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Digg it UP - Do You Want To Learn How To Drive Targeted Visitors To Your Website Then Follow These Simple Steps
You can begin a home-based business by selling information products on the internet. Information products are usually in the form of ebooks. Writing ebooks work the same way as writing a book except that ebooks are usually significantly smaller averaging between 20 - 40 pages. If you do not consider yourself a writer, the following three tips may get your creative juices flowing and help you find the writer within.Write About Something You Know Well Do you have a skill or talent you do particularly well? You could turn your favorite hobby into an ebook. People have written ebooks on topics such as vegetarian cooking to how to actually write an ebook in general. Almost everyone does something or knows someth
- Keep your mind open for new inspirations
At some part you may not know exactly how to continue, so take a deep breath and follow your inner voice. This will help you to find the correct words and continue easily.
-Take off all your pressure
As I mentioned above, there is no need for perfectionism in the beginning of article writing. Just start and get the word out! This is the most important thing. With your experience you will be able to write better articles within a short period of time.
- Celebrate when your article is finished
Hey, you did a great job! You can be proud of your work. It may not be perfect, but nobody is perfect! Even the well known copywriters make mistakes, although they are much more experienced than you, because they already have written maybe hundreds of articles!
- Now take a break and let someone else
"Less is more" is more than good advice, it’s how our brains comprehend information.Think different. Just do it. It’s the economy, stupid.These are not just cute tag lines meant as a punch line to a piece of advertising. They are well crafted statements able to stir the emotions of consumers and make an unknown Arkansas governor president of the United States. Other companies and presidential candidates have tried to rally people to choose them, but it is always the simple messages that are better able to cut through the clutter and mobilize people. And the reason so few words can yield so much power is not about slick marketing but rather firmly grounded in the inner workings of the human brain.The brain is div
- Traffic-Exchanges
Pros: You receive free visitors when you sign up and you do not have to spend any money for additional visitors. You can join hundreds of them for free, and you can sign up affiliates under you to get some additional traffic. Or you just click, and click, and click, and so on…
Cons: Although this traffic is a cheap one, most of the time it is non targeted traffic. Unless you are a programmer or a company who has something to offer for any webmaster, this traffic will not help you very much. I would say it is almost a waste of your time. There are better ways for traffic generation.
- Safelists
Pros: You can join them for free and most of them allow you to mail to a selected number or all other free members of this list every 5-7 days, some more often, some less.
You can upgrade to Pro and send out an email each and every day. You can make some little money if you sign up some other member trough your affiliate link.
Cons: Oh my god, you get tons of emails. If you join let’s say 100 lists you can expect an avalanche of emails towards your email account. Within a view days you can gather a view thousand emails if you do not delete them each and every day or let them be deleted at your account. Maybe Safelists work for some people, but for most they do not.
With all the automated Safelist submitters everyone is pushing out his mail, but nobody reads it. So another waste of time and capacity, and if you have bad luck you also get troubles with your web-host because of the high numbers of emails.
- Ezines
Nearly the same problem as with Safelists, but maybe more targeted and you have to spend some money to send out your ad to responsive Ezines. This might be a good way for someone who has a good advertising budget and some advertising experience (knows how to write perfect ads, etc.) but for someone who is new to marketing on the internet this might be too expensive and risky.
- Blogblasters, Adsubmitters, etc.
They may have worked in earlier times but today they are almost ineffective as most of the blog owners now activated the “avoid comment spam” option, so the blasted ads land in the nirvana, but not on the blogs. Also the risk of getting accused for SPAM is too high for my opinion.
Now, there are some additional ways to generate traffic like PPC, JV’s (Joint Ventures), SEM (Search Engine Marketing), etc. But I do not want to get into detail regarding these methods now, because I want to show you how you can get targeted traffic almost for free with the help of:
- Article Writing
You might think it is difficult to write an article, but it took me about 15 minutes to write all the above sentences. Some experienced writers may be faster but it does not matter for me, because I do not have to write 10 or more articles a day. So speedwriting is no need for me.
Now I will share some tips with you that can help you to write maybe your first article. I do not pretend to be a copywriting genius but what works for me may also work for you!
- Decide what you want to write about.
This way you will be able to get some focus for any topic you choose.
- Create your headline.
This will be some like the final decision of which topic you choose and also like a start into the right direction.
- Start writing the first part of your content
Do not think too much about how to find the correct words. Just start and write. It is more important to start than be a perfectionist from the beginning!
- Keep your mind open for new inspirations
At some part you may not know exactly how to continue, so take a deep breath and follow your inner voice. This will help you to find the correct words and continue easily.
-Take off all your pressure
As I mentioned above, there is no need for perfectionism in the beginning of article writing. Just start and get the word out! This is the most important thing. With your experience you will be able to write better articles within a short period of time.
- Celebrate when your article is finished
Hey, you did a great job! You can be proud of your work. It may not be perfect, but nobody is perfect! Even the well known copywriters make mistakes, although they are much more experienced than you, because they already have written maybe hundreds of articles!
- Now take a break and let someone else
If you're been list building a while, you may not be getting many subscribers every day, if you keep up the same old tactics. Here are some new ideas for you:* Whenever you send out a message to your list, put a short paragraph at the end that asks them to pass the newsletter along to a friend. Or, tell your friends that they can subscribe, and give them the email address to your autoresponder.* Use list building boxes on all your sites and blogs, at the very top of the page. Then, no one will miss them. When people read your blog and like it, they'll subscribe to your list.* Articles are very popular as a traffic tool, too. Use your main keyword at least 2-7% of the time, and use them to send people to your nd most of them allow you to mail to a selected number or all other free members of this list every 5-7 days, some more often, some less.
You can upgrade to Pro and send out an email each and every day. You can make some little money if you sign up some other member trough your affiliate link.
Cons: Oh my god, you get tons of emails. If you join let’s say 100 lists you can expect an avalanche of emails towards your email account. Within a view days you can gather a view thousand emails if you do not delete them each and every day or let them be deleted at your account. Maybe Safelists work for some people, but for most they do not.
With all the automated Safelist submitters everyone is pushing out his mail, but nobody reads it. So another waste of time and capacity, and if you have bad luck you also get troubles with your web-host because of the high numbers of emails.
- Ezines
Nearly the same problem as with Safelists, but maybe more targeted and you have to spend some money to send out your ad to responsive Ezines. This might be a good way for someone who has a good advertising budget and some advertising experience (knows how to write perfect ads, etc.) but for someone who is new to marketing on the internet this might be too expensive and risky.
- Blogblasters, Adsubmitters, etc.
They may have worked in earlier times but today they are almost ineffective as most of the blog owners now activated the “avoid comment spam” option, so the blasted ads land in the nirvana, but not on the blogs. Also the risk of getting accused for SPAM is too high for my opinion.
Now, there are some additional ways to generate traffic like PPC, JV’s (Joint Ventures), SEM (Search Engine Marketing), etc. But I do not want to get into detail regarding these methods now, because I want to show you how you can get targeted traffic almost for free with the help of:
- Article Writing
You might think it is difficult to write an article, but it took me about 15 minutes to write all the above sentences. Some experienced writers may be faster but it does not matter for me, because I do not have to write 10 or more articles a day. So speedwriting is no need for me.
Now I will share some tips with you that can help you to write maybe your first article. I do not pretend to be a copywriting genius but what works for me may also work for you!
- Decide what you want to write about.
This way you will be able to get some focus for any topic you choose.
- Create your headline.
This will be some like the final decision of which topic you choose and also like a start into the right direction.
- Start writing the first part of your content
Do not think too much about how to find the correct words. Just start and write. It is more important to start than be a perfectionist from the beginning!
- Keep your mind open for new inspirations
At some part you may not know exactly how to continue, so take a deep breath and follow your inner voice. This will help you to find the correct words and continue easily.
-Take off all your pressure
As I mentioned above, there is no need for perfectionism in the beginning of article writing. Just start and get the word out! This is the most important thing. With your experience you will be able to write better articles within a short period of time.
- Celebrate when your article is finished
Hey, you did a great job! You can be proud of your work. It may not be perfect, but nobody is perfect! Even the well known copywriters make mistakes, although they are much more experienced than you, because they already have written maybe hundreds of articles!
- Now take a break and let someone else
Business, non-profit and association managers get a ton of satisfaction when they do something really positive about the behaviors of those outside audiences that most affect their operation. Especially when they deliver external stakeholder behavior change, the kind that leads directly to achieving their managerial objectives; and even more so when they persuade those important outside folks to their way of thinking, then move them to take actions that help their department, division or subsidiary succeed.Or, if this doesn’t sound all that familiar, is the money you spend on public relations pretty much dedicated to buying personnel mentions in the newspaper and product plugs on radio talk shows?Want to branch
- Blogblasters, Adsubmitters, etc.
They may have worked in earlier times but today they are almost ineffective as most of the blog owners now activated the “avoid comment spam” option, so the blasted ads land in the nirvana, but not on the blogs. Also the risk of getting accused for SPAM is too high for my opinion.
Now, there are some additional ways to generate traffic like PPC, JV’s (Joint Ventures), SEM (Search Engine Marketing), etc. But I do not want to get into detail regarding these methods now, because I want to show you how you can get targeted traffic almost for free with the help of:
- Article Writing
You might think it is difficult to write an article, but it took me about 15 minutes to write all the above sentences. Some experienced writers may be faster but it does not matter for me, because I do not have to write 10 or more articles a day. So speedwriting is no need for me.
Now I will share some tips with you that can help you to write maybe your first article. I do not pretend to be a copywriting genius but what works for me may also work for you!
- Decide what you want to write about.
This way you will be able to get some focus for any topic you choose.
- Create your headline.
This will be some like the final decision of which topic you choose and also like a start into the right direction.
- Start writing the first part of your content
Do not think too much about how to find the correct words. Just start and write. It is more important to start than be a perfectionist from the beginning!
- Keep your mind open for new inspirations
At some part you may not know exactly how to continue, so take a deep breath and follow your inner voice. This will help you to find the correct words and continue easily.
-Take off all your pressure
As I mentioned above, there is no need for perfectionism in the beginning of article writing. Just start and get the word out! This is the most important thing. With your experience you will be able to write better articles within a short period of time.
- Celebrate when your article is finished
Hey, you did a great job! You can be proud of your work. It may not be perfect, but nobody is perfect! Even the well known copywriters make mistakes, although they are much more experienced than you, because they already have written maybe hundreds of articles!
- Now take a break and let someone else
Many people do not put enough effort into marketing their website. They regard a site as a means of marketing a product, and ignore the fact that the website itself has to be marketed. Sell the website and you sell the product! Fail to sell the website, and you will sell nothing! This is a major reason for the failure of many internet businesses. Don’t let it happen to you.You have probably heard the old saying, “a failure to plan is a plan to fail”. You must plan to succeed, and if you don’t plan then you are likely to fail. You have to plan your business, and build your website around your business, not the other way round. You have to know where your customers are coming from, how to seduce them to make a purchase, and
- Article Writing
You might think it is difficult to write an article, but it took me about 15 minutes to write all the above sentences. Some experienced writers may be faster but it does not matter for me, because I do not have to write 10 or more articles a day. So speedwriting is no need for me.
Now I will share some tips with you that can help you to write maybe your first article. I do not pretend to be a copywriting genius but what works for me may also work for you!
- Decide what you want to write about.
This way you will be able to get some focus for any topic you choose.
- Create your headline.
This will be some like the final decision of which topic you choose and also like a start into the right direction.
- Start writing the first part of your content
Do not think too much about how to find the correct words. Just start and write. It is more important to start than be a perfectionist from the beginning!
- Keep your mind open for new inspirations
At some part you may not know exactly how to continue, so take a deep breath and follow your inner voice. This will help you to find the correct words and continue easily.
-Take off all your pressure
As I mentioned above, there is no need for perfectionism in the beginning of article writing. Just start and get the word out! This is the most important thing. With your experience you will be able to write better articles within a short period of time.
- Celebrate when your article is finished
Hey, you did a great job! You can be proud of your work. It may not be perfect, but nobody is perfect! Even the well known copywriters make mistakes, although they are much more experienced than you, because they already have written maybe hundreds of articles!
- Now take a break and let someone else
With the summer heat here and breaking records you are more aware of using sun block, wearing light colored clothing and drinking more water. You wouldn’t even think of sending your kids to the beach without sun protection on. So why are so many business owners running their business without protection?This is a classic mistake many new and small business owners make; you start a business that is focused on your product or service and don’t even think about credit terms, policies or payments. You write a business plan, a marketing plan but no credit policy.A business plan helps you finance your startup and keep things flowing smoothly. Your marketing plan ensures you have something going on to generate more sales an
- Keep your mind open for new inspirations
At some part you may not know exactly how to continue, so take a deep breath and follow your inner voice. This will help you to find the correct words and continue easily.
-Take off all your pressure
As I mentioned above, there is no need for perfectionism in the beginning of article writing. Just start and get the word out! This is the most important thing. With your experience you will be able to write better articles within a short period of time.
- Celebrate when your article is finished
Hey, you did a great job! You can be proud of your work. It may not be perfect, but nobody is perfect! Even the well known copywriters make mistakes, although they are much more experienced than you, because they already have written maybe hundreds of articles!
- Now take a break and let someone else proofread your article.
This gives you the chance to get some valuable feedback. There may be also some mistyped or misspelled words that you did not recognize.
If you do not have someone for this part, write your article within a good word processor.
A good word processor also has a build in spell- and grammar checking engine.
This is something very important. You might not be one of those writing genius but you should cover the basics in writing and that is not too difficult.
Last words:
It took me about 30 minutes to write this article. It may be not perfect but I think I covered almost anything I could do within a personal limitation not to write more than 1000 words. 30 minutes may be long, but for me it’s o.k. as I have to check some words in my dictionary as my mother language is German and not English.
So if a German speaking Austrian can write an article in English You can too!!!! Good luck with your articles. They will help you to achieve a higher Google PR and also some additional, targeted traffic. Write more articles, distribute them to the free article directories and the avalanche of traffic is on its way!
Copyright © 2006 Andreas Obermueller
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