Blogging for Business: Things to Post in Your Blog

When you have finally got into the blogging for business then you must make it sure that it is able to reach the audience in the intended manner. You need to decide upon the elements which you are going add on to your blog page to make it more impressive. But the problem is that making this decision is little difficult. Let me put across some ideas which can be entailed in your business blog.

Features and Benefits of your Products and Services
Describe and talk about your product or service in an enthusiastic and positive tone. It is important that you stress on the topic and present the benefits in a stronger way. It is also good to point out some of the limitations of your product however never be too elaborative in that.

Announcements
Whenever you launch a new feature or product or simply come up with some lucrative promotional offers you should always highlight them on your blog page. In this way the customers would be glad to watch out for your website and get details. This is a great way to get them hitched to your blog and thus increases traffic too.

Tutorials
With the help of tutorials the customers will get an insight on how to use a particular product or service. You can provide them tutorials which are associated with the product or service you offer. Suppose you deal in women makeup accessories and cosmetics then you can add tutorials on do-it-yourself makeup tips etc. This way you shall be able to connect more easily with your customer’s through your blog and they will find it more useful and thus visit the blog over and over again.

Related News
It is also a great idea to include news about the related industries etc. This makes your blog post more informative and thus the readers would want to visit it more. This way you would be able to connect with the customers from variety of interests,

Related Tips
Customers will surely be happy to see some related tips and tricks on the blog with which they can be able to use the product or service in more efficient manner. Providing Tips and tricks is a great way to promote your product and in this way the users will be willing to visit your website more often as they get interesting stuff on it.

Satisfied Customer Testimonials
It is another way to grab the trust of the users. You can add some testimonials from the clients and companies etc who are already using your product. When the viewers see the comments and experiences of old clients then they tend to build a good impression of your blog.

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The 3 Most Important Components to be Successful Online

Guest Post by Ashley

If you destine to be a top internet marketer then you need to build for the long run rather than short term, I am going to explain the three most vital components which will keep you and your business running for long term and which will start to make you money over and over again. The three main aspects you need are:

- A list
- Traffic
- An Offer

With these three components in place you will understand why the top marketers are making so much money online and I am now going to explain each one in more detail.

A List

The money is not in the list but it is in a responsive list. This is a key point you need to remember when you start building your own list. The truth is building a list should be your number one priority for long-term success as no one can take your list away from you. The simple fact is once you have your own list you can generate income on demand with a simple email. So as you can imagine the more people you have on your list that respond to your emails the more money you are going to make over time. This does not matter what niche you are in as long as you can offer you list “cool stuff” which will benefit them, when it comes to you recommending them a product they will be ready to buy through you as you have given them such great cool stuff in the past.

I won’t be the first person to tell you building a list is important and I won’t be the last person either. The truth is until you start to build your own list you will not understand the true potential of having your own list of subscribers.

Traffic

Without traffic nothing else really matters! Without traffic you cannot build your list, without traffic you cannot sell products and so on. There is so many different ways of driving traffic in this day and age and the fact again is the more traffic you can drive to your desired website the more results you are going to produce whether it is building your list or selling products. I cannot go into to much depth about how to generate traffic because there is so many different ways but I will list a few of the more common methods.

- Article Marketing
- Forum Marketing
- Banner Ads
- SEO
- Paid Advertising (Adwords, Facebook)
- Social Media

Like I said the list goes on. Once you get the right method working for you that traffic will continue to flow to your site over and over.

Offer

What I mean when I talk about having an offer is in the terms of either having your own product or in the sense of what you are going to give away to build your list (lead magnet.) In order for someone to give you their email address you have to give something in return. I always say you need to make sure what you are giving away to obtain an email address has to be something of great value which you could actually go out and sell. This is where giving away “cool stuff” comes into play.

So as well having your own product is going to generate you a massive amount of income and stability within you’re area of Internet marketing. Once you have your own product it will continue to work for you for many years. The simple fact also is once you have created your product you can get others to sell it for you (affiliates and JV’s) Product creation can take a very long time and a lot of effort but you do reap the rewards for your hard work as with your own product not only will you make sales continuously you will also be building a responsive list so you kill two birds with one stone.

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Squeeze Page Tutorial – 5 Tips You Can Use Today

Guest Post by Welly Mulia

If you’re marketing your products and services on the Internet, whether it’s a digital or physical product, you need to capture your website visitors’ contact information – specifically their email address (which is what this squeeze page tutorial is all about).

This is very important because there are so many websites today that are competing for the eyeballs of your visitors. If you can’t capture their email address, then chances are they are NOT going to come back to your website again, forever.

You need to create a squeeze page TODAY.

A squeeze page is a very simple website whose ONE AND ONLY purpose is to capture the visitors’ email address by giving them some kind of VALUABLE Freebie. It is different in a blog in the sense that a squeeze page is typically only 1 page long with very little content designed to entice visitors to give their email address.

A blog, on the other hand, typically contains a lot of content spread across hundreds of pages that educate, teach and inform its audience.

Today I’d like to share with you 5 powerful tips that you can use to create a HIGH converting squeeze page:

1. Be Concise

First rule is NOT to beat around the bush and instead get right to the offer you’re making your visitors.

Yes, even though you’re giving away a Freebie (which costs nothing), you STILL need to sell them on taking up your offer.

There are tons of websites offering Freebies – why should they choose your Freebie over others? People are also getting tired of email spam and they’ve become more wary and reluctant to give away their email address.

They have VERY SHORT attention span these days, thanks to the millions of websites that are competing for their attention every minute of every day.

Thus, you should be concise and get to the point FAST.

2. Use Benefits And Curiosity

People want to look for information that benefits them.

What do they get if they sign up for your Freebie? What’s in it for them?

You have to spell out the BENEFITS of what they’re going to get in a CLEAR, STEP-BY-STEP manner so that they understand what they can expect from your Freebie. Assume that your visitors are dumb and need to spoon-feed.

I don’t mean that in a bad way. I want you to think of your visitors that way so that your benefits are CRYSTAL-CLEAR to them.

Also add in elements of CURIOSITY whenever possible to SPICE up your offer to make it more enticing so that they crave for your Freebie even more.

3. Above The Fold

Place your opt-in form (the place where visitors enter their email address) ABOVE THE FOLD to make it stand out and obvious.

Above the fold means the TOP display area on your computer screen without having to scroll down.

We humans read from top to bottom – by placing this opt-in form above the fold, most likely your visitors are NOT going to miss that.

4. BIG Opt-In Form And BIG Subscribe Button

When you place your opt-in form above the fold, you’re already making it (the form) stand out from the other elements on the squeeze page.

However, if you want to FURTHER increase your conversion rate, you should use a BIG opt-in form and a BIG subscribe button too to make your form stand out even more.

5. Use FREE and INSTANT (in caps lock)

As much as I hate to admit it, we humans are GREEDY and IMPATIENT creatures.

You should utilize this knowledge to capitalize your list building efforts. Use the word “FREE” and “INSTANT” in capital letters and if possible, in different fonts and colors as well to make them stand out.

When people see these two words, their eyes will “pop-out” and light with glitter.

Above are 5 tips you can use TODAY to give your squeeze page conversion a boost. Simply knowing these 5 tips is NOT enough; make sure that you USE and IMPLEMENT them to REALLY increase your squeeze page conversion.

As the saying goes “To know and not yet to do, is not yet to know”…

What do you think about the squeeze page tutorial above? Let me know in a comment below…

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Foolproof Business Approach for the Affiliate Marketing Newbie

It isn’t uncommon for new affiliate marketers to make mistakes that not only waste a lot of money, but time as well. While it is always beneficial to learn from one’s mistakes, taking advantage of available resources prior to losing valuable time and money is more beneficial. A successful online business requires enrollment in a profitable affiliate program; and making money through affiliate marketing requires a tremendous effort toward developing and expanding promotional skills. Below are some tips on how to find and utilize the right affiliate marketing program for your online business.

First off, there are literally thousands of various affiliate marketing programs available online. Each of these programs has its own characteristics along with its own product or service, so it will take a significant amount of research to locate the one that is best suited to your online business. Factors like how much the affiliate product interests you should affect your decision, as motivation is a big part of affiliate marketing; however, the program’s profitability and support system is much more important. For instance, lower priced, more common items are more likely to bring in higher profits than high end, specialized products. Affiliate marketers are also far more likely to succeed if they have access to extensive support and marketing resources through the affiliate program.

Another important aspect of running an online affiliate marketing business is having a plan of action. Once you have become familiar with all of the aspects of your affiliate program, it is necessary to plan out the route you are going to take from beginning to end, detailing each step along the way and referring back to them frequently. Knowing exactly how you plan to execute and guide your affiliate marketing business through the development process is key to maximizing your earning potential without making expensive mistakes.

Once you’ve chosen and enrolled in an affiliate marketing program, it is extremely important to begin learning and using both free and paid marketing strategies. Like the affiliate programs, there are many proven strategies available online, meaning, it will take a little determined research to find the ones that will work best for you. In the end, with a combination of thorough knowledge of your affiliate program and a solid set of strategies under your belt, success will come to you.

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How to Double Your Blog Traffic in One Month

Guest post by Michael-John Wolfe

In January of 2010 I had over 6,000 visitors to my Residuals and Royalties blog and in only one month I was able to double the number of total visitors to almost 12,000. Many bloggers spend time creating quality content in hopes that they will attract visitors to their blog. The sad truth is that more often than not, quality content alone will not attract readers to a blog that is not established. The key to making money online with your blog is having a lot of unique visitors. Below is a list of things that you can do to attract more readers to your blog…

Yahoo Answers: Go to Yahoo answers and search for unanswered questions that are related to your blog’s topic. Give a relevant, quality answer and be sure and include a link to your blog as well. You can even copy and past your answer onto a multitude of similar questions.

Ping-O-Matic: Every time that you write a new blog post, use Ping-O-Matic to submit your fresh content to a large list of search engines. This system makes it so easy to let all of the search engines know that you have new content on your blog.

Guest Posts: Contact the owners of popular blogs in your niche and ask if they would mind if you created a guest post specifically for their blog. If they accept, create a well written post that will attract others to want to learn more about your blog. Guest posting is my number one source of increasing traffic to my blog.

Reply to Every Comment: If someone takes the time to leave a comment or response on your blog and you don’t take the time to respond back, chances are that that person will not be coming back to your blog. Remember that your readers are the lifeblood of your blog and without them you’d be going nowhere fast!

Interview a Big Name: Ask a big name blogger in your niche if you could interview them for your blog. If they accept, they are likely to put a link to their interview on their own blog and in turn you can gain some quality traffic. Be sure and ask interesting questions that will intrigue your reader and keep them coming back for more.

There are many more things that you can do to attract visitors to your blog. Remember that whatever your niche is, you should always act as though you are an expert in your particular arena. Follow this advice and you too can double your blog traffic on one month. Here you can see a screen shot of the increase in my blog’s traffic from January to February…


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Build Income By Buying Wholesale Products and Reselling Them On eBay

Guest Post by Justin Vanhove

It does not matter whether you are an advanced internet marketer or a newbie you can make big money on ebay. When it comes to selling and drop shipping products to make money there is no better place than ebay. First, let me tell you why you should use ebay to earn money on the internet.Perhaps the biggest reason to sell products on eBay is the huge market place. They have the biggest market place of buyers than any place on the entire planet and that is literally no joke.

What this means to your ebay business is a lot more sales. The more hits your products get the better chance they have of selling. Another great advantage to starting an ebay business in todays world is the amount of services that are available to help smooth out the process. These services have been created specifically for ebay business owners to suit their needs.
These tools and services make your work way easier and are essential to running a highly profitable ebay business.The first type of tool I want to go over is market research tools. These tools research ebay and give you data on what sells and what does not sell. This essential in making the most of your time and energy.

If you know what sells and have access to it at wholesale price you can make a lot of money. That brings us to the next tool that determines your success.These are drop shipping companies. Drop shipping is quite different from traditional ways to ship your ebay products. This is not the same as wholesale distriubutors With drop shippers you can speed the process up while getting your essentials for your ebay business at the same time. You can list and sell products on ebay before buying with drop shippers.This is why they are a vital part to the ebay business model of making money. They give you access to the products you need and allow you to sell them to customers on ebay and collect the payment before having to pay for the product themselves saving you tons of hassle and energy.

The main thing that they supply you with is wholesale products that you can sell for retail price. The added bonus is that you do not have to buy them for yourself before you sell them to someone else. The only downfall is that you have to pay for these services. However, without them you can not succeed.

It should cost you not more than one hundred dollars per month for both services combined. Both services will almost certainly pay for themselves. These two services will be all you need to get started. However, once you get so far in the business eBay itself supplies you with additional tools to make it easier for you to earn money online with ebay. This article is not the place to get into the details of the eBay power seller program. I will note that you get a lot of benefits that will have a big impact on the amount of money you earn.

The best part about belong to this program is the discount you get on listing fees. This ultimately leads to a lot more money in the long run. This is what sets the power selling program apart from the other programs on eBay. I have presented a lot of ideas to you in this article about what really goes into making money on ebay and now I am going to sum up what I have said so I know you come out of reading this article with the knowledge to earn money on ebay.

First lets summarize why you want to focus on ebay as place to earn money rather than some other opportunity. There is a massive amount of registered buyers and targeted traffic browsing eBay for products every second of the day. The main goal is to get to power seller status where you can reduce your listing fees and get a lot more extra help from ebay in running your business.

This very hard and is almost impossible to do without some help.The only two things that you need to get you there are the wholesale products and market research. That way you have products to sell and you know exactly what ones to sell.

Drop shippers take selling on ebay a step further. They are different from wholesale suppliers because you can list the product on ebay, sell it auction style, and ship it without ever seeing the hard product itself. The market research companies are the ones that tell you what products to sell on eBay in order to make the most money.

After you use these two services to sell enough products you reach the power seller level opening a lot more doors that will ultimately help you increase profits on eBay.

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