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How to Write a Better Business Blog
December 25, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Every corporation today should be creating and maintaining a fresh and engaging blog – and they should be monitoring it, too. Creating your own content is important, but so is monitoring—and responding to—the conversations taking place about your brand on blogs and forums across the Web.
The biggest risk with blogs is a lack of relevant and timely publishing. If you don’t post timely, punchy, informative posts, your blog will not be read or be found by search engines. Your goal is not to obtain momentary awareness but to maintain relevancy over the long term for your target audience. You need to use buzz-monitoring tools to find out what customers are talking about—what interests them right now—and then use your blog to write about these subjects. This quest for prolonged relevancy and a deeper interaction with your customer is what a good business blog is all about.
It is no secret that trusted information sources, offline and online, are given greater credence by decision-makers than paid advertisements. People may be talking about your brand, your clients’ brands and your competitors as well. Are you listening and responding— and thereby demonstrating your commitment to the community that surrounds your business on the Web? Are you using monitoring tools to find and monitor all the blogs where people are talking about your brand, so you can engage in the conversation, post responses, and build relationships with them? Your own blog-publishing efforts and a blog-monitoring and commenting program must offer unique opportunities for a richer connection with key influencers.
Interacting with only the people who fully support your brand isn’t going to win any hearts and minds—nor make a lasting impact on branding and revenue. Use social media monitoring tools to find out who is talking about your brand, what they are saying, and what they like and dislike about your product. Understanding the key positive and negative voices discussing your brand will enable you to even better engage your fans, as well as to reach out to detractors to try to win them over. If you take a blogger’s criticism or suggestion and use it in creating a better product or service, not only will you have won that user over, you will have shown that you are taking your customers’ opinions to heart. Treat all of your blog-based interactions like a true relationship, with both sides giving and taking. You might gain valuable product, marketing, and segment knowledge from the interactions. Offer your key influencers special promotions or give them a say in product design or development. Remember, online interactions are a two-way street.
Use social media monitoring tools to find out which blogs and forums are hosting conversations about your brand. Take the time to know where your brand is being discussed and research the groups that are talking about it. Doing so gives you a better chance of relating to users and creating a relationship, rather than just talking at them in your own blog and when responding to their posts.
Take a close look at your business blog. Is it boring? Are the posts too infrequent? Does it speak to the conversations you’ve uncovered with social-media monitoring tools? Does it invite engagement by making it easy to post responses and to share posts via email and social networks? The person responsible for writing content for your blog should have full access to the social media monitoring data you uncover on a daily or weekly basis—so they can write posts that touch on those subjects. In addition, your social media marketing team should work hand-in-hand with your business blogger to promote posts with all the social-networking platforms, as well as to reach out to external bloggers to invite them to read and comment on your blog.
Many blogging programs fail to be relevant and drive engagement because businesses bite off more than they can chew and then the blogging programs languishes due to lack of time. Start small and then grow the program from there. It doesn’t cost a lot to (a) write posts for your blog; (b) use free or inexpensive monitoring tools to stay abreast of conversations about your brand; and (c) participate in the Web-wide dialogue taking place about your brand. But it does take a lot time. Make sure to map out your objectives based on the available bandwidth of your marketing team.
The pitfalls are many: failing to post regularly on your corporate blog; posting only text and no photos, videos, or links; failing to create a cohesive voice on your corporate blog by allowing several people to post; and neglecting to use all the methods possible to drive traffic to your blog (SEO, SEM, social media networks, email campaigns, etc.). But it’s easy to avoid these pitfalls now that you know what they are. Following these simple rules will result in a blogging program that does what you want it to: drive customer engagement, build your brand and boost sales.
How to Write the Perfect Ad for your Affiliate Product
November 21, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Do you have a budding career as an affiliate in the increasingly growing world of affiliate marketing? Then you are the perfect candidate who needs to learn more about the art of writing the perfect ad for an affiliate product. In fact, the quality of ad that you are creating determines the future of your affiliate marketing career. It is the most salient component that could make or break your cyber pursuits, hence allot your precious time to learn how to write the best promotional ad for an affiliate product and more.
The fundamental step is to deal with the content of your ad which ought to be a very informative and detailed one. Make sure that you have substantial knowledge about the product because this is where you are going to get your inputs and content. If it is possible, you may try and use the product yourself to know exactly what are its features, along with its strengths and weaknesses. Most potential online buyers are very careful and tedious with their choices starting with the ads they see online. Therefore you must pose credibility and authority in order to persuade them to action.
The next step is to develop your website, its design and customize everything in order to attract more customer attention and retain their interests. There may be million affiliates more who are endorsing the same affiliate product you are advertising. Put an edge to your ads by creatively producing a catchy, meaty and juicy kind of advertisement. It is important that you give customers the reason why they should choose your link among others who are offering the same product or service.
Finally, you need to develop in your promotional ads credibility from start to finish, beginning with your headlines. Have a sales page that calls your customers to action which is the ultimate goal of your ventures. Affiliate marketing does not end in generating traffic to your site and customers viewing your link. Converting them to potential buyers must be your most important objective since it will generate more income in your part.
Most of the time, creating a perfect ad to promote your affiliate product is not a piece of cake. You need to devote your time and effort to come up with the best advertisement that will surely materialize your goals. You have all the help accessible online, complemented with your determination to succeed, and you have the perfect package for an affiliate.
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Doing the Write Thing: Tips for Selling Copywriting Services
November 20, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
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Pay Per Click Success Secrets – 7 Tips to Write Successful Advertisement in PPC Advertising Campaign
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
One of the most significant components to your success in PPC online advertising is to write the highly successful advertisements in order to increase the click through rate (CTR) and the opportunities to turn those visitors into customers. Within this article, you will discover and learn great tips on writing the successful advertisement in PPC online advertising.
The top success tip of writing the advertisement is to grab the viewer’s attention as much as possible. You will discover and learn great tips and inside secrets on writing the successful advertisements in PPC. It is obviously that those tips will help you to write better or even highly successful advertisement in PPC online advertising.
1. Write to Your Targeted Audience.
The first step of writing the highly successful advertisement is to write your own advertisements directly to your targeted audience. With the better understanding in your market and audience, it is easier to write your advertisements directly to your targeted audience. It is obviously that your advertisements will not success if they can not lead directly to the targeted audience.
The real secrets of PPC online advertising are to: (1) identify the small group of people in the market and (2) research effectively and get better understand people in the market.
2. Address the Benefits Rather Than Features.
There is no doubt that you have to identify the benefits of your products or services, rather than the features of products. It has proven that benefits can lead you to sale, but features can not. It means benefits can sell your products to your potential customers whereas the features only tell your products to them!
The real secrets of PPC online advertising are to: (1) list down all possible benefits of your products and (2) emphasize your benefits into your advertisement.
3. Insert Your Niche Keywords into Your Advertisement.
Inserting your keywords into your advertisement is very powerful and attractive approach. It has proven that if you insert your keywords into the advertisement, the opportunities to increase the click through rate (or CTR) will be opened and grown. With those keywords, it is easier to grab the viewers’ attention.
The real secrets of PPC online advertising are to: (1) insert your keywords into the first line of your advertisement in PPC and (2) insert those keywords as much as possible into the advertisement.
4. Include a Strong and Solid “Call to Action” Phrase.
Another powerful tip is to include a strong and solid “call to action” phrase into your advertisement. For example, you include: “Sign up”, “Register now”, and “Save on”. Otherwise, the prohibited phrase could be: “Click here”, “Visit here”, “Come see” and “Press here”.
The real secrets of PPC online advertising are to: (1) include your “call to action” phrase into your advertisement always and (2) do not include the prohibited phrase or break any PPC search engines’ term and use of condition.
5. Use the relevancy display URLs.
It is great idea to include the relevancy display URLs into your advertisement. Obviously, the more relevancy display URLs are, the more opportunities for people to click on and visit are! You have to use the relevancy and active display URLs.
The real secrets of PPC online advertising are to: (1) embed your keywords into your URLs and (2) use the existing and workable URLs only.
6. Use Proper Grammar and Correct Spelling.
Obviously, you have to use the proper grammar and correct spelling in your advertisement. Without them, your advertisement will look non-professional advertisement.
The real secret of PPC online advertising in this tip is to ensure that your advertisements look professional. It is a great idea to review and ensure that you use the proper grammar and correct spelling before submitting your advertisement.
7. Ensure that Your Advertisement is Easy to Understand and Straight Forward.
The last tip to write the highly successful advertisement is to write your easy-to-understand advertisement. You have to keep your advertisement short, clear and direct to the point. You have a limited space to write your own advertisement. Thus, it is a great idea to keep your advertisement clear, complete and concise.
The real secrets of PPC online advertising are to: (1) get better understanding about the products or services you are trying to write ads and (2) keep your advertisements clear, complete and concise.
Finally, writing the highly successful advertisements is one of the most significant components for your online business in PPC online advertising. With the highly successful advertisements, the opportunities to increase the CTR in PPC online advertising will open and increase. The real secrets of writing the successful advertisements are: (1) write direct to your targeted audience (2) address the benefits of your products (3) insert your keywords in the first line of advertisement (4) insert a strong “call to action” phrase (5) use the relevancy display URLs (6) use the proper grammar and correct spelling and (7) keep your advertisements clear, complete and concise. Apart from these great tips, all you have to do next is to monitor, track and evaluate your advertisements for improvement in the future.Learn more secrets of how to success in PPC online advertising (e.g. write the highly profitable advertisement, keyword research, campaign management and keyword bidding strategies) and become a wealthy affiliate millionaire. You will learn great tips, inside secrets and workable techniques on PPC online advertising, particularly Adwords, every singly month. Also, you will discover and learn monthly up-to-date affiliate information, top profitable recommended online affiliate marketing programs, do effective research, improve continuously your home based affiliate business, learn how to make big money online from home over $5,000 a day and participant with other successful affiliate marketing entrepreneurs. You will discover great tips on internet affiliate marketing for your highly successful. Also, you will save your time and money for your trial & error.Join now – get the full access to unlimited business and revenue ideas, detailed reviews of your sale letter, candid critiques of your website design, traffic campaign strategies proven to attract buyers and tricks to increase your sales by 400% or more! You will discover and learn proven moneymaking secrets to instantly increase your sales over $10,000 per month or more!
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Do you have the “write stuff” to be a prosperous freelance copywriter?
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Some so-called writing experts say you don’t need much skill or talent to be a freelance copywriter for businesses and professionals. Don’t believe it. This article looks at the specific writing skills you must have to be successful and prosperous in this field. If your abilities are not up to par, all hope is not lost: We’ll also look at some ways to hone your skills so you can be competitive in the business market.
How much writing talent do you need to succeed in the world of freelance copywriting (also known as corporate writing)? If you listen to the advice of some writers, you’d think the only requirement is the ability to hit keys on a keyboard.
Okay, I’m exaggerating…a little. But a fair share of supposedly “expert” freelance writers proclaim that you don’t need much writing talent or skill to make a lot of money writing for businesses and professionals. Some even say you’ll be raking in $100,000 annually almost right away-even without training or experience in copywriting. I’ve come across such claims in several books and web sites about freelance copywriting. These claims mislead many copywriters-to-be into thinking it’s easy to break into the field. Here’s the truth: People who don’t have at least a moderate amount of writing talent and skill will have difficulty getting copywriting assignments.
Businesspeople and professionals who know they need a copywriter are also smart enough to recognize poor copy when they see it.
Look at it this way: Would you hire a mechanic whose definition of a screwdriver was vodka and orange juice?
Easier, but not easy
It’s true that freelance copywriting is an easier way to make a living than trying to write the Great American Novel and then convincing a publisher to pay you for it. Freelance copywriting is also easier and certainly more lucrative than sending countless queries to magazine editors and waiting for a reply that is statistically destined to be a rejection slip. (About 99 percent of all traditional queries and proposals are rejected.)
But freelance copywriting is not as easy as many self-proclaimed experts say. Copywriters really do need some amount of writing talent and skill. Otherwise, they won’t get very far.
Business clients know what they want and like, and they eventually will know whether a copywriter’s output meets their needs. Writers who can’t deliver good copy won’t get the repeat business and referrals that are so necessary for successful freelancing.
You can’t “fake it until you make it” in this field. Many unskilled writers have tried and failed. However, if you’re reading this article (which I’ve targeted to writers with some skills and a desire to gain more), you probably have what you need to get started as a freelance copywriter.
How much talent do you really need?
You don’t have to be the Ernest Hemingway of the corporate world to succeed as a freelance copywriter. Besides, Papa’s style probably wouldn’t suit most business clients. Here’s what counts:
· You need the ability to write clearly, concisely and sometimes cleverly.
· You must use proper grammar or know when and why to break a grammatical rule. Don’t be surprised if your client thinks your intentionally broken rule is an error and calls you on it. You will need to explain why you purposely made the “mistake” and defend it. Even then, the client may ask you to undo it. Joe Customer is not always right, but sometimes you need to let him think he is.
· You must be able to gather extensive information about the subject at hand, then translate it into meaningful copy that meets the client’s objectives. Interviewing and research skills are handy, and they improve with practice.
· You need to know how to write strong-selling copy. After all, most copywriting is sales writing, designed to persuade consumers or businesses to buy your client’s products or services. Brochures, newsletters, ads, direct mail and many other corporate materials are basically sales or marketing pieces, and the sales message may be hard or soft. Your writing must convince readers to buy. If your copywriting is not yet powerful, compelling and effective, take heart–and heed: The ability to write strong-selling copy is a learned skill, and you probably can learn it too. Look for advertising or copywriting courses on the Internet or in nearby community colleges. Read up on the subject of writing to sell. Carefully examine written materials from a wide range of businesses. (Some of it might be considered junk mail, but you can learn a lot from it.). Then practice, practice, practice.
· You need the ability to write with some amount of flair or panache. Business clients don’t want a dry, dull thesis or a high school term paper. They want writing that’s persuasive, interesting, easy to read and sometimes humorous. They expect writing that captures attention and encourages the reader to take a specific action.
· You need to know copywriting, advertising and basic marketing terms, such as unique selling proposition, target market, advertorial, branding, systems marketing,
· You must be flexible enough to write in different styles. Let’s say you get assignments to write newsletters for two clients. Client A is a laid-back travel agent who requests a breezy, informal newsletter; you can break some rules and have fun. Client B, on the other hand, is a buttoned-down engineer who expects a formal style to match his company’s image and serious nature. You’d better stick to the rules of grammar and avoid cleverness.
The other keys to your success
To succeed and prosper as a freelance copywriter, you’ll also need several non-writing-related talents, including:
· The ability to establish and maintain relationships with clients
· Basic business skills, such as invoicing, keeping records and managing time
· An entrepreneurial spirit
· The courage and know-how to market yourself
· Occasionally, a little mind-reading!
I suspect that most people who want to be freelance copywriters already have at least some writing talent. The other essentials-copywriting and business skills-can be learned through self-education, formal education or the guidance of other writers. Just remember: Despite what some “copywriting gurus” say, you do need talent and skills to succeed in this exciting field. When you’re equipped with both, wonderful things will happen. Enjoy!
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12 Blogs To Write
November 18, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
There have been many mentions of blogs in my previous entries. The reason I blog about blogging so much is because it is very important to small business websites and the like. It allows you to offer free information to visitors and in turn, they are attracted to your website. So to help you get started or just to help freshen up your blog, I’ve come up with 12 blog ideas to add to your repertoire. 1. Give some insight as to who your employees are and what kind of people they are. 2. Hold some sort of contest or competition that gets users involved and gets your product out just a little bit more. 3. Write a top 10 or top 100 list having to do with your business. 4. Write some testimonials and post some pictures of customers using your products. 5. Post 10 things customers most likely don’t know about your business. 6. Refer others to blogs that you may read or that may be pertinent to your company’s industry. 7. Ask an open ended question about your industry and allow readers to respond and join in the discussion. 8. Explain a facet of your industry that the layman may not understand without your help. 9. Describe the reasons why the average person would be interested in your product. 10. Take questions from readers and potential customers and answer them. 11. Write your opinion regarding some recent news in your industry. 12. Explain the average customer experience step by step. These are but a few good ideas of blogs to get you started. If you apply yourself, and find some inspiration, you’ll be on your way to a successful traffic driving blog in no time!
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Google Adsense: How to Write Great Blogs and Watch Your Adsense Dollars Add Up?
November 17, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
How can I make sure that my account will not be disabled? Google AdSense program policies make no allowances for deceptive practices. The most important thing a publisher can do to ensure the integrity of their site is to be aware of what is happening on your site.
Google has made it abundantly clear not to click on your own ads or ask others to do so. But what about practices a publisher may not purposely carry out?
Make sure that ads associated with Google never appear in an unrequited pop-up. Don’t be talked into purchasing traffic for your site that may contain adware.
Respect the trademarks. Don’t use any trademarks or logos without their consent.
Don’t change the ad code. If you’re a pro at html, don’t assume you can add your own code. If you’re new to html, simply copy and paste the offered code. Don’t mess with it.
Provide a good environment for advertisers and a positive user experience. Don’t try to be deceptive in any way. The rules may sound strict, but believe me, for more details visit to www.google-atm-machine.com protecting the integrity of the AdSense program is in your best interest. After all, a positive, honest AdSense program means more money for all of us.
Useful books about the program for users of all stages
Do you need to buy a book to use Google AdSense? Not necessarily. Google’s support page has a wealth of information. But you might consider it if you want to read a personal account of an AdSense wizard such as Eric Gigue or say, for more details visit to www.adsense-income-exposed.com if you want to learn more about HTML. Who let the blogs out: A hyper connected peek at the world of Weblogs by Biz Stone has a lot of information on blogging as well as information about the program. The following is just a few books you can find at Amazon on the subject:
Make easy money with Google: Using the AdSense advertising program by Eric Gigue
The Google AdSense handbook by Angus McLeod
Google Advertising tools: Cashing in with AdSense, Adwords, and the Google APIs by Harold Davis
Top-Paying Google AdSense and Adwords keywords for pharmaceuticals (In Digital Format) [Download: Adobe Reader] By W. Frederick Zimmerman
The complete idiot’s guide to growing your business with Google by Dave Taylor
Google AdSense: How to write great blogs and watch your AdSense dollars add up
The best thing about blogging is that there are no rules. You can write about anything you want. A self-publisher’s dream! There are some things you can do though to maximize your profits. Narrow your subject. Don’t just write about shopping. Write about shopping for antique dresser drawer pulls. Write every day. Have a blog at more than one site. If you develop a readership, you’re more likely to increase your profits.
Write about something you know or want to know or at the very least care about. If you try to write a great blog based on a ‘hot keyword’ yet it’s something you could care less about, you’ll likely not stay with it long.
Experiment and see what works for you. You can write based on your own opinion or something factual. You can review a product or service or a movie. Read other people’s blogs and notice how many reads they’re getting. Above all, have fun. After all, it’s free and if you’re persistent you’ll see your dollars adding up.
How to Write and Publish Your Content the Smart Way
November 17, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
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Regular content publishing is a great method of traffic generation. Not only it brings new visitors and keeps old visitors hooked as well. If you make smart use of that content, it could mean higher revenues.
The money in your account might be coming from adsense, affiliate programs or selling you own stuff. More money would come only if you expose your user more to your hyperlinks.
A little trick can do this for you without any extra effort on your part.
Write your article or other content in way you have been writing. But when you publish it, split it into parts which are connected by a link.
When you do this, two things happen.
Your reader stays at your site for at least two page (That is minimum splitting you would have done 
.
This increases page views and your traffic rank would gwt a boost as a result.
Your advertisements and affiliate links are getting more exposure than if you simply write a page without splitting it.
Just think about it. If you just write a page and publish it, your reader would be exposed to your content only once.
But if the same article is divided into two parts and connected by “continue link”, you are in fact making your reader visit two pages instead of one.
If your website runs on Wordpress or other blogging platform, simply adding a “more” tag would do.
If you happen to run a static website, pagination or building multiple linked pages could help.
One last thing. Do not usually split the article into more than two parts. That would annoy your reader.
Recently, I stumbled upon a static website that had split an article in seven pages with pagination.
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How to write articles that shoot to the top of Google!
November 10, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Knowing why people use the Internet is critical in delivering content that meets their needs, both in the subject matter and the manner in which content is presented. Internet users are mainly browsing the Internet looking for answers and as those answers are often already covered in thousands of competing website articles you need to find a niche that is highly searched but not widely written about. You then need to present that niche topic in a concise, easy to navigate format to avoid those that scan content (most Internet users) from clicking away from your website. Finding such content is not easy but is time well spent if you can find a market your article can corner.How I find niche content to write about and how you can too!
What shows on front page of Google? If there are directly related articles on top article sites like articlesbase and ezinearticles etc. often they’ll often show on front page of Google or top 3 pages.
Note: Just because there are no articles showing on that first page doesn’t mean there are not thousands of articles on that topic. What it does mean however is that in terms of contentrelated to terms people are using in searches, they may be lacking and as such failing to attract search engines. Thus if you can write an article that does cover those keyword phrases that people are using to find those answers, you have an increased chance of your article ranking highly and outshining all the other articles in cyber space.
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How To Write Your Own Twitter App
November 8, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
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