Selling Your MLM Online by Mike Koller
Welcome to my You Tube Channel. My goal is to provide you with unprecedented FREE marketing strategies and tips to more effectively market your MLM or Network Marketing Business online and offline. You will learn about Google Adwords Pay Per Click and MSN and Yahoo, Search Engine Optimization or SEO, Video Marketing Techniques using You Tube, Traffic Geyser and a few other software packages, Social Networking on sites like Twitter, My Space and Facebook, List Building with tools like Viral URL and List Joe, Email Marketing with highly effective tools including Auto Responders and how to get prospects calling your phone, begging to join your multi-level marketing team, You will also learn about Isagenix, The MLM Silver Bullet and Cash Gifting.
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Starting a Business With Free Traffic
What does it take to start and grow a profitable Internet business?
While there are many facets to growing a profitable business online, there’s one thing you must have in place…a plan of action or course to keep you on track. Without a business plan, there’s no way to determine if the actions you are taking are leading toward your intended goals are keeping you from growing and developing into a thriving business.
Any successful business has in some fashion adhered to a model or plan that’s led them to the success they are experiencing. And while many businesses leave clues to their success, they are just too many unknowns to build a business on clues.
If you are starting a business, having a definite plan in plan will serve you in many ways. This is one of the best ways to insure that you are on the road to success instead of floundering around, getting nowhere.
Unlike a typical brick and mortar business, starting a business online has many advantages over offline enterprise start-ups. The main advantage you have online is the low entry to startup. With a basic website consisting of a few pages, you can have a business online catering to your favorite niche in just a few days.
One of the most important aspects of starting online is that you can tap into many types of traffic sources relative free or at minimum costs. Free sources of traffic may not be your best quality traffic sources and may not be the best way to target leads and prospects, but still…since it really does not cost you much of anything, but a little bit of your time, for this reason it remains one of the best ways to jumpstart an online venture.
Most people don’t have the money needed to invest in expensive advertising campaigns. Should you decide to invest into paid advertising at the start, you’d have to have a large chunk of discretionary dough that you don’t mind losing should your ad flop.
The only way you should invest into paid advertising is if you are sure you have all the components in line for success. This means you have a proven winner…a product or offer that’s been proven and tested to convert into buying sales.
The best way to know if your idea or product is a winner is to drive some free sources of traffic to it and test it over time. This way, you are given the flexibility of adjusting your marketing efforts at the cost of free traffic instead of paid, which could be expensive.
Should you decide to tap into free online traffic, there are a myriad of choices that you can select from, of which, each can be good sources or means of testing your ideas.
Below, you will find my top six recommended sources of testing free traffic:
1. Start A Blog. This is a great way to target your market using keyword rich content or articles that are relevant to you market. There are many free blog sources online such as Blogger and Word Press. Blogs are ideal for making your website theme related and has many SEO advantages for the SERPS or natural organic search engines.
By writing theme related content, you can be sure of people finding your article blog posts in the search engines. Blogger and Word Press both have many plugins and template themes to help you in the process. The key to using the traffic from your blog is to have a highly visible link or banner ad on your blog where readers can click through and see your main offer.
2. Write Press Releases. Again, this is an excellent way to get the word out across the Internet. There are many free PR site on the Internet that will let you submit free press releases. These PR sites are strong in Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Having a press release on free PR sites puts your website in front of potentially thousands of Internet users and provides tremendous SEO benefits for your website.
3. Write and Submit Articles. Article submissions are one of my key secrets to getting the word out about my websites and in improving my ranking in the major search engines. There are many powerful sources online where you can submit quality article content about your website’s products, features and benefits.
The key to using article marketing is to write the article in a way that informs or instructs the reader on tips and tricks, or in a way that gives the reader additional insight.
Publishers are not in the business of publishing a sales pitch. They want quality content readers can use. In exchange they’ll publish your articles in their database that can be viewed by their readers as well as picked up by other sources all across the Internet. If you have not written any artless, I suggest you start now.
However, should you decide to write articles, don’t post the same article on your personal blog. You don’t want to get hit for duplicate content. So how many articles should you write and submit? I recommend at least 10 articles a week. (This is far more than enough to get a boost of traffic to your website.)
4. Social Networking Sites. One of the easiest ways to generate prospects for your online business is through social networking. There are at least 20 outstanding social sites that have tens of thousands of members in all genres. One great example is You Tube, Yahoo Video, My Space, Yahoo Groups as well as many others. (Do a search for the top ten social network sites.)
One of the greatest advantages to using these sites is in the ability to create a unique profile centered around your passions and to post your videos. Having videos of your talking about a certain topic is a great way to build rapport. This not only serves to build your credibility but also creates a virtual relationship that’s second to no other.
People within the group instinctively get to know you…your likes, interest as well as your level to assist them in achieving their desired goals and dreams. Don’t overlook this tremendous source of relationship building and traffic.
The key to using these types of sites is not to spam them with all types of affiliate links, but with real content that’s related to the group. Participation is the key. It’s not about posting content as an attempt just to get a new prospect.
The best way to leverage these networks is by participating in various discussions originated by other people. If you can provide useful tips to an existing discussion, you will gain the trust of other members within the network. Like always, have a link where permissible, pointing back to your website or a portion of the site related to the discussion.
5. Video Marketing. Closely related to social networking marketing, using video marketing is an excellent way to leverage the power of the Internet for business brand building, establishing new relationships, and targeting key people in your industry or profession.
More commonly referred to as Web 2.0 Marketing, video offers a wide variety of possibilities. Using nothing more than a web cam or video camera, you have create videos with targeted messages and have them uploaded to over 40+ video websites, working for you around the clock. This is a powerful form of relationship marketing that you should use in your free traffic generating strategies.
6. Forum Participation. Have you participated in any forum discussions lately? Then you understand the power of using this type of Internet media as a way of lending ideas, tips and insight to help others looking for answers.
There are literally thousands of theme related forums on the Internet ranging from politics and government to adoption and work from home forums. In order to make forum marketing work, you should stay away from automatic posting scripts, software and services all designed to spam the forums.
How you approach a forum discussion has a large part to do with how well you are welcomed into the discussion. Participants in a discussion will quickly see if the advice you lend is meant as a means of using the discussion as a way of spam or if you are genuinely interested in helping with your insight.
Start looking for forums related to your industry, service or profession and start participating by providing meaningful information to others.
By now you are probably wondering why I did not include other forms of free traffic marketing such as posting free classifieds, using bulk email blasting or participating in viral banner exchanges.
While they certainly have the power to drive free traffic, they are more of a direct approach to marketing and therefore less effective as a means of establishing relationships. If you’ve been in business for very long, you know that establishing relationships are key to building long term customers and clients who pay, stay and refer.
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Janice Price
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How do you get free internet traffic to your website?
I have a website and I need to get some free traffic. Any ideas on free traffic that will not get you banned.
1. SEO EMPOWERED Seo optimization should be your
goal! Still the main source of traffic to my site are
the search engines. Mainly from Google, followed by
MSN and Yahoo. You must optimize your site for the search
engines. This includes off/site links and on/site tactics.
I have been online since ’98 so I thought I knew how to
optimize a website. Boy, was I ever wrong! I didn’t notice
a big jump in my traffic until I stumbled across a SEO
expert, actually stumble is the wrong word, I actually sought out
the best SEO expert I could find. His name is Brad Callen.
He offers a free email course on how to optimize your
sites for the search engines. His main product is SEO Elite.
Just the free course and his helpful newsletter have
really fine-tuned my site, which resulted in a major
increase of traffic especially from Google. You should
try the same for your site or sites and see the results
for yourself.
2. ARTICLE EMPOWERED This one works. Article marketing for
me has been the major reason for the turn around in the
amount of traffic my sites were receiving. It’s one of the
most effective ways to get targeted visitors to your site.
Getting your articles published in ezines and on sites
such as addme.com or sitepronews.com will generate an
enormous amount of traffic to your site. As a bonus, you
even get 100′s of subscribers to your own ezine in one day!
The trick is to write helpful how-to articles on current
topics that other webmasters want on their sites, this will
boost your link popularity with the search engines and
increase your rankings. You must also very carefully
choose the right keywords to target in your articles,
matching the content on your site. One way to do this
is with a site like www.nichebot.com — it will show
how to pick the right ‘competitive’ keywords for your
site. You must target keywords that have high traffic,
yet little competition from competing web sites.
Hopefully it helps you.
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How To Increase Targeted Online Traffic To Your Web Site Leveraging Free Internet Video Streaming Services
One of the most significant milestones on the web this year has been the popularity of the use of videos on the Internet. There are a number of free services that enable Internet users to easily upload and store videos on the Internet for free. These videos can then be broadcast (streamed) free over the Internet, to be viewed and shared by other users.
We will look at a simple but often overlooked way to help you get potentially loads of traffic to your web site using Internet videos.
But first let’s establish the background to the phenomenon and why it is important for you.
The popularity of Internet videos have really sky rocketed in the recent few months.
Consider these figures. In 2005, there were very few free video hosting web sites. Yet, in the month of August 2006 alone, according to a comScore Media Metrix report, there were approximately 6.98 Billion online videos that were streamed by Internet users in the United States alone.
More interestingly, the average US Internet video user consumed 63.3 streams during August 2006 or approximately 2 streams every day.
For marketers, businesses or even the Government or non-profit organizations, this opens up a whole new possibility of getting in touch with their desired audience, in a content rich, interactive way that has never been possible before.
The huge number of online videos streamed every month should not come as a surprise, given the popularity of Google, MSN, Yahoo, You Tube and My Space web sites. These are some of the most popular sites in the world and each of them have incorporated a video service in their offerings in the recent months.
Traffic or Internet users are the fuel that helps generate revenue for most of these businesses. The revenue is earned by monetizing the traffic with targeted advertising.
You Tube the video hosting service was founded in February 2005, but famously bought by Google for $1.65 Billion dollars in October 2006. Although it seems like a large amount to pay, it was in fact a very strategic move by Google.
Based on the comScore report, for the month of August 2006, Fox Interactive (owned by News Corporation, which bought My Space) had 20.1% share of the total US video streams, followed by Yahoo with 11.8% share and then You Tube with 9.9% share of the streams. Google video was in fact in a distant 7th position with only 1.5% share.
Purchasing You Tube has enabled them to be a real challenger to Yahoo & Fox Interactive in the US market for Internet Video.
If we look at the numbers beyond the US, that is on a global basis, over 100 million videos were streamed on a daily basis by You Tube. This is a mind boggling number.
We are going to see more innovations in this area in the very near future from all the major players. All indications are that the popularity of Internet videos are likely to rise further.
So what might this mean for you, if you are a business, person or organization that would like to tap into and take advantage of this huge trend? Because this is so new, not many large corporations have figured out how to take advantage of the medium.
Most of the free video hosting and streaming services require you to register online and open an account (for free). You can then upload your video to the web site. You will be asked to provide a name for the video and then key words that describe the video. This is so that the videos can be categorized and also found by other users (your target audience). If you have your own web site, make sure this is mentioned in the video.
You can upload the video to a number of different free services. Why would you do this? To reach the widest possible audience for your marketing message, of course.
An interesting outcome of this is that in some cases this may drive huge amounts of traffic to your web. This is because, if your video becomes popular and there are other sites linking to it or it is being virally forwarded by the users, the search engines begin to take notice of your web site.
A case study in which a top 10 position in the search engines was achieved in under 24 hours using Internet videos to boost rankings is provided in a video at trafficgeysermethod.com. There is also a service here that takes one through the process of creating Internet videos, even if all you have is audio. You can create a simple slide show with a voice-over to create very effective, compelling videos.
If you wish to create full motion Internet videos, the process can quite straight forward and inexpensive.
Remember that the Internet videos do not need to be flashy, nor long or elaborate. The objective is to keep them clear, simple and easy to understand. Communication of the features and benefits that your product or service provides, differentiation or how it is different from other products or services that your competitors provide is important.
Finally, remember to include the unique value proposition that you have for your customers (ie. The reasons why your prospects should buy from you, rather than anyone else).
If you already have a digital video camera then you can start creating your video straight away. Your video camera will need some kind of direct connection to your computer. This can be by connecting either to the USB or FireWire ports. Some of the new Video Camera have the ability to record on a DVD straight away. In this case you can simply copy the contents of your DVD to your computer.
If you have an analog video camera, you can still create the required digital videos by using a converter.
Once you have video in digital form in your computer, simply log in to the account of the free video streaming service and upload your video. Ideally you can get wider distribution by uploading them to a number of different services in relevant category.
However uploading each video one by one to each service can be quite time consuming. The service trafficgeysermethod.com mentioned earlier in the article can help you with this, with a single upload and multiple distributions.
Your video is now ready for viewing and sharing. Sit back and enjoy the traffic.
James Coe
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/how-to-increase-targeted-online-traffic-to-your-web-site-leveraging-free-internet-video-streaming-services-80672.html
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Build A Huge Number Of Incoming Backlinks And Get Free Targeted Web Site Traffic
The great thing is, that the free targeted traffic is not just a dream but a reality also. Search engines see the number of incoming backlinks like votes, which related web sites give to your site by setting your link on their page.
The search engines evaluate your site according to the number of incoming backlinks. The more your site has them, the more useful it is and the more higher search engines will place your site on the search result pages. And the more targeted web site traffic you will receive.
Sounds too easy to be true. But suprise, suprise, it is easy. The process is called web site optimization., which means using ways to get higher search engine position. So the key is to know, how search engines put all sites in certain order.
The first thing to get targeted web site traffic is to make a so called on page optimization.The keywords play a leading role in that process. As you know people search information in the internet by typing keywords or – phrases on the search bar and will get a list of pages as a result, which all include the keyword searched.
Now you understand that to be able to get the first place on the result page, you have to win all other pages. You can do this, it is not complicated, when you know according which factors search engines set the pages in certain order. The only target is to get the first place, because that will bring the maximum amount of targeted web site traffic to your site.
The keywords must be big enough but not too big, nor too small. You have to analyze the PR and the number of incoming backlinks at least from Google, MSN aand Yahoo. It has my experience that keywords make it possible to get on a certain result page and the number of incoming backlinks make it possible to increase the position and finally to reach the number one position.
This and only this, is the order of issues in the optimization process. It means that by using only huge number of incoming backlinks, you cannot reach your target. The direction is missing. Keywords will direct your site to the right search result pages.
Because free targeted web site traffic is so important, you may wonder how you can build the amount of incoming backlinks, which is needed. How to make other websites to set your backlink on their page. Maybe the best way is to write keyword articles and distribute them using some software, which will broadcast them into hundreds of directories and websites with the click of the mouse
These articles will do two things. They will form the required number of incoming backlinks and they will pre sell the idea of your page and then bring these warm visitors into your website.
Could you hope anything better to your internet home business?
Juhani Tontti
http://www.articlesbase.com/sem-articles/build-a-huge-number-of-incoming-backlinks-and-get-free-targeted-web-site-traffic-86360.html
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How to Use Affiliate Programs Plus Smart Marketing To Skyrocket
When it comes to working from home, affiliate programs are a great way to make residual income. If the program is good, they allow you to take part in an established system that has already been tested and built up. The only thing left to do is to take control and build a down line. The combination of using an affiliate program as your home-based business along with smart marketing equals win-win situation.
Many times affiliate programs are misunderstood. In the past, the idea of building a down line and making a residual income recruiting people was called a pyramid scheme. These pyramid schemes didn’t work, as we know now, because they relied solely on recruiting and not at all on selling. The main idea behind them, though, was a good one, so the affiliate program was created. What needs to be understood is that an affiliate program is more than building a down line of people. It also is based on selling real, and hopefully, beneficial as well as useful products. A home-based affiliate program can work well because a person earns money through their down line and through product sales.
The other good thing about home-based affiliate programs is that they are very easy to get started, and in most cases are completely free with no start-up costs. Most programs offer a website and plenty of help and advice on how to get the business going. A person gets help from their sponsor in their up line, too. The biggest challenge, though, is marketing. This is because many people who start a home-based business have no business experience much less any marketing expertise. The good news if that there are a number of books, programs, and mentoring services that can teach everyone how to become a successful marketer.
Marketing involves learning how to use the tools provided by the program to get customers and sign ups for the opportunity. The affiliate program will provide a person with written ads and their own website, among other things. The website is the central hub of all the marketing efforts. The main goal should be to get people to visit the website. Once there the copywriting should be so powerful that not only will people buy products, but also feel called to sign up to be an affiliate. This can be challenging, but it is not impossible with a top-notch marketing system.
Marketing also involves a person taking the ads and other marketing tools and placing them where people will see them. One of the biggest marketing platforms is search engines. Most affiliate websites are simple websites, but with a little work a person can optimize it to make it rank high on the search engines. A good way to get started is to add a blog to the website and write entries everyday. These entries should be keyword rich and informative. Search engines such as Google, MSN, and Yahoo like articles or blog entries and will assign the site a higher ranking if they have them. Another way to go is to place links and ads on other websites. A person should choose websites that compliment the affiliate program, but that is not in competition with it. By using these marketing methods a person should be able to get a good start in marketing.
Home-based affiliate programs along with good marketing efforts can really help to skyrocket residual income. Building an affiliate program will take some time, but they are great tools to produce a residual income.
Monique Hawkins
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-business-articles/how-to-use-affiliate-programs-plus-smart-marketing-to-skyrocket-96206.html
