October 17, 2008
Web Page Traffic: Generate Web Traffic With Your Signature File
If you want your web page traffic to pick up, here's a tip from our 365 traffic tips ecourse: use a signature file or 'sig' file as a way to generate web page traffic. Every time you forward an eMail to your family or friends (or maybe even your enemies! :-) make sure your signature file is posted at the bottom of your email. This sig file will, naturally, include some tantalizing and intriguing benefit about your products or services. The secret is to make your email "forwardable" so that all the people you talk with will pass your message along to others. When they do, your marketing will ride along. And realize that the message you want forwarded may not have a direct relationship to whatever you're selling, although it certainly shouldbe be totally alien. This method of generating web page traffic is both free and subtle since you're not overtly selling anything.
Posted by SydneyJohnston at 7:02 PM
October 13, 2008
Is It Really GUARANTEED VISITORS You Want?
Do you want guaranteed visitors to your websites or web stores? If you answered, "Yes, of course", then you need to rethink your goals. What you really want is targeted hits or visitors. There are dozens and dozens of sites that will deliver guaranteed visitors to your site - but what they don't say is that these people may have, in fact most likely have, zero interest in your products.
Our 365 Daily Traffic Tips series have this to say: "When advertising, be sure that your ad is going out to your targeted audience, not the masses. It would be a waste of money, reaching people who are not interested. For example, unless your product is sports related, don't place an ad in a sporting magazine."
It seems obvious when you think about it that 'guaranteed visitors' will most likely just use up your bandwidth and bring you no financial rewards. So focus all your advertising and marketing on targeted hits, rather than just warm bodies.
Posted by SydneyJohnston at 4:08 PM
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
