Web Design Discussion

For many years I put off client list building because I couldn’t see or understand the significance of doing it. Instead I concentrated on generating quick sales from cold contacts. These were first time visitors to my website or blog. It wasn’t until I started a bi-weekly newsletter that I realized how important it was to stay in touch with your clients. By sending out valuable business building tips every 2 weeks I was able to build long term relationships with people on my list. These customers often purchased products or services I recommended in my newsletter because I had won their trust. Most people don’t like to buy from strangers.

How to get more opt in sign ups to increase your client list

Read the rest of this entry »

Customer List building is one of the best ways to generate a long-term income. The larger your list the more income you can make. This is because you can continue to market to the people on your list as long as they remain on it. This is in sharp contrast to a one time sales opportunity where you only have one chance to make a sale from a person visiting your website. Mistakes made during the list building process will lower your income potential.

Let’s look at the 7 common mistakes made when trying to build your customer list:

Read the rest of this entry »

When building a list of potential customers from all your web properties it’s easy to forget they are human beings that have the same or similar wants and desires as yourself. When sending a message to your list of 2000 or more subscribers avoid viewing them as just a list. Instead treat them as if you’re having a conversation with a friend sitting opposite you. If you practice this you’ll get a much better response from your list because you’re writing will be more personable.

Why You Should Honor Your Customers

Read the rest of this entry »

List Building is often one of the last tasks performed by a website owner. This is unfortunate because the longer you put it off the less income you’ll earn from your list. Most marketers focus on earning immediate sales instead of following up on their customers. They leave a lot of money on the table because they only give visitors one chance to purchase their product or service. If they opt-in to your list you would be able to build a relationship with them and sell more products.

So why do most online marketers fail to build a list?

Read the rest of this entry »

During the early days of Internet marketing (I’m talking about 1997) you could simply ask someone to fill out a form on your website to join your list and you would get lots of subscribers. Nowadays there are many more millions of people on the Net plus there are a ton of competitors all trying to do the same thing…build a list of subscribers they can market to.

So how do you differentiate yourself from your competitors?

Read the rest of this entry »

Most website owners focus on getting traffic to their websites but don’t think about how to convert that traffic into sales. They may generate a few direct sales from their website but most visitors will leave and never be seen again. If you want to build a stable business and generate a long term income you need to continuously build a list you can market to.

Why list building generates long term income

Read the rest of this entry »

Since the year 2000 I’ve been using article marketing for traffic generation by getting lots of backlinks and gaining high search engine rankings. Since the Google Farmer Update article marketing has evolved but not died.

The old way of article marketing

In the early days of article marketing you could simply submit your article to a number of article directories and many website owners and ezine publishers would republish your article. This would generate lots of traffic and backlinks back to your site because the search engines would reward you with high rankings. After the Google Farmer Update sites containing duplicate or low quality content got downgraded. For instance Ezinearticles (one of the top article directories on the Web) lost a lot of its traffic because many of their articles contained thin content.

The new way of article marketing

Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever visited a website or read an article online that didn’t make sense? If you surf the web you’ll find hundreds of sites that have written lousy web copy and therefore don’t convert visitors into buyers. If you’re copy is bad throwing more traffic at it is not going to improve your conversion rates. Good copy can transform the performance of your website.

5 Things All Good Copy Must Have

Read the rest of this entry »

Have you been using Yahoo Site Explorer to analyze the backlinks of your competitors?

Have you been using this link analysis tool to check the new backlinks to your own site?

I’ve been using Yahoo Site Explorer for several years as a reliable link analysis tool however Yahoo has announced it is shutting down their SEO Tool as a result of the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance

Read the rest of this entry »

While I always advise webmasters to write website copy for their visitors first they must also write for the search engines so their web page or article will get found by the search engine spiders. For instance if you’ve invested hours into copywriting new web pages but no one can find them when they do a search on a specific keyword related to your niche, you’ll have wasted your time and effort.

How search engines find your content

Read the rest of this entry »

• Feb 3 : Web Traffic Conversion – 4 Tips For Converting Traffic Into Sales
• Jan 31 : Google Plus Business Pages – Top 7 Benefits
• Jan 28 : 3 Tips For Creating Your Backlinking Strategy
• Jan 25 : Automated vs Natural Backlinking – Which Method Is Most Effective?
• Jan 23 : How Web Page Layout Affects Visitors and Search Engines