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Every website, whether content-based or e-commerce-based, needs a constant stream of traffic to sustain its web presence. Internet marketing refers to the process of making that happen. This can be in the form of Internet marketing ads, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), article submission, Web 2.0 strategies, publishing ezines, etc. Here is a small peek into some of the most effective methods of Internet marketing:

1. Search Engine Marketing: There are two types of search engine marketing techniques - Internet marketing ads (or pay-per-click (PPC) ads) and SEO. PPC ads, or Internet marketing ads on search engines, are ads that appear in columns and rows (marked as "Sponsored Links") when a search engine results page throws up the search results. Advertisers have to pay for these Internet marketing ads on a per-click basis, which is why they are popularly known as pay-per-click ads. This means that anytime a surfer on a search engine clicks their ad, a pre-determined amount will be deducted from the deposit they have made to the search engine. Statistics say that about 3-5% of people who click on ads are converted to customers, so calculations must be made well before bidding for PPC keywords. SEO is a technique by which a website's content is tailored in such a way that it contains the most important keywords (or search terms) relevant to the site. The result is that when a surfer is searching for a keyword, he is directed to the website, and so it becomes the goal of every website owner to keyword-optimize his content in such a way that his site appears on the first search engine results page. This is a relatively inexpensive technique and very effective too.

2. Article Submission Marketing: There are a host of reprint directories on the Internet that accept articles, which are then "borrowed" by other web publishers and published on their website. A small resource box is placed at the end of each article that has to be published. This box gives the credit due to the writer and mentions his site address. Apart from the regular Internet marketing ads, this is another great way to publicize your website. All a website owner needs to do is create effective content and write a snazzy resource box at the end and submit the article to reprint directories, and hey presto, the article will send traffic from all over the web. Similarly, a website owner can post messages on bulletin boards and leave his website's link in his signature.

3. Ezine Publishing: Many website owners publish ezines and give them away free to subscribers and in the process collect a database of subscribers. For an ezine to succeed as well as an Internet marketing ad, it must contain compelling content. Also, the whole story must not be included in the email that is sent to the subscriber - only a small teaser must appear, inviting the subscriber to click on the link to know more.

4. Web 2.0 Strategies: Blogs and RSS ("RDF Site Summary", popularly known as "Really Simple Syndication") feeds are the new Internet marketing kids on the block. Website owners set up blogs, where they post trivia and articles of general interest, inviting surfers to leave their comments and visit their website. They also offer RSS feeds where surfers can view streaming content by using special RSS-reading software. If they see anything of interest, they click on the link to read the whole story.

5. Banner exchange: There are banner exchanges marketing companies where website owners swap banner space with other websites, without any charge. However, this method of Internet marketing is fast losing its punch and is almost on the way out, because every website owner prefers to publish search engine Internet marketing ads that pay on per click basis.

These are some of the Internet marketing methods that are in vogue today. For more information click on the link given below.

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Getting traffic to your website or blog is the only way to make it pay, but not everyone who launches a website or blog has the money to spend on promotion. Good news. There's a promotional method that really works for attracting site or blog traffic and it's free, free, free. It's called article marketing and it is a sure way of raising a site's profile.

Step 1: Find An Article Directory

To get started, find a suitable article directory. Article directories are sites that have hundreds and thousands of articles and there are new ones emerging every day. Some are all-purpose, covering everything from family issues to healthcare, while others have a niche, such as computer advice or art. All of them are hungry for content.

With so many to pick from, choosing an article directory can be a minefield. To make it easier, look at the directory to see:

• how many authors there are - if only a handful, forget it and move on.
• how many articles there are - ditto; come back when they've got some content
• can the site be found on Google, Yahoo or MSN - if you can't find many links to the site, then no-one will find your articles either.

Step 2: Start Writing

Once you've decided on the right article directory or directories, write an article. Bloggers will find that blog posts are a good starting point for a web article. If you're not a writer, there are plenty of writers who will whip up an article for a few dollars. Some will even help you get it published. The article you write or commission can be about almost anything related to the site, blog or business you are promoting. The ideal article should be short (say 300-600 words) and error-free, so remember to proofread and spell check.

Many article directories vet articles before publishing. Stick to the guidelines that are published on every site and approval should be a formality. Most article directories prohibit self-promotion in the body of the article. Direct promotion of a site, blog or business is reserved for the resource box.

Step 3: Work That Resource Box

The resource box is where article writers can put all the self-promotional information. Readers who have found the article useful are likely to click on the links to see what else a site, blog or business has to offer. Article directories typically allow up to three links in the resource box. A good resource box has the name of the writer or the person being promoted, the name of the business and the keywords that the site or business owner would like to promote. See the resource box at the end of this article for an example. Other resource boxes may link to a sales letter page (with the product name highlighted) and include a short elevator pitch and call to action.

Step 4: Submit Like Crazy

Once the article has been submitted to the directories the site owner has chosen, it's time to move the strategy to the next level. Article submission services extend the potential reach of an article, giving another opportunity to boost traffic. Like many article directories, article submission services allow people to upload articles for approval. Once the articles are approved, these services send them out to article directories, article groups, ezine publishers and website owners to be considered for publication. Two options for article submission are Article Marketer, which has free and paid options and Isnare, which is a paid service. There are also free and commercial programs to automate article submission.

Pros And Cons Of Article Marketing

The big question, of course, is whether submitting articles to hundreds of directories counts as duplicate content. It's hard to tell. Some of them end up in the sandbox after a while; others don't. Staggering submissions is a good way to avoid this. However, in my opinion, the advantages outweigh the potential disadvantages. With article marketing, sites can receive hundreds of inbound links in only a few days or weeks and thousands of people will be visiting the site that's being promoted. That can't be bad, can it?

Sharon Hurley Hall is a freelance writer, ghostwriter and editor, who has seen article marketing work for her. Sharon is a freelance writer, ghostwriter and editor who writes on freelance writing skills and writer promotion for InspiredAuthor.com. For more information or to contact Sharon, visit doublehdesign.com.

Writing articles is one of the easiest and most effective ways of generating free traffic to your website and getting free advertising. So without further ado, let's get into it and learn all about using articles to generate free traffic...

Now let's get down the root of your article. In this section, this is what we are going to cover

1) Determine the purpose of your article
2) Creating a compelling article heading
3) How to make your article interesting
enough so they click on your resource link
4) How to write your article quickly and make it a viral marketing machine
5) How to spit and polish your article so it looks like you re a professional writer

Let determine the purpose of your article. This might sound stupid, but if you do not know what you want your readers to do when they finish reading your article, how will they know what to do? Before I get too far into writing this, there is one thing you must do before you put pen to paper so to speak.

It does not apply to article writing on the Internet. The purpose of writing articles is to get a response and that sometimes means using unconventional methods of writing. If you cannot handle that your writing my look like it was written in the dark in some sports (maybe a bit harsh) and you are neurotic about it, forget writing on the Internet altogether.

This is meatball writing. We get straight to the point and give the readers all the information in less then 700 words.

Now back to determining the purpose of your article. Here are the usual options that the reader has.

1) Visit your website link in the resource box his is probably the most common response people seem to go to, even if it is the wrong one. People are so fixated with wanting their readers to go to their websites and buy straight away. Tell me something, how many strangers on the Internet have you brought something from because they just told you a great story? None right? You have to preheat the oven before you can ask for their credit card details.

Sending your readers to your website will usually result in a lower sales percentage straight off the bat. That is of course if you are selling them anything at all.If you were selling them something, the best bet would be to send them straight to your newsletter sign up link in your resource box, or even better yet, a free 5 day course via email, which I will talk about in a minute.

But if you are sure you want to send them to your website, the best way to do that is to tell your readers (in your article) that if you go to your website (in your resource box), there is a free gift (of value) they can get, just by visiting your site.

Make sure if you do this, it is not a blatant plug for a product and the gift is of real value, or very few publishers will publish your article, and fewer readers will respond to you in the future. No one likes being sold straight off the bat, and by giving them a free gift, or getting them to give you their email address some way is the best way to go.

2) Visit an affiliate link This one is quite tricky. For starters, some publisher did not allow you to put affiliate program links in your article at all, and if you do, they have to be completely in context and it must be one brilliant article, but that is not a problem. You can of course put an affiliate link in your resource box, which would be allowed straight away.However, if you want your affiliate links in your article here are a few tips.

1. Make sure they add value to your article and are not just blatant plugs.
2. Make sure your article is informative and to the point
3. Give plenty of free information away at your website and or offer a free course
4. Write a brilliant article!

3) Subscribe to your mailing list This is one of the better options? Why, because when they sign up for your mailing list, they are giving you permission to contact them via email on a regular basis. It would be very hard in your article to announce your mailing list in context of the article, as it would come off as a blatant plug, so the best bet would be to include your subscribe email address in your resource box.Do not make them go to a website and subscribe, this will cut your lead percentage nearly in half. All your readers should have to do is send a blank email to your auto responder or mailing list email address and subscribe from there.

4) Subscribe to your free course

This is my favorite way to really maximize your articles. Why?

1. They give you their email address just like they are joining your newsletter
2. They are in the buying mood straight away
3. You get to give them a sales message at the end of your free 5-day course and it won't look like a blatant plug
4. You can offer them more free courses for years to come
5. Just do it!

With a free 5-day course, you are really getting to know your readers better and you are giving them the chance to read more information from you straight away. A free course is just really 5 or so articles put together with an auto responder and sent out over a period of days.

Just like with the mailing list, put your free course link (not a website address) in your resource box.

5) Refer your article to others

If you want your readers to refer your articles to other people, here is what you do.(This is a good idea if you have affiliate links in your article) You send them to a website, with a refer a friend script. This website also has your previous articles on there as well in an easy to use site.You do not need fancy graphics or flash animation, just make it easy to navigate. As I was saying, send them to a page with a refer a friend script on it, and once they do that, give them a free bonus, like the chance to sign up for a free 5 day course you are offering!

You see how many possibilities there are. By giving them something in return with value, like a free 5-day course, you get them to refer your article/website to their friends.

6) Contact you personally

If you want people to contact you personally, do not make them dig through a website to find your contact details. At the very least, put your email address in your resource box, if not your business phone number.

7) Do nothing

Do not be disheartened if a lot of people do not visit your website or take an action from your article, they could just be freebie seekers looking for free information and are not willing to take an action no matter how good your information is or would be.

The secret to article writing is volume. The more articles you have out there being passed around, the more traffic you will end up getting.

8) Flame you

There are some idiots, and yes they are idiots, who would rather send nasty emails to you instead of giving constructive criticism. If you are one of these people, find a better hobby, because it can really hurt a person's feelings. When I was first starting out, and I got some flames, they really hit me hard, but then I realized I was the one making money on the Internet and they were probably spending all day abusing people over the Internet.

Zaiful Zin was a beginner internet marketing from Malaysia. You can view his blog for more internet marketing tips and strategy to make money online at
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When you joined your network marketing business, what attracted you? It has been said, and I believe it to be true, that people join people NOT products or companies. Now, it may be true that there are some people who actively seek out a particular product, but even then, they will seek out a specific person to purchase that product from.

How can you build a positive reputation online, and why is it crucial to your success? We must put ourselves in our prospective customer or partner's shoes. Many are rightfully concerned about handing over their credit card to number to a nameless faceless identity on the internet. Successful internet marketers are marketers who work on building relationships. They understand that people do business with people that they KNOW, LIKE and TRUST.

To be successful, we need to present ourselves to the internet community. We must promote ourselves in such a manner that our prospective customers and partners feel like they know us. They need to feel a sense of familiarity. We need to demonstrate that we are likeable and trust worthy.

I teach people to promote themselves, not their company or product. Create a "Who Is" page, and put up pictures of yourself and, if you choose, your family and pets. Let people know who you are. Tell them about yourself: who you are, where you are, what you do, why you do what you do.

Auto-responders are a great way to create familiarity and develop relationships. On your Who Is page, put a sign up form so your visitors can sign up for something of interest and make sure it's free. Some suggestions are an e-book or a marketing tool or resource, or a newsletter. Your free gift should be free, but something of value and interest. It is a thank you gift for visiting your site.

Set up your auto-responder to send out the free gift immediately. You now have a loyal subscriber. Your email messages should not be sales letters. Remember, you are developing a relationship. Some refer to this as relationship marketing, but I prefer to think of it as attraction marketing. Because I am the creator of my own reality, I can choose the type of people I wish to attract.

I like newsletters because you give good quality information, and always include a link or two under your signature line leading to your product or service. I am on hundreds of email lists, and the ones that continue to attempt to "sell" me on the product or service always fall flat. As a consumer, I want to know WHO I am doing business with BEFORE I consider making a purchase.

Remember that people join people, not products or companies, and that they do business with people that they KNOW, LIKE and TRUST. Now, think about how you can promote yourself so that your prospective customers and partners feel that they know you. It is one crucial step in building your network marketing business.

Of course you must actually be likeable and trustworthy because consumers are savvy. They know who is genuine and who is not. I govern my business on the principles of The Science of Getting Rich, which state that we must give more in real value than we take in cash value in all our transactions. Our product or service must enhance the life, or bring increase, to the customer.

The focus of my next article will be on that topic - being genuinely likeable and trustworthy. Like attracts like. This is a key principle in attraction marketing. You will attract people like yourself. Are you the kind of customer or partner that you want to attract?

Karen Weir is an internet marketing mentor. Affiliated with Mentors In Motion and a Certified Veretekk trainer, she is able to offer coaching and training in all facets of internet marketing. Governed by the principle of "No Networker Left Behind", and inspired by The Law of Attraction, this is a mentor who is dedicated to the success of her team.

Making money through article marketing cannot get easier these days. If you have the knack for writing and you are willing to submit your articles to various publishing sites on a regular basis, you can rake huge money using this technique.

1. Promote your website. Article marketing is currently the best traffic-generating tools in the internet today. When used properly, this tool can drive enormous traffic to your website which can easily be converted to cash. To succeed in this method, you must be able to consistently produce quality, factual, well-written, informative, and useful articles that are targeted to the needs and demands of your potential clients. These articles, when submitted on various publishing sites, can be picked up and republished by other online users. This can lead to more quality inbound links and stronger online presence.

2. Affiliate marketing. If you make a living by promoting and selling affiliate products online, you can augment your income through article marketing. Write about product reviews, product comparisons or recommendations to better build your products and boost your sales potential. You can also use this technique to increase the traffic on your product page. As you know, more traffic means more chances of closing a sale.

3. Promote your own products. Write topics that are highly relevant about your products to attract targeted traffic. For instance, if you are selling car insurance, you can talk about the importance and benefits of your product and how it can play crucial role in your potential clients' lives. By building your products, you are increasing your chances of convincing your target market to take action and make a purchase.

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Targeted traffic to your website is the lifeblood of free money online. Submit articles for free article directories such as ezinearticles and you are assured of success. Submitting articles has been a proven method of generating free traffic and free money from advertisers willing and eager to capture some of your traffic to their more lucrative websites.

There are many advantages to yourself and your advertisers if you submit articles for money making websites. Firstly there is the advantage of a generous back link to your website targeted to entice the search engines spiders to follow along. Secondly, there is also the benefits of a reader of your submitted article being interested in your content and duplicating it for the benefits of their readers, this again brings additional benefits.

Submit articles for money generating purposes and you could be in serious danger of making it to the front pages of google and other search engines if you can possibly write interesting enough content with sufficient keyword optimization skills to satisfy the search engines. I am not here to discuss all the merits of submitting an article, however I do suggest you add article writing and article submission to your arsenal of online marketing strategies.

Our advice is to submit articles about those things you feel at ease writing about. It tends to assist your article submission when published to the world wide web. Words always tend to flow with ease when articles are written in this way.

Now, the fun part begins when you begin to submit articles for money making websites online. These particular articles are genuinely written with the sole intention of driving highly targeted visitors to your website. Their purpose as an article is to generate genuine interest in the subject written.

If we were to take this article as an example, it would obviously be written in such a style as to generate interest in article submission and the benefits thereof. We would suggest to submit articles written in this type of style and to do so on a regular basis. I personally submit articles on a two or three day basis, this of course is no more than maybe two or three articles per week, the subjects of those articles are never the same and they are spread across several topics of interest.

When you submit articles in this way, it allows for a larger catchment of people and as we mentioned earlier the purpose of the article is to generate additional traffic. I do not believe for an instant that there are authors that do not keep this in the forefront of their mind when creating a masterpiece to submit to article directories.

If you find manually inputting your article is too much like hard work, then why not submit articles to your favorite free article directories using purpose made article submitter software. They have the capabilities to automatically fill in forms and article content onto article submission pages at a breeze.

I am still a great believer in the personal approach when I submit articles. Creating an original article on one source, however, the day is fast approaching where this type of automated article submission will overtake the capacity of us die hard article writers. I guess the internet has room for us all, but for how much longer?

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If you are seriously thinking of using articles marketing to drive traffic to your site, pull up your search engine ranking, establish your expertise in your chosen field, and generate more income, you need to uncover these 5 intriguing methods so you can jumpstart your article marketing:

1. Make sure that you only submit original content. Copying somebody else's work in article marketing is a big no-no. This will not only tarnish your credibility online, but you will also be penalized by major search engines.

2. Target human emotions when writing your article. Instead of focusing your efforts on logical reasoning, touch your readers' emotions by pushing their buttons. How? If you are selling diet pills, focus on how weight gain affects the confidence and social life of your readers.

3. Keep your paragraphs shorter. Ideally, you should explain one idea on every paragraph. As a writer, you must be able to explain that idea in 4-5 sentences. You can easily do that by finding the most appropriate words to get your message across and eliminating fillers and fancy words to make your paragraph direct to the point and brief.

4. Provide your readers with useful information. Make sure that the content of your articles contain information that are highly relevant to your readers. If they are facing problems, be sure to offer solution. When you do this, online users will appreciate your writing and you will build a huge following in no time.

5. Make every word count. When you are using fillers and other unnecessary words on your articles, you are wasting your readers' precious time. To make your readers feel that you value their time, strike out words that do not help you in getting your message across.

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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 1574 articles in print and 11 published ebooks.

Article marketing is an advertising technique. An engaging article is used to hook the reader, and provide basic information and education. The articles are succinct and quickly pull the reader in. By providing the reader with a start, they can help the reader to locate additional information and services of interest to them. Article marketing is a new but powerful approach to business.

By utilizing the tactical placement of words, the article that was written is flagging what is known as the internet spiders, all while the reader is being engaged. If these keywords are placed just right, the site will gain a high rank with the search engines but not seem overly wordy or riddled with keywords.

If you are able to write one of these articles a day, you will be a great asset to your company. Adding these articles each day will make your rating on various search engines go up. You do not have to do very much work to make your business look good and gain new visitors with article marketing.

The most important thing to remember when you are going to use article marketing for your website is that you must use unique articles each time you post something new. Copies of articles and anything that is not unique content will not help you gain a higher rating or customer base. Customers do not want to see the same old thing everywhere that they look.

To this end, it is important to create a new and fresh article each day. This will keep your old readers interested and will make your business look experienced to your new readers. The more people that are interested in your articles, the more likely you are to sell more products. In the end, you gain profit.

As a growing area of marketing nowadays, the use of articles is a highly successful approach to selling products or services. Be sure to publish fresh ideas which haven't been published elsewhere online. Doing this will enable you both to realize a profit and increase your rating in the popular search engines with a minimum of effort.

Article marketing is a new way of advertising. These articles are very interesting and designed to hook the reader. This is a new and very strong approach to the world of business. All articles written are very unique articles, you must make sure that the article are unique to keep readers interested. Another key factor is unique content, which is just as important to keep the readers hooked. You want to make sure that the articles are interesting and grab attention. They must also keep the readers attention so that customers keep coming back.

Viral marketing or some may refer to it as buzz marketing, provides some of the most amazing results to almost any online business, products or services. It is a vast source of "one-way" links, sales leads and targeted website traffic. Surprisingly, several marketers are either not familiar with these particular strategies or do not recognize their capabilities or are not taking complete advantage of what they call the "viral factor" in their online marketing efforts.

Viral marketing pertains to the method of giving away something for free then allowing individuals to distribute or send it out to others. Viral marketing's main purpose is to circulate your message or promotion to as various individuals as possible yet not spending any money for promotion or advertising. Although a very profound marketing tool, this method is probably the least used by many marketers online.

Generally, viral marketing strategies can be utilized by any online business or web site, be it small or big. Any online marketer can use such strategies provided that they are willing to devote some time to set up certain criteria to become positioned effectively. Viral marketing strategies done the right way will produce numerous benefits.

Simply put, the basic concept of all viral marketing strategies is to include a freebie in your ad that people can use or giveaway. The best benefits of viral marketing are:

* Increase link popularity

* Increase or improves targeted traffic

* Builds brand recognition

* Generates targeted leads

* Automates marketing efforts

With that said, here are 6 astonishing viral marketing strategies that will get the word out quickly about your business, product, or service.

1. Writing articles with a resource box. Write articles pertaining to your service or products. Allow your recipients to reprint or copy your articles in their newsletter, website, ezines, magazine or e-books. Your article must include or display your "resource box" as well as the option for reprints of articles at the bottom.

2. Using forums and discussion boards. When you are capable of setting up a bulletin board or a forum, then you actually have a very effective marketing tool. You can invite and permit online users to utilize your "discussion board" on their website since many internet users do not have these tools. 3. Providing free website. When you are making use of a "dedicated server", you are able to permit internet users to register for a web site for free on your own server. And because you gave away some space, you can oblige them or demand that they display your "banner ad" at the uppermost potion of their site.

4. Distributing free software. Permit your website visitors to distribute your software for free. Simply include your online business ad within the software. The internet provides numerous available tools that permit you to "brand" your software with messages and your contact information.

You can pay for the rights and then you have your own software for free! Or, there are programs available that permits you to make your very own software. Just search the internet!

5. Offering free graphics, banners, templates, etc. If you have the skill and talent for web design, then you can be able to make graphics, templates, banners etc., upload all to your website and allow your visitors to pass on your fonts, graphics, templates, banners etc., for free, of course. Simply display your ad onto your designs or oblige recipients that they "link directly" to your site. Also be certain that you incorporate a "link back" to your website in your "copyright notice" and oblige your recipients to hold intact your "copyright notice".

6. Free redirect service. Permit your web visitors to impart your "free online service" to their visitors, web site, e-zine or newsletter subscribers. It can be a free e-mail, "search engine submissions", e-mail consulting, etc. Let your imagination soar and think of things that you can offer for free.

Keep in mind that your marketing message that will be relayed or transmitted by any type of viral strategy should be brief and clear; likewise it should be simple for your visitor to obtain your free offer.

In the same way each free item should carry a very simple course through which a recipient is able to inform his links or friends about it, in order that they also can obtain your free offer and simultaneously be able to view your message then supply you with their email address and names.

Viral marketing strategies are very powerful marketing tools; however, these are tools that are required to be carefully used with substantial thought. When you are offering something for free, note that it needs to be of good quality, of good value, and targets the needs of your prospects.

Ontarian Hawkins is an established internet marketer, mentor, and business coach that teaches various pillars of marketing. To find out how Ontarian can help you with your marketing efforts go pick up his FREE Zombie Marketing Report on how he does it here => http://www.leadwithontarian.com

You cannot expect to be a true blue Master List Builder if you do not know the core principles that will make you the MVP of not just the Master List Builder system but also in all other aspects of your life.

You might be having all those energy and potential inside of you, but if you are not able to channel it properly, you will find other people who are less talented (but better managers of their resources and MVPs of their time!) inching their way upward while you stay on the sidelines watching them succeed.

Life does not have to be that way for you. You can actually emerge and be your own MVP, if you work at it. One of the main things you have to remember in any endeavor is that you ought to have a sense of mastery over whatever you decide to do.

And on top of that you have the MVP strategy so that you can be the most valuable player you could ever be!

M stands for Mission

A mission is not always imputed. Sometimes fate may hand it over to you through a circumstance, turning point in your life or another persons admonition. But you do not really need to hear drum rolls in order to know your mission in life. You can sometimes see it in the quiet whispers of your routine.

A mission will help you act accordingly. Having a mission is synonymous to making your lifes compass point you to your north where you will find utmost stability. A man without a mission is a man without a direction.

V stands for Vision

Of course, the thing . You must be able to see yourself succeeding in that mission before it actually happens. Many a successful person has claimed that he or she has already seen himself or herself in that state of success long before it actually materialized in their lives.

Mere vision will not make you a successful person instantly, but having the right vision will definitely help take you there with flair.

P stands for Passion

Passion is a very broad word. It could be further divided into two. It may be about your skills or favorite things. Or it may be something that you have direct personal experience. You cannot share what you do not inherently have.

You may have the mission and the vision, but without the passion to sustain you in it or the ability to make it happen, you will find that the mission and vision is a mere dream.

Joel Christopher is a best-selling author, speaker and mentor, known worldwide as The Masterlistbuilder. To find out more on how you can triple your leads, sales and profits. Go to http://www.Masterlistbuilder.com

Article marketing is one of the most powerful website marketing strategies in the internet today. As search engines remain to the be best source of warm and targeted traffic, more and more webmasters are using article marketing so they can fare well on major search engines.

Here are the 3 comprehensive methods to advance with article marketing:

1. Write for your readers. Article marketing can bring you numerous benefits. It can improve your page ranking, increase the number of targeted visitors to your site, and it can help you communicate your expertise to your potential readers. However, before you can achieve all of that, you must know how to attract and please your target market first. You can easily do so by writing content that is targeted to their needs and demands. That is why, it is very crucial for you to get to know your readers first even before you start writing your articles so you can effectively adjust your writing style and language on the level that they are most comfortable with.

2. Widely distribute your articles. It is not enough that you submit your articles to major submission sites. To get maximum exposure, you must consistently find avenues where you can post your content. Some marketers are submitting their articles to websites that are syndicated by Google and Yahoo News. While others are posting their writing materials to various sites like wikis, forums, blogs, and on their own websites.

3. Bank on the quality of your content. It article marketing, it is useless to write numerous low quality articles. Why? Because these articles are unlikely to get distributed or republished by other marketers. Thus, they will not be able to help you augment your traffic and your page ranking. So, instead of focusing on the number of your articles, concentrate on your content. It is better to have few articles that are worth distributing that more articles that will just sit on publishing sites and will not have the chance to go further.

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What is the reason youre writing the article? The point is to get visitors and traffic to your website. The only place you can provide a pathway to your website is within your articles resource box. So you need to write one that will get a click.

One way to do that is to give the reader a reason to click. Maybe you just wrote a Pulitzer prize winning article on stock car racing, but you need more than a URL in the resource box to get them to continue to your website. Readers need a reason so give them one. Tease them with additional articles or tools, such as For 10 Things You Must Know About

You can offer visitors free gifts. That word free is still an attention grabber so offer a free link, free report, newsletter or list of something.

It does not matter to the reader how great and wonderful you are so dont brag about your accomplishments. Just keep your comments about yourself to a minimum with a hook. Something like Jim Doe won 2006 Realtor of the Year. Learn how he did it at.

Use the resource box to link to a useful piece of information or resource on your site. It does not have to go to the front page. If you land the reader in a place where can find what they are looking for and search around from there they tend to stay longer. Link to what is most relevant to the topic the reader expects to find.

Linking to pages within your website also allows you to optimize the pages with the links. The anchor text should relate to the contents of the landing page. This will help in ranking your website for various terms within your niche.

For example if you have a website dealing with sports fishing and a page devoted to bass. By linking with a bass fishing anchor text to an interior page of your site that deals with bass fishing, it will help the search engines to recognize the various topics your website covers. Plus improve search engine results for those broadened terms. Directory submissions also assist in targeting keyword traffic.

Understand that articles will only bring you traffic if you provoke an interest in the reader to click. The links will help improve search engine results to get you noticed for those keywords and topics. So keep both of these factors in mind when writing your own resource box.

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One of the hidden secrets to excel in article marketing is carefully choosing your keywords. Pick the ones that are constantly being used by your target market when they searched for information online. By using the right keywords or search terms, your articles will become highly searchable and you will increase their chances of being opened, read, and hopefully republished.

Here are the other hidden secrets to excel at article marketing:

1. Observe appropriate keyword density. Publishers are now very strict about keyword abuse. They immediately reject articles that contain so many keywords that don't sound natural on the content. Stick with 3% keyword density to stay on the safe side and to increase the chances of your articles being republished on leading submission sites like ezinearticles dot com and goarticles dot com.

2. Hire some help. Manually submitting your articles to hundreds of publishing sites can take so much of your writing time. This can affect your productivity which is not good in your marketing strategies. Hire somebody who can post the articles for you. Although you will need to shell out some money for this, you can buy yourself more time doing what you do best - writing.

3. Stick to the facts. Never overstretch the truth or insert unfounded information on your content to avoid misleading your readers. Before you publish your articles, be sure to double check your content as factual errors can easily tarnish your online credibility.

4. Never advertise on your articles. Don't convert your articles to sales letters and focus on giving your readers what they truly want - information. This is the surest way to move them to click on your resource box where you can post your sales pitches.

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Let me ask you a very important question. Would you like to get 10,000 web site visitors in one month to your web site? Using article marketing this is possible, but sorry to disappoint you there will be some work involved.

There are many different ways that you can use article marketing to drive traffic to your website. Also these visitors have a higher chance of buying your products. Chances are that they have already read many of your articles and that they already trust and like you so these leads will convert up to ten times better than leads from other sources. As the famous sales trainer Jeoffrey Gitomer once said people only buy from people that they like and trust.

You may be asking how does article marketing work? Article marketing is when you write an article which is very informative on a specific niche topic. You give to the reader by sharing your expert knowledge. You take back when you include your link in the bio that allows your visitor to click through to your web site.

Now let us look at how this works in reality. When you publish your article you submit it to all the major article directories. This will drive traffic to your web site as people search on the search engines and find your article for content directly related to the keywords that they have typed in. Your articles will also be distributed over the internet as other webmasters publish your content. This provides external links to your website and increases your link popularity and your search engine rankings.

So if you start doing article marketing and write hundreds of articles it is possible to get 10,000 visitors to your website.

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Sales and marketing go together. Without one, there is no need for the other. Unfortunately, many business people have not figured out the formula for success. To realize true profit, the target consumer must be identified, successful marketing strategies implemented, and salesmanship exercised.

So, who is your target consumer? Who is most likely to purchase your product or service? For example, toy companies obviously target children. Why would they want to target the kids, when the parents are usually the ones who actually spend the money?

Think about when toy advertisements are most prevalent. Right before major holidays and during peak times of cartoon viewing, you kids and mine are inundated with commercials of the latest toys. The child actors are always having an absolutely marvelous time with the amazingly wonderful latest toy craze. Children are sold! Then, the kids sell Mum and Dad. Targeting an audience of eager young children has been a successful campaign for toy manufacturers.

If you have a specific product or service in mind, you probably already have a good idea of your target consumer; now you have to implement marketing strategies. Unfortunately, this step is where many entrepreneurs make a potentially fatal mistake. They assume advertising is the strategy. Not quite!

For instance, if you want to sell a line of ladies perfumes, you are probably not going to advertise in an auto mechanic magazine. Common sense will tell you that if you are looking for car parts, you are not going to be looking for the next fabulous fragrance.

However, even the best advertising methods do not always work. But, instead of checking the statistics, after a marketing strategy has been implemented, businesspeople often keep pouring good money after bad, because advertising is simply necessary. No one stops to check if another strategy would be more effective. In fact, many individuals invest all their hard earned money, before even determining if consumers will be interested in the product or service at all.

In short, you have to test and retest the market and the best marketing strategies. It is not something you get right and then ignore. You keep at the process. Dump what does not work, enhance or improve what does seem to be working, and then concentrate on your sales.

Without marketing, you will have no significant sales, other than those made by happenstance. However, even with the best marketing strategies, you will not realize true profit, without good salesmanship. For example, if you come across a crabby salesperson, or try to get information from someone who does not really know the product; are you likely to return to that establishment in the future?

At the end of the day, when you check your bottom line, it essentially comes down to whether you believe in the product or service you are selling. If you are excited, the consumer will be more likely to get excited and spend money. Your attitude and exuberance will be contagious. Plus, the customer will remember the experience and seek you out for future needs.

So, if you want to be a successful businessperson, remember a simple equation: marketing + sales = profits. One without the other and your venture will be missing an essential component. Realize your dreams by determining your target consumer, if any; practice various marketing strategies and test for success; and believe in what you are selling. If you make the effort and believe in your product or service, they will come!

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Been working on your website? I hope so. This powerful information I'm giving you will only be useful if you're applying it to your website. Don't make the mistake of 90% of people out there trying to make money online but failing to do so.

The methods I'm teaching you work! I've used them with countless clients across many different industries. And, time and time again, they worked! These methods got websites ranking on the first pages of the search engine results.

Don't you want to be there too?

Check out this free tool from Yahoo. Yahoo has one of the best free keyword tools available for conducting keyword research. Search for this phrase: overture inventory tool. You should be able to find it quite easily.

It is such a popular tool that occasionally the Yahoo keyword server can't handle all the requests. So if you load the page and get an error message, simply hit refresh on your browser until you get to the keyword selector tool.

Now enter one of your keyword terms in the box and hit the blue triangle key. After a brief time, you'll be presented with a list of similar keywords and the number of times that keyword phrase was searched for during a specified period of time.

If you combine this info with a manual search on the search engines, you get a pretty good idea what your competition looks like for any given keyword phrase. Start with the less competitive keywords and, as your website builds in popularity, move on to the more competitive phrases. What do you do with this information? When developing the content of your website, you want to focus each page around two or three different keyword phrases. Simply pick the most popular keyword phrase that fits your website's purpose. Then, as you compose the text of your web pages, include those phrases naturally throughout your content.

The most crucial places to include these keyword phrases are in the title of the web page in the headings (h1, h2, etc), and in the regular content. It's good to make the keyword phrases bold when they appear in the content. Also, when you create your links from page to page, make sure you the link text is one of your keyword phrases as well.

Don't simply repeat the phrase over and over. Google will actually penalize you for such repetition. Include the phrase as smoothly and naturally as possible throughout the page.

Good luck, and keep at it!

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There are a few marketing tricks you can use to begin building traffic to your website. If you are an affiliate marketer, or network marketer, this method will bring you target traffic by using article submission.

The first thing to remember is that you should be the person writing your articles if you want this trick to work for free. You do not have to be a great writer at all. If this seems too daunting, then there are writers on the Internet that will take over this task for you.

Article submission to drive traffic to your site needs to have the subject matter of your articles be something about the product, or company you are trying to market on your site. It does no good to have your article be about pencils, if you are trying to market pens.

Break up your articles into small 500 word articles using SEO methods. Optimizing your articles for article submission to content sites is to get your articles listed naturally as part of that content site.

Google loves article sites. Their spiders index these article content sites on a regular basis. When your article submission is accepted, this then becomes a part of that site and gets indexed along with everything else for article submission into the search engine.

Use target keywords in your articles. If the product you're writing about is foreign auto parts with regards to hubcaps, then your keyword might be "foreign car hubcaps". You would want to use this keyword at least 6-8 times throughout your article.

This helps to make your article relevant to Google, when it is indexed. This also will go far to give your article a high ranking when someone is looking for foreign car hubcaps for their car. SEO article submission like this will target your market so your traffic is right on what you are marketing.

The key to people reading your articles then getting to your marketing page is simple. All of the article content sites will allow you to leave a link at the bottom of your article. This link would be the URL to your page so you receive the traffic generated from your article submission.

It helps to leave a closing comment to your readers, so if they are looking for a wide selection of foreign car hubcaps, they can follow your link to check out this resource. This is the key to making this trick work to receive targeted traffic.

Article submission to article content sites is not a new marketing trick, but it is an effective one. Done correctly, your article submission has the power to rank first page on Google and stay there for months, generating a steady income resource to you over and over again.

Another key to article submission is to engage your readers so they don't just leave without finishing the article. It has been shown that people reading online have a shorter attention span than when reading a magazine article. If your article entices the readers to want more information about the subject, then they are more than likely going to follow the link you left for them at the bottom of it.

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Albert Einstein once called compound interest the "8th wonder of the world". He was also quoted as saying that "the most powerful force in the universe is compound interest". Obviously, Einstein had a great deal of respect for the power of compounding. Internet Marketing has its own power similar to that of compounding that is commonly referred to as Viral Marketing. Both use the power of time and leverage to create fantastic returns on capital. There are numerous ways to make use of Viral Marketing, and this article looks at how it can greatly benefit you in your marketing efforts.

When I first started marketing on the Internet, I made wide use of Hit or Traffic Exchanges. These type of sites are basically the I'll scratch your back, and you scratch mine sort of sites. While they had limited effectiveness for me as far as making sales, what they were very good at was allowing me to sign up others into various traffic building and downline clubs. This in turn produced lots of residual traffic which grew exponentially from the efforts of others. Although I seldom use Traffic Exchanges any longer, I still receive a fair amount of traffic from those efforts years ago.

While you could probably still use these types of programs to build your traffic and business, a more effective way to use Viral Marketing is the distribution of free information in the form of reports and ebooks that you create. People love information; especially if it has to do with 'making money' . Your task is simply to provide quality information that is in demand, and allow people to download it for free. And you won't have to look hard for this information because there are literally endless sources of good information to be found on the Internet. For instance, if you do a google search for 'Free Ebooks', you'll get hundreds of thousands of links. While most will be in categories that aren't appropriate for what you're looking for, it will give you an idea of the type of information that's out there.

Once you have gathered the necessary information for your ebook, you then need to create your ebook or report. This is where many people stop reading, believing that it's too difficult a process to create your own ebooks. The truth is, with the publishing software available today, creating your own ebooks is mostly a matter of filling in the blanks. There are numerous sites that can make creating your own ebook a snap, a couple being....Ebookcreator.com and Ebookcompiler.com There are even a few good affiliate sites that will do all of this for you.

There are several reasons why it's much more profitable to create your own ebooks, one of them being that you can embed your own links into the report allowing you to advertise numerous sites and offers. The key ingredient that really kicks this process into overload is that you allow your subscribers to also distribute your FREE ebook to others. If done properly, you'll eventually have thousands of people distributing your ebook with your very own links in it. Are you starting to see the power in using this form of Viral Marketing?

Viral Marketing is a powerful concept that you should definitely make a part of your marketing efforts. With the ability of the Internet to quickly spread information to all parts of the world, why not spread a little of your own?

William J. Thomas is actively engaged in E-Commerce and Internet Marketing. He also contributes articles on life, business and other topics. His current website is..Learn How to Generate Thousands of Dollars Monthly With..Secret Affiliate Marketing System

Every webmaster dreams of having huge and steady traffic to their website so they can easily sell their products and services to their potential clients. This is the reason why they are in constant search for marketing tools can help them realize this goal. Good thing article marketing is here. This is the most efficient and cost-effective website and product promotional tool that can easily augment website traffic and boost online sales.

Here are the 5 phenomenal secrets to multiply your article marketing:

1. Focus on the needs of your readers. Never write your articles based on your interest or information that you need to know. You have to keep in mind that the key to succeed in article marketing is effectively giving your readers what they need. When you are able to do so, your readers will most likely to click on your website to get more information.

2. Use striking titles. This is the most important element in your article marketing that will ultimately define your clickthrough rate. If your headlines are catchy, attention-grabbing, intriguing, well-written, and communicate the readers' benefits, your articles have great chances of being open and read.

3. Keep your articles short and sweet. As you are writing for audience who have short attention span, you must create articles that run between 300-500 words.

4. Increase the number of your articles. There are so many benefits in writing more articles for your marketing campaign. These includes: stronger online presence, positioning yourself as expert on your chosen niche, more inbound links for your website, and increased search engine traffic.

5. Keep your content focused. By this, I mean never introduce ideas or new information that is totally irrelevant to your topic to avoid confusing your readers.

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Sean Mize is an internet marketing mentor who teaches people to generate over $15,000 per month online via automated systems and product funnels.

Autopilot article marketing is a great way to earn money online. Mix in a touch of bum marketing and you have created a powerful combination. Writing articles online is extremely easy. Many people can punch the letters of their keyboard, but few write words or sentences compelling enough to grab their readers attention. You can literally spend hours using bum marketing and never see any results.

As you read this short article, you will start to see why your success with autopilot article marketing has been limited. One of the reasons you are not seeing results is based on the fact your articles are dull and meaningless. See, if you want to write articles to build back links to your web pages, it's a great method. But, if you want to make sales, you need to write content that impels your reader to your landing page.

The farther down you read the more you will understand what I mean. You have a choice, write fast and furious, or write compelling and riveting content. Let's dissect an article and see if we can find ways to make our articles electric.

Each article you write consists of a subject heading, body and resource box. If all three combined do not compel your reader to take some sort of action you will lose a chance to send them to your landing page. Even if you just need them to read the next line.

Internet searchers thirst for information, they want to discover new things and find products that will make their life better. We all want a better life and your articles need to written in a matter in which the reader benefits.

You are reading this aren't you! And your reading this to learn to be better at something. You read to enrich your soul and feed your mind. Don't you think you need to write content that nails your reader to their monitor? You better, your chances of guiding a person to your landing page will only increase. Otherwise you are just wasting your time with bum marketing.

You be the judge. As this article ends, think about the value of honing your craft. Visit: Autopilot Article Marketing Helper and learn to write captivating content, so your readers actually find your resource box, sending your click thru's sky rocketing!

Building an email marketing list is like strengthening your ebusiness backbones. As this list provides you an easy way on how you can connect to your client base, it can be considered as an indispensable tool in augmenting your sales potential. It is for this reason why ebusiness owners are exerting considerable amount of effort and money to build a strong, well-targeted list. Well, who wouldn't want a marketing tool that grants you instant access to your clients' mailbox?

Here are the 3 responsive secrets to multiply your list building:

1. One of the best ways to multiply the number of your subscribers is to communicate your expertise on your chosen field. Remember, online users will only subscribe to people whom they trust and can give them valuable information that they can use. Communicate your knowledge by writing articles or through forum posting. These are great avenues where you can freely discuss the problems that are affecting your target niche and how you can help to resolve them.

2. Create your own website. Your own place in the internet must communicate professionalism and integrity so your potential subscribers will be assured that you are not just another spammer. Fill your site with valuable contents and information that are usually search for by your target market.

3. Throw in freebies, discounts, vouchers, free reports, free ebooks, and other items to entice online users to subscribe. Everybody loves freebies and most online users will be happy to exchange their contact information to get something for free. Take advantage of this and multiply the number of your subscribers in no time!

Building email marketing list can be a time-consuming and tedious task. But a lot of webmasters are still doing it because the end results can be extremely rewarding.

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Sean Mize is an internet marketing mentor who teaches people to generate over $15,000 per month online via automated systems and product funnels.

The biggest search engine of them all is without a doubt Google. What they say goes, and most website owners just have to put up with it. It is always good to know what SEO techniques that Google will allow, but most of all, what they will not allow. They can blacklist your site for as long as they want, and you will never be able to get a high ranking again if you cross them once.

Knowing how important a great ranking is for your web site or blog site, here is a list of six SEO techniques you SHOULD NOT do for any reason:

1. YOUR WEB PAGE TEXT IS IN GRAPHICS FORM ONLY
Google considers "burying" text in your HTML code hides the text from their spiders that are trying to detect all of your relevant content. They feel this is manipulating their search engines and they don't like that one bit.

2. YOUR SITE HAS A BLACKLISTED WEB PAGE LINKED TO IT
A good rule of thumb regarding this issue is never to link to a "link farm" or a "Free for ALL" link page. These websites deal in every under-handed cheap trick they can find to bypass Google's strict submission rules, thereby bringing every other website linked to them down in the gutter. Make sure that all of your links lead Google and your site visitors to reputable pages at all times.

3. BAD LANGUAGE ON YOUR MAIN PAGES
This also includes using ethnic slurs of all types, as Google really looks down on racist sites that result in hate crimes or other controversial events.

4. LINK BUYING
Google really hates when you have to pay another site just to link with yours. If your site is worthy of being included in Google's main pages, why on earth would you have to buy a link? It does not make much sense from a business standpoint either, because you should put your promotion budget somewhere else entirely.

5. CLOAKING
When you present one web page to your readers and another page just for the spiders from Google to search for relevant keywords, this is known as "cloaking". If an SEO specialist says it's OK to do it his way, tell him firmly "No way!" and go with another SEO company that is more reputable.

6. YOUR SERVER IS DOWN DURING A GOOGLE SEARCH
You say that this is not your fault, but in a way it is. You cannot afford any down time as far as your main web pages are concerned, because that eats into your profits on a weekly basis if it happens too much. So always find the best server possible for your site, no matter the cost. And when Google sends out their spiders to your main pages for ranking purposes it is a HUGE error if your server is down and Google comes back with an error message. Big problem time!

7. ZERO LINKS
Your website must have a least one back link coming in from a reputable website for Google to recognize you as worth their time. So before you submit your web pages, make sure you link to somebody first.

8. KEYWORD STUFFING
I went over this is another recent article, but it is a very important technique to remember to avoid. If Google thinks your pages are filled with certain keywords that you have included over 10% in the content's overall body, you will be heavily penalized by Google for keyword stuffing that will be hard for your site to recover from.

9. COPYRIGHT VIOLATION
If somebody has reported your site as having stolen their exact wording on content pages, or have accused your website of stealing images and graphics from their own pages, Google will come after you and make sure that you eliminate the text and images from your site immediately. But just to make sure that Google never has to do this, ALWAYS refrain from plagiarizing anybody else's website for any reason whatsoever.

10. USAGE OF FLASH PAGE AS MAIN PAGE
If you really want to make your visitors pay attention to your main page, just get creative with an animated logo or put some very nice HTML coding on your front page for some really nice graphics. In other words, use every other "flashy" technique to get a web surfers attention except for using a flash page. Google's spiders cannot read the text in a flash page, so Google thinks that you are manipulating that page for their search engine rankings.

Stay away from all of these SEO techniques and page re-designs and you should be OK in climbing up the much-coveted rankings of Google's main category web page.

Rob Mead has written many articles about internet marketing and how to create and find great website content that will increase your web site's traffic overnight. Go to http://www.perfectwebcontent.com and you will be able to use all of the web site's resources and articles in your quest for internet success.