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Friday, April 16, 2010

14 Ways To Get Your Site Visitors Email Address

There are so many people who are missing out of the opportinity of a life time.
What did they do?
The question is, what did they not do.
They allow traffic to their sites go untapped.
This alone is the nemesis to many newbie marketers.
The is the well known secret to many great internet marketers.
They ask for the visitors email.
I have had some student say they are getting very little results, well I suggest improvise. There are many ways you can do this.
Here are some 14 surefire ways you can go about this, and if properly done can be of immerse value to you and your business for life
Enjoy.
1. Ask visitors to subscribe to your e-zine. It's a good idea to also give them a freebie when they subscribe.
2. Have them sign-up to get access to download a free ebook. The subject of the ebook should be related to your target audience.
3. Give your visitors a free membership inside your member's only web site. Have them sign-up to receive a user name and password. .
4. Hold a free contest or sweepstakes at your web site. Ask them to give you their contact information to enter.
5. Offer your visitors free consulting via e-mail. Have them fill out a web form to e-mail you with their questions.
6. Hold an interactive poll on your web site. Ask your visitors to e-mail you their vote or opinion.
7. Ask your visitors to sign-up for a chance to get a web site award. Have them e-mail you their contact and web site information.
8. Have visitors fill out a survey on your web site. Give them a free gift as an incentive to complete the form.
9. Offer a free online service from your web site. Have visitors fill out their contact information to sign-up to the free service.
10. Ask visitors to sign your guest book. Tell them they will get a free gift in return.
11. Offer a free affiliate program for your visitors. They will have to sign-up in order to receive marketing materials and commissions.
12. Allow visitors to submit a free classified ad on your web site. Require them to give a valid e-mail address in order to post an ad.
13. Give people who visit your web site a free course sent via autoresponder. Just ask them to fill out their contact information to receive the free
course.
14. Offer your visitors free software to download. Have them sign-up to get an access code to unlock the software.
Hope you see how this can be a pecking and easy stuff! Go implement.
Meanwhile you can have this Ebook for more detail.
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Monday, February 8, 2010

How to Make Your Subscribers Stick to You for Life

Some years ago when I was a bit younger there is this uncle of mine who always likes coming to our house for dinner. He would sneak in with the pretension that he wanted to watch the news at our place, the exact time he knows we would be having dinner. At first his was a welcome development but as time went on we noticed that he was becoming more of a nuisance to us than a needed company. So we planned to put an end to his uncanny act!

Guess what we did?

We simply changed our dinner time to an earlier time and when he came and found that there was no more room for his wiles. He got the message and stopped bothering us!
Why did I tell this story? Correlation.

Yes some marketers wonder why their list is going down instead of increasing due to some subscribers de-listing from their list. This is obvious for the same reason we stopped my Uncle from coming to our house for dinner. This to many is a big problem which I will try to address in this post.

What makes subscribers stick to a list for years without thinking of delisting? Coincidence, carefree attitude of the list owner or chance? I hope you know none of this gives the right answer to this question.

I totally subscribed to the fact that the conscious effort of the list owner to create a lasting relationship with his list eventually creates a bond between them that is mutually beneficial to both parties.

I sincerely believe to be always welcome any where you need to be a value adder, a carrier of good news and a great motivator. These qualities will endear you to the minds of your subscribers and they will long to read your mails and take action on whatever advice you give.

Delisting from your list will never occur to them.
I recently had to unsubscribe from many list just for breaking these simple rules of Email marketing-giving your list value time after time.
Here are the reasons I unsubscribe from some list over the weekend and I noticed there are some list I could not click on the unsubscribed link in their mails.
Why?
These people have done 90-95% of the reasons mention below.
I also noticed some of them are ‘gurus’ and some though not gurus where playing by the rules. So it don’t really matter who you are if you can play by the rules your subscribers will still stick with you.

Now here are the reasons I de-listed from some list over the weekend:

• They were no more creating value for me. Too much hype and promotion stuff.
• Some of them have not positioned themselves in my mind as someone who is serious or an expert that knows what they are doing.
• They were not consistent in their mailing. Some last sent me a mail 3months ago!
• Did not build a relationship with me. Did not make a effort to connect with me.
• Were not sending good stuffs, only sent junks or poor materials or recycle news on the net.
• Not try to be caring and did not really show signs to help or assist in any form
• Be truthful and be simple. Show some mastering, expertise to display at what you do
• Seems to be promoting old stuff and methods not relevant in today marketing techniques.
• Not seeking out great JV partnership, which builds your reputation online
• Video marketing is very persuasive I easily bond with marketers who use it to communicate with me.
• I stayed subscribed with those who asked me to email them at any time and when I did they replied my email.
• I kept those who consistently sent me their own e-books either for free or for a fee.
• I kept those who are recognised as gurus in the niches I am operating in and they have proved it.
• Those whose main job of sending me mails was centre on promotion, I discarded them.
• I kept those who are teachers/ trainers, this you can easily tell through their blogs or emails

So I kept those who I knew are a continuous value adder to me. And if you want your list to do the same to you find a way to implement the above for your list. Working on your list from time to time has a long term rewards, believe me.

As the saying goes good radiance to bad rub…..

Have fun and share around.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

How to Convert Your Content to Cash

At times new comers to the internet marketing business struggle to make a living online, it becomes a thing that most becomes desperate and others frustrated. Especially if using the content marketing avenue.
Many ask how I convert my content to cash.
Well the answer lies within the writer.

You need to find a way to get to the heart of your readers and let them like you and trust you. Show them that you are after their interest; if that is settled you easily make sales from them. Remember if they are not buying from you they are buying from someone else.
I will try to give some suggestions on how to convert your content to cash.

1. Reward your Readers Always
This seems obvious but not practised. Each time they receive an email from you let them be glad they did. Let they rush to open your mails or click to the sites you are referring them to. Why will they do this?
You reward them always. You surprise them.

You can do this by:
a. By solving a need that they might have presently
b. By entertaining them
c. By giving them suggestions to carry out that will increase their confidence
d. By granting them access to you
e. By making cookies for them- giving them what they really need and want

If this is done consistently it will create a bond between you and your readers and many will like to subscribe to you. And follow your tweets and leads.

2. Show your self as a friend and an expert
People don’t love expert who are not friendly. They believe they are pompous and they hardly learn from them. That is why you probably didn’t like your Math teacher, he knew the subject quite alright but he was not friendly. He was imposing; he didn’t let you learn at your pace he was using the school’s calendar. Well he may be right because he has a lot of ground to cover.
But in real life if you need to make impact you need to first be a friend. Show some understanding to your readers. Empathise with them and admit weakness if there is a place for one that will encourage them to aspire to continue. Don’t give them you are too dumb attitude.

Never claim to be a guru let them call you by that. Let them know where your loyalty lies- the money or their progress.
When people see they are making progress from your advice they will stand to be counted when you suggest an e-book or software that will help them the more. We buy things from those we know and trust.

3. Tell first and Sell later
This principle is the secret of great marketers. They tell you a lovely story first and when they see you are hooked they smartly introduced their product to you and before long you have purchased from them and keep ordering for more.
Don’t try to sell in your first mails, keep your sales skills at bay!
First create a relationship. Tell stories that will lead to your final product introduction. Do a romance with your readers; court them with words of confidence and interest. Point them to great materials and sites. Easily tell them to ask you questions and do try to answers promptly.
Then as you introduce your product tell them the benefits they stand to gain. Tell them how the product has helped you and others you know. Be truthful. Never, ever promote what you don’t trust! form here you can make sales easily. See how phillip mansour uses this to make sales in Banner ad Blueprint.
Give a clear call to action. Tell them what to do. Here is where I see many lose it. They never tell their client what to do next. I noticed people love to follow. They love to be told what to do. So tell them where to click. Tell them what to buy, tell them the guarantees involved in buying that product, and assure them that you will personally give them the money back if the product doesn’t do what it claims to do. You need to be savvy but don’t over sell. Readers hate it when all you do is to sell.
Use your content to build this kind of relationship, and then you can confidently ask for the sale.
Never be afraid to ask when you have the relationship. As someone wisely said you cannot make a withdrawal where you haven made a deposit!

So here you are. What are you going to do with this information?
Apply it or let it slip by? I suggest you make out a plan to see how you implement this promptly then you will likely make your online story a successful one, for knowledge not applied quickly slips away.
Go see if you can build great relationships from your list today.

Happy list building.
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