Opt-in list building comes down to a few different key elements to be effective. One of those elements, is creating a sense of trust with your subscribers. If don’t develop trust, then your subscribers will not open your emails, and they won’t respond to your recommendations. As a result you in all likelihood won’t make nearly as much money as you should.

The first way to create trust with your subscribers is by maintaining consistency. Meaning, if you say something, you should try to always make sure to move mountains to make sure you are an honorable person. This is really important with your subscribers. If you say that a special offer is going to end on a specific date, then make sure you end it on time… no exceptions!

The next way to create trust with your opt-in list, is to maintain a particular feel. If you use arrows in one email, then send another out without them, subconsciously your list notices this and they lose a little bit of trust in you. A simple way to bypass this is to create a template that you use to send out emails to your list. This will help to ensure that every email feels similar.

Most importantly, use some personality. Be yourself. When your subscriber list feel like they have a personal connection with you, they are more likely to gain increasingly more trust in you. In the faceless world that is the internet, it is extremely important that your subscribers feel like you are a real-life, breathing person. This is important and largely beneficial if you are trying to build the amount of trust your opt-in list has in you.

So in this article you learned how to get your email list to trust you more. Simply be a person of your word. Also maintain consistency in your email formats. And finally, ensure that you inject your personality into all your email communications with your opt-in list. If you don’t have a personality, get some! Buy it, borrow it, or develop it!

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Who else has Internet ADD?

I do… I do!!!!

How many times have you sat down to do some work and ended browsing the internet? Next thing you know, you are looking for something completely unrelated to what you were supposed to be doing.

It happens to a lot of people. There are so many distractions that can get in the way of us being as productive as we can be.  The phone ringing, the television blaring in the background, the kids fighting in the next room and etc. It is extremely difficult to just sit down and concentrate on working on a project for a set amount of time.

Introducing “The Action Machine“!!

This is an amazingly simple but effective piece of software created by Derek Franklin. The Action Machine is designed to help you stop procrastination, achieve goals, and get things done.

Pros:

Cost: The investment for The Action Machine is a paltry $47 as of the time of this review. It could go up at any time according to the creator’s website. My personal opinion is that any tool that can help me to stop procrastination, is a welcomed addition. The ability to get things done in a timely manner and help with achieving my goals is priceless. I personally have tried everything from checklists to using a calendar for reminders… NOTHING HAS WORKED! Until now!

Focus: After using this software for a week I can honestly say that the biggest benefit of using this software is accountability. The way the software works is by allowing you to set timers for the tasks that you want to get done over the course of a day. So when you set the timer you mentally realize that you have a set amount of time to get that particular task done within the time that you have allotted yourself. This will help to keep you on task and hopefully help you reign in the Internet ADD that you may be suffering from.

Increased Productivity: These benefits are mostly interconnected. Once you become focused on completing your tasks within the allotted time, you will then notice that you have more time to accomplish other things. Let’s face it, there are only 24 hours in a day. It is recommended that you get at least 8 hours of sleep per day. This leaves you with 16 hours in a day. If you were to write down every action you completed during those 16 hours you would be able to see exactly how much of that time is wasted on tasks that are helping you to achieve your goals. Using The Action Machine, you will be able to gain back those valuable lost minutes, hours and days.

Achieved Goals: What if you had a pressing project that was due in a short amount of time? You would probably need to make sure that you devoted the majority of your time to tasks that would help you to meet your deadline, right? Imagine if you had a piece of software to make sure that you stay on topic. The sense of urgency that The Action Machine gives you would help to ensure that you meet your deadlines.

Cons:

Scheduling: This is more of a feature request than a con for The Action Machine software. Mainly I wish that there was a way to setup my schedule and tasks for an entire week. This software is a tasks based program. Meaning you create tasks and determine the amount of time that you would require to get that task done. Personally, I would prefer to be able to sit down on a Sunday and plan out my entire week.

Customized Report: Let me clarify this for you… You see the software has a reporting function that summarizes all the tasks that you have done and presents it in a nice little tidy format so you can see what tasks you spent the most time on. This is a great function! The only problem I had is that I would like to customize the report to be able to either use it as a billing tool for clients or to break down the tasks into buckets or categories. This would be great way to know what areas I spend the most working in.

Summary:

I give my highest recommendation to this software. One of the pros that I didn’t mention above is the simplicity of The Action Machine. It is extremely easy to use and the installation was a snap! You really can’t go wrong with buy The Action Machine. It can be a great addition to your arsenal of tools.

Rating: 5/5

My suggestion to you is to take action right now! Go and grab this great little piece of software now!

Are you asking yourself if this is a trick question?

It might be!

Can it help drive traffic? Yep! Can it help you be seen as an expert in your chosen niche? Yep! Can it act as your silent salesman for years to come! Yep!

So who shouldn’t use article marketing? Not really sure. I really don’t see any downsides to using article marketing.

Honestly, I don’t consider myself to be a great writer. I think I do a pretty good job at getting my point across. To be honest, I haven’t written an article in almost a year. So the other day, I made the decision to get back into the habit of writing. I decided I was going to check out some of the articles I had written years ago.

OMG!!!!

They were all still live and still driving traffic! It was the greatest thing ever! I just figured if I had forgotten about them, then so had everyone else. Years later, these articles are still working for me. Below is a screen shot of the articles I am talking about.

As you can see from the image above, my articles have had over 7,000 views. Even with an extremely low Click Rate of 9.4% I was able to get almost 700 people to look at something I wanted them to see. That is 700 people that I didn’t have to spend a dime on. I simply wrote an article and posted in the internet.

To get that same amount of traffic via PPC or other media avenues, it would have cost me a fortune. Most services charge you either by the click or by the impression. Either way, I was able to get all of this traffic for free! Gotta love the word FREE!

So some of you may be thinking, I don’t know anything or I can’t write… blah blah blah!!!

I used to say the same thing! Now… look! You’re reading an article I have written! I don’t have that excuse anymore. If you want my advice (even if you don’t), just write! You would be really surprised the amount of knowledge you have once you start putting the pen to the paper. We all have some knowledge that someone else needs. Something that you may consider to be common knowledge may not be as common as you think.

I will end this post with this…

Just write something… anything! Take action!

Social Network Marketing is the easiest and fastest way to drive traffic to your site. Sounds like a pretty bold statement, right? Well in this article, we will be discovering why this statement is true. For the uninitiated, Social Network Marketing is the use of social networking sites to bring attention to your business. It uses the power of word-of-mouth and relationship building as the basis for driving traffic to your site. The two largest and best sites for driving free traffic to your site or business are Twitter and Facebook.

Two of the fastest growing social networking sites on the internet is called Facebook. This is a site where you can connect with old friends, network with new people, and overall just eavesdrop on the lives of the people in your network. The reason why I called out this site is due to it’s enormous growth over the past few years. Sites like these are always being created and as a result marketers are able to reach more people and in much faster way than before. Facebook is probably one of my favorite ways to market using Social Networking sites. this is because of the sheer amount of members it currently has. This is also due to the multitude of way that one can market to potential customers. These ways include paid advertising, Facebook pages, Facebook groups, and Facebook Events. In a later article, I will cover these in more detail but for now, these are the best ways I have found to really get the most out of Facebook for my marketing needs.

The other site I recommend is Twitter. Now there has been a lot of people jumping off the Twitter bandwagon as of late. In my honest opinion, I can definitely understand why. It is hard to really target your potential customers within Twitter. It is possible and with a little practice, you definitely use it to drive enormous amounts of traffic to your site. If used correctly it can be an excellent list building source. Some of the best ways to market in Twitter is through the use of ‘hash tags’ (#socialmarketing) which are basically used to call out trends. A trend is a topic or subject that is being discuss in Twitter. The use of a hash tag can really help in your marketing efforts if used the right way. Overall, it takes a little longer to really get to Twitter to become a huge source of free traffic, but it can be worth it in the end. As with anything, “Nothing ventured, nothing gained!”

There are a ton of other sites that could be used in your social network marketing strategy. These sites could include Myspace, LinkedIn, and others. All of these sites have their pros and cons. My advise to anyone thinking about using these sites is to first read the TOS that each site has. This will tell you what you are able to do and not do. This will ultimately make sure you stay out of hot water. Next I would suggest that you simply jump in with both feet and get started.

Finally, I would suggest using sites that can be used simultaneously when first starting out. A perfect example of this is Twitter and Facebook. When I say, using them simultaneously, i am referring to the ability to post to one site and have it show up on the other sites as well. If this ability is not available natively, I would suggest locating services that would help you accomplish this same thing.

Social network marketing is a strange beast. There isn’t really a right or a wrong way to do it. Most of what you learn will come through the School of Hard-Knocks. This is ultimately the best knowledge you can gain.

As most of you know, I have quite a few different businesses that I am involved in. They range from marketing all the way to services for high school student atheletes.

Elite Xposure is a company that was created to help local Las Vegas students to get exposure to college coaches. We are made up of a group of friends that saw a huge gap in the number of quality high school athletes that were making it into college. We decided that there had to be a way to help these young kids get the attention of college coaches without being the number one player in the country.

We developed a site in which we film the athletes in a personal one on one interview. We also film their games for them and use that footage to create a highlight reel that the college coaches can watch on the internet. There are also some great benefits to our service that the student receives as well.

We have just signed a new client who we think is going to have a great future. What increases his chances is that he is going to have more exposure. Meaning the more people that know he exists, the better his chances of going to the college of his choice.

If you have a son or daughter in the Las Vegas area and they are a high school student athlete, contact us to day so we can discuss the possiblities that become available when you use our service.

We’ve added a brand new plugin that actually creates a mobile version of the site. There are a lot of advantages to having this type of plugin on your blog!

Making sure that your site is viewable on the iPhone, Android, and iPod Touch is beneficial because you can add another traffic source to your site.

The plugin can also be turned on and off by the user so they are in control of what they see on your blog. I give this plugin a 2 Thumbs up! Great idea!

You can grab this plugin by doing a search in the your WP Dashboard under the Plugins section. Make sure to select the “Add New” option and then perform your search!

You can also grab it using the following link:
WPTouch WordPress Plugin

Hope you enjoy this one as much as I did!

Just an update on our newest eCommerce site…

We launched this site on Aug. 24th and so far we have grossed over $500 in sales. This is way better than we had anticipated due to the stiff competition in this market. We are going to be launching a new promotion to see if we can get even more highly qualified and targeted traffic to this site. It will be hosted on Facebook, so it will be more viral in nature.

Stay tuned to this blog for more information coming soon!

If you would like to become a fan of Scented Bargains on Facebook then click the link below:
http://bit.ly/cQL05

This is an exciting time! We will be posting some of the ways that we were able to get a considerable amount of traffic from Google within a short amount of time!

Hey all, I have just launched my latest site! It has nothing to do with the Internet Marketing field. It is an E-Commerce site that I will use as a case study. I am going to experiement with different marketing methods and I will post my results here.

Marketing an e-commerce site is a little different than marketing a normal one page sales site. So I will be interested to see just how much harder or easier it will be.

If you would like to see the new site you can visit the link below:
http://www.scentedbargains.com

Stay tuned for updates on a regular basis!