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What Works & What Doesn’t in Viral Marketing

March 15th, 2009
by Steve Blalock

Stop with the enforced e-mail forwards already! Trying to force or bribe people to forward your info to a friends or family in order to be rewarded or win looks skanky in today’s ultra-permission-based world. Especially when you tell visitors nothing about their friend’s or familys privacy in the space directly next to the e-mail form.

A true viral campaign gets forwarded because consumers are compelled to do so by the content, not because you bribed them with points or something else.

What absolutely will not work:

Suggesting that e-mail recipients forward your message to their family and friends will not work. Adding a line at the bottom of your e-mail that reads Please feel free to forward this message to a friend is more likely to get it deleted than forwarded.

What absolutely will work:

Offering something worthy of sharing like a valuable discount, vital information or offering an incentive for sharing such ase additional entries into a sweepstakes or an added discount or premium service will work.

Jokes and cartoons are usually forwarded to everybody the recipient knows. Why? Because they are entertaining and entertainment is meant to be shared.

A really cool multimedia experience is always going to achieve a lot of pass-along. Rich media is new and the novelty and tech factors alone are often enough to make the e-mail recipient eager to share it.

I almost forgot one really important thing.You can craft a brilliant e-mail following all the rules, but if a consumer visits your site and has a a negative experience, you are going to achieve viral marketing, alrightthe bad kind. So be certain that your product or service is ready and is as advertised.

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Using File Sharing in Viral Marketing

March 4th, 2009
by Steve Blalock

You will probably find ten million people online, looking for downloads at any given time. Of course, a lot of them could be looking for pornography or free software but still, reaching a minimum on a million people on any given day does offer some rather intriguing possibilities.

People like using file services to download music for two simple reasons, theyre totally free, and there is an generous selection. The fact is Pandoras Box has been opened. In Napsters wake, other quasi-legal services quickly emerged a lot of them. Even if they are closed, others will succeed them.

Major record companies would like to think otherwise but they are never going to stop file sharing. Net users are file sharersplain and simple. Long before the Internet came into being, people made cassette tapes of their favorite music for their friendscd burners are so much easier and faster.

So how can you use this to help your viral marketing campaign along? Think about this. Once someone downloads your MP3 files and those files are available on that listeners hard drive, viral marketing begins. After two users start sharing your files, suddenly, your music is on the hard drive of a second computerthen a third and on and on. When users are searching and they find your music on a lot of different computers, they are more likely to download the files. Its just a matter of time before youll find your files showing up in more and more places.

No matter what genre music you playRock and Roll, Country, Tejano, Mozart sonatas, Heavy Metal, of Brazilian Jazz, there is an audience for it somewhere.

In this instance, you arent hawking a product, you are offering free music via a medium that lets you be directly connected with your audience.

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Take Your Internet Business Opportunity to New Heights

March 2nd, 2009
by Shane Vandeventer

Many times when entrepreneurs start promoting their products or services online they encounter the same obstacle: “How can my business produce visitors to my website that won’t plunder my bank account?” An instant way to generate traffic is through pay per click campaigns. However, this method can be very time intensive, although it can produce results quickly.

One consideration with pay per click advertising is that your costs have to be managed carefully to ensure profitability. In a competitive atmosphere, this can incredibly difficult. Typically, you will have some competition in any market that has profit potential. Certain niche markets will produce inexpensive clicks to your website.

The beautiful thing about generating traffic is that is doesnt have to be expensive. Your time and knowledge can be put to work through blog entries, writing articles, or even networking on social networking sites. Personally, I like writing articles.

Updating your blog with anchor text pointing to your URL can boost your website’s incoming links that Google, Yahoo, and MSN respect and they will put you higher in the search results for your keywords. Blog.com and wordpress.com are some great places to get your blog going quickly and cheaply. I found wordpress.com to meet my needs for getting a blog going without having to reach into my pocket.

Writing articles is one of the tried and true methods for generating traffic. It does take time and it requires a level of creativity that many people dont possess or want to muster. Try writing an article between 400-600 words that solves a problem or teaches something meaningful for your target audience. Put a hyperlink in the article body and then another one in the signature box pointing to your offer.

Social networking is the latest trend in internet marketing. This method has generated a lot of revenue for those that have been diligent in pursuing it. The operative word is networking not marketing. You dont want to be considered a spammer by the community you are trying to attract. Put links to your blog or to one of your other networking pages from your posts. For example, on your facebook page put a link to your youtube page. Do not put a link directly to your offer from your posts. This is considered spam and it will not be received well by your target market.

The primary objective is to just be who you are and you will inevitably connect with people who have similar values and interests. The best approach is to provide valued content to the people on the network, not unlike you would with article writing and doing a blog. People admire and respect others that bring value and solutions to the community. Some of best websites for social networking are youtube.com, facebook.com, and twitter.com. At one time, Myspace was very useful for networking, but unfortunately it isn’t as popular as it once was.

Putting these tools to work for you can result in your income increasing dramatically and reaching your goals.

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Create A Healthy Income Online Out Of Google And Clickbank

February 26th, 2009
by Richard Steaney

When you decide to promote a home business opportunity, you’ll need to find a niche where you can endorse a product or service. You can go through the Clickbank marketplace and start finding a niche, where you can find products that may provide solutions to people in that niche.

The best option for you would be to go through your system and dedicate your time to set up an Internet home business that will be consistently profitable. Some of the fundamental ways to set up this system should have information on how to:

-find the right niche market

-devise a customized service related to that niche

- create a website to collect leads

- collect your profits and going to the bank

This system works irrespective of your proficiency, and you will be extremely consistent. You can begin with the four key ideas behind any successful business.

It’s easier to find an existing need and fill it than it is to try to manufacture one where it does not exist. Ask yourself what the needs of your target market are and how you can best fill these needs with a product or service. The best way to go is to market a high quality product with a proven track record.

So what’s the best internet home business to begin with? The answer hands down is an affiliate program. These programs have proven their potential to generate a healthy revenue stream and are well known. Or you can look for products which offer either basic or master resale rights.

Products with resale rights allow you to purchase the product with the right to resell it as your own product. Basic resale rights allow you to sell a copy to the customer for their personal use only. Master resale rights allow you to sell the product and the rights to allow someone else to sell the product.

Affiliate products or where you sign up with the merchant or service provider who will allow you to use links and banners that you can put on your own website. When someone visits your website and clicks on your link. It will take them to the merchant site. If they make a purchase after going to the merchant site, you will receive a commission.

Affiliate marketing is easy. Since many affiliates promote a single item, brand loyalty is huge. When you resell the item, you reduce brand identity.

When using the Clickbank affiliate program you will want to pick a product or service that already has a good track record. In this way, you will be cutting down on the amount of time it takes for people to recognize the product and for sales to start rolling in. If you have a product that is geared to a certain niche market where people are passionate and looking for information, you can choose either product type - affiliate or resale.

You can merge affiliate marketing with a product resale. You should put your best effort and implement a system that will see you through to being an affiliate marketing magnate. With reselling products, you can make quick profits with our modus operandi.

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Use The Internet To Your Advantage In Marketing

February 22nd, 2009
by Matt Willis

Blogging has also become a popular way to communicate with a specific or general audience and adds credibility to you as an expert in the field. If you are a blogger, marketer, film maker or any other kind of online publisher or entrepreneur, you stand to gain a lot by getting some exposure on YouTube. Your blog reflects you and your tastes, ideas and likes/dislikes. As a marketing exercise, the clip is now on at least three industry blogs, one community site and YouTube.

You may have heard from online marketing experts and gurus that you should be uploading videos to YouTube to generate traffic to your website. This leads to even more page views that can land your video on the homepage at YouTube, which means an avalanche of traffic to your site.

Some marketers manage to stand out in the crowd with their videos. And it reminded me of something I’ve wanted to stress: Videos don’t have to actually contain video camera footage. If your free videos offer a ton of quality content, they have a good chance of going viral and making you a lot of money.

Internet marketers are always on the lookout for a new advertising vehicle. Internet video marketing capitalizes on this, giving clients the possibility of deeply impacting consumers. YouTube is the first of its magnitude to offer large scale video hosting and has opened the door to the progression of the internet from the two-dimensional world of documents and still images, to the three-dimensional world of video and motion.

Blogging is an easy way to make money online: discover three tips to help you to avoid blogging disaster. Blogs, either used internally to enhance the communication and culture in a corporation or externally for marketing, branding or public relations purposes are called corporate blogs.

Businesses love blogs because it gives them added presence in the search engines; blogs bring traffic, and traffic builds sales. Your blog really helps people understand all about your business. Today’s trend is on writing good content and another must-read on the blogosphere.

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Yes, you can Stand Out from the Crowd if you Brand Yourself

February 11th, 2009
by Jan Shimano

If your goal is to achieve success as an internet marketer, then you are definitely going to have to stand out from the crowd….and let me tell you, that crowd is actually a multitude!

Literally thousands of people are selling the very same product and information as you are. How are you going to get people motivated to follow you instead of all those others? One very powerful way, is by branding yourself.

If you look up ‘brand’ in the Webster’s Dictionary, it will state it means a mark made by a hot iron, a trademark or a mark of infamy. When an animal is branded with a hot iron, it is then easily identified as belonging to its owner. The good news is, you don’t have to go to that extreme to brand yourself!!! However, you are going to have to take some type of action to permanently distinguish yourself from the hordes of other people out there, who are trying to attract the same prospects. This is going to take a lot longer than branding an animal, but it is going to be well worth the time and effort.

To start with, we have to ask ourselves some serious questions. For instance, what impression do I want to leave with others when they meet me, whether in person or online and am I willing to stay the course and remain true to my ideals? Make sure that you really go through this process because once you decide how you want to be perceived, it is going to be difficult to backtrack and make changes down the road. If we waver in that way, people are going to lose trust in us and look for someone else to follow.

Once we have the right mindset about who we really are and what makes us unique, we then have to figure out a way to be seen and heard. Right now the hottest way to do this is through the social media networks. The most popular ones at present are Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. It is necessary to have a presence on all three sites and we must make sure that we portray ourselves consistently if we want to be believable.

It is not sufficient to just visit and post on these sites now and again. You will get lost in all the traffic. If you want to create a large following you have to allow people to really get to know you and see how unique you are. You can only do this by posting every day, and on Twitter it is advisable to post a few times a day. Interact with others. When they ask a general question don’t wait for others to answer….type in a answer yourself right away. This is what ’social networking’ is all about!! Yes, it’s about getting to know people and developing a friendship with them, so that they come to like and trust you.

It’s the ‘kiss of death’ to try to imitate someone else. No one can be as good as that person, because no one else IS that person! Just as no one else can be as good as you, because you are unique. You have got to let your uniqueness shine through. People are going to relate to you, because you have what they have been looking for. We all resonate with different people and the people attracted to me, for instance, might not be attracted to you, and vice versa. By doing this, you will gradually build up a following and these people will then be part of your ‘list’, and when you recommend something to them, they will undoubtedly listen.

Just remember, you do not want to be one of the crowd….it’s your aim to stand out in the crowd….in fact you want to be head and shoulders above everyone else in the crowd!! Believe me when I tell you that this is absolutely possible. You just have to identify your own uniqueness, put yourself out there for the world to see, stand back and watch it all happen!!

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How to Make Money Fast

February 9th, 2009
by Jenny Moore

The question has come into everyone’s mind at one point or another. “How do I make money fast online?”The world of internet marketing, or “making money online” has been nothing short of a roller coaster ride for me since I started researching how to be successful.

Before I go any further, you will notice that the title says “How is this for Crazy”. There is a reason for this. I cannot possibly tell you about everything I’ve learned in one article. There will be many additional articles.

With that said, lets dive into a couple of items that need to be addressed. First, anyone can make money online without spending a fortune doing so, IF they know how, or have someone show them who knows how.

Not wanting to make this sound too easy, I need to say also, that you will NOT get rich overnight, you WILL have to put some work into this, and NO there is no magic button to push that says “give me money”.

Probably the least under stood fact of online marketing is that it is not limited to multi level marketers, or selling products. In fact, there are hundreds, if not thousands of ways to make money online. There are ways that cost absolutely nothing, and other ways that require some investment. The fact is, you CAN get started without spending a ton of money.

Let’s start with a fun and free way of getting started earning some money. Think of topics that interest you, maybe a hobby, or career. Try to find something that many other people might be interested in as well. Start a blog on the subject. You can get one for free at Blogger dot com.

If you want a step by step program that will enable you to learn from the best in the industry, then listen close. Mack Michaels, a multi-millionaire, outlines exactly what it takes to make money online. There are Quick Money Blueprints that outline each step that it takes to make money within days. He is an excellent mentor and has been a very successful online marketer. The industry is always changing and his knowledge of the technical tools it takes to be highly successful, is up to the minute.

If you found the information in this article to be of interest, then you will want to visit the following website listed below. I have been marketing online for several years, and must admit that I am still learning. If you are serious about making money online there is only one program that I stand behind 100%, Maverick Money Makers.

Visit http://www.make-profit-fast.com

Best Wishes,

Jenny Moore

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PLR Products for Newbies

February 6th, 2009
by PLR Mammoth

PLR products are products that entitle you to edit, re-brand, sell, do anything with the product. When you sell PLR products, you can set any price and keep 100% of the sales. PLR products come in form of articles, E-Books, software, report, and more.

If you take a look at the PLR products such as articles or e-books, you will understand the worth of these products. You can add articles to directories, place them on your website, or even sell them to your customers.

Because other people also have access to the same PLR product as you, therefore, you should edit them before using it as your own product or content. This allows you to maximize the benefits of PLR products.

Using PLR products, you can make your website or blog more credible and established. PLR products also helps you to be ranked higher in search engines. Use of PLR products can help you save lots of time and effort and achieve success and earn profits in a shorter period of time.

There are many uses for PLR items. Editing them, changing them and re-branding them are just a few things you can do with them. PLR provides online marketers a good source of information to use to generate their own product to create unique products. So instead of creating products from scratch, you can use other people’s PLR product and edit them to make it unique.

You can also build your reputation as an expert in your niche, by distributing as many high quality and useful articles. PLR articles are also good for viral marketing.

The ideas to use PLR items are never ending. You get to save money and time, and get to advance your money making to a earlier date.

Use PLR products to increase the profits of your online business today! Get massive traffic and respect from viewers today.

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Can ‘My Story Marketing’ be Effective?

January 24th, 2009
by Jan Shimano

Perhaps you have heard all the buzz lately about the term ‘My Story Marketing’. Many want to know what it is and whether it can possibly help their business. We all have our own personal story and for some of us it could be a very compelling one at that. However, if no one ever hears our story, then it will definitely not have any impact on our business.

So how do we get our unique story out there for all to see? The main avenue for doing this is through the social network marketing scene. Some of the more popular ones are Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, MySpace and Squidoo. Each of these has different features, but they all put their emphasis on communication between people.

There is a section on all these sites where you can tell visitors all about yourself. This is something that many people don’t properly utilize. They just put one or two sentences up there that don’t tell the reader very much at all. Here is your chance to tell your story and connect with others. This is your opportunity to draw people in.

If you have your own website, mention it and state that you are the creator of it. Make sure you tell them something interesting about yourself. This might be a little challenging for a young person, but even they have had many unique things happen to them. Certainly, an older person can shine here because they will have so many exciting stories to choose from.

Whether you are young or old, make sure you talk about a major problem that you faced. Go into some detail about this. Perhaps at one time, you were on the verge of declaring bankruptcy. Explain how desperate you were to find a way out. Don’t be afraid to be personal. You want people to relate to you on a deep level. Now that you have their undivided attention, go ahead and tell them about the solution. A good phrase to use is “all that changed when….” Here you explain your business opportunity and how it turned your life around.

The final stage to ‘My Story Marketing’ is a call to action. For some reason, people shy away from asking for what they want. There can only be two responses, and that’s ‘yes’ or ‘no’. So we have a 50% chance of getting what we want by asking. What should we be asking them to do at this final stage? We should ask them to click on the link to our website and enter their name and e-mail address so that they can receive additional information. As each site has different regulations, make sure you are not violating any of them in the manner you show your website address.

This is not a get-rich-quick scheme but if done right it can certainly create riches. Remember, you are in the business of building relationships with people who will trust, respect and like you. This does not happen overnight. Let me tell you about a friend of mine. He has developed a following of many thousands of people over the years and he recently learned of an opportunity that he thought was excellent. He told his followers about in on Twitter and within a week he had earned over $40,000.00 in affiliate commissions.

This would not have happened for my friend if he had not utilized the ‘My Story Marketing’ philosophy and told his unique story. That story resonated with many people and they in turn told others about him and his following grew. This is something we can all do. In fact, this is something we all must do, if we want to stand out from the crowd and be part of that 5% who are highly successful in the network marketing business.

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Is The Traffic Geyser Online Video Marketing System A Scam?

January 16th, 2009
by Yomi A

What Is Traffic Geyser And How does it work?

At its core: Traffic Geyser is a tool that submits your videos to video social networking sites like YouTube. You will create a video of your product or service, and then use Traffic Geyser to submit it to sites like Google Video and YouTube. In essence, people familiar with tools that submit articles to article directories will find that Traffic Geyser does the same thing ” but with videos.

Traffic Geyser saves the time that you would have spent on submitting to all of these directories on your own. It automates the task of content distribution, and allows you to focus on content creation. Videos perform well in Google Search. One of the primary reason people are attracted towards Traffic Geyser is to increase their Google dominance. They use the tool primarily to increase their chances of appearing in Google Search results.

Now, there are three things that you must absolutely understand about this:

1. Your Videos will appear in Google Searches: Traffic Geyser does work in bringing up the video for the selected keywords in Google searches. Most customers have reported that their videos started appearing for their particular keywords with the use of Traffic Geyser. They said and I have experienced myself that the results were better than what they were - before using Traffic Geyser.

2. Your Videos are not the same thing as your Website: Most people fail to make this connection. In essence what happens is that your video ” that is loaded on YouTube starts making it to the first page of Google search, but your own webpage doesnt do that well. True there will be some people who click on the video and reach your webpage, but, that is much different from direct traffic on your website.

3. Your Videos will still need back-links: To enjoy success for any considerable length of time ” your videos need good link backs to them. If people are not linking to your videos, then you are going to lose your Google place sooner or later.

Traffic Geyser Subscription Plans

Traffic Geyser comes with four different plans. Each plan comes with a different level of maximum credit. A single credit is one instance of your video getting submitted to a third party site. Monthly Membership Plans:

Silver: $47 monthly and 375 monthly credits. Gold: $97 monthly and 3,500 monthly credits. Gold Plus: $147 monthly and 17,500 monthly credits. Platinum Elite: $247 monthly and 35,000 monthly credits.

Annual Membership Plan

Silver: $470 annually and 4,500 annual credits. Gold: $970 annually and 42,000 annual credits. Gold Plus: $1470 annually and 210,000 annual credits. Platinum Elite: $2470 annually and 420,000 annual credits.

Both the plans include Slideshow Video Creator and the Podcast channel and feed creation tool.

So to concluded, based on the needs of your business ” you need to decide whether paying a monthly subscription for one of these plans is worth the benefit that you get from it. The service works, but it is up to each individual to decide whether it is worth the monthly subscription or not.

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