It’s as simple as that. If you want to become successful, look at what successful people are doing, and do that. I know you’re probably thinking “what so should I just copy them?” Not exactly. Let’s look at internet marketing. If you find that one of your favourite internet marketing guru’s made a site on internet dating, added adsense to it, and affiliate links don’t go and build a dating site doing the same thing. They probably made that site a long time ago before there was any competition, and got ahead of the game.

What you have to do is find a niche that’s profitable. One that is in demand with low competition. That’s when you build a site and use the techniques that the internet marketing guru used to build that dating site.

Now you’re thinking “Great. I’ll do what they are doing….um wait….what are they doing?”. Some internet marketers are willing to share useful information for free, and some others are willing to give it away at a price. Usually the information witha  price is more useful then the free content. Just like i’ve mentioned before good information doesn’t come for free.

If you want real business income from your site, then you’ll have to treat it as a business. Businesses require investments. Online the major investments should be focused on education material. You could do intensive research by yourself and figure everything out in the long run or you could invest some money now, use that information, and make back that initial investment and then some.

If you’re an internet marketer online. You’ll know there’s times when you sit there and think “What should I do now? What can I do to help increase traffic to my website. I have so many websites to work on, but I don’t know which one I should work on first”. I know a lot of people hate the word organized, but it will determine your success. If you’re not organized, you may become successful, but it will take a lot more time as if you were organized.

This is what I like to do to when writing a schedule out for the day. I first think of things that I need to do, or things I need to improve on. Let’s say I want to work on website 1, website 2, and website 3, write 2 blog posts, and read 3 different blogs.

I’ll take out my notepad (pen and paper) and write the following (depending what time I get up):

8:30-9 - Take a shower, eat breakfast, make coffee.

9-10 - Work on website 1 (add articles, and finish product pages)

10-11 - Work on website 2 (keep building product pages)

11:30-11:45 - Lunch

11:45-12:15 - Write blog post

12:15-1 - read blogs

1-2 - work on Website 3

2-2:30 - Write blog post

and so on..

Now there will be times when you finish something that you thought would take an hour, but ends up only being 30 minutes. So what do you do? Sit there? No. Always find extra material that you can read. Whether it be a website, blog, whatever. Don’t just sit there.

Now sometimes you will be doing something as you timed, but you just can’t think. You can’t think of anything to write. Things aren’t going the way you want to. That’s when you stop, and move on to something different. Why? Because doing other things may bring you new fresh ideas that will help you. Say you want to write a post for your blog, but you can’t think of anything to write. Stop writing, go read some other websites and blogs and you will be amazed at all the ideas that will pop into your head.

If you’re doing something, and you go over the time limit don’t just drop what you’re doing. If you’re half way through writing a post, finish writing it. It’s always easier to finish something then it is to start something.

Start making your time productive, and you will soon see the results.

Cheers.

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Do you use SEO (Search Engine Optimization) techniques on your website? If not, then you’re probably missing out on a lot of valuable traffic. Using SEO techniques you’re telling google, yahoo, msn, and other search engines what your site is all about. Which search terms should your site appear on? Without SEO on your site it’s unlikely you’ll be successful with search engine rankings. You’ll be missing out on a lot of free, targeted traffic.

I’m no expert in the field, but Brad Callen is. He has a site that’s ranked 1,755 with Alexa (if you know anything about Alexa ranking you’ll know that’s unbelievable). He also has many sites that are ranked 1st on google for many popular search terms.

I know starting out as an internet marketer can be tough. Especially with not a lot of money, so I’m going to share some free resources with you. The first resource is his free mini-course. This mini course is unbelievable. It’s not just plain text - it includes full colour pictures, and in depth detail on topics. Also, you can get the course in pdf format. Check it out here (once you go to the page there’ll be a pop up with a form. Fill in your email and name, and you’ll soon receive a link to the course in your email):

SEOelite Mini Course

Another free resource I found was an ebook written by him that amounts to 90 pages. You’d be foolish not to read this.

(right click then save link as)

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I don’t know about you, but to me that’s a huge market. That’s just proof that there’s money to be made on the internet using email. No, no, no..I’m not talking about SPAM. SPAM is sending people emails that they didn’t ask for in the first place.

What I’m talking about is opt in lists. Lists of people who come to your website, fill out a form, and request for more information. They request you to send them emails. Isn’t that great? Not only does it feel moral, but these people will actually read your email. Unlike SPAM, where you see the headline - notice that it’s SPAM, and delete it right away.

That’s not the end of it either. Not only will they read your email, but in the back of their mind there will be something telling them “Hey. This guy knows a lot about this, you should read and believe what he says”. That is the power of email marketing.

The most important part is can you write an email that will convert. Can you send an email to someone which they open, go to the link and buy? You’re right. You don’t. But Cory Rudl, Joe Vitale, Allan Says, and a lot of other successful internet marketers do. Yanik Silver has over the years compiled all the greatest emails that has converted to hundreds of thousands of dollars. His book is called:

Million Dollar Emails

Purchasing this ebook for a simple $19 could help you write emails that generate tons of profit

Isn’t that amazing? Think about it. Before someone buys your product they’re going to see it at least five times. That’s the great thing about email marketing is that you have ‘their’ contact so you can ‘remind’ them about your product. You remind them to look at your product 5 times.

There’s one problem though. Can you get them to read your email, and click the link to your product (or affiliate link)? The main thing you have to look greatly on is the headline. If the headline is not attractive and personalized people are not going to read the email. It’s as simple as that.

Yanik Silver is one of the greatest email marketers of all time. If you want to learn about email marketing, he will be a great mentor.

Fortunately, he wrote an ebook focused on autoresponders.

Read More:
Autoresponder Magic

A lot of people get confused on what page or pages should they put their sign up form on. “Should I put it on my home page?” “Should I put it at the top of my forum?” “Should I put it on my blog?” “Where should I put it?”. The answer is simple. Put it on every page that you have. You might be asking, “well won’t it look too repetitive?” To some it might, but if you have your website optimized for the search engines then everyone’s not going to land on your homepage.

Let’s say you create a page for the new Dodge Charger. If your site is listed on google then google will link to your Dodge Charger page, not your homepage. So, if you have your internet user search for Dodge Charger on Google, then it brings them to your Dodge Charger page, and you only put the sign up form on your homepage. Guess what! They’re not going to see it. Odds are they’re going to read your article, and leave. There’s a chance that they might want to check out your Muscle Car homepage, but wouldn’t your chances be better if you put a sign up form on your Dodge Charger page? Of Course.

Just keep in mind that every page is a possible landing page, and that’s the key reason why you should have a sign up form on every single page.

If you’re like me then you’re signed up with dozens of newsletter/mailing lists. If you’re not, you should. You should go to the top internet marketers websites, and sign up for their newsletter. This way you can find out exactly how they do newsletters. What they write, and what works.

One thing’s for sure, free special reports are great to give to your newsletter subscribers. When you make special reports, you want to make sure it’s in PDF format. PDF is the common file type for majority of ebooks on the internet. If you make your special report in the PDF format that makes it look like an ebook! People will grab it right away, everyone loves free!

The downfall is Adobe charges over $200 for the software to create these PDF files. There are more options… Read about it in this free special report..

Click here to download (or right click “Save link as”)

When you look at information on the internet. The information is free. On the minus side, most of the information is very basic. Good information is kept secret. It’s kept secret because whoever knows this information obviously went through a lot of trouble, and most of the time a lot of money to find out this information. What these people are willing to do is trade this information for money.
When you build an email list, a lot of the subscribers are ‘freebies’. They’ll take whatever they can as long as it’s free. What they don’t know is there’s a lot more useful information out there for a price. You have to build a relationship with your opt in list, and get them to realize that they have to spend a little bit of money to get prime information. Information that will make them say “Ah Hah!”. Information that has been kept secret, but only released to paying customers.

On the other hand, I’m not saying all free information is useless. You can find great information out there. You just have to know where to look.

Jim Edwards is one of the greatest article writers that I know. I have learnt a lot from reading his material. He shows you step by step how to make a great article that will bring flows of traffic to your website. Just to show you how great his articles are here’s one my favourite articles by him.

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Increase Sales By Flying Under Your Prospects’ “Radar
Defenses”

- by Jim Edwards

(c) Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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How do you persuade someone to do what you want them to
do?

A whole world of marketing exists around us trying to do
that every minute of the day. Do you even notice it
anymore or, like your prospects, have you subconsciously
set up a system of “radar defenses” against the daily
bombardment of marketing messages?

Take a minute and count up the advertising methods which
fight for your attention (and money) every day. Just
the basic list includes:

· Yellow page ads

· Newspaper and magazine ads

· Postcards, catalogs, and direct mail circulars in your
“snail mail” box

· Radio pitches interrupting the flow of your favorite
songs

· TV ads - about 20 minutes worth per hour now

· Hundreds of storefronts, “mega” malls, and strip malls

· Highway billboards by the thousands

· Circulars hung on your doorknob

· Illegal signs on stop signs and telephone poles

· Legitimate email messages

· Spam email or UCE (unsolicited commercial email)

Just these 11 sources can overwhelm your brain with
marketing messages. Like trapped rats, people develop
defenses against this never-ending onslaught. They
throw up a wall or a “radar defense” that goes into
action the minute they smell a “pitch” or a sales job.
Don’t blame them. We all do it!

So how can you get around this psychological wall
against the constant sales and marketing messages? Well,
the answer does NOT lie in hitting people with more
frequent and obnoxious advertising or sly, sneaky
tactics. You might get them to trust you for a minute,
but it will backfire in the long run.

You must do two things instead:

1. First, you must establish credibility for yourself
and your business as an expert.

2. Second, you must reduce their fears about doing
business with you.

Doing these two things will get you past their defenses
and allow you the opportunity to persuade them to buy
your product.

So how do you accomplish these two “simple” things? What
will win someone’s attention, raise your credibility,
and lower their fear factor all at the same time? The
one-word answer really applies to most everyone.

Trust!

If a seller can get behind your defenses with
information which makes you trust them, then that
credibility will carry over into a sale much of the
time.

How can you get this credibility?

Well, take this next fact as online marketing “gospel,”
for many people have proven its effectiveness.

Fact: Publishing and promoting with free articles gives
you one of the most powerful opportunities available to
tip the buyer’s credibility scale in your favor.

How can we prove this works? Quite easily actually. Take
a break from reading this and go check out a newspaper
or magazine for a minute.

Which do you trust more, the ads or the articles? Most
people will choose the articles hands down. Why?
Because the articles don’t try to “sell” you anything.
Instead, they hand out useful information for
educational or other practical purposes.

Most of us grew up in a culture which says we can
believe and “trust” what appears in the standard “news”
or “information” format. In other words, if it appears
in print, then we can believe and trust the author.

So go ahead! Use this lifetime of conditioning to your
advantage in selling your products and services!

Very few things will create an atmosphere of trust and
confidence in people as reading one of your articles on
a subject that greatly interests them. It shows you
know your business. It also demonstrates you will do
more than just try to sell them something.

Publishing articles literally lets you fly under their
advertising “radar defenses.”

So remember these points when deciding whether or not to
use articles to promote your business:

1. Few things create as much trust and confidence in the
minds of potential customers as reading an article you
wrote on a subject which specifically and intensely
interests them.

2. Articles establish credibility quickly because, right
or wrong, we’ve all been trained to trust the “news.”

3. An article, or series of articles, will differentiate
you from the competition, who bombard people with
nothing but sales messages.

4. Providing content-rich, non-sales-oriented articles
will also help build and solidify your relationship with
existing customers so they give you repeat business.

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Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the
co-author of an amazing new ebook, “Turn Words Into
Traffic,” that will teach you how to use free articles
to quickly drive thousands of targeted visitors to your
website or affiliate link!
Click Here ==> www.turnwordsintotraffic.com