Laurie Raphael’s Marketing Blog

Are you a website owner who relies on fresh content to help you make money?  If so, you may do your own article writing.  This approach is nice, but could you benefit from outsourcing these articles?  In most cases, you can.  In fact, five signs that you should hire an outsourced writer are outlined below.

1 – Your Website Quickly Takes Off

Whether you have a content filled website or a website where you sell a product or a service, content is king.  It helps you generate traffic.  This traffic is needed to see a profit.  The more internet users that visit your website, the better your chances are for making money.  Since content is so important, you should have lots of it on your website.  In fact, readers like to see fresh content.  They are more likely to return to a website they know is updated.

As great as it is to see your website traffic and sales increasing, you may not be able to keep up with the pace.  In that case, you need to hire an outsourced writer.

2 – You Want to Explore Other Opportunities Online

Selling a product, a service or making money through affiliate programs are just three of the many ways that you can make money online.  Do you want to increase your earnings?  If so, experiment with other moneymaking opportunities.  Unfortunately, you may not be able to do so if you must write ten new articles a week.  If you think that you are held back because of article writing, outsource the work.

What is nice about hiring a professional web content writer is that they can write quality articles at a quicker rate of speed.

3 – You Have a Fulltime Job

Yes, it is possible to make a fulltime income running a website that is filled with advertisements or products for sale, but many are cautious of doing so.  Some find it too risky to quick their fulltime job.  If you are one of those individuals, you may use the internet to make money in your spare time.  Since you may not have time to keep your website updated with unique articles, you should consider outsourcing.

4 – You Have a Family

Similar to having a fulltime job, if you have a family at home, you may not have the time to devote 24 hours a day to running your website.  If fact, you may not even have 8 hours to devote.  The best way to make money online, especially with websites and blogs, is to keep them updated.  Marketing is also important and can be time consuming.  To ensure that you make money online, but also get to spend quality time with your family, outsource some of your article writing projects.  You and your family will be glad that you did.

5 – You Don’t Want to Do the Work

The above mentioned reasons are all great reasons for hiring an outsourcer, but you really don’t need to have a reason.  If you want to make money online, but without having to do any physical work yourself, outsourcing is the way to go.

If you opt to outsource all or a portion of your article writing projects, remember to keep profit in mind.  Quality articles are more than worth the extra costs, but make sure you can profit from them.

Its one thing to have a great product and it’s quite another to make sure customers know about it.  And that principle is even more vitally true when you list your product on the Clickbank marketplace.  There are literally tens of thousands of products available for affiliates to pick up and sell within Clickbank.   And even though there are over 150,000 affiliates, that is a huge marketing environment.

The literature about Clickbank would give you the impression that all you have to do is set up your account on Clickbank and get your digital product out there into the Clickbank market and, presto, you will see massive sales by the weekend.  But if it was that easy, there would be millions of people on Clickbank.  The laws of economics still prevail and this is a marketplace so even after you get your product out there, there are some basic things you must be prepared to do.

For one thing, to make it in any marketplace and Clickbank is no exception, you have to offer a product that gives value to the consumer.  For one thing, one of the most notorious problems in Clickbank is also one of its strongest customer service features which is the iron clad money back guarantee.  So the one thing you can do to keep that well known Clickbank issue from taking away the good sales you do get is to make sure your product is rock solid quality and that the customer gets more than he expects from the purchase.

Another very basic principle of marketing but its worth bring back up here because it is even more applicable in the virtual marketplace of Clickbank is originality.  For your product to stand out, it has to have something to offer the customer that nobody else offers.  That can be tough because the categories of digital products, which are all that Clickbank sells, are somewhat limited.  You cannot sell a product that requires a physical delivery.  It must be entirely digital which means you are talking about ebooks, digital music, online courses and software and games for the most part.

Clickbank does a good job of providing a categorization system so people looking for types of product can get to it and then for a special kind of product in your niche can find you.  But even with that, you are going to be “on the shelf” with a lot of other products that look and seem very much like your product.  Finding a way to make your product unique and one that touches a need in the consumer that nobody else touches is the goal of any business.  So look at the competition even when you are designing your product and long before you put it out there into the Clickbank to find that “hook” that will make the affiliate pick up your product rather than others like it and for customers want to buy it for its unique twist as well.

But even if you have the most unique and highly needed product there is, its not going anywhere unless you shout about it.  A little bragging goes a lot way in the word of marketing and on the internet, getting attention to your Clickbank product calls for a lot of bragging.  It starts with your product name and the marketing description you use to make the product shout out right from the Clickbank marketplace product pages.

Make sure the uniqueness of your product is highlighted in the title and every aspect of your description and marketing of the product.  Never stop thinking of ways to promote your product.  By making sure the world knows how great it is, you are also make sure that more people get to use it and your Clickbank sales are rewarding and profitable for you.

The number of internet users is increasing everyday. This is because there are interesting and knowledgeable discoveries found online. What most people like on the internet is that they are able to send messages in an instant. In addition, they are getting more and more fascinated with other sites.

Sometimes, people use the internet as their online diary or journal. Others would use it to promote a product.  Either way, there is one site that is famous for these things, we call it as Blogging or the Internet Blogging. There are many website providers who are now offering free usage of blogging software packages because of the rapid increase of blogging users.

Examples of the free blogging software are B2evolution, Nucleus and the WordPress. These programs have the same features. This is why most internet users ask which of the software is simple to use and would suit the needs of a specific website.

However, the answer to which one is the simplest depends on the real purpose of the free blogging website. If your main objective is to share your point of view and opinions to the public, you can use different blogging software. However, if it is for promotional purposes, use software designed such purpose because a blog for promotion has completely different requirements.

Below is the list of the free blogging software and their features:

•    WordPress Free Blogging Software

WordPress is usually used for personal blogging. It has an open source, modern personal publishing design which is focus on the appearance of the blog. By only using the WordPress, there is no need to gather or your journals and compile it as one. Just write your article. And choose which features you want and the blog will be published immediately to your site.

This software is easy to customize and it offers different functionality. As you get used to it very well, you will learn to add fresh features which will make your site interesting and trendy.

•    B2evolution Free Blogging Software

Like the WordPress, this is also an advanced internet blogging software. This free blogging software has a skinning system which lets the users to make many blogs in separate groups with different look or appearance for every blog.

B2evolution has the capability to change skin to make the blog get a new appearance. This software is good for promotional purposes. Therefore, you are planning to create and publish many different themes, B2evolution is the right software for you.

•    Nucleus Free Blogging Software

Nucleus has dominant features which is applicable in promoting your blog. It is capable to optimize the URLs. This helps the user create a blog that is easy to use.

One great feature of the Nucleus is that it is capable to present many blogs using a single page. The Nucleus also has a feature that is very good in promoting a particular site.

These three blogging software provide the best feature that you need to create an effective and interesting blog.  Remember they are all free, so there is no need to be hesitant in using them.

However, you must choose the software that will be a great help to you in achieving your main objective in creating a blog. In this way, you are making sure that your blog is unique and it will satisfy you and your needs.

author (Diego Norte).   http://www.DiegoNorte.com

Another way to market your business is to use social networking sites. Squidoo, just one of many, is considered a social networking site, however from an internet marketing perspective it is vastly different from the others. One key difference is that, Squidoo lets you sell blatantly without the worry of someone shutting you down. Another unique feature of Squidoo is it an adult social networking site. Thus, making it a great place to market your business as well as interact with other home internet business owners.

Squidoo allows you to create what’s called a lens, which is basically an information portal about any topic you want. Squidoo also allows you to sign up and create as many lenses and categories as you want. You can very easily use these lenses to drive targeted traffic to your home internet business sites.

Once you have finished creating your lenses and specifically targeted to your home business niche, you then start socializing with other like minded marketers on this social networking site.

The secret to succeeding in using Squidoo is to provide information that is not only good information, but helpful information to people in your niche who are eager to receive that information. By using a good landing page you can effectively market as well as drive targeted traffic to your home

business opportunity. If you are already a respectable internet marketer then people will be more willing to buy an affiliate’s product based on your recommendation.

How To Generate Traffic Using A Squidoo Lens

1. It is vitally important to put your main targeted keyword in your lens title. This is because lenses are pages and they can therefore rank in the search engines like your legitimate home internet business home page.

2. Choose a URL for your lens with your primary keyword. Do remember this, as it will help your search engine rankings too, because that URL is what you’ll link to from other places.

3. Tag your lens with other long tail keyword. Look for the Squidoo lens creation wizard to give you the chance to do this when you first set up your lens.

4. One of the most important things you should remember is to add an RSS feed so as to make your lenses popular with search engines. There’s a Squidoo module for RSS feeds, and search engines just love that kind of unique, frequently changing content.

5. Update you lens several times a week at minimum. You don’t need to make major  changes but quick and easy ones, just tweaking a little here and there and click publish. Although an RSS feed will help this, it is equally important that you also add hot new content in your lens.

6. When Squidoo masters recommend you to create many lenses, they actually meant create more specialized lenses based on long tail keywords in your niche. As you would already have a list of your keywords for your niche, you should start to dominate them. If you have a lens on work at home business, for example, you could create a more specialized lens call  Work At Home Business For Retirees.

7. Link your related lenses to each other. This is a good technique as it is known to be good traffic building tip. You also build more links and more links means more visitors which ultimately gives you a higher ranking for your Squidoo lenses.

8. Use your lens like it’s your blog and link to your legitimate home internet business sites. This is such an easy yet powerful technique. Search engines love Squidoo and so links from a high-ranking lens to your work at home business site can really boost your traffic.

9. Remember that Squidoo is firstly a social networking site so get sociable by visiting other internet marketer’s lenses to give comments on their guest book. This also gets you one way links which generate traffic for you too.

10. Now, the trick to Squidoo is to not only have proper keywords in your lens, but to add many keywords to your lens. If your lenses sells a product, more traffic translate to more sales. You can check out what keywords people are typing in the search engines to arrive at your lens and easily add those keywords to your list.

11. Here is the final secret you an use. Mark your lens useful. One good way to make your lens useful is to present your information as a “how-to” lesson within your topic. This helps you build a good lens and your audience finds what they are looking for easily

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