October 9, 2008

Increase Traffic To Your Website: Get Traffic With Our 365 FREE Traffic Tips

If you want to increase traffic to your website, then you will need to become agressive about it, sort of like our two bikers to the left who look anything but passive. Well, OK, perhaps a better word is 'proactive', rather than aggressive, but let's face it - it's not easy to get traffic these days. Most folks are numb to ad messages and getting through that indifference to get targeted hits just ain't easy!

So check out our 365 Daily Traffic Tips series. The price is right = free. And it's quick and easy to read each tip and see if it applies to YOUR business.

Will each one be helpful? Naturally, not. There are tons of marketing methods out there - and many, perhaps most - of them work. But as business owners we have to be selective. Just because something works doesn't mean that I want to do it.

So, if you're want to increase traffic to your website (and I'm sure you're interested in making money online or you wouldn't be reading this) then rush on over and sign up. Choose what you want to use, discard the rest, and you won't just get traffic, but targeted hits which are the only kind worth having.

Posted by SydneyJohnston at 3:23 PM

October 5, 2008

The Membership Site: Using Member Sites To Increase eBay Profits, Part 4

The membership website format that I prefer these days is infinitely easier than the ones in the past because the content for your members site can be created, put on autoresponder and sent out to your members - without attention on your part. It's a great way to increase your profits if you're selling on eBay - or anywhere else that you recruit interested customers, whatever your niche. We've discussed your content - now how do we deliver it to the subscribers of our membership site?

5) Delivering Your Members Site Content:

For my business, an autoresponder is a MUST! It will deliver content on any schedule you choose. Here is a screenshot from the autoresponder series I mentioned in #2 above:

Notice the 5th column ... it shows the day on which the message is sent out. (Column 6 is the 'hour" which I always set at zero). Currently, the messages cover 154 days and I will add many more soon. Once again, the point is - once it's done, it's done! AUTOPILOT INCOME! This is the e-a-s-y to run a membership site.

{Continued in The Membership Site: Using Member Sites To Increase eBay Profits, Part 5 }

Posted by SydneyJohnston at 1:57 PM

The Membership Site: Using Member Sites To Increase eBay Profits, Part 4

The membership website format that I prefer these days is infinitely easier than the ones in the past because the content for your members site can be created, put on autoresponder and sent out to your members - without attention on your part. It's a great way to increase your profits if you're selling on eBay - or anywhere else that you recruit interested customers, whatever your niche. We've discussed your content - now how do we deliver it to the subscribers of our membership site?

5) Delivering Your Members Site Content:

For my business, an autoresponder is a MUST! It will deliver content on any schedule you choose. Here is a screenshot from the autoresponder series I mentioned in #2 above:

Notice the 5th column ... it shows the day on which the message is sent out. (Column 6 is the 'hour" which I always set at zero). Currently, the messages cover 154 days and I will add many more soon. Once again, the point is - once it's done, it's done! AUTOPILOT INCOME! This is the e-a-s-y to run a membership site.

{Continued in The Membership Site: Using Member Sites To Increase eBay Profits, Part 5 }

Posted by SydneyJohnston at 1:57 PM

October 2, 2008

Membership Site: Members Site Offers More Opportunities For Profit

Using already created content, which is loaded into an autoresponder, is how I am increasing my profits with membership websites. Selling on eBay is cool - but settling for one measly profit per customers isn't so great. Especially if I can set it on autopilot.

3) Where I'm Getting The Content For My Member Site :

I am doing the content for this series myself simply because this is my first membership site and I'm figuring out my methods along the way. I deliberately chose a subject I'm interested in so it's easy to write.

I recently bought version 10 of Dragon Naturally Speaking so that I can dictate my content. Using this awesome software cuts my time by about 2/3. Very cool. The accuracy isn't 100%, but it's darn good.

Note on that: I had Dragon version 7 years ago and was very unimpressed. However, I saw a couple of demos and decided to get Version 10 and am very glad I did. I found a good deal so if you're interested go to the bottom of this ezine for details. This code expires on September 30, though.

4) Making My Content Look Good:

Looking decent, at least, is important. I use a free program called Open Office, instead of Word. It will format your documents into pdf form, which is the format that is most recommended on the Net.

If you want to get fancier you will need a more advanced system. Adobe InDesign is the one graphic artists use and the most highly recommended. But it costs a gagging $699! I bought a program for $40 at Microcenter and it's called PagePlus9. The company, Serif, has a newer version now, but the one I have is quite adequate. I'm sure there are others (although not very many). What you're looking for is "desktop publishing".

{Continued in The Membership Site: Using Member Sites To Increase eBay Profits, Part 4}

Posted by SydneyJohnston at 1:26 PM

September 25, 2008

Travel Opportunities are Everywhere

We're told almost daily that the economy is in shambles, or some other unflattering commentary about our national plight. Clearly workers who lose their jobs and many homeowners are individually facing an income and mortgage crisis. But does financial instability typify the average American home? It's an intense subject of debate during this year's Presidential campaigns.

If, however, the number of people taking expensive vacations during the summer and beyond are indicators of family financial health, we may be at least a little better off than some news stories convey. Either way whether struggling with money or well off, people clearly love to travel and take vacations as time and personal finances allow. A growing percentage are much more cautious about finding creative vacations ideas, such as a Grand Canyon helicopter tour, family vacations in Michigan, student travel deals, Ohio theme parks, and so many more ideas that are only subject to one's imagination.

If you can afford the time away, you will find some very nice vacation packages and lodging options right on eBay. There are hundreds, and several that I spotted look like sweet deals whether available by auction or BIN. You just need to be a little flexible in your destination. If you can do that, you will accomplish two desirable goals at the same time - an enjoyable vacation trip and one that is affordable. If you are looking for a little fun time away, take advantage of your opportunities right online.

Posted by SydneyJohnston at 12:22 PM

September 22, 2008

Dripping Power Community Forum Is Back Online

We are happy to report that our community forum is back online after a "vacation". This web forum is specifically for our students and ezine readers who wish to use auctions to make money. But it's much more broad than that.

Approximately four years ago we began using eBay and simple techniques like article marketing to generate long term income. Our monetary goals were modest - only $10 per day for each small website that we constructed. But our long term goals were much more ambitious: to generate multiple streams of income that would endure over time. This is what we teach in our Auction Genius Wealth Plan. However, we soon realized that building a website to last involves keeping it "live" with new activity, new content, new treasure to intrigue our readers. Thus the Dripping Power system was born.

So, we have a new home for our community forum and all honest and serious online sellers are welcome. Spammers take note, though: this web forum is monitored and you will NOT be getting free junk links.

Posted by SydneyJohnston at 10:41 AM

September 18, 2008

Treatments for Diseases and Ailments

With the relatively recent (earlier this year) eBay requirement to list downloadable electronic products - such as eBooks - in classified ad format, the number of information products in eBay has plummeted. No doubt this was the main intend with the policy change. eBay had previously been littered with thousands of low-quality electronic products.  

But the shame of it is that there is so much valuable information on myriad subjects which will no longer be available in the world's greatest auction site. Many people will never miss, for example, "How to Make $1 Million in a Month." However, there is more vital information that will now need to be sought elsewhere. Practical medical knowledge is usually among those info products that are handy.  

So now if you seek facts on a whole range of treatments such as remedies for menopause, treatment for depression, diabetes medical supplies, or even acid reflux food to avoid, well, you will likely no longer find it in eBay. You now need to seek them through a competitor. And that's disappointing.

Posted by SydneyJohnston at 11:12 AM

September 15, 2008

The Membership Site: Using Member Sites To Increase eBay Profits, Part 2

The membership site has become an awesomely powerful tool for increasing my eBay profits, but not the "old" kind of member site that requires constant maintenance and effort. It's just too labor intensive for me. I prefer a newer kind of membership website that involves autoresponder emails on a regular basis.

1) Recruiting members:

I found my members from a Craigslist free ad so all I"paid" was some time.

2) What I offered my member site subscribers:

I offered them a free autoresponder series. Since I'm in experimental mode, I'd rather not share that series quite yet with the readers of this list (I don't want YOU to be guinea pigs! :-) but here's one that is just like it, except on a different subject and isn't advertising a member list:

http://metabolism-on-fire.com/loseweightfree.shtml

===> Why It's Almost IMPOSSIBLE To Fail With This Autoresponder Series ...

This autoresponder series is on weight loss and if you want to sign up for it, feel free - even if you're skinny! The point isn't the emails - it's how I use lots of autoresponder series as money makers. Every single message has an offer. Right now there are 34 messages but I have another 52 to add when I get around to it. It is mailed every week so that will be a total of 86 messages or almost two years of contact. Naturally, people will unsubscribe along the way or not read the messages and some people will never buy anything. However, I can COUNT ON sales from this autoresponder series and it's like a "free" membership site - once it's done, it's done and I don't have to do any more work on it.

{Continued in The Membership Site: Using Member Sites To Increase eBay Profits, Part 3}

Posted by SydneyJohnston at 10:52 AM