A great site for discovering what people want is 43 Things, where members answer the question “What do you want to do with your life?” As of last count, there were “1,079,901 people in 12,943 cities” writing down what they want to do. http://43things.com
Kevin Riley: Author of “Recipe For Your Own Online Money Factory“
Suppose you have a $50 product and it costs you $40 to get 100 prospects. Of these 100, 1% buys your product. The result is $50revenue, $40 cost and $10 profits. Now, through minor changes to your sales process, you are able to get 2 sales per 100 visitors. You justmade $100, expenses still are […]
- Subscribers sell themselves
- Answer questions
- Invite guest blogs
- Highlight client’s success
- Ask for feedback in comments
- Link to prospect’s blogs
- Build community on blog
- Track what’s read, comments left and visited
- Be a resource - link to relevant articles
- Promote blog via email
- Promote blog on social networking sites
- Supports Search Engine Optimization
- Creates […]
If you do something long enough, you develop tools to make the job more manageable, efficient, and effective.
Soon, those tools become indispensable. In other words, you wouldn’t want to do the job without them.
I’ve built a lot of online selling systems — for myself, for small business clients, for corporate clients, and for collaborative projects.
In […]
- Post a question and get an almost immediate response.
- Scanning Twittosphere can give you instant feel of what’s going on.
- Can send links through Twitter which leads to clickthroughs.
- Choose to participate or lurk from phone, if needed.
- Can catch up quickly if you aren’t online.
- Takes less than a minute where a blog […]
Press releases are a great way to get exposure for your business, but why?
- Exposure you receive is essentially an endorsement for your business. A press release is like a real-live endorsement.
- Link building. A well-crafted campaign can become a link building campaign.
- Coverage leads to more coverage. As your media exposure grows online and […]
1. Oversubscribe – If it looks interesting, subscribe.
2. Try a River of News View – Read the most recent items
3. Use multiple services – start with Netvibes, Pageflakes, or iGoogle
4. Try out a desktop reader
5. Tag items to share – this will help your feed reader be more meaningful
6. Learn about OPML – Outline Process […]
Affiliate marketing may seem like the perfect, hands off business, but it does take work. But being hand on can increase your affiliate income. Do this through an email list by adding an opt-in form on your blog or website. You can promote more than one affiliate program and promote them all to your list, […]
- Chop it down 4 inches! Cut 800 words by 50% to be concise.
- What’s the hook? Where’s the lead? Put the most important details first then lesser important
- Headlines: the ultimate salesman for your story. Grab your reader with the headline or they may not stick around.
- Captions: the Cinderella sentences. Be sure to […]
Creating a unique private policy isn’t difficult:
1. Be explicit about not selling or giving away email addresses
2. Discuss tracking uses on your blog
3. Emphasize you’re NOT responsible for policies of links to your site
4. Reserve the right to change policy at any time
5. Provide contact information for users
6. Easily understood is best
7. Follow your own […]
