What is the best email autoresponder? There are dozens of email marketing providers out there. New ones coming out everyday as well. The top ones are: AWeber iContact Constant Contact Campaign Monitor MailChimp In this post I want to share why I believe AWeber is the best, help you understand the fine print, and help you begin using it. Every marketer needs to begin building an email list right from the beginning. 1. What are my favorite features of AWeber? AWeber has livechat, a toll free help line, a pretty inexpensive starting package, and you can start today for only
Affiliate marketing is a lucrative business model. However, if you don’t know what you’re doing, it will be a royal waste of your time. Lots of affiliates are struggling and need help. In this post I will be teaching affiliate marketing for beginners. If you’re ready, click play and turn up the volume. To summarize the points in this video, the points are: 1. You will need a niche & an offer to promote I recommend using ClickBank.com and searching for products in your niche. For example, if your niche was ‘Dating’, then you would go to the Marketplace and
I get this question all the time, “Adam, how can I add value?” It’s a question, that without experience, is a hard one to answer. Contrary to what lots of marketers are currently doing, I’m going to teach you the process of adding value immediately. Your readers will die for you if you help them get results. Nothing else matters if you can’t give them something that will give them results. What are most marketers doing? They are applying proper principles, but they aren’t being as effective as they could be. They use opt-in boxes and free giveaways to get
Writing for an E-Commerce blog can be a challenge. The objective of this post is to you how to write your first blog post for your eCommerce site. Writing a review of a product you sell is just one of the many types of blog posts you can write. Doing it effectively will help you establish your voice in the marketplace. Let’s begin. 1. Frame of Mind You’ve got to get into the mind of the people who would be reading your reviews and purchasing the products you sell. You can accomplish this by either reading other reviews on the
Do you see the big picture? This is one of the biggest problems with online business, especially if you’re new to it all. There are so many shiny objects that are crying, “Lo here and Lo there”. Now more than ever, business owners need to see the big picture. My only desire tonight is to help a beginner see what I see. It’s taken me many connections, books, seminars, webinars and ebooks to see the big picture. What are the pieces that make up a profitable online business? An Offer A Platform Communication An Audience 1. An Offer Offers come in
The new Google Penguin update brought many changes and one of them caused many sites to lose significant amounts of traffic. Just like you wouldn’t cut a cake with a chainsaw, you can over do it by optimizing your blog too much. The objective of this post is to tell you how to avoid this situation. 1. Keyword Density Here’s the situation: You want to tell Google that your post is about a specific keyword. But, how often should you be using that keyword to accomplish that? Lots of bloggers will tell their readers that they should be keeping it
A social network is only as good as the following you’ve built up. On the flip side, a massive following on Twitter is useless if those followers don’t engage with you. The objective of this post is to teach you how to use twitter hand in hand with your blog. 1. Customize Your Twitter There are a number of ways you can customize your Twitter page. They are: Custom background (Helps people know you’re the real deal) Describe yourself and what you’re about in your Bio Take advantage of the website section. You have a few different options here. You
Jordan came to me with a deep question, “Adam, how do I get more visits to my website?”. Ooh, I love a good question and I certainly love answering questions that help people get more business, visits, leads, sales, whatever. The purpose of this post is to design a customized action plan that he can follow to get more visits to his site. 1. Branding 101 There are a few powerful ways to get your brand out there and generate more traffic. They are: Social Media Blogging Forums Blog Commenting/Gravatar Rome wasn’t built in a day. Neither were 99% of
I’ve bought my fair share of blog critiques. They’re usually priced between $5 and $20 and they’re a great way to see what others see when they visit your blog. Every one of them was worth it. Have you considered selling blog critiques on your blog? I’m going to conduct a blog critique for a friend right now and show you the things I include in my critiques. 1. Usability Usability covers areas such as: broken links, social media buttons, and search bars. I’m hunting for broken links because readers get frustrated when they can’t find what they’re looking for. I
I just took on an SEO client and she is an interior designer down in San Diego California. As I’m helping her I’d like to share what I’m doing with her. Maybe you have a service business that you’d like to get more business for. SEO for service businesses is rather tricky, but it can still be done. Here are the steps I’ve taken. 1. What are your search terms? Because I know she’s an interior designer, I ran some search terms through the Google Keyword Tool and these are some of the keywords I found: interior designers san diego
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