MicroBlogging ?! What A Concept... Plus a Little Something Extra

MicroBlogging ?! What A Concept...
Plus a Little Something Extra




Today I got an email from Willie Crawford (always a welcome event)
with a video so full of valuable content that I just had to share
it. I even left Willie's affiliate link in place at the bottom so
that you can get the discount he is offering.

Frankly, the info is phenomenal even without the
product offered so watch the video and learn!

Click Here to see the Video.

Great stuff isn't it?!

If you can't create traffic with these methods, then you just
aren't really using these methods! The automation software
offered would definitely kick it into overdrive, but very respectable
results can be achieved without it. I plan to kick off this type of
campaign tomorrow AM, first thing. I have about 3 or 4 niches
all picked out...

The Little Something Extra:



When you clicked on the link above to see the video,
you should have noted a couple of things:

First that the link took you to a url that looked like this:

http://floydbogart.com/WCMB.html

And not to what that link originally looked like:

http://sustainabletrafficworkshop.com/lab/microblogging-willie.html

Most people are less put off by shorter, less "Affiliate" looking links.
Also it is good for the link to look like it originated with you, or at least
like you are in a JV with the originator.

Heck, it just looks a bit more professional.
Admittedly, Willie's link wasn't too bad, just a bit too long...

The next thing you may have noted was that the page had a very thin
ad ribbon across the top. This ad is viral, and totally free to implement,
as is the ability to cloak your links to look more professional, and less
"Affiliate"-like.

Here is all it takes:

First Click Here to get Russell Brunson's LinkBrander, at no charge.

In the backroom you can turn those long affiliate links into shortened
"LinkBrander" urls. That is already a step in the right direction, but
let's take it one step further:

Now go and use my HTML Cloaker, totally free of charge, and not even in
a backroom: Click Here to use it Free as often as you like!

Input your "LinkBrander" url in the field for Your Target Web Address,
and give it an appropriate title and push the button. That will generate
a little bit of code that you can put in a text document like NotePad, and
then save as a .html file. Now upload it too you WebHost, and there you
have it!

It's short, it looks like you own it, any affiliate links are cloaked and best
of all everytime someone looks at it, you are earning more traffic to the ads
you set up in your LinkBrander backroom.

You can make the whole thing even more viral by promoting LinkBrander
through Russell's Second Tier Affiliate Program.

Little things like this make your whole approach look more seamless to
whoever is reading your webpage. Professionalism is something that is
mostly noticed when it is lacking, and frankly a few little things like these
can make a huge difference in conversion rates.

Try it!

I'm sure you'll like the results...

Floyd Bogart

What Web 2.0 Really Means...

What Web 2.0 Really Means...


Call me slow, but it has finally hit me that amid all the
hoopla about Web 2.o; Social Bookmarking, Blogging,
and Networking sites like MySpace and Facebook that
it's all really about one thing:

Involvement

Yeah, I know... Pretty obvious isn't it?

The only real way to benefit from the shift in emphasis that
encompasses what is known as Web 2.0 is to be integrally
involved in your market's online community. Through Social
Bookmarking of relevant sites, writing articles on pertinent
subjects, involvement in relevant forums, networking on Facebook
and yes... Blogging!

These are the ways that we will all gain influence, readers - and
thus traffic and thus revenue streams, and thus sales as well.

Nothing else will do!

I have fought this without realizing it for way too long, becoming
like Homer Simpson sitting in front of his computer and saying:

"Okay, send me money!"

None of this is to say that there is no need for marketing tools,
and there is no shortage of quality products available to overcome
the obstacles that anyone seeking to make a living online face.
None of them will alleviate the need for each of us to roll up our
sleeves, wade in and get involved in whatever niches we choose to
market to.

Frankly, I'm kind of relieved and for the first time in a while am
not at a loss as to how to start each day:

Just wade in...

Floyd Bogart

Traffic Generation - Does It Cost You? Or Pay You?!

Traffic Generation - Does It Cost You? Or Pay You?!

It seems like a strange question. It does bear consideration though...

If you are seeking to make a living off of your online endeavors, then in all likelihood a fair amount of your efforts as well as revenue go towards making sure that
the right people are exposed to your websites, blogs, articles and profiles.

So how would you answer the question posed by the title of this post?

My own mantra as an Internet Marketer has been that all of my activities should also be profit centers. When they are not, then further search and research need to be undertaken. This attitude has been responsible for finding resources that have both made and saved me thousands of dollars.

So now let's apply this to traffic generation.

Fortunately, most of my tried and true traffic generation methods cost nothing but time to implement, but other than what my own copy products produced nothing else came of it. You are probably laughing at that last sentence, and it is kind of funny when you look at it. This particular mindset though always makes one take stock to see if perhaps we could do a little better.

Here is one thing that has produced Targeted Traffic as well as Revenues above and beyond what the sites had been earning. What I am talking about are Ad Networks. It is very important to understand that we are not talking about Google AdWords/AdSense here. There are tons of these out there, and many are top notch. The one that I found mentioned be top marketers over and over again is AdBrite


This is one of the most versatile as well as the most effective Ad Networks available to Internet Marketers today. They offer Text Ads, InLine Ads, and Banners as well as Full Page Ads (formerly called Interstitial Ads by AdBrite) There are several high quality reports available that teach you how to set your ads up and customize where your ads appear as well as who they are seen by. AdBrite's Advertizer's Dashboard is quite easy to use and allows for editing your campaigns on the fly, so nothing is written in stone. No doubt many of you are currently using other Ad Networks to promote your sites, and have found them acceptably effective and versatile.

The point to be made here is that within any versatile and quality Ad Network is the opportunity to place their ads on your site as well. This will help to alleviate some, if not all of the costs associated with promoting your own site or blog. You can also monetize sites using AdBrite's InVideo and BritePic features. This can be accomplished by a continual "tweaking" of both your own ads, and the specs on the ads you place on your own sites.

I prefer placing Full Page Ads to drive visitors to my sites, but placing banner ads on my sites. Find the combination that works for you. Look for unique ways to maximize visitors at the lowest cost, while also maximizing revenues earned from those same visitors. My own preferences also include utilizing the BritePics feature, but at this point have not included the InVideo feature. In the near future this will change as the importance of Video increases, and so have the forum posts speaking up on behalf of AdBrite's InVideo.

As you can see, it is possible to maximize revenues to the point that the traffic realized ends up not only tohave a net cost of zero, but actually pays you a nice profit. This will not happen however without constant application of the old "Test & Measure" technique.

As always the most important thing is to take action. Do nothing, and nothing will continue to happen. Take action, however and you put your fate, and therefore your success into your own hands.

Floyd Bogart