If you already have a website but it’s not creating the returns you had hoped for then make sure you have these steps in place for a smoother more profitable website.

1.Make sure you have an autoresponder in place to capture email addresses. This is critical! You need to build a list so that you can sell to them again and again. But having an autoresponder opt-in page is not enough. Go and log into your autoresponder. But make sure the autoresponder is working properly. Sign up yourself and test it to make sure your messages are going out.

2.Submit your website to free directories.

3.Monitor your Google Adwords. Test and track to see what’s going on with your campaigns and analyze your results. Spend a good coffee day doing this.

4.Write Articles and ensure you have your niche keywords or the main keywords for your website sprinked throughout the content of your article

5.Submit your article to article directory sites like www.ArticleCity.com, www.EzineArticles.com or www.GoArticles.com.

6.Summarize your articles. Take those summaries of those articles and turn those summaries into emails. Start adding these informative summaries to you autoresponder sequence so that you have emails going out. I wouldn’t just turn the summaries into short emails. Make sure those emails have a link that leads to a new website page with the full article. This will make it an informative website – basically off of your site. So, whatever your squeeze page is, dot com, forward slash, your site and then squeeze page article(s).

7.One thing I do is I would go look into my ListOpt. I would check to see – if the amount of people it says they sent me and the amount of people that I have in my autoresponder look pretty much the same.

8.Go in to your autoresponder list and see if there’s any unsubscribers and delete them immediately.
9.Start writing your sales letter emails for your product. If you don’t have your own product find affiliate products you can sell. See if your affiliates have articles and emails already pre-written that you can use to target your own list.

10.If you don’t have your own product you need to create one as soon as possible. You can do this by creating a teleseminar. It doesn’t matter if your list is very small (say 50 people) or very large (15,000 people). It’s best if you make every mistake when you don’t have that many people on your call. In any event, you can record it and sell your teleseminar as a product. You want to turn it into a product asap. You could even turn your teleseminar into a download that you can send out to your list to start building a rapport with them.

11.Look for those you want to do joint ventures with regardless of whether you have an established relationship with them or not. Place them on your potential JV list.

12.Make it happen! A great way for creating products and/or services – or to make money, is to create a day to launch. This ensures you commit and make it happen.

Follow these steps and you’re sure to see great results!

Warmest regards,

Matt Bacak
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Expanding your wealth offline is a major factor in increasing your revenues and profits. I can’t emphasize this enough. This is how I’ve grown my business and I am a true believer in taking your business offline while still maintaining your online presence. You’ve got to be aggressive marketers. And you have to do this online as well as offline. It’s amazing how much you can increase your conversions this way.

Obtain your customers online and take them offline as soon as possible. The biggest problem most website business owners have is they’re not integrating other tools and various mediums into their business. You must do it if you want to stay alive online. The best way to take your business offline is by first, having your offer through an opt-in page made with a sequence of messages. This gives you the ability to contact your audience or potential customers over and over again.

Next, after these visitors opt-in to your list, you automatically send them to your sales page and after that you contact them by phone. You increase your personal connection this way and gain the trust of your visitors but you’re also helping increase your conversion and response rate because this personal connection will likely make the sale!

You’ve got to realize, many business people make business so difficult when it’s really a simple process. Just keep it simple, have a system like the one I use above and you can make thousands more for your business.

Even if you choose not to pick up the phone (although I highly recommend this) you can choose to offer your opt-in list a free physical item that can be mailed to them. Offer them something of value that they can’t resist. This way you are sure to capture their personal mailing address. You give them that personal touch by taking your business offline and making that one-on-one connection. It’s amazing how much of a response you can get mailing out an item to your potential customer – especially if it’s for FREE!

Remember; don’t ignore other avenues of your business. Offline advertising is one of the overlooked marketing strategies used today. Although you can save on shipping costs by having your businesses solely online, you’re missing out on a ton of profits by excluding good old fashioned direct mail. Offline advertising is a must-do for your business. Don’t neglect this profitable avenue.

Article 32: Using Videos to Grow Your Business

Taking your business to the next level is very doable especially if you consider adding video advertising to your marketing. Now when I say advertising I don’t necessarily mean blatant in-your-face advertising. I mean showing what it is your business has to offer, whether it be services or tools or just offering information to your audience. These all can be considered forms of advertising. It gets your message across and can do it extremely quickly.

Video is viral. This visible medium can take your business to the next level because videos are so contagious. Consider YouTube.com and other video sites like Yahoo Video, MSN Video, Google Video, Brightcove, Mochila or Blinkx and others… These sites all have a huge following and if you place your video on any of these sites you are bound to see your traffic increase.

Communicating with your customers and potential customers with the use of video can add a fresh perspective to the always common simple website text. Video is dynamic, fresh and can be very informative in a matter of seconds. It saves your visitor time and also adds an intriguing twist to the regular static text online world.

Here are some tips to consider when adding video to your website:

1.First ask yourself if the video will add sales to your website. Your answer should be a definite yes!

2.Will you make the video yourself or have a professional produce it for you? There are a lot of fairly inexpensive video devices available that can produce good quality videos. Consider your market. Is your business extremely professional and targeting top notch clientele? If so, perhaps hiring a professional videographer is the answer. However, if your market can handle a more laid-back casual video style then you may be able to be your own personal videographer!

3.Do you have the expertise to produce, upload and host the video for your website? If not, perhaps you’ll need to invest some time or possibly invest some money into educating yourself. There are also a lot of online resources available that can train you on how to add video to your website for free. But make sure you get good solid information that will make your business stand out from your competitors!

You must also consider that like with anything on the internet, marketing is one of the main factors in expanding your business. Why not test out video on your website and see the response. Online video is now in its infancy and other businesses are catching on fast. Make sure you’re ahead of the game by adding video to your online marketing efforts so that you too can reap the rewards with increased sales.

Warmest regards,

Matt Bacak

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Why should you pay for an autoresponder service when it doesn’t guarantee a sale?

Well, as previously mentioned, once you have the visitors contact information, you now own that information and can sell to them at any time in the future. Even if you pay an autresponder service $30 per month, just think how many sales you can make with your list over that month period and into the coming months! It’s most likely you’ll be making well over $30 per customer so a monthly fee of $30 per month is relatively miniscule.

Capture is Key

The way to lure people into your opt-in page is to let them know that you can share with them the best way to get the best deal and find the best products! Once they opt-in to your list they will discover one of the most amazing LCD – plasma TV’s they could ever imagine. And then on the next page they would be led to a sales page where you’re offering that product – in this case or the LCD – plasma tv. But I’d have them always “squeeze in” or have a way that you could capture their information to make sure you have ownership of their contact information so that you can keep marketing similar products to them in the future that may be of interest to them.

If you are looking for a good autoresponder system, consider one of the top opt-in platforms used by the top online marketers and website owners. Aweber is the most cost effective, efficient and complete package with Unlimited Autoresponders, Follow Ups, Newsletters capabilities and support 24/7.

Why consider Aweber Autoresponder System? Consider these advantages they offer on their homepage at www.Aweber.com:

• Reliable, >99.34% email deliverability, fast.
• 51+ Templates for newsletter and follow up design.
• Easily create and add opt-in web forms to your website.
• Free training guides and videos.
• Expert unlimited free customer support.

Remember to capture and test your list. See what works best for your market so that you can reap greater rewards in the future.

Warmest regards,

Matt Bacak

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are really missing out, go here:

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to market my companies? Then you need to grab a copy of my
`Internet Marketing Dirt’. It’s now better than ever before!

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