Archive for September, 2007

Using Your Ecourse as a Test Market

Your ecourse is a great way to promote your products and stay in touch with your customers. You may not realize it, but it also serves another purpose. You can use it as a test market for new products and services you may be thinking about offering.

A test market is a limited group of people you offer a product to in order to receive feed back before you put the product up for sale to the general population. Using a test market will allow you to get feedback on your product. Your test market may suggest adding a feature you hadn’t thought of or offer other advice which will be helpful in fine tuning your product. It’s much easier, as well as much cheaper, to do this with an ecourse rather than launching a new site to test.

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Daily PLR

I know for many plr is a foreign concept. PLR stands for private label resale rights. But there is a key to using plr correctly. You have to rewrite it to be more unique and towards your audience. You also want to put your spin on the article including your expertise on the subject.

I belong to quite a few plr sites, both paid and free. A great free site I have found recently is PLR articles daily. Each day I get plr emailed to me with different themes. It’s 5 articles in a zip file and the theme will usually be in the url of the download. This way you have an idea if you want to download the articles or not.

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Why You Need A Mailing List

A mailing list is a list of people who signed up to receive your mailings, such as in a newsletter or ecourse format. There are many benefits to having a mailing list. Here are a few reasons why you will want to start building one today.

There is an old saying that says, “The money is in the follow up”, and that holds true for your list. Your mailing list provides you a way of staying in touch with people who have visited your website. Maybe they didn’t buy anything the first time they visited your site. However, if you stay in touch with them on a regular basis, they may turn into a loyal customer.

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Invite Help

I have a client that just got married. While she’s not a WAHM, she does work full time with quite a commute. She was so stressed out trying to get it all done. I can’t imagine how crazy I’d be if I was in the same boat. There is no way I’d have time to go and pick out invites at a store. As I’m an internet junky of course the only way I’d go now is online. These wedding invitations are the one’s I’d pick if I needed to order some right now. Wow, my tastes changed over the years. lol I’ll keep them bookmarked for my 20th anniversary I’m planning in Vegas. Few years away, but these are gorgeous and a great price.

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Blog Traffic

Well you might notice the new black box in my sidebar with posts to other blogs. This is a new blog traffic program. Unlike other traffic programs, this is going to bring you targeted traffic. For every page I have the box impression on my site, I will get my blog posted onto someone else’s site that also talks about business. But not only that, it goes 10 layers deep. So for all the people that use my link to sign up, I will also get a post for every impression that goes up on their blog. Confused yet? Don’t be.

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When help is faster

The point of this blog is to give you resources to make your online life easier and more effective. There are times when hiring out is the smart thing to do. For most, SEO is one of those reasons. It takes time to learn SEO, it takes time to implement it, and it takes time to watch for the results. Is this one of the things that you could be using your time doing effectively or are you better used in other aspects of your business?

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Set Up Your Autoresponder

Setting up an autoresponder is not difficult and it will allow you to stay in contact with your mailing list automatically. You can use it to create passive income with an ecourse, or a newsletter. Both help you stay in touch with your subscribers so that you can provide valuable information to them, create trust, and make product recommendations.

There are many autoresponder programs to choose from, Aweber and WAHM Cart are very economical and easy to use. You can find free autoresponders, but they will include ads for other products. You don’t want to send your mailing list someone else’s ad unless you’re getting paid to do so. These also look very unprofessional to your market.

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Won a contest

OH MY, OH MY!!! I just won the contest on Designed by Lara and I’m so dang excited. I have won a complete set of banners and buttons to promote my site. I chose this site because it just needs to be advertised more. I love the colors and the actual design of this template so it’s a good one to just get banners for as well. I could jump up and down to have some of Lara’s designs.

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