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June 16, 2011

How Do You Get A Job In Music Production?

You would imagine that once you have your degree in Music Production you would be well on your way, would you not? But it does not normally work like that. It is false that getting a degree makes acquiring a job easier, because there are more people going for jobs with degrees than ever before and we are in an period when every business is looking for savings. It is true though that you will not ge a decent career with prospects without a degree any more.

So, you have your degree in music production and companies are not falling over themselves to hire you, so what do you do now? Well, one of the things that you should do is put your creative talent to work to unearth ways to get a job in the music industry. Before we get onto the topic of looking for a career, there are a few items that you have to know about music firms.

Most young people dream of acquiring into the music industry and rubbing shoulders with stars even if they do not have any talent. Because of this the music industry as a whole hardly ever has to advertise for vacant jobs although they might be required to by law in some countries.

They will just pay lip service to this law because it is daft, a sop and unenforcable. They will promote from within, use family and hire head-hunters, just like most companies do.

This means that it is at least as much who you know as what you know and this means networking. You will have to learn how to network to get yourself at least an interview. Attempt to get in even if it means on the lowest rung of the ladder, as an intern.

The vast majority of companies that take interns fill vacant positions with the best and most eager interns. The drawback is that interns get paid very little if at all. But if government can get away with it so will industry.

The first step to take after acquiring your degree is to study up on the career you would like and the firm you would like it with. You know how to do that. Learn as much about the career and the firm as you can. Then draw up a list of all the people you know who might be able to help you or vouch for you.

Teachers, lecturers, bands you roadied for, concerts you helped out on – anything – and get in touch with them. Ask if they know of anything going and get their permission to use their name in an interview or career application.

Send out resumes to the precise person by name who has the authority to hire or recommend you. This involves more study. This is a long shot because music production companies are inundated with resumes, but follow yours up with a second letter and enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope. Send a third as well, why not? Then begin following it up by email and phone.

Stay calm, be pleasant, but say that you would like a reply and if you have been rejected with reasons why so that you can correct your short-comings. Try to learn from set-backs and one day it will work out for you.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a variety of topics, but is currently involved with Bose new wave radios. If you would like to kcurrently more, please visit our website at Bose Digital Radio.

June 2, 2011

Two Different Methods Of Modern Affiliate Marketing

There are quite a few different forms of affiliate marketing. Some of them have become archaic and others have never been so well-liked. In this article we will be taking a look at some of the better forms of affiliate promoting.

One of the reasons for the continued popularity of affiliate marketing is that it is cheap to set up a website that could create money. Not only that, but it is possible to make a few dollars a day without much work and some people have to labour twelve hours a day at a difficult job for that much. The Net can double their wages on a set-and-forget basis.

Merchants are also keen on affiliate marketing because the means for implementing affiliate marketing are beneficial to the retailer, because the seller only has to pay a fee on every sale – there is no gratitude for fruitless hard work.

Having said that, there are ways for the affiliate advertising hopeful to make money, but it necessitates self-discipline. There is a tendency for affiliate marketers to pack as many selling tools – that is, banners – on to every page as possible in the hope that something will please someone.

This is, in fact, the worst tactic possible. A web page ought to be targeted. If the campaign is trying to sell goldfish, that should be the only advert on the page. When the page starts earning money, then you can add adverts for goldfish bowls and goldfish food, but not before.

And definitely do not strive to sell ‘pet food’ in the hope of acquiring at least one sale! There is time for all that later. In the beginning, focus is the watchword. Decide on your niche carefully and then have the courage of your convictions to stay with it.

Nowadays there are basically just two forms of affiliate marketing. They are PPC (pay-per-click) and PPP (pay-per-performance). PPC is very simple to set up and PPP a little more harder, but it can produce higher rewards per click.

PPC is Google’s favoured means of advertising, but there are several other firms that support PPC too. Google’s Adsense is the biggest network of PPC advertisers. It is very straightforward to set up because it is automatic.

If you want to earn money from PPC, you have to build a website that is heavy on content – that is, there are useful pieces on subjects that individuals would like to find out about. As the web master, you then insert a small piece of code which Google (or one of the other PPC merchants) gives you, and adverts will appear in that location.

Not any old adverts though. The software will scan the adjacent text for keywords and then match them up to keywords that advertisers have bought. The result is that a web site that has enabled PPC will have adverts that are relevant to its content and, hopefully, its visitors. If you have a website on tropical fish, then the adverts will be about tropical fish and accessories.

PPP or pay-per-performance is more difficult to set up merely because the web master has to go and find advertisers in the same niche; then apply for an account and then claim their rewards. Having said that, a web master can earn more for one PPP click than a whole days worth of PPC clicks.

PPP can include a number of kinds of actions – the ‘performance’ part though generally means a sale. Acquiring a sale is much more difficult than acquiring someone to check out an offer (PPC). Another benefit of PPP is that you can form a downline.

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May 14, 2011

Music-Orientated Careers And What They Are About

The United Kingdom has always had a very active music industry and although, or maybe because, we are in recession now, it is still thriving. Many young people are attracted to the music industry and so dream about getting a career in it.

However, we are not all musically gifted and only the very best get anywhere by following that path anyway, but there are other routes to go down if you want a career in the music industry.

There is a colossal raft of support needed to put musicians on the stage, television and radio, because musicians are notoriously too badly organized to get this work done on their own – especially top level musicians who insist that the stage, the lighting, the facilities and the contracts have to be just right.

So, once a musician has proved his or her worth, somebody has to get him bookings and promote his name, get him a record deal and make certain that he is sufficiently paid. This will be the music publicist

The label manager works for the recording firm and liaises between the various departments to make certain that the production and release of the artist’s CD’s are co-ordinated to the nth degree.

Management always has to have assistants and the music industry is no exception. An assistant to a manager in the music industry will have standard administrative duties not dissimilar to office duties in other industries, but the papers, contracts, invoices and cheques will be regarding famous, glamorous people that everyone knows from the Television.

The music industry employs research analysts to track and strive to predict future trends in music tastes. These researchers are sometimes called digital research analysts. This is quite a skilled job and necessitates expertise in the industry, in markets, trends and management.

The Internet plays an ever growing function in the marketing of music and the musicians who make it and so there are now openings for online editorial managers, whereas the career did not exist ten years ago.

The publicists and PR people also require co-ordinating on the Internet and web sites need to be built. Every band needs a Facebook and Twitter account and any other account in an online phenomenon that is up-and-coming.

There are events producers and junior events producers and senior events producers because live music produces more money than record sales since so much of that is pirated these days. Most bands could not continue without live events and most would not want to either, because performers like the limelight quite literally.

The music industry makes use of cheap labour as does even government and there are internships to be had. The pay for an intern is very low and occasionally they do not get paid at all, but they gain a wealth of experience and make very helpful contacts. The most enthusiastic and hard-working interns are normally hired after their internship is over.

There are routes into the music industry that might seem unconventional, but if you strive some of these avenues you will stand a better chance of procuring a career in the music industry.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a range of topics, but is now involved with Bose new wave radios. If you would like to know more, please go to our web site at Bose Digital Radio.

May 7, 2011

Internet Advertising Secrets

You are reading this, so it is obvious that you already do some stuff on line, but how much do you use the Internet? Do you use it to its full potential? Do you only spend money on the Internet or do you make money on the Internet as well?

You may say that you have never spent a penny on line, but that would not be a fact, would it? You have a computer that you almost certainly use generally for going on line and you pay for a broadband connection.

If you find yourself only surfing to use up free time, why not set yourself the aim of using the Internet to pay for your monthly connection fees and your next (replacement) computer or a new laptop? That could be a project, a quest, a challenge, if you like.

If you have too much time on your hands this would be a decent excuse to extend your knowledge of computers, the Net and business or business on line as well.

If you already have a business, on or off line, you should be using the Internet to advertise it. If you are unfamiliar with the on line ways of marketing, we can stick with traditional off line ways that have been imitated on line.

For instance, there are thousands of free on line classified ad web sites. Only enter ‘free classified ads’ into Google and stand back!

However, classifieds are by and large perceived as not being as effective as their off line counterparts. This is because idiots spam these free ads web sites from all over the world merely for a free back link and so many of the ads are irrelevant or not local.

Another form of on line promoting imitated from the ‘real world’ is banner marketing. Business people can pay to have a banner placed on a relevant website in order to advertise their firms. It is equivalent to having a big ad in a newspaper. Regrettably, this form of advertising does not work on line as well as it does off line either. Experts say that surfers expect things for free on line, so their eyes ‘look through’ banner adverts.

So how can you promote your business on line? Well, believe it or not, it by using the very top, up-market off line advertising techniques of having recommendations, reviews and pieces written about the items that you are advertising. This would cost thousands or more in a newspaper, but it is virtually free on line.

The number one best manner of promoting on line is to compose articles on or about the topic of your products or company and posting them to article directories with your URL in the byline. This will give you a back link which Google regards very highly in working out your company’s ranking in their search engine.

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April 26, 2011

How Can You Get Free Radio Advertising? – Part 2

Welcome to part two of ‘How To Get Free Radio Advertising’. In part one we looked at how to get in touch with the radio station manager and how to broach the subject of getting free on-air radio advertising. If you have not yet read it, please look for ‘How To Get Free Radio Advertising – part 1′ on this site.

Doing it this way makes saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’ very easy for the manager, because his only decisions are whether he trusts you and whether he can schedule you in or not. If the manager agrees to give your suggestion his consideration, put all your material in a package with a covering letter reiterating what you said on the phone, a photo of or a gratis copy of your product and your advertising copy.

Send it off or deliver it immediately. Include a stamped, self addressed envelope, if you want a written reply or your material returned.

If your proposal is rejected, send him a ‘thank you, perhaps next time’ note and move on to the next name. If you are rejected frequently, perhaps you ought to sweeten your offer a little by raising their percentage of the cut or increasing the price of the product. You will have to do some research there too, if you do not get it right first time.

Doing business such as this is traditionally done using the phone and the postal service, because radio managers are usually hard-pressed for time. However, it would be feasible to do all this over the Internet, except sending samples, naturally, if the manager is comfortable using the Internet.

It always amazes me how many people there are out there in business who do not use the Internet very frequently because they do not understand much about it.

You could propose using the Internet for sending your stuff over but do not be pushy about it, because the manager might be too embarrassed to declare that he cannot use the Internet. It could also be faxed over, but faxes frequently come out looking shabby and that might damage your chances. If in doubt, just post it.

If you get a green light to your application, be ready to act quickly, so always have your stuff bundled up and ready to go. Never give them time to forget who you are or ‘go off the boil’.

You will need to have written your advertisements first, but how long should they be? This is a difficult one, so ask the manager in your initial discussion, whether they have an advertising policy or predilection for the length of slots.

It could be thirty seconds a slot or sixty seconds (a double slot). As soon as you know, you can write your ads: two different adverts for each length of slot.

If you want to be totally pre-prepared, you could write two fifteen second, two thirty second and two sixty second ads before you even ring anyone. And do not forget to read them back out loud several times to check them for length. Try getting a few friends to read them back to you as well.

The radio station will require you to sign a contract and you should have a simple contract drawn up too showing your payment policy, returns policy, dispatch policy, et cetera, et cetera.

In summation, your P.I. Advertising Package should contain the following: 1. a cover letter 2. a sample or product literature 3. two thirty second and two sixty second adverts 4. your P.I. advertising contract 5. a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

In conclusion, I want to suggest a couple of tips. Whilst you are composing your commercials, try to include a catchphrase of some kind so that you can use it in your off-air advertising to remind people that your product has been advertised on-air. Spend a lot of thought composing your advert: radio station managers are busy, professional people and they cannot afford to waste valuable air time on failures.

If your item sells and makes money for them, you will be welcome back, otherwise you will be ostracized. Put a few ads in the paper and fliers through the doors to pre-warm people to your up-and-coming radio advertising campaign.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a variety of subjects, but is now involved with Bose radio alarm clocks. If you would like to know more, please go to our web site at Bose Digital Radio.

November 10, 2010

How To Get Free Radio Advertising – Part 1

Most business owners recognize that advertising is essential to their business. However, in spite of knowing this, most business owners dislike advertising because it is dreadfully expensive. The trouble is that if you do not advertise, only your friends and neighbours will ever get to hear of you.

For instance, in our average sized town of 65,000 inhabitants, there are thirty-eight pages of builders in the Yellow Pages; each page has two columns and each column has forty to fifty names on it.

These small businesses dream of TV and radio advertising the same as the big companies, but it is just too costly or at least they think that it is. Colossal companies such as Coca Cola and MacDonald’s expend hundreds of millions of dollars on radio and TV advertising, but small business have other, smaller opportunities to advertise locally.

One of these cheaper, sometimes even free, methods of advertising on the radio is ‘per inquiry’ or PI Advertising. This is a type of radio advertising that is very advantageous to the advertiser, because advertisers only pay for every inquiry about their advertisement. It is a bit the same as Google’s ‘pay per click’ or ‘PPC’ advertising on web sites.

First of all, you will require a list of all the radio stations in the locale that you are interested in. You can get hold of a list of licensed radio stations at your local library or they can get one in for you.

Then copy out the names of all the stations in your target region. It is usually best to begin with your own region and fan out from there, but if you have a precise target audience, you will have to some investigation first.

Next you should look through your list of radio stations and mark the ones that are of interest. For example, if you are selling skateboards, it is perhaps not worth advertising on a Classical FM music station.

The next step is to get in touch with the manager of the station or maybe the Advertising Director. Explain your plan to that person in detail. it could go something along the lines of:

“I have a product that research has shown will sell well in your broadcast district if it is advertised on your radio. However, I want to do a test run before committing to any long term advertising strategy”.

“I will do all the writing of the commercial and I will do all the book-keeping. I will send the product out and I will handle any issues and returns quickly and efficiently”.

“You will receive xx% of every sale we make. You take the phone numbers of the inquiries, pass them on to me and I will treat every name you give me as a sale for you. The item I want to sell is a xxxxxxxx, which retails at $xx plus $1 postage and packing”.

This concludes ‘How To Get Free Radio Advertising – part 1′, in the second part, we will be looking at how to secure your free, on-air, radio advertising campaign. Please look for part two on this web site.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a variety of topics, but is now concerned with Bose Radioss. If you would like to know more, please go to our website at Bose Digital Radio.

November 3, 2010

Jobs In The Music Industry Most People Don’t Know About

If you like music a great deal, you might be hoping of going into some area of the music industry yourself. Undoubtedly, you will have been told that this is notoriously hard and I am not trying to insinuate that it is not, but perhaps most people who are trying to get into the music industry are going for the same jobs.

The list of jobs available in the music industry must include teachers, songwriters, doctors, therapists and many others, not only singers and musicians, so it pays to think laterally if you want to go in this direction, because traffic on the main highway is usually at a stand-still. Anyway, here is a list of other jobs in the music industry and I hope that it is of some help to you.

There are jobs with music and record businesses for staff song-writers, that is, for people who write songs for the artists who are contracted to that label. Find a couple of artists that you respect working for the same label, compose some songs for them and apply.

If you cannot find a solitary label that suits you, you could do the same job as a freelance song-writer. This way you are not restricted and can compose for all the artists that you like.

If you are good with words but not such a great musician, you could become a lyricist. A lyricist might or may not team up with a musician to create a song. Like Gilbert & Sullivan or Rogers & Hammerstein.

Jingle-writers are forever in demand, at least good ones are. Jingles need to be short but catchy. Writing jingles pays good money, but it will perhaps not make you famous outside the music industry.

A music publisher searches the market for freelance songs and buys up the copyright or license to publish those songs or to sell or license them to singers and musicians.

A music editor might work with a composer or song-writer to make sure that the timing and the cues for the musicians and singers are feasible.

Notesetters have to have a good ear for music as their job is to write down in musical form what untrained musicians play for them. There are many, many modern musicians who cannot write a note of music but who can produce very good songs. These songs have to be written down by someone and that someone is a notesetter.

A talent scout in the music industry has the official title of Artist & Repertoire Co-ordinator or A&R Co-ordinator for short. A step up from this position is the A&R Administrator, who co-ordinates the co-ordinators and sets and monitors their budgets – a sort of a musical accountant.

Then there are the jobs in public relations. These people usually work for record labels. They promote the artists who have signed onto a record company’s label. There are quite a few levels of responsibility in this department.

An agent or an relations representative, is aperson who promotes his client and finds him or her work. They check the contracts and give business advice. They are well-|known as ‘Mr. Ten Percent’ although in practice it is usually double this unless you are famous.

Campus representatives advertise records to students and promotional staffers promote wherever they can – radio channels, shops, musical directors.

Music teachers teach music to groups from pre-school through to college level. Their responsibilities vary with the age of the student and the purpose of the class.

A music director has the job of supervising policy in school or college or setting the entertainment for a cruise or a holiday camp, hotel or holiday complex.

Then there are organists in churches all over the country, who often double in other musical careers.

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June 15, 2010

How To Draw Buying Customers To Your Products.

If you are into marketing on the Internet, you will be marketing a website of one kind or another. Maybe you own the URL of that web site or youre promoting a generic link which contains your affiliate code.

Whichever scheme you operate, the problem is the same: how to get enough interested visitors to you website, so that, if they are interested in your product, you have a chance to sell it to them, if they can afford it, before they become so distracted that they click away.

This is the largest common problem that every single Internet marketer has, and it is called attracting targeted traffic, getting relevant visitors or something similar. All the phrases come to the same thing ultimately. If no one sees your product they cannot buy it or if your visitors are mainly young people interested in tennis, it is no good trying to sell them bird cages.

So, you obviously need as many visitors to your website, who are interested in your product, as you can handle. This means that you need to be highly ranked in the search engines in order that people can find your website. The most popular and most often-used search engine is Google. So, what is the best way get your site ranked highly in Google?

There are several thousand books on the subject, but practically without exception the serious ones come to the same conclusion, unless they were written by self-interested safe-list or traffic exchange owners. And that conclusion is that you need lots and lots of links to your site.

Very few people will honestly admit to knowing how Google ranks sites, but most people agree that the more sites linking to your site the better. This has lead some webmasters to try exchanging links with each other. It sounds an easy way to get links but Google can recognize reciprocal links. The best links are one-way links, because it demonstrates that someone values your site enough to want to be associated with it. These are called back links.

So, the real problem comes down to how to get enough back links to your site to persuade Google (and the other search engines) that you run such an important site that they should rank it highly for your chosen keywords, which should be relevant to the content of your website. How do you do that?

There are many strategies you can employ such as traffic exchanges, safelists, FFAs, forums and writing articles, but to be blunt, the first three of these are a total waste of time. I used to own a safelist and have wasted thousands of hours on traffic exchanges, all for nothing. Posting to forums can be worthwhile, but then ONLY if the link on your post is a follow link. If it is not, it doesnt do any good and most are no follow links. This means that you have to do some research to find the forums where it is worth you posting to (more on this later). That leaves writing articles as the ONLY sure way to get rock-solid back-links to your site based on relevant keywords.

So, you write an article on a subject relevant to your site stuffed (but not over-stuffed) with relevant keywords and then what? Thats easy! You search Google for article directories and blogs, sign up to a couple of dozen and post your article to them.

And that is the way to get the sort of links to get your site highly ranked, so that people can find you and have a chance to buy what you are selling. The only catch is that Google will expect to see new links appearing on the Internet on a regular basis, which means writing and posting time after time after time after time ad infinitum. Or does it?

Yes, it does, unfortunately. But the process can be automated and automation is the key to online marketing success. Set up a proven, successful process and let it run ” day and night: all day and all night! I use a system that helps turn an article into thousands of variations and posts them to thousands of search engines, directories, lists and websites, creating literally thousands of back-links!

But don’t think that these variations are just spun! (The industry standard way of creating article variations is to use spinning software to substitute synonyms and pseudo-synonyms eg crimson for scarlet in a random way. This works to a certain degree but can produce pure gibberish too sometimes – who would recognize Crimson O’Hara?). The system I use does not employ this method, but still produces thousands or variants all written by human hand. Then it sends them out to article directories and blogs etc.. Thousands of them. In fact today, there are over 11,000 sites on their list and the list is kept fresh on a monthly basis. Most similar lists are not well maintained because it is so time-consuming to do. Therefore, many contain lots of dead, useless links.

This system takes your article, creates thousands of variations and then posts them to thousands of sites. All with your sites link in the by-line, which can also be varied. But not only that! It only posts your article to lists and categories that deal with sites like yours (based on your chosen keywords) and posts according to a schedule chosen by you: ie 10, 20, 50, 100, 1,000 posts a day, starting on any future date you choose! So, for example, you could write three articles and have the first one go out starting the next day at 150 a day; the second one starting after seven days at 150 sites a day; and the third starting after two weeks at a rate of 75 sites a day.

That would give your site at least 3,000 links in a month or 100 a day ” all for 2-3 hours work! If you wrote one article a day (an hours work) and it got posted to only 1,000 relevant sites, you would have 30,000 relevant links in a month. And that does not include the bloggers, ezine publishers and webmasters who paste your article into their publication with your link. You could easily end up with 40-50k links. But it doesnt even stop there, because the article will be live for years and years, quietly beavering away at getting you noticed by the search engines and the people searching them. How many sales could that get you?

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May 29, 2010

What Would You Give To Be Number1 In The Search Engines?

I was wondering whether you had realized just how much article submission software has improved over recent years? For instance, this article has been written and submitted to thousands of directories, lists and blogs on auto-pilot over a period of a month by the world’s best article management software.

Please don’t miss out on this, it is that important if you need to promote any site on the Internet.

Put simply, there is just simply no other traffic generation system that works better, costs less, and is completely immune to search engine changes.

Do not forget, this is not some fancy new black-hat technique. It is completely legitimate, completely solid, and completely reliable. This system will take your article, create thousands of variations and then post them to thousands of sites. All with your sites link in the by-line. But not only that! It only posts your article to sites that want sites like yours (based on your chosen keywords) and posts according to a schedule chosen by you: ie 10, 20, 50, 100, 1,000 posts a day, starting on any future date you choose! So you could write say, three articles and have the first one go out starting the next day at 300 a day; the second one starting after seven days at 100 sites a day; and the third starting after two weeks at a rate of 50 sites a day.

What really is new is that this already well-established method of promotion has now been put on steroids. It combines, for the very first time ever, the power of article submission with the benefits of unique content and it does it in such a way that it really is simplicity itself to use.

It is worthwhile devoting some time investigating this software, if you are seriously trying to promote something online. It will make your job easier by automating a lot of the problems associated with article submission.

It is important to realize that an organic link on the first page of Google provides about six times the traffic of a sponsored (Adsense) link on the same page. Just how much would you from that each month? Now multiply that by, say, a hundred or a thousand and you can begin to understand the value of this method!

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Getting That Number 1 Google Position.

If you haven’t already put your article submission on autopilot, it can only be for one of three reasons:

1. You simply already have enough free traffic to your website,

2. You have not read my previous articles, or

3. You still haven’t been able to realize the power and incredible value of this system. that is, how this will dramatically boost your sales.

If you fall into the first category, then please move on to the next article, this one just doesn’t apply to you.

Otherwise please take a moment to read this article carefully, as it really could make the difference between success and failure to your online business this year. You see, people love to make things complicated, but making money online is actually really simple. Whether you are selling your own product, promoting affiliate links, or making money from Adsense or “click flipping”, it all boils down to just two things:

Conversion and Traffic.

Conversion must come first of all. You need to have an offer that people actually want. That offer could be a product, or an attractive advert (e.g. Google Adsense) that people are compelled to click on. And you need some kind of presentation (such as a sales letter) that encourages them to take the action you require such as to buy the product or to click on the advert.

In many ways this is the easier part. Most people can put together a half decent website or sales letter that will turn at least some visitors into money.

But then, of course, you need ‘traffic’. Shed-loads of it. The more people that come to your site, the more money you will make – especially if that traffic is highly targeted. But, given the number of websites on the Internet – all competing for the same traffic, just how do you get more visitors to your site?

Well, there are just three ways that visitors come to your site:

1. Visitors type your URL straight into their browser. That results from some sort of off-line promotion: it might be your business card, a radio advert, an article in a magazine or a conversation with a friend.

2. People click on a link. It may be in an email they received (eg from a friend or from an ezine they subscribed to) or it may be on another website they have visited.

3. Or they do a search in a search engine, see your website in the listings, and click on the link to visit you.

And that is it. There is no other way for them to get to your website.

So, if we know that, how do we get more traffic? Easy:

1. Advertise your Internet presence in all your offline promotional materials.

2. Get lots of people to put links to you on their website, and lots of people to send out emails with your links in them.

3. Get a top position in the search engines.

Yes.., sounds simple doesn’t it, but maybe it is not so easy in practice? Just how do you achieve steps 2 and 3 without spending bucketsful of cash or getting your site banned by the search engines?

To understand this, we need to think about how the search engines work. Again, it is much simpler than people say.

Search engines want lots of people to use them. To achieve that, they strive to deliver relevant and up-to-date content to people who do a search through them. But how do they determine what is relevant to your search?

There are really only two ways they can do that:

1. They scan your site and, using very sophisticated algorithms, they determine what the subject matter of your website is. They also check how new or old it is, how recently it was updated and so on. These are all known as on-page or on-site factors. You have direct control over many of these factors when you set up your site.

2. They ‘consider’ what other people write about your website. In doing that, they look at two factors: how many people have links to your site (and what those links say) and also how important are the sites that link to your site. An important site of ‘authority’ that points to you is worth more than a whole list of unimportant sites. They also consider how old the links that point to you are, and a number of other factors about the value of the link and the context in which it is used.

At the same time, the search engines are constantly looking out for sites that try to fool them into thinking that they are more relevant or more popular than they really are. Which is why the so-called “black-hat” techniques quickly lose their effectiveness.

So, to get to the top of the search engines you need to do two things:

1. Optimize your on-page factors. There is plenty of information online about how to do that. It is not difficult. But, in itself, it is also not enough.

2. Get lots of high quality, one-way, relevant links to your website from as many other websites as possible.

How do you get people to link to you?

1. Create a fantastic website so that others just honestly want to tell others about your site.

2. Pay others to link to you – buy a text link, or offer an affiliate program.

3. Swap links with other websites – but reciprocal links are clearly not worth as much as one-way back-links and it is a lot of work to do this effectively anyway.

4. Provide them with fresh, unique content that adds value to their site in return for which they must agree to post a link back to you. Thousands of sites are constantly looking for fresh, unique content. They get this content by searching through article directories, or by subscribing to article submission services.

So, if you send out articles to these directories, your articles will end up both on the directories themselves AND on the niche sites that pick up and use our articles. AND some of these sites are likely to be valuable “authority”-type sites. Of course, whether it is taken up and by whom, depends on the quality of your article.

So, as you can see, this last method is the simplest and most powerful. It gives you hundreds or thousands of one way back-links, from relevant, niche sites, all for free. All you need is some way to get a different, unique, article to each of those directories and ezine publishers. Which is, of course, exactly what our software does.

But wait! We don’t stop there. The real power behind this method comes when you use it regularly. Preferably at least once a week. Imagine getting 200 to 1800 new permanent one way links every week! By the end of a year, you could easily have 50,000 or more relevant, quality, one-way links to your site! And you can connect the submission process to a timer to put everything on autopilot!

That is the power of this system and that is why it beats every other traffic generation and SEO system there is.

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March 13, 2010

Putting Your Business On Autopilot

I’ve been an Internet marketer for quite a few years and I own a few different kinds of online business ventures. However, because I am a sole trader, working on my own and necessarily having only a set number of hours in the day, my business activities also have their natural limits. After all, it stands to reason, that one person can only spend roughly 16 hours a day and even then no one can keep to that pace for a long time.

Therefore, the size of an enterprise is limited by the number of people working for it or put another way, the number of man-hours devoted in to it. I suppose that what I’m trying to say is that it’s hard to make a good salary when you work alone.

And so, with this in mind, I have been on the look out for methods to automate parts of my business for quite a long time, although I have already taken several steps in this direction. For instance, I have given up writing HTML ‘by hand’ for a long while and bought a great HTML editor, which I will tell you about some day; I moved to a web-hosting firm that offers unlimited autoresponders amongst other great features and I hire some fantastic article submission software.

However, that left me with little more time and money than previously, although I was running several times as many sites as before and still doing it all on my own. There was obviously something I was missing, but I didn’t know what it was.

Then, one day, while surfing, I came across an article on the subject and it sort of made sense, no revalationary flash or anything like that, but a slow understanding over the next few hours that the article was telling it like I wanted it to be.

To cut a long story short, I bought the ebook and have followed its advice since then without looking back. I now work just the same hours as before, but I operate ten times as many websites and the money is far better.

How could that be? Well, the truth is that this ebook showed me how to interlock all the processes of promoting and developing websites, so that they can take care of themselves for greater periods of time. The time I used to spend on tinkering with websites and SEO to correct minor errors or things I’d left out, I now put into new ideas.

Nowadays, my websites, once they have been set up, require very little maintenance, which means that I can do something else with the extra time. I choose to work, but others could decide to take the time off. It’s really difficult to think of a better deal.

This intriguing ebook on automating your profits will give you at least a day out of five off and maybe even more and that makes it worth looking into on its own right. The ebook is fully guaranteed for 90 days, with a full, no-quibble, money-back guarantee, so you have nothing to lose. Moreover, I promise you that you will learn how to put your Internet business on autopilot and learn how to use your time more usefully.

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March 9, 2010

Internet Businesses

Recent market studies indicate that the growth rate of Internet purchases has been incredibly high during the last couple of years, and despite the conditions of the real world financial crisis that made the online orders register a corresponding decrease, things still look very rosy for the Internet. However, from this perspective, people who promote a service or product as part of an Internet business have lots of things to do before they can see the money roll in.

E-retailing remains a profitable Internet business, but heavy promotional support is usually necessary to beat competition and create profit. Behind the comprehensive online web catalogues that sell us all manner of things, there lies a huge amount of work to support not only the web page as such, but to run continual market analysis and have a realistic picture of where the business stands on the e-market. A pertinent example here would be that of analysing the first-page search results of engines like Google and Yahoo.

The Internet business with the highest likelihood to complete a transaction is the one that appears first when a searcher types a keyword in the search box of the search engine. Therefore, the big competition between the various companies active online is to have a high page rank and a proper representation in the search engines.

This can only be done by the professional support of the web pages and constant monitoring of the site performance, according to the number of visitors and the resulting transactions.

Just like for real-world money-making opportunities, an Internet business needs careful planning. Thus, one targets the market, gathers information on the competition, ensures good resources, attracts finances and funds, if necessary and takes the measures that build customers’ loyalty. Furthermore, depending on the type of product or service offered, the Internet business could require a strategic alliance with other entrepreneurs.

Consequently, for every Internet business idea you get, you need to learn whether there is a market for it. Then, if you lack the budget to invest, you have to seek alternative financing opportunities to support you entrepreneurial aspirations. And last but not least, you should never neglect web site investment.

The design and constant support that keeps your Internet business running could easily cost you a small monthly mint. However, your website is the interface, the place where the customer comes into contact with your product or service, and the impression has to be the best. Good luck!

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February 18, 2010

Internet Marketing Businesses

There are new business opportunities growing in recently-invented sectors of activity since the development of ecommerce. So, how do people make money on the Internet? Well, it does not matter whether we are talking about businesses selling products or services, the question of whether an Internet business is working out or not is best judged by sales.

The growth of competition has forced small and large companies alike to adopt all manner of methods to become or remain visible and profitable online. However, because the methods of achieving these goals are quite complex, a new type of business has appeared: the Internet marketing business. Who are these people and how can they help with business marketing? Firstly, most people lack marketing knowledge and understand very little about the artifices used to promote a business, create a campaign and support a product or service at the top of a search engine listing.

Internet marketing businesses are most often teams of people with proper professional marketing training that have made a profession out of studying the principles of the Internet as a mirror of real-life market transactions. The range of services provided by such companies is vast and comprehensive. Some of them can help you start a business from scratch and build everything you need for online representation, beginning with web page design. What the average service company requires from an Internet marketing business is the creation of advertising campaigns and their monitoring over a prolonged period of time.

The goal of such marketing campaigns is the growth of sales and general company profitability. However, there are various types of services that Internet marketing businesses can implement, depending on the requirements of the customer. Therefore, you could concentrate on search engine marketing, keyword marketing, web site marketing strategies, sales leads, sales lead management and others.

The advertising campaign can become even more specific too, so there can be much more selective targeting. So, some companies need to convert visitors into leads, others want to improve their search engine ranking and small businesses very often require local or regional promotion etc..

And last but not least, Internet marketing businesses are often a very good source of tips for the more knowledgeable web developers, who manage the optimization of their own sites themselves but still require tips on ways and means, tools and marketing techniques.

A good example is the choice of the software necessary to optimize a web page and monitor it constantly, improving the activity and increasing the company’s profitability. What is the criteria for recognizing a valuable piece of software? Well, it is not easy, but good software is usually fairly expensive, but it need not be overly so. It should automate rather a lot of the processes required and it has to produce readily understandable reports that you can act on.

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October 9, 2009

How to Attract Buyers to any Website.

If you are into marketing on the Internet, you will be marketing a website of one kind or another. Maybe you own the URL of that web site or youre promoting a generic link which contains your affiliate code.

It doesn’t matter which scheme you operate, the problem is the same -how do you get enough interested visitors to your site, so that, if they want your product and have the money, they will have a chance to buy it, before they get bored and click away.

This is the most important problem that faces every single Internet marketer and it is called attracting targeted traffic, getting relevant visitors or something similar. It all comes to the same thing ultimately. If no one can see your product, they cannot buy it or if your visitors are mainly young people interested in swimming, it is no good trying to sell them parachutes.

So, you obviously need as many visitors to your website, who are interested in your product, as you can handle. This means that you need to be highly ranked in the search engines in order that people can find your website. The most popular and most often-used search engine is Google. So, what is the best way get your site ranked highly in Google?

There are thousands of books on this subject, but without exception, the serious ones come to the same conclusion, unless they were written by self-interested safe-list or traffic exchange owners. And that conclusion is that you need links to your site.

Very few people will honestly admit to knowing how Google ranks sites, but most people agree that the more sites linking to your site the better. This has lead some webmasters to try exchanging links with each other. It sounds an easy way to get links but Google can recognize reciprocal links. The best links are one-way links, because it demonstrates that someone values your site enough to want to be associated with it. These are called back links.

Therefore, the real problem is how to get enough back links to your site to persuade Google (and the others) that you run an important enough site to rank it highly for your chosen keywords, which should be relevant to the content of your site. How do you do that?

There are several strategies you can use such as traffic exchanges, safelists, FFAs, forums and writing articles, but to be honest, the first three of these are a total waste of time. I used to own a safelist and have wasted many thousands of hours on traffic exchanges. Posting to forums can be useful, but then ONLY if the link on your post is a follow link. If it is not, it doesnt do any good at all and most are no follow links. This means that you have to do some research to find the forums where your post is worth placing (more on this later). That leaves writing articles as the ONLY sure way to get rock-solid back-links to your site based on your site’s relevant keywords.

So, you write an article on a subject relevant to your site stuffed (but not over-stuffed) with relevant keywords but then what do you do? Thats easy! You search Google for article directories, lists and blogs; sign up to a couple of dozen of the relevant ones or in the related categories and post your article to them.

And that is the way to get the sort of links to get your site highly ranked, so that people can find you and have a chance to buy what you are selling. The only catch is that Google will expect to see new links appearing on the Internet on a regular basis, which means writing and posting time after time after time after time ad infinitum. Or does it?

Unfortunately, yes, it does! But the process can be automated and automation is the key to online success. Set up a proven, successful process and let it run ” day and night: all day and all night! I use a system that helps me turn an article into thousands of variations and posts them to thousands of search engines, directories, lists and websites, creating literally thousands of back-links!

These variations are not spun! (The industry standard way of creating variations is to use spinning software to substitute synonyms eg quickly for fast in a random way. This works to a certain degree but can produce gibberish too). The system I use does not employ this method, but still produces thousands or variants. Then it sends them to article directories and blogs. Thousands of them. In fact today, there are over 11,000 sites on their list and the list is kept fresh on a monthly basis. Most similar lists are not well maintained as it is very time-consuming and so contain many dead links.

This system takes your article, creates thousands of variations and then posts them to thousands of sites. All with your sites link in the by-line, which can also be varied. But not only that! It only posts your article to lists and categories that deal with sites like yours (based on your chosen keywords) and posts according to a schedule chosen by you: ie 10, 20, 50, 100, 1,000 posts a day, starting on any future date you choose! So, for example, you could write three articles and have the first one go out starting the next day at 150 a day; the second one starting after seven days at 150 sites a day; and the third starting after two weeks at a rate of 75 sites a day.

That would give your site at least 3,000 links in a month or 100 a day ” all for 2-3 hours work! If you wrote one article a day (an hours work) and it got posted to only 1,000 relevant sites, you would have 30,000 relevant links in a month. And that does not include the bloggers, ezine publishers and webmasters who paste your article into their publication with your link. You could easily end up with 40-50k links. But it doesnt even stop there, because the article will be live for years and years, quietly beavering away at getting you noticed by the search engines and the people searching them. How many sales could that get you?

If you would like to see an example of this systems output, you have already read one ” this article. And if you would like to find out more, follow the link in my by-line attached to it.

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October 7, 2009

Internet Marketing Businesses

We have seen new business opportunities grow in recently-invented sectors of activity with the development of ecommerce. So, how do people make money on the Internet? Well, it does not matter whether we are discussing businesses selling products or services, the question of whether an Internet business is working out or not is best measured by sales.

The extreme competition has forced both small and large companies alike to develop all kinds of strategies to become or remain visible and profitable online. However, because the methods of achieving these goals are quite intricate, a new sort of business has come about: the Internet marketing business. Who are these people and how can they assist with business promotion? Firstly, most people do not have any marketing knowledge and understand very little about the artifices used to promote a business, create a campaign and support a product or service at the top of a search engine listing.

Internet marketing businesses are usually made up of a team of people who have had proper professional marketing education and who have made a living out of studying the motion of the Internet as a mirror of real-life market transactions. The range of services provided by such companies is vast and comprehensive. Most of them can help you with starting a business from scratch and building everything you require for online representation, beginning with the design of the web page. What the most service companies require from an Internet marketing business is the development of marketing campaigns and their monitoring over a prolonged length of time.

The goal of these campaigns is the increase of sales and overall company profitability. However, there are different categories of services that Internet marketing businesses can implement, depending on the requirements of the customer. Therefore, you can concentrate on search engine marketing, keyword marketing, web site marketing strategies, sales leads, sales lead management et cetera.

It can get even more specific too; there can be further targeted objectives. Thus, some companies need to convert visitors into leads, others want to improve their search engine ranking and small businesses often require local or regional promotion and so on.

And last but not least, Internet marketing businesses are often a very good source of tips for the more knowledgeable web developers, who manage the optimization of their own sites themselves but still require advice on strategies, tools and marketing techniques.

A good example is the choice of the software necessary to optimize a web page and monitor it constantly, improving the activity and increasing the company’s profitability. What is the criteria for recognizing a valuable piece of software? Well, it is not easy, but good software is usually rather dear, but it should not be very dear. It should automate rather a lot of the processes you want and it has to produce readily-understandable reports that enable you to alter your website.

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