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Goal Setting for your Coastal Vacations Business

September 7, 2007 on 5:48 pm | In Traffic, goal setting, level 3 director, maria porter | No Comments

Just like creating a map to a place you want to visit, attempting to work a home business without a plan is a date with time wasting. Here are some tips:

1. Set Baby steps for your initial goals.
2. Set Daily goals.
3. Set Medium range goals
4. Set Long term goals.
5. Re-evaluate your medium range goals every 1-2 weeks.
6. Work 5 days a week. Everyone needs their rest and you do not want to be burned out before you even start.
7. Track all your results.
8. Know where all your traffic and sales are coming from.
9. Re-invest in your business by putting at least 15% of your profits back into your advertising.
10. Once you are able to, outsource some of your daily repetitive tasks.

Spend 15 minutes a day on education. The biggest time waster any netpreneur takes part in, is reading emails and getting roped into purchasing the latest and greatest new program or ebook. Putting blinders on until you have reached your mid term goals will save you time, money and frustration.

Hope this helps

Maria Porter

Level 3 director

972-881-4694

www.2ezbiz.org  <=== visit for free marketing tips, free ebooks and so much more.

75 Ways To Get Traffic And Leads With Marketing

June 8, 2007 on 6:09 am | In Business Opportunity, Coastal vacations, Marketing, Online Promotion, Press Releases, Traffic, maria porter, network marketing | 1 Comment

1. Leave comments on other people’s blogs with a backlink to your site. (just make them real, and not spam)

2. Write articles and distribute them to article directories.

3. Answer people’s questions on www.answers.yahoo.com.

4. Post in forums and have a link to your site in your signature. (after you join the conversation)

5. Write a press release and submit it to www.PRWeb.com  , www.webwire.com , www.openpr.com.

6. Advertise your website in the appropriate category on www.CraigsList.com . (tip: create multiple email accounts for multiple postings per day)

7. Give an unbiased testimonial on a product/service that you have used in exchange for a backlink to your site. (maybe they’ll post your comment on their sales letter?)

8. Start a blog and submit it to the 100’s of free blog directories.

9. Manually submit your website to the major search engines. (or pay someone to do it)

10. Optimize each page of your website for a particular keyword or search phrase.

11. Add a link in your email signature to your website. It’s a free and easy way to get a little more traffic.

12. Make a custom 404 error page for your website redirecting people to your home page.

13. Use PPC search engine advertising. Don’t just use Google Adwords, also use Yahoo Search, MSN and Miva too.

14. Add a “bookmark this site” link to your webpages.

15. Have a tell-a-friend form on your site.

16. Send articles to ezine publishers that includes a link to your website in your bio box.

17. Hold a crazy contest and make it go viral with videos.

18. Give away a freebie (ebook, report, e-course) to keep people coming back to your site.

19. Add an RSS feed to your blog.

20. Submit your site to any related niche directories on the net.

21. Participate in a banner or link exchange program.

22. Create a software program and give it away for free. 

23. Purchase the misspellings or variations of your domain name, or those of your competitors.

24. Buy a domain name related to your niche that is already receiving traffic and forward it to your site.

25. Pass out business cards with your domain on them everywhere you go.

26. Start and affiliate program and let your affiliates send you visitors.

27. Start a page on social bookmarking sites such as www.MySpace.com.

28. Submit a viral video to www.YouTube.com

29. Conduct and publish surveys to your website.

30. Find joint venture partners that will send you traffic.

31. Start your own newsletter or ezine.

32. Use a autoresponder or email campaign to keep people coming back to your site.

33. Purchase ads on other sites.

34. Send a free copy of your product to other site owners in exchange for a product review.

35. Sell or place classified ads on www.eBay.com  with a link to your site.

36. Post free classified ads on any of the sites that allow them with a link to your site. Write good subject lines, so ads get read and clicked on.

37. Exchange reciprocal links with other related websites.

38. Network with other people at seminars or other live events. Join a meet up group: http://www.meetup.com

39. Purchase advertising in popular newsletters or ezines.

40. Advertise on other product’s “thank you” pages.

41. Create a free ebook and list in on the “free ebook” sites.

42. Buy and use a memorable domain name.

43. Do something controversial.

44. Create an Amazon profile and submit reviews for books and other products that you have read, use your domain name as the review name.

45. Start a lens on www.Squidoo.com.

46. Use a traffic exchange (low quality traffic, but can sometimes be worthwhile).

47. Get referrals form similar but non-competing sites.

48. Create and sell a product with resell or giveaway rights and include a link to your site in it o others pass it around for you.

49. Email your list. If you don’t have one, get one.

50. Buy a pair of sandals; get your website engraved on the bottom and walk on the beach, stomp in the mud or play in the snow.

51. Use Skype and other instant messengers to chat with people all over the world. Look at their profiles, find people like you, with similar interests, see if they are open to new ventures and friendships.

52. Send postcards in the mail

53. Write a nice long copy sales letter, using powerful persuasion and ethical copy to get people to buy your product or service.

54. Buy unused cable TV airtime, from local stations, on leased access, and show a 30 or 60 second commercial or public service announcement

55. Check out other commercials and Ideas for a co-op at www.spotrunner.com.

56. Hire and outsource marketing to places like www.agentsofvalue.com.

57. Join the Chamber Of Commerce.

58. Submit your videos to many video sites, besides youtube and google, there are well over 40 sites out there hosting free videos. Make sure you optimize the titles for keywords.

59. Do your keyword and SEO research which this great free SEO tool. http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword/

60. Make a WHO IS PAGE, so people learn about who you are, before they buy from you.

61. Pick up the phone and call leads, learn to sell using the phone.

62. Buy a magnetic car sign and stick it on your car, with a short slogan and 24 hour message on it.

63. Wrap your car with a slogan, and 24 hour message

64. Set up a 24 hour recorded message on a toll free number.

65. Hire a call center, or a retired person or a student to close the sales for you, you just generate the leads

66. Hire a virtual assistant to work for you.

67. Put bandit signs (We buy ugly houses) all over town, with a phone # for people to call on it.

68. Put a coupon in VAL-PAK mailing to 1000’s of homes.

69. Go to pizza hut or a pizza shop in town, that is NOT a franchise, and ask if you can rent the space on the top of their pizza box. Pay them .15 a flyer to stick it on the box, with your advertisement on it.

70. ASK for referrals

71. Place classified or display ads in newspapers

72. Make a podcast where you can interview people, experts, or review other people’s stuff via audio or video podcast.

73. Go to old happy clients and ask them for referrals, give them a free gift or incentive for each referral.

74. Go to swap meet or community fairs or fundraisers and peddle your warez there.

 75. Do a community fundraiser for a great cause, get lots of advertisers, peddle your warez in the auction or whatever you can with all the pulicity.

 

Thank you To Justin Michie for her forum post with these great ideas.

Feel free to steal this list and post it in your blogs, pass it on!

Cheers Maria

5 Steps To Success in Network Marketing

April 21, 2007 on 2:35 am | In Business Opportunity, Coastal vacations, Traffic, maria porter, network marketing | No Comments

Automated systems work well if your product is digital and costs less than $99. The seller will attain better results when the sales page is formulated with a personalized video explaining the product and showing proof of training resources, or the product or their earnings. But what if you are selling a higher end network marketing product … what are some of the best steps to take to build enough trust or reasons for a buyer to purchase the product sight unseen?

Here Are My 5 Top Tips:

1. Building A Web Presence

It is necessary to have a web presence to market your product. The latest web 2.0 techniques covering the umbrella of social book marking sites, like blogs and video lure search engine spiders like flies to a web. The latest marketing techniques level the paying field, making it no longer necessary to have a huge advertising budget to have your website ranked high in the search engines. Utilizing a selection of varied marketing methods on a regular basis will attract traffic to your website.

2. Building relationships

Showing your face, recording your voice and adding testimonials to your site all increase the connection between you and your web visitors. Your new clients should feel as if they know you and can trust you and can contact you at any time without feeling like they are a burden to you.

3. Giving advice

Writing articles with useful materials will result in increased free traffic to your website and will establish you as an authority in your niche. Offering free reports, free downloads and adding web content will keep the internet seekers coming back to your site.

4. Adding Bonuses

Using competitions and time sensitive bonuses will add to the sense of urgency. Seekers will become buyers if they have a reason to purchase today. The one time offer strategy has become a huge success with internet marketers.

5. Care after the sale

Once the sale is done, many marketers feel that their job is over, in reality this is the most important aspect to any sale. Taking time to market and establish rapport with a client only to drop them after the purchase will lead to discontented members and complaints. Establishing a regimen of regular contact and training is essential for the success of your business and growth of your down-line.

For a free report, free advertising resources and my mentoring program please call me on 866-629-3806 or visit: Coastal Vacations  Thank you Maria

Awesome Revelealing Traffic Secrets For Your Coastal Vacations Business

April 9, 2007 on 5:53 pm | In Business Opportunity, Coastal vacations, Marketing, Micheal Cheney, Online Promotion, Traffic | No Comments

Hello 

Let’s be honest here – there’s nothing really new left to know about traffic is there?

You’d be surprised. I’ve just gone through what has to be the most comprehensive course on traffic that’s out there (no it doesn’t cost $1000!) and let me tell you..

..you are probably only using a tiny percentage of the available traffic methods that exist.

Sure – the time and tested ones are still effective but in the past year or so brand new methods have sprung up that you need to master.

If you don’t master multiple traffic methods you seriously risk getting left behind in the dust of your competitors.

Traffic has moved on you know.

In fact, what you’re now dealing with is ‘Web Traffic 2.0′ – it’s an entirely different beast.

If you can start applying just one or two new traffic tactics (and this course makes it super easy for you to do it as I’ll explain in a minute) then you could easily double your sales and income.
So who’s behind the course and why am I raving about it?

Well, it’s from Internet marketing expert Michael Cheney who has been online since 1995. What he doesn’t know about traffic is, quite honestly, not worth knowing.

You might have heard of Michael’s AdSense Videos or his 11 Days To List Profits course.

Anyway, this time he’s really pulled out the stops and offered what I believe is the ultimate all-in-one traffic solution for you for three reasons;

#1. You get instant traffic as the package comes with 100,000 ad credits to get you an immediate influx of traffic
#2. You get 50 How-To videos that show you step-by-step exactly how to get masses of traffic into your website
#3. You get a tailored Fast-Track To Traffic Action Plan that guides you every step of the way to get masses of traffic into your website as quickly as possible

So there you have it – if you want more traffic (who doesn’t?!) then you need to get your hands on these great videos and the instant traffic that comes with them;

http://traffic.2freedom.com

All the best,

Maria Porter 866-629-3806

PS One tip alone has already paid for the program. If I had to recommend one product out there, it would be this one…I would have liked to have kept it to myself, but as that would be impossible, better to be the hero than the villain