"Your
Journey to Freedom" Newsletter #005
Issue #005
18th September, 2003
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This issue
contains:
A. Dave’s
Ramblings
B. Featured Article
C. Fre.e Downloads
D. Feedback Loop
E. Tip Time
F. Legal Stuff
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Welcome
to another issue of the "Your Journey
to Freedom" newsletter.
Well another
week has come and gone and before you know
it, it will be Christmas again already. Crikey, what
happens to all the spare time that you're supposed to get
when you run an internet business?
I can tell
you exactly what happens. You spend all day and
night trying to find ways to drive traffic to your site.
Does this sound familiar?
Last week
we addressed part of this problem by discussing
how to drive highly motivated visitors to your website
using pay per click search engines, so they have their
credit cards out, ready to buy when they get there.
By the way,
if you missed last weeks issue you can read it
here:
http://www.profitunity21.com/ezine/archive/004.htm
This week
we continue with the theme of driving traffic to
your website, but with a twist. If your just starting out
or have a tight budget, you'll know how hard it is to get
traffic to your site. You're end up being stuck between a
rock and a hard place! You can't afford to drive traffic to
your website, but unless you do, you won't make mon.ey!
So this
week we will focus on the different methods of
getting fre.e traffic to your site. While fre.e methods can
be time consuming, they can be well worth the effort if you
now where to start in the first place.
This is
a very important and extensive article, so I've
decided to break it into 2 parts to give you plenty of time
to study and implement the methods explained in the
article. The article is provided by one of our guest
writers, Bryan Winters, who is a very well known and
respected internet marketer and is considered an expert in
his field.
IMPORTANT
NOTE
Well, it's
that time of year again (school holidays), so
I'm taking a few weeks break and taking my lovely family on
holidays to Queensland's Gold Coast. As a result, the next
issue won't be released until 9th October, 2003.
So if you
send us me email and you don't receive a reply,
I'm not ignoring you. I promise I'll make it up to you when
I return.
I also plan
on taking plenty of holiday snap shots, so
when I get back I'll load them to the website for you to
drool over. This is the just one of the advantages of
running an internet business. You can actually LIVE your
dreams!
See ya when
I get back!
And don't
forget, if you have something to say or have
some useful tips you'd like to share with others, email us
at mailto:ezine@profitunity21.com
with your comments.
Cheers
Dave
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>>>>>>>> Featured Article <<<<<<<<
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"The
FREE Advertising Trap!" (part 1)
By Bryan Winters
Chances are very good that if you're not succeeding
online, you're one of the many that have fallen prey to the
FR.EE Advertising Trap!
Let me explain...
Many people
new to online business are afraid to spend
money on advertising. They fear that their advertising
dollars will go to waste, which of course is perfectly
natural.
...So many
of these "newbies" begin looking for fre.e
advertising strategies and resources right off the bat.
And that's
where the problem begins.
Chances
are you are either using, or HAVE used one or more
of the following fre.e advertising strategies:
- FFA (Fre.e
For All Link sites)
- Ad Blasters
- Traffic Exchanges
- Online Classified Ad Placement
- Safelists
- "Guaranteed Traffic" programs
I can tell
you right now, with 7 years experience to back
it up, that 99.9% of the resources that fall into one or
more of the categories above DO NOT WORK. They are a waste
of time.
Further,
the scarce few that DO work require traffic from
outside sources (it's a catch 22, where you NEED traffic
to product more traffic).
If you're
using the methods above to promote your own
site, an affiliate site, an M~L~M program, or some other
type of online business opportunity, I can virtually
guarantee that you're not at all satisfied with your
results. In fact, you're probably frustrated and
discouraged.
You've fallen
into the Fr.ee Advertising Trap, and I'm
here to get you out! =)
There ARE
fr.ee advertising strategies that work, and work
EXTREMELY well.
Below is
a list of fr.ee advertising strategies that are
capable of providing you with all the traffic you will
EVER need. I guarantee it, and would stake my name and
reputation on it any day.
But first,
in considering these methods, it is VITAL that
you understand this: Fr.ee traffic techniques generally
require more work and time than paid advertising. Further,
there is a learning curve to each of these techniques.
I strongly
recommend you work on mastering ONE fr.ee
advertising strategy at a time. Pick the one strategy you
feel best suits you, your offer, and your goals. Search the
web and learn everything you can about that technique.
Implement it, and do not move on to the next technique
until you're satisfied with your results!
(The truth
is, any ONE of these methods ALONE could
provide you with all the traffic you need. But should you
feel you need more, you can always add another technique to
your "arsenal".)
Now for
the list of FR.EE advertising that WORKS, as long
as you're willing to put forth the time and effort:
1. Start
your own affiliate program. Offer generous
commissions, residual if possible. Provide plenty of
resources for your affiliates. Do not implement your
program until your web-site has a good sales conversion
rate. This means a solid, in demand product that people
WANT, as well as strong ad copy (sales letter).
If YOU are
not satisfied with your program, neither will
your affiliate be satisfied. Put yourself in the shoes of
your affiliates! Give them the same resources, etc., that
YOU would want as an affiliate of your own program.
Tip: If
you're selling digital products such as software,
ebooks, a membership site, etc., clickbank.com provides
fre.e affiliate tracking to its clients (they have a $50
set up fee which enables you to accept credit cards online,
but the "package" includes their proprietary affiliate
tracking system).
Clickbank's
affiliate tracking system doesn't have all the
"bells and whistles", but it works and works well.
Further, ClickBank even pays your affiliate commissions for
you, which is a VERY nice convenience.
Other 3rd
party merchant account providers such as
iBill.com, have a similar affiliate tracking option for
those that offer tangible goods.
2. Joint
ventures. Find "super affiliates", people with
big customer or subscriber lists, and pay them a
commission (above and beyond what you pay your
regular affiliates) to send an endorsement letter for your
offer to their list. This technique requires persistence.
I recommend
contacting at least 10 people per day, ONE at
a TIME. Make sure to personalize your letter with the
person's name, so it's not easily mistaken for spam. Also,
don't put a link to your offer or order form in the initial
email. Provide a description of the offer, your proposal,
and make sure the benefits of the joint venture are spelled
out.
You can
provide actual sales statistics to further prove
to potential JV partners that your offer is a winner. If
you receive a favourable reply, at that time it's ok to
send your URL in your follow up.
You do NOT
have to be a "big name" in order to succeed
with joint ventures. I could provide you with a "never
ending" list of people that have risen from obscurity to
HUGE success through joint ventures. You WILL find suitable
joint venture partners as long as you persist, and as long
as your offer is strong. It's simple math.
TIP: You
don't even need your OWN product or web-site to
succeed with this method. You can simply find good TWO (or
more) tier affiliate/M~L~M programs and find JV partners to
sign up under you. You then make a commission off of their
efforts, when they send to their list of subscribers, etc.
This is a very powerful, and totally FRE.E way to build a
huge residual income online.
3. This
is another 100% fr.ee advertising strategy that is
proven to work very effectively, and that you can begin
implementing right away. Participate in forums, message
boards, and blogs related to your topic of business
(whatever you're selling).
Most places
will allow you to put a 3-6 line sig file (or
"resource box") following your posts. This sig file
could
include your web-site URL. It could include a link to your
AFFILIATE program. It could include a link so that people
can send you a blank email and subscribe to your newsletter.
Here's an
example:
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Attention Guitar Players!
FR.EE 5 PART EMAIL COURSE: Subscribe to Guitar Secrets,
my fr.ee email publication, and you'll also receive my
exclusive ecourse, How to Play Guitar Like a Pro in Five
Easy Steps! Subscribe NOW by sending a blank email to:
(your_newsletter_name@your_autoresponder.com)
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Offering
a fre.e report like the above example can greatly
increase your results.
Now, what
you want to do is find the 5 most popular forums
related to your topic of business. You can easily determine
how much traffic a particular forum receives by searching
it on Alexa.com. The lower the traffic number/ranking, the
better.
Once you
find ONE good forum, put up a post asking for
other popular forums (this can be your first post =) And
you're on your way. By spending one hour per day
participating in forums you can receive hundreds, or even
thousands of hits to your web-site every week.
Here for
Your Success
Bryan Winters
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>>>>>>>>>> Feedback Loop <<<<<<<<<<
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This is
a Brand New section we've just introduced. This
area is just for you to speak out. Comment on articles
we've run in the newsletter, give us your thoughts on
changes or new things, etc.In
other words, just talk to us.
Be sure
to include your website address too, because if we
use your comments in a future issue of the newsletter, we'll
thank you by posting your address so that you can get
additional free traffic to your site!
Email your
comments to:
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When
you've finished creating your website and you are
happy with your keyword optimisation of your webpages, you
eagerly submit it to the search engines. You then wait
patiently to see if you can get a high search engine
ranking for your selected keyword phrases.
So after
a few weeks you perform a search for your
keywords and you manually go through each page of the
results to see how high you are ranked. You tediously go
through page after page looking for your site.
The trouble
is, how do you even know if you have been
listed under your keyword phrases? You may well be wasting
your time searching for a ranking that's not even there to
start with.
So how do
you find out if you're even listed under these
keywords?
There is
a very simple answer. When you go to your
favorite search engine, type in your keyword phrase inside
quotations, ie "your keyword phrase". Then outside
the
quotations insert the name of your site, ie "your keyword
phrase" your site name.
This way
a search will not only be performed for an exact
match for the keyword phrase contained in the quotations,
but it will also only display results for sites that
contain your site name, as well as your keywords.
If your
search comes up with no results found, you will
know that you webpage is not yet listed under the keyword
phrase and you won't be wasting your valuable time
searching for something that is not even there.
If after
two months your site is still not listed under
your selected keyword phrases, then you may need to review
the keyword optimisation of your webpages. If you are
looking for some tips on how to get high search engine
rankings you can find heaps of fre.e information at
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Tip Time
is a section where each week we will provide a
useful tip that will help you save time in your busine.ss
or in your everyday life. If you have any useful tips that
you would like to share with us, please send them to the
following email address and we will include them in a
future issue.
Don't forget
to include you website address, as we will
include this so you can gain fre.e exposure for your site.
Send your
tips to:
mailto:ezine@profitunity21.com?subject=TipTime
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