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What Works in Online Marketing. 5 Methods to Consider.
by Larry L. Hill
I'll be brief. There are people to reach, money to make,
and bills to pay. The Competition could get there before
I do so I won't waste your or my time. Below is a list of
sure fire advertising methods that work. I mean they really
work and work well. I'll start with number 5 and end at
number one. Please keep in mind that I am writing from my
own experiences and individual results will vary depending
on the marketing efforts of the individual.
=Number 5=
Free Ezine Advertising
Now Don't let the ranking fool you. Free ezine advertising is
highly effective and I have not only received a great deal of
free hits to my site, but also have made a nice living from
the results of my taking the time to place them. I mean what
is better than free, right? Every marketer needs a method of
reaching people and this is not only a great way of doing so,
but the cheapest and one of the safest ways.
But even though this method works, and it does work, it can
be time consuming to start. All of the ezines that I am
subscribed to that offer free ads (over 100+) asked me to be-
come a subscriber before I could place free ads. There are
methods to have this done automatically for you, but still alot
of the ezines will ask for confimations. You have to undergo
the tedious task of responding to them all and reading them
all especially if the publishers are asking for ad codes. But it
Works!
=Number 4=
Ezine Group Advertising
Remember when I said above that there were methods to
subscribing to multiple ezines at once? This is it. This is a
very beneficial form of advertising. Companies that offer this
service will not only subscribe your email address to the
ezines for you, but will place your ad in multiple ezines with
just one click and within minutes. A time saving and may
I say money saving and pocket stuffing method.
But similar to number 5, you run the risk of being subscribed
to each one of them. If you only wanted your ad placed and
that is it, then this method is not for you, because after you
have paid for the service and submitted your ad, you will receive
a ton of email confirmations from each ezine confirming your
ad placement, which is really a good thing, because it shows
that the service worked. Its just the task of reading and
answering all of them can be quite time consuming. If there
are 120 groups to advertise to, you will receive 120 emails.
But it works.
=Number 3=
Article Submission
For experts only....of course depending on what you are an
expert in. Article submission is a free service offered by
publishers who are looking for content and most of them are.
They have the tedious task of maintaining a supply of content
to present to their readers. Though they are publishers in their
field of expertise, its is more convenient to have other experts
submit free articles. This is a benefit for the publisher as well
as the article's author. The publisher gets his content that he
needs to fill his space and maintains the reputation of
providing quality knowledge to his readers and the author gets
free publicity and is looked upon as an expert in whatever
subject he or she has written about. It Works!
=Number 2=
Sponsorship Advertising
It is very important to any ezine advertiser or any type of advertiser
for that matter, to get their ad noticed. Free advertising, as I
mention, has proven to be a prosperous form of advertising, but
one downside to that is the fact that free advertising ads are
usually placed at the bottom of the ezine and one can only hope
that the readers of the ezine are in a reading mood.
Sponsorshipping, however, offers top placement of ads. This is
what you want. This type of method is for those who have
become established online or the one who has a little capital
to work with towards advertising because this method is usually
not free. But it works well and no doubt your ad will be seen. My
advice is that if you are going to pay for advertising, pay for nothing
less than a sponsor ad. It Works!
=And Number 1=
Solo Advertising
This is by far the best method of advertising there is. Your ad and
your ad only in someone's email box. This is what you really want.
Nothing is better than having a person's total attention to your ad.
All other forms that I mentioned are effective, but when a reader
has to skim through a forest of text to get to a certain point,
usually, a reader gets weary unless he or she enjoys what they
are reading. This method can cost a little more, depending on the
ezine and the number of subscribers it has. But in any case.......
It is What Works in Online Marketing!
Go on Reading Top Right
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The Motivated Always Succeeds....Always!
by Larry L. Hill
If there is one thing that I believe every person running
a business of some sort can agree on, I think that it
would be on the fact that keeping a business running
is a frustrating task. I could elaborate for hours on end
about this, but what I really want to discuss here is the
fact that, no matter how stressful "any" task can be for
that matter, a motivated enough person can endure
anything and succeed.
Motivation...it is defined in the Webster's dictionary as
"to incite or impel". My definition: "to have something within
you that forces you to move or act regardless of what you find
yourself up against. Thats motivation, baby! But in today's
society, people give up so easily. Let me tell you something,
though no one likes to struggle or likes to do things the hard
way, when it is all said and done, we appreciate the results
more than we would if it were just handed to us on a silver
platter.
Take for instance a mother and a child. Now adoption is
a beautiful thing, and usually women are naturally
affectionate when it comes to children. But adoption does
not bring the same gratitude like that of a women who
has undergone a painful child birth. Her connection with
that child is everlasting (that's if you have a fantastic mom
like me) and her motivation to raise and care for the child
stems from her childbearing and birthing experience.
Regardless of what she went through to have that baby,
any loving mother will tel you, that it was worth it and would
gladly do it again.
Motivation will make you climb a mountain, run cross
country, fly an air ballon around the world, it will even make
you try something over and over again until you succeed no
matter what you have faced or what you may have to go thru
next. Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find,
knock (keep knocking) and the doors of opportunity will be
open. You know the saying and it is still true today.
With enough motivation and a good enough reason to be
motivated, the world becomes yours and this world is full
of reasons to be motivated. Your motivation could be like
that of a young kid who picks up a part-time job at a grocery
store to come up with enough down payment to buy his first
car. Or your motivation could be to make sure that the wife
and kids never go without. Or it could be that you want to be
the first millionaire in your family. Or maybe someone told
you that you would never amount to anything and you want to
prove them wrong. What is your Motivation?
Find it, use it and hold on to it. It will serve to be the very thing
that places success in your hands. The motivated always
succeeds. ALWAYS! It took me years to get to where I am now
and I still have far to go, but I will no doubt get there. My
motivation....? The bible teaches that it is my destiny to succeed
and nothing is too hard for me if I just believe that I can do it and
believe in him that gives me the ability. I just want to prove that
God is right about me and no man can tell me that I am nothing.
MOTIVATION.... What a beautiful word; what a wonderful thing to
have.
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About the author: Larry L. Hill is the CEO and founder of M.A.D.
Ebook Ministries and Publishings. He has written several
motivating article type books, mostly offline and two online to
date. He specializes in marketing, money making ideas on and
off the net and religion. His new website can be found at
http://www.i-nettreasures.com
These articles maybe freely distributed incl the above byline
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