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5 Critical Ways to Generate Traffic

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Hello Fellow Profit Masters… Randy here…

Whether you intend to make money with a blog or a marketing website, the first thing you need to do is to get your own web space. Please take the time to research the different providers. Don’t get stuck with a high hosting bill and poor service. It’s easy to do. Also, take any recommendation you receive with a grain of salt. I know that I’ve tried various and sundry web hosts. I was led to believe that they are all created equal. They are not. You will also want to find one that will include domain names in the cost of the hosting. I know this sounds like putting all your eggs in one basket, but it’srandybandBW_thumb much easier to manage. One bill covers all your hosting expenses. Much better for your tax prep next April.

I have my hosting favorites. I like 1&1. I’ve been with them for about 4 years now. I recommend 1&1 for Web Hosting. The only possible drawback for newbies is that they don’t use cPanel for administration. I happen to like their administration scheme. It works for me. Their help and support is excellent! No matter which one you choose, go get one now. You can’t set your brand if you don’t have you’re unique place on the web.

Now you have your new website and you are hot to start making some sales! But, how can you make sales if you don’t have high volumes of traffic to your website?

One of the challenges which people starting a new online business face is getting traffic to their website. This article outlines four important steps you must follow to start generating some traffic to your website.

1. Have unique content on your website. Search engine robots look at all websites on a regular basis looking for sites with fresh and new content. It is therefore important for you to have fresh and high quality content which will get your website quickly indexed by search engines.

2. Have all your keywords on your website. It is important that you have all the relevant keywords and phrases that relate to your topic on your web pages and any articles you post on your website. This will increase your website ranking on search engines which means that your website will rank high when people type keywords relating to your topic on search engines. You will therefore get many visitors coming to your site via the search engines. When people visit your website, the high quality content you have will make people spend more time on your site and ultimately buy some of the products or services you offer on your site.

3. Because your website is new, you must submit it to search engines. Submitting your URL to the search engines is an important step towards getting more visitors because it means your website will be visible from search engines. Having your website URL on search engines means that when people look for information relating to your topic on these search engines, they will find your website.

4. Exchange some website links with websites that have a high popularity rank (PR). Exchanging links with popular and related websites is an effective way to drive traffic to your website, and improve the raking of your site. You will get some traffic coming to your website through other websites that you have linked to.

5. Don’t forget the Social Networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, Squidoo, and all the rest. You can make a lot of contacts and harvest a lot of email addresses if you use these sites properly. There are tons of free apps for all of them to help you get friends and followers. Please understand their individual policies regarding SPAM. What one site considers SPAM may not be considered SPAM on another site. I have some recommendations for Social Networking apps. You’ll find one on TweetGlide below. Twitter Karma is also a good one to use.

As an afterthought, try offering freebies in exchange for email signups. People love freebies and they’ll trade an email address in a heartbeat. People love to join. This technique will help build your list and will help to fill your lead funnel. Remember that you will need a good autoresponder and I personally like AWEBER.

By following the tips outlined in this article, you will realize that increasing your website traffic and getting more people to visit your new website is very easy to do. All you need to do is to follow these steps and you will soon see an increase in traffic to your website which will mean a lot of sales and online profits for your internet business!

 

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A Message for All Twitter-holics

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

TweetGlide is Here!

Hello Fellow Profit Masters… Randy here..

If you haven’t been awake for the last 24 hours you probably know that there’s a new Twitter App on the net.  It’s TweetGlide and it’s going to take over Twitterdom. 

So what’s so great about TweetGlide?  Well for starters you can tweet over the 140 word limit.  TweetGlide allows you to create messages much longer than 140 characters – in fact, as long as you would like. Once you hit the "submit" button, here’s what happens…randybandBW

TweetGlide will post the first 80 (or so) characters to Twitter, followed  by a short message: [To read the rest of this post click here: http://example.com/AdnG

When the link is clicked they can read the rest of your post on the TweetGlide Blog! Now this becomes another avenue for posting your content, and be able to share it with your Twitter Followers without having to post multiple tweets on Twitter! Your blog is also customizable and only contains YOUR tweets!

In TweetGlide you create what they call “Glides”.  These are columns you can turn on or off where you will see posts from all of your "friends" or followers.  There is a glide for “Sponsored Tweets”, @Mentions (where you can see who mentions you or your tweets),  and there’s one for “Direct Messages”.  You can figure that one out.

There are more great features in the “Profile Area”.  TweetGlide has great flexibility with some advanced features in your Profile area. You can see all of your followers, bulk follow them or bulk unfollow and block other users, select how often your Glides update, enter your Facebook information, and etc. 

It even includes a URL shortener with multiple services available.  So you can track your tweets and clicks.

I haven’t even touched the income producing component of TweetGlide yet.  You can “Tweet for Traffic”, build a powerful downline matrix, and even advertise your products and services in their ad network. Since the ads run right inside the application, users have the option to view or shut off the ads. This ensures 100% spam free advertising.

There is so much more than I’ve been able to discover at this point in time.  Get on over to TweetGlide and take a look for yourself.  If you use Twitter to generate income then this is the App you need.

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Video Marketing with LinkedTube™

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Hello Fellow Profit Masters…  Randy here…
 
Here’s a great way to get out your message.  This video ad was created using LinkedTube™.  LinkedTube™ allows you to easily use the power of YouTube™ to get your message out. 
 
In this case I “borrowed” a great video from DJ Steve Porter.  If you want to create your own video presentations, that works too.  All you have to do is upload it to YouTube™ and pull it into LinkedTube™!
 
Create video product listings, advertisements and more… link to anywhere including PayPal, Skype or even the iTunes store.  The link is in the button.  Hover your cursor over mine and you’ll see more information available to you.  You can put anything you want there.
It’s a great tool!!

 
<a href="http://www.linkedtube.com/UWRyj5cHIQA35081dd373677f0e30899b94ed2ae1fa.htm">LinkedTube</a>

LinkedTube™ is a Flash widget that adds link and sharing options to YouTube videos. With this you can transform any YouTube video into a useful viral promotion tool. Unlike standard YouTube players it links directly back to your URL, for example you can create video product listings linking direct to your shopping cart, music video links to the iTunes store or just link back to your website or blog. Plus, when others share your video they all link back to your own URL.

When you’re done filling out the form on their website to create your links, just click the up arrow in the lower right corner of the video frame to get your Flash widget or the link to the video on LinkedTube’s website.  Try it by clicking on the up arrow above and you’ll see my info.  Your URL is attached to the button in the upper right corner.  Hover over it to see more info you can put in the form.  If you click it, you’ll get taken to the URL you put in the form.  Click my button and see where it takes you.

I think you’ll love this approach to marketing your wares, and best of all, IT’S FREE!!!

Don’t worry,  it’s truly a free service with no strings attached and no OTO’s.

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How To Work Smarter Not Harder As An Affiliate Marketer

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Hello Fellow Profit Masters… Randy here… I hope you enjoy this article. It was shared with us by Alice Seba & Melissa Ingold.  al_mel That’s them pictured at the right. 

Remember that you can contribute to Profit Masters and we’ll give you full credit.  Just include your author information and we’ll print it when we post.  We reserve the right to approve and edit if necessary.  But we’d never print anything without your consent.

Now, Alice and Melissa’s article on Working Smarter.

As an affiliate marketer, you know better than anyone   just how important it is to drive traffic to your affiliate website. After all, that is how you make a profit. However, affiliate marketing success takes strategy, time management and understanding the importance of how to work smarter, not harder.

The key to online affiliate marketing is to first learn affiliate marketing basics. Take the time to invest in an affiliate marketing guide, tutorial or affiliate marketing eBook. These tools can be instrumental in gaining the knowledge you need to become a successful affiliate marketer. You wouldn’t jump into the ocean without first learning how to swim. The same goes for learning affiliate marketing. Make sure you understand the basics before you jump on in.

randybandBW Once you know and understand just what affiliate marketing is and how it works, you can then start earning money. Well, almost. Earning a living through affiliate marketing sales is more than possible, but you must be strategic. The key to success is to know how to make it work for you. Many affiliate marketing newbies often spend too much time focusing on what they are doing and not who they are doing it for.

While working hard as an affiliate marketer is important, it is equally important to spend your time wisely. Initially, it may seem like a good idea to advertise on every website, become members of multiple online forums, and write as many articles as possible, all in hopes of gaining visibility. But you will soon discover that many of these efforts will prove to be in vain.

So how do you drive traffic to your affiliate site without spending every waking moment trying to master the myriad of online media available to you? The answer is simple. You must work smarter, not harder. Building targeted traffic is a keystone for affiliate marketing success.

While being visible is critical to affiliate marketing success, you must be seen by the right people. Take the time know your audience, seek them out, and direct your message to potential customers, not every John and Jane Smith who happen to be surfing the web. Once you have identified who your audience is and where they can be found, driving traffic to your affiliate site becomes a much easier, and more effective task.

For example, if you are an affiliate marketer for a health and wellness service, you wouldn’t want to write an article for an auto industry website. Instead you may want to consider placing an ad in a family oriented newsletter. Or, you might consider websites and ezines that focus on cooking, exercise, and even clothing. The more strategic you are about targeting traffic through well-placed ads, enticing articles and unique offerings, the greater success you will have in affiliate marketing sales.

Your success as an affiliate marketer is dependent upon you and you alone. Don’t burn yourself out by saturating the internet with one-in-a-million advertisements, going after dead traffic or wasting your time in front of a less than interested audience. Instead, work smarter by knowing your audience and being strategic with your approach. Then and only then will you attain affiliate marketing success. People make the mistake in thinking that a business built to last is too much work, or takes too much time. Sure, you�re going to have to work for it, but if you work SMART, you can get results faster than you may have thought. So, how do you work smart? The best things I’ve found, is to find someone else who’s ALREADY doing what you want to do and follow in her footsteps. If you want to follow in the footsteps of someone who’s been making a steadily increasing full-time with affiliate programs, go here:

Affiliate Manager Sweetie

Thanks to Alice and Melissa for sharing their article with Profit Masters.  I hope that you found at least a tidbit of helpful information.  Keep plugging at your niche or product.  You’ll get where you want to be.

Randy

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Green Sells So… Sell Green!

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Hi Fellow Profit Masters… Randy here…

We all know that everyone is conscious about their environment these days.  Heck, everywhere you turn people need information about how to live the green lifestyle.  From organic to solar, people want to know how they can live with a low carbon footprint.

Well this is Profit Masters after all and we believe in passing along as many freebies as we can.  I found this one and want to pass it along to you for use in your blogs, newsletters, or membership sites to help you Master your Profits!  Run the video and then click the “Free Green Content” button to get the goodies.  And, yes, they’re FREE!

<a href="http://www.linkedtube.com/f6u5MiMDxLIca2b8d18257d2bcc4b44dfcc107bac27.htm">LinkedTube</a>

If you just want to get the freebie green content, then just click the button.  I hope you take the time to watch the video.  You can never get enough information.

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Warrior Tools… Must Haves for Pros and Newbie!

Friday, July 24th, 2009

What if I told you that you could have all these great tools for FREE!  Well you can.  There’s a catch.  To get these freebies you have to do something for me.  No… not your firstborn… You just have to follow the instructions and become a member of our community here at Profit Masters.

Just so you know, this isn’t junk.  I use these tools regularly and I had to pay for them.  But, the three guys I got them from, Vince Tan, Gobala Krishnan & Melvin Ng have allowed me to share them with you at no cost.  That means FREE.

affiliatewarrior blogwarrior directorywarrior
forumwarrior box-medium keywordwarrior

As a blogger, I like the BlogWarrior app.  The KeywordWarrior app has been really useful.  I’m still playing with the DirectoryWarrior and the ForumWarrior.  They are all easy to learn and easy to use.  The AffiliateWarrior is a need to have to keep your affiliate URLs safe and secure.  They all come with great documentation. 

Click here to get these Warrior Tools for FREE!  or click on any of the pictures above for instant access.  You can read the whole page  or just swoop down to the Free Instant Access at the bottom of the page.

I’d take the time to read the page.

Here’s a testimonial

Man this is a great tool! I’ve always been trying to create professional "cloaked" affiliate links and almost every other software out there costs an arm and leg.

With Affiliate Warrior I can do exactly what all the other top affiliates are doing, and I’ve already seen my commissions double in the past week!

Suresh Menon
Banglore, India

Thanks for the readership and stay tuned for more goodies and giveaways…

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Just Plug-in Your PayPal Account and Make a Fortune!

Monday, July 20th, 2009

I’ve been secretly following the development of the “IM Renegades” offer, and what I saw today shocked me speechless! As a special pre-launch offer, you can get five instant businesses at zero cost. If you don;t believe me check it out for yourself here, while it’s still available:

==> http://easyurl.net/im359

Everything you see on that page is yours to keep and profit from for the rest of your life. No catch whatsoever.

Here are the five “instant” websites you get:

1) WordPress Video Tutorials
2) 7 Day Profits Course
3) Easy PDF Maker Software
4) The Other Side Of List Building
5) Testimonials Generator

Everything is done for you. All you need to do is plug-in your PayPal email address and autoresponder, and the entire website is yours to promote. Not only do you keep 100% of any sales you make, you also keep 100% of all your customers. That alone is worth thousands, as most other offers I’ve seen till now only give you the sale, keeping the customer list greedily for themselves.

This special pre-launch offer is valid only till the launch day, after which it may be taken off completely or sold for at least $27 a month. Stop reading this now, and go to the IM Renegades website and claim all your five ready-made businesses now:

==> http://easyurl.net/im359

If you’re reading this blog post too late, then you may have missed it. Don’t leave a comment to complain because there’s nothing I can do.

I DID tell you it’s a limited offer! :)

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Tweet Up You Traffic

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Hi Fellow Profit Masters… Randy here…

Social Networking is a growing concern. Especially for internet marketers. Using sites like Twitter can increase you lists by leaps and bounds if done properly. So….. Here are a few tricks and tips for using Twitter to build your list.

First, you need to make sure that you get as many followers as possible. The more followers the more folks you can market to. Here are a few websites and tools you can use for free to get those followers.

I recommend Exit Tweet Generator if you have websites and splash pages you’re marketing from. Exit Tweet Generator (ETG for short) gives folks the ability to tweet you when they leave your site. It will help you get traffic to your site 24/7.. from Twitter!

***AND IT’S FREE***!

“ETG” is a cool little script that you can setup on your website in minutes. What it does is, it gets your visitors attention as they try to leave your site with an exit popup.

Inside this popup is where you can place a bribe like a free ebook, report, audio, pdf etc..

In order to get your juicy gift, the visitor has to tweet about your site on their Twitter timeline.. Once they click the submit button your message gets added to their timeline on Twitter and they automatically follow you!

So you not only get viral traffic back to your site, but you also build your list of Twitter followers 24/7 on autopilot!

You’ve got to check it out, its free right now while in beta.

Click Here to grab it before they start charging!

Remember…Twitter Is not just a funny name; it’s an online goldmine just waiting for you to tap into, and “ETG” will definitely help you do that.

Boost your profits, your traffic and your customer base with this simple but powerful script.

Check out the site and get your hands on Exit Tweet Generator..

So, if you’re serious about making money on the internet, I suggest that you get yourself a Twitter account and take advantage of the connections you can make for your business. If you do have a Twitter account then you’re ahead of the game.

Our next post will describe other tools to make your “Twittering” even more functional and profitable so stay tuned!!

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The Importance of Offering Regular Publishing Schedules

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

The people who have paid to join your membership site depend on you to provide relevant and timely information. It is their right to expect that information to be updated on a regular basis because they may be depending upon it to make decisions. When a person joins your membership site they should be told what your publishing schedule will be so that they know when they can expect to get fresh information. Adhering to that announced schedule is vitally important.






Deciding what your publishing schedule will be for your website is important. Keep in mind the kind of information you will be supplying to your membership. Information that changes hourly will require a RSS feed. Information that needs to up-dated on a daily basis will most likely require a content management system. For weekly publishing of content, you can do that yourself but a content management system can make it a lot easier.

When you are planning your newsletter, you need to decide how often your ezine or newsletter will be sent out to your subscribers. Basically, you need to create a schedule and stick with it. But how often should you publish? How much is too much and how often is not enough? When it comes to frequency, the usual choices are daily, weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly.

Daily – that means 365 newsletters a year. You could wear out your welcome even with your most devoted members.

Weekly – that is still a lot of work…52 letters a year…a little over 4 a month. Would your members appreciate that much mail from you?

Bi-weekly – Publishing an e-zine twice a month is just often enough to keep you fresh in your subscribers’ minds but not so often that they become annoyed with you.

Monthly – doesn’t seem often enough. Your members may forget about you and where your website lives on the Internet.

No matter what interval you choose, stick to it. People like consistancy. Just make sure that the interval you choose fits the message or service you’re providing to your membership.

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Starting a Paid Membership Site

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Hi Fellow Profit Masters… Randy here…

We’ve discussed starting a free membership site and how to get the tools we need to start one. Now we’ll talk about paid membership sites. This is where your skills as a marketer comes into play. No matter whether you’re an old timer or a newbie, you can start to generate a regular monthly income using a paid membership site. It’s easier than you think. Read on…..

Whatever you call them – member only, membership, subscription, or mentor websites, they all have one thing in common. They are bringing in steady and constant cash flow for their owners, month after month, from a few hundred dollars to tens of thousands of dollars. The array of the topics of these websites is endless.

PremiumCompounder.com.
Easy. Safe. No risk.

Some of these paid membership sites provide mentoring or coaching, others publish useful articles or information in a particular field or product. Still others publish the results of tests and studies or product reviews. Some membership sites provide specialized service or act as a meeting place for people with a common interest and then there are those that provide step-by-step instructions for such things as painting or music.
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