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Also known as the “name squeeze page” or “lead capture page”, you can build your mailing list by funneling all of your would-be subscribers through the creation of a landing page. Not only do you do the work just once, your traffic driving efforts can be focused onto just one effective method.

The following are tips in creating a successful landing page that converts visitors into subscribers on a very huge percentage.

Success Tip 1: Offer a freebie in exchange for your visitor’s email address. I very much endorse this method of building your mailing list. You can offer a special report or a sample of your paid product to your visitor in exchange for their details such as name and email address.

Success Tip 2: The landing page must be written professionally. When writing your page, treat it as if you are writing a sales letter. While you are not necessarily making a hard sale or try to get someone to buy your product upfront, being able to entice your visitors to give their details to you is just as important as selling.

Success Tip 3: Other than your opt-in form and perhaps important disclaimers and terms, there shouldn’t be any other links on your landing page.

Success Tip 4: Rub in the benefits of the freebie you are offering more than a mere subscription to your newsletter. You should focus most of the attention of the letter on encouraging your prospective visitor to download your free offer. Later, you gently remind your prospect that he or she has nothing to pay but just merely subscribe to your newsletter in exchange for the freebie.

As a final reminder and conclusion, in order to build trust, you can include your hand-written signature or a photo of yourself explaining where you are coming from and how you can help your visitor through your free report on offer.

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Hey Guys

Are you making money with your list are you tracking and tweaking everything to see whats profitable for you,here are some pointers for you to consider.

An opt-in list can be quite crucial to any site or internet based company. Even for a small venture such as a niche profit site an opt-in list can make a world of difference and also add some extra income for your pocket. Rarely would you see an e-commerce site, big or small, that is without an opt-in list.

An opt-in list allows for a company to market their wares and site via an e-mail. With an opt-in list, a site and a subscriber consents to sending and receiving a newsletter from your company. Through this, you can keep your subscribers abreast of what is currently available in your site as well as whatever is coming out.

And because there is mutual consent between the two parties, any mail sent to the list is not considered as spam mail. There is a great number of successfully read promotional materials such as catalogs, newsletters and such that are sent because the subscribers themselves have signed up for them, meaning, they do want to be sent those items.

Building a list is crucial, only a small percentage actually subscribes for an opt-in list. Many people find promotional mails annoying but of you provide a good newsletter or promotional material,  you will see your list build up and grow. You can also achieve this by having good content on your site. If people like what they see and read on your site, then they surely would want more. Newsletters would be a way to attract them back to your site. A little teaser or appetizer if you will.

But other than marketing your wares and your services, an opt-in list can also be used to earn extra profit. Not all lists can be used though. It would be good to first build a successful list with a huge number of subscribers. The more subscribers you have, the more money you can get. Here are seven ways to make money using nothing more than your list.

1) Place advertisements. There are many corporations who will be willing to pay to put their banners and ads on a list with many subscribers. Selling or renting out lists is not a good idea so rather than doing that, many companies would just rather place ads with lists that have a huge subscriber base. Your newsletter could be placed with many ads and each one spells money.

2) Have affiliations with other companies that have at least a semblance or relation to what your site is about. Here other companies will provide links and brief descriptions of what they offer, products and services. With every click made on the link that directs or leads a subscriber from your list to their site, the company will pay you. This P4P or pay for performance.

3) Make deals with other companies by asking for a small percentage of sales done through your list. With every sale done by customers that have come from your list and have gone there because of your newsletter, the other company will pay you a small percentage of your sales. The more people who buys from them, the more earnings you get.

4) You may also get products from other sites on a consignment basis and sell them to your list via  your newsletter. Place descriptions, articles and photos of the product in your newsletter. There will be those who will buy from you and when that happens, you can order the product from the other site and sell it to your buyer.

5) Sell e-books or a compilation of your articles on your list. Manuals and how-to articles are in great demand. Many people will be willing to shell out money to gain knowledge about a certain topic and subject. With your existing list trusting your expertise in that area, an e-book could be offered and sold or used as an incentive.

6) Create a network out of your list. Get people to invite more people to view your site and subscribe to your list. The larger your list is, the more people will be able to click on your links and affiliate links as well as make your advertisement rates higher.

7) Subscribers are willing to pay for information if they know that it can be trusted and relied upon. Use your list to get more and more people to subscribe to you as well as browse your site. Lastly, you can use your list to earn money by making them your partners. Your list will be the bloodline of your growth and increase.

Take care guys

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Hey Guys

Just an update on the challenge after 4 weeks of blog hopping forum hopping and social media hopping

which is a very slow way to bring in traffic to your blog or optin page.

Below is a screen shot of the results of this method which is slow

but effective.

If you want a quicker way to get traffic click the banner underneath the screen shot.

Until Next time

John Richards

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Hi Guys

Welcome to my Quick Start Challenge Week 2 in this week we are gong to drive free targeted hungry people to my blog using 4 methods

1 Blog Hopping

2 Forum Hopping

3 Social Media Like Pages

4 lost ad-swap Traffic using exit popup

Setting up a new account with Google adsence is a must for this assignment the plan is to visit 5 blogs per day for 7 days same with forum and social media and reporting back here with the result below is a screen shot of the total traffic so far which should be zero so far lets see where this can take us all.

AS you can see we are starting from scratch with this ill be returning with my results in how much traffic optins sales i get with these free methods

Until Week 3

John Richards

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Hey Guys

After a lot of persuasion im going to be taking dean Hollands world renown quick start challenge as my followers wanted to know if it works and can it generate good traffic $ by using free methods so im going to have a blast.

For the next 4 weeks i will document my progress and report back here for the next 4 weeks so keep watching the posts on the blog if you want to follow me side by side then sign up to my rss and let the challenge commence

Until week 2

John Richards

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Welcome Back Guys.

Stuck in an auto responder rut with only your e Zine going out regularly? Get out of the rut with some of these ideas for improvements.

1. Provide back issues of your e Zine archives via your auto responder instead of hosting all your archives online. This will give your subscribers and web site visitors easy access to them and offers a chance to include graphics, audio and video and other components all rolled up in .PDF files for quick, easy download.

2. Help with tech issues and publish your entire web site, save it in a pdf file, and load it into an auto responder. Sometimes visitors don’t have enough time read your entire site or they lose their Internet connection or time online. So this way, they could print it out and read it offline.

3. You could offer your eBook via an auto responder. Often your visitors won’t have to download it or have the software to read it right away, so this way they can take it “to go”.

4. For a handy – -and nice legal – touch, you could include the terms and conditions to purchase transactions and load them into an auto responder that is triggered with each purchase. This could include return policies, purchases, refunds etc.

Until next time

John Richards

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  Effective SEO Comes Cheap

Search engine optimization or SEO is the hottest way to drive targeted traffic to your website. Maximizing the benefits    of  a well optimized website will yield lots of earnings for the marketer. However, optimizing your site might cost you    thousands of dollars if you are not skilled in this area.

But to tell you the truth, you can essentially get information on low cost SEO anywhere in the Internet. But only several really show you how to work out an affordable search engine optimization endeavor. And those few that really inform include this post.

1. Link exchanges

One cheap SEO method that can get you best results is through link exchanges or linking to and from other web sites. Depending on the websites that you would like to exchange links with, this tool could even cost you nothing at all. Contact the author or owner of the web site you want to have a link exchange with. You will be surprised with the eventual spiking up of your page ranking using this means of getting your website optimized.

2. Write or acquire key word rich articles

Writing truly informative and keyword-rich articles is one surefire way to make your Internet business more visible than ever. It’s either you write your own articles or you get them from article directories that allow you to post these articles on your website as long as you keep the resource box or the author’s byline in tact. Just don’t stuff your articles with keywords that even idiots would get bore of reading them. The readability and freshness of your articles will still be the basis of whether your writers will keep on coming back to your website or not.

3. Catchy Domain Name

What better will make your target visitors remember your website but with a very easy-to-recall domain name. Something sweet and short will prove to be very invaluable. Registering your domain name is not for free. But creativity is.

4. Organize your site navigation

Providing easy steps in navigating your site is one way to make your visitors become at ease with your site. This, in turn, will improve the flow of traffic to your website.

Low cost SEO is always evolving like any other approach in information technology. There are many methods that can very well land you on the top ten rankings of Google or on any other search engines. Some may cost a lot but there are methods that can give you the same results at a low price or you can even do on your own such as those mentioned above.

You can get started as little as $5 if you are a techie fob like me check the two links below

http://www.fiverr.com

http://www.seoclerks.com

Hope this helps today guys speak soon

John Richards

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Whether you already use email marketing in order to generate sales with your online business or are simply considering adding this type of advertising to your repertoire, it is essential to understand that email marketing sometimes fails. Despite your best efforts, you may find that your email campaigns did not generate much success. This failure can be due to various reasons. For instance, there may be a serious lack of interest on behalf of your targeted market. Additionally, you may have failed to properly execute your email strategies or perhaps you did not plan appropriately. Below are some tips that may help you overcome such problems and avoid scenarios of this type in the future.

Lack of Interest

Failure to conduct appropriate market research is the number one reason for the failure of many email campaigns. For this reason, before you invest your time and energy into such advertising methods, it is wise to hire a professional consultant to research the market and how receptive it is to the products or services you wish to promote. This research will offer valuable feedback when you are planning future email campaigns. If upon conducting this type of research you discover that your targeted audience is unlikely to buy services or products online or even use the Internet to search for such products, you will certainly want to rethink whether or not you should get involved with this particular marketing technique.

Proper Management of Your Email Campaigns

Another factor that can cause your campaign to fail is improper implementation of your email marketing plan. This is essential, as even the most strategically formulated plan can flounder if each step along the way is not properly executed. For instance, your plan may be to utilize e-newsletters as a vital part of your campaign. However, if your newsletters do not have a professional appearance or do not contain meaningful content, they will not pique your customers’ interest in your products or services. This is why it is important to ensure that your email correspondence contains only quality information and accurate facts that will be helpful to your potential clients.

Finally, improper planning can result in a failed email marketing campaign. For instance, if you launch a mass emailing and use quality articles and newsletters to interest your subscribers, you must be prepared to offer customer service if such individuals have questions about the products and services you offer. You must also be able to fill orders in a quick and timely manner. If you take the time and effort to launch a successful campaign, but do not have enough stock to fill incoming orders immediately, your customers may be hesitant to purchase from you in the future. This is merely one example of how inappropriate planning can create various problems with virtually any marketing campaign. If your goal is to be successful with email marketing, you must be sure to do everything possible to encourage interest in your products and services and properly manage your campaigns. This will essentially ensure that your efforts will ultimately bring the desired results.

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Many individuals are in favor of advertising through email marketing, while others feel that it is not appropriate to advertise via email. Still other marketers are somewhat neutral in their opinion of this type of marketing, and subsequently are neither for or against this technique. For this reason, each online business owner must consider the argument of both sides and make his or her own decision regarding whether or not such advertising techniques are worth pursuing.

Weighing the Pros and Cons

Many online marketers who strongly favor the use of email advertising obviously do so because of the fact that it is an effective way to generate sales. Some marketers are also of the opinion that this technique places less pressure on the online business owner, as such email can be used to generate a profit even if the recipients of such correspondence fail to make a purchase.

Those who are decidedly against this method of advertising usually feel this way because they are convinced that such ads will be viewed as spam and for this reason are a waste of time. They cite that the quality of the content in such correspondence is typically not as meaningful as it should be, and therefore will be viewed in a negative way by most customers.

There are also people who are undecided regarding how they feel about email advertising. Such individuals generally believe that advertising in this manner is acceptable, provided the ads do not overshadow the email’s original intent. For example, they believe that so long as the correspondence contains helpful and meaningful information for the recipient, then it is perfectly acceptable to place an ad somewhere within the content.

Making an Informed Decision

The information outlined above is simply a general view of both sides of the argument. This is because the decision whether or not to use such a marketing venue is a highly individual choice, and each person must form his or her own opinion before opting to embrace or shun such advertising methods. Ultimately, the choice will likely be based on one’s personal opinions and individual convictions about what is and is not acceptable in the world of online advertising.

Those who find themselves on the fence about this technique should continue to research the topic until they are better able to make an informed decision. One effective way to make this determination is to ask one’s customers what types of email correspondence they are receptive to and which forms of advertising they immediately categorize as spam. It is also wise to speak to other marketers and ask them about the advertisements they use in their email campaigns and the kind of response they receive.

Marketers may even wish to experiment a bit with such techniques in order to get a first-hand idea of whether or not their customer base would be receptive to correspondence of this type. Ultimately, one must make this decision based on what is best for his or her business.

Regards

John Richards

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Each day, millions of individuals receive numerous emails telling them why they should purchase a particular item or visit a specific website. Although such emails are sent in high volume to many Internet users, they are frequently ignored by the recipients. This is because emails that contain phrases that consumers associate with overt sales tactics are frequently viewed as spam.

Customers react to spam in a variety of ways, from simply blacklisting the individual from whom the email was sent to contacting their Internet service provider for the purpose of taking more serious action. For this reason, those who participate in email marketing often find that it is challenging to keep their correspondence from being deleted as spam.

The Importance of Quality Content

One of the most effective ways for marketers to make sure their emails are not viewed as spam is to make the sales pitch subtle. This approach is also referred to as a “soft sell” in the traditional and Internet marketing worlds. It involves ensuring that the email correspondence contains quality content. The materials should include helpful facts and meaningful information concerning the goods and services being offered by the Internet marketer.

Avoiding Overt Sales Tactics

It is also essential for Internet marketers to avoid the use of classic sales catchphrases, such as “miracle product” or “overnight wealth can be yours.” Virtually any phrase that sounds too good to be true should be avoided. For example, if someone truly found a way to make $10,000 a month online in five days, that person would not be selling the secret in an e-book for a few dollars. Consumers are not nearly as naïve as merchants sometimes assume, and therefore it is wise for marketers to shun classic sales dialogue in lieu of a more subtle approach.

Targeting the Most Suitable Candidates

Another way to advertise in a subtle way when launching an email marketing campaign is to limit one’s correspondence to the most suitable candidates for the product or service. Those who receive emails on topics in which they have absolutely no interest rarely spend any time reading them, but rather are quick to hit the delete key. Therefore, marketers should carefully choose their prospective clients based on their level of interest in the products and services being offered.

The Appropriate Use of Links

Internet entrepreneurs can also make sure their email marketing campaigns are not regarded as spam by keeping references to their websites to a minimum. Most consumers view links from one site to another as a sales tactic. A more effective way to use such links is to weave them into a newsletter or other piece of meaningful correspondence with a lead-in phrase such as “for more information click here”, followed by the marketer’s link.

This will have a much better impact than “click here for a once-in-a-lifetime offer.” Finally, essentially all Internet marketers should consider the possibility of hiring a professional writer to complete the copy, as this can only help to ensure the success of the merchant’s email marketing efforts.

Enjoy guys

John Richards

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