You really should consider having your own website. An amazing number of people try to build on online MLM business with a program like TrafficWave without any kind of website that's uniquely theirs. Yes, TrafficWave provides plenty of perfectly good, pre-made, hosted sites. They're just fine, but you can't really 'control' them in any way. I would encourage you to embrace a more advanced approach.
Personally, I like the Blogger.com platform (i.e. the website you are seeing right now). It's FREE and very easy to use, customize and drive traffic to. If you want something even more advanced, then you will need a program like WordPress and your own host. Believe it or not, YouTube has easy to understand videos for 'How To Register A Domain Name', 'How To Set Up Hosting', 'How To Set Up WordPress', 'Killer WordPress Themes', 'How To Install Your Theme', etc.
Yes, the more advanced your site, the steeper the learning curve. But if getting lots of web traffic is truly your goal, then there's a lot to learn!
Next...
Your site needs to be about something specific. Obviously, this site is about TrafficWave and, secondarily, Internet Marketing in general. The worst thing you can do is set up a 'marketing' blog with pictures of your pets, your dolls, what you had for lunch today or whatever. Stick to one topic and make the site about that topic. You will receive far more search engine traffic as a result. Keyword focused, niche specific articles that help solve your visitors' problems are what should be on this site. Google even has a Keyword Tool (Google it!) that will aid you immensely in styling your all-important blog post titles.
Don't know what to blog about? Get started by going to EzineArticles.com and searching for articles with similar focus and topic as the ones you want to write - for example, articles about list-building and the power of a forced matrix. Once you locate a few, all you have to do is rewrite them! No, you should NEVER copy word for word, but there’s nothing wrong with using another piece of work as a basis for your own. Google Translater can take an article from English to Korean, then to French and back to English. After that, a bit of editing makes it more or less unique content.
The last thing you'll need to do is promote your site via something called “link building”. It’s a lot like how word of mouth works. When Google sees links back to your site based on certain keywords, and those links are coming from major websites with good reputations, then Google 'recommends' your site for users of their search engine. So your bottom line lesson is obviously you want to publish some great info on your new site, but you also want to publish info on OTHER sites, as the links coming back to you will help get you all that superstar traffic you’re trying to get. Want some specific tactics? Great.. there are a bunch of videos on (what else?) YouTube for 'How To Use Article Marketing', 'How To Do Social Bookmarking', 'How To Do Link Building', 'How To Get Links From Blog Comments', etc.
All in all, you can either chose to do this yourself or you can have somebody do it for you. The bottom line either way is simple: by choosing to set up a simple site and take some basic actions you can have a shot at making some great money. Simply stay focused on ONE thing at a time until what you’re doing starts working. Start building your list and your downline with TrafficWave first. THEN you can expand into other things.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
How to get more sales from your opt-in list (Part 2)
Here's another idea for using your TrafficWave autoresponder that will get results if you set it up right. It's simple, effective and quite powerful. This is something that you anyone can do. Once you have your website up and running (which could even be a blog like this one!), you simply create a password-protected special/private area that has free giveaways in it - good, useful stuff like ebooks, ecourses, helpful software downloads, audio interviews, instructional videos, etc.. Then, as part of your autoresponder series, simply provide your new subscribers with a username and password to access this area on your site. The kind of website or blog that I am talking about is one that is specifically tied to the theme of your AR series and the squeeze page ads that pull in subscribers for it.
Believe me when I tell you that there are plenty of excellent resources out there that you can get for Free, and then compile on your website. Just tell your subscribers (via a 'welcome message' in the first letter of your AR series) thank you for subscribing and that you would like to reward them with access to some great freebies. Again, there are plenty of great ebooks out there that you can customize with your own affiliate links. There are dozens and dozens of them out there - same for re-brandable reports and/or articles. A dedicated afternoon or evening with Google should produce more than enough material for you to use. Of course, your subscriber website should have other money-making links and banners as well. But keep these discreet and few. Too many people ruin their sites by overloading them with this stuff.
Remember to mention in your autoresponder welcome letter that this private site is FREE and exclusively available to your subscribers. Try to arouse curiosity about it and give exact, idiot-proof exact instructions on how to use it. Yes, this is work. And yes, it might take a day or two out of your life to set it up... but it's worth it. Trafficwave is a powerhouse MLM business all by itself. But to get the most out of, you should be using the product to generate sales and commissions for you in a variety of ways. And when it comes to list-building, the #1 thing you are trying to do is create loyalty. To 'get', you must first give! With loyalty comes higher open rates, more interaction with your subscribers and more back-end commissions.
Believe me when I tell you that there are plenty of excellent resources out there that you can get for Free, and then compile on your website. Just tell your subscribers (via a 'welcome message' in the first letter of your AR series) thank you for subscribing and that you would like to reward them with access to some great freebies. Again, there are plenty of great ebooks out there that you can customize with your own affiliate links. There are dozens and dozens of them out there - same for re-brandable reports and/or articles. A dedicated afternoon or evening with Google should produce more than enough material for you to use. Of course, your subscriber website should have other money-making links and banners as well. But keep these discreet and few. Too many people ruin their sites by overloading them with this stuff.
Remember to mention in your autoresponder welcome letter that this private site is FREE and exclusively available to your subscribers. Try to arouse curiosity about it and give exact, idiot-proof exact instructions on how to use it. Yes, this is work. And yes, it might take a day or two out of your life to set it up... but it's worth it. Trafficwave is a powerhouse MLM business all by itself. But to get the most out of, you should be using the product to generate sales and commissions for you in a variety of ways. And when it comes to list-building, the #1 thing you are trying to do is create loyalty. To 'get', you must first give! With loyalty comes higher open rates, more interaction with your subscribers and more back-end commissions.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
The TrafficWave affiliate program
Since you found my blog, I am glad to see that you have an interest in TrafficWave and email marketing. Of course, TrafficWave also has an affiliate program in addition to being an indespensible tool for Internet business. As I mention at the top of this blog, if you join TrafficWave through a link on this page, you are joining my team as a partner. That's right, I'm looking for partners ... not employees or faceless downline members.
I'm not going to try and sell you into my business either, so you don't need to worry about a long sales pitch from me. We both need to agree that that this is the right business opportunity for you. If it isn't, no harm done. It's as simple as that. But once you start getting members to join your team, you too will start earning additional residual income on top of your sales from email marketing. It just doesn't get any better than that!
TrafficWave is a great opportunity. But more so, this is about you. You have to want to succeed. Do you truly have a desire to earn more money - to take care of your family and do the things that you have always wanted to do to in life? If so, then I want to get you started on the road to financial time/freedom right away.
Internet Marketing isn't 'easy'. No business is. But it's my belief that you should follow your dreams before they fade away. If you're ready, then I am ready to help you in every way I can. So what are you waiting for?
I'm not going to try and sell you into my business either, so you don't need to worry about a long sales pitch from me. We both need to agree that that this is the right business opportunity for you. If it isn't, no harm done. It's as simple as that. But once you start getting members to join your team, you too will start earning additional residual income on top of your sales from email marketing. It just doesn't get any better than that!
TrafficWave is a great opportunity. But more so, this is about you. You have to want to succeed. Do you truly have a desire to earn more money - to take care of your family and do the things that you have always wanted to do to in life? If so, then I want to get you started on the road to financial time/freedom right away.
Internet Marketing isn't 'easy'. No business is. But it's my belief that you should follow your dreams before they fade away. If you're ready, then I am ready to help you in every way I can. So what are you waiting for?
Thursday, April 7, 2011
How to get more sales from your email contact list
TrafficWave is both an online MLM and a vitally important business tool. It's important because you can't build your contact list and communicate with large numbers of people (and on autopilot) without an autoresponder. But, of course, you're building your list for a reason. You want it to make money for you! So what I want to do is suggest some basic ways to earn more money from your growing list of email contacts.
If you’ve already got a large and loyal list, that's good. But if your list is small, but growing, that's fine too. My ideas should help without suggesting tactics that are being pushy or full of hype. Now, if you’ve got a small list, you simply need to maximize your profit from the subscribers that you do have. If you’re only just starting out and don’t even have a list yet, you really need to know to best monetize your list from the very beginning (and see quick results!) from your new list members. So my point is that my suggestions should help you get the most out of your TrafficWave autoresponder - wherever you are currently at in your online business evolution.
Firstly, I do NOT recommend in-your-face, hard-sell marketing to your subscribers. Lots and lots of people do it, but I would suggest that you don't. There's no need to bombard your list with hype or lies in order to make a buck or two. What I suggest are simple strategies that you can use and modify to suit your needs. But done correctly, these techniques will generate money from any opt-in subscriber list - big or small. In this post, I merely want to focus upon one strategy: Give away quality, free items to the people on your list.
All you're doing is going out and finding genuinely useful resources that are applicable to the topic or theme of your list and supplying those free resources to your subscribers. Don't make it 'junk', either. Whatever you offer to your list, make certain that it has real value to them. But here's how to earn money with this strategy - the free item (while useful) should have an upsell that would make it far better. For example, an ebook on how to set-up a niche blog properly for SEO has real value. But to make that freebie a little better, you can simultaneously recommend software that helps make the blog-creation process simpler and more effective. In other words, you are supplying a free and useful resource, while offering an upgrade option as well - i.e. an offer attached to the free gift.
What I am trying to say is that you are 'offering' rather than 'selling'. Also, it's important to be pro-active and always be on the lookout for NEW items to direct your subscribers to. Free ebooks, ecourses, reports, trial services (and so on) are all good. Naturally, TrafficWave has a 30-Day Free Trial offer and so it's a natural fit with this philosophy. But otherwise, just make a day of searching Google for this stuff. Really work at it, and then just start using this concept. Work the (upgradeable) freebies into your AR series with roughly 10-day intervals and, of course, do unscheduled broadcasts when you see something new that you want to share. Just don't overdo it. This is important. You don't want to overload your readers with free stuff, because then they'll never buy anything.
Speaking of that, they won't pay any attention to the freebie and try it if your message doesn't properly convey its value! Offer some tips on how to get the most out of it. Remember that your goal is to sell them on the upgrade. Also, by offering advice on how to best use the freebie, you are actually adding value to it. You should always strive to provide genuine help and aid to your subscribers. Sure, a list is a pot of gold, but it’s also a pot of real people who have real interests, real needs, real wants and real dreams.
These aren’t just numbers or names in a computer database. We get so caught up in “how many subscribers do you have on your list” that we sometimes forget that those subscribers are real people on the other end of the email. I can guarantee you this: If you look out for your subscribers, they’ll look out for you. If you invest in them, they’ll invest in you. Point out that you are genuinely interested in helping them out. Give them the free resources – yes, to earn you money on the backend – but, equally as important, to help them out on the front end.
THAT'S how you earn money with your list.
If you’ve already got a large and loyal list, that's good. But if your list is small, but growing, that's fine too. My ideas should help without suggesting tactics that are being pushy or full of hype. Now, if you’ve got a small list, you simply need to maximize your profit from the subscribers that you do have. If you’re only just starting out and don’t even have a list yet, you really need to know to best monetize your list from the very beginning (and see quick results!) from your new list members. So my point is that my suggestions should help you get the most out of your TrafficWave autoresponder - wherever you are currently at in your online business evolution.
Firstly, I do NOT recommend in-your-face, hard-sell marketing to your subscribers. Lots and lots of people do it, but I would suggest that you don't. There's no need to bombard your list with hype or lies in order to make a buck or two. What I suggest are simple strategies that you can use and modify to suit your needs. But done correctly, these techniques will generate money from any opt-in subscriber list - big or small. In this post, I merely want to focus upon one strategy: Give away quality, free items to the people on your list.
All you're doing is going out and finding genuinely useful resources that are applicable to the topic or theme of your list and supplying those free resources to your subscribers. Don't make it 'junk', either. Whatever you offer to your list, make certain that it has real value to them. But here's how to earn money with this strategy - the free item (while useful) should have an upsell that would make it far better. For example, an ebook on how to set-up a niche blog properly for SEO has real value. But to make that freebie a little better, you can simultaneously recommend software that helps make the blog-creation process simpler and more effective. In other words, you are supplying a free and useful resource, while offering an upgrade option as well - i.e. an offer attached to the free gift.
What I am trying to say is that you are 'offering' rather than 'selling'. Also, it's important to be pro-active and always be on the lookout for NEW items to direct your subscribers to. Free ebooks, ecourses, reports, trial services (and so on) are all good. Naturally, TrafficWave has a 30-Day Free Trial offer and so it's a natural fit with this philosophy. But otherwise, just make a day of searching Google for this stuff. Really work at it, and then just start using this concept. Work the (upgradeable) freebies into your AR series with roughly 10-day intervals and, of course, do unscheduled broadcasts when you see something new that you want to share. Just don't overdo it. This is important. You don't want to overload your readers with free stuff, because then they'll never buy anything.
Speaking of that, they won't pay any attention to the freebie and try it if your message doesn't properly convey its value! Offer some tips on how to get the most out of it. Remember that your goal is to sell them on the upgrade. Also, by offering advice on how to best use the freebie, you are actually adding value to it. You should always strive to provide genuine help and aid to your subscribers. Sure, a list is a pot of gold, but it’s also a pot of real people who have real interests, real needs, real wants and real dreams.
These aren’t just numbers or names in a computer database. We get so caught up in “how many subscribers do you have on your list” that we sometimes forget that those subscribers are real people on the other end of the email. I can guarantee you this: If you look out for your subscribers, they’ll look out for you. If you invest in them, they’ll invest in you. Point out that you are genuinely interested in helping them out. Give them the free resources – yes, to earn you money on the backend – but, equally as important, to help them out on the front end.
THAT'S how you earn money with your list.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
How to get traffic to my blog
There is plenty of free material online about this subject, and that's good - because a quality blog that draws visitors is (in my opinion) the very best way to generate online sales and/or to build your email contact list (with TrafficWave, of course).
The first thing that you need to know about traffic to your blog is that it will start coming automatically once you begin adding content. I'm serious. After you have made even a few posts to your blog, you will begin to attract visitors via web searches. The more content you add, the more page-depth and authority your site will have. As long as you stay on topic and offer visitors quality, original content, the web traffic will eventually take care of itself. However, to get a whole lot of traffic on a daily basis... you'll need to be more aggressive
For example, social bookmarking on sites like Digg or Delicious is very good, as is 'Tweeting' your posts. This can be very labor intensive, however, especially if you have multiple blogs (as you should). However, there are some software items out there that can automate a lot of this for you and create an integrated social marketing presence, driven by your blog (or blogs). For example, there are ways to make every blog post show up in your Facebook profile. At this point, I think it's important to tell you that I recommend keeping your personal and business Facebook accounts completely separate. Do NOT mix Internet business contacts with your family and friends because you'll regret it if you do.
Of course, another excellent way to bring traffic to your blog is to leave comments on other people's blogs that relate to your subject matter. Believe or not, people do read blog comments. If you have something interesting to say on a popular blog, that author's readers will follow your link back to your blog in order to learn more. Not only that, linking back to your site from someone else's creates something called a 'back-link'. Google loves those. The more relevant ones that you have, the more important the Google robots perceive your site to be. But relevance is the key here. If your blog is about email marketing, then only create back-links from other email marketing sites. Understand?
The last thing to remember are 'keywords'. Always tailor your blog posts titles (and the first sentence of your posts) to match what you imagine people might type into search engines. The title of this post, 'How to get traffic to my blog' is a good example. It works.
So, basically, what you want to do is add fresh, original content at least once a week (the more the better) and keep keywords and keyword phrases in mind. Over time, this alone will get you plenty of traffic. I also suggest that you have multiple blogs - again, the more the better. But you want to create as many relevant links back to your site as possible. Social bookmarking and commenting on other sites is the very best approach, in my opinion.
The first thing that you need to know about traffic to your blog is that it will start coming automatically once you begin adding content. I'm serious. After you have made even a few posts to your blog, you will begin to attract visitors via web searches. The more content you add, the more page-depth and authority your site will have. As long as you stay on topic and offer visitors quality, original content, the web traffic will eventually take care of itself. However, to get a whole lot of traffic on a daily basis... you'll need to be more aggressive
For example, social bookmarking on sites like Digg or Delicious is very good, as is 'Tweeting' your posts. This can be very labor intensive, however, especially if you have multiple blogs (as you should). However, there are some software items out there that can automate a lot of this for you and create an integrated social marketing presence, driven by your blog (or blogs). For example, there are ways to make every blog post show up in your Facebook profile. At this point, I think it's important to tell you that I recommend keeping your personal and business Facebook accounts completely separate. Do NOT mix Internet business contacts with your family and friends because you'll regret it if you do.
Of course, another excellent way to bring traffic to your blog is to leave comments on other people's blogs that relate to your subject matter. Believe or not, people do read blog comments. If you have something interesting to say on a popular blog, that author's readers will follow your link back to your blog in order to learn more. Not only that, linking back to your site from someone else's creates something called a 'back-link'. Google loves those. The more relevant ones that you have, the more important the Google robots perceive your site to be. But relevance is the key here. If your blog is about email marketing, then only create back-links from other email marketing sites. Understand?
The last thing to remember are 'keywords'. Always tailor your blog posts titles (and the first sentence of your posts) to match what you imagine people might type into search engines. The title of this post, 'How to get traffic to my blog' is a good example. It works.
So, basically, what you want to do is add fresh, original content at least once a week (the more the better) and keep keywords and keyword phrases in mind. Over time, this alone will get you plenty of traffic. I also suggest that you have multiple blogs - again, the more the better. But you want to create as many relevant links back to your site as possible. Social bookmarking and commenting on other sites is the very best approach, in my opinion.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
What has branding got to do with email marketing?
When building your email contact list with your TrafficWave autoresponder, you must also develop a quality relationship with your subscribers. That relationship begins with whatever benefit you offered them in exchange for their name and email and continues through your AR series and occasional broadcasts. In this case, 'branding' doesn't have anything to do with running a cattle ranch. Rather, it's a means of creating a distinction between your messages and all of the others that your subscribers receive. In business, we call this 'good will', and it's actually part of the price computation when trying to sell or buy an existing business.
You see, your optin mailing list is a genuine business asset... and it's worth money. How much it's worth depends on a number of things, but one of them is the perception that your readers have of you - i.e. your 'brand', or public business image. It's crucial that you create a good one, maintain it and promote it. Give your business a personal touch (and a human face) and you will be FAR more successful than the vast majority of so-called marketers who prefer complete anonymity.
Email marketing via list-building is the classic Internet business model and that isn't going to change. But your readers will never buy anything from you if they don't believe or trust you. Remember that.
You see, your optin mailing list is a genuine business asset... and it's worth money. How much it's worth depends on a number of things, but one of them is the perception that your readers have of you - i.e. your 'brand', or public business image. It's crucial that you create a good one, maintain it and promote it. Give your business a personal touch (and a human face) and you will be FAR more successful than the vast majority of so-called marketers who prefer complete anonymity.
Email marketing via list-building is the classic Internet business model and that isn't going to change. But your readers will never buy anything from you if they don't believe or trust you. Remember that.
Monday, January 3, 2011
When growing your online business, remember one word: focus
Type "make money online" into a search engine and you will quickly get excited about all the money you can make if you'll only download some programs, sign up for free e-books to read, watch some videos, or whatever. In doing so, you can opt-in to a bunch of mailing lists and get tons of information from the guys who know Internet Marketing. In other words, making money online is simply a matter of getting the information you need and pushing a few buttons, right?
Of course, it isn't.
If there was a secret 'magic bullet' to earning money fast online, everyone on earth would be rich. So what's the truth and, more importantly, why is it so hard to discover? The problem is information overload! It's just as easy to find useless information as it is to find the truly useful stuff. Earning money online basically boils down to three things:
1) Building a website
2) Building traffic to your website
3) Building an email contact list
For example, I use blogger.com as my website. I build incoming traffic by commenting on other (similar) blogs and linking back to this site. And, naturally, I build my email contact list with TrafficWave. My entire business is based on these three basic tasks... and I FOCUS on it.
You've only got so much time and so much energy, so expend both of them on the actions that will produce the best results over the long term. Don't waste your precious time chasing one online 'opportunity' after another. Your results will always be the same - i.e. poor. If you are the type who is easily distracted, online business is probably not for you. You must learn to focus on the basics and stay focused upon them if you wish to succeed.
Of course, it isn't.
If there was a secret 'magic bullet' to earning money fast online, everyone on earth would be rich. So what's the truth and, more importantly, why is it so hard to discover? The problem is information overload! It's just as easy to find useless information as it is to find the truly useful stuff. Earning money online basically boils down to three things:
1) Building a website
2) Building traffic to your website
3) Building an email contact list
For example, I use blogger.com as my website. I build incoming traffic by commenting on other (similar) blogs and linking back to this site. And, naturally, I build my email contact list with TrafficWave. My entire business is based on these three basic tasks... and I FOCUS on it.
You've only got so much time and so much energy, so expend both of them on the actions that will produce the best results over the long term. Don't waste your precious time chasing one online 'opportunity' after another. Your results will always be the same - i.e. poor. If you are the type who is easily distracted, online business is probably not for you. You must learn to focus on the basics and stay focused upon them if you wish to succeed.
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