Google Adwords Guide

You probably have already heard about the marketing tool from Google.com on the Internet. Their advertising service is called “Adwords” and allows you use Google.com for marketing. Your ads will be displayed on Google’s website when people initiate a search. Your ads can also be displayed very targeted among many thousand websites that partner with Google in a program called “Google AdSense”. Adwords is the Google.com version of a pay-per-click advertising model. That means users click on your ad and will be redirected to your website or a specific URL that you have selected when creating your ad campaign.

What do you need to know about Adwords? Adwords is a way to spend a lot of money on advertising very very fast. BUT – Adwords is also a way to spend marketing money very selective to a targeted audience. Adwords can be very expensive for the advertiser if not properly planned and tested.

When you setup a Google Adwords ad campaign, you choose certain keywords for which your ad will appear on search results on Google.com. You also specify the maximum amount of money that you are willing to pay for each click. Remember - the Google Adwords program is a PPC (Pay per Click) model and you only pay when someone actually clicks on your ad and hence visits your website.

It is very important to select the right keywords for your business ad. Going with too generic keywords that everyone will not be very effective and very expensive. Play a little bit with the Adwords keyword and campaign settings just to get a feeling how expensive the generic keywords for your business and industry are. You will realize soon that you need to be creative and careful with the usage of keywords.

Google recommends using different spelling variations and plural versions of your keywords to reach the best target audience. This is a good approach, as not every one of your potential new customers will search for a keyword in the same way as everyone else. Some people will use plural versions and others will use singular versions.

Exact matching of keywords in Google user queries requires you to place square brackets around your selected keywords. Example: [web hosting]. Your ad will now only show when users search exactly the phrase ‘web hosting’. Your ad will not show if other words are included in the search string or the words are entered in a different order.

Another keyword matching option is the phrase option. This is very similar to the exact matching of keywords in a search in the sense that the keywords must all be present and in the right order. However your ad will still show up in search results even if other words are present in the search. To make use of phrase matching you must include your keywords in quotes. Example: "web hosting".

Negative matching is the final option available for your Adwords advertisement. This option allows you to block your ad being shown if a certain word is present in the search query of the Google user. This allows you to reduce the number of possible clicks on your ad in non-relevant searches and therefore to keep your cost low. It also helps you to make sure that your ad is not shown to users who will not be interested in your products. If your keyword is 'web hosting' but your web hosting is based on the Linux operating system and not based on a Windows Operating System then by using negative matching you can choose to have your ad not shown for search queries with 'windows web hosting'. In this case 'windows' would be your negative keyword. You simply place a dash in front of your negative keyword to use this option. Example: -windows

Using the here described ways of selecting keywords will help you to be more successful with Google Adwords. Google also allows you be very specific for which geographic area your ads will be displayed. You go from global to country and even state or city specific settings. Especially local businesses now will have it much easier to use Google Adwords for their specific local markets.

Well, you got the idea how to be very specific how you select your keywords and combinations of keywords. But how do you actually select the right keywords? In order to get the most out of Adwords, you must have a list of great keyword and phrases. If your keyword list is not good enough, you will be punished with paying too much for your advertising. Write down the top search terms that you can think of. Ask friends and family how they would use Google to find your product (without searching for the business name itself).

A competitor of Google actually offers a free tool, which will allow you to find out how popular the keywords are that you selected. Find this free tool here and use it for your advantage:

http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

Create a list of the most popular keywords. Now add words to the actual keywords. Use words that would describe your specific product or service. Now use these phrases or word combinations when setting up a Google Adwords campaign to find out how much you would have to pay per click to get your ad onto the first page on a Google search.

If the keywords selected by you are very expensive to use you should consider rewording or using different combinations. Maybe concentrate on a certain niche to find lower priced keyword options.

When testing new campaigns make sure that you limit your exposure by amount of money you want to spend per day as well as you should set a date / time limit. It’s easier to activate a campaign again if it works just fine for you. If you fail to set limits you might spend lots of money in a very short time – money you can’t get back. It is gone ….

Another way to save money on your Adwords advertising campaign is to wait for the end of the month. It’s funny, but many folks follow a plain rule to start their advertising in the beginning of the month. By the time the 25th of a month is there they have spend most of their money on their campaigns already. For you this means that the prices for many popular keywords might be more affordable for you.

If you are advertising specific products with your ads, link to the specific product page and not to your homepage. 95% of the people who click through to your website will not really be willing to start another search on your website to find the product mentioned in your ad.

Conclusion

Frequently revisit your campaigns and compare prices and results. The Internet is a fast changing environment. What works one day, might not necessarily work the next day. Keep track of everything – maybe create a spreadsheet.

10 Tips For Successful Facebook Marketing

There are a ton of social media websites that you can participate in today like Linked In and Friendster, and they all have their good and bad. The best way to choose a community to participate in is to look at the people who have already joined. For me, Facebook is quite possibly the best sites for networking personally and professionally. I also use Linked In and Myspace. Of all the social networks, Facebook is the best place when it comes to all around marketing and networking.

I have been using Facebook for the past two years, and it is an attractive tool for marketing to add to your marketing strategy. Following are ten ways you can use Facebook to introduce new people to your for FREE!

1. Make a Top-Notch Profile: This is absolutely the FIRST thing that you must do to make an impact on Facebook . Think of your Facebook profile as part of your branding. A effective profile will include a photo of you. Don't use the one of you at a Christmas party, unless that's what your selling. Make sure your new Facebook profile is complete. You should include your contact information, your web address (this is so important), education, work experience and your personal interests. A complete profile is the only way to go.

2. Add Friends: This is what makes Facebook a great platform - the ability to make friends, build relationships and foster them. The more relationships you build, the more worthwhile your marketing efforts will be. You can use Facebook's own tools to find friends that are already on Facebook. Once you add your friends, you can search for kindred spirits. Make their acquaintance, become their friend, build a relationship. One cool feature on Facebook is that you can see friends of your friends. This will help you build a extensive network in no time.

3. Join Facebook Groups: You can join groups within Facebook that are associated with what you do. There are groups for wealth building, coaches, and experts of all kinds. Almost every supposable type of professional service provider has some type of an online group. I belong to several groups on Facebook and have made hundreds of new contacts this way.

4. Create your Own Facebook Group: Can't find a group that really makes sense? Create your own! You can add members, publish articles, carry on discussions, and probably build some long lasting relationships. And even if you find great group to belong to, start your own. This gives you the opportunity to be the trendsetter!

5. Syndicate your Blog Using RSS: You can syndicate your own blog on your Facebook profile page. This inherently means that every time you make a post, it will automatically show up on your profile page. More Exposure = More Readers = More Leads = More Business. And the bonus is the back links to your site. I syndicate headlines from three blogs on Facebook.

6. Comment on Other Peoples Profiles: Are you a fan or devotee of someone's work? Reach out to them on Facebook! Many of my business acquaintances check their Facebook messages more regularly than their email. They are also more likely to respond to Facebook messages. Don't feel comfortable sending a message to someone you don't know? Don't worry! Leave them a "just saying hi!" or "I enjoy your work!" blurb on their wall. All profiles come with "virtual walls" where friends and acquaintances can leave messages. The more messages you leave on your friend's Facebook profiles the more exposure you get!

7. List your Events: Launching a New Service? Create an events page and invite all your friends and acquaintances. You can even see who RSVPed and get feedback from your guests. Marketing doesn't get much simpler (or cheaper!) than this.

8. Send Virtual Gifts: Want to show your appreciation for someone? Send them a virtual gift. You can choose from a bouquet of flowers to a potted plant that actually sits on the your friends profile and grows over time (plus hundreds of others). With all the 3rd party applications for gift giving available, what are you waiting for. This is a proven way to build long lasting relationships!

9. Use Some Cool Apps: Facebook has literally tons of applications that were built just for the site. Gaming, music, movie trivia and more. When you use an application, you get to invite your friends to use these interesting little applications (Apps). So just like number 8 above, this allows you another way to stay in touch with your Facebook friends. Again, this helps you build long lasting relationships.

10. Create a Community: Perhaps Facebook's greatest benefit is that it lets you to build a community. It provides you a group of people who are perpetually connected to you, and they are open to hearing what you have to say. Write on people's walls, give them feedback, and introduce them to each other. Start building your brand and leveraging Facebook for business building!

Facebook is a great place to introduce yourself to a ton of new people who may also become customers and/or clients. Just keep one thing in mind: don't get too carried away and spend all your time there. Facebook is a tool, part of your marketing strategy. Use the tips above, use them wisely and have a little fun at the same time.

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What Is Attraction Marketing?

Attraction Marketing seems to be ‘the next big thing’ in both online and offline marketing tool kits. The obvious question is ‘What is Attraction Marketing?’ however, two better questions would be ‘Why should I care?’ and the question every entrepreneur, vendor or organisation should ask before they do anything ‘What’s in it for me?’

In order to define Attraction Marketing, it seems logical that one must first describe marketing. This, in itself, would easily fill another article – there are literally hundreds of definitions in thousands of textbooks, articles and websites. A theme common in the majority of definitions is that Marketing relates to the many forms of communication that take place between a product or service vendor and the target audience. This is quite separate from the activity of selling, which refers to the transaction where goods or services are exchanged for an agreed value – normally measured in a unit of currency. In the simplest of terms we can say that marketing is the process by which a customer can be persuaded to conduct a purchasing transaction.

If this is our working definition, what has attraction got to do with persuasion I hear you cry? Well in short not a lot and that is the key. It takes a lot of effort to persuade someone to do something or to buy something that they have not yet already decided to buy. Effort, in this instance, equates to time and money. If you do not have a limitless supply of cash, the task of persuading someone to buy your product is going to be near impossible, especially when you consider your going to be competing with some very big budget advertisers. Can you really out market Coke or Pepsi? Do you want to compete head to head with Nike or BMW? I think not!

But let’s approach this from a different angle. What if you didn’t set out to persuade anyone to buy something? What if you just let people search for you? Already this sounds cheaper and easier because your potential customers are now looking for you. And thanks to Google and the other Search Engines, consumers have an almost limitless variety of choice. This choice includes the big name mega brands and all the other not-so-big or not-so-mega brands. The Internet has, to some extent, levelled the playing field. If a potential consumer has want that is currently unsatisfied they can search for a product or service that they believe will meet their need.

And this brings us back to Attraction. It is a well cited statistic that it costs five times as much to win a new customer as it does to keep an existing one. The same must be true in the broader world of Marketing. Convincing someone that they have a need is expensive. However, persuading someone who already has a need that your product or service is better than your competitors is a much cheaper exercise. Why? Well the potential buyer has already qualified their own need; they have already convinced themselves that their need can be met. It is your job to attract them to your particular corner of the market, whether that is your Internet site, your company’s office, your shop or bar, in fact wherever you do what you do!

Attraction Marketing is the practice of allowing pre-qualified buyers to find your product offering. If, at the same time, you can show them that it meets their need and in a better way than your competitors can, you probably don’t even have to worry about the sales transaction. After all they came looking for you, it’s not like you had to sell them anything…

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You Can Double Your Website Traffic And Sales Using Forum Marketing

Do you need more traffic to your web site, and more sales? If you do, then you need to consider an often neglected side of web site promotion which is called forum marketing.

Most web sites make use of forums to provide the element of response from user to owner and vice versa. These forums take many forms, and include the standard forums, discussion boards, bulletin boards and currently blogs where the visitors to the web site can leave their comments on the site.

Marketing has always revolved around relationships. The basic element of relationship from the aspect of online marketing is to weave an element of trust between the potential purchaser and the vendor or web site owner. Once there is this element of trust, even the tiniest bond that has been sown between the potential buyer and seller, it becomes easier for the potential buyer to take a further step to buy the product. That is why many marketers are establishing forum boards and blogs to interact with clients and to provide support and to answer queries.

These forum boards provide a fertile ground for you to test out forum marketing for your products.

You need to compile a list of the discussion boards and blogs that are related to your product or service line that you are going to market. Then on a daily basis, visit these forums to read their postings. These forums are the best sites where newbies to internet marketing would congregate to seek free resources, or request information or advice from more experienced forumers. When you see a post where you can respond, make a brief informative post, and more importantly make sure you leave a reference to your web site in your signature line. This confers on you two advantages. Firstly, you gain a backlink to your site when you leave your website address in a much visited forum, and secondly, forumers who read your post will tend to visit your web site by following the link in your post.

Some internet marketers channel all their visitors to a squeeze page and not to a sales website directly. This squeeze page is a sign up page where you get the email address of the visitor in return for a free download of a ebook or report or software. By using this squeeze page, you gain targeted leads.

Statistics show a potential buyer would need to be exposed at least 3 to 5 times before he becomes interested to take the next step to purchase anything from you. By getting his email, you can email him on a regular schedule or use an autoresponder to channel your marketing message across.

The most important part of forum marketing is to identify a group of marketing forums and blogs related to your product or services that you are selling, from which you can then launch off. Once you have the list of forums and discussion boards, it becomes a daily affair to spend enough time to visit these forums and to post to them. Beware though, forum reading can be addictive, and you can be spending a whole lot of time on reading and posting to forums. Track your leads, and as you continue to do your forum posting daily, you will see a steady increase in your web site traffic and your sales.

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Earn Money Online And Work At Home Based Business

It may sound cliché but it is worth repeating. Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to earn money online. This internet business involves a revenue partnership between a web merchant and one or more affiliates, whereby the publisher or affiliate gets a commission for referring clicks, lead or sales to the merchant’s website. Once you are an affiliate marketer, then you are in business.

And you should take it seriously, like what successful entrepreneurs did for their business. But there’s one question that usually bothers an affiliate marketer wannabe: Is it possible to make a living being an affiliate marketer? The answer is YES! It can even bring you to the elite level or super affiliate stardom if you really focus and work hard on it.

An affiliate marketer is a website owner that is usually engaged in promoting one or more merchants and their affiliate programs. As mentioned, an affiliate marketer receives a commission every time his/her site visitor clicks the merchant’s site, sign-up, or buy the product or service offered by the web merchant. Most often, affiliate programs give a commission per sale. This affiliate commission can be a fixed dollar amount or a fixed percentage. Commission payment based on a fixed percentage level per sale can be more gratifying for the affiliate marketer if he/she is promoting and reselling high priced merchandise.

Affiliate marketing can provide a full-time profit for the affiliate marketers and it is among the few work from home opportunities that is fully automated. In other words, affiliate marketing makes you enjoy the flexibility of working for yourself and a choice to enjoy your life while making an income. The work of an affiliate marketer is uncomplicated – you just have to refer people to someone else’s offer or you simply just need to promote the products and services offered in your merchant’s web site. If the merchant gain a profit from that customer, then a portion of that profit will be given to you as a commission.

But you should remember that aiming for successful online business like this one is not an easy task to accomplish. And it can’t be achieved overnight. If you want to make a living being an affiliate marketer, you need to find out and embrace some tactics and put everything in their respective place. It requires hefty time commitment and of course, blood and sweat. There are three important traits that you need to develop if you want to do well in this field, these are patience, persistence and thirst for knowledge.

Since it is your role to introduce possible buyer to the seller, you need to be equipped with some strategies and be engaged in some activities that will surely increase you affiliate commission. Join in chat rooms that are related to the product and services you are promoting. Make a free ebook containing advertisements and link of your affiliate website.

You can also start your own affiliate program directory and you can make your own affiliate program ads. Using a testimonial and personal endorsement ad can also help. Try to use a signature file in advertising the product you are promoting. Involve yourself in a web ring and join on web discussion board. Moreover, you can create your own private website and use it as a free bonus for those who purchase the product or service that you are promoting.

These are only few ways that will help you enhance your money making experience in the internet. You still need to know more tactics if you want to make a living being an affiliate marketer. Don’t forget that you have to be a great email marketer for you to promote your merchant’s goods and services. In fact, some successful affiliate marketers resort to bulk email marketing or they may employ email marketing software that can even lead to spamming.

Make a newsletter or free ezine and use it to advertise the affiliate program you are promoting. Super affiliates do this; they send this newsletters and ezines to customers with or without their approval. Aside from email and newsletter marketing, you also need to be good in search engine optimization and in link exchanges. The latter take the most important part in assuring that your website ranks well in search engines.

Equipped with expertise and necessary traits, you are more likely to generate more income from your website. Bear in mind that in affiliate marketing, you can gain income without a limit. Though not all affiliate marketers earns a big profit, still, it proves to be correct that you can make as much or as little as you want. So, who said that you can’t make a living being an affiliate marketer?

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Protect Your Affiliate Links From Theft

It's now possible to protect yourself from one of the largest growing internet scams, the theft of your affiliate links and the loss of your commission.

In recent years more and more people have become aware of affiliate links and people promoting others products. A lot of the time they are suspect of very long links, made confusing and lengthy by peoples affiliate ids, or if in doubt delete the id, so they're just left with the web address.

This causes you to lose your commission or they change the ending of the link to their id and get the commission. This is a very common occurrence among click bank users.

Viral URL gets you around this by cloaking your link in another id, an ID you choose so it's easy to remember. This means that should the person who sees your link go to change it after all your marketing efforts, it will render the site useless, it cannot be picked up. And they'll have no choice but to click your link.

Viral URL will provide you with a safe, impossible to crack link, and guidance on how to use it and promote it best. This affiliate program comprises of 20 promotional tools all aimed at helping you succeed with your ventures, and getting your website known. It also provides you with some brilliant email templates to push the boundaries even further.

It's all laid out in easy to understand explained steps, so you don't feel overwhelmed with all you can do.

Security is one of the key factors in affiliate marketing. If you do not adopt proper security measures, then your business will be at high risk. One of the most important ways to restore security is to protect your affiliate links. Do not take them for granted. A bit of carelessness on your part in regards to affiliate links may cost you a lot of money.

If your links are tampered with, then all your hard work will be rendered useless.

An absolutely invaluable feature in Viral URL is the tracking statistics of the links it provides the user with, and the flexibility of domain names. In the cloaking section you can create a link, fully protected by Viral URL, tracked and recorded as well so you can analyze the stats, and assign this fully protected, fully traceable link to any domain name you own.

You will always feel confident and comfortable when using Viral URL and it helps secure your links and commissions. This is a very powerful program for all affiliate marketers, especially click bank users and one step closer to getting rid of internet fraudsters and protecting your business.

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Myspace Marketing - How to Market Your Business for FREE on Myspace

Myspace.com is the world’s largest social networking website. It is the cool place to be if you are in your teens, 20s and 30s. I have also found that it can be an outstanding free marketing tool for social business and websites.

So what is Myspace.com? Myspace is a website where anybody in the world can create a free “personal” web page (i.e., my space). Once you have created your personal web page on myspace, then you can connect your page to other people’s myspace pages by clicking on a link to request to be a person’s friend. Once that person agrees to be your friend, then you and that person can email each other, chat with each other, leave comments on each other’s myspace pages, and read each other’s blogs. There is no limit to the number of friends you can have and some of the more popular people on myspace have millions of myspace friends and have actually become Internet celebrities and have been featured on talk shows.

Over the past year I have been conducting test marketing on myspace for a couple of my clients and I have discovered that myspace can be a very good free marketing tool for businesses. However, myspace is not for all businesses. The types of business that will do well having a myspace page are the “cool” types of businesses that want to market to people in their 20s and 30s. Businesses that will have luck marketing on myspace include bars, clubs, “hip” clothing stores, and cool Internet websites.

Here is how to market your business on myspace.com:

1. Go to myspace.com and create a free profile. Make sure to talk first about yourself and then about your business. However, you must consider your myspace page a personal page where you talk mostly about you and a little about your business. Do not just talk about your business because if you do, people will not want to be your friend. You need to focus on the personal aspect such as, “hey this is me and my life. And by the way I run this Internet website that sells cool t-shirts.” If you think of myspace as a place to network and meet friends FIRST and market your business SECOND, then you will do well on myspace.

2. Once you have created your myspace page, click the browse link to find the type of people you want to market to. You can search by gender, age, location, ethnicity, etc.

3. Go to each person’s page and click their “Add to friends” link. The person will either approve you or deny you. If they approve you, your myspace page and their myspace page will be connected as being friends.

4. To market your business, post friendly personalized bulletins. When you post a bulletin, a link to your bulletin will be posted on each of your friend’s myspace pages. If you have 5,000 myspace friends, than you can literally have a message sent to all 5,000 of these people for free. However, remember that you must be personal with your messages. Talk like you are talking to your best friend. Do NOT talk to people like customers. Myspace is a place for friends and you must respect that.

5. Post friendly comments on your myspace friends’ pages and include a link to your website. Then, everybody who goes to your friend’s myspace page will see your comment and your link. Some will click on your picture to become your friend and some will click on the link to go to your website.

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Review On Mike Dillard's Magnetic Sponsoring Book

Being a networker myself, I can see the difference between the old school of thought employed by traditional MLM's decades ago and Mike Dillard's Magnetic Sponsoring Book. Mike Dillard was a networker for 5 years failing miserably until he decided to go waiting tables just to earn some bucks for his daily subsistence until he discovered this technique from a friend that changed his life completely. I was encountering the same problems that Mike had so I decided to get his Magnetic Sponsoring book to find out for myself if this was really worth it or he's just a bogus out to make some quick bucks. Here's what I found out.

Mike Dillard's Magnetic Sponsoring, a 54 page book is a comprehensive step by step guide to all networkers regardless of which company they belong. We ordinary networkers have this tendency to market our companies and their compensation plan to our prospects who are mostly opportunity seekers who doesn't know a thing about running a business. Who cares? Yes you might be able to sponsor them initially but after a while, they will start dropping out one by one until you are left with only yourself? The cycle goes on until you can no longer bare the frustration and decide to quit networking yourself.

The main emphasis of the book is to establish yourself as an expert so that you naturally attract your prospects. Strategies like giving out free newsletters, audio interviews, and even videos to your mailing list will project an image of you as an internet guru and expert. Is that possible? How do you start establishing yourself as an expert? Easier said than done. Conventional MLM involves the traditional style of calling your "warm market" (relatives, friends and business associates) and "cold calling" or approaching complete strangers. Now in order to shift from the traditional MLM concept to the concepts of this book requires a radical change of approach. You will have to go online and going online requires learning specially if you are not computer savvy. Give yourself a month or two to cope with the learning curves before you can grasp all the things you need to know.

It also requires a minimal of cash outlay for expenses like domain names, web design, web hosting plus others. The biggest expense you might incur is your PPC (Google or Yahoo) advertisement. You cannot do away with this and rely on free ads if you want immediate results. Perhaps you can relish the fruits of your labor in around 3 months if strategies are implemented correctly. Less legwork, savings and the opportunity to earn an income beyond your wildest imagination is the main objective of this book. In no time you should be on the way to establishing yourself as an expert.

I would rate this book 4 out of 5 stars, however, I would like to see more improvements. This book is only a step by step guide on how to attract prospects with little tips on how to market it. In order to get a detailed marketing techniques, you will have to buy his other book "MLM Traffic Formula."

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How Does Pay Per Click Marketing Work?

So how do people find my website? This is by far the most frequent question asked by businesses wanting to increase the number of visitors to their site.

The answer to this question is that there are a number of different ways to attract visitors, these include; search engine optimisation of your website, banner advertising and link campaigns, as well as Pay Per Click. This article focuses on Pay Per Click which evidently the most effective and efficient method.

What is Pay Per Click?

The majority of search engines provide a service whereby they sell the top positions on search engine results pages.

For example, if an internet user wants to find an exclusive gift shop for Christmas presents, they would go to their prefered search engine, and type "Christmas gifts". If this search term is a keyword we have set up for you, then your website listing will appear at the top of the results page.

How and why does it work?

It works because it allows users to find what they are searching for and your company details will be one of the first items they are likely to read. They can read your summary about what products or services you provide. Because of this, the user does decide to click through to your site, they are more likely to make an enquiry or generate a sale.

Where will my listing appear?

Your website will appear in search results in the following search engines ..

Google

Yahoo

MSN

Altavista

Lycos

Ask Jeeves

AOL

and many, many more

How much will it cost?

This is one of those “how long is a piece of string?” questions. However, we won’t end it there and leave you in the dark.

Most companies have a budget for a day, week or month. We then select the most appropriate keywords which we think your target audience will enter into a search engine. For each keyword enter a price you want to pay per click (depending on where you want to be positioned). The higher your budget, the more click throughs, the more leads, the more sales.

It's important to remember that you only pay if a user actually clicks on the link to your website and is taken there. So only if they are interested enough in your summary and want to find out more about your products and services are they likely to click on your website link.

A company’s image is just as important as its products and services, so we produce designs and create an image to give potential customers that crucial first impression and reflect what their company is all about.

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What is an Autoresponder Used For?

When running an on-line business automation is one of the keys to profits and success, and an Autoresponder is essential if this is going to become your reality. Whether you employ your own server side Autoresponder or use an Autoresponder Service, you need to have an Autoreponder for a successful on-line business.

Simply put an Autoresponder is a sophisticated computer program that acts like an automated on-line mail man. Since Autoresponders are automatic software programs you do not have to devote your time to sending out information to each new prospect that request it, the Autoresponder handles it all automatically.

As an example let's say you wanted to send Five thousand people a series of five messages in 5 staggered steps over a 30 day period spaced 2 days apart.

This would mean that:
On day 1 you would be sending the first set of 500 people the first message, day 5 the second set, day 10 the third set..
On day 3 the second set of 500 people would receive the first message, on day 8 the second message, day 13 the third set..
On day 5 the third set of 500 people would receive the first message, on day 10 the second message, day 15 the third set..
On day 7 the forth set of 500 people would receive the first message, on day 12 the second message, day 17 the third set..

As you can see if you were to try to do this on your own it would quickly become a daunting task, but with an Autoresponder you set the parameters and the software handles the best.

Even if your list was no where close to being as large, or that if you were just growing your list that people will be joining your list at anytime and if you looking to send them a structured series of communications, the only way you can do this is with an Autoresponder.

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5 Simple Steps For Real-Time Lead Generation Via Social Marketing Sites

There are many effective approaches to using social marketing to grow your business. Social networks like MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Tagged, and the professionally oriented LinkedIn site are all the rage today. Did you know Facebook is currently growing by 500,000 new users a day!

When used properly, social networking sites can provide massive leverage to grow your business. Just think about how many of the 500,000 new Facebook users each and every day could be potential customers for your business.

But for many people, social networking can also be a huge time sink if you don't know how to connect the dots and have people in your social networks buying from you. You need to be careful and present your business in the appropriate way, without spamming or turning off your online friends, and potentially damaging your relationship with them forever. You've got to get them to know, like, and trust you before they will do business with you, especially on the internet.

We're going to assume you've already chosen the appropriate social networks for your industry or business, opened your accounts, and established some friends. What's the next step? One of the best ways to form a solid business relationship with your network and get more sales is to host an event. It can be a webinar, teleseminar, or in person event. If you live in a remote geographic area, it will be more difficult to get a big turnout for an in person event, but if you live in a populated area you can get a good turnout. The potential is huge for online events.

After you've picked the type of event, follow these 5 steps to get massive amounts of targeted, free real-time leads.

Step 1. A few weeks before the event write an online press release and submit it to a couple of free online press release sites like PRLog and PressAbout. Setup a google alert on the keywords in the press release. The keyword alert will tell you when your press release gets published. When the free online press release gets picked up, then go to paid online services like WebWire and PRWeb.

You should start getting free, targeted web traffic from the press releases and will be able to view statistics on how many times your press release was viewed and distributed.

Step 2. If you have a website or blog, write about the event on your site. Take the blog entry and turn it into an article and post it on social sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Tweet about it on twitter. Then post your event on EventBrite.com.

Step 3. Tell all of your social marketing friends about the event, and ask them to share it with their friends.

Step 4. Create a short Powerpoint presentation about the content of your event and yourself. Post the slides at SlideShare.net with a transcript.

Step 5. Turn the Powerpoint presentation into a video and submit the video on YouTube and TubeMogul.

Make sure to send people to your social marketing site or blog page that tells a little bit about yourself. Have people register for the event and send them an email reminder the day before the event and the day of the event.

Follow these 5 steps to generate free real-time leads, then provide valuable content at your event and you will be leveraging your time on social marketing sites into business sales, not just hanging out and having a good time.

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Attraction Marketing: Put Your Marketing on Auto-Pilot

Years ago when I was looking to add new clients
to my consulting practice, I had to proactively
go out and seek them.

The marketing strategies I used included networking
and speaking engagements, along with keeping in
touch with my contact list of friends and business
associates in the hopes they would refer clients
when appropriate.

These relationship marketing efforts supported my
business 100% in the early years.

But, although I'm embarrassed to admit it because
I should know better, when I got busy and had
plenty of client work, I fell off my marketing
wagon.

I just didn't have the time. Or, I guess one could
argue, I just didn't make the time to keep up my
proactive marketing efforts.

So what happened if I lost a client or two, and
suddenly needed more work? I'd have to quickly
rev-up my marketing in the hopes I could generate
more work in a short amount of time.

Not an ideal scenario by any stretch. But it's
also pretty typical, especially for independent
service professionals.

Then, several years ago, I discovered attraction
marketing.

With attraction marketing you attract qualified
leads TO your business so you don't have to go
out chasing them.

You forget about "selling" and you focus on "serving."

And just like a magnet, you start attracting
prospects and clients. They see you or hear
you or read something you've written and if
it resonates with a problem or need they have,
they come to you.

Can you imagine what it would be like to
have potential clients emailing you, calling
you and visiting your web site all on their
own?

Instead of you having to track them down and
convince them to call, email or visit your website?

That's attraction marketing. And it's so much
easier and comfortable than traditional sales
and marketing.

And, if you do a good job of creating a very
clear and concise positioning for yourself and
your business, you'll attract exactly the right
clients and anyone who is not a good fit for
your services will not be attracted.

Talk about saving time! You no longer have to
wade through an entire list of prospects to find
the ones who are a good fit. And you no longer
have to rely on cold-calling or other more
traditional sales methods to get work.

You can actually focus on doing what you do best
and THAT is what attracts clients to you. Yes,
you do have to put a few elements in place to
start generating awareness of you and your
services, but again it becomes more about
serving than selling.

The best part is, you can get off the revenue
roller coaster and create a more steady business
this way. Because you always have new prospects
coming into your marketing funnel (Don't know
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Attraction marketing doesn't have to replace your
other methods of marketing. For example, I still
network and keep up with my relationship marketing
and speaking/teleseminars. But it sure is an easy
way to really step up your results and practically
put your marketing on auto-pilot.

Lets face it...you need to make money NOW!

You need to make money NOW.

Not next month, not next week, but right now.

I'm going to show you how to operate your business so that you can start making money TODAY and every day hereafter...

I remember the moment like it was yesterday. It was summertime and I was sweating my ass off once again in my home office. The place I was renting at the time had air conditioning but it was so old that it was only working downstairs.

My office was upstairs.

Another blazing hot summer day on the east coast and I'm stuck in my office still struggling to get my business off the ground. It didn't help that my office was about 90 degrees, stuffy as hell and only 10' x 10'.

And I was doing exactly what I always tell my students to do if they want to climb to the top and that is ALWAYS BE LEARNING FROM OTHER TOP EARNERS AND THOSE WHO HAVE GOTTEN THE RESULTS YOU'RE LOOKING TO ACHIEVE!

And that particular day I came across 2 words that hit me square in the face...

FUNDED PROPOSAL

This 2 word phrase changed my entire financial future and I am happy to share them with you in this blog...

A funded proposal is the process of selling an inexpensive, but useful product on the front end to cover your advertising expenses (also to build trust and a relationship with your prospect), and then back-ending your actual business / high-end retail product / opportunity.

This is so critical! This allows you to stay in the game long enough financially to actually start producing results: serious results. So many times people just waste money on opportunity leads and then when they don't join their business, they don't make any money.

They bought crappy leads that didn't move forward, they're right back where they started, they didn't learn anything nor increase their value at all! This is the number 1 reason why the new person goes broke and throws in the towel.

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Lets take a look at just a few of the benefits of running your business with a funded proposal...

1) You immediately are in a money making position. By selling an information product on how to build a business the way top income earners do, you not only train what could be a future business partner on how to build a business properly, but you increase your cash flow instantly.

2) "How-To" information sells much easier than a business opportunity. Through an information product you can build a relationship with your 1 target market, which can literally make you millions down the road (if you're not targeting this market as your 1 priority you are holding your income back 10-fold...you MUST learn who this market is and go get them today! www.fastforwardleads.info).

3) It is much easier to bring an existing customer into your business once they trust you and see that you're the real deal. You have consistently been following up with them for weeks and they know that you are not just trying to get into their pockets. Also, they have already spent money with you in the past so it's a lot easier psychologically for your prospects to keep spending money with you.

4) If you have a system/turnkey marketing platform in place, this allows your team and newest reps to start generating cash flow immediately. This will build their confidence and create momentum in YOUR organization

5) The funds from the retail product can literally take your advertising costs to $0 or you can even make a profit! Now you are literally getting paid to build your list and have an endless amount of targeted leads for your primary business for FREE!

BINGO!

This is the smart way to do business.

*** Retail to networkers now to recruit later. ***

The big boys are retailing books, training, cds, websites, courses and interviews all day long (I'm giving you mine for free)...they know how to build a business. They are building relationships with other networkers and then winning them over by providing valuable, useful information that is solving their problems to recruit them later.

Stop trying to pitch your business to other networkers and business seekers (chances are they are already in one and are probably struggling). Hitting prospects over the head with your business the first time you meet them is not how smart people do business...this is the only industry where traditional training will tell you to go out and do that. No wonder there's a 97% failure rate!

To succeed in the direct sales / network marketing industry, you must follow the proven success formula of the pros if you want to get results:

RETAIL PROFITS = FREE ADVERTISING =

ENDLESS LEADS = ENDLESS BUSINESS GROWTH

That's it. That equation can make you millions.

Now here's the deal...

I was in this industry for over 2 years before I came across this information and had no idea this is how the $50K/month earners were running their businesses.

When I figured this out I honestly felt like an idiot for trying to push a business down my prospects' throats. These people were simply looking for leadership and an expert who could show them how to do things right while I'm trying to cram a business down their throat 2 minutes after I say hello to them!

Its easy to see why so many people fail because this is how network marketing companies train us on how to do business.

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