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Building Opt-In Lists – How to Create a Great Opt-In Page

August 19, 2010 | In Building Lists, Doug Champigny, marketing tutorials, online marketing | Comments(4)

Building Opt-In Lists – How to Create a Great Opt-In Page

The cornerstone of building an opt-in list is your opt-in page; whether you’re driving huge volumes of traffic to it or just learning how to build traffic, learning how to create a great opt-in page will increase your conversions and ensure you get as many targeted subscribers as possible from your traffic levels.

To learn how to create a great opt-in page, first start with the basics that apply to every niche. A great opt-in page will have a powerful headline, a call to action, information on the e-zine itself, the free signup incentive or both, some sort of graphic or video representation and, of course, the opt-in form itself.

The page must look professional – while fancy graphics or astounding video aren’t necessary, it IS necessary that the page be clean, business-like and present the information in a clear and concise manner. There needs to be a logical flow, through both the visual presentation and the flow of the copy, that leads the prospect to the form and a call to action to get them to sign up now.

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Use that frame of reference for every opt-in page you build – but that’s just the first step in learning how to create a great opt-in page. Next you have to find the perfect presentation for both the style of gift and ezine you’re offering and the niche they’re in – in other words, what exactly would your targeted prospects need to see to add themselves to your email list through your opt-in page?

For example, in some niches a video-based opt-in page works best, in some a great opt-in page has numerous photos and/or graphics, while other niches respond best to clean copy simply bearing a headline, a few bullet points and the signup form. So how to create a great opt-in page varies then, and only testing and tweaking will show you the right path for you in that particular niche with that particular opt-in offer.

Start with one page in each of those three styles, and rotate your traffic between them. Once enough targeted traffic has hit each page to make comparisons reliable, see which of the 3 formats has performed best for you. Now make three versions of just that one format with changes to the headline, body copy or graphics, and the placement of the form. Again, after enough traffic has been through to give statistically-viable results, see which headline, body copy and form placement combination is working best for you.

The winner a that point is probably the best one for you to use, although you can do further tweaks and testing if you like. Now use that format for your other squeeze pages in that same niche and you should continue to see high conversion rates from the traffic you’re generating as long as it’s targeted traffic in the first place.

Once your testing and tweaking is done and you’ve figured out how to create a great opt-in page for that niche, building your subscriber bases faster and faster is just a matter of driving more and more targeted traffic to it – a skill you should focus on improving anyway.

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Marketing mentor and speaker Doug Champigny is a world-famous online marketer with a major online presence who often appears live onstage at marketing seminars, conferences, conventions and workshops around North America. With more than 35 years of online and offline marketing experience, Doug Champigny is uniquely qualified to teach you how to succeed in online marketing through his Internet Marketing Coaching and his Affiliate Marketing Coaching programs. Doug created both of these programs himself through his PowerStart Marketing division, and gives his students direct access to him and his vast wealth of marketing knowledge both during their course and afterwards. Give your marketing the PowerStart it needs today – enroll now!

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Affiliate Marketing – The Benefits Of Guest Affiliate Blogging

August 2, 2010 | In Affiliate Blogging, Affiliate Marketing, Doug Champigny | Comments(1)

Affiliate Marketing – The Benefits Of Guest Affiliate Blogging

Affiliate marketing blogs are an accepted and proven-effective means of building your affiliate commissions, and as such you’re probably already using affiliate marketing blogs in your online marketing mix. But have you considered the advantages of ‘guest affiliate blogging’?

Guest blogging isn’t new in the big-league blogging circles, but few affiliates have realized the advantages they can derive from including guest blogging in their affiliate marketing mix.

Put simply, guest blogging is writing articles for other bloggers to use as posts on their blogs. Your articles may already be appearing on other people’s blogs through article directories, but this is much more direct and much more targeted.

Chances are you already have a list of blogs you follow in your niche, some of which you probably comment on regularly to get the backlinks. Go to each of those blogs and look for the contact information for the site owner – if it’s not there, do a ‘whois’ search for the owner of the domain – on most private sites the owner and the blog author will be one and the same.

Write them a simple e-mail explaining who you are and asking them if they would be interested in receiving the occasional guest post from you for their blog. Offer to send them a sample if they’d be interested in checking out the quality of your writing, and give them the link to your own blog as a further example.

If they respond positively, do not try to push an affiliate product or link in the post; make it an information-packed article that will draw traffic to that blog post. Target one of your keywords exactly as you would if you were writing for your own blog, but keep it in the third person instead of using the first-person familiarities you might use on your own signature blog. In other words, stick to the same high standards you’d need to adhere to if you were writing an article for the biggest article directories.

Include a summary paragraph at the bottom of the article, and link back to your own blog and one of your squeeze pages if the site owner will allow you two links. If they limit you to one, then make it a link to your blog’s homepage or one of your posts that relates to the article you’re submitting. As always, be sure you use your targeted keyword in your anchor text as an aid to your SEO rankings.

Guest affiliate blogging lets you get your name and information in front of a wider audience of targeted prospects, helps to establish you as an expert in your field, and garners additional backlinks to your own blogs and squeeze pages. And if you’ve produced a well-crafted blog post that helps the blog owner attract more targeted traffic, you’ve most likely made a new online friend that may well be a powerful joint venture partner down the road. Don’t forget to reciprocate – invite that blogger to guest post on your blog as well!

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If you’re ready to start guest affiliate blogging, consider submitting a post or two to the Marketing BlogZine, created specifically for marketers to help them showcase their writing and build targeted backlinks to their sites. If it’s more information on affiliate marketing that you’re looking for, then stop by the affiliate marketing training blog. Both sites are owned and operated by marketing mentor and speaker Doug Champigny as part of his virtual online empire designed to help new, intermediate and advanced marketers reach the next level online. Watch for Doug Champigny speaking at a live event in your area soon!

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Building Opt-In Lists – How To Become An Online Email Marketer

July 28, 2010 | In Building Lists, Doug Champigny, E-Mail Marketing | Comments(1)

Building Opt-In Lists – How To Become An Online Email Marketer

Promoting an offline business? Then you should consider becoming an online email marketer. There is no more powerful way to promote your offline business online than with email based marketing, in part because few if any of your offline competitors will know they should become an online email marketer too!

Email based marketing can be defined as building opt-in list of targeted prospects, then using email newsletter software to brand your company, your services and your products by sending your business ezine to those targeted leads. Whether your company is currently selling locally, regionally, nationally or internationally you can raise your profile in your industry and increase sales by learning the ins-and-outs of being an online email marketer.

To get started with email based marketing, it’s best to think of it as optin marketing – you need to focus first on what would get your best prospects to optin to your email marketing. Since most people come online looking for information on a particular subject, study your target market’s demographics and discern what information they’d be most likely to search for online. Then write a series of free reports that would give them the information they’re looking for, being sure to title each so that it’s obvious what information is available in that report.

Next, you’ll need a service to register your email marketing addresses as prospects opt in, and to let you send email broadcasts to those email marketing addresses. For business ezine marketing with email, best to use a professional autoresponder service to handle all of that. Once you have your account, you simply log into the site, set up a new autoresponder and put in a welcoming e-mail that includes the report as an attachment. Your account will come with an e-mail address for those subscribing and also a form generator. If you have a company website or blog, generate an optin form and put it on your site along with information about their free report.

If you don’t have a site, you can use articles, podcasts, videos, social networking and social media sites to get the word out, each time giving them the link they can use to e-mail their optin to your autoresponder and get their free report. This is true email based marketing, since it doesn’t require you to have a site or blog to get started with your email newsletter. And don’t forget to let your offline customers and visitors know that you have that free report available too – collecting their email marketing addresses can help you retain and upsell existing customers and create new customers from your offline visitors who may not have been ready to buy when they visited your company.

Becoming an email marketer through email based marketing can really help boost your company’s bottom line, and your business ezine can easily become the base for a future website or blog to help both your offline business volume and your marketing with email. And if you do well enough as an email marketer, you may just decide to branch into email affiliate marketing in your own niche or a related field – after all, everyone can use a few new income streams, and email affiliate marketing will come naturally to you once you’ve established yourself as an online email marketer!

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Marketing mentor and speaker Doug Champigny is a world-famous marketer with a major online presence who often appears live onstage at marketing seminars, conferences, conventions and workshops around North America. With more than 35 years of online and offline marketing experience, Doug Champigny is uniquely qualified to teach you how to succeed in online marketing through his Internet Marketing Coaching and his Affiliate Marketing Coaching programs. Doug created both of these programs himself through his PowerStart Marketing division, and gives his students direct access to him and his vast wealth of marketing knowledge both during their course and afterwards. Give your marketing the PowerStart it needs today – enroll now!

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Money-Making Blog Or Corporate Web Site – Marketing Tips For Offline Businesses

June 14, 2010 | In Blogging, Doug Champigny, offline business tips | Comments(3)

Money-Making Blog Or Corporate Web Site – Marketing Tips For Offline Businesses

One of the most common critical errors small offline businesses make when approaching online marketing is wanting to have a fancy, flashy web site like the big corporate sites they’ve seen online. But what they don’t realize is that the big companies all use advertising agencies, and part of the advertising agencies marketing strategy is to use corporate sites strictly for Internet branding.

Internet branding can do wonders for a corporation’s image – a big beautiful site using the latest technologies really does impact a consumer’s view of the company. But don’t mistake these sites as sales vehicles – there’s no call to action, no sales copy in most cases – and when was the last time you saw a Fortune 400 company come up on the first page of results at Google, Yahoo or Bing?

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These Internet branding sites, often costing a million dollars or more to build and operate, are just one part of advertising agencies marketing mixes – they’re not designed to drive traffic or make sales. That part is left to other areas of the mix, like TV, radio, print ads in newspapers and magazines and even adding the URL to product labels.

As a small business owner, however, you can’t compete on that scale due to budget – but you shouldn’t be trying to copy them online anyway! Think about your goals online:

* To reach a wider market
* To increase your market share in your existing market
* To sell more of your products and services
* To increase your bottom line profits

In order to accomplish those 4 goals while keeping your financial and time investments under control, take a page from the full-time professional Internet marketers. Familiar with all of the new marketing strategies online, in the majority of cases they now opt for business blog marketing over static web sites.

Free blog marketing is easy to set up, costs almost nothing to host and is designed for the best possible search engine optimization with the least fuss. A small business marketing blog can be updated in real time by anyone on your staff – or you yourself – as simply as typing a letter. No waiting for advertising agencies to make each update, and no large bills for their time and efforts, either!

Best of all, using any of the great blog tutorials on marketing using blogs, you can set up your first blog in under an hour – for an offline small business it’s easy to see that blogs and marketing should go hand in hand once you decide on your blog strategy. There really is no doubt that using blogs for marketing is the premiere choice given today’s state of the Internet.

Of all the new marketing strategies emerging from the World Wide Web, it’s easy to see that business blog marketing should be the first technique added to your small business marketing strategy development – after all, what other medium costs so little to develop and has a growing audience for your sales message every day?

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PowerStart Marketing Mentor Doug Champigny

Marketing mentor, coach and speaker Doug Champigny has been teaching companies new marketing strategies since the 1970’s, having owned and operated his own retail advertising agency before transferring to marketing online full-time since 1996. A recognized expert in how to market a product online or offline and master of these new marketing strategies, Doug Champigny is the creator of the PowerStart Marketing coaching program at http://www.PowerStart2010.com and the Affiliate Marketing PowerStart coaching program at http://www.affiliate-marketing-powerstart.info and is occasionally available for private 1-on-1 consultations and mentoring as well. Doug is a regular speaker at many of the live marketing events and conventions around North America – watch for him speaking live onstage in your area soon!

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How To Market A Product Online – Marketing Tips For Offline Businesses

June 13, 2010 | In marketing | Comments(4)

How To Market A Product Online – Marketing Tips For Offline Businesses

One of the most common questions from the offline business community concerns how to market a product online. It’s not that they don’t know how to do marketing – it’s just that they need new marketing strategies for dealing with the online market.

The biggest difference between the online and offline worlds is the size of the market – while many manufacturers will have offices in numerous countries, the online market is truly global – especially if you have translations available for your promotional materials and customer service available in many languages.

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The second issue that must be part of your new marketing strategies is the physical size of the market – is your product easily shipped world-wide? Or is your packaging and packing going to need upgrading before shipping to another continent? And will your product still be competitively priced vis-a-vis local suppliers once the shipping charges are added on? If not, you’re better to focus your online promotions to promoting local, regional and national sales.

Depending on the value of your products, you may need to discuss payment options with your financial institution as well. While low and moderately priced items can easily be handled through credit cards or online services like PayPal, big-ticket items may require the use of wire transfers with or without escrow, so be certain to consult the necessary professionals first before developing your new marketing strategies – possible financial pitfalls like these require prudent solutions before your marketing strategy development process begins.

Assuming all is well with these and any related issues, however, a bit of time to study internet marketing practices currently in use will help a lot in learning how to market a product online. For instance, a blog is simple to set up and maintain, whereas a full-blown website will not only cost you money to develop but also may delay updates while you wait for updates to your site to be completed by your web design company. Conversely, a blog can be updated by any of your office or marketing staff almost instantly.

Since nowadays most offline businesses have a web presence you’ll be safe in assuming your competition does too, so that of and by itself won’t usually be enough to give you a competitive edge – you’ll need to use some of the new marketing strategies utilized by professional Internet marketers as well.

Business article marketing is coming into it’s own online, since most users – your customers included – go online looking for information. Instead of just posting relevant information on your blog, develop an article marketing strategy that gets the info out to the main article directories as well. If neither you nor your staff are familiar with business article marketing yet, go to a couple of the biggest article directories and read through some of the free marketing articles they publish to see how it’s done.

Web 2.0 sites can be well used by offline businesses too, especially advanced methods like incorporating your customer service into your Twitter marketing strategy. A site like Twitter lets your customers worldwide reach your customer service reps instantly to diffuse any potential issues, and giving them specials they can offer just as Twitter promotions can boost your Twitter sales rapidly while keeping your customer base that much happier.

Your offline business can benefit greatly from learning how to market a product online, but first study internet marketing trends and these marketing tips and incorporate them into your marketing strategy development. If you don’t have the time yourself, consider having one or more of your staff trained in the new marketing strategies – it could make a major difference to your bottom line!

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Marketing mentor, coach and speaker Doug Champigny has been teaching companies new marketing strategies since the 1970’s, having owned and operated his own retail advertising agency before transferring to marketing online full-time since 1996. A recognized expert in how to market a product online or offline and master of these new marketing strategies, Doug Champigny is the creator of the PowerStart Marketing coaching program at http://www.PowerStart2010.com and the Affiliate Marketing PowerStart coaching program at http://www.affiliate-marketing-powerstart.info and is occasionally available for private 1-on-1 consultations and mentoring as well. Doug is a regular speaker at many of the Internet marketing and affiliate marketing conventions around North America – watch for him speaking live onstage in your area soon!

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Internet Marketing and Affiliate Marketing Coaching Programs

April 30, 2010 | In Affiliate Marketing Coaching, Doug Champigny, Internet Marketing Coaching, Marketing Mentoring | Comments(4)

So far 2010 has been a big year for us, most notably for the launch of our PowerStart coaching programs. After years of providing only high-end private coaching to advanced online marketers, we decided to offer Internet marketing coaching and affiliate marketing coaching programs to new and mid-level marketers as well – programs that would be open to the public as opposed to our earlier ones.

I used my speaking gig at Mark Hendricks’ Internet Super Stars Conference to announce the programs to the marketing community and immediately filled the first session for our 4-week crash course in Internet marketing. This high-intensity hands-on course includes weekly live webinars and over 1.5 gigs of training videos created for, and available only through, the PowerStart Internet Marketing coaching program.

Since then, the course has run each month for the past 3 months with fantastic feedback from our coaching students, as you can see from the video testimonials they’ve sent us. Most didn’t believe they could accomplish so much online in just 4 weeks, but happily they’re all believers now!

Then at the start of this month (April 2010) we launched our affiliate marketing mentoring program using the same format but over 8 weeks instead of four, with live webinars every two weeks and a workbook and training videos for step-by-step guidance through the two weeks between each webinar. While we’re just reaching the mid-point of the first 8-week session, the early feedback from our Affiliate Marketing PowerStart coaching program indicates this program will be just as well received as our Internet marketing coaching has been.

As the year rolls on we’ll be adding to the courses offered, including live coaching and/or home-study courses in search engine optimization, traffic generation strategies, opt-in list building, content creation and more, so be sure to keep your eyes open for those as they’re released! Additionally, if you’re in the Philadelphia, PA area I’ll be speaking at JVAlert in mid-May and also at the Niche Affiliate Marketing Seminar (NAMS) in Atlanta Georgia in August – please come up and introduce yourself if you’re at either event!

In the meantime I suggest you give serious consideration to enrolling in either the Internet Marketing coaching program or the Affiliate Marketing coaching program – I’d love to help you make 2010 the year you turn it all around and get on track for your own dream lifestyle!

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New Must-Have Twitter Tool – First Truly Viral Traffic Tool For Twitter!

March 25, 2010 | In Advanced Twitter Marketing, Free Resources, Free Tools, Internet Marketing, Tweet Traffic Rush, Twitter, Viral Marketing, marketing on Twitter, targeted traffic | Comments(0)

As the author of Advanced Twitter Marketing (now called Advanced Marketing on Twitter for legal reasons) and owner of the Advanced Twitter Marketing blog and the Road To Twitter Success website, it’s only natural that most people bringing out a new tool for Twitter users usually contact me for my opinion of their product and to see if I’ll feature it in our e-zine or on our blog.

So it was no surprise that I was sent the info about this new Tweet Traffic Rush from my friend Raamakant S. What was surprising though is the amazing potential I personally see for this new system – both to build your Twitter Following and to build traffic to your blogs, salespages, squeeze pages and affiliate links – all on autopilot! Do 10-15 minutes work setting this up and then let your friends and followers know about it – mail it to your e-zine, blog about it, etc. Then sit back and watch it’s potential for YOU grow virally for months, maybe even years down the road, all virtually hands-free after that first 15 minutes of setup and your initial push for the system!

Here’s part of what the site has to say about it…

You might have noticed that Twitter is the biggest news on the internet now. With some hundreds of thousands of new people joining Twitter each day, it is emerging as one of the largest and fastest growing social networking sites at this time.

As there are millions of people joining up to and logging into Twitter everyday, Twitter turns out a bigger and better opportunity to get you loads of targeted traffic to your website.

Though you can access millions of people on Twitter, you will need to work aptly in reaching out to them correctly. Here is where Tweet Traffic Rush can help you out.

Tweet Traffic Rush is the easiest, fastest and most efficient way to get a flood of laser targeted visitors to your site through Twitter and this is… Absolutely FREE!

With Tweet Traffic Rush, you will be able to use Twitter to spread your marketing messages virally and work in creating an Avalanche of FREE Targeted Traffic to Your Website in a very short time.

And how it works?

All you do is sign up for a Free account. Then you will need to add your twitter username in an appropriate category so as to get a tiny piece of widget code. And once you add this widget code to your websites, blogs or social networking sites, you’ll start getting more targeted visitors to your site.

If you are tired of and feel difficulty in spreading your marketing messages across the net, Tweet Traffic Rush can get you thousands of visitors to your site on autopilot.

Click on the Link and Create Your FREE Account NOW!

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I Was Just Checking Out Your New Internet Marketing Videos…

February 11, 2010 | In Online Video, Video Marketing | Comments(2)

I was just checking out your new Internet marketing videos, and I must say I’m impressed! Uh, hang on – let me backtrack here a bit…

Yes, the quality and styling of the Internet marketing videos and affiliate marketing videos really did impress me – as they will everyone who sees them.

But they’re not actually yours yet, truth be told…

First, you have to get on the announcement list so you know when the doors open. Next, you have to act quickly when they do, because clients will only be accepted for four days – four days next week, in fact.

Then, and only then, you’ll have to tell them each month what your new video will be about – what product, service or squeeze page it’ll be promoting. You see, these are custom made videos, one per month, for whatever YOU want a video for – they can be Internet marketing based, affiliate marketing based – even videos for promoting an offline business! It’s entirely up to you once you’re a member of iFlash Videos Monthly.

So you see, it wasn’t exactly YOUR videos I saw, it was affiliate marketing videos and Internet marketing videos that iFlash has produced for it’s current customers, mostly advertising agencies who pay a LOT more for the same video services – in fact, even if you’re a video expert, I doubt you can justify the time to do your own videos when you can get them this cheap.

But because this video creation service is being offered for so little an outlay each month, they’re only willing to accept new members for 4 days – if you’re serious about moving ahead in your online business or seriously promoting an offline business, be sure to get on the iFlash announcement list today!

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Affiliate Marketing Advice from Frank Michaels of Secret Affiliate Income

February 5, 2010 | In Affiliate Marketing, Work-At-Home Businesses, making money online | Comments(0)

Affiliate Marketing Advice from Frank Michaels of Secret Affiliate Income

Affiliate marketing is one of the best methods to earn quick money through the internet. It is a low cost business because you do not have to fork out a large sum of capital, unlike offline business where huge capital is involved. For online business, you can begin with a simple website and work your way into a full time business.

For affiliate marketing, the first thing you need to do is to find products or services which you want sell. Your main objective would be to drive targeted traffic to your website, so that they will buy the product through your link, and you will be able to earn commissions this way.

There are many ways for you to drive traffic online, you can use pay per click method, article writing or by building a list of responsive prospects. Which ever method you use, the main thing is to drive targeted traffic to your site, you will need to be precise and provide your prospects with a solution that they are looking for exactly.

As for pay per click affiliate (PPC) marketing strategy, you will set up small ads with a link back to your site. When it comes to PPC, it is crucial that you choose those highly targeted keywords for your niche for a better conversion and in turn, much higher revenue percentage. Same goes for article marketing and list building methods.

As an affiliate marketer, your main task would be to generate targeted traffic for your merchant. You need to keep in mind that those traffic that you drive to the site will eventually turn into money for you.

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Frank Michaels is a successful affiliate market who has earned his first pot of gold online! He has also helped hundreds of people to start their own affiliate marketing business. Cut your learning curve in half and stop wasting your time and money on the unknowns. Find out how you can start your own affiliate marketing business with his Secret Affiliate Income today!

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