Have you ever been asked for your email address in a shop? Many large businesses do it now, Borders Bookshop is a good example and many Cinemas do it as well. You give them your email address and they send you news from their industry and often send coupons you can print to get a special offer if you bring it into the store.
These newsletters are usually colourful and professionally laid out and often have links to an extensive website. Small local business owners may feel intimidated by this magazine style look and assume that having a newsletter is an expensive option.
The fact is that setting up a newsletter is a lot cheaper than you may think and you don't have to spend a small fortune and hours of your time just to set it up. All you really need is some news, a business that has repeat custom, an autoresponder and perhaps a web page.
You can currently get a free 30 day autoresponder trial to test drive the most respected and recommended professional autoresponder online. Click on the link below to sign up for this offer and take advantage of a free trial for one whole month to see how it all works.
http://www.imarketable.com/autoresponder-trial
Christmas is the busiest time of the year so now is the time to start asking for email details from your customers. Make sure they print the letters so it is clear what you need to enter.
You can enter these emails directly into the autoresponder or put a form online and refer people to a webpage to enter them themselves. You don't have to own your own website you can use this site. Sign up for a free blog and put your form on a page here.
After you have had your 30 day autoresponder trial it's still not expensive. What other advertising will cost you as little as $19 per month (at the time I write this) and reach such a highly targeted group of people who have already shown their interest in your business?
At Christmas you have new products and delayed products and sell out sometimes then manage to get new stock... How many times have you wished you could just send people an email and let them know that things have changed and new stock is in. Collect email addresses from your customers and you can!
You can be in constant contact with them all year round, for Mothers Day and Fathers Day promotions, to let them know you are having a sale. Any time you want to bring your customers back into your store send them a special offer. You don't need anything fancy, you just have to tell them to give you a code word that only people on the email mailing list know and they'll get a discount or a bonus.
You don't need a template for a page or pictures, just some well written text that states what you want to tell them and a good subject line to make sure they open it. Just like a normal email, keep it friendly and tell them your news.
If you have ever thought about creating an email newsletter for your small business, use the autoresponder trial period to find out once and for all, just how easy this can be, especially when you've passed the mild learning curve and you know your way around the software.
Then start asking your customers for their name and email. Keep it short, you don't need to explain in detail, just say "We have a mailing list and often send special offers - would you like to leave your name and email to receive them?" You'll be surprised how many people say yes.
http://www.imarketable.com/autoresponder-trial
Want to give it a try? Click on the link and sign up... Less than 56 days to Christmas!
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Monetizing With BlogProfitz
As you know, I don't promote many products. Frankly, I find most new products are not worth the time I spend learning how to use them. But, every now and then one comes along that REALLY does do something useful and is worth the time spent on the learning curve.
Today, I have one that you NEED to see. It doesn't even have much of a learning curve and it helps to cut the time that you spend on adding new content and monetizing a site. We all know people are going to click away eventually, so good ads to click away on are our best monetizing strategy. They can also be our biggest time waster setting them up.
First let me say that I have not tried it out yet and this tip is a stab in the dark as I only received this info today and they launch almost immediately. I have used another product from them - RSS Evolution - and it's very good, but BlogProfitz is something you must assess for yourself. I definitely think it's worth a look.
RSS Evolution (special price bundle)
BlogProfitz is a little different to your average marketing product launch. Here's why:
a) It's proven - their users are already making money with it
b) It's a totally new way of generating affiliate revenue
c) It's a system that anyone can use easily.
BLOGPROFITZ HAS SPEED
As you'll see when you look on their site, BlogProfitz takes 5 minutes or less to fully monetize and build an affiliate blog. Literally. It really is that fast.
BlogProfitz launches today at noon. Why should you care? I mean -there's a launch like, everyday now, right?
5 MOST IMPORTANT THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
1. . There is only limited space. Scott and the team want to make sure that all customers get ample support and resources, so they're capping memberships at 1000. Read the rest of this email but if you want in, get in now. You never know with these launches whether they'll sell out in a day or still be available in a week.
2. You can choose from thousands of targeted affiliate products and add them to any Wordpress blog, fully monetizing your site in less than 5 minutes.
3. You can display targeted videos and articles (from their private database of 15k) and news to your blogs for more content and reader value.
4. BlogProfitz is integrated with CommissionJunction, Clickbank, Affiliatebot, Amazon, eBay, YouTube, Regnow, Overstock, Paydotcom, and more. You can start with those programs you are already a member of and gradually add more to give a better range of product ads.
5. BlogProfitz can be used on any blog, new or existing, Wordpress or Blogger, hosted or not.
BlogProfitz was launched a month ago to a select group of marketers. These marketers ranged from total beginner to genuine expert. Here are some of the comments and feedback that came in...
So you don't need to take my word, it's been tested and proven and the proof is in these comments. Take a look, if it doesn't suit what you are doing no problem.
But if you are getting tired of widgets and banners and writing content and placing links, then this may take the pressure off you so you can concentrate on promoting your blog to get more traffic. It can't replace what you do best but it can certainly lend you a hand by automating some extra content and varying your monetization while decreasing your workload.
That's working smart!
Check out BlogProfitz Today
Genie
Today, I have one that you NEED to see. It doesn't even have much of a learning curve and it helps to cut the time that you spend on adding new content and monetizing a site. We all know people are going to click away eventually, so good ads to click away on are our best monetizing strategy. They can also be our biggest time waster setting them up.
First let me say that I have not tried it out yet and this tip is a stab in the dark as I only received this info today and they launch almost immediately. I have used another product from them - RSS Evolution - and it's very good, but BlogProfitz is something you must assess for yourself. I definitely think it's worth a look.
RSS Evolution (special price bundle)
BlogProfitz is a little different to your average marketing product launch. Here's why:
a) It's proven - their users are already making money with it
b) It's a totally new way of generating affiliate revenue
c) It's a system that anyone can use easily.
BLOGPROFITZ HAS SPEED
As you'll see when you look on their site, BlogProfitz takes 5 minutes or less to fully monetize and build an affiliate blog. Literally. It really is that fast.
BlogProfitz launches today at noon. Why should you care? I mean -there's a launch like, everyday now, right?
5 MOST IMPORTANT THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
1. . There is only limited space. Scott and the team want to make sure that all customers get ample support and resources, so they're capping memberships at 1000. Read the rest of this email but if you want in, get in now. You never know with these launches whether they'll sell out in a day or still be available in a week.
2. You can choose from thousands of targeted affiliate products and add them to any Wordpress blog, fully monetizing your site in less than 5 minutes.
3. You can display targeted videos and articles (from their private database of 15k) and news to your blogs for more content and reader value.
4. BlogProfitz is integrated with CommissionJunction, Clickbank, Affiliatebot, Amazon, eBay, YouTube, Regnow, Overstock, Paydotcom, and more. You can start with those programs you are already a member of and gradually add more to give a better range of product ads.
5. BlogProfitz can be used on any blog, new or existing, Wordpress or Blogger, hosted or not.
BlogProfitz was launched a month ago to a select group of marketers. These marketers ranged from total beginner to genuine expert. Here are some of the comments and feedback that came in...
"Being able to easily add products from Amazon, eBay or RSS news feeds to my blog have increased my traffic 10 fold and click throughs are growing every day."
Rebecca Holman
http://www.GoGreenerTips.com
"I've never seen any tool so easy to use, of such a simple concept, that makes such a profound impact on its users' businesses."
"I quickly realized that I was spending less time working on my sites while my income remained the same."
"The part I like most about BlogProfitz is that within 10 minutes, after explaining a brief concept of how search engines work, how money is made online, and the features within my BlogProfitz interface, my teenage daughter was ready to load up campaigns for me that would keep my blogs viable and on auto-pilot for over a month."
Laura Childs
www.laurajchilds.com
"I can honestly say, the affiliate marketers who use BlogProfitz will have a significant advantage over those that don't. "
"I was amazed at how easy it was to setup Blogprofitz , within minutes I was able to schedule posts and have content posted onto my blog. That’s content that Search Engine spiders love and within 48 hours I started to see search engine traffic trickling in to my relatively new blog – WOW."
Douglas Gauld
http://www.loanfinder.co.za
"BlogProfitz is unlike any other affiliate tool available on the market. The guys at Half Again have leveraged their intimate knowledge and experience in the affiliate business to create a truly one of a kind money making machine."
"BlogProfitz’s large array of useful features makes it the Swiss Army Knife of affiliate marketing. I recommend BlogProfitz for any affiliate who is serious about improving their bottom line and growing their money making empire."
Mike Smeth
CEO Integrity Ecommerce Inc.
So you don't need to take my word, it's been tested and proven and the proof is in these comments. Take a look, if it doesn't suit what you are doing no problem.
But if you are getting tired of widgets and banners and writing content and placing links, then this may take the pressure off you so you can concentrate on promoting your blog to get more traffic. It can't replace what you do best but it can certainly lend you a hand by automating some extra content and varying your monetization while decreasing your workload.
That's working smart!
Check out BlogProfitz Today
Genie
Saturday, November 15, 2008
CD delivery software for ebay
With Christmas coming I though it might be time to remind you that the no digital product rule on eBay doesn't restrict you totally from selling virtual products such as digital ebooks.
You just have to be a little smarter about!
There is a new piece of software that creates a sales page for you and then links to a company that will take an uploaded file, burn it to a CD, print the CD cover you upload and post it to the customer. The CD costs around $2 a CD and the customer pays them the cost and the postage. With the software that makes the sales page you set the price for the CD and then the CD delivery company pays you the difference.
That sounds a little complicated but, honestly its as easy as can be.
Check out the post where I read about it and see what you think.
Making CDs to sell on ebay
You just have to be a little smarter about!
There is a new piece of software that creates a sales page for you and then links to a company that will take an uploaded file, burn it to a CD, print the CD cover you upload and post it to the customer. The CD costs around $2 a CD and the customer pays them the cost and the postage. With the software that makes the sales page you set the price for the CD and then the CD delivery company pays you the difference.
That sounds a little complicated but, honestly its as easy as can be.
Check out the post where I read about it and see what you think.
Making CDs to sell on ebay
Converting Pay Per Click To Cash
The hottest new product for converting pay per click to cash was launched this week.
We've got to know and love hexatrack and nemesis but now we have a new contender . Google Ambush from the authors of the Google Magic Formula.
I really enjoyed their magic formula and it kick started me off to get back in there and wrestle some money from adwords. There have been a lot of changes since I was there last.
The new tool is actual a blend of tools to do niche research, create a landing page on their domain, optimize it with keywords for pay per click and promote a clickbank product, set up your adwords or other ppc account and then sit back and wait for the tool to analyze your results. This will enable clickbank affiliates to convert pay per click to cash with out having to know how to upload tracking software and complete websites, while still keeping them sweet with ppc rules and quality scores.
If you want to use clickbank without website then this is something worth looking at. I don't believe a completely new affiliate will benefit, it will take too much time to understand the basic concepts, but someone who has a clickbank account and already knows about researching keywords will pick up the rest very fast.
If you think it's for you and you buy it from this page - send me an email with your receipt becoz I'm offering two different bonuses, one about landing pages and one with payperclick videos.
Google Ambush Bonus 1
Google Ambush Bonus 2
It's hot and its good - check it out!
We've got to know and love hexatrack and nemesis but now we have a new contender . Google Ambush from the authors of the Google Magic Formula.
I really enjoyed their magic formula and it kick started me off to get back in there and wrestle some money from adwords. There have been a lot of changes since I was there last.
The new tool is actual a blend of tools to do niche research, create a landing page on their domain, optimize it with keywords for pay per click and promote a clickbank product, set up your adwords or other ppc account and then sit back and wait for the tool to analyze your results. This will enable clickbank affiliates to convert pay per click to cash with out having to know how to upload tracking software and complete websites, while still keeping them sweet with ppc rules and quality scores.
If you want to use clickbank without website then this is something worth looking at. I don't believe a completely new affiliate will benefit, it will take too much time to understand the basic concepts, but someone who has a clickbank account and already knows about researching keywords will pick up the rest very fast.
If you think it's for you and you buy it from this page - send me an email with your receipt becoz I'm offering two different bonuses, one about landing pages and one with payperclick videos.
Google Ambush Bonus 1
Google Ambush Bonus 2
It's hot and its good - check it out!
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Cute Valentines Ideas
I know, its got nothing to do with marketing, but I'm an incurable romantic and I want everyone to enjoy valentines day so I thought this site had it all.
There's stacks of articles on it about gifts you can buy for husband, wife, girlfriend, and boyfriend, so no-one's going to be stuck for ideas. The post I really liked was this one called
Cute Valentines ideas.
I'm going to do some of these things for my sweetheart. I got the books for the recipes and I've picked out what I'm going to cook him and I also followed one of those ad links for some sexy free coupons. Boy is he going to get a surprise! See Cooking Dinner on Valentines day
But what I really liked was the site isn't just about gifts and stuff, it also talks about people who are going to be alone on Valentines day. Surviving Valentines Day.
Its hard to imagine losing your partner or being surrounded by couples when you are alone. There's a lot of reasons this can happen and although the articles and the book focus on what the person who is alone can do, I think we should all take a moment to think about them too.
If you have neighbors or friend left out in the cold and all alone. Maybe you can invite them in and have a group dinner out, there's always the rest of the night to spend with your own partner. Its nice to do things in a group and I know there are people who will be so glad you asked.
Its just a thought. If there's someone you love who might feel lonely on the 14th, share your evening with them as well. Me, I'm thinking of throwing a party with the lonely hearts club band playing beatles songs all night!
Wishing for no Eleanor Rigbys on the 14th
Genie
There's stacks of articles on it about gifts you can buy for husband, wife, girlfriend, and boyfriend, so no-one's going to be stuck for ideas. The post I really liked was this one called
Cute Valentines ideas.
I'm going to do some of these things for my sweetheart. I got the books for the recipes and I've picked out what I'm going to cook him and I also followed one of those ad links for some sexy free coupons. Boy is he going to get a surprise! See Cooking Dinner on Valentines day
But what I really liked was the site isn't just about gifts and stuff, it also talks about people who are going to be alone on Valentines day. Surviving Valentines Day.
Its hard to imagine losing your partner or being surrounded by couples when you are alone. There's a lot of reasons this can happen and although the articles and the book focus on what the person who is alone can do, I think we should all take a moment to think about them too.
If you have neighbors or friend left out in the cold and all alone. Maybe you can invite them in and have a group dinner out, there's always the rest of the night to spend with your own partner. Its nice to do things in a group and I know there are people who will be so glad you asked.
Its just a thought. If there's someone you love who might feel lonely on the 14th, share your evening with them as well. Me, I'm thinking of throwing a party with the lonely hearts club band playing beatles songs all night!
Wishing for no Eleanor Rigbys on the 14th
Genie
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Hot Topic Blogs
There's a new encyclopedic sized package of blogging information coming out soon.Consisting of a 'start to finish' collection of multimedia tutorials, this package called Rich Niche Blogging will give bloggers everywhere all the information anyone could ask for, to transform themselves from a new blogger into a pro blogger.
There are two new blogs on the domain, with a single post on each, and its main page is tantalizingly empty at the moment, but you should see a page go up by the end of the week.
If you are struggling along with your blogs, gradually picking up a tip and a term and wondering what you need to do to find out how people actually make money from blogs, then bookmark this site and go back in a week and see what they have to offer.
http://www.richnicheblogging.com
If you want to watch the blogs as well -
Monetize your Blog
Hot Topic Blogs
Can't wait to see what they have to offer. I'm wishing for a few new tricks myself.
Genie
There are two new blogs on the domain, with a single post on each, and its main page is tantalizingly empty at the moment, but you should see a page go up by the end of the week.
If you are struggling along with your blogs, gradually picking up a tip and a term and wondering what you need to do to find out how people actually make money from blogs, then bookmark this site and go back in a week and see what they have to offer.
http://www.richnicheblogging.com
If you want to watch the blogs as well -
Monetize your Blog
Hot Topic Blogs
Can't wait to see what they have to offer. I'm wishing for a few new tricks myself.
Genie
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
XSite Pro : Warp Drive Web Design
I want to tell you about my most favourite tool and if you make web pages then it may well become yours too. It's called XSite Pro. It isn't a free tool but it's not as expensive as accounting software either. Now this is one web editor and site maker that I do understand! XSite Pro is also releasing a major update soon and they want everyone to know that if you buy it now their upgrade will be free for you. Not unfortunately for Genie as she bought it a while ago.
This software is a WYSIWYG web editor with a design view and a html view - so in design, what you see is what you get! Literally. On the design page when you do a preview it shows you what your page will look like with easy CSS. In a separate area you can see your CSS in action and play with it until it looks as good as it gets. No more struggling with change this font - change this colour - which line am I on - which bit will this affect - you don't have to guess anymore. Each change is magically rendered so you can see what it looks like.
It does have a bug or two but nothing nasty. One thing that irks Genie is the fact that it publishes everything, including images, into one folder - no relative to location option. Hopefully this new version will fix that. You may need to update a frames thing from microsoft to use it - but if I can do it, so can you! Believe me - it's worth it. Once you use it, you'll wonder how you ever managed to get anything done before - it saves so much time and creates the best results.
You can install directly to your site by publishing. Tables are easy, it has neat graphical boxes and linking between pages is as easy as pie. Why is pie easy - it takes ages to make a pie!
XSite Pro has storage areas where you can easily retrieve snippets of code and affiliate links and if you enter your adsense id in, it will insert it into the blocks you've chosen and then - if you click on the blocks you can change the font and background colours of them easily.
It automatically creates a site map and a robots doc and breadcrumbs and you can insert a javascript on every page with a global feature. You can create redirect pages, a links page, a privacy page - and it will seo your pages and advise you on optimisation with reports.
It's the best thing since sliced bread - now that one I understand!
This software is a WYSIWYG web editor with a design view and a html view - so in design, what you see is what you get! Literally. On the design page when you do a preview it shows you what your page will look like with easy CSS. In a separate area you can see your CSS in action and play with it until it looks as good as it gets. No more struggling with change this font - change this colour - which line am I on - which bit will this affect - you don't have to guess anymore. Each change is magically rendered so you can see what it looks like.
It does have a bug or two but nothing nasty. One thing that irks Genie is the fact that it publishes everything, including images, into one folder - no relative to location option. Hopefully this new version will fix that. You may need to update a frames thing from microsoft to use it - but if I can do it, so can you! Believe me - it's worth it. Once you use it, you'll wonder how you ever managed to get anything done before - it saves so much time and creates the best results.
You can install directly to your site by publishing. Tables are easy, it has neat graphical boxes and linking between pages is as easy as pie. Why is pie easy - it takes ages to make a pie!
XSite Pro has storage areas where you can easily retrieve snippets of code and affiliate links and if you enter your adsense id in, it will insert it into the blocks you've chosen and then - if you click on the blocks you can change the font and background colours of them easily.
It automatically creates a site map and a robots doc and breadcrumbs and you can insert a javascript on every page with a global feature. You can create redirect pages, a links page, a privacy page - and it will seo your pages and advise you on optimisation with reports.
It's the best thing since sliced bread - now that one I understand!
You wish to get in now before the price hike ?
Making your wishes come true.
Genie
Making your wishes come true.
Genie
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