If you have been doing Internet Marketing, you would know that the money is in the list. But it’s not the number of people you want in the list, to be more accurate the money is in a hyper active list. Simply put, if you have 1,000 people in your email database. The number of people who actively open your emails are the ones that make money not the number of people in your list.

Just recently, during the launch of Atomic Blogging 2.0. I had a couple of friends whose list was a size of 10,000. However, what I realized only a handful of them actually were active which is only about 500. So what happen to the rest of the 9,500? Well they are so called dead list!

In email marketing, it is really important for you to actively keep your list updated with information at least once every 2 weeks in order to keep it active. So what I am going to share with you is tips on how you can make your list more active.

Tip 1 - Send Out Regular Email Updates

If you are on my email list, you would know I normally sent out email newsletter at least once every 3 to 4 days (sometimes more). The reason I do that is not only to get a closer relationship with my readers but also to keep them active reading my stuff.

Just by keeping your readers active with you, you actually make people remember who you are and want to learn more from you. The more you are able to keep a reader connected to you, the more you will be able to sell later on

Tip 2 - Always Have A Call To Action In Your Emails

When you are sending out emails to your readers, you would only want to keep to only one type of call to action in your emails. It can be a call to action to ask them to go to a website, or maybe reply to a survey question. The thing is you are only allow to have ONE CALL TO ACTION! Do not put so many things in one email because that will confused your reader.

Tip 3 - Keep Your Emails Short And Simple

You will be surprised that a handful of people always only read the 1st 2 paragraphs of any email sent out by me. How do I know that it’s because there are times, I put the important information in the 6th paragraph and I get lots of people sending me emails to ask about the details I mention in the email.

The best is keep your emails short about 4 paragraphs especially when you are recommending a product to someone online and keep only about 7 words per line in your emails with not more then 5 lines per paragraph.

If you need help on building a list, I highly recommend you get a free auto responder account by clicking here. I gonna go now, time for me to play with my 2 new 16GB iPhone If you like this post do click here to subscribe to my blog and leave some comment below.

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When I first learn about Internet Marketer I did not realized the importance of this until I got started into it. This process is really important if you are serious about making money online regardless if you are a blogger or online marketing who is trying to make money online. What am I talking about? Well it’s called Web Matrix Conversion.

What Is Web Matrix Conversion?

To make money online, it’s all about the numbers. If you want more commission or sales, you just need more traffic it’s that simple. However on top of just traffic itself, it is also important to know what is the web matrix conversion of your clicks. Here’s a real screen shot of how you should track your traffic to sales.

Here is a break down to explain to you the different columns on the image.

Raw Clicks - Number of people who click, can be the same person
Unique Clicks - Number of unique clicks
Actions - Action been tracked, can be opt-in or click on link
Sales - Sale of product
Cost To Action - The percentage to a action
Cost To Sale - The percentage to a sale
Avg Cost Per Click - Cost of every click
Cost Per Action
Cost Per Sales
Cost
Revenue
Profit

Each row you see above actually represents a different campaign set for different things that you want to track on. From the diagram, what you really want to take note of is actually the CTS percentage number. A good CTS number would be the range of 1% to 10%, there marketers out there who even get as high as 50% CTS and normally it’s pretty rare will they share what they do to get that amount of conversion. So if you get a CTS of 1% for 100 clicks, that means you get one sale every time 100 click and see the website.

So regardless if you getting 10 hits or 100 hits a day to the programs you want to sell, it’s really important to know what are the conversion of your efforts are. In that way you will be able to determine how many clicks you will need to get $X with X clicks!

For those who are wondering what software I used to track you can use Adtrackz Gold If you have another software script that you are using and like to recommend just comment below. Also, if you like this post just click here to subscribe to this blog.

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Do you want to run a successful blog online? Well then you would want to read every single word I am about to say as I am going to reveal some real secret tips on creating a profitable blog. If you follow the following tips below I can guarantee your blog business will increase at least by 20% to 30% depending if you are willing to do them

Tip #1 - Add In A Auto Responder On Your Blog

It’s really obvious but strangely only a handful of blogger actually do put an auto responder on their blogs. What is an auto responder? Well if you look at the top middle orange box where it says grab your free book that’s an opt-in box As a blogger, your goal and objective at all times is always to get your readers information as much as possible. It maybe from an opt-in or simply from just putting a comment on your blog.

Main things you would want to collect will be their name and email address and you can easily grab these information with an opt-in box or people’s comments on your blogs. However, you do not simply want to put a opt-in box for the sake of putting it. You would want to also offer an incentive why should I put my name and email. The best incentive I would recommend is to give away a free report or join a newsletter.

Building a list of subscribers is really powerful if you understand the meaning of leveraging. If you do not have an auto responder I would highly recommend you use GetResponse , I am using this myself with great success and the good news is they also offer a free lite version for you to test as well

Tip #2 - Do Not Use Any Common Blog Theme

There are over 115 Million blogs all around the internet and there are also thousands of free themes you can download all over the internet. However what the different between successful bloggers and the rest? Well if you have not noticed it yet, all successful blogger have a unique blog design on their blogs. THEY DO NOT USE off the shelf free themes. Even if they do, they would customized the blog to their own needs.

A tip for you if you are currently using someone’s theme now, it’s highly recommended to at least get a banner done on your blog to brand your blog to make it look different from the rest. The key thing is to make your blog unique and special so that people will remember your blog based on your logo and not the theme design.

DO NOT under estimate the importance of branding. Branding itself is really important and it will determine how much you can make online so do spend some effort to re brand your blogs or websites.

Tip #3 - Stop Using Blogger or Any Free Blog Platform

If you want to have a very successful blog, you would not want to use a free blog platform to market your business. No.1 reason is because you do not have control of your blog and at any moment the owner of the program can shut you down if they feel your blog is not doing something right. I got first hand experience when I first got a blogger account and it closed down within the 1st 3 weeks and you would not want that to happen to you too

Instead of using free platforms, I would recommend investing some money to get a web host ( I am using Hostgator ) and install a hosted Wordpress platform for your blog. With a hosted solution blog, you will be able to take advantage of the many free plug ins and themes on available online.

I got more to share, but I do not want to exposed too much secrets just yet as I am in the works on writing my new free traffic book soon to replace my existing book. It’s about 15 pages so far and still working on getting more powerful content into the free book. If you like a copy of that when it releases just fill in your name & email at the top of the post and I will email it to you when it’s ready for free

Also if you like what you have just read, you may want to click here to subscribe to this blog too.

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Normally most marketers would not want to share this, but my main aim I am doing this is hopefully with this set of resources it will help your own online business. I believe in the concept of helping others first and giving to others first, because by only giving will you receive more I also believe in giving my customers and readers value and I will try my best ability to help as much people as I can with my two hands

Below is a long list of urls and resources you will find useful for your own online business. Too many bookmarks to follow? Just click here to download my FREE Toolbar which comes with all the links too

SEO Tools

http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword/
http://www.keywordenchanter.com/arch…d-research.php
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/
http://www.nichebotclassic.com/
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/8-keyw…ion-tools.html

Find Out What People Want To Buy

www.ebay.com
www.yahooshopping.com
www.amazon.com
www.magazines.com
www.bookspot.com
www.clickbank.com
www.mrmagazine.com

Domain Name Tools

www.domainsbot.com/
www.makewords.com/
www.justdropped.com/
www.nameboy.com/

Free Merchants

www.paypal.com
www.clickbank.com

Autoresponder

http://hyperlink.to/getresponse

Blog Tools And Links

www.feedburner.com
www.technorati.com
www.wp-plugins.net
www.mybloglog.com
http://themes.wordpress.net

Check Level of Optimization

http://www.seoworkers.com/tools/analyzer.html - overall
http://www.smartpagerank.com - overall

Check Keywords

http://www.mcdar.net/dance/index.php - check position
http://www.seodigger.com – check ranking

Explanation of Page Rank

http://www.iprcom.com/papers/pagerank/

More Details About Search Engine

http://www.payperclicksearchengines.com/

Affiliate Program Directories

www.affiliateprograms.com
www.associateprograms.com/
www.affiliatefirst.com

Physical Products Programs

www.cj.com
www.shareasale.com
www.linkshare.com
www.joebucks.com

Digital Product Programs

www.clickbank.com - Digital Product Merchant
www.paydotcom.com- Digital & Physical Product Merchant
Onenetwork.digitalriver.com - Software Only Merchants

Residual Income Programs

www.lifetimecommissions.com
www.affiliateguide.com/residual.html

Creating Videos

http://www.camstudio.org/ (freeware)

Creating Audio Book

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (freeware)

Create Your Own Sales Copy

http://www.nvu.com

Outsourcing

www.warriorforum.com/forum
www.handwrittenebooks.com – write books
www.need-an-article.com – get articles
www.rentaghostwriter.com – get articles
www.getafreelancer.com – get articles
www.handwrittenebooks.com – write books for you
www.48hrbooks.com - print books and publish
www.lulu.com – print books
www.cafepress.com – create physical gifts
http://enablr.com/transcribr.php - transibe service

Graphics

www.blingcovers.com
www.gimp.org
www.webgraphicscreator.com
www.covergraphic.com
www.ecoverguru.com
www.minisitegraphics.com – our source graphics

Article Directories

www.EzineArticles.com
www.GoArticles.com
www.iSnare.com
www.IdeaMarketers.com
www.Articlefeeder.com
www.ArticleHub.com
www.ArticleDashboard.com

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I get lots of email everyday people asking me for advice on how to make money faster online. Before I go into further details about how to make money faster, you first have to understand the logic behind making money online. To make money online you need three important things.

1. Traffic - getting people to see your site
2. Leads - getting information from people
3. Sales - getting the sale to make money

What you see above is just the most basic concept in online marketing, like all off line business you need to have customers well so does online business which we call it traffic. The only way you can get people to buy stuff from you is to get people to view your promotion or website it’s that simple. However many people who tried online marketing do not know how to drive traffic online.

There are many ways you can drive traffic, forum marketing, social networks, ppc, article marketing and so on but I realized one common problem everyone is facing. Most methods that are taught out there are all free traffic tactics. If you are serious about making money then you would want to read every word I am about to say to improve your business today.

Start Trying Out Paid Traffic

While most people will keep saying use Google Adwords, it’s great and so on. Well in my experience Adwords is getting more & more expensive every single day and I know the only way you can succeed faster is to use paid traffic!

To get some cost savings you can actually join other ad networks like Yahoo Search Marketing, MSN Adcenter. Many people who ever tried PPC will know that it’s not cheap to advertise now with PPC, the last time I tried Adwords I had to pay US$0.25 per click and that’s expensive!

Here are a list of alternatives you can consider to try which I have tried before

1. Bidvertiser
2. Blogads
3. Projectwonderful
4. Adbrite

When I started using these services, I realized the cost per click can be as low as only US$0.05 or US$0.10 sometimes depending what market you are targeting and it is not as competitive as what Google Adwords has to offer =) At some cases the conversion to sales can be amazing better then Adwords too sometimes.

Getting Start With Paid Traffic

Before you begin marketing, you first need to create a squeeze page. If you have no idea what that is you can look at an example by clicking here. It’s basically a simple page you create to capture people’s name and email details which we call them leads. However in order to create one you will also need a auto responder, if you do not have one you can go to this special link here to get one for free =)

One caution when you are started a paid campaign do not go and spend too much money when you first started. You need to do something called testing. What I would do is I would set a side US$50 for about 4 to 6 days and test out the ad network to see if the squeeze page converts well. You will be suprised that different ad networks will have different results depend what keyword you are advertising.

What Will You Do With The Leads?

Once you get the leads you have collected from paying money to advertise your squeeze page, you will promote one select product of your choice. If you no idea what to sell you can simply go to Clickbank to sign up for a free account and promote my book if you wish to =) If you are promoting my book, I highly recommend you advertise it on blogads, it’s converting well there.

Summary

Just to sum it up, what you have just learn is to use paid traffic to generate leads on your squeeze page and selling them stuff through emails. How much you can earn will be determine by the number of leads you collect. Let say if you are selling my book, you will earn US$30 per copy BUT from experience to tell you the truth you need at least 80 leads or so just to make one sale because the conversion to one sale online is always at the range of 1% to 5% only which means for every 100 people that sees your promotion you will only get about 1 to 5 sales and that’s very common for online digital products.

Good luck with your quest to making money online and if you find this article useful for you post some comments below or if you have other ad networks you like to share that you had great success also please post them below.

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If you have been looking around the web, you will noticed that not many popular bloggers online from Technorati uses Adsense - Google’s monetization program to earn from clicks on ads. There were also cases where people get so crazy over it that even got banned in some cases and cheques not going through.

However I am not saying that Adsense is not good but as a Internet Marketer online you always must not over look the other possibilities or other opportunity you can find online. You will be amazed in the next few sentence what I am about to reveal some people are charging a high price just to charge this knowledge so do take these few secrets seriously.

The model of Adsense is very simple, you copy a piece of code onto your blog and the an ad is generated based on keyword you type on your website. You can paid every time someone clicks on your ads but the down side is that you are throwing away valuable customers or readers as they often only open the ads on the same window.

Here’s a secret on how to earn more then just Adsense alone

Start looking at CPA networks.

CPA stands for cost per action where you will get paid for every customer that do a action for a merchant and you get paid for referring customers. I did some research and here is a mind blowing screen shot of what I found.

What you see above is from Commission Junction, a popular advertising network that even big companies use them for their affiliate system. The screen shot you above actually mentions that if you actually sent someone to a mortgage loan site that you see above, you can paid up to $100 pounds per person to fill up an application form, that’s madness compared to Adsense.

Alvin What If I Do Not Want To Do Mortgage?

From my experience although the commissions are high it hard to find mortgage program to join as they have pretty strict rules when you sign up for their affiliate programs. Just in case if you are not so interested into mortgage, does everyone online need hosting? Well of course they do and you can also make money from selling hosting as you can see below are some of them.

And that my friend is just the tip of what is available online, there are virtually tons of other type of Pay Per Lead programs you can join online. If you require more I found a great website here which display lots of other options for you.

Or you can simply download my FREE Tool by clicking on the link below as I have included lots of other web resources in the toolbar.

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It is a given fact that hot products will lead you to earn big, fat affiliate commissions online. There are many approaches you can take to discover and choose hot products to sell over the Internet. In this article, you will learn how to select the hottest and most profitable affiliate marketing products.

In order to earn those huge affiliate commissions by selling hot affiliate products, you are going to have to learn the right strategies to select the product. Below are five strategies you must consider before selecting your product.

Step One

If you follow your passions, this will lead you to a high profitable market soon enough. The very first thing you must do is to discover your interests on the Internet. It is your passion or drive that will lead you to be very successful in the future. This is not possible if you have no passion or interests. Your expertise, hobbies and interest can be a great way to earn money online. They will lead you to discover the right product to sell online.

Step Two

Doing effective research in the proper way will help you to find products that will sell. When you discover your own niche market, the next step to take is to discover hot selling products that you can sell online. With those products, you will be able to begin earning money fast online working from the comfort of your own home. You need to understand what people want to buy in order to locate appealing products. In order to find a hot product, you have to take into consideration the current demand for the product and the level of competition that is involved. There are many places that you can find hot selling affiliate products. You can research by reading articles from article directories, search by search engines or you can join some of the well-known forums.

Step Three

Your goal for doing research is that your product must be able to satisfy the needs, wants and expectations of your customers. These are the three minimum requirements to a purchase. Need is the basic reason that a consumer is looking for a product. This is called the qualifying or “gatekeeper” dimension in a purchase. Wants are the determining dimensions when considering a purchase. Expectations are values or intangibles that are associated with a product.

Step Four

It would be wise to consider the level of competition you may be up against. This is another factor to consider in your quest for hot selling products. The level of competition means the ratio of your brand vs. total market sales. It is the affiliate marketer who decides the competitive frame that consumers consider when they exercise their purchasing power. You must choose that segment of the market where you can have a leadership role. After all, you are not only concerned with satisfying the wants and needs of your customers, but you want to be more profitable than any other affiliate business.

Step Five

Once you have identified some of your competitors, you should then compose a list of benefits for their affiliate products. When looking for a hot product, you should try to list all of its benefits to the potential customer. Features tell the customer exactly what the product is. It is obvious that there is a marked difference between benefits and features. Remember this – benefits sell and features tell!

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