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The Number One Way To Rocket Your Internet Profits Through The Roof

In this article Im going to show you a number of different ways that you can find joint venture partners as well as some very specific strategies you can use to get your niche markets top marketers to promote your products and web site.

A joint venture is where you contact a marketer in your niche market who has an email list of subscribers who may have an interest in your product. They can be the lifeblood of your business. Just five decent joint venture partners who promote your ebook to their email list in exchange for a commission can put your current income through the roof. Read this newsletter and go out and take action. I assure you your results can be life changing.

JV’s like so many aspects of this business become easier and more profitable as you go on. Why? Because once you’ve started doing successful JV’s you gain leverage people will approach you to JV with their product where you endorse it to your list when you get to this stage you can make a lot of money simply promoting a product you don’t even own to your list of hungry buyers.

A word of warning here don’t promote any old crap just to make a few bucks people are not stupid and you’ll lose the trust you worked so hard to build up.

Know Your Conversion Rate

The first mistake newbies make is they start contacting JV partners left right and centre before theyve even made a sale of their ebook themselves. This is wrong. Very wrong. You need to be able to contact a potential JV partner and be able to tell them how your site’s converting.

Site conversion is simple. Its the amount of visitors to the amount of visitors who buy. So for example if one hundred people visited your site and two bought your conversion is two percent. You want to get at least one thousand visitors before you know your conversion.

To work out how your sites converting download the software from www.statcounter.com. Dont worry it wont cost you a penny.

Offer Large Commissions

Once you know how well your sites converting if no ones buying dont even bother contacting marketers. Improve your sales letter change your headline whatever it takes you can start contacting JV partners. Offer them more than your regular affiliates. If you offer your affiliates fifty percent commission offer your JV partners seventy five percent.

You may be thinking wait a sec those commissions are huge? I wont make any money myself;. This is where so many go wrong. If people are sending you tons of visitors you can build your email list and offer them other products in email promotions and you can also make money selling back end products.

Return The Favour

Offering high commissions is not enough. Tell them that youll add a message into your auto responder set up so that youll market their products via an affiliate link in your back end. Explain that youll be setting up joint ventures with other marketers in the niche so that theyll get visitors to their site without spending a dime.

Using Clickbank

Please please understand one thing. If youre selling an ebook on fitness dont start contacting marketers who sell gardening products. Thats just ridiculous. Only contact marketers who sell products aimed at your niche market and therefore have an email or customer list of people who may have an interest in your ebook.

With that in mind start at www.clickbank.com. Click on promote products; on the home page and then search the marketplace for products in your niche. Contact the product owners and try setting up a JV.

Google Ezine; Trick

This is a great way to find marketers with ready made email lists they can send a promotion to and sell tons of copies of your ebook virtually overnight.

Go to google and type in niche ezine;. So for example if you were selling a bass fishing related ebook youd type in bass fishing ezine;. What youll get is a huge list of results of web sites in which people have a bass fishing email newsletter or ezine. Obviously they wont all have one often youll get millions of results but you can spend a few hours going through the results and get more JV contacts than you could ever hope for!

Google Allintitle; Trick

Heres another cracker. Do you think web sites that have your niche market keyword in their domain name might be great potential JV partners? Of course! Go to google and type in allintitle: niche;
So for example if you were selling an ebook on song writing youd type allintitle:song writing; into google.
Go through the results contacting marketers and setting up hugely profitable joint ventures.

Leverage Results

Once you set up one profitable JV use the results to start setting up even more joint ventures. You can say things like Joe bloggs from domain name.com made X amount of sales and earned X amount from just one mailing to his list;. This really is powerful because it shows people that you know what youre doing.

Now go and take action. You really can set up joint ventures with any niche markets top guns if you go and actually do it. Good luck!

About the writer:  Ged McCabe specialises in helping people start their own online ventures. Why not visit armchairriches.com and get your hands on a no cost two and a half hour internet business video

3 Steps To Achieveing Targeted Traffic

If you have been looking for a way to get visitors to your website that are interested in you product or information I can show you three steps that can help get you the customers you need.

What you need is targeted traffic and I’m going to show you one way you can get that.It is possible to organize you website in a manner that will cause only the people that are interested in what you have to offer to come stop by. First off when most people first start out on the Internet they usually make some huge website with no niche and then go out and use some FFA’s to post an ad then they sit back and wonder why no one is coming to there website.

To keep this simple we will break it down into three steps. Step one find one and only one keyword and focus you entire attention on that keyword. Some experts will tell you this is wrong that you should mass market and in some cases this is true but if you don’t have any foundation mentor or lot’s of capitol believe me one keyword at a time is the route to go.

Now don’t just pick any keyword you must do some keyword research there are many keyword tools out there a couple are keyword locator keyword elite good keywords and many more but if you want to do it the free way you can use the overture keyword tool just type that into the search engine you will find it.

Make sure you do a good job a picking you keyword because you want a keyword that enough people search for a month. Now that you have targeted you keyword you will focus all you efforts to target you traffic at that keyword ready aim fire!. OK so now we have a keyword now on to step two. Targeted traffic step twooptimize you homepage to that keyword.

Take that keyword and go crazy put it everywhere in you meta tags which break down into meta keywords and meta description if you don’t know what I’m talking about then you should do some quick research on it. Meta tags use to be a big thing for search engines but since most people started stuffing hundreds of keywords into there meta tags it became a problem. For the keywords portion use you targeted keyword in different ways like say your keyword is targeted traffic then you would use targeted traffichow to get targeted trafficbuy targeted traffic and more but you focus is still on you main keyword the other examples you will focus on afterwords and that is when you start seeing the pay off. When writing the meta description make sure the you use the keyword at least two times unless you description is very short.

OK now I’m going to list all the other places your keyword should be. For targeted traffic you should place the keyword in the headline title at least one in every paragraph alt image tag this is the words that pop up if you hover the mouse over an image bold the keyword once or twice if it is a long page make the keyword a link on you page also have it go to some page on your website.

Now that you have done all that your getting closer to targeted traffic to your website see how I keep using that word targeted traffic it’s because that’s what I’m targeting this article to because when people look for targeted traffic on a search engine I want them to find me because what I offer they could really use to increase there targeted traffic so at the end of this article I will include a link and it will be targeted traffic highlighted which is getting to the main part of targeting your viewer’s.

Links to your website as far as search engine rank goes this is the most important part the more links you have pointing back at you with you targeted keyword as the anchor text the higher you are ranked for that word. So how to you get those links pointing back at your website. Targeted Traffic step three you focus should be on building links this can be done by trading links with other websites or link directory’swriting press releases writing articles like this one and then submitting them to an article website use social bookmarking and tag you site as your keyword leave posts in forums make sure what you writing is relevant then put you link in your signature or in the postand then there are many more ways to promote your website which are very good but right now I’m focusing on raising you up the search engines.

Targeted Traffic is not hard to get it just takes some effort and there are many tools that automate this process so that you can spend more time on the fun parts like spending time with loved ones and cashing checks or whatever you like to do I would go into more detail about these automated software’s and services but then i might as well write an ebook which I think i might.

So that wasn’t so hard find a keyword put it in all the important places then get other websites to point at you with that keyword it’s that easy. I hope you enjoyed this if you know something I don’t or see something that I said that is incorrect please email me I am always learning and if you plan on staying on top you should do the same. OK your ready go out there and get your targeted traffic.

About the writer:  Emmanuel Aubrey is a Webmaster that has made it his goal to give you as much information and tools he can get his hand on for free. If you would like free Internet Marketing softwareebooksscripts and much more go toTargeted Traffic

Monster Amazon Crocs Why Creative Company Names Work Best

The most common company naming trap is this creating a new business name that’s accurate and descriptive but utterly forgettable. And it’s easy to see how it happens. Unlike real life application naming is usually done in a vacuum with no context no accompanying logo website or brochure copy. A group of key decision makers sit in a boardroom and toss names around in the air. And with no supporting cast no background no props the good names often seem disconnected and even ridiculous. It’s at this stage the mind wants to make sense of the names; and without context without supporting elements it defaults to free associations from the past. This is what kills off many a great brand name.

Imagine a committee looking for a brand name for a new computer company. Someone suggests the word “apple.”

“Apple?” the group reacts in shock and bewilderment.

“That makes me think of my mother saying ‘One bad apple spoils the whole bunch’” one committee member protests.

“It sounds like something fruity to me” claims another. “We can’t be perceived as a fruity company!”

“And what about worms that get into the apples” a third member agrees. “And the way they rot and how the juice gets sticky and how…”

“All right!” the suggestee apologizes curling up in a near fetal position vowing she’ll never venture another idea.

And so the group comes to absolute agreement that the name must convey what the company does. So the next set of suggestions seem right on target…

“United Computer Manufacturers”

“General Computer Systems”

“Quality Computer Corporation”

“Superior Computer Builders”

“Global Computer Worldwide”

The closer the committee comes to describing the “what” of the company the more they become homogenized and blend right into the rest of their industry. They sound more like a business description than a brand name and in doing so they obscure the very identity they are trying to create. They don’t realize that the new company name will exist in a setting that helps define it so that the name is free to evoke feeling and emotion. An apple is fresh approachable healthy and invigorating. And so a company can borrow on the attributes inherent in a completely unrelated item to convey the way they approach its business.

So if creative company names are so much more memorable and effective than descriptive names why is it that so many businesses make this basic mistake? In large part it’s because we are conditioned from childhood to conform to be like others and to follow the leader. As much as we don’t like to admit it most of us would rather follow an established trail than to blaze a new one. One of the first questions I ask potential clients is whether they want their new company name to blend in or to stand out. Most adamantly say they want to stand out but when stand out names are presented the red flag goes up.

“I’m not sure” they might say. “These names are unique but they’re so different from anything in our industry.”

And so it goes. The names continue to blend in until someone names an airline Virgin instead of Southwest. Or an online job site Monster instead of CareerBuilder. Or a massive online store Amazon instead of BooksaMillion.

Not only are descriptive names less impactful they are more difficult to visualize. I can picture a Monster but I have trouble picturing a Career Builder. When it comes to beach shoes I can imagine a pair of Crocs but not a pair of Keens. These vivid mental pictures provide yet another way to anchor the brand name in the customer’s mind for easier recall.

Creative names are also less restrictive. If you have a purely descriptive name what happens if your company’s core products or services begin to change? How much additional advertising does it require for Burlington Coat Factory to convince customers they sell more than just coats?

Are highly memorable names the only way to go? No. Some small businesses don’t have the luxury of a marketing budget and resort to literal names out of shortterm necessity. And there are other viable naming strategies that work well. But for those looking to build a brand name that will set them apart and reserve more space in the customer’s mind then an evocative memorable name is the way to go. Seth Godin makes a convincing case for memorable company names in his New York Times bestseller Purple Cow: Transform Your Business By Being Remarkable.

So whether you name a company after a river a fruit a dessert a reptile or even an odd color bovine chances are you will on a minimum make a name for yourself. And once potential customers notice and remember your company the rest is up to you. If you do your job well you’ll have a company that’s not only memorable but one that’s unforgettable.

About the writer:  Phillip Davis is president and founder of Tungsten Branding company naming consultants located near Asheville NC. Phil and his team have assisted over 200 regional national and international corporations with business and product branding strategies. To view his company naming portfolio visit http://www.PureTungsten.com