Wednesday, 28 August 2019
Revealed: The Ultimate Lead Generation Tool
By: Peter Lawless
The strategy that I am referring to is a referral strategy. Most importantly, ask them for a referral! For those of you married or with partners, think back to when you met them. Were you with someone you know, was there a connection to someone you know - or were they complete strangers that you just walked up to?
Most businesses will tell you that they do really well due to word of mouth. How well do they do? Most can't quantify it. In addition, very few have implemented any formal process or strategy to ensure a referral system is in place.
Let me share with you a simple strategy, which was put in place by a service garage. You should strongly consider a variant of this strategy for your own business. The garage owner created a simple card, which outlined in 5 short bullets, why they were a great place to get your car service done.
They gave this form to all the people who had just had their car serviced. There were two blank spaces on the form. The first one entitled the person whose name was filled into a 10% discount on their next car service. The second space was for the person who had just had a service.
If the card was used, that person then got a 10% discount as well. In other words, there was an incentive to pass on the referral. In addition, there was also a strong subliminal message to the person being referred. They were being told that not only had the referrer had their car serviced and that they were happy with it, they also were prepared to go back again to get their 10% discount.
2. Ask yourself, what incentive you can give them to send you leads.
3. Set yourself a target of how many referrals you are looking for from each customer.
4. Do it, and measure it.
5. Once you know what works, and what doesn't - modify your system accordingly.
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Create a Referral Strategy
Most businesses will tell you that they do really well due to word of mouth. How well do they do? Most can't quantify it. In addition, very few have implemented any formal process or strategy to ensure a referral system is in place.
A Referral Strategy in Practice
They gave this form to all the people who had just had their car serviced. There were two blank spaces on the form. The first one entitled the person whose name was filled into a 10% discount on their next car service. The second space was for the person who had just had a service.
If the card was used, that person then got a 10% discount as well. In other words, there was an incentive to pass on the referral. In addition, there was also a strong subliminal message to the person being referred. They were being told that not only had the referrer had their car serviced and that they were happy with it, they also were prepared to go back again to get their 10% discount.
Create a Referral Strategy Today:
1. List all of your existing customers and categorize them by niche.2. Ask yourself, what incentive you can give them to send you leads.
3. Set yourself a target of how many referrals you are looking for from each customer.
4. Do it, and measure it.
5. Once you know what works, and what doesn't - modify your system accordingly.
An opportunity lost, could be an opportunity gained.
There is one other great place to get referrals. And that is from the prospects that don't become customers. Let's assume you lose the sale, for whatever reason. You must remember that there is actually good in all people! When they tell you have lost, be nice and understanding, you may do business again at a later stage. Most importantly, ask them for a referral. The chances are, human nature, will kick in and they can absolve their conscience by giving you a referral.Original Source:
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Tuesday, 27 August 2019
Lazy Affiliate Riches - Can you really earn an extra $500 per day?
By David McDonough
Original Source:
https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/lazy-affiliate-riches-can-you-really-earn-an-extra-500-per-day
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What would you do if you could make an extra $100 per month? What about an extra $1000 per month? It is entirely possible to make that much and a whole lot more with affiliate marketing and Jeff Dedrick and John Hostler's new Lazy Affiliate Riches, which will show you how to do it. This is truly the closest to making money by clicking buttons or copying and pasting that I have ever seen.
Everyone who has tried to make money online with affiliate marketing knows that it's not as simple as sales letters want you to believe. There are a lot of different ways to make affiliate money and often times it takes a lot of time, energy, and money to even get started. Well, that's about to change. You are about to discover the "Lazy" way to make affiliate sales.
What if you could buy software that could build you multiple lists, market to those lists, and make money from every email that is sent to your subscribers, and do this all on autopilot within minutes...would you be interested in learning more?
Well, I just had a look inside Lazy Affiliate Riches and I'm shocked at what is waiting for people in the member's area. There are software and tools specifically designed for affiliates to make more affiliate sales easily and quickly. Members receive pre-made list building machines that are already live on the web that will build your list and even market hands-free to your lists automatically. You can make money on every email that your system automatically sends out. You even have the option to control the lists yourself, add a bunch of automated viral tools to all your pages, and make money from a variety of other components that can be added as easily as clicking buttons and copying and pasting.
There is even software that will drive hands free traffic to your new list of building machines and to your products you are promoting. There is more software that allows members to turn their current websites and blogs into affiliate sales and list building machines.
One of the upgrades for members is an automated system that has to be seen to be believed. It allows members to create their very own Facebook pages and fan pages by just copying and pasting some code. It can literally take you seconds to create list building and affiliate sales machines right on your current Facebook page.
The best part is that Jeff and John could have easily charged $1000 or more for this system and even turned it into a monthly membership site, but they decided to only charge a small onetime fee. If you hired someone to create this system for you, it would cost you tens of thousands of dollars, but you can pick it up for pennies on the dollar at the low introductory price when the product launches on May 10th.
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10 Social Media Tips For Business 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hznt_FCT70
If you’d rather read what Luke has to say in his video - we’ve transcribed this for you below ;o)
In 2019 social media is going to get even more difficult for businesses. Supply of content already far exceeds command and paid reach is falling dramatically. Plus all the platforms want
to make you pay to play by organic. Social media isn't that you just need to get inventive you just need to be a bit different. So today I'm going to share with you some nifty tricks and tips
that are going to really help your business own social media in 2019. So let's do this 10 actionable tips on social media for business.
Hi guys, my name is Luke and I work in the marketing team here at Grossmont. So let's jump in
tip number one the first half an hour of a post going live is going to make or break it. And in the modern age of social media, this tip is arguably can have the biggest impact on your social
posting. So what's the tip number one get engagement early on the social algorithms for every platform love this. Take Instagram, for example, the algorithm works in three stages.
Stage one. As soon as you post something, the algorithm is going to start to show that new post to a small sample of your audience and then monitor how fast that post gets engaged.
With stage two, Instagram is going to compare the level of engagement the new post is receiving through a post made that's similar time of day previously.
Stage three is your photo attracting a lot of engagement. Great Instagram is going to start showing it to a larger proportion of your audience and it may even showcase it on the Explorer page. For a chance that's super-viral. So this can be the big win if the post continues to attract strong engagement. It's going to stay at the top of more people's feed increasing reach and the
chance of extra engagement with the photo or brand page and the story is the same for every social platform. You really need to be driving engagement early on. This is going to help both your reach and the longevity of the post and if you don't expect to be drowned out by the other three billion social accounts that are going to be posting content.
Quick bonus tip. Know your algorithms. This is going to be fundamental to mastering social media in 2019. It's really going to inform your tactics help you excel and definitely beat the
competition I've actually broken down how all the social algorithms work for every platform in the resource in the comments below.
Tip number two. Time to get a little bit happy. You want to be getting your post ranked really early on. So the really big tip is where possible avoid outbound links at all costs every social media platform wants you to stay on that platform. Basically, it means they can serve you more ad impressions and ultimately make more money. But wait what surely you need to share outbound links on social media. Absolutely.
Luckily there are workarounds so I need to thank John for this. One of our resident LinkedIn expert as this example comes from their platform. The great thing with LinkedIn is it allows you to do two things. One it allows you to edit a previously published post and two it allows you to copy links to specific comments. So what does this mean? It means you can avoid outbound links in the main body of the post by publishing and then placing the link in the first comment.
After that, you just need to copy the comment link and place it inside the body of the post. We've typically seen a one to two hundred percent increase in close reach since we started using this technique.
Do you know any cool tricks on the other platforms like this? We'd love to hear them in the comments below - there.
Now, this is something I love to do on social media and it's using tools like rebrand Li to mask your links there are three benefits to this benefit.
One they look much nicer and much more on brand benefit. You can also use a tool like
clickmeter to track even more metrics like the number of clicks the geography of those clicks and even the platforms and organizations those clicks came from.
Benefit number three and my absolute favourite is you can add retargeting pixels to the branded links. This will allow you to fire paid selling ads if the people that engage with relevant
content moving on.
Tip number four. Have you ever used the subject lines free with email marketing? This is a handy little marketing automation that can really help improve the performance of your email company. Simply put you can resend an email a few days later. All those that didn't open it with a brand new subject line. We've actually seen open rates increased by over 25% using
this tactic. Different copy interest differently but hold up what's this got to do with social media?
Well, it's actually a social distribution. It's a way to significantly improve the reach and the longevity of your own company only the earth being any web property that you can control and it's unique to your business. There are over 1.5 billion pieces of content being released to the
Internet every day. You need to do a lot to get noticed. You put loads of time and effort
into making an amazing blog post or compelling landing page so you obviously want to make sure as much of your audience sees it as possible but sharing identical content over and over again doesn't really work. It gets stale and the social workers hate it so you've got to make the old look new but how?
Change up the metadata. Most blogging platforms and landing page creation tools are going to allow you to do this. Take for instance instapage pub Sport and Yoshi for WordPress much like
changing the subject line of an email. Changing the metadata on your own Khan is going to help it be seen by a whole new segment and you never know it's an amazing new copy and visuals it could even help it go viral.
Another bonus tip. Don't have loads of own content yeah, not a problem. Content creation can actually be really valuable for your social audience and help establish a fourth leadership but
surely the benefits can be limited right. How about you try distributing this curated content with at. All right sniffing it's a tool that allows you to add a call to action to curated articles and then drive traffic back to your site. Just make sure you actually relate that call to action to the content of the piece. Also when you're creating content try using a tool like buzzsumo to find the best article to share once we've proven virality.
Tip number four. Engineer your marketing. Engineer marketing is the idea of giving something valuable away for free and then selling something related at a later date and what's going
to work really well in 2019 social media is quizzes. As you can see from this buzzsumo article two of the most shared pieces of content on Facebook in 2017 or actually quizzes and
this research from Neil Patel found the most popular content by far was quizzes.
Quizzes generated over 50k jazzing likes compared to 15k for articles sharing. Quizzes feeds are where you go and gives people a glimpse into who we are what we're interested in and what we value. This is called social currency and I've come onto that a little bit later. Quizzes can be ideal for qualified lead generation as long as you ask the right questions. Take our t-shaped player quiz for example. This went crazy on social media and we generated nearly a thousand
responses in just a few weeks because people love to benchmark their skills against their peers. And for us where you get some amazing insight into the market for skills where they're abundant and where they're lacking. Pretty powerful for an education company and great news.
Quizzes are actually really easy to make with the right tools. So at grove tribe, we love a tool called type form but there are also other tools such as outgrown and Survey Monkey or you could just use the social platforms themselves. So if he's actually been experimenting with quizzes built using Twitter and Facebook and so far so good. Building them native of you on the platform offers much less functionality than the tools I mentioned but the great thing is, as I said earlier, you won't be generating an outbound link so the algorithms are gonna love you.
Plus quizzes really help you start the conversation with your audience which brings me on to tip number five.
Start the conversation. Most social networks have recently come out and said they're going to favour posts that generate what they call meaningful conversations. They want their users to have a better experience. So yes again they've killed which page posts in favour of friends and
family take Facebook. For example, they recently came out and said over the next few months they'll be making updates to ranking. So people have more opportunities to interact with the
people they care about the most. On top of this, Mark Zuckerberg himself came out and
said one of our big focus areas for 2018 is making sure the time we all spend on Facebook is time well spent. Killing the organic reach of page posts increasingly makes Facebook a pay-to-play arena for businesses.
So that probably has nothing to do with it look however this is not the end of organic social media on Facebook or business. We just need to get smarter so every conversation it's best
practice on every platform. Anyone start the conversation mediate the conversation and get involved in the conversation. But how do you start the conversation?
First, you want to be getting clever with your copywriting. Right copy that actually elicits a
response as an example, if you're sharing a blog post poses a question you can also ask for people's thoughts on the subject or think of triggers. Start a discussion n recently trending subjects. David Ogilvy the Godfather of advertising once said do not address your readers as
though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy they are alone so write copy and post questions for a person not following.
Secondly, you're going to want to use the right content medium. Adam sorry head of newsfeed at Facebook recently said live videos often lead to discussion among viewers on Facebook. In fact, live videos on average get six times as many interactions as regular videos. Many creators who post videos on Facebook prompt discussion among their followers as the posts from celebrities and with being conversational. Just remember the basic always respond media is billboards TV and print ads.
Social media is conversational. Your profile is an extension of your business. The annual brand essentially having no profile is better than having an inactive profile. Social for business to
k-19 tip numbers in 2019 more than eighty percent of all web traffic will be video. More video content is uploaded every 30 days than the major US television networks have created in
the last 30 years. Plus according to research by Forrester one minute video is equal to 1.8 million words to your audience.
That's right tip number six is to use video. It's going to continue to reign supreme throughout 2019 and all the social platforms love video. More stats alert. Did you know that social video generates 1,200 percent more shares than text and images combined? But I'll give Mark Zuckerberg announcer social network is generating eight billion video views daily. Even the sinking ship that's snapchat says they're still generating more than 10 billion video views every single day Plus around 60% of this video is consumed on mobile phones. So your brand to really make sure it takes a mobile-first approach.
Now going mobile-first is a big topic so if you want to see it, I'm happy to make another video about that. Just let me know in the comments below. Anyway, video at growth tribe we love it. For us, average engagement on video is 225 percent greater than photos and 186 percent greater than the linked post. We went video first back in 2017 and it was one of the best marketing moves we've ever made. You need to go video but wait to hold up video marketing has huge barriers. To entry fact we love video marketing here at gross tribe we have two full-time video professionals as well as a team of t-shaped marketing pros that could contribute whenever necessary. What about a smaller business with less people less resources and less time.
Well to help Paulo recently released this video on creating professional business videos on a budget. You can also use tools like Animoto wave and even keynote to make videos that are perfectly suitable for social media. Even the big players are using these tools for efficient. Take this video from the World Economic Forum. This can be easily recreated using a tool like an emotive bonus protein. Try using square video for Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram feed and obviously use vertical video for Instagram stories Facebook stories and snapchat.
Why because it means more visual real estate. Extra bonus tip. Don't have original video content ideas yeah well experiment by repurposing old articles as video. Tools like lumen 5 actually use a form of AI to turn articles into short video perfect for social media. We mop this one up in around 5 minutes using a repurposed blog post from last year as a final note or video for social. Always post natively where possible. What I mean by that is actually upload the video to a social platform and then post it. We use what I like to call the two-week course. When we first make a video we do post a link on to our social platform. But around 2 weeks later when the
initial attraction has dropped off we're more than happy to upload it again natively to the social platforms. Because we get to see a spike in the route.
Found an awesome video on YouTube. You'd love to share you can actually get a little and maybe ask the content owner if they're happy for you to share that video. Download that YouTube video and re-upload it natively on to the social platform of choice because you're going
to see much more reach.
Okay, time for tip number seven. As I said earlier, you really need to drive engagement early on. But I get that that's easier said than done. How can you craft an epic post that people want to like comment and share immediately? Great question and so so important for owning social media in 2019. My favourite recipe is the steps framework developed by Jonah Berger in Vista.
This framework is essentially the first real scientific look at what makes things go viral. In
the words of Jonah, it's actually a science behind why people share some things rather than others and remember. Social media platforms are technologies they're not strategies in and of
themselves. You have to understand why people share some things rather than others in order to use social media to your own advantage.
The first part of the framework and what I would definitely argue is the most important for social media. It's called social currency. People share things that make them look good. Think about the last thing you shared on social media. Why did you share it? Did it make you look smart? Did it make you look cool? Whenever you craft new content for social, ask yourself is it remarkable? Secondly, start thinking about triggers. What I mean by this is what's going to be top of mind for your audience? In the world of social media, a real safe bet is to look at what's
trending. You're probably not a TechCrunch or a loud body so trying to share the absolute latest trends in news. It's probably not going to work. You're likely going to be beaten by many many
more publishers that have crazy amounts of resources and they're gonna beat you to the punch.
But what you could do is incorporate current trends in your own uniquely branded way in the run-up to GDP. Are we actually release content specifically on how this would affect growth hackers and marketers rather than focus on the full regulation because, to be honest, that's insanely boring. While we're on the subject of triggers I just want to try a special mention to
Oreo. They came up with what for me is probably the most timely triggered social post of all time.
So take some inspiration back during 2013. Super Bowl company capitalized on a massive power outage by tweeting this entitled you can still dunk in the dark. Huffington Post actually proclaimed that one of the most buzzed were the ads of the Super Bowl on Sunday wasn't even a commercial it was a mere tweet from Oreo jury in the blackout. Bear in mind that
Super Bowl ads are multi-million dollar project so this is some achievement and has gone down as one of the best real-time marketing efforts ever.
Up next let's get emotional. I've brilliantly coined by Jonah Berger to care is to share that's why very often, the most viral content is the most emotional content. So when creating content for social media think about how much high arousal emotion it's likely to create. Those are post inspiring, amaze, perhaps it's funny. Will, it hit a nerve and make you angry? Maybe it's controversial. So not everything we can share can be super emotional but that's okay because the next point is practical value. We've looked at why caring makes you share but this is all about sharing because you can as an education company. It grows to thrive we often focus on practical value. Is it actionable? Can you the viewer take this information and use it straight away when it comes to both emotion and practical value. The stats really don't lie.
Take the list of the most viral Facebook content from 2017. As you can see, all of the top 10 most viral pieces of content are either heartwarming, inspiring, amazing, or offer practical
Tips. The only one that supposedly doesn't is a pie house video which is outrageous because of one, who doesn't like pies and two in my opinion pie hacks and the ultimate form of fact already. So why they love their content that's stuffed with emotion and practical values have way more social currency. So the next ingredient in this virality recipe is public in the world of consumer goods. This is about visibility in the world of social media.
I like to think about the public. It's social proof. Social proof is a psychological phenomenon where people assume the actions of others in an attempt to reflect correct behaviour for a given
situation. So what's social proof on social media for me? This is visible engaged, visible likes,
comments and shares. Have you seen an article or video of little or no engagement? You're going to be much less likely to engage with that content yourself. Even if you think the content
might be interesting. If of course, you see it, on the other hand, a post with hundreds or even thousands of visible engagement points, it's going to appear more credible or of high quality.
This is also being referred to as wisdom of the crowd. Social proof. This is when a large group of people appear to be endorsing. Essentially this many people who can't be gone. This is why I have to stress the importance of early engagement for your 2019 social strategy. It's a snowball
effect. Early engagement equals more reach which equals more potential for even more engagement and this sounds sort of obvious. But more engagement, therefore, equals more engagement.
That's social virality. Finally, you've got to wrap everything in a story and tell a good one at that. Ss Neil Patel recently revealed you need to share life experiences. Your life is unique. If you
can tie your personal experiences into your content you'll do much better. You and your business is unique experiences. You're original more remarkable and much harder to rapidly so be authentic, be fun, be educational. Before provoking, just be different.
So moving on tip number eight. Be visual in a social media world where the supply of content far exceeds demand. You have to stand out. Even great content is going to fail if you don't deliver it in the right way. Let me give you an example, from changing our YouTube social shares from link posts like these to photo posts like these, we actually saw two hundred and fifty percent more reach and five hundred percent more engagement, why?
Look at how much more visual real estate we use. The same can be said for Twitter especially when you're trying to go mobile-first post with lots of visual content are really going to excel. Moz
actually needs some eye-tracking of Google SERPs and found this not strictly social media right now but it does reveal exactly how powerful visual imagery is on a page. It draws all of the attention. So we talked earlier about video content on social. While I know a lot of brands are going a hundred percent video on social media now, I get that it's not possible for everything and often it's not actually right for everybody. So it's best practice number two at least ensure you are being visual. By that I mean use emojis use gifs and use effective imagery. Imagery that really drives emotion and pleases make them original.
Never use stock photos. It's the best way to blend it as it turns out cheesy stock photos
can be a huge turnoff for your readers because they're in person I would even argue that most of them are even ridiculous. But hey I understand that often businesses do turn to stock
photography because they don't have the time or knowledge to create high-quality
professional photos using tools like Photoshop and illustrator.
Well, good news and here's another bonus tip for you. Used tools my personal favourite is canva.
It's been a lifesaver for me and I need to quickly create visuals for Facebook ads, blog banners, webinars, and social assets and jammers. They look great and anyone can use it.
Plus Laura, our designer recommends pick. Pick can be awesome for creating popping
infographics which by the way I highly recommend. They're great for social sharing and content. In general, why, because they often take complex issues and make them visual.
Tip number nine. Have a plan to have a schedule according to this post by social media today. Having a core social media schedule can help you create consistency and retention. A billion
gaps create consistent interactions and reach figure out what works and what doesn't pull your hair out which by the way I highly discourage. Free up more time and develop an outline.
Your brand, story impromptu your approach to social media in 2019 just isn't going to cut it.
There's too much competition as I've said your social content is going to have to be absolutely amazing. This means the majority of it is inevitably gonna need to decline. It may need to be aligned with product launches. The company roadmap holidays and events. Luckily there are more tools and I can even count to help you out of this. To scheduling tools that I would recommend a HootSuite and buffer.
HootSuite has slightly more functionality but buffers a little on the cheaper side at growth
tribe. Our overall content calendar actually has a huge influence on our social media calendar as does the company roadmap any product launches that might be coming up the holiday and
events calendar plus any recurring native social content that we play on a regular basis.
Finally tip number 10. Know exactly what you want. What is your goal for being on social media in 2019? What's your one metric that matters in the world of social media. It's going to be really easy to get carried away with the vanity mystery. So I know it talks a lot about reaching this video and yes it's a great leading indicator to show that you're posting and social strategies work.
More reach often leaves some more items in your content so brand awareness more engagement and then more web traffic and lead generation ultimate. If the only reason you're using social media for brand awareness and presence then fine reaches okay, but for most of us reach is actually a prerequisite for and really matters. So make sure you dig a little deeper. At grow tide, we measure both hard and soft metrics. The soft or fluffy metrics as I like to call them including breach engagement and sessions driven from social sources. The hard metrics the ones that really matter to us include marketing qualified leads that have been influenced.
We actually use attribution reporting to do this and new leads generated. We're the first touchpoint with social media why? Because lead generation is our one metric that matters so don't worry about followers. Be engaging and a small group of highly engaged followers is far more powerful than a large following of ghosts. Ghosts don't share the brand. Ambassadors do. They're
really gonna help you gain that early traction you need and your poster takeoff so look.
Social media marketing especially organic is gonna get even tougher for businesses in 2019 and don't be surprised to see major algorithm updates that hurt businesses even further. So the key takeaways. Number one know exactly what you want to get out social media to play to the algorithms and know the algorithms. Bri craft insanely good content and consider the steps framework I discussed for getting inventive use the tricks I mentioned. Do things differently. It's gonna really really help you out. Remember you can download my full guide to social in 2019 in the comments below.
I've included all my favourite tools for scheduling monitoring tracking and designing. Plus insight into how all the algorithms actually work plus I'll shed a little bit more light on the strategy that we use here. Bro, I really hope this video is going to help you excel in social media in 2019. if you like this video, like and if you didn't please tell us why and if you have any further
questions just ask me in the comments below. Till next time Luke.
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Monday, 26 August 2019
Traffic is King, but you need to do this FIRST
By David McDonough
Let's talk about some powerful ways to get free and automated traffic coming to your website.
But, first...
The first thing you need to do before you start going after any traffic is keyword research. This is because you will be building your traffic funnels around specific keywords. Which means you need to put some thought into the keywords you're targeting.
A couple things to keep in mind when doing keyword research:
Are the keywords you're interested in attainable? You'll have to analyze the competition and see what's out there for this.
Will the keywords you're targeting bring buyers? Some keywords will bring lots of traffic, but none of them will buy. This is not what you're looking for.
What about affiliates? Generating your own customers is great - having other people do it for you is even better. So make sure you are also targeting keywords to attract affiliates.
Of course, this all takes time if you plan to do it yourself. Experts are expensive and don't guarantee results. The upside is that these two factors keep most everyone from even doing their keyword research. What I recommend is using website traffic software to save the time of doing it yourself and the money of hiring someone else. Using tools like this speed up the process and improve your results, too!
Once you know your keywords...
Now that you've completed your keyword research, you can begin using these keywords to get traffic to your website.
Here are a couple of clever ways to do this...
The truth is that people really enjoy taking surveys and finding out what other people think. And if you make it interesting, other people will post your survey on their website. They benefit by getting free content for their site and you get a link to your site under the survey. The beauty of this is that it generates website visitors for you with no work on your part. Using just this one extra idea will put you ahead of your competition . . . who think surveys are for gathering information! The only thing you have to do is think of a novel question for your survey.
Maybe you've seen these help sites where people post questions and other people answer them. Once again, the main reason for this site is not the reason you're interested. The other thing they can be used for is to get traffic to your site, leads for your business and sales! One thing you can do is to visit sites like Craigslist and Yahoo! Answers and manually extract contact info to contact other users. But a much smarter method is to use website traffic software to do it for you. This allows you to do the things in your business that can't be automated and let the software just give you the leads.
Another great resource is video sharing sites like YouTube. In fact, YouTube has over 2 billion videos watched per day! If you're not taking advantage of this rich source of website traffic, then you are really missing out.
And don't worry if you don't have any idea of how to make a video. You can even take a webpage or article that you've written. Then simply record yourself reading the text and you video the screen with a simple screen capture program. And like anything else, there is software available that will turn articles into videos for you automatically.
It's not that hard to get traffic to your websites. Use your noodle and come up with things other people aren't doing. You can even use software to automate most of what we've talked about.
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Let's talk about some powerful ways to get free and automated traffic coming to your website.
But, first...
The first thing you need to do before you start going after any traffic is keyword research. This is because you will be building your traffic funnels around specific keywords. Which means you need to put some thought into the keywords you're targeting.
A couple things to keep in mind when doing keyword research:
Are the keywords you're interested in attainable? You'll have to analyze the competition and see what's out there for this.
Will the keywords you're targeting bring buyers? Some keywords will bring lots of traffic, but none of them will buy. This is not what you're looking for.
What about affiliates? Generating your own customers is great - having other people do it for you is even better. So make sure you are also targeting keywords to attract affiliates.
Of course, this all takes time if you plan to do it yourself. Experts are expensive and don't guarantee results. The upside is that these two factors keep most everyone from even doing their keyword research. What I recommend is using website traffic software to save the time of doing it yourself and the money of hiring someone else. Using tools like this speed up the process and improve your results, too!
Once you know your keywords...
Now that you've completed your keyword research, you can begin using these keywords to get traffic to your website.
Here are a couple of clever ways to do this...
- Surveys
- "Traffic Traps"
- Video Sharing Sites
Surveys
The truth is that people really enjoy taking surveys and finding out what other people think. And if you make it interesting, other people will post your survey on their website. They benefit by getting free content for their site and you get a link to your site under the survey. The beauty of this is that it generates website visitors for you with no work on your part. Using just this one extra idea will put you ahead of your competition . . . who think surveys are for gathering information! The only thing you have to do is think of a novel question for your survey.
"Traffic Traps"
Maybe you've seen these help sites where people post questions and other people answer them. Once again, the main reason for this site is not the reason you're interested. The other thing they can be used for is to get traffic to your site, leads for your business and sales! One thing you can do is to visit sites like Craigslist and Yahoo! Answers and manually extract contact info to contact other users. But a much smarter method is to use website traffic software to do it for you. This allows you to do the things in your business that can't be automated and let the software just give you the leads.
Video Websites
Another great resource is video sharing sites like YouTube. In fact, YouTube has over 2 billion videos watched per day! If you're not taking advantage of this rich source of website traffic, then you are really missing out.
And don't worry if you don't have any idea of how to make a video. You can even take a webpage or article that you've written. Then simply record yourself reading the text and you video the screen with a simple screen capture program. And like anything else, there is software available that will turn articles into videos for you automatically.
The Bottom Line...
It's not that hard to get traffic to your websites. Use your noodle and come up with things other people aren't doing. You can even use software to automate most of what we've talked about.
Get started right away:
- Keyword research first is key
- Then create some surveys born to go viral
- Take advantage of the "help" sites
- And definitely include video sharing sites
Original Source:
https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/traffic-is-king-but-you-need-to-do-this-first
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Sunday, 25 August 2019
13 Ways to Make Money Online & Create Your Own Income Streams
- Completing Surveys. There are plenty of companies constantly looking for feedback and market research, who offer rewards in exchange for completing their surveys. Surveys are not a new phenomenon and have been around for years. Site Survey Spotter is an easy site that gives you access to a large selection of surveys that you can complete. A great activity to do in your spare time.
- Online Content Creation. Create digital content that you can sell online. Everyone has a skill or talent that they can share. Whether it’s specialist skills from employment or something they have built a business around. Why not share this with other people who can benefit from your insight? You can do this by writing articles, creating ebooks, guides, tutorials or online courses. Find companies that will pay for these articles or start off creating content for free, with a view to create information products around the topics further down the line.
- Create a Blog. Many people use a blog to express their views or share their journey. Others will use it to create an income stream. Either way you need to have a long term vision for it so that you start with the vision in mind. If you’re creating valuable content that people actually want to read - you’ll be able to create information products in the same niche that they want to buy.
- Become an Affiliate. This is a great idea if you are setting up your own blog or even for your website. Initially the world of affiliate marketing can seem overwhelming, but it really is a straightforward as picking QUALITY products that work with your niche and promoting them through your blog or website and to your social media following and email list. It’s a great way to earn income from products that you did not create. There are plenty of affiliate sites such as Clickbank and JVzoon that host a wide range of affiliate products ready for you to start promoting.
- Become a YouTuber. Plenty of people earn a huge income from YouTube. Again it’s a great place to share knowledge, content, skills and insight. It’s also a great place to entertain. Whichever way you want to use it, whether it’s to educate or entertain, if you build up enough of a following you can certainly use it to create income through advertising or selling your own products.
- Become a freelancer. With sites like Fiverr and Upwork exploding in popularity and being used by businesses and entrepreneurs around the globe, it’s become even easier to sell your skills and get exposure for some freelance work. If you’ve ever considered this as something you want to do - now is a great time to do so!
- Create a Membership Site. If you already have an audience interested in what you are offering, consider setting up a membership site. People are already visiting your site and reading your content, so why not create premium content that will encourage them into a paid subscription - which will give you recurring monthly income (which is unlimited - as you can leverage the internet to provide access to customers all over the world!) and will give your audience even more of what they already want and need. This is a great alternative for customers not ready, willing or able to pay for what they deem to be expensive courses, but still need more help and guidance.
- Publish a Book. Writing and publishing a book is easier today than it ever has been. If you’ve ever dreamed about becoming an author or know that you have valuable information that thousands would benefit from - consider it. Using freelancer sites you can get help with all aspects of writing a book - from research, to book covers and even ghost writers. You can easily publish it yourself and sites like Amazon make it very easy to sell.
- Audio Book. If you want to publish your own book - it’s definitely worth turning it into an audio book. People have different preferences and some people (like me) will buy both. This will give you access to a larger audience, creating even more income from the content that has already been created and will also result in a number double purchases.
- Email Marketing. The money is in the list! If you have a business already, you should have a list. And if you have a list, you don’t need me to tell you that you should be regularly marketing to that list. You don’t have to just promote your own products, you can also use it to promote affiliate products that your list will be interested in and thank you for it, while you make a residual income. Just make sure you don’t spend the whole time selling without adding value - or you will see a sharp increase in Unsubscribers!
- Buy and Sell Domain Names. You can buy domains and sell them on for a markup. It’s a pretty straightforward process and quite easy to do - just make sure you pick the right types of domains and ones that are likely to be popular. You can use tools like Just Dropped to purchase the domains and then relist them. Wait for buyers and then sell at a profit.
- Become an Amazon Seller (FBA). Who doesn’t buy from Amazon these days? They have made it incredibly easy and convenient to buy from them more than any other retailer. And so we do. So what better time than now, to sell on this monster site? Using Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) means that you can even send all of your stock to Amazon to distribute for you so you don’t need to. After the initial set up, this becomes one of the most passive ways to run an ecommerce business.
- Become a Virtual Assistant. If you enjoy admin, have a broad range of skills and are organised and a great planner - you would be in huge demand as a VA. This would put you in control of how much you earn and how long you work. Businesses all around the world are crying out for VA’s to support their business and it’s a firm favourite these days over hiring a bank of staff.
As you can see, opportunities really aren’t limited and we really do have the world as our Oyster. There are SO many ways to make an income for yourself, so if you are in a job that you hate or are looking for additional income streams - you have plenty of options! Get creative and be open minded. You suddenly start seeing ore and more opportunities around you.
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Friday, 23 August 2019
7 Tips for Picking The Right Niche
Picking the right niche for your product or service plays a huge role in determining your success. If your niche is too broad and competitive you are likely to get lost in the sea of competition and your message will be unheard. If your market is already saturated your ads costs will be high, particularly if you are trying to compete against big players.
This is where ‘niching down’ comes in. You need to get more specific in your market just to get seen. If you are laser focused, you will be able to target and attract the right people and create a loyal customer base.
Here are some of our top tips for picking your niche!
1. Keep it super niche and super specific.
The newer and more unknown you are and the more crowded the market is - the more specific you need to get, to be noticed. For example, social media is a very saturated market. So you need to pick a speciality e.g Instagram Stories; IGTV to grow your business; How to start Facebook group; Facebook video ads etc. Pick one area that you can specialise in and deep dive in.
2. Your niche doesn’t define your business.
You need a specialised niche to cut through the noise and attract customers into your business. But once they are in your eco-system, you can be anything end everything. You can then create more offers and services that reflect your broader market.
3. Validate your niche.
Before you start thinking about building your website or creating your business cards, make sure you have validated your niche.
Do some market research - get involved with Facebook groups.
Offer to help a handful of people for free!
Get these people on the phone and find out what they need help with, what their biggest challenges are.
4. Always focus on the client.
Don’t get consumed by what other people are doing in your market. Yes - model their best practices, but you should ultimately focus on your one dream customer and how you can best serve them. This will help you create an edge, that only you can offer.
5. Remember your Customer Avatar is not your Niche.
They are two very different things. Your Niche is the anchor to help you connect to the person you are trying to attract. Your Customer Avatar is the specifics of the person you are trying to attract - this is used specifically for your messaging and product design.Niche == >> I help small business owners systemise their their businesses to leverage their time and create systems that generate sales while they sleep.
Avatar ==>> Female late 30s married with children. She has an online business, it has been doing fairly well but she has come to a standstill. She wants to take it to the next level but she doesn’t know how. She doubts her ability but really wants to succeed.
6. Make sure you can find your audience online.
The best marketers only pick audiences that are already there online and easy to find! Are your ideal customers on YouTube and in Facebook Groups? Do they listen to Podcasts? Use the search boxes to find out. See how many views are coming up for videos in your Niche. See how many Facebook groups are active and the levels of membership. If the numbers are all low, you need to reconsider your niche.
7. Don’t give up!
The first time you launch your product or service, it may flop. If it does this is normal. Don’t give up at this point, go back and refine your niche; try and get even more specific. It may sound counter intuitive but the more specific you get the more money you will make. It’s not about trying to hit a huge market, it’s about making sure you are actually seen and can offer the specialist help that people are already looking for to help serve their business.
For some people picking their niche is obvious, but if you are starting out in business and aren’t exactly sure what you want to do - this can be one of the hardest challenges to overcome. But work at it, because if you get this right you will find it easier to create successful ad campaigns, manful offers and products and services that your customers want.
Video Marketing Tips For Affiliates
By David McDonough
Original Source: https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/video-marketing-tips-for-affiliates
Affiliate marketing can be very difficult to break into. The reason is that there is a lot of competition. In order to survive, you have to beat your competition. And the sea of information about this doesn't make it any easier. Here's one trick that almost no one else is using.
Video marketing
The power of video is undeniable. People love watching videos and that's why they're everywhere. Keeping people's attention is so much easier using videos. So you can put this to great advantage in your affiliate marketing.
Here are a few ideas for creating affiliate videos:
Do a testimonial video
Walk-throughs
Do an ordering video
Do a preview video
Do a testimonial video
This is probably the easiest of all. Just click record on your webcam and start talking. Don't worry about quality. Seeing a real person on the other end helps your viewers make a buying decision. And honestly, if you mess up it just makes it seem more authentic. You really can just click record and start talking. If you don't want to be in front of the camera using one of the other methods.
Walk-throughs
This technique works slightly more subconsciously. Basically, you're doing a tutorial on how to use the product. And while they watch you use it, they think, "I should buy that." As long as the product is good, the tutorial makes them want it. So pick some really helpful aspect of the product and show how to use that.
Record the order process
This one is a killer! Record yourself placing an order. There is nothing more motivating than watching someone buy something live. First of all, it's what's called "social proof". People will feel more comfortable buying after seeing you do it. It also builds your viewers trust. They are much more likely to take your advice to buy when you've taken it yourself. And finally, it creates envy. People want what they see you getting. To really cap this one-off, end your video with: You're gonna have to place your own order if you want to see the members area.
Record a preview of the members' area
This is a great way to build value. You do a tour of the members' area. And show them everything they get by ordering. It also reduces the reservations of sceptics. It's much easier to trust they're getting something if they actually have seen it.
You can do this!
There's no technical knowledge required. There are simple software programs that make it easy to create videos. All the work is done by the program. So please don't let technical worries slow you down. Just focus on the benefits:
More sales Using videos in your affiliate marketing will dramatically increase your sales. People love video, so please use them.
Fewer refunds Less of your commissions will be clawed back, too. Now they know what they get before they purchase. So, very few of them will cancel their order.
Rise above the competition! Adding video is so simple. But pretty much no one does it. This puts you out in front of the rest.
Take your affiliate promotions to a higher level and getting started with this now. Not using video is detrimental to your business. So do it!
Original Source: https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/video-marketing-tips-for-affiliates
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