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Do you believe in the summer lull? How about the tooth fairly?

They’re both a myth!

In fact, summer is a prime opportunity to race right past your competition while they’re snoozing on the beach…

So how CAN you combine summer fun with marketing?

Check out this teleseminar by Sue Clement, one of my favorite marketing gurus:

“Summer Marketing Secrets”

Summer Marketing Teleseminar

It’s at 3 p.m. EST (or noon Pacific), and yes, if you can’t make it for some reason, sign up anyway. It will be recorded and you’ll be able to get the download link later.

What does it cost? It’s FREE! There’s no charge except for your long-distance charges, if applicable.

Who is Sue Clement?

She’s a marketing and business coach in Vancouver. She’s particularly well-known for having grown an employment agency from scratch into a multi-million dollar business, which she then sold for 5 million dollars!

And after that, she hung out her shingle as a business success coach, and since then, she’s helped hundreds of her clients from quite a range of businesses increase their revenue, sometimes dramatically.

So don’t miss it. The info Sue’s sharing could make a big difference to your business, especially come September

Summer Marketing Teleseminar

My new teleseminar will debut Tonight! It’s the first in a series of teleseminars — this one on affiliate marketing and how to approach it the right way.

It’s somewhat by special request — I have created this affiliate marketing product and some of my subscribers asked me how to get the most from that product.

So I’m going to talk about what affiliate marketing is all about, how to best approach it, essential things you need to do to help you be successful, and so on.

And then, I’ll answer the most urgent question — how to get traffic to your affiliate sites that you promote, whether they’re lead capture pages, affiliate review sites, or whatever.

When will it be?

Tonight, at 9 p.m.

Where can you sign up?

http://www.WebStuffTonight.com

That’s my new designated site for web stuff teleseminars

Please join me tonight. And if you can’t make it, sign up anyway — I plan to make the recording available to anyone who signs up — after the call.

I look forward to seeing you on the call tonight!

And if you can’t make it this week, maybe I’ll see you next week!

How to promote your affiliate sites or websites? That can be a challenge. But here are a few tips to get you started…

First of all, you need to decide whether you’re interested in buying traffic or working for it, or whether you want to combine the two.

What about free traffic. There’s really no such thing. All traffic will require some work, at least initially. Once set up right, it can appear on autopilot for years to come.

But that’ still not free because initially, it did take work and maybe even money.

1) Buying Traffic

If you want to buy traffic or pay for traffic in some way, you have a number of options. The most common one is adwords, which is the classic PPC method.

Still, there are other places that offer PPC, from Bing to Yahoo to… well, there are plenty of options.

Next, you can pay for traffic by way of renting advertising space in form of placing banner ads on other people’s websites. Or you can purchase solo ads in ezines. Or ad space on classified ads sites such as USFreeAds.com

2) Working for Traffic

If you’d rather put in some sweat equity, you can work for your traffic too. Again, you have lots of options:

The most common and one you should definitely include in your lineup is article marketing, whether you pay for traffic or not.

Article marketing basically means that you write articles that are designed to lure your readers to your website, with a resource box at the bottom that closes the deal and contains relevant links. You place these articles in article directories, and yes, ideally, you promote them for extra bang for the buck. And then you wash, rinse, and repeat

Forum marketing is a little different. You join relevant forums, set up a signature line that promotes your website, and then just participate in discussions and answer questions, especially questions that have to do with the subject matter of your website.

YouTube Marketing requires a bit more tech savvy. Instead of wriiting articles, you create videos and then upload them to YouTube. Make sure you include your link in the videos as well as in the descriptions, and then proceed as with articles.

There’s plenty more, but these should get you started. More in a future post, on social media marketing.

Meanwhile, you can get more information on how to get started with all that by requesting my free internet marketing step-by-step ecourse.

Or, if you’re ready to start blogging (another low cost way to promote your website), you can get a steal of a deal for my blogging course… IF you hurry.

Look for more tips next time.

Are you an affiliate marketer? So how is it working for you?

The traditional model involved simply sending people to the website and have them buy, buy, buy. I have no idea whether this actually worked in the past, but it sure as heck doesn’t work any longer.

Here’s one of the reasons why:

People usually need to see an offer more than once — a lot more often than once — before they buy.

But how can you get them to see YOUR offer more than once? If you’re extremely lucky, they come across your link just when they’re ready to buy. Not something to bet your shirt on.

So what does work?

The new approach to affiliate marketing involves gathering those leads for yourself and THEN sending them on their way to the affiliate link.

Sure, you may lose a sale or two that way, but you more than make up for it by being able to continue to promote that product to them over time — and other things too. In fact, you’re building your list as you’re building a relationship with your subscribers.

And you have probably heard that the money is in the list…

Anyway, so how does it work?

1) You create an ethical bribe (a short report that makes them want the real thing)

2) You create an autoresponder series and set up a new autoresponder for your new subscribers. Don’t have an autoresponder yet? You can try mine for free for 30 days: FREE Autoresponder for 30 days

3) Create a squeeze page with an opt-in form where people can sign up for your freebie and follow-up messages.

4) Create a thank you page that will give follow-up instructions and lure them back to the affiliate sales page too.

Sound like a lot of work? Well, pick the right product and it’ll be worth it.

OR have it done for you…

I have actually created a subscription service for “affiliate marketing done for you” packages where you get two (sometimes three) of those packages a month. And you can try it out for just $7 for the first week, meaning you get your first package for just 7 bucks. Just click here.

it even comes with some marketing and how-to tutorials. Do check it out by clicking on that linka bove if you want an easy way to do affiliate marketing the right way.

Then, once you’ve got a few of the packages, you’ll probably get the hang of how to create additional ones yourself if you like… Or just keep getting mine.

More affiliate marketing tips in an upcoming post…

P.S.: Want some FREE affiliate marketing tips? Get them at www.WebCashHowTo.com

Are you tired of the Internet Marketing Feast or Famine Cycle? You don’t have to put up with it.

Unfortunately, a lot of the most common methods are practically set-ups for it.

Whether you’re doing affiliate marketing or product launches, the money comes either in batches or very slowly/not at all. Anything but predictable, nice and boring income. Some people argue you should get a job if you wanted a regular income.

I wouldn’t go so far. There are other ways to do that. One of them has been practiced by my favorite internet marketing mentor/guru Marlon Sanders.

And he just created a FREE special report I can give you where he talks about how to get out of the feast/famine cycle.

Just go click here to get it: http://www.splittestinggenius.com/feast

I hope you’ll enjoy it!

And that’s not all. There’s also a very cool video he just created about the 7 NEW rules of marketing. Yes, times have changed. What worked a couple of years ago no longer works. Get it here: Marlon’s Video

More on how to build a sustainable IM business soon.

Would you like to get more website traffic? How about some Free Traffic Tips?

Here goes:

1) Article Marketing

Okay, so it won’t cost you actual money, but you do have to put in the legwork. Still… if you do, this could pay off nicely.

Obviously, the premier place to publish your articles is Ezinearticles.com — but there are many other places to publish your articles.

Here are a few of my favorites:

Goarticles
Article Dashboard
Searchwarp
SelfGrowth
Website-articles.net (costs money but is excellent!)
iSnare (also costs money, but distributes your articles to tons of places)

2) Press Releases

Again, many of the press release sites cost money, but there are a few that are fairly inexpensive, specifically webwire.com, which for $19 can give you quite a bit of publicity.

BUT there ARE quite a few free sites as well. They keep changing, but free-press-release.com is a good one.

As all the free ones, it tries to get you to upgrade, and I do recommend to get their $1 upgrade. I mean, what’s a buck if it gives you greater visibility?

The free ones, if you really want to get some benefit from them, also require a bit of legwork. How? Well… you have to submit your press release to a whole bunch of them. And be prepared to do it with plenty of warning since most of the free ones will take their sweet time to post your free release.

3) Tweet your News

Works best in combination with articles, blog posts, and/or press releases, where you can send your tweeps. or followers.

Okay. This is just for starters.

I will post more tips for how to get website traffic soon, plus maybe a list of free places to submit your press releases as well…

Check back again soon.

Elisabeth

Want your own WordPress blog? Or a blog to promote your business?

I’ve got great News for you! My blogging course is LIVE!

It’s been under development for a while, and I’m so excited that I have finally launched it.

The course itself will start on October 26th, a Monday. So now it’s time to join up;-)

Check out the site:
http://www.thebloggingcourse.com

And if you visit and sign up for the blogging tips, you’ll get a free special report too.

I hope you’ll enjoy it, and you’re welcome to pass it on to anyone who might find it interesting.

And about that free teleseminar tonight:

“Blogging for Business — 7 Key Points you should know about blogging for more business, more customers, clients, and sales.”

Here’s the info:

EVENT: Blogging Course Teleseminar
DATE & TIME: Thursday, October 15th at 9:00pm Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice)

TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, CLICK THIS LINK NOW…
http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=9555744

Be sure to dial in early to avoid getting locked out.

Have a FANTASTIC Day and I look forward to seeing you tonight.

Elisabeth

http://www.thebloggingcourse.com

Hmmm. eBay vs. Amazon? Or rather Amazon.com Marketplace?

Ever sold stuff on eBay? Isn’t that a lot of work? It’s worth it for bigger ticket items, but if you have to write all those descriptions for items of $10 or less, that can get to be a real drag.

And then there are the listing fees! Yikes! What if the stuff doesn’t sell?

Of course, there’s an alternative… though it won’t work for everything…

What do you think? I just wrote a FREE ebook that will give you the scoop and get you started on your path to getting more bucks for your books, CDs, DVDs, and other stuff.

You can click here to get to the sign-up form, and the ebook link will appear in your mailbox just as soon as you have confirmed that you really do want to allow me to send you email.

And if you like, there’s a really special offer for you too.

Because one thing is for certain. For anyone getting started with making money online, this method, whether you use eBay OR Amazon.com Marketplace, is the easiest and most sure-fire way to actually bring in some real moolah!

And check the ebook to find out which one is the easier one for you.

It worked for me, and it worked for countless others I’ve met. So why not for you too?

And besides… it IS the season!

Yep. Starting right now. The annual holiday shopping frenzy has begun.

Now with the current economy, the word “frenzy” might be just a tad over the top, but the thing is, people ARE looking for bargains. And bargains is exacty what you’ll be able to offer them when using this method.

So if anyone’s able to sell, it’s those folks on eBay and Amazon.com Marketplace who help their buyers save a few bucks.

Sounds like a win-win to me!

Anyway, go get your FREE downloadable book:

http://www.ebayvsamazon.info

See you on the other side

Elisabeth

Oh, and please send your friends too!

A few people have asked me how to get those cute Twitter badges posted so that they’re clickable links.

Here’s the step-by-step.

First the illustration:

And now the explanation:

First, you have to find the badges you like.  You can go to one of mine or to the link posted a few posts down (on the other post about Twitter badges) and go straight to the source for lots more where mine came from.

Here’s the step-by-step:

1) Control click (Mac) or right click (PC) to “save as” the image on your desk top. Let’s say your image is called image1.jpg

2) Go to your server and create an “images” folder on your server if you don’t already have one.

2) Upload the image to your server, into the image folder, for example to MyWebsite.com/images

3) Switch to your HTML editing view and find the spot where you want to add the Twitter badge.

4) Add the following code to your blog

<a href=”http://twitter.com/YourTwitterNameHere” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://www.MyWebsite.com/images/image1.jpg” alt=”Twitter Badge 1″></a>

Obviously, you need to replace YourTwitterNameHere with YOUR Twitter name, and MyWebsite.com with YOUR website URL, and images1.jpg with YOUR image name.  You can leave out the alt=”Twitter Badge 1″ if you like. Make sure you close the bracket though with a > even if you leave it out.

Like so:

<a href=”http://twitter.com/YourTwitterNameHere” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://www.MyWebsite.com/images/image1.jpg”></a>

Note: some of the spaces look bigger than they’re supposed to be in the above codes.  Just leave A SINGLE space where there are spaces.

And you can add a bit about the desired size of the image if you want.

That’s it.

Or not.  One last thing.  If you want to make sure that Twitter opens in a new window, then add the following code into the first set of brackets:

target=”_blank”  like so:

<a href=”http://Twitter.com/YourTwitterNameHere” target=”_blank”>

I actually already inserted it into the example, but that’s what it is.

Now THAT’s it.

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Let me know (by way of comments) if this is helpful and/or if you have any questions.

And if you want more information about how to do internet marketing, just sign up for my free e-course and get some surprise gifts too every now and then

Thanks.

Elisabeth

I discovered only a few days ago that there are article directories out there that attach “nofollow” tags to the links.

This means that you won’t derive any SEO benefit from publishing your articles there. You MIGHT still get visitors, but personally, I’d spend more time seeking out dofollow tag using article directories.

Here are a few posts by others about that issue:

http://www.no-bull.net/no-follow-links-in-article-directories.html

And here’s a list of the top 10 directories with the nofollow ones marked. Prepare to be surprised:

http://www.getarticlesdone.com/Top-10-Article-Directories.html

I couldnt’ believe it!

Article Alley
Articles Base
Search Warp

They all use nofollow tags! Yikes!

From now on, my research of new article directories will always include whether they have nofollow tags or not.

How? Well… there’s a tool out there called SEO Quake that makes this really easy.

Or you could simply check out the source code and then use control F or command F (for Mac users) and look for “nofollow.” If it appears next to links or even in the header info, you just found another article directory that uses nofollow links.

So it’s “buyer beware”… or rather “writer beware!”

Elisabeth