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The Fine Line Between Internet Marketing and Spam
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityOkay, that’s usually known as “The Fine Line between Love and Hate.”
But for purposes here, you, as a business owner “in the know” who takes advantage of Internet marketing, realize there is a fine line between “marketing” and “spam”.
And so, you orchestrate your marketing campaigns to get the maximum amount of exposure without running the risk of having your efforts being viewed as spam.
Message boards are ideal for Internet marketing
This is because these boards can provide you with access to a specialized target audience. For instance, if you are in the business of finding jobs for employees who wish to telecommute, you might find people who may be interested in your services if you join a message board that’s dedicated to working from home.
Also, as a frequent visitor to such boards, you can learn a great deal about the things that concern your target audience. In fact, when appropriate and in accordance with the board guidelines, you might even occasionally and discretely take the opportunity to post links to your Web site. Sometimes boards allow you to do this by letting you include your link in your signature line.
This is smart Internet marketing
However, if you opt to respond willy-nilly to each and every post with a link to your Web site even when your site is not relevant and your post isn’t either, and if you do not offer comments of value to other members, they are likely to view your posts as spam!
This is unfortunate on so many levels because because the members may decide to avoid your Web site, even as they “cut off their nose to spite their face” when in truth, they really do have a need for your services.
Jewels of Life: Believe, Internet Marketing, Resources, Tips and Tricks, Working with a VA
read comments (2)“Done for You” Giveaway Registration Begins tomorrow!
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityDon’t you just love getting useful things FREE?
Check out the “Done for You” Giveaway …
We’re participating, and giving away our Article Submissions Services and our eBook Production Support Services. in a drawing.
You can register for the drawing between May 17 and June 7.
Jewels of Life: Believe, Dream, Internet Marketing, Resources, Working with a VA
Free “Done for You” Products and Services! WOW. Check This Out!
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityMy colleagues Linda Claire Puig and Kim Clausen have once again put together an outrageous event in which they and nearly 30 others — including me! — are giving away $250,000+ of done-for-you products and services!
In fact, I’m giving away Article Submissions Services and Ebook Production Support Services like I did last year!
The 2nd Annual “Done for You” Giveaway of the Century is NOT a giveaway of “how to’s” and other training but instead actual done-for-you products and services that you can use in your business but don’t have to create or do yourself.
The Giveaway goes from May 17-June 7, but you’ll want to get over there now to pre-register so that you don’t miss it!
Here’s JUST SOME of the stuff that’s being given away!
• Bookkeeping services
• Opt-in page creation
• Ready-to-deliver workshops & teleseminars
• Custom audio & video production
• Website headers
• A full custom website
• Custom-designed ezine templates
• Blog set-up
• Article submission services
• Intern program set-up, interviewing & hiring
• Autoresponder copy
• Affiliate program set-up
• Ready-to-go articles & article brochures
• Audio “logos”
• Newsletter service
• Bio makeovers
And lots more!
Pre-register now so you don’t miss it! I look forward to “seeing you” there this year!
Jewels of Life: Believe, Dream, Internet Marketing, Resources, Tips and Tricks, Working with a VA
Tips for Building Blog Traffic, Part 2
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityA couple of days ago, I mentioned several ways to get traffic to your blog. Here are a few more tips you might consider for traffic:
You want toupdate your content regularly.
This is because search engines and blog services love to whoosh up regular updates. Thus, if you post to your blog regularly, it’s quite likely you will get targeted traffic via the search engines.
Further, this also means that ideally you ought to write a new post to your blog at least once per day! But, do so with care. Too many updates per day can easily harm your position in the search engines.
How much is too much, you say? If you have 10 or more posts in one 24-hour period, that’s considered too many.
Give some strong thought to posting in forums
But as with many things on the web, do so with caution; don’t spam them. And make sure that what you post is fresh and interesting. Also, add a link to your blog or your Web site in your signature.
Now, don’t post at just any forum.
For example, if you’re selling cds, post in forums about music and cds. Don’t post at car forums if you’re selling furniture.
When you post in forums you get one-way links, which are good for your position in the search engines like Google or msn or Yahoo.
You can submit your blog to blob search engines
There are many, many search engines that list only blogs. If you Google for “blog search engines,“ you ought to easily find at least 20 search engines that will help you get targeted traffic.
When you submit to the search engines, be sure to give your blog a good title and an even better description of your blog, so your potential customers can find it easily, and click on your link.
Jewels of Life: Believe, Internet Marketing, Resources, Tips and Tricks, Working with a VA
Finding Free Content on the Web
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityIf you’re thinking about building a new Web site, ideally, your plan ought to ensure it is composed of original content.
However, you may run into trouble doing that because that method is very time-consuming. And in some cases, it may even be outside of your knowledge and expertise.
It can also be quite expensive to create your own content!
This is why sites like article banks are especially useful because they help to build the content level.
Additionally, you should take care to ensure that whatever materials you use actually pertain to your site, especially since the top search engines such as Google rank their pages on a relevant link system.
In addition to the actual number of links!
While it is quite good to have a thousand links, if six hundred of those links revolve around movies when your Web site pertains to motor sports, your ranking will still be at the low end of the ranking scale.
Jewels of Life: Believe, Internet Marketing, Resources, Tips and Tricks, Working with a VA
Tips on Choosing An Autoresponder
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityAs you know, one of the goals of any online business is to continue to grow.
One of the ways you can do this is by developing a loyal customer base.
After all, increasing contacts can equal more sales.
This will be one goal to keep in mind as you look for a reliable autoresponder company with features that suit your business.
For instance, an autoresponder may offer excellent service, but you don’t want to find out down the road that they have a cap on how many email addresses you can have.
Or some other thing you didn’t think to ask before you signed up.
You also don’t want to have to pay more if you find you want to contact more people than what their service allows.
Changing from one autoresponder service to another can be difficult. It will take time, and you will be learning a completely new set-up.
A Tip for Internet Marketing
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityIf you’re on the web trying to get an Internet business up and running, you’re most likely looking for a powerful way to jump start how you’re going to run your Internet Marketing campaign.
And if that’s the case, then Article Marketing is for you!
It’s a powerful tool to get you results and help you get all the traffic, income, opt-in sign ups and other crucial activity you need for your Web site so your business can grow and thrive!
In fact, no matter where you are in your online business, your Web site can benefit from Internet Marketing. And with that, one of the best ways to get an Internet Marketing campaign going in a positive way that will drive customers and get results is by creating a cost effective Article Marketing campaign.
By using Article Marketing with Internet Marketing, you’ll build authority, create one way links and drive traffic to your Web site from numerous sources all over the Internet.
Jewels of Life: Dream, Internet Marketing, Resources, Tips and Tricks, Working with a VA
Online International Virtual Assistants Convention
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityThis year’s Online International Virtual Assistants Convention OIVAC, is scheduled for May 20 – May 22, 2010.
Topics and speakers are being gathered now!
Check back here often to see who’s on the schedule and what the topics will be.
Jewels of Life: OIVAC, Resources, Working with a VA
Unreleased PAID report … yours free (Until Friday, Feb 26, 10 p.m. Central)
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityIn the last day or so, you’ve probably seen this rare opportunity in your email Inbox. It’s a chance from Jimmy D. Brown to get a “real” PAID report at zero charge to you. (This isn’t one of those deals where someone is giving something away that never was to be sold in the first place, but they pretend it was.)
Jimmy D. Brown is about to shut down his Small Reports Zone site permanently. He’s “retiring” ALL of his current products and services, beginning with this site.
As he was making preparations to shut the site down, he realized that there were several small reports that Nicole and he had planned to add to the site but never got around to doing so.
In fact, Nicole had a download page and the files prepped for one great report entitled, “The Ultimate Free Traffic Model”. It was originally part of one of Jimmy’s larger products and they had extracted it to sell on the site for $15 along with the other reports.
While he easily COULD have sold hundreds (really thousands) of copies of the report this week as part of his retirement, he decided to give away complimentary copies of this paid report.
No charge. No lists to join. For real, no charge.
Here is the original download page that Nicole setup…
When he shuts down the site at 10 P.M. Central tonight, this freebie will be gone too. No reason why you shouldn’t at least get a copy of it before it’s gone.
*** AND DON’T FORGET ***
Today, Friday, February 26, is THE last day to purchase any of his small reports from Info Profit Share. Tonight at 10PM Central time, Jimmy will be shutting the site down and no longer accepting any new orders.
These are all on sale for only $10 each!
NOTE: My recommendation is that you at LEAST get a copy of his 65-page “operations manual”, Homepreneur Habits.
If you spend only $10 all year, this is the best value you’ll find anywhere. Period.
The rest of them are pretty darn good too. 
Grab the complimentary copy of the unreleased paid report. And order copies of anything else you want. They’ll all be gone tonight.
Best regards and happy getting the free,
Karen McGreevey
Jewels of Life: Believe, Internet Marketing, Resources, Tutorials
And Then There Were 5 Easy Peasy Informational Products
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityA week ago on Saturday, February 13 with Tip #1, Contributions of Others, this little “Easy Peasy” journey began with a series of five tips to help you to easily create Information Products.
If you’re new here, you can catch up by reading Tip 2 and
When you’re ready, Tip 5. Teleclass Recording begins now:
This audio option differs from the interview format in that it’s “instructional” in flavor and may include questions by your participants along with your answers.
You can charge for this kind of session in two ways:
First, those who participate in the call might pay to do so, and second, those who were not present on the call can purchase the CD or MP3 recording.
Although some teleclasses eventually become products as a multi-session series, in the beginning stages, it’s best to start with just a single one-hour class.
And when you’ve chosen your content carefully, provided useful information and described the product temptingly for your target market, these quick-to-produce information formats sell well.
Jewels of Life: Dream, Internet Marketing, Resources, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Working with a VA