Bill Myers Tip of the Week - January 28, 2006
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This week we purchased a tent for our office.
Not the kind of tent you camp in, but a 'light' tent, to use when
shooting photographs.
A light tent (also referred to as a 'cloud dome') is a enclosure
made of translucent material used to spread a cloud of diffused
light on items placed within the tent.
You set the light tent on a table top, place the item to be
photographed inside, and shoot pictures.
The results are simply amazing. Often breathtaking.
And this can be important, since an impressive photo can greatly
increase the perceived value of, and desire to have, the product
in the photo.
If you use product photos on your web or eBay pages, you might
discover having your own light tent will pay for itself many
times over. (The light tent we purchased cost just $40.)
To see a photo of our light tent as well as photos of items we've
taken in it, check out the light tent article on our site.
Bill Myers
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Recent articles posted at Bill Myers Online:
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Using a light tent / cloud dome to create spectacular photos
Check out the photos I shot in our new light tent, and you'll
understand why having a cloud dome or light tent is one of the
best investments a product developer can make. Wow!
Read the full article at:
< http://bmyers.check-free.info/ >
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New approach to web video - example of easy to shoot video, plus
a few cool toys
It took me less than 10 minutes to set up for, shoot, edit and
produce this web video. On the video you'll see how to combine
live video, screen capture, and audio into a fast loading, good
looking video - suitable for delivery over the web, on CD or DVD.
Read the full article at:
< http://bmyers.check-free.info/ >
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Finding great domain names - yes, they are still available
There are plenty of great domain names still available, if you
know where and how to look. In this article which includes a
short video, I'll show my secret to quickly finding the right
domain name for almost any project.
Read the full article at:
< http://bmyers.check-free.info/ >
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The easy guide to streaming live video to your web pages - part
II
In part one, we showed you how to quickly set up a live video
feed to your web site using free software and free web hosting.
In part two, we show you how another easy way to stream live
video - and how to control who can view that video once it is up
on the web.
Read the full article at:
< http://bmyers.check-free.info/ >
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That's it for this week!
Bill Myers
http://bmyers.check-free.info/
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Sunday, January 29, 2006
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Bill Myers Tip of the Week 20/1/06
Bill Myers Tip of the Week - January 21, 2006
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If you are running Microsoft Windows, you might need this.
To help relieve customer support problems, Microsoft developed a
secret little tool that scans a customer's computer, and removes
the most prevalent computer viruses.
Microsoft found that when their support staff uses this tool,
they are able to resolve a large percentage of customer support
problems quickly.
Just run the secret software, and the Windows related problem
often goes away.
You can find this secret program, the 'Malicious Software Removal
Tool', and run it online at
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx
It is free and updated every two weeks.
Even if you don't need this virus removal tool today, you might
want to bookmark it for later.
Bill Myers
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Recent articles posted at Bill Myers Online:
================================================================
Finding great domain names - yes, they are still available
There are plenty of great domain names still available, if you
know where and how to look. In this article which includes a
short video, I'll show my secret to quickly finding the right
domain name for almost any project.
Read the full article at:
< http://bmyers.check-free.info/ >
================================================================
The easy guide to streaming live video to your web pages - part II
In part one, we showed you how to quickly set up a live video
feed to your web site using free software and free web hosting.
In part two, we show you how another easy way to stream live
video - and how to control who can view that video once it is up
on the web.
Read the full article at:
< http://bmyers.check-free.info/ >
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Reality TV - your own channel
This week I decided to create my own reality TV show and place it
on the web.
Using a $50 web cam and free software, it took me about 10
minutes to create a live video broadcast
Read the full article at:
< http://bmyers.check-free.info/ >
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Live Video: The easy way to quickly add live video -- with audio -
- to your web pages
In this article, I'll show you the easy, no hassle way to add
your live video feed (with audio) to your web pages. It'll take
less than ten minutes, no special software required, no hosting
charges, no bandwidth fees. You can have a 24/7 live video feed
from any video source, including your web cam, workshop, seminars,
even from on the road.
Read the full article at:
< http://bmyers.check-free.info/ >
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That's it for this week!
Bill Myers
http://bmyers.check-free.info/
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If you are running Microsoft Windows, you might need this.
To help relieve customer support problems, Microsoft developed a
secret little tool that scans a customer's computer, and removes
the most prevalent computer viruses.
Microsoft found that when their support staff uses this tool,
they are able to resolve a large percentage of customer support
problems quickly.
Just run the secret software, and the Windows related problem
often goes away.
You can find this secret program, the 'Malicious Software Removal
Tool', and run it online at
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx
It is free and updated every two weeks.
Even if you don't need this virus removal tool today, you might
want to bookmark it for later.
Bill Myers
===============================================================
Recent articles posted at Bill Myers Online:
================================================================
Finding great domain names - yes, they are still available
There are plenty of great domain names still available, if you
know where and how to look. In this article which includes a
short video, I'll show my secret to quickly finding the right
domain name for almost any project.
Read the full article at:
< http://bmyers.check-free.info/ >
================================================================
The easy guide to streaming live video to your web pages - part II
In part one, we showed you how to quickly set up a live video
feed to your web site using free software and free web hosting.
In part two, we show you how another easy way to stream live
video - and how to control who can view that video once it is up
on the web.
Read the full article at:
< http://bmyers.check-free.info/ >
================================================================
Reality TV - your own channel
This week I decided to create my own reality TV show and place it
on the web.
Using a $50 web cam and free software, it took me about 10
minutes to create a live video broadcast
Read the full article at:
< http://bmyers.check-free.info/ >
================================================================
Live Video: The easy way to quickly add live video -- with audio -
- to your web pages
In this article, I'll show you the easy, no hassle way to add
your live video feed (with audio) to your web pages. It'll take
less than ten minutes, no special software required, no hosting
charges, no bandwidth fees. You can have a 24/7 live video feed
from any video source, including your web cam, workshop, seminars,
even from on the road.
Read the full article at:
< http://bmyers.check-free.info/ >
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That's it for this week!
Bill Myers
http://bmyers.check-free.info/
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Friday, January 13, 2006
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
A $1 million Web idea, one pixel at a time
British man dreams up unique way to finance university
Some of the advertisers first bought spots on the page as a lark, only to discover they were receiving significant Web hits.
To get your bit of the action with Pixel Marketing. Pixmeup has setup a website that you can buy pixels for as little as $25 show others how to adverting on your page and get paid see how CLICK HERE
This is pixel mania and it is taking the world by storm
LONDON - If you have an envious streak, you probably shouldn't read this.
Because chances are,
Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, is cleverer than you. And he is proving it by earning a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet.
Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? Nope. All he sells are pixels, the tiny dots on the screen that appear when you call up his home page.
He had the brainstorm for his million dollar home page, called, logically enough, http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/, while lying in bed thinking out how he would pay for university
The idea: turn his home page into a billboard made up of a million dots, and sell them for a dollar a dot to anyone who wants to put up their logo. A 10 by 10 dot square, roughly the size of a letter of type, costs $100.
He sold a few to his brothers and some friends, and when he had made $1,000, he issued a press release.
That was picked up by the news media, spread around the Internet, and soon advertisers for everything from dating sites to casinos to real estate agents to The Times of London were putting up real cash for pixels, with links to their own sites.
So far they have bought up 911,800 pixels. Tew's home page now looks like an online Times Square, festooned with a multi-coloured confetti of ads.
"All the money's kind of sitting in a bank account," Tew told Reuters from his home in Wiltshire, southwest England. "I've treated myself to a car. I've only just passed my driving test so I've bought myself a little black mini."
The site features testimonials from advertisers, some of whom bought spots as a lark, only to discover that they were receiving actual valuable Web hits for a fraction of the cost of traditional Internet advertising.
Meanwhile Tew has had to juggle running the site with his first term at university, where he is studying business.
It's been quite a difficulty trying to balance going to lectures and doing the site," he said.
But he may not have to study for long. Job offers have been coming in from Internet companies impressed by a young man who managed to figure out an original way to make money online.
"I didn't expect it to happen like that," Tew said. "To have the job offers and approaches from investors — the whole thing is kind of surreal. I'm still in a state of disbelief."
(c) Reuters 2005. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world.
To get your own bit of the action CLICK HERE
Some of the advertisers first bought spots on the page as a lark, only to discover they were receiving significant Web hits.
To get your bit of the action with Pixel Marketing. Pixmeup has setup a website that you can buy pixels for as little as $25 show others how to adverting on your page and get paid see how CLICK HERE
This is pixel mania and it is taking the world by storm
LONDON - If you have an envious streak, you probably shouldn't read this.
Because chances are,
Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, is cleverer than you. And he is proving it by earning a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet.
Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? Nope. All he sells are pixels, the tiny dots on the screen that appear when you call up his home page.
He had the brainstorm for his million dollar home page, called, logically enough, http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/, while lying in bed thinking out how he would pay for university
The idea: turn his home page into a billboard made up of a million dots, and sell them for a dollar a dot to anyone who wants to put up their logo. A 10 by 10 dot square, roughly the size of a letter of type, costs $100.
He sold a few to his brothers and some friends, and when he had made $1,000, he issued a press release.
That was picked up by the news media, spread around the Internet, and soon advertisers for everything from dating sites to casinos to real estate agents to The Times of London were putting up real cash for pixels, with links to their own sites.
So far they have bought up 911,800 pixels. Tew's home page now looks like an online Times Square, festooned with a multi-coloured confetti of ads.
"All the money's kind of sitting in a bank account," Tew told Reuters from his home in Wiltshire, southwest England. "I've treated myself to a car. I've only just passed my driving test so I've bought myself a little black mini."
The site features testimonials from advertisers, some of whom bought spots as a lark, only to discover that they were receiving actual valuable Web hits for a fraction of the cost of traditional Internet advertising.
Meanwhile Tew has had to juggle running the site with his first term at university, where he is studying business.
It's been quite a difficulty trying to balance going to lectures and doing the site," he said.
But he may not have to study for long. Job offers have been coming in from Internet companies impressed by a young man who managed to figure out an original way to make money online.
"I didn't expect it to happen like that," Tew said. "To have the job offers and approaches from investors — the whole thing is kind of surreal. I'm still in a state of disbelief."
(c) Reuters 2005. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world.
To get your own bit of the action CLICK HERE
Thursday, January 05, 2006
News Bytes From The Web
- by Jim Edwards
© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com/
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* Sony Offers "VoIP" *
Electronics giant, Sony, jumped on the VoIP (Voice over IP)
bandwagon recently to offer long distance calls through the
Internet.
They join a long list of providers competing for your
Internet phone call business, including: Skype, Google, and
AOL.
Sony claims their service includes a video component that
rates superior to all other offerings.
Their IVE (Internet Video Everywhere) can also make video
calls to video enabled mobile phones, telephones and other
devices intended for video conferencing.
In fact, the IVE "Meeting Room" enables you to hold video
conference calls with up to six users just as you would a
regular telephone conference call.
Users also receive a unique "video phone number" which other
users can call and, if you don't answer, leave you a video
message.
The basic plan comes free of charge and goes as high as $20
a month for the group calling and video "meeting" room
features.
* Camtasia Alternative *
Camtasia software rates as the 800-lb. gorilla of the
screen-capture software market.
It enables you to capture your screen, narrate the action,
and publish your videos in multiple formats (including
publishing to FLASH for streaming on the Web).
Unfortunately, Camtasia comes with a stiff $300 price tag
which often inhibits the casual user from getting the
software.
A less expensive alternative can be found at
www.AimOneSoft.com which publishes the Aim One Screen
Recorder.
This software captures either the full screen, window, or a
fixed region of your screen as an AVI or WMV video file.
This type of software can make the creation of software
tutorials and other computer training a breeze.
The one drawback to the software is that it does not convert
to flash, so that limits your video delivery over the Web to
the WMV file format (which will exclude MAC users).
* Urban Legends Reference Page *
Log on to www.Snopes.com and find a wealth of just the type
of information that nobody should pass along to anyone else.
Bill Gates giving away a million dollars if you forward this
email to 12 people?
AOL offering free housing to all Web designers?
Yahoo and Google founders set for a mud-wrestling match next
Saturday with a live simulcast on both sites?
Do you need to drink 8 glasses of water per day to avoid
dehydration?
The Web makes it almost too easy to create and pass along
rumors, legends and outright falsehood (along with
destructive "info-viruses" that cause people to delete
important files from their computers and encourage unwitting
friends to do the same).
The next time you hear something that sounds odd (such as
Microsoft is preparing to market the "iLoo", and Internet
capable toilet), you should log on to Snopes.com and check
it out before taking it as "truth."
A few keywords in the search box will let you track down any
errant stories and check your facts before passing along the
message to your friends.
The site also offers a free update by email service so you
can stay current on all the latest gossip and nonsense
floating around online.
--
Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the
creator of an amazing course that will teach you step-by-
step and click-by-click how to finally create your own
money-making mini-sites...
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"Finally! A Quick and Easy Way For YOU to Painlessly Set Up
Your OWN Moneymaking 'Mini' Websites... Without Being a
Computer Geek, Buying Expensive Software, or Paying
Outrageous Fees To A Webmaster!"
Click Here => http://minisite.check-free.info/
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© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com/
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* Sony Offers "VoIP" *
Electronics giant, Sony, jumped on the VoIP (Voice over IP)
bandwagon recently to offer long distance calls through the
Internet.
They join a long list of providers competing for your
Internet phone call business, including: Skype, Google, and
AOL.
Sony claims their service includes a video component that
rates superior to all other offerings.
Their IVE (Internet Video Everywhere) can also make video
calls to video enabled mobile phones, telephones and other
devices intended for video conferencing.
In fact, the IVE "Meeting Room" enables you to hold video
conference calls with up to six users just as you would a
regular telephone conference call.
Users also receive a unique "video phone number" which other
users can call and, if you don't answer, leave you a video
message.
The basic plan comes free of charge and goes as high as $20
a month for the group calling and video "meeting" room
features.
* Camtasia Alternative *
Camtasia software rates as the 800-lb. gorilla of the
screen-capture software market.
It enables you to capture your screen, narrate the action,
and publish your videos in multiple formats (including
publishing to FLASH for streaming on the Web).
Unfortunately, Camtasia comes with a stiff $300 price tag
which often inhibits the casual user from getting the
software.
A less expensive alternative can be found at
www.AimOneSoft.com which publishes the Aim One Screen
Recorder.
This software captures either the full screen, window, or a
fixed region of your screen as an AVI or WMV video file.
This type of software can make the creation of software
tutorials and other computer training a breeze.
The one drawback to the software is that it does not convert
to flash, so that limits your video delivery over the Web to
the WMV file format (which will exclude MAC users).
* Urban Legends Reference Page *
Log on to www.Snopes.com and find a wealth of just the type
of information that nobody should pass along to anyone else.
Bill Gates giving away a million dollars if you forward this
email to 12 people?
AOL offering free housing to all Web designers?
Yahoo and Google founders set for a mud-wrestling match next
Saturday with a live simulcast on both sites?
Do you need to drink 8 glasses of water per day to avoid
dehydration?
The Web makes it almost too easy to create and pass along
rumors, legends and outright falsehood (along with
destructive "info-viruses" that cause people to delete
important files from their computers and encourage unwitting
friends to do the same).
The next time you hear something that sounds odd (such as
Microsoft is preparing to market the "iLoo", and Internet
capable toilet), you should log on to Snopes.com and check
it out before taking it as "truth."
A few keywords in the search box will let you track down any
errant stories and check your facts before passing along the
message to your friends.
The site also offers a free update by email service so you
can stay current on all the latest gossip and nonsense
floating around online.
--
Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the
creator of an amazing course that will teach you step-by-
step and click-by-click how to finally create your own
money-making mini-sites...
-=-=-==-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
"Finally! A Quick and Easy Way For YOU to Painlessly Set Up
Your OWN Moneymaking 'Mini' Websites... Without Being a
Computer Geek, Buying Expensive Software, or Paying
Outrageous Fees To A Webmaster!"
Click Here => http://minisite.check-free.info/
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Generating Self-Sustaining Website Traffic
By Willie Crawford (c) 2005
Upon returning from a recent seminar, I had two messages from newspaper reporters on my answering machine. They were both seeking interviews. I also had emails showing that I'd earned several thousand dollars while I was out of town speaking. The orders had all been processed automatically, and the emails were just for my information. It was at that point that I realized my Internet business had truly reached critical mass.
Critical mass is a term that I first heard my friend Jack Humphrey, author of Power Linking, use in reference to generating website traffïc and growing a business. Jack used it to define that point at which you could stop actively promoting your online business (for a while) and it would continue to grow and prosper.
I'm sharing this with you because I want you to see the tools that enabled me to reach that point. This article will show you to see why those tools are so powerful
Let me begin by telling you that it took me eight years to grow my online business to the point where it is largely self-sustaining! I don't want to mislead you there. A big part of success is unwavering persistence.
Now, let's look at the tools I used to reach and maintain critical mass.
1) Search engine marketing. All of my important sites ARE manually submïtted to the search engines. I submït and re-submit them "semi-automatically" though. I use a site called SelfPromotion.com. This site allows you to store all relevant data about a site into their database. The software then submïts your site to selected search engines and directories.
The beauty of self-promotion.com is that you can then set it so that the software periodically resubmits your sites. It's truly "set it and forget it" website promotion
SelfPromotion.com is frëe, but if you make a contribution, to help pay for the upkeep of the site, you get access to more nifty tools. You can get a frëe account with them at: http://selfpromotion.com/?CF=Willie%20Crawford. That URL lets Robert know that I sent you. I've used this tool for over 5 years now - and love it!
2) Article marketing. I've written and distributed over 300 articles. Articles establish you as an expert in the marketplace, build inbound links to your sites, pre-sell your products, and help you rank higher in the search engines for your targeted keywords.
The power of article marketing is that once the articles are in circulation, and on hundreds... or even thousands of websites, they can work for you forever. I still get traffïc to some of my websites from articles I wrote in 1998!
Many online marketers now use articles to market their websites, but they don't do it very effectively. Articles have to be written, and deployed, in a way that they both gain you advantages in the search engines and that they convert readers into customers, subscribers, clients, and fans. That means your articles need SOLID content.
In writing articles (or having them ghost written) you must always remember that people surf the Internet looking for information and solutions to their problems. Your articles must actually provide this information or help them to actually solve their problems. Distribute articles that accomplish this, and you'll develop an endless stream of raving fans, all storming your website for more of YOU
Writing articles is relatively easy. If you don't know how to write articles though, I recommend that you take advantage of the training available at a site called Content Propulsion Lab. Content Propulsion Lab teaches you not only how to use articles to grow your business, but also how to use multi-media content (such as MP3's and online video). You're shown how to deploy multi-media content in a way that causes the search engines to gobble it up.
I mentioned the multi-media content because, while articles work beautifully, website audio and video is growing at an amazing pace. You need to offer your audience information in the formats that they prefer consuming it in. More and more, this format is becoming audio and video. These formats allow your audience to connect with you on a much deeper level since they see or hear a live person. Connecting with your audience on a deeper level means MORE salës. now use Content Propulsion Lab's resources to push my content out to an amazing array of places. I also TEACH others how to do this through tele-classes and webinars featured at Content Propulsion Lab. You can chëck out all of the mind-boggling capabilities Content Propulsion Lab offers at: CashThroughContent.com.
3) Viral tools. A viral tool is merely something that, once set in motion, continues to grow, and spread, and benefit you, without any additional input being required from you.
Two of my favorite viral tools are online discussion forums and blogs. Online discussion forums allow people interested in a given topic to congregate and and discuss that topic. Over time, your discussion forum will develop a core following who will help to spread the word, and help to maintain the community. Seek volunteer moderators to help police the forum and maintain standards. Many people will volunteer for a link back to their site, or just for the exposure.
The number of blogs is growing exponentially. Blogs are proven traffïc magnets. A blog allows you to share information, opinions, etc. with your audience. If your blog engages your audience they will help to spread the word. At the same time, blogs are visited frequently by the search engines. Search engines notice which ones are updated often and become "trained" to spider those blogs often.
Because blogs are spidered so often, it's one of the quickest ways that I know of to get a new site noticed by the search engines. Just post a link to one of your new sites on a blog that's frequently crawled, and the search engine spiders will follow that link and index your new site. This is VERY powerful to be such a simple technique.
Blogging is very simple, but there are lots of tricks and techniques that offer you an amazingly competitive advantage. My favorite blogging platform is WordPress, which I learned all about from my friend Sherman Hu. Sherman has a series of short online videos that explain practically everything you could ever want to know about blogging with WordPress.
You can watch 22 (yes - 22) of Sherman's videos on WordPress blogging absolutely frëe at: ShermanHuOnWordPressBlogging.com.
Other viral tools include ebooks, PDF special reports, MP3 audio files, and Camtasia videos. We can't cover all of these hëre, but any of them could be created, and then offered to the marketplace. If they deliver tremendous value, or even entertainment, they will be passed along. If you create these viral tools properly, they will lead highly qualified traffïc right back to your site.
4) Link Building. People find, and then visit, your sites by following trails. Those trails can be mentions of your url in online or offline media, articles, press releases, and links on other sites pointing to you. The more links you have pointing to you, the greater the chance of someone finding one of those links and visiting your site. So, you should set out on an aggressive effort to build quality links pointing to your site.
Since I value quality links over sheer quantity, I have over the years simply emailed webmasters of sites I wanted to exchange links with suggesting the exchange. Now, I hire others to coordinate link exchanges for me. This is a better use of my resources in the long-run than doing it myself, since there are services that do this fairly inexpensively. To locate one of these services, simply type in an appropriate term at the search engines.
You can also set up an affïliate program as a way to reward others for linking to you. Affïliate program management software, such as the one I use at http://profitautomation.com/ allows you the option of paying people (on a per-click basis) just for sending traffïc to you. I do this on a few sites, but on most sites where I have affïliate programs, I pay on a per sale basis. This still generates a lot of one-way links but only costs you when those links make you salës.
There are many, many more techniques that you can use to build a steadily increasing flood of traffïc to your sites. I use literally Dozens of different methods. If you're looking for an "encyclopedia" of traffïc generation methods, I highly recommend a course by my friend John Reese, called Traffïc Secrets. You'll find John Reese's Traffïc Secrets Course at: TrafficSecretsByJohnReese.com.
The most important part of building your websites' traffïc up to critical mass is just getting started. Pick ONE of the methods outlined above and get started. As you verify that a particular method works great for you, and your marketplace, keep using that one and then add others. If a particular method doesn't produce for you, stop wasting your time with it!
One final thought... even when you build your website traffïc to critical mass, you still should continue to promote.
Yes, you'll continue making salës, but if you completely stop promoting, salës will eventually begin to drop off. Major international corporations such as Coke(tm) have proven this over and over again. That's why you see these major corporations with MAJOR market domination continue to promote their products and services.
Now that you understand the intricacies of generating self-sustaining website traffïc, what are you waitïng for:-)
About The AuthorWillie Crawford has taught PROVEN Internet marketing techniques to thousands of successful Internet entrepreneurs since late-1996. Subscribe to his frëe weekly ezine, which helps you cut through the clutter and time-wasting hype. Subscribe now by visiting: http://williecrawford.com/.
Upon returning from a recent seminar, I had two messages from newspaper reporters on my answering machine. They were both seeking interviews. I also had emails showing that I'd earned several thousand dollars while I was out of town speaking. The orders had all been processed automatically, and the emails were just for my information. It was at that point that I realized my Internet business had truly reached critical mass.
Critical mass is a term that I first heard my friend Jack Humphrey, author of Power Linking, use in reference to generating website traffïc and growing a business. Jack used it to define that point at which you could stop actively promoting your online business (for a while) and it would continue to grow and prosper.
I'm sharing this with you because I want you to see the tools that enabled me to reach that point. This article will show you to see why those tools are so powerful
Let me begin by telling you that it took me eight years to grow my online business to the point where it is largely self-sustaining! I don't want to mislead you there. A big part of success is unwavering persistence.
Now, let's look at the tools I used to reach and maintain critical mass.
1) Search engine marketing. All of my important sites ARE manually submïtted to the search engines. I submït and re-submit them "semi-automatically" though. I use a site called SelfPromotion.com. This site allows you to store all relevant data about a site into their database. The software then submïts your site to selected search engines and directories.
The beauty of self-promotion.com is that you can then set it so that the software periodically resubmits your sites. It's truly "set it and forget it" website promotion
SelfPromotion.com is frëe, but if you make a contribution, to help pay for the upkeep of the site, you get access to more nifty tools. You can get a frëe account with them at: http://selfpromotion.com/?CF=Willie%20Crawford. That URL lets Robert know that I sent you. I've used this tool for over 5 years now - and love it!
2) Article marketing. I've written and distributed over 300 articles. Articles establish you as an expert in the marketplace, build inbound links to your sites, pre-sell your products, and help you rank higher in the search engines for your targeted keywords.
The power of article marketing is that once the articles are in circulation, and on hundreds... or even thousands of websites, they can work for you forever. I still get traffïc to some of my websites from articles I wrote in 1998!
Many online marketers now use articles to market their websites, but they don't do it very effectively. Articles have to be written, and deployed, in a way that they both gain you advantages in the search engines and that they convert readers into customers, subscribers, clients, and fans. That means your articles need SOLID content.
In writing articles (or having them ghost written) you must always remember that people surf the Internet looking for information and solutions to their problems. Your articles must actually provide this information or help them to actually solve their problems. Distribute articles that accomplish this, and you'll develop an endless stream of raving fans, all storming your website for more of YOU
Writing articles is relatively easy. If you don't know how to write articles though, I recommend that you take advantage of the training available at a site called Content Propulsion Lab. Content Propulsion Lab teaches you not only how to use articles to grow your business, but also how to use multi-media content (such as MP3's and online video). You're shown how to deploy multi-media content in a way that causes the search engines to gobble it up.
I mentioned the multi-media content because, while articles work beautifully, website audio and video is growing at an amazing pace. You need to offer your audience information in the formats that they prefer consuming it in. More and more, this format is becoming audio and video. These formats allow your audience to connect with you on a much deeper level since they see or hear a live person. Connecting with your audience on a deeper level means MORE salës. now use Content Propulsion Lab's resources to push my content out to an amazing array of places. I also TEACH others how to do this through tele-classes and webinars featured at Content Propulsion Lab. You can chëck out all of the mind-boggling capabilities Content Propulsion Lab offers at: CashThroughContent.com.
3) Viral tools. A viral tool is merely something that, once set in motion, continues to grow, and spread, and benefit you, without any additional input being required from you.
Two of my favorite viral tools are online discussion forums and blogs. Online discussion forums allow people interested in a given topic to congregate and and discuss that topic. Over time, your discussion forum will develop a core following who will help to spread the word, and help to maintain the community. Seek volunteer moderators to help police the forum and maintain standards. Many people will volunteer for a link back to their site, or just for the exposure.
The number of blogs is growing exponentially. Blogs are proven traffïc magnets. A blog allows you to share information, opinions, etc. with your audience. If your blog engages your audience they will help to spread the word. At the same time, blogs are visited frequently by the search engines. Search engines notice which ones are updated often and become "trained" to spider those blogs often.
Because blogs are spidered so often, it's one of the quickest ways that I know of to get a new site noticed by the search engines. Just post a link to one of your new sites on a blog that's frequently crawled, and the search engine spiders will follow that link and index your new site. This is VERY powerful to be such a simple technique.
Blogging is very simple, but there are lots of tricks and techniques that offer you an amazingly competitive advantage. My favorite blogging platform is WordPress, which I learned all about from my friend Sherman Hu. Sherman has a series of short online videos that explain practically everything you could ever want to know about blogging with WordPress.
You can watch 22 (yes - 22) of Sherman's videos on WordPress blogging absolutely frëe at: ShermanHuOnWordPressBlogging.com.
Other viral tools include ebooks, PDF special reports, MP3 audio files, and Camtasia videos. We can't cover all of these hëre, but any of them could be created, and then offered to the marketplace. If they deliver tremendous value, or even entertainment, they will be passed along. If you create these viral tools properly, they will lead highly qualified traffïc right back to your site.
4) Link Building. People find, and then visit, your sites by following trails. Those trails can be mentions of your url in online or offline media, articles, press releases, and links on other sites pointing to you. The more links you have pointing to you, the greater the chance of someone finding one of those links and visiting your site. So, you should set out on an aggressive effort to build quality links pointing to your site.
Since I value quality links over sheer quantity, I have over the years simply emailed webmasters of sites I wanted to exchange links with suggesting the exchange. Now, I hire others to coordinate link exchanges for me. This is a better use of my resources in the long-run than doing it myself, since there are services that do this fairly inexpensively. To locate one of these services, simply type in an appropriate term at the search engines.
You can also set up an affïliate program as a way to reward others for linking to you. Affïliate program management software, such as the one I use at http://profitautomation.com/ allows you the option of paying people (on a per-click basis) just for sending traffïc to you. I do this on a few sites, but on most sites where I have affïliate programs, I pay on a per sale basis. This still generates a lot of one-way links but only costs you when those links make you salës.
There are many, many more techniques that you can use to build a steadily increasing flood of traffïc to your sites. I use literally Dozens of different methods. If you're looking for an "encyclopedia" of traffïc generation methods, I highly recommend a course by my friend John Reese, called Traffïc Secrets. You'll find John Reese's Traffïc Secrets Course at: TrafficSecretsByJohnReese.com.
The most important part of building your websites' traffïc up to critical mass is just getting started. Pick ONE of the methods outlined above and get started. As you verify that a particular method works great for you, and your marketplace, keep using that one and then add others. If a particular method doesn't produce for you, stop wasting your time with it!
One final thought... even when you build your website traffïc to critical mass, you still should continue to promote.
Yes, you'll continue making salës, but if you completely stop promoting, salës will eventually begin to drop off. Major international corporations such as Coke(tm) have proven this over and over again. That's why you see these major corporations with MAJOR market domination continue to promote their products and services.
Now that you understand the intricacies of generating self-sustaining website traffïc, what are you waitïng for:-)
About The AuthorWillie Crawford has taught PROVEN Internet marketing techniques to thousands of successful Internet entrepreneurs since late-1996. Subscribe to his frëe weekly ezine, which helps you cut through the clutter and time-wasting hype. Subscribe now by visiting: http://williecrawford.com/.
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