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Want more free traffic?

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

One thing that every website, every online business, each and every internet marketer could use is more traffic, right? Without traffic to you site – targeted visitors who come full of eager anticipation about what you have to say – your online business quickly ceases to exist, it’s as simple as that

Traffic is the key to your success now and it will be the key to your success even more so in the future.
More visitors equals more sales, more ad clicks, more recognition, more list subscribers and ultimately more money. The product you are selling or promoting could be complete crap and yet with enough traffic, you’ll make money but the best product in the world won’t make you a dime without visitors.

Not to put to put too much emphasis on it, but you need traffic and the more of it there is, the better
So, how about if I told you that there is a great source of traffic that has sent me thousands of targeted visitors that I guarantee you’ve never heard of?

One that is totally unique as far as I know and yet it’s maybe the best ‘under the radar’ traffic source there is?
You wouldn’t believe me, right?

Okay, judge for yourself.

Check out:

http://helpareporter.com

This is a site (and that’s not an affiliate link BTW) where over 100,000 registered journalists from all over the world post in excess of 200 jobs every day for which they need sources!

That’s right, they need people like me you and me that they can quote, and when they do, you’ll get a mass of new visitors.

Take a look because all cost free targeted traffic is good traffic, right?

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New free moneymaking guide

Friday, April 16th, 2010

As anyone who markets online knows, there are lots of different ways of pulling cash from the net. But the best method, the one through which the ‘gurus’ become gurus in the first place is by creating and selling your own information products.

This puts cash in your pocket for many reasons (as I hope to prove with a case study that I’m putting together right now).

First and most obviously, you have a product to sell. That’s cash source #1 right there.

Secondly, you add customers to a mailing list when they buy your product.

Take a little time to build up trust with them and you can recommend products and services which you can be pretty confident they will buy.

And as every experienced marketer knows, existing customers are always the easiest and most economical to sell to (every new customer costs you in both money and time terms), so these are ‘maximum profit’ sales too.

Thirdly, when you create your own products, you build your brand and authority in your market too. When prospects know your brand and recognize you as an expert, their resistance to buying from you is minimized.

I’m sure there are other ways that I’ve missed (if you can think of anything, please add your comments below) but these three give you an idea why when it comes to making the big ‘moolah’, creating our own product has to be the way to go.

But most marketers think that creating a product is difficult which is why I’ve just published a new guide called ‘Product Creation Essentials’ which you can download completely free.

This guide is designed to show anyone who has never created their own information product before everything you need to consider before and during the process of doing so.

It deals with every individual aspect of the process including research, creating and then marketing the product, highlighting many hurdles that beginners usually find alarmingly easy to run into!

If you have ever considered the possibility of creating your own information product, this is one not to miss. Even if you have not done so, the book is packed with background knowledge and concepts that cannot fail to help in your online marketing efforts.

To grab your free copy, click the following link:

http://stevecowan.com/recommends’FreePCE

And please add any comments, queries or questions you might have about this guide below this post.

Thanks…

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48 hours free cash giveaway

Monday, April 5th, 2010

UPDATED – See Bottom Of This Post For More Information:

This is insane but absolutely genuine. But it also lasts for just a few more days, so you have to be very quick.

One of my favorite software developers is Brad Callen. He’s the guy behind what I still consider to be the best keyword software on the market (Keyword Elite) and a brilliant SEO report – and Brad is a master of SEO – called SEO Mindset.

I’d definitely recommend that you take a look at both the software and the book – both are truly outstanding – but make absolutely certain that you take action on what you are going to read on this page no matter what.

Brad has just launched a new service called SEO Link Vine, which as the name suggests is a new link networking system/tool. But here’s the crazy thing (or several actually)…

First, the system is free.

Second, it automatically adds content to your blog and it ‘uniquefies’ the content that it is adding as it does so. So, if building a site on autopilot sounds like a good idea (no more spending boring hours writing content for your site), this tool is for you (and remember, it’s free).

Next, it’s an excellent niche research tool and because of the way it is building your site, it’ll send you a ton of free targeted traffic as well.

So, it sounds good so far, right?

Well, here’s the really crazy thing.

For the next few days, until April 9th, Brad is actually giving away cash…really!!

For every site you add to the system – that is, your own sites, chunks of virtual real estate that you own – Brad’s company Bryxen are going to add $1 to your PayPal account! If you have 50 sites, that’s $50 for adding them all to the system, 100 sites is worth $100 and so on…

It sounds insane but it actually makes sense when you think about it. A link network is only strong if there are lots of sites in it and what better way of making sure you help the network grow than paying you to do so?

But like I say, this is only open for a few days, so you’d better get a move on if you want to take advantage of this insanity generosity.

Here’s the link again – SEO Link Vine. Do it now…

STOP-PRESS: A couple of people have asked for proof that there really is money being given away here – after all, it sounds nuts, right? Here’s the screenshot:

SEOVine

Okay, let me explain again what this does. It builds your blogs and sites for you, period.

It collects content, makes it unique (you can reject anything that is not unique enough for you) and then adds it to your site 2,3,4, however many times a day you like. You also have the ability to manually review content before it is added so anything you don’t like, you don’t post.

Now, this is not primarily about finding other people to join the system. It’s about adding your own sites so that they are automatically updated, with the degree of automation being entirely your choice and getting paid to do so.

But here’s the thing,

Until this Friday, you will get $1 in your PayPal account for every site added by anyone you add to the ssytem too (look at the bottom of the screenshot).

So, it you have a list, mail it out today and you could add $100′s to PayPal literally overnight by giving away something that is extremely useful and totally free.

Take a look now…SEO Link Vine

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Just over 1000 e-books written…!

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

I’ve just been doing a bit of hard disk tidying, mainly because I’m trying to arrange the stuff I’ve written for clients more logically.

And to say I’m amazed is the understatement of this or any other year …

In the four years (and a bit) of ghostwriting, I’ve created just short of 1000 e-books of 10,000 words or more! Plus, I’ve written thousands of articles and special reports as well! Then there’s a truckload of sales page content…

Now, there are two things that have left me a bit stunned about this to be honest.

First, it means that over the four years I’ve been a full time ghostwriter, I’ve written three e-books every four days (or thereabouts) plus a whole heap of other stuff!

I have no idea how that’s happened, but jeez, I must have been busy…

Secondly (and I’m always scared that I might be tempting fate by writing this), I’ve never had a complaint yet! Sure, I‘ve had people ask for additional info to be inserted or modifications but that comes with the job, and it’s never a problem.

But not one complete ‘that’s garbage, do it again’ yet (and like I say, I really hope I’m not tempting fate).

I guess that this all indicates that I know what I’m doing and that if you have an e-book project you want me to deal with, it will get done quickly and absolutely to your specifications.

Got a writing project you don’t have the time or the expertise for? Whatever it is, the facts indicate that I can do it, right?

Drop me a line to let me know at infoman[at]stevecowan[dot]com

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Increase web site traffic – 21 easy ways for $0…

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

1. Write and submit articles to the article directories.

2. Leave comments on other people’s blogs with a backlink to your site.

3. Answer people’s questions on www.answers.yahoo.com.

4. Post in forums and have a link to your site in your signature.

5. Write a press release and submit it to www.PRWeb.com.

6. Advertise your website in the appropriate category on www.CraigsList.com.

7. Give an unbiased testimonial on a product/service that you have used in exchange for a backlink to your site.

8. Start a blog and submit it to the 100’s of free blog directories.

9. Manually submit your website to the major search engines.

10. Optimize each page of your website for a particular keyword or search phrase.

11. Add a link in your email signature to your website. It’s a free and easy way to get a little more traffic.

12. Make a custom 404 error page for your website redirecting people to your home page.

13. Use PPC search engine advertising.

14. Add a “bookmark this site” link to your webpages.

15. Have a tell-a-friend form on your site.

16. Send articles to ezine publishers that includes a link to your website.

17. Hold a crazy contest and make it go viral.

18. Give away a freebie (ebook, report, e-course) to keep people coming back to your site.

19. Add an RSS feed to your blog.

20. Submit your site to any related niche directories on the net.

21. Post information about any content you publish to social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon etc.

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“All Marketers are Liars” – Seth Godin speaks at Google

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Google asked:

Caffeinated Content

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Top 20 Forum Directories

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Thought that this list of the top 20 forum directory sites might be useful!

http://www.big-boards.com

http://www.forumshowcase.com

http://www.forum-index.com

http://www.forumvirus.com

http://www.forumzilla.com

http://www.smfoogle.com

http://www.forum-search.com

http://www.forumsindex.net

http://www.forumsearch.tk

http://www.forumsinfo.com

http://www.1001forums.com

http://www.ipbdirectory.com

http://www.bbswatch.com/index.shtml

http://www.forumguide.info

http://www.foruma-z.com

http://www.boardreader.com

http://www.findyourforum.com

http://www.vbulletindirectory.com

http://www.phpbbdirectory.com

http://www.forumbase.org

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New Years Giveaway – Take a look now!

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

The number of seasonal “Giveaway” events was certainly up over the recent festive season, wasn’t it?

How many of them did you sign up for? Those that you did join, did you find much that you liked?

I must say that in the majority of cases, I was not overly impressed.

A lot of the products being given away were not particularly difficult to get hold of and I thought that a lot of the events themselves, especially the newer ones, were more ‘glitter and tinsel’ than substance.

One that I HAVE found worth looking at, however, is the excellent “New Years Giveaway” that is running from now until the end of January, and I would seriously recommend that you should take a look sooner rather than later.

There’s three hundred or so free gifts on offer and unlike most of the ‘festive season specials’ that I looked at, many of them are actually worth downloading. There are e-books, software programs, video and web authoring tools for everyone from the newest newbie to the most experienced, and (the thing that I most like),a lot of them are new to me too!

Now, you know and I know that the idea of these events is to allow the contributor to add your name to their mailing list, so I would recommend that you create a new gmail or yahoo email account for your sign-ups and that you only download that you can actually use. Downloading something that you ‘might’ use in the future is just cluttering up your disk space, trust me, because you will never use it!

Anyway, whatever your own experience of the recent glut of ‘givies’, you must take a peek at the New Years Giveaway now, if you have not already done so.

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Improve Your Guarantee, Make More Sales!

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

One of the simplest ways that I know of increasing sales is increasing your guarantee! Many marketers seem worried that by having a generous guarantee, people will take advantage of them, but in my experience that just does not happen, and, anyway, thinking like this is really missing the point.

Here’s an example. Everyone is doing a 30 day money back guarantee, so why don’t you do a 6 month guarantee?

A 6 month guarantee will almost certainly increase your conversions and your refunds will probably not increase a whole lot either.

I know that the longer and stronger the guarantee is, the more likely I am to pull out my wallet and let my credit card see the light of day, and I am fairly sure that I am not alone in this.

And in any event, we all know that there are many people who are serial refunders but they generally ask for their refund within the first few days anyway, and I think that most folks have better things to do with their lives than wait around 6 months to try and rip you off for a refund.

So, don’t be mean with your refunds policy. Be generous, and I am willing to bet that it will increase conversions and you will make much more money off of the extra conversions than you will lose in those handful of extra refunds.

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$800k In One Week From Facebook?

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

A couple of days ago I was listening to an interview with some guys who run a leading PLR website and it struck me that the market for PLR products is now becoming a mature, grown up one!.

That is, whereas even six months ago, if you bought a PLR product that was what you got – the product alone. Now, you are far more likely to buy a ‘package’ in which you get everything that you need to start selling straight away, like ready made sales pages, graphics, squeeze pages and so on.

But, I guess that it is only sense that you would expect such quality to come at a price, so seeing these sites selling monthly memberships for $50-100 is not uncommon. It is good value, no doubt, but it is not cheap by any means.

So, here’s a deal that you should definitely be taking a look at.
Take a look at IM PLR Club or read on, and then look!

Now, I am going to begin the spiel with that dreadful ‘my good friend’ thing, but, in this case, it is actually true!

Anyway, one of the straightest guys I know in internet marketing, Ben Shaffer, has just launched his own PLR private members site, limited to only 250 people and (this is the kicker) the trial is only $1.00 and, if you decide to stick with it, then it’s a measly $20.00 a month (or only $12.00 per month if you pay in advance for a year)!

That is for a fully packaged, ready to sell product, the first one being all about Facebook, graphics, sales pages and squeeze page included. And it is good – like quality writing, obviously by someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with the English language and great graphics.

How do I know? Well, Ben told me!

No, seriously, I have read the book cover to cover, and it is well worth reading, because Facebook is not something I had even thought about marketing on or through before (which pretty much guarantees that no-one else has either) and it is very definitely not the same as MySpace.

But, if I told you that there is a worked example of how it is possible to earn $800k in one week with Facebook, then you’d be interested, right? Interested enough to spend $1.00 to find out more?

Now, there is no affiliate program (unless it’s a secret one) so I have nothing to gain here, but Ben is a friend and this is a top quality product at a ridiculous price, so get over there now and take a look.

And, if you like IM PLR Club, you can say thanks by leaving a comment here

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