The Marketing BlogZine » marketing tutorials

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

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:37:51 +0000

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.

No time to write reports or build Opt-in pages? Not familiar with the necessary graphics and HTML to build squeeze pages yet? No problem – here are some professional squeeze pages, reports & graphics with PLR rights!

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.

**********************************

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!

**********************************

Technorati Tags: create a great opt-in page, targeted traffic, how to create opt-in pages, squeeze pages, list building, marketing mentor Doug Champigny

Bookmark This Post:

Free Internet Marketing Conference Videos on DVD

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:17:20 +0000

You say you’ve always wanted to attend a live Internet training conference but never been able to? Job gets in the way, or the cost is too high? Well, this may be the answer you need…

In August 2009 British marketer Lee McIntyre ran a weekend training seminar that cost $997 to attend – and those there KNOW they got their money’s worth, and then some. Now that they’ve had time to take action on what they learned, Lee is releasing the videos of the event on DVD – and he’s letting you have the DVD for free – you just pay the shipping!

Here’s your chance to see the same marketing training those people saw, without leaving work, paying for airfare or hotels, and without paying for the seminar – just investing less than $10 to get the videos shipped to you. You can’t get a good e-book that cheaply, so don’t miss out on this powerful collection of videos if you can help it! Order YOUR marketing videos on DVD now!

Best of all, with the videos you can rewind, fast-forward, pause & replay – all of which Lee hates you doing to him live…

Technorati Tags: Internet marketing seminars, Internet marketing videos, seminar recordings, marketing videos on DVD, Lee McIntyre, Free DVDs

Bookmark This Post:

Free Marketing Resources To Bolster Your Marketing Training Library

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:32:55 +0000

Here’s three sources for resources you’ll want to visit – each has some powerful Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing and/or niche marketing training resources available to you for free…

First up is Lee McIntyre’s marketing seminar videos – admission to this weekend marketing bootcamp was $997 last August, but you can now get the videos of the entire training course for free – you just pay the shipping to get the CD to you. So go ahead and grab your copy of these free marketing videos, then c’mon back to get…

Free access to the pre-event webinars from Mark Hendricks Internet Super Stars Conference. The conference is in Orlando Florida in January 2010, and there’s a whole series of great training webinars going on before the event itself.

In fact, as I write this, about half of the webinars are complete, and once you register for your free membership you’ll have access to the recordings for those along with notification of the remaining sessions so you can hear those live or get the recordings for those too. Naturally I recommend you attend the Internet Super Stars Conference in January – after all, I’m presenting my Power Start 2010 lecture there and running a hands-on workshop to help you get going faster.

But even if you can’t attend, at least get the free membership and learn from the recorded webinars! And that’s not all either…

Because Shelby Carr and I have teamed up with 27 other Internet marketing professionals to bring you 29 of the best free Internet marketing gifts you’ll find online, all free, and all available to you through the Santa’s Christmas Giveaway site. Be sure to download your gifts right now though, as these are only there for a limited time!

Technorati Tags: free marketing resources, free marketing training, free marketing downloads

Bookmark This Post:

How Many Blogs Are Enough?

admin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:16:05 +0000

How Many Blogs Are Enough?

Over the ~~last year or two~~, no since their inception Google has constantly been changing. The reason they were able to upset such existing monoliths like Yahoo and MSN was this constant change and improvement of their algorithm.

Change continues today and one of the big changes of late is what you find on the first page for a wide variety of terms.

Huge sites like about.com which cover thousands of topics, have a high page rank and tons of incoming links are no longer sitting a top the search engine results for some terms. (They still rank quite highly.)

But more and more often there are relatively new, sometimes brand new sites, that are keyword specific that are sitting ahead of these behemoths. Most are blogs of one type or another. Google seems to have a love affair with blogs.

The tighter the focus of the blog the more likely Google is to love it. This has led to me adding blogs for each specific area of interest. For example if you are an internet marketer and blog about affiliate marketing, article marketing, private label rights products, list building and social media a single blog is probably not your best choice.

If you are in a broad niche where three years ago you could have a single blog with categories and sub-categories now you are more likely to rank better with very specific blogs. In the example above a blog for each of those topics.

More and more marketers are setting up and using topic specific blogs. They aren’t doing it because they like multiple blogs but are doing it because it works. Like Google or hate them as long as they are the 800 pound gorilla the best thing to do is to give them what they want.

Here is what I think Google wants. (I say think on purpose because I do not spend hours scouring their latest patents and trying to figure out their latest algorithm. I just observe what they serve me each time I am searching for anything.) The key is to set up your blog properly. Create some quality content (pillar posts) and build a few links to your new site.

You can enhance that easily by repurposing that content.

Submit to the article directories
Add an audio version and submit to the podcast directories
Convert the content into a video that can be submitted to the various video sharing sites.

The repurposing will allow you to quickly generate backlinks. These back links will allow you to have enough gravity that your blog traffic will start quickly.

*************

About The Author:
Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. For a step by step plan to get a new blog ranking and traffic check out the Sunday Night Cash Plan.

*************

Technorati Tags: blogs, blogging, blog traffic, Mike Paetzold

Bookmark This Post:

Internet Marketing Resource Sites Taken To A New Level With New Launch

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:24:02 +0000

Internet marketing resource sites – those membership sites where Internet marketers and affiliate marketers scroll through page after page of products with Master Resell Rights and sometimes products with Private Label Rights – are a mainstay of successful Internet marketing. Resources like these are the best way for new and mid-level online marketers to get their work-at-home businesses into the profit zone and then eventually up to 6 figures a year.

But they all have the same drawback – the time it takes scrolling though the listings, trying to find suitable products for the current project and then downloading a bunch to open the zips and find out what you can and can’t do with them. This process takes hours, and often entails a visit to to or three of the membership sites you belong to to find the right items, right?

Well, all that has now changed with the launch this week of Resell-Rights-Fortunes.com, the new MRR and PLR membership site from Socrates Socratous. If you’re a regular reader of the BlogZine you’ll remember last week’s post about his free list-building video. The release of that video was part of the pre-launch process for the new membership site too.

After spending 14 months and over $35,000 developing the site, Socrates launched Resell-Rights-Fortunes.com this week as the biggest – in fact, only – fully searchable database of MRR and PLR products! That’s right – no more scrolling through pages and pages to find the products you want!

Here’s a perfect scenario to demonstrate why Resell-Rights-Fortunes.com takes Internet marketing membership sites to a new level: You’ve just completed a new report or e-book on using Twitter for Marketing and you’re preparing to sell it using PayPal or through services like ClickBank or PayDotCom…

So your first stop, obviously, is Resell-Rights-Fortunes.com. First, you search the database for PLR reports about Twitter that come with giveaway rights and a squeeze page. You pick the two best and download them. Next, you search for resources about Twitter or other Social Networking sites that can be used as bonuses with a paid products, and download the 3 best you find. Notice I said resources, not e-books. Resell Rights Fortunes has audios and videos in their offerings too.

Finally you do a search for all Web 2.0 marketing resources that can be bundled, and take the best 5 to 10 of them. Just that quick, you’re done getting the related products you need. Now it’s time to process them into the resources that make you the most money from your new product’s launch.

First step is to take one of the two PLR giveaway reports and edit it to your liking, convert it to your own product with your branding and links, then edit the squeeze page to match. (If you don’t know how, see the converting PLR e-books into unique products how-to training videos) Take the 2nd PLR report and break it down into 7-10 articles, add your signature and links to them to turn them into an autoresponder series, then set up another pro autoresponder for it and upload the articles to make them a 7-10 day e-course. Obviously, the links in the report and in the e-course point to your new product.

Next, you take the 3 social networking resources and add them as bonuses to your salespage for your new product, then add the links to your download page in the ‘Download Your Bonuses’ section. Finally, create a One-Time-Offer from the remaining products and plug it into the system either on the download page or between your payment processor and the download page.

I see the light bulb coming on over your head – easy to see how powerful this new membership site is, isn’t it? Being able to search for MRR products and PLR products by keyword, rights and type of resource makes all of this feasible without days of hassle finding products, downloading them, checking the rights, going back for more, etc. Now you can fully monteize your product launches in a few hours thanks to Resell-Rights-Fortunes.com!

Stop losing time and leaving money on the table – start making more money for you AND your affiliates and joint venture partners by joining Resell-Rights-Fortunes.com right now!

Technorati Tags: making money online, work-at-home profits, online profits from MRR, profiting from PLR, using Master Resell Rights, using Private Label rights, Internet marketing resources, how to launch a product, how to monetize a site

Bookmark This Post:

Article Marketing For Making Money Online

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:11:32 +0000

If you are not already using article marketing for your business, you are missing out on sales and signups that could be garnered from this time tested method of marketing a business online. Anyone who isn’t already marketing their business with articles should get started on it right away.

Remember, your article marketing efforts of today will continue to pay off for years to come. You can’t say that about any other type of marketing that exists. For the future of your business, this is an area of marketing that you need to learn – and you need to learn every aspect of it as soon as possible.

You may shy away from article marketing because you can’t write well, or because you don’t think that article marketing is right for your niche. These are valid reasons – but they are wrong. Even if you can’t write well, you can pay someone who does. Having articles written is surprisingly cheap. In fact, you can have one article written each and every week for less than ten dollars.

You can also take one of the many free writing courses online to learn how to write articles. Once you get the hang of writing articles, you will find that you can write a short article in less than half an hour. If you are slow at typing, or your article will require more research, you can knock one out in about an hour.

As for article marketing not being right for your niche – wrong again. Article marketing works for all niches. Have you been to a search engine lately? No matter what you think of to type in, you will find web pages on that topic. Where there are webpages, there are readers, and where there are readers, there is a need for articles.

Go ahead – try it. Visit your favorite search engine and try to think up something off the wall and type it in. Bet you find webpages that have content – articles – on them! Web content comes from articles – whether they are articles that were written specifically for that website, or articles that were found in the article banks.

You have everything to gain from article marketing, and nothing to lose – as long as you are doing your article marketing in the right way. Even if you did it in the wrong way, the most you stand to lose is your time. Frankly, article marketing is something that is hard to fail at.

The process is incredibly simple: write an informative article, include a resource box that has a call to action, distribute the article, and reap the benefits for years to come. That’s all there is to it – and this is a marketing method that is available to everyone – even if they are new to Internet Business. You don’t have to be a guru to write articles. You become a guru by writing articles.

You don’t even have to own a business to start writing articles and profiting from them. Affiliate marketing, where you promote other peoples products and services for a percentage of each sale, can easily be done through article marketing – and this is where many gurus got their start.

If you aren’t article marketing, you are leaving money on the table. It is as simple as that – and you can start article marketing today. Right now. If you can write, write. If you can’t, hire a ghostwriter, pay eight to ten bucks for the article, and start distributing it. All of that can be done now – TODAY.

Don’t let another day go by that you are not benefiting from the uncontested and unrivaled effectiveness of article marketing! The future of your business, as well as your own financial future, could depend on it.

For More On Article Marketing:

Article Marketing Overview – a simple guide to the basics of article marketing, for those not familiar with marketing using articles. Overview & e-zine are free for your signup. Confused by all the hype over Article Marketing? Not sure if Article Marketing is right for you? Wondering what the article format is for successful Article Marketing? And just what the heck IS an ‘Author’s Resource Box’ anyway?

Well, don’t fret, my friend – the answers to that and a whole lot more about Article Marketing are including in this short report & audio, designed to give you a quick overview of article marketing.

Understanding Article Marketing – For more serious Internet marketing using article marketing, “Doug Champigny’s Beginners’ Key To Understanding Article Marketing” covers all the essential aspects of article marketing and explains why it is the most effective way to promote a business today.

Download this amazing resource and you’ll quickly learn all the article marketing tips, tricks and techniques you need to use article marketing as an effective weapon in your affiliate marketing arsenal. If you intend to build a successful business online, this e-book is a must-read!

Article Marketer – Serious article submssion for serious Internet marketing! What holds most affiliate marketers back isn’t the time it takes to write an article, nor the cost of having one ghostwritten – it’s the tedious hours of submitting that article to enough article directories to make that article an effective tool. Article Marketer’s article submission service makes that a non-issue!

Now affiliate marketers can upload their article to one site and have it distributed to tens, hundreds or thousands of article directories for them, by the most respected, most trusted and most efficient article distribution company online – and for way less than their competition! With an upgraded membership you can submit an unlimited number of unique articles at once – even set deadlines for when to start delivering them and when to stop distributing them if you want!

(Marketing Power Tip: If you can afford it right now, take the lifetime membership – for one simple payment you can submit unlimited articles for years to come without ever making another payment, meaning you’ll never have to hesitate in your article marketing if money gets tight at some point!)

Technorati Tags: article marketing, submitting articles, article directories, Internet marketing, affiliate marketing, doing business online, promoting a business online, doing business on the Internet, make money online, work-at-home

Bookmark This Post:

Free – Jeff Dedrick’s Hidden Sales Project

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:27:31 +0000

Last year my buddy Jeff Dedrick launched a powerful training bundle called Jeff Dedrick’s Hidden Sales Project. This year, Jeff’s offering the updated Hidden Sales Project for free! Head over to YourHiddenSales.com now for your free copy…

Jeff Dedrick’s Hidden Sales Project is a training bundle that shows how top Internet marketers make most of their money on the backend – and teaches you how to do the same. And his release of the new updated version is proof that it works – if Jeff Dedrick is willing to give out one of his best Internet marketing products for free, you KNOW he’s got ways to make money on the back end of the site!

I know that Jeff Dedrick’s Hidden Sales Project is honest, valuable information every Internet marketer, affiliate marketer or niche marketer – heck, anyone looking to make money online as a work-at-home business opportunity – needs to have, and now that you can download Jeff Dedrick’s Hidden Sales Project for free, there’s no reason not to pick it up right now!

How do I know the Hidden Sales Project is so good? First, I’m one of the contributors to it – I shared one of the ways I make additional money on the backend of our sites. Yes, Teri & I make more on the back end than on the front – but that should be no surprise to anyone who’s read my Beautiful Backends e-book.

If you’re a regular reader of my daily Internet marketing e-zine, you’re already well familiar with sites like Jeff Dedrick’s Viral E-Book Explosion, where you can download free resources to help you make more affiliate commissions from your existing customers. That one site alone helped us make an extra 5-figures last year – and that was just from promoting the site itself through our backends, not including what we made from some of the free brandable e-books we got from there!

So if you’re looking to make more money, bigger profits online, from both your current traffic levels and existing sites AND from every site you launch in the future, be sure to download Jeff Dedrick’s Hidden Sales Project for free, then head over and get our free brandable e-books from Jeff Dedrick’s Viral E-Book Explosion – they make a rocking pair of resources to really skyrocket your Internet marketing profits!

Technorati Tags: Jeff Dedricks Hidden Sales Project, Jeff Dedricks Viral E-Book Explosion, Free Jeff Dedrick downloads, free downloads, free training, Hidden Sales Project, Viral E-Book Explosion, hidden sales, viral e-books

Bookmark This Post:

Online Internet Marketing Seminar A Must-Use Resource!

admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:05:04 +0000

Ross Goldberg has created the next big advance in the Internet Marketing world with his online virtual seminars. His second virtual Master’s Seminar kicked off Wednesday, and the lineup and content is amazing!

Each day for a week, 3 speakers give a 90-minute presentation, with a great chatroom going on before, between and after – and each presenter is answering questions at the end of their presentation.

In most ways, Ross Goldberg’s Master’s Seminar is the equal of the Live Internet marketing Events, but without the airfare, transporation or hotel costs inherent in a live seminar. Even the networking is strong, thanks to the ongoing chat.

One other advantage to this format is the instant availability of the replays – if one or more of the events is at a time not convenient to you, you can listen to the replays on demand within the members area. While the presentations will be sold on DVD afterwards, Ross is keeping the replays available to the attendees for at least 2 weeks after the event ends.

Listening to the replays won’t give you the chance to join in on the networking, but it WILL give you a great education in the most important areas of Internet marketing. And the replays are very valuable to those who DO attend the sessions too, both as re-enforcement of what you’ve just heard, and to catch any points you missed during the live performance.

The most amazing part of all this is that Ross has kept the admission to all the seminars, the chat, and the archives to under $20 per person. With a lineup of speakers that include Willie Crawford, Doug Champigny, Mike Filsaime, Perry Belcher, Harris Fellman, Michael Cheney & Ken MCArthur, there isn’t anyone marketing anything online that can’t learn a lot from this seminar.

Get your admission to Ross Goldberg’s Masters Seminar now – hear the archives of the speakers who have gone already, and catch the rest of the shows as time permits. You’ll definitely come out ahead for it!

Technorati Tags: Ross Goldberg Masters Seminar, Ross Goldberg Virtual Seminar, internet marketing seminars, Ross Goldberg, Internet marketing

Bookmark This Post:

Learn To Edit Your Own Videos…

admin — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:30:45 +0000

Last year, Doug Champigny released his famous PLR Tutorial Videos,
still the best training around on how to convert PLR E-Books into
your own unique products to put online. A year later, people are
still snapping them up left and right, because Doug is a true PLR
Master and because the big 800×600 videos make it easy to follow
along as you convert your PLR E-Books. He’s done a number of paid
and free teleseminars on using PLR over the last 3 years, so you
might even have been on one or more of the calls yourself…

Well, he’s done it again – only this time the topic is using PLR
Videos to maximum advantage. The bundle includes the recording of
his recent paid teleseminar on the subject, the written transcript
of the call, and step-by-step how-to videos that show you how to
take PLR videos – or really ANY videos – and make them into your
own products. Check out the info on the page at

Doug Champigny’s Using PLR Videos Bundle

He shows you a simple way that any newbie can master in a couple of
hours, then shows you how to truly edit videos – add voice, text,
add & remove video or audio, etc. etc. With video becoming the
biggest thing online these days, this is training you simply must
have – and it’s not available anywhere else at any amount – once
again Doug’s the first to bring you this information. So hit
the Using PLR Videos Bundle page
now and download yours today!

PS – there’s two bonus videos in there too – one that shows how
to make simple BuyNow buttons using PayPal, and one showing how to
create your own intros & exits to plug into the start of finish of
every video you use online – be sure to watch those, too!

Doug Champigny’s Using PLR Videos Bundle

To Your Success with Video…

Technorati Tags: using PLR Videos, converting PLR Videos, editing videos, Doug Champigny, new releases, new products, how-to training, online marketing, marketing, business, webmaster resources, webmaster tools, webmaster training, multimedia editing, web 2.0 editing

Bookmark This Post:

PLR Success – The 4 PLR Success Steps Revealed!

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 07:14:44 +0000

PLR Success – The 4 PLR Success Steps Revealed!

When it comes to selling new PLR products (Products that come with Private Label Rights), for most Internet marketers the first names that pop into their minds are those of the three PLR Masters – Doug Champigny, Aurelius Tjin and Edmund Loh. One reason is that all 3 of us release new first-quality PLR products on a regular basis. More importantly though, we know the four steps to PLR success online. The four steps I’m about to reveal to you will always help to ensure successful PLR sales events. Follow these Four PLR Success Steps and you’ll soon have a loyal following for your private label rights sales events too!

PLR Success Step One: Always Offer 1st-Quality PLR Products!

First, make sure your PLR products are first rate – no one wants old or poor-quality products, even in a PLR package they’re going to rewrite anyway. The better the inital quality, the better the final result once people convert PLR to original products to make money online.

PLR Success Step Two: Time Your PLR Sale In ADVANCE of the big selling season!

Second, if the PLR products are of a time-sentive nature, such as Christmas, Valentine’s, Easter, Summer Activities, etc., make sure your PLR sales event starts at least 6 weeks earlier than that season begins. For example, the Merry Christmas PLR bundle came out in time for people to spend 2 or 3 weeks converting the 4 great PLR products, the PLR graphics, the salespages and the download pages and still get all four products, and the bonus e-book with Master Resell Rights, on to their own sites before the Christmas frenzy starts around the middle to end of November.

Remember, the general Internet population is your customers’ target market - not yours. Your target market for PLR products is the marketers who will modify the PLR into their own version and put it online, so you have to get the materials into their hands in plenty of time for them to be ready for THEIR big season.

PLR Success Step Three: Offer PLR Products That Won’t Go Out Of Style!

Thirdly, when targeting a niche market with niche plr products, go for products that can be reused year after year. Unlike Internet marketing PLR or affiliate marketing PLR, niche materials don’t necessarily go out of fashion if you choose your niche targets cleverly.

An e-book about the best Christmas gifts for 2008, or about new technological gadgets for Christmas has a one-season lifespan. Not good, really… Yet look again at the Champigny Christmas PLR Pack – 250 Christmas Recipes, Christmas Crafts, An Old Fashion Christmas and the History Of An American Christmas – all four are subjects that will still appeal 5, ten or 20 YEARS down the road – meaning with a bit of work now, smart PLR marketers will be able to make money online with these products for years to come! The bonus e-book, even though it comes with Master Resell Rights instead of private label rights, is another prime example – a Christmas Fun Guide is another that won’t get outdated quickly!

PLR Success Step Four: Pricing Your PLR Products Intelligently!

And fourthly, use intelligent PLR pricing strategies. Don’t under-price your PLR – it’s easy to forget sometimes that selling private label rights to digital downloads is the most valuable form of products to sell to Internet marketers. They get to make it their own product under their own name, without having to do all the research or pay the exorbitant fees most outsourcing incurs.

On the other hand, don’t overprice it either – not every marketer is going to like every product in the package if there’s more than one resource bundled together – and not every PLR product is going to fit their niche or their site’s specialization. As a general rule of thumb, price your bundle so your customer is in a profit situation after selling 3 copies of any one product in the bundle. Since most e-books go for around $27, keep your bundle to around $50 or less unless it’s a huge bundle. The Champigny Christmas PLR Pack is about as big as I’d suggest you go for less than $50, though – any bigger and I’d suggest you go in the $79 – $97 range. Keep it under $100 unless you’re adding PLR videos and/or PLR audios to the mix as well.

If you follow these Four PLR Success Steps and release new first-rate PLR products on a regular basis, no doubt YOUR name will soon be included in the exclusive PLR Masters circle soon too! Or if you just buy PLR to create your own unique products from to make money online, keep these four criteria in mind when buying PLR bundles – if they don’t match up, don’t pick them up!

To your success with Private Label Rights & PLR sales…

PLR Master Doug Champigny.

========================
About The Author: Doug Champigny is a recognized PLR Master with extensive experience in Private Label Rights. He is the author of the e-books Becoming A PLR Pro & Mining Private Label Rights Gold, owner of the Niche PLR and Easy Articles Pro PLR membership sites, creator of the PLR Tutorial Videos, publisher of the PLR For Newbies videos and author of the Private Label Rights Blog. You can download 50 PLR articles for free when you enroll in his PLR Masters Course, download his Free Report PLR Explained!, and be sure to get on the announcement list for his famous semi-annual FreePLR Giveaway!
========================

Attention publishers: This article may be used on your blog, website or in your e-zine as long as no changes are made, the copyright and About The Author box are left intact, and all links remain live. Otherwise, no part of these contents made be used in any form – all rights reserved worldwide.

Technorati Tags: PLR Master Doug Champigny, PLR Success, PLR Success Steps, success with Private Label Rights, Private Label Rights pricing, private label rights events, Edmund Loh, Aurelius Tjin, Doug Champigny

Bookmark This Post:

Podcasting & Video Blogging (Vlogging)

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:26:59 +0000

“Podcasting & Vlogging, or Video Blogging:
2 Innovative New Technologies Let You
Harness The Power Of The Stars To
Create Content, Increase Traffic,
Sell More Products & Make More
Money Online!”

A new song by your favorite artist is played on the radio for the first time, and you recognize their voice instantly. Because you like their previous releases, you know you’ll pick up this new release too… A TV commerical runs on your local station, and you immediately realize the spokesmodel is an actor who’s on your favorite show. That recognition and ‘connection’ to this person influences your decision to try this product – if THEY suggest you use it, it can’t be that bad, can it?

And so it goes in modern society around the world – mass media has shaped our societies to the extent that recognizable celebrities wield enormous marketing power over their fans – influence that large corporations pay a fortune to harness and direct each year.

And now, through the power of amazing new Internet technologies, you can use those same tactics to brand YOU a star, to build YOUR brand awareness, to drive traffic to YOUR websites and affiliate links and make more profit online as a result… How do you achieve this celebrity status and become instantly recognized by voice or your image? Become the trusted voice that leads the masses to buy?

Podcasting & Video Blogging!

When you add podcasting and vlogging to your marketing mix, you begin to harness that star power, to brand your voice and image and to build a foolowing that can give rise to an almost ‘cult’ following. Broadcasting your voice and image around the world over the Internet gives you a much larger potential audience than any television station has – and the delivery of broadcasts to cell phones, PDA’s and other handheld devices increases that audience even more!

Radio & TV stations pay millions to set up their facilities and get their broadcast out to the masses… But if you’re reading this, chances are you only need one or two inexpensive software additions to be able to start broadcast right now – today! You don’t even need website hosting – these technologies use the power of blogs (which you can get free through Blogger or WordPress) and podcast and video directories online like iTunes and YouTube, which will host your broadcasts for you for free as well!

But how do you know what you need, or how to get started?

See the info here about ‘It’s You… Live! Podcasting & Vlogging Your Way To Success!‘. Payment button will not be active until Oct 20th.

If you’re reading this before Oct 20th, download it from The FreePLR Giveaway!

Technorati Tags: podcasting, vlogging, video blogging, start podcasting, start vlogging, start video blogging, podcasting how-to, vlogging how-to, video blogging how-to, Doug Champigny e-books

Bookmark This Post:

Your Most Powerful Free Traffic Tool

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:00:31 +0000

Are you using article marketing to drive targeted traffic to your sites? If not, you certainly should be. As has been demonstrated time and time again, article marketing is the single most powerful tool for driving targeted traffic to your Internet marketing, affiliate marketing and niche marketing websites, blogs and affiliate links.

Now there’s even more reason to start article marketing – a new article directory with a difference has opened up, and you can make affiliate commissions, Adsense money and even earn advertising credits from referring others, submitting articles and even from the articles submitted by those you referred.

And, of course, that’s all on top of the targeted traffic you drive to your sites with the links in your articles’ ‘About The Author’ box. So you get all the article marketing benefits of the traditional article directories, PLUS earn money and get additional traffic through the advertising you earn – sweet or what?

Just some of the articles I’ve submitted there in the last week include:

Affiliate Marketing Domination – Winning The Affiliate Wars

Article Marketing Meets Search Engine Optimization

Internet Marketing 2.0 – Woofers Becoming Tweeters

Internet Marketing Blogging Tips

PLR, MRR, RR… What Are Your Rights?

7 Tips For Affiliate Marketing Stardom

Now obviously, as soon as you can afford it, you want to go with a professional article marketing distribution service like Article Marketer. But until then, whenever you write an article, even if you’re using it your e-zine or on your blog, be sure to submit it to the AffSphere Article Directory too.

Note that I said an ‘article’, not a ’salespitch’ – while you can embed links in the body of your article at AffSphere, it does you no good if your writing sounds ‘pitchy’. People go to article directories to learn about various areas or to look for good articles to place on their sites or in their blogs. Obviously, no one is going to post your link-laden salespitch on their web properties, and those looking for info won’t be clicking your links either – they’ll be off to other articles in the directory. Since the reason you’re doing your article marketing is to draw targeted traffic to your sites, you have to be sure you have good, solid content in each and every article you submit.

So start by signing up to AffSphere, then search your hard drive for any articles you’ve already written and load them up. Post a link to the site on your blog, let your list know about the new directory, and away you go – your article marketing just got that much stronger. And along with all that targeted traffic, your article marketing activities is also now making you money directly – a very pleasant twist indeed!

*************************************
Internet marketing coach, mentor and speaker Doug Champigny is the author of several e-books on generating Targeted Traffic, writes the Top Traffic Tips blog, and has published the Doug Champigny’s Beginners’ Key To Understanding Article Marketing e-book. Doug Champigny is an avid fan of article marketing, and highly recommends both Anik Singal’s AffSphere Article Directory and the Article Marketer service, both of which he himself uses in his article marketing.
*************************************

Technorati Tags: article marketing, article marketer, AffSphere Article Directory, submitting articles, making money with articles, AffSphere, blog traffic, web site traffic, targeted traffic, making money online, Internet marketing, affiliate marketing, niche marketing, Anik Singal, Doug Champigny

Bookmark This Post:

21 Internet Marketing Success Steps

admin — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:58:37 +0000

21 Internet Marketing Success Steps

Like others in the upper echelons of Internet marketing and affiliate marketing, I’m asked one question by Internet marketing and affiliate marketing ‘newbies’ more often than any other:

“I can’t seem to make money online – What am I doing wrong?”

When my Internet marketing mentoring students ask me that, I can give them a detailed breakdown specific to their online operations – but they’re paying top dollars for my time investment, and I only mentor those who already have a viable presence online. So what about those new to Internet marketing – what advice can we offer them?

Time constraints prevent anyone from checking into the current operations of everyone starting out in Internet marketing, and after 11 years of being online full time it’s easy to forget how frustrating even the simplest of Internet marketing activities can be to the neophyte.

So in response I put together this list of ‘21 Internet Marketing Success Steps‘ to try and help guide both those new to Internet marketing and those with some Internet marketing experience who find their online marketing profits stalled or declining.

Pretty much ALL Internet Marketing success breaks down very similar to:

Basic Internet Marketing:

1) Choose affiliate or your own products;
2) Build some type of web presence for it;
3) Get targeted eyeballs to that page or blog post;
4) Start building your list from those targeted visitors;
5) Use every free method to bring more people to the site;
6) Use your list to bring people back to the site and to new sites;

Intermediate Internet Marketing:

7) Add related backend offers to your site;
Set up an affiliate program and get others pushing your site;
9) Put about 30% of what’s coming in back into getting more visitors;
10) Participate in giveaways to build your list and visitor numbers;
11) Find related products for new sites and do 1 – 10 with them too;
12) Attend live IM events, for knowledge but mostly for networking;
13) Convert related PLR resources to unique products to put online;

Advanced Internet Marketing:

14) Set up a backend linking all your sites together & automate the processes;
15) Build e-mail e-courses to make available in each niche/area you cover;
16) Outsource much of your visitor acquisition;
17) Do Joint Ventures with other advanced Internet Marketers;
18) Outsource your product creation;
19) Evaluate and improve your automated backend efforts;
20) Speak at industry events & seminars;
21) Give back – mentor others to help them achieve their dreams.

For most people starting out it’s safe to assume the following as averages other Internet marketing newbies have achieved…

First sale: 2 – 6 months.
First steady trickle of sales: 4 – 12 months.
Full Time Earnings: 2 – 5 years.

Those Internet marketing timelines can be influenced up or down by the amount of time and money you can put in, your background experience, your focus, and mostly by the amount of concentrated, continual effort you put into following your plan in a tightly-focused manner.

The 3 Biggest Biz-Killers…

1) Lack of focus (too many different, unrelated activities).
2) Giving up too soon (lack of perseverance).
3) Half-hearted effort (It takes a lot of time and/or a lot of money – you have to be willing to invest one or the other (or both) on a constant basis for the first few years at least. Everyone I’ve met at our level or above has a passionate commitment to their Internet marketing business.)

Do an honest appraisal of your Internet marketing efforts to date. Are you following the above steps in order, or jumping around? Starting at #1, how far into the list can you go, confident you’re performing that task diligently? Re-evaluate your plans based on what that tells you, and use that current limitation as the guide to what you need to learn more about, to focus on more, to put more effort into – and to eliminate anything else you’re doing that is straining your focus and your money and time constraints.

Decide what your goals are online. A few extra bucks? A steady inflow to help with the mortgage or to get a new car or a cottage? Enough to do this full time? Or sustaining a level that lets you achieve all your dreams and desires? Each level is being achieved right now by people online – just know which you’re after so you can gauge the amount of time and effort you have to commit to your desired level of Internet marketing success.

Don’t be swayed by stories of meteorical rises online – while they do happen, they’re extremely rare. Usually they don’t make all the details public – I know a lot of ‘overnight successes’ who spent 3-5 or more years in the trenches first – just no one knows that. And others who put 6 or 7 figures into their Internet marketing businesses before you first heard of them.

And watch out for people who had one or two big launches 3, 5 or 10 years ago and are still teaching that same system – Internet marketing practices changes too quickly and too drastically for that info to still be accurate. When evaluating advice you get in this biz, always think to yourself:

“Yes, but what have they done lately?”

If the answer is ‘nothing new in the last 6 months’, take the advice with a grain of salt and stay focused on your own path, only using the bits from it that fit in with your own Internet marketing strategy. After all, only YOU know where YOUR biz is right now, and what YOUR end goals are, right?

*****************************************

The best advice I’ve seen in this biz is to focus on making your first buck. Not a lot, just your first buck. Achieving that shows it can be done. Then focus on making one more. That shows it wasn’t a fluke – it can be repeated over and over successfully. That eliminates one of the biggest stumbling blocks to building your own Internet marketing business by showing that a) it can be done, and b) YOU can do it. Then just use the 21 Internet Marketing Success Steps above to build your business by continually repeating that process in larger volume for larger returns, and you’re on your way!

About The Author:
Internet marketing author, mentor and speaker Doug Champigny is an online success coach who, with his wife Teri, owns and operates over 100 web sites, a dozen blogs and highly-popular Internet marketing and Affiliate marketing e-zines. You can download 50 PLR articles for free from his latest site, PLRForSale.com. For more help in getting started online, visit his Training For Newbies web site.

Technorati Tags: Internet marketing, Internet marketing success, successful internet marketing, online business success, getting started online, making money online, Doug Champigny

Bookmark This Post:

Effective Article Marketing For Affiliates

admin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:17:13 +0000

Effective Article Marketing For Affiliates

Article marketing has been around long before online media was been invented. Business establishments have been known to promote their products and services through the written media even before the internet was invented. And with the onset of the internet, online article marketing has become an easier means of promotion compared to its older predecessors.

Not only can online article marketing be free (like most of its predecessors), it is non-seasonal (meaning, people can read your articles the whole year round, without exception as to what season your article is most applicable to), and can exist for even much longer than you will.

Many online business pursuits, affiliate marketing among them, have made use of the ease and the accessibility which online article marketing offers them. However, this same ease has jeopardized many qualities good ol’ fashion articles used to have: fun, quality, and creativity, among others. Many article writers have apparently forgotten the fact that their articles are trying to serve real life people, and not virtual search engines.

If you are into affiliate marketing, you are reading the right article. If you are into online article marketing to help you promote your products, all the better. This article will help you outline the qualities your affiliate marketing articles should have to provide the best profits for you, without sacrificing your potential customers’ trust.

INFORMATIVE ARTICLES

The main focus of online article marketing is to provide prospects with information at the click of a button. Your prospects do have a tendency to be impatient, so make your articles concise. Focus your articles on the product features and benefits your readers would most probably want to know about. If you feel you have enough skills as a writer, you might wish to omit some really good information about the product, and write in such a way that your readers might want to read more.

And never forget that not all information are created equal—some information are more beneficial than others, depending on the type of product you are promoting. Some products require a thorough discussion of the features, whereas a simple discussion of a product’s benefits might be enough for other types of products. The prospects should benefit from online article marketing, too, and if you have to, place yourself in your prospects’ shoes and try to imagine what kinds of things they would rather get from your articles.

QUALITY ARTICLES

Article writers nowadays are beginning to forget just how important quality is when it comes to written material. This isn’t to say that you have to be a major in journalism or a Nobel Prize winner in Literature to get to write well. The internet is bombarded with article-writing tips, a lot of which are even focused on online article marketing. If you still aren’t confident enough, you might wish to hire someone else for the job. Always remember that quality, and not quantity, articles will be best for your affiliate marketing venture.

WRITE FUN ARTICLES

How many crowded parties have you been to your entire life? And in how many out of these parties did you actually remember the names of all the strangers who attended? See how easy it is to remember the guy with the great sense of humor, or the girl with great conversational skills? Leave the same impression with your online article marketing efforts. Make your affiliate marketing prospects remember you. They may not buy anything off your hands right away, but the moment you sell them something they feel they need, the chances of them hesitating given their knowledge of your written humor is quite small.

POST IN ARTICLE DIRECTORIES

This might just be the best way for you to get your articles read by as many people as possible. If you do decide to post your articles to as many article directories as you can handle, please have the decency to write articles that deserve that much exposure. Reading a badly written article is, well, bad enough, but having it posted all over the World Wide Web?

No one needs, or wants, a badly written article, all the more, hundreds of the same thing. Do yourself a favor and don’t simply kiss your success in the affiliate marketing world by posting hundreds of useless words online.

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZE YOUR ARTICLES

Article marketing is entirely useless if you can’t get people to read your articles. Make your articles easier to find online. Imagine what keywords your prospects are most likely to enter when looking for your products. Establish them in appropriate places throughout your article. And don’t forget the quality of your articles. Never ever forget.

Affiliate marketing has now become a much easier venture to undergo, especially with article marketing aiding its efforts. You can be successful in either of these ventures (affiliate marketing and article marketing) if you work hard enough. Following the tips mentioned won’t hurt as well. Always remember that in the world of business, success is never too far away.

TOP ARTICLE MARKETING RESOURCES

=========================
Article Directory For Affiliates:
=========================

Make affiliate commissions and earn advertising credits
from people who read the articles you write:

Article Directory For Affiliates

=========================
8-Minute Article Program:
=========================

Free program that helps you write new articles
in just 8 minutes:

8-Minute Article Program

=========================
Duplicate Content Report:
=========================

Free report that helps maks sense of the whole
duplicate content controversy:

Duplicate Content Report

=========================
Professional Article Submissions:
=========================

The article marketing submission service the big dogs use:

Professional Article Submissions

To your success in Affiliate Marketing using Article Marketing,

Doug Champigny,
DougChampigny.com

For more Affiliate Marketing help:
Team Champigny Affiliate Blog

For more Internet Marketing help:
Internet Marketing Blog

Technorati Tags: article marketing, submitting articles, article marketing help, affiliate marketing, affiliate marketing help, affiliate marketing resources, free resources, free software, free reports, Doug Champigny

Bookmark This Post:

Internet Marketing & The New Infopreneurs

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:01:42 +0000

Internet Marketing & The New Infopreneurs

Internet marketing, the practice of selling physical goods or digital downloads online, is helping many thousands get through tough economic times a little more easily – and helping some make money online as a full-time profession. Is it the right path for you?

Internet marketing, as an industry, is rapidly becoming a major part of many household’s income. While a number of Internet marketing professionals are earning 6, 7 and 8-figure incomes online, society as a whole may well be impacted to a far greater extent by thousands of people using Internet marketing to keep their families out of harm’s way as the economies of the developed countries continue to deteriorate over the next few years.

Most of the press surrounding this new industry focuses on a few success stories of well-heeled ‘Gurus’ or the inevitable cheats who foster SPAM by the boatload, but the truth, and the importance, of Internet marketing is that it can allow everyday people, grasping at straws to try and maintain their lifestyle, to protect their assets and maintain their standard of living during the current downturn.

Far from the perceived ‘Get Rich Quick’ panacea that some purport Internet marketing to be, the truth is that it’s a business, like any other in that it either takes money or time investments to launch, must be nurtured heavily like any newborn, and that there really are NO guarantees as to how any one individual will do, nor even how any one venture will do, even for the most experienced Internet marketers.

There are a few major differences from traditional ‘brick & mortar’ businesses, however. First, and perhaps most importantly, it IS possible to launch a successful Internet marketing business with no major financial investment, provided you already have a computer and an Internet connection. The launch process can be strengthened and the income horizon shortened with deeper pockets, to be sure, but they aren’t the prerequisite in Internet marketing that they are in the offline world. This becomes a major factor for those trying to dig their way out of financial distress, avoid further declines in family finances or achieve a better-funded lifestyle for their families.

The second major difference is the amount of valuable information on starting and running an Internet business that is available for free online. A search at Google for ‘making money online’, ‘Internet marketing’ or ‘Affiliate marketing’ will return about an equal amount of resources that are for sale and that are available for free. Almost every Internet marketer, operating in any niche you can name, offers a free newsletter or ‘e-zine’ that dispenses a great deal of free information as well. Try to imagine an automobile manufacturer or pharmaceutical company sending you regular information on how to compete with them, how to recreate their products, etc!

Internet Marketing & The New Infopreneurs continues here…

Technorati Tags: Internet marketing, Internet marketing success, about Internet marketing, making money online, earning money online, doing business online, Doug Champigny, Google Knol

Bookmark This Post: