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Are YOU Having Internet Marketing Success?

Much has been written here to help you achieve a degree of Internet Marketing success. As it has been stated before, just having a website, no matter how great it may be, is not the only step to achieving your dream of financial independence. Just as if you had a great restaurant and nobody ate there, who would ever know that you served some of the most creative and delicious food on the planet? Who would recommend your restaurant to the their friends and neighbors? Who would eagerly look forward to the next special that you had there?

Nobody.

Sounds sad and lonely, doesn’t it? Sad, lonely, and true. If you don’t “ping” your daily writing/posts to your website, not even a search engine will find and catalog your website out there. Try pinggoat, for starters. At least get your name out there. You can also submit articles to ezinearticles.com and that can be a slow, but steady source of traffic. You might do a PPC (pay per click) campaign with Google Adwords or type “PPC Advertising” into the search bar of  Google and find other ways to generate traffic to your site. You might have to pay for traffic in the beginning, but, once the traffic starts to flow, so does the cash flow as well.

You might even try traditional advertising like the newpaper (non-traditional like Craigslist). What ever you do, just do something! Make note of what works and what doesn’t. What works for one person, may not work at all for another. You never know until it is used.

Here’s to YOUR Internet Marketing success, and have a GREAT day!

Tags: action, financial independence, internet marketing, making money on the internet

Internet Marketing – What Drives You To Succeed?

Sometimes it is not enough to want to succeed in Internet Marketing. Many people just purchase a website and stick a product on that website and are disappointed when their PayPal account isn’t overflowing with cash. That fits the definition of a pipe dream. Just wishing for success takes more than a wish. There are people that dream of winning a million dollars in the Lottery, but never even bother to go to the store and purchase a ticket.

Write it down.

There is something compelling about writing your goals for Internet Marketing. What do you want to accomplish? How much money do you want to make? There is a difference between saying more money and saying $100,000. If you have twenty dollars in your pocket and somebody gives you a quarter, guess what? You have more money.  Goals need to be measurable. You will know when you have $100,000. It can be measured.

Goals need to be short-term, intermediate, and long-term. What do you want to accomplish in the next two month? The next year? Ten years from now? Once you know where you want to go, develop a plan to get there and break it up into steps that you can attain in measurable increments.

Review the goals often. The problem with New Year’s resolutions is that people will write a lofty goal and, once January 1 has passed, it is put away until the next year. When you look at your goals every day, you reaffirm in your mind that which you want to accomplish. Set aside some time every day to review and even revise your goals.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: goals, internet marketing, web traffic

A Compelling Sales Letter Can Drive More People to Your Website

Perhaps one of the best tools that you can find in your drive to success in Internet Marketing is a sales letter. A well-crafted letter can compel people to eventually open up their wallet, but there are some things that any successful sales letter will have

• A compelling headline – You have to have a headline that draws people into your website. If you have a bland headline, you will get a bland audience, and a bland audience is not what you want
• Bullet points – It is good to have three or four points to your letter and you need to highlight those points with bullets. Three is the optimal number, but this will help to enforce the benefits of what the (potential) customer will gain by buying your product.
• Tell them how much it costs – But don’t it right away. They need to read more of the letter before you reveal what it will cost them. Put it too early without describing the benefits and people will quickly close the letter without reading it.
• Guarantee what you sell – If you don’t believe it yourself, you will have a difficult time selling it. There was a time a few years ago that I was a salesman for DSL, but I lived in an area that didn’t have it, so I couldn’t really speak from experience.

I have used these same techniques for the successful sale of my ebook Never Surrender!! Use these techniques and you can succeed too!

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: internet marketing, making money on the internet, web trasffic

Absolutely Amazing Headlines for Success in Internet Marketing!!

One of the keys of success in Internet Market is having a compelling headline. Let’s face it, if you don’t have an attention-grabbing headline, people will probably not stop at your website (and if they don’t stop at your website, they won’t buy anything). Think about it: Why do you think that magazines like The National Inquirer are still so successful? Their headlines. You may think that it is a little extreme, but it is a very effective tool that has served many for so long. I know that there have been articles or advertisements that I have clicked on just because of their title, don’t you think that others will do the same?

How do you come up with an exciting headline? One of the best (and free) ways is to  spend time online. Read other’s headlines. Make note of the ones that are convicting enough to make you want to click through. You can start a swipe-file on a Word document or a notepad that you can refer to later. When I am running low on creativity I find that my swipe-file will get me through.

You can, of course, find programs on the Internet to create you headlines for you. These are great if you have absolutely no creative juices flowing in your body. Just be careful and don’t spend a fortune.

Just be sure to have a compelling reason for somebody to come to your site.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: internet marketing, making money on the internet, web traffic

Internet Marketing – Do You Work On A Busy Street?

The point that is being made is that your website will do much better, and you will generate more income, by having a website that has a lot of traffic drawn to it. It is not enough just to have the “cool” website with great graphics and great content if nobody knows that it exists. But, “what can I do to generate traffic?” you may ask.

Plenty.

Have you tried writing articles about what is offered on your website on ezinearticles.com? There are some important things to keep in mind when submitting an article:

1. You cannot write your article as advertisement. That is for the box at the bottom of the article. Your job to get an article published is to provide information. Ezinearticles.com is a source for people to find information. Provide that information, and you will be rewarded with hits to your site.
2. You cannot have self-serving links, within the body of your article. That is one way to quickly get the article rejected and you will be forced to revise your article so that it will get published. The nice thing is that ezinearticles.com permanently posts your article. It is not like a blog where you need to submit an article every day.
3. Your title has to meet strict requirements, and for those requirements, see the Terms of Service of ezinearticles.com.

Whatever it is that you do, take careful note to see how your traffic to your site increases. You can always look up the stats on your cpanel of your website. If things don’t increase your traffic, try something else. It is important that you do something, because doing nothing will result in nothing for you.  Take ACTION today!

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: internet marketing, money, web traffic

Positive Mental Attitude and the New Half-Year

So, today is July 1, 2009 and this is a GREAT day to take assessment of how you are doing, where you are headed, and what can you do to get you there in the most efficient manner. Traditionally, we look at January 1 each year to set goals (resolutions) to lose weight, make more money, get out of debt, etc. Why not the second half of the year to do the same sort of analysis? I believe that it is a good idea.

How is the traffic to your Internet Site? The traditional things have been done and it is found that posting every day on my website (pinging it of course) helps to increase the ranking on Google search engines. I found that when a day (or two or more) is skipped, the ranking tends to go down a bit and the website is further back in the ranks.

What else can drive your traffic? I found that writing articles on ezinearticles.com helps because three months after the article is written, I still get an occasional hit on the website. I have also discovered Twitter and now update my “tweets” every time that I have a new post both here and on one of the blogs that I write. That has helped tremendously.

Now that I have an ebook out there, I do the same things for it, but I am also looking for low cost ways to advertise that book. I haven’t yet made the time to explore fully pay-per-click for this book, and when I get some spare time (what is THAT?) it will be spent looking at that. Perhaps there are things that YOU can think of.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: article marketing, goals, internet marketing

Internet Marketing Success - Key Words Are, Well, Key

When it comes to having success in the Internet Marketing realm of the world, you have to have good headlines. I still receive a newspaper to my home every day, it has been something that has always been there, even when I was growing up. What stories did I look at? The ones with the interesting and compelling headlines. If it was just a generic, bland headline, I moved on. With people having less and less free time and wanting instant gratification, they won’t even give your website the time of day. When you “ping” you blog or an article on your website, it is so very important to have keywords in the title so that 1) the spiders that search the Internet and rank you page in their search engines will find your site/post much more quickly and 2) when people put in keywords into a search box (like Google) your site has a better chance of showing in the search results.

How do you choose your keywords?

The best free source is just to go to Google and type in the words that would fit the subject that you are writing about. Just one word is not good enough.  If you had a blog about German Shepherd breeding habits, you wouldn’t get any hits by titling your post “Dogs”. Be as specific as you possibly can be. Try “Breeding Habits of Female German Shepherds”. There will be fewer (today = 56,100 results as opposed to dogs = 169,000,000 hits). You want to be in a smaller field to increase your chances of being found.

Face it, traffic is essential to your success. Structure you titles to include keywords that will drive traffic to you.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: internet marketing, making money on the internet

Internet Marketing - You Have to be Flexible

An story keeps running through my head as I think about what was posted yesterday about the need to be flexible. There is a lot more to say than the few words that were typed out yesterday. The story goes about the great mighty oak tree that had lived for over 100 years. Strong and proud, it had weathered some years of drought, some years of excessive rain, even a small wildfire. One day a strand of prairie grass was near the oak tree and the oak tree was in his usual bragging mood admiring his reflection in a small nearby pond. “I am mighty and powerful and you, little sprout, will never be as grand as I am.”  Suddenly, the skies darkened and the winds began to blow. The might oak stood his ground and almost laughed at the growing wind. “I am mighty and powerful, this wind is nothing to me”, he boasted. The storm worsened and it grew dark. The next morning the mighty oak had been toppled because as the wind gained strength the tree had not had any flexibility and the wind finally won. The strand of prairie grass, however, was still standing as it was before. The winds at time had the grass laying flat against the ground, but because of its flexibility, it was able to survive.

You have to be flexible to survive in Internet Marketing also. Don’t be so rigid that you will not be able to see what works and what doesn’t and change accordingly. Have a plan, of course, but also be willing to change your plans as necessary. Don’t believe because what has always worked wil work for you in the future because, if there is any one constant in the world, it is change. Things will change. Be flexible to adapt to the changes so that you can be more successful.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: change, flexibility, goals, internet marketing, success

Internet Marketing - You Have to be Able To Be Flexible

When your quest of becoming a successful Internet Marketer is set, you have a single-mindedness of purpose (as discussed yesterday) and your a determined to make a go of it. In your mind you envision the success that you will have, the things that you will do, and the path that you will take to get there. That’s GREAT!! But…what if something happens that is not in line with your goal? Do you give up? Do you quit? Do you drown your sorrows in drink and never recover?

NO!!!

You become flexible. If you were planning to drive from your home to a city 30 miles away, would you turn around, go home, park your car, and give up because there was a red light at the first traffic signal that you came upon? I doubt that (or you would never have left your home). You simply adjust a bit and continue on your journey, being flexible and able to adapt to the changes that may occur along the way.

Such it is with Internet Marketing. There are millions of ideas and plans out there to help you succeed. Not all of them will work for you. Some plans call for you to produce your own e-books for success. You may not have the desire to spend the energy required to write a book. You move to something else. You find a plan that calls for you to outsource work and make money as a contractor. Maybe that isn’t your cup of tea, so to speak.  The thing is, there is some way, some method, some program out there in which you believe with every fiber of your being that you will be successful at doing and, in the process, make some decent money at.

But you have to be flexible to try the things that don’t work until you find the things that do!

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: flexibility, goals, internet marketing, making money on the internet

Internet Marketing - Single-Mindedness of Purpose

Another key in successful Internet Marketing is having a single-mindedness of purpose. Huh? You have to know where you are going and keep your focus on the end result, not being too easily distracted by the noise on the side attempting to keep you from reaching the goal. You will remember that yesterday we talked about deciding and how making a decision is to cut off all possibility of anything that is not your decision and your subconscious will kick in to assist you.

When you become distracted, it is harder to succeed in your dreams. Distraction is a great way to keep a small child from crying. How many times have you seen a parent with a small child who is antsy in the store hand them their keys to keep them entertained. You know that when you decide to make a go of Internet Market and making money on the Internet that there are bound to be distractions and things that “come up” that are demanding your energy.

I am single-minded when I drive. I have a thirty to forty-five minute commute to my work each day (no matter which job I am working at) and my goal is to get from one place to the other. I tend not to look at the scenery or notice the detail of the cars that are driving and staying in their lanes. I have often driven by my wife who was headed the other direct, but never really noticed here because I was on the mission to get to where I was going.

The same applies to having success in the realm of Internet Marketing and making money on the Internet. When you choose to take this path, you will become consumed and sometimes overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information out there. You just have to stay focused and quickly scan the information for tidbits, clues, and hints that will help you to succeed.

You can and will succeed, especially when you put your mind to the goal.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: goals, internet marketing, making money on the internet