Blog Marketing

Blogging is fun !

2011-12-28T21:00:00.000-08:00

Undoubtedly blogging is fun. You write whatever is on your mind. You can set up blogs on Blogger or Typepad. Blogger seems to be the most user friendly.

I have 39 active blogs on Blogger . I get a lot of traffic from these blogs.

You can put Adsense ads on your blog. Also Adbrite and other affiliate ads and you get paid either PPC or PPS ( Pay Per Click or Pay per Sale ).

Blog Marketing is the latest buzz. If you use a conversational tone you will get a big audience. Never broadcast. Never indulge in self promotion. Never sell. Be altruistic and share your knowledge with the international community !

Wealth or Knowledge should not be accumulated. It should be shared with our brethren. Marx, Jesus and Aurobindo were altruistic and they shared their immense knowledge with their brethren. Let us go after Almighty Love and not after Almighty Mammon !

You can share not only articles written by you, but also your favorite videos and photos dealing with that topic. You can go to social networking sites like Facebook or Google Plus and update your status and tell your friends that you have been blogging, with links pointing back to your blog ! This is the joy of Blog Marketing !

Marketing Bible !

2010-09-24T07:56:00.000-07:00

Do you want to study Marketing and its different branches?. The Marketing Bible for New Businesses is the answer. A remarkable book full of business tips or marketing secrets, tips, checklists, how to guides and guerilla marketing tactics that you can start using immediately to increase sales leads and create outstanding marketing campaigns that will drive business to your door.

This book is not about Theory, but is full of hard and fast proven techniques that work and generate real opportunities for your company. Email Marketing, Database Marketing, Blog Marketing, Viral Marketing - it deals with all aspects of Internet Marketing. Marketing knowledge is essential for success, as success depends on Marketing.

This book covers a range of marketing techniques, from a 7 step direct mail system to how to use new technology such as blogging for marketing internet success. Some of the stuff inside attract ideal clients develop a profitable niche make your brand work get known as the expert top advertising tips run successful seminars use exhibitions effectively make the internet work marketing literature tips search engine marketing direct mail made easy win business with blogs database marketing how to keep clients measure what matters tips for choosing an agency.

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If you want to be a good Real Estate Agent

2010-09-22T08:43:00.001-07:00

Do you want to be a professional realty agent ? If so, Knowledge is the criterion and you have to have adequate knowledge to succeed. The Millionaire Real Estate Agent by Gary Keller is a superb book to enhance your real estate knowledge. You can take your real estate career to the next level and Gary Keller knows the simple path to a formidable goal. Whether you are a novice or an advanced professional, The Millionaire Real Estate Agent is a great handbook to be used. With the right kind of knowledge, one is apt to succeed. A must for the novitiate and a guide for the professional !

Intellectual Books

2010-09-15T17:32:00.001-07:00

Do you feel stressed out ? Millions feel so. There is no need to panic, as there is a technique to heal your mind and strengthen your body. The technique is Yoga. You many ask How ? With a combined strategy of yoga stretches and meditation. You can feel the stress melt away as you practise the ancient art of Yoga and Meditation to help bring your emotional well beinto into balance and keep your body fit at the same time. Yoga has natural healing properties that can alleviate the symptoms of most common ailments. " A Beginners Guide to Yoga and Meditation " is a gem from Dr Shashi Patwardhan. A must for the novice.

Dr Shashikant's " A Practical Guide to Yoga " breaks the mold of all the other Yoga instruction books you have heard and read aloud, presenting proven steps to help you achieve Self Actualisation.

Blog Copy - The Blogger's Secret Weapon

2010-08-10T20:34:00.000-07:00

BlogCopy is a great site. It is the secret weapon of bloggers. Visitors to your blog read your posts and they copy and paste your contents. You can with Blog Copy find out what they have copied and this is valuable feedback on your content. You can use it to understand which keywords attract more users.

You can access the Stats in your BlogCopy account and know what is worth reading on your blog. This can be a useful feed forward for your blog. You can use it to build your brand and promote your blogs and sites.

A rich source of instant information delivered to the world, BlogCopy is becoming world renowned. Your readers will find it interesting and worth mentioning. Because of their copy- pasting your content, you can generate more page views and visits just by knowing what they copied from your blog.

You get sustainable results by improving you Search Engine Rankings and get credit as your content is being copied. Which means more reputation, more fame and more money !

Social Marketing 2.0

2010-06-27T01:21:00.000-07:00

You have to get into the Web 2.0 bandwagon and invest time in implementing your marketing strategies. Sites, blogs, feeds all have to be submitted to the search engines and socially bookmarked..

Blogging is one of the best methods of Social Network Marketing. Social Bookmarking is another. You can get immense traffic due to Social Bookmarking. I get 1000 hits a day for my blog http://www.eastrovedica.net from Social Bookmarking. I submit to Digg, del.icio.us, Multiply, Faves, Spurl, Furl, Myspace etc and my submission do bring in a lot of traffic. I do own a Social Bookmarking site, www.eastrovedica.info, which also gives me good traffic.

For Social Bookmarking, building a Great Profile is a must.

All users are not equal and it is time to build a great profile. If you are well known as a user who has submitted tons of interesting stories, then highly probable are the chances that what you submit will be noticed. You should not only bookmark your articles on your site or blog, but links to other interesting articles on other sites. This shows that you are a lover of information. If you bookmark only your articles, it implies that you are indulging in self promotion. If you post other links, that shows you are well informed and wants to point out quality information to the international community.

Link with other social bookmarkers

You cannot do it alone. You have to have links with other social bookmarkers. If your friends vote for you, the probability is more than other will also vote for you. The votes from your supporters may act as a catalyst in getting more votes and your story will be very popular on Digg, delicious etc

Submit new news

Dont submit old news, which have become obsolete. You have to understand that yesterday was a dream and that yesterday's news was part of history.

Give accurate facts

If your story doesnt contain accurate facts, you are in for trouble. Your readers will find out if there are any inaccurate details in your story and the votes which you will get will be negative.

You have to understand the it is quality content which attracts all. If you provide proper quality information, people will vist your sites and blogs. If your article is topclass, that article will definitely attract traffic. You have to submit the url to search engines and socially bookmark the article for maximum exposure.

How to Make Money with Squidoo Lenses

2010-06-27T01:19:00.000-07:00

Squdoo lenses are like blogs. You can create a lens at www.squidoo.com . Any number of lenses can be created at Squidoo. It is more or less similar to Blogger, where you can create any number of blogs. You get paid by Blogger for the Adsense ads ( or any ads ) which you exhibit on the blog. Similarly Squidoo pays you for the Adsense ads, the YouTube videos, the Ebay products, which are displayed on your lens.

According to the Squidoo Terms of Service, you can get 50% of adrevenue. You can display Google Adsense ads, YouTube Videos, Flickr photos, Ebay products and many other items. The visitors which come to your lens, read your articles and if they click on the ads displayed on your lens, you get paid by Squidoo.

This is a beautiful concept, as great a concept like Google Adsense.

I created 10 lenses and here they are

http://squidoo.com/BlissAbsolute
http://squidoo.com/ZodiacAstrology
http://squidoo.com/VedicNumerology
http://squidoo.com/AstroSoftware
http://squidoo.com/IndianGems
http://squidoo.com/BlogWisdom
http://squidoo.com/ZFiles
http://squidoo.com/Tantricknowledge
http://squidoo.com/Fourfoldyoga
http://squidoo.com/Prana

OK, the concept is fine, but how do you become successful as a lensmaster ?

The answer is simple; you have to get traffic to your Lens ! Traffic is Internet gold.

How do we get traffic? The answer is elementary, Article Marketing !

You can write articles on your favourite subjects. It is interest that generates knowledge. You can give the hyperlik of the lens in the Resource box like this

Article by G Kumar, astrologer, writer and programmer of http://squidoo.com/BlissAbsolute. He has 15 years research experience in Stock Market Astrology and other in various other branches of Astrology. Recentlyhe was awarded a Certificate by the Planetary Gemologists Association as a Planetary Gem Advisor. He has created an Astro Software lens at http://squidoo.com/AstroSoftware

Now people who read my articles click on the hyperlinks in the resource box, and lo ! I have got traffic, which is Net gold.

There are other methods also. Social Bookmarking can be resorted to. Social Bookmarking sites like Yahoo Bookmarks, Google Bookmarks, Furl, Spurl, del.icio.us, Stumble Upon, Blue dot etc can give you additional traffic.

Another method is to create a quality lens, so that it gets a higher Ranking. If your lens get a high rank, you will definitely get good traffic, which in turn will give you adrevenue !

You should tag your lens with the appropriate keywords. Let your lens stand out and let it be a cut above the rest !

Good luck with Squidoo lenses !

Viral Marketing _ Secrets Revealed

2010-06-27T01:18:00.001-07:00

Viral Marketing means to give away ebooks and e-articles freely so that it spreads like a virus exponentially. In the ebooks and e-articles, we give links to our site and a short bio or resource box declaring who we are.

It is also known as the Pull Strategy of Marketing. The Resource box at the bottom contains the link to our site. Provided the article is good, the reader of that article clicks on our site address and comes to our site. We have, in other words, pulled him/her to our site via our article. We also provide our email address. The reader can click and contact us at any time.

The article proclaims that we know the subject and we will be considered experts in our field if we write good e-articles and e-books and distribute them. Some people find it difficult to distribute them freely. After all creating an e-article or an ebook is time consuming. So what is the advantage in distributing them free? But if you want the much needed exposure which is crucial to business success, better give it away!

" Be an expert with your own booklet " is what the marketing geniuses proclaim. If you write a booklet about the subject you are dealing using technical terms, people will definitely ask you about the terms and the subject in general. Answer their questions and they will respect your knowledge and expertise.

Write Articles

The mantra on the Net is 'Publish or Perish'. The Net is defined as the Information Encyclopaedia. It is a repository of free information and resources.

You can write on the subject which deals with your area of expertise. The main ingredients of content creation are Research, knowledge, skill and style.

Research

Read books on the subject. You can go to search engines and type the subject that deals with your area of expertise. You can subscribe to other ezines which deal with that subject. And thus study more about the subject.

All information is available on the Net. All you have to do is to go to the search engines and group lists and find out information about your subject.

Knowledge

You have heard the proverb " Knowledge is Power". There are many types of knowledge. Technical knowledge, marketing knowledge, knowledge of language etc. We have to be accepted by the target audience. For this we should convince our customers that we are experts in our field. Be a specialist first, then be an expert and then be an authority, a self-development expert used to say. If you know more than your competitors, definitely you have a competitve edge over your competition. If you can establish that you are a scholar in your field and is head and shoulders above your competition in knowledge, they will come in droves. Why should they go to somebody who is less knowledgeable?

So it is imperative to develop professional knowledge, to study more and more about the subject we are dealing with, even though it is time-consuming. Remember on the Net, there are so many scholars in various fields, each claiming to be experts in their field. On the Web, the competition is fierce and is only a click away. So our chances of survival are bright if only we are equipped with the latest knowledge in our field. The customers are not fools and they will evaluate us as well as our competition.

Skill

Writing skill does not come all of a sudden. Writing is basically intuitively inspired and comes from within. But this creative talent is in all of us. We have not tapped this divine resource fully. If we give ourselves to Meditation and lapse into silence, we can see that this talent blossoms of its own. Age is not a factor for we see Goethe wrote "The Faust" at the age of eighty and Chaucer wrote "The Canterbury Tales" at sixty!

Start by writing whatever you feel about the subject you are handling in your diary. Group these small bits of information. When you assemble these tiny bits of info and arrange them, you will be surprised to know that you have written an article. Improve on what you have written. Let it take some days and after some days of improvisation, you will come to know it has become a great article.

It so happened to me. The first article I wrote was about Astro Numerology and I sent it to some friends. They hailed it as a great article. This was a great boost to my morale. I started an ezine, the Z Files and published my own articles which was well received by the multitude. This furthur boosted my confidence. I then submitted my articles to the ezines which deal with Astrology. The publishers thanked me and published my articles. My hits trebled. Now I have many requests from publishers to use my articles in their Site or Zine.

Style

Every man has a style of talking and a way of writing. We have not written much and that is why we are not aware of our hidden talents. If you start writing simple ideas in your diary and then later expand these ideas, you will be stunned to see that you are an excellent writer. Just imagine what would have happened if Dante had not written the Divine Comedy or Shakespeare had not written his dramatic poems! Where would English Literature be without these gems ?

The pen is mightier than the sword. The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr! Write yourself to glory! Write yourself to fame ! Writing can take you from obscurity to omnipresence!

Intellectual Marketing 2.0 for Infopreneurs I

2010-06-27T01:16:00.001-07:00

An infopreneur is defined as one who sells info products. You can sell your
info products via the Web, via blogs, sites and lenses !

Article Marketing continues to be the best method for getting exposure and
traffic to your sites, blogs and lenses !

Create blogs on Blogger or Wordpress. Create as many blogs as possible. Also
create lenses on Squidoo. I created 23 blogs on Blogger and 24 lenses on
Squidoo.

From your Squidoo lens, give links to your blogs and sites. From my main
Squidoo Lens, http://squidoo.com/ZodiacAstrology, I have given links to my
main blog, http://zodiacastrology.blogspot.com and to my main site,
www.eastrovedica.com Cross Link all blogs, lenses and sites. Give different
types of info on blogs. I have a Marketing blog, Astrology blog, Numerology
Blog,
Gemology Blog etc. So also Numerology, Astrology, Marketing lenses !

One blog post is more or less 200 words. Convert 3 or 4 blog posts into one
article. You already got content. All you have to do is to edit it and lo !
you have an article !

After creating an article out of blog posts, you can

Post the article to your Squidoo Page
Post the article to your site
Email the article to subscription lists
Send it to article directories
Send it to article submission lists

Immense are the benefits of Article Marketing! The e-article has been
defined by Ron Knolton as the ultimate promotional tool and it is this tool
which will get you traffic.

If you convert blogs posts into articles, you can have as many as 1000
articles per month. Your articles will give you tremendous exposure,
generate leads and get you the much needed traffic for your blogs, lenses
and sites !

The Benefits of Article Marketing

1) Lead Generation
2) Increased traffic
3) Increased Rankings ( Alexa traffic rankings, Google Page Rankings, Yahoo
Inbound links etc )
4) Postioning you as an expert

Your articles will appear on the article directories and these articles will
get you traffic. My YBL (Yahoo Inbound links) for my main site,
www.eastrovedica.com was 1800 last year and in one year of Article
Marketing, it has gone upto 18000 YBL, a tenfold increase ! I get around
2000 page views on Google and 4000 on Adbrite !

If you have Adsense ads, Adbrite ads etc on your sites, blogs and lenses,
you can benefit from adrevenue. Just get traffic to these blogs, sites and
lenses and your adrevenue will go up !

I have created promotional lists, a list of article submission centers,
social bookmarking sites and blog submission centers & you can make use of
my promotional lists.

Submit your blogs to these blog submission centers
http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/blogsubmissioncenters.asp

Submit your web and blog pages to these social bookmarking sites
http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/socialbookmarkingsites.asp

Submit your articles to these article submission centers
http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/articlesubmissioncenters.htm

Good Luck with Intellectual Marketing !

Intellectual Marketing 2.0 for Infopreneurs II

2010-06-27T01:14:00.001-07:00

Internet Marketing is a tough job. Intellectual Marketing is that Art by whch we use our intellect to generate traffic.

Creating a website or blog is not enough. Your sites and blogs should achieve visibility on the search engines. Then only will people come to your site. Remember a blog or a site without traffic is zero. It is traffic which makes a site great. Yahoo, Google or MSN get tremendous traffic ( above 1 miilion hits a day ) and that is why they are ranked high.

There are many methods of attracting traffic. You have to submit your blogs, feeds, urls, articles etc to the respective directories. Then only will they achieve visibility on the search engines.

Talking and writing about generating traffic is easy. It is difficult to get a lot of traffic. One has to do Intellectual Marketing religiously. I put in 10 hours of Web Marketing every day. Otherwise my blogs and sites will be devoid of traffic !

After you have created your blogs, you have to submit them to the blog directories

Submit Your Blogs

This is blog submission web page I use to submit my 28 blogs

http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/blogsubmissioncenters.asp

Submit Your Feeds

The xml feeds of your sites and blogs should be submitted to the feed directories. I submit my feeds to this site

http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-submission.htm

Submit Your URLs

Every web page or every blog page you create is a Uniform Resource Locator or url. You should submit your urls to the Search Engines.

I submit my urls normally via www.addme.com

Submit your Articles

The articles you create should be submitted to the article directories. I use this web page to submit my articles

http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/articlesubmissioncenters.htm

Ping your blogs

You can submit your feeds using Pingoat ( www.pingoat.com ) or Pingomatic www.pingomatic.com

Create Squidoo Pages

Squidoo is heavily trafficked and I created 27 lenses on Squidoo. Each Squidoo page is a url and they should be submitted to the Search Engines. Once submitted they will be visible on the Search Engines. Once they are visible, you will get traffic to your Squidoo Page.

From your Squidoo page you should give links to your blogs and sites. That way you will get fairly good traffic.

Use Social Bookmarking

To get traffic, you can submit your pages to Social Bookmarking services like Digg, Technorati etc. These social bookmarking sites get around 1 million bookmarks a day. The web or blog page which you bookmark becomes visible and people read and click and lo ! you have got traffic.

I use the Social Bookmarking Button of AddThis ( www.addthis.com ). It submits to over 16 Social Bookmarking Sites.

Good Luck with Intellectual Marketing !

The Brahman of Web Marketing I

2010-06-27T01:12:00.000-07:00

There are seven main strategies of Web Marketing.

They are

1) Article Submission to the Article Directories
2) Submitting the Site to the Search Engines
3) Ezine Promotion
4) Ezine Ads
5) Participating in Forums, Blogs, Discussion Lists
6) Signature File
7) Create A Weblog or Blog

These sevenfold strategies can be termed as the Brahman of Web Marketing,
( Brahman being a term for the Ultimate Reality ).

Article Submission

This is known as the Pull Strategy of Viral Marketing.

Write an article, with a resource box which contains your dot com,
your mobile no etc. You have to submit it to article directories.

It is said that the pen is mightier than the sword. That statement cannot be
truer on the Web, which is a written medium.

If you submit your article to the article directories, readers and
publishers ( Webmasters, ezine publishers, ebook publishers ) visit the
directories for content & they will download your articles & publish
them. You get free publicity & exposure. People click on the hyperlinks
and lo ! they have come to your site. This is called Article Marketing,
which is another synonym for Viral Marketing.

You can compile your articles into an ebook and give them away. The ebook
should contains your site's hyperlinks. Readers will click on your links &
visit your site.

Remember, Traffic is Internet Gold. Without traffic, you cannot succeed. You
have to bring people to the site and then only can you market.

Take up the pen, write and submit content to Article Directories. This is
the age of the Article Directories and there are more than 500 of them. You
can access the Article Directories List at

http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/articlesubmissioncenters.htm

Writing an article is not difficult. You can get the content from books
which deal with the subject. Or you can get content from the search engines.
For example, go to Yahoo or Google and type the subject. In my case, the
subject is Astrology and when I type Astrology, many astro sites open up.
You can get articles on Astrology, study the subject and write about it.

Submitting it to Article Directories is not difficult either. Here is a
small list

www.articlenetworks.com
www.articlewisdom.com
www.article-content-king.com
www.articles-submit.com
www.articlegnosis.com
www.newfreearticles.com
www.articlenexus.com
www.articlealley.com
www.a1articles.com
www.contentarticles.com

This is a small list. If you want a bigger list, pls click
http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/articlesubmissioncenters.htm

You can sign up for a Free Account at one Article Directory. They will
send you an Activation Link and once you click that, you have become
their member and you can submit your articles to that directory. The Admin
will approve your articles, content publishers will download your
articles and publish them on their ezines or websites ! Your articles
should have a byline, a bio or Resource Box, which points to your site.
Readers read these articles and click on your website link and you get
solid traffic !

Submitting the Site to the Search Engines

This is known as the Push Strategy of Viral Marketing.

This is submitting your url to the search engines. Also your press release
to the sites which accept press release.

I use Addme.com, ( www.addme.com ) which submits the url to the major 14
search engines free. Also Submit Plus, ( www.submitplus.com ) which submits
to 110 search engines free. Also http://www.searchenginesubmission.biz ,
which submits urls to 34 SEs !

You can write a press release and submit to PRWeb. There are many sites
which accept free Press release.

You can submit a Free Press Release at
http://www.pressbox.co.uk/

How to increase Blog Traffic by Article Marketing

2010-06-27T01:10:00.000-07:00

Article Marketing is defined as that art of marketing by which we get a lot
of traffic due to submission of quality articles to article directories.

Each article contains a resource box. 3 urls are permitted in the resource
box. Here is a sample resource box which gets me traffic

Article by G Kumar, astrologer, writer and programmer of
www.articlewisdom.com & www.articlegnosis.com He has 15 years research
experience in Stock Market Astrology and other in various other branches of
Astrology. Recently he was awarded a Certificate by the Planetary
Gemologists Association as a Planetary Gem Advisor. To subscribe to his Free
ezine,the Z Files, click here
mailto:info@eastrovedica.com?subject=ZFiles . Blog -
http://blog2wisdom.blogspot.com

First url is my main website url. Second one is the free subscription to my
Zine. And the third is the blog url.

This is the resource box used when I submitted an 'Blog Your Way to the
Bank' article to article directories.

Now the Zine publishers and website owners are looking for quality articles.
They can get these articles from the article directories. They visit the
article directories and download articles of their choice. They publish
these articles in their Zines/ Websites.

The readers read these articles and click on these hyperlinks. And what do
you get ? Traffic, which is Internet Gold !

Normally you can submit a 3 url resource box. Putting more than 3 urls in
the Resource box is risky.

Here is a list of Article Directories. I used to submit articles to these
directories, which has given me good traffic.
http://www.indiaonline.in/articles/post-article.asp

http://www.eastrovedica.in
http://www.articlegnosis.com
www.articlenetworks.com
www.article-content-king.com
www.articles-submit.com
www.newfreearticles.com
www.articlenexus.com
www.articlealley.com
www.a1articles.com
www.contentarticles.com
www.kokkada.com
www.article99.com
www.articlefinders.com
www.articledepot.co.uk
www.articlesfactory.com

http://www.article-spot.com/
http://www.articlesymposium.com/
http://www.articleteller.com/
http://www.articlewheel.com/
http://www.bigarticle.com/
http://www.christiannotepad.com/
http://www.dognewscenter.com/
http://www.easyarticles.com/
http://www.e-calc.net/

www.contenttycoon.com

www.articlewisdom.com

www.articlecity.com
www.articlehub.com
www.ezinearticles.com
www.articlestop.com

www.articledashboard.com
www.goarticles.com
www.articlewebdirectory.com
www.articlebiz.com

www.articlefever.com
www.contentfueled.com
http://www.Free-Articles-Zone.com
www.articlesender.com
www.articlerich.com
www.articlesphere.com
www.articles-submit.com
www.articlemaniac.com
www.postarticles.com
www.upromote.com
http://www.freezine-articles.com/
http://freezinesite.com/
http://www.hotlib.com/articles/
http://www.ideamarketers.com/
http://www.internetarticledirectory.com/
http://www.klienwachter.com/adarticles/
http://www.mainstreetmom.com/
http://www.media13.com/
http://www.mydolittle.com/
http://www.myfamilyliving.com/

www.freearticles.com
www.articles.co.nz
www.articledatabase.com
www.article-warehouse.com
www.authorconnection.com
www.articleempire.com
www.articlecircuit.com
www.articlecrazy.com
www.writeyourarticles.com
www.articlemailbox.com
www.articlestack.com
www.articlestogo.com
www.articlebiz.com
www.articles_galore.com
www.add-articles.com
www.spiritualminds.com
http://hotlib.com/articles/submit.php
www.book-of-thoth.com
www.drualtys.com
www.bharatbhasha.com

My main site, www.eastrovedica.com has got more than 384 K hits and my main
blog, recently started, http://zodiacastrology.blogspot.com has got more
than 10 K hits, mainly due to Article Marketing !

All my 22 blogs have got good traffic. Also my five websites and I attribute
all this to Article Marketing. I blog regularly about the subjects I love -
cricket, marketing, blogging, philosophy, astrology, gemology, numerology
etc. Many come to my office to learn blogging.

I have also monetised by blogs and sites and I get monthly checks from
Google & Adbrite, thanks to Article Marketing !

May you increase your blog traffic with Article Marketing

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Article Marketing - Secrets Revealed - Part II

2010-06-27T01:08:00.000-07:00

Articles give us tremendous free exposure. This is the secret of Viral Markeing which is Free Advertising. If our article is good, it will be displayed in ezines and websites and the resource box at the end will proclaim who is the author of that article. Many a reader will click on the link to our website and we get phenomenal
amount of traffic!

When writing an article, it is the Resource box which pulls people to the site. The Resource box must be well written. I used to write like this

Article by G Kumar, Astrologer & Epistemologist of http://www.eastrovedica.com/ He is a good Viral Marketing expert & has made his dotcom successful through VM. To subscribe to his Free ezine, the Z Files, click here
mailto:info@eastrovedica.com?subject=Subscribe

You should give your site's name & your email address in the resource box. If you have an ezine, you should give the email address for subscribing to your ezine. In the Resource Box, it is better to give a short bio of yourself and your area of expertise. Those who are impressed by your article will definitely subscribe to your ezine as they thirst for more quality information.

Successful marketers never try to sell their products at the first instance. What they try is to get a free subscription to their Ezine! It is their sophisticated approach that sells !

The main principle of Marketing is Never Sell - Influence. It should not look like business. If you write an ad, it should not look like an ad.

Once people subscribe to your ezine via your Resource box, you can give freebies - free reports, free ebooks and free consultancy. They become your loyal customers ! They will refer more people to your site and your business will thrive.

Once the article with the Resource Box is finished, you have to market it to your target audience.

What I used to do is go to the search engines and type in "ezines" which deal with your subject.

Since I started writing articles on Astrology, I used to go to Yahoo, Ebay, Altavista etc and type in Astrology Ezine and search.

This search will give a list of Astrology Ezines. If your subject is Medicine type Medicine ezine and search.
Suppose it gives 40 lists. You go to these websites and write down their email addresses. Then you write a covering letter to the Zine Publisher and submit your article to be published by him/her.

I used to write like this:

Dear Zine Publisher,

I came to know about your esteemed Zine from the Net.

I am a writer on Astrology with a website - http://www.eastrovedica.com/
I have written an article on Astrology. Please publish it in your Zine/Site.

It is a win-win situation for both of us as you get good content and I get exposure in return.

Thanks and regards,

G Kumar
http://www.eastrovedica.com/
You can also submit your articles to Site Owners. They may display your article on their site. Site Owners are looking for quality content. If you can provide that, they will definitely accept your articles.

After writing articles on the subject, one should group these articles and compile them into an ebook.

After I wrote nine articles on Astronumerology, I compiled them into an Ebook called Astronumerology and distributed it free.

Article Banks
Article Banks are considered to be Net Marketing Gold. There are a lot out there and it will be better if you subscribe to them and post your articles regularly. I used to submit my articles to the following lists:
WriteitPublish_Announce-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
article_announce-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Cramp-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
I_Need_Content-subscribe@yahoogroups;
ArticleReview-subscribe@topica.com
WriteitPublish_Announce-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
articles_archives-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
ArticlePublisher-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
clickforcontent-subscribe@topica.com
free-content-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
Free-Reprint-Articles-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
Free_eContent-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
freezinecontent-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
FreeWrites-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
free-content-subscribe@topica.com;
Free-Reprint_Articles-subscribe@topica.com;
free_articles-subscribe@topica.com;
freeezinecontent-subscribe@topica.com;
netwrite-publish-announce-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
publisher_network-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
QC_Reprint_Articles-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
ReadMyArticles-subscribe@yahoogroups.com;
ReprintArticles-Paradise-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Free E Book Compiler

To compile an Ebook, you need a compiler and Keebo is a free compiler. We have used it ourselves, but at this price of zero dollars, it's certainly worth checking out: http://www.keeboo.com/ENU/index.html

There are other paid ebook compilers. You can download a trial version from http://www.ebookcompiler.com/

In the ebook you should give links to your site. You can give links to your friend's sites as well. You can tell your friends that you have given links to their sites in your ebooks. They will reciprocate by giving you links in their articles or their ebooks. They may even give you a link from their sites as well.

You can ask ezine publishers to give the ebook away freely to their customers. You can tell siteowners to give the ebook away to their visitors. This is known as Perpetual Marketing, wherein many publishers and siteowners market your site free for you!

You can give the ebook away as an incentive for subscribing to your Ezine. You can give the ebook away when a customer buys your product, as an added bonus.

You can tell your friends that you have given them links in your ebook. Inspired, they will distribute it free amongst their friends, relatives & customers.
You can post your ebook here
http://writers-bbs.com/inkspot/?forum=ebookpromo.

You can submit your ebooks to Ebook_News@yahoogroups.com
& majordomo@exemplary.net

You can give your ebook away as a free download at your site. Or you can give them as a paid download.

If people download your ebook, they will definitely visit your website & sign up for your newsletter or buy your products or hire you for your service.

I have created several ebooks that have been read by thousands of people all over the Net and this has resulted in massive traffic to my site.

Sheer hard work is imperative along with persistence, perseverance & lots of time to be successful as a marketeer on the Net. Because of the dynamic & ever changing nature of the Web, marketing becomes an everyday job. " Promote or die" is the slogan. We have to market smarter, not harder.

Ebook publishing is the biggest money spinner on the Net. Many have become millionaires as a result of e-publishing. Rick Beneteau ,Jim Daniels & Monique Harris are some shining examples. So why dont you try this viral method?

You can submit your articles to Article Wisdom, Article Gnosis, Eastrovedica and also to these Article Submission Centers Article Submission Centers

Article Marketing - Secrets Revealed Part III

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In our last article, we have talked about the wisdom of distributing e-articles and e-books. Let us analyse if there are any other marketing tricks which can of considerable use in Web Marketing.

One viral technique is to create a freeware program and distribute it free. In that freeware you should scatter links to your site. This will create a lot of visitors, provided the software is good quality. The fame of your company will spread like wildfire. Provided the software is good, you will get a lot of hits to your site. Word of mouth publicity about your company and your software will spread all over the Net.

Another strategy is to create " Tell it to a friend ". This simple script can be installed in less than an hour and this facility allows visitors to your site to recommend your site to their friends. Their friends will definitely visit your site as human beings tend to believe their friends.

Another trick is to install greeting cards on your site. All people want to send e-cards to their relatives & friends in order to do so they will visit your site. Each card contains a link to your site which will produce an appreciable amount of traffic. This is one of the most powerful of all viral techniques.

Another technique is to incorporate a free searchengine submission program on the site and advertise that your site has a free submission program. Many site owners will visit your site for free submission. You can advertise the free submission program in your sig file and in your ezine ads. It will look like this

"FREE! Free submission to 10 search engines.Visit www.eastrovedica.com
and submit to Altavista, Yahoo, Amazon, Ebay, Looksmart and build
incredible traffic at no cost ! "

Another trick is to hold a contest and advertise that your site is holding a contest. This will bring tremendous traffic on your site as people tend to be drawn to intellectual contests which tests their skill. This is an opportunity for people to pass away their time, test their IQ and MQ & also get some gifts.

Distributing ball-pens with the name of your dotcom imprinted on them helps in spreading the word. You can offer it as a gift to your customers or to people who come to enquire in your shop.

Distributing T-shirts with the name of your dotcom printed on them is another marketing trick. You can kill two birds with one stone. You have given freebies to your potential customers and you have spread the word
about your dotcom!

All your offline promotion material should have your url address imprinted on it along with your email address. Business cards should be distributed freely to whomsoever you come into contact. Make it a point to distribute
at least 3 business cards in a day. Marketing is the life-blood of business!

In your articles, you can promote not only your products but also your friend's products. For example, my friend AK Selvraraj has written a book which I promote in my articles on Philosophy. The theme of Self Actualisation is highlighted and an excellent book for achieving that objective is referred.
Eg. Click here http://hop.clickbank.net/?zodiaccom/7gsbook

In your articles, you can recommend your friend's products, the products of the affiliate programs you have signed up & you can give links to your friend's sites ( and ask them for a reciprocal link ). You can sign up for many affiliate programs and then promote these products through your writing !

After writing articles, submitting them is another Herculean task. My method of Article Submission is as follows.

After writing my first article on AstroNumerology, I went to Google.com & typed Numerology Submit Article.

The Search showed 1600. I went to each of the links and submitted my article.

Most of the intellectual websites have a Submit Article Webpage wherein they say "Share your Expertise and Profile your business". You will not be paid monetarily but you will get Free Advertising in return as the bio shows who you are. So this is the practical way to do it. Go the Search Engines, type Subject Subject
Article and submit your article to the links that appear as Searches.

Group Lists

Group Lists are considered as a goldmine of marketing. There are so many groups listed on http://www.topica.com/ and http://www.yahoogroups.com/.

What you do is to go to these sites and type in the name of your subject. I typed Yoga in http://www.yahoogroups.com/ and got 458 lists. I subscribed to all. I post my messages to them once a week. I got 40 lists on Astrology from http://www.yahoogroups.com/. I subscribed to them. I post regularly and the people on the list see my posts. My posts contain my url address & my email address. People on the list see the post and visit my site or contact me via email. On the first day I received an order for 40 ebooks. Next day also. Many subscribed to my Ezine, the Z Files. Traffic increased considerably because of this method. Hope you will do the same.

On the Net, success depends on Marketing. Benjamin Franklin talked about improving our 13 skills which will lead to millions, the greatest of which is adcopywriting. Marketing skill is another. Promote, promote
& promote !

Happy promoting!

Article Marketing - Secrets Revealed Part IV

2010-06-27T01:03:00.002-07:00

If your marketing plan does'nt include writing, better incorporate it immediately. The whole Net belongs to writers. Isn't the Web an Information Encyclopaedia? All people want content and you better give quality content to be recognised amongst the multitude. Your web site must have good content, something original and unique.

Now here we focus on using writing skill as a marketing tool.

The place where you can deposit your articles on the Web is called an article bank. You can post your articles to these article banks. You will be surprised that many people read your articles, visit your site and subscribe to your newsletter. They may hire you or pay you for your future articles! This is FREE ezine advertising and you can save thousands of dollars which otherwise would have gone to marketing !

You can write copyright info and bio on every article you submit and in some article banks you can include your photo.

I used to visit http://www.writingtree.com/ and post my articles there. This is a site which encourages writers. Writing is an art and this is recognised by this site.

You have to market your articles. For this you can design a web page like www.eastrovedica.com/html/articles.htm and link all the articles into an article bank. It gives the visitors option
to read any of your articles.

Another good site where you can submit your articles is http://www.selfgrowth.com/ - Their newsletter is pretty successful with a large circulation base. Your article may be published by them if they like it.

I always submit my articles to http://www.marketing-seek.com/ They have ezines dealing with a lot of subjects despite the fact that they concentrate on marketing. You can get your articles published in their ezines.

You can open a new Web page and publish your article in yourSite. I wrote an article on Pranic Therapy and published it recently on my site. To see how I have done it, click on this link http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/pranic1.htm

The reason for publishing your article on your website is that some sites which have a Web Page called Submit Article want it to be published on the Web. They ask for the url where the article can be found.

When I wrote Vedic Astrology Lesson 4, I instantly published it on the Web due to these Submit Article websites needing one to do that. My Web Page http://www.eastrovedica.com/html/va4.htm became an instant hit !

Publish or perish ! Use your Nature-given talent to write and write your way to the top. Dont let the inhibitions in the mind block you from being a successful writer. Dont let age prevent you from writing !

Chaucer at Woodstock with the nightingales,
At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales !
Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last,
Completed Faust when eighty years were past !

On the Net, Content is King and Email is Queen. Take advantage of this equation. People are ready to pay for branded content !

In our earlier articles, we dealt with the wisdom of creating an Ezine and distributing it.

How do we do it? There are softwares available for bulk mailing.

One of the popular Group Mailers is the Aureate Group Mailer. It is capable of 650000 emails in one hour. I use this excellent Software which goes to 14500 subscribers of my Free Ezine, The Z Files ! You can click on this link to get it.

http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?B=3939&U=49503&M=1465

Another software you can use for the purpose of submitting your Articles, free ezine ads and ezines is the Ezine Announcer. You can Get it at this link

http://wetrack.it/eza/af.cgi?362

Site submission is also important. You can submit your site to 100 search engines at one click using an Automated Submission Software. Click on this link

http://www.submitplus.com/scripts/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=zodiac20

If you want more data about writing, you can go to about.com which has a forum for freelance writers and screenwriters. Just type "writers" and you will be stunned at the information you get.

A website where you can deposit your articles is called an article bank. Dont think all sites pay you for your articles. Only one site in my list pays at 2 cents per click. With that sort of money you cant become a millionaire instantly. You have to place copyright info and a bio on each article. Many will read your articles, subscribe to your Zine, write to you, visit your site, hire you or pay you for future articles !

If you dont have enough articles for your ezine, you can visit an articles bank. Even if you dont have the time to write you can do the same. These article banks allow you to use articles from their sites!

Marketing these articles is difficult. If you design a page on your website, you can link the artilcles you have deposited into an article page.

Here we are giving the names of some article banks for you to use.

1) http://www.themestream.com/ - This site will receive all your articles. They have a newsletter and your articles may be published there.

2) http://www.topten.org/ - This site sends out daily newsletters and you can publish coaching tips and quotes.

3) http://www.ideamarketers.com/ - This site will market your articles for a small fee.

4) http://www.top7business.com/ - If you post your articles to this site. it will definitely bring in a lot of traffic.

5) http://www.makingprofit.com/ - This is another site you can submit your articles to.

6) http://ezinearticles.com/ - Different categories have been given and you can submit your articles to any of them.

10) http://www.writebusiness.com/ - A business articles directory.

Happy writing !

You can submit your articles to Article Wisdom, Article Gnosis, Eastrovedica and also to these Article Submission Centers

Article Marketing - Secrets Revealed Part V

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In this article we discuss signature files and their uses.

A sig file ( signature file ) is a short bio of yourself. It contains your url and email address.

Signature files have got tremendous use in Web Marketing. It goes along with every email and proclaims who you are and what knowledge you have and what you sell.

This is a sig file which goes out with email I send.

Zodiac Computers = G Kumar
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sidereal Astrology & Yogic Psychology Expert
Get your free Astronumerology Report

http://www.eastrovedica.com/

Hotmail.com was one site which came up due to Viral Marketing. The message " Get your free email with
Hotmail.com" spread like a virus and within 18 months Hotmail has 30 million registrants. This is what the sig
file can do. If you give a freebie, you can add that too in the sigfile. In my sig file I offer a free Astronumerology
Report & so many at least 50 percent of the receipients do visit my website.

If you are using Outlook Express, you can set up a Sig File. You can go to Tools on the Main Menu, click Options, click Signatures and design a sig file and devise in such a way that this sig file goes out with every email that you send.

Ezine Ads

Ezine ads are the most costefficient way of advertising. What is advertising, after all ? It is Salesmanship-In-Print! Ezines do not charge much when compared to banner ads and express search engine submissions. For a nominal price, you can have your ads blasted to thousands of the ezine's subscribers.

If you have an ezine, you can swap ads with other subscribers. If your ezine has a subscriber base of 1000 and if you want to swap ads with another ezine which has a subscriber base of 2000, you can do a 1:2 ratio.

Adcopy writing is an art. The first and foremost principle to bear in mind is get the attention of the reader. The ad copy headlines should be attractive and should catch attention. You have to focus on the 'you' benefits, that is what how the customer will benefit from purchasing your products. You convince him about his benefits and he will definitely buy your product. My ad which pulled in a lot of subscribers runs like this

--->>>FREE Ezine Ads For YOU!<<<---
Ezine advertising is the BEST way to maximize the potential
of your business! Get 1 FREE ad in the Z Files ! Please click
on this link mailto:info@eastrovedica.com?subject=subscribe url - http://www.astrologiavedica.com/

In this ad I tell the consumer how he will benefit by subscribing to my ezine.

Article Banks

Article Banks are "Banks" where articles can be deposited. In our last article we had given the email addresses of the article announcers.

Here we give the links for submitting it online.

http://opportunityupdate.com/articles - Articles dealing with Marketing,
computers, business, promotion, web design and the art of writing can be posted on this site.

http://www.ultimateprofits.com/ - A good marketing site with a lot of marketing
tips.

http://www.selfgrowth.com/ - This is a site which deals with Self-development and they have a 60000
subscriber base. Provided your articles are good, they will publish your articles which are posted on their site !

http://www.ideamarketers.com/ - They will market your articles and have got a good affiliate program.

www.promoloop.com/submissioncriteria.html - Articles dealing with Business & Promotional

http://www.webmasterslibrary.com/ - You can submit articles on Web Design, Web Copy, tutorials, interviews & tips to this nice site.

http://www.topten.org/ - This site send daily newsletters You can submit your articles to them. They publish
Quotes and marketing tips. They have a large subscriber base.

http://www.marketing-seek.com/ - Two Web Marketing experts are the brains of this site. They are publishers
of 10 ezines belonging to 10 categories!

Article Swaps

You can swap articles with other writers who has ezines.

Last month I swapped articles with Dr Rajesh Kotecha of http://www.chakrapaniayurveda.com/. He published mine and I pubished his.

Ebooks are electronic books used as a promotional tool on the Net to get traffic and to boost sales. They are
educational tools and can be of immense benefit to newbies.

Creating an ebook is sound marketing wisdom. Dont be put off by the inhibiting thought that you cannot write. Such a statement is far from truth. You can write and you can write your way to glory. Create an ebook about your area of expertise and offer it free to visitors of your site !

So, after you have created your eBook, how do you go about promoting it?

First offer it free to people who you are in contact with online. Include it in your sig file in, your email discussion lists, especially those active groups that are geared towards eBooks such as:

mailto:Ebook_News-subscribe@onelist.com

mailto:AnEbookChat-subscribe@onelist.com

Submit your eBook to as many directories as possible. Here are a few directories that you can start off with if your eBook is free .

http://www.softseek.com/submit/index.html
http://ebooks.searchking.com/
http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/
http://www.the-ebook-directory.com/
http://ebookshop.bizland.com/

If your intention is to sell your eBooks, you can sell them at the following eBook sites:

http://www.ebookshoppe.com/
http://www.ebooksonthe.net/
http://www.mypublish.com/
http://www.amazon.com/

You have to understand that this electronic medium is very effective and we hope this gives you some ideas on how to promote your eBooks !

You can submit your articles to Article Wisdom, Article Gnosis, Eastrovedica and also to these http://Article Submission Centers

New Age Christianity

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Blog Marketing

Blogging is fun !

Marketing Bible !

If you want to be a good Real Estate Agent

Intellectual Books

Blog Copy - The Blogger's Secret Weapon

Social Marketing 2.0

How to Make Money with Squidoo Lenses

Viral Marketing _ Secrets Revealed

Intellectual Marketing 2.0 for Infopreneurs I

Intellectual Marketing 2.0 for Infopreneurs II

The Brahman of Web Marketing I

How to increase Blog Traffic by Article Marketing

Article Marketing - Secrets Revealed - Part II

Article Marketing - Secrets Revealed Part III

Article Marketing - Secrets Revealed Part IV

Article Marketing - Secrets Revealed Part V

New Age Christianity

The Anti Christ of Eschatology !

The Theory of Global Oneness !

Overpopulation, a big problem !

The Rise of the Jewish Civilization !

Kohli

The Jews, a mysterious and formidable race !

Indian scientist ready to change world history !

The Big Lie which is the Aryan Invasion of India

Astronomy

Formidable response by Lanka, but India holds nerve !

Scholarship, an ever expanding flower !

We have said that Prosperity does not mean mere wealth

We have said that Prosperity does not mean mere wealth

India wins, despite fielding lapses !

Chakras as dynamoes of Cosmic Energy

The Transit of the North Node

Saturnalian Wisdom

India becomes numero uno !

Amma. the puller of Spritual Tourism

The grand shopping Festival of Kerala

Kerala to promote Spiritual Tourism

The Transit of the North Node, Rahu

India formidably poised !

Dravid cracks 28th hundred; rises to 4th position !

Ebooks by G Kumar

Sachin, a Legend !

Universal Love took birth in Puttaparthi

Sri Yantra, the Holographic Universe

The Tenfold Verse about Enlightenment

The Fivefold Verse about The Divine Player

Who am I

Vedic Astrology XXXXII

Knowledge, the criterion for Success !

The Eightfold Verse about the Remover of Obstacles !

We have said that Prosperity does not mean mere wealth

The Song of the Inner Sun !

The Song of the Inner Sun !

India lose again in a war of nerves !

Astro Gnosis- Tantric Astrology Software

Medical Astrology

Saturn, the Planet of Boundless Time, Eternity

Papaya, the wonder fruit !

Like Socrates who said

An Octet to the Divine Master

The Eightfold Prosperity has been represented by Vedic Symbolism as the Ashta Lakshmi

Mars, the Celestial War Lord

Sensex crashes by 387 points !

An Octet to the Remover of Obstacles

Can Sacred Music activate the Kundalini

The Ninefold Deity is the Mother Divine in her nine aspects

Terrific T

The stamp of Jupiter again !

To elevate our Consciousness

To elevate our Consciousness

This is Argala Stotra of Durga Saptasathi or Devi Sooktham

Deccan out of CLT20 !

Deccan out of CLT20 !

Finally Indian teams win !

Finally an Indian team wins !

Cobras pull off another win ! Also NSW !

NSW Blues

Duminy pulls Cobras to victory !