by Rahimah Sultan

This is a great time of the year for me as I prefer cooler weather, and I like to walk and run outdoors in the fresh air, for daily exercise. There are a lot of squirrels where I live, and as I exercise I see them busily preparing for the cold months ahead by gathering and storing acorns.

As marketers, we have entered a new season of Internet Marketing for home business owners. Have you planned for the colder months? Summer has turned to fall and the holidays are fast approaching. Have you planned your seasonal marketing strategy? Do you have a blog for which you are providing updated content? Are you using search engine optimization techniques? Have you submitted your blog or other site to the major search engines? (See article)

As a home business owner you must continually market to get your site seen as much as possible in order to develop a client base for your products and services. Do you have a marketing plan? If not, make one today so that you will be well on your way to implementation before the holidays. Internet marketing for home business owners is very important if you are serious about succeeding in your business.

Write out a marketing plan that fits your budget and start implementing it now. You can use free resources if you are just starting your business, and then add paid sources of advertising as your budget permits. Use these tips to help with Internet Marketing For Home Business Owners.

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by Rahimah Sultan

So, you finally stopped dabbling in this thing or that for internet marketing and have set up your own website over which you have total control. Now you need some help with launching your website so the world will know about you and your services or products. Or maybe your site is not new. You just want more traffic. Hmmmm, how do you go about it?

I happened across this article that has some ideas. The author discusses how to create a good message that incorporates a gift which includes your branding, and where to broadcast this message. Of course your branding is the important thing in internet marketing. Then you use social networking sites and free and paid traffic sources to distribute your message when launching your website.

Put on your thinking cap and come up with places and traffic sources to either post the content or post a blurb with a link to the content? You want to leverage your internet marketing when launching your website.

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Building a successful online marketing strategy is just like building anything – it starts with a solid foundation. That foundation comes from understanding three basics of online marketing:

Search Engine Optimization
Content Marketing
Social Media Marketing

SEO should include:
Relevant Keywords
Valuable Content that is Shared
A Website that Loads Quickly
Both Images and Content
Backlinks from Respected Websites

Content marketing is important because it helps build your brand and inspire confidence in you.

Blogs, training videos, podcasts, and even video games can be used in your successful online marketing strategy. Be sure your content is good quality so it will not adversely affect your rankings and damage your brand. It must be free of grammar and spelling errors so that you look professional. Remember that the content you put on your site might be the first impression a prospective client gets of you.

You can use other people’s materials with permission and proper attribution. However, if you author the material, it positions you as an expert.

Once you have provided something of value and positioned yourself as an expert, you are much more likely to build the trust necessary to sell something. You can feature your products or services with a banner ad on your blog or by inviting the prospect to click through to the ecommerce portion of your website.

Social Media Marketing

In order to make the most of a social media marketing strategy, you need to interact with your fans and create a true community. Show that you are accessible by allowing people to ask questions, voice concerns, and even complain. Then address these issues in a professional manner. Provide them with content that is interesting, not just promotional. Remember, social media is just that – social!

Gaining a certain number of followers or obtaining a target click through rate can be wonderful short-term objectives. However, the final objective of Internet Marketing is sales.

The Internet in general and social media specifically can be wonderful tools for generating sales. But, like all tools, they have to be used properly to produce the desired results.

Always keep the marketing basics in mind in your strategy. Ask yourself these three questions:

1) Why would a prospective customer buy my product or service rather than the offerings of a competitor?
2) Is there a segment of the market that would value the things that differentiate my product or service and is it large enough to support my business?
3) What is the most cost-effective way to reach this segment with the message that my product or service is different?

Then, only launch an Internet-Marketing campaign if it is the most cost effective way to reach your specific target market with your message.

Using a successful online marketing strategy is the way to open the door to sales.

by Rahimah Sultan

Russell Armstrong states, “For anyone who needs to clear out the cobwebs on their social channels and sharpen their effective social media marketing strategies, here are a few techniques to employ so you can take back control and rise in the ranks.”

Develop a Strategy and Follow It If you don’t have a solid plan in place, your content will probably be lost and never seen. For example, set a reasonable limit on how many tweets to publish every day. Adjust the number as needed, but definitely have a goal. Even publishing just five tweets a day gives you somewhat of a benchmark to work with.

You need to build trust by responding to tweets or posts on your channels. If you don’t reply people will turn to your competitors for answers or guidance.

While tracking is generally thought of as time-consuming and tedious, it needs to be done at least once a month.

Remain active on Google+ as that is essentially free advertising for your brand when other people search for you on Google.

There are five key platforms that you should use to grow your brand.

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by Rahimah Sultan

With everyone focused on Search Engine Optimization (SEO), many overlook the importance of Social Media Optimization (SMO). For business owners and entrepreneurs using social media optimization across social media platforms is crucial to generate results.

Social Media Optimization is the process of making content that is generated for a specific brand easily shareable across several different social media platforms and sites referred to as the social media web.

The focus on SMO is not necessarily to drive larger loads of traffic to your site, but to get your content seen in order to get organic traffic. Social networks are actually driving more traffic to professional websites than Google, the most popular search engine.

One way to effectively spread branded content across the social web without requiring users to visit your website is the use of widgets and badges. Badges count as backlinks, which can improve Search Engine rankings. Another optimization strategy is the social sign-in strategy which eliminates the need for filling out a long form.

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by Rahimah Sultan

You must use good website promotion techniques to get your site noticed. This article covers a few tips on web site promotion for home business owners.

Website promotion is an ongoing process for attracting visitors to your website. It includes techniques such as web content development, search engine optimization and search engine submission.

Content

High quality unique content is one of the most effective ways to improve your online presence. Without good content your website could go unseen. Good content gives you lead generation, increased traffic and search engine rankings. Be sure your search engine optimization (SEO) is done correctly. If you are just starting a home business this might be new to you. Just do some research or get someone to help you. There are plenty of resources available.

Search Engine Submission

Submit your website directly to major internet service providers, such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and others. Major search engines will eventually find your website if you do not submit it to them, but many webmasters believe it speeds up the process. Most of your traffic will probably come from search engine clicks so you want to make sure you list your site with the popular search engines. It will take a few days for your site to begin showing up in searches.

Connections

Submitting your website to other high ranking sites and blogs will help you gain back links (Read Article) to your website. Google and other search engines measure and rank your website by the importance and quality of other websites linking to you. Be very careful where you place your links. Be sure these links are not associated with spammy directories or link farms. These types of sites can have a detrimental effect on your rankings.

Website Promotion

Promote your website as many ways as possible. Here are a few:

Use a blog to gain followers and get useful information and feedback from potential customers.
Advertise on internet message boards, discussion forums and online communities.
Put your URL on everything connected with your business: letterhead, business cards, flyers, etc.
Build business partnerships with businesses offering complementary products.
Write ezines about your business, products and services.
Use social media.
Join Google +.
Use images and videos.

Start with the basics and as you become more knowledgeable and comfortable with the various processes, include more strategies. Your success online depends on your ability to attract visitors to your website. These tips on web site promotion for home business owners will help.

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The concept of the sales funnel begins at the very start of a marketing phase where you are trying to capture the interest of as many visitors and prospective customers as you can. Some techniques used for this are:

**Writing good and targeted content and articles on your blog

**Building a list using email signups through your blog by offering free gifts

**Using social networks to signup people in order to be able to broadcast your special offers or latest blog post

**Using a landing page and/or sales pages with a call to action (signup, buy, etc) and many more.

Before even considering the construction of your Internet Sales Funnel, you will need a product or service to offer to sell to your visitors.

These can be physical products, your own digital creations such as eBooks, videos or software and also things such as membership programs or consultation services. If you don’t have your own product you can use affiliate programs such as Clickbank, Amazon or affiliate programs available that you can use in conjunction with blogging from your website.

It is very important that before choosing a product to sell that you try to identify a niche which people are demanding and then supply this need to them.

An Internet Sales Funnel is really a marketing framework which represents all of the stages from your initial leads to actual sales.

Ezine writer Kate Franklin states, “Basically a sales funnel is a way of funneling prospects into your business and building trust.”  Click here to read her article.

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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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Part one of List Building covered the first two modules of the product List Building Income. (Click here to read)
Today’s article covers modules three and four.

Module 03: Paid List Building Methods

If you have money in your budget for advertising, you can purchase traffic to help build a subscribership to your list.

PPC (pay-per-click) is one of the most popular and effective ways to buy traffic for your list. You can also use Facebook ad campaigns, with which you can target ads to certain populations or niches. To avoid overspending, you MUST monitor your paid campaigns at all times. Other paid sources include ezines, newsletters, Coreg Leads and more.

Always use some sort of lead capture page (a squeeze page) when advertising your products or services.

If you are new to online business, do use the free traffic getting methods to see how things work before turning to the paid methods.

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Module 04: Maximizing Your Leads and Sales Conversion

This module focuses on some extra tips to help maximize your leads and convert them into sales.

These include the following:

Keep your squeeze page simple and easy to navigate. Just list a couple of features or benefits. This is not a sales page. Then ask for name and email, as this is a first contact.
How to use a video on your squeeze page or a reverse squeeze page (use the giveaway up front then ask the visitor to opt in)
Try other marketers squeeze pages that are doing well.
Use psychology to appeal to visitors emotions. Make your ad personal and make the visitor feel as if they must have what you’re offering.
Develop trust, reassure visitors that their information will not be used for any other purpose, and stick to that.
How to use bullet points, promotion offers  and more.

Remember that a list is necessary to compete and sustain a business online. It takes some work but in time with persistence and patience you’ll succeed with your List Building.

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Operating an online business is more than having a website and hoping for visitors. You must do some work and your main focus should be List Building. You must do something to get your site viewed. There are a number of things to consider. With List Building Income, you get four modules that cover list building techniques and tips which include creating a system with squeeze pages and an autoresponder, free and paid methods of getting traffic, and ways to maximize your leads and sales conversion. Following is a partial overview of the product.

Module 01: How to Create an Easy, Proven System to Suck in Leads

This module contains tips on making professional squeeze pages and the content that should be placed on those pages. It also covers using autoresponders to keep in touch with subscribers. An autoresponder offers you a way to follow up with people who have subscribed to your list and give them more information and future offers that may benefit them in their business. Having a list and following up with them gains their trust and they will buy from you at some point, if you offer products that they can use in their niche, either your own or affiliate products.

You can use incentives like free offers to get subscribers. Of course these should be good products like a PDF or a video or something else that solves a problem in their marketing. It must be something useful. Be creative.

There are sources where you can get examples of squeeze pages using pictures, testimonials and videos to build confidence with your subscribers.

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Module 02: Free List Building Methods

Learn how to spread the word about your site or squeeze pages through article marketing that benefits you by people seeing those articles and clicking on your links inside.

Use Twitter social network for building credibility over time, and Facebook fan pages and groups. There is also SEO and blogging (content on websites that helps build your rank on Google). Google is not the only site but it’s the largest. Web business is all about good content that is relevant to your site or niche. There is also YouTube for video content. This is like writing articles only it’s a video. You can also use Ad swaps, giveaways and more.

So do some work and focus on List Building so you’ll have someone to buy your products.