Archive for January, 2011

How to Make Article Marketing Work for You

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

Internet entrepreneurs have several distinct techniques to choose from with regards to obtaining visitors, such as paid advertising methods to posting to forums. But what exactly is that 1 approach that doesn’t price a penny but still provides wonderful results? This singular strategy is report advertising. If you need to know how to make post [...]

Building Your Income with Blogs

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Blogs are a fantastic way to make money.  They perform well in search engines, they’re easy to promote, and they can offer very sticky content.  If you blog often, and you’re good at what you do, you could develop a pretty large following of readers who subscribe to your RSS feed and read your content [...]

Branding Your Name on the Net

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Branding your name (or your pen name) is very important on the Internet, no matter what niche you’re in.  You need to establish yourself as an authority in your market, because people trust authority figures.   They trust their recommendations, they trust that their products will be of good quality, and they trust that they have [...]

The Difference Between a Long and Short Tail

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Long tail is a big buzzword in marketing these days.  The term “Long Tail” was initially coined in 2004 by Chris Anderson in an article in Wired magazine.  The term was initially used to describe the niche business strategy that is used by companies like Amazon.   Marketers are now using the term to describe the [...]

Writing Good Sales Copy

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Learning to write good sales copy isn’t something you can learn by reading a quick tutorial – it takes practice.  Although you probably won’t turn into a world-famous copywriter overnight, there are a few tips you can use to increase the response from your sales letters.  The first thing you should learn is that the [...]

The Wonderful World of Web 2.0

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Web 2.0 is a term that’s often misused.  Some people use the term to refer to a particular style of graphics design, but that’s not what web 2.0 is really about.  Web 2.0 is all about user-generated content.   This means the visitors to your site generate the majority of the content on the site, as [...]

Social Networking on Squidoo

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Squidoo is a remarkable resource for Internet marketers.  It’s what’s considered a web 2.0 site that allows users to create “lenses,” which are individual pages situated on the Squidoo.com domain that promote a specific topic.   You may be wondering what’s so great about that, when thousands of other sites allow you to do the same [...]

Making Money on MySpace

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Making money on MySpace isn’t as easy as it once was.  It used to be incredibly easy to make money on the site.  A marketer could create a fake profile, add thousands of friends using an automated program, and then simply send bulletins out to all of those thousands of people.  Then people started complaining [...]

Drilling Down a Niche

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Finding profitable niches can be difficult.  Finding one that isn’t extremely saturated can be intimidating when you’re just starting out as an Internet marketer.  The key to finding niches that are both profitable and have little competition is drilling down a top-level niche to find profitable sub-niches with fewer competitors.  For example, let’s say you’re [...]

Tips to Creating a Minisite

Monday, January 24th, 2011

The word “minisite” can refer to a number of different things.  Some people call small niche article sites minisites, but that isn’t the general use of the word.  In Internet marketing, the word “minisite” is generally used to refer to very small websites that are set up to sell a product – usually an eBook [...]