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Permission based email marketing: Building a mailing list to increase business

September 9, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

The major focus here is “List Building Automation”. This is going to be a great system
for those who really want to build solid online business. On the other hand, if you love
taking chances, you may not benefit from this system.

As you explore this overview on List Building Automation system, it is up to you to
decide whether or not the system is for you.

Permission-Based Email Marketing

This overview was curled from a video system created by Matt Callen. Going by the content
of the video, one would conclude that the entire thing should have been called “Business
Building Automation” since it is all encompassing, rather than focusing just on “List Building”.

The opening video started with Matt comparing two business models; both business models
generating income online, paid advertising as well as list building. He made huge success at
first through the paid ad business model; however, later on, the business almost crashed
because the model’s reliance on particular services provision by a third party was not sustainable.

Here’s Matt’s comment:

“When the third party you are relying on changes course suddenly, you are left with no
option but to change your own course suddenly in order to survive”.

This business owner has shown that he has what it takes to make nearly any system profitable;
however, by revealing his own overwhelming near-failure via the initial model, he was compelled
to embark on more broad-based system, which is also robust.

This business man is Matt: now, with his experience, the second model that proved more effective
is the subject of this series – the model’s driving force is a solid list.

Building a Solid List

Matt explains that, building a solid list is the sole way to achieve reliable income stream. It is also
the best way to build an asset whose growth would not be obstructed by changes that take place within.

It appears that the big players such as Google and Facebook are likely to change. The outcome will
impact the way you generate your list. However, if you have a strong list of customers, you will not be
affected while trying to acclimatize to the changes in pricing structure. Prominently, the list building
techniques can be broad and it is possible to have your lead gathering spread across a good number of
systems – including certain internal systems for lead gathering. Consequently, no changes made by
these big players will affect your list growing on the web.

Through experience, Matt has realized that several systems for generating online income can bring in
quick bucks. However, this is not sufficient – Matt believes that it makes no sense if such system can cause
your source of income to vanish suddenly, it’s simply a poor and devastating system of running a business.
This is because it is difficult for you to envisage that the source can suddenly vanish since you made it so fast.
At last, when the reality of the crash comes staring you on the face, it will all feel like being left with a hangover.
The worst is that the entire business will be created from the scratch, making so much effort to discover the
next online hit. The truth is that this one will also dry up eventually – so, do you really want to be operating
in such a manner and for how long?

The entire focus of Business Building Automation is to build up and protect a strong list of clients who will
ultimately become loyal to your business.

 

 

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Internet marketing trends in 2011: What to expect

September 7, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

The past year was really a thrilling one for internet activities. In 2010, it appeared as though
Facebook was a big threat to the mighty search engine – Google. In the same year, there was
steady and continuous growth of social networking. Also, mobile web has became more
popular than conventional browsing using PCs – the iPad and iPhone played a major role in
increased mobile browsing rates.

2011 Internet Marketing Trends

Social Networking is here to Stay
Social networking will increasingly grow in leaps and bounds. Facebook and Twitter will continually
take a leap forward in taking share of Google’s huge market share and a lot of businesses are likely to
divert their attention from the ‘conventional’ to a social presence.

Obviously, the social network is here to stay, everyone is clamoring about it and lots of businesses are
benefiting massively from having a social presence. It is the best way to reach out to vast demographics
and place your business offerings before them. Your job is to learn the tips for getting followers in
these social networks.

There May be a New Face to Search Engine this Year
2011 may usher in a little change in search engine optimization; however, it will not stop being the major
marketing strategy for several online businesses. Just as it has been in the past years, focus will shift to
“long tail” niche markets – as competition for broad search terms become dense with big names
(renowned brands). Sensitive marketers would research long tail keywords in their niche, so that
they can crack up low traffic with ease.

Increase Rise in the Use of Mobile Devices to Access the Internet
Also, the use of mobile devices to surf the web will rise greatly in 2011. Businesses are increasingly taking
advantage of apps as they begin to realize how powerful these tools are for marketing. It is envisaged that
more people are likely to access the internet using mobile devices. than they would do with personal
computers. So, it’s time to join the mobile browsing bandwagon. Also, ensure that your website features
mobile-friendly tools.

The Use of Blogging as a Marketing Tool will Increase Greatly
More than ever before, a good number of mainstream businesses will join the bandwagon of those who are
already using blogging as an online business marketing tool. Don’t focus much on traditional news sections
feature on websites – more people are getting increasingly aware of the need for fresh information. So
web 2.0 will increasingly rise as Search engines are making concerted efforts to bring fresh and highly
relevant information to those surfing the web through them. Therefore, businesses that would embark on
regular update of their contents will be rewarded significantly. Also, Augmented Reality is likely to break
through into the mainstream market this year.

2011 is really loaded with changes in online marketing! Don’t be left out.

 

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How to achieve a quality twitter following

September 2, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Tweeter is no longer something new. Today, everybody knows about Twitter;
your folks, friends and even grannies are all twitting. If you have an online
business, how can you take advantage of Twitter to grow your online business?

Here are tips and tricks that work.

Real Photos Count a Lot
Social platform users prefer to connect with real faces, not logos or some images.
So, use your real photo in your Twitter page instead of company image or logo.
Besides, using a business logo would only create the impression that it is all
about boring sales tone, this is a huge turn off for most social network users.

Your Bio Line
Your bio line comes before your tweets; people would want to know if you are worth following through your bio line. Remember, only 160 characters are available for your bio line, so don’t blab, ensure that you maximize it. Avoid using a sales pitch or making it spammy. Just use the right words to describe yourself and your business. You can also include the URL to your blog or website.

Tips on Getting People to Follow You on Twitter
Your email list or business contacts serve as viable tool for achieving twitter following. If these people are Twitter users already, invite them to follow you. Include your Twitter URL on your site, in your email signature as well as blogs – you are indirectly asking people to follow you on twitter. Other places you can incorporate your Twitter URL include your flyers, business cards and other conventional business materials.

A helpful thing to do is to register at twellow.com for free – this is the Yellow Pages of Twitter users. You will be listed in a Twitter directory in your business niche. Take advantage of every opportunity to spread the news about your presence on Twitter. Include your Twitter URL in your Facebook page and get the link spreading as you share it for your friends on Facebook.

The most beneficial following on Twitter is when you follow the authorities as well as regular Twitter users in your specific niche. This will help you to know how you can enhance your result and you will get to interact more with like-minds.

By nature, humans are very curious. They would want to know who is following who, so they will regularly follow the links to know the caliber of people following those in their niche. Thus, concentrate more on seeking followers who share the same business line and interest with you. Don’t be passive, be part of the conversations and give your own advice.

Establish yourself as an authority in your niche and watch followers flow naturally to you.

 

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Google’s official statement warns on pagerank obsession

August 31, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

A good number of webmasters are very much concerned about the PageRank that Google’s toolbar displays. Focusing on this value is not quite prudent enough. Few years back, there was an official statement by Google, pointing out clearly that webmasters should pay attention to other things that count more, instead of getting obsessed with pageRank.

Here’s what Google has to say about PageRank:

“For some years now, the Webmaster Central has continuously told webmasters not to place all their attention on PageRanks as the yardstick for measuring the success of one’s website.

Even if PageRank made Google – distinct as a search engine in 1998 when it was founded, we certainly had a good number of opportunities to bump up and upgrade our systems of ranking over the past decade. PageRank has now stopped being (has it really been?) the all-in-all of ranking.

The publicly visible PR is not the same as the number used by our algorithm for ranking. It is not sensible bothering about a number that is at most three steps taken off from your real goal; meanwhile, it is possible for you to measure what you want to achieve directly.”

If PageRank does not really count, what counts then?

In order to ascertain a website’s position on search results, Google employs a wide range of factors. According to Google’s recent blog, there are three key examples of metrics that count:

  1. Conversion Rate: This refers to the percentage of your site’s visitors that translate to actual clients.
  2. Click-through Rate: Out of the number of times your website was displayed in the search results page, how many times did people click on it?
  3. Bounce Rate: This is the percentage of visitors to your website who do not stay on your site a moment longer.

In addition to these top three examples, there are other things that would help you generate enhanced outcome with your search engine listings.

Plan and Set Realistic Goals

It could be that what you want is more than a high PageRank. Your passion is to generate income with your website. You desire to get more leads, more people signing up for your newsletter…and such things.

Tips on Achieving Your Goal

  • Select the proper keywords: The most important aspect of keyword is to have it get the targeted visitors to your site – visitors that would convert to buyers.
  • Rank high for these targeted keywords: note that what is important is to rank high for the right keywords, not PageRank.
  • Generate quality backlinks: your website will benefit severally when you generate quality backlinks. One, traffic will pour directly via the links. Also, the position of your site in Google will improve significantly.

 

 

Filed Under: Featured Articles, Google, Search Engine Optimisation, Search Engines Tagged With: , ,

Facebook will now mine your conversations and deliver more targeted ads

August 14, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Facebook has recently commenced the rollout of a new
technique that mines a user’s conversation and delivers targeted
ads based on the content of these conversations, its estimated this is currently
being employed on approx one percent of all users accounts globally.

Ads targeted to the specific likes and interests of the user
This method analyzes the chat and status updates and finds any words that
relate to a brand name or product in any way.
This method is basically created to deliver ads that are targeted
to the specific likes and interests of Facebook users.

Triggering a facebook ad type based on word associations
Let’s suppose that a person has updated his Facebook status and used the word
Holidays in some context in their update.
This word might then later trigger an ad related to an ad with offers from holiday companies.
This method is expected to be much more accurate and to-the-point for the users but the
chances that it to be misleading or inaccurate are also there. There were about 6 million users
who tested this new system and the results were amazing. Any word that they used became the “target”
for the system and it generated an ad against it.

Good news for companies who are advertising on Facebook
If you use the word “ice-cream” in any of your conversations, an ad related to any of the ice-cream
companies will be shown to you in real-time. This system is expected to generate much more visitors
for the companies who are advertising on Facebook.

Better targeted and in real-time.
It is not the first time that Facebook is delivering targeted ads, but this time,
they are even better targeted and in real-time.
In previous trials a large percentage of Facebook
users reported that they rarely notice ads because they were to heavily involve
in either online chat and other related activities.
Perhaps improvements in the relevancy of these new ads will buck this trend.

Its claimed that click through rates on facebook are as low as 0.051%, these are especially low
compared to industry averages.  Therefore it’s very possible more relevant real time ads
will improve on this performance in the future.

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Top 6 tips for ranking high in google places

July 29, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Ranking in Google Places for several searches is not just easy. This also shows that Google Places has evolved to become very important. Google Places usually occupy the top segment of the result page for a search phrase. As a result, you may rank number one in a particular keyword, you would notice that more than three Google Places are ranking above your number one position.

Now, what techniques are effective when it comes to ranking high in Google Places?

  1. Business Page Set Up
    The initial step towards ranking high in Google Places is to set up your business page. This is as simple as filling out your profile on Google Places. Google account is what you need and it does not cost you anything to own one, it is also easy to set up.
  2. Getting Listed
    Getting listed is very necessary if you must generate the most excellent citations. Their sources could be from pages like Superpages, Yahoo, Insiderpages and others. When you are listed, it becomes easier to provide Google with each bit of information relevant to your business. Ensure that you include every possible detail, do not leave any essential field. This is very beneficial, detailed information is capable of influencing your rankings for a wide range of search terms.
  3. Citations
    Simply put, citation is mentioning of your business and its offerings on another website. Try your best to get the closest you can to the precise match of your Google Places. Therefore, ensure that your description, link, contact info and just any relevant info matches your Google Places page. Your organic ranking would be positively affected as well.
  4. Ensure that Your Citations are Accurate
    This includes the existing citations and the ones you are getting listed for. It would be a fruitless effort if you get listed with the wrong information.  Check for accuracy in the aspect of your names, phone numbers as well as addresses. Also, check for accuracy regarding the details on your website and ensure it is exactly the same as the one to be listed.
  5. Reviews
    Reviews are proof of trust; it is a powerful tool when it comes to getting citation indexed  and attaining high rank in Google; it also helps in Google Places listing. So, strive for as many reviews as possible from different sites. Encourage both suppliers and customers to leave reviews. Also, you can secure mutual agreement reviews from companies or businesses within your industry.
  6. It is Helpful to Build more Links
    This is not just the regular SEO link building that points back to your website; go ahead with more local links that include your address, business name, URL as well as phone number.

These valuable tips are too effective to be neglected! Swing into action without delay.

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Top Advantages of Social Media Marketing

March 9, 2011 By admin 2 Comments

Social media is making a lot of waves these days. In case you are still wondering about what the fuss is all about, here are the top advantages or benefits of social media to your business, and to you as an individual.

Benefits of Social Media Marketing for Your Business

  • Brand Establishment and Awareness Creation

Most people all over the world are all over the social media sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Making your brand name known across these networks is a fast developing method of creating awareness and to establish your brand identity.

Make interesting and highly entertaining YouTube videos that your audience would be eager to share. Also, creating entertaining online community that would be enticing and interesting for your customers to visit (using Twitter or Facebook) will increase your brand popularity. These are benefits/strategies to increase traffic to your websites and also to generate leads.

  • Social Media Network Enables You to Spy on Your Competitors

Social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter are great places to spy your competitors and to know what they are up to; this way, you can come up with a better strategy to outdo them.

  • Advertise Your Products with a Mix of Fun and Interaction

Facebook and other top social media networks are great places to advertise your products for free; however, you must not pitch sales tone to avoid irritating your friends/follower who are in the social network solely to ‘friend’ and ‘share’. Incorporate entertainment onto your ads and use engaging questions to get them to respond. You will generate customers this way, without being outright with your ads.

  • Direct the Attention of Your Audience to Your Product

Once you get your brand name running on a social media network, you are already on a fast track towards getting attention of people to your offerings (your products and/or services). Accompany your brand with online promotion to the benefit of members of your community. Then watch how your sales will skyrocket.

  • Social Media Enables You to Grow Customer Loyalty and Trust

You can achieve this by communicating with your customers on a personal level; this way, they will feel at home, as though they are relating to a friend rather than a company. This is a fast way to build customer loyalty and trust. Also, they will be willing to refer your business to others.

  • Pay Attention to Your Customer’s Opinion

Social media platforms would enable you to know the view of your audience concerning your offerings or business. If they criticize your business or offerings, take a deeper look at what they are trying to point out, especially if more than one person is saying the same thing. This will help you to know what aspect of your product or business to enhance.

The list of benefits that social media platforms offer a business is simply inexhaustible! If you have not established your brand on Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms, start right away. 

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Best Ways To Generate Revenue from Email Marketing

March 3, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Email marketing has the immense capability to generate revenue in leaps and bounds; the excellent thing is that email marketing can be integrated into any form of internet marketing. Just like any good internet marketing, email marketing comes with these in-built features:

  • It is possible to track everything
  • You can define the ROI
  • With better implementation, any other medium would be kicked out of service.

For email marketing, the fact that ROI kicks the butt of other online marketing medium is better news.

Looking to grow ROI and revenue from your email campaigns? Have a look at these highly effective steps you need to follow:

  1. Get your landing page optimized. Don’t be satisfied until you attain 30% conversion rate for your landing page.
  2. Also, your click-through rate as well as calls to action for conversions should be optimized. You should endeavor to ascertain the conversions percentage generated by featuring an an image-link in your email campaigns for every call to action. Subsequently, place them in the topmost click-through rate locations and get familiar with the phrase as well as layout that generate the real thing.
  3. Take steps to grow the email database leads. An excellent way is to generate leads from every touch point that you have with potential clients and existing clients. Also, engage in vigorous search engine optimization, online PR, pay-per-click as well as social media campaigns; the whole essence is to ensure that you generate revenue on every lead; in addition, you will get future marketing email addresses.
  4. Meet your subscribers’ need in all possible ways – use mobile email messaging. Your email messages should feature particular capabilities to offer a mobile email message to a recipient, including a mobile landing page. However, it all depends on whether they are using desktop application or mobile device.
  5. Incorporate social media. In a situation where a very loyal product following accompanies your products, the exceptionality of your product will be sufficient for your mobile messages to spread across social networks such as Facebook. Otherwise, ensure that the content of your message is remarkable so that it can benefit your audience. Alternatively, you can make the message very entertaining, so that people would be quick and excited to share the message. As soon as you are done, go ahead and make “Share” and “Like” calls to action as part of your email. Subsequently, you ought to get revenue from social networks as well.
  6. Incorporate SMS. The read rate of SMS is almost 100 percent. The good part is that the spam part of SMS is just 5 percent. So, send only valuable info occasionally, this way, you will achieve huge reach and substantial response from the recipient of your message.

If you adhere to these steps, you will have a rapidly growing substantial revenue from email marketing.

Filed Under: Email Marketing Solutions, Featured Articles, Internet Marketing Tagged With: ,

Google Caffeine – The Harbinger Of Change

February 26, 2010 By ritesh Leave a Comment

Website ranking will change after the advent of Google Caffeine. Although nothing detailed has been released about Google Caffeine, the insiders and webmasters are sure that it will bring a lot of change in the ranking of your webpage. Google Caffeine is going to change a lot of its parameters to rank the website. Though some of the old parameters are sure to stay, yet you need to do a bit extra to rank your website high on the search engines.
The changes that will be brought to Google’s next index – Google Caffeine
The expected changes that will affect the ranking of websites include:
• The speed of the website: The speed with which a website loads will play a vital role in determining its ranking on a search engine. The websites which take longer to load will be left behind by websites that open quickly. With high speed comes higher Google ranking.
• Bad links: If the website has too many broken links or links from spammers then it is bound to have a lower ranking. These two factors will be major yardsticks in the ranking process. A bad neighborhood or too many known spammer links can actually have negative impact on the search engine.
• Quality does matter: The Google Caffeine will rank a webpage according to its quality of content. The content should be highly optimized and the navigation of the website must be easy with good inbound links.
• Social bookmarking: Social bookmarks will also have a positive impact on the ranking of the websites. If the website has more social bookmarks, then it is assured to attain a higher rank on the search engines.
What you can do for a higher ranking of your website on Google Caffeine
Knowing that there might be changes in the ranking criteria for the websites when Google Caffeine is released, the following tips can undoubtedly put your website on top of the search engines.
• Spam free website: Make sure that your website doesn’t contain any spam and in case there is any spammer website that puts its link on your page, remove it at the earliest. Ensure that nothing on your website represents a spam like camouflaged text or image links etc.
• Website design: Design of your website becomes significant with the Google Caffeine. Make sure that the font color of the text matter stands out clearly from the background. The website should avoid having fully automated linking systems as it may be considered as spam and could lead the way to losing your ranking.
• Easy navigation: Your website should have easy parsing by the search engine spiders so as to make the navigation easy and clear. This will help the website in achieving a better ranking.
• Inbound links: Link building will continue to remain important even after the Google Caffeine is introduced. You must therefore focus on quality links that will improve the ranking of your website. Getting good links from social networking sites will increase the page rank of any website and hence you must focus on that.

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Articles, Google, Search Engine Optimisation, Website Promotion

Getting into Google’s Real-Time Results

February 25, 2010 By ritesh Leave a Comment

Search terms that are most recently talked about on social networking sites are displayed by Google as real-time results on the search engine result pages. As a prelude to this newly introduced feature, Google has joined hands with Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Identi.ca and Twitter.
In simple terms, Googles real time results display the latest and most sought after links of network communities, for a particular keyword search. It is placed at the bottom of the search page.
Simple procedures that get your site references into Google’s real-time results
Although Google has not yet disclosed the criteria for choosing your tweet on real-time results, the below given factors do influence this process.
1. Do not post contents that look like spam because Google scrutinizes the quality of contents posted on your blog post, tweet, etc.
2. If a twitter assumes high authority and attains huge fan following, Google appears to create profiles of real-time results for such users that are re-tweeted.
3. Quite interestingly, it has been found that Google identifies spammers by the quality of their messages as well as the followers.
Data so collected will be used by Google to evaluate an “Update Rank” for each user.
Invest quality time in Google’s real-time results
The real-time results that Google displays has a few problems. It does not appear for all search terms and quickly replaces one result with another. This characteristic feature doesn’t allow for lasting real-time results on Google. It is hence a better and wiser option to invest time and money on getting to the top of regular Google search results. The higher you rank on Google’s regular search results, the more will be your website’s targeted visitors. This helps increase your revenue.
Honest is the best policy
The real-time results does enhance Google’s portfolio, but it seems to be problematic in the long run. It is quite unlikely that high authority posters will sell links in their tweets. A stark reality is that, the veracity of a posted message cannot be ascertained by Google on time. The recent report of the death of actress Natalie Portman on Google real-time results is a glaring example of the damaging effects of displaying wrong information. When it comes to business, the damage could be multi-fold.
Make honest effort to be found in a natural way to your social media posts. Cheating the system could get you blacklisted. Add keywords that converge targeted visitors to your site. Offer interesting and fresh content on your website every week so that people talk and tweet about it. This will ensure that you get to the Top 10 results of Google’s search pages.

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Articles, Google, Search Engine Optimisation, Search Engines
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