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Oct112009

6 Great Ways to Sell Yourself

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I Went out on a Little Adventure to Share with all my Readers a Tip or Two on Effective Ways to Sell Yourself:

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1. You can go to any bar in the world, If anyone asks you why you are taking photos you can say your the CEO of a marketing company and that you are here to sponsor this bottle company by taking a photo with you and the bottle. Then you give them your business card, immediately without any exception they look at you as important and perhaps call you the next day. Or contact an alcohol company directly and tell them you would like to travel the world at their expense and promote their alcohol.

2. Book a conference room to get political candidates to join and tell them that there is much better options then Billboard and TV Advertising for this years budget and get the marketing department to contact you regarding online marketing for their community projects. Tell them that contacting you to have action steps taken rather then chit chatting is the key!

3. Forget about wine tasting, now their is fruit tasting. Put together a list of fruit juice companies to contact and send them through a photo of your obsession with fruit and offer your fruit tasting services. Also explain that by tasting their fruit you can give reviews in order to get a sponsorship deal or marketing contract. They may love your passion so much that they also let you set up an affiliate program for their juice in order to generate sales and then you can gain commission.

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4. Become a Marilyn Monroe Fan on Twitter and write daily tweets about what you like about Marilyn and watch your followers grow. Before you know it you will have hundreds and thousands of fans. Once you have loads of fans you can sell anything you want to them including Marilyn Monroe bikinis.

5. Fight like a warrior, Act like a warrior. When you sell your product or service be strong and assertive and loyal and you will be respected. It isn’t until you become the ultimate champion that you will lead the way. So in the meantime atleast listen to your leaders. You may learn something.

6. Send out a newsletter to all your clients or website subscribers that are on your newsletter list allowing the most important clients to attend. In the newsletter mention for the 1st lot of clients who contact you before a certain date to confirm the booking may attend. Good to get your secretary to answer all calls and stretch a time frame within 2 weeks to place bookings around 2 hours apart for each client. During this meeting you may sell them your services.

Oct92009

Popular Sites with No Design

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I was amazed to see there are a quite a few sites out there which are very high Alexa ranked that do not have a design or skin. Take Craigslist as an example, it is the 27th most visited site in the world and doesn’t even have a god damn logo! Their site doesn’t come any basic then this and yet there are developers all around the world trying to clone it.

Craigslist, Digital Point, Wikipedia & Google to name a few….

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Digital Point Forums is also another good example being listed as 257 th most visited site in the world according to alexa. It’s site pulls in around $10,000 a month from google adsense and has around 300,000 members. You would think with the amount of money that is generated from a site like this could atleast skin the site other then using a default template.

Another one is Wikipedia, perhaps they are an exception due to the design of the logo, but the rest of the site is purely default looking.

But my favourite example would have to be Google the whole search engine is as basic as it gets except for their logo of course and sometimes this is all is takes, but for the lucky few, I will continue to be a believer in design.

The key to success with any website is less distraction as possible and with little advertising where possible.

You can see that from the 4 sites I mentioned, their ads are very neat and out of the way. This is key for successful sites. Another great example of this is Twitter and Youtube. No advertising clutter!

Oct82009

The Rich Jerk Lost His Car

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The Rich Jerk Sold his Porsche and seems to be quite upset about it. That’s right folks, Kelly Felix founder of The Rich Jerk seems to be just making ends meet. You can see this statement from his last tweet recently on twitter.

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If you havn’t heard of the The Rich Jerk and you are an affiliate or trying to make money on the internet then I would say you need to wake up a little. Kelly Felix founder of The Rich Jerk first started in 1995 and has been really one of the 1st Major Affiliate Market players since time.

Despite all scam claims and near bankruptcy he had his business up for sale in 2007 for 8 million dollars, but up until this day seems to be still running as usual.


You can never knock the guy, good on him for leading this industry and being creative with it. I must say it’s one of the most funny kind of affiliate sites I have ever come across. Don’t be mistaken, joining up to his site at the bear minimum for $9.95 is definitely worth it.

The ebook and free website template he offers to give you is in itself worth the money.One of the ebooks is over 60 pages and goes into detail on how to market your website.

Surprisingly he has tips on SEO and information on how to make money on ebay and lots of other goodies.

The marketing techniques were last updated in 2008 and show you all the little tips and tricks to get you good traffic and generate income. I would say his product is good for newbies to average experienced webmasters

Oct82009

99 Ways To Make Money Using Twitter

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Unless you are living in an old age home without the internet you have heard of Twitter. Twitter really is the future of the internet when it comes to keeping an online diary of your day to day tasks. But is that all that twitter is about? Not really, infact Twitter has become a social media platform to really make money from.

99 Ways To Make Money Using Twitter

99 Ways To Make Money Using Twitter

In the book 99 Ways To Make Money Using Twitter , the book really goes down into the detail of what you can do to your twitter page to drive the most amount of attention to your viewers and to convert this to making money. This 355 page book is very insightful. Some of the topics included in the book are:

  • Turn Your Twitter Background Into An Unforgettable Brand
  • Put A Sales Message In Your Bio
  • Find Followers Who Bring Revenue
  • Tweet Your Brand Message
  • Follow Your Way To Valuable Inside Information
  • Boost Your Customer Service
  • Find Tips That Mean Bucks
  • Reach New Customers With A Twitter Directory Business Listings
  • How Twibes Can Bring Your Buyers
  • Find Rising Opportunity In Twitter’s Trends
  • Create Valuable Joint Ventures
  • Become A Professional Twitterer
  • Drive Valuable Traffic To Your Website
  • Pitch A Business Idea On Twitter
  • Take Orders On Twitter
  • Put Affiliate Links In Your Tweets
  • Make Direct Sales On Twitter
  • Create Profitable Email List With Twitter
  • Go Viral On Twitter
  • Sell Your Books
  • Promote Your T-Shirt Shop
  • Find Start-Up Funding
  • Find Local Buyers
  • Get Paid Per Twitter Click
  • Win A Twitter Competition
  • Build Your Future Reputation

Each topic which is covered in this book is 3-4 pages long so there will be really good information on the process of each one.

Oct72009

Top 7 Online Advertising Options

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The first alternative I look for my clients apart from search engine optimisation is suitable online advertising methods. In this day and age advertising on the internet has a wider audience and appeals to a much bigger market then what it used to. With this in mind, it is not a question about having a budget, it is more a question of where to spend your online advertising budget.

So with this in mind I put together a list of the top 7 advertising options that I find to be most effective.

The list is as follows:

1. Google Adwords – Google allows you to bid on certain keywords and keyphrases on a pay per click basis and also broken down on page impressions. You will find Google adwords extremely effective when starting out your Online Marketing in the early stages before starting SEO.

2. Yahoo Advertising – You choose keywords related to the products or services your business sells. You write a text ad to promote your business in search results. You decide the maximum amount you want to pay each time your ad is clicked. Get $25 free advertising credit.

3. YouTube - When a YouTube viewer clicks on your promotion, they see your video. You only pay when people click to see your video – not when people see your promotion.

4. Microsoft Advertising (MSN Messenger, Windows Live, Bing.com) – Microsoft have alot of different advertising packages, all in which work very well and even including others such as CNN and Xbox

5. Twitter -  If you are serious about social networking and are active in this industry it’s a good avenue to target. Advertisers can tweet on your web page for a set amount. This set amount is calculated on your popularity and how many followers you already have.

6. Facebook – Facebook ads work very well and particularly well for online businesses that have a social aspect to it. You can display ads with text along side each wall of a user and is also based on PPC.

7. Business.com – There are PPC or Directory listings available. They also get around 8 million business buyers per month. Get $100 free advertising credit.

I hope that by putting this list together it will be helpful in getting the most return out of your investment for your website business. Please be sure to leave comments about what type of advertising platform worked best for you!

If you are looking at advertising in some of the top web directories then be sure to also check this out!

Oct62009

7 Top Shopping Ecommerce Sites

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When choosing the right kind of ecommerce platform for your shopping website business it is important you try a few different sites before you get exactly what you need.

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Recently launched Big Commerce are offering a great new affiliate program that allows users to create their own shopping site through their interface. It’s really a whole new step forward into the future, where getting a website up is easier then ever before.

I have been an affiliate member with Amazon for quite some time and feel it might be worth while to give Big Commerce a try out. One thing they claim which has brought my attention closer is they say their system is great for SEO.

  1. Big Commerce
    One thing I must admit I like about it after watching their demo video is you can drag and drop modules and edit or delete things really easy. Everything also seems to be run in Ajax too which is good for me as I don’t like waiting for things to load. I would say though the downfall is it seems like you can not take the code away from their server, you are more or less bound to their service. I guess which shopping application isn’t?
  2. Ebay
    One thing about ebay is they really get you alot of hits to your product, the problem is it is not like the old days where you can just list an item and it will sell no matter what. Now there are many competitors and other sellers trying to outbeat each other on price. One thing that is good about ebay though is you can add your website url underneath your item. This is a good way of leading them from there to your website
  3. Amazon
    Amazon have really done a wonderful turn around in the recent months and year or so, offering a whole range of different platforms to add to your own existing website including widgets, add ons, and astore product wich allows you to add code directly to your webpage. You can gain commissions on the products you choose to sell that are set by them. If you have your own product and you want to sell directly through their website, that is another avenue and will take some consideration on their behalf if your product is worthy enough.
  4. Cafepress
    Cafepress is great if you are just starting out or perhaps don’t have your own product but perhaps have your own design, you can submit your design and set a price above the average item cost anything that sells above this price you collect the rest in profit on. The platform is very easy to use and theme to your liking.
  5. Overstock
    Overstock is a very well known shopping search engine that has loads of quality items for sale, If you would like to use their site to sell your products then it is only good if you can list your item in the auction area. To have them list your own item in the general categories are pretty difficult as they have certain expectations and requirements similar to amazon.
  6. Yahoo Shopping
    I have heard some great things about Yahoo Shopping although I am yet to try them out. If anyone has had experience using them please let us know about it.
  7. Kaboodle
    Is also quite user friendly and allows you to list your products and tag your products so that they some up in the search engines. Quite a nice platform. You can set pricing and have your items also link directly to the source.