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Some people find posting and participating in forums a strategy that’s boring and hardly ever use it, however, the huge traffic it can help generate is invaluable especially for newbies to the online world of marketing. In forums, people from all over the world can engage and interact in a conversation as a person asks questions and others react, further generating responses. If you want to guide visitors to your site at no monetary expense, try using forums and you’ll notice more guests signing in to your site.
There are several steps for you to take in order to use forums for your marketing needs. There are five main steps to go through and these are as follows:
- Searching of forums. You need to search for forums that carry the topic that you are interested in. Find forums that are related to your website. Use keywords in searching for them and for sure, a lot of results will come up. Since there are numerous results, you might want to try to register to all of them or most of them as you want.
- Prioritization of the forums. This step entails picking the cream of the crop out of your list of forums. Not all results that you found on search engines are accustomed to your needs. You need to select the forums that have more people interacting with each other and that is always active.
- Registration. This is another tiring process because most forums need you to be a registered member before you can post topics or reply to existing topics of your choice. Being a registered member gives greater access to more posts some of which restricted to members only. You can include backlinks with your answers to guide interested people to your site and increase traffic to it. When you have more visitors, marketing your address becomes easier.
- Introduction. To generate consistent traffic, make your introduction as appealing as possible but make sure what you say is true. Online guests are used to false claims and lures and can determine if you are only creating a false image.
- Keep Being an Active Member. After registering and introducing yourself to the people in the forum, keep yourself active by posting comments and starting a new thread yourself. Never comment on certain issues where you lack substance to make useful contribution. You can pick topics related to your expertise and post answers or clarify doubts of other members. Always follow forum rules to have a good credential.
Forums create a sense of community where everyone’s opinion is open for others to criticize. And since people always wants to be in the know, they’ll jump on the bandwagon when they see a thread take off because everyone wants to share their opinions whether they know what they are talking about or not.
Using forums as a way to generate more traffic to your site requires time. However, the relationship it creates with your readers can produce a more substantial rate of success, one you’ve never imagined. With backlinks attached to your signature name, readers can instantly be guided to your site and thus increasing your traffic.
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As lots of emarketing methods are growing, there is one who poses to be cheaper than traditional means for both the consumer and the marketer. Also easy enough for almost any age group to understand and get involved with is Mobile Marketing.
Mobile Marketing involves communicating with the consumer via cellular (or mobile) device, either to send a simple marketing message, to introduce them to a new audience participation-based campaign or to allow them to visit a mobile website.
Mobile connectivity not only enables people to connect to the Internet via a cellular telephone, PDA or other gadget, but also consolidates the different communication channels in a simple, yet effective, medium. Some of the tools used are Multimedia Messaging Services, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, Bluetooth, Wireless and Infrared, Mobile Internet and Social Media and other mobile applications.
Mobile marketing enables companies in many sectors such as travel and retail to send promotional messages and vouchers via Bluetooth and SMS for example. It is a direct, targeted approach to connecting with limitless clients. One of the reasons why businesses are experiencing great success with mobile marketing is because it features a fraction of the competition than other media-Internet and email tools are engrossed in a jam-packed and highly competitive environment.
What adds even more potency to this special type of marketing? It’s the only marketing media that reaches prospects and clients while they are on the go! Mobile marketing and text messages allow you to automatically update, announce, invite and communicate when you want and how you want!
Very few businesses are actually taking advantage of mobile marketing right now. That means you can get a gigantic head start by incorporating mobile marketing within your business today. Plus, you can easily integrate mobile marketing and text message marketing within any offline and online marketing campaign. Of course, this type of marketing is substantial enough to form a standalone marketing campaign.
If you’re questioning the type of potential you have with text message and mobile marketing then consider that there are 270 million mobile subscribers in the U.S. alone, and 91 percent of them are said to keep their phones within just a few feet of themselves 24 hours a day throughout the year! In addition, text message marketing has an incredible reach of almost 5 billion compared to Internet marketing’s reach of 1.7 billion.
Mobile Marketing is also considered a method for lucrative lead generation. Every time a prospect or customer opts into one of your text message offers (e.g. to get informational updates, coupons, discounts) that creates a lead. You now have the means to market to that person as much as you’d like. Take this opportunity to up sell, build belief in your business, provide additional value, increase attendance at events and just about anything else you can think of.
Text message marketing is like having hundreds of obliging little marketing assistants hustling around doing all the work for you. All you have to do is press a few buttons and you’ll have instantly reached out to your entire database of leads, customers and prospects-with a 90 percent success rate of being read! Build a herd and market like there’s no tomorrow.
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There are dozens of modern way advertising on the Internet and that was spearheaded for the last six years or so with PPC (Pay Per Click) marketing. It is predominantly administered by Google Adwords. There are numerous PPC sites like Adbrite, Kontera, Infolinks, Yahoo Search Marketing (formerly Overture) and MSN’s Adcenter. There are more but it is Google Adwords that’s predominant when it comes to PPC.
The ads manifest as sets of words that have been pre-written by you and appear only on webpages where the content is relevant to what you’re selling based on the words you’ve chosen. Some Internet marketers have seen PPC (Pay Per Click) as a goldmine…but many others have felt they do not get good results, or could do much better.
Then came PPV (Pay Per View) marketing, Instead of costing a few bucks per clicked ad, PPV Marketing costs you only pennies to make a far better ROI–and not just in terms of time spent, but clearly in terms of your bottom line, too. With a mere $1, PPV can send you 100 super targeted visitors, people just waiting to buy from you.
What’s more, you can forget all about needing to compose targeted ads, researching the ten thousand “hot tags” that are floating around and being used by everyone, and taking so many shots in the dark that don’t result in sales but do cost you money…those couple of bucks per click-through do add up quickly. Unlike PPC Marketing, PPV Marketing is almost risk-free. While an unsuccessful PPC campaign can cost you hundreds of dollars, an unsuccessful PPV Campaign won’t cost you more than a couple of bucks.
PPC and PPV differences
PPV refers “Pay Per View”. PPV is used for cost per view advertising or contextual advertising. You will get paid when any visitor opens your web site or blog o forum. Moreover, you will also get paid when the visitor clicks on ads within the text on your webpage or blog or forum.
While, PPC stands for “Pay Per Click”. When someone clicks on your ads of your website or blog or forum, you’ll get paid. But you won’t get paid even they visit your website or webpage.
Pay-per-click is loosing its popularity day by day and many publishers doesn’t suggest to use pay-per-click because of their bad experiences i.e. account freezing for invalid clicks. It’s also seen that many people earn more than $100 but their account is being disabled for some reasons.
“Keyword”, another factor of PPC is playing much for the earnings. Keywords may be expensive or inexpensive. If the keywords are expensive, those are going to the next page ads. It really breaks down the high expected earnings.
PPC ads are similar to Google AdSense ads and the format is quite common to all. As most visitors are quite familiar to these types of ads, now-a-days people are ignoring this type of ads.
For PPV, keyword has a lesser role. You don’t need to think about keyword the way you do with PPC and there is no effect of successive analyzing and deploying of keywords. But for PPC you must have to care about this.
For PPC, you see several ads. For example, if you are visiting a site and there is an ad of latest computer. Say, a visitor click on the ad and it redirects to a “non-working page” or “error 404 page” or other place which has no relevance to the ads. The visitor won’t like it and he or she click the back button of the browser and from that time never feel interest to click such type of ads. Thus you are loosing lots of visitors every moment if the ads are not properly working.
Throughout the discussion, it’s clear that PPV is always secure because it pays you when the visitors are on your web page or blog. PPC may offer high earnings but it’s not risk free. You may get earn much through PPC but you can’t tell the future of PPC. If the AdSense advertisers banned your account, you have not said regarding that issue. I think, if you can organize your articles / contents of your website or blog or forum, you can earn much every month through PPV.
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Let’s set the record straight.
Achieving success is not super easy, but it can be fast if you do a few things right.
If you think you’re going to read about S.M.A.R.T. goals or anything remotely close to the ordinary, you’re in for a rude awakening. That’s not what this post is about. I won’t even talk about goal setting today at all. In fact, it’s downright insane to set any goals if you can do these seven things.
Ready for some truth? Then here goes…
- Shut Up! – Yes, most people who ask me how they can achieve “XYZ” goal have a problem. They don’t shut up! I’m not saying that they talk too much. What they actually do is they keep talking about “how” they are going to do this thing or the next and that they have some amazing idea for something, but at the end of the day, these same people do absolutely nothing with their goal. So, shut up and read number two.
- Great ideas mean nothing if you don’t have this! – Do you have a big idea? If you’re like most people seeking some type of significant success in life, then chances are you do. The problem is this. Most people have ideas. Heck we all get them, but most ideas are worthless not because they are bad, not because they are not valuable, but because we ALL have tons of ideas and most of them go to waste.
The truth is you have to take action on your ideas and if you have too many, spend your energy on one at a time. Ideas come and go. Ideas that last are the ones we spend focused time, energy and resources on. Think about it this way; even if all you had your entire life was one single idea that you took action on, that idea is far more valuable than fifty genius ideas that never get any focused attention. The bottom line here is pick one idea, know what you want and go do it!
- Get off your butt! – I’m not the most talented person in the world. Yes, there are plenty of people more successful than me. (So far anyway) However, there are a thousand times more people who are just getting by in life and they are exponentially more talented than most. So what makes people like me more successful than people who are more talented? The difference is, we get up in the morning and DO something with what we have.
- Listen with your ears - It should come as no surprise that people who are “stuck in life” have a tendency to be “know-it-alls” even if they’re not egotistical about it. These people, maybe even you, immediately jump to the conclusion that they know all about a given subject if anything they hear remotely sounds familiar. The end result is, since they don’t listen, they never get the full picture. They also tend to be the exact people who believe that there’s always something missing for them to become successful. The fact of the matter is, for them to reach success they simply need to listen with an open mind and apply what they learn.
- Stop judging success in financial terms. – Yes, money is in fact one of the easiest ways to judge success, however it’s a flawed method that most people use to judge how successful a person is…including themselves. You see, knowing a financial figure doesn’t tell you how much a person really earns anyway. Ask yourself this: Is that their gross income or is that what they can actually take home and spend?
Money also does not make a person happier and more fulfilled. Most of the friends I have are wealthier than me. That’s okay because, most of them have marital problems, no love, no children and stress related health problems as a result of their businesses. Trust me, I love money. I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor and I’m staying rich! Judging my own success by my finances has only led me down the wrong path! Don’t let this happen to you. Yes, money is important, but not as important as WHO you become to make that money.
- Don’t believe everything you see. – Like I said before, most people judge success in financial terms. It is also a known fact that people judge other people based on the car they drive, the clothes they wear, the kind of house they own, or their job. I can tell you from first-hand experience, most of that is nonsense. Why? That’s because there are so many people who have all of those things that are actually living beyond their means. In other words, they may have a nice car or house, but they are a single breath away from financial disaster. Just because a person wears the best clothes, does not mean they can afford to wear the best clothes. Yes that rule even holds true for many of your favorite celebrities and gurus out there.
- Get focused! – It should go without saying that if you focus on what you desire, you’ll have everything you could ever want. It sounds amazing but it’s true. The truth of the matter is, most people never truly focus on one main goal in their entire lives. That is why most people find it difficult to achieve their goals and live the life they desire. We all get pulled in what seems like five directions at once in our lives, but it is up to us to pull back and stay focused on the goal we want to achieve.
For example, people find it difficult to separate themselves from their friends. When your friends go out for a good time, you have a choice to go with them and have a good time or pull back and work toward achieving your goals. Which would you choose? Before you answer, let me ask you this: When was the last time going out and having a good time ever helped you become successful? Avoid distractions and have fun in moderation when you’re trying to reach your goals.
There you have it. You don’t need a super-sized list of detailed goals to become successful.
All you need is to do is get clear about what you want and follow these seven concepts and watch as your dreams unfold!
Hope I wasn’t too harsh. Let me know what you think…leave a comment below!
Love and Peace,
John
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Email Marketing is the use of email in marketing communications. People who are unfamiliar with email marketing often wonder what all the fuss is about. They thought that spam have killed email as a marketing vehicle. And another reason why they think it is outdated is because of the many clever ways that we can communicate online using blogs, Twitter, Facebook and all other social media sites.
Although there are a lot of strategies now for marketing, email marketing still works because it allows targeting, it is data driven, it drives direct sales, it builds relationships, loyalty and trust and most of all it supports sales through other channels.
Modern email marketing services and solutions support database integration, segmentation and various other tricks and techniques for improving the targeting of outgoing messages. Advanced methods generate on-the-fly emails customized down to an individual recipient basis.
And every email campaign you send out generates a heap of actionable data you can use to refine your approach and messages.
Email promotions and offers generate immediate action: sales, downloads, inquiries, registrations, etc. Informative email newsletters and other emails send people to offline stores and events, prepare the way for catalogs, build awareness, contribute to branding, strengthen relationships, encourage trust and cement loyalty.
Convinced? But don’t get carried away…
Just like trees only bears fruit if managed properly, so is with email marketing. We know it works but you have to get the basics right. The basics of building a list of people who want to hear from you, crafting a message and ensuring the emails get through to those on that list. And when you have the basics right, there’s a whole spectrum of more sophisticated tactics you can employ to drive further success.
Now, several marketers used a lot of forms of advertising and they believe that it is not worth it to use email marketing anymore because of spam. There have been numerous challengers to email marketing’s throne, not the least of which is social media. However, email is still a vibrant, growing medium that has a future for a number of reasons.
Many people are getting very frustrated by how hard it is for them to make decent sales online via email marketing. Are they doing something wrong or has things really become that hard? In reality it is a combination of several things.
First of all the way to make email marketing work has changed for the simple fact that many consumers are getting used to the way many online marketers email. Another thing is that too many marketers are putting their eggs in one basket, thinking that a big list is the key to online profits. Some are even blasting email after email promoting a certain product, while their email list is getting tired of them.
You have to avoid the things that everyone else is doing online in order to make email marketing work for you. Responsible email marketing is based on the idea of permission. This is a complex issue and the subject of intense debate in the marketing community.
Essentially, you need an email address owner’s permission before you can send them a commercial email. If you don’t have this permission, then the recipients of your mail may well regard your message as spam.
Email has been around almost since the advent of the Internet. It’s a staple of the marketing world and one of the most commonly used forms. It’s still effective, both from a cost and conversion standpoint. Marketers should bear in mind that email marketing can co-exist with any marketing channel and it can help leverage social media and vice versa. Consumers are not choosing one medium over the other; they are just utilizing more mediums.
So for me, email marketing is not dying….it’s simply going up and working with any other medium so it doesn’t have its own spotlight anymore though it is still working effectively.
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An internet business is no different to a traditional retail business that we can see on the streets, in that it needs customers. A high street shop or retail store needs traffic in order to get people looking in their window so they can entice them in, the main difference online is the volume of traffic that can be achieved. Remember an internet business means that you have the potential to sell to anyone anywhere in the world that is if you choose the correct product or service.
Establishing your own site is not like what it used to be. There is thousands of competition that is all too willing to get a bigger share of the pie. Every scheme and method you can find to augment your sales would be very beneficial.
We have got to admit to ourselves. Most of us are into it for the money. We are not going to waste our time and effort just for the fun of it. Many sites would not wait until hell freezes over just to see their profits. While there are some who takes things lightly there are always those who would rather see profit in any given day.
It is common knowledge that without traffic we have no business. Like any business, if you don’t have customers, you don’t have sales. Traffic represents all the people that get a chance to see what you have to offer. The more people who see your products the more people there would be to buy them. Common sense, right?
Making Money with Traffic
The best and most proven system of increasing revenue from your traffic is to advertise. The internet generates hundreds of thousands of users daily. The vast majority of them are probing for information about something. Although a few are simply searching for basic information, there is also a fair share that is actually eager to buy something, something that they really need.
The internet has proven to be a very reliable source in finding what was deemed to be a very unsearchable product. The internet has made the world a smaller place; you can advertise a product from the depths of the other side of the world and still find a buyer from the opposite side.
Generating traffic is not an easy task. You have to contend with a great number of sites to generate a good number of traffic flows. But if done successfully this could open up a Pandora’s Box of possibilities. One of the benefits is monetizing your traffic flow.
Advertising is the one of the best ways to create revenue; with a clever marketing plan you can use your traffic flow to give you a head start.
Now that you have a healthy flow of traffic you should now be experiencing a fair amount of interested customers, customers that are content to put money into your bank account. Additionally, these customers are also traffic that can be redirected to sponsored links that are eager to pay you for a larger slice of the traffic that you already have generated.
Another system of monetizing your traffic is the well-liked affiliate programs. This is the current favorite for new online entrepreneurs simply because it is the easiest and the most commonly advertised. Try searching in Google about it and it’ll return millions of results! You can join up with established websites and online companies and monetize your traffic by having a proportion of sales generated by traffic redirected from your site.
The principal concept is traffic generated from your website is invited to go to another website that can offer a niche product that you do not own. A number of programs can track activity and produce records of sales or refunds.
If you do not own a website, there is another way of using Affiliate Programs. Just join an affiliated website, the website owner will still provide you with a coded link which you can promote by any other means such as email, pay-per-click, traffic exchange programs and online free classified sites.
There are so many ways and methods to monetize your traffic. All it takes is a bit of hard work and the desire to successfully launch a profit-earning site. Even back-end sales is how most Internet millionaires took their business to another level so now you should learn what you can from the millionaires all about back-end sales. Once you see how this amazing concept works and then put it into action, you will never look back.
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How to find hot selling digital products in general is quite a daunting, if not, a mind boggling task. Finding a good choice of idea or product is always accompanied by interfacing the demand for the digital product in the current market and the level of competition or market share that the product will be having in the long run.
For reasons of more than one, there are a lot of probable digital products that you think you may sell, which however may not be as high demand as you think. So I suggest, work from common sense to research. Why? Common sense indicates you sell digital products that are not only functional but are in demand in the present times.
From then on, move aside common sense and narrow your list to research. You have to know the benefits of that particular good or service in order to market it to your target. You just don’t dive in blue water just because you assume its deep enough. You have to know facts and details.
There are all kinds of twists along the road that may lead you to think you have a high-demand idea. We must be able to understand and satisfy the need, wants and expectations of our customers on a certain digital product that they’re trying to buy. Needs are the basic reasons or the minimum requirements consumers are looking for in a product or service. They are called the qualifying or “gatekeeper” dimensions in a purchase. Wants are the determining dimensions among many choices. Expectations, on the other hand, are values or intangibles associated with a product or service.
Then further into research, you look for reliable portal or online marketplaces that give opportunities to newbie or fresh entrepreneur like you. Be sure to look for those with a reliable reputation as some could sniggle their way and work holes into your pockets.
The most popular and decent one I’ve heard of is Clickbank. There are others but the most popular marketplace of digital products is Clickbank. (It’s what I am using too!) A must-do before engaging in selling your products, you have to know the terms and conditions attached. You can work your way into adding marketing tools like adwords by Google for example among with so many others.
It may help also to put in feedback and suggestions forms. This is a healthy way of tracking what area needs to improve on and that which market needs a particular good or service. Having a feedback and suggestion form creates an interaction between your customer and you enabling you to know what goods or services is selling fast or if there is a particular digital product that is needed by a specific market.
The key is to keep the interest of the customer. Products like goods and services need to be functional, in sync with the current times and should be interesting for it to sell hot like pancakes.
Another point to consider is the market share. Market share or level of competition means the ratio of your brand sales versus the total market sales. While companies would naturally define its target competitors, it is actually the consumers who ultimately decide the competitive frame, or the list related digital products or services that consumers consider when exercising their purchasing power.
We must therefore choose the market segment where we can have a potential leadership or at least a strong challenger role. Because the overriding objective of getting into this business is not just to satisfy the needs and wants of our customers but to do so profitably better than his competition. Otherwise, our competition will end up satisfying the customers better than our own interest.
We must also learn how others are advertising those digital products. If there are a good number of them doing so, it may mean that it’s a good product to get into. Coming to the last phase of the process is analyzing and evaluating all the information that has been collected. We have to look at all of the data we have collected on demand, competition, and advertising, and make decision as how they all balance out.
Of course, price should be worth it. Price can be subjective, but as an online consumer like me I would always go for a bargain. So to keep it best, keep your prices reasonable.
There are over a million net browsers every single day. The only thing is that you need to catch their interest, demands and the price right. Just by learning the basics, with discipline and perseverance added with honesty and of course a great and in demand digital product then you could be a fast earning businessman in no time.
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I’ve been visiting a lot of internet money making blogs and I have seen a lot of them posting tips on how to select the right and profitable products in Clickbank but it seems there are a few who really discussed what Clickbank is about, how it started and how it works! So for the benefit of those who want to earn online and is still vague on all the terms and processes of online marketing, I have researched some facts for you.
Before knowing or asking how Clickbank works, we have to have an idea of what is Clickbank, right? Clickbank as per my research started way back 1998, it is an online portal or a platform wherein ordinary and the not so ordinary people can post on their site if there is an item or service they want to put up for sale. For ordinary people who only want to post an item online for sale, going through credit checks and merchant account subscription and credit card processing is quite exhausting especially when there is no credit history.
This is where Clickbank comes in. They make it easier to for the so called ordinary people or even the not so ordinary ones conduct business dealings online. Today Clickbank has over 10,000 digital products and services listed ranging from tutorials of home appliances to latest gadgets, from ebooks to electronic how to’s and etc. With the variety of goods and services you can find here at Clickbank, it is close to impossible not to make a business.
For starters, how does this work? You go to www.clickbank.com and register for a one time fee of $49. After the sign up process, you wait for Clickbank’s approval which will only take some time. And since it is a portal for merchants called publishers and possible sales personnel called affiliates. There are ground rules which you have to adhere.
As a publisher, you can post up to 100 products and services, all should comply with the terms and conditions. These terms and conditions are set by Clickbank mainly to protect both rights of the consumer and the publisher as well as its affiliates, one amongst which is for you to administer a 60 day guarantee on all the goods and services you posted online.
Only after approval can you post your goods and services online. Their website is quite easy to navigate as they have search options like by relevance, by popularity and by the site’s suggested products. A prospect customer can easily have fun browsing. Then from hereon, Clickbank does all the hard work, from administrative work, to the processing of all the payments for both parties on a fix schedule of a two week basis.
The good thing is that Clickbank is always on time with their payments. Affiliates are paid firsts before the vendors. And Clickbank will still pay you even if you are promoting a different vendor. They have good support staff to assist you anytime just in case you have inquiries. Clickbank helps you track your commissions as well.
And since Clickbank is global, it is a nice place to start in making a profitable business as it can attract customers all over the world. Though it may take some time and an extra effort to browse the Clickbank affiliate program, it is still best and advisable to go through it. Clickbank has made a decent reputation through the years enabling some ordinary folks to earn millions through their platform.
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A lot of affiliates are asking me how to write an effective article that can catch reader’s attention. I’ve shared some of my tips to them and I’d like to share it to all of you who are following my blog too!
Articles have to be written to be read. It’s just a matter of making them good. Making a good article doesn’t have to be strenuous and straining. There are just some points needed to be reminded of and some guides to follow. Once you get the hang of it, writing articles could be fun, as well as profitable for you and your site.
Writing articles must be about something you know about, that’s why if you own a site, you probably is knowledgeable about that certain topic and theme. When you write about it, you won’t have a hard time because you already know what it is and what it’s about. It’s just a matter of making your articles creative and interesting.
To make sure that you’ll capture the minds of your readers making them visit your site again because you have great contents, here are some tips:
1.) Use short paragraphs. When your article‘s paragraph are very long, the words get jumbled in the mind of the reader by just looking at it. It can get quite confusing and too much of a hard work to read. The reader will just quickly disregard the paragraph and move on to much easier to read articles that are good to look at as well as read. Paragraphs can be a single sentence, sometimes even a single word!
2) Make use of numbers or bullets. As each point is stressed out, numbers and bullets can quickly make the point easy to remember and digest. As each point, tip, guide or method is started with a bullet or point, readers will know that this is where the tips start and ends. Format your bullets and numbers with indentations so that your article won’t look like a single block of square paragraphs. Add a little bit of flair and pizzazz to your articles shape.
Utilize figures when necessary and not just ordinary statements. Using specific facts and figures can heighten your article because it makes it authoritative. But do not make it too formal, it should be light and easy for them. Like a friendly teacher having a little chat with an eager student 
3. Provide a good attention-grabbing title or header. If your title can entice a person’s curiosity you’re already halfway in getting a person to read your article. Use statements and questions that utilize keywords that people are looking for. Provide titles or headers that describe your articles content but should also be short and concise.
You could also use titles that can command people, for example, “Make her yours in six easy Ways”. These types of titles reach out to a person’s emotion and make them interested.
4. Use Sub-headings to sub-divide your paragraphs in the page. Doing this will break each point into sections but still would be incorporated into one whole article. It would also be easy for the reader to move on from one point to another. The transition would be smooth and easy. You will never lose your readers attention as well as the point and direction to where the article is going.
5. Keep them interested from start to finish. From your opening paragraph, use real life situations that can be adopted by the reader. There’s nothing like the reader feeling you! Use good descriptions and metaphors to drive in your point, just don’t over do it. Driving your examples with graphic metaphors and similes would make it easy for them to imagine what you are talking about. Making the experience pleasurable and enjoyable for them.
So there it goes! I don’t apply those five tips in an article all the time. It does depend on what type of article you are writing or how long the article is but one thing matters most, you just need to GRAB their ATTENTION!
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This post is a continuation of my post yesterday about viral marketing. Since I have discussed what viral marketing is and how it can help your business online yesterday, I will now tackle with some of the top and proven effective methods used for viral marketing.
Viral marketing is hot and when used effectively, this powerful marketing method will boost the traffic to your website to numbers way beyond your imagination. These are the top 5 viral marketing methods that tops my list:
1. Tell a Friend Scripts
One of the easiest methods in viral marketing is using a tell a friend script. This is a simple programming script that you can attach to the programming of your website. Generally, tell a friends script are installed in pages where a media is placed so that a person can easily send the media to any of his friends or his family members.
Just like the call of action on a landing page or banner ad. Look on the internet and find yourself a ‘Tell a Friend’ script. Some of them are really cool. Install the script on your site and make it clearly visible. You’ll be surprised how many people will use this. Make sure that in the script, you are always included in the CC (Carbon Copy) section so that you receive copies of what visitors to your website are saying. Some scripts allow you to send out a ‘thank you’ message.
2. Video
Video marketing is the most powerful and effective method of getting noticed and driving traffic to your website. To make this method go viral, you will need to produce video that’s appealing, funny, compelling… Be creative. Post it on YouTube and other video websites for maximum exposure.
3. Articles
Website owners are always looking for qualifying content to keep their sites up-to-date. Start writing articles about business related topics and post them to article websites. Most article sites allow you to create an ‘Author Resource Box’. Here you can include your contact details, a brief description about your business and a link back to your own website. Once you have posted your article, you also have a great chance it will get published on other websites or distributed in newsletters. This effective viral method is extremely powerful and effective.
4. Forums
Also known as ‘message boards’, this is a place to engage in conversations that are going around. You can include a signature in all of your posts, including a link to your website. The more posts you do, the more your link is being exposed to other people. What’s so nice about this free viral marketing tip is that some forums are actually indexed by the search engine. So this method really drives traffic to your website from 2 directions: the link in your posts, as well as traffic from the search engines.
5. Create your own Screensaver
Though this is not used frequently nowadays, the idea here is to create a simple but catchy and appealing screensaver to advertise your business or website and products. You can make your free viral marketing screensaver available for download on your site and you can include it as an attachment to all of your outgoing emails. Imagine hundreds or even thousands of people, using your screensaver on their computer, promoting your business.
Do a trial and error with these viral marketing methods. Try each of these one at a time and check what works best for you and your business. These viral marketing methods not only are efficient in driving traffic to your business but this are all cost effective as well.
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