Online Tools and Strategy to Make Money Online
Free WordPress Newsletter Manager and Autoresponder Plugin
For any Blogger and Internet Marketer email management solutions come in handy.
The first rule in blogging is:
- Create primary content of not less than ten posts before you drive traffic or announce your blog.
- The second rule is to integrate an email solution to capture web visitors and follow up with a series of messages to create a relationship with your visitors i.e. turn your visitors into friends and then into paying customers
I’d like to dwell more on rule #2 .
Most of the IM (Internet Marketers) recommend that you sign up with 3rd party email management solutions like Aweber, Getresponse, prosender e.t.c. There is nothing wrong with these providers but for a starter you don,t want to add an extra 25$ a month to your hosting charges before you make any money or before you get a list that can convert.
This seems like a catch 22. since you need the list to build a relationship and make money whilst not spending as much before your online business kick starts.
Now here is the solution a Free Autoresponder and Newsletter manager Plugin for WordPress Users. Download Free
.. But Wait.. Most hosting companies limit the amount of emails you can send per hour. the normal standard is 500 emails per hour - Currently am using BlueHost .and depending on how the server is busy i can send 500 emails in seconds. Working on a 500/hour limit: What does it transalte to?
If you need to send an email within 24 hours; then to use the free WPA plugin you’ll send 500 * 24 = 12,000 emails and if you want to send the broadcast within 8 hours then 8 * 500 = 4,000 emails
Therefore if you have a list less than 12,000 users you are burning a hole your own pocket and making your wallet to shrink.
Some of the major features that I like in the Plugin:
Includes a Newsletter Setup Wizard
- Create and Save Email Message Templates.
- Integrated Subscription Form checking javascript
- Use Multiple CAPTCHA Instances on same blog page
- New Code Extensions for a smaller, faster plugin
- Send Message with File Attachment (Dowloadable pdf’s, newletters e.t.c.)
- Calendar based Schedule-by-Date
- Automated Bounce Cleaning
Here is a sample of a form generated from the same. See how well it works.
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TwitterCashFormula.com Review : Make Money with Twitter
about 8 months ago - 3 comments
Twitter is the biggest news on the internet right now. There are millions of people joining up to and logging into Twitter everyday, making it the number one money making opportunity on the internet right now. You have access to literally millions of potential customers – all you need to do is reach out to them correctly
It cannot be denied that making money online is becoming even easier. Following the launch of new affiliate site TwitterCashFormula.com, you can now turn your love of social networks and posting into a substantial income of $2,217 a month.
Yet TwitterCashFormula.com is not the first to recognise the potential of this growing niche.
With millions of new members joining Twitter every single day, some of the world’s top marketers have been using Twitter to help generate hundreds of extra conversions a month for their merchant products. And how have they achieved this? Simple. By making announcements on their Twitter accounts and telling their followers what products to buy.
Luckily for the rest of us, for just $27.97, you can now follow suite. By paying TwitterCashFormula.com this one off fee, you will receive access to:
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an auto pilot system designed to increase your Twitter following
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insider guides containing tips from top marketers
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step-by-step videos on how to maximise the potential of your Twitter account
With such resources at your finger tips, turning your Twitter posts/announcements into credible leads is now possible, and can easily be achieved with minimal effort from you.
More excitingly, by promoting your merchant’s products on Twitter you can experience the potential of having access to thousands of individuals whom are all keen to invest.
However, the most exciting addition for us to come out of this package has to be their association with EasyCashBlogging. Normally worth $19.97 this blogging guide comes free when joining TwitterCashFormula.com, and contains highly valuable advice on how to make commissions through blogging.
And we have to admit we were rather impressed with this offering.
Aside from improving your blogging style, this guide is great for any one who is new to making money online. Easy to follow, you can’t go wrong in maximising your Twitter account and making your content attractive to prospective followers.
Is $2,217 a month, truly possible?
Surprisingly, yes. Keen to put TwitterCashFormula’s auto pilot system to the test, we signed up to their system and after only trying their system for a month, we are convinced of its long term potential for producing strong commissions.
Utilising one of our own existing Twitter accounts, after first increasing our following by over 680 people simply by adopting some of TwitterCashFormula’s marketing techniques, we began posting. And this increased following certainly made a difference.
With over 1000 people following us daily, after every merchant announcement, more than 400 of our members began following the post.
However, this was not the most exhilarating part. Of these 400 followers, over 30% of them converted bringing with them commissions of $300- $400 per post. In a month consisting of 8 posts we made over $2,000.
With such tempting prospects to entice you, it is easy to see why Twitter is considered the number one marketing opportunity. If 1,000 followers can bring with them commissions of $2,000 a month, the possibility of attaining 2,000 or even 5,000 followers could open the doors to even higher monthly commissions.
Then there is TwitterCashFormula’s own member’s area.
From their immediate advice on ‘10 ways to use Twitter’ to their tips on how to be original in your copy, it was refreshing to be a part of such a committed network. Everything about their network screamed support which is fantastic for any one still debating the benefits of posting about their merchant’s on Twitter.
If you were not sure before you joined, then TwitterCashFormula’s member area more than does the job of reassuring you. Any questions, any doubts, are all answered through their comprehensive guides and videos.
We particularly loved their breakdowns on how to make the most of your biography. Even here it is possible to improve your marketing strategy and increase the number of conversions you generate through your account.
Then there are your actual ‘Tweets’. For anyone new to Tweeting, this section of their member’s area is highly enlightening in showing you how to attract individuals and increase your following fast. They even offer recommendations of people for you to start following to help boost your own – incredible!
With such support in place it is impossible not to experience success with Twitter. TwitterCashFormula seem to have all angles covered.
Next to catch our attention was their guarantee. With 60 full days to test their system and see if it works, their fee of $27.97 is nothing when compared to the prospect of a full refund if you are not completely satisfied with their product.
And we feel this offering is great for any one who enjoys taking their time setting up a strategy. With 8 weeks to play with, establishing your account from scratch; increasing your following and more importantly making commissions from your announcements is attainable.
It is truly impressive how much TwitterCashFormula.com has achieved in such a short amount of time. With thousands of Twitter users already signed up to their system; they are definitely worth taking a look at.
Top 15 Ways to Build Your Subscriber List
about 1 year ago - No comments
Email marketing can be profitable for any business, no matter what kind of product or service you are selling. It is significantly cheaper than other advertising methods and it helps build credibility with your subscribers. As a result, you can generate more sales and profits.
The Sure Fire Way To Increase Your Sales By 300% With Little Effort
The foundation for successful email marketing is a targeted, responsive and permission-based email list. If you have a list of subscribers that trust you and consider you an expert, you’ve completed the first step and are on your way!
Below you will several list-building ideas that will help you make the most of your email marketing efforts:
- Provide useful, relevant and unique content. Your visitors will not give you their email addresses just because they can subscribe to your newsletter free of charge. You have to provide unique and valuable information that will be useful to your subscribers.
- Add a subscription form to every page of your website. Make sure it stands out so it is easy to find. If appropriate, you can also include it in more than one place. For instance, your opt-in form might always appear in the top-left corner of your site, while you also include an opt-in at the bottom of some of your popular articles.
- Make it easy for your reader to sign up. The more information you request, the fewer people will opt-in. In most cases, a name and an email address should suffice. If it’s not necessary, don’t include it here. (Note: If you don’t have a Privacy Policy, put the words “privacy policy generator” into a search engine and you should be able to find a suitable form for your readers to review.
- Publish a Privacy Policy. Let your readers know that they can be confident you will not share their information with others. The easiest way to do this is to set up a Privacy Policy web page and provide the link to it below your opt-in form.
- Show your first issue or other sample to your visitors. This lets potential subscribers review your newsletter before they sign up to determine if it is something they’d be interested in.
- Archive past newsletter issues. A “library” of past newsletters is both appealing and useful to visitors and builds your credibility as an authority. In addition, if your articles are written with good SEO techniques in mind, they can send additional traffic to your web site through good search engine positioning.
- Contact other newsletter publishers. Introduce yourself and explore ways you may be able to help each other. Perhaps you can introduce other publisher’s newsletters or print articles they have written to your list, with a link to sign up. When you contact them, be sure to tell them why you think THEIR readers would like what you have to offer and why YOUR readers would benefit from their newsletters. This is a win-win scenario; both of you will build your lists faster!
- Give away bonuses subscribers can use. Create an opt-in bonus for joining your subscriber list. You can write an ebook or PDF report, or even hire a programmer to create downloadable or web-based software. But don’t limit yourself to only a gift for new opt-ins. Remind your readers that the next bonus is coming soon. People hate to miss out on things. If you systematically pass on “goodies” throughout the year, your subscribers are unlikely to leave.
- Ask your subscribers to pass it on. Word of mouth is a powerful viral technique that works great with email marketing. If your subscribers find the content you share with them to be informative, they will pass your newsletter on to their friends. This can be a good source of new subscribers.
- Let others reprint your newsletter as long as the content is not modified. Many webmasters and newsletter publishers are actively looking for high-quality content and, if they reprint your newsletter, you will get new subscribers, traffic and links pointing to your site.
- Include a “Sign Up” button in the newsletter. If you are using plain text instead of HTML, provide a text link to your subscription page. You may feel that this is not required because the subscriber is already on your list, but remember that readers will forward your newsletters to others, or reprint it online. You want to make it easy for them to subscribe.
- Add a squeeze page. A squeeze page has one goal ? to get an opt-in and build your list. Think of it like a mini-sales letter for your subscription or opt-in bonus. It features a powerful headline and a couple of very important benefits that should make subscribers salivate to sign up to your list. Once created, use a service such as WordTracker to find hundreds of targeted keywords, and advertise there using pay-per-click advertising from Google, MSN and Yahoo.
- Include testimonials on your squeeze page. This is crucial. Put 1 or 2 strong testimonials from satisfied subscribers on your squeeze page. This can be in any format, but you may find that multimedia (audio or video social proof) is more “believable”. To increase that believability, include full names, locations and/or urls; don’t use “Bob K, FL” as a testimonial name.
- Blog religiously. Blogging is a great way to communicate with your potential customers, and it creates a nice synergy with your email marketing. Be sure to include your newsletter sign-up form on each page of your blog. You can start a free blog at Blogger or Wordpress.
- Post on other blogs. Post great comments and information on similar blogs with a link to your squeeze or opt-in page. Also comment on others’ blogs through trackbacks. In most cases, your comments will be posted on their blogs with a link back to your site. This is an easy way to generate new traffic and subscribers.
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What is blogging?
about 1 year ago - 3 comments
The Internet plays a huge role in the lives of people on the entire planet; it is the fastest means to communicate with friends on the other side of the world and the richest source of information when you have to research for something. The latest trend and probably the most successful way of expressing oneself via the Internet is the blog. What does blogging actually mean? The whole concept revolves around the personal need to express feelings or thoughts, share opinions, spread news or simply have fun. A blog is actually a small individual web page more like a diary that you keep online; it receives regular updates and allows the use of links, photos, videos and extended documents.
Many people were attracted by the “blogging” phenomenon thanks to the great opportunity of making themselves heard by a specific targeted audience. Blogs are not complex web pages, it entirely depends on what the creator wants to share with the world. When you’ve got great pieces of news, funny links or a hobby to talk about, a blog may be just the right way to open up to an international “community“. Most often, blogs attract more attention than large and well-designed web pages? How is it possible for blogging to have reached such a status?
First of all, blogs generally tackle with one issue of interest for the user; there is fresh and rich informational content, and extended friendly links to other sites or blogs in the domain. It has become common knowledge by now that blogs often receive more traffic than other web pages. Why? The answer lies within the very essence of a search engine structure: what a search engine likes most is fresh and high quality content. This is the main preeminence blogs and the blogging phenomenon has managed to achieve ahead of normal web pages.
If blogging started as the perfect diary online, it has now come to acquire different dimensions, of which the commercial one is the most well-developed. I’ll give you an illustrative example here: let’s say you like gardening, and you’ve also started your own home business of growing plants. A blog on flowers, plants and their peculiarities would meet the requirements of other people who share your hobby, but it would also function as a great promotion tool for the development of your business. Therefore, web marketing and the need to communicate happily meet within the very concept of “blogging”.
Blog Traffic – Web 2.0 traffic tactics
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
The blogging phenomenon perfectly integrates in the second generation of web services know as Web 2.0 since this is the most convenient platform for all Internet moves. What is there for bloggers with Web 2.0? First of all, the whole aim of the new web-technology is to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users, on the one hand, and increase the usage rate on the other hand. The next legitimate question that rises here touches on the best ways to attract traffic in the conditions of the transition to blogs that are sources of highly functional content.
Vlogs – video blogs explained
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Most video blogs use some form of web syndication in order to upload and spread the videos online and at the basis of every transmission lies the RSS technology or format. Presently, vlogs, may even be accessed on mobile devices such as pods and mobile phones. Though, the very vlog phenomenon started as a collective attempt, there are many individual video logs that are authored by people who make a hobby out of it. It is a good thing to know that content contributors can get to be paid for their share in the process: on the sole condition that they upload viable material.
The best blogging tools
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Due to the extended dimensions that the blogging phenomenon has achieved, one can hardly image the richness of tools that bloggers may use to improve the performance of their pages in the web circuit. What tools should one look for? First of all you need to select a specific platform to set up for the blog, then other tools complete the picture in case you want to include photos or videos. Last but not least, you definitely need some special software to allow you to easily moderate the comments and fight unwanted mails, labeled as spam.
The advantages of having a blog
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Why do some create blogs and why do others read them? This is actually a ten points question since its answer covers the very working principle behind the entire phenomenon. First of all, we are not far from the truth when saying that bloggers are very much like journalists or columnists, and that the material we find on blogs is very often much more interesting than that in the media thanks to the personal touch writers include in their articles. Furthermore we cannot ignore the interactive dimension of blogs, which is probably the greatest advantage in itself: comment boxes for instant responses, links to documented materials, videos and pictures turn the blog into a magic puzzle.
Photo blogging
about 1 year ago - No comments
Just like vlogs, photo blogs are born from the need to communicate and integrate in a community that has reached international dimensions. A photo blog mainly relies on photo sharing and publishing, while also using textual support as well. Nevertheless, when you visit a photo blog you’ll understand where the focus really lies; the phenomenon deviated from blogging with the advent of the cameraphones that allow the instant photo sharing between web users. The big advantage of such pages is that they are very dynamic in nature as compared to traditional sites. There are photo blogs that belong to individual domains and others that use larger collective services such as Blogger.
Personal blogging
about 1 year ago - No comments
The variant of the online diary, which we are all used to call blog, goes sometimes well beyond the boundaries of simple communication: there are great articles, essays and a lot of interactive stuff that create a very entertaining environment for any Internet user. Furthermore, it is not uncommon to even find future brilliant writers who shape their skill online; it all begins with the regular recording of personal thoughts, ideas, comments on books, films or music. Personal blogs also allow limitless space for the expression of critical opinions from various domains, not to mention that they preserve a record of one’s development.
Optimizing Your Blog for Search Engines
about 1 year ago - No comments
Competition is fierce online, and the top places on the search result pages are the most hunted for; therefore, any blog owner who tries to make money on the Internet needs to use a whole strategy to attract the best visitors and the highest traffic. The working principle for the blog optimization for search engines is the keyword. When you start the race for SEO (search engine optimization), you already have an advantage: blogs are usually the ones to receive more traffic then other complex sites due to their highly informational content. By keywords we mean those sentences or structures that a user types in the search box of an engine.
Blogs mainly rely on articles that are regularly updated and re-freshened, so that they have something new to offer all the time. Before you write the blog content, you’ll need to make a list with all the keywords related to your domain and which are most likely to be typed in the search box by Internet users. A brain-storming session is ideal to find the best structures you need to include in the articles; keep in mind that there are some rules you may have to follow here as well.
For instance, choosing some very general keywords is not the best way to promote a business via a blog given the fact that though you may receive a high traffic, the profit could remain modest. The explanation is very simple here: too broad terms attract all sorts of users, even those that are not interested in purchasing something. SEO experts use all sorts of parameters to check the profitability of a blog, and one of them deals precisely with the number of relevant users the web-page gets.
Once you manage to get the most high-in-demand keywords, you’ll still have to do a lot of work in order to keep the blog position high in traffic. The status of keywords may change from one day to the other, given the intense competition that characterizes the Internet in general; consequently, every time you update or change the site content, you need to perform a keyword analysis beforehand and see where they stand in rankings. Last but not least, there is one thing that remains the golden rule of search engine optimization: quality informational content, that should be the essence of any successful blog! Wordpress is The Best Blogging Software
about 7 months ago
I have never heard about this plugin as i am not sure weather it will be useful in some scene. It will be very beneficial for a lot of people and many will actually like it.