Hello FreeMarketers…

 

Huge online communities can mean a lot to your online marketing warchest.

MySpace, YouTube and others sport memberships approaching or exceeding 100 Million users!

They are clearly the tidle wave of the future.  These communities can effectively write their own ticket, they just go right over the heads of the networks and do what they want. 

It’s like a new frontier entirely…  the wild west of cyberspace…

So, if you are a smart marketer, you are interested in new ways to develop markets and get your products sold.

Most saavy online marketers realize the fact that MySpace is taking the world by storm and millions of people are jumping on the bandwagon and becoming true celebrities… on what has become the world’s fastest growing web site. 

 

 

I’d like you to check out this MySpace-related web site I found on how to pimp up your MySpace profile, make thousands of friends and become a VIP on MySpace.  The benefits of which will be obvious in your marketing and promotion efforts.

Would you like to know how ordinary people are achieving world-wide recognition on MySpace?

Do you want to know the secrets to pimping up your profile, making thousands of friends and becoming an overnight sensation on MySpace?
I’d like you to check out this web site by His Mastership, one of MySpace’s most notorious and well-known personalities.  He holds the record for the most friends made on MySpace in one week. So, we could all learn something from him about optimizing our efforts and time with MySpace.

You can even get his F’ree five day course on how to become a celebrity on MySpace and instant access to his powerful profile editor so you can make your MySpace profile look exactly like you want it to look.

This site is great and you should definitely take a look at it.  It will open your eyes to new marketing horizons, that’s for sure…

 

Go here to check it out and join for fr’ee: 

http://vastdream.com/MySpace-Mastership

P.S.  They even offer a F-ree five day course that tells you the ins and outs of becoming a legend on MySpace and access to their special profile layout editor (to really pimp up your profile… it’s great.)  

I Hope you enjoy it.  I’m pretty confident that you will…

To your online success,  

Greg

Interruptions or Opportunities?

 

Featured Article: 

Another phone call, email or someone just popping by – can’t a person get any real work done around here? Sound familiar? But wait just a minute! 

What if those so-called annoying interruptions are actually opportunities knocking? What if those ‘interruptions’ are actually a part of our work that we can’t afford to neglect?

Changing our perspective about interruptions can reduce the annoyance factor and any resulting pressure. It may also help us put the interruptions to a good purpose.

If we take the time to answer that call or visit briefly with a colleague we may be building relationship bridges that will serve us in the future. Besides, courtesy and friendliness are as essential at work as in any other part of life.

That is not to say that we need to spend inordinate amounts of time in conversation, but a few minutes is well spent.  After a few minutes, it is respectable to say something like ‘I’d love to talk more about this with you?  When are you available?’ 

If you really can’t afford to be interrupted, close your office door – it’s much more difficult to stop by. You could let the reception or your voice mail take messages until you are more at liberty to respond. 

Even if you decide that an open-door policy is more your style, you might consider placing your computer in such a way so your chair is partially turned away from the door and direct eye contact can be avoided.

When it comes to emails, instead of answering them as they come in, it’s better to set aside some time each day to respond. That way, you’re in control and can focus on your work projects. Messages from list-servers can overwhelm and take a lot of time to go through to find those ‘gems’.

Organize your list-server and put emails into a separate file you can check periodically.

Why take the time for ‘interruptions’?  In short, the more connections we have the more innovative we become. We learn from others, their opinions and advice and we can even draw on their professional network of contacts – if we have really listened and noted who they are.

Knowledge flows through organizations not only in relation to the organizational structure but through channels of influence and trusted relationships that are often external to that formal structure.  You will never know what helpful information you missed if you don’t take the time to network in these ways.

Make your ‘interruptions’ work to your advantage!  Sometimes they can actually help you stay connected, get new ideas and become more productive and innovative. Now that’s a new perspective on interruptions!

  

 

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Ian Del Carmen is an online business professional running his main site at http://www.ianDelCarmen.com. His other sites include http://TheOnlineBusinessProfessional.com, http://MobileEbooks.net, http://InfoProductLaboratory.com, and many more…
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Start Your Internet Business by Finding a Niche

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Everywhere you go online, you hear the same thing - You must find a niche for your business. If you are new to Internet Marketing, this is advice you will do well to pay heed to.

Every day thousands more people come online in search of wealth. Many jump right into the markets that are already completely saturated and then wonder why they are not making any money.

Given unlimited time, money and patience, they might succeed. For those that do not have unlimited supplies of these precious resources, aiming for a smaller niche market can be a much smarter way to start your online business.

So just what is a niche?

If you want the long answer, you can buy any one of the thousands of e-books being sold online about niche markets. You can go to a dictionary and see what definition of niche it gives. But the short answer is niche simply means distinct or individual.

Everyone and their mother wants to start a business focusing on Internet Marketing. This is how the big guns are making all their money, so it must be the way to go. That is the problem. The market is totally saturated with people who have years of experience in this area. A new person trying to compete in such a broad market does not have much chance of success.

On About.com, Susan Ward defines Internet Marketing as "the strategies that are used to market a product or service online, marketing strategies that include search engine optimization and search engine submission, copywriting that encourages site visitors to take action, web site design strategies, online promotions, reciprocal linking, and email marketing". A new person coming online to start a business has little chance of knowing enough about all the above areas to be able to compete in this market.

So how is a new person to have any chance at success?

Thing Smaller - Think Niche!

Just from the above definition you can come up with the following pieces or niches:

Marketing
Search Engine Optimization
Copywriting
Web Site Design
Promotion
Linking
Email Marketing

Even if you are lucky and are extremely experienced already in one of the above niches, you will still have a lot of competition in such broad niches. This may be what you decide to do in the end, but at least be willing to explore niches within the broader areas. You may find a niche you are much better suited to.

When it comes to finding a niche market, the best resource available online is Wordtracker. You can find pieces of this program on different sites and software programs but Wordtracker brings everything together in one place for those trying to find a good niche to go into.

Using Wordtracker is a breeze. If you want to break Internet Marketing down to many more niche markets, just type in Internet Marketing and look at all the ideas that pop up. Each of these can become keywords that you decide you want to focus your niche on. Or you can pop in those keywords and keep defining your niche.

Using Wordtracker, what you will end with is a list of niche keywords that you can focus your Internet business on. Having a smaller niche will give you a much better shot at being successful then trying to build a site around a broad topic like Internet Marketing.

Remember, success in any business always comes back to supplying a product that the public has a demand for and that the market has room for. Find the right niche and you are on the right path.

 

 

 

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Ian Del Carmen is an online business professional running his main site at http://www.ianDelCarmen.com. His other sites include http://TheOnlineBusinessProfessional.com, http://MobileEbooks.net, http://InfoProductLaboratory.com, and many more…
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Are you ready to Increase your Traffic? 

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Once this news gets out, the amount
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I discovered something really exciting.

A way of generating traffic to your website
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I’ve found a package with everything that
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All you need is the know-how!

What is Google Video you ask? Well, I
wouldn’t be surprised if you haven’t even
heard of it! It was news to me! That just
shows how new it is!!

Google Video is a site where people
can upload their own videos and make
them available for anyone to view or download.

So how can you utilize Google Video to generate
traffic? Well, it is all explained in this ebook.
How do I know that this is NEW info- Because
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What… you don’t know how to make a video?
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Five Steps That Will Help You Succeed in Niche Marketing 
by Steve Yakim

Niche marketing is a manifestation of how much internet marketing has evolved in recent years.  Niche marketing is based on a real world model, that is, it is a business strategy that is focused on real people with real needs and with real money to spend.

Niche marketing is a technique that seeks to conquer small and usually unattended markets that are fueled by a strong passion for a particular interest.  The benefits of cornering these markets are enormous. 

First, you will encounter little competition.  Second, the market is driven by enthusiasm and they will continuously support a product that they like. 

To illustrate, five years ago, internet marketing strategies focused on general markets.  “I want to make money online,” one would have said, “so I’m going to sell products for dog enthusiasts.” 

But dog enthusiasts comprise a pretty broad market.  A lot of online businesses are already catering to their needs.

But today, internet marketing strategies are focusing on specific markets.  Instead of targeting dog enthusiasts, they target Sharpei owners.  This is niche marketing in a nutshell.

Succeeding in niche marketing isn’t as difficult as you might think.  Here are five simple steps that would guarantee your conquest of the niche you would choose.

1. Know what people are searching for online.  You need two important ingredients for this step: instinct and Overture.  You think you have them?  Let’s proceed then.  Point your browser to:

   http://www.inventory.overture.com

   This is Overture’s super powerful and useful keyword selector tool.  Type in any word and the system will tell you how many searches were made for it in a particular month.

   Now you will need your instinct, as the process is all trial-and-error.  Think of a field that not many people know about.  For the purpose of this discussion, let’s choose the word “widget.”

   By typing in the said word, Overture will tell us that 2136 people searched for “widget” in the month of April.  This would be a perfect niche market.  It’s not a popular subject, and you have 2136 people, less a few repeated searches, that are potential clients.
    

1. Determine the profitability of the niche.  Overture would have given you a list of keywords pertaining to your targeted niche.  Now it’s time to see if we could make money out of them.  Log on to Google Adwords and check out the pricing of the keywords.  The higher a keyword’s price is, the more profitable it can be.

   But you don’t have to rely on Googles Adwords alone.  You could conduct your own research by reading books and newspapers.  Be on the lookout for particularized markets you could exploit.
    

1. Evaluate the potential market.  You could do this manually by running your own search and checking out the websites that cater to your chosen niche.  Scout the competition!  This could take some time though, so a better option would be to invest in some useful tools.  One good software you could use is Word Tracker, which would provide for you a supply vs. demand.  Word Tracker would survey multiple search engines and pinpoint competing websites.
    

1. Create your own product.  You do have to sell something, so you have to create an item that the members of the niche would want to buy.  Since you’re operating an online business, information would be the most ideal product that you could offer.  By packaging information in the form of electronic books, membership sites, software, subscriptions to newsletter or even streaming media, you’d have an offering that the target market would always have a need for.
    

1. Content is king.  You would want the members of the niche to visit your site, and the way to do this is by offering good, quality content that they can never find anywhere else.  As we’ve mentioned earlier, the members of a niche are fueled by passion, hence they will always be searching for information on their particular interest.  If you provide this in your content, they will come to you, and you could expose your products to them.

Niche marketing is not difficult indeed, but you can’t be successful with it lying down.  Some effort is still required, as is the case with all viable businesses.  With steps outlined above, you will be able to corner the niche of your choice.  May it be very profitable for you! 

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Here is Why Using Camtasia or CamStudio Can Increase Your Affiliate Checks

It’s no secret that thousands of people are getting into affiliate marketing everyday, and many are also failing and dropping out of the market as well.  So, it is no wonder that the competition is getting very stiff, and in some cases, unbearable.

The challenge to any affiliate marketer is to try and ace the other affiliates, and, to think of new ways to excel in a field of thousands, if not millions of newbies and seasoned affiliate marketers.

There are a myriad of tips and techniques being shared to these affiliates in order to teach them how to best plan their marketing strategy, so their programs can work effectively and more earnings will be achieved.

What better way to impress your potential prospects and customers than to record and publish top notch, full-motion, streaming screen-captured videos.  There is nothing like the feeling of seeing your hard work resulting in getting paid by having your customers jumping up excitedly in great anticipation to buy your product right there and then.

This is Camtasia or CamStudio (a much cheaper alternative — you can get it included in the AdRando Membeship Vault) in action.  It’s a proven fact, that giving your customers something they can actually see can explode your online sales almost instantly.

You don’t need marketing training and education to understand how this system can work for your affiliate program.  Virtually anyone can create stunning videos, from multimedia tutorials and step-by-step presentations available online.  The process is like having your customers seated next to you and looking at your desktop, as you show them the things they need to see and hear.  All this done in a step-by-step fashion.

 

For those who don’t already know how Camtasia and CamStudio work, here are some basics:

1.  It can record your desktop activity in a single click.  No need to have to save and compile all your files because it is recorded right there and then.

2.  It Can easily convert your videos into web pages. Once converted you can have your customers visiting that certain page. Videos are easier to understand and take in unlike reading texts which oftentimes is a trying thing to do.

3.  You can then Upload your pages.  Publish them through blogs, RSS feed and podcasts.  You may want your Camtasia or CamStudio videos to get around and reach out to other people that may be potential customers in the future.   There is nothing like being visible in many sites and pages to advertise yourself, and to get your message out and cut through the crowd of other affiliate sites.

There are other things you can do with your affiliate program using Camtasia or CamStudio.

You can…

• Create stunning multimedia presentations that are proven to increase sales, because all the senses are engaged.  Another by-product is that this also has the tendency to reduce skepticism among harder-to-please, skeptical customers.
• Reduce refunds and other customer issues by demonstrating visually how to use your product, and how to do it properly.  Complaints will also be minimized because all the facts and the presentation are there for the customers to see and hear about at their leisure.
• Promote affiliate products and services using visual presentations.  This is an effective way of redirecting your viewers straight to your affiliate website after they are finished with the video.  Make the most of the presentation by putting your site location in the end and make them go there directly if they want more information.
• Multiply your online auction bids exponentially by giving your readers a feel of what you have to offer. Based upon reports, auctions that include pictures increase bidding percentage by up to 400%.  Imagine how much higher it will be if you use videos.
• Publish valuable infoproducts that you can sell for a much higher price.  The perceived value will be all worth the price because of the full colored graphics menu and templates that you will be using.
• Minimize miscommunication with your customers, instantly helping them to understand clearly the essence of your product and/or affiliate program.  The good thing about multimedia is, once completed, few things can go wrong.  It is basically "packaged" already.  

These are just some of the things you can do with Camtasia and CamStudio that can be very helpful in your chosen affiliate program.

Note, that the main purpose of using Camtasia or CamStudio is to boost the income that is generated from your affiliate program.  Although it can be used for entertainment and enjoyment purposes as well.

The bottom line… Both Camtasio and CamStudio are very important new tools that the average marketer can use to improve the affect of their marketing, and in the end, to make more money as a result.  Tools providea a multiplying factor to your efforts, use these tools and let them do a lot of the heavy liftying for you.

Enjoy your video success…

 

Greg