What is your vision? How is this vision communicated to inspire you and your organisation? You don’t have a clear and powerful vision? Join the club. When I’m working with individuals, I’ve noticed that generally they fall into two distinct categories regarding having a strong vision. Either they’ve never really had the opportunity to understand the concept of having or defining their vision. Or they have a vision statement because they think they ‘should’. Remember, ‘shoulds’ represent other people’s expectations and therefore not things to which you a personally committed.
Technology That Sells: POP-UPS
Every day someone writes and asks me to “look at their site.” What they are wanting is a critique of their design, sales process, etc. Almost always there are a couple things they are missing that would greatly enhance the selling power of the site. This week I want to write a quick review of a couple of those things and even give you a file folder with some sample pages in it to show you how it all works.
Don’t you hate pop-ups? You go to a site and you are blasted with window after window advertising everything from casinos to mini-cameras.
Even though I hate pop-ups when I am surfing, as a web- marketer, I love them.
Pop-ups are one of the keys to making REAL MONEY rather than just surviving on the web. Here’s why:
Run Profitable Contests with the Aid of Autoresponders
Running a contest for your e-zine subscribers or web site visitors is one way you can generate interest and give more exposure for products or services you want to promote.
A contest could be as simple as spotting a word or a set of words within an e-zine’s issue or searching for a graphic on a site. A contest can run for one issue, or it can last for a month or more.
If you plan to run a contest, make sure you have a “contest management response system” in place.
This could be as simple as an automated e-mail receipt to let your participants know their entry has been received.
Run a contest that asks your participants to send their responses to specific e-mail addresses. Then create an automated receipt confirmation for each account.
Production-Line Creativity
Are you as productive and creative as you could be?
A few years ago I travelled up the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, and visited a client whose wife was a potter. She showed me around her large, well-lit studio.
The Fastest Opt-In List Growing Secret
Are you running ads and marketing with tag lines that send people to your website? Then you’re missing the point of internet marketing and losing out on your best money making opportunity.
First a little history. The guys who started internet marketing were all either successful direct marketers or people who learned from successful direct marketers. Direct marketing is marketing through the mail, catalogs, infomercials, etc.
Ask any direct marketer or any internet marketer who has gotten REAL results what the most important part of marketing is. They will ALL tell you it’s the list, the list, the list. In internet marketing this means YOUR opt-in e-mail list for your ezine or newsletter.
The MEAT Inside a Winning Proposal
“Yep!” Preparing proposals is enough to make most people cringe. They take too long to prepare. They’re absolutely boring to write and a real pain in the neck. Sound familiar?
Seven Top Ways to Promote your Ezine
One. Network offline. Visit professional like-minded groups. These groups usually meet once a month, have speakers, and networking time for you to mix with other professionals. You will get valuable information at these meetings for low cost”yearly memberships run around $25-$50 giving you free meeting attendance. Each meeting is around two hours including networking time and speaker. Usually at each meeting you are given a 30-second time to introduce yourself.
Find Your Passion And You’ll Find Success In Business
Most successful entrepreneurs have a strong passion for their ideas or concepts. They know what they want and they know what they enjoy doing. Their work becomes their play.
The secret to success in business is to find your passion. Know specifically what it is you want in life.
Follow Up: Killing the SpamBot Spiders
Almost every website operator wants search engine spiders to visit. After all, search engines are the best source of free traffic on the web. In the event that you don’t want them to visit, they are easily kept at bay with a properly formatted “robots.txt” file.
How To Double, Even Triple Your Sales Instantly
Everyone from pizza chains to video stores have used the principals of positioning to explode their business. And now, you too can use this strategy — regardless of the size of your business — to catapult sales.