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How To Design An Opt-in Page Using This 10 Tips And Start Making Money Online

Luis Torres — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:41:55 +0000

Most of us knows that having a list should be your number 1 priority to make money online, remember that the money is in the list. All the big "Gurus" knows this and that´s why they always do everything they can to capture your name and email. But to get the most out of your optin form, you will need to build it the right way to optimize the capture of subscribers.

Right here there are 10 Tips to know How To Design an Optimized Opt-in Page to capture many subscribers:

1 - Always place your opt-in form above the fold. This because the easier for your visitor to find the box the more chances you got to gain a new subscriber. Don’t make your visitors to scroll down to find the box.

2- Use the natural way that people read to your own advantage. To do this you just have to put the opt-in form in the upper right side of the screen (Btw, have you notice what´s on my upper right side of the screen, oh and above the fold? ooops, my subscription form! Feel free to sign in, to the Feed or get the free ebook and get in the list, really appreciate that, Thanks ). People in the western world read from left to right. So the eye will automatically follow that path (Hope you follow it too).

3- Don’t forget to include a strong headline with a really valuable benefit for signing up. Nobody will give away their private contact details to you for some small perceived benefit. They really need to feel that the benefit is far more valuable than the risk of giving You their contact information.

4- Always use the word FREE. I had said this before, the word "FREE" in this online world is the best selling weapon you can have to get anything and is the one that gets the knee-jerk reaction from your visitors. It is the magic word like "open sesame" that opens the closed fist and pushes your online visitor towards giving you their contact details (Hope it does with you : ) ).

5- Don’t be cheap. Offer a valuable free incentive for subscribing. Even though you might get some people to subscribe for no reason, still some others that will want something really valuable and not just a single report, right now besides the ebook I am giving away, you get an email with a white hat tactic to get your keywords into the 1st page of Google, this tips may not be for everyone, you need to be very cautious but I know it works, you only will need to search for the right keywords you want to target.The only you need to do to get it, is to subscribe.

6- On your opt-in page have an attractive graphic of your free Gift. People are visual beings. A picture is far more persuasive than hundreds of words.

7- Create a list to show the benefits you are offering to your opt-in list. You are offering a free incentive but over and above this you would like to provide them with other ongoing benefits such as advice on a particular topic (This applies more to a whole opt in page than a form in a blog, but to translate that into a blog, just use 2 or 3 reasons why to subscribe). You want to be able to have a reason why you are mailing with information and product offers.

8- Don’t confuse your visitors with too many points, stories and offers. Your main purpose is to entice them to give their contact details. Have one message for this. Don’t try to do too many things at the same time. You might just end up confusing rather than persuading. We all need to be like salesmen, actually we all are selling something rather is a product or an idea or service, even when you try to persuade your son to turn off the TV and got to bed, you are actually selling him the idea (personally, I think it is a lot easier to make sales online with total extrangers than to convince my son to not yelling when I turn off the TV).

9- Don’t be too forward. Just ask for the name or even just the email address. The less information you request, the higher your conversion. People are very cautious when it comes to giving their valuable private information. Think of what you would do yourself. I can bet you would hesitate to give too much information about yourself when considering an opt-in.

10- Display a privacy statement or link to one on your site. It’s important to offer an assurance to your visitors that their information details will not be given to third parties and that they will not find themselves being flooded with spam from unknown sources.

Working to build an opt-in list is the main purpose of every internet marketer!

Are you already building one? Or did you have already one?

To Your Success,

Luis Torres

www.marketing-business-review.com

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8 Mistakes To Be Avoided In Your Marketing Blog

Luis Torres — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:19:24 +0000

If you are an internet marketer or at least it maybe your intention in the near future, then this tips will help you when starting a blog for your business.

Avoid This 8 Mistakes.

1 Not Thinking "Business" Immediately. Many internet marketers think that the money should come after everything else has been done. But that is not the case. You need to think in making money right from the very beginning.

2 Not Monetising Your Blog Immediately. If you wait to add the advertising for instance, your visitors might get use to it and trying to include advertisement at a later stage may be a real hassle. Just Start right at the beginning with adverts so that your visitors are used to them.

3 Not Having Your Opt-in Box in a Conspicuous Place from the Very Beginning. You want to build an opt-in list right at the beginning, remember, the money is in the list. You might not get many opt-ins by just having a box there, that´s why you will need a bribe like a free ebook to get subscribers.

4 Not Having Your RSS Feed Icon Visible. Many readers will be happy to subscribe to your feed instead of your opt-in list. They might hesitate to receive email from you, but they will be much more willing to subscribe to your full RSS feed.

5 Turning off Reader Comments. Also place your social bookmarking links in front of your visitors so they can participate in the content you post. You really want their feedback and participation. It creates a some loyal following.

6 Not Doing Search Engine Optimization. This is even more important when creating micro niche sites or niche sites, you will need visitors from the serps, these ones are far better than any other kind of traffic to make money online with adsense.

7 Not Doing Proper Keyword Research. You need to know what are the best keywords that brings traffic and that are easier to dominate in the serps, without them your marketing efforts are useless.

8 Tip Toeing Around the Idea of Making Money Online. Many marketers think that by commercialising their blog they are somehow going against the protocol of the internet. But I can assure you that this is the same as the offline world, if you are not aggresive in the commercialization of your blog you will never get a real online business.

Advertising is the most powerful tool to succeed offline or online, believe me, I have an offline biz and without ads my biz can get pretty lonesome, is like having a site without visitors and it does not feel good at all to hear the eccho just because you denied yourself to be as aggresive as posible.

This is a very competitive world, don´t be shy and fight for your online business as hard as you can.

You need to grab the opportunities and make the most of them. Your blog is the first part of your enterprise. This is where you can discuss your product or service that you wish to offer to your visitors. Make sure that it is your shop window to the online world.

If you liked this post, can you be real nice and use the "tweet" button above and tweet this post, thank you.

As I told you, I need to do some marketing for my blog too, be agrrrrresive, this is a though world

How Serious Are You About Your Online Business?

To Your Success,

Luis Torres

www.marketing-business-review.com

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How To Make The Word “Free” Sell For You In Autopilot

Luis Torres — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:59:01 +0000

The online world has a concept that "free" it is the only way to go online. This makes one wonder, why would the price tag of $0.00 be so powerful?

Then should you give something for free? If you are new in the IM business then the answer should be a big "Yes". You will need to giveaway something. This may be a reward for people that sign up to your opt-in list or to create an awareness of your online business and this word "FREE" help you to sell yourself or your product or service that you offer.

Use it to not only build an opt-in list but also to spread your name and reputation. Pick and choose bits of your best stuff that you have written. Add some graphics and convert into a PDF for easy distribution.

A free guide or info book will get people to talk about you, build your credibility and on the whole spread good vibes about you.

Why then the internet love a ‘free’ economy? The main reason for this is because you as an internet marketer have no credibility yet. You have no history of delivering good products. You are an unknown guy but of course not for long if you continue working hard.

How are people going to know whether the content you produce is worth paying for if you are a totally unknown guy? They don’t. They have no basis against which they can judge you as they have seen nothing at all of yours besides a few articles on a blog or an online presence in social media.

How does the customer judge whether spending their money is the right move? With great difficulty.

Why then you require something to be given away for free? You would if there is other competing material available for free. This is what is happening to the online media. Newspapers are not able to sell subscriptions to their content because there is so much competing information available.

Why pay if there is all of it there for you to tap into at no cost to yourself? Wouldn’t make sense to anybody to pay for something that they can arrange to have delivered to their RSS reader for free.

What about other online marketers? Do they face the same situation? Only if they are a totally unknown people. Then they need to offer their product for free. This is because they need to build credibility. But this does not mean you can not monetize your free product, that is why having some affiliate links can help to earn some money even if you give away some ebook for free.

There are internet marketers who sell their books, courses, online content for a fortune. They sell it at close on a thousand dollars or for some quite substantial subscription per month. How do they manage to do this? Really easily. They have built credibility and have become an authority in their field.

This takes a lot of time and effort to accomplish. Only the internet marketer who believes in fake promises of instant wealth thinks he is able to sell an eBook for tons of money without establishing his authority first.

You need to build your business. As in the real world, you have to earn your reputation and prove that your products are worth buying. Without this, you might as well give away your products for free. Nobody is going to buy them, even huge brands when they have a new product they give away samples.

So, if the big boys need to do this offline or online then what make you think a new product can be sold by an unknown guy?

The best way to sell it is to use the word FREE in order to build your reputation. But bear in mind you have to give away something really valuable to be recognized and increase your chances to be able to sell anything for big bucks.

Are you already giving away something for FREE?

To Your Success,

Luis Torres

www.marketing-business-review.com

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How To Build a Better Online Business with WordPress Blogs

Luis Torres — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:06:58 +0000

Besides being a good communication tool, blogging is also a great way to make money. If you’re new to blogging and yet want to start quickly, there are several business models you can try for maximum results in a short time. The following are the three most popular methods to make money with blogs.

Get paid to blog. Using this method, you create your blog and add a few good articles to it. Then you signup with paid blogging networks like Pay Per Post or Review Me and see what "opportunities" are available. These networks are filled with advertisers looking for blogger who can help them spread the word, and they are willing to pay. Accept the opportunity, write about it on your blog, and you get paid.
AdSense WordPress blogs (Also known as MFA, Made For Adsense sites) and it requires a little more technical know-how. You need to build a WordPress blog on a specific niche topic, and start writing some good content on it. At the same time, try to get links from other blogs by leaving comment on the blogs or by doing a link exchange with the blogger. The objective is to get more traffic who will click on your AdSense ads and make you money.
The last and most sophisticated method is affiliate marketing with WordPress blogs. Again, you set-up a good WordPress blog but with this model the amount of content you publish is not as important as the "selling quality" of the content. Each post you write must pre-sell the web visitor and convince him to click on your affiliate links. When the visitor makes a purchase online after that, you get credited for the sale and earn commissions.

Ultimately, which model you choose depends on how much time and resources you can dedicate to creating and managing your blogs. Your best bet is to choose a low-investment option at first. When you get the hang of it, you can venture into other blogging models as well.

If you’re serious about making money from your blog and still a newbie, the best way is to learn everything you can and one way it is to get tutorials, I have found a video tutorials that will teach you everything to master WordPress Blogs to make money online. I strongly recommend that you check this video tutorials by clicking in here and start with the right foot. Avoid the mistakes most of us do when we were newbies just like you.

As a member you’ll get a lot of step-by-step video tutorialson how to use WordPress, web 2.0 technology, search engine optimization, making money from Google AdSense and affiliate marketing, and so much more.

Act now and get a $30 dlls discount, valid starting September 15th and only until September 22nd. I´ve already get a really good sneak peek into this videos, they are very professionals and easy to understand. I even found a video tutorial that will help me: "How to Upgrade WordPress Using cPanel", if you have WP your SEO will be a lot better and easier to improve, by the way there is a video tutorials "SEO and Link Building - Module 5" that explains what it is SEO and how to improve it to get a lot of Free traffic from search engines such as Google.

Start now with your training and make money online faster and better.

To Your Success,

Luis Torres

www.marketing-business-review.com

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7 Tips How To Build BackLinks Successfully

Luis Torres — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:59:10 +0000

Backlink Definition

Backlinks are defined as incoming links to a website or web page. The Popularity or Importance of a site or web page are given by the number of backlinks they have. Besides of what backlinks meant for SEO or search engine optimisation, there are other significant indicators attached to these links, they show who is really paying attention to that webpage or site.

How To Build BackLinks Successfully

1) First thing you have to know in building backlinks is that all your efforts need to look natural to the search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc). If your Link building efforts show a natural growth, search engines will rewarded you for your efforts. Besides they really need those backlinks to know how important your site is.

2) You will need to remember during your natural link building campaign that your backlinks must be backed by some value for the search engines. A real value is a link from an unique blog post or a site with great content within your niche for instance or with a Page Rank some what higher than yours.

3) Be sure that your link is from a non-duplicate page. There are some sites that need to use duplicate content. If a site is selling a product to for instance English speaking countries then each country site would have the same content with some elements of localization.

Google may see a link from a site like this as being a link from a duplicate page and may give it a lesser rating. To avoid this It would be easier to make sure that your links come from non-duplicate pages.

4) Backlinks should come from relevant sites. There is some dispute about the validity of this point amongst some SEO people. But , it maybe probably safe to say that Google weights a link from a relevant site higher than one from a non-relevant site.

This only means that if you have a site about weight loss then a link from a site that is about golf may not be as effective as a site that is about weight management.

Google does support the principle that incoming links are harmless. Since No webmaster is necessarily responsible as to who links to his site and should not be penalized. But, beware to whom are you linking to. This may affect your ranking. That is if you link to a suspected spam site or that promotes illegal activities then you may be slapped, oops I mean penalized. Therefore, the basic concept that links need to be relevant to be most powerful is still true.

But there is also true that a backlink from well stablished sites with higher page rank than your site (some PR5 or PR9, may help you even if they are not relevant to your site) and DoFollow will help you out.

5) Make backlink building slow over time. Remember, your link building strategy should be to look natural. Google’s spiders crawling your site will start to wonder if your backlinks are built too lighting fast. This is especially important when your site is brand new. Having a new site that suddenly show up dozens or e hundreds of backlinks in a short time can look you are trying to get smart and believe me "G" it is not stupid at all.

6) Anchor text links need to show a variety. The Anchor texts are the words you use to hyperlink to your site. If you constantly use the same keywords then the search engines will see this as "too perfect" to be real and will realize that you are making yuor own links. Again you need to make it look natural.

For instance if your keyword is make make money online and you use these keywords every time you link back to your site then it will start becoming obvious that a keyword is being promoted rather than a natural backlink being created.

7)The website or webpage to which you are building backlinks must have your main keyword, preferably in the title tag. If you are linking make money online in the anchor text as this is your keyword, then you need to ensure that the page the hyperlink is linking has this keyword in it.

Be sure you have selected keywords that do not have too much competition. If you are trying to compete against keywords used by big institutions such as banks or computers then your efforts will need to be to big for you to achieve any significant benefit from your backlinks as you are competing against sites with huge numbers of backlinks already.

Use the above tips to give your backlink building project a real boost and a chance to promote your website or webpage to the first page of the Google search results or serps.

Are you already started a backlink campaign? Have you succeed already in taking your keywords to the first page of Google?

It gotta be the first page or nothing, as Vince Lombardy once said

"There is no room for second places"

To Your Success,

Luis Torres

www.marketing-business-review.com

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How To Find A Profitable Niche Market To Make Money Online

Luis Torres — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:38:16 +0000

As online marketers we need to find a little focused areas where we may base our business and make money online from. At the same time a lot of online entrepreneurs find it rather hard to select on their niches.

There are various steps to take whilst seeking your niche or niches. The first one might be to begin considering your own interests and see whether any of these could be used for a niche in your IM business.

What hobbies and interests do you have? Do you enjoy watching sports, do you love handcrafts or carpentry, are you an eager reader of novels or do you love working in the garden? Make a list as long as you are able to enumerating all the interests you’ve and where you already have some knowledge and expertise.

This can expand into your work environment also. There’s no need for you to limit yourself at all. Whatever topic that comes to mind should make it onto that first list that you collect. You don’t need to use them all at first. Some may be developed later on.

Finding out a niche in an area where you already have some knowledge and love will make your initial launch into an online venture much more gratifying than getting stuck into a topic of which you’ve no knowledge at all and do not even know.

It will as well make it easier for you to be authentic and build yourself a status of an expert. Remember that it will need you having to make material for a blog, articles, e-mail blasts and advertisement. It will make it so a good deal easier if you’re enthusiastic.

If you’ve no former knowledge it does not matter, as long as you find something that coulded interest to you. You may never have done any rock climbing, but if the topic has all of the time fascinated you and you’ve often read stories on defying climbing up adventures, then it will be almost the same as knowing about the topic.

A topic such this could be just as good as a hobby that you’ve had for many years. Add these interests to your list of potential niches. Nothing that could interest you should be left out. The only criteria is that you’ll enjoy searching and writing on the topic.

If you’re still stuck you may do some research on what products and services are being sold with success with online sellers such as amazon, ebay or etsy. What trends can you find, what are hot sellers now and what coulded be the future big item.

There are trends sites such Google Trends or Yahoo buzz to see what´s the latest topics and products and what people are looking for right now.

You could as well would like to use Google’s search-based keyword tool. Use the tool to look for keywords and phrases that you could find worthy for a niche.

Do not forget to look into the offline world. See what magazines are publishing and what their big topics are. Are there products in supermarkets that are getting vast shelf space. For example dieting products might be something you see is very popular.

Choosing on your niche markets ought to be a fun and exciting thing to do, besides that, they can help you to make money online. This industry allows you to be as creative and adventurous as you would like to be. There are no boundaries. So have fun while you work at the beginning of your internet marketing journey.

Have you already begun a niche market online venture? Have you already succeed?

To Your Success,

Luis Torres

www.marketing-business-review.com

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How To Choose An Affiliate Program To Sell Your Products

Luis Torres — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:55:35 +0000

A lot of Internet marketers use affiliate marketing as their business model. Most of them sign up to these programs without actually understanding what it’s all about. All they know is that they will get paid if somebody buys the product that they are marketing as affiliates.

The reason why affiliate marketing is so attractive to the Internet marketer is that he will not have to have a product or service to sell. This makes it easy. In the offline world many people sell products produced by others, for instance, we sell sodas at our restaurant and all of them are not been manufactured by us, the brand it is very known, if you said "Coca-Cola", then you are clairvoyant, cause it is very true. This is the same principle but online.

It does mean that the affiliate is able to get going right away. There is no big time required to make a product or to design a service that is marketable online. Of course it may be understood that selling your own product could be more profitable, since you keep all the profit.

For the Internet marketer that developed a business with his own products, using affiliate marketing to promote their product is a very viable business solution. Many Internet marketers offer affiliate options right from their site. The bigger online merchants are able to handle their own affiliate programs.

To assist the smaller merchants an entire secondary tier of service providers has mushroomed up. There are now Affiliate Management Agencies, Super-Affiliates and Specialized Third Parties vendors all playing around in this space.

Internet marketers who have produced an eBook which they feel is worth selling will be more inclined to submit their product to an online service such as Clickbank rather than trying to set up their own backend solution.

It is really only worthwhile for the big merchants to go it alone when it comes to handling all the elements of the affiliate business model. For the internet marketer with one product for sale, having to get involved in handling a network of affiliates could require too much technical knowledge.

Many affiliate marketers work on a multi-tier program. This is also called MLM which stands for multi level marketing. That means that affiliates get rewarded for signing on other affiliates. In a way this is similar to the offline world of Amway for instance.

The danger here is that if an MLM business offers higher rewards for new members rather than for the product sales, then it could be considered a pyramid or Ponzi scheme.

It requires a huge amount of work to keep this kind of business model running smoothly. It is quite difficult to keep the downline growing and to keep the participants motivated and selling. This does not imply that these schemes does not work, there are many successful MLM marketers such as Mike T Glaspie.

There are some two tier affiliate programs available as well, but in most cases the affiliate business model seems to prefer a one tier approach, maybe because it represents more profit for you, since you don´t have to do any more splitting of your profits. That is you have a one on one relationship with the affiliate merchant.

Therefore, choosing which system you might want to use as an affiliate marketer hoping to sell your own products will depend on the type of product and the resources and skills available to you. For most entry level Internet marketers the straight forward one tier affiliate program will in all probability be the best option and the less complicate, you make a sale, you rip your commission, can not be easier than this.

How huge are you as a Marketer? Did you qualified to have your own affiliate system to market your products?

To Your Success,

Luis Torres

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