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Friday, February 27, 2009

Drive Traffic Using the Tell-A-Friend Script

A lot more and more website owners have the most notable dilemma, which is how to increase the amount of traffic flow to their websites.Through out the past few years a number of methods have been created to rectify this situation.Whilst number of them will work there are a lot that are likely not to even make the smallest impact.One of the techniques that have been the origin of lots of success stories in sending traffic to websites is viral marketing.Viral marketing is designed to use the tendency of a visitor to share information they may find informative, entertaining or amazing.

Loads of companies count on this method to help spread their products and grow the popularity of their business or their website.Viral marketing utilising a number of mediums that try to bring out this type of behaviour, it may be in the form of a thought provoking story, an addictive flash game, or an amusing video and load of others that may possibly catch a person's fancy.

This special form of marketing is usually very cost effective and is a great tool for any business to use.The advantages normally out weigh the cost and the efforts to initialize this marketing system.All websites will immensely benefit from some type of viral marketing.

Tell A Friend Script One of the simplest techniques in viral marketing is to use a tell a friend script.This is a straight forward programming script which you can add to the programming of your website.Basically, a tell a friend script is installed in the webpage's with a media placed next to it so that a person may simply send the media to a list of his friends or his family members.The fundamental concept of a tell a friend script is a script where people can their name and, e-mail address, then the recipient's e-mail address and then send the media to the intended recipient much like an e-mail with an attachment.When the recipient gets the e-mail he wouldn't view the email as spam mail because he will notice the sender's details as a person he or she knows or is familiar with.

Tell a friend script gets rid of greatly the ability of being blocked as it uses the information that has been added by the sender.This will result in a wider spreading of this marketing method.It might seem quite underhanded but it is a very effective method.When the e-mail is sent and opened the sent media will be read, viewed or played.Together with the mail there would be a good brief description of the business or website that is sponsoring the media that has been sent.This gives invitation for the introduction of either the website, business name or its products.And don't forget to add to that another tell a friend script.

Yep!You guessed it, then the whole process repeats it's self again.When more people begin to use the tell-a-friend script, that will mean that more and more prospects will know of the existence of the sponsoring business or website.Prospects that read the ads within the mail and liked what they saw would go on to click on the link and visit the website (i.e.your website!).This will increase traffic to you website resulting in a higher number of possible customers.

Tell A Friend Script Availability A tell a friend script is a very easy to use and doesn't need a complex method of programming.Actually, you can just copy and paste a script and easily add it onto the intended page.And finding one is even easier.All you need to do is go to a search engine and write into the search box "tell a friend script" then just hit enter or click go.

In the search results pages there will be many listings that will send you to a number of websites where you may access a tell-a-friend script.After this it is just a simple case of looking and searching for the right script and then copying it into your intended web pages.Using a tell-a-friend script and this viral marketing technique you can send traffic to your website that wills possibly meaning great profits.This is a straight forward and non harmful script that presents great advantages for low cost mixed with great creativity and foresight.

It is important that you take your time when using a tell-a-friend script.If your media that you choose doesn't get the exposure that you expect of it, it might take a bit of time before it starts taking viral effect.But eventually loads of people will see your ads and there is huge probability that they should visit your website increasing the traffic to your website.


About the Author

Uchenna Ani-Okoye is an internet marketing advisor and co founder of Top Affiliate Programs


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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Easy Money for Teens: Or Is It?

How would you approach starting your own internet business from scratch if you had absolutely no money?This is a vital question that generally pops up on the message boards of many affiliate marketing sites.It's usually a result of newcomers trying to figure out what methods work best and fast.The typical response from experienced Internet Marketers is always "Create your own money making blog empire".

So, why is setting up a blog empire an excellent way to make money online?

1.Blogs are essentially easy to setup and to manage:


Maintaining your own personal blog doesn't require any special skills whether that is programming or web design.

All that is required is a simple registration with a free blogging service like Wordpress, and you can begin to post messages to it immediately.

2.There are literally no set up costs:


Blogging services like WordPress are totally free.

No money is required for both hosting and setting up of domain names.If you run anywhere from 50-100 niche blog sites and pay for each and every one of the domains, costs can be fairly huge.If you choose to run anywhere from 50-100 blogs using a free blogging service (WordPress), it won't cost you a thing.

3.Your blogs will be indexed by the major search engines within a matter of days:


One of the main issues that webmasters have to overcome is getting their website into the major search engines.

Looking at it from the Google perspective, it can be an increasingly long process when you consider other factors, like the infamous "Google Sandbox".In spite of this, blogs tend to get indexed much faster, usually within only a few days, this is due primarily to RSS feeds.

4.Utilising blogs is the most effective way to promote affiliate products:


This is primarily due to the inherit nature of blogs.

Blogs are made up mainly of highly opinionated posts written by everyday people.It is a proven well known fact, that the best way to sell an affiliate product on a blog is to write a positive and sincere review on it.The experienced internet marketers utilise this method to rake in literally thousands of dollars per month."Word of Mouth" advertising is still one of the most effective methods of getting a consumer to purchase.A well written and concise blog post can achieve this.

5.Blogs can be monetised easily by utilising Google AdSense:


Contextual advertising is an easy and highly effective way of making money.

When using blogs the process is still the same.All that is required is the simple implementation of code into your pages source and you're done.Then wait for your viewers to click on one of your ads.Even if you have no prior knowledge of HTML, you can benefit quite easily from text ads.Blogger specifically offers you the ability to implement AdSense ads into your blog template; this can be done quickly from the Blogger menu, so there's no need to bother with HTML.It also gives you the ability to coordinate the colour of your ads with the colour of your blogs template.This process is called "blending" and it's very effective in increasing your ads click through rate.

So what's the secret method to creating a money making blog empire fast?

Method 1:


The first method is to create blogs that are fixated on specific problems people may have.

In your blog posts, first you should identify a problem then offer a solution to rectify the problem.The solution should be an affiliate product or service that you're trying to promote.Most internet surfers use the internet to find solutions to problems that they may have.A prime example of that would be; debt, acne problems, car rentals, holidays, anti-virus software and internet spam.This is where you can write about these issues then recommend an affiliate product that will solve the problem.

If you create up to 5 blogs per day, then you will have around 150 blogs by the end of your first month.Imagine the amount of money that could potentially be earned from this method within just your first month.This method appears rather simple and obvious, but most Internet Marketers get this method all wrong.There is a new and highly effective method of implementing this strategy created by Rob Benwell.I'll provide additional information on this method later.

Method 2:


This method isn't as popular as the first.

It's the process of using your blogs for online courses or tutorials.Find a topic that interests you, and then write a series of posts structured in lessons, on it.Your first post would typically be lesson 1, then second one lesson 2, and so on.Imbed affiliate links into your blog posts.You can also use these blogs to make money via Google's AdSense program.Try to keep the number of lessons from 10 to 20.If you don't like writing articles or are not learned in the subject area, then go to free article directories.Pick anywhere from 10 to 20 articles in the subject area of choice and convert the content into a series of lessons.

So what are you waiting for?Start your blogging today and within a short period of time you could be earning a decent amount from your blog empire.


About the Author

Uchenna Ani-Okoye runs Insightempire.

com, a site for Internet Marketing Enthusiasts.

For more information on the earlier mentioned innovative way of creating blog empires visit: Blogging To The Bank


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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Celebrity Branding You! - Typing Your Way to Fame!

Over the last few years, there is no denying that the online community has started harnessing the power of the Internet for more than just "surfing" the web to look for information.We have now started using it as a networking tool that allows us to connect with others to share ideas, opinions and videos of ourselves looking like fools.Okay, so hopefully we don't have too many of those videos; but having some video online, and at the major video sharing sites, is a great search engine traffic strategy that we should all be employing.

One of the online tools that has been around for the longest, but is often neglected or overlooked, is that of message boards and email-based discussion groups.Yahoo and google offer the two most popular email groups and they are free for anyone to set up.You can host your own group or you can join existing groups.There are groups for everything you can possibly think of; some are private and require the moderator of the group to approve you, and some you can get started with right away.

You can find these groups by going to the following URLs:
Yahoo - groups.
yahoo
Google - groups.
google


(don't forget to add the "dot com" at the end!

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The way these groups are set up is that you are given an email address to which you can send a message if you want to send a message to an entire group.

When you send a message to that address, everyone in the group gets it, and when they reply their response goes back to the whole group.On a side note, this has gotten more than one person I know into a bit of a trouble; because by habit you might think you are only responding to the person who sent the message, but since it was sent to the group, when you reply it automatically responds to the entire group!BE CAREFUL!It can be mighty embarrassing to send a private message to someone that ends up going to the whole group!

So, how can this help you build your celebrity status?

In most groups, there are many members who join to get information, but do not send messages.Let me give you an example: I am a member of a group for entertainment lawyers in the state of Florida.When I joined, I did what I would recommend that anyone should do when you are first joining an existing group -- I watch how people post and respond for at least a few days to learn the tone of the group.After a month or two, I saw a message asking about a subject I know a lot about, so I responded to it.As time went on, I got involved in the discussion and I sent about 10 to 15 messages over the course of a few months.

As I was following the messages, it seemed like there were about 10 people who posted fairly regularly with about five others who would chime in every now and then.So by my estimation there were probably 20 to 30 people in the group.

Well, after about six months, I went to a convention where these entertainment lawyers gathered for an annual meeting.As usual, I met some new people and learned more about them, but something funny happened.When I introduced myself to people I had never met before, most of them said, "Oh, you're Nick from the message board." I would politely respond yes, but I had no idea how they knew that since I had never seen them send any messages.That's when I asked the question.

I walked up to the person who moderated the group and asked him, "About how many people are in our online group?I keep meeting people who say they know me from the message board, but I have only sent a handful of messages and have never seen these people send anything."


That's when he responded "a little over 500 people.

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500 PEOPLE!

As you can see, I was drastically wrong in my calculation of 20 to 30 people in the group.There were actually hundreds, but only a few of us actually communicated through the group.And I have come to find out that this is fairly common in many groups.So, even though I had only sent a few messages, I had become a celebrity among the entire group.Everyone knew who I was, and before long I made a lot of new friends and was referred to a bunch of businesses because I was seen by the members of that group as an expert because of my prompt and accurate responses.

You really can find celebrity status in more places than you'd ever imagine; and sometimes, as in this instance, it smacked me in the face when I was completely oblivious!So go browse around online for groups of people that you would like to learn from, and that you think would be a good place for you to display your expertise and possibly even get some new business.Just remember the rules of the road!When you are in any new environment, watch how others behave first, before you start adding in your two cents!

Now, go out and join some groups!


About the Author

Nick Nanton, from TheBusinessGrowthLawyers.

com, publish the business Growth ezine covering topics that every business needs to know.Get FREE business growth tips now at http://www.TheBusinessGrowthLawyers.com


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