Friday, December 25th, 2009 at
3:59 pm
This is a real business folks with a real product that
every online business person needs and even offline businesses could utilize as well. The uses for an auto-responder are endless!
A good example of a good offline use would be a church or organization to send out a weekly or monthly newsletter. Just like you are receiving this one today! A retail store can collect emails at POS(point of sale) and send out weekly or monthly specials to their customers! Like I said there are many uses! Just have to think outside the box!
Remember to do something every day to grow your business even though you may feel as though you are only taking baby steps at times. Consistent effort on your part will pay off more effectively
than a few marathons once or twice a month.
Concentrate on completing one task at a time before moving on to something else.If you get stuck, have a few questions ,or you just need to have a little chat, contact me and I will help you.
Most importantly, realize that success is a journey, and that you are, above all else, to enjoy the process. The measure of our greatest success in life is in the relationships we build with one another, a small kindness expressed to a stranger, and the legacy we leave to the next generation. That being said, know with certainty, the money will follow.
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Sunday, December 20th, 2009 at
5:01 pm
The internet has changed the world forever in so many ways, not least of which is the tremendous opportunity it’s brought to anyone who wants a shot at having their own startup business.
Previously, many many people dreamed of their own business, but had to abandon the idea because of the high costs involved. But now, thousands of people have discovered that they can start an online business with little if any financial capital. Just a desire, and a willingness to work hard, and there are numerous online business models that can be built. Some very successful online businesses have been built, quite literally, out of “thin air”.
NOW, some people have heard about these no-cost or low-cost startup business opportunities, and become very excited at the prospect, only to be disappointed because they then read some ebook or course that they were sold, and if they follow everything recommended to them the costs all of a sudden start piling up: web hosting, graphic design, software, subscriptions to this resource and that resource, and on and on it goes. So much for the free startup opportunity!
But the fact is, you can do without a lot of the things that may be recommended to you, or you find can free versions available on the internet that are perfectly adequate to get you going. I think there are just a couple of things you’re better off to try and afford as a bare minimum – web hosting (you can get it real cheap now, as low as just a few bucks a month), a good autoresponder is also a great investment (I recommend TrafficWave). But after that, you can pretty much do everything for free until your business is on a “pay-in” basis and you can afford some of the tools that make life easier.
Let me get straight to the #1 golden rule of traffic exchanges. Are you ready? The ONLY page you should ever direct traffic to from a Traffic Exchange is a “squeeze page” (also known as an “opt in” page). Any other kind of page, I agree, is completely worthless.
People who surf traffic exchanges are there for ONE reason only. To rack up credits so that their own web site will be visited by others. So they mindlessly click through different pages every 4 to 10 seconds (depending on the time required by the particular traffic exchange).
They have no interest in reading your blog page, or your lengthy sales page. They are not buyers anyway. But if you have an excellent free offer, presented on a squeeze page with a minimum of text (but a nice picture of your free gift),some will stop surfing just long enough to input their email address and download your product. Not many, but some!
From my experience a 0.5% conversion rate is really good on a traffic exchange. My advice is that you be careful about spending hours surfing these sites to rack up credits. It can be a poor use of your valuable time. EITHER pay one of your kids a couple of bucks to sit there in the evening and click for you, OR buy a credit package from the Traffic Exchange. Usually you can get a couple of thousand hits for $5. If you convert at 0.5%, that will give you 10 subscribers. That’s 50c cents each, which compares with what you’ll pay for Pay-Per-Click, etc.
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at
4:56 pm
If you own a website then you are certainly concerned with getting it noticed and increasing your traffic. However, you might not have a large budget for advertising or marketing and simply don’t know what to do to get your website noticed without spending a lot of money. Well, the following 5 tips will help your website attract attention without spending any money!
Tip #1 Submit to Directories
Submitting your website to directories is generally free and all you have to do is provide your website’s URL, a brief description, and then your site will be listed in the directory for people to browse. In addition, not only will people be able to browse the listings, but your site will also have more one way links pointing back to your site that will increase your rankings in the search engines.
Tip #2 Submit to Search Engines
If you want to get your site noticed then you want to make it easy on web surfers to find your site. So, submit your site to the search engines to have it indexed. Then , when people search the web for certain keywords they just might find your site and drop by to take a look.
Tip #3 Reciprocal Links
Reciprocal links are another good idea if you are interested in increasing your search engine rankings. Simply trade links with other websites and you host their link on your site and they host your link on their site. This does not take much effort or time and once you have the links you will basically have free advertising.
Tip #4 Include Your URL Everywhere
Your URL needs to be on all types of communication you use. For example, make sure your URL is included on your stationary, business cards, in all of your e-mails, and the like. When your URL is posted everywhere you will surely increase your site’s traffic.
Tip #5 Email List
You can create an email list from all the visitors that have visited your website and periodically send them updates advertising different services or specials. Make it easy to unsubscribe, too. Before you know it you will have more people visiting your site and others recommending your site as well.
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009 at
4:40 pm
Every once in awhile somebody comes up with a great idea that helps build your business. I use traffic exchanges alot to promote my business as many other people do. Traffic exchanges are a great way to get immediate traffic to your website but to be honest with you it is time consuming.
I know how much time it can take you to rack up a decent number of hits during a surfing session.
How would you like 40% more visitors from traffic exchanges without spending a dime? Jay Hines created Quick Tab Change and what this simple tool does is increase your surfing speed.
It lets you switch tabs just by pressing a key when you are
surfing several exchanges at once.
The best part is…. You don’t have to pay a dime for this nifty tool that lets you fly through the tabs.
Anything that saves me time so I can work on other parts of my business is very valuable indeed. I’m trying to learn how to work smarter not harder.lol
Believe me I’m always looking for great tools that will help me be more efficient and as I find them I will post them here.
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