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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Role of Back Links in Web Marketing

Have you designed a website for your business? Do you wish to be on the first page of the search engines? However throughout the world there are inestimable websites and all aim at the same thing which is not possible as all websites can not land up at first page of the search engine. Are you thinking to make it possible? To be on the first page is not a unattainable task for any website. For getting on first page you need to concentrate on many facets and one of them is back links that needs to be paid attention too.
After knowing this you would certainly like to know what are back links and what makes them so significant. Back links, which are also referred as external links, are inbound links, which come into your website from other websites. The instances of back link are blog site, forum site or any other website on the web. You can receive various advantages from back links. Generally, these incoming links state the quality of the matter included on your website by means of Google. In case you have many back links you will become more well known with other sites as per the Google which will give you good ranking. Hence the external links stands as an crucial factor for Google.  Thus, it can be understood that incoming links have vital significance in order to carry out web business in a successful manner. There are several time consuming process to acquire back links. You will find that there are many users who opt for incorrect methods to generate inbound links and land up creating a big mess. In any case, if they are caught by search engines they will be expelled forever. You must never make use of any wrong methods for getting inbound links.

You will find some inexperienced site owners who wait for incoming links to appear on their own. The expert promoters will not sit and wait but will make some plans to attract inbound links. The excellent means that can help you with the back link is the content posting on some blogs or forum. The viewers will visit your page again if the articles or information provided by you is worth while.  It will be possible for you to make your site attractive by making them your frequent visitor. You should write good quality articles and post them regularly. You must keep them updated on a regular basis in order to make the users visit your website at regular intervals. It is very essential to match the theme of your website with the inbound links. In order to enjoy good profits in online business it is necessary to use this tool correctly.  If you would like to avoid all the problems associated with setting up your websites online then read my LPGen2 review for more information. 

Recommended Payment Method For Coaching

Deciding upon the business of coaching takes some work, but that work can pay off especially in the fees you charge. However, you need to use the right pricing strategy in order to see the best return. After all, you don't want to see people refunding too soon shortly after they sign up for your program. That would mean lost revenues for you. Lost revenues can really take a toll not only on your business, but on your confidence level as well.  If you currently have a one-on-one coaching program that is supposed to be a 12-month commitment, but people are cancelling after two to four charges, which is two to four months after they sign up and their excuse for cancelling is that they are taking a new direction, it's obvious you need to make a change in order to reverse the problem. What I would you recommend you do if people are cancelling shortly after they sign up is, to make your payment program a one payment coaching program. Make it an up-front fee that is paid prior to them starting the program and have it last the year. Frankly, breaking up your coaching into monthly payments is not showing commitment in my opinion. How can you expect people to stay around if they are paying month to month? Having that option only keeps people who are easily drawn into sales ploys by skillful marketers. It leaves the window wide open for them to leave your coaching program and join someone elses.  In order to keep your clients committed to your coaching program, I highly recommend that you have a one time fee for the entire year. That makes people commit because they've already paid the money and want to get the most out of your program, so they'll feel they need to stick with it until the end to avoid losing or shall we say, wasting their hard-earned dollars. There is an easy way to have people commit to joining your year coaching program. Ask them these questions which are psychologically worded so that they decide to go with your program.  The questions they rarely say no to are:

Do you want to be coached? Do you want me to coach you? Do you want me to hold you accountable? Are you committed to making this happen? And if they say yes! Then I say "fine, show me your commitment and give me all the money upfront". I don't say it exactly that harshly, but it's along those lines. Basically, ask for payment upfront. If your program is $4000 dollars, that's what they'd pay in the beginning. That's the way that I would approach this. And I'll tell you, that's the way that I always did it, and I've had no problems. I hate payments not only because it creates more work, but it also complicates the whole process.  So, if you have a coaching program that you are certain you'd like to implement, how do you enroll new members? Well, if you're going to invest the time and energy into putting together a 12-month one-on-one coaching program, I highly recommend using the strategy of selling it through teleseminars. Teleseminars are the absolute best way you're going to find to sell this program. Coach people on the teleseminar calls and then upsell them on the 12-month coaching program. You can even joint venture with other people in your market to sell it through their seminars, webinars, and one-on-one over the phone communications. You'll not only open yourself up to a greater market, but you'll also be helping make yourself more of a credible "guru" in your marketplace. This in turn will lead to more prospects, customers and money in the long run.  As long as you provide very good content and coach others well, there is no reason why your coaching program cannot do well. Perform well and you'll easily reap the rewards of your labour.  There are many strategies to making money on the internet, but nothing makes sense unless you have a big list. Email Marketing is the most profitable way to make money on the internet. When you build a list of hot and hungry prospects you control your future. Discover how to use the internet and turn your computer into a cash gushing machine. Sign-up right now for Matt Bacak's FREE online newsletter to find out how to do exactly that - Go here: http://www.promotingtips.com

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Information is the Key to Online Marketing

You must seek information that will truly help you to market your product/s such as the list below:
PPC advertising: (This is a mind field if you do not know what you are doing) I have spoken to people that have been ppc advertising for several years, and still do not know what they are doing. If you get the right training you can get your clicks for half the cost your competitors do.  Article Writing: is a great way of exposure if your budget is capped or low. It enables people to get to know you, the true person behind the computer. Also I have come across several very useful articles or ebooks which have helped me, and article writing is an excellent way of sharing this information with people. Also my information is usually free, as I hate paying for things.  Web Design: This is an area that you must learn yourself, if you want to move seriously forward with your online career, as this is obviously a crucial part to marketing and branding yourself online.
Video marketing: This is an excellent way to identify with your followers or marketing team. If you can edit an deliver a professional looking video, this is an excellent form of marketing or simple communication.
Email List Building: This is a long and gruesome road, if you have large and deep pockets for marketing then you can build a list relatively quickly, however for us mere mortals we build lists through integrity and honest delivery of information and useful products.

As you can see from the above these areas are just the beginning of your true training course, seek out this information online, unfortunately you will have to work your way through rubbish to get there, but you will find it.  I am working on a training area for my followers and members to use, this will be full of training videos covering all the above, and yes I will offer all this to followers entirely FREE! The above areas are just the start, we haven't even touch on blogging, optimization, HTML coding, URL broking.

 Promote Your Small Business on the Internet

You may have already set up a website to promote your business. Many businesses have done so in the last few years. But, some people have put little effort into maintaining or improving it because they have not seen anything like the results which they were promised. There may be a number of reasons for the lack of results which many people experienced:
The website may not have been set up very well: Sometimes, a website can be attractive or even exciting, but pointless. There are some things which a business website must have to be effective. You may decide to edit the website which you have or start again with a different design. That may because the new design is more modern, more appropriate to your business or easier to maintain and update.
It may not have been promoted well or at all: Many people have been sold the idea of having a website to promote or extend their business but thought that new customers would come flooding into the business as soon as they put it online.  They had not realized that, to get any measurable results, would involve an ongoing commitment as well as the initial outlay. If you already have a website, but it is not giving you the sort of results that you want, you can easily check it's current status with Google and use these results as a guide to the improvement you get in the next couple of months. Go to Google and type in site: www.example.com [replace example.com with the name of your own website]. This will reveal the number of pages from your website which are listed on Google.  A very important factor in Internet popularity is the number of websites which have credible links to your site. Just type links: www.example.com into Google and it will show the number of links to your website. If there is a large number, but you are not getting good results from them, it's probably because the links are low quality ones which are not encouraging people to visit your site. It's not the number of links which is most important, it's the quality.  That is why it is important to get links from sites that relate to your type of business or service. You may be approached by people that want to exchange links with you but you will find that most of the sites which these people are promoting have no content related to the topic of your site. That makes links from them useless to you.

Make sure that the links between different pages on your web site are between similar text. You can also check how often this search engine visits your site. This is a very important because you want to have the latest updates and improvements you've made to your site showing in the search engine as soon as possible after you make them.  Just click on the underlined Cache link to see your site as it was when the search engine's spider last visited it. Check the date on that view. When you have made some of the improvements, the spider might start to visit your site more often. Be sure to check in a few weeks time. Of course if you haven't been updating your site, the sooner you start the better. If you have not got a site, I suggest that you start to set up a simple one as soon as possible.  Before you start writing those pages, get a note book and write down the words and phrases which someone might use when they're looking for your products or services on the Internet. Then, go to the most popular search engine on the Internet, Google.com.
How to use search engines, how to select relevant keywords etc. etc.  All these details are included in a great value ebook 'Promote Your Small Business on the Internet' You can see a copy of this at http://www.eproductsnet.com/promote  Michael Prest is an Internet Marketer bringing you great value ebooks.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Why Internet Marketing Doesn't Work

Although the title to this article might seem a little controversial (since I am an internet marketer) I want to explain why internet marketing does not work for everyone. There is a few points I want to make clear. And some things I want to clarify. I will be as blunt as possible without offending anyone. I have much respect for people that can speak their minds regardless of what the general public might think. So without any further disclaimers let's begin.  First and foremost, the great majority of the public are employed by someone else. Therefore when some of these people think about venturing into a home business they bring with them the same employee mindset. They expect from the company. They crave security in a stable income (regardless of how inconsiderable it might be). And put in minimal effort. Internet marketing was designed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. It was created for the soul who is ready, willing, and able to make a change. And we are talking REAL change. It is NOT about an MLM. It is NOT about a business opportunity. It is NOT about get rich over night scams. This industry does not work for most people because they are not ready. Mentally, they have not conditioned themselves for success (since success first starts in the mind). It does not work for people who do not work. Nothing works unless YOU work.

Secondly, we are a society who is conditioned to expect everything NOW. We want everything fast. Magic pills for quick weight loss. Magic microwave for super fast dinner. Drive through for fast food. And some magic formula to get rich quick. This is another reason why internet marketing will not work for most people. In order to succeed one must be in a community of entrepreneurs who come together to learn and teach internet marketing. A company of know how and "how to" to internet marketing. One that provides a blue print for success. A community of mentors who want to teach. And most people are not ready to be in an environment like this. One must be within community of people who are ready for success and will do all that it takes to achieve it. And will work until they achieve it regardless of how long it takes and how many falls they face.  Thirdly, most people think about the process its going to take to achieve success. While entrepreneurs think about the end result and how they will feel after they achieve success. Most employees can't see past a month. They have a monthly income that dictates how that month will go. So most of their lives are lived month to month. All the while entrepreneurs have a one year plan, a five year plan, and a life plan. Successful people take charge of their lives. They chose how their life will be played out. Most employees are followers who do nothing more than take orders from bosses. Most people are employee material. A small number of people have what it takes to be entrepreneurs. This is another reason why internet marketing doesn't work for everyone. Ever wonder why it is that just a handful of people rule the world?
Internet marketing doesn't work if you don't work. If you are one of those people who are ready, willing, and able to take charge and control of your own life then team up with successful entrepreneurs ASAP. If you are ready to be along side the most successful people then this is it. If you are ready to fire the boss and spend more time doing the things you love and enjoy, then come on board! Until next time, happy marketing!
Gerardo Flores is from St. George, UT. A family man who loves spending time with his kids. Learning and teaching internet marketing is his passion! For more information on what he does visit: http://www.CarbonCopySuccess.com or http://www.FloresMarketing.com