internet marketing spot

Tips To Start Your eBay Business

2008-06-20T12:32:00.000+10:00

I've just heard about an exciting opportunity that I had to share with you right away. It involves the website eBay.com, and requires a bit of work on your part.

However, the payoff for you could be absolutely HUGE!

Let me explain...

I just received a message from Derek Gehl of the Internet Marketing Center, who had some pretty amazing news...

He told me that for the first time ever, he's convinced his elite team of eBay PowerSellers to let him put their proven success system down on paper, so ANYONE can use it to achieve life-changing income on eBay.

(This is the same system his eBay experts are using to teach their students how to build their own successful eBay businesses. Many of these students are making $1,000 to $10,000 a month on eBay -- within a matter of weeks!)

Anyway, here's where the 'opportunity' part comes in...

See, because this is the first time he's released this system to the general public, he needs more people who can "testify" that his system actually works.

If making a LOT of money (at least $100,000+ in your first year) is something that interests you, I'd like to invite you to check out a "review copy" of his new eBay profit system and give it a try!

And because he's so certain you're going to achieve incredible success with this system, he's willing to let you test-drive it absolutely risk free for a full 30 days -- for only 99 cents!

Derek is banking on the fact that you'll be up and running and making BIG profits on eBay in the next month or so, and will write him a nice "testimonial" that he can put up on his web page when he rolls out his full launch of this system to the public.

If not, no big deal... Just send it back and it won't have cost you anything.Sound interesting?

You can take part by going to:http://www.auctiontips.com/t.cgi/1099232/powersellers

Feel free to send me an e-mail if you have any questions at info@auctiontips.com

or call 1-800-595-9855.

All the best,

Steven Smart

P.S. I should mention, by the way, that this "system" has nothing to do with selling junk from around your house or scrounging stuff from flea markets and reselling it on eBay. See for yourself at: http://www.auctiontips.com/t.cgi/1099232/powersellers

2008-06-20T12:30:00.000+10:00

Derek Gehl has done it again

2006-11-16T22:21:00.000+10:00

Can I show you a way to earn extra commission?

Hi,

As a valued subscriber, I want to show you an exciting opportunity that is currently earning thousands of other netrepreneurs huge incomes every single month without the headaches of actually selling your own product!

The fact is, I don't typically endorse other people's products, never mind business ventures. However, after generating some serious profits doing nothing more than making a few simple recommendations, I just knew THIS WASN'T A SECRET I COULD KEEP TO MYSELF.

The "Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet" course is the #1 best-selling Internet Marketing course online -- and now you have the UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY to recommend this quality product to your visitors, customers, and subscribers, and...

EARN A $65 COMMISSION ON EVERY COPY SOLD!

This means that you can easily:

A) CAPITALIZE ON THE LIFETIME VALUE OF CUSTOMERS you may have from an existing e-business by sending them "backend" offers for the course. (Statistics have repeatedly shown that, of the people who have bought from you before, 36% WILL BUY AGAIN!)

B) EARN 250% MORE SALES than you would promoting your own product by making a "friendly recommendation" as opposed to pushing your own product or service.

... All without the usual hassles and expense of product development and fulfillment!

It's extremely easy to do because you just post a link, a banner, or a short letter of recommendation on your web site -- or perhaps recommend the course in your newsletter or e-zine -- and then COLLECT A PERCENTAGE OF THE PROFITS (called a "referral fee") when a sale is made!

You don't ever worry about:

- Collecting the money

- Packaging the product

- Shipping the product

- Customer service

... or anything else for that matter! You just do the promotion and collect your referral fee from the resulting sales!

Typically, affiliates who have web sites with low traffic earn between $400 - $900 per month, affiliates with medium traffic sites earn anywhere from $1,200 - $2,700 per month, and heavy traffic sites can expect $4,000+ per month. Their top affiliates are earning $8,000+ every month!

So if you'd like to learn how you can join the Internet Marketing Center's Affiliate Program today -- at absolutely no cost, with absolutely no risk -- and start profiting from products that are earning current affiliates thousands of dollars every month, then I highly recommend visiting...

http://www.marketingtips.com/sr/t.x/883551

But don't hesitate. I've sent you this e-mail because we're kicking ourselves for not joining sooner, and as a valued subscriber, I don't want you to lose out by making this same mistake.

All the best,

Steven SMART

Affiliate Marketing

2006-09-25T07:49:00.000+10:00

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing

So you finally made it. Despite other people trying to discourage you, your web site is online, and you are anxiously waiting for the first sell. After a sleepless night, you jump out of bed and start your computer. You already see yourself laughing all the way to the banks with your moneybags....

Boom! It hurt you harder than a freight train. No sales yet! Worse is, you open your wallet, only to see old receipts. Hmm, how will I be able to sell my products if I can even afford a marketing campaign?

That person was me, 4 years ago. Yes, I found a way to promote my product through the web, and sold a few. My sales and marketing campaign didn’t cost me a dime…yet I was able to reach a global audience in a few days only. How? By discovering one of the most reliable marketing technique on the Internet, called affiliate marketing.

What is affiliate marketing?

Affiliate marketing is one the oldest method of selling your product. The method of operation is simple: You have an affiliate that sends customers to your web site, and when a transaction is made, the affiliate gets rewarded with a small fee for the referral.

Let’s pretend your company is selling a fitness supplement. The Internet is all new to you, and experience is not on your side. You will try all-day to make a single sale, turning in circle on the Internet in the forums and discussion board, pushing people to buy your product. Why waste your time when you could be doing more productive tasks?

This sounds good, but what are the benefits?

The biggest plus about affiliate networking is you will only be paying the referrer when a sales transaction is made, so your investment remains safe until the last minute. Since your salesman has every reason to reach as many people as possible, you know your brand will be exposed before tons of possible customers, all for your company’s benefit.

Every company needs a mercenary sales force. They have the network and the knowledge that you don’t have, and would take too long for you to acquire.

Ok, how do I join?

The early days of affiliate networks were a mess. Spam, pop-up, fake web sites…referrers were constantly trying to cheat the system. There were little control from the web master on the affiliates, and this was deteriorating the service.

Now in 2006, business owners can now join affiliate networks that will safely manage their campaign for them: All you have to do is open an account, give your web site url, and that’s it. We recommend clickbank, and fastclick.

A recent survey indicated that 84% of online business reported a 20% growth after using affiliate marketing. What are you waiting for?

Build your business by watching TV!

2006-09-16T18:10:00.000+10:00

Dear Friend,

Do you own a television and a VCR or DVD player?
Because if you do, I want to give you over 278 minutes (that's over 4 hours!) of information that you can use to start or grow a profitable Internet business right away!
See, it's scientifically proven that some people learn better and faster by "seeing" and "hearing" than by reading.

So if you're one of those people who would rather watch someone do a "live" demonstration of how to build a successful online business instead of just reading about it, listen up!
I have access to over 278 minutes of video footage with Internet marketing legend Corey Rudl, giving demonstrations of how he made $7.6 million per year using the Internet.
PLUS, you'll get real-life examples of how other peopleare making $100,000+ per year with THEIR web sites using histechniques... so you can model their success, too!
To start watching these videos right away, visit:
http://www.marketingtips.com/ultimate/t/883551/
But don't put this off... Other people have paid as much as $5,000 to get this SAME information -- so I highly doubt these videos will be available for long.

Hope you enjoy!

Steven SMART

Niche to meat you

2006-09-14T14:44:00.000+10:00

Niche to meat you

If there is one thing established and new businesses have in common, it is the importance of identifying your target market. It probably sounds obvious, although many new businesses suffer from a lack of market clarity, as they try to please every consumer. When the brakes on your car need to be changed, are you going to a general garage or a brake specialist? And when you eat out, aren’t you a bit suspicious of restaurants that list every type of food on their menu?

Theses business might still break even at the end of the day, although the “shoot in the middle’’ approach is the guarantee to a slow growth. Why not consider the consumer type more likely to buy your product, and focus all of your services and marketing on him? This is called niche marketing.

If your business focuses on filling a need, clearly defined by a group of potential customers holding the same demographics, you are hitting a niche market. The more outlined your market is, the easier to craft an advertising message that will reach your audience personally.

Most of the times, the big mainstreams companies are using the approach “let’s sell to everybody”. They need the profits, so they engage in massive sales transactions. The smaller groups with specific needs are too small to serve them profitably. They will leave theses small groups (and the profits that goes with them!) to the smaller businesses.

The faster you will be able to identify your niche market, the faster your new venture will start to make sales. This factor is often overlooked, since a key success factor of a new business is the time it will take to start bringing in the money.

Also, rumours go fast within interest-oriented Internet communities. Once the word get out your company is filling a special need unique to this precise group, word of mouth will propel your product through all corners of the Internet.

So just how do you define your niche market?

1. Profile your user: What are his characteristics? What are his dominant emotions? Put yourself in his shoes and see if you can think like him.

2. After you know who he is, you need to know where to find him. Does he frequent specific web sites? Which newsletters does he read? If you can’t find any discussion board that share the same interest as your market, maybe you can create one.

3. Finally, you need to circulate your message and expose your brand. You can rent ads in a newsletter, or become a regular contributor on a discussion board. You can also offer free samples of your product. In other words, show who you are, and what you can do for them.

The next time you will be thinking about launching your next business, aim for a big chunk of a small market, instead of the opposite. Your customers will reward you for it.

Direct Marketing

2006-09-07T19:22:00.000+10:00

Direct Marketing

If one of human’s biggest mistakes is failing from learning from the past, the same applies to marketing. With the Internet changing the way we look at selling your product, you have to resist the excitement created by the new technologies and forget what matters to your business: whether your prospects are buying your products. So before your grandfather starts his monologue by saying ‘’when I was your age’’, let’s take a brief look at direct marketing and what it can do for your online business.

According to Wilkipedia, Direct marketing is a discipline within marketing that involves the planned recording, analysis and tracking of individual customers' (business-to-business or consumer) responses and transactions for the purpose of developing and prolonging mutually profitable customer relationships. In simple terms, it means gathering as much information as possible about your audience: What do they want? What is their age group? Do they share the same hobby? When you compile as much data as possible from your audience, you start to create a personal bond. When that bond is solid enough, it’s almost a slam dunk to make the sale.

One of the biggest mistakes of today’s online marketers is not using what has been proved to work. The Internet might be a revolutionary channel of information, but the human’s genes were not scientifically modified with its arrival. The presentation might have changed, but the content remains the same: we buy on emotion then rationalize our decisions. Why change the magic formula with a lengthy flash introduction or unreadable fonts?

All of this is interesting, you say, but what about my internet business? How can I run a direct marketing campaign through my website? Well, you can run a direct marketing campaign in three easy steps:

1- Start to collect every particle of information about your prospect. Looks at the logs on your website. Does your traffic always visit the same link? What do they click? You can also ask your visitors to participate in a online survey and ask specific demographic questions, or see if they respond to certain promotions.

2- Now you need to analyze the data. Did he buy from you in the past? If so, what did he like / dislike about the product you are selling? What would he change if he had the chance? Put yourself in his shoes, and try thinking like he does.

3- Finally, you need to adjust your website’s sales message to reflect your prospect’s different emotions, mix them together, and integrate them on your web site. If your survey revealed that a particular benefit of your product came out on top in your survey, imagine how much sales can be increased by focusing your copy on that specific benefit?

As a recap, direct marketing is the science of finding as much as possible about your prospect, then using that information to adjust and personalize your sales message. It is all about forging that personal bond.

Direct Marketing

i need your help

2006-09-01T17:26:00.000+10:00

If you're at all serious about making money with your own online business, then it is essential that you carefully consider the deal I want to make with you today...

My good friend Derek Gehl has publicly released the newest edition of his famous "Insider Secrets" online wealth-generating system... and I was wondering if you would mind testing it?

You see, I'm considering partnering with Derek (he and his team have made over $54.7 Million in online sales, and he really *gets* how to be successful selling almost anything using the Internet) -- but before I team up with Derek, I want to make absolutely SURE his system will work for my customers and subscribers.

So here's what I'm proposing:

I've worked out a deal with Derek, and he will ship you (via Federal Express) a 10 lb. box.

In this box you'll find 2 DVDs, 6 resource CDs, 2 guidebooks, and 2 thick binders containing in excess of 1,385 pages explaining the step-by-step instructions on how to start and grow a wildly profitable Internet business.

All I'm asking you to do is follow the instructions. If you do this, one of two things will happen:

The system will work for you, and you'll start living the dream of "passive" income with your very own Internet business.

You'll be literally making money while you sleep!

OR:

The system won't work for you. If this happens, Derek will personally write you a check for $200 as our way of apologizing for wasting your time.

In other words, the absolute WORST thing that can happen if you take us up on this is that you'll come out $200 ahead!

The best case scenario is something far, far more exciting...

...luxury vacations, new cars for you and your family, paying off your mortgage... It's up to you!

All you need to do today is tell Derek where to send your package by clicking the link below:

http://www.marketingtips.com/t.cgi/883551

All the best,

Steven Smart

P.S. By the way -- do you want to meet a few of the people who are *already* using Derek's system?

-- Rory M. from Ireland made over $1,000,000 last year selling a VERY strange gizmo from his simple little web site. (I still don't understand exactly what it does!)

-- Barbara J. is making a steady $8,500 a month telling people how to rearrange their old furniture. (She's a 60-year-old grandmother, and she works LESS than 1 lousy hour a day!)

-- Chris E. must be the envy of his Australian surfer buddies down at the beach... He makes over $200,000 a year working about 9 hours per week. Not bad for a 23-year-old kid!

You can read more of their stories, and find out all the details of how YOU can get started too by visiting:

http://www.marketingtips.com/t.cgi/883551

All the best,

Search Engine Optimization

2006-08-27T15:26:00.000+10:00

Search Engine Optimization

It’s celebration time. After ten months of hard work, you and your team are launching your new corporate web site. Ties are getting loosen up, Champaign is served and everybody is giving high fives….except one person, the IT guy, sitting alone pensively in a corner of the room.

You walk up to him and ask him what’s wrong. His answer catches you by surprise:

“Sure, this is all nice, but did someone thought about search engine optimization? »

The room suddenly goes quiet and people look to one another: What is search engine optimization?

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the art behind creating and designing a web site that will rank in the first results of a specific search term, on the top search engines and directories. With over 80 billions of web sites out there, the advantage of ranking first in your field is undeniable.

Investing in SEO, whether through time or finance, is hands down the best return on investment your can make. If you sell tomatoes and your site comes up first every time someone searches for tomatoes, you are improving your chances of closing the deal. Will your prospect find your site first…or will he find your competitor’s?

The science behind SEO

The key to having a web site that ranks high on the top search engine is content. If you offer the quality and quantity of content people are looking for, the search engine will reward you by sending masses of qualified traffic to your doorstep.

The search engine will list your site and many others when someone searches for one of your keyword. That’s why it is important to find the relevant keywords that should represent your website. You have to ask yourself the following question: What is your target audience likely to type when searching for your product if he was ignoring your business’s existence?

After you rank the keywords depending on their difficulty (using Search guild difficulty tool), you can incorporate theses words in your page’s copy and in your HTML codes, such as in the titles, Meta keyword and description.

How to find the proper SEO expert

So who should be managing your SEO campaign? Well, if you have the time and want to save a few bucks, you can try it yourself. It would be easier and more effective to hire a professional SEO firm to run your campaign. Since there are many self-proclaimed experts on the Internet, ask to see their portfolio and results of their past clients. The last thing you want is to hire an unethical SEO firm that will get you banned from the search engines.

As a final note, remember that search engine’s goals are to rank the best, most usable and informative site first. Having a web site that people will be happy to come back is the key for a top ranking.

Search Engine Marketing

pay per click marketing

2006-08-22T09:15:00.000+10:00

Pay-Per Click Marketing

Let me begin this article by asking this simple question: Have you ever considered paying a small fee for each customer to visit your site?

There are roughly 350 millions users surfing the Internet, divided in two groups: Buyers and non-buyers. How can you focus your campaign on the first group, saving time and money by removing the second group from the equation? The answer lies in a technique called Pay-per click marketing, the supreme tool in guiding qualified prospects to your web site.

What is pay-per click marketing?

Pay-Per-click marketing was designed to give website owners a precise control on their marketing campaign.

The process is simple: You place a bid on select keywords representing your products and services. Every time a search is made on theses terms, your ad appears in the right column of the results page as a sponsored link. Clicking your ad will lead the user to your site, and you pay a small fee for the referral. The visitor find a relevant site and you have a prospect interested in buying your product. Everybody wins.

Not only will this marketing strategy gives you a closer grip on your advertising budget (as you can decide how much a click should cost you), you only pay when your advertisement is clicked.

How do I start?

The trick with PPC is to write a clever and persuasive ad if you want to beat your competition. Here is what a basic PPC strategy looks like:

1. First, you need to decide which keywords you want to bid on. Write on an excel sheet all the top searches terms that describe your business or service. Add words that are relevant to your product, such as cheap, discount, low value etc…In other words, reinforce why your customers should buy from your site.

2. Second, you must decide on which platform you want your ad to appear. The two most popular are Google’s AdWord or Yahoo’s overture, as they hold about 80% of the market. Submit your ad based on your keywords, decide on a title, link the ad to your site and you’re done!

3. Finally, track your ad’s performance by analyzing the reports at your disposition. Both systems offer a high degree of accountability, offering multiple online tools to analyze your results, such as the click through and conversation rates.

No other advertising techniques provide such a well-chosen audience. Just remember that a catchy ad doesn’t sell your product by itself, as it is only a part of your marketing effort. When well managed, PPC offers the best return on your marketing budget.

pay per click marketing

viral marketing

2006-08-14T15:55:00.000+10:00

If this is the first time you hear the expression Viral marketing, you probably get the mental picture of a slimy and contagious virus. Indeed, viral marketing is found in every corner of the Internet, in forums, e-mails and on web pages. It starts by being nothing, and can grow quickly, getting bigger with every exposed person.

The challenge with using viral marketing is to publicize your web site’s address, hoping that it will spread the contagion and expose your web site to the masses. Would you like to know the scary part? There is no vaccine to stop the propagation...

Viral marketing is the equivalent of word of mouth, in a more powerful Internet version. While a study on consumer habits revealed the average consumer will tell 7 other persons about his favourite restaurant, he will nearly double his audience by telling 13 persons about his online buying experience.

The success stories of this practice are numerous: Who never saw the “wassup’’ spot from Budweiser? Or what about the movie Blair witch project, cashing in more than $ 137 millions in profit. This movie was a huge success with the teen market; all originated from is creepy original website.

The benefits associated with viral marketing are many: The interaction with your audience, the low cost of operations and the rapidity with which you can track the results are obvious.

It doesn’t matter if your company is big or a small. The success of your viral marketing campaign will rely on mainly two aspects: innovation and visibility.

Innovation is about developing an original concept for your campaign and giving what you have, like a free online flash game, original articles, or free screensavers. The word “free” is probably the strongest in the sales dictionary. Give something for free to your public, and you will reach a global audience in a matter of minutes.

Improving your visibility depends on who you choose as the transmitters. You can look in your entourage, like within your friends, parents and colleagues. Good for start-up, although the Internet gives you more advanced options:

- Forums: Often referred as online communities, becoming a regular contributor on a forum with people sharing the same interest is very effective, and most importantly low cost. Extra tip: Put your URL link in your message board signature.

- Article directories: Writing articles on your field of operations will show you as an expert on the subject, inevitably exposing your brand to the Internet public.

- Blog: Publishing original content every day on your blog is a sure way to get your website more visible on the Internet.

In the end, viral marketing can have powerful results, either positive or negative. Offer a bad service, and watch your credibility fly off the window. Give something good to your public and sky is the limit.

viral marketing

e-mail marketing part two

2006-08-06T13:51:00.000+10:00

e-mail marketing - the facts are...

if you're NOT properly educated about how to collect, manage, and store e-mail addresses...
if you don't know how to avoid being accused of spamming and how to deal with the anti-spam organizations should you be accidentally "blacklisted" as a result of a few forgetful subscribers...
if you don't know how to format your e-mail so that it will be displayed professionally in the majority of e-mail clients...

e-mail marketing can be very frustrating, and it can produce very disappointing results.
On the other hand...

if you ARE educated and you DO know what works, what doesn't, and how to AVOID the dangers and pitfalls, you can dramatically increase the income of your online or offline business!
that's why this "advanced guide: will show you everything, from growing a super-responsive opt-in list as quickly as possible, to generating the highest possible revenue from every e-mail you send. to protecting your business from being wrongly accused of spamming and knowing how to effectively deal with it if you are.

and explain when you should mail, how you should mail, what you should write, and when you should send it so that you are guaranteed the best possible results from each and every e-mail.

if you don't want to be left be hind and loss all that exrta money checkout "The Insider Secrets to Email Marketing -- Version 2006 " writen by the good people at the internet marketing center.

e-mail marketing

2006-08-06T13:17:00.000+10:00

e-mail marketing.

so there you are, sipping on your Manhattan at an after hour with a few colleagues and friends. Like every thursday the discussion focus on your respective business, discussing business strategies and marketing tips. you wait for a pause in the conversation, and you announce that your company is thinking about using e-mail marketing in his next customer acquisition plan. glasses are put down, and brows are frown all around the table. isn’t this the reaction you expected? after all, isn’t e-mail marketing a nicer word for spam?

what is e-mail marketing?

spam or not, e-mail has officially become the standard for communicating on the internet, with the number of e-mails users growing daily. rarely will you pick up a business card that won’t contain an e-mail address.

e-mail marketing is the practice of sending sales letters or newsletters by e-mail to a coveted audience. While some find it annoying to scour through an inbox full of sales messages, e-mail marketing is one of the most cost-effective campaign a business can run. every e-mail sent to a potential customer should follow the principles of direct response, meaning each message is to request an action from the receiver: either direct the customer to your website by clicking a link, or simply forging your customer relationship by exposing your brand.

how can it help my business?

a couple of years ago, almost anybody would have been excited to receive a single e-mail. now in 2006, e-mails communications are under strict laws, not even mentioning the overzealous spam filters that might block your message from finding its recipient.

risked or not, the benefits associated with e-mail marketing are undeniable:

- increased response time: your customer and you can communicate as quickly as it takes to send a quick message, opposed to the delays with traditional phone and mail systems.

- cost reduction: contrary to regular mail where a good chunk of your budget is spent on postages costs. e-mails cost only a few cent, and can be sent anywhere in the world.

- firmer control on your campaign: electronic tracking makes it much easier to track and analyze the response on an e-mail marketing campaign, than having to wait for the responses from a traditional mail campaign.

final thoughts on e-mail marketing.

since it’s a thin red line between spam and an official e-mail, you have to be careful. we strongly recommend building a list of e-mail addresses earned through your website, instead of renting a list and blindly send your company’s name to a list of person that most probably do not care about whom you are.

in e-mail marketing, personalization is the key. the more your message is personalized to its recipient, the greater your chances are of building a relationship. it’s about putting the right message in front of the right person, at the right time.

e-mail marketing

internet marketing explained

2006-08-06T12:20:00.000+10:00

welcome to the internet marketing spot blog page. here i will try and teach you about the diferent types of marketing styles and how to implement them into your own internet business.