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How To Use Autoresponders for Previews

May 25th 2010 09:42
By Joe Fuller

You can generate interest in your next product by emailing your list about it and giving a preview of what it'll be like. Be sure you have everything set up before you start.

1 Preview. If you've written an ebook, once you've told your list and others about your product, email them the first chapter as a whole or in parts. You can also offer it for sign ups to your list. This is the same principle as previews for movies and TV programs. It gives the reader a taster of what the whole product will be like.

2 Reminders. Once they have the preview and have had time to go through it, including if it's in parts, keep sending reminders of when the ebook will be available. You can send reminders about once a week or every few days about what's in it and the date it'll be available. Have these emails set up in your autoresponder on a list specifically for this product. Also, check that they're timed correctly and that they build up knowledge about the ebook and topic while giving teaser information about its contents and usefulness.

3 Pre-release. When you've sent the reminders, a couple of days before the release date offer your list a pre-release copy at a reduced price. This discount should provide some sales and before you've even published it. You might offer it at half price or reduce the price and offer extra bonuses of related products.

4 Check subscribers. See how many are still on your list who originally signed up to get the preview chapter. These are the people who have waited and so shown an interest in it, enough interest to buy it. They will be waiting to hear from you about when they can buy it. This also means they will be interested in future products of yours.

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RSS Feeds for Rookies

May 24th 2010 03:26
RSS For Rookies
By Scott Hendison

What are RSS newsfeeds?

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary, or for Really Simple Syndication. Both mean the same thing, so don't let it confuse you. An RSS is something a website (or a blog) offers to readers provide a "news feed" of their information. It's available for everyone to add to their own "news reader" for free and gets displayed on your desktop or in your web browser.

It works almost like a stock ticker, delivering exactly the information that you have anonymously "subscribed" to, eliminating the need to go out and check your favorite outlets for new information, because they're already delivered to your computer.

Who needs RSS?

Well, everyone need it. It's so much more efficient than going to get it, or getting endless email newsletters. Having the paper delivered to your home makes more sense than driving to the store every day, doesn't it? In the same vein, let's say that you want only the latest news about only certain subjects, and routinely go out and check several websites to see what's new. Using RSS, those individual websites will deliver that news right to your desktop, suitable for reading, clicking, printing, or ignoring.


How can you use RSS?

There seems to be no single definitive answer, because there are so many ways to use it. I'll tell you about the easiest way to get RSS feeds that I know of, but by no means is that the only way. That is; on your homepage of your web browser.

First, you need an RSS newsreader, (a.k.a. "aggregator"). The good news though is that you may already have one. Since millions of people have Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail or Google accounts, I'll walk you through adding a news feed to your MSN home page. Go to my.msn.com and sign in. If you don't already have a hotmail account, go ahead and create one. If you'd prefer, you can go to my.yahoo.com and do the same) It only takes a minute go get a new account.

After signing in to My MSN, you'll see quite an array of news, weather, sports, ads, stock quotes, local information etc. Think of this as your canvas, and you're free to arrange or remove the information how you see fit. Each of these sections you see can me easily moved or deleted. To move them, just click and drag from the top right of each subject area. To remove them, click the minus (-) sign in the top left of the subject area. Feel free to delete them all, since you can always add them back later.

Now go to top left of the screen, right above the "Welcome" area you'll see "Add content" below your name. When you go there, you get four choices (Tabs) for adding content. The default tab that comes up is "Search". and from here you have four options and each is clearly defined. If you know the exact web address (URL) for a company's newsfeed, you can enter it right here. The other three tabs might be worth exploring too, since they let you browse by company names and subjects. Then you just click a box for all you want.

After signing in to My Yahoo, you'll notice that there are already several news feeds from Reuters listed there, with "Top stories", "world News", "Politics" and "Business". Above those stories, you'll see a big yellow box in the center explaining how you can "Add Content". Click the link to "add content" and you'll come up with a search box allowing you to "find content" about a given subject. Type in a search phrase, and you'll be presented with search results that all have an "Add" button next to them. Hit the "Add" button by the ones you want, and then hit the "Finished" button at the top right, and you're done. You just added that RSS news feed to your My Yahoo page. Scroll down at the My Yahoo main page, and you'll see those news headlines you added at the bottom of your list. To rearrange the order of your news feeds, just hit the small "edit" button at the top right of each news section. To remove a news feed, just hit the X like you would to close any window.

Customizing your own news feeds

Now suppose you don't need to "find" a news feed on a subject, because you already know you want to add a particular one. Well that's easy too. Al you have to do is identify what the "RSS feed URL" is for the information you want to add. Most blogs or news organizations show you these now on their websites.

Look for a small orange box on the website that says XML or the words "RSS Feed" or "News feed" and click on it. In the case of large organizations, like CNN for example, you'll be taken to a page with a nice set of instructions, and a whole list of RSS news feed URL's that you can manually copy and paste into your news reader.

Sometimes though, you'll be taken to a page that looks like gibberish code. Don't let that scare you like it did me the first time I saw it! When that happens, you are actually looking right at the feed itself, and all you have to do is copy and paste what's in the address bar of your web browser, right into your news reader. That's called "knowing the specific URL of the feed" on MSN, and ""Add RSS by URL" in Yahoo.

In My Yahoo, to manually add a news feed, go to the "add content" area, and choose the link to the right of the Find button that says "Add RSS by URL". Once you paste your URL in that window and hit "add" the news headlines should show up there. If they don't, then you may have copied the URL wrong, or added a space at the end. Then just hit the "Add to My Yahoo" button and you're done! In MSN, you'll paste the URL of the news feed right into the search box, then check the box when it shows the result.

Delivering exactly what you want and only when you want is how the internet is supposed to work. Things are only getting better.

In researching this article, I notice that My Yahoo seems to be having problems adding certain manual URL's. Oh well. Nothings perfect.

Scott Hendison is an [http://www.searchcommander.com/]internet consultant
based in Portland Oregon, but working with companies in five countries. He specializes in search engine placement and E-commerce POS solutions. For over 100 other articles he's written please visit his website and see his [http://www.searchcommander.com/seo-tools/]unique SEO tools.

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3 Key Secrets to Attraction Marketing On the Internet

May 23rd 2010 03:21
Are you doing business like the top 3% of money earners in the network marketing industry? One of the keys to their success comes down to following the basic principles of the Law of Attraction in their marketing strategies. There are three key secrets to successful attraction marketing on the Internet.

Key #1: Time must be taken to develop YOU. Develop the skills and knowledge that will be genuinely useful to others in this industry and they will be attracted to you. The more value you can offer, then the more likely prospects will hungrily choose you over the 98% of the other people in network marketing. If you can be someone who continually delivers value to others you will establish yourself as a leader with unique qualities to offer.

The sad fact is that most network marketers lack the real skills and training to effectively use attraction marketing to build their businesses. Finding an online mentor who is already successful in his or her business is a great way to start building your own worth as a leader. It’s also an effective way to increase your “tech-knowledge” by benefitting from the experiences of someone who has already been there and knows what works and what doesn’t.

Key #2: The basic principle of the Law of Attraction is that you will “attract what you are like.” In other words, whatever qualities, values, and character you display to others is what you will attract back to you. If you want to entice high-quality, successful, prospects and networks of people, then you need to exhibit those same qualities yourself.

If you exude insecurities, lack of confidence, and feelings of low self-worth then you will attract the wrong types of prospects for your business, if you can attract prospects at all, beyond mere “tire kickers.” Many network marketers today are enlisting the aid of Internet marketing systems. Systems are a cheap and effective way to get the quality training and skills so many network marketers desperately need, while working on building their businesses. Some systems are even set up to allow their members to earn up-front cash through affiliate programs while they learn and increase their value.

Key #3: Get absolutely clear with yourself what it is you want from your network marketing business. Visualize your end goals, or better yet write them down. Be specific with yourself. Transform the daydreams that will get you nowhere, to real, attainable goals which you believe are possibilities for the future of your network marketing business.

Having clear goals for you and your business will facilitate a higher level of confidence in you, which will in turn attract the right people to you. People who come to you already prepared to join your opportunity. People who want to be there and are just as serious as you about creating success in the network marketing industry.


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Google Using Site Speed in Web Site Search Ranking

May 9th 2010 05:57
Recently Google added a new signal to their search ranking algorithms. They are now utilizing site speed in web site search rankings. Site speed indicates how quickly a website responds to user requests, and Google is big on speed.

Google feels that speeding up websites is important to site owners and Internet users alike. Users are happier when sites are fast. Google has found (and it kind of goes without saying) that visitors will spend less time on a site that responds slowly. Personally, I know if a site I’ve clicked on doesn’t load in about two seconds or less, I’m gone and moving on to the next site


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Are You Using the 3 Most Profitable Viral Marketing Tools?

May 6th 2010 19:25
It’s no secret that viral marketing on the Internet can seriously increase brand awareness for you and your business. So, you have a viral marketing campaign in place and are waiting for your “message” to spread like wild fire… but are you using the three most profitable viral marketing tools?

The number one rule to remember when using any of these three tools is: Make sure your message is worth spreading and adds VALUE to your prospects’ lives


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Internet Article Marketing: Top 3 Reasons Why You Should Do It

May 1st 2010 09:09
Internet article marketing can be an amazingly simple and profitable way to drive traffic and targeted leads to your website. If you are not already using this highly effective marketing tool, you are missing the boat my friends. Below are the top three reasons why you need to utilize the awesome power of Internet article marketing.

Reason #1: It’s FREE! This is a powerful advertising tool for your business and it is absolutely free! How many other methods of advertising can you think of, where you can get the kind of potential exposure (to TARGETED traffic) that you can get with internet article marketing, all without spending a single dime? With a little time and daily dedication, you can put your business opportunity, product, or service in front of more people in one day than many businesses are able to do in an entire year


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Web Search Engine Optimization - 3 Important Off-Page Strategies

April 30th 2010 09:18
Trying to improve your Web search engine optimization plan? Did you know that what you are doing off your website to improve search engine optimization (SEO) is just as important as what you do directly on your website? The major search engines are just as concerned with your “off-page” tactics and behavior; and what you are doing everywhere else on the Web will definitely figure into their algorithms for search result rankings.

In simple terms, SEO is the unpaid or “organic” method by which you attempt to increase the quality and amount of traffic visiting your website. This is achieved through the implementation of several strategies, but for the purposes of this article we will only be looking at the off-page strategies needed for effective organic search engine optimization


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3 Secrets to Successful Viral Email Marketing

April 30th 2010 03:06
Email marketing... a fantastic way to build relationships with your contacts, promote your personal brand, and place offers in front of prospects. How will you ensure that YOUR emails are the ones being opened by your contact list? Rest assured, yours is probably not the only list they are on. Enter - viral email marketing.

Viral marketing techniques can not only be highly effective with a carefully planned campaign, but they are also considerably less costly than some other internet marketing strategies. In fact, part of the beauty of viral marketing is that most of the strategies won't cost you a single dime, especially if you're using viral email marketing


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Web Search Engine Optimization: 3 Important On-Page Strategies

April 29th 2010 03:17
Looking for a way to improve your web search engine optimization plan? Do you know the best “on-page” strategies you need to be using? Search engine optimization (SEO) can be a bit daunting to new Internet marketers, and even some who are not new to the industry may still feel intimidated and overwhelmed by the whole process.

In simple terms, SEO is the unpaid or “organic” method by which you attempt to increase the quality and amount of traffic visiting your website. This is achieved through the implementation of several strategies, but for the purposes of this article we will only be looking at the on-page strategies needed for effective organic search engine optimization. In other words, the tasks you are performing directly on your website that will ideally result in a higher ranking for your site in the search results lists of the major search engines


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Network Marketing vs. Pyramid Scheme: Is There A Difference?

April 28th 2010 09:46
Thinking about giving network marketing a try, but not sure if it’s a real business opportunity or just another illegal pyramid scheme? Network marketing vs. pyramid scheme: is there a difference? Let’s take a look.

Network marketing, also known as multi-level marketing, is quite possibly one of the most misunderstood terms in business today. Like many other people out there, when presented with my first network marketing opportunity, the skeptic in me took over and I was sure it was all just a big scam. And I worried about the legalities of it as well. Then I decided to do my research and find out for myself


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