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Easily Test Your Product & Niche

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:44:28 +0000

Many Internet Marketers put the “cart before the horse”, jumping into a niche, even creating a product before they know whether people will buy. Here’s a really simple, quick, and easy way to test: run a brief Adwords campaign. Create just a single ad targeted to the niche you’re considering, mention a product, and INCLUDE A PRICE. [...]

Sales Page Strategies For Better Conversions

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:18:12 +0000

If you’re selling something directly, be it your own info-product, membership, or service, your sales page is arguably the most important thing there is. A great product is worthless if no one buys it. Traffic? Useless if it doesn’t convert. Creating a good sales page can be difficult, tedious, even costly, and we’re usually all too [...]

Free Traffic & Links: Big List of FREE Press Release Services

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:10:52 +0000

What could be better than free & easy traffic and backlinks? Press releases can be extremely effective marketing tools, and should be part of every Internet marketers toolchest. But press release distribution can be costly; the top distribution level for PRWeb runs $360+. PRNewswire is even pricier. The good news is there are some very effective FREE press [...]

The Fallacy Of High Pagerank Blog Links

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:10:51 +0000

One of the ways to get backlinks that many of us are familiar with is blog commenting. The idea is that you find high Pagerank blogs that don’t use the “no-follow” tag, and comment on them. It is often taught as an “easy” way to get high-value backlinks for SEO purposes. There is even some very [...]

Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Strategy Tidbits

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:01:31 +0000

Jay Stockwell (the developer of SpeedPPC) and I talk fairly often, bouncing ideas and such. Along with SpeedPPC and various other projects he’s involved in, he manages one of the best PPC sites on the web, payperclicksearchengines.com He had asked me to write some articles for the site, and since many of you are using Pay [...]

Quickies: How To Get 100’s of Links To Your EzineArticles

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:28:02 +0000

Todays “Quickie” is terrific, easy way to get links and boost traffic to your articles! This is from a post in the “War Room” on the Warrior forum.   BTW- this works not just for EzineArticles, but for most article directories, and can be adapted for your Squidoo Lenses and other sites. How To Get 100’s of Links [...]

IYIM #24: Keyword Research, Article Marketing, Conversions, Free Downloads, and More!

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:09:27 +0000

Welcome to I.Y.I.M #24 (formerly “Melanies Tips”) - This issue is BIG: chock-full of valuable, actionable information, resources, downloads, and a ‘case study’. In this issue, we’ll be talking about a killer PPC conversion-boosting strategy, a truly amazing web page conversion-boosting tool, some ways to super-charge your article marketing efforts - including two excellent downloads [...]

Creating Your Own Custom PayPal Checkout Page

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:31:18 +0000

If you’re an Internet Marketer selling online, you use PayPal or risk losing sales. And if you have a Premier account and use PayPal Checkout, you know your buyers move from your branded, meticulously created site, to that ugly PayPal Checkout page that only shows your Paypal email address. You’ve probably seen PayPal Checkout pages that [...]

Expanding Your Adwords PPC Reach

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:05:10 +0000

Pay-per-Click is a large part of our business here. We generate a lot of our revenue through PPC, and we operate a limited PPC consultancy. All told, we manage over $100,000 in Adwords spending alone, and we are increasingly “expanding our reach”. One of the common “mistakes” newer PPC marketers are warned about is “targeting the [...]

How To Insure Successful Outsourcing

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:54:01 +0000

Let me start by saying, plain and simple: If you’re not outsourcing, you should be. And if you are, you should be outsourcing more. One of the issues I hear a lot from my newsletter subscribers is a general “fear of outsourcing” - concerns work won’t be done “right”, meaning the way you want it to [...]