We all need to do everything we can to get the most Internet income out of our websites. One great method of bringing in more cash is to add bonuses to our sales page. It’s crucial to have a powerful sales pitch, explain the many benefits of your program, let your visitors know how their problems can be solved using your product, and providing many powerful testimonials of satisfied previous buyers. But you need to lure them over the edge with tantalizing free bonuses. Here are some different bonuses that work well to persuade your visitor to buy from you:

Exclusive private invitations: Provide those people that purchase from you special invitations to events that no one else has access to.

Special one-on-one coaching: Give your customers unconditional access to you by e-mail, fax, phone, etc.

Free resource announcement section: Have available to those that buy from you a message center where they can announce freebies they offer from their site.

Archived info: Package together some older information that isn’t available any more. This could include transcripts, old newsletter back issues, articles, etc.

Discounts: Provide your customers with special discounts on other products that you sell and arrange with other similar providers to lower their prices for your customers.

E-mail alerts: Announce to your customers timely “insider information” alerts about vital info or special product releases. Make sure your buyers hear the latest scoop first.

Resource list: Gather together a list of contacts or websites that are related to your niche. Next, provide this on your website or as a downloadable pdf.

Expert webinars: Arrange for an interactive online conference where your customers can log in to talk with other experts in your industry.

Barter list: In order to barter goods and services with others, provide your customers the ability to join a barter discussion e-mail list.

Video or audio newsletter: Create a premium version of your e-zine in either video or audio format. People who haven’t purchased yet would only get your e-mail version.

I’ve been using some great software that really helps you organize and maintain e-mail. All of the products are free and have been working really well for me. Some of them have advanced features if you purchase a license; however, I’m running the free versions of each. I just love solutions that make life on the computer easier!

All of these products can be found at download.com. I’ll just list the URL’s of each of the details pages.

ClearContext: This program is a plugin for Microsoft Outlook that organizes and prioritizes your e-mails. I really love it! http://www.download.com/ClearContext-IMS-Personal/3000-2369_4-10654642.html?tag=lst-0-1

Clean Box: This is an ingenious little program that deletes spam e-mail messages before you even download them! http://www.download.com/Clean-Box/3000-2382_4-10401776.html?tag=lst-0-1

Paragon Encryption program: Awesome way to completely protect sensitive data. http://www.download.com/Paragon-Encrypted-Disk-SE/3000-2092_4-10375064.html?tag=lst-0-1

My friend Stone Evans has been nominated for the 2006 – 2007

“Online Marketer Of The Year” award. Check it out here:

http://www.onlinemarketeroftheyear.com/stoneevans

You’ll have a chance to login to Stone’s personal computer
and watch him compete against the top marketers in the world
including:

Dan Kennedy, Joe Sugarman, Robert Allen, Mark Joyner, Yanik
Silver, Mike Filsaime, Rich Schefren, Nick Marks, Gary
Ambrose, Alex Mandossian, Anik Singal, Armand Morin, Bill
Glazer, Bill Harris, Brad Antin, Brad Fallon, Carl Galletti,
Dan VanOrman, Dave Lakhani, David Frey, David Garfinkel,
Donna Fox, Eric Holmlund, Gauher Chaudhry, Harris Fellman,
Jeff Johnson, Jill Lublin, Joel Comm, Joshua Shafran, Keith
Baxter, Lorrie Morgan Ferrero, Liz Roberts, Lynn Pierce,
Marc Harty, Matt Bacak, Michel Fortin, Dr. Mike Woo-Ming,
Perry Marshall, Rhea Perry, Ray Edwards, Rick Raddatz, Ryan
Deiss, Shawn Casey, Stephen Pierce, Stu McLaren, Tellman
Knudson, John Carlton, Frank Rumbauskas and Russell
Brunson.

You will have a chance to watch all of these legendary
marketers LIVE and vote on who gives the best content.
Because they are very competitive people and want to win
this competition – they aren’t going to hold ANYTHING back.

To register for this FREE webinar series, please enter your
name and email address in the form on the right on this
page: http://www.onlinemarketeroftheyear.com/stoneevans and
you will be given a free ticket to this webinar series.

It’s like the “American Idol” for Internet marketers…

Enjoy the competition!

Marketing is often segmented into four distinct sets of activity. The four P’s – Product, Pricing, Promotion and Placement or distribution. Article Marketing Strategies can play a significant role in at least two of these activities and should be incorporated into every Internet Marketing Campaign.

Writing and submitting articles strategically to various Sites is of tremendous value in both Promotion and Placement.

With this is mind, what’s the best way to write these promotional articles?

We’ve done it through junior high, it expanded longer through high school, then on college it became chapters. No matter how many times a person have done it, writing articles has proven to be a task many has continuously avoided. Now at a time when writing articles could help your job or work, facing the job at hand can be still faced with unfriendly behavior.

Read the entire article here: http://www.entireweb.com/newsletter/archive/2007/ISSUE303.html

Marketing 101 stresses the importance of creating a powerful headline and corresponding copy. You can’t sell anything if your readers aren’t clear what you are offering and how it will benefit them. Your Internet income really boils down to two laws: make sure everything you write contains a powerful headline that states precisely what you are selling and a great reason why someone should buy, and the body must state the benefits from owning whatever you’re selling. People purchase benefits not features. You could talk to someone all day about the great hybrid feature of the new Toyota Prius, but if you don’t impress upon them about the incredible money savings/gas mileage or being environmentally-friendly because of your reduced oil needs, you will never convince them to buy.

To keep this principle as simple as possible, just ask your self why? If you write a headline claiming “our product is made using only all-natural ingredients” and ask yourself why, you realize that the sales pitch is missing. In order to get your target market’s attention, you must spell out what’s in it for them. So, consider a simple revision “enjoy increased vitality and health with our all-natural product” and watch your cash register fill.

Happy New Year and welcome to 2007! I wish each and everyone a more prosperous and peaceful new year. Have you made any new year’s resolutions? Many people have vowed to re-new their efforts towards growing a successful Internet business. Like a traditional brick and mortar business, your Internet business takes time and effort to materialize and grow.

One very important part of any business is adequate advertising. A nifty bonus with online advertising is that it’s very easy to track each of your campaigns to know what is working and what is not. You create special links or bits of code on a webpage to track where your online traffic is coming from. That way you know if that e-zine solo ad you paid $200 for is actually paying for itself or your latest banner impression purchase was just a big rip off.

As a New Year’s special, I’m testing out an ad tracking software script and inviting you to use the system completely free. I’ve been using it for a few months now, and really like the great features and benefits. It tracks unique visitors, total visitors, referring URLs, time and date (down to the second), search engines keywords, you name it!

Not only that, but with its Campaign Control Technology, you can create ad campaigns to use without having to use a 3rd party URL. For instance, add a little code to the end of your URL like: http://www.yoursite.com/yourpage.html?tid=ad
and you can track unlimited ad campaigns without the hassles of using another domain name.

You are even able to use the scientific split-tester method. You’ll have the ability to “split” the traffic that goes through your tracking URL to two different web sites. Why is this important? Imagine the power that you will have if you could perform scientifically accurate marketing tests with ease to see what works and what doesn’t. Get rid of what doesn’t work and save your valuable time and money.

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As 2006 winds down to a close, it’s important to reflect on your Internet business this year. Have you achieved your financial goals this year that you set in January? Take time to measure your results against your goals and determine how the year adds up.

Next week, determine your financial goals for 2007 and make sure to write them down. Then, break down how you are going to get there. Do you need to increase your website traffic by 10%? Do you need to find cost savings measures to increase your bottom line? Whatever you determine, make sure to write everything down and reflect on this paper at least every quarter. Remember, if you want things to stay the same, just do the same things. If you want more, you need to do more. You are planting the seeds now to reap the benefits later.

As we’ve already seen, online communities attract people by providing content about specific subjects. Again, the greatest benefit from a business person (or webmaster) perspective is this traffic is free and very targeted. So, simply adding a chat room to your website is an ideal way to bring you more traffic and hopefully more income.

If you get a little creative, you can bring even more of this targeted traffic. You could use a chat room for meeting your current customers and responding to problems or questions that they might have. Provide free seminars on topics that you know well. Schedule frequent free events in your chat room. Have different experts host events in your chat room.

Contact other website owners and offer to host seminars in their chat rooms. You could do this for free in exchange for the publicity or charge the webmaster and make some additional Internet income. You want to be perceived as an expert and professional, so make sure that your grammar and spelling are correct.

Another benefit of chat rooms is the ability to meet and network with other savvy netpreneurs. Always be on the lookout for additional ways to increase your Internet income. You never know who you might meet, it could be your next joint venture partner that helps you bring in amazing profits!

The definition of a chat room is a website or server space on the Internet where live keyboard conversations (usually organized around a specific topic) with other people occur. Chat room marketing is the use of these meeting places to promote your product or service. Simply find the right chat room where your targeted customer would congregate. This is kind of a touchy matter, most people do not like blatant advertising.

The best way to promote is to create a chat room profile that includes your website information, advertisement, and signature file. Spend some time in the room to see what others are doing. If possible, announce to the room something interesting or free on your website. This will draw visitors to your site. Make sure to follow all the chat room rules so that your posts will not be considered SPAM.

Marketing your products or services in chat rooms is a more personal way to gain new customers. Prospects are actually communicating with you instead of reading your ad. It’s even possible to make friends along the way!

Joint ventures are one of the most profitable and quickest Internet income sources available. A joint venture is when two entrepreneurs team up to collaborate on the same project for a pre-determined time period. Participating in joint ventures usually results in more sales and net profits, lower costs, obtaining vital referrals, saving your valuable time, gaining a larger share of the market, and stomping the competition. Here are some helpful joint venture possibilities:

• Bundle your services or products with those of another business. You could then share the profits equally.

• Swap customer praises or endorsements for each other’s products.

• Trade solo or e-mail ads with complementary websites

• Come up with a shareware software program with someone else. Make sure to create an effective advertisement for both businesses. List your software on freebie and shareware websites.

• If you have a product that isn’t selling well, contact another webmaster and tell them you would like to offer your product as a free bonus to their service or product. You should be able to receive a small percentage of the revenue.

• Simply exchange banners or text links with other like sites.

• Host a conference call or seminar with another business owner. Combine both businesses promotional ad copy on your websites.

• Contact another webpreneur and suggest including their ad in your product. Then, ask them to return the favor with your business.

• Work together with another business on the same website. Since you both will be promoting the same site, traffic should be far greater than going it alone.

• Create a new e-book with similar other businesses. Combine everyone’s ads in the e-book, then simply give it to people free of charge.