Social Media – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly – What Do You Know?
Filed under: Relationship Marketing, Social media
With regards to Social Media for your online business, we can show you the beauty and the beast scenario of this type of online marketing. As an example let’s take a look at Facebook as a media for Socializing on the internet.
Recently I started looking at social media as “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” – you never know what connections are going to help, hurt or destroy your online business. Facebook is an online media that brings millions of users together being able to connect with each other at whatever level they choose.
Some users prefer to socialize only, with this community – keeping up to date on what their family and friends are doing is usually the goal with this group of people.
There is another group of users who prefer to use Facebook and other related media’s, as a way to connect to others who share similar interests. These entrepreneurs are looking to build a group of connections to share their business with, the goal is usually to build an online connection, hoping to increase sales.
As an example Facebook is an amazing community where you will meet all walks of life but what we never know are the results we are going to get. As with any action, business or personal, there are risks involved. These risks are not solely related to offline activity but online activity as well.
Whoever you let into your online circle of connections can improve your reputation through professional interaction as well they can hinder or harm your online reputation through deliberate or accidental sabotage.
How is this possible? Read more
Do You Have The Right Knowledge For Online Marketing?
Filed under: eCommerce, Internet Marketing, Online Coaching
Who said Online Marketing is easy?
It is not just knowledge that you need for Online Marketing BUT the right knowledge.
- You need information on how to start a successful business based on your interests and passions.
- You need a proven market of eager customers where you can sell your chosen products and services. You need to know how to determine what products and services are best to focus on.
- We all want a great looking website – you need to know how to build a professional-looking website on a limited budget.
- Do you know how to write sales copy that motivates visitors to take action and want to buy your products?
- You need to have knowledge of how you would use fast, simple techniques to begin attracting tons of visitors to your website!
- What about setting up an opt-in offer – do you have the knowledge to not just set up but quickly set up and opt-in offer and start collecting a huge list of sales leads.
Can Social Blogging Make You Thousands By Next Month?
Since today is Christmas Eve day I thought it would be a great idea to take some out for my family. We have all been going our own separate ways for months now so a little family time was necessary.
We were on our way to visit some relatives and stopped at a local convenience store for a drink for everyone – the normal tradition when on a road trip. On my way into the store my daughter slipped and fell on some ice – no fault of anyone just teenager shoes in the wrong weather. Of course my daughter says the weather was suppose to be warm and sunny – to that I say “Sure everyone expects beach weather in December – I blame the staff at the weather forecasting centers!”
As I was helping her get up this well dressed senior couple was getting out of their vehicle and came over to help. Once we helped my daughter in the store, I thanked the couple and through a conversation with them, we found out they were Internet Marketers, currently using Social Blogging to further their success. Now I know this sounds a bit weird but bear with me… this couple has done very well financially thanks to the Internet. Read more
Web Site Analytics – Do You know Why You Could Be Out Of Business?
Filed under: Marketing Tools, The IM University Programs
Web Site Analytics is a key component to your online success. This is a subject that needs attention because you are the executive of your internet business. You are in charge of the succcessful outcome of your business and its web presence.
Understanding your web business deals with more than just knowing how many visitors you have each day. It is crucial to understand, at minimum, terminology, what to look for and to know how to analyze key data taken from log files.
Even if you are using analytics software solutions it is important you understand what the software is telling you. You may not see yourself as a web analytics guru at your online business, but if the only thing you decided to learn was key performance indicators (KPI) that knowledge alone would provide you with important data to make informed decisions.
You own your business, why do you need to know all this technical stuff? Read more
Internet Marketing – Can You Be a Product Creator? Part 7 of 7
If you’ve spent any amount of time learning about Internet Marketing, you know that eventually you’re going to need your own product. Product creators are at the top of the scale when it comes to income. Affiliate income is nice, but the real paychecks start coming in when you have hundreds to thousands of people directing traffic to your site to buy your offer.
The reason more people aren’t creating their own products has to do with one simple issue: fear. They fear doing something that is outside of their comfort zone. But the people who really succeed online know that they have to push through the fear to make it happen.
One of the most common fears has to do with product promotion. There are tons Read more
How Do You Write An Article So It is Effective? Part 4 of 4
Filed under: Article Writing 101, The IM University Programs
Today we need to finish up this final part of a four part series on writing an article. There are some very important points we need to sum up here and then it is up to you as to what you will write an article about and what niche you will decide to go with, if you haven’t already.
Let’s start here with making some points on what you need to keep in mind and what is important above all else:
- First, you need to understand your reader has a problem they are looking to solve. As an example, you may have someone who is looking for an investment which has a 35% return. Well Read more
Do You Know How To Write An Article? – Part 2 of 4
Filed under: Article Writing 101, The IM University Programs
In Part 1 we discussed creating a Killer Headline for your article. If you didn’t get a chance to see Part 1 of 4, it would be a great idea to review that post before continuing on here.
A great article headline has to answer the prospects question “What’s In It For Me?” Believe it or not this will set the tone for the rest of your article. To write an article is not just to put down some quick points and you certainly can’t rush through the process as quality will suffer. If quality suffers your Read more
How Do You Write An Article? Part 1 of 4
Filed under: Article Writing 101, The IM University Programs
First things first – Forget Everything You Ever Learned In School about Writing.
Ok now that we got that out of the way here we go – what you learned in school doesn’t apply to article writing on the Internet. You need to keep in mind what your purpose of writing an Article is here on the Internet.
The purpose when you write an article here is to get a response and to do that you may need to use unconventional methods of writing to grab the attention of your audience.
What are the normal options your readers have?
- Visit your website link which is always located in the resource box. (bottom of your article)
- Visit an affiliate link – a large number of publishers won’t let you put an affiliate link in your article, unless of course it is in context. You can put the link in the resource box, which would be allowed regardless.
- Subscribe to a mailing list – this is a great option as when people sign up they are giving you permission to contact them by email on a regular basis.
- Subscribe to a complimentary course you are offering.
- Refer the article you wrote to other people or other sources.
- Do Nothing
- Send nasty emails to you or post derogatory messages on your blog – as long as you are doing business on the Internet you are in the public eye. On the Internet it is so easy to remain anonymous so it makes you a target for this type of behavior.
- They could contact you personally to inquire on your products or services further.
What about Article writing? Read more
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