24 Ways to Promote Your Wordpress Blog
June 18, 2009
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1. Add a google sitemap to your site
2. Add a Yahoo sitemap to your site
3. Get your Blog indexed by MSN, Yahoo and Google
4. Submit your blog to directories listed on http://www.directorymaximizer.com/seo-friendly-directories.php
5.Find RSS / Blog Directories at http://www.toprankblog.com/rss-blog-directories/
6. Participate on ecademy.com, soflow.com and Linkedin.com
99 Ways to Generate Traffic To Your Website
June 18, 2009
1. Blog on Ecademy.com
2. Submit your site to www.dmoz.org
3. Submit your site to Google, MSN and Yahoo
4. Join several online social networks
75 Ways to use Twitter for Your Business
June 13, 2009
If you are looking for different ways to use twitter that can benefit your business, then here’s 75 to get you going on with.
- To promote your worthwhile cause/favourite charity on justgiving.com
- To point people to the latest copy of your newsletter
- To promote your internet radio show on blogtalkradio.com
- To tell people of your event on eventbrite.com
- To send out an updated price list to clients & prospects
- To share your powerpoint presentation on slideshare.net
- To ask for referrals
- To qualify prospects
- To tell people about your latest press release on prfree.com/
- To promote your latest article on ezinearticles.com
- To get eyeballs on to your ad on ebay
- To Share some useful tips about your services
- To get signups for your workshops and seminars
- To conduct market research
- To promote your latest podcast
- To share your seminar talk on slideserve.com
- To give your feedback of software you just bought
- To conduct marketing research
- To show the latest thread on your blog (twitterfeed)
- To point them to your press release on PRWEB.com
- To get eyeballs on to your squidoo.com lens
- To get people to book on your workshop via regonline.com
- To position yourself as an expert
- To get new members to your clubs on groups.google.com & groups.yahoo.com
- To promote your articles on goarticles.com
- To increase response to your base.google.com ads
- To tell people about onlywire.com
- To share your white paper on scribd.com
- To launch your new premium service
- To tell people you’re going on holiday
- As a way to promote your products online
- To promote your latest video on You Tube
- To promote your ad on oodle.com
- To allow people to download a trial version of your software
- To promote your latest job vacancies
- To find out what latest job vacancies are out there
- Share some useful tips about your products
- To promote your latest photographs on flickr
- To get comments onto your blog
- To share an important fact form wickipedia.org
- To give referrals
- To help others generate traffic via trafficswarm
- To show your demo video on video.google.com
- To show people your trial software on download.com
- To boost morale
- To create mutual opportunity for friends
- To simplify/improve your customer service and support
- Tto tell people about theresultsacademy.com
- To promote your new membership site on ning.com
- To promote your latest book
- To help with recruitment for your MLM Opportunity
- To remind people of your terms and conditions
- To tell people how to create a mobile website with mofuse.com
- To give people a google map url on how to find you
- To direct people to your ezine sign up page
- To get people to vote for you at dig.com
- To collect case studies
- To get people to sign up to your webinar at gotowebinar.com
- To share customer testimonials
- To run a poll or survey using surveymonkey.com
- To advise others of bad payers / bad debtors
- To point people to your latest article on Business-Scene.com
- To tell people about ping.fm
- To tell people about your new listing on reddit.com
- to tell others what the best sellers on ebay are
- to link to your ads on Friday-ad.co.uk
- to encourage others to subscribe to your group on facebook.com
- To share financial market info from http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/
- To ask for ideas, suggestions and recommendations for new products
- To share a Spreadsheet via Google Docs
- To Tell people how to book on your next webinar
- To share your diary and get your appointments booked up
- To give your feedback of a workshop or seminar you attended
- To demonstrate to journalists how responsive your network can be
- To say thank you to people who care
Free 90 Minute Marketing Plan
June 10, 2009
Simply click on the link above, download, print off, and complete each section.
The all new 90 Day Marketing Plan and software is now included in the Results Coaching Programme.
Struggling to Generate Leads?
June 9, 2009
Do you struggle to generate new leads, enquiries, prospects or sales?
Are you an expert at what you do, performing what you do best, but find it a real chore to identify and perform the right marketing activities to attract new clients? You’ve probably attempted various marketing activities, but found that they haven’t generated the results you wanted? When you acquire a hot prospect do you find that you don’t convert the majority of them into paying clients, and if they do convert, you often think you’re not getting paid what you think you’re worth? Naturally, you’ll find it more rewarding if your marketing activities result in prospective clients calling you ready to work with you.
Marketing really doesn’t need to be a struggle.
The marketing side of your business could be as much fun as delivering the service you provide. Obviously, you’ll find it a lot more rewarding if your marketing activities generate prospective clients contacting you wanting you to help them address the problems, pains, needs and frustrations they have. I bet you’ll be a lot more enthusiiastic, if most of those prospects turn into clients and pay you what you’re worth, and pay on time when you expect payment.
If it’s so easy, why aren’t more doing it?
Marketing Frustration. When all else fails, pick up the phone.
June 8, 2009
Paul phoned me this am.
He and Joanne have been married for 6 years. She works for a local Health Authority, he works for himself as a Graphic Designer. Lately, they’ve been arguing a lot about money. Arguing a lot !!!
There appears to be too much month at the end of the money. Joanne wants Paul to get a proper job - Why he gave up a good job in the city, she’ll never know. She’s fed up supplementing his “Hobby” that he calls work. After all, she paid for the Apple equipment he’s using.
He hasn’t generated a new client since January, and she was expecting him to pay for their summer holiday in Australia. He told her yesterday, that it wasn’t looking as though it would happen because “things are very quiet at the moment.” This resulted in the argument from hell last night, and was the “last straw”, Joanne gave him an ultimatum this morning….
“Do something, Anything to start bringing money in, even if that means getting a job stacking shelves in Tesco.”
She told him, that if he doesn’t take positive action to improving their cashflow by the time she arrives home at 7:00pm tonight then she was “off”.
We spoke for about 30 minutes. I was shocked. He was shocked, (and I bet Joanne would have been as well.)
Business Opportunity: Become a Marketing Coach?
June 7, 2009
Many people are looking for Business Opportunities, Franchises and investments to give them a short, medium or long tem return on their investment…..
…to improve cashflow, beat the recession or simply to better their standard of living and lifestyle.
Perhaps, you are considering “changing direction”, or to “get your teeth into something” or looking for “something to hang your hat on?”
Perhaps you’ve just invested in a business opportunity, and are looking for that warm ready brek glow?
If you’re looking for a return on your investment, and are currently investigating a Business Opportunity, then consider these 5 points.
A market for the products
Is there a market for the products your franchise, MLM company, or Licensor is offering. Is the market growing, declining, reaching a plateau? What’s the size of your market? What are your different segments or opportunities within your target market?
A unique range of products
Is the solution you will be marketing unique? Is it proven? Does it work? Will prospects pay for the solutions you offer? Does the product you sell work? Does it deliver on its promise, and how can you demonstrate that? How can clients decide whether they need the product?
A lead generation system
Business Networking: When someone asks “What do you do?”…
June 7, 2009
..don’t make the mistake of falling into the old formula of L + P = R
Now lets take a closer look at what that actually means.
L + P = R
Label + Process = Rejection.
Most people when asked “What do you do?” give themselves a label.
At this point, think about what “label” you give yourself. For It says nothing about you at all. It doesn’t differentiate you from others in the same field, industry or sector. Quite often if becomes a conversation stopper.
With responses like “Oh we’ve got one of those” or the questioner simply remains unimpressed, as he’s “heard it all before.”
Then most people fall into the process trap. Whereby they actually just answer the question with a boring statement about the process they provide, completely indifferent from others in the same field.
So what can you do to remedy this, extend conversations, and start acquiring most business cards from interested parties?
Affiliate Marketing Programs: 20 things to think about before you start your own
June 6, 2009
Here are a few thoughts to consider when starting an affiliate program….
1. Do you have the time to manage it, or will you get a 3rd party to do it on your behalf - like CJ.com shareasale, clickbank, and linkshare are others. One of the biggest mistakes made by other affiliate program owners is in not managing it profitably.
2. You may want to get your own custom solution and host it on your server. If you’re hosting your own, be prepared for a LOT of hard work - SUPPORTING your affiliates. They want it, they need, and you better give it.
3. How are you going to reward your affiliates - by each lead they bring you or by each sale they make for you, sometimes referred to as CPC (cost per click) or CPA (cost per acquisition)
4. What promotional tools are you going to give them - Banner ads? Text Links? Promotional Emails? Classified ad copy?
5. Many affiliates think they will make money selling your products by simply adding a few links on their site - WRONG. They need to promote your products and services - what are the best ways to do that, and how are you going to help yoru affiliates.
6. Will it be a 1 Tier or a 2 Tier Affiliate program? Will you compensate others on a sale if they introduced other affiliates into your affiliate network?
Marketing Planning: How to save up to £100,000 on various marketing activities
June 6, 2009
Many people often confuse intention with achievement.
Having Good Intentions may be an excellent starting point, but you need to see some results from your efforts, or it counts for nothing. Worse still, the impact all your good intentions could have on your business or personal life can be catastrophic.
Here’s an example…
Yesterday, I had 3 coaching sessions, and one was with a lady specialising in leadership training.
She spends about:
Do the maths. She spends approximately 32 hours per week in all these different marketing activities, but they don’t appear to be as effective as they were “last year”, apparently.
I asked her how much time she dedicates to delivering her training. She said it varies.
