Stop with the enforced e-mail forwards already! Trying to force or bribe people to forward your info to a friends or family in order to be rewarded or win looks skanky in today’s ultra-permission-based world. Especially when you tell visitors nothing about their friend’s or family’s privacy in the space directly next to the e-mail form.

A true viral campaign gets forwarded because consumers are compelled to do so by the glory of the content, not because you bribed them with points or something else.  Read more...

You’re a freelancer and you live and breathe by your clients, right? That makes getting and keeping more clients paramount to your success. Here are five quick tips for getting and keeping more clients.

#1 Ask your clients for referrals. There’s nothing wrong with doing this. In fact, customers are often happy to refer you to others, they just need to be reminded to do so. And, if you can create a referral program where your current clients receive a discount or credit for your services, then all the better.  Read more...

If you’re trying to build an opt-in list, and of course most internet marketing experts recommend that you do, then you’ll want to create a squeeze page. These single web pages are designed to work as landing pages whose sole task is to collect opt-in list subscribers. Squeeze pages are landing pages created to solicit opt-in email addresses from prospective subscribers. Let’s take a look at how to build one:  Read more...

You’ve heard the term that the money is in the list. However, many business owners take that to assume that the bigger the list, the more money they’ll make. This may be true, yet what may be more important than having a large opt-in list is using it well.  Read more...

 
Website traffic is good; in fact for many business owners, driving traffic to their website is their primary business-building traffic. And while traffic may be all well and good, what you really want is targeted website traffic. You want the people visiting your website to be potential prospects. You want them to be future customers, not tire kickers or looky loos.

Here are seven effective strategies to guarantee targeted website traffic.  Read more...

You finally realize that you need a good opt-in list. After reading countless articles and sought expert advices and have read many success stories of people creating a small fortune with opt-in lists you finally decide to have one of your own. Then it happens, you think you have known everything there is to know about opt-in lists and have followed their advices to the T and you still weren’t able to make a profit.  Read more...

Ezines are a great way to keep in contact with your opt-in list. The trick is to continually come up with content that provides value and inspires your recipients to open the email newsletter and read the content. The trick, then, is to come up with exciting ezine topics. Here are a few suggestions to inspire and motivate you.  Read more...

Wise business owners know that high conversion rates are crucial. In order to sell merchandise and services, web site traffic needs to change over to customers. So what are the key tactics to improve conversion rates? Here are three great ways to convert internet visitors to customers.

#1 If you are using a PPC campaign then make sure you’re sending each advertisement through to a unique sales page designed with those keywords in mind. That way each of these sales pages can be fine tuned up to convert that specific site visitor.    Read more...

One of the biggest mistakes made by novice affiliates is diving into their marketing campaign without a solid affiliate marketing strategy.

Who can blame them? The market is flooded with all kinds of get-rich-quick schemes, promising to make easy money in a short span of time.

For the serious entrepreneurs, it is easy to appreciate the importance of having a sound strategic plan to guide flawless business execution. What does it mean to have a strategy, and why is it so important? What are the key strategies to consider? These are the questions we will examine in this article.  Read more...

As social marketing and networking continue to grow, and marketers continue to take advantage of this amazing tool to connect with their audience and build a community, there’s a new tool on the market. Slinkset enables website owners to create their own news social network site. Here’s how:

Step #1 Visit Slinkset.com and register. The registration process isn’t without a few kinks however, it’s fairly straightforward and it’s free.  Read more...

StumbleUpon is a search tool for internet surfers. By using a toolbar, users can give the thumbs up or down on recommended sites. StumbleUpon pays attention to your preferences and suggests pages based on your reaction and the reviews of others to sites. As an internet marketer, this is a great way to drive traffic to your site. Here’s how:  Read more...

Online marketing may have developed a sudden surge these past few years, but many in the know how have felt its rise even from way then. As more internet based businesses are put up, the need to develop new marketing skills and knowledge based on this new medium have arisen. More and more marketing strategies are being discovered and developed to cope with the changing face of business the business world.  Read more...

Also known as the “name squeeze page” or “lead capture page”, you can build your mailing list by funneling all of your would-be subscribers through the creation of a landing page. Not only do you do the work just once, your traffic driving efforts can be focused onto just one effective method.

The following are tips in creating a successful landing page that converts visitors into subscribers on a very huge percentage.  Read more...

When you decide to have an opt-in list, it is not just a matter of sending your subscribers your promotional newsletters or catalogs. There are many things to consider in avoiding many complications. While there are so many ways you can make people subscribe to your list, there are also some things you must do to avoid subscribers from wanting to get off from your list.   Read more...

When a business is set up, a large chunk of the money allotted to the business goes to marketing.  Marketing is a vital part of the way we do business if the business is to continue and grow.  One concept is that of micro-list marketing.

What is micro-list marketing?  Well, it is not a new concept but one that perhaps has gotten lost in the flood of other newer marketing strategies in the news.  Micro-list marketing involves creating lists of people who can grow your business.   Read more...