Monday, December 29, 2008
2 Essential Steps To Create Ways To Make Extra Money With Your Legitimate Online BusinessCopyright Francina Smit
http://www.InHouseDollars.comYou think you are right on track with your
legitimate online business and are doing what needs to be done. It is wise to step back every so often though to make sure you are truly maximizing the potential of creating
ways to make extra money.
The real key to making money on the Internet is to always be selling. Surely there are different approaches that you can take, but many people never truly master the art of selling on the Internet.
For example, let's take a look at the business model known as affiliate marketing. There are 2 crucial steps that you have to take if you anticipate to find
ways to make extra money online as an affiliate marketer.
1. Do not use the duplicated affiliate website as your initial point of contact with your website visitor. You are much better off to produce a website of your own, where you have the opportunity to pre-sell your visitor on the many advantages of the product you are representing.
Pre-selling is an important part of making sales on the Internet and making money on the Internet. In the old days it was known that people liked to buy from people.
There is still an element of truth to that today, and your ability to connect to your visitor in the form of pre-selling your product will have a great affect on the amount of money that you make with your
legitimate online business.
2. You need to promote your website if you expect anyone to come and visit it. This appears so basic, yet the amount of Internet marketers that fail due to lack of quality traffic is unbelievable.
If getting website visitors was as easy as everyone makes it out to be then we would all be more successful. The fact of the matter is you will have to develop advertising and marketing skills before you will ever make a lot of money on the Internet.
This could take you hundreds of hours before you really become adept at the many different ways to market online. Even if you are doing paid advertising you need to know how to properly spend your money to achieve the results you are looking for.
There is so much that goes into finding
ways to make extra money on the Internet that it is hard to boil it down to two specific things. However, if you were to create your own website for your affiliate products, and then become an expert at marketing it, you cannot help but make money with your
legitimate online business if you get adequate quality traffic every day.
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Monday, December 8, 2008
10 Free Ways To Improve Your Legitimate Online Business Alexa RatingCopyright Francina Smit
http://www.InHouseDollars.comAlexa, which is owned by Amazon.com, gives away a free tool bar that you can download and install in your browser. It is then able to keep track of the sites you visit and compute the
Alexa rating of websites for
legitimate online businesses, with a rank of "1" being the assigned to the most visited site.
If you want a more technical definition, Alexa explains it like this:
"The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of
Alexa Tool bar users and data obtained from other, diverse traffic data sources, and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web on a daily basis. The main
Alexa traffic rating is based on a value derived from these two quantities averaged over time (so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users)."
(http://www.alexa.com/site/help/traffic_learn_more)
In April 2008 Alexa revised its methodology so as to "aggregate data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users". (http://awis.blogspot.com/2008_04_01_archive.html)
How accurately this method reflects the actual surfing patterns of all Internet users is open to question. However, if you bear in mind that by the end of 2005 the toolbar has been downloaded well over 10 million times you will realize why many people still think that Alexa offers one of the best approximations that we have of
legitimate online business website ranking, especially for the top 100,000 or so websites.
That is why Alexa remains an important measure of a website's status and is used as a quick way to assess the popularity of a website by advertisers looking for the maximum exposure for the their money. Websites with a higher
Alexa rating also tend to be trusted more than those with a low ranking, so it is in the interest of website owners to get their sites ranked as highly as possible with Alexa.
Here are some quick and easy tips to help you do that without spending a single dollar!1. Install the
Alexa tool bar and set your website as your homepage.
2. Copy and paste an
Alexa rating widget onto your website. You can get the widget code at http://www.alexa.com/site/site_stats/signup. As well as informing your visitors about your Alexa rank, it will also keep Alexa updated about the number of unique visitors surfing your site.
3. Create a customized version of the
Alexa tool bar, Then place a link on your site to the download page and invite your visitors to download it. You will also earn Amazon commissions every time a user shops on Amazon via the tool bar link.
4. If you have a Wordpress blog there is a plug-in for
Alexa Rating (wp-Alexa-redirect-0.3plug-in) that you can use.
5. Submit your site to web directories. Although a lot of directories charge a registration fee, you can still find many that are willing to list your site free of charge or in exchange for a reciprocal link. A lot of the webmasters who browse web directories have the
Alexa tool bar installed, so if they click your link it will help your
Alexa traffic rating.
6. Become an active participant on Internet marketing and SEO forums. Again, a lot of those forum participants are already webmasters and a high percentage will use the
Alexa tool bar when they surf. Place a link to your site in your signature and your rank will improve when any of those people click through.
7. A lot of Asian and Australian websites feature in the Alexa top 100,000 and you can bet that a lot of website owners will have the
Alexa tool bar installed, so it makes sense to join social networking sites that are popular in those regions, such as:
* http://www.orkut.com - Orkut is owned by Google and is the second most visited site in India.
* http://hi5.com - Hi5 has an
Alexa rating of 17 at the time of writing this article.
8. Become an Alexa expert and post articles that discuss
Alexa rating and SEO tips. This will attract people to your
legitimate online business site who may be interested in downloading your toolbar, or people who have already done so. Either way, it will be good for your
Alexa rating. You could even build a whole category of articles on your website devoted to this theme.
9. Set up a freebie page on your website and post a list of useful tools to attract other website owners to your site. Include another link to your
Alexa tool bar download page.
10. Get into the habit of using Stumbleupon and other bookmarking sites to spread the word whenever you post a new article on your website or blog. Set up a group of fellow website owners so that you can have run reciprocal stumbling campaigns for better results.
If you apply these ten quick and easy methods you will definitely see an improvement in your
legitimate online business Alexa rating and you should also start to attract more traffic to your site!
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Monday, December 1, 2008
Auto-Responders For Legitimate Home Based BusinessesCopyright Francina Smit
http://www.InHouseDollars.comIf you have just started a
legitimate online business, you will need to think about using an auto-responder email service to build a relationship with visitors to your website. You will want to keep in touch with visitors who request more information so that you can inform them about your products and services. The best way to do that is by sending out an auto-responder email newsletter to your mailing list to build
legitimate home based businesses.
Surf a few business websites and you will notice that in almost every case they include some kind of form which you can fill in to receive some kind of benefit. It may be more information in the form of a
free newsletter, report or ebook, or perhaps some kind of software download.
When you fill in the form you will be required to give your email address so the information can be sent to you. When you supply your details they are added to the mailing list and you will start receiving regular messages in your inbox.
Does your website have a lead capture form on it which visitors can fill in and subscribe to your newsletter?
You can easily set one up by subscribing to an auto-responder email service such as Aweber.com or GetResponse.com. Auto-responders are e-mail marketing tools which can be used to sign up subscribers and send them your messages at preset time intervals, track subscribers and sales for a
legitimate online business. It will also provide you with a block HTML code that you can simply cut and paste onto websites for businesses to create a lead capture form.
Place the form in a prominent place on your website where people will see it as soon as they arrive. Offer them a big free incentive to sign up.
When people fill in the form their details are automatically added to the auto-responder. Next, the auto-responder sends the subscriber an email thanking them for signing up and inviting them to "opt-in" to the mailing list in order to receive your messages.
This "double opt-in" procedure ensures that you build a permission-based mailing list and protects you against accusations of spamming.The subscriber clicks a link in the email message to opt in to the service for
legitimate home based businesses. When that step has been taken the subscriber will begin to receive your messages, which you will have preloaded into your auto-responder and set it to mail them out at pre-determined intervals. That way, each new subscriber receives a similar series of messages from you at similar intervals for as long as the subscription remains active or the last newsletter has been mailed.
You can continue to expand your newsletter series by loading new articles or messages onto the end of your mailing series in the auto-responder.
Auto-responders are powerful tools for Internet marketers. You do not have to limit yourself to just one newsletter. You can build a separate mailing list within your auto-responder for each product you sell and follow up with email messages that focus on that product or market niche.
You can also use your auto-responder to broadcast an email to all your legitimate online business subscriber lists in one shot, which is great for sending out time-limited special offers, or timely advice.
As you can see, by subscribing to an auto-responder email service and writing a newsletter you will have put in place a powerful resource to turn targeted traffic into subscribers and subscribers into customers to build
legitimate home based businesses.
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Tips To Grow Your Clickbank Marketing Into A Legitimate Online BusinessCopyright Francina Smit
http://www.InHouseDollars.comOne of the most important assets of a
legitimate online Business is an opt-in mailing list, or a series of opt-in mailing lists, of qualified prospects. A list is not a static asset, however. It needs to grow and to be renewed with fresh supplies of potential customers for your
Clickbank marketing on a daily basis to ensure growth for a successful business.
One effective, but under appreciated method of building an opt-in e-mail list is to set up and run a free
article directory on your website. Internet marketers are always looking for new outlets for their articles and will willingly submit them to free article directories wherever they find them.
Most article writers are aware that they need to register in order to submit their articles on an article directory. All you have to do is to build into the terms and conditions of the registration process an opt-in clause in which they agree to receive updates and other information from
legitimate online businesses by email.
How easy is it to set up your own article directory? How much does it cost?Setting up an article directory on your website is not as difficult as you might suppose,
nor is it so expensive. In fact one of the leading article directory software packages can be downloaded free from Articledashboard.com. Other software packages can be
purchased for a one-time payment of around $30-$50.
In the case of Article Dashboard, you simply download a zip file, then upload it to your server. You will also need to set up a My SQL database, but that too is a simple enough operation. The article directory provider will also run support services to help through any difficulties during the set-up stage for your
Clickbank marketing.Your article directory may look a bit threadbare at this stage as you have just set it up and not begun to publicize it. The way round this is to make use of a service that will populate article directories with articles for a
legitimate online business. Article Marketer offers just such a service, which you can use to keep your directory fully loaded and regularly updated.
That kind of service gives directories the vital ingredient of credibility that will encourage visitors to submit their article - and opt-in to your list as part of the registration process.
Once your article directory is set up and loaded,
you'll need to get to work publicizing it via blog posts, articles on your website, articles submitted to other article directories with your own directory link in the signature file. Make use of ezine ads and add a link to your signature file when you visit Internet marketing forums.
As your directory develops it will attract a growing volume of traffic as webmasters come to collect articles for republishing and readers come to check out the articles on websites. This, and the constant arrival of newly submitted articles will help your website to rise up the search engine rankings. A virtuous circle of increasing publicity and increasing traffic will be created for your
Clickbank marketing. That in turn will bring more and more article writers to your directory, where they will submit their articles and join your opt-in list to grow a
legitimate online business.
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