Saturday, August 8th, 2009 at
12:58 pm
List Building as my Online Business is so powerful that I believe It needs to be shared.
My early days of marketing online were a disaster, I had no focus and just plane suffered from information overload.
I did manage to earn a little money, but with the amount of time I was putting in. I bet my hourly pay way less this a couple of dollars an hour. Ouch!!!
Then I discovered how powerful list building was and everything changed in that moment. I now have a real online business that provides value not only to me but others.
Have my very own list of subscribers has allowed me to provide valuable products and services to my prospects and customer over and over with email marketing.
Power of List Building: Here is Five Tips on Starting Your List Now!
You may have heard others say “The money is in the list” yes that is True, but only if you know what to do with that list to keep them coming back for more…
So here are the Five Tips:
1. Most of the top earners on line known that the money is in the list and target to then with there wants and needs. Once you understand how simple this is you are now a part of a elite group of marketers…
2. Target your market if they are looking (searching) for information on a specific topic product or service then you will offer solutions to them. (by using an opt-in form) You want to obtain a customer’s contact information (This is usually getting a first name and e-mail address), you then will just focus on relationship-building by providing to them what they are looking for. Remember People don’t like to be sold it takes on average seven times for people to pull the trigger and that is why having them on your (autoresponder) list is so key.
3. Having them on your list and offering to solve there problem is building trust so they will come back to you again and again.
4. List-building gives you the opportunity to establish trust with them. The fact that your subscribers come to benefit from your products will keep them as reliable sources of income time and time again. This demonstrates trustworthiness within you chosen niche because once their subscribers and buyers it become easier then trying to talk to new prospects. People just prefer buying from those they like, know and trust Period.
5. There is an endless quaintly of affiliate programs that you can use to provide to your list, in just about any niche market. These programs pay you and provide the information that your list is looking for.
The rewards for this valuable skill will drive you to Mastering and being in the business of list building!
Get access now and start building your list today!
Monday, June 22nd, 2009 at
6:41 pm
Seems like everyone that has a company or someone that is starting an Internet business is trying to tap into Social Media with their product or service. They may have an up hill battle, by spending all their time marketing instead of just running there online business.
Now with information overload on how to get customers. They end up spending most of their time and money trying to market their online business, which can take away valuable time and resources to developing a true strategy that is more productive to their Internet business. Like the saying go’s, “Time is money” or “work smarter not harder”.
Being productive can mean leveraging your time and hard earn money on results by knowing how to use social media as a platform to share not sell your online business. There are effective ways that don’t take all your time to archive this. One is by building relationships and trust through social channels. In this manner you’re sharing and creating relationships with social marketing. There is a right and wrong way of doing this. If you’re just standing on your soap box shouting about your product this tends to be a turn off. However if you’re providing value to others, people tend to start pay attention to what you have to say.
The question is then what works when it comes to online marketing?
Well that depends on who you talk too. There are many that use Adwords, others with social media and paid advertising. SEO companies for a large fee will implement many of these. Some use banner advertising and business forums. I may be leaving out some but that’s about it. Seeing that there are only so many ways to market online you’ll want maximum impact that benefits not only your business but your customers.
There is a way to market online with Social Media that doesn’t involve hours of twittering and facebooking, that can get your content and information out to social networks, so that is seen throughout the different channels. Remember though, that social media marketing and social media networking is two very different things. Networking will happen if Social Media Marketing is done correctly. What I mean by this is don’t use Twitter to find prospects. You will want to use tools to network with your prospects. This way they are seeking you out not the other way around.
Now you can always pay a SEO company to get traffic to your site and get a higher ranking in Google and Yahoo or use social media marketing to have prospects find you and push your search ranking up at the same time, which is a win win for you because you are not only getting the benefit of high search rankings, you are also creating a network of people that want to do business with you and share your business with others within the social media communities.
Here in this easy to understand PDF report that will show you how to apply social media marketing and begin to understand the power of content syndication through social media.
Thanks for time
Mike Alter