Beginner’s Internet Marketing Strategy

If you haven’t read any of Jeff Herring’s articles or information you are missing out. Article marketing is one of the best ways you can get traffic to your site and build your authority in your niche. Jeff Herring is the KING of article writing.

You can check out his articles at ezinearticles.com and if you want an easy way to write great articles I highly recommend you grab his article templates. He provides 26 article templates and all you have to do is plug in your information and go!

Anyway, I’ve been doing more work on my opt in pages and found this article recently and thought the points were so clear and easy to implement I wanted to share it with you.

List Building Mistake Number 3 - Failing to List the Benefits of Opting in on Your Opt-In Page
By Jeff Herring

When you are list building your opt-in page must have clear benefits listed for joining your list community. It has to pass the “who cares” test, because a person’s coming to this page and they’re considering trading their email address for something. So they’re thinking, “What’s in it for me?”

4 important questions you must answer

In all your marketing messages you want to meet these criteria, especially on something like this. You want to answer these four questions:

1. What is this and what is it about? - Are you being clear about what you are offering and clear about the benefits?

2. What’s in it for me? - People want to know what’s in it for them. They’re listening to, as you’ve heard me say before, radio station WIIFM - What’s In It For Me.

3. Do I trust this person? - How in the world can they decide if they trust somebody from looking at the opt-in page? Lots of different ways. Something as simple as on the bottom of mine where I have the copyright notice and contact information. That ups peoples’ trust.

4. Do I feel good about doing this? Is this a no-brainer?

So it’s: what is this about, what’s in it for me, do I trust this person, and do I feel good about doing this?

Those are taken care of many times in a list of benefits. What am I getting out of this? Why am I doing this? Maybe it’s just one of those benefits listed that tips the person over. That may be the thing that decides them to say, “Hey, I’m going to opt-in here.”

And now I would like to invite you to claim your FREE Instant Access to my List Building Instant Article Creation Template when you visit http://www.ListBuildingArticleTemplate.com

You’ll get get a “plug-n-play” Instant Article Creation Template - just plug in your info! And you’ll get a 13 minute instructional audio on how to create a list building article.

From Jeff Herring - The Article Marketing Guy and The Great Article Marketing Network.

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I’ve been sitting here all morning trying to figure out what to write for this post.  I’m sure it’s happened to you as well, you know you need to make a post to your blog, but you just can’t think of anything to write today.  Here’s 3 places you can go to get some great ideas and beat blogger’s block. (in fact I’ve tried them all today)

1. PLR. If you have plr for your [...] Continue Reading…

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You are the best readers and subscribers any blog owner could have. Today to say thank you I am gonna get my keyword research tools out and go on a little treasure hunt for you all.

I know some people have been a little upset about the recent changes at Squidoo. They are having a hard time figuring out exactly what to promote. So today I’m going to give you 5 niches you could easily [...] Continue Reading…

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When people start out in internet marketing it can be so easy to get confused, to get on the “guru” lists thinking they are going to give you information about how to make money online. Some people figure it out quicker than others and some never figure it out at all. The Guru lists are just to get your to keep buying products!!

Once you’ve bought a ton of products, spent a lot of money [...] Continue Reading…

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You’ve probably seen people talk about how much money you can make with a membership site.  It can be true, although it is not as easy as they make it sound with a traditional type membership site.

There’s a new product launching today called Micro Continuity ~ well it’s not actually new, it was launched once before and sold out in under 2 minutes. Amazing huh?

The product is done by one of my favorite internet [...] Continue Reading…

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Whether you’re promoting a squidoo lens, niche site, or even an authority site creating backlinks is an important part of the process. Building backlinks can seem overwhelming and confusing, but it doesn’t have to be. There are many many places you can use to build backlinks to your sites. We’ve talked about using Google knol, and Wet Paint today we’re going to talk about Blogger.

Yep, it’s time to start a blog. Here’s a quick [...] Continue Reading…

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There are only two type of affiliate marketers - the Ninja
Affiliates, and everyone else.

It’s no secret that 95% of all bloggers out there make pennies
from affiliate marketing, while a select few who are privileged
enough to be in the “inner circle” make thousands of dollars
effortlessly.

They know how to properly manage, track, cloak and shorten their
affiliate link so that they can achieve most out of their
affiliate marketing.

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If you have a lens on Squidoo you got the email last night. If you missed it you need to check it out, so you can make sure your lenses fit into the new terms of service.

Here’s the basics:

1. No Spam.

This is not different. You should be building quality lenses, with helpful information. Of course you can send people to affiliate products ~ when they add value to the reader.Here are Squidoo’s new [...] Continue Reading…

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Whether you are promoting a Squidoo lens, a niche site or even an authority site, search engine traffic all comes down to building links. It’s also about building links from multiple platforms. You don’t just want a million blogger blog links.

Today we’re going to talk about another free platform you can use to create content and build links to your site. It’s called “Wet Paint”. Silly name, but a pretty cool site.  Make sure [...] Continue Reading…

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I know I was.

Then I heard some great stuff recently and it got me looking at things so much differently.  I used to think I had to come up with totally new content for my blog posts, my ezine articles, my newsletters, squidoo lenses, hubpages ~ phew, that’s a lot of content to come up with.

Here’s what I now realize I can repurpose almost ALL of the content and have to do a lot [...] Continue Reading…

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