Dynamic List Building Strategies - Quick Start Marketing Plans

Welcome to Part 2 of the Quick Start Action Plans

Generating wealth through adsense revenue and affiliate programs have become the most popular strategies online. With good reason, earning additional and in many cases substantial income using these methods has become common among online marketers and business persons.

In our first lesson we covered the benefits and challenges of choosing Adsense as a strategy for earning income. I suggested that you begin by starting your own blog, website or social networks as a easy vehicles to begin your online business.

Is it true, that if you "build it, they will come"? Maybe in cliche world but not in the world of online marketing.

Sorry, I just don't ascribe to the teaching that if you start a blog or website, fill it with adsense and offer a great product that masses of people will automatically come.

I do however believe that if you deliver valuable content and take simple steps to attract the right crowd, they absolutely will come. In internet terms, that is called list building or web traffic development.

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Traffic Strategies

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Today, you learn 3 simple ways to drive traffic to your sight. Each strategy is worthy of your undivided attention. To that end, I will introduce all three today and will proceed over the next three days to provide details on how to get started with each one.


Article Writing

After finding a target audience that is hungry for the information that you provide, you now have to satisfy that hunger. There is no simpler or more cost effective way to do that than to write articles that answers their questions and offers new insights.

It won't cost you one penny and you will only spend approximately 1 hour of your time to write the article (that time will decrease as you get better) You can produce a 400 - 600 word article that attracts your target market like flies at a picnic (ugh! okay not a pretty visual but you get the point).

You don't have to be an academic scholar to write these articles. Though they should be grammatically correct you are providing the education and insight in an area that you reader has never been exposed to. You are now seen as the teacher, the educator, the leader for your audience. If you don't have all of the answers, they don't know that. Simply write what you do know in a reasonably intelligent and

After completing your articles you will submit them to free directories, articles submission sites and even link exchanges with other sites. I'll show what you need to do to attract the attention of the search engines and your target audience.

Link exchange

Don't be mistaken, exchanging links with other sites will not get you hundreds of clicks. When your link is posted on a growing number of relevant sites ( I'll explain why that is the NUMBER #1 thing that you have to understand when exchanging links) your popularity increases with the search engines and subsequently your rank increases.

This strategy alone will not drive massive traffic to your site, but coupled with other strategies it will be very effective. Follow the step suggested in the Action Plan below to get prepared to move forward this week.

If I can give you one warning, DON"T sign up with a site that automates this process and promises you thousands of links overnight until you read the post this week.


Viral Marketing

Here's something that you can implement within the next five minutes. If you are a student of online marketing than you are familiar with viral marketing. It is, in my humble opinion, one of the most effective ways to grow your business.

Not only does it have the potential of spreading the news about your great site like wild fire, but because it uses friends to tell friends, readers who are referred

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This can be added to your blog, website or social network within 5 minutes

http://www.tellafriendgenerator.com/

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After you sign up you will get an email that provides simple html code that can be placed on your website. You will have a choice of choosing text or picture links. The picture will appear with a message inviting your visitor to share your page with three friends. The lead email should be filled out if you want to received a list of the emails that are submitted. This will help you to build your list if you want to send them a thank you note for visiting and invite them to subscribe.

To see how this click the picture with the invitation to refer others in the top left column of this blog.

If you want to place it on each of your sites (and you should) you have to sign up for each site separately. You can sign up as many times as you like.I've been looking for a viral generator for several weeks. This is the first free one that I've found that is simple to place and also very effective.

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Action Plan

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1. Register with article submission sites.

http://www.submityourarticles.com/

Remember, we'll discuss in detail on Monday, how to write articles that demand attention, increase your traffic and position you as an expert to your readers.

2. Register with a reputable link exchange site

• http://www.linkmetro.com/

I suggest that you register with this site but be wise about how you use it. This week, I'll explain the down side to exchanging links and how if you're not careful, it will cause you to be black balled by the search engines.

3. Register your blog with feeders and blog directories

• http://www.feedburner.com/
• http://www.pingomatic.com/
• http://www.blogdigger.com/

Consider these services your own person "town cryer". These are the tools that will get announce your site and new information each time you update. There are a few keys that I'll point out that many people overlook that will help you to grow even faster.

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In lesson 4, we will discuss in detail steps to get started, advantages and reality check for writing articles that will quickly build your list.

Introducing Quick Start Action Steps

I admit it. I sounded off quite a bit in my last blog. In fact, I ranted. I went on and on about my condition ( you remember, I self diagnosed myself with " information overload syndrome).

You lent me both your shoulder and empathetic ear as I shared my symptoms and explained how I became deluged with all of the "help" that is available for people who want to tap into the GOOGLE AdSense, earn a million dollars, reach a million people, work from the beach - not home dream.

Well I'm happy to say that my prescription is working. I'm making money with Google. I'm not a millionaire yet but I've discover the secrets to generating revenue and now I'll simply keep repeating the steps, duplicating my efforts and cashing my checks.

Generate online income using our free Quick Start Action Plans

I promised to give you Quick Start Action Plans to help you shorten your journey to monetary gain. These simple blueprints will be the vehicle that you can use to navigate through the maze of information on the internet. You'll find that there is no rhetoric, no unnecessary jargon, no fluff - just basic plans to jump start your new online business or enhance the one that you have now.

We'll cover the major income generating strategies including AdSense, AdWords, niche websites- also called virtual real estate and of course what would online business be without affiliate programs. You can expect to read each Quick Start Plan in under ten minutes.

Here's how it will work:

Each Quick Action Plan will have

1. An explanation of each strategy in easy to understand terms
2. Quick Start Action Steps explaining how to get started earning extra money today
3. Free tools that you can begin using immediately to make things simple
4. Resources from proven leaders
5. Ongoing support and tips that you can use to keep up with changes

You can get the most out of these crash courses by:

1. Bookmarking this page so that you can have easy access to all of the lessons.
2. Download the free software and programs
3. Subscribe to this forum so that you'll be immediately notified each time a new Actions Plan is published.
4. Don't procrastinate - Take action

To Your Success,

DaJuan

Curing information overload syndrome

Have you heard this one - " Success is not a destination, it's a journey".

Yeah right. I'm convinced that the person who authored this quote was not an online marketer. There is no way that he (or she) could have understood how the journey to build an online empire has become the root cause of a new condition that many budding entrepreneurs are afflicted with called "information overload syndrome". There are massive numbers of "newbies" who have unwittingly contracted this condition. I was one of them and it turns out I'm not alone.

Here's my story. A few months ago, I began my journey to learn how to build a profitable online business. I approached this task with the same excitement, anticipation and zeal that my children did on Christmas mornings when they opened their presents. Of course I want to make "oodles" of money but equally important was the thrill of learning new systems, expanding my way of thinking and capturing a way to reach thousands, even millions of people who need help with marketing strategies and building business credit. The thought of joining the ever growing community of online success stories was intoxicating.

I don't quite remember how I began my search - I think I just googled a word. It wasn't long before I was inundated with online tele-seminars, free e-books, affiliate offers, programs and of course consulting services. I literally felt like I was in a room filled with gifts, wrapped in bright colors and beautiful bows and wouldn't you know it - it was all mine for the taking.

I set out to conquer it all. Needless to say, it wasn't long before I realized that I was getting tangled up and needed to reassess my activities. You see the information just kept coming. Every time I thought I was equipped with the skills to intelligently approach the task ahead, I would receive a new offer informing me that I was missing a vital link. So I kept reading, and downloading and listening to tele-seminars and joining email lists. Gosh, I just wanted to do it the right way.

Now I felt like a child sitting under the Christmas tree, surrounded with wrapping paper and bows - exhilarated but also overwhelmed. That's when reality hit me. It wasn't an intellectual moment, rather it was the appearance of several symptoms that led to the self diagnosis of my syndrome. As Oprah would say, I had an aha experience.
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Do you share in my symptoms?
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1. I found myself consistently spending money upgrading my free programs to "gold versions"

2. After being told by so many gurus that I needed yet more tools, my confidence begin to dwindle. What if I really wasn't ready

3. I was subscribed to so many lists that I didn't have time to read them all - much less implement them

4. I was collecting quite an impressive library of e-books that individually were all very good - but collectively I couldn't seem to develop a cohesive system

   
   

5. I realized that I had it - the paralysis of analysis - I was spending so much time "learning" that I wasn't "doing"
   

I diagnosed myself with "information overload syndrome' and set out to find a quick cure. Amazingly, the answer came just as quickly as the gurus and systems did. I just had to get focused, get organized and get moving.

I found my cure. I chose three successful and reputable teachers and decided that I would commit to following their systems until I was successful. It's not that I don't believe that other systems would lead to my success. But let's face it, we only have so many hours in one day, so we have to choose the tools that are most effective.

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Here's my prescription for healing.

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1. Get focused - Narrow down what you want to accomplish. Do you want to build a large list so that you can create a warm market to sell products to? Do you want to generate additional revenue? If so, do you want to use google adwords, adsense, niche webpages or all of the above.


2. Get organized - Now that you know what you want to accomplish, choose your tools. You can do this by choosing the mentor/teacher, investing in their materials ( use all of the free information first) and dedicating yourself to following ALL of his/ her advice.


3. Get moving - Recognize that you will NEVER stop learning about online marketing. There are new tools, gurus and systems being introduced on the internet everyday. Also, the major search engines such as Google and Yahoo are constantly changing After you've focused, set your goals and chosen your mentors, it's time to follow Nike's advice and "Just Do I"

I heard a quote (on a tele-seminar of course) that said "You don't have to be perfect, you just have to get started". In the next three articles, I'll help you to personalize each of the healing steps by providing simple action plans that will also get you simplify the process of moving forward.

Success may be a journey but we all want to reach a destination point that produces both monetary and personal results. Let's just do it - together.