

Some pointers:

Be specific. It's better to write "Discover how to earn $1890,56 in only five days from now!" than "Discover how to earn a lot of money in less than a week!"
Think of a benefit and put it in: "You are about to learn secret strategies that will automatically improve your sales by 314%" is better than "You are about to learn secret marketing strategies"
Don't write features, write benefits. Think like this "My product is better, because people get this out of it..."
Use words like magic, automatically, easily, powerful, secret, discover, revealed, new, never before seen...

OK, now that you have a feel for what a successful headline looks like - write it.

- Four
Now it's time to write your copy. Be sure to write as much benefits as you can imagine.

Start with a date and your name, then write "Dear [as close to your prospects as possible],". Example: "Dear fellow marketer" or "Dear would be copywriter" etc.
Then simply start writing. Maybe, after an introduction, write a short storry on how your product changed your or your friend's life...
Think of all the reasons why your prospects wouldn't buy and dispel those reasons.
Put some real testimonials in.
Frequently ask them to buy - put links to the order page every page (in a word document) or so. Something like this: "I'm ready to order now" or "Thanx, let me join" etc.
Write small paragraphs (4-5 lines at most).
Set the width of the area where text is going to be to 650-700 pixels
Never use more than 3 colours
Main copy should be written black on white
Never use flashy backgrounds
Offer a guarantee
Offer some great bonuses
Use some graphic, but not too many. It usually suffices to make a header graphic and some "seals". It's also good to use graphic for bullets (like arrows etc.)
End with a signature and add a P.S. Which says something like "Remember, you have absolutely nothing to lose. You can unsubscribe at any time [this is for subscriptions]. Plus, you get to keep the [bonuses] FREE of charge! I'm literally taking all the risk on my shoulders, because I am 100% confident that you will be thrilled with [benefits] after you [try/use/purchase/...][my product]"

That's it from this copywriting crash course. If you follow this advice, you should at least triple your subscriptions, sales etc.

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2005-11-08T11:06:00.000+01:00

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Internet marketing

2005-11-07T09:36:00.000+01:00

Hi, how are you doing?

Today I'm going to talk about a few diferent aspects of internet marketing. I've written about it in the past, but here I'm going to focus on exactly how to market your product over the internet.

Internet marketing is not that diferent from "normal" marketing. In fact - the same rules apply to internet marketing as do to marketing your product elswhere.

So, after you've got your product (a good one, remember?), it's time to sell it online. If it's a downloadable product (information product such as an ebook, or software etc.), I strongly recommend you check out Click Bank as this is probably the best marketing solution online. They will provide you with the easiest secure paiment form I've ever seen. The best part is - it's actually an affiliate program. That means that it makes it easy for your partners to sell the product for you (no work advertising - a HUGE plus). You simply set what commission you are willing to pay for each product sold. I recommend you set it to about 70%. It seams you are loosing money while actually you are becomming interesting to superaffiliates. Those are the people that can get you 10-100 sales a day!!! Imagine if you get only $15 a sale. That's $1500 a day. Not bad for no work, huh?

In this case, you must get internet hosting, have a sales and a thank you page ready. That's all although that's really the hard part. Read some of the previous posts to see how that's done.

Of course it's not the only internet marketing solution. You can also advertise on your own. Here's where it becomes interesting to affiliate marketers. The fastest way, and I mean the fastest is to set up an affiliate web site and do the pay per click advertising. There are many very high traffic sites that have the "advertise here" option. You can get a couple of 1000 real targeted visits for as low as $50. I think you see how this can work well. Be sure to capture email addresses.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is one thing you have to do in order to get search engine traffic. This is said to be the best internet marketing solution. Well, the only problem is that you have to find a niche where not everybody is already doing it. Don't try to do search engine optimization for a key word such as "search engine optimization" - there's too much competition out there. A better sollution is to make at least 20 pages, each optimized for a not so searched term wih little competition. That's where you can strike a gold mine. If you have 20 highly optimized pages for 20 keywords that are searched 500 times a month, you will show on the first page in the search engines and that's a potential of 10.000 highly targeted visitors a month. Why am I telling you this? I must be nuts ;))

For more on SEO, see previous posts.

But presentation is what really matters. Make your web sites as good looking as possible. Consider the following few sites:

SEO elite software - a must have

Search engine cloaker - just to see the presentation. Using such software is not recommended by this site.

How to write your ebook in 7 days - this one was done by one of the best copywriters ever. A must see site.

Now that you've got a feel how it's done, do it yourself. For more examples, go here and simply check out the first 20 sites in each category. These are all examples of the sales letters - major part of internet marketing!

Making money online is all about marketing

2005-11-03T11:50:00.000+01:00

Hello,

do you ever wonder why some people almost always make money online and the others (maybe even you) struggle and get very little or none?

Well, the answer is simple. The ones that do make it have realized the most important concept online: MARKETING. Everything online resolves around marketing. More precisely - it's all in the presentation. That's right. You have to think with the mind of your prospects while you're building your web sites, informaton products, well any product you want to market.

Again, I would like you to read the four p's of marketing and beyond post and think about what marketing really is. Most people confuse marketing with advertising. Advertising is a part of the marketing process, but the whole concept of marketing is very broad.

What you should be doing

Make your sites pleasing to the eye (no flashy colours, nice graphic - but not too much of it, rarely use more than three colours etc.)
When writing content, think of what exactly you would like to know if you were the reader of those sites
Make yourself look like an authority on the subject (and also try to really be - investigate the subject you're writing about...)
Be unbiased
Please your targeted public, but also write about a bit more general stuff (also concerning your subject)
Get known: participate in forums, blogs, discussion boards etc.
Actually practice what you learn here or in e-books, courses, other sites... Many people just learn what's right, but never actually DO IT.

There are tons of ideas on how to make money online, but almost none will get you rich without any work (in the beginning!). I say almost because there's always something out there, but chances are very slim that the investments will be really small.

Remember, the key to internet success is marketing.

Like what you read here? If so, please vote for me by clicking only once on the buttons at the very bottom of this web site. I will keep posting fresh, free and great information for you to really get rich with the help of the internet. You can also refer three friends and get a free bonus ebook on marketing. Bye for now and happy marketing.

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2005-11-01T12:25:00.000+01:00

Hi, what I'm about to share with you is of a very sensitive nature. I don't know how much time I can live this post here, because there's a whole bunch of people that don't want this kind of information out in the public.

The only thing that can stop you from earning a lot of money online with this is not doing it. That's it. This information sells for as much as $300! As much of the information needed is already on this blog, I will be short. You will have to purchase some tools to do it properly. Don't worry, if you bought any of the ebooks on this, you'd still have to buy this exact software. Trust me. I know.

I've been doing this for some time and was interested in doing also something else. I started buying all the "uniqe" ebooks on the topic and they all gave me the exact same info. I got sick of it and am now giving you this info for free.

Let's get right into the meat of this. I won't tell a long storry here. I'll just break it down into a few simple steps that are very self explanatory if you follow them exactly. They go as follows:

Brainstorm what your web site should be about
Do the keyword research with www.Overture.com (Choose the keyword selector tool) and find related keywords. See if there's too much competition --> do a Google and Yahoo! searches. If there's more than a couple of million other web sites on most of the keywords, then think of something else. Also make sure that there are at least 25 very relevant keywords in your search.
If you don't have an Adsense account yet, create a blog with www.blogger.com. Post a few good content posts and apply for adsense - can also be done with blogger.com account (under settings - Adsense).
Get a domain name and hosting (I suggest http://www.godaddy.com/). Your domain name should include your top keyword. This keyword should actually be the third most searched on. If you can squeeze two in there, fine. Just don't make it too long. Get it now and return here.
Purchase Traffic Equalizer and familiarize yourself with it. Use your researched keywords to create websites with your new software. Jazz your template up a bit. You can use any "site building" software like front page express etc. You will get one free with your web hosting account. Build the sites and upload them. It's very easy to do - you'll get video tutorials with your traffic equalizer. Remember to get your Adsense ads in the template.
As you've uploaded the web sites, use the blog and ping technique. And you're set. Forget about it and just see your profits roll in :))

Here you have it in a flash. It really works. Try it, it's risk free as all of the purchases include a money-back guarantee.

Exactly how to turn random visitors into readers/customers?

2005-10-30T15:20:00.000+01:00

This should be pretty obvious. The correct answer that's worked for me and many other marketers is a simple three part formula:

targeted (=interested) audience
interesting, captivating headline
great content (web copy)

1. Targeted audience

Many people tend to think that just slapping a web site online and buying some untargeted traffic will somehow get them rich. Nothing could be further from the truth. When I was just starting out, I had a similar mindset. I put up a web site and joined several surf for credits/cash sites. I thought that by putting Adsense on that page would bring me great profits. That page had well over 1000 page loads a month, but clickthrough was so bad, I had to think of something else. I made an average of $1.00 A MONTH. A disaster.

And even after optimizing the website for the best clickthrough and writing a great headline, it was still very bad. $3.00 a month at best. You see, I didn't use the first rule: creating targeted traffic for my web site. It took me a long time to figure out exactly how to do it. I talked about it in several of my posts here and will write the best methods in my free ebook that is soon to come.

Although a lot of untargeted visitors could make you some money, the key to success is in targeted visitors. Promote your web site to people that could actually care about what you have to say. Focus on them. Don't waste your time and money on untargeted traffic.

WARNING: most, and by most I mean almost all, "cheap traffic sites" will bring you a bunch of uninterested visitors that in most cases won't even see your web site as they usually bring traffic to you via popups that get blocked 90% of the time. It's a waste of $10 or even $5 for 1000 of such useless "hits".

So, how to get quality, targeted traffic then?

Reading this blog is one good idea. You'll learn how to optimize your web site/blog for search engines, where to put your ads (free and paid), the pro's and cone's of several marketing techniques etc. It's very hard to get solid and working free information nowadays. Ofcourse! Would you freely share what works for you. Didn't think so. Well, I've decided to do it as the internet is still very big and there's enough room for many more of us ;) plus and added bonus is, it's also the third step of the formula I'm talking about right now. While I am not allowed to share all the secrets (and also don't want to as I'm paying for the best and freshest information), I will tell you a few things that I thought of, influenced by the great ideas I got there.

If you want your site to be swarmed by targeted visitors by the millions (and that's NOT an exaggeration) for free or almost free, I would suggest you subscribe to the #1 best print newsletter on freshest, best traffic building techniques online. The monthly newsletter is called Trafficology. Read the site after you finish this post.

Don't worry. If your budget is a bit tight right now, you'll also get a lot of quality information to get you started really well here.

2. Interesting, captivating headline

This is also a very important key. Did you know that almos 75% of decisions to buy a product online are made by reading the headline? It's true. And also almost all the visitors will read on only if the headline somehow captures their attention. Cool graphics will also help, but to get people to really read your site, you need a killer headline. Really think it through. The best marketers spend hours if not days writing a headline. And they do it BEFORE they even write a single paragraph of their web copy!

For examples of the best headlines that work every time, follow this link.

3. Great content (web copy)

I said it before and I'll say it many times again. Content is what makes or brakes the web site. Not only will it get people to read everything you write, it will also tell the search engines your sites are worthy of indexing and placing very high. For that you'll also have to do some optimization. The info on that is also here on this blog. Just search the previous posts a bit.

To start creating superior articles or sales letters, I suggest you read the following web sites:

Advanced Hypnotic Writing

How To Write Hypnotic Articles

Killer Copy Tactics

These are all resources of finest quality and will deliver what they claim. However if you're into Adsense advertising and don't want to spend much time on writing your own articles, you can also read the my post on content creation.

Well, these are the three most important steps you need do right if you want to turn your visitors into customers.

Have a great day.

Low Cost Affiliate Website Templates – Is there Anything Better?

2005-10-29T17:10:00.000+02:00

Hi, below is an article that I thought affiliate marketers would like to read. Enjoy.

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By Bill Schnarr

If any of you reading this have plans to be or are interested in affiliate marketing (and let’s face it, why wouldn’t you be?) then sooner or later you are going have to start looking for some good template sites to boost your productivity.

Let’s face it; as with any job you work from home, time means money, and why waste precious hours developing your own web sites when you easily purchase website templates designed specifically for affiliate marketers that you can simply drop your text and graphics into for instant professional looking websites.

If you are looking for just such a template for your affiliate business, then you need to know what to look for in the low cost template market.
Professional looking templates need clean design, easy navigation and downloading, ease of use, and simple, straightforward support such as online help and tutorials to get you moving.

Clean Templates are Happy Templates

Nobody likes trying to navigate confusing or overloaded websites. Let’s face it; most of us don’t like reading on a computer screen as much as we’d like to think. Trying to manoeuvre around messy, flashy websites is a headache that most people would prefer to avoid.

Their discomfort means lost sales for affiliate marketers!

Online shoppers would rather close a website window than try to work their way through sloppy design. It reeks of amateur, and people who might want to shop online have no confidence in amateurs. When they have no confidence, they are definitely not going to give up their credit card numbers to buy goods or services.

Keep it clean! Keep your text to the point and error-free, and make sure nothing overlaps or looks out of place. Remember, great websites are like special effects in action movies; the less you notice them the better off you’ll be overall.
Easy Navigation: Finding Your Way to Success!

Easy navigation is a must for any affiliate marketer intent on driving up sales, and good low cost templates must be easy to navigate if they are going to do their jobs properly.

Consider this: the second a potential customer gets lost in your website and has to start pounding the “back” button, you are pretty much assured that you have already lost them. Again, this is a confidence thing; anyone unsure of where they are on your website is less likely to start checking out your links and buying stuff.

Would you shop at a store regularly if the only way you could find it was to drive around aimlessly until you stumbled across it? Why would you expect online shoppers to be any different?

Support Troops Win the War

Just like you always need to be on the ball with your own levels of support and help for your customers, so too should any web template and website design company worth its salt be on the ball when it comes to helping you.

Remember, for the affiliate marketer, time is money. Use it, as a mantra, so you’ll never forget it. The more time you spend with a confusing issue with regards to your website templates, the less time your sites will be out there earning you all the money you deserve for cashing in on the Internet’s fastest growing business industry.

Online tutorials, on-the-spot web help such as email or online chat help can be a great benefit to getting yourself organized and ready to start working on your sites. The last thing you want to do is be stuck wrestling with complicated code
issues or other template-related problems.

Support troops win the war, not just the front line guys. Keep that in mind when you are shopping for a good low cost web template company, and you should have no problems with your affiliate marketing business.
Getting Started with Low Cost Templates

A great place to start looking for low cost web templates for affiliate marketing would be http://www.goldenpinecone.com/. These guys are good enough to attract the attention of James Martell, a professional affiliate marketer and the author of the Affiliate Marketers Handbook. In fact, Martell uses this company regularly to get his long line of great professional looking affiliate sites off the ground.

Things like their Ready-2-Go website templates that come preloaded with all kinds of goodies such as SSI (Server Side Includes) and come as Microsoft Front Page for Beginners + files for beginners and Dreamweaver files for advanced and professional users.

All you have to do is drop in your text, add a title, and you’re all ready to go! No muss, no fuss!

Golden Pinecone is a business that specifically targets affiliate marketers in their business dealings. They know about web search optimization, “spider-food”, and a host of other things affiliate marketers need to carefully consider before they build a website.

They’ll work with you to implement everything you need to make your website a success, because they firmly believe that when your site looks good, Golden Pinecone looks great.”

Affiliate marketing is a great way to augment your income, or it can be an exciting career all on its own. Being prepared with the right tools for the job can go a long way in helping you step out of the mire of unsuccessful affiliate marketers and into the ring where the real winners are. Keep an eye on the bottom line, and you’ll be amazed at how successful you can be.
For more information, see www.goldenpinecone.com

About The Author
Bill Schnarr is a single parent and freelance writer who works from his home in Calgary, Alberta. As well as writing about making money with web-based affiliate programs and having dozens of online and print publishing credits, you can also look for him in the upcoming "Chicken Soup for the Single Parents Soul" due out in February 2005.
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Hope you liked it. Have a great time. See you tomorrow. I'll write about an interesting subject...

Marketing tip

2005-10-28T14:56:00.000+02:00

An on line marketing tip for today...

Hello, as we've discussed before in "the four p's of marketing", marketing isn't by far only advertising and getting people aqainted with the product. If you are into affiliate marketing, your job is to "presell" the product you're promoting. Your commisions will be a lot more in numbers than if you simply put up an ad and hope for people to see it. Most people tend to put marketing and advertising into the same basket. Don't do that mistake.

What most affiliate marketers don't know is that the first and main thing they should focus on is to build a relationship with their prospects. People have to trust you to buy stuff through your links! That's right. Some will still buy, but the best affiliates make very good names for themselves before they start mass promoting products.

Some ideas on how to "get points" from your prospects:

always have your prospect's interest in mind first. What do they want, not what do you want! I always try to put my image in the "he's great" part of the reader's mind. As it happens and it locks itself into that place, they trust me and I never abuse it
give before you attempt to sell (by that I mean quality information, gifts in the form of free ebooks, software you came across and found useful...)
NEVER sell crapy products (even if they sell like hot cakes) as you will most likely loose trust with the people that purchased a product and felt cheated. It has hapaned so many times that I was a member of a newsletter I loved to read and I trusted the person writing it and then he put a link to a "fine product in the newsletter". Great, I thought and bought it immediately. Unfortunately, it was really very bad and I bet he never even bought and tryed it for himself. Too bad as I stopped reading the newsletter and never bought through his links again. Don't do the same mistake yourself. Before promoting, make sure the product is of real quality. You don't have to buy it yourself (although I recommend doing it), but do some research. Go to related forums and read the posts that will most probably be there. Read the reviews etc.
Don't lie to your subscribers, readers etc. By always telling the truth, people will know that when you promote something, it's really worth it
Make it possible for people to subscribe to your newsletter. Always do that as you can build a better relationship that way. I is well known that email marketing to your private list is much more powerful than almost anything else.
internet marketing isn't much different from off-line marketing. In fact, they go hand in hand together. Never forget your off-line prospects!

This marketing tip is not only useful to affiliate marketers, but to all marketers - webmastrs too. Yes, a web copy is a part of marketing too. How your clients perceive you and your product is an essential part of marketing. Webmasters should focus their entire attention to their web site. Let the affiliates do the preselling and promotion.

'Till tomorrow then :)

New look for marketing secrets

2005-10-28T11:30:00.000+02:00

Hi,

don't be afraid ;)

it's still the same blog, I only changed the look a bit as some great things have happened. I will talk about it later as I have to go now.

I will post later today. Have a great day.

Search engine marketing

2005-10-27T14:35:00.000+02:00

Search engines... hmmm, what a subject. I put some pointers about that in a couple of my previous posts (read that for bascs).

Here I'm going to talk about the two ways of doing the search engine marketing:

Pay per click advertising (PPC)
Search engine optimization (SEO)

Many people when they can choose betwen PPC and SEO will automatically go for the later. But to be honest, SEO isn't what it used to be and can demand quite some investment of time and money. Of course there are ways, but like I said, it can be very expensive. For any beginning business i would suggest PPC advertising - at least until the buzz starts going around and it produces constant stream of quality traffic. In time, if the business is good, a top placement will come naturally through incoming links (more on that later). Some great tactics for PPC advertising are:

bid on 1000's of keywords, but there's a twist. Make those keywords mistyped. What I mean is: instead of bidding on the term "search engine marketing", bid on every variety of that keyword: "sreach engine marketing", "search engin marketign" etc. That way, not many others (if any) will bid on those terms - making your payments per click very very low. On Google the smallest bid until very recently was $0.05 and now I've read somewhere that they changed that to as little as $0.01. Imagine first class, targeted visitors for as low as $0.01 a visitor. Now there's a bargain. By bidding on 1000's such keywords you should get enought traffic as typos happen a lot. There are quite some great software tools that are going to make your job easy as one, two, three. I found keywords finder to be very useful and it's very cheap too ($49.00). It's a worthy investment as you will be getting 1000's of targeted visitors for mere 10's of dollars. It's the fastest, coolest and cheapest way to generate targeted traffic.
Never get sucked into the bidding war! It will cost you too much and it's not worth it. Rather use the advice from the post above.
A great eBook on the topic is the famous Google cash eBook ($49.95). You'll learn masses of great tricks to become a PPC millionaire. Read the web site, it's worth it.

I've heard many internet millionaires that PPC is indeed the best sollution to quickly start generating targeted visitors and call it the best way in search engine marketing. Even the now internet most famous Rich Jerk has his unique (as usual) twist on PPC advertising. A revolutional idea, really. Read the ebook review here: Rich Jerk ebook review. He'll even give you some very useful (and NEW!) SEO tips and a lot more.

OK, now for the SEO (search engines optimization) tactics

As you probably know, the most important thing in SEO are the incomming links. In reality that depends on the search engine. Google will put the most "weight" on incomming links, comming from different domains. This is what you HAVE to do in order to get a high position. This is also called "the off page optimization". For the onopage and off page optimization read the previous posts.

Yahoo! however puts a lot more weight to the onpage optimization and the links comming from your own domain! That's good as you have a lot more control over that. you just have to do it in a smart way. Make at least 20 or so pages optimised for your keywords (use the overture keyword search tool). Than let all of those pages link to your desired page. Most times only 20 pages won't do and you will have to make 100's. Well, fortunately there is a sollution: traffic equalizer. It will generate 100's of keyword Yahoo!, MSN, and other search engine optimized pages for you in seconds. You just upload them and do the "blog and ping technique" we discussed in one of the previous posts.

Great ways to get inbound links to your blog or web site is by psting links on other people's blogs and on forums. Do it in a way that's not offensive. I've learned to do it in such a way that usually the administrators thank me for posting on their blogs/forums. That's because the info I post is usually very useful and they don't mind me putting a "plug" in for my blogs/web sites.

I will discuss more SEO techniques in greater detail in my new free ebook: "How to make money with your blogs". I'll tell you little known secrets I use to get targeted, organic search engine traffic to my blogs and web sites. I've never seen anyone discuss it elswhere. The book will be ready within a month, so keep comming back here to see when it's launched.

Till tomorrow then. Have a great day.

Opt in email marketing

2005-10-25T16:09:00.000+02:00

Hi.

This post is intended more as a warning about opt in email markeing. It does, however give some great tips and tricks :)

I've had bad experience with the opt in email marketing in the past. The ones to avoid are definetely the ones you can't verify the message was sent at all. Because 99% of the time it isn't. I once subscribed to a 10 million subscribers opt in list. I was very happy as I fell victim to the ad - email 10 million daily, they said. No spam, no returning mail... Send an ad with a click of a button. I bought it in a few days (after emailing the site moderator and getting a response).

Well, I posted and ad and waited the whole night. I put one of my affiliate links in and thought... if only 1% open the mail and only 10% click on the link and only 1% buys, that's 100 sales with a click of a button. With that product I got about a $20 commission - I should get $2000 in a few days. That's perfect.

It took me an hour to write the ad, so I knew it was good. Even if only half of that is true - a $1000 a day isn't bad at all. It was hard to sleep as I was nervous. I even went to the trip for the weekend (I also knew that during the weekends there are more sales generated online) and I couldn't access my computer. When I came home, I ran, booted the comp, and went to my affiliate network. ZERO sales. WHAT? I went to my email account and there were about a hundred mails waiting for me - from other opt in email marketers.

"How in the world didn't I see that comming?", I thought and laughed a bit with a bitter taste in my mouth. DUH, I was trying to sell to people trying to sell to me. Damn...

That taught me a crucial lession. Always think those "too good to be true deals through". And get some advice from people that were there before (e.g. from forums, chat rooms, blogs ;) etc.).

Later I tested better tactics and managed to get a sale ($55 commission) so I had about 20$ profit. After that I mainly used it to get traffic to my sites (about 5-20 visits per email. Sometimes more, but that's it). If you are already on such a list, consider the following:

Use words such as "validation" in your subject
Start your subject with "Re:"
Sometimes put your URL in the subject
A good one that even got me 10 new subscribers and almost 100 visitors was: "Re: hello, what was that link again?". Another one pulled well too: "Re: hi, your link didn't work". Try it, it might still work although it became quite popular.
Another important thing is your email content. With those subjects I started my mails somewhat like this: "WARNING: you are exactly where they want you to be. They don't want you to succeed, but to stay where you are so they can get even more rich. Read though this mail and see what you can do about it." Play a bit and see what pulls the best.
Words like free, cash, pay, million, $$$ and so on get filtered by spam filters so only a fraction of people will actually get the mail. Try fr'ee or fr.ee instead.
opt in email marketing is meant for marketers. So the only thing they are interested in is free traffic, make money online, affiliate programs etc. Everything else will get only a minor response if at all. Unfortunately this system has been so abused that almost no messages get read anymore. Even I automatically delete all the mails from the "opt in" service.

I wouldn't recommend buying such programs. Use the money for other purposes instead. The only good way to mass email market is through e-zines, newsletters etc. But be sure you are on the list, that the content is good (not only ads as those don't get read also) and that you actually see the ads in your mails. Usually they put an ad on the top of the mail: "the sponsored ad" they call it.

Some opt in email marketing sollutions might be OK - if you know of one, post a comment here (no BS, please) and share your experience.

Another one that pulled wel was: "Everyone likes this: you have a post card waiting ;)" was the subject and in the mail content, I wrote: "Hi, I've arranged for a special audio post card for you. Turn on your speakers and especially check out paragraph two - it'll blow your mind: http://hypnoticmindtraining.com/postcard.html ". This is great and the product I referred to is also great. A win-win situation.

Conclusion: opt in email marketing is in my opinion a bit of a waste of time and money. However there are some great programs out there for sure, so don't loose hope. Be sure to thoroughly check them all out before subscribing. Some people I've heard of have done very well with opt in email marketing.

The Rich Jerk ebook review

2005-10-24T14:09:00.000+02:00

Hello.

First of all I'd like to say, I'm very excited to be introducing you to this ... OK, now to The Rich Jerk review.

The book in question is a very famous, and a very new e-book called The Rich Jerk

After reading soooo many books on making money online and marketing it almost hurts; and being thaught almost nothing at all, I was at first very sceptical of this very heavily promoted new e-book (August 2005). But after getting a recommendation from several top internet marketers and also people I know and trust and have bought from before and have never failed me, I've decided to give it a try. "One lats time", I said, "if it's that buzz worthy that almost evey marketer is talking about it, then it at least deserves my attention".

So I went to the web site.

It was a very unique and good looking website with a real Rich Jerk picture looking at you. So I reviewed it. It had a Trust-e seal and the webmaster could be contacted. That was a good thing.

The guy was very obnoxious, but in a funny way which I found refreshing. I started reading the copy and found a couple of interesting elements in it. "The Rich Jerk knows his stuff", I thought and continued reading. I just hoped he would reveal some of his secrets in his book - unlike sooo many others I've read.

Finally I came to the end and saw the price. I was a bit sceptical as most of the ebooks I've read that cost only that much ($49.00) were really not worth the disk space they took on my computer (and it was never more than a few kilobytes). So I went thoruhg the site again, looking at what might convince me of buying. Don't get me wrong, the web copy is exellent, only I've bought too many of such books based on their web copy and was almost always sorry I did.

In those books I always found the following:

Very outdated information
Stuff that just didn't work
Nothing was "exactly" as they did it, but rather a "blueprint" - general, useless information I could find on any forum for free
Stuff that I wouldn't dream of actually doing, plus it took way too much time and effort for not so many results
A lot of fluff, fillers, millions of links trying to convince me to buy other stuff from them etc.

So as I was going through the copy again, one bullet made me a bit curious. It said:

"I'm not going to waste your time with general marketing info that you can find anywhere. EVERYTHING you need to succeed like me is included in my ebook. Nothing more, nothing less."

"Well, wanna bet?", I said and went to the Order now button. Rich Jerk, here I come...

Purchase went smoothly, as always with ClickBank, and I came to the download page: "So you do have brain after all", it said. Funny, but we'll see. I instantly downloaded the ebook and opened it with my Adobe Acrobat reader. A nice picture stared me in my face and I started reading. Congratulations... millions... make money online... Table of contents. Great, let's see what he talks about. Hmm, I lifted my eyebrow and got that funny feeling in my stomach. I got a bit of a rush. It looked promissing. It even includes suplemental info for beginners.

So I went to chapter one and wanted to skim through it. But I was stopped dead in my tracks on the second page. WOW, real information. Great. So I read and read and read. There are actual examples you can copy and you're done. Even some useful scripts you can use. Nice, Rich Jerk, my review could even look good.

The other chapters were just as good and I devoured the whole book in one reading. What a strain on my eyes. I printed it and went to bed. The next day I took the printed material and started re-reading it. Good information at last, I thought, and immediately twigged one of my web sites. "Didn't know THAT was important. Thanx ;)"

Conclusion to The Rich Jerk review: In my opinion this ebook is a great value for it's money. It really could sell for $195 and would still be worth it (I heard that the price will soon go back up, so I recommend you go for it quickly). The information inside is fresh, exact and acurate. There are very few fillers (if at all - I'm very strict on this one :) ) and even though the book is "only" 47 pages long, it contains information that many other 125 pages ebooks don't even think of mentioning. I think that by investing in this ebook and implementing what it teaches, you will start making a lot of money online.

One last thing: I don't agree with one of the techniques as it's not quite "legit" if you will, but it's very efective and he warns you about it, so it's not that dammaging to the book.

Here's the link again: The Rich Jerk

I wish you a pleasent reading,

Blaz Banic

P.S. You can use the techniques presented in the rich jerk ebook immediately.

One more traffic idea I just thought of

2005-10-22T13:32:00.000+02:00

Hi,

I was just reviewing my stats and saw someone visited this blog through a MSN search. And above all, my post showed on the second page of 502,264! It looks like that they realy like fresh content after all (one of the previous posts). It instantly hit me (see how good it is to track your marketing efforts :) ).

You see, after every post, I ping yahoo! and get my post to their index (exact strategy revealed in one of the previous posts). MSN is also snooping around and pickes up new posts as Yahoo! indexes them. Interesting.

Why not do an overture keyword search on my topic (marketing) and choose a keyword phrase that doesn't get searched on the most (let's say a couple of 1000 searches a month). Then write a long post on that topic and see if people will start pouring in. Make it keyword rich and you will probably rank high!

I will try it and keep you posted on it. Meanwhile it costs you nothing to do it yourself...

Have a great day.

P.S. If you like what I write, tell your friends about it and get a valued at $195 bonus ebook on The greatest marketing secrets of the ages.

Tracking your marketing efforts

2005-10-21T11:56:00.000+02:00

Hello fellow marketer.

Have you started to implement some or all of the suggestions I have for you here? Did you get your free marketing e-book yet? If you didn't, do it. It's packed with superior information and I don't know how long I'm going to be just giving it away.

Anyway, today I'm going to be talking about tracking your marketing efforts. It is one of the most important aspects of marketing. How else will you know what works and what doesn't?

As you know by now, you have to test different strategies in order to really succeed with your marketing. So it is very important to track your efforts.

Before I knew that, or better yet didn't pay much attention to it some very srange things would happen to me. You see, way back at the beginning I was - and still am - very prone to experiments. I would set up a few marketing strategies and wait for the results. Sometimes a huge boost in traffic and clickthrough would happen, but since I set up dozens of such experiments, I eventually didn't know what exactly caused it. I didn't put five more minutes of effort into actually setting up a tracking system to tell me exactly what worked and what didn't.

Well, not any more. Every marketing experiment from then on is controlled, measured, fine-tuned... you should do it too. You should know where your visitors come from and why. If you know, you can do more of that. For example, if you posted your comments on 50 blogs and 20 forums and now see a great boost in traffic. Nice, but not all of them are sending you equal ammounts of trafic. Some send you 1 visitor, some 30 and one or two 100. Well, if you know which ones those are, you can go back and post some more so your link doesn't get lost in all the comments.

That's what happened to me. I did exactly that (but then in a bit smaller scale). Boom, a great boost in traffic - but from where? In a few days it was gone and I'd have to go back to ALL of those blogs and post another comment. Here's a great free tracking tool: http://www.statcounter.com

It's also a good idea to create channels with your Adsense:

That way you'll exactly know which page made you the most money and when. The more specific your reports are the better.

Have a great weekend.

Marketing with the blog and ping technique

2005-10-20T12:02:00.000+02:00

Hello,

today I'm gonna talk about the blog and ping technique. By the way, this method is great if you want to get listed into the search engines very fast. But if you want top rankings, you have to do some other things. Click here for an exellent tool all the gurus use to get top search engines rankings. Go see it now while it's still fresh in your mind. Don't worry, this page will wait for you. Click here now.

OK, now to the blog&ping...

What is pinging?
Pinging is simply a way of telling a certain program that the content on your site is updated and it should crawl it and update the RSS or other feeds in it's network. In our case we'll be pinging Yahoo! to come crawl our site for new info. As the spider comes, it automatically goes through all the content and links and also crawls other pages that your page is linking to. This is key for the success of this technique.

How does it work?
After you've created your good content web site (see two posts back), you'll probably want all of the pages to get indexed ASAP. This is how:
First you have to create a blog. Doing it with www.blogger.com (link will open in a new window) makes this even better as Blogger is owned by Google - another search engine you want to attract. Go there, scroll down a bit and click on "create your blog now". Fill in the form and click continue.
Now name your blog. Do it with a similar name as your web site. Make sure that it includes your preferred keyword.
Chose a template. I strongly recommend you chose the minima (first one). I've tested others and it works the best for all browsers. Some browsers change certain blog's (including the one you're reading) look by puting the side bar at the bottom of the page. Plus it looks great (see an example: http://coverthypnosis.blogspot.com)

Choose "continue". Now you've created your blog. Click "start posting". Before you post, click on settings:

Write in a Title, description (Use your keywords - only one of each) and choose "Yes" for "Show Email Post Links?". Click "save settings".

Now go to "publishing" (still under settings) and choose "Yes" for Notify Weblogs.com. Now "save settings"

Go to "formatting" (still under settings) and choose "Yes" for "show link field" and save settings.

Now leave it be for a moment and set up a my Yahoo! account. Go to: http://my.yahoo.com and choose "sign up now".

Enter your information, register and sign in. Now go to the browser with your blogger account and click on "site feed". Copy the entire url of your site's feed.

Now go back to my yahoo browser and choose "Add content".

Now choose "Add RSS by URL":

Now paste the link you copied previously into the field and click add. After that your site should look something like his:

Click on Add To My Yahoo! and you're done. Now start posting on your blogger account. For every post, include a link to a new page of your web site (in the title of the post). Use your preferred keyword in the text.

After you posted, simply open a new browser window and write this in the address field:

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://yourblog.blogspot.com

Remember to change "yourblog" with the name of your blog!

The greatest marketing secrets of the ages

2005-10-19T13:51:00.001+02:00

*NOTE: This ebook is no longer available*

Hi guys.

Today's post will be a bit different. I'll give you a free gift. It's a great e-book that I'll later tell the subscribers to my newsletter more about. It's a great read with tons of great information - good content/product is key in marketing, remember? :)

Anyway, the book is titled:

"The greatest marketing secrets of the ages"

by a great and very successful internet marketer Yanik Silver.

Why am I giving you this e-book?

Because, like I said, it contains great content that I think you'll enjoy very much and it's a great example of something that I will discuss to some degree on my blog and for the most part in my newsletter (you are subscribed, right? If not, do it - just look for the "newsletter" section on the left of this web site).

How do you get this $195 worth of information for free?

Simple. Just tell three friends, who you think would be interested in this web site, about us. Use the link below:

Click here to tell three friends about this web site and get a $195 bonus e-book in return. It will take you less than a minute to do that and you'll get a priceless lession in return. Just make sure that the friends would be at least a bit interested and that the e-mails are correct.

Please, don't spam and know that neither you nore any of your friends will ever be spammed by me. I promise and guarantee that.

Have a nice read.

Sincerely,

Blaz Banic

P.S. Tomorrow we'll go through the blog and ping technique.

Creating quality content for your site

2005-10-18T14:41:00.000+02:00

»Content is king« is what I hear and read time and time again from the best money makers on the internet. An important part of marketing is how your prospects see you and your product in their mind. Which category do you fall in depends on many factors - eg. the look of your page, how did they get to know about you, how interested are they in the subject, how informative, original and new is the information you give them etc.

Here I'm going to talk about creating content for your web site. Ofcourse nothing beats the good old research and writing your own articles, but I know most people are very busy nowadays and want to start earning those bucks immediately without any work on their part. Fair enough, not everybody is made the same way and fortunately the internet has actually made that possible.

The first important thing is that the content is always fresh (the more frequent the updates the better). That will bring many visitors back for more – returning customers are easy to forget about, but are very important. They obviously liked what you wrote and are now more opened to your suggestions. You've built those great feelings of comfort and likeing in them as well as trust and curiosity. That's what marketing is about, right?

Think about it. Can you remember the last time you were very curious? Like when you really want to know something. And the more you read the more you become involved with the text and the more it pulls you in the more you want to read on and on. And come back for anything this author has to say. That's the feeling you want to trigger in your readers. Now, with that in mind as you continue to read, notice how much more opened to suggestions you are. That's good as you are going to learn something important right now...

What most newbies don't understand

The simple truth is that most top internet earners actually work very hard to have what they do. Or at least at the beginning they had to work very hard. Some a bit less, some a bit more, but they did a lot of work. But what took them five hours then, takes them twenty minutes now. It took quite a long time for me to figure that out. Don't do the same yourself.

What does that have to do with building content for my web site? A lot. You see, what I'm going to tell you just now is very good for the beginning and getting a great search engine ranking, but you will have to write your own content now and again for the visitors to come back.

Creating content with what others have wrote

You must never steal. If you cyte someone, include them in the references. That's only fair and will keep you out of trouble. But there are many sites providing great articles to include in your site. They are usually written by people who want to get te word of their web site out. The down side is that you have to include the »about the author« box where the authors usually embed a link to their website. You can loose some readers that way, but it's still quite a good way to create content. You can also use software to create hundreds of such sites in a few minutes. Those are really great as you just write a template (also included), select a few options and click »generate«. In a few minutes you have hundreds of content and keyword rich websites waiting to be uploaded. If you include a link to your site in the original template, every of those sites now points to your site. That will boost your Yahoo! ranking a lot. Most probably your site will get a top ten ranking in a few days – here you have to consider keyword popularity and using the blog and ping technique to get listed quickly (will talk about this in the next post). A few sites you can get free articles from:

Article emporium
Article city
Go articles

Article street

Also a great software for creating very keyword targeted web sites is traffic equalizer. Using it in conjunction with previously discussed software you can not loose. You will get a fast return on investment, but for beginning this software will do fine. Remember to put adsense to your template website (very easy to do) and let the software do the rest :)

Your aim should be to keep people comming back to your web site (with fresh content) and to help them spread the good word for you (will discuss in a later post).

Hire a ghostwriter

A good, but a more expensive way is to hire a ghostwriter that writes stuff for you. That is a great way to maintain your subscription based web sites. They will also do the research and provide your site with great, very quality content!

Remember, nothing beats your own writing.

Untill next time, have a great day.

P.S. In the next post I'll explain the blog and ping technique in detail. don't miss it if you want it to realy work.

»Four P's« of marketing and beyond

2005-10-12T14:13:00.000+02:00

Marketing is so much more than just advertising, but people (especially on the internet) usually forget this. Only sticking a site on the net isn't going to bring profits even with the fiercest advertising. Here, we'll quickly look at the »Four P's« that marketing is sometimes encapsulated as and then look at what else is important and where to get that information.

First »P« stands for »Product«
First you have to have something to sell. It could be a physical product (including software), service, or solution to a problem. You have to know your product or service thoroughly, better than your customers or competitor. The key part to marketing is to match your product to a market. Once you know your target market, you can estimate how many prospects are available to your business. But realize that not everyone who fits your customer profile will buy from you. You want to find those who will and make them aware of what makes your product or service stand out from those of competitors.

Competition in your market is a good sign. Lack of competition is a serious red flag. It means either you don't know what business you're in or there's no market for your product.

Second »P« stands for »Place«
Conrad Hilton stated that success in hospitality business is due to three factors: location, location, and location.On the internet, location is meant more as the ease of finding your business. You have to make it as easy to find as possible. That includes search engines optimization, inclusion in as many directories as possible (read previous two posts below) etc. You must also make sure that you can deliver the goods to your customers in a way they find acceptable.

Also be sure to get a good domain name (brainstorm at least a hundred ideas and then pick out ten best ones and try if they are available. Also ask other people what they think. Try to also have your primary keyword in mind here) and hosting sollution. Your host should guarantee 99% uptime, have good, reliable and fast servers and an outstanding support (trust me, you'll need it).

Buying your product should be as easy as possible with no complicated steps. Don't make them fill in unimportant data. You can do that after they've bought. There's nothing I hate more than when I click that »buy now« button and get a 30 field form to fill out. I usually then never buy such products.

Third »P« stands for »Price«
Price is a major but not the only important aspect of marketing. In most purchase decisions, price is a secondary consideration. Quality, service, availability, status, and many other factors that compose value are far more important than mere price. Very good prices are: $9.95, $19.95, $29.95, $39.95, $69.95, $97 and so on. Some software products sell for $147... A higher price can sometimes be better! Test it. Some of the best marketers are now using the »increasing price« method. They say: today the price is let's say $97, in a week, it'll be $197 and the next $297 where it will stop. »Get it now, when it's still low«, they say.

Fourth »P« stands for »Promotion«
Promotion includes all the methods we can use to reach our markets and make them aware of our products and services. These include advertisements, public relations, special promotions, positioning and much, much more. I wrote some promotion techniques in the previous posts, but I will write much more in the posts to come. There's so much stuff you can do it's amazing. So are the results.

So, these are the basic four P's of marketing. But there are at least 14 more that are equaly or more important if you want to really succeed. These four are very helpful though and have led me to a bit of a different thinking which in turn was very important for me. If you wish to explore the rest of the P's of marketing and get really good fast, I recomend the book "A Crash Course in Marketing - low cost marketing strategies that will double your sales - not your expenses" by David H. Bangs and Andy Axman. They are both very successful authors and their book is a joy to read as well as very informative with great examples and step by step "less is more" approach. An excellent investment - see the customer reviews. Here's the link:

In the next post I'll talk about great ways to quickly build great content rich web pages.

Doing the search engines optimization (SEO) part 2

2005-10-11T10:47:00.000+02:00

By Blaz Banic

Besides the things mentioned in the previous post, it is also god to consider the following things when optimizing your site for the search engines:

META tags. Meta tags are meant for the browser or the search engine to know certain things about the web site you want them to know. Here we'll look at the most important parameters of the meta tags: "description", "keywords", and "robots". The most important is the meta description tag. Some of the major search engines (Yahoo!) still use it for your description in the results pages. It is good to write a short description of your site and use your main keywords in them. But remember, only use each keyword once or the engine will consider your description spamming!

The syntax for this is as follows:

[META name="description" content="This site is about internet marketing."]

Be sure to change the [ and ] into <>.

Try to describe your site a bit better though ;)

The second meta tag we mentioned is a bit less important, but still some search engines use it, so it's worth making it as it will only take you a few minutes. This is the meta keywords tag. Remember to use only a few keywords, each only once, and make sure that those keywords appear in your web site copy. Yu separate the keywords wit a comma.

The syntax is as follows:

[META name="keywords" content="marketing, web site traffic"]

The last meta tag I would like to explain is the meta robots tag. It is used by all the search engines and is only effective if you don't want the web site to be crawled. This could prove useful if you are giving a web site based newsletter and would only like your subscribers to find it (through your e-mail). Sometimes people link to your newsletter which can result in a crawler visiting and indexing the site you don't want indexed. This meta tag will solve the problem:

[META name="robots" content="noindex"]

Make sure you put your meta tags between the HEAD tags of your web site and change [ ] into <>.

Put your keyword also in the alt parameter of your image tags. Again, don't overdo it and don't use the same keyword in two or more images. It is also a good thing to include another word so that the search engine won't think you're spamming. If your keyword is "make money", put alt="make money header" in the header graphic img tag . For this web site the alt tag might be something like this:

[IMG src="yourimage.gif" alt="marketing secrets logo"]

Linking strategy inside your web site. For Yahoo! it is more important that the links to a certain site are coming from other sites of the same web page. Simply make many web pages and link to the index page using your preferred keyword in the anchor text. Remember, only one such link per site. They have to be good content pages too. Google on the other hand will not put so much weight on this and will rather see links from entirely different web sites. So you have to have both in order to succeed with the search engines.
But whatever you do, remember that good content is the most important and the most surefire way to make your web site rank high in the search engine. Make if original, fresh and very informative and your readers will visit often and link to your site thus making it more important to search engines.

Doing the search engines optimization (SEO)

2005-10-07T13:52:00.000+02:00

By Blaz Banic

Once your site is created, be sure to verify that you have done the following:

Keyword research (what keywords could your customers, readers... use to find you? www.goodkeywords.com is a great tool you can use for free. Or the Overture keyword selector tool is good too. See what keywords are searched for the most. TIP: use a general keyword first. You will then get a list of all relevant keywords. Choose one or two that you think will suit your business best).
On page optimization (your selected keywords in TITLE tags, H1 tags, H2 tags, make them BOLD near the beginning of your text. Also put your keyword as the last word on your site. The keyword density should be about 2%). More on this in later posts.
Off page optimization (get links back to your website: directories, blogs, forums, mail other relevant and non relevant web sites to include your site. They will most probably link to you if you link to them first! Have a links site ready, write press releases...)
Continue updating your content (this is very important as the search engines will rank you higher if you have fresh content on your sites)

How to get listed in the search engines in a few days

Well, you might have heard of the blog and ping technique. It is very effective. But here, I'll show you what I also do to get listed very soon.

Go to Google search bar below and write "[keyword] blog" in the search field. [keyword] is your selected keyword. When you get a list, click on the first one and see if you can write a comment. If you can, write a relevant comment for that blog, include your keywords and at the end write something like: "If you want to know more, please visit http://www.yoursite.com".

Also in the name field write your desired keyword in the URL (or Your web site) field write the URL to your site.

Repeat this at least five more times on the next five blogs. It shouldn't take you more than half an hour. Those blogs are spidered very frequently as they have new info coming all the time. So your site will be visited by the spiders too and get indexed.

Getting other sites to link to you

The fastest way is with adding your site to directories. Just type "free directory" in Google search bar above. Add your site to as many as you can. Also have a brief (50 - 200 characters) description ready. Write it in the Notepad software you got with your windows. Also write your correct URL, your links page URL and your e-mail. This will speed up the process as most directories ask you for that information. You can just copy and paste it.

The next step should be this: Go to the Google search fieln in this blog and write your preferred keyword in the search field. Then copy the URL of the first ranking web site and paste it to the search bar. Then add "link:" in front of it (no spaces) and hit search. You will get a list of all the web sites linking to that page. Then go to each of them and find contact e-mails. Write them an e-mail and ask them to link to you. In exchange offer to link back to them. This works and is a great way to get quality back links.

Forums are also a great way to get the word out and to get some back links. Simply write "[keyword]" forum in the search field above and sign up for as many forums as you have time for. Add your URL in the signature and start posting.

That's it for now. I will provide some more information in the next post.

An Internet Marketing Strategy that Works

2005-10-03T14:51:00.000+02:00

By: Joy Gendusa

These days an internet marketing strategy plays a vital part of small business marketing strategies (or any size business marketing strategies for that matter). Web site marketing is an important part of just about any business, small or large.

You can't put up a beautiful (or any) web site and hope that people will just arrive. You have to let them know, IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY, that your web site is there. This HAS to be part of any Internet marketing strategy you develop. This is actually a basic marketing principle. Customers are not going to look for you, you have to look for them.

Promoting your web site on-line and building traffic is the subject of thousands of web sites, e-zines, books, courses and seminars. Using the web to promote your site, however, assumes that your customers are surfers. But there is a large percentage of our population that is not as savvy with the internet as we would like them to be.

So, what about the large percentages of the population who are not? They will only find out about you through traditional marketing and public relations media. This is particularly true if you serve a fairly local market. Fortunately these are the easiest and cheapest prospects for you to reach off-line.

Key Off-Line Internet Marketing Strategies Here are some of the ways to make your web site known (this list was taken directly from the Traffic Building Volume of Ken Evoy's brilliant book, Make Your Site Sell! 2002:

• TV, print and other advertising
• Stationary and business cards
• Catalogs, fliers, billboards, blimps, etc.
• Direct mail (prominently on every document)
• Telemarketing (make it part of the script)
• News releases to targeted media.

The main principle, to which you can add all your imagination, is INTERNET MARKETING STRATEGY INCLUDES ANY AND ALL MEANS OF GETTING YOUR WEB SITE KNOWN AND VISITED BY TARGETED PROSPECTS.

Unless you have a high budget, the TV, radio, classified ad route is not recommended but if you do run ads, be sure to mention your web site everywhere. Make it part of your Internet Marketing Strategy.

Another guiding principle is that your off-line internet marketing activities should make it easy for your prospect to go straight to your web site. One of the best ways to market your website off-line is direct mail postcards.

If your prospect sees your website on a billboard as she's driving home, she probably won't look you up when she gets to the office the next day.

This is not the only medium that has problems like this. Newspapers are bulky, radio has to spell it out and like before most people are driving at the time. On the other hand, if your prospect is sitting at her computer and a post card comes in the mail announcing your web site, she can just turn around and type in your URL and she's at your web site.

Now if someone is in the office reading a trade journal and comes across an article about you in the magazine, it's not difficult for him to copy your URL into his browser and pay your site a visit. I don’t mean to say that those other avenues won’t drive traffic to your site, but it will take numerous impressions and repetition to get them to remember your address.

On the other hand, direct mail postcards are generally received at the home or office where a computer is present, and if received somewhere else they are small enough to keep with you until you can get to a computer. This way, your prospective customer will be able to take the take right over to their desk top computer, type in your address and go right to your site. Brilliant!

I have seen the greatest success in off-line web site promotion with direct mail, and specifically direct mail postcards.

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About the author:Joy Gendusa founded PostcardMania in 1998, her only assets a computer and a phone. By 2004 the company did close to $9 million in sales and employed over 60 people. She attributes her explosive growth to her ability to choose incredible staff and her innate marketing savvy. Now she’s sharing her marketing secrets with others. For more free marketing advice, visit her website at

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Direct Mail Marketing Done Correctly, Cannot Fail

2005-10-02T15:33:00.000+02:00

By: Joy Gendusa

So how do you do it? Direct mail marketing. When it comes to marketing your product or services there are two basic challenges:

1. How do you obtain new customers or clients?
2. How do you get your existing customers to come back for more?

Direct mail/direct response marketing answers both these challenges admirably (it’s not the only way to do it but it is a proven method that always works). You can ALWAYS rely on DIRECT MAIL MARKETING. The postcard—direct marketing’s secret weapon… One of the simplest and most cost-effective forms of direct mail marketing is the POSTCARD.

Because postcards work so well they can be considered one of the key small business marketing strategies. "I switched from sending out a monthly newsletter to my mailing list, to sending out full color post cards. Not only did it save me money on the cost of printing, but it saved me the hassle of having to prepare the mailings. Feedback has been very positive from our clients and the leads have been pouring in. Plus my website hits have increased due to promotion or it on our post cards!" Kerry Fuller, Realty Executives Direct mail marketing strategies…

To get new customers all you need to do is:

1. Get their identities (mailing lists do this).
2. Reach them (direct mail does this).
3. Attract their attention and get your message across (post cards do this perfectly—you don’t have to open them!).
4. Get them to contact you. (Your mailing piece, letter or, preferably, post card, will do that if it’s well designed and written.)
5. The rest is up to your ability to sell.

To get your existing customers to come back for more all you need to do is:

1. Keep accurate records of your customers (anyone who has ever bought anything from you) in a database and keep it current.
2. Send them frequent mailings. Postcards are excellent. You can send out a newsletter. You can send out personalized letters. But keep contacting them. Tell them about new products or services. Get them to respond.
3. Obviously you have to deliver excellent service or a great product. You will get results with these marketing techniques even if you don’t deliver good service or a great product, but it won’t last long and you won’t be able to maintain it.
4. Remember, the size of your customer base and the number of mailings to it determines how much income you make. Fact. So, do it correctly and you cannot fail.

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About the author:Joy Gendusa founded PostcardMania in 1998; her only assets a computer and a phone. By 2004 the company did $9 million in sales and employed over 60 persons. She attributes her explosive growth to her ability to choose incredible staff and her innate marketing savvy. Now she’s sharing her marketing secrets with others. For more free marketing advice, visit her website at

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