I have been hard at work during August with link building through Giveaways and Traffic Exchange sites. Although I have ‘to do’ list daily I wish I could achieve more. Luckily I have my Virtual Assistant (VA) to help me with this but I am still impatient to get tasks finished.
Although I like the Internet Marketing (IM) niche, my real love is the self improvement and home and family niches and I have just started a new site at OurSelfDevelopment.com. I have been busy setting the site up and writing articles. I have had my VA submitting articles to directories and posting comments to forums which has freed me up to concentrate on the WordPress blog itself.
The self development niche flows across to other niches like the IM one as improving ourselves impacts on how well we do, how organized we are and our attitudes, goals and expectations.
I am setting this site up as static pages with squeeze pages included so this is also a learning curve for me and I am loving it.
I have been following the methods Mark Ling implements in his niche marketing business and I have learned a lot about setting up blogs in a different way. I am in the process of building 5 niche sites under his direction but only just finishing the first one. I will keep you informed of my progress.
How has your month been and have you any successes you would like to share.
I would like to share a few tips to start your viral marketing campaign and I am sure by now you can add some others but you may not have thought of these I hope.
1 Buy an Ebook that has Private Label Rights and make some changes and add your website and/or affiliate links and give it away to visitors on your site, by your opt in box, email subscribers or in giveaways.
2. If you are creative then make some graphics or banners or templates and include a link back to your website. Make sure also that you require them to do this in your copyright notice.
3. Write articles and group them together in a .zip file and allow others to use them. Just include a resource box or links back to your website that they cannot remove.
4. Look for products that have re branding rights and you can distribute them in a similar way to tip number 1.
5. Write an eBook or report and include an advertisement for other people in exchange for them giving your eBook away to their subscribers or in giveaways with all your links in place.
These are five ideas for your Viral Marketing strategy and I like and I am sure you know more so share them with us by leaving a comment at the bottom of this post.
Having the knowledge is the key to success in marketing. Knowing where to find good marketing toolsand resources and gathering them together in one place is one of the most important things you need to do. It will not only to to help you be organized but also to save you time and unnecessary spending.
Of course, as we are talking aboutinternet marketing tools so they are available for you online. Searching for them takes time but it is well worth the effort. Where do you start looking for such knowledge? Just remember that getting the knowledge through the internet is a self learning task.
Here are some 3 ways to acquire internet marketing knowledge:
Look for the Gurus. These experts have already mastered the skill of internet marketing. Learn from them. They also have the resources to develop good products that you can learn from. Most have blogs too so check them out and see what they are doing and replicate that.
Experts use article directories. Go to these directories like GoArticles and read some of the articles in your niche. Look for successful authors and learn from them as well as acquiring more information about your niche as well.
Look at successful blogs. There are many sites offering information and some of the best ones are blogs. Look for high ranked blogs (Page Rank over 3). You will find lots of free information and some may charge a small fee. Be selective though and only pay for valuable information you can use.
A big part of gathering your information is also to document where that information came from.
I am writing this because of something that I learned this week that has changed the way I look at this blog in particular. Building a business is my main focus and I have started several strategies to work towards this.
I have started article marketing withUnique Article Wizard and I have seen a lot of ping backs on the blog from sites where these articles have been posted. I am very pleased with this strategy and I will be continuing with it. Back links to my site are now showing 405 (check your site at http://www.iwebtool.com/backlink_checker). One of my articles has been submitted to 469 blogs and directories and 145 email subscribers so far. That’s results! CLICK HERE NOW to get Unique Article Wizard and get started.
I have joined JV Giveaways which has been slowly building my list and building a business, and I have been commenting on other related blogs. These have also been good strategies too but what I am now going to tell you opened my eyes to what I should have been concentrating on and which has to be the most important thing, the first strategy for making money online.
I watching a video from John Jonas (from ReplaceMyself) about his first step to success online and that is making sales. If you don’t optimize your site or squeeze page to make sales then you are just wasting your time. You can get them to come to your site or page but if they don’t find anything interesting that will solve a problem or give them the answers they are looking for then they will leave. You wont see them again and all that work you did to get them there is wasted.
If you are sending them to your blog then optimize it so that when someone comes in they will see good content, make it easy for them to find the products they need and then show them the benefits. If you only promote good products then this is a win-win situation for you and your readers.
What I will be doing this week is really looking at this blog and optimizing it for my readers and the links I am sending them to. Making sales is my priority now, thanks John.
I would just like to talk about videos again but this time using articles you already have or even blog posts from your own site. This has to be the easiest way of video marketing and getting back links to your site and attracting more visitors. You may have a lot of marketing gems to impart to others but if you get no traffic then you are just well…..talking to yourself Sometimes I feel like that but as you are reading this at least I have you here now.
You have to try this video marketing method even it is just once to try it out. You may have been putting off doing videos but this method is so simple anyone can do it, even me. You can even use these videos to link back to another site like Squidoo or Hubpagess, or your Facebook or MySpace page..
Here is what I used:
Windows Live Movie Maker
An article or blog post
Graphics or Icons
Your voice
This is an easy way to make a simple video you can add to Tubemogul.com. I used Windows Live Movie Maker because I have Windows 7 and make a new project. You decide what graphics you want to use related to what you are going to say and when you are going to say it. You then put them on the slides (I used 8). You then read your article out while you record. You can adjust the slides to correspond with the progression of the slides.
I had to add more time to a few of the slides to get the timing right. This is done through edit, and then adjusting the duration of each slide. I had to fiddle with this a bit to get it right as I didn’t have enough slides compared to the commentary. You then save the video under the sharing tab and you are finished. Now that wasn’t hard was it, and you see video marketing can be as easy as that.
If you have articles that you have just sitting around then use this method to change them into videos and also submit them to the most powerful Article Directory out there called Unique Article Wizard. This supercharges your back links to your site by hundreds. Use it today and be prepared for tons of traffic. I have been amazed by the back links I have been getting so far with only 5 articles started to be submitted.
I knew I needed to start building a list of readers and subscribers but I am sure like you that I found that one of the most difficult tasks I have had to do. Article writing was helping with attracting the readers but I needed to work on the subscribers. It’s going into territory that is completely new to me. As a matter of fact, I seem to be doing a lot of ‘first time’ things lately, but I am sure I am learning a lot along the way as well. So back to my list building story…
The first thing I knew I had to do was make a product so I can submit it to Giveaways. I thought of doing an eBook or even get a PLR eBook and make it my own but I wanted something a bit easier and quicker. I got my inspiration from Alex Jeffreys on a recent webinar when he said that his ‘thing’ is videos and webinars and since I have made a video already I thought that’s were I will start.
This video though was going to be built upon slides and commentary. I picked my subject, something I thought I knew a bit about and started. I had a few hiccups, like the sound quality, but I got through that and now have produced something I thought worthy enough to submit to a Giveaway. Being a bit worried about whether this video would be at the right standard, I asked Paul Teague a Giveaways Expert to give me his opinion and I must say he has been a great help to this giveaway newbie. Thanks Paul!
Well, I have now finished the video and submitted it to The Original Products Giveaway that Keith Purkiss and Michael Ottman are running. It started today (Friday, 2 July) but if you want to still contribute contact them. In the first few hours I have gained 3 opt in subscribers and I am doing a little dance and grinning ear to ear. How good is that! Now of course I want to do more but I will try one of the Viral eBook Explosion or Resell-Rights-Weekly and get their free product to offer.
Why not try it too and see how this one tactic improves your business online and sky rockets your list building efforts.
I have completed the video for my “About me” page so I ask you to check it out. Over the weekend I also completed a video that I am going to use for a giveaway. It didn’t turn out perfect but it is pretty good, if I say so myself and its now a completed task I can tick off my list.
I feel now that my plans are moving forward and I am now on to the next learning curve. I hope you all are taking action too to achieve your marketing goals. I would love to hear what you have been doing lately. I plan on working on article marketing now for the next month. I have also been neglecting some of my other niche blogs and I do miss posting on them so I will do that too.
I now have 10 blog posts on this blog so it is time to do some housekeeping on it to tidy it up so my readers, like yourself, find the posts easily. I love the ‘Read More’ button (see image below). Have you heard of it or seen it on another blogs?
You can see this Read More button in visual editor. It allows you to show an excerpt of your post so you can show more posts to the whole screen. This looks better and makes it easier for the reader to find a post they would like to read. When you have a lot of posts this does help the reader considerably.
I am trying toorganize myself but when you are working full time, doing part time study, following a mentoring program and your usual household duties then it can be challenging at times, and it is something I am not juggling well at the moment. Time management is essential for me now or I wont get anything done that I plan to do.
I am working from a diary to get things done on my internet marketing training and that is coming on slowly. I have a long list that I make up for a 3 day period and I tick it off as I go. Its quite satisfying to see how many things are ticked at the end of the day. I will be finishing the part time study probably in about a week’s time so that will help me greatly as I will have more time to do what I want to do and that is get on implementing the training I have been learning from Alex my mentor.
Autoresponders are automated email messages sent on your behalf. These are usually set up in campaigns or series but can be one-offs. They can assist you reach your readers on a regular basis besides their visiting your website or blog. You can use free or paid email autoresponders but I recommend if you are serious about building your business to use a paid version like Get Response or Aweber. I use Aweber myself and found them to be reliable, inexpensive and have great resources that can help you get started.
If you are building a list of readers and customers then it is essential to have an email autoresponder. You can use an automated message when someone joins your list, direct them to an offer or as a Newsletter or regular industry updates. You can also use an autoresponder message to reply automatically to general emails you receive to notify them of your reply policies such as that you will receive a reply within 72 hours or simply to direct them somewhere else like a helpdesk.
Sometimes I feel like that 
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