7 Surefire Ways To Increase Your Traffic Starting Yesterday
Internet. Business. Profit. To fully integrate all of these words into a successful merging you will need another word. Traffic. Every article you will find about making your site or company successful would always include the importance of generating traffic. Read more
Difference Between SEO and PPC
The internet community is surely a big market place that you can’t ignore, especially if you’ve got an online enterprise. There are thousands, if not millions, of business owners that you can tap into the Internet. At the same time, the straightforward access that the internet provides also gives you as much competition as you can imagine. Read more
Managing “Dallas Millioniares” on MeetUp.com
I was lucky enough to take charge of a MeetUp group called “Dallas Millionaires“. I’ve added a lot of flare and content to it, but it really needs a lot more active members. The group was abandoned by the original and was only 2 days away from being deleted. Since I’ve stepped up, we’ve gained 17 new members. Read more
The Master & 1,000 Men
What difference is there between a martial artist who has mastered 1,000 weapons and a person who is a master of 1,000 men? Who would win in a battle?
Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen are among my favorite martial art experts. They are who I admire and look up to in the martial art realm. But I would, without a doubt, bet that these three would be defeated by a group of 1,000 men even if they fought together.
If you want to win the Internet business battle you must also be a master of 1,000 men. Think of that as my very own proverb.
“But I can’t afford to and I don’t know how I could control 1,000 men.”
Of course, you already know I’m not talking about 1,000 actual men. I’m talking about autoresponders and affiliates.
Autoresponders:
Imagine a machine that automatically collects your visitor’s information, sends out sales letters, sends your products and much more 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without complaining, whining or screaming for a raise.
An autoresponder is valuable for one important thing: AUTOMATION.
Autoresponders help put any Internet business on autopilot. You can help determine which direction your business will go.
Sure, manually sending out emails to your visitors and clients is important but by utilizing autoresponders you could customize it to where each email is a personal email and yet you don’t even have to keep retyping or reclicking to send it out to all your visitors and clients.
An autoresponder is a great way to automate a lot of the sales process that you used to use after someone visited your web site. Do you want someone to receive a fixed number of mailings at certain times? Do you want to continue enticing the visitor to buy your products? Do you want to continuously convince your current buyers to buy more? Autoresponders are the way to go.
You can have people opt themselves into your autoresponder and have them get a different mailing every 3 days or every week or at any other interval you want.
With the technology today, you can also use professional autoresponders to reach each customer who triggered your autoresponder to message them with their own name. Instead of having pre-written letters with just “Hello!” it could now be “Hello Kevin!”
It’s possible for you to mail too much or too little. Mailing too much will have people opting out of your materials because they perceive that you are bugging them. Mailing them not enough will not only result in the waste of a good autoresponder but also more people will opt out because they won’t remember who you are.
Many of you are probably already using autoresponders and have been saying “duh” to me this whole time, but are you utilizing this machine to its full potential?
Here are a few ideas:
1. Use it to send your products/services.
2. Use it to sell other products/services.
3. Use it to send your follow-up sales letter.
4. Use it to send out your e-zine/newsletter.
5. Use it to teach your customers/members by providing ecourses.
6. Use it to bring back old customers who haven’t purchased anything in a while.
7. Use it as paid advertising for sponsors.
8. Use it to test by sending out surveys.
Affiliates:
Here’s where I have to vent a little. A lot of these so called “gurus” will claim in having the secrets to getting thousands of visitors each day for free, without doing anything and blah, blah, blah. They won’t tell you how at first but the truth is, once you buy into their scheme, you’re going to find out that these thousands of free hits actually came from their affiliates!
Whoopty-do, some big secret that is.
Yes, it is possible to have as much as 100,000 hits a day because of affiliates but that means you need about 1,000+ affiliates promoting your website. You have to consider the fact that not all affiliates are going to produce the same results and so you have to shoot below the estimates a little.
Imagine that each of your 1,000 affiliates were only able to bring in 50 visitors to your website each day. That of course would bring in 50,000 visitors a day. Here’s the catch, it’s not easy to recruit 1,000 affiliates as these gurus claim.
Hey, you’re no Mark Joyner or Jimmy D. Brown, are you? If so, please contact me at 1-800-IAM-RICH! That’s not a real number of course. The fact of the matter is, having an affiliate system in your business will help multiply your earnings and your traffic, but you shouldn’t have to pay someone to realize that.
With this in mind, go out there and build your army!
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Your Take Away:
1) You don’t have to fight the battle alone.
2) Utilize autoresponders to its full potential.
This article was written by Kevin Lam from TexasSEO.com – Texas SEO is a Dallas-based web marketing and consulting company. We can help you improve your on-site and off-site optimization so that your website not only looks good to visitors but rank well for the keywords you need. Let us increase your business by first giving you a free analysis.
How To Increase Your Link Popularity
Search engines are the gateway to the Internet ; they are the first tool that people use to find the products and services they need. This is the reason why link popularity is so imperative.
There are a couple of things you should be aware of.
The first is that just linking up with a big number of other Internet sites will not achieve link popularity.
In reality, it might have quite the reverse effect. This is very true when applying to web sites that are nothing less than “link farms” – pages containing line after line of indiscriminate links. The next thing to be aware of is the standard of the site you are linking to. Linking to sites of poor quality will only reduce your link recognition, if not fully destroy it. So let’s get to what you want to do to gain ultimate link recognition and enhance your rankings to stellar standing on all of the preferred search engines.
The first step, and the quickest way to get your foot in the doorway, is to get a listing in a favored directory, like Open Directory Project and Yahoo. If your Internet site is business-related, you may need to be mentioned on Yahoo, and regardless of the fact that it’ll cost around $300 a year, it’ll be cash spent well. If your site is non-commercial, the listing will be free, but it’ll take time and follow-up to essentially get it listed.
Open Directory gives you a free listing if you are business-related or non-commercial, but be ready to make a large amount of follow-up investigations before you see your website listed. You are trying to get listed in the top level of acceptable category, and this just takes some commonsense. All you need to do is look a little deeper – and submit your listing to the “Fine Alpaca Wool” category. You won’t only associate yourself with culture and quality, but you’ll be listed in a state category. The following step after you have reached directory listings is to find other quality sites that may raise your link recognition.
Attempt to find sites that are in some form related to yours, so not only will your link recognition increase, but your purchaser base may also be expanded. You need to dodge your competition and look for sites that are useful to your internet site’s visitors.
Let us take a look at the Alpaca Wool site example. Linking up to a site that sells knitting supplies would be useful to your visitors, and the probabilities of the knitting supply site desiring to link up to your website are also larger.
Google is a good beginning place for your search.
Don’t forget, your factors are quality, highly ranked, non-competing internet sites having a links or resources page.
Study the quality of the product, the graphics, and the simplicity of use. Then take a look at the other sites they are linked to, and identify if your own site would fit in with the bunch. When you decide you have found a good prospect, you need to set out to woo them. The very first thing to do is to add a link on your own links page to their site. This is a necessary primary step ; it shows good religion, and ups your possibilities seriously of their reciprocity. A hook like this nearly always insures the reader will read on.
Next, be certain to be flattering and tell them how much you appreciate their web site. Ensure you stress that you have essentially visited their site, and that their site isn’t just a random pick. Give them the address of your links page, and ask them to try the link for themselves.
Momentarily , say why link recognition is so necessary, but do this in a sentence or 2 so you don’t sound like a professor.
Go through this process with as many acceptable sites as you’ll find, bearing in mind the criteria of quality and non-competitiveness. Then give it another month, and if your website is still absent from their links page, it’s time to remove their link from your own links page. The single time you wish to pursue a link further than this is if you think a site is vital to your link recognition and your business desires. Then set up a schedule to test your ranking in search engines often to work out if your link recognition has improved. This is not achievable in the blinking of an eye. It’ll take some time and a fair deal of work.
There’s no way round the labor-intensive quality of improving your link popularity, which is the reason why search engines regard it with such significance. In reality – ensure you have a gorgeous, streamlined site or you may never convince anybody to link up to you. Be ready to keep plugging away at this process, so long as it takes, till you achieve link popularity and super stardom.
This article was written by Dallas’ TexasSEO.com – Texas SEO is a Dallas-based web marketing and consulting company. We can help you improve your on-site and off-site optimization so that your website not only looks good to visitors but rank well for the keywords you need. Let us increase your business by first giving you a free analysis.
Back From First Day of World Internet Summit – You Should Be Here!
I had such a blast today. I’m now back from day one of the World Internet Summit in Dallas. It’s their 2nd event here and I’ve gotta tell you, it’s freak’n awesome! I got to meet Stephen Pierce, Tom Hua, Brett Mcfall and Sean Roach. These guys combined make over $150,000,000 a year. Yeah, that freak’n much!
For whatever reason, you’re not here at the summit. The $197 was too much, the plane ticket and hotel is way over your head or you simply can’t at this time. Well, I’ve got good news for you. You can be watching it LIVE for a mere fraction of the price (this offer expires in 3 days though). Read more
All Things Happen For A Reason
If I had never joined the Navy, I probably would never have realized how much I love my wife, Ashley. If I had not been stationed in Japan and without my wife, I would never have found the time to make a deal with a multi-million dollar company nor would I be able to come in contact with powerful marketers and millionaires.
If the ground crew did not spot the damage on the aircraft prior to take off yesterday, I could probably be dead by now. If one of the passengers did not freak out and caused us to de-board a second time I would not have gotten to the Narita Airport (Japan) late enough to miss the trains and buses, which allowed me to come up with a new niche product.
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