How To Use a Safelist for Long-Term Success.

October 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

To become effective in learning how to use a safelist, first you must inform yourself of what a safelist is about. Basically, it is a list of opt-in subscribers who have permitted you to send them information regarding your products or services. This is unlike a spam, which forwards unsolicited emails to various email addresses.

Get Positive Responses Through Safelist Advertising

Several internet marketers dismiss safelist advertising as a waste of time. To a certain extent, it is true. However, there are tips to help email marketing work to your advantage. Here are a few ones you can use:

1.    Do not sell upfront. - With a safelist, you seldom expect purchases on the spot. Instead, you can provide free information that will rouse your prospects’ curiosity and encourage them to visit your site or see what new products or services you have available. It is also your key to finding long term customers.

2.    Use a catchy or attention-grabbing email subject. - Unless you have a subject that will rouse their interest, most people will not bother opening their emails. This is related to what most gurus say about safelist being a waste of time. Therefore, be creative and make them an irresistible offer.

3.    Highlight the benefits to the customer. - Focus on how your product or service can help improve your customers’ lives. Appeal to their emotions, but make sure that it sounds genuine.

4.    Avoid excessive links. - A link to your website or your affiliates’ site should be enough.

Maximize Your List

Online marketers often wonder how they fail to get positive results despite of tremendous efforts on building a safelist. What they fail to realize is that gathering a list is not enough, there are several factors to consider.

Poor safelist performance result from untargeted lists. Even if your subscribers receive emails from your company, if it is not of the recipient’s interest to avail of your product or service then you cannot expect to generate sales. Therefore, when gathering email addresses, you have to make sure that the people on your list are possible customers.

Another important factor to achieve better result is the frequency of  sending emails. As much as possible, refrain from sending daily emails because it might annoy the person and force them to unsubscribe. Meanwhile, monthly emails prevent you from updating your subscribers whenever you have any new product, service, or promos available. You can opt to send emails on a bi-weekly cycle.

The same goes with the volume of emails you send. Do not flood your subscriber’s inbox with tons of emails that they will not read anyway. Instead, send them substantial emails that include all the information they might find useful and provide the necessary links. Also, refrain from sending the same email content more than once.

Benefits of a Safelist

Creating a safelist is a cost-efficient way of promoting your products, as well as that of your affiliates’. As long as you take note of the tips above, you will be able to maximize the list of emails you have gathered and spread the word about your business.

The best thing about email marketing is that you constantly update your subscribers about any new products that they might avail of, instead of one-time advertisement. Hence, even if they do not avail of your products or services now, they might in the future. Indeed, a safelist is an effective tool to bring in long-term customers.

Once you’ve learned how to use a safelist effectively, you can bring in more traffic that can be converted to sales but without the expensive advertisement costs.

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Using Squidoo to get backlinks and Traffic

May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This is just going to be a quick note:

One of the ways I get back links is to create Squidoo lens. They are easy to create and can be built in as little as 30 mins.

If you use some creativity you can get first page rankings for many long tailed keywords. You can also use squid lenses to help get your webpages indexed by search engines.

Make sure to get the word out about your lens. A good way to do that is to post your lens on your blog if you have one. Don’t have a blog yet?

Definitely start writing in one it can only help your business.

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Internet Marketing Mistakes To Avoid

May 22, 2008 | 2 Comments

Internet Marketing can be very profitable avoiding some of the more common mistakes will save you much grief.

The first mistake most newbies make is this:

You get a new product you are excited about the company gives you landing pages and now all you have to do is put your landing page on adwords and you will start making sales.

Maybe back in 2001 that was possible today that simply is a waste of money time and effort. You will spend hundreds of dollars and probably never even make sale.

The reason for this is because Google adwords requirements are very demanding. The first problem is there are already people trying to use the same landing page as you on adwords and google will only show 1 webpage per top level domain name. That means unless its your personal domain name you aren’t going to be seen.

New Internet Marketers also make the mistake of not building the list. They usually care more about making the sale then they do about building their list. This is a terrible mistake, the money is in your list. It might take you 20 visits to website before you make a sale in the mean time you are loosing money because you aren’t capturing your visitors information.

You will have to learn some html make your own landing pages and build a list if you want to make money in the Internet Marketing Industry. Its unavoidable and the longer you put off learning the longer you will be broke.

Don’t fall prey to the “get rich quick mentality” Its simply not true

concentrate on expanding your sphere of influence and concentrate on building a relationship with your email subscribers and you will make money.

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Web 2.0 Graphic Equalizer

April 22, 2008 | 5 Comments

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  Are you looking for a way to To optimize your
website or blog with web 2.0 graphics? I use photoshop elements 6 to do
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action scripts. If you don’t know what an actions script is , it allows
you to make changes to different types of templates and layers in
photoshop. I found a cool membership site online that lets you build
text graphics in web 2.0 style. These text graphics are great for
drawing attention. Its also a pretty good deal . I think its $27 one
time fee. I wasn’t going to promote this product but I had so much fun
playing with it I thought you might like to try it out. It really will add a whole new level to your websites and blogs. I tried
lots of different graphic programs and software. This by far the best
Site I found for making professional text graphics. It is totally Newbie
friendly. Anyone can use this and have Cool looking text graphics.
 

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Ebay Bans Digital Downloadable products I say this is good news.

March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I am sure I am going to  gett people angry just reading the title. Probably the same people that have devalued ebooks.

Sure ebay provided a quick way for people to build their list and  sell their products. FOR 1 dollar.

Have you ever tried creating a product ? The time , money and resources that go into.

I sell lots of ebooks its very hard to make money online trying to sell digital right products when you can go to ebay and just buy the product for a 1 dollar.

Think for a moment would you rather make 20 dollars a sale or 1 dollar ? The people selling on ebay really did ruin the market for everyone else while they cashed in.

The same people may have to actually learn how to market now since they ran out of there breeding ground. Ebooks may actually be worth something again.

I believe a fair value of any ebook is around 10 dollars.

if there is a video involed 15 dollars

if there are rights given 25 dollars and up.

I can sell hundreds of ebooks I read most of them. I can say some of them aren’t worth 10 cents. But there are ebooks out there that I bought for 77 dollars and up that are worth every penny.

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quote : Brian Burke Director of global feedback policy

Hello…This is Brian Burke, Director Global Feedback Policy. Digital goods are often reproduced at little to no cost to the seller. On eBay, this creates the potential for Feedback Manipulation (both real and perceived). To preserve the integrity of the Feedback system, effective March 31 all goods that can be digitally downloaded or transferred electronically must be listed using the Classified Ads format.

Using the Classified Ads format, sellers receive a 30-day ad at a fixed price. This solution enables sellers to continue to market their digital goods on eBay; however, because Classified Ad listings are a lead generation tool and do not result in transactions that go through eBay, Feedback cannot be exchanged between buyer and seller.

Sellers who wish to continue to offer digital goods can do so by selecting the Everything Else>Information Products category in the Sell Your Item form and choosing the Classified Ads format (not auction-style or fixed price). For more information about the Classified Ads format, please read Advertising with Classified Ads.

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Maybe I can sell a ebook for more then 5 dollars again.

Just my 2 cents

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Learning Internet Marketing

March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Learning Internet MarketingDon’t let this happen to you.
In this article I want to get you on the fast track to Internet Marketing.
First you need the tools to do business. Are you going to sell anything ? I remember when I first opened my first business when I was 18 my biggest concern was how am I going to take credit card payments. And actually if you are opening a brick and mortar business you still need to be concerned about this.

The great thing about marketing online is its relatively easy to setup a payment system. If you can copy/paste code you are set.
If you haven’t and would like to set up a paypal account click on the banner
Sign up for PayPal and start accepting credit card payments instantly.

The first thing you are going to want to get is pay pal account. If you don’t have one its almost critical that you get one. It’s the most common form of payment online.
The reason for this its easy to setup your own paypal account. Through paypal you can take payments for your products or services. Paypal is very handy for a brand spanking new Internet Marketer.

Paypal is trusted by millions of people and the good people at ebay own it, so you can rest easy that your money is being taken care of properly. I have never had an issue with paypal and thousands of dollars have entered and left my account.

Your either going to become an affiliate marketer or you are going to sell your own products. The hottest products online to sell are info products. Makes sense that these types of products are in high demand. People love information and you can be the person to supply that information.

I think the reason why so many people fail to make money online is because they try and jump into the internet marketing niche. It is by far the hardest niche to break into and the competition is fierce. You will experience greater success if you do something you love to do already. That way you will never be at loss for content since you already know something about it.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is the direction most beginners gravitate too. The advantage is you don’t have to come up with your own idea and many times you will have pre-made promotion material you can use.

The Mistake:

There are thousands of people trying to make money online most of them are beginners hoping to break into the scene. Separate yourself from them by getting a domain name and hosting. You don’t need to be a webmaster (expert) you will need to learn how to upload files and use an html editor.

I use Microsoft expressions because it’s the most non techie editor I’ve ever used. I have used just about every free editor online . (My opinion they all stink and just make things harder not easier.)

Common Thought Process : I am going to make money online start from scratch and work my way up.

This is a sure way to failure. I recommend you use all free advertising methods to build your list. 9 times out of 10 you are going to have to pay for an autoresponder. You can market to your list later, you stand a better chance of making money if first you build the foundation. I can get you started building a list using a autoresponder and building webpages for free.
I am not kidding these tools are free. I bought a membership specifically so I could give these tools away, your business is dependent upon having these tools so if you are in a bind financially try out these FREE tools.

What affiliate programs are best ? In my opinion the best programs to market are programs that will pay you on an ongoing basis these types of programs let you get paid over and over again for work you already did.

There are sneaky tactics you can use to capture names of people who by products you recommend (that article is for another day).Looking for a good affiliate program to market?

Finally, you can get into the resell business. I don’t know if you are aware of this or not 90% of all the information products can be bought from a few sources. You can look at the resell business sort of like the wholesale business.

Find supplies buy at wholesale sell at retail. There is a twist here since you can buy the rights to many products you can often times sell them for whatever you want.

Tip: If you are going to do business this way I recommend you put together product bundles , offer good bonus’s , and have good customer service. If you want to be successful make sure every product you sell has value to it. Some products are just older products re-packaged.

The only place I buy products to resell and use.

And above all else don’t get stressed out.

Internet Marketing

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