A FREE T Reaping the Rewards of Cost CuttingIn these days of insecurity and uncertain futures, the tendency is to manage for survival but the smart business leaders are actively hunting for profits.And they are doing this without launching costly new initiatives or major capital investments. Seems difficult? Only if we are bound by the traditional approaches to profit growth.Take the case of a business with 50% margin and a 10% bottom line profit. To double the profit to 20%, business mathematics would suggest you could try a range of approaches from doubling your sales (not easy in these days of fierce competition) to improving the margin by as much as 20 points through better productivity.In most cases, this may involve shedding j
I believe as believers we should embrace technology and use it for the glory of God.Far too many Christian's seem to have an strange and irrational fear of technology. Whether this is based on faulty theology or ignorance or a combination of both, the result is that they miss out on many blessings.
Worse still they miss out on the ability to BE a blessing to others.
Bottom line: preachers should preach against sin not against technology.
The Internet is one of the best mediums for lead generation in existence IF you know how to use it correctly.
Sadly, many business owners (Christian or otherwise) approach online lead generation from a position of ignorance and thus end up wasting their hard-earned dollars in exchange for minimal results.
Very frustrating.
But it does not have to be that way...
Used correctly, Internet marketing can be a very cost effective method of lead generation.
How to Use the Internet to Get Leads
First, 4 Idiot-Proof Ways of Getting Traffic to Your Website
1. Write Articles It sounds simple but the more articles that you write and submit to sites like EzineArticles.com the more targeted prospects you can get to your site. The reason behind this is that at the bottom of each article, you can place a 'Resources Box' which explains a bit about you as the author along with a link back to your website.
As various ezine (Internet newsletter) publishers and webmasters share your articles with their readers and site visitors, you can literally end up with tens of thousands of people hearing about your business and visiting your site!
2 Get One-way Links to Your WebsiteLeading search engines like Google, MSN and Yahoo place great importance on the number and quality of incoming links to your website.
A link is basically what happens when another website places your sites url on theirs.
One way links are generally thought of as being the hardest things to get - after all, why should someone link back to your website? in effect giving you free advertising?
The answer is simple.
You Can Get All The One Way Links You Want IF You Answer Just One Simple Question...
It is the single most important question all your potential link partners will ask themselves every single time they even consider placing a one-way link from their site to yours: "Whats's In It For Me?"
Simply put, if you want people to link to you, give them a reason!
One Idea You Can Try:
- Go to www.elance.com or www.rentacoder.com and invest between $500-700 to get an ebook written relating to your industry.
- Next, visit www.bannersmall.com and get a cover designed for your new book (About $50)
- Then use a simple point-and-click website tool like XSitePro to design a simple website to sell the Reprint Rights to your new book, complete with live order links. I suggest a price of $1997
- NOTE: Owning the Reprint Rights basically means that they will be able to sell your new book and keep 100% of the profits.
- Finally, contact relevant websites in your industry and offer the owners a digital copy of your new ebook along with the Reprint Rights in return for a one way link to your website.
Trust me, $1,997 worth of Reprint Rights to a brand new book is a powerful incentive for any webmaster to link back to you.
3.Record Some Videos and Upload Them to YouTube.com It is very easy. All you need is a $70 web cam and a simple script. You can brainstorm, write and produce a 3 minute video in 60 minutes.
Why not record 30 such videos in the next 30 days?
Imagine the difference that could make to your business!
HINT: Focus on tips. 5 Ways to... 7 mistakes People Make When... People love tips. Tips are easy to comprehend and use.
Get things right and you can end up with literally hundreds of thousands of people watching your video with thousands visiting your website as a result. Even an 'average' video can result in several hundred page views and best of all it is free.
4. Use Famous Voices. A site like www.Voice123.com lets you hire professional voice talent. Why not hire a few people to impersonate some famous voices and place the resulting mp3 files on your site? You could end up with a powerful viral marketing campaign.
Secondly, What to Do With The Leads When They Visit Your Website
SIDEBAR: You need to think of people visiting your website in terms of hungry customers looking for a restaurant.
If they don't see what they want - they'll quickly leave.
I often used to eat at a seafood restaurant at a busy marina. There were literally dozens of restaurants there but this particular seafood place was always full.
Why? one reason was that they always had people standing outside the restaurant with platters of food offering passers by a free taste.
Can you think of an Internet version of this?
- A FREE Report?
- A FREE Inspection?
- A FREE Tr
How to Start an Investment Club - Business ModelYour investment club will need to decide what type of entity you're going to adopt for business purposes. You'll have to decide whether you're going to be a corporation, a general partnership, or limited liability partnership. Each of these business models has their own advantages and disadvantages.· Corporation. Most investment clubs will avoid becoming a corporation. This is because corporations are taxable business entities that require knowledgeable accounting skills to make them run smoothly and in accord with government regulations. A corporation generally means a lot of paperwork. This paperwork can be avoided by choosing another business model for your purpose of running an investment club.<
tting Traffic to Your Website1. Write Articles It sounds simple but the more articles that you write and submit to sites like EzineArticles.com the more targeted prospects you can get to your site. The reason behind this is that at the bottom of each article, you can place a 'Resources Box' which explains a bit about you as the author along with a link back to your website.
As various ezine (Internet newsletter) publishers and webmasters share your articles with their readers and site visitors, you can literally end up with tens of thousands of people hearing about your business and visiting your site!
2 Get One-way Links to Your WebsiteLeading search engines like Google, MSN and Yahoo place great importance on the number and quality of incoming links to your website.
A link is basically what happens when another website places your sites url on theirs.
One way links are generally thought of as being the hardest things to get - after all, why should someone link back to your website? in effect giving you free advertising?
The answer is simple.
You Can Get All The One Way Links You Want IF You Answer Just One Simple Question...
It is the single most important question all your potential link partners will ask themselves every single time they even consider placing a one-way link from their site to yours: "Whats's In It For Me?"
Simply put, if you want people to link to you, give them a reason!
One Idea You Can Try:
- Go to www.elance.com or www.rentacoder.com and invest between $500-700 to get an ebook written relating to your industry.
- Next, visit www.bannersmall.com and get a cover designed for your new book (About $50)
- Then use a simple point-and-click website tool like XSitePro to design a simple website to sell the Reprint Rights to your new book, complete with live order links. I suggest a price of $1997
- NOTE: Owning the Reprint Rights basically means that they will be able to sell your new book and keep 100% of the profits.
- Finally, contact relevant websites in your industry and offer the owners a digital copy of your new ebook along with the Reprint Rights in return for a one way link to your website.
Trust me, $1,997 worth of Reprint Rights to a brand new book is a powerful incentive for any webmaster to link back to you.
3.Record Some Videos and Upload Them to YouTube.com It is very easy. All you need is a $70 web cam and a simple script. You can brainstorm, write and produce a 3 minute video in 60 minutes.
Why not record 30 such videos in the next 30 days?
Imagine the difference that could make to your business!
HINT: Focus on tips. 5 Ways to... 7 mistakes People Make When... People love tips. Tips are easy to comprehend and use.
Get things right and you can end up with literally hundreds of thousands of people watching your video with thousands visiting your website as a result. Even an 'average' video can result in several hundred page views and best of all it is free.
4. Use Famous Voices. A site like www.Voice123.com lets you hire professional voice talent. Why not hire a few people to impersonate some famous voices and place the resulting mp3 files on your site? You could end up with a powerful viral marketing campaign.
Secondly, What to Do With The Leads When They Visit Your Website
SIDEBAR: You need to think of people visiting your website in terms of hungry customers looking for a restaurant.
If they don't see what they want - they'll quickly leave.
I often used to eat at a seafood restaurant at a busy marina. There were literally dozens of restaurants there but this particular seafood place was always full.
Why? one reason was that they always had people standing outside the restaurant with platters of food offering passers by a free taste.
Can you think of an Internet version of this?
- A FREE Report?
- A FREE Inspection?
- A FREE T
Internet E-Mail Marketing: OverviewI can only think of two easy ways to make money on the Internet. One is building Adsense sites, and the other one is email marketing. I will be discussing email marketing today. I guess you could actually use both of these together, I haven't done that yet, but I think it would work just fine. I think it would work better than using Adwords and Adsense together. I know there are some that can do that, but I never made more than a couple of dollars a month when I tried it.I think I made a mistake when I proclaimed email marketing was easy, I should have said it was easier, I haven't found anything on the Internet easy. The reason email marketing might be easier is because all you need to pu
to your website? in effect giving you free advertising?The answer is simple.
You Can Get All The One Way Links You Want IF You Answer Just One Simple Question...
It is the single most important question all your potential link partners will ask themselves every single time they even consider placing a one-way link from their site to yours: "Whats's In It For Me?"
Simply put, if you want people to link to you, give them a reason!
One Idea You Can Try:
- Go to www.elance.com or www.rentacoder.com and invest between $500-700 to get an ebook written relating to your industry.
- Next, visit www.bannersmall.com and get a cover designed for your new book (About $50)
- Then use a simple point-and-click website tool like XSitePro to design a simple website to sell the Reprint Rights to your new book, complete with live order links. I suggest a price of $1997
- NOTE: Owning the Reprint Rights basically means that they will be able to sell your new book and keep 100% of the profits.
- Finally, contact relevant websites in your industry and offer the owners a digital copy of your new ebook along with the Reprint Rights in return for a one way link to your website.
Trust me, $1,997 worth of Reprint Rights to a brand new book is a powerful incentive for any webmaster to link back to you.
3.Record Some Videos and Upload Them to YouTube.com It is very easy. All you need is a $70 web cam and a simple script. You can brainstorm, write and produce a 3 minute video in 60 minutes.
Why not record 30 such videos in the next 30 days?
Imagine the difference that could make to your business!
HINT: Focus on tips. 5 Ways to... 7 mistakes People Make When... People love tips. Tips are easy to comprehend and use.
Get things right and you can end up with literally hundreds of thousands of people watching your video with thousands visiting your website as a result. Even an 'average' video can result in several hundred page views and best of all it is free.
4. Use Famous Voices. A site like www.Voice123.com lets you hire professional voice talent. Why not hire a few people to impersonate some famous voices and place the resulting mp3 files on your site? You could end up with a powerful viral marketing campaign.
Secondly, What to Do With The Leads When They Visit Your Website
SIDEBAR: You need to think of people visiting your website in terms of hungry customers looking for a restaurant.
If they don't see what they want - they'll quickly leave.
I often used to eat at a seafood restaurant at a busy marina. There were literally dozens of restaurants there but this particular seafood place was always full.
Why? one reason was that they always had people standing outside the restaurant with platters of food offering passers by a free taste.
Can you think of an Internet version of this?
- A FREE Report?
- A FREE Inspection?
- A FREE T
Customer and Employee Loyalty: How Do You rate?The average company loses half their customers in 5 years and half their employees in 4 years? This has significant impact to overall customer, employee, investor and supplier loyalty. Loyalty is the degree to which these groups are loyal to your product, service and organization.In today's market, being customer focused is a key to survival and longevity. High levels of loyalty have positive impact on customer satisfaction, profitability, and reputation. Happy employees work harder, produce more and stay with an employer longer. Investors and suppliers feel increased confidence in the organization and their actions reflect that.So how do you know if your organization is lacking in loyalty
ur new book and keep 100% of the profits.
- Finally, contact relevant websites in your industry and offer the owners a digital copy of your new ebook along with the Reprint Rights in return for a one way link to your website.
Trust me, $1,997 worth of Reprint Rights to a brand new book is a powerful incentive for any webmaster to link back to you.
3.Record Some Videos and Upload Them to YouTube.com It is very easy. All you need is a $70 web cam and a simple script. You can brainstorm, write and produce a 3 minute video in 60 minutes.
Why not record 30 such videos in the next 30 days?
Imagine the difference that could make to your business!
HINT: Focus on tips. 5 Ways to... 7 mistakes People Make When... People love tips. Tips are easy to comprehend and use.
Get things right and you can end up with literally hundreds of thousands of people watching your video with thousands visiting your website as a result. Even an 'average' video can result in several hundred page views and best of all it is free.
4. Use Famous Voices. A site like www.Voice123.com lets you hire professional voice talent. Why not hire a few people to impersonate some famous voices and place the resulting mp3 files on your site? You could end up with a powerful viral marketing campaign.
Secondly, What to Do With The Leads When They Visit Your Website
SIDEBAR: You need to think of people visiting your website in terms of hungry customers looking for a restaurant.
If they don't see what they want - they'll quickly leave.
I often used to eat at a seafood restaurant at a busy marina. There were literally dozens of restaurants there but this particular seafood place was always full.
Why? one reason was that they always had people standing outside the restaurant with platters of food offering passers by a free taste.
Can you think of an Internet version of this?
- A FREE Report?
- A FREE Inspection?
- A FREE T
Lease Or Buy - Which Way For Office Equipment Procurement?On the subject of how best to acquire office equipment and supplies, for the small to medium sized business enterprise the first step must always be to contact a financial adviser to discuss how best to make the acquisition. In this summary, however, I offer some pointers to outline possible routes to a cost-effective acquisition. Outright purchase or leasing are broadly speaking, the usual choices, with hire-purchase schemes making a third route to explore.Purchasing an asset is nearly always the most convenient method of acquisition. However, in some cases, especially for high-end multifunctional office equipment purchases, purchasing may be seen as impossible because of lack of funds in the current f
several hundred page views and best of all it is free.4. Use Famous Voices. A site like www.Voice123.com lets you hire professional voice talent. Why not hire a few people to impersonate some famous voices and place the resulting mp3 files on your site? You could end up with a powerful viral marketing campaign.
Secondly, What to Do With The Leads When They Visit Your Website
SIDEBAR: You need to think of people visiting your website in terms of hungry customers looking for a restaurant.
If they don't see what they want - they'll quickly leave.
I often used to eat at a seafood restaurant at a busy marina. There were literally dozens of restaurants there but this particular seafood place was always full.
Why? one reason was that they always had people standing outside the restaurant with platters of food offering passers by a free taste.
Can you think of an Internet version of this?
- A FREE Report?
- A FREE Inspection?
- A FREE Trial Membership?
The Number One Thing You Should Do When Someone Visits Your Website...
You need to persuade them to give you permission to contact them again! This means that you need to get them to join your opt-in email newsletter.
Why? because all the statistics say that on average, an individual needs exposure to your advertising message or offer 5 to six times before you get the maximum response rates.
By getting someone to join your opt-in list, you place yourself in position to repeatedly follow up on them until they either buy your stuff or leave your list.