11. 12.
Everyone website owner knows the importance of website traffic. Due to this, there are tons of techniques being taught about traffic generation, some of which cost money while others are free. But when you’re first starting out in Internet Marketing, money is often in short supply. This means using more free traffic generation techniques than paid ones. Again, there is a plethora of free traffic generation techniques taught online. But in each of these techniques, there is a certain twist or two that the gurus don’t disclose. It’s in these twists that real money is made.
Everyone who has been in Internet Marketing for any length of time knows that one of the most popular free traffic generation tactics is writing articles. Every guru teaches you to write keyword-centric articles in a properly chosen niche and submit them to article directories. This is a tremendously effective technique that creates backlinks to your website. The effects are basically two-fold. Firstly, your website traffic increases in Page Rank and propels up the search engines and secondly, the articles you wrote also gets indexed by the search engines thus providing another way for people to find your website. All this is well and good and has become common knowledge. But here’s the twist to this technique.
Instead of only submitting your articles to article directories, it is more effective to submit them to website or newsletter owners in the same niche. Offer your articles to them for free and request that they publish them. Chances are high that they will if your articles have good content, thus giving you lots of article exposure to targeted readers. This is more pro-active than submitting articles to directories.
Next is the forum marketing technique, another popular free traffic generation method. Every guru teaches you to scour the forums in your niche and make comments, ask questions, offer solutions and attach a link to your website in your signature file. Once again, this is a great tactic to generate backlinks which will ultimately draw traffic to your website. Here’s the twist to this tactic that most gurus don’t teach.
When you join a forum in your niche, take time to read every category therein. Get to know the problems faced or questions people ask in each category. Compile these problems and questions and create a report with solutions and offer this for free to the forum members. Inside this report you put links to your website or blog. Once again, this is a far more effective method of generating website traffic than just making a comment or two in forums.
Lastly, there are the free social bookmarking sites that can be used to generate traffic. What gurus teach you to do is to bookmark your webpages or your articles in article directories so that they get linked by social bookmarking sites like Digg or Stumble Upon. Here’s how to tweak this strategy.
Instead of just bookmarking your webpages or blogposts etc, look at what’s highly ranked in the social bookmarking sites first. Search for something related to your niche and if found, then write an article for your blog and bookmark it. Then go to the existing highly ranked post and add a comment to it that includes a link to your blog. That way, you get another quality backlink to your site and draw the visitors reading the highly ranked post to your website or blog. Hopefully, they will vote for your article, too thus pushing your post up the social bookmarking site’s favorite list.
These are the little tricks about free website traffic generation that the gurus hardly teach you in their coaching lessons but they use these themselves to earn the big bucks. Now you can do the same. Learning and applying these great tips will make your online business successful.
11. 12.
One major problem for online businesses is the insufficient amount of website traffic they are getting everyday. The majority of online businesses do not get enough visitors everyday to survive.
Here are 4 ways to increase your daily traffic to give you a better chance of making money and surviving online.
1. Start a blog and post to it on a regular basis. A blog is a great way to attract new visitors as well as keep old ones coming back.
You can use your blog articles as search engine bait too! The important thing is to target keyword phrases and then bookmark your article to some of the top social directories.
Doing this will give you traffic from the directories themselves and to serve as search engine bait for even more traffic.
2. Become an expert at social media such as video and make it a part of your blog. Your visitors expect to be entertained as well as informed and video is a great way to do that.
You can add a URL to your Website or blog in the video and submit it to YouTube to attract website traffic. Plus Google loves video and will reward you with high rankings for relevant keyword phrases giving you even more exposure.
3. Incorporate article marketing into your Internet marketing efforts. Writing and submitting articles is not hard to do, and the rewards can pay off for years to come.
A well written article should include a resource box at the end which contains a link back to your Website. This is how your readers find out more about you.
The key is to get your articles into the top article directories. You do not have to spend all day submitting them, but find 4-5 directories you like and submit to them consistently. This can really pay off in traffic today and in the future too!
4. Join Twitter.com and start microblogging. Spend a few minutes everyday inviting people to follow you. As your number of followers increase this presents all kinds of opportunities to increase your traffic and future business.
In summary this is 4 of the top ways to get more website traffic for your Internet home business. If you master all 4 of these your number of visitors will increase everyday and so will your profits. This will improve your daily traffic and will improve the effectiveness of your online business.
5. 06.
There are so many REO (Real Estate Owned) properties with banks that they are trying to sell them off at very deep discounts. These properties are obtained when the owner is not able to pay the mortgage and the bank decides to foreclose on the properties. These foreclosure properties are a great opportunity to make some money! What if you are not interested in buying the properties for you but you would like to make use of this opportunity to make some money for your self? It is possible and without any money of yours. There are two proven ways to make this happen.
The most important thing in real estate property – Location, Location, Location!!!
The first step is to identify a property in a good location and a reasonably good condition with repairs less than $15,000. Typically, properties that sell quickly have three or more bedrooms, one or more bathrooms, basement, yard and garage. This rule applies to properties anywhere After you identify the property, negotiate with the bank and bring down the price to at least 40 cents on the dollar. Your intention to flip it immediately should not be revealed to the bank. While some banks don’t mind that you are flipping “as is” (i.e., without any remodeling or fix up of repairs), others do.
Typically, a real estate is flipped “as is” using an assignment contract. Assignment contracts are written by adding the clause “and/or assigns” after the buyer’s name (either the individual buyer or the company’s name). For example, John Doe wants to flip a property “as is”, then the offer to purchase property for $40,000 will contain buyer’s name as “John Doe and/or assigns”. This clause gives the John Doe the authority to assign/sell the purchase contract to anyone for a fee (for example $10,000). So, now John Doe makes $10,000 by selling the contract Mary Smith and she can purchase the property for $40,000 from the seller. But the problem with banks is that they will not accept an offer to purchase document that has the clause “and/or assigns” after the buyer’s name.
So, how do you flip REOs “as is” without using any of your own money? You have two options:
1. Purchase Property to Land Trust: Land trust has several parts to it. The important parts for this article will be the Trustee and the Beneficiary. The trustee can be a reliable relative, friend or an attorney. The beneficiary has all the powers to this property and hence the owner. You have to inform the bank that you will be buying the property to a land trust. Normally, they will agree. If you (John Doe) are buying property at 123 main street, then in the offer to purchase, you will write the name as John Doe, 123 main street Trust, Trustee, exact vesting TBD at closing. The phrase “exact vesting TBD at closing” allows you to assign the beneficiary rights to anyone who pays you an assignment fee. You can tell the bank that you are not sure how many investors will be partnering in this deal and that’s why you have not mentioned the beneficiary. So now, they will allow you to purchase the property even though you do not have a beneficiary listed. The Trust does not have to be created before making the offer to purchase as long there is an intention to create a land trust later. If this is the first time you are using land trusts, then it is best to get help from a real estate attorney who has experience in land trusts because the rules can be different in different states in the US. The two keys to flipping properties successfully using land trusts are finding the right title company and the right attorney.
While you are negotiating with the bank, you can also start finding a buyer of this property. One of the easy ways to find a buyer is to post an ad in free websites like Craigslist and others. For example, you are purchasing a property that is worth $100K in its present condition. You managed to negotiate the price $40K. From Craigslist ads, you find your end buyer to purchase it from you for $50K. Request the buyer to pay you $10K so that you can add his/her name as the beneficiary. Tell the bank your buyer is your investor partner. After you receive the $10K from your buyer, put his/her name as the beneficiary. So, now you have made $10K profit without using any of your own money!
2. Double Closing: Double closing is when you are closing the seller and the buyer on the same day i.e., you are using the money from your buyer to close the property from seller and the difference between your purchase price and your sale price will be your profit. In one or two states, land trusts are not allowed and in a few others land trusts are frowned on. In such state you have to use double closing method. As mentioned in method 1, while you are negotiating you have to find a buyer using the same methods.
Here, you may lose some money in fees for closing costs and also if you have to bring money for a few hours from hard money lender, they (hard money lender) will charge you around $2000 to $3000 for this service. If you search on Google for money for a few hours until you close with your end buyer. To obtain these funds, there are no credit score and history checks. To summarize the two fees involved in this method of flipping: a) there are closing costs of around 3% of the sale price. b) The double closing funds fee of $2000 – $3000. You have to negotiate with the bank and your buyer in such a way that you make up for the loss in these two fees. It is good idea to inform the title company that you will be double closing. First, bring/wire the double closing funds to the bank/title company and pay for purchase of the property from the bank and get the title in your name. Next, have the buyer bring funds for the purchase of the property from you for a higher price. The difference between your purchase price and sale price minus closing costs minus the double closing funds will be your profit!
While banks frown on “as is” REO flipping, they are badly in need of clearing the properties from their ever growing inventory so sometimes they do not mind at all unless you make it too obvious by using the clause “and/or assign”. So it is best refrain from using this clause. Also, it is best to refer to your end buyer as your investor partner instead of making it obvious that you are selling your property to the end buyer. REO flipping is a great real estate opportunity with low risk. The banks are badly in need of selling their foreclosed properties so start contacting banks’ loss mitigation departments for REO properties in your area.
20. 05.
The Key to Improving Conversion Rates
With Internet Marketing, conversion rates are everything. It doesn’t matter how much traffic you pull in, if you don’t convert that traffic then you won’t make any money. You can market as much as you want but if you can’t close the deal then your business will fail. To help your business, here is the key to improving conversion rates.
Before we actually get to the one key to improving conversion rates, there are a few conversion rules that you have to know. One of the best ways to improve conversions is to add value to the deal. Give a special gift to anyone who decides to buy. Offer a discount on another product or give away a free service. Do anything you can to sweeten the deal.
Another great way to improve conversation rates is to create urgency with the purchase. In other words, give the person a reason to buy right away. Offer them a one-time deal or offer to knock 25% off if they buy within 24 hours. Create urgency anyway you can and your conversion rates will improve.
Yet another great tip for improving conversion rates is to make your offer unique. If what you are selling isn’t unique then you need to find an angle to sell it so that it seems like it’s completely original. If it is unique, or a part of the product is unique, then you need to make sure you highlight that part. You need to make the potential customer feel like you’re offering something that can only be gotten from you and your product.
While the above 3 tips are all great conversion tricks, they aren’t the actual key to improving conversion rates. In fact, a major part of conversion is just getting a reader from your content somewhere on the Internet to your site. For example, getting the reader from an article on Ezinearticles.com to your site where you can try to sell them something or try to get them to perform some other action. Taking them from one spot on the Internet to the place where you can try to sell them a product or service.
The above tips don’t help with this at all. But there is one key that will help get people to your site and will also help people buy what you’re selling. That one key is quality content.
Everything you do online has to be valuable. Your sales pages need to offer value to the reader or they will click away. Your videos, blogs, articles, social networking sites, and everything else online has to give people value. Otherwise, they’ll simply click away and you won’t make the sale. So don’t ever forget to always give readers valuable content. That is the key to improving conversion rates.
22. 04.
A niche is a group of people who all have the same interest in something. The key is to tap into what these people need and want and create a product (or a service) in the niche that people will buy. But that’s often easier said than done.
The first step you want to take when choosing a niche is to go to an online bookstore or to the local bookstore in your neighborhood. Take a look at the Dummies books and the Idiot’s guides. These are books that are written because people are interested in the topic. So you can look through these books and find out what topics are popular.
Then you want to choose a niche that interests you. This is very important. You definitely have to have an interest in the niche. Otherwise, you probably won’t finish a product within the niche, and if you do then your dislike for the topic will probably show through. This will result in a bad product.
Notice that you don’t have to know a lot about the niche. This is a common misconception. Too many Internet Marketers wrongly believe that they have to know a lot about a niche in order to make a product. This isn’t true. You simply have to have an interest in the niche so that you are willing to learn what you need to learn in order to create a great product.
Once you have a niche that you want to go into, then you can go to Google and search that niche to see how much competition you’ll have. However, no matter how much competition there might be, there is always room for one more site and one more product. You just have to make sure that you have a unique selling point (USP) and a great product. In fact, going into a competitive niche is better than going into a niche that no one cares about.
And that’s how to choose a niche. Start by looking at Dummies books and Idiot’s guides, choose a niche that interests you, and then check to see how much competition there is. If you follow these three simple steps then you will choose the perfect niche for you.
