Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Get More Pay Per View Traffic Through Effective Landing Pages

Most marketers try Pay Per View Marketing when directing traffic since it doesn't require them to set up a landing page for affiliate offers. Why bother if you can direct link instead? Marketers are fully aware that this luxury cannot be done with AdWords and other PPC options. To make things worse for PPC Marketing, Google has tightened its restrictions on quality assessments, limiting PPC advertisers in what they can do with their adverts.

Life becomes much easier when you don't have to deal with the task of creating comprehensive landing pages. Once you have directed traffic directly to an offer without losing anything, it leads to a very profitable campaign. The best part is that you won't have to lose a percentage at the page level.

This, however, is not the right way to assert your PPV campaign. If you're one of those people who ignore the importance of landing pages for PPV campaigns, now is the time to change your stance. Contrary to popular belief, landing pages can actually pay dividends in the long term. The key word here is potential. When administered effectively, the campaign should yield better numbers in the long run. There are two reasons why this is so.

First, setting up a landing page gives you the opportunity to build a receptive and profitable list. Direct linking to an offer doesn't give you the means to get a list of email addresses, which you can use for follow-up marketing. You don't get the full potential of your campaign as a result. "The list," as marketing experts have always declared, "is where the money's at." So use an effective landing page, make a list and check it twice. If you take landing pages seriously and exert a lot of effort in making them more comprehensive and intuitive to visitors, your ROI results can gather more profit in the final analysis.

There's also the risk of visitors getting lost in the homepage. They would find it difficult to find your offer and just give up. Or they could find something else in your site that piqued their curiosity and go to that instead. Sure, we would love visitors to sink their teeth into our sites, but it won't really matter if they can't find the offer, right?

Another advantage is landing pages can generate you leads for other affiliate offers. This is because prospects that have encountered landing pages are bound to be more receptive to subsequent offers. Even if some people have ignored your landing pages, the prospects that have "warmed up" to your landing pages will play a big factor in improving your campaign's conversion rate. In a nutshell, a perfect landing page paves the way for a higher conversion rate to an affiliate offer.

The reasons given in this article on why it's important to take landing pages seriously is clear enough. But you'd also do well to do some testing. You have to rotate your offers until you find the ones that produce the best results.

Another strength of Pay Per View Marketing is the flexibility it gives advertisers. You are given a lot of options in directing traffic. Utilize many of those options and you'll definitely end up on the winning side of the Pay Per View race.

A List Of Top PPV Networks

Make Your Choice

Pay Per View, or PPV, is gaining ground as a respectable medium in online advertising. It's different from PPC (Pay Per Click) in a way that the advertiser only gets charged for every time the ad is viewed by the internet user instead of getting charged for every click. PPV advertising is administered by companies which use adware to display PPV ads in the form of pop-ups or pop-unders. Internet users get to install software from these PPV companies for a cheaper price in the agreement that they are willing to have PPV adverts displayed on their screen. By bidding on keywords and URLs, advertisers get to have their PPV adverts displayed for these Internet users. That is how traffic is administered in PPV networks.

If you're a marketer looking for advice on which PPV networks are likely to give you a good ROI, you've come to the right place. We're going to enumerate the top PPV networks that continue to be movers and shakers in the realm of PPV Marketing, taking into account the amount of traffic available, level of competition (which influences the cost per view rates), quality of traffic, conversion rate and overall ROI.

Traffic Vance
It comes as no surprise that Traffic Vance is still the leading PPV traffic source if the bid prices are any indication. The only drawback is that ROI has taken a downturn for the last few months.

The user database is nothing short of amazing, culminating in a business culture that promotes PPV precocity. Traffic volume continues to run high as a result. The fact that Traffic Vance has ownership of the user base certainly helps, and they don't have the inclination to buy traffic from other networks, which in the end only serve as "traffic junk". The user interface is also nothing short of exemplary.

However, those just starting out with PPV advertising will find it difficult to keep up with the high bid costs. If you are not aware of the fundamental rules in PPV marketing, chances are your adverts won't see the light of day.

AdOn Network
AdOn Network is second to Traffic Vance when it comes to volume of traffic. That also means that the bidding prices are relatively cheaper. Conversion rates are still respectable by advertising standards, though not as powerful in generating traffic as Traffic Vance, the cheaper costs for bidding are a nice compensation. AdOn is also second to Traffic Vance in terms of ROI production.

One disadvantage of the AdOn network is that it may take some time for your ads to get reviews. There are instances when you need to ask for approval from your Rep before every time you set up a new campaign.

Media Traffic
What sets Media Traffic unique is the fast response in terms of the review for approval. Conversion rate is also relatively better than with the AdOn Network.

What goes against Media Traffic is that the amount of traffic results to higher bidding prices.


Tuesday, 21 June 2011

30 Blogging Ideas

Not knowing what to blog about is one of the most common ailments for bloggers. For some, this has caused them to abandon their blog. Others are afraid to start a blog because they fear they won't have enough to share.
To help you jump start the process, here are 31 things you can blog about. Some of them can even be expanded upon, giving you more content. I suggest you print it so you can quickly whip it out to refer to whenever you run out of things to blog about.
1. Mini case study. Have you bailed a customer out of a jam? Received raving feedback from customers? Spotlight them, share the story behind the problem and how you solved it.
2. Did you have an idea strike you out of the blue you think will help customers or readers?
3. Comment on an article you read online, in a magazine.
4. The News. Relevant reports happening around the world.
5. Don't forget local news. If you can somehow tie it into your niche, blog about it.
E.g. If you're promoting an eBay coaching program. You find out a retired lady locally who's living her dream retirement because of eBay. Report it, add a few comments and thoughts of your own and how you can help your blog readers achieve that very same
dream.
6. A tip, idea, strategy you observed. E.g. Your friend showed you a new craft she  made would be a great post for a crafting blog. Take pictures (with permission) if you can.
7. Got a new product? Tell people about it, but don't hype it or make an ad out of it.
Something like "After months of preparation I'm rolling out XYZ product today. This product can do this and that, I'm running a promo for the first week, come check it out."
8. Tell a story about your product. Why did you create it, what inspired you to create it. If you have a few, how about a series of stories? If you're not sure how to structure your stories, think about infomercials. No you don't have to be high pressured like the
infomercials but if you observe, some of them spend considerable time telling the story behind the product.
9. Demonstrate, illustrate or explain how you use a product you're promoting.
10. What are other people talking about in your niche? What's the buzz?
11. Tell people about a new product you were introduced to or discovered. Don't
forget to plug your affiliate link if available.
12. Review a product. How did you discover it? What did you like or don't like about it?
13. Do a book review.
14. Share what your customer did or achieved with your product. E.g. If you have a weight loss product, tell people how much XYZ lost using your product.
15. Tips and tricks that have been really helpful to you.
16. Did you hear of a product recall or down time? Share it. E.g. If you have a baby  blog and you find out a child seat recall.
17. How to's and mini tutorials for your products and the products you promote.
18. A series of tips, tutorials and articles. A great example is the ABC's of XYZ, My 30 day exercise challenge.
19. Did you find a resource, tool, software that was helpful to you? Share it.
20. Answers to the questions people ask you.
21. Put a little humor in your blog. Seen a funny and relevant picture or comic? Post about it, better yet, get permission to publish it.
22. Get contributions. Ask customers and readers to submit their stories or relevant news piece, a review from them would be nice too.
23. Got sales, deals and promotions? Tell people about it.
24. Share a new article you just wrote.
25. Brag about your affiliates. Success stories, how they discovered you and became your affiliate then invite people to join.
26. Issue a challenge to readers and tell them to 'check in' with you in the blog comments.
27. Ask people for advise and help. E.g. Help name your product, find a web host, find a solution.
28. Depending on your comfort level, give people a little window into your life. Did an illness or issue in your family force you to reconsider the important things in life? A joyous occasion make you realize how happy you are with your life? Do practice
discretion with this, be careful not to give out too much personal information.
29. Did a company you buy from make a gesture that impressed you? Blog about it (don't forget your affiliate link).
30. Bring back the dead. Revive old posts with an update. Maybe you did a glowing product review but the company frustrated you a lot recently. Put an update to it.
31. Look through your comments. Sometimes comments branch off into a topic of their own that's worthy to be made a separate post.


Quick TipsDon't beat yourself up if you don't have something to post every day. Contrary to
popular belief, a blog doesn't have to be updated every day. There's no magic number
for frequency but generally once, twice a week or every 10 days is good once you
achieved a momentum.
Inspiration comes in a rush even for the most accomplished writers. Keep an idea
notebook and look through it from time to time, you'll find plenty of things to blog about
when you flip through the pages.
You don't have to slave over your blog. When inspiration strikes or you get highly
motivated, sit down to write out your posts ahead of time. You can pre-post for weeks
even months ahead. If you have a system like WordPress, Typepad or Movable Type,
you can easily schedule posts so it'll publish automatically in the future. If you ever get
anything time sensitive and already have a post schedule, post your time sensitive
news and re-schedule the pre-posted one.

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Easy Money: Compete with the ‘Tax Man’ for Your Dollars

Tax season is stressful for entrepreneurs,
people who hate paperwork and ‘clutter bugs’ -
but it doesn’t have to be. “Becoming an
organizational whiz is a lot easier than you
might think” claims Tana Plewes, Creative
Analyst with the Discovery Centre for
Entrepreneurship. “In just a couple of hours,
start to finish, you can design a financial system
that will alleviate stress, save time and actually
‘find’ money - not just at tax time but all year
long. The greatest payoff for being organized is
peace of mind that comes from knowing you’ve
solved a recurring problem - once and for all”.
Many people make the costly mistake of cutting
the wrong corners at tax time. “Being organized
is a short-cut that pays dividends. It makes
hiring a tax specialist an affordable option”.
Money is lost when unqualified people are hired
to ‘save money’ in tax processing fees. “People
are unaware that thousands of dollars,
sometimes tens of thousands, are lost due to
scarcity thinking” says Plewes. “This is
particularly true for new business owners when
personal savings, assets and resources are used
to research the business plan and launch the
new venture. A tax specialist will navigate the
Income Tax Act to squeeze every penny back
into your pocket.
People fall into one of three broad categories
when it comes to managing the paper work that
clutters up our lives. According to Plewes, some
over-analyze to create cumbersome
procedures; others are resigned to a life of
chaos and crisis. The third type swings radically
from one extreme to the other depending on
the circumstance. If you’re part of a team
chances are you interact with one or more of
these types every day.
The benefits of having an organized workplace
are not limited to finance. Organization
enhances retail merchandising, inventory
control, production flow and staff training. It’s
the foundation to team communication,
operational efficiency, effective marketing and
profitability. Start small by getting your
paperwork under control. Soon you will
discover your new financial system fits your
busy lifestyle AND saves you money, time and
frustration. Not only will you de-clutter your life
and work environment (not to mention your
head) you’ll be ready to go toe-to-toe with the
‘Tax Man’ to compete for your hard-earned
dollars.

100 Best Businesses to Start

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Cleaning Service
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