Internet Business

The importance of writing articles is increasingly growing as many internet marketers are witnessing the multiple benefits of this marketing tool.

Many of the new internet marketers remember only one of the benefits which is getting back links to their websites. They completely forget that through the articles that they distribute they are building their reputation not only with the readers but also with the article distribution sites. This reputation is what is going to help them build a relationship with their audience that could eventually turn into visitors to their site who could turn into paying customers.

When writing articles you should remember the following:

1- Your prospects are getting to know you through your articles. If you are writing for the sake of getting back links the readers will realize your intention easily and they will never click on your link. It is just like a sales call, if your prospect feels that you are pushing for the sale, he/she will never buy. But if they feel that you are sincerely trying to help, then your chances are much better for closing the deal.

2- What you write and distribute today will always haunt you tomorrow. Learning the hard way on the internet might be extremely costly as anybody who is doing any search on you will get among the results your old work. The question would be; would they realize that this work was when you were new?

3- Encourage your readers to click on your resource box by making sure to give them useful information that would really help them. Meaning; if you still want to distribute a large quantity of articles within a short a period of time, do not make that an excuse to reduce the quality of your articles. Each article should be written in the same spirit as if you are writing one article a month.

Writing articles poses two major obstacles to the marketers who are interested in this online marketing tool:

1- The ability to actually write articles.

2- The ability to distribute articles in an effective and efficient manner.

Writing Articles

For those who find difficulties in writing articles themselves I would recommend training themselves to that because in the long run it will serve them immensely in controlling the frequency of writing articles and the subjects they want to write about. The recommended strategy is as follows:

1- For the first couple of months hire a copy writer or the services of copy writing companies that would write articles specifically for you on the subject that you wish. Remember this is not buying a copy of an article that is sent to many others. This has to be written exclusively for you.

2- During the second month and while you are still getting the services of the exclusively written articles, get one article per week and re-write it in your own words. Meaning, get the core subject and write about it in your own way.

3- Now you can drop the exclusive services and start getting ghost written articles. Be careful, you will need to re-write those as they are given to many others. When I say re-write, I mean really re-write. Don’t change few words here and there or change paragraphs and then submit, because your article will be rejected. You need to make a completely new article out of the same core subject. You can get those articles in one of the following ways:

a. You can buy such articles

b. You can search for articles related to a certain subject and choose a combination of ideas presented in those different articles. This is a free option.

c. You can visit article directories and search for articles that suit you. This is also a free option.

Remember you will need to re-write the whole article, do not use someone else’s article and put your name on it. This is:

1- Not Ethical

2- Will be rejected by article directories.

3- If repeated you might get black listed in some directories.

Article Distribution

As every single person in internet marketing would tell you, there are two ways to submit articles; manually and automatically. Automatically is done either through a software package or an article distribution service.

My first straight forward recommendation is never to attempt to use the manual option unless there are few extremely important sites that you need to be 100% sure that your article is submitted to them.

The automatic approach is a must to submit your article to as many directories as possible. Therefore, do not limit yourself either to an article distribution service or an article submitter software, rather use both options.

Do not purchase the first software that comes your way. There are several around and their prices and features vary a lot. Ask about the best options in forums, you will be getting very useful answers. This is how I bought my software package.

Purchasing a software could be a difficult issue to internet marketers from countries that are not among the listed countries in Paypal and Clickbank. Do not be discourages when you find that. What you should do is find the contact link on the site of the seller and ask them if they have other payment options.

Submitting articles is great fun and a wonderful motivation factor. The more you find your name around the internet the more you want to write articles.

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Would you like to find out what those-in-the-know have to say about mailing lists? The information in the article below comes straight from well-informed experts with special knowledge about mailing lists.

Don’t have a list of subscribers? No worries, cause there are a lot of ways to make money online without one. Here are 10 ways on how you can do it:

1. Selling Your Own Products

The undeniable, greatest way to make money online is selling your own products. If you can create a product, an e-book, software, any other digital products, you can create a website, write a good sales copy and market it.

If you choose to sell physical products, eBay is the one of the best ways. You get an exposure of millions and millions of visitors from eBay everyday and it increases your chances of starting out well in making money online.

2. Affiliate Marketing

You can also sell other people’s product and earn commissions for each sale. This way, you don’t need to take a long time in creating your own product and start earning money online. Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways you can quickly generate revenues from the Internet.

3. Reselling

This is done by purchasing the resell rights to a product, selling it and keeping the full profits for yourself. Similar to affiliate marketing, a reseller will be selling other people’s products.

4. JV Brokering

Even if you don’t have a list, you can JV broker with a list owner to sell a 2-tier commission affiliate product. You request the list owner to sign up as an affiliate under you, endorse the products to his or her list with an added bonus or benefit so that it gives their subscribers a better reason to purchase the affiliate product.

Now that we’ve covered those aspects of list, let’s turn to some of the other factors that need to be considered.

5. Graphic Designing

If you know how to create banner ads, buttons, nice images, you can sell your graphic designing service to people who requires it. You can find customers by visiting http://eLance.com, where people search for free lancers to help them on graphic designing, website creation, ghostwriting, copywriting and so on.

6. Website Creating

Similar to graphic designing, but you offer your service of creating websites for people instead. If you are good at creating websites, you can charge up to $500-$1000 for it.

7. Ghostwriting

Can you write articles? If you know how to write well, you can offer your service of writing articles for people behind the scenes. Ghostwriting can be a good job if you understand more specifically on a certain topic and is able to write lots and lots of it comfortably.

8. Copywriting

Copywriting is the job for writing sales letters. It requires a lot of different strategies and persuasive writing to urge readers into buying a product or service. Nevertheless, a good copywriter can charge a very good fee for his or her work, it is considered one of the greatest ways to make money online without a list.

9. Pay-Per-Click

This is where names like Google Adsense, Chitika, and Yahoo Publishers Network are mentioned. You can create websites, place these services’ ads on them and earn a fair commission every time your visitors click on it.

10. Direct Marketing

Although this requires more skills and experience, but you can generate a ridiculously high profit from it. Direct-marketing involves good writing skills, finding a good, responsive and targeted mailing list and advertising your products to its subscribers.

Of course, not having a list of subscribers doesn’t mean that you don’t need to start building one. Make sure for every effort of making money online you will try to build your own list of subscribers, they are the main keys of achieving huge success on the Internet.

Those who only know one or two facts about mailing list can be confused by misleading information. The best way to help those who are misled is to gently correct them with the truths you’re learning here.

Take action today, and you’ll be guaranteed for success real soon.

Seth Chong is the owner of IMViral, one of the largest, biggest viral Internet Marketing Newsletter which is being spread around the world, you can sign up for the Newsletter(worths $197) for Free at http://www.IMViral.com

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Have you ever wondered why it takes so many visitors for your website to make any real money for you?

My coaching students email me all the time and ask questions along the lines of -

“I’ve got 60/100/200 website visitors a day but I’m not making any money yet, what’s wrong with my site?”

Of course, you need a lot more traffic than that to make a decent income from your site…in fact you need a lot more traffic than you think.

Let’s go through the numbers.

We’ll assume you have a site that promotes either affiliate products or you use your content website to generate leads for another website (like a mini or sales site) or an offline business you have.

We’ll also leave Adsense revenue out for now, because every click on an Adsense ad takes away one chance you have for selling your ‘real’ product or service.

On average, for every 100 visitors who arrive at your site, only one or two will click on an affiliate link or click through to your main site where you sell your product or service.

And then depending on how good your sales copy is (or how well the sales letter of the affiliate merchant converts) only 1% or 2% of the people arriving at that site will make a purchase.

So, looking at these numbers, and taking a 1% response rate as pretty normal, you have to get 10,000 visitors to your website to generate just 1 sale (100×100 visitors=1 sale)…

Now if your site is getting 60 visitors a day, and they are reading on average 3 pages before they surf off to somewhere else, it’s going to take you on average 55 days to make each sale.

If the product you sell is a 30 dollar ebook and you earn 15 dollars commission every time somebody buys a copy, you’ve set yourself up to make 99 bucks a year from your site…

Pretty dismal isn’t it.

Now obviously, the more pages your visitors read, the higher the product value they buy, and the higher your conversion rates are, the better.

You could double or triple this number, or more.

The point is, you need a LOT of traffic and/or big ticket items to sell to make the average site earn you a respectable living.

So, here are my top 3 tips for increasing your website’s potential revenue and breaking into the big league of online entrepreneurs…

1) Do some research and find several big ticket items you can promote

It doesn’t matter what niche you’re in, you can find things like seminars, big box home study courses, membership sites and the like to promote to your visitors.

Sure you can promote $20 ebooks, but the big money is in making $200, $400 or a grand each time somebody buys something through your site.

It’s a lot easier to earn a hundred grand a year online by making a few large ticket sales than by selling 6,000+ ebooks that make you 15 bucks each.

2) Work on creating keyword specific landing pages for all of the affiliate products (or your own products and services) so that when people arrive at your site they find the exact solution they are looking for right there.

Don’t make your visitors click around your site while they try to find what they are looking for.

Give them the exact solution they want immediately or they will hit the back button and leave without finding what they are after.

3) Build a list and build long term relationships with your readers

If you have your visitors’ names and email addresses, you can send the same people back to your site (where they are exposed to your affiliate, Joint Venture and product links) again and again instead of just once.

This gives you a multiplier effect and can exponentially increase every visitors’ value to you.

Use a service such as Aweber to send out your autoresponder messages and they will go out in the exact order you want your readers to receive them reliably, on time and automatically.

The main thing is that you get to work on building your list as soon as you can…

So there you have it - 3 simple things you can do straight away to get started on increasing your traffic and maximizing the income you receive from every website that you own.

Rocky Tapscott is the author a free 7 Part Mini Course “How To Build The Perfect Home Based Business Around Your Favorite Hobby, Pastime, Sport Or Skill” which uses 6 real life case studies to show how others have used a proven system to build profitable businesses around their favorite hobby.

Drop by http://www.hobbyandlifestyle.com/ecourse.html to grab your free copy.

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