Internet Marketing Lessons

How to Get Found on Squidoo

Do you have some squidoo lenses but yet you are struggling to get any traffic? Here are some ideas you can use to drive traffic to your squidoo lenses.

Post them on del.icio.us

Put them in stumbleupon

blog about them

put links to them on your website

use them in articles

put them in your sig file when posting to message boards and forums

use them as the reference point in videos

make a video about them

join groups on Squidoo

Check out more ideas at http://www.squidoo.com/getfoundonsquidoo

Article Marketing Plus

A few weeks ago Debbie Allen released a brand new ebook called Article Marketing Plus.  This comprehensive ebook walks you through exactly how to do article marketing effectively. It also offers interviews with over 20 top article and internet marketers. Learn tips from them about how they do their article marketing and how you can do it effectively. If you are looking to do article marketing, I highly recommend this ebook.

 

Article Marketing Plus offers you unique information about article marketing, which you cannot find anywhere. The information in this ebook can be applied quickly to your internet marketing efforts and is very useful for helping you to build your business.

 

Check it out today at  Article Marketing Plus

 

How to Market Effectively Online

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7 Ways You Can Increase Business With a Blog

Blogging is becoming increasingly important for businesses who want to get and keep a competitive edge as well as build their brand and grow their client base. However, even though you know that having a business building blog is important, what exactly can it do for your business and how do you go about increasing business with a blog? 

Blog on a regular basis. Exactly how often is considered a regular basis depends on your readership and client base. For some businesses once a week is enough, for others once a day is considered sufficient, and for a few select others, once an hour or several times a day is necessary. It is crucial to decide how often you will blog and then stick with it once you have started. It will not do your business any good to start a blog and then fail to maintain it. You also must maintain a balance by writing often enough that your readers are not bored but yet you must also avoid writing too often and thereby overwhelming your readership.

Write useful and interesting content which appeals to your target market. Avoid writing about topics which are too controversial or too random unless these are the goals of your blog. Write various posts which cover various aspects of your business but at the same time are interesting to your readers. 

 Be careful with your advertising and linkage. Too much advertising or too many links are big turnoffs no matter how good your content is.  Make absolutely sure that your ads and links are also relevant to the topic of your blog and to your businesses’ products or services.

Include a call to action at the end of all of your posts. This can be a question, or any kind of statement which invites your readers to comment, an invitation to visit another website or to subscribe to your RSS feed, or to bookmark the post. 

Read other blogs in the same niche or target market and make useful comments with a link back to the home page of your blog or to a relevant post.

Put a link to your blog on the home page of your business website or on any other websites you have for your business. If you publish a newsletter, make sure to also include a link to your blog in each issue as well.

Run a contest on your blog and give away some product or service from your business. Require your readers to do something in order to enter the contest. 

7 Secrets to Generating Web Traffic With Squidoo

So you have either just created a brand new website or you have an older website but it is not generating the kind of traffic and results you would like. Have you tried using Squidoo? I became a giant squid at the end of June 2008 and so I have quite a bit of knowledge and experience about how to use squidoo to generate traffic to your website or websites. Here are seven secrets you can apply immediately to help you increase your web traffic using squidoo.

 

1. Create a wide variety of lenses. Although it is completely fine and necessary to create a couple of lenses which are focused specifically on your business, you also need to create some lenses focused on your hobbies, famous people, TV shows and other topics which have nothing to do with your business. These other lenses will attract a different kind of traffic and market and will introduce people to your business who may not have been searching for a business when they found you but who may become curious by what you have to offer.
2. Make sure to include links to your various websites in your lenses by mixing them into your content. It also helps if you can find some way of making the link relevant to the topic of the lens.
3. Include links to other useful and relevant blog posts, and websites. You need to make each lens a useful resource for the topic and not just a collection of material about and by you. They must contain information by others as well.
4. Keep your lenses updated and fresh. Each lens should be updated at least twice a month. It is not necessary to completely redo the lens. A quick two minute change of the titles, a few tags or adding one link is all that is needed.
5. Keep your lenses short and too the point. Adding more than 15 modules to any given lens will make it harder to read and a lens that is too long looses the interest of its readers before they reach the end of the lens.
6. Make sure to include at least 6 modules in each lens. Just like you do not want your lens to be too long, it also must not be too short. There is a minimum amount of information you must include in order for it to be interesting and helpful to your readers.
7. Include a guestbook at the end of each lens and invite reader comments. Ask questions through the lens that encourage your readers to think about your topic and to share their thoughts and feelings with you.

 

Know that being successful on squidoo takes time but it is well worth it. Learn from those of us who are giant squids and remember practice makes perfect.

 Check me out on squidoo here.

 

How to Create an Ecourse

Would you like to grow your list and make more money with an ecourse? Watch this video and learn how. Still need more help and resources? Visit Successful Ecourses.

Never Pay for Software Again with Office 2.0

What is office 2.0? You have no doubt heard about web 2.0, well office 2.0 is similar in the sense that it basically means offering open source software and applications you can use online to do the same things you do with expensive paid software. I recently discovered all kinds of cool applications from the resources on the link above and I was way impressed. Check it out and you will never need to pay for software again. Do all your internet marketing, word processing, bookkeeping and more.

I'm a Giant Squid

Yahoo, after months of work, I'm finally a giant squid. Now what is a giant squid? Well to learn more about squidoo and how you can become a giant squid too. Squidoo Lenses

10 Ways to Grow Your Business with Podcasting

1.    Use a podcast as a way of sharing your expertise with the world. Just like blogging, podcasting offers you the chance to share your knowledge and advice with the world and establish your credibility as an expert in your field.

2.    Use a podcast to train current business partners. If you are in network marketing or in any other business where you do any kind of training, a podcast is an excellent tool you can use to train others.

3.    Use a podcast to generate new leads. Those who listen to your podcast, if you do it well, will most likely be great targeted prospects.

4.    Use your podcast as a way to generate more links to your website. Most podcasting platforms allow you to list a url that goes along with the podcast. This will enable you to add another link back to your main website.

5.    Podcasting is a great way to interview other professionals in your field. You can use a podcast to capture the recording and share it with others.

6.    Use a podcast as a free bonus to entice people to subscribe to your newsletter. Offer the sound recordings in your podcast as a bonus only to subscribers.

7.    Use a podcast to sell your products. Make it full of interesting and relevant information and run it like an infomercial and people will buy from you.

8.    Use a podcast as a part of a membership site to add audio and value to your site so others will remain subscribers.

9.    Use a podcast to add audio to your website. You can use your podcasting program to record a minute or two of audio welcoming others to your site.

10.    Use a podcast as a way of generating advertising revenue. This is a great way to offer valuable content while making money at the same time.

10 Ways to Immediately Make Your Website More Profitable

Ask for feedback from others on how they recommend changing your website to make it more profitable.

If you have high traffic considering selling some tasteful and interesting ads on your site.

Add a paypal tip jar. This is especially relivent if you have a large amount of content or a non-profit oriented website.

Change the prices of your products and services. You may be able to either charge more or less. Do a thorough evaluation on your pricing.

Consider doing a website layout or formating change. This can in some cases make a big difference in how your website is percieved and may increase sales.

Blog and write articles to promote your site and do the selling for you.

Consider giving away some free samples. This may or may not be a wise investment depending upon what your product is.

Add a video to your website. Either show you talking about your product or an informercial type video.

Offer a free newsletter and email list sign up. This will allow you to continue to sell to your customers as well as maintain a database and offer people free information.

Participate actively in social networking sites and offer valuable information related to your website.