Add your blog posts to your Facebook business page.With the NetworkedBlogs application, your blog posts will appear on your Facebook business page with no additional work from you, increasing your reach and making your business page more rich with content.
Add your blog posts to your LinkedIn profile.If your blog is on WordPress or TypePad, you can have your most recent blog posts appear on your profile. You’ll be able to do this through the Application Directory under the More navigation tab.Tweet out your blog posts.
Leave intelligent comments on other blogs.Leaving a comment on another blog will create a link back to your blog (or any other URL you specify). Just make sure it adds to the conversation, otherwise you may find that the blog owner deletes your comment with extreme prejudice.
Focus your activities on influential blogs within your industry, but don’t ignore well-written blogs that may not have much readership…yet. To paraphrase Liz Strauss, sometimes little bloggers grow up.
Don’t give up.It takes a while to develop a readership and drive a strong number of people to your blog on a regular basis. If you want to use a blog to grow your business, you need to commit to the process. I’d recommend planning on writing 2 – 3 blog posts a week forsix monthsbefore giving up. These posts don’t need to be long; we’re addicted to short form content, so 300 – 500 words is fine.
Every blog post you write adds to the overall value of your blog and your online visibility, so keep at it!
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Second Way to Attract People to you Blog
2. Give (some of) your best work away for free.
Just so we’re clear: I’m not one of those internet hippies who tells you “information wants to be free”, so you should give away all your best work and forget about being paid. (Have you noticed those guys tend to have a comfortable salary or professorship?)
But as Tim O’Reilly has pointed out, for most creatives obscurity is a greater threat than piracy. If no one’s ever heard of you, they won’t even bother to rip you off, let alone pay for your work.
So take advantage of the spreadability of digital content by giving away something valuable and encouraging people to share it with their contacts:
*.the first chapter of your novel (or even an entire novella)
*.a free report or e-book, full of insanely useful information
*.one of the best tracks from your album
*.a design template
*.high-resolution images
*.a series of tutorials
*.videos that anyone can embed in their site
Use a Creative Commonslicense to make it clear what people are allowed to do with the work. And make sure it’s something genuinely valuable. If you feel slightly uncomfortable about giving away something so good, you’re on the right track. Otherwise, why would anyone get excited enough to tell their friends?But don’t give away the farm. Make sure you have plenty in reserve — products, services, artworks — for the folks who want to take things further and buy from you.
Just so we’re clear: I’m not one of those internet hippies who tells you “information wants to be free”, so you should give away all your best work and forget about being paid. (Have you noticed those guys tend to have a comfortable salary or professorship?)
But as Tim O’Reilly has pointed out, for most creatives obscurity is a greater threat than piracy. If no one’s ever heard of you, they won’t even bother to rip you off, let alone pay for your work.
So take advantage of the spreadability of digital content by giving away something valuable and encouraging people to share it with their contacts:
*.the first chapter of your novel (or even an entire novella)
*.a free report or e-book, full of insanely useful information
*.one of the best tracks from your album
*.a design template
*.high-resolution images
*.a series of tutorials
*.videos that anyone can embed in their site
Use a Creative Commonslicense to make it clear what people are allowed to do with the work. And make sure it’s something genuinely valuable. If you feel slightly uncomfortable about giving away something so good, you’re on the right track. Otherwise, why would anyone get excited enough to tell their friends?But don’t give away the farm. Make sure you have plenty in reserve — products, services, artworks — for the folks who want to take things further and buy from you.
Creative ways to Attract people to you Blog
This is one of the most common questions I hear from clients, frustrated at the lack of business their website brings them.
Often, there isn’t much wrong with the site iteslf — it’s professionally designed, and the portfolio is full of gorgeous work. But it just sits there, in an obscure corner of the Internet, being quietly ignored.Taking a website from zero to a few hundred or even a few thousand visitors a month is not easy, but it’s eminently doable — as long as you recognize a harsh truth about the Internet:
The online world is an attention economy. Attention is finite, and therefore scarce. So if you want people to pay attention to you, you need to earn it.
You can’t expect your work to speak for itself. Most of the time, it won’t. You need to accept that marketing is part of your job, just as much as making.
But the game changes when you start applying your creativity to your marketing — it becomes more fun as well as more effective. Here are four ways to use your creativity to attract the right kind of visitors to your website.1. Create an amazing blog.
Note the word ‘amazing’. I’m not talking about a blog you only update when you’ve got a new client or exhibition, or something new to sell. I’m not talking about a personal diary where you to post your musings on art, life, and the universe. I mean the kind of blog that grabs people’s attention by delivering outstandingly valuable, useful, or entertaining material — consistently.
Instead of writing, ‘here’s my latest work’, write about:
*.“Here’s how I made it” – with pictures and/or video. Like thisor thisor this.
*.“Here’s what inspired it” – if you like it, chances are your audience will like it too. Like thisor this.
*.“Here’s how you can make one like it.” Like thisor this.
*.“Here’s a gadget that makes my work better (and could help you too).” Like this.
Instead of burying your opinions in long paragraphs of diary-style ‘musings’, put them out there loud and clear:
*.Devote an entire blog post to nailing ONE idea.
*.Start with a compelling headline.
*.Ask yourself ‘So what? Why should anyone care?’ — and make that the start of the post.
*.Give concrete examples.
*.Invite comments by ending with a question.
*.For example: I’m a designer. Use me better.
And don’t forget to ask for the subscription! Repeat visitors are the best visitors, so one of your goals is to build an audience of loyal subscribers. Ask people to subscribe and offer an email option to make it easy.
Often, there isn’t much wrong with the site iteslf — it’s professionally designed, and the portfolio is full of gorgeous work. But it just sits there, in an obscure corner of the Internet, being quietly ignored.Taking a website from zero to a few hundred or even a few thousand visitors a month is not easy, but it’s eminently doable — as long as you recognize a harsh truth about the Internet:
The online world is an attention economy. Attention is finite, and therefore scarce. So if you want people to pay attention to you, you need to earn it.
You can’t expect your work to speak for itself. Most of the time, it won’t. You need to accept that marketing is part of your job, just as much as making.
But the game changes when you start applying your creativity to your marketing — it becomes more fun as well as more effective. Here are four ways to use your creativity to attract the right kind of visitors to your website.1. Create an amazing blog.
Note the word ‘amazing’. I’m not talking about a blog you only update when you’ve got a new client or exhibition, or something new to sell. I’m not talking about a personal diary where you to post your musings on art, life, and the universe. I mean the kind of blog that grabs people’s attention by delivering outstandingly valuable, useful, or entertaining material — consistently.
Instead of writing, ‘here’s my latest work’, write about:
*.“Here’s how I made it” – with pictures and/or video. Like thisor thisor this.
*.“Here’s what inspired it” – if you like it, chances are your audience will like it too. Like thisor this.
*.“Here’s how you can make one like it.” Like thisor this.
*.“Here’s a gadget that makes my work better (and could help you too).” Like this.
Instead of burying your opinions in long paragraphs of diary-style ‘musings’, put them out there loud and clear:
*.Devote an entire blog post to nailing ONE idea.
*.Start with a compelling headline.
*.Ask yourself ‘So what? Why should anyone care?’ — and make that the start of the post.
*.Give concrete examples.
*.Invite comments by ending with a question.
*.For example: I’m a designer. Use me better.
And don’t forget to ask for the subscription! Repeat visitors are the best visitors, so one of your goals is to build an audience of loyal subscribers. Ask people to subscribe and offer an email option to make it easy.
Words Arrangement
Presentation of wording. If you write everything in one big paragraph it is ugly, it is boring, and it will put people to sleep. Look at this article I’m writing right now. Hopefully you find the presentation of the article a little appealing (if you don’t than go fly a kite!), the use of bold, numbering, underline, italics, etc… It is much easier for someone to read. In fact, look at the product page on Amazon.com and see how they lay out their page. They are pro’s right? So take some time to lay out your text in an appealing way.
Presentation of Words
- Wording is everything. If you are trying to push a product on someone they will easily see that and you will losetrust. If you write sloppy with poor grammar you will losecredibility. When you lose these you lose clicks and you lose conversions. You also NEED to appear smart, professional, trustyworthy, and very importantly you need to appear impartial. You want to give both positive and negative attributes of a product when you are talking about it. You don’t need to bash a product as a negative point of view, but you can give a negative in a way that will actually help your conversions. Example: Product A is lacking Feature C that you can find on Product B and some people like this feature, but Product B costs $499 while Product A costs $199 and we feel like you get more bang for your buck with Product A. If you need this extra feature than Product A is not for you, but we don’t feel like Product B is worth over two times the cost of Product A. (in this example I’d use a hyperlink for the first time I mention Product B as an affiliate link to that product… this way if they want the extra feature than you get a more expensive conversion, while those people interested in Product A will respect you and trust you more that you are pointing out something to them which makes you look impartial)
Create Credibility
We need to build credibility. We build trust. We use a few tricks from up our sleeves.
- Credibility and trust are EXTREMELY important. You need to present your site as an authority. You need to present your site as coming from someone knowledgeable. If your site visually looks like shit your conversions will be uglier than shit. You want a site that looks professional because we trust professionals, right? If I’m going to hire a lawyer who would appeal to me more, a guy wearing a $5,000 suit or a guy wearing a Slayer t-shirt? Presentation is important
- Credibility and trust are EXTREMELY important. You need to present your site as an authority. You need to present your site as coming from someone knowledgeable. If your site visually looks like shit your conversions will be uglier than shit. You want a site that looks professional because we trust professionals, right? If I’m going to hire a lawyer who would appeal to me more, a guy wearing a $5,000 suit or a guy wearing a Slayer t-shirt? Presentation is important
Creating A Site
I need create a site that will entice people to click links and buy products.
Wonderful, so now we can start building a site… Wrong! More analyzing is needed. We have our destination, we have our main path to get there, but now we need all the pieces to build a car to drive on the path to reach the destination. How do we create a site that will make people click links and make them buy products?
Wonderful, so now we can start building a site… Wrong! More analyzing is needed. We have our destination, we have our main path to get there, but now we need all the pieces to build a car to drive on the path to reach the destination. How do we create a site that will make people click links and make them buy products?
How to Drive Cliicks and Conversation
I want to drive clicks and conversions in order to profit.
Great, we now have our goal. No, we don’t dive right in – patience grasshopper – we still have more analyzing to do. So we have our destination now (clicks and conversions) but we haven’t mapped out our path to get there yet. So now we ask ourselves “How can I accomplish this goal?”
Great, we now have our goal. No, we don’t dive right in – patience grasshopper – we still have more analyzing to do. So we have our destination now (clicks and conversions) but we haven’t mapped out our path to get there yet. So now we ask ourselves “How can I accomplish this goal?”
Picking A Nichee
You can pick a niche, you can get people to your site, but if you don’t build a site that will drive clickthroughs and conversions it is all for nothing. This is part 2 of a 3 part series on making money from scratch with Amazon’s affiliate program. You can check out part 1 here(which you should read before going to part 2). I’m going to talk about building a website that is going to drive clickthroughs and drive conversions. This is an art not a science and it takes practice and testing and practice and testing to do this successfully. One little switch from A to B could result in doubling your clickthroughs. Putting a link here instead of there could drive higher conversions. I’m going to talk about what I do and what I’ve learned. This three part series I could probably put in an ebook and sell for $29 but what the hell, free is always better, right?
Before you do anything you shouldn’t just plow right in, haste makes waste. The smart thing to do is analyze. With whatever you are doing you should ask yourself first “What do you want to accomplish?”
Before you do anything you shouldn’t just plow right in, haste makes waste. The smart thing to do is analyze. With whatever you are doing you should ask yourself first “What do you want to accomplish?”
Making Money with Affiliate Marketing
There are over 1 million products on Amazon.com that you could try to earn commission for but choosing the right ones is the difference between making $10 a month and $10,000 a month. The key is to find the products that people are searching for which have weak keyword competition so you can dominate in the SERPs. How do you do this? Where do you begin? Well this is a great place to start.That will help you pick the niches and the keywords that you should attempt to monetize. Keyword selection really is the most important part of the process. If you do everything else well, but you fail at the keyword selection, you will fail – point blank. You can manually try to find what niches and keywords are waiting to be exposed but to sort through all of the products on Amazon could take years. Remember, worker smarter not harder. Automation is key and automating processes will save you time that you can spend making money somewhere else.
After you found the niche and keywords you want to attack there is a great tip I previously wrote about which you can read hereon how to increase your click through rate. Doing keyword research, building a site, doing SEO to drive traffic is all great, but the part that determines if you are a man or a boy is how well you can get people to click through your links. Depending on the product, a move from a 2% CTR to a 7% CTR could literally translate to thousands of dollars per month in affiliate commissions for you.
Here’s one tip I haven’t mentioned yet anywhere on Anticareer, and it is a pretty simple tip, but it may be one of those simple things that you don’t think about and when you hear it you feel foolish for never thinking of it before… one trick that I use to increase clickthrough rate (besides my previous article) is I will start a few reviews on my site. Start off the review with a bang, something really juicy that will make them want to read the rest.
Example: “When I first bought this product I thought it was good but then I was amazed when I found out I could also use it to…” (Click here to read rest of review)
In my example, the (Click here) piece would be a link to the Amazon product page through my affiliate link. When you give people a cliffhanger of a review and they are considering purchasing the product they will more times than not click through to see what the juicy part of the review says. Remember, once they are on the Amazon site with the product staring them in the face they are much more likely to buy the product. You just need to get them there (and get them there through your affiliate link). So what are you still doing here? Get out there and start building your Amazon Associates commission kingdom!
After you found the niche and keywords you want to attack there is a great tip I previously wrote about which you can read hereon how to increase your click through rate. Doing keyword research, building a site, doing SEO to drive traffic is all great, but the part that determines if you are a man or a boy is how well you can get people to click through your links. Depending on the product, a move from a 2% CTR to a 7% CTR could literally translate to thousands of dollars per month in affiliate commissions for you.
Here’s one tip I haven’t mentioned yet anywhere on Anticareer, and it is a pretty simple tip, but it may be one of those simple things that you don’t think about and when you hear it you feel foolish for never thinking of it before… one trick that I use to increase clickthrough rate (besides my previous article) is I will start a few reviews on my site. Start off the review with a bang, something really juicy that will make them want to read the rest.
Example: “When I first bought this product I thought it was good but then I was amazed when I found out I could also use it to…” (Click here to read rest of review)
In my example, the (Click here) piece would be a link to the Amazon product page through my affiliate link. When you give people a cliffhanger of a review and they are considering purchasing the product they will more times than not click through to see what the juicy part of the review says. Remember, once they are on the Amazon site with the product staring them in the face they are much more likely to buy the product. You just need to get them there (and get them there through your affiliate link). So what are you still doing here? Get out there and start building your Amazon Associates commission kingdom!
How to Make Monwy with Amazon Affiliate program
Did you know what amazon affiliate program is? Amazon is one program that offers everybody to join and make money.
How to Make money With Amazon Affiliate Program
* You have to create account with them first
* Choose a product that has a very big commission, promote their products and you will be paid commission ranging between 5%- 75%.
* The next thing you have to do is to create a famous social network like facebook, twitter or even blog to attracts and advertise customers about the product.
But do you know what you can start earning commission no matter what your internet experience is..The most interesting part of this is it takes time and hardwork because you need to advertise their products on either you blogs or any social network that you know you can get people attention..
Try to get this am not the type that teaches on how to climb a tree without standing behind you..Some of you reading this believe is a scam but how long will yoy wait and keep on repeating the same thing..you only need to learn the things that really work which am telling you now, forget about the crap sor the money you have wasted long before by the so called GURUS.. Start making money with just amazon company and see the difference between doing something or doing nothing.
It is unlimited to how you can earn with amazon affiliate program because every months money keeping on piling up in you bank account..It is 100% percent assurance that before the next two months you start doing this business, you will make atleast $250 per month depending on how passionate you take you business..
How would life be if you start with this affiliate marketers
* Be your own boss
* Throw the alarm clock away
* Take vacations when you choose
* Play and exercise the more.
* Work from home while money keep piling up for you in the bank.
Sound interesting right? Don't take my words for it..Just registerd for the company as an advertiser or as a publisher.
Take note of this:
Many people are out there, seeking earnestly for this type of information but few can come across it..so thank you star and make the best use of the information you are about to do..Take action..I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT.
How to Make money With Amazon Affiliate Program
* You have to create account with them first
* Choose a product that has a very big commission, promote their products and you will be paid commission ranging between 5%- 75%.
* The next thing you have to do is to create a famous social network like facebook, twitter or even blog to attracts and advertise customers about the product.
But do you know what you can start earning commission no matter what your internet experience is..The most interesting part of this is it takes time and hardwork because you need to advertise their products on either you blogs or any social network that you know you can get people attention..
Try to get this am not the type that teaches on how to climb a tree without standing behind you..Some of you reading this believe is a scam but how long will yoy wait and keep on repeating the same thing..you only need to learn the things that really work which am telling you now, forget about the crap sor the money you have wasted long before by the so called GURUS.. Start making money with just amazon company and see the difference between doing something or doing nothing.
It is unlimited to how you can earn with amazon affiliate program because every months money keeping on piling up in you bank account..It is 100% percent assurance that before the next two months you start doing this business, you will make atleast $250 per month depending on how passionate you take you business..
How would life be if you start with this affiliate marketers
* Be your own boss
* Throw the alarm clock away
* Take vacations when you choose
* Play and exercise the more.
* Work from home while money keep piling up for you in the bank.
Sound interesting right? Don't take my words for it..Just registerd for the company as an advertiser or as a publisher.
Take note of this:
Many people are out there, seeking earnestly for this type of information but few can come across it..so thank you star and make the best use of the information you are about to do..Take action..I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT.
Introduction: Amazon is inextricably linked to its finder, Jeff Beezos,a principle graduate with degress in computer science and electrical engineering..Amazon anticipated crisis and managed change to see beyond the obvious channels of business to what the World Wide Web might mean for global commerce.Its vision was so astute, it went on to become the world's number one internet retailer. Today, amazon is still the world's largest intereste retailer, handling not only its own inventory and sales but also saving as a gateway and fulfillment arm for numerous other major brands.
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