by James Artre on July 29, 2010
*Warning: This post may contain words or phrases offensive to some.*
I received this UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email, aka Spam) message at my inbox this morning; one of several that periodically manage to get past my security software, it doesn’t happen very often but occasionally one will slip thru. What I’d like for you to take from this post today is how NOT to do business online, as well as a few pointers of how to do business online.
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by James Artre on June 2, 2010
Content is king. It gets to wear the crown, sit on the throne and rule the world. When it comes to establishing credibility, gaining trust and producing sales, content is royalty!
While I would never suggest abandoning the concept of delivering high quality content to your subscribers, there is another type of list composed of subscribers who couldn’t
care less about content.
“What is this type of list?” you ask… [click to continue…]
by James Artre on March 24, 2010
Hype or Hope?
Let me tell you straight up, I never promote anything just for the sake of making money…PERIOD! One thing I learned a long time ago, is that if you can’t share something with someone you don’t or won’t use yourself, than why offer it?
Fair enough?
Okay,
In my opinion, Soren Jordansen’s Internet Marketing Success Formula is a really impressive product. In fact, when I got my hands on his free 41 page e-book, I was stunned at the quality of the material presented there.
This free ebook is crammed full with useful information Soren gleamed from his own personal experience and, more importantly, from conducting scientific surveys of internet marketers the world over.
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by James Artre on March 20, 2010
Here’s an interesting blog post for you,
When videos started to grow popular on the Internet in the past couple of years, the Internet Marketing landscape started to change. With increased bandwidth and faster computer processors, gone were the days of waiting for files to upload (Does anyone even use dial-up anymore? I hope, for their sake, they don’t!)
The affiliate marketing arena was not exempt from the impact videos made on the Internet either,
However, the most common mistake people tend to make in affiliate marketing is not capturing the opt-in leads first before sending their visitors to the merchant’s website. Obviously resulting in lost sales and long-term customer relationships, or Repeat sales.
So, what savvy marketers will do is that they would have their own Squeeze Page for the visitors to opt into their list, before sending them to the website they are an affiliate for. I know this may sound like a no-brainer to most online marketers, however, you would be surprised how many still leave out this step (Insane, I know!)
Anyway, the addition of the opt-in page prior to the sales page obviously allows the affiliate marketer to build their own opt-in list and offer additional information & product sales later.
However, a few, but exceptionally street-savvy marketers take the opt-in page to an even higher and more profitable level…
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