I know that it has been a little while since we have last posted on the Industrial Strength Internet Marketing blog. I have been busy with some recent online projects of my own. I’ll tell you about them later. But first, I just wanted to talk for a minute about three tools that I have found to be very helpful in my own online marketing efforts. Why I use them and why you should too. Continue reading ‘Three tools to help you boost your online business’
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I admit. This blog is just a hobby of mine. I love internet marketing and making money online. As such, I spend a lot more time on my own internet marketing projects than I do updating this blog. Even though I realize that I would be able to heavily increase traffic to this site by posting more frequently, I just put it off to monopolize my time with other projects. I am making some adjustments in my online routine and as such, I am going to start posting more regularly. What this means for you as blog reader is that there will not only be a lot more content available on this site, but I will have more to offer other ‘netpreneurs’ like yourself.
Big changes are around the corner. I have been trying to start a Question and Answer section and I am finally ready to launch that section of this website. I am very excited for this opportunity because it will help you as an Industrial Strength Fan to participate more and get the very specific answers that you have been looking for. This will be great for ‘newbies’ just starting out trying to make a living online. Are you experienced in the realm of internet marketing? Go ahead and share those experiences with others through ISIM. Gain exposure. Brand yourself as an online marketing professional. Connect with others on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media websites using ISIM as a hub for Questions and Answers.
There are some of you who have barely heard of this thing called WordPress. If that is you, then this blog post is for you. Source 47 Marketing is creating a new virtual home and we are using WordPress as a basis of our operation to handle lots of ‘behind-the-scenes’ stuff that goes on at Source47.com. Since we are using WordPress on our website, we felt it would be only fitting to tell our readers why we think WordPress is the best thing to happen to websites since Cascading style sheets.
WordPress is Open Source software which means that it’s created by everyone and for everyone to use. From what we can tell, WordPress started out as a simple blogging platform (originally known a web log or blog for short). Because of the nature of it being open source, it was able to grow and develop quickly and because everyone could contribute, plugins (bit of software code to control a certain function) were developed for just about everything, thus quickly expanding the functionality of WordPress itself.
WordPress as a CMS. CMS (or Content Management System) does exactly what it says. It’s a system to manage the content of your website. From creating a blog like this one to controlling the individual pages of your website, and even photo galleries, simple e-commerce functionality, media rich websites like podcasting, and much more!
WordPress works with all types of budgets. Because WordPress is open source, it’s free to use. You can sign up for a WordPress blog at www.wordpress.com. There is limited functionality when signing up for a website/blog at WordPress.com but at least it’s free, right? But if you’re serious about your company’s website then I say have it on your own web hosting account.
Websites that run on WordPress come in all shapes and sizes. I believe that you’ll get more out of WordPress by using it on your own hosting account. If you need web hosting, we recommend Bluehost for various reasons but specifically because they are very WordPress friendly. If you want to use WordPress but need it setup on your web hosting account then let me know and I’ll be glad to help.
WordPress Themes control the look of your website. There are many free themes to choose from but if you are serious about having a WordPress website for your company or business then I would recommend that you look into getting a custom WordPress Theme developed to use. Reason being is that I feel that the free themes available are being used by probably a lot of other people. This certainly won’t set your website apart from all the others out there. Getting a custom WordPress Theme developed by Source 47 may not be as expensive as you think. Contact Source 47 today and let us know what you’re website needs are and we can customize an affordable solution for your business.
You can attract a lot of traffic to any site at any given moment. Continue reading ‘How to increase traffic to your site.’
It takes a lot of diligence to write blog posts on a regular basis. It is common to run out of content and then you just blog-fade for a little while. So you need inspiration for new content when writing blog posts. Where does that inspiration come from? It can come from several places and one of those can be Yahoo Answers!
I have been on Yahoo Answers lately just responding to questions related to Search Engine Optimization and Small Business in general. So last night I realized that I could take my answers and reformat them into a blog post. Essentially, I was generating great content that I could use for blog posts. I would just need to rephrase a few things because Yahoo Answers is meant to just be a response to one person’s question so instead of a blog post which is meant for everyone.
Check out Yahoo Answer Secrets
I got my hands on some videos about Yahoo Answers and I would love to share it with you. It’s called Yahoo Answer Secrets. Not only can you use Yahoo Answers as inspiration for new blog content but you can also recommend products to others on Yahoo Answers (this should be done with discretion!) Yahoo Answer Secrets tells you everything that you need to know to get started on Yahoo Answers.
There seems to be a lot of people these days that are doing without some things for Christmas when in years’ past, those things were plentiful. Whether there’s just not enough on the paycheck this month or whether people have wised up and haven’t gone into debt as much this year, I’m not sure why people don’t have as much. Of course there are a lot of things that we can do without. But we want it!
Well, if there’s not as much in your wallet or on your paycheck this year, why not find cash value in some things that are lying around your home, in your basement or garage. I have been doing exactly that and, if you’re a ‘newbie’ on the internet then I’ll show you how to turn that stuff into cash.
The easiest way to do that is to sell your stuff on auction websites or classified websites. eBay and Craigslist are the first ones that come to mind. eBay is great for selling things that are easier to ship because most likely the buyer won’t live close to you and you’ll have to ship it. Craigslist is great for those items that are heavier, larger, or just plain akward to ship. Expect to pay some fees if you sell it on eBay. Craigslist is free for selling stuff.
eBay >> You can see what I have been listing for sale on eBay by clicking on the link below.
Auctiva is a third-party company that helps you organize your auctions and they offer free tools that are very beneficial to eBay sellers. Find out more at: www.auctiva.com.
Craigslist >> Who’s list? Craigslist! If you haven’t heard of Craigslist, then you better start from the beginning – of the internet, that is! (Don’t ask me what that means.) Craigslist is one of the most popular websites in the world. Pretty impressive for how they started out. (On a side note, I always love hearing stories about how these most popular websites got started.) Anyway, back on track.
Advantages of Craigslist over eBay.
- Sell stuff locally.
- It’s free.
- Create’s great exposure for your stuff.
Craigslist and eBay are both very good for making a little extra cash over the holidays.
I will be putting out some tutorials on eBay. Both for beginners (newbies) and also some more advanced tutorials. How to sell more effectively on eBay…
For more on Craigslist and using Craigslist as an affiliate marketer, check this out.
I have compiled a report called “The Ultimate Guide to Secret Marketing Strategies”. These are tips and techniques that internet marketing professionals use to create a feeding frenzy with any product.
This is a 489-page report that contains 1500 online marketing techniques that you can use to increase your conversion rates in your online sales efforts. You can use these if you write your own sales letters for your info products, or whether you use Craigslist or eBay to sell your products. These tips work well with information products as well as physical products or services.
Strategy #270: The “Next Success Story” Strategy
The “when you become our next success story you will get free publicity…” strategy tells your prospects they could become famous and get their own business or message in front of all your prospects, visitors and customers. This will really persuade people that have similar businesses or have non-profit organizations to promote your product.
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Here’s where you can get the report.
When beginning any online business, it is important to do your homework before diving in head first. Keyword research is a necessary step to a successful online business.
- Decide on niche.
- Find keywords that identify and relate to your niche.
- Implement those keywords within your website and blog.
- Continue using those keywords with your content often.
Why is keyword research so important? The majority of your website traffic should come from search engines because that means that people are searching for what you have to offer them instead of you seeking out your customers. Keywords are as equally important for pay-per-click (ppc) campaigns as well as natural (or organic) search engine rankings.
Basic keyword research steps:
- Visit Google’s Keyword Tool.
- Type in your keywords. Google will display a number of results and… most recently have starting displaying the search volume in numbers instead of a little graph that doesn’t really tell you anything.
- In this list, you are looking for the Approx Avg Search Volume. That is an approximate number that tells you how many searches are done each month. That gives you an idea of the demand of that keyword.
- Start a spreadsheet to track your results and put your keywords in your list.
- Now we need to find out what the supply of that keyword is. I do this with Google. Visit Google. I use the allintitle:”______________” search method that tells me how many other webpages Google says has that exact keyword phrase in the title of the webpage.
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There are no set rules on how much competition vs. search volume (supply vs. demand) makes a keyword ‘saturated’ but i like to follow the 30/20 Rule. The average monthly search volume should be more than 900 per month (average 30 searches per day) and the allintitle:”___” search results should be less than 20,000. Obviously. the less the supply and the more the demand – the better.
This blog post is more for me than anyone else. I titled this post, “Back2Basics” because lately, when I have started a new internet project I often times fail to do the proper keyword research and, even more so, fail to properly use the keywords for maximum benefits. I know how to do it but I don’t always to it myself.
Most of the time I won’t shamelessly promote a Clickbank product directly on this blog but this isn’t one of those times. This is the approved affiliate “email pitch” from Commission Blueprint. I will be actually testing it out and giving an unbiased review of the product so stay tuned for updates. If you have ordered this product then let me know what you thought about it.
If you’re like me then you have registered domain names for internet business projects that you think are awesome and you want to develop that online business idea. If that is the case then you have domain names registered that you’re not doing anything with so what are your options?
- Park your domain name with RevenueDirect.com. Earn a little bit of revenue with by ‘parking’ your domain name with several parking service providers and they will put ads on that domain that you could earn some revenue from. For an example of a parked domain, go to www.seattlestuff.net.
- But Why Park your domain when you can quickly and easily turn it into a full website filled with automatically updated content and articles. This is exactly what you can do with an account at WhyPark.com and earn revenue though text ads and adsense. Go to www.woodworkerreview.com
- Sell your domain name. If you have scrapped your online business project and you have a good domain name then get it professionally appraised so you know what it’s worth then see what you can do about selling it. Sell your domain with Sedo.com, GoDaddy Auctions, or even on eBay! Let someone else use the domain name if you know that you’re not going to.
So now that you know what you can do with those domain names that are just lying around. You may want to try your luck with purchasing up some domain names then using them for adsense, articles, or try ‘flipping’ them by putting them up for auction.
I’ve been using DomainsBot.com to help me find some awesome domain names. It is a domain name search engine that also makes some automated suggestions for available domain names based on your ‘keywords’.
To finish up, here is a list of a few domain names that I’ve purchased in the past and decided not to do anything with them (as of now.) If you are interested in any of these then leave a note in the comments section.
- www.seattlestuff.net
- www.woodworkerreview.com
- www.collegebox.net
- www.freelancepros.net
- www.jeepads.net
- www.prizemonkey.net
- www.project-jeep.com
- www.scriptpros.net
- www.turnkeypros.net
- www.utah-events.net
- www.utahautos.net
- www.utahjobfinder.net
- www.utahstuff.net