JV INVITE ! ! !

Posted by Francois | email lists,JV invite,Marketing | Monday 4 January 2010 7:47 pm

Build your List with this great JV Giveaway event !

I’d like to warmly invite you to a massive list building exercise that is happening in just a few short weeks time.

Hans W.Castiglioni is the Promoter of The  “The Valentine Giveaway” that will Open it’s doors on February 6th, 2010 at 9:00 AM EST. and end on February 20st 2009 9:00 PM EST.

This is how it works: Contribute a free gift in the form of a digital download product (like ebook,graphics, audio, video, etc) to the gifts section.

This is going to be one awesome event – and I’m glad you can be a part of it.

All you need to do to get going is signup by following the URL below:

Become a contributor to the The Valentine Giveaway

Checkout the Low Cost Upgrade Feature they are Offering,
I Encourage you to take them up on it.There is a big Surprise you can download as an upgraded contributor.

Valentine Giveaway

Let’s go build a Massive List together!!

Writing a Moving Call to Action

Posted by Francois | How-To,Marketing,Sales Page | Sunday 3 January 2010 2:23 pm

The call to action is the part of the sales page where you ask for the sale.  One of the greatest faults of a salesperson is failure to ask for the sale.  Many times a salesperson takes for granted that the person they are speaking with will buy.  After all, you are talking about a product and they are in the market to buy the product, so why ask for the sale?

It is simple.  If you never ask them to buy then why would they feel compelled to buy? You must ask for the sale if you really want to sell a thing.  Too many salespeople forget this and lose the sale.  Don’t be one of them.

On your sales page the call to action will often be summed up in a simple paragraph and conclude with a button, link or form that will allow them to make the purchase.  However, while it may seem simple, your call to action is your final chance to get that sale and your one chance to ask the reader to buy.

Make It Effective
Simply put an effective call to action gets the reader to buy.  Your call to action must get the reader to respond.  The key to writing an effective call to action is to understand your reader.

You need to know who your reader is and what would get them to buy.  When you know these two things then you can write a call to action that works.

Who is Your Reader?
As a good salesperson you should always know your target customer.  You should know why they would want your product and why your product is the best product to serve their needs.  You need to be able to speak to them.  You have to be on their level and use words and phrases that they will understand.

What Will Get your Reader to Buy?

When you know your target customer you will know their buying habits.  You will know what they are looking for, whether it is the lowest price or the highest quality.  This will let you give them just what they want.

Writing the Call to Action
Your call to action should create a sense of urgency in your customer that they need to buy right now.  Make sure you give them a reason to click the link or button or fill out the form.  Tell them again about the benefits of your product or service and why it will fulfill their needs.  Then give them the chance to buy.

The call to action of your sales page should wrap things up.  It should be the final but of information or urging that the reader needs to make the purchase.  Your whole goal with the sales page is to make a sale, so don’t lose the chance by not including a call to action or by writing a weak call to action.  Make it effective.  Make it strong and make the reader want to buy.

Starting 2010 in a profitable way

Posted by Francois | Site News | Saturday 2 January 2010 3:18 pm

First let me wish everyone a really great .. and prosperious new year !

Here at Practical-eBiz we are starting up with a double bang.

1 – The openning of our “ebooks club” librairy section where you will find al kinds of interesting ebooks to feed your mind and fuel your business.

2- The launch of our first Practical-eBiz eBook “How to Qutsource it!” . Totally free and jam pack with up-to-date informations

See you soon at the top !

Keywords, Keywords, Keywords

Posted by Francois | SEO,Traffic | Sunday 27 December 2009 7:42 pm

Effective copywriting for the web can only be achieved if you carefully research your keywords and keyword phrases. What is the point of writing any copy, if you do not know what it is actually that your target audience is searching for? By targeting the correct keywords and keyword phrases you are taking one of the most important steps in writing effective copy.

Search engines are the most important tool on the web for bringing new customers to a site. Many people who have never heard of your site will use a search engine to find what they are looking for, at your site or at someone else’s.

But unfortunately, a search engine is not psychic and not very intuitive either. They will not be able to find what people are actually looking for but rather what they are asking for. But just how do you know what people are looking for?

So by using the phrases that attracts the most interest, but the least competition, appropriately throughout your site in both copy and page titles, it will make it more receptive to the search engines and directories. So when it comes time for people who are looking for a particular product or service, then your site should be one of the first they see in their search results.

The best time to do any keyword or key phrases searches is when you are first building your site. This will then mean that you do not need to rewrite your copy later on. But really, it can be done at any time. It is important to remember that if you are not researching what it is your customers want, then your competition will be.

Landing Page Success Tips

Posted by Francois | Affiliate Marketing,email lists,Marketing | Saturday 26 December 2009 11:19 am

Also known as the “name squeeze page” or “lead capture page”, you can build your mailing list by funneling all of your would-be subscribers through the creation of a landing page. Not only do you do the work just once, your traffic driving efforts can be focused onto just one effective method.

The following are tips in creating a successful landing page that converts visitors into subscribers on a very huge percentage.

Success Tip 1: Offer a freebie in exchange for your visitor’s email address. I very much endorse this method of building your mailing list. You can offer a special report or a sample of your paid product to your visitor in exchange for their details such as name and email address.

Success Tip 2: The landing page must be written professionally. When writing your page, treat it as if you are writing a sales letter. While you are not necessarily making a hard sale or try to get someone to buy your product upfront, being able to entice your visitors to give their details to you is just as important as selling.

Success Tip 3: Other than your opt-in form and perhaps important disclaimers and terms, there shouldn’t be any other links on your landing page.

Success Tip 4: Rub in the benefits of the freebie you are offering more than a mere subscription to your newsletter. You should focus most of the attention of the letter on encouraging your prospective visitor to download your free offer. Later, you gently remind your prospect that he or she has nothing to pay but just merely subscribe to your newsletter in exchange for the freebie.

As a final reminder and conclusion, in order to build trust, you can include your hand-written signature or a photo of yourself explaining where you are coming from and how you can help your visitor through your free report on offer.

Marketing Effectively With Email

Posted by Francois | email lists,Marketing,Traffic | Friday 25 December 2009 5:21 pm

Like any type of marketing, email marketing involves a great deal of time and effort to ensure the marketing campaign is effective. This is important because an ineffective marketing campaign of any type is a waste of money and resources. Spending a great deal of time, energy and money into an email marketing campaign which is not reaching the members of the target audience and is not convincing recipients of the email to make a purchase or visit your website is not worthwhile. This article will discuss how to implement an effective email marketing strategy to ensure your business, financial and personal goals are being met.

One of the most important aspects of marketing effectively with email is to ensure your marketing efforts are reaching the members of your target audience. One way to do this is to ask former customers as well as potential customers to join your email distribution list. This will help to ensure the majority of members on your email distribution list have an actual interest in your products or services. This is important because you are much more likely to generate sales when you are marketing to this type of an audience than you would if you were marketing to a much larger audience without an interest in your products.

Another aspect of marketing effectively is to hire an experienced professional writer to draft the content for your emails, e-newsletters, email courses or any other methods you are using to email your message to potential customers. Having your content written can give you a significant edge over the competition if they are drafting their content themselves. The quality of your content is a reflection on your business and poorly written content with no substance will reflect poorly on your business.

Effective email marketing should also be written in a manner which will appeal to the target audience. If necessary you should conduct market research to determine demographical information for your target audience. This research may also determine preferences the target audience may have for receiving marketing information. This may include the type of language used, the format of the emails, the layout of the emails and even aesthetic appearance of the emails. Paying attention to these details can make the email marketing campaign significantly more effective.

Finally, effective email marketing should not be viewed as spam. This is a difficult situation. In many cases an email marketing campaign will involve distributing mass emails but care should be taken in these endeavors to avoid having these emails construed as spam. This is important because many Internet service providers include spam filters which apply algorithms to each email account to determine which messages are spam and which ones are legitimate. Emails which are deemed to be spam may never reach the intended recipients. Emails which may it through the spam filters may also be automatically deleted if the Internet user believes it looks like spam. For this reason care should be taken to ensure all marketing emails provide quality content, advertise only subtly and ideally are only sent to email recipients who have specifically requested information about your products or services. This will give you the best opportunity possible to reach your target audience and have a positive impression on them and hopefully entice them to make a purchase or visit your website.

The best ClickBank tool

Posted by Francois | Affiliate Marketing,ClickBank,Marketing | Wednesday 23 December 2009 4:07 pm

If you are like me, you find the ClickBank MarketPlace a little confusing.

There is a great FREE website that can give you a much more useful view of the various products available at ClickBank. It’s CB-ANALYTICS .

Try it, you’ll never get back to the old marketplace ;)

How to write good advertising content?

Posted by Francois | Marketing | Wednesday 23 December 2009 1:09 pm

To write successful advertisement content is to catch the attention of the customer at first sight as they flicker though the brochures and fliers like they flip through a magazine and not how they will read books with concentration. It need not be necessary that the customer reads each and every line of the advertisement; hence, each line should be effective and should pass out a message. So it’s not only necessary to write logical matter, but it should also be creative enough.

Firstly, only relevant and specific matter should be written in the ad. Some content writers fear missing out information and write as much as they can. This will only disinterest the customers more and space will be wasted. The writing style should be related to the type of flier or brochure that is to be written. Its usual for the reader to read skipping lines in between and there is a possibility that they will read it from bottom to top. It always helps to use words that sell. But still, the content should be properly organized with the heading at the top, body in the middle and conclusion at the end. The main points can be written as sub-headings, in bold font. The body following the sub-heading should discuss the sub-heading and if it is related to any other sub-heading, even those points should be discussed. If the product is to be discussed from the technical point, it should not be so technical that it sounds like a foreign language to a common man.

Chucking is another technique that can be used. Chucking is writing small stories with conclusion at the end. They can either have or not have connection between themselves. Its better if they aren’t connected, because it won’t require the reader to go back to a previous chunk in order to understand the present chunk he is reading. This works quite well when there are pictures in the advertisement and the chunk illustrates the picture. The two-dimensional picture is speechless unless some well-chosen words talks about it and motivates the customers. Obviously, while chucking, sub-headings can be used to let out critical information. Another point to be considered is the product or company about which the content is based on. Suppose if the brochure is related to a corporate, the style of writing should be formal.

Spelling mistakes should be avoided to the maximum extent. They reflect poor quality and bring bad reputation to the client. The design should speak clearly and loudly about the organization being discussed. Unclear, cluttered and illogical information creates an illusion that the company also has the same characteristics. Catalogues are the only source of advertisement for some businesses, because of low investments. Such kind of business catalogues won’t require much writing, just product description will do. Instead one can work on the font sizes, colors, etc.

The next step should be writing information about contacts so as to buy the product; detailed forms are big turn-off. Contact information, postal address and website URL should be clearly specified. Also include whether the business accepts cash, check or credit card. Another thing to be taken care of is the contact information, which is usually written on the forms, which have to be mailed. It is better to write them on the advertisement also so that the customers can save it for future reference.

After the final content is written, it’s the time for organizing it. Depending on the demand of the products, arrange them in hierarchy, especially when designing a catalogue because each of the products should get the consideration and attention they deserve.

It is a good habit to write down procedures, which have been applied to every kind of advertisements written. And also save the information like what customers were targeted with what kind of advertisements, to use to the same kind of logic the next time to similar customers. This helps to create a blueprint for a future job.

Practical SEO tool that makes a difference

Posted by Francois | Marketing,SEO,Traffic | Monday 21 December 2009 3:18 pm

If you havent heard of SEnuke you are missing out on one of the most complete marketing software solution available today!

This software will help you find profitable niches, deterimine your competition, find high paying affiliate products and most importantly SEnuke will let you dominate up to three pages of Google listings for your niche.

Just imagine the increase in traffic and profits that can be had from just one top listing on Google …well now you can obtain multiple top listings in 48 hours or less!

This isnt hype, the software is based on a little known, extremely effective proven method used by many of todays top marketers and affiliates. SEnuke simply automates this entire process, what use to take days or even weeks can now be accomplished in just minutes!

To prove that this startegy is effective and really does produce results they are offering you a no cost trial version and a no cost copy of:

“Search Engine Domination: The Underground Strategy Behind SEnuke”

This ebook will show you EXACTLY how you can manually implement this technique and see the results for yourself!  Click on the link below to download your free copy.

SEnuke Complete Marketing Software


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P.S.  SEnuke’s trial version will give you 50 high PR backlinks and let you research a few niches.
A total “No Brainer” at ZERO cost!

Subtle Email Marketing

Posted by Francois | email lists,Marketing | Sunday 13 December 2009 2:23 am

Everyday Internet users receive tons of emails telling them to buy certain products or visit particular websites. While these emails arrive in the inboxes of unsuspecting Internet users each day, most of them pay very little attention to these emails. That is because emails which are blatant advertisements are often viewed as spam. Most Internet users have very little tolerance for spam. Reactions to spam tend to range from simply ignoring the emails and having the email addresses blocked from sending future emails to reporting the emails to their Internet service provider for further investigation. We realize many Internet marketers have difficulty keeping their email marketing subtle. Therefore this article will provide some useful information on how email marketing can be kept subtle so it is not viewed as spam.

One of the most important criteria for ensuring your email marketing is subtle and will not be viewed as spam is to provide something of quality to the recipients. This may include insightful articles, interesting quizzes or other useful facts which members of the target audience are likely to find useful. When email recipients realize an email they received is offering them something worthwhile such as knowledge or information about a particular niche subject they are much more likely to spend some time reviewing the email because they will not consider the email to be spam. In addition to using the creation of this copy to convince recipients that the email is not spam, the business owners can also take advantage of this copy by providing subtle advertising. This may include product references in the articles or links to your website throughout the email.

Avoiding language which makes outrageous claims can also help to keep advertising quite subtle. Using superlatives and describing the greatness of specific products is likely to be viewed as blatant advertising. When this happens, it is not likely that website owners will believe there is validity in anything contained within the email because they will believe the entire email is simply one big advertisement for your products or services.

Another way to keep advertising subtle when running an email marketing campaign is to only send your email to those who are likely to be extremely interested in your products and services. This is important because when email recipients receive an email which does not reflect their interests at all, they are not likely to take the email serious and may view the email as a blatant advertisement. However, when the email is only sent to those who share a common interest the email seems more personalized. In this case the email recipients are not likely to view every product reference as a blatant advertisement because they understand there is sometimes a need to mention products or services.

Finally email marketing remains subtle when the content of the email is written as though it is not coming directly from the business owner. The copy may speak about the products and services as though they are being offered by a third party. This make the advertising seem more subtle because it does not appear to come directly from the business owner.

Finally, business owners can help to ensure their email marketing efforts are not viewed as blatant advertisements by keeping reference to your own website to an absolute minimum. Most Internet users often view links from one website to another strictly as an advertisement. For this reason it might be worthwhile for business owners who are marketing an email campaign to keep links to a minimum and to carefully weave these links into even the most quite benign copy. The links should be provided as though they were only included to provide you with an opportunity to learn more about the products and not as a way to encourage you to purchase these products. It might be worthwhile to consider hiring a writer with this type of experience to ensure the copy conveys the desired message and has the desired effect on the email recipients.

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