If you’re using Paypal to take payments, here’s a neat little trick to increase your sales… When someone adds your product to the shopping cart, it takes them to the Paypal checkout page. The problem is, some people will back out of the purchase at this point. However, what most marketers don’t seem to know … Read more
Typically when we want to monetize a blog we simply add some advertising to it, correct? Maybe some adwords, or perhaps banner ads that lead to sales pages that lead to (hopefully) bucketfuls of commissions. But as you may have discovered, the problem with advertising products this way is that prospects land on the sales … Read more
Twitter polls are an excellent method for asking for help, getting feedback and further building relationships. And they’re super easy to run, as well. Here’s how: Announce that you’ll be taking a poll or asking a series of poll questions. Use a descriptive #hashtag after each of your poll questions to thread them together. Ask … Read more
Twitter can be a powerful marketing tool once you discover how to optimize it for your business needs… Don’t focus on number, focus on quality. Rather than seeing how many thousands of people you can follow in the hopes they will follow you back, focus on finding the highly targeted members who are a good … Read more
Here’s part 2 of my post about the “Success Mindset” Every time you find yourself reacting negatively to something, correct yourself by seeing it as a challenge rather than a problem or obstacle. Do this enough and you will program yourself for success – after all, you cannot help but be successful if you are … Read more
This was going to be a very long post so I have broken it into 2 posts. Here’s part 1: 🙂 Growing up, our neighbor had a bull who was just about the most stubborn thing you’ve ever encountered. If you wanted it to go out to the pasture, it would steadfastly refuse to go … Read more
So many times we don’t want to tackle anything new until we know step by step what we’re going to do and how we’re going to do it. You might call it the paralysis of analysis – instead of taking action we… …think about how we’ll do it and …try to work out all the … Read more
You’ve just finished writing the sales copy for your new product. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to test your copy BEFORE you actually send prospects to it? Because think about this – if you send a 1,000 people to your sales letter and NOBODY buys, you’ve just wasted all that traffic. … Read more
Work expands to fill the time allotted – and even more time beyond that – if you don’t have a hard deadline. Thus, if you make it a goal to finish your new ebook in 3 months, at the 3 month mark you’ll either just be finishing, or worse yet you’ll realize you’re only halfway … Read more
Choosing your niche(s) is perhaps the single most critical element to your success online as a marketer. After all, you can know every marketing trick in the book, but if you choose a niche in which there is no interest, or no money is being spent, or the competition is just too great, you’ll do … Read more