Posts Tagged ‘viral marketing,mobile devices,upgrade,’

How Can You Generate Sales With Your Viral e-Book?

Friday, May 14th, 2010

 

Viral marketing is an effective way of promoting your products and services. It can extend its reach to thousands, even millions, of people who might be interested with

 your offer. This also entails huge cost savings as it does not require all your time and money to do what it has to do.

One way of applying this viral marketing technique is by producing a viral e-book. After you have come up with the topic you want your e-book to talk about and have

 chosen an attractive title, it is now time to think about the content of your e-book.

What are the things that you need to write on your e-book for you to achieve your goal? Remember, your aim is for your products to gain popularity and increase sales in the shortest time possible.

Different Ways to Generate Sales

There are several things that you can do for your viral e-book to generate sales for you.

Having affiliate links on your viral e-book will help you reach your goal of reaching as many people as possible. Yes, you can offer rebranding or customizing the affiliate

 links for free. However, you also have an option to charge a very minimal fee for customization rights.

If your rewards offering or commission for the affiliates are really desirable, these people would not mind paying a small amount in exchange for the huge incentives

 they will get if they become an affiliate. That is already one way for you to earn income just by releasing your e-book.

Writing a viral e-book about a topic that you know very well will help you gain respect from the readers. Once they realize that you are like an expert in your own

 field, they will build trust on you. If this happens, they are more likely to buy your products and services without any hesitations.

Of course, having your own product or service is the best way to generate more sales thru your e-book. The links that you add on your e-book should lead the readers to

 your own site where they can find more information about your products and services.

Leaving something to the reader’s curiosity is a good way to generate more income. Let us say you have an e-book that contains 101 ways in making money over the

 internet. This is the product you are selling for a fee. You can make your viral e-book discuss a few, like 10, of those tips that they can find in the full version, then neatly

 interject the link where they can find the full version and purchase it for a minimal fee.

Same goes when you are selling tangible products. You can make your viral e-book talk about the features and benefits of such products to entice the readers to buy.

 You may also want to include testimonials from other people who have purchased the product. Then include the link to your site where they can purchase the item.

Keeping in touch with your customers is also a plus. It doesn’t mean that once a customer already purchased your product that you have to stop from there. After

-sales service adds more value to your product and credibility to you. Once these customers realize that you give them importance by constantly keeping in touch with them, they are more likely to buy again once you have new products to offer.

Common Mistakes to Avoid

For you to generate more sales, some precautionary measures need to be taken when writing your viral e-book.

Since you will be allowing rebranding or customization of the affiliate links included in your e-book, make sure that the links to be modified are still valid and still points to

 your site. There are some e-book compilers that allow you to do this for your protection. So better to scout for these software and use them in creating your viral e-book.

When you are promoting your product on your e-book, avoid including time-specific discounts and freebies. Remember, you do not have control as to whom and when

 your e-book will be passed on to. It may reach a person a year after the discount offer has passed. That will just make that potential customer mad and it will be a loss for you.

When producing a viral e-book with your links in there, make sure that your links would open in a new window instead of using the same browser. With that, you can

 make sure that the reader still goes on reading your e-book, at the same time, browsing the site where the link was pointed to.

These are just some suggestions on how to make your e-book really do its job for you. There are other ways that you can try. Always be creative and success will follow!

 By Y. Billingslea

http://www.privatelabelwealthchest.com

http://www.socialmediahelps.com

http://www.twitter.com/ybillingslea

Tags: , , ,
Posted in blogs | No Comments »

Viral Marketing–Why is it so Powerful?

Friday, May 7th, 2010

 

Viral marketing is the new marketing and advertising trend right now, especially in the online scene. It takes advantage of the internet’s network effect to be able to reach a great number of people in such a short time.

Benefits of Viral Marketing

Viral marketing strategies offer several advantages to businesses.

- Easy to execute. There are several methods of sending viral contents or messages and all of them are easy to do. Among those methods are sending email, instant messaging, and using web sites. Sending viral messages through these media will not take much effort and time.

- Low-cost. As compared to sending direct mails, viral marketing proves to be cheaper and a more cost-effective method. With just a little investment on viral advertising, its power can reach even hundreds of thousands of people as

 compared to spending the same amount of money to traditional advertising methods. That is because the only money to spend is for sending the initial set of viral contents, then forwarding or replicating the message will not require additional costs anymore.

- Good targeting. With viral marketing, there is a huge probability that the message will reach people that are interested in it. Since the concept of viral marketing is essentially passing on a message from a user to another person,

 most likely, the user will pass it to a person whom he knows will be interested in it. Thus, the percentage of wasted advertising, which is sending the message to the wrong market, will be reduced.

- High and rapid response rate. Since viral marketing reaches a good number of the business’ target market, there is also a big possibility to have a high turnover ratio. Even if the responses will not immediately convert into profits,

 there will still be huge traffic that the business will receive which is what most web owners want.

These are indeed great benefits a business can get by adopting this marketing technique. But what really makes it more powerful than other marketing or advertising strategies?

Let us take the example of Hotmail, where this viral marketing term really started. Hotmail was able to spread over the internet at an amazing rate. It is like an epidemic that quickly spreads out to others once there is a single person

 infected by the virus. That is why this technique was named as such.

According to Hotmail’s statistics, its number of subscribers grew from zero to twelve million users in just 18 months. Imagine that! What’s more amazing is that the company spent just $50,000 on advertising to achieve that number of

subscribers. Compare that to Juno which spent $20 million on traditional advertising during the same time period as Hotmail but got much less output.

With those facts about Hotmail, viral marketing’s main strength is indeed reaching a huge number of the target market at a considerably low cost. Hotmail did not even have marketing or advertising presence in most countries outside the

 United States but it got to be the major email service provider in these places like India and Sweden.

What adds more power to viral marketing is the fact that the viral message passed on is like an endorsement from a friend or somebody who can be trusted. People have this way of thinking that “if my friend uses this product and is

happy about it, what stops me from using it as well?”

In Hotmail’s case, when those people who received an email from their friends, relatives, or colleagues using Hotmail learned that it works and their friend is a user, they quickly signed up and became members as well. These people

 wanted to belong in this group where their friends are also in. This technique is also a matter of association or affiliation.

Hotmail’s case is not an isolated one, though. During the same time that Hotmail is gaining its popularity, so does ICQ. ICQ is like a buddy list and instant messenger, much like MSN and Yahoo Messenger now. ICQ also used the same

 technique and marketing campaign and it gained almost the same number of subscribers as Hotmail within the same time frame.

Viral marketing is indeed one powerful tool to increase popularity of a product or service. However, just like any other things, proper use of the technique is necessary. A single mistake of misuse of it may mean permanent damage to the product or service being promoted.

 By Y. Billingslea

http://www.socialmediahelps.com

http://www.privatelabelwealthchest.com

http://www.twitter.com/ybillingslea

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in blogs | No Comments »

Here’s How To Avoid The 3 Most Common Affiliate Mistakes

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

 

Download Your FREE Copy Of Affiliate Tips And Strategies

Follow me on Twitter

Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective and powerful ways of earning some money online. This program gives everybody a chance to make a profit through the Internet. Since these affiliate marketing programs are easy to join, implement and pays a commission on a regular basis, more an more people are now willing in this business.

However, like all businesses, there are lots of pitfalls in the affiliate marketing business. Committing some of the most common mistakes will cost the marketers a large portion taken from the profit they are making everyday. That is why it is better to avoid them than be regretful in the end.

Mistake number 1: Choosing the wrong affiliate.

Many people want to earn from affiliate marketing as fast as possible. In their rush to be part of one, they tend to choose a bandwagon product. This is the kind of products that the program thinks is “hot”. They choose the product that is in demand without actually considering if the product appeals to them. This is not a very wise move obviously.

Instead of jumping on the bandwagon, try top choose a product in which you are truly interested in. For any endeavor to succeed, you should take some time to plan and figure out your actions.

Pick a product that appeals to you. Then do some research about that product to see if they are in demand. Promoting a product you are more passionate about is easier than promoting one for the sake of the earnings only.

Mistake number 2: Joining too many affiliate programs.

Since affiliate programs are very easy to join, you might be tempted to join multiples of affiliate programs to try and maximize the earnings you will be getting. Besides you may think that there is nothing wrong and nothing to lose by being part of many affiliate programs.

True, that is a great way to have multiple sources of income. However, joining multiple programs and attempting to promote them all at the same time will prevent you from concentrating on each one of them.

The result? The maximum potential of your affiliate program is not realized and the income generated will not exactly be as huge as you were thinking initially it would. The best way to get excellent result is by joining just one program that pays a 40% commission at least. Then give it your best effort by promoting your products enthusiastically. As soon as you see that it is already making a reasonable profit, then maybe you can now join another affiliate program.

The technique is to do it slowly but surely. There is really no need to rush into things, especially with affiliate marketing. With the way things are going, the future is looking real bright and it seems affiliate marketing will be staying for a long time too.

Mistake number 3: Not buying the product or using the service.

As an affiliate, you main purpose is to effectively and convincingly promote a product or service and to find customers. For you to achieve this purpose, you must be able to relay to the customers that certain product and service. It is therefore difficult for you to do this when you yourself have not tried these things out. Thus, you will fail to promote and recommend them convincingly. You will also fail to create a desire in your customers to avail any of what you are offering.

Try the product or service personally first before you sign up as an affiliate to see if it is really delivering what it promises. If you have done so, then you are one of the credible and living testaments aware of its advantages and disadvantages. Your customers will then feel the sincerity and truthfulness in you and this will trigger them to try them out for themselves.

Many affiliate marketers makes these mistakes and are paying dearly for their actions. To not fall into the same situation they have been in, try to do everything to avoid making the same mistakes.

Time is the key. Take the time to analyze your marketing strategy and check if you

are on the right track. If done properly, you will be able to maximize your affiliate marketing program and earn higher profits.

Written By Y. Billingslea

http://www.privatelabelwealthchest.com

http://www.twitter.com/ybillingslea

Tags: , , , , , , ,
Posted in blogs | No Comments »

Video On You Tube

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

 

“Multiply Your Website Profits With Photo Ads!”

“Boost Your Blog Profits With Photo Ads!”

 

Video Categories Found On YouTube

 

Are you looking to use the internet as a source of entertainment? With high movie renting costs, cable costs, and satellite TV costs, many people are starting to turn to the internet. One of the reasons for that

is because the internet is a great source of entertainment. There are a large number of websites, including YouTube, can that literally leave you laughing or crying for hours.

If you are looking for videos to watch online, as it was previously mentioned, you are urged to visit YouTube. YouTube is a video sharing website that allows internet users, just like you, to not only watch

videos, but also share their own. Allowing other internet users to upload their own videos is one of the reasons why YouTube has become so popular and it is one of the many reasons why YouTube has

an unlimited number of videos to choose from. In fact, YouTube has so many videos to choose from that they had to categorize them all, which actually makes it easier to find YouTube videos that interest you, as a viewer.

One of the most popular YouTube video categories is comedy. The comedy category on YouTube tends to include comedy sketches, standup acts, as well as comedy spoofs. A large number of the comedy

videos found on YouTube are staged or rehearsed, but there are many videos that were just taken at the spur of the moment. Many times,

you will find that these videos are the funniest. No matter what type of YouTube comedy video you watch, you will likely be left laughing.

Another popular YouTube video category is that of entertainment. When it comes to entertainment videos, you will find that you have a wide variety of different videos to choose from. While it is still

possible to find videos that have clips of your favorite music videos, television shows, or movies, YouTube is trying to cut down on those videos, as they don’t have permission to broadcast many of them right now. Other entertainment videos include video reviews of movies or television shows, gossip, or amateur reporting events.

Pets and animals is another popular YouTube video category. As you likely already know, videos in this category are centered on pets, in one way or another. In some cases, YouTube members are showing off a new pet that they got, but many pet videos are also comedy related.

A lot of YouTube members like posting videos of their pets doing something funny, unique, or cute. If you love pets, you will sure enjoy watching many of the pet videos that can be found under the pets and animals section on YouTube.

Travel and places is another popular video category on YouTube. This YouTube category also acts, in a way, to educate viewers. Many of the videos found under the YouTube travel and places category are videos that members shot when they were traveling, many times in a foreign

country. For that reason, it is common to find videos that take you on a tour or show you well-known tourist attractions. If you are interested in planning a vacation, but you don’t know yet where you should go, you will want to examine some of the travel and places videos that can be found on YouTube.

One more popular YouTube video category is that of people and blogs. This is where many YouTube members post personal videos about themselves. One of the most popular types of videos found under the

heading of people and blogs are video blogs. Video blogs are like traditional blogs, but they are in video format. With video blogs, YouTube members often outline their day or their week for all other internet users to watch. In most cases, you will find that many video blogs have a humorous side to them.

The previously outlined YouTube video categories are just a few of the many that exist. Additional categories include How-To and Do It Yourself, Gadgets and Games, Film and Animation, Autos and Vehicles,

Sports, Music, and News and Politics. Basically, whatever you are looking for, entertainment wise, you should be able to find it on YouTube and with detailed categories, finding what you want is easy.

Written By Easytravelinfo

http://www.privatelabelwealthchest.com

http://www.privalabelarticles.com

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in blogs | No Comments »