Archive for December 2006

Success and wealth don’t happen by themselves.  You have to want them and develop the skills to possess them.  Even people who win the lottery often lose the money quickly because they don’t have the skills to keep it.

Most of us learned about the natural law of ‘cause and effect’ in school.  For every action there is a reaction.  Very simply, if you forget your umbrella and it rains (cause), you’ll get wet (effect).

When you learn to control causes and take responsibility, you will reach your desired effect.  The 5 causes outlined here are learnable skills.  They are not inborn talents, but skills, that can become habits.

Let’s face it…if your business and marketing are telling the wrong stories, you’re probably struggling to make the revenue you could be making.  Watch and listen as best-selling author Seth Godin talks to the people at Google about the power of telling relevant and true stories.

This is an interesting trick. Some internet marketers may not consider this a “trick” per say. First, let me tell you what WIIFM stands for. This stands for “What’s In It For Me”. And it is simply one thing your current sales page CANNOT afford to be without.

Anybody who buys anything always wants to know how this purchased product will benefit THEM. They don’t care about what it will do necessarily. Rather what it will do for THEM is the key point.

People are selfish by nature. Especially online. They don’t care about you, or what you’re trying to accomplish. They only care about themselves. It’s harsh, but it’s also true.

Just don’t focus on the home page, keywords and titles.
The first step to sales when customers visit your site to see the products they were looking for. Of course, search engine optimization and better rankings can’t keep your customer on your site or make them buy. The customer having visited your site, now ensure that he gets interested in your products or services and stays around. Motivate him to buy the product by providing clear and unambiguous information. Thus if you happen to sell more than one product or service, provide all necessary information about this, may be by keeping the  information at a different page. By providing suitable and easily visible links, the customer can navigate to these pages and get the details.

Soccer in the USA is certainly getting major popularity and as different sports go global in appeal, so will the potential for scooping up some of the revenue.  There is a huge opportunity here for new products and services…just take a look.

 

Before revealing the secrets of the trades, here are myths and fallacies that need to be cleared before one indulges into building an opt-in list. These marketing misconceptions could pose so much of an obstacle towards your profiting well from your business.

Not a lot of people use email

email marketing is one of the most effective marketing methods nowadays simply because virtually almost all people use email. Check on those email fields or blanks required to be filled up on various forms needed in processing different transactions. A person without an email address is tantamount to a person without an online home, which is one big shameful truth for this generation.

Do you want to know why some people seem to make lots of money on the Internet and others don’t?

Do YOU want to be among the 5% of people who are a success?

Then read on! It is a simple concept. Although simple, it is also difficult to put into practice. It isn’t rocket science. It isn’t “hard”. It is time consuming.

It does take away from your other pursuits and you must WANT it.

It’s all about motivation and your reason “why”.

Sounds simple enough. And the theory is. It is the practice that is challenging.