Showing posts with label marketing success. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marketing success. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Working On The Road

One of the  best things about internet marketing is that it doesn't matter where or when you are.

I am waiting in the car working on my business.  How cool is that?!  The platform is free, my time is now productive, and I am furthering my career.

At this point you can ditch the excuse of not having enough time to market your business.  And, by the way,  it's the excuses that stop us from being successful.  Even 20 minutes can accomplish a lot if you just keep trying.

I am working on my phone.  I love my phone!  So much to do and with just a few breaks, I can still feel I get something done and have time when I get home to spend with my family.

It's not about the amount of time you have, but what you do with that time.

Be positive and enjoy your work.  Get creative and watch you business take off!

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Adwords Suggestion Tool For Profitable Keywords

Doing business online means that your primary goal is to get traffic to your website.There are many methods you can use to generate that steady stream of traffic: Pay Per Click, Search Engine Optimization, and article marketing. All of these methods have one thing in common: you have to have a good list of keywords for them to work. That's why many online marketers turn to Googles Adwords suggestion keyword tool.

There are other programs online that will help you find great keywords, but most people stick with the giant and use the Google keyword tool. This tool will give you most of the information you'll need to set up successful advertising campaigns online.

Of course, as with everything, the keyword tool is not the do all end all. It's a really good place to start but you really have to drill down to find as many possible results as you can.

Most people will use this basic approach when doing their keyword research: type in a broad phrase and then take some of the results and drill those down even further.

Enter a general term and make note of the results. Depending on what you are using the keywords for, you may want to set the keyword tool to show you specific things such as the estimated cost per click, or the amount of competition, etc.

Once you've gotten a general list of possible keywords to target you can then get more specific in your search. For example, if you're searching for dog toys you would enter 'dog toys' in the keyword tool.  You will get back a fairly comprehensive list but you can then take those results and narrow them down further.

So if you got the term homemade dog toys you may be able to further hone that down to wooden home made dog toys. You get the idea. Start broad and narrow your selections down until you've got a complete list of highly targeted keywords to use for your online advertising campaigns.

The narrower you make your list the more targeted, and likely to actually make a purchase, your visitors will be. Also, you'll have less competition for the term wooden homemade dog toys then you would for dog toys. True, you'll also have fewer searches but the searchers you do have will be very targeted and they won't cost you as much.

Don't get too caught up the estimated cost per click numbers. These are only estimates. The actual amount you, or anyone else, pays for a given keyword can vary significantly based on several factors such as the quality score Google assigns to your ad.

The more clicks your ad gets the higher the quality score you'll receive. If you have a high quality score your ad will show up higher in the results and you'll pay less for the keyword.

The Adwords suggestion keyword tool is a great place to start your keyword research for any type of online advertising you need to do. Just don't fall into the trap of believing that it's going to give you every result for any given keyword and make sure to keep in mind that the results you get will largely be estimates and not exact numbers.

Saturday, November 23, 2013

5 Easy Ways To Generate Low Cost Traffic

There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of generating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money.

BUT, it doesn’t take a whole caboodle of cash to generate website traffic for your site.

Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

You don’t have to do this if you don’t really have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

Here I present to you the Top five ways to generate low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors in to client ratio it still works especially if you get a high number of website traffic.

Exchange Links

This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.

A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as the other site. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.

Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines ranks high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website without the high costs.

Traffic Exchange

This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing others traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.

Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another’s site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites contents and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your sites existence is boosted.

Write and Submit Articles

There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias in the internet which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can do the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.

Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.

Make a Newsletter.

This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.

As your newsletter gets pass around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.

Join Online Communities and Forums

This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.

Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Online Success Is Dependent On These 2 Things

Lead generation and list building determine your success. This is IMPORTANT!
If you don’t understand this concept, you will continue to be a BUYER, not a SELLER.

BUYERS are those people with dreams of making money, so they buy this product, and that software, and jump from one online program to another. Result: Frustration with scarce earnings.

Compare this with SELLERS. Sellers want to earn online too but they understand that
to make money one has to be a marketer. The Seller has access to an updated source
of products or services to sell, a way to generate leads and is always working on
building an email marketing list.

Sellers earn online because they understand that you make money by promoting products and services, you become a seller not a consumer. Knowing how to generate leads and build a list leads to a successful long term prosperous business.

The first type of person, the BUYER spends all their money trying to BUY success by ordering “success secrets”, software, gizmos, and such. They never actually get to the WORK part, doing what they are taught. They get frustrated and quit, or join the next greatest online money-making program.

The second type of person, the SELLER, gets it. They put in the time, effort and have the patience to see results. They pick a program, product or service to promote. They work hard to generate leads ALL THE WHILE building an email marketing list. The more leads you have, and the larger your email marketing list, the more people you have to buy what you are offering. It doesn’t happen overnight, your business builds over time.

It’s not too late to convert yourself from a BUYER Into a SELLER! Help is here!If YOU want to earn online, then you need to be a CONSTANT Marketer. Promotion is what you do and as often as you can.

People who are new to online marketing or more familiar with offline businesses, don’t appreciate how much marketing you must do to make sales. It’s not easy. You have to take the time to learn. Think about a medical doctor. You don’t just wake up one day and you are suddenly a doctor. A whole lot of training goes into earning that status. Same for a plumber, electrician, teacher, lawyer. If you want to be successful at something, you
have to do the training. Learning how to market online and thus make money online, means learning how then doing what you are taught.

So the question to you is this:

Are you going to dig into training and get it? Are you going to be a SELLER, a marketer and start earning online? Or are you going to be a BUYER, spend your money rather then earning it back, then eventually give up?



Monday, August 12, 2013

Never Look Back



 Never look back, you can't change a thing. However, you can impact and change the future by living the present in a large way.

Take stock of what you would like to accomplish this next week. Make a rough draft of the high points and take it from there working backwards. I do not spend time beating myself up for what I failed to do, or what I always seem to fall short on.

Instead, each week I make a new plan. Focus is probably THE most important factor besides plane old Persistence. Your efforts over time will compound. You need to remember that you are building a business and that success is something that is built. It is not something that happens instantly.

Take the time and begin planning. Start small but always have a picture of the ULTIMATE SUCCESS that motivates you. Something that helps when planning is to work backwards from the end. Write it out to help solidify things. Seeing is believing and most of us have to see to believe. It’s not the plan that fails, it’s the people who don't follow through that cause the failure. Sometimes it not possible to buy the solution. You have to work for it. However, we usually prize those things we have to purchase at great cost. Your business should be that prize.

Stop looking for the better program. Start working your solutions and be persistent. Just because one strategy doesn’t work, move on. The internet is always changing and you will have to change to keep up. What created sign-ups 8 months ago, may not do so well now. Always be on the look-out for new strategies. Work one strategy at a time and master it before you go on to something new. That way you won’t get lost and overwhelmed by information overload.

Call your contacts and prospect (make contact)

Blog daily Market daily Read daily (Keep learning)

Connect with your opportunity community (Live events, conference calls)

Be pro-active about your future and stay in motion.