Viral Marketing 101: Use It to Create a Healthy Business!
March 29, 2008
The one virtue that helps sites overcome the competition online is creativity. With so many competing, you must employ every method of marketing you can to stay ahead. Do you have a killer product? A really cool website? If people don’t know you are there, none of it matters and you won’t make a dime. Worst of all, your business could die a slow, anonymous death. There are a lot of methods used by e-commerce sites to advertise and drive traffic. Some of them will really give you a boost... Read more »
Using a Tell-A-Friend Script to Generate Traffic
March 28, 2008
More people are facing the problem of how to increase traffic flow to their websites every day. There have been many methods developed to help solve this problem. While some work very well, others don’t even make a small impression. Viral marketing is one of the most successful methods that has been developed. Viral marketing capitalizes on the tendency that people will share something they found entertaining or useful. There are many companies who depend on this behavior to spread the word... Read more »
Free eCourses : An Easy And Low Cost Way To Make Money Online
March 26, 2008
If you are looking for easy and low cost ways to make money online then ecourses are a straight forward approach to doing that. Everyone loves a free gift and if your eCourse includes affiliate links to relevant products you also have an opportunity to make an income too. This really is an easy and low cost way to make money online. Whatever niche you belong in one of the things you will be looking to do is build a list of people all looking for the product/service you provide but it is well known... Read more »
What Exactly Is Social Marketing?
March 26, 2008
Social marketing is a discipline that uses the philosophy of listening to the needs and desires of the target audience. This technique has been successfully used by commercial marketers. Now even public service departments are riding this bandwagon to make their announcements. It is a sophisticated approach that cares for people. It is customer centric. This approach makes you sensitive to people’s needs. You achieve your own targets by helping people meet their needs. It is a win-win situation. Social... Read more »
Viral Marketing Goes Video & Mobile
March 24, 2008
More and more advertisers are adopting video as broadband continues to rise and ad-serving technologies become more sophisticated. Online video advertising is really taking off. Users’ attention can be captured and ads stand out from the crowd in an increasingly ad-cluttered online environment. It is true that video formats cost five to ten times more to serve than standard banners and they involve a lot more production and implementation work but they may well be worth all of that if they... Read more »
Affiliate Marketing Basics: Let’s Talk About Traffic
March 21, 2008
When you’re just getting starting in Affiliate Marketing, one of the most important things you need to learn about is traffic - specifically what it is and how to get it. Why? Because although it’s become somewhat of a cliche these days, the truth is, “the money is in the list” - but that means YOUR list, not the list of the people whose products you’re selling - at least not if you want to be successful. Here’s why. As an affiliate, your job is to find people... Read more »
And the Buzz Goes On - How to Use Viral Marketing
March 21, 2008
Before we get into the meat and potatoes of how you can use viral marketing to help get a buzz going about your small business, let’s start with a definition of exactly what “viral marketing” means. According to the Wikipedia, “Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use preexisting social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses.... Read more »
Who Else Wants to Join the Latest Shopping Revolution
March 17, 2008
If you can remember Green Shield Stamps, then I am sorry, but you are probably as old as I am! In the 60s and 70s, people would flock to the service station to buy petrol where they got given the most “Green Shield Stamps”. Tescos founder, Jack Cohen, waded in with these incentives in the 60s, and became the first store to offer them as an inducement to grab customer loyalty. Nowadays of course, much less costly and non time consuming (can you remember or imagine sticking pages and pages... Read more »
Why Create a Niche Video Site?
March 17, 2008
Whether you are just getting started when it comes to getting yourself noticed in the online world, or you have been involved for a bit of time and are still looking for the best way to make your mark, it is time for you to take a look and see what video marketing can do for you. There are plenty of advantages when you look into using video in your marketing, and with just a small amount of work and a small investment of resources, you can get a lot of attention for yourself. At this point, the... Read more »
Getting Traffic to your New Website
March 16, 2008
So you’ve just finished creating your new website. It looks good and you are ready for the visitors, you can’t wait for the traffic to come. So how are you going to get traffic to your new site? You will now need to promote your new site. Here are a few things you could start with: 1. Submit your site to the Search Engines. If you want people to find your site then you should start by submitting your site to the biggest 3 search engines, which are Google Yahoo and MSN. They will find... Read more »
