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Article #94: How To Use Articles, Affiliates, Auctions And Auto Responders

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Your web site is just like your business, course when we talked about business
in fact it is an extension of your planning? I need to have 4200 visitors a
business in some cases and it IS your month come to my web site in order to
business in others. Your advertising sell 420 copies according to my business
campaign must address each of these plan. Well E-Bay gets 3 million visitors
methods to the best and fullest extent a day! Do you think that might be a place
possible given your advertising budget. that I would want to advertise my books
Let's take a look at how you can use or my web site? You bet! In fact I have
these different advertising methods to sold quite a few of my other books on
your best advantage: E-Bay as well as bottles, baseball cards,
Using Articles to market your web site clothing, computers, software, training,
Short articles are a great way to video and much more. So can you.
generate traffic to your website. Let's take my Weekend Chef's guides and
Articles can be used to keep the material see how I can sell them on E-Bay, Yahoo
fresh on the site so that your customers Auctions, or MSN Auctions. First I need
keep coming back, they can also be used an account. This is simple, but does vary
to 'advertise' your site on web sites based on which you are signing up with.
owned by others. Placing your article on Follow the instructions (at the end of
article submission sites allows others to this page is an excellent course on how
download it and use your article in their to really make money on auctions, but
newsletters and on their web sites. Of this will get you started). Once you have
course there are links in the article an account, we now need to place
that point to your site for more something for sale. Think of the auction
information or other reviews etc. These site as your web site As such we need to
links are great as they help increase create a web page that offers you product
your standings in the search engines. service for sale. I use a software
The articles can be about any topic and package call Auction Wizard 2000. They
you will find there are hundreds of have an excellent program that allows you
article submission sites available to to try it for 60 days before you have to
place your articles on. Most are free as register. It is so easy to use as well.
they need fresh information so that their Using Auction Wizard, I can create an
customers keep coming back as well. auction page and automatically post it
Using Affiliates to market your web site and re-post as needed to any of the
Affiliate programs can add thousands of supported auctions. No special knowledge
independent sales people to help market of html is required. Simple fill-in the
your products and services. blanks and add any pictures or graphics
Over the years I have been involved with and I'm done. It also will track the
many businesses, and one of the things I sales, send emails to successful bidders,
remember from my Amway days was that as track inventory and so much more. If you
an individual, I could only do so much. I are thinking of doing auctions, this is
have 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 one piece of software to take a hard look
weeks a year in which I can work. I will at.
hit a maximum point of sales that I can Back to selling my guides and building my
handle by myself. After that I'm done. business. Within the auction listing, I
The only way to do more is to automate can place a link to my site, offer a free
and have others duplicate what I do. The download of some chapters of the book, of
same is true on the web. We need to course, I will need your email before you
automate and duplicate what we do so we can download. Remember that I need to
can have others expand our sales for us. keep you coming back. Be careful here,
The first part of this equation is E-Bay does not like you selling outside
duplication. We can have others follow of their auction so make sure the visitor
what we do and sell our products and is not allowed to buy from your site at
services for us and pay them a portion of that link. Well, now we have given
the profits. This is different than something away for free (a chapter of the
having employees. Employees have no book), we have the visitors email
requirement to sell. They are overhead address, and we hopefully will get a bid
that must be paid regardless of sales. on the product/service. If not, we have
That is NOT what you want for a new the email to follow up. What has it cost
business. Keep your hard-earned cash for us? Each item up for auction on E-Bay
other things. What we need is someone cost, are you ready for this, 30 cents to
that is willing to do the work for part list it plus a small percentage of the
of the profits. This is where affiliate selling cost. If I list my Weekend Chef's
programs come in to our formula for Guide to Sushi on E-Bay with a starting
success. Affiliates are basically a price of say $1 it will cost me a total
partnership between web sites to of about 30 cents for the week. 30 cents
advertise and promote products, services, to reach millions of potential customers
or information for a share of the a day. If I sell the book, I will have
profits. When someone they refer to you recovered my 30 cents and started
buys, you pay them a percentage of the building my customer email list as well.
sales. Result? More traffic, more sales Now I could write a series on using
and less time required by you to find the auctions, but this page is just how to
customers as someone else does it for use auctions to market your business. You
you. can sell items and make a profit or you
What else can a good affiliate program do can just list items and build a customer
for you? database to market too later. Either way
· How about driving more traffic to your Auctions make a great way to market your
site! business.
· Build brand awareness as more people I have on my website a couple more tips
visit your site from the hundreds or on using auctions as well at or visit my
thousands of affiliates that are eBay store for other e-books that are
advertising for you. available from time to time.
· Obtaining qualified leads that you can Using Auto responders to market your web
follow-up on to increase or up sell to. site
· Increasing the links to your site, Depending on the products, services or
which will increase the ranking of your information you are selling auto
site on the search engines resulting in responders may be able to automate a good
more traffic and more sales. portion of your web site business. An
There are all kinds of affiliate auto responder is a piece of software
programs. Some programs charge to be a that checks email for certain words or
member and some do not. Some are web phrases and responds according to your
based and some are software programs that wishes. For example, you may have
you load on your computer to set up and received a newsletter by sending an email
track the sales and affiliate yourself. to me with Subscribe as the subject. My
Which one you use is up to you. Here are auto responder sees that email come in
a few that I have found. and has a set of actions defined that
Affiliate Net - This is one of the more when the subject has subscribe in it that
affordable server side affiliate it will email back to you our newsletter.
programs. With this software there are no Another thing that the auto responders
monthly fees only a one-time software can do is following up with your
charge. At the time of this writing this customers at predetermined times with a
package sold from $49.95 to $99.95. predetermined letter. This is good for
Referral Software - This package is also driving traffic to your site after they
server side although more expensive, it have visited and left their email address
has many more features and is worth while such as to subscribe to a newsletter or
to consider if you are serious about download a free chapter of an e-book or
earning a lot of money with your Internet other information you have made
business. At the time of this writing available. For my training business I
this package sold for $299.00. send up to 4 different emails to each
Click Bank - This is a web based person that request my guide to increase
affiliate program. By signing up on their their income. Each email introduces them
web site you have access to over 100,000 to other benefits and services that are
affiliates. ClickBank is free to be an available. Some of the emails will offer
affiliate and has a charge if you want to a discount or free training class as an
run an affiliate program for your incentive to sign up for a class. All of
products.clixGalore Affiliate Networks - it done without me having to get
This is a web based affiliate program. involved.
There are monthly and set up fees. Auto responders can be installed on your
I highly recommend affiliate programs. computer or used via the Internet. Some
For the reasons listed above. Remember are free and others you have to pay
they will help drive traffic to your either by the email address or based on
site, which means more sales and you can the number of responses you want to
use the affiliate programs to offer program it to respond to. Here are some
others services and make the commission links to auto responders on the web as
once you are done with the client. This well as a software package with a trial
could be a good business all by its self. version you can use yourself.
Using Auctions to market your web site Promasoft: This is the one we use with
Ok, you have a product or service you our servers. I highly recommend. They
want to sell; you need to let people know have a trial version that is a full
about that product or service and you version. It places a header in the
don't have much money to spend. Imagine a outgoing email, so you will want to
place that gets over 3 million customers register once you have it up and running.
that are ready, able, willing and looking I think it is a great program.
to buy everyday. It is a Super Mall! GetResponse: This is also a great
Ask any businessperson what they would program, although, this one is a
pay to be in a mall that got 3 million subscription service. It can be a less
visitors a day. You can see the dollar expensive way to try out an auto
signs light up in their eyes... both in responder. They do offer a free account
terms of cost and sales potential. as well.
Remember my goal from earlier in the






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