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A List Building Question – Where to Focus on Getting Traffic?
[Question] I would like to know where I should focus most of my technical efforts for list building. For example, should I go to Ezine Articles, guest bloggging, forum and groups, Facebook, a personal page, a business niche page, LinkedIn, Google+, affiliate programs – one of those? Maybe I should build out my member site…
Read MoreEmail Tools I Use in My Six-Figure Business
Last week I shared some of the tools I use to run and optimize my six-figure business. Today I’m going finish that list out with what I use to mail my lists – and my thoughts on “all-in-one” marketing software. Click Here to Read Part 1 Email Tracking For email tracking the software that I…
Read MoreWhat I Use to Run a 6-Figure Internet Marketing Business
Maybe I could spit out the 5 names of software that I use in 2 minutes, but would it really change your life? Because these software programs may not be right for you. You may already be using something that works. You go try out whatever it is that I use and you say “I…
Read MoreHow to Market a Product That Can Help a Massive Audience
The question I’m answering here: basically my client’s got a product that will benefit everybody, but obviously if you market to everybody you win nobody. That’s pretty much across the board with marketing. I’m going to recommend a book for you to read. Specifically, what I’m getting ready to tell you is just straight out…
Read MoreThe Traffic Firestarter
There’s 2 sides to traffic. One is the people that you directly invite to your website through email or organic search or similar. Or, that you pay them to come to your website. Those are the two things we can use to invite them. There’s 2 ways to direct people to your website, one is…
Read MoreQuick Tip: How to Build Credibility Outside of Your List
As you work online in any particular niche, you’re going to gain experience and as you gain this experience you should use it in your email credibility campaigns. No one starts off with a CD program or an article with rave reviews, they start with nothing to begin with! It’s important to just build from…
Read MoreA Guaranteed Tactic to Beat Your Competition
One of the things that really drives me in my business is knowing that I’m held accountable for everything that I do. I value the relationship I have with my subscribers and clients. So I want everything I do to be the best. If I teach on something, I want it to be the very…
Read MoreHow to Find Out What Challenges People Have
Promising to solve your prospect’s problems is a powerful way to hook them, build trust, and share your class or product with them. But first, you have to know what they’re struggling with so you can create a solution (or position your solution) that meets their needs. I’ll tell you what I’ve done over the…
Read MoreWhy Old Methods of Niche Selection Won’t Work
In either case, whether you’re looking for a niche, or a sub-niche. Looking for that best angle. Or, if, unfortunately, you’re in the place where, hey, I just want to make money, I’ve got 1 or 2 ideas of things I might be interested in. What I’m getting ready to share with you will give…
Read MoreHow to Build Success Out of Failure
Do you remember the very first time that you did some slow dancing or the very first time that you did some line dancing or the very first time that you did some sort of organized dancing? I want you think about that in relation to success and failure: The very first time you had…
Read MoreQuick Tip: Make Sure the Right People Are Reading Your Content
The most important question to ask yourself when you create any content is who it’s for. Who is your audience? What do they hope to learn? What are they expecting you to say? What promise have you made in the title? And more than anything, what do you expect them to do as a result…
Read MoreQuick Tip: How to Give Your Content a Compelling Title
Article marketing is still one of the most effective ways to promote your online business. It allows you to communicate a central idea logically in just a few words that can be read in not many minutes, and simultaneously teach one topic, idea or concept – something that the average person can understand and apply…
Read MoreQuick Tip: Writing Content that Sucks Your Reader In
Articles are the bedrock of your content marketing strategy. If you are going to enlarge the size of your Web footprint, then you must start here. That’s because so many other things can be developed from them as a result. Most guidance on how to write articles tells you to start from the beginning: decide…
Read MoreQuick Tip: Make Your Lead Magnet Easy to Use
After free content in the wider Web, lead magnets are the next step to getting people onto your list. It’s a milestone when you can get prospects interested enough in you to visit your site. It means that you’ve struck a chord with them, and now they want to learn more about you. Of course,…
Read MoreThe Secret to Generating Buzz with High-Quality Content
Those who have the greatest online authority earn it by publishing content of such a high-quality that no one can touch them. They learned how to do it with practice, but they didn’t start out just like everyone else. You need to understand this key: they began with an entirely different attitude from everyone else.…
Read MoreHow to Get Youtubes Videos Ranking High in Google
There’s tons of hoopla about tricks and secrets to getting high rankings in google. But one thing we know about youtube – google loves good youtube content. So getting high rankings is easier than a lot of folks realize – and I’ve gotten them before quickly. What I’ve found is key is creating a totally…
Read MoreYoutube Examples
Sometimes the easiest way to learn to do something is to see others do it. The thing is, youtube traffic can be really easy, you need 3 things primarily: 1) Engaging videos that people really want to watch 2) Tell interested people about them 3) Ask watchers to opt in to your list That’s it.…
Read MoreHow to Use Youtube to Get Lots of Targeted Prospects to Your Business
Youtube traffic doesn’t have to be hard, it doesn’t have to be complex, and it doesn’t have to use any kind of crazy seo or trickery. There are just a few key things to remember: 1) (Most important) – Create content the humans watching it really like, so they will want to watch more of…
Read MoreDuplicate Content – my Rant About Duplicate Content
Probably the single biggest question I get asked about content marketing is some iteration of this:can I write one article and put it in other places? can I write the same article and put it in 2 places? Or I get asked, can I write one article and then edit it a little and put…
Read MoreFinal Results: 11 articles, 1 slideshare, 6 pinterests, and 3 videos in 3 hours and 42 minutes
Earlier today I set the goal of creating 10 articles, creating 10 slideshares, creating 10 pinterests, and recording 10 youtubes in 4 hours. Now, I didn’t quite make it. But let me ask you this: would it be helpful to YOU to SEE me writing 11 articles, converting 1 to slideshare, creating 6 pinterest pins,…
Read MoreDemonstration of Adding Multiple Pins to Pinterest
In this article, I am going to show you how I add pins to pinterest . . . . These are the graphics I am going to upload: And as I was writing this, I guess I realized that I couldn’t really do this in an article (I guess I could have but it would…
Read MoreHow to Write Unique Articles About the Same Topic Over and Over
Question: I wonder if you can tell us the secret of how to write new and unique articles about the same topic over and over, for years and years, without running out of things to say, and just like magazines do on specific topics or recurring themes? That’s a great question, and I’m tempted to…
Read MoreHow to Research for Articles Without Plagiarizing?
Here is a question from a client: What is the proper way to Research and Write an Article for your Webpage without plagarizing or infringing on any copyrighted material, and with using ones targeted keyword(s) and LSI keywords?Here is my answer: The easiest way to do this is to research to learn the material, then…
Read MoreHow Many Articles Should You Write Each Day?
How many articles should you write each day? That depends on what you want to accomplish. The more you write, that you write well, with good content, and a targeted audience – the more visitors you will get. I’m always hesitant to recommend a certain number, because folks might say, oh, that is too many,…
Read MoreArticle Marketing Directories
Questions: 5 Are article directories still a good place to publish your articles. 6) How many articles directories…5…10…20 to publish your articles? My answer: only use an article directory if that article directory is one that gets good rankings in your niche in google, or you have some other good reason for using an article…
Read MoreContent Marketing Duplication
I had a client recently ask me about content marketing duplication. Now, my rule if thumb is write 100% original articles, all the time. If you do that, google will honor you, your prospects will honor you, and you will be genuinely positioning as an expert. That’s not to say that you shouldn’t multi-purpose –…
Read MoreHow to Start From Scratch With Content Marketing
You can start from scratch with content marketing. You see, even though I have 25,000 articles over at ezinearticles, I am starting from scratch over here at slideshare, pinterest, and almost from scratch with youtube – I’ll show you some stats in a second – By the way, for a detailed discussion of why I…
Read MoreWatch Me Write 10 Articles, Create 10 Slideshares, Create 10 Pinterests, and Record 10 Youtubes in 4 Hours
Do you want to watch me write 10 articles, create 10 slideshares, create 10 pinterests, and record 10 youtubes in 4 hours? If so, refresh this post every 15 minutes or so for the next 4 hours and you will see just that – that’s right, in the next 4 hours I am planning to…
Read MoreContent Marketing Funnel Illustrated
I get a lot of questions about the content marketing “flow,” meaning, what is it supposed to look like? Do I write one article, make one picture, do one video, etc.? Or do I do more? And how do I link these together, what’s the optimal strategy? So I thought I would write a piece…
Read MoreContent Marketing Funnel Illustrated-2
I get a lot of questions about the content marketing “flow,” meaning, what is it supposed to look like? Do I write one article, make one picture, do one video, etc.? Or do I do more? And how do I link these together, what’s the optimal strategy? So I thought I would write a piece…
Read MoreContent Marketing Flowchart for 4 Pieces of Content From One Starter Article
Of course, you could add more instances of content to that model, customizing the structure for your business. For full details on how to do this, I recommend my Content Marketing Training Program: Content Marketing Training Program
Read More3 Secrets to Youtube Traffic
Most of the training I see about getting youtube traffic focuses on recording a really good-looking video, then getting it to rank in google. But one of the things I see with youtube videos is that folks are recording a few videos, keyword targeted, pushing real hard to get them to come up high in…
Read MoreAn Easy Way to Write 10 Articles a Day
One of the things that is hard about writing lots of articles is that there are many steps that if they are all thought – out in order to do them, they slow you down. For example, you have to think of 10 article topics each day, then you have to think about what to…
Read MoreHow to find out EXACTLY where to drive BUYER traffic in YOUR niche
How to find out EXACTLY where to drive BUYER traffic in YOUR niche Do you want to drive traffic – any traffic – or do you want to drive BUYER traffic? If you want to drive BUYER traffic – let me ask you this: Are you fishing where your prospects are? Are you trying to…
Read MoreHow to Use Content Marketing to Create 1,000 to 40,000 Pieces of Prospect – Attracting Online Content Per Year
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Read MoreContent Marketing Insider Tips From Jay Baer
As you know, one of the things I do to generate traffic to my own sites is content marketing . . . and Jay Baer is particularly an expert . . . .and I’d like to suggest you read his article at the Content Marketing Institute . . . here are a few things he…
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