Jun 26, 2012

The Ultimate Marketers Toolbox?

When marketing on the internet, sometimes you feel like your head is going to explode! The amount of tools, systems, and services out there will make your head spin which make promises of easy riches when you use them.

Every day, there seems to be another "magic tool" that pops up promising millions of visitors to your site and large sums of money in your bank account....effortlessly.

It can get overwhelming and take focus away from what you should be doing to build your business.
As you know, there are tools out there that not only make your life easier, but keep your business running on auto-pilot for you.

The trick is to know which ones to focus on and which ones to stay away from!
Let's go through the essentials which every top internet marketer depends on a daily basis to run their million dollar businesses...

1) Web Hosting
Obviously, without hosting, the internet would be a pretty boring place to hang out. If you have a domain name, you need a place to host it so others can find you.
Hosting companies out there range from free all the way to over $500 a month for dedicated hosting.
The key is to find a company that provides 99% uptime and also provides 24/7 support in case you ever have a problem.
And of course, just like anything, you get what you pay for.

2) Auto-Responders
Have you heard the phrase, "The Money Is In The List?"
Well, having an autoresponder and building a list that knows, likes, and trusts you is the fastest way to literally pushing a button and having money coming in your bank account... faster than you can say... Hot Biscuits!
The formula is simple.
Create a page that gives something of huge value totally away for free. This could be a free report, a video lesson, an audio interview, or a live webinar.
Then, in exchange for your free information, the visitor will give you their name and email address.
And then the magic happens. You can follow up with them automatically and offer more value and even get them to buy something!
This is all done using an auto-repsonder, all automatically and efficiently for you.
Again, companies providing auto-responders range from $20 a month up to $99 a month.

3) Video Hosting
The internet is all about video. And without some type of video on your website, most people will simply not hang around.
Video allows you to bond with your visitor and create more trust than with just words on your site.
We've all heard of YouTube for sure. But is a free service that is known for pranks, jokes, and music videos the right image for your business?
There's a reason the top marketers host their videos through paid services and you should to.

4) Website Builder and Prospecting System
99% of internet marketers don't have the time and/or the skills to create their own websites or prospecting pages. Trying to learn website design and html code is not the best way to spend your time.
That's where website builders come in. You simply customize your pages with your own video, product info, auto-responder, and you're done!

5) Live Webcasts
The most powerful way to sell is face to face. You get instant feedback and customers can ask questions and get their answers immediately.
Since we don't want to meet all our visitors in person... Webcasts are the next best thing.
We can sit in the comfort of our own homes and present to people all over the world. Product demonstrations, video overviews, live questions and answers, it's all possible with Webcasts.
If you're not using Webcasts in your business, you are missing out on thousands of dollars of sales.
Typical companies charge between $49 to $99 a month and more.


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Jun 21, 2012

Welcome to the woothemes affiliate & referral program





Wanted: WooThemes Support Technician

The WooCommunity has grown at such an alarming rate (229 000 members as I'm typing this), which means the WooTeam needs to continue growing to feed the frenzy. :) We're looking to add a couple of talented developers to the WooThemes Support team.
As a WooThemes Ninja & Support Technician, you’ll provide support to WooThemes customers who have questions about our products, installing them and modifying them to suit their needs. WooThemes has customers all over the world, in every timezone on the planet.
We’re looking for someone who wants to answer their questions quickly and keep them educated about our awesome products.

WooCommerce Gets Subscriptions

Adding subscription / recurring billing functionality for WooCommerce has been the #1 most requested feature for quite a while. Well today we get to make your day! :)
WC Subscriptions
WC Subscriptions makes it easy to create and manage products with recurring payments. Create a subscription product just like any other WooCommerce product, and you're reading to start selling subscriptions. With Subscriptions, you can charge recurring payments per day, week, month or year. You can add an optional sign-up fee and duration. Shipping fees, discounts & taxes are all applied to recurring payments.

New Free Theme: Articifer

Articifer
We've just released our brand-new, free theme Articifer. The theme has an arts-and-crafts feel to it and is absolutely perfect for selling your home-crafted goods via WooCommerce.

Let us feature your WooThemes work!

If you are building awesome websites and / or businesses using any WooThemes products, we want to know about them! Nothing excites us more than seeing your fantastic work! :)
The first step is to submit your WooThemes-powered projects to our Showcase. From here, we handpick a few select projects that make it onto our blog as case studies. So keep up the fantastic work and keep submitting them for us to enjoy!
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WooThemes
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Jun 2, 2012

Tips for Advertising Your Business Opportunity

Advertising is one of the most important aspects of parts of creating a successful business. It is essential to make sure others know about your business, and the only way that will transpire is if you are consistently advertising your business opportunity. Not only is advertising important but also the way you choose to advertise. You don’t want to advertise blindly thinking when you reach more people you will generate more interest. The key is to reach your target audience or those most likely to be interested in the products or services you are offering.

The advertising mode you use is quite important to your success. While classified advertising may work for local advertising, it is not as effective within the online community. That doesn’t mean you won’t achieve any success by advertising your business opportunity in classified advertisements, but you do not want to make it your primary advertising method. When you first begin you may wish to utilize more effective methods and save the classified advertising for a later date when you have a high budget and can choose those ads that will provide the most exposure.  

The primary method you will likely use in order to make sure your business gets the most exposure is website submission. Unless you submit your website to the search engines no one will be able to find your website in a search thus any other methods you use for advertising your business opportunity will be fruitless. You may receive a few visitors from your other advertising, but none of them will be able to find you in searches, the most essential component of a successful online business. You can choose one of the free services initially and submit your website to 40 search engines and then later choose a premium service that often submits your website to over 600 search engines and over 1,000 directories.

A cheap and effective means of advertising is including your website URL in the signature line of your email. This will assure everyone to whom you send an email as the option of checking out your website without it appearing as if you are doing any advertising. Quite often someone will go to your website out of curiosity and discover they are interested in the information it provides. It doesn’t have to be just business email; you can include it in your personal email as an added bonus.

Email advertising is another good method for advertising, but you have to be careful you do not spam anyone. Many people will leave links in forums and other places they frequent asking people to contact them for more information if they are interested. They may also collect email addresses from other sources and send an introductory email requesting permission to send more information.

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