Showing posts with label planning for success. Show all posts
Showing posts with label planning for success. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Simple Advice For Your Blogging Business

Are you looking to create an online presence where people
follow you on a daily basis? The content you'll find here will be perfect for you if you're looking to better your blog. This guide will cover great advice that you can use in creating a blog and you will get the popularity level that you desire.

Ensure that you are posting very often in the blogs that you operate. At the minimum, you should aim to post one time on each blog every single day during the weekdays. Of course, posting more is always welcome. This shows your visitors that you are a very active blogger, which will make them more prone to keep visiting your blogs.

A key to a successful blog is to blog often. Many bloggers will start by posting once a week, or once a day, and then fail to continue the frequent updates. Even if readers love your blog, they'll lose interest if they have to wait a long time for updates. A good rule of thumb is to create new blogs weekly and send out email updates.

Since blogging is on a personal level you should avoid writing formally. You should still write in a professional manner and use proper grammar. Your readers will be able to relate to you more when you are writing to them in a casual way and will continue reading your blogs.

Utilizing social media websites is a great way to generate interest and increase traffic to your blog. You can use Twitter and Facebook to inform readers of new blog articles which they can then share with their friends. These websites also serve as a way to interact with your readers, and find out what they are interested in. Tailor your blog updates to their interests.

If you are going to blog, you need to make sure you choose a niche or market that you are passionate about. There are plenty of blogs out there, and there are just as many topics to choose from. Stay specific, and choose a blogging subject that you can create a successful blog with.

Commenting on other blogs is one of the best ways to generate traffic to your blog. If you read an interesting article, write a compelling comment that offers a unique perspective. Include a link to your blog. The people who read your comment will likely want to read more of what you have to say, and will visit your blog

Your blog goes much further than just your posts. It may look like just a collection of various articles, but it's so much more. To be a successful blogger, your blog needs a presence. This is created by your posts and comments, both on your blog and other online sites.

With all that you now understand about blogging and how it can help you, you should now have a strategy in mind for how you want to go about blogging in the future. Just take into consideration that it takes time to truly establish a blog with the level of success you hope to achieve.

Valrie Mullins is the Owner of http://FreshStartBusiness.com
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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.

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?



Sunday, September 8, 2013

Benefits Of Article Advertising Or Article Marketing

Article advertising or article marketing can be the key to not only making money but having a successful business. If you have a product or service that you are trying to promote then one of the best and most cost effective ways is by using article advertising.

Article advertising is a type of marketing effort in which you write short articles, about 400-600 words, related to the product or service you wish to promote. If they are well written they will, after getting distributed to various online article directories that will be easily found on search engines and read by people interested in what you have to offer.

In article advertising, well written article will be constructed in such a way that it has strategic placements of keywords and keyword phrases used by those who are searching for what you have to offer. This will make your article easily found by search engines and can help get you noticed earlier by future consumers.

Some of the benefits of article advertising are:

1) It is a great way to gain respect in the niche you are trying to reach. If they see your well written and informative article they will see you as an authority. The more that you have written about a certain area, the more trusted you will be and the more likely they will be to buy what you offer.

2) It is very cost effective. If you write the article yourself it will only cost you the amount of time and energy you put into researching and writing the subject. If you can't write well, you can easily find those who are able to write for you who are affordable and will let you put your name on it, aka, ghostwriters. These are many times very affordable, though you need to make sure that they are able to give you unique content and are native speakers in the language you are trying to market in.

3) Links are also a great benefit to article advertising. Your well written article will have a link back to your website and will also have a resource box with a strong call to action. This will invite those reading the article to go to your site to find out more about what you have to offer. This will also help your search engine ranking.

4) It helps you reach a much larger target audience than you otherwise would have. Those who are really interested in what you are offering will be the ones who read your article. You won't be putting your marketing efforts in front of people who may or may not care about what you have to offer. It will be read by people who are truly interested in what you are doing and are also very likely to buy what you are selling.


Article marketing or article advertising is a great way to get attention to your products or services, if it is used correctly. Take some time to learn how to do it the right way or find a good ghost writer to do the work for you and you will find customers who are not only willing to buy from you, but trust that you are going to meet their needs and may come back to you for other purchases. Done correctly, article advertising can help you climb to the top and make you a success.


Valrie Mullins is the Owner of http://FreshStartBusiness.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter.
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Safelists: What You Need To Know



What is a Safelist?

A Safelist is a mailing list where Members can email each other. These emails cannot be considered as spam because Members must opt-in to receive the mailings and also have confirmed their email address. A Safelist can be used to advertise a product or service, including business opportunities, affiliate programs, home business products, Clickbank products and so forth. Most Safelists work by allowing Members to earn credits but also offer paid advertising. Basic Membership in aSafelist is usually free 


Safelist advertising is a powerful, effective advertising resource for affiliate marketers. It's a myth that Safelist Advertising is not effective. There are definitely ways to get better results, and this is what I discuss here.



Benefits of Safelist Advertising

1. Affordable: Cost is ZERO to join most safelists. You can either surf to earn credits for your own advertising, or you can pay a very small cost for a paid subscription. Paid subscriptions allow you to post more often and to more people. If you can afford it, DO get a paid subscription, cost can be as little as $10 and up. It will save you time by NOT having to earn ad credits. Lifetime Memberships are also a good economical way to save money and have continued access to promotions.

2. Targeted: You reach a targeted audience of other home business folks, affiliate marketers, entrepreneurs and information seekers.

3. Legitimate: Once scoffed at as a cheesy time-wasting practice, Safelists are a legitimate marketing practice and have gained credibility and popularity. Spam laws have limited the number of ways to market a product or service. Safelist Advertising allows marketers to reach consumers easily and legitimately with their permission.

4. Variety: There are various forms of advertising available within Safelist programs. Members have many options for advertising affordably and this can include Text Ads, HTML ads, solo ads, banners, login ads, landing pages, ad rotations etc.

5. Reach: Creating your own in-house mailing list is ideal but does take an enormous amount of time and can be self-limiting to who is on your own list. To reach larger, new audiences, affiliate marketers have discovered the power of being able to post to a large legitimate list of people.

To get better results from your Safelist advertising, here is what you need to know. Always, always, always promote a LANDING PAGE and NOT your website when using Safelist Advertising. Remember you want to make an eye-popping offer and get an instant result. Your website can't and won't do that in most cases.

A Landing Page that will generate results includes:

-Attention Grabbing headline 
-Point form, punchy copy thick with the benefits to the reader 
-A call to action, DO THIS! GET THIS! -Lead form to gather contact details of the person. 
-Option to subscribe to your newsletter, or receive further special offers -More copy than graphics so your page loads quickly and command attention with words not distracting unnecessary graphics. 
-some research is now showing that embedding a video in your Landing Page will get better results, the funny thing is the video doesn't even have to be professional. In the age of YouTube, people are used to "home-grown" videos. 

When posting your ads, don't rely on just one Safelist. If your funds are limited select 3 - 5 to get started and post as often as you can. If you have a dud ad that doesn't get response, change it up, run a revised or different ad. How will you know if it's an ineffective ad, or safelist?

Check your Ad Tracker. Make sure you use an ad tracking software program. When you post an ad you can see the click-rate and analyze the effectiveness of your ads. Many Safelists offer this tool for their Members. 

Summary: The key to effective Safelist Advertising is two-fold. 

1) Get a PAID subscription from a number of reputable Safelists so you can promote to larger audiences and more often. Accept that you will get the BEST results from PAID ads. All successful businesses put money back into their business, and you must promote to get results. The good news is that paid ads, and lifetime Memberships are very inexpensive.

2) Promote a well-written copy-dense Landing Page with minimal graphics. Emphasis is on eye-grabbing headline, benefit-laden copy, and ultra-fast loading.

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.