Archive for February, 2012
Top 7 Internet Marketing Sites for 2005
Are you confused by what really works when marketing your business online?
I know the feeling. There are literally thousands of sites out there that either promise to teach you how to effectively market online or tell you that they have the magic formula.
However, there are some tried and true methods of internet marketing that actually work and never go out of style.
These seven sites will teach you how to market, and many of the resources they offer are absolutely free.
Internet Marketing Trainer – http://www.internetmarketingtrainer.com – For my money, and in my opinion, Malaysian marketer Richard Quek is one of the best. His ebook “Exposed!” is the internet marketing bible in that it will teach you all of the marketing methods you can use online, and it gives you all of the resources to set up a successful marketing campaign, most of them free. This ebook is so good that I keep a copy of it on my desk for reference.
His Internet Marketing Trainer site is no different. You’ll find some valuable freebies here to help you market online, and the newsletter is excellent.
Teach Me Marketing – http://www.teachmemarketing.com – Owned by marketing extraordinaire, Jimmy D. Brown, you’ll get over $197 worth of materials to teach you how to market. Jimmy has, and is, one of my favorite marketing gurus because not only will he show you what to do, he will teach you how to do it. Most of the marketing materials I own, I bought from him because they are excellent.
I’ve been deeply influenced by his style of writing, and I’ve found that readers really appreciate it when you explain how to do things in plain language without talking down to them. Excellent.
Boaze Publishing – http://www.boazepublishing.biz – Run by master list builder Steven Boaze (his list is currently over 200,000 strong), you’ll get a newsletter three times a week with some of the best commentary and articles on marketing online. He also offers you an extensive collection of ebooks, as well as his ecourses, absolutely free. His methods are tried and tested, and he gives you his best information and recommendations, all for free.
GuruPal – http://www.gurupal.com – Created by Anthony and Derek Tomei, this site gives you the opportunity to rub elbows with some of the top internet marketers online. If you want to learn how to market, learn from those who have done it successfully. Worth a look.
Emass Blast – [http://www.emassblast.com] – Newbie paradise. For those of you confused by internet marketing, this site provides you with the best resources, and the most comprehensive listing of marketing methods available. Although this site isn’t free, it’s worth every penny, and it offers the best safelist blaster online without the monthly fees.
You’ll learn all of the most effective methods for marketing online, as well as getting some of the best tools and ebooks available, and the safelist blaster can’t be matched anywhere.
Free Advertising Forum – http://www.freeadvertisingforum.com – Run by Michael Rasmussen, you can post all of your offerings absolutely free. This site receives a lot of traffic and everything is organized by category.
Net Profit Secrets – http://www.netprofitsecrets.com – Diane Hughes offers the best marketing membership online. You get not just one marketing membership but four. You’ll also have access to expert marketing advice, and you can post your questions to your favorite expert and get them answered. Each expert has a different area of expertise, so this allows you to get the advice you need.
You’ll also find 1000s of dollars in downloads available, and you can’t beat the price anywhere. You’ll get all the help you need to effectively market your business online without the high price tag.
There are lots of great marketing sites online that offer plenty of excellent information to help you market more effectively. These are some of the best, and if you’re puzzled by internet marketing, these sites will help you find the answers you need.
Jinger Jarrett is the Ecommerce director for My1stbusiness.com, an expert panel member for NetProfitSecrets.com, and a copywriter for CopywritePlus.com. Get her best special offers, and a copy of her free ecourse at http://www.smallbusinesshowto.com
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Ned the Newbie Will Be Adding Niche Marketing To His Business If He Can Just Figure It Out
I was out trying to help our local boat shop owner meet his quota for bass boat sales when I ran into my friend Ned the Newbie, well his real name is Gary but he is really interested in online marketing and has been learning a little more each time we meet. He also reminds of Ned from the Simpson’s cartoon because he is so bubbly and eager to please.
So I stopped drooling long enough to say hello and to see how his Internet marketing strategies research was doing since we last met. As usual Ned was all excited about something and wouldn’t let me get a word out before he was asking questions.
Ned is trying to learn so much about Internet marketing that he is getting himself confused and frustrated, but he is determined to earn a living from the Internet. He just needs to learn to slow down, take baby steps and maybe even relax a bit. But that wouldn’t be Ned, would it.
The question on the tip of Ned’s tongue was “What is Niche Marketing and can I make more money with it than I can with Internet marketing?”
This wasn’t a question I was going to answer right there so I invited Ned back to my office where I would be able to show him examples plus I was a little distracted by the boats and I don’t like being distracted from business and Ned was fine with that.
Ned was waiting for me when I arrived back home, and as usual before I could even say hello he was asking questions. Although his first question was to ask if I had purchased the bass boat I was drooling over.
Once we settled in I opened my browser, handed Ned my keyboard, along with a note pad and pen, then asked him to go to Google.com and search for: “what is niche marketing?”, using the quotes in this case. After only 2 seconds Ned had the following definitions.
Definitions of Niche Marketing on the Web (from Google.com):
Niche marketing is the process of finding small but potentially profitable market segments and designing custom-made products for them. Niche marketers are often reliant on the loyalty business model to maintain a profitable volume of sales.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niche_marketing
Ned’s face was a little red as he admitted how easy it was to find that answer to what niche marketing is.
Learning how to use a search engine to find, or better yet, research market themes and topics is extremely important to any online business, so take the time to read the Advanced Serch Help for the search engines you use.
Because I am so fanatical about fishing let’s look at fishing as the keyword for our market study.
Use Google.com to search for results on the keyword fishing. How many did you find? 100 million, okay I would say fishing might just be a little too general, so let’s be more specific by looking up “bass fishing”.
Be sure to use the quotation marks so that you are finding results that have ‘bass fishing’ as a phrase, rather that two words any where on the page. That can be important for contextual reasons.
That narrowed our search from 100 million to just 3 million. Okay, that is still a lot of pages out there competing for that phrase, but don’t give up quite yet.
How about getting a localized a bit. Let’s add our local area into the search criteria. This time use a plus sign before the quotes that hold New Brunswick. You search text should look like:
“bass fishing” +”New Brunswick”
Now you have narrowed your market down until you are only competing with 40,000 pages. That is a little more do-able at this point in your marketing experience. After you have your foot in the fishing market door for your niche and you have started earning an income, you can start moving into other niches within the general fishing market to generate more sources of income.
Let’s take a few minutes and use a couple of research tools that will help you understand Niche marketing a little better.
Two very useful tools are http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ and https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=KeywordSandbox. These tools are really made for paid search engine campaigns, but they will give you an idea of the best keywords and phrases that make for a good niche market.
http://www.goodkeywords.com/ – You could also try a freeware Good KeyWords, which can be downloaded by clicking the link, to choose targeted keywords.
http://our.affiliatetracking.net/wordtracker/a/14875 – I recommend WordTracker’s database of terms that are actually used on the major search engines and is the most complete and dependable keyword phrases suggestion tool. WordTracker draws their information from most of the major search engines.
Let’s take a look at the Overture Suggestion Tool and see how many requests there are for these phrases. It is kind of important to have enough people that want what you have in order for you to earn a living from your online business.
Start with the keyword ‘fishing’ just like we did when we were using Google.com.
Overture says 280,000 searches were made for this phrase over the past three months. Cool, you could make lots of money there, all you have to do is sail past all those millions of other pages out there trying to compete with this term. So let’s look at the list and see what we can gleen from it.
280730 fishing
34156 fishing trip alaska
22113 fishing lure
113665 fly fishing
32640 fishing trip
21853 fishing gear
108583 archery fishing hunting
31267 fly fishing vacation
19789 alaska fishing
45136 fishing boat
30419 bass fishing
16141 cat fishing
45011 fishing vacation
28874 fishing rods
15814 fishing report
38952 canada fishing
28684 deep sea fishing
14538 trout fishing
37699 alaska salmon fishing
25332 fishing tackle
13961 lake fishing
If we use the same tool and search for ‘bass fishing’ instead of ‘fishing’ we will get a tighter market and one that would be a little easier to break into, although ‘bass fishing’ is still a huge market.
30419 bass fishing
1135 bass fishing striped
700 bass fishing trip
5069 bass fishing home page
911 bass fishing mexico
639 bass fall fishing
2181 bass fishing tip
903 bass fishing smallmouth
592 bass fishing tackle
1839 bass fishing lure
834 bass fishing fly
538 bass fishing free game
1727 bass fishing report
828 bass boat fishing
516 bass fishing pro
1620 bass fishing peacock
816 bass fishing game
468 bass fishing picture
1584 bass fishing florida
762 bass fishing tournament
459 bass fishing technique
Now if you were to use this same tool and specify a location also you would have narrowed your market into an even tighter Niche market. Think about it this way. If you decided to get into Internet marketing and you tried to marketing to everyone you would be so general that you would most likely reach no one, but…
… if you break that ‘far too general’ market of fishing into smaller groups you can be far more focused on your niche market target group and will stand a much better chance of succeeding.
James Mann, owner/webmaster Niche Marketing As Part Of Your Online Business
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How To Become A Top Internet Marketer
Marketing is not for everyone. Most people desire a sense of stability to their jobs. They want an 8 to 5 job that pays this much all the time.
Marketing on the other hand is for the adventurous. This is because marketing involves a great deal of risk. It also involves a great deal of persuading other to believe in the marketer to buy the product or services he or she hawks. For most people this could be too much of a risk.
But for some people this is a challenge they are willing to undertake. Those that persevere in their vocation make great headway leading to increased success and stability. Good marketers are known to earn much quickly.
But how does one become a successful internet marketer? How does one acquire the skills that these earning machines possess?
Online Marketing as a Job
Online marketers play their trade by making use of tools and techniques on the internet to market products and services. Their job is to come up on the heap of other marketers vying for attention on the internet. If they are able to reach the consumer and or close a sale, they are deemed successful in marketing sense.
What is Top Internet Marketer?
If one is able to direct much traffic and interest in a product, that person is a very good internet marketer. If the person is able to retain customers and create good relationships with them, that is another sign of a good marketer. If the marketer is able to increase the image and reputation of the product or service he or she presents, then he or she is a valuable member of the marketing arm of that company.
How Do They Do It
Hard work pays off big time in this department. Good marketing involves a great deal of studying, observing and imitating. Most successful marketers study successful marketing strategies and find out why these strategies work. They also try to emulate these strategies and try to adapt them to the product or service they promote.
These marketers are observant and quick to note strategies that work and strategies that do not. They also are inclined to note what made a marketing strategy or what made it fail. They also learn much from those that make mistakes. This leads them to avoid making those same mistakes too.
One major aspect of good internet marketing is the ability to predict behavior. Man is built out of his habits. If you can predict the spending habits of a person, you more or less know how to push his buttons to interest him in your product or service.
The good marketer also knows that man is responsive to some keywords. The savvy marketer will then make use of these words to attract buyers to his or her nook.
The successful marketer is engaging and is concerned about the welfare of his or her customers. Being concerned with customers reaps much benefit. For one, the customer, when he or she knows that the marketers they deal with care for them, will repeatedly do business with the company.
The business world is built of relationships. The top internet marketer knows this and uses this knowledge to his or her advantage.
The internet marketer is also patient. He or she has great timing. These people know when to wait for responses or when to push the advantage. They know they should not e pushy, so they wait. They know they should not be complacent so they push. This timing comes with practice.
They also put themselves in the shoes of the customer. This helps them guess how a customer will react to the various strategies marketers employ. They know how customers like to be treated so they treat them so.
Drive!
To become a top internet marketer, one has to take note of the above criteria. He or she must also me driven. Marketing is not for the passive. Sales go to those who search for them. Therefore, make sure your goals are clear and your drive is strong.
If you pay heed to the guidelines here, you may very well find yourself one of the top internet marketers around!
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SEO Training
SEO Training Courses in the UK
SEO – Search Engine Optimisation, is an extremely valuable skill.
The job websites – at a time of increasing unemployment – seem to be full of very well paid positions for SEO executives. The reason for this is that actually, there are very few people in the UK who are truly skilled in SEO – and for that reason, those that are tend to choose to work for themselves regardless of the large amount of money they could earn working for an SEO firm.
The main reason that very few people in the UK have real SEO skills, is that there are very few UK SEO training courses available. You can’t just go & enroll on an SEO course at your local night school, they don’t teach it in schools, there are no college courses in SEO in the UK, that I’m aware of, and there are very few real opportunities to learn real SEO from someone who knows how it’s done.
I think the reason most SEO consultants don’t offer to train, is that training is much harder work than just doing SEO – and at the same time, when training new SEO consultants, we’re creating real competition for ourselves – and at the moment in the UK, there is not a lot of competition from REAL SEO consultant who actually do the work, and I think most consultants would agree that they’d prefer it that way – it’s difficult promoting a clients website when you’re up against another professional, so really for us, the less true SEO professionals out there, the better!
So – most SEO consultants are self taught. I have been teaching myself SEO for roughly ten years, and I dread to think how much I have spent over these years on ebooks, courses & programs, but I’m sure whatever the amount, I would have saved money by doing an intensive SEO training course, if there was one available when I started !
I have now started to offer SEO training courses in the UK, to help people who are serious about becoming professional SEO consultants. My training courses are one to one, intensive training courses, that include a year of help & support.
Are SEO training courses absolutely necesarry
No – they’re not, however finding a professional SEO consultant to train you, will help you to take a huge leap towards becoming an SEO consultant, drastically reducing the learning curve that most SEO professionals have to go through.
What kind of SEO training course should I look for?
Look for a training course which is run by actual current SEO professionals, people who’re doing this for a living. The world of SEO is an ever changing one, someone who used to be a great SEO consultant who now just trains, isn’t likely to be training you using fresh knowledge & experience.
How much should I expect to pay?
SEO is a very valuable skill, and a good SEO consultant can make a lot of money, therefore logical thinking will tell you that no SEO consultant is going to offer to train you for a small amount of money, they are in effect training a future competitor, so they need to make more money than they would make in the same amount of time working for a client, otherwise what would be the incentive to offer training courses? So, if you do find a course which seems very cheap – just think logically about the value of such a course, and why such valuable training is being offered for bargain prices.
There are some valid reasons that a course would be offered for a smaller cost, for instance a course that was teaching a number of people at one time, would enable a lower cost – but in my opinion SEO taught in a class is never going to be as valuable as one to one training with a professional SEO.
What else should I take into consideration?
The main thing to think about – is what happens after the course? Like learning to drive, the REAL test comes after you’ve passed & you’re let alone to drive. Remember the first few weeks of driving, scary right?
A good SEO course should include after training support. I continue to support people for a year after the course, included in the price of the course – and I offer packages for continued support after a year.
Kevin John Lewis is a professional search engine marketing / SEO Consultant
Kevin is now offering a one to one SEO Training Course in the UK – available in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Cornwall (Newquay), Glasgow & Dublin. There are only a small number of positions available on the training course in both 2008, and 2009 – so if you are interested in becoming a professional SEO consultant, act soon!
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