Social Media Optimization Explained By Matt Bacak in Easy Terms

Does social media optimization sound like something that makes you want to run in the opposite direction?  This is a strategy that you absolutely need to implement if you want your online business to be highly successful.  Today more than ever, people are starving for information and ready to share thoughts and ideas with others about specific niches.  Offering value in your business is crucial, and social media is one of the easiest ways to share your knowledge with the online world.  If this aspect of online marketing makes you uncomfortable, this article will help give you a better understanding.

Social Media gets you Connected
Social media optimization is simply a method you use to “knock down walls or barriers” on your site so that others who share your interests on these sites can easily find information and content that is useful to them.  If they find what you offer to be of great value, they will share it with others.  Actually, you are using word of mouth to spread your materials, so to speak.  If you present your information in a professional and honest manner, those who appreciate it are sure to pass the word around.

How Does it Work?
You may wonder how social media optimization helps others to spread the word about the information and value you offer.  You have surely seen the “Digg This” and “Share This” buttons on blogs; place these icons on your site, and your visitors can share the gold mine they have found on your site or blog!  Other than this, you can create information that is so profound or unique that people can’t wait to tell everyone they know about it – this is called “link bait.”  While this may still sound intimidating, just attempting to use this strategy will help your business.  Why?  Because just knowing that you want to attract hundreds or thousands of people to the product or service you offer will help you create content that is more compelling.  Love this information and want to learn more about internet marketing?  Subscribe to Matt Bacak’s Internet Marketing Dirt for all of the low-down.

How to Ping Your Blog For Quick Traffic Results


How to Ping Your Blog For Quick Traffic Results

How to Ping Your Blog For Quick Traffic Results
By Matt Bacak

Blogs are essential to running any online business. The key benefit is that it allows you to stay up-to-date with your audience. It also allows your audience to check in on your website for new updates so it’s a win-win for everyone. If you do have a blog, it’s important to write daily posts so that the search engines can increase your site ranking. Updated content is heaven for the search engines. It also helps improve your websites traffic quicker. But is adding content the only way to improve your traffic! Not at all! The best rule of thumb when you have a blog is to ping. Pinging is very easy!

Basically, when you set up your blog, you’re going to get a thing called an RSS feed. It’s a really simple syndication feed. This feed is going to be kind of like the channel. Think about it this way… Your blog is a radio station and in order for somebody to get everything on that radio station, they’ve got to turn to a channel. So those channel represents your RSS feed. So, basically for anybody that’s logged-in or tuned in to that channel or shall I say that feed they’re going to be getting that information. If they subscribe to your feed then they are automatically updated with a feed notification of your newest blog entry. That’s what an RSS feed is.

Then next step after you’ve added a new blog entry is to send out a ping. You basically want to ping your blog to let the search engines know that you’ve updated it by adding new content. Basically it’s like you’re saying: “Hey, listen, I have new updated content on my page. Come check me out.” Pinging gives you a head start instead of you having to wait for the search engines to come around and realize you’ve added new content. You’re basically giving them a heads up beforehand by saying: “Hey, come check me out” with your ping.

So, how do you ping your blog? Well, you ping your blog by going to a blog pinging website. I use them and swear by them. All you have to do is get your RSS feed from your site. And then just take your link and then submit it and you’re good to go.

This is how it’s set up: It’s going to say, “What’s your website’s name or title?” You’re going to take the name of the website or the title and put it on there. You’re going to put your URL. You’re also going to select the category of niche that you’re in and then just push the button to send your ping. Just push “Ping my site” and then it’ll start pinging out to Yahoo, Google, blog people and every site that needs to be notified.

It’s going to go ping about 1,000 or so different locations to let them know that you’ve updated your content. (If you’re using WordPress, I think there’s also a built-in pinger where it actually does that for you so you don’t even have to do it). But use Pingler for best results and then you’re done. That’s all you’ve got to do.

There are many strategies to making money on the internet, but nothing makes sense unless you have a big list. Email Marketing is the most profitable way to make money on the internet. When you build a list of hot and hungry prospects you control your future. Discover how to use the internet and turn your computer into a cash gushing machine. Sign-up right now for Matt Bacak’s FREE online newsletter to find out how to do exactly that – Go here: http://www.promotingtips.com

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*NEW* Method For Generating Cash FAST

Matt Bacak here with an urgent message. In fact,
this message is so time-sensitive that it will probably
be invalid only a few hours from now. So make sure you
read the whole thing right away (I’ll keep it short).

Here’s the deal, my friend Jordan Hall has just put a
video up on his website that is going to change your
life forever! It describes a simple way that anyone
(yes, including you) can get up and making money online
almost overnight.

He’s going to provide you with everything you need:

– A Step-by-step, fill-in-the-blanks system

– 3 traffic power techniques that are ridiculously
easy to do (but work better faster than almost
anything else)

– How to remove all the roadblocks & build a list
hyper-fast

– And a proven educational system to make it all
come together

Jordan is not making this private video available to
the general public. He’s only showing it to his own
readers, and he’s also letting a few close friends
(including me) show it to their readers.

Trust me, when you see what he reveals in
this video, you’re going to be glad you took my word
for it, and watched it immediately. So make sure you
put aside what you’re doing right now, and watch this
short video. Trust me, it’s WELL worth your time.

Here’s the link to go check out the short video
presentation, and to learn more about the Bullet
Cash Method (remember, this link will only work for
a short time – he’s taking the video down soon):

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Can You Become a Success With Little Or No Money?

Can You Become a Success With Little Or No Money?

By Matt Bacak

Does purchasing the newest internet success e-book or internet millionaire course going to make you rich so that you can quit your day job?…Highly unlikely. I was recently asked if I thought it was possible for someone to buy my e-books and CDs and instantly start making money online. I can honestly say no. Even though I’d love you to purchase my products, I’m being honest. I don’t think you can make any money online buying any of my products or anyone else’s. The only way you’re going to make money with my products is if you actually start implementing what I teach in my product offerings.

In order to make a good living online you have to spend some money on good products. I’ve often been contacted by people with no job and no money. But what concerns me about a lot of people who are on their last dollar is that they refuse to spend any money. If anyone has followed me for a while you’ll know that before I became an online success I once filed bankruptcy and was broke. But even though I was dead broke, I was spending money.

If you are in this situation, you don’t have to follow my advice. But from my experience, I think it’s important to spend some money to make money. But if you have no job and you’re at your last dollar and you cannot spend another dime because you don’t have a red cent left, I strongly recommend that you find a job right away. Once you do that try to figure out how you can take a little bit of your earnings and put it towards your online education. Do whatever it is you have to do. Put in time at night to start making things happen.

Turn off the TV and remove any distractions. Take your evenings to begin putting all your efforts and any extra money you can spare into your business because that’s where you’re going to be able to leverage yourself better. Don’t go out and buy a bunch of my products or a bunch of stuff from other marketers. First focus your thinking on what it is you want to do. Plan your marketing and go from there to buy the most suitable product for what it is you are working on.

I highly advise you not to spend your last dime with the hopes that everything is going to happen because often times it doesn’t. You can’t just go out and buy an e-book and think all the sudden you’re going to become successful and magically make money. Taking the information you learn from the products you purchase is when things will begin to happen. Implementation is the key to success.

There are many strategies to making money on the internet, but nothing makes sense unless you have a big list. Email Marketing is the most profitable way to make money on the internet. When you build a list of hot and hungry prospects you control your future. Discover how to use the internet and turn your computer into a cash gushing machine. Sign-up right now for Matt Bacak’s FREE online newsletter to find out how to do exactly that – Go here: http://www.promotingtips.com

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How Facebook Marketing Increases Your Potential For Profits

Facebook marketing is a strategy that is highly useful for many online marketers.  Social media is huge now; people connect with others that share the same interests online.  When you join Facebook, you want to help others more than you are helped.  This means that other members begin to trust you and look to you for information that is useful to them.  Find real connections and support the community.  If you look like a spammer that is simply there to sell something, you will learn very quickly that it doesn’t help your marketing efforts.

When marketing with Facebook, join groups who share your interests.  This helps you mingle with a more targeted group of people who are more likely to be interested in what you offer.  You can even start your own group!  Like a forum, this gives you the opportunity to help people out and answer their questions, all of which builds respect and trust immensely.  Go ahead and create a page on Facebook.  Why?  It’s awesome for branding your business and you will find an audience of like-minded people, furthermore it helps you manage your reputation.

Build a compelling profile on Facebook, share links to optimized content, and send people to your Fan page.  Social networking has become a medium that is used by the most successful marketers, and it helps build your reputation as an expert in your niche.  Remember, though, you want to help others, communicate and build friends through trust!  Done right, Facebook marketing is one strategy that will help increase your brand awareness and profitability immensely!  Matt Bacak is the expert when it comes to all internet marketing strategies.  The Survival Tactics for Tough Times seminar is coming up in early December – don’t miss out on this once-in-a-lifetime chance to learn from the experts!

Outsourcing – The Best and Worst Places to Outsource


Outsourcing – The Best and Worst Places to Outsource

Outsourcing – The Best and Worst Places to Outsource
By Matt Bacak

Outsourcing is one of the best ways to build your business without having to put in countless hours of work. It’s great to be able to use experts already specialized in various tasks to complete them for you. All you have to do is delegate, however, what if you want to use overseas sources for your outsourcing. Should you post an ad on Craigslist and hire experts from other countries bidding on the job? Should you hire an expert from countries like China, India, Taiwan, and other countries?

I was recently asked this exact question from a student of mine who did this. Although many bidding for the job are more affordable from these countries, the question that may cross your mind is can they be trusted with passwords and server information? What are my thoughts on this? Well, personally, I would not use Craigslist to find people, especially when building a new relationship. You’re building a new relationship with someone and understandably cannot trust them right away. You’re basically taking a huge risk if you don’t know them and are freely giving them access to personalized information. I would suggest that you hire an expert who already has an established relationship with you so that you can be at ease.

So, what is the main reason why I would not recommend outsourcing to sites like Craigslist? Well, there’s no middle man who can oversee and document the situation of managing the project. I guarantee you, there are various sites that can provide you with better experts in an environment that looks after your best interests.

Using sites like Elance or Scriptlance will give you the opportunity to find very reasonable, affordable prices, especially if you use the right wording for your project posting ad. These sites are incredibly professional and useful for all of your outsourcing needs. I highly recommend these websites since I’ve used them for years. I can trust the people on there. The reason I can trust the people on these sites is because they live off feedback. So if they screw me over, which they’re not going to, typically – I have a means to dispute it in a controlled environment. I’ve only had one person in eight years ever screw me over on a job and it was over an article. I’m not saying it’s impossible to get screwed by sites like Elance or Scriptlance. However, you lessen your chances of having it occur.

But the best part about working with sites like these is that you’ve got feedback and your provider can get kicked off the forum or get such a bad rating that it may be difficult for them to find more work so these workers usually work hard to please you — the employer so to speak. If they have a bad rating they can lose a lot of money and they will do anything in their power to avoid this from happening.

So what wording should you use? The trick to it is definitely in you’re posting. Say something like; “This is a simple and easy task for anyone that knows what they’re doing.” By saying something along those lines, you’ll get the most qualified person at a reasonable price. The main thing is that you’ve got the third party like Scriptlance or Elance who are going to be the middle man. They basically manage the whole payment process to ensure both parties are protected. They also manage disputes if you are in that unfortunate circumstance. But even if you are, they are pretty good at ensuring your needs are met. You can always go to them if you’re having issues or problems and let them know. They can deal with it and handle it because that’s what their team does.

There are many strategies to making money on the internet, but nothing makes sense unless you have a big list. Email Marketing is the most profitable way to make money on the internet. When you build a list of hot and hungry prospects you control your future. Discover how to use the internet and turn your computer into a cash gushing machine. Sign-up right now for Matt Bacak’s FREE online newsletter to find out how to do exactly that – Go here: http://www.promotingtips.com

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Survival Tactics? (2009 event of the year…)

NOTICE: This event is right around
the corner and is selling out fast. We
have already SOLD out 2 room blocks!

You will not want to miss Mark Joyner and

my ‘Survival Tactics’ Seminar this December
because if you do I guarantee…

…you’ll be kicking yourself.

The number of high profile Direct
Mail and Internet Marketing legends
delivering absolute GOLD on stage
will be totally ridiculous…

You’ll get to see “LIVE” and learn from:

Bill Glazer – In 2003, Dan Kennedy asked Bill
to partner with him and now I personally pay him
over 25k dollars a year to mentor me.

Joe Sugarman – not only will you hear how BluBlockers
got started. But, you’ll find out how Joe regularly made
300,000 sales/month and 250,000 sales in one day!

Ted Nicholas – he has been honing and profiting from direct
response marketing in a career spanning 4 decades…selling
everything from books to vitamins to the tune of $6.9B in sales.

Robert Allen – his colossal best-seller Nothing Down
established Robert Allen as one of the most influential
investment advisers of all time

Mark Joyner – the Godfather of Internet Marketing,
revealing exactly how to start making money within
24 hours with no list, no content and zero contacts.

My neighbor, Internet marketing legend, Shawn Casey,
you’ll find out how he made his fortune working on the
Internet. He left a lucrative law practice and a position
as CEO of a two-time Inc. 500 company to do it.

And of course, myself and 6 other, Direct
Mail and Internet marketing legends.

For more information about the event, go here:

==> http://mattbacakreviews.com/Details

See you there.

Matt Bacak

P.S. Here’s a short list of
who else will be there:

Mark Joyner
Matt Bacak
Bill Glazer
Marshall Sylver
Shawn Casey
Ted Nicholas
Robert Allen
Joe Sugarman
Kevin Wilke
Tellman
Dan Kuschell
Keith Wellman
Justin Blake
Alex Carroll
Andrew Lock
Anik Singal
Brad Fallon
Brett Fogle
Charles Kirkland
Chris Cobb
Christian Fea
Craig Perrine
Daegan Smith
Dave Lakhani
David L Hancock
David Radeloff
Dr. Suzanne Gudakunst
Eric Louviere
Eric Rockefeller
Gary Ambrose
Hollis Carter
Howie Schwartz
Jason Cox
Jason James
Jason Oman
Jason Pearson
Jeff Adams
Jeff Herring
Jim Fleck
John Alanis
John Delavera
Jonny Andrews
Jordan Hall
Josh Brown
Joey Smith
Justin Brooke
Keith Wellman
Kimball Roundy
Kirt Christensen
Mark Anastasi
Matt Wadsworth
Merlin Holmes
Michael Jones
Mike Cline
Mike Hill
Mike Merz
Nathan Anderson
Patric Chan
Randy Charach
Raymond Aaron
Rick Del Rio
Ross Goldberg
Roy Oron
Ryan Lee
Shelby Larson
Simon Leung
Stephen Pierce
Steven Iser
Steven Johnson
Tom Ham
Tony Sharpe

I’d love to add you to the list :-)

Go Here -> http://mattbacakreviews.com/Details

Are Bulk Mailing Services Worth it?


Are Bulk Mailing Services Worth it?

Are Bulk Mailing Services Worth it?
By Matt Bacak

Often times I’ve been asked what the best opt-in service that also has a bulk email sending service that’s either inexpensive or free. Now I know there are a lot of marketers who do this kind of thing. But if you’re a real seasoned marketer and not a “dirty” marketer, you will have no need for this. Buying bulk lists in a given niche and sending out email messages to these lists were very popular back in the day when the word “spam” did not exist. However, now with the Anti-Spam Act established in 2003, doing this sort of thing is in my opinion very, very risky.

You can no longer simply buy a list in any given niche and send an email to that list. Nowadays you have to have permission from each individual. And the only way to get their permission is if these individuals actually opted in or signed up for your list by going to your website and entering their name and email address.

Any bulk mailing service that you’re considering using to purchase lists from can create an IP issue. Now with the Anti-Spam Act in effect if a bulk mailing company decides to pursue this type of marketing, they’re going to get their service shut down. Personally, I don’t care how clean they may claim that their list is. If those individuals in the list didn’t opt in to your list, then you’re pretty much going to be seen as a spammer and may be banned. Taking a risk like this is not worth it as it can ruin your future earning potential and your online livelihood. If you want to build an online business this is not the way to do it. In fact, this is actually the best way to kill your business and your dreams.

Basically one thing you need to remember is to set up your own opt-in (aka squeeze page) and begin building your list. Write articles, do pay-per-click advertising, pursue joint ventures and solo advertising from sites. Rome was not build in a day and neither has any profitable successful online business. It takes time and dedication. You too need to take the time to put in a little elbow grease. Once you do this, I assure you that you will soon reap the rewards of your efforts.

So, be persistent and spend a bit of money and put in some time and soon you’re online business will purrrr it’s way all the way to the bank!

There are many strategies to making money on the internet, but nothing makes sense unless you have a big list. Email Marketing is the most profitable way to make money on the internet. When you build a list of hot and hungry prospects you control your future. Discover how to use the internet and turn your computer into a cash gushing machine. Sign-up right now for Matt Bacak’s FREE online newsletter to find out how to do exactly that – Go here: http://www.promotingtips.com

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Matt Bacak Offers Five Tips For An Effective Affiliate Marketing Strategy

Having an effective affiliate marketing strategy in place is key to becoming a successful affiliate.  When you use the right methods, focus, and stay motivated, the earning potential is endless!  Many people decide they will become affiliates and get totally confused with all of the information available online, whether on forums, blogs and other areas.  Everyone has their opinion, but it can give a newbie a bad case of “information overload” and cause them to give up before they even had a chance.

Here are a few things that will help you implement a highly effective affiliate marketing strategy, so that you never have to be part of those 97% who fail at online marketing:

1.    Find a profitable niche that isn’t too competitive – The biggest mistake many people make is trying to promote anything and everything.  Focus on a tight niche, and concentrate all of your efforts on that niche.

2.    Learn how to optimize your website, articles, blogs and other content for the search engines.  Ranking high organically is preferred, but you can also use pay-per-click once you learn how.  Research things thoroughly before you pay for advertising, as it can quickly burn up your money.

3.    Know your product inside and out, and know how to target a buying audience.  This is an essential part of your marketing strategy!  If you know your product well, you appear to your visitors as an expert and someone they can trust.  Target your specific audience by focusing on the areas where you will find them, such as related forums, social networks, etc.  Write articles to build your reputation as an expert in your field.

4.    Promote related products using different merchants.  You’ve heard the old saying “don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”  This is true, as you never know what may happen.  A merchant may not pay on time or even go out of business.  Market two or three closely related products that are of benefit and interest to your target audience.

5.    Stay focused, and DON’T GIVE UP!  Try a few different strategies and compare the results of your efforts.  If one method doesn’t seem to be working, try something different.  If you keep doing this, you will find the affiliate marketing strategies that work best for you and your niche.

The best advice here is to follow these tips, and take action!  If you wait until you feel that you understand every marketing strategy that exists, you will never get started.  Put yourself out there, and do something.  Looking for the best affilate marketing advice available in order to become a highly successful affiliate?  Contact Matt Bacak.

Necessary Look and Feel of Your Website


Necessary Look and Feel of Your Website

Necessary Look and Feel of Your Website
By Matt Bacak

It’s so important to be very careful about how you lay out your website because you want to make sure that you get as many people signed up for your offer as possible. Let me give you some example’s of what you should and shouldn’t do when creating your mini-site/opt-in page.

First, you want to ensure that you capture the names of your website visitors. In order to do this you need an opt-in form or squeeze page to capture the first name and email address of your prospect. Don’t have too much information on your page with links everywhere. You want the main focus of your page to be the sign up box and information on what it is that your visitor is going to get by signing up. Focus on the benefits to improve your sign up rate.

Also, the button that you want them to hit after they fill in their first name and email address has to stand out. Don’t simply say “sign me up!” or “I want my free stuff” and then an exclamation point. My suggestion would be underneath that, instead of having the exclamation point, just put two carats, carats are two greater than signs that draws your reader’s eye into the button to access the report or whatever it is you’re offering them free of charge. Carats or the two greater than signs have been proven to improve conversion rates of signups exponentially. So, you should definitely consider using them on your next opt-in page.

Also always offer a P.S. Underneath your sign up box that says something like: “P.S. We will never rent, trade, sell, or barter your information to anyone. That’s a promise.” You need to do this because you want them to feel like its part of the form when they’re filling it in and you want them to trust you.

Also, ensure that your headline is strong. Never lack in the wording of your headline as this will hurt your sign up rate. If you have a mini-site/sales page and a header, don’t place a photograph of yourself or any photograph for that matter to the left of the header as this will only draw attention to it. Your photograph is not important, the benefits your offering through your sales page and your sign up box should be the main focus of your page. Placing emphasis on unimportant things will only hurt your conversion rate. It has been proven that visitors look to the top left of a page naturally. This area is hot real estate. So, if you’re going to use it, place something there that’s going to benefit you and your visitor in the end. Focus on having them take action.

Another important thing to remember is to never place useless pictures on your website for the sake of showing off your graphic skills. You also don’t want to distract your reader with more stuff. Simply focus on the things that will make your visitor take action like a sign up box or a buy now button.

Remember, if you are offering a free subscription to monthly ezine or a mini-home study course and you want your visitor to sign up make sure that you capture your visitors information. Use Aweber or 1ShoppingCart for your sign up box/autoresponder software. The right tools and the right strategies will make all the difference in the success of your website.

There are many strategies to making money on the internet, but nothing makes sense unless you have a big list. Email Marketing is the most profitable way to make money on the internet. When you build a list of hot and hungry prospects you control your future. Discover how to use the internet and turn your computer into a cash gushing machine. Sign-up right now for Matt Bacak’s FREE online newsletter to find out how to do exactly that – Go here: http://www.promotingtips.com.

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