by Rahimah Sultan

In James Stone’s article, Building an Internet Sales Funnel for Your Products, he starts with the question, “What is a sales funnel?” In his discussion he points out the benefits of setting up a sales funnel for your business. A sales funnel, which can be used in almost any business, gives you a single place to advertise, and you only need one list, one blog, and a single squeeze page.

You need a place (funnel) to advertise that has one entry point for all your products and/or affiliate products. Once people are on your list, they will find out about everything you have to offer, and hopefully become a customer at some point.

You need a WordPress blog that will be working for you all the time to bring in organic traffic, which is free traffic. You use an autoresponder and your squeeze page, which builds your list, to automatically let your prospects know everything you have to offer.

A sales funnel for your business is a single blog for which you write useful material to attract internet traffic. Posting quality material to your blog on a regular basis brings this free traffic to your site (blog).

Doc Stone says, “You know, it will be a lot of work at first to get this built. But once it’s built, life gets a lot easier. You really can spend just a few hours a day tweaking your system and doing your marketing.” (Read Article)

Click here for information on setting up A Sales Funnel for Your Business.

by Rahimah Sultan

According to Jon Allo, the most popular affiliate marketing niches are health, wealth and romance which are evergreen niches, because people will always have problems they want solved.

As an affiliate marketer you find a product that you like and then you promote it. You want to find useful products in affiliate marketing niches that solve people’s problems.

If you do not like these niches there are plenty of others to consider that include:
Self Help
Insomnia
Gourmet Foods And Coffee
Parents And Children
Pets
Household and Home
Hobbies and Leisure

When deciding on an online business that includes affiliate marketing you must consider several things, among them just the basics that some people do not think about. (See article) As an affiliate marketer, you can promote digital products and combine them with tangible ones.

If you choose any of the affiliate marketing niches mentioned and they are digital products, you can also offer tangible products that compliment them such as calming candle lights, health supplements, stress-busting devices, and even massage technology for the self-help niche. If you choose the pets niche you can promote pet food and toys along with a digital course on caring for a pet.

Do your research to determine what you need for setting up your online business. Then decide whether or not you want to include affiliate marketing niches.

Click to Read Jon Allo’s article.

by Rahimah Sultan

If you’re anything like I used to be then I’m sure you’ve had your share of troubles when it came to email marketing and the frustration of trying to make your first dollar…failing time and time again trying to use emails for cash.

No matter how hard I tried I couldn’t pull one lousy dollar from my list. ONE LOUSY DOLLAR!

I was convinced that email marketing and learning how to make money through emails was more complex than a Rubik’s cube. Through experience, I finally started figuring out what worked!

Emails For Cash is a product that will help you to skip some of the trial and error frustration I dealt with in my email marketing efforts.

This video course shows you step by step different strategies and methods for using email marketing and how to write and use emails.

Video #1 is an overview of email construction: Subjects, headings, body, links and the closing.

Video #2 covers Copy Writing Skills:
Using persuasive language that holds your readers’ attention and compels them to keep reading
Creating powerful headlines that describe the benefit of your product for the reader
Constructing your main message with bullet points to get the readers’ attention
Making the benefits to your readers clear
Having a powerful call to action telling them what to do such as click here or fill out the form
Providing ways for people to contact you
Composing emails with a free gift included

Videos #3 – #5 cover ways to profit with email marketing: Two examples are using a squeeze page or your own product.

Although the autoresponder used in this video course is AWeber, I prefer to use Host Then Profit because it is very much more than just an autoresponder. And, I use only one list with my funnel.

Always remember that in order to sell, you must also give away good quality freebies so that your customers don’t feel like you just want their money.

Never give up! Use Emails For Cash and craft emails that will bring you income.

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by Rahimah Sultan

If you have been frustrated with fruitless attempts to make any money on line in any niche market, then this hands-on Niche Marketing workshop can show you exactly the step-by-step process of the roadmap to create your own niche empire!

How many times have you come up with a great idea on making some money with a niche site
and run into these problems:

Thought you would start making online income once your niche site was created?
You’ve created a site bit it lacks “pulling-in” power
Your opt-in isn’t drawing in any or very few subscribers
Your niches audience aren’t buyers

Don’t get discouraged!

Armed with the right tools and approach, you too can join the ranks with those who are truly enjoying the financial freedom afforded through building a very profitable Niche Empire!

Follow Liz Tomey as she takes us through this workshop with a detailed step-by-step approach as she leads you through these steps in selecting a niche through to completion.

Niche Marketing Made Easy Workshop has five components, of which three will be discussed here.

Number 1 Covers:

Finding a Profitable Niche
Finding the Demand
Fulfilling the Demand (creating a product)
Creating a Marketing System to Move the Product, then,
Rinse and Repeat to Build That Niche Empire! This step is definitely the key to building a killer online income!

Find out whether you should create a series of products for one niche or create a lot of products for different niches.

Number 2 Covers:

Product Empire Diagrams. Have you ever gotten lost and wished you had a decent road map to guide you to your end goal? The answer is very likely “of course”. OK, you have embarked on learning how to build your very own Niche Empire, but how do you get there?

Well fortunately this course includes some diagrams on the path to follow in starting with your niche squeeze page flowing into the autoresponder with guidelines as to what your follow-up emails should contain as to resell vs. gaining confidence of your subscriber, and so much more!

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by Rahimah Sultan

Google’s Matt Cutts, in discussing Google’s Internet Marketing Measuring for Business regarding guest posting, states that Google is geared towards recognizing utility. If Google doesn’t recognize utility, then Google will become weaker and someone else will take their place. Only a few people remember Alta Vista. They didn’t provide much in the way of utility….

He then goes on to discuss the importance of measurement.

Measuring What Is Important

Matt Cutts says that a publishing strategy based on Google ranking is not a strategy but a tactic and it’s not a good tactic. He goes on to say that if interesting material is provided, people will read it and they might return if more interesting information is provided. This is creating engagement. That combined activity plays into ranking. Success depends on achieving the underlying business goal.

Some common things that are measured are Page views, Subscriptions, Comments, Quality of comments, Syndication, Time on site, Videos watched, Unique visitors, Traffic sent to partner sites, and much more.

How Do We Know If We’re Interesting?

“There are a couple of different types of measurement marketers use. One is an emotional response, where the visitor becomes “positively interested”. This is measured by recall studies, association techniques, customers surveys and questionnaires. However, the type of response on-line marketers focus on, which is somewhat easier to measure, is behavioural interest. When people are really interested, they do something in response.”

Click here to read more Internet Marketing Measuring for Business information

Overall Rating (out of 5):

Host Then Profit is an autoresponder and more. It offers you more for less cost and it’s great for beginners. You can always upgrade as the need arises and still pay less than with AWeber.

With Host Then Profit you get hosting, a conference room and a video maker and video hosting for the same low monthly fee.

Product Pros:

• autoresponder
• hosting
• conference room
• video maker and hosting

Product Cons:

• small conference room

 
The conference room can be used for a group of four to collaborate on a project or whatever, and there’s no additional fee.
 

You get a lot more for less with Host Then Profit. Remember, it’s not just an autoresponder!
 

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by Rahimah Sultan
 

There are many options available for advertising your business. Six advertising tips are listed here that could be the best way to reach larger audiences within a short period of time for the least amount of money.

Create a website

You can create a website and then place a link to it on other sources that accept ads.

You can optimize your pages and submit them to search engines. Some take money for placing an ad or link on their website, some take money only if a visitor clicks on the link or website and some take money only if the visitor visits a link and buys a product or service. There are many options available for the type of ad to be placed. These include pop-up ads, banner ads, wallpaper ads, video ads, etc. A low-budget option is sending emails to targeted customers.

Presentations of your products

Another way to advertise is giving presentations for your products. Brochures and business cards can be inserted into the business presentation package. Be sure to have accurately designed business cards that include all the vital information about the business like the name of the company, location, services provided, hours, phone number, cell number and contact person. Personalized business cards are a good way to reach customers.

Distribute newsletters with information about your latest offers and discounts. Informational letters of a page length and e-mails can also be sent on a regular basis.

All of this can be accomplished a lot easier by contacting companies who can provide the mailing list of a particular locality, for a small price. You can check the yellow pages for such companies. After getting the information get in touch with the company to get a copy of the latest mailing list. The fees differ from company to company.

Yellow pages

All businesses both large and small place ads in the yellow pages and have benefited. When you place the ad you should include your contact information and products and services.

Radio and TV stations

Radio and TV stations offer better prices during non-peak times, especially after midnight. Check with your local stations for pricing, time slots and discounts.

Newspapers

One can always use newspapers for advertising. First decide on your target audience – age group, sex, and location. Then choose the local newspaper and section where the ad will be placed depending on the audience to be targeted. The classified section of newspapers has special offers. Check the details of the pricing structure for the size of the advertisements, number of words, font size, etc.

Word of mouth

Last but not least, there’s always word of mouth. You can grow your network by joining organizations that deal with advertising like trade associations and chambers of commerce. Active participation in events of these organizations eventually helps you to reach a larger number of prospective clients.

Start using these 6 advertising tips in your business today.

by Rahimah Sultan

This is part two of Marketing Roadmap Success: Getting Free Traffic. In part one we covered getting backlinks, SEO and better SEO positioning. We will now discuss social networks, forums / discussion boards / online communities, video sharing, and review sites.

As stated before, the series contains seven videos. This article covers the last four of the seven Marketing Roadmap Success strategies for getting free traffic to your site.

1)  Social Networks

Facebook and Twitter are both social networking tools, like an online community. You can use them to find people you know, business partners, and business groups and prospective connections. To sign up is free, and you can easily integrate the two so that people can keep up with you and get to know you better. This is a way of building trust between you and prospective clients.

 
2)  Forums, Discussion Boards and Online Communities

Forums, discussion boards, and online communities are similar to blog posting and comment posting so there are not a lot of different things to learn. You just have to follow the guidelines for each. To find forums and the like, just do a search online for ones that suit your needs. Used correctly these methods can get you good backlinks and good traffic back to your site.

3)  Video Sharing Sites

Video sharing gets traffic back to your site, especially if you use You Tube and Facebook and integrate them with Twitter.  The tools you’ll need for videos depend on the kind of videos you want to make. There are paid and free versions of video tools. Using this technique with other online advertising methods can multiply your exposure.

4)  Review Sites

A lot of people go to review sites to decide whether or not they want to buy a certain product. There will probably be a review site for whatever niche or market you’re in: travel, movies, books, games, holidays, cars and products. You can contact the industry owner and find out how to get listed for a review.

Otherwise you can find a lot of individuals who are website owners, one-person businesses and internet or affiliate marketers.  You can go to forums and find review sites. The video covers the procedure for doing this. Find sites and be ready for them to honestly review you.

By incorporating these four strategies into your marketing, you can get increased backlinks and exposure for your Marketing Roadmap Success: Getting Free Traffic strategies.

If you are in article marketing you know the necessity of keyword research and SEO. You have to research the best keywords and then do the SEO using those keywords. Now that Google’s Keyword Tool is dead we have to find something else to use. While you can use the replacement tool—their Keyword Planner—you must open an account and accounts are no longer free.

I know of four alternatives at the moment.

The number one, top of the line keyword search tool is at Webfire.com.

Webfire was developed by people who understand software as well as marketing techniques. However, it’s very costly. That’s to be expected for the top of the line in anything. With Webfire you get 27 traffic-getting tools.

When it comes to businesses getting free traffic, leads, rankings, and exposure for their websites and brands, automation is the key.

Webfire:

Has 22 traffic-getting software tools
Lets you promote unlimited websites
Has world class training and Support
Has a 30 day money back guarantee and you don’t have to upload or download any software to use it.

It works for any site, whether it’s a WordPress site, any other type of blog, or just a website that doesn’t have a blog. It doesn’t matter what kind of website that you have, if you want to promote it and get fast free traffic, leads and exposure, WebFire can help you do that.

It works on a Mac or PC – it doesn’t matter what kind of computer you have. You simply need to be able to connect to the internet and use your internet browser to access the WebFire membership and the software.

This works in any country in the world that you want to access the internet from and promote a website in that location or promote it globally.

Following are three free keyword research tool sites.
 

1) Keyword Eye
KeywordEye.com is a British site that lets you keep an eye on the competition and monitor how websites link to you.

2) Keyword Spy

KeywordSpy.com allows you to perform advanced keyword research and keyword tracking to study what your competitors have been advertising in their Adwords campaigns and other PPC campaigns. You can get complete in-depth analysis, stats, budget, affiliates & ad copies of your competitors.

3) SEM Rush
SEMRush.com performs the same as Keyword Spy but allows you to go deeper with your research.

Of course there are paid plans in all three free sites from which you can compare and choose. Since Google’s keyword tool is dead, you can use one of these alternatives for your marketing needs.
 

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GVO (Global Virtual Opportunities) formerly Kiosk is a company owned by Joel Therien who has a 14 year track of experience in the network marketing and internet marketing industries.

GVO has rapidly created a big buzz in the internet marketing and the MLM , Network marketing arenas due to the fact that it is the only company online that has the knowhow and the expertise to join these two very important business models in a once in a lifetime opportunity.

What makes GVO such an incredible business opportunity?

The answer to this question is twofold:

First of all when you get your hosting package through GVO you will get several services like unlimited autoresponder system, complete video marketing system with easy video producer and video hosting, full audio and video conferencing system, downtime monitoring software, that not only are included but that will also mean significant savings compared to buying all these services separately.

Second, you will have the opportunity to participate in a MLM compensation plan that is much more than a simple affiliate program and makes it an entire business in itself, let me explain:

How do I get compensated?

To motivate you to promote the business, GVO pays you 50% commission on the first month of every person that is directly sponsored by you.

Then we have the Unilevel Matrix Plan that will pay you 5% per month of up to levels down making this a full matrix of 2,046 people and that alone will earn you $4,600.00 per month!

Wait! It gets even better because you will also get a 20% matching bonus on your personal referrals down to 10 levels.

Once you have a downline of 14 people or more then you earn a new profit position in the matrix that you can also make money off of.

What guarantees that people will stay?

If you have been online for some time and you are serious about building an internet business, you know that in today’s market, these are tools that you or any internet marketer can’t afford not to have and that you will be using on a daily basis and that is the key that makes the compensation plan a very successful one.

With this business model you will build an organization of avid and constant users who will be using the services everyday to run their businesses and therefore will be happy to keep paying their monthly fee!

How do I join?

At GVO we even give you the opportunity to try us and fall in love with our services before you commit to a longer stay.

Just pay $1.00 today and this will give you full access to all the services and features for a full 14 day trial period.

Hope you find everything you are looking for under one roof with unsurpassed quality, see you inside!

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