I remember reading time and time again when I first begun my Internet Marketing adventure that a mailing list was one of “the” best ways to generate larger amounts of money online. So I wasted no time in implementing a mailing list for my businesses. Or business (to start with).
There are a few ways you can implement this idea into your own business.
You can do it by free simply by setting up a few email addresses. Calling one of them subscribe for example: subscribe@mywebdomain.com and place it on your website as a hyperlink and let your visitors know they can sign on to your newsletter by sending a blank email to that address. (If you know a little about making websites then you can add boxes and have it auto submit to your web address for better presentation and more simplicity and ease for your visitors to subscribe).
Then you will need to set up a remove address for example: remove@mywebdomain.com. This is vital that you give your subscribers and option to opt out anytime that they want, otherwise you could be facing a lot of angry people that won’t mind displaying to the big wide web exactly what they think of your business (which can almost destroy you), or complain to the higher up places and land you in deep do-do.
This option is very much labour intensive as you will need to keep on top of who’s subscribed and who wants to be removed every time before you send out a newsletter.
When I’m actively promoting and advertising my websites I have been known to get over 100 subscribers a day. That’s why I love my aweber, it does all the labour intensive work for me. The small fee it costs has paid for itself time and time again.
© Joanne King - http://www.joesy.com
10 Benefits of Being a Blogger
I have been a blogger since September 2004 but only began to take it seriously this year. My blogging journey began when I stumbled upon a company owned by Google named Blogger.com that offered free tools to build a website.
In fact Blogger provides you with free several templates which you can customize in addition to a domain name hosted on their server. You can host your blog on your domain if you like to. Here are some benefits I found while blogging:
1) Easy to manage. A blog can be set up by even a novice in no time. All you have to do is post and publish. Blogging can get as simple as that or even more complex.
2) Easy to update. Blogs can be updated weekly or daily instead of sometimes monthly for a static website. Even adding a few paragraphs a day can be done in no time and can be beneficial to your search rankings.
3) Get spidered quickly. Search engine spiders crawl blogs with greater frequency than static webpages. I have had webpages that took over eight months to be indexed in Google where as Yahoo sometimes index my blogs in weeks sometimes days.
4) If you write articles then you can post all of them on your blog in addition to free reprint content that is widely available everwhere. The more content you have the better.
5) You can get your website indexed quicker. An article or a piece of news about your website with an optimize anchor link will send the spiders your way in no time.
6) Sell advertising space. If you have a popular blog then you can create a revenue stream by selling ad space. Blogads is one of several places where you can sell your ad space to major companies.
7) Similar to offering ad space, you can add Adsense to your blog to monetize your content. What I love about Blogger is that once you plug in the Adsense code into your main template, a new page is created and Adsense is automatically displayed when you make a post.
8) Review your affiliate products. If you have a blog that is in a niche then you can find affiliate programs for that niche and do reviews of them for a commission. Every time someone purchases the product or service through your link you make money.
9) It is still early to catch on. Blogs and RSS feeds are used by the minority of internet users which makes it excellent for you to start blogging right now. Less than 10% of the Americans which is the biggest online market use this emerging trend.
10) Can be syndicated. An easy way for your readers to stay in touch with updates is to add your blog to their My Yahoo and My MSN. They can see the latest information and how long ago it was added.
11) Yes a bonus! Savvy marketers know that if you add your blogs to My Yahoo you can have it indexed in no time by Yahoo. You can use these two websites to inform blog directories that
you have updated your content.
a) http://WWW.Ping-o-matic.com
b) http://WWW.Rssfeedpromoter.com
So with all those benefits in mind there is no reason you should not start your own blog. So when do you decide to go blogging?
About the author:
Nicholas Dixon has successfully used free articles as his primary
source of marketing. Subscribe to his Free Four Day Email Course
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Make Money Online - Work at Home
By Michael A Fowler, M.B.A.
Have you ever thought about making or earning money at home, on the internet?
Just imagine, if you're a morning person you can start work early, or if you're an evening person, you can stay up late at night and work. Your work schedule is determined by you and not by your employer.
Many people start their business on a part-time basis, in addition to their regular job to see how much they can handle. Over time, when their income reaches a certain level, they simply switch over and go full time to make money at home.
As in a traditional business, it is important to reinvest some of your earnings, so that you compound your earning potential.
Before starting any Internet venture, it is important to know a little about how it is accomplished. Joining a business with a working group of professionals is akin to starting an apprenticeship. Learning from those who are already successful and duplicating their efforts, is the quickest way forward.
If you desire to make money online, then you need the tools to accomplish your mission. Communications must be open and you must have all the Messenger services and Internet Telephony services installed on your PC.
You must support and be there for the people you sponsor. They chose you and relied upon you to support them through their early months.
You can’t afford to let them down.
They are your future and what you invest in them, in time and expense today, will come back to you in many ways. That is why, to make money online, you need to invest in people.
Starting a business at home is an economical way to start something, which can easily grow into to a giant concern.
Application, dedication and ambition are all hallmarks of great future online entrepreneurs. You won’t see these people wasting any sort of opportunity to market their business to anyone with whom they come in contact.
The sharp entrepreneur is armed and dangerous. Business cards at the ready and always looking for new prospects. Honed and skilled because he/she knows that making money online is often attributed to the contacts he/she makes offline.
Now you know the best route to take, the methods that put the successful where they are today and the real investments that you should be applying, to make money online.
About the author:
Michael A Fowler, M.B.A. is the editor of the Internet's premier work at home resource: Work from Home Journal.
An Online Trainer, Mentor and Coach, Michael has been helping people to succeed online since 1998.
