Six Viral Marketing Ideas

Here are 6 ideas to aid you begin your viral marketing crusade:

1. Buy the branding rights to a word of mouth ebook. Permit individuals to give away your gratis ebook to their visitants. And then, their visitors will likewise pass it away. This will simply carry on dispersing your advertisement throughout the World Wide Web.

2. If you possess the power to establish a discussion board or a different electronic bulletin board, you truly have an outstanding tool. Permit individuals to utilize your web message board for their personal internet site. A few people do not possess one. Simply put your banner advertisement at the upper side of the board.

3. You’ve got some talents for web designing? Make several templates, artworks, and so forth. And transfer them to your internet site. And then, permit individuals to give away your gratis web design graphics, typefaces, templets, and so on. Just put your advertisement upon them or ask people to link right away to your internet site. Make certain that you put a link in reply to your web site in the copyright note and ask them to preserve your copyright notice uncastrated.

4. Compose an ebook. Let individuals to post an advert in your gratis ebook if, in substitution, they give away the ebook to their net visitants or mailing list subscribers.

5. Compose reports that relate to your merchandise or service. Permit someones to reissue your articles on their internet site, in their mailing list, subscriber base, mag or ebooks. Put your resource box and the selection for reports offprints at the lowermost of all articles.

6. You are able to easily obtain products on the cyberspace that will trade you a permission permitting you to share the merchandise for free to others. Seek those merchandises that offer “branding rights”. That’s where you will be able to put your personal name, internet site, and contact info.

7 Solid Tips to Increase Traffic To Your Site Now

Worldwide Web. Commerce. Return of investment.  For these three words to come to us meaningfully, you need to learn about one more statement, Traffic.  Any guru on website management would not fail to mention how vital it is to generate traffic.

Now that we are aware that traffic is the ‘be all and end all’ of any business using the internet.  Of course, you have to have a good product to market and a working company structure.  The rest of your efforts should be put in improving traffic.

Having realized that your site is in dire need of visitors should gear you to action to improve this circumstance by all means available to you.  You cannot just wait for things to happen naturally as your competitors are daily innovating to entice more visitors to their sites.

Never do things for tomorrow what you can do today is an old saying but never outdated. But with today’s high-tech ways, it would be more apt to say you should have done it yesterday.

Here are seven proven tips which would help you increase traffic:

1) Put in some money in advertising with reputable search engines

Example of such search engines are Google’s Adwords and Yahoo’s Overture which enjoy high popularity ratings.  This will definitely make your site searchable and increase traffic but it could be expensive.  However, if this is the thing that will keep your business afloat, this will be a very worthy investment.

Business success has been achieved by a lot of companies through this advertising media.  Keep in step with the times and use their proven formula.  The money you spend for Google and Yahoo’s advertising will be well spent.

2) Link your website with other businesses’ sites

Have your site linked with other sites and theirs linked to your site as well, you will symbiotically benefit from each other’s traffic.  The more sites you are linked with the better possibilities of traffic growth you will have.  All the linked companies will be mutually benefited by this arrangement.

3) Utilization of the Viral Marketing Method

There is a cheap but also effective way of increasing traffic known as viral marketing.  You do this by adding your company’s name, link or product to a certain internet materials such as funny videos, games, or gossips that has a high pass-along probability.  Consequently, your company’s name or product can be viewed by as many people as long as the material is being circulated.

4) Use a searchable keyword for your product and company description.

Search engines search for particular keywords to appear in their results page.  If you choose the proper key word or phrase, your company or link will always be included in their results page once a user searches for that subject.

5) Make Articles that might stir up user’s interest and point them to your site

Sites welcome interesting articles relevant to your site’s content.  For instance, if you are a car parts dealer, do press releases about any topic related to car or car parts.  Then you can conspicuously add your company’s services and link at the bottom of the article.

6) Actively participate in forums and organize online communities

If you offer your valid comments and intelligent opinions about subjects relevant to your site, users will look up to you as the source for information and consequently the right company for that specific service or product.  You can build along your credibility as more people purposely visit your site.

7) Finally, present newsletters

This is a good way to let people know that your company exists and offering such product or services.   As usual, word of mouth will hasten increase traffic.  If you present your site interestingly enough, it will pique users’ interest to visit your site.

3 Ways to Make Money Online

There are many ways to make money online. I like to group them into three main categories:

1. Making money selling your stuff


2. Making money selling other people’s stuff


3. Getting paid to do something

Let’s talk a little more about each of these categories…

Way #1 – Making money selling your stuff

When most people think of starting a business they think of selling their own stuff. Here are some of the ways that people sell their own stuff online:

1. Selling products
   When I started out online my intention was to create educational software and sell it online. Like myself, most people that start a business online start off with the idea of selling a product. Almost every product imaginable can be sold online. Arguably, the easiest to create are information products.


2. Selling Services/Freelancing
   One of the quickest ways to start making money online is by selling your services. You call sell all kinds of services online. Some of the more common online services being sold are web design, freelance writing, coaching/teaching, virtual assistants, copywriting, traffic generation, and software development.


3. Domaining
   Domaining is essentially the process of buying and selling domains. While I own quite a few domains, most of them were bought with the purpose of developing them at some point in time. Although, I would be willing to sell some of them. For example, when John Reese bought trafficjam.com I wish he had contacted me about buying one of my domains blogtrafficjam.com, since I am not sure I will develop the idea I had for it when I bought it several years ago.


4. Website Flipping
   Website flipping is a very tempting business model to me. Flipping websites is a lot like flipping houses. You buy a website with the sole purpose of making it better so that you can turn around sell it. Much like house flipping, you should buy a website with good potential that is not properly monetized and/or not properly designed and marketed. After “rehabbing” the website, you can sell it at a much higher price. This process sounds like fun to me, except that I would have a hard time parting with the site after fixing it. I am more likely to buy a website, fix it up, and keep it for the residual income.

There are other ways to make money selling your own stuff, but the ones listed above are the most common.

Way #2 – Making money selling other people’s stuff

1. Affiliate Marketing
   Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money online, and I will be discussing it in much more detail in a future series (or a free mini-course). Essentially, affiliate marketing is revenue sharing between online advertisers/merchants and online publishers/salespeople, whereby affiliates(publisher/sales people) are paid based on performance measures, typically in the form of sales, clicks, registrations, or a combination of methods. In layman’s terms, it means you get a percentage of a sale when you sell someone else’s stuff or cause someone to take an action that might sell someone else’s stuff. It is currently my primary method of making money online.


2. Advertising Income
   Many websites make money by selling advertising space on their site. This is most commonly done on content sites. Advertising income can also be gained through other methods like selling ad space on website templates and selling ad space in newsletters.


3. Drop Shipping
   Drop shipping is a technique where you sell products from one or more suppliers who take care of shipping the products directly to the customer. All you do is take the order and get the money from the customer, then you send the order details and and part of the money that you charge to the supplier. You make profit on the difference between the suppliers price (including shipping) and the price you charge the customer. This is essentially running a wholesale business without the inventory, although you will usually pay somewhere between true wholesale and retail prices for the goods. I have seen a lot of people run drop shipping businesses on ebay.


4. Retail commerce
   Retail commerce is where you buy products at wholesale prices from wholesale distributors, carry an inventory and turn around and sell said products. Many of the ecommerce shops you see are doing this. This model is similar to drop shipping. The advantage of this method is that you can make a higher profit margin then with drop shipping, the disadvantage is that you store the inventory and you handle the details of shipping the products.

These are the most common methods for selling other people’s stuff online, although certainly not the only ones.

Way # 3 – Getting Paid To Do Something

1. Paid to sites (Paid to surf, Paid to take surveys, etc.)
   With “paid to” sites you can make a little extra money online every month. You can’t really use these sites to make a living online (at least not that I’m aware of), so I won’t be devoting more space to them here. If you’re interested in a little extra cash, and this method appeals to you, there is plenty of information available on the internet. And if you ARE making a living from these sites, and you’d be interested in writing a series on the topic, contact me.

As you are considering how YOU want to make big money online, this list should prove a good starting place . In my next post in the getting started series, I will be wrapping up with a list of resources to help you continue your quest to make money online.

How To Make Money Online

How To Make / Earn Money Online

These are resources that I highly recommend for learning how to make money online.

Yes, I am an affiliate of these products, but that’s because I really like them. There are many products you will never see me promote, because I believe they are either useless, use techniques I consider unethical, or do not live up to their price tag.

AutoResponders for email marketing

Aweber

I just started using the Aweber service and I love it. I wish had done this a long time ago. I probably should move this to a “must have” product because everyone on the web should have an email list.

Blogging

Blog Mastermind

Yaro Starak’s Blog Mastermind is THE place to learn how to make money blogging. Click here to learn more.

Business Strategy

Rich Schefren’s Strategic Profits Blog is an excellent resource for learning how to run and manage your online business effectively. I highly recommend it. And if you have never read his Internet Manifesto, then highly recommend you go download it now and read it. It’s probably the best ebook I have ever read (and it’s FREE).

Copywriting and Website Conversion Products

Dan Lok’s Instant Web Profits System

I own this excellent product, it teaches you everything you need to know about website conversion. Click here to read my review of Instant Web Profits System.

Instant Sales Letters

Instant sales letters is a set of sales letter templates that you can use by filling in the blanks with your product name. Written by Yanik Silver, these letters have very powerful marketing value. I highly recommend buying this product and modeling your sales letters after them.

Ultimate Copywriting Workshop

Yanik Silver has put examples of every single type of web copy you need for your Internet business (emails, pops, endorsements, web sites, headlines, guarantees, PPC ads, etc).

You should go sign up for the free preview. The preview includes the audio from a special 1-hour copywriting teleconference call. The audio has excellent marketing advice in it. I highly recommend you go sign up to receive your free preview.

SEO Search Engine Optmization Training

SEO Book

Aaron Wall’s SEO Book is a monthly membership site that teaches you the fundamentals of Search Engine Optimization. Aaron teaches you everything you need to know about getting traffic to a website. Everyone who owns a web business can benefit from the SEOBook. Click here to read my full review of the SEO Book training program.

SEO Keyword Tools

Market Samurai

If you could afford only one tool to do SEO research with, then I would recommend Market Samurai. Hands down it is the best keyword research tool I have ever used. I highly recommend it to anyone who is serious about SEO. Click here to check it out.

Video

Animoto is an excellent online tool you can use to create slide show videos in no time at all.

Traffic Geyser – Is an excellent tool for automating your video marketing. Just make sure you don’t use it to submit your videos to Youtube, it’s best to submit videos manually to Youtube.

Web Hosting

Hostgator – this is one of the best web hosts I have ever done business with.

Other Products To Help You Make Money Online

For starters, I highly recommend reading the free ebooks you can get by clicking here. The rest of these products are extremely helpful if you want to learn how to make BIG money online.

Yanik Silver’s Underground Online Seminar

An excellent seminar every year with people in various industries making a living off the Internet.

Ken Envoy’s SiteSell

SiteSell is one of the best places you can visit if you are looking for information on starting an online business. If you do not know how to design your own website and you can’t afford to pay a lot of money for a website designer to maintain your website, then you should take a look at SiteSell.com.

SiteSell has a great set of tools to start an online business with. You don’t need to be a web designer to set up your online business. These tools are great and make the process of designing and promoting your online business easier. Click here to see case studies…

Free Affiliate Masters Course

Excellent free ebook on affiliating marketing.

Template Monster

Template monster is “the” place to buy professionally designed website templates, including wordpress themes!

The above resources are some of my favorite products for making money online.