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Good Chances To Cash In Your Blog

Dragan Mestrovic — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:13:03 +0000

Good Chances To Cash In Your Blog

Recent news show that the US ad market is up to nearly $6b Billion in Q 1 of this year.

The ad spending is increasing again and more and advertisers are looking for adequate places to reach their target audience.

This opens great chances for niche blogs to and bloggers to make additional revenue.

Advertisers today, due to lesser budget are looking out to get an effective advertising campaign for their bucks. They want to reach their audience more targeted. What is better to do this than a niche blog? A blog has his targeted audience and the blogger himself is a trusted person within his community.

With the power of trust, community and the blogging way of word of mouth advertisers can reach their potential clients better than before.

Some Tipps to get into focus of potential advertisers:

Don’t blog about everything and everybody.
Focus on your targeted audience, your niche!
Comment on related blogs.
Build relationships to bloggers related to your niche.

Please read also this article: 3 Ways To Monetize Your Blog

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Leverage Your Business With Blogosphere Power?

Dragan Mestrovic — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:13:40 +0000

Leverage Your Business With Blogosphere Power?

Blogvertising = Blog Advertising is a way to address your targeted audience through a blog and a blogger who is writing about this topic.

Blogvertising is a great word of mouth tool and has become a powerful alternative to traditional advertising for early adopters.

There are several ways for advertisers to step into blogvertising to reach potential new buyers.

Banner adds on the blog

A banner ad is a form of online advertising. It entails embedding an advertisement into a web page. The intense is to attract traffic to a website. Banners are mostly made as images as gif, png and jpg. They also include effects ad sound.

You can buy add space on a blog which targets your potential buyers. This can be a great ad on for the below mentioned tactics as well.

Acquire a paid text link back to your website

A paid text link back, appears on the blog similar like Google Ads and stays there as long as you want. People like to click on text links which are written as classified ads. Text links are mostly short and ask the reader to take action. Also they are rated as a back link through search engines and many back links from PR (Page Rank) websites are able to increase your PR as well.

Let the blogger write a sponsored review about your product and your business

You simply ask a blogger to write about your product and services and negotiate a price for the paid review. This paid review should be enclosed on the end of the sponsored post. You can not and you should not even try to push the blogger to write in your personal interest. The blogger is free to write his personal opinion.

A sponsored blog post can help you to announce your products and services to your targeted audience. The power of the blogosphere can help you to step into a two way conversation with your potential clients and massively to build traffic, links and valuable feedback for your business.

Checkout this related post as well

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4 Ways of Internet Marketing and Web Site Promotion

Dragan Mestrovic — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:12:47 +0000

4 Ways of Internet Marketing and Web Site Promotion

Internet has become a globalized tool which bought the whole world at one place. As the world has opened the doors for global markets, different companies aim to provide their products and attract more customers for their business from any part of the world.

Internet Marketing Strategies play an important role in the success of any online business. Some of the best Internet Marketing Strategies are Email Marketing, Social Media Marketing and Blog Advertising. Identifying the best Internet Marketing Strategy is important for your business which provides rich value for your lead generation campaigns.

1. Marketing through Internet

Internet marketing includes email marketing, social media marketing, marketing through website etc. Among all these each strategy has its own importance. Email marketing helps in making update regarding your products and services for your business.

Email marketing helps in promoting new products by simply mailing the details regarding the products to the customers and also helpful in maintaining relationship with the customers. Email marketing helps in generating leads so easily and is treated as the best Internet Marketing Strategy for generating leads from your lead generation campaigns.

2. Marketing through social media networks

Social Media Marketing is another powerful Internet Marketing Strategy that can attract more customers for your business. Social media networking sites usually have millions of users and hence you can easily find and make customers for your products easily. For this you should first build relationship and then attract the people towards your product.

Hence social media marketing campaigns are attracting many business organizations and even people are able to find out the product as of their interest and even the companies are listening to them and hence can design a product according to their needs.

3. Website Redesign

Creating the website for your own organization and by providing the detailed information regarding products, services and also working environment will not only attract the customer s but also increases the brand image of your organization.

Attracting the customers by providing various lead generation techniques such as providing offers, discounts and other promotion tools will attract more customers for your business. This comes under one type of promotion for your website.

Whereas the other type of website promotion is writing good content in your website which are related to your products keyword niche and which are generally useful and interested to many of the people, linking e-books, making the website found easily through following various search engine optimization techniques and also by advertising the products through various attractive ads etc comes under one type of promotion.

4. Monitoring is essential for your Internet marketing strategies

Of all this you also have to check whether the Internet marketing strategies followed by you are creating more customers and generating quality leads. Lead generation for your lead generation campaigns and marketing campaigns should be properly tracked and documented so that they can be used easily during their requirements.

Lead Tracking is necessary and mandatory step for getting success in social media and Internet. If your website design doesn’t have a proper lead tracking system, you are missing potential customers for your business.

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3 Ways To Monetize Your Blog

Dragan Mestrovic — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:54:40 +0000

3 Ways To Monetize Your Blog

I often get the question on how to cash in your blog the best way?

Most of the blogging beginners are not really sure how to choose the right monetizing method to make money with their blog.

You all know the stories about bloggers who make $ 10k or more per month through blogging. Yes, that’s a fact. Also a fact it is that the most bloggers out there do not make any money with their blogs.

Now you ask you’re self how they achieved such a good amount of revenue through blogging? This is a good question and I believe that everybody of them has his own special story you can benefit from, to achieve your goals.

You also need to know that to cash in your blogging efforts does not happen overnight. Consistent high quality level work and discipline are only two of the attributes you need to even come close to a chance to make money.

Here are some resources you could use to get started with your blog monetizing.

1. Accept direct ads from advertisers

To do this you could use an easy ads management Plugin for WordPress, in the case you use WP self hosted blog. You could use the WP Plugin ‘Advertising Manager’ it will manage and rotate your ads on your WordPress blog.

2. Affiliate ads and affiliate links
Include banners from partner programs like Clickbank

TIP: Lookout for top sellers which are under $50, for software, eBooks and other products related to your blogging topics in Clickbank and include them.

3. Paid reviews

Paid reviews are a good way for a blogger to make money. Some of these services are Review Me, Blogvertise, Sponsored Reviews, Pay per Post, and many others. Only blogs with PR3 are usually considered for these reviews.

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Overnight Blogging Success ….

Dragan Mestrovic — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:12:53 +0000

…does not come over night!

Blogging is a long term venture which can’t be seen on a timeframe of several days or month.

Most of the successful bloggers out there have invested years and a lot of work to achieve there positions in the blogging Olympic, guys like Darren Rowse, Chris Brogan, Robert Scoble and David Meerman Scott, only to mention some very important celebreties, people which I highly respect for there doing!

Nobody of them became successful overnight and could live from his blogging from day one!

Like Chris Brogan wrote in his book Trust Agents, you need to gain trust within the community, than the people will follow you.

And they also will trust the advertisements and the advertisers which advertise on your blog.

Also you should take care of your reputation and not include any advertising on your blog.

Think about it, your community trusts you and to gain such trust can take years, but to loose it only some seconds. So choose wisely which advertiser you do accepts to advertise on your hardly trust earned blog, your most valuable real estate on the web.

What kind of advertising to take on your blog? Good question!

I recommend accepting credible advertisers first, not the one who pays more!

Should you write sponsored/paid blog posts about products and services? Yes absolutely.

I know what you think right now … Booooohhh, You are selling your credibility!

No, not really! Because you are free to write what you want even it is a sponsored/paid blog posts about a product or service from an advertiser.

You are free to express what you think, no matter what! That’s the beautiful thing. An advertiser pays you to write your honest opinion and my advice is to do so, be honest and fair!

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Twitter Makes Clean Sweep To Prevent Abuse

Dragan Mestrovic — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:26:26 +0000

Twitter Makes Clean Sweep To Prevent Abuse

Clicking on links that people send you can became a negative experience by considering malicious software and hijacked accounts.

Twitter is trying to prevent such bad experiences by checking and sometimes rewriting the in the email notification included links.

Twitter is launching a new service to protect users against phishing and other malicious attacks. By routing all links submitted to twitter through this new service, Twitter is able to prevent the spread of bad links.

This feature works behind the scenes and will not be noticed by you. The only point you can see them when they are shortened to twt.tl within you DMs and notifications.

This attempt of Twitter to make it a much safer environment is in about everybody’s best interests. And also in the interest of marketers who use Twitter for business.

To keep it a clean and trusted place is essential to keep up using twitter for business.

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Community Of Buyers For Your Business From Blippy

Dragan Mestrovic — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:34:11 +0000

Community Of Buyers For Your Business From Blippy

Who and what is Blippy?

Blippy is a service which is able to connect people around purchases they made. It publishes (with permission only) the customer purchases like the amount and location to his community. The community member can than read about these purchases and the experiences which had been made with these purchases.

Blippy has already signed partnerships with major vendors and it’s funded by man investors.

When Blippy begins to attract a larger user base and its community grows, this could be a valuable source for retailers who are looking for new customers and also to get a realtime inside scoop of recent trends.

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Loopt Your Business

Dragan Mestrovic — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:49:21 +0000

Loopt Your Business

Loopt is a location based social service which is also accessible on more than 100 mobile phones systems and connects users with their friends.

It’s visually displaying their availability and location and on a map. Loopt is is currently used by about 3 million people and the number is increasing as they expands to more cities

As a business you can tap into Loopt’s location data to offer targeted promotions.

Users can review and recommend of shops and restaurants. Furthermore they are able to find events of their interest in their area.

For Example: The New York based B.R. Guest restaurant chain is sending out messages special promotions and discounts to Loopt users located near f any of their restaurants.

As marketers you should explore the possibilities of interacting and promoting your businesses through Loopt and monitoring posts and user reviews.

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American Airlines Email Marketing The Wrong Way

Dragan Mestrovic — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:27:42 +0000

American Airlines Email Marketing The Wrong Way

Today I have read a blog post of David Meerman Scott how he has been approached by AA (American Airlines) online by email marketing.

To keep a long story short, they approached him the totally wrong way. They did not take into account his member status and nothing about his membership at all, even they had all the information needed to personalize this (opt in) email campaign down to the size of his shoes, theoretically. But they did not!

AA took the short and easy way and did not leverage the information they had from him an s valued long year customer.

Instead of this they pitched him with an unpersonal dump email and indirectly showed him that he is not valued by them.

Today you can segment customers with email systems out there which are able to personalize a campaign down to the size of your shoes.

I think they simply did not care that there are differences in email marketing. And to do it right, they have to have a deeper understanding what email marketing is and how to use it. This takes effort which they did not invested this time.

I am looking forward to read from their next attempt and I hope David Meerman Scott will post it as well.

I am also curious if AA monitors social media and blogs and if the next email campaign will reflect David’s blog post.

Let’s see what will happen.

Read the full article here: http://www.webinknow.com/2010/03/american-airlines-stupid-email-marketing-practices.html

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Abusive Apps Will Damage Your Credibility

Dragan Mestrovic — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:00:15 +0000

Abusive Apps Will Damage Your Credibility

Twitter is very popular and there are a lot of third party provider about 50,000 apps, which are out there and offer services to make your twitter live a little bit easier.

99.9% of the services which access our apps are trusted web services and can help us with our reputation because they help us to spread our content through the web.

But we have to take care to sort out the one who are careless with our permissions, even abusive and to name them so that anybody knows and is warned to register with them.

Here is a recent article what has happen with a good friend of mine from another-blogger.com

His twitter account has actually been abused from a twitter third party app provider.
Read his full article here: Change Your Twitter Password And Save Your Reputation

Trust and reputation has become the most important asset online!

Therefore we all have to take big care about to whom we give our permission to access our online apps.

Also we have to take care of our online friends to help protect them, and if we see unusual behaviour to inform and to warn them that anybody is abusing their trusted name.

Do you actually monitor your most important assets, your trust and reputation?

Here are some free tools to do so:

One good service to help to protect your reputation and to monitor what’s going on is Google Alerts [http://www.google.com/alerts]; where you can set your name, your domain name and further keywords to be monitored and you get an email when one of the selected keywords is mentioned online.

Another great source is Google Blog Search [http://blogsearch.google.com/]; here you can type in your name, your domain name and further keywords to see what’s coming up.

Let me know what you think.

Did you experienced same issues with third party providers from twitter, just let me know by commenting on this entry?