Logical Way

By Kristi Ambrose

 For those of us trying to promote our business, service, product or whatever else, it’s a constant job to advertise. Some of us have found some really superb ways of advertising and some are still dealing with some “trial and error” issues. But when people ask me about a few good ways to advertise one of my suggestions is groups like MSN, Yahoo or Google. These groups allow you to advertise whatever it is your selling, easily, quickly and without stepping over that ever visible spam line. The last thing you want to do when advertising your business or product is to annoy people by sending them spam-worthy emails!

So what can you do on these groups? How does it work exactly? Well most likely you will need to find the category and subcategory of your business or product that you are trying to advertise. By taking the time to do this very first process your lessening your chances of posting spam. If you are selling car seat covers, the last place that needs to be is in the cooking section! Besides dodging spam related acts, you are also targeting your advertising by finding the correct category to post it in. That’s what you want! If you can’t find the correct category for what your advertising then you’re probably not looking in the right place considering these groups have literally thousands of categories and millions of subcategories!

Although posting to groups is a good thing to do, it also can take up a lot of your precious time. So, then what? Well there are actual people that will do this for you!. They allow you to automatically post your ads on these groups, which saves you incredible amounts of time. You can pick when you want it sent out, which groups you want it sent to, pick the category and customize your ad to suit your needs. Sounds pretty easy right? Well it is! These people offer this service to you for a small one time fee. And, from the looks of it, this fee is pretty low considering what they give you! So, it’s easy, quick, and cheap? Yes!

Here’s a couple packages I found on one site in particular:

Ad Package number one: once a day ad/message submission (ads posted once daily for life). One-time payment of $25

Ad Package number two: twice a day ad submission (ads/messages will be sent two times a day for life) one-time payment of $30

Ad Package number three: three times a day ad/message submission (ads/messages will be sent three times a day for life) one-time payment of $45

Ad Package number four: four times a day ad/message submission (ads/messages will be sent four times a day for life) one-time payment of $50

Ad Package number five: six times a day ad/message submission (ads/messages will be sent six times a day for life) one-time payment of $75

Even if you want to just try the service out they allow you to buy a once a day ad just to see what sorts of results you can get with it. This seems pretty nifty to me. In fact, I am going to go and try this service in particular out, right after I’m done writing this! Again, your ad or message will be sent to over 300+ combined Google, Yahoo, and MSN groups for life. I’m sorry, but this is a fantastic buy and everyone should at least try it out!

This author is a huge fan of How To Craft Your Telemarketing Script To Increase Your Lead Quality With A Disqualifying Statement
By David Seldon

 Voice broadcasting, or automated telemarketing, employs a pre-recorded message that is sent to thousands of target telephone numbers. During the recording the listener is given the chance to “press 1″ to speak with someone, or to leave a voicemail message. When the listener presses 1 the call is transferred to a live representative or to a voicemail system, depending on the broadcast setup.

In order to obtain the most qualified responses, the savvy broadcaster will include a qualifying message in the pre-recorded script, which will help to reduce the amount of unqualified leads the broadcaster receives. We’re often asked how to choose exactly what qualification should be used in the message, and how to craft the statement.

Because the duration of the pre-recorded message is only 45 sec., and probably 10 sec. of that time is taken up with the invitation to “press 1″ or “press 2″, there is very little time to stress more than a single qualifier. To attempt to do more in such a short time risks confusing the prospect. The best advice we have for picking a single qualifier is for the business person to think about a typical conversation with a new prospect. In such a “first conversation”, what is the first thing that you want to find out (qualify) about the prospect? Your own business’s answer to that question will usually lead you to the most important qualifier.

Let’s take the fictional example of the web design firm “Wonderful Web Widgets” (WWW). The folks at WWW have a special web design deal for $2000. They’ve learned that a lot of prospects don’t want to spend over $1000. So in this case, the qualifier could be the price. Literally, the folks at WWW would like to say “don’t call unless you’re willing to spend $2000.” But of course we’re not suggesting that they do!

Their message will describe the benefits of having a website for a business, and probably describe WWW’s abilities and experience and happy customers. A great way to insert the negative qualifier in a positive fashion would be to simply state the price, like “for only $2000″. Now, for the prospect who doesn’t want to spend this much, that is a negative. But for the prospect who knows that a website can easily cost much more, and is willing to pay it, this is an interesting feature. So a statement like this will work to discourage the unqualified from responding, while at the same time, encouraging the qualified.

The more important your main qualifier is in your marketplace, the more you will want to state it in your message. Some broadcasters have found it beneficial to state their qualifier as many as four times in a 45 sec. message. You will learn what works best for your business over time, as you monitor the quality of responses to your voice broadcast campaign.

David Seldon operates LivePhoneLeads.com providing voice broadcasting services for businesses. Find more informative articles about voice broadcasting at Live Phone Leads.

The Logical Way Of Marketing Through The Internet

The Importance Of Protecting Your Affiliate Links
By Bill Protresi

 As an affiliate, your number one commodity will have to be your affiliate link. In any case, your affiliate link is your particular distinctive personality under the attentive gazes of the affiliate program you have signed up.

Allow me to elaborate more.

The instance you register to an affiliate program, you will be asked to pick an affiliate goods to promote. All affiliate merchandise you will select will give you an affiliate link that is particularly your own. Your affiliate ID will be implanted on this affiliate link.

What is the value of this affiliate link?

Basically, as an associate your job will be to promote the affiliate product via your affiliate link. Each time an individual ticks on your affiliate link, two matters will happen:

1. He will be directed to the goods’ selling page; and

2. The affiliate plan will be notified that such a visitor was recommended by you.

If the said guest will opt to avail the item, the affiliate course will identify that he is your referral, and that you - and no other associate- will be credited to the payment.

Hence, your affiliate links are important for your affiliate advertising victory.

However, since your affiliate ID is rooted on your affiliate link, your possible gains will be vulnerable to the following dangers:

- Your commissions may be pocketed, as another crew can straightforwardly file a declaration using your evident affiliate ID.

- Individuals may reject to tick your affiliate links for the reason that they’ll believe that you are only {leading} them to another website for your own personal profit. They don’t like to feel “taken advantage of.”

- The areas where you can sell your affiliate links are restricted, as most internet forums and groups look down on the publication of affiliate links on their sites given the abuse of such a system currently.

The above mentioned obstacles can effortlessly put a rest to the effectiveness of your affiliate marketing operations.

It is very necessary to look after - and in some instances, conceal- your affiliate links to avoid such dangers. You can perform this by using affiliate link cloakers.

Simply, affiliate link concealers will make another URLs that will guide to your affiliate links. This way, you will be dispersing links that will not disclose your affiliate ID, and won’t appear as affiliate links at all.

The effects: better protection of the commissions you have earned, and a loftier click through conversion rate for your ads.

Bill Protresi is an online providing tips and advice. Visit Bill at his marketing website.

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