Low Cost, No Cost Squeeze Pages

Low Cost, No Cost Squeeze Pages
Before we jump into how to create a squeeze page for little
or nothing, it's important to talk about what a squeeze
page really is.

According to wikipedia "Squeeze pages are landing pages
created to solicit opt-in email addresses from prospective
subscribers."

A company's opt in list is one of those marketing tools
that is definitely not over hyped. Each name on an opt in
list is worth dollars. Bath and Body Works initiated a
campaign and built a list of more than 10 million customer
names and emails. They estimate that each email address is
worth $18 in sales. Add the zeros and it doesn't take a
calculator to realize the tremendous value their email list
has.

So it's no wonder that businesses spend tons of money
trying to make the most of their squeeze page. If each
name is worth money, the more names collected the more
profits.

However a profitable and productive squeeze page doesn't
have to cost thousands of dollars.

Here are a few free and low cost squeeze page tools to help
you on the road to a very profitable opt in list.

1.Instantsqueezepagegenerator.com This is a resell
software product and is available via many websites. This
is just one of the sites that offers the product. It has
received good reviews and is listed on Top Shareware.net as
100% clean. That means it is considered to be safe from
viruses and malware commonly found on shareware products.

2.http://www.downloadpipe.com/communications-other-e-mail-to
ols/review-WordPress-Guide-Niche-List-Builder-1090335.html
This is another freeware program that has received good
reviews. Here's the publisher's description of the
software "Create a PRO Niche Squeeze Page No HTML knowledge
required. Build your profitable list on steroids. Newbie
friendly software to automate the list building process"

3.http://www.howtocorp.com/cgi-bin/webbbs_config.pl/noframes
/read/55865 Video tutorial on how to create a squeeze page
with free templates.

4.SelfSeo.com Article on how to create a squeeze page.

5.http://www.download.com/6-Squeeze-Page-Templates-with-PLR/
3000-2649_4-10766353.html Squeeze page templates to make
the job easier!

6.Mysqueezepagetemplates.com More templates

7.Optindesign.com Free squeeze page templates and a report
on how to optimize them

8.http://www.fredgleeck.com/fred-gleeck-free-stuff.php

Access to several professional quality books on marketing,
publishing and yes...squeeze pages.

Squeeze pages are a helpful tool in building the all
important opt in list. Do it right and you could be
sitting on 180 million dollars just like Bath and Body
works. Now that's an incentive!

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Joan Finholt is a retired teacher and loves using the
internet. She is co-owner of Bound and Determined books and
yes, the domain name spelling is correct.
http://www.boundanddetrmined.com

Effectively Using Overture/Yahoo To Get Website Visitors

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Should You Take A Programmed Approach For Work At Home Affiliate?

Should You Take A Programmed Approach For Work At Home Affiliate?
Many people get online to start their own internet business
with affiliate programs and have been very successful with
it. However, some people prefer to use a programmed
approach for work at home affiliates. Is this the best
thing to do for your business? You are the only one that
can decide.

When you have your own internet business you will have many
tasks that need to be completed every day. There is always
something new to learn about and here is always something
to get done. That is just a fact of running a business that
you have to accept if you are going to have your own
business. How you run your business will affect how
successful you are.

There are a lot of tools, software and other things that
you will need in order to run your internet business.
However, you also need to remember that you don't only want
to take a programmed approach for work at home affiliate.
You have to also remember that your customers want to make
sure that they are talking to a real live person. No one
likes to only deal with machines because if there is a
problem then it is nearly impossible to find help.

So even if you do take a programmed approach for work at
home affiliate, you also have to be as involved in your
business as you can. The best way to do this is with
customer service and other little ways. The more people
know you are a person, not a machine, and the more they
start to trust you; the more money you will make and that
will bring success for your internet business.

One thing that you want to make sure you do is to find out
what other people are using to run their internet business.
You can really learn a lot from other people about how to
run a successful home business. You just have to be willing
to read and learn from them. You can easily find out what
others are doing by visiting forums and blogs.

Just remember that if you are going to have your own
internet business, you have to keep it personal as much as
possible. Taking a programmed approach for work at home
affiliate is fine if you also let people know you are a
real person . This will help you achieve success much
easier.

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Noel Lillis is the owner and webmaster of
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Cooking On The Internet

Cooking On The Internet
Have you ever found that time seems to stand still
sometimes, especially when you're waiting for a result or
outcome, or someone to get back to you? You look at your
watch and the hands haven't moved!

Then, on other occasions you've become so involved in
something that hours have flown by without you realising?

Well, many times I've written a sales letter or email,
posted it and then just sat by the computer waiting for
results. Now, some of the big gurus sometimes say that they
do this and within 30 seconds, 'ping' an order appears,
then another and so on, but what some of them don't tell
you is that they've built up that mailing list over two
years and it's 50,000 strong!

Yes, it is rewarding when that happens, but what I've found
to be the best strategy is let something 'cook' for a
while. Rather than waste time anxiously waiting for
results, just do the best you can then leave it, go and do
something completely different, some sport or spend time
with your family. Then, when you come back you may find
that you log on just to check your email for something else
and 'ping' you get a result! It seems that these things
happen when you least expect it and the more you relax, the
better the results.

People are always amazed at the speed at which I produce
these articles, yet what I do is not to worry about getting
them done, and 'ping' they appear!

The amazing thing about the internet is that once you let
something go, it takes on a life of its own, other people
see your message but don't act upon it immediately or they
pass it on to a friend, by that time a month has gone by, I
still get orders for products that I advertised months ago.

What this also means is that you need to keep the faith,
believe that what you are doing is worthwhile but don't
expect immediate results. Just imagine that thousands of
people are going to know about you, so with that in mind,
put 110% into your project because someone may find out
about it in 6 months' time.

That really is what is meant by the expression 'make money
while you sleep' Initially it's just that delay so it
appears that you haven't done anything, but then if you
have affiliates signed up under you or you're involved in
recurring-billing programs then as things grow, they grown
of their own accord.

Just do as much as you can each day with the resources you
have, then do something else and have faith.

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Nick James is a UK based direct marketer and product
developer. During the last 5 years Nick has sold in excess
of £1.6 Million Pounds worth of products and sevices
online. Subscribe to his Free Tip Of The Week email at:
http://www.Nick-James.com

Find Legitimate Online Home Business Opportunities

Find Legitimate Online Home Business Opportunities
Back when I first got onto the internet, I was interested
in a way to make money Online working from home. I would
see the ads for business opportunities and feel a sense of
excitement while reading about the wads of money people are
making.

Needless to say, I had a long way to go before my good
sense would lead me to a path which is acceptable and does
not waste my precious time.

A major factor I take into consideration today is to not
get involved in projects that waste time. I am still guilty
of this but not so much. I use the JCB formula. Just Cut
Back on activities which produce little or no results. I do
this by testing and monitoring.

I am stubborn by nature so it has been difficult for me to
follow the successful paths laid down by others. I would
read good articles and discussion posts but because I was
so new to the business, did not know the difference between
information which had value and information with little or
no value.

Imagine this. I join an affiliate program and get my very
first affiliate URL. You know, the long URL which sticks
out like I-don't-know-what?

Anyway, I thought that if I advertise my very long URL in
print media and on free classified ad sites that I would
need a wheelbarrow to pick up the affiliate checks from my
mail box.

It did not take me long to realize that the majority people
hanging around classified ad sites were and still are the
ad posters. Imagine that, I thought that people are
actually spending their time browsing free classified ad
sites. What a waste of time.

It seems that lack of patience contributes to the decision
making process. It is a form of insanity. I wanted to get
rich a week from next Tuesday jumping from one deal to
another like an mlm junkie jumps from one mlm to another.

My lack of wisdom also lead me to the deals with no value.
My lack of wisdom also sabotaged the good deals that came
my way.

I was too tight to get my own domain name. I was too mean
when it came to buying a good ebook or subscribing to a
subscription only website. I was wasting time looking
around for so called free web hosting. Little did I realize
that it cost me more time, money and frustration to try and
do it all for free.

By the time I found any information which was good, every
man and his dog knew about it. What's the point of that. On
the Internet, things move quickly. Time is a premium. So
today, I like to get my hands on the freshest information
and software.

Today, I treat my websites like a business. Imagine trying
to go into business without spending any money. You don't
necessarily need a lot of money to start with, in fact the
costs involved are insignificant compared to the generated
income. The turning point for me was realizing that to be
successful, I must plan and budget in order to reach my
goals.

I allocated ten percent of my job income to inject into my
Internet activities and things have never been the same.
Today my Internet Income pays for all my Internet expenses
and makes a very nice profit while I am asleep in bed.

I do not hesitate when it comes to buying an ebook or
joining a members-only website. I get the freshest
information available on the internet because I treat it
seriously.

- No more joining affiliate programs before I know how to
get traffic to a site
- No more operating without my own domain name and web site
- No more being tight when it comes to buying a good book
or course.

There is a lot of money making information on the Internet.
The trick for me has been to participate in what suits my
personality. I do not let the greed factor decide what
activities are acceptable on the Internet. At the end of
the day, a clear conscience makes a soft pillow.

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If you are looking for a legitimate online home business
opportunity where you will receive quality training,
support and successful results, visit this Reveiw site;
http://moomic.netsalaries.com

How to boost your sales with powerful testimonials

How to boost your sales with powerful testimonials
Have you ever heard of the following phrase, "facts tell,
stories sell?" Well this is certainly true when it comes
down to marketing your products and services. While it's
important to identify what it is exactly your product or
service does, if you want to make lots of sales, its just
as important to include powerful testimonials in your sales
process.

So what is a testimonial exactly? A testimonial is a story
provided by a third party person or company saying good
things about your product or service. For instance, if you
have ever watched those infomercials for one of those
exercise products, they always include a testimonial of
someone showing their figure before and after using the
product.

Why do testimonials work so well? They work because people
tend to believe a 3rd party person more than they believe
you. The reason why is because you have a financial
incentive to tell me the product is good because if I buy
it, you get paid. A 3rd party person has no financial
incentive to say good things about the product. Therefore,
the only reason why they would say good things about the
product is if those good things were really true.

So how do you get testimonials for your products?

One of the best ways to get testimonials for your products
is to provide a free copy of the product or service to some
of your target prospects in exchange for a testimonial.
While this might cost you in potential sales, this strategy
will more than pay for itself for years to come in that it
will allow you to launch the sales of your product with
testimonials. This is a win win for all parties involved.
Your prospects get a great product for free and you get
great testimonials that you can use for your marketing.

If you have a product that you have already made sales for
in the past, one way that you can get testimonials is to
contact some of your previous customers. Ask them what
they liked best about your product and ask them if they
would be wiling to give a testimonial. John Reese, the
author of a home study course called Traffic Secrets (which
is unfortunately no longer in print) implemented this
strategy after he made some initial sales of his course.
He sent an email to all of his customers asking them if
they wouldn't mind sharing a testimonial as to how this
home study course helped them in their business.

As a result of this strategy, John Reese received HUNDREDS
of testimonials about the quality of his home study course,
as well as the positive results his students achieved as a
result of applying what they learned from the course. He
then turned around and displayed many of these testimonials
of the sales letter of the web site he promoted the Traffic
Secret course on. You can use this exact strategy
regardless of what your product or service is.

By using testimonials in your marketing, you would be
amazed when you see the results it gives you. Try it.
Create one page with testimonials and one page without them
and see which page converts more sales.

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Mark Garland is the owner of
http://www.AnalyzedMarketing.com and has instructed
numerous individuals on how to become more successful on
the Internet. If you are interested in learning more about
how to effectively market your business or website than you
will want to sign up for his FREE REPORT at:
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Astounding Secrets of Internet Network Marketing Tips

Astounding Secrets of Internet Network Marketing Tips
As you're probably already aware, building your network
marketing business by chasing down you're friends and
family won't get you anywhere. So what marketing methods do
these network marketing superstars use to enable them to
make so much money that just thinking about it makes your
head spin? Well, let's dive right into it.

Look at it this way...do you honestly think that your "warm
market" can compare to a market of billions of people via
the internet? Absolutely not! So what kind of system do you
need to develop to lure the internet cold market into your
warm market? Let's take a look at my top internet network
marketing tips:

Tip #1: Define how you want to structure the marketing your
network marketing business. For instance; are you going to
market your network marketing business opportunity,
retailing of products or a combination of the two. Most
marketers make the crucial mistake by not defining what
they're going to market so you do not want to overlook this
important internet network marketing tip.

Tip #2: In order to have control over your marketing
efforts, you must design and create your own website. It's
important to brand you as an expert ' not your network
marketing company website. You will also want to stay in
communication with your prospects by using an
auto-responder. This will allow you over time build a
relationship with THOUSANDS of prospects. This process is
known as "list building".

Tip #3: Become a student and make a commitment to stick
with your plan. Find yourself someone who is successful at
marketing and earn as you learn. Some marketing methods
that you'll need to master include a combination of writing
articles and press releases, blogging, forum marketing,
social networking, solo ads, classified ads and pay per
click.

Tip #4: A key component in marketing is knowing who your
target market is. You only want to be marketing to people
who want what you have to offer.

These internet network marketing tips should be the core to
jump start your network marketing business. The internet is
powerful. And if marketed properly, you'll soon have
prospects begging you to give them what you have to offer
and you'll be the envy of every network marketer in your
network marketing company. Learn these internet network
marketing tips and you'll be heading up to the top of your
companies compensation plan.

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Success Coach Rich Ramalho is a growth oriented home
business entrepreneur. His goal is to partner with
entrepreneurs who have the desire to earn five figures a
month running their own network marketing business. Visit
his website by clicking here now: ===>
http://6FiguresWealthTeam.com .

More Traffic To Your Website In 3 Steps

More Traffic To Your Website In 3 Steps
If you are just getting started online, you have visions of
how much traffic there is, just floating around in the
ether of the internet, just waiting for you to send it to
your sales page. If you have been online for awhile, you
know that there is a lot of traffic out there, but it is
certainly not just waiting for you to send it to your sales
page. And if you have been online for a long time, you
know that it is not how much traffic you have, but what you
do with that traffic that counts.

So, if you are a beginner: Build things right from the
beginning. It is not just about sending all kinds of
traffic to your web site and sitting back and hoping it
will buy something. Instead, send traffic somewhere that
allows you to develop a relationship with it. Get to know
your traffic. What does it want? Let them get to know
you. What do you have to offer them?

How do you do it? First build yourself a squeeze page or
landing site or add a web form to your existing web pages
that allows your visitors to opt in to your mailing list.
Once on your mailing list, get to know them. Introduce
yourself. Ask questions. Send useful information. Answer
their questions.

So how do you get that traffic in the first place?

1) Write articles and submit them to online article
directories. This is one of the best places to find
quality, targeted traffic. One of the things I like about
writing articles is that it gives me an opportunity to show
my visitor, even before they are a visitor, what I am made
out of. They can see my style, get a feel for my
knowledge, without risking a thing. If they like me in the
article, they can opt in to my mailing list and learn more
from me. If they do not like my style, they can close the
article without any further action.

2) Use pay-per-click campaigns like Adsense or Overture.
These campaigns allow you to specifically bid on targeted
keyword traffic and have it sent directly to your site.
You are paying for this traffic, so it is important that
you are able to convert a reasonable percentage of it to
subscribers. Start slow, and don't feel like you have to
be the highest bidder in the game. It is perfectly OK to
be in 6th place while you are developing your program.

3) Ezine advertising. This will be one of the more
expensive types of traffic you obtain, especially since you
pay once for it rather than as you go with pay-per-click.
Start with less expensive ads, and as you test and tweak
your ads, and they create more response, then upgrade and
use those same ads in more expensive slots.

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Westly Lager is a success mentor and coach helping teach
people how to work online. With Westly's experience and
expertise you can't go wrong. See how Westly can help you
today by visiting http://myinternetbusinessreview.org also
checkout http://www.squidoo.com/my_internet_business_review

How To Build A Massive List & Win Subscribers!

How To Build A Massive List & Win Subscribers!
Internet marketing is all about the list. You could have
the best product in the world but if you have no one to
promote it to it will just sit in your hard drive
collecting dust. I am an Internet Marketers dream come
true! Let me tell you why... you ready?? Here it is...
Because I Buy Everything! I am the most impulsive person on
the planet. It only takes a couple of well written lines to
get me curious and I just scroll right down and click to
buy the product! I have so many eBooks and software
products sitting in my hard drive that I can't even
remember what I've bought. Sometimes I even buy things
twice because the marketer sends me a second email and I
forgot I already bought the product! If you are an online
marketer trust me, You want people like me on your list!

So why am I telling you all of this? Simple, because I am
just like the next guy and I'm certain there are millions
of "next guys" out there waiting to find your products and
opt in to your list as well. So how do you find a guy like
me? Well thats a great question. I'm currently on about 11
different marketers lists every week I join a couple and
every week I opt out of a couple as well. (You don't want
to be one of those.) I'll tell you why I opt out down
below. One thing however is a fact, there are a core 5 or
6 lists that I will never opt out of! (You definitely want
to be one of those!) These are the guys that send me an
email and I open it immediately, I can't wait to read what
they have to say to me today. If they are promoting a
product there is a 99.9% chance that I will buy it. They
have EARNED my trust.

Three Ways To Find A Guy Like Me:

1.Listing on Ebay: I found my mentor on Ebay less than a
year ago and to date, I must have purchased over $1000 of
products directly from him and twice as much in products he
has promoted. I actually bought one of his books on eBay
for $12 and that one lead me to the next, which lead me to
his blog, etc. etc. I'm sure you get the picture.

2.Posting on Blogs & Forums. Once I learned of his blog, I
visited it daily and I was very interested in the comments
left by his subscribers. I would click on them and navigate
to their site where I would buy their products and join
their list and so on and so on. See where I'm going with
this?

3.Writing Articles: Whenever I need something, I'm looking
for something, I'm trying to understand something, or I
want to buy something I go to one place first. GOOGLE!
Google controls like 75% of Internet traffic (or so I read
somewhere) but I don't doubt it. The point is that I love
finding articles on Google and I almost always buy products
that way.

Three Ways To Lose A Guy Like Me:

1.Over Promote: There's a couple of marketers whose initial
products were great but it seems the moment I opted in
their list I became a $ (dollar symbol) All they do is
email me affiliate links and promotional emails day after
day. It becomes old rather quickly

2.Email Me Constantly: Some marketers just don't know when
to "Chill Out" They get happy with the "Send" button. No
Lie, I have this one marketer that emailed me 3 times per
day all last week. My inbox was flooded with his emails.
And all of it was propaganda. No good advice or anything
that could benefit me right from the email. Just a bunch of
smoke & mirrors to lure me to another product.

3.Don't Offer Me Freebies: I'm a sucker for the word FREE
(but only when I find a pot of gold at the end of the
rainbow) If you say you're gonna help me with some thing
free. Then actually give me something free that helps. Not
just a two page brandable report that tells me to go buy a
product. Thats just insulting.

To Your Success, Omar

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Omar Martin is a sales expert dedicated to training and
developing high performance sales leaders in every
industry. He is an internet marketer and sales page
designer whose sales experience, skill level and coaching
ability has benefited thousands of sales professionals
across the USA. He posts free sales advice and products on:
http://www.omar-martin.com
His latest product is:
http://www.HighPerformanceSalesSecrets.com

Think Ahead When Setting Up Your Home-Based Business

Think Ahead When Setting Up Your Home-Based Business
Okay, you have decided that a home-based business is what
you want. Now what? Act on that desire and do not delay in
getting started. Keep in mind that many people want to
start a home-based business, but never get around to it.
Life continually gets in the way and they put it off until
tomorrow. Tomorrow, of course, never gets here for them.
Procrastination is a failure habit. Be determined not to
get into that habit! What are some reasons for
procrastination when it comes to getting a home-based
business off the ground? One was already mentioned, namely,
lack of will power. Anxieties of daily living and
recreation sap the strength of some to the point that they
have nothing left over to put into a home-based business.
Another reason for putting it off is that some lack the
skills and do not know where to look for direction. So, how
can one who falls into either of those categories hurdle
the obstacles that are in the way? Following are some tips
that can provide strength and courage to move ahead in
setting up a home-based business.

Set Realistic Goals and Track Your Progress

You know from experience that much planning goes into
reaching a vacation destination. This is especially true
when traveling by vehicle. In most cases a map is consulted
and a plan of action is mapped out. Following the plan
leads to successfully arriving at the vacation spot. The
point is that you have to have a good idea of where you are
going in order to get there. Then you have to carefully
follow the roadmap. The same holds true when starting a
home-based business. Set realistic goals that are
attainable for you. Setting realistic, attainable goals
takes much thought and research. For example, what kind of
business will you start? What are you interested in? How
much will such a business cost to start and operate? What
will it take attain your financial target? Ponder those and
like questions writing out the answers. Map out a plan for
your business. File your research and pertinent information
for later use. Completing the initial phase lays the
groundwork for successfully hitting your target.

Now we will go into a bit more detail about goal setting.
You can and should set all kinds of goals. You will want to
set short-term and long-term goals for your home-based
business. Also, be sure to formulate different activities
that will facilitate the achievement of your goals. This
goes back to pondering questions at the outset and setting
up realistic goals in the first place. Regarding goals, it
is good to set a deadline for achieving them. For instance,
a realistic short-term goal might be to set up your
home-based business within the next 6 months. Long-term
goals could be that of making a certain amount of money in
five years, owning the home of your dreams, etc. Of course,
your activities for reaching such goals should correspond
to each particular goal. Before pursuing your goal of
starting a home-based business, you will already have laid
out a list of activities that must to be done in order to
reach the goal. Shall we review the list of activities?

1. Find a home-based business that is right for you.

2. Do research on how to run such a business.

3. Set aside a suitable office space in your home.

4. Calculate the amount of capital that you will need for
the business.

Tracking your progress is important, so you will want to
set up a way to do that. It is not hard to track all of
your activities. In fact, it is as easy as making a
spreadsheet on a computer or setting up rows and columns on
a sheet of paper. Here is an idea of how to do it and
things to include on your spreadsheet.

1. A list of activities.

2. An outline for fulfilling the time frame of your
activities.

3. The resources that you will need.

4. A column for remarks.

Record all your comments about the activities in the
remarks column so that you will be able to easily track
your progress. This will enable you to make any needed
adjustments in your strategies and activities.

Determine the Amount of Money Needed to Start and Operate
Your Business

After setting your goals and laying out your activities on
a spreadsheet, you will need to determine the amount of
money needed to start your business. The amount of money
needed will depend on the business itself. For example, if
you join and promote affiliate or network marketing
opportunities, your business will require less money than a
business that sells goods. Also, in those kinds of
opportunities you will normally not have any inventory to
store. However, inventory is needed if you plan to sell
goods. Moreover, stocking up on goods costs money, and
space in your home has to be opened up for such a venture,
whereas the aforementioned opportunities do not require
large sums of money for inventory. To determine the amount
of money that you will need to start your business, list
all possible expenses prior to setting it up. Once you have
set your goals and determined the amount of money needed,
go for it, make it happen, prosper and enjoy life!

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Mike Johnston
http://www.surefireformulaforsuccess.com
http://www.thousanddollarprofits.com/surefireformula

The Advertising Secret Formula That Always Works

The Advertising Secret Formula That Always Works
Your Headline Is the Most Important Part of Your Website Or
Any Ad.

Here's why: you have LESS than 10 seconds to get your
visitors' attention, and show them you've got the perfect
solution to their problem. So the first thing they should
see is a headline that clearly states the biggest benefit
your site has to offer!

If no one sees your headline they are unlikely to see your
ad. The most important element of any ad is the headline.
One small change here can increase or decrease your
response rate by as much as 700%. For example, red font
always out performs black!

Everything you say in advertising must be very, very
specific. A headline should talk about your customers, not
about you because no one cares about your company. It
should grab people's attention and get them to read your ad.

A headline should not attempt be cute or clever, unlike ad
agency style advertising, it should offer a benefit,
provoke an emotional reaction or just get people interested
enough to read more. Do NOT mention your company name; it's
a waste of space. No one cares about your company, they
only care about their problems and how you can address them!

Here are some real examples:

Bad Headline: New Weight Watchers Diet Hit the Shelves

Good Headline: New Diet Burns Off More Fat Than a 98 Mile
Run

Bad Headline: New Study from Sydney University Claims 35%
of all men are unfaithful

Good Headline: 7 Ways to Tell If Your Partner Is Cheating
On You

Which ad is more interesting? Which one grabs you? The
company/Institution should never be in a headline.

A good place to study good ads is in the Cosmopolitan
magazine. The Cosmo editors admitted that they spend more
time choosing good headlines than they do on choosing the
articles to put in it! After all if the magazine doesn't
get bought and taken off the shelf, it doesn't matter how
good the stories are! Anther good resource is the headlines
on the Google, Yahoo or MSN homepages.

Here are some powerful headline strategies, which also work
extremely in newspapers, magazines and with Google Adwords:

- Offer the biggest promise of benefit
- Identify your ideal prospect
- Offer news if possible
- Quick and easy solution (Here's how to break up a cold)
- Ask provoking questions (Are you sick of .......)
- Make the reader feel inclined to keep reading

The Advertising Secret Formula That Always Works

Every piece of advertising, every webpage, sales letter,
brochure or banner ad that you send out must....MUST ....
include ALL of these ingredients.

- A headline that commands attention - Emotionally
provocative benefit driven message that states your USP
(Unique selling proposition) - A Compelling Call to Action,
offer something valuable for contacting you

Not some stupid wimpy statement like 'please contact us for
more information....' yeah that's going to make them jump
of their seat and lift the phone. Think about it!

Strangely most advertising doesn't include any of these
ingredients or at best, there's at least one missing! If
you do NOT include all of these ingredients in all of your
advertising then please send your advertising budget to a
good charity where it might do some good.

Remember newspaper ad reps, yellow pages reps, ad
agencies..... anyone who makes money selling advertising
will do anything to convince you otherwise, after all
that's how they get paid.

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Lead Your Business to Success

Lead Your Business to Success
The Internet is filled with unlimited opportunity for you
to become wealthy. Unlike the real world, the Internet
never sleeps and is open 24/7.

Not to say that it is easy to build an successful online
empire. In fact, a 99% of online entrepreneurs fail
miserably.

Don't worry, you can avoid becoming a statistic. Whether
you are an online business owner looking to increase sales,
affiliate marketer looking to for more commissions, or in
direct sales seeking to grow your down line, you really
need three things.

Leads. Leads. Leads.

All joking aside, if you are struggling with your online
business and wondering why you're not making money on the
net. The problem could simply be that you do not have
enough customers knocking on your door.

Does that surprise you? If you think about it, any
successful business (be it online or in real life) depend
on customers. Without sales, your business will die.
It's as simple as that.

So the question you should be asking yourself is 'How can I
drive more customers to my website, and how do I get them
to buy'?

That's where lead generation comes in.

Lead generation is a marketing method that can bring
potential clientèle interested a business's products
or services. The whole purpose of lead generation is to
find a people that will buy, not just browse.

What is the best way to generate leads?

In all honesty, there are a countless ways to generate
leads. There is no 'right' or 'wrong' way to generate
leads.

The most popular lead generation methods include opt-in
lists and buying sales leads.

Email marketing is a highly effective method of generating
leads . It also builds customer trust and loyalty.

However, because of spam and anti spam laws, it's not as
easy as it used to be.

This is why Internet marketers rely on opt in lists to
generate email leads. With opt in lists, you are
essentially, asking somebody's permission to send them
email solicitations.

The simplest way to do this is to place opt in forms on
your website. Some businesses create free monthly
newsletters that a person can register for without cost.

But placing opt in forms on your website doesn't always
guarantee a gigantic opt in lead list.

So, if you don't want to create your own opt in list, you
could simply purchase a lead list. You could also
purchase advertising space on popular e-zines and
newsletters.

Just remember, if you are going to purchase leads keep this
in mind: You get what you pay for. High quality lead lists
can be quite expensive, but the more targeted the leads the
better. Don't waste your money with cheap lead lists.
Remember, you don't want window shoppers or tire kickers.
You want targeted traffic that are willing to open their
wallet and buy your product..

Remember, there are no right or wrong way to generate
leads. You can get very creative with your lead generation.

For example, if you thought that eBay was just for people
that want to sell nick-nacks and antiques, you would be
very surprised to know that a lot of savvy Internet
marketers use eBay to generate quality leads.

How?

Well, they run auctions for inexpensive physical or digital
items related to their business such as introductory kits,
digital eBooks, or software.

Then they create a system that captures the names and
addresses of the bidders that visit their auction.

The purpose of the auction isn't to make a big profit or
sell anything. The only thing that matters is to generate
leads by collect the bidders name and email address.

High quality sales leads can help bring life to your online
business. Just remember that it's all a numbers game. The
more high quality leads you bring to your website, the more
clicks and sales you will get.

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Can You Afford To Go To Work Today

Can You Afford To Go To Work Today
Would it be worthwhile to save money working from home? How
about this! Can you afford to go to work today?

That is an interesting question that is not that far
fetched when you think about it! Here's why.

Gas just hit a national average of $3.60 a gallon. BP and
Shell just announced a profit of $17 Billion dollars for
the first quarter. There is no end in site for gas prices
to stop rising.

Now do you have kids? How much do you spend on day care or
after school programs to watch over them while you work?

How much to you spend on clothes to look good at work? How
much eating out, or on toll roads or subways or buses? This
is all relevant as the cost of everything keeps going up
while net income keeps going down.

Oh, did I mention how much money the government wastes of
our tax dollars. We just keep paying more and more on taxes
as they waste more and more on just about anything and
everything.

President Bush is making a big deal about the rebate checks
when in reality this is our money to start with and $300,
$600, or even $1200 will not make a dent in how much it
costs to live these days.

Working from home can save you money because you can make
most of the expenses I list above go away. When you put a
pencil to it you really do not have to make that much money
at home to quit your job. The internet makes it possible.

Check out many different affiliate marketing programs and
see how just a few sales a day can earn you more than you
make at your job. This is not pie in the sky, but actual
facts.

There are more and more of us that have found out how great
it is to save money working from home. Why not you?

You have heard the saying it is not how much you make, but
rather it is how much you keep. How can you keep it when
you are spending it before you even make it?

This is the sad reality of what the economy and job market
has become. The nice thing about having even a mildly
successful internet business is how you can start making
all of these money sucking problems go away.

To save money working at home is almost as good as making
it to start with. It certainly is worth the little bit of
effort it takes to do it.

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How To Make Targeted Online Advertising Work For You

How To Make Targeted Online Advertising Work For You
It doesn't matter if you have created the best website on
the World Wide Web, complete with the best layouts,
graphics, and other fancy stuff, if no one is visiting it.
And speaking of visitors, you can use a number of ways to
get people on your site. One of the best ways is to
utilize the power of targeted online advertising.

This method of advertising allows you to get a lot of
visitors to your site that are more likely to be interested
in what you have to offer. This will also increase your
chances of making a sale off your website.

When you want to start an online advertising campaign for
your targeted audience, one of the very first things you
will need is good copy. A capable copywriter can produce
copy that will make your targeted online advertising
campaign more effective.

What the copy needs to do is to include the most important
and relevant keywords in the content, as well as provide
invaluable assistance in the actual writing of the articles
themselves. But even if you cannot hire a good copywriter
for any reason, you can still ask for help from your
webmaster in getting meta tags for your website.

Pay-per-click search engines can also help you with
targeted online advertising. But for this method to be
effective, you will have to find the most relevant keywords
for your website. When you have the keywords you need, it
will be relatively easy to set up ads that go with the text
links for your site.

This technique will increase the exposure your website
receives, but you'd have to pay a small fee for every click
that visitors will uses on your site. Even so, using PPC
search engines are still a very good technique for driving
potential customers to your site.

You can also use article submission for your targeted
online advertising. You can generate articles that are
related to your interests, and then submit them to e-zines
that specialize on the same interests. You can include a
link to your website at the bottom of each article. If
your articles are interesting enough for the readers, more
people will be encouraged to visit your site to see what
else you have to offer.

You can either write the articles yourself, or you may
choose to go with a qualified writer. Either way, this is
a very good way of targeted online advertising.

These three strategies will surely help you in your online
advertising campaign. You can write good copy or hire a
copywriter to produce them for you. You can also submit
interesting articles to related e-zines which can drive in
targeted traffic to your site, or you can use a
pay-per-click search engine for attracting more people.
You can even use a combination of these three tips.

If effectively used, targeted online advertising will be
invaluable in reaching the people who will be your
potential customers, and develop your website into a
successful online business.

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Who are you targeting... and why?

Who are you targeting... and why?
A client of mine emailed me the following question, which
opens up the discussion around "who are you targeting...
and why?" Keep in mind, this is for a photographer not
your typical corporate/government sales environment.

Question: "I can see the power of sending gifts and
follow-up. What if sending gifts is forbidden, like
government employees, corporations with that policy, how do
I get around these obstacles?"

[Part 1 of my answer addresses the use of spelling mistakes
in your materials]

Answer:

Hi William,

Couple things:

1) Typos sometimes are planned sometimes not. Being seen as
a real person that is prone to mistakes can be a benefit in
the impersonal world. Other times, these are a mistake (I
am a BIG believer that success in marketing is Fire ready
aim approach. Things do go out with mistakes but I have yet
to have a return based on that alone. You accomplish more
in a marketing campaign that has spelling mistakes than a
marketing campaign that has been edited and critiqued to
the point of losing its luster.

2) With gov't employees what would you sell to them? and
why would you want to? In my own opinion you are going to
be WAY more successful finding a niche outside the
government and outside of selling to large corporations.
Selling to those markets you can expect long sales cycles,
RFPs (which you will never win), and price comparison.
Selling to individuals you can hand pick your niche and you
can be much more aggressive and giving in your marketing.

If you MUST sell to gov't and corps go after the education
approach. Send them special reports, white papers,
teleseminars, booklets, etc anything that educates them on
what you do and why they need it.

3) Read this article I just wrote it gives you tools
(newsletters and event themed promotions) that will grow
you fast enough to handle. Pay attention to Rita's story
this is the real deal! $250,000 in new revenues in 5 months
from a simple newsletter!

Marketing reminders for December and January

They are ready and boy o boy are they hot!

I spoke this weekend at an event where I shared these tips
and everyone there said

#1 I should be charging for these ideas (I like that idea

#2 that anyone who actually uses them (rather than sitting
on their duff after reading them) WILL make moola from
them. It would physically be impossible not to.

They are powerful but you have to use them.

It's funny: when you give away things for free, people just
don't give it a solid value (and do nothing with the
information). As soon as they pay for it WHAM now we have
their attention and they actually start using the ideas
provided.

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The Truth about Network Marketing

The Truth about Network Marketing
Network marketing companies may be perceived as so called
"pyramids" simply because of the fact that they pay their
independent representatives on what is called an overriding
commission. An overriding commission is when they allow an
independent representative to duplicate their efforts and
introduce a person into their company, and get paid a
percentage cut on that person's efforts as well. Network
marketing allows people to have the lifestyle they want,
work from home on their own time, and be their own boss. I
have been a consultant since spring of 2005. Network
marketing is really a team effort.

Network marketing is a beautiful industry, and it is
creating more millionaires than any other out there.
However, the misconception of it is what gives it such a
bad name. Network marketers have, over the last half
century, evolved into some of the greatest spin doctors and
word-smiths that our society has ever created. We've become
masters at romancing our semantics. Network Marketing
companies replace traditional advertising and marketing
costs with sales commissions to the independent
representatives, paid after the product is sold.

MLM companies operate by recruiting salespeople to sell a
product and provide additional commissions based on the
sales of people that are recruited into their down line.
This includes direct recruits, and their recruits'
recruits. MLM has a psychological grip on people. It is
very strong and very difficult to break. MLM already has a
bad name. I got news for you, it just got worse.

Affiliate programs generally don't require personal product
purchases, but they do require continuous sales to new
customers in order to pay the affiliate a good commission
check. Affiliate programs usually don't charge for training
materials either.

Rather it is disappointing to see the odds that most people
will be able to earn a stable living through a multi level
marketing program, but those that are successful understand
that working from home requires actually working hard.
Rather the Commission will make its judgment independently,
evaluating each case on its merits. We intend to continue
our useful relationships with self-regulation groups and to
rely on the expertise and findings of other government
agencies in our proceedings to the greatest extent possible.

People are eager to join MLM programs. Some people are
involved in dozens! People from home are using a type of
internet marketing called Web 2.0 which is helping a few of
them who have very little experience become millionaires.
People who believe that Multi-level Marketing is hard work
are doing the wrong things. Discover the right ways to earn
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People have the tendency to believe negative stories than
success stories, especially if it's just something they
read from an unknown person in the Internet and not
somebody they know and see in flesh and blood. People now
days tend to involved in multilevel-marketing, Get Rich
Quick and Pyramid scheme without their awareness or
willingness.

Finally, there is the distributor membership, which is
designed to provide for those people who are independent
contractors and affiliates or distributors to the companies
who are providing direct sales, multi level marketing or
network marketing opportunities. Finally, it instantly
builds ready-to-use, download pages for any downloadable
products to sell.

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One Virus You Want To Catch! Jumping On the Viral Marketing Bandwagon.

One Virus You Want To Catch! Jumping On the Viral Marketing Bandwagon.
Viral marketing has consumed the business world. Now, it
seems everyone and their brother has integrated some aspect
of viral marketing into their marketing strategy. So what
exactly is viral marketing, how can you make it work for
you, and how can small businesses jump on the bandwagon and
still stay on budget?

What exactly is viral marketing?

According to the experts at Web Marketing Today, "Viral
marketing describes any strategy that encourages
individuals to pass on a marketing message to others,
creating the potential for exponential growth in the
message's exposure and influence."

Viral marketing comes in many shapes and sizes. For
example, videos on YouTube are shared by millions every
day. Articles, reports, and books are shared and emails
are forwarded. Content, whether it is audio, video, or
written content, is one of the most powerful viral
marketing tools.

Write an article with tips that make peoples' lives better,
create a video demonstration, or publish a podcast, they're
all viral. One reader or listener shares your content with
another, who then shares it with two other people who then
share it with two more people and your audience grows and
expands. As your audience grows, your awareness broadens,
and your bottom line grows too.

How can you make viral marketing work for you?

The very first rule of viral marketing is to take a good
look at your target audience. Make a thorough study and
analysis of where they spend their time and what they spend
their time doing. For example, PeerFlix created a low cost
game where the objective was to take pictures of
celebrities misbehaving. The game was seeded or promoted on
gaming sites and entertainment blogs, places where their
target audience visited, and within 90 days there were more
than 2 million unique visits to the game site and 5% of
users continued onto the main website.

So the key isn't just what form of viral marketing you use,
it is how you get the word out. Here are a few other rules
of thumb to keep in mind.

The viral marketing tool must be valuable or provide value.
This is one of the reasons content works so well. It's
easy to provide value in the form of a how to, tips, or
even for entertainment. The game used in the earlier
example provided entertainment value.

It must be easy to use and easy to access. Online you have
a prospect's attention for about 20 seconds. In those 20
seconds they make a decision about whether or not they're
going to continue to pay attention. For example, consider
your behavior when you watch a YouTube video. It's easy to
use because all you have to do is click on a video and
watch it. The videos themselves are easy to access because
they're all available and searchable on a single webpage.
The same holds true for the game. Accessing the game was
as easy as typing a URL into your browser and playing the
game was simple and fun. If people have to jump through
hoops to access your viral medium, they will leave.

How can small businesses jump on the bandwagon and still
stay on budget?

Viral marketing doesn't have to be expensive. Valuable
content can be as simple as a tips newsletter emailed
weekly or monthly to your customer list. Audio and video
can be created with open source software and uploaded onto
your website for free. Business owners can interview
experts and share those interviews with their prospects and
visitors as a free download to share and pass along.

Ask yourself what you can offer that is valuable, easy to
share, and is easy to seed or promote where your target
audience hangs out online.

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Joan Finholt is a retired teacher who is co-owner of Bound
and Determined Books. She enjoys using the internet to
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