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Most of us are aware that companies offer free gifts as incentives to generate demand. We also know that businesses within the technology industry and large organizations, for example, Oracle or Intel generate leads by giving away specialized reports. However, I want to show you an excellent strategy which will generate leads not just to attract people who are interested in what you have on offer, but also to those who will remain loyal to you for a long time to come. This goes by the name of BOOK STRATEGY.

One of the first things I noticed when I launched my initial membership site was how much people are interested in content. Whilst networking, workshops, seminars, E-books, CDs and DVDs proved to be fascinating to all, there was one other aspect which created a fantastic relationship between me and my subscribers. It was a very straightforward gesture but also extremely worthwhile, when I gave them books for free in the last quarter of the year.

When compared to CDs, DVDs, Teleseminars and e-books, a book is felt to carry the most value by far. With a high shelf value, a book is, on many occasions, considered to be a bigger and better information resource than the Internet.

How do you go About Putting into Practice a Book Give Away Service in Your Business?

Selecting a good book to give someone is easy if you read a lot of books yourself. Find a subject which compliments your line of business and is also likely to be of assistance to your customers, and then simply give them a free copy. Help is always at hand by having a look at Amazon.com if you are not a regular reader or cannot think of a particular book to present your customers with. When you find something which appears to be interesting, read it yourself and if you feel that your customers will glean something from it, order a few copies and send them out.

There are several sites on the internet where you can buy books in bulk. There is no requirement for the book to be in the best seller charts, just make sure that the content of the book is relevant to your audience.

Shipping costs are very reasonable. Using USPS and sending them as media mail costs no more than $3 per book, coast to coast within the United States and Officemax supply covers for less than a dollar making the whole thing an inexpensive idea.

There is definitely something about books which is unfathomable as they connect people at a very special level. But don’t just take my word for it! Send your customers books and just watch what happens. You will be everyone’s favorite with this generous action.

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As you know www.gorichonline.com got a facelift On August 1, 2008. A new design, new navigation, new content etc.

I am sincerely thankful to you for making this website successful!

I am struggling to come up with a tagline for my new blog www.gorichonline.com and I need your help in choosing one.

I will pay you $25 if I choose the name you suggest. I will send you the money via paypal instantly.

Here is a how this would work!

My blog is around the concept of “Make Money Online”. I share a lot of videos, audios, to the point techniques one how anyone can make money. I am approaching this with out most sincerity, commitment and clarity.

Now that you know this about me, can you suggest a tagline for this blog that reflects my purpose?

Here are some great tagline examples to get you started.

“Broadcast yourself”(youtube.com)
“Better Ingredeints. Better Pizza”(papa john’s pizza)
“Photography is our life, NOT our Hobby.”(Artistic Photography)”
“Melts in your mouth, not in your hands” (M&Ms Candies.)
“A diamond is forever” (DeBeers)
“It takes a licking and keeps on ticking” (Timex)
“Every shot a power shot”(Canon)

All you have to do it suggest a few taglines that will go with the blog. They have to reflect, connect, enhance and create curiosityin the visitors mind. You can suggest as many as you want.

Just post your comment in the comment area.

When you do that, do mention your website URL that way you will get a backlink to your site. I am using DoFollow on this site. So you get a credit for doing that.

Not only that I will give you a little more publicity above and beyond this(Thats a surprise, more on that after your tag-line is selected)

From my side I came up with this: “Sincere Down-to-Earth Tips On How To Make Money Online” but I am not happy about it.

I am stuck with this little thing. Just need your help.

Sincerely
Srini Saripalli

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If you are a blogger and you want to be successful, writing great material, unfortunately, will not get you to your goal. You need TRAFFIC. I.e. the most challenging aspect of internet marketing.

For many a reasons I like DIGG and Stumbleupon. So I will focus on these two sources in this post. Apart from that, I have given you a list of 7 top articles/posts ever written on this subject that I found worth reading.

How do they work?

There are several services on Digg and Stumbleupon that you can use. They allow you to get popularity by sending a few fellow bloggers or visitors over to your site.

Digg works in the following manner: First you upload an article, a story, and a commentary, whatever you like to your blog. When visitors like the content they will rank/rate/flag it on DIGG (to make this process easy, most bloggers use a DIGG Icon next to each post) in other words intimate DIGG that they liked the articles. The more DIGGs you get the higher are the chances that you will get to the homepage of DIGG.

As you see now, if you reach a higher number of popularity hits then Digg will put your submission on its homepage and if it continues to be successful there it will further be placed on the top ten list.

Digg also has a forum for you to add and meet friends who are interested in the same topics and you can discuss what Digg items you find. This way you will build a network that you can direct to your own site. You can also advertise your site on Digg.

The other service is Stumbleupon.

Stumbleupon helps bloggers in the same way as Digg. Based upon good and bad commentaries, while you are trying to “stumble” upon a website, the stumble search that comes up is generated from stumble friends and other members who have the same preferences and tastes as you do. Therefore, if Stumbleupon members enjoy your website, you will get good ratings and some reviews too.

The more ratings you have, the higher up on the Stumbleupon search engine you will be on. Between Digg and Stumbleupon, these are the two top ranked services that will help you launch your website.

Stumbleupon also provides a pay per view service. You can setup a campaign by paying $25 and can get about 500 visitors to your site. The cost per visit is about 0.05 cents.

I highly recommend it. Stumbleupon usually takes 24hrs to approve your campaign. Most recently they rejected my paid campaign to drive traffic to this blog.. Not sure why? May be the dislike the concept of “Make Money Online”

However, even though you use these services, sometimes they are not enough. It is one thing to have people to come to your web site, but it is another thing to keep them coming. There are many things that go into developing a loyal readership for your blog that are beyond the context of this post.

You want to generate buzz about your website by developing top notch blogging skills of your own.

The following are a list of blogging tips to generate traffic to your site.

The first piece of advice is to follow your blog and the commentaries that are left. If people are responding to your website, to your pictures, to your opinions, etc. you need to respond back. With these responses you will create more buzz plus you will be telling your readers that you care what they think.

It also creates a conversation flow. If you start to run out of ideas, hop onto your respondents’ websites and regenerate conversation on your blog.

Some bloggers dislike this process as comments ruin the keyword density of the page, hence they disable the comment function on their blog.

Then you can research other blog websites that are similar to yours. Start conversations on other websites with a similar premise and leave a link to your website. You know that the people leaving commentaries are interested in the same subject as you, so it should not be difficult to win them over.

Once again you will have to write something “out standing” on someone else’s blog to make the traffic follow you.

Try to offer something that your visitors need. If you have quality writing you will keep your readers engaged. If your blog is pure opinions regarding nothing, there is not much there to keep the attention of your readers.

If you write how to articles, news articles, movie reviews anything that is new and fresh that offers your reader more than you creating controversies over and over again..

Remember Blogging is all about substance.

If you are fascinated by rocket science, physics even mechanics, the general population does not understand that language per se. It does not mean that your potential audience is unintelligent; it just means that they are not adept to it because what is the point of reading something that one does not understand.

Therefore, make your passion readable to all viewers. Use ordinary terminology to explain complex ideas or issues. Write directions, a bibliography or have a special vocabulary section to help your readers.

While writing make your blog special(This blog tries to be different with unique videos and demonstrations). If you right plain, in between material that does not make a statement no one wants to read it. Think of it this way.

When you read a headline that makes you sick because of the content it is suggesting such as racism, sex or steroids in Olympics, doesn’t it make you want to read it that much more? Remember Anthrax and Tsunami in early 2000’s

It’s not because you are in favor of the article, it’s because you cannot believe that someone would say something so horrible.

It is provocative. If you do not make a statement, if you are not provocative, you will not get the attention.

Jazz up your website. By revamping your website you will please the senses of your regular readers as well as possibly attracting new ones (this site got a facelift about 10 days ago). You can submit your newly designed website to a CSS gallery which will have a back link to your website. You can also add a translator to your page. By adding this feature, you can attract non native English speakers. The translation may not be professional, especially if it is a free translator, but it will at least get your message across and get some international traffic.

The Digg and Stumbleupon services will provide you with the starting point. If you need further insights… read on…

These Top 7 posts will give you all the insights and catapult you into the spotlight.

Darren Rowse made a phenomenal post on his blog on “How to Get to DIGG’s Front Page” You can read all about it here.

Once there also do check the post “How To Drive Traffic To Your Blog The Advice Of A 12 year Old”

No time to read long posts? Read Seth Godin’s 56 tips to get traffic.

Oh I forgot to talk about Technorati: But You can read about that here

Found this post to be very informative too

David Shaw has some good tips on this. Like his “Yahoo Answer” suggestion.

Getting Traffic to Your Blog Using Widgets

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Here is another cool video which shows how you can manage your 125×125 efficiently with plugins.

When I asked my subscribers to comment on the latest design on www.gorichonline.com the first question I received from many was, how are the 125X125 ads on the right column working for me.? How did I implement this and how are the converting for me?

When I launched my personal Blog (www.SriniSaripalli.com) I struggled with this, I was not aware of any plugin that could handle this for me, or at least to my requirements. I came across some hosted ad rotating solutions but they were not to my satisfaction.

So I got it hand coded and that too into a widget( for better administration and avoid accidents with my sidebar.php code).

I wanted my ads to randomly juggle. In other words change positions everytime the page is loaded. This was to make sure every ad gets equal # of eyeballs.

I wanted to track how many clicks each ad was getting. On SriniSaripalli.com I have all the links being manually tracked with my 1shoppingcart ad tracking.

Most recently I came across Two plugins that can do this very efficiently.

WP125 Plugin: which can not only can do what I mentioned above but can also expire your Ads on a future date. Very powerful. Download it here

Nate White Hill put together a cool Ad Block plugin that does the same. In fact this site uses that plugin. Download it here

Also in future we will find precise tracking, for example which ad was clicked in which position and additional geographical information about the click such as where it came from, the ip address of the click, the browser info etc, Similar to what Google Analytics or Statscounter features

I am sure there are plugins for other dimensions also. If you are aware of any such cool plugins, by all means share that here.

To Your Continued Success!

Srini Saripalli

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Adding new content to your website is an important consideration. If you have a stagnant website that’s only updated once a year, it will eventually fade away into obscurity. (A good thing that websites don’t need food or else there would be plenty of Internet famines) If you don’t have the time or ideas to constantly update a website, blog or e-commerce site, then it may make sense to hire an online writer. What are some important points to consider first?

1. Work with a Company

If you work with an established SEO company then you get more than just original content. You also get efficient keyword optimization help that will increase your search engine rankings. Some of these companies offer a ranking guarantee and charge just a little bit more money than an online writer would charge for the article itself.

2. Specify What Kind of Content You Need

It pays to be specific. If you hire an online writer to fill pages with no specific directions, then don’t expect a lot of groundbreaking content. Specify what subjects you want to hear about and what subjects you want to avoid. Specify if you want unique articles rather than rewrites. (Though there may be a difference in price) You can even suggest links of other websites that the writer could get ideas from.

3. Plan To Boost Sales Or Hold Strategic Traffic

There’s no use in hiring an online writer unless you have a central purpose in mind. Are the articles that you buy intended to boost sales or hold steady traffic? Would your web viewers have an interest in related topics or just keyword articles? Would opening blog comments further increase customer interest? Professional writers may charge rates up to 5 cents a word or more, so make sure that you consider the business side of this feature. Some writers will work for much less, though the quality of work will usually match the price. A professional website should always feature the best original content available, whether the author is the company owner or a hired help.

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If you are an information marketer, internet marketer or someone who is looking forward to making money online? You have to listen to this call.

The Call Highlights are as follows:

The Two Psychologies of human brain: Life Psychology and Business Psychology

Why people fail to make money on-line.

The power of specificity

The absolute must tools for information marketers

The strategies to negotiate affiliate commission

Why not all experts with information product can make money for their affiliates why?

How to get to $10K step-by-step in 90 days and how I did it in 42 days

How to record conference calls.

And many more live questions and answers.

You can download the MP3 file by Right Clicking and selecting Save Here

Would like to hear your comments. So don’t hesitate to write a few here

Here is a list of websites we discussed on the call. I have included the links to where you can get these products. Some of them are my affiliate links ( Proof that I am using them and when you click and buy through those links then I make a commission. Alternatively you can directly go to the company site and buy from them.

Recording Conference Calls, Storing Videos and Sharing MP3 file on the net: AudioAcrobat.com ( My Affiliate Link)

Free teleconference call Bridge Line, You can put 100 people for free: Free Conference calls ( Not My Affiliate Link)

Opt-in Page and sales page creation without any web developer help: Xsitepro.com (My Affiliate Link)

Free but a powerful HTML Editor: PageBreeze.com (Not My Affiliate Link)

Order processing and all shopping cart functions: 1shoppingcart.com (My Affiliate Link)

Reliable Autoresponder with gauranteed deliver-ability: Aweber.com ( My Affiliate Link)

The Device that connects your phone line to your computer for recording the conversation: Dynametric Telephone Transmit patch (Not My Affiliate Link)

Free recording software: Audacity (Not My Affiliate link)

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Today I want to share with you a small technique that has helped me get a lot of traffic to my blog. This is something that I had been experimenting with for sometime now.

It works like a charm. I encourage you to test it. If you get success with it? then please come back and share it with everyone here.

Now, I mentioned 500 people to make this video little believable. But you can drive as much as 3000 people to your site with this.

Here you go.. If this video helped, Please post your comments here..Don’t tell me you do not have time to post a comment.

Just do it.. providing comments is a good karma.

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Michael Leckie posted a question on this blog asking how he can setup an opt-in form without using a text widget. I recorded a small video to show how this can be done. This is not the only way to do it, but if you are having a hard time setting your optin form using the text widget then I highly recommend editing the sidebar.php to include the option code appropriately. This video shows how you can do that.

I am assuming you saw the first video on how to setup opt-in form on your wordpress blog using the text widget. If you have not you can see the video here

If you liked this video? Please post your comments here. It will help me/you help others.

Cheers!
Srini

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How do you write eBooks that sell? Of course, by now you know the basics of assembling an eBook: write informative content and present it in a professional manner. However, this is just enough to make your eBook presentable. How can you boost your sales and write more compelling books that readers will love? Here are some other tips that are just as important in boosting sales.

1. Make It Personal

Remember when you were a kid in class and how you used to dread that teacher who lectured the room with no particular enthusiasm? Just because we’re all grown up now doesn’t mean that we suddenly find him interesting.

People of all ages enjoy personal perspectives. Try to relate to your audience personally, use identifiable examples and put yourself into your writing. Do you have personal experience that would coincide with the subject matter? Then write it!

Remember that information is freely available everywhere. Someone has purchased this eBook because they want to read your personal view on it.

2. Write Clearly and Informally

Though you always strive to have a professional demeanor, as an eBook writer you do want to avoid the academic voice. Speak clearly and aim for an eighth-grade educational level. Not only is this ideal for students, but this also is the style of language that most adults are comfortable with.

Yes, they probably could read your scientifically worded, collegial-level essay on How to Grow a Garden if necessary. However, will they want to? Is it enjoyable? Probably not.

Aim for a wider readership and keep things casual, explaining everything in “layman’s terms.”

3. Edit to Perfection

Be sure to proofread and edit your eBook several times. Edit your manuscript for clarity and proofread for errors.

Do this several times and when you’re convinced that it’s perfect, let someone else read it. Don’t worry, the less familiar they are with the topic, the better, since this is the average reader you’re aiming for.

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So you’ve started a blog and are excited about the possibilities. However, you perceive a problem: despite having an admirable amount of traffic, you don’t seem to be getting much in the way of comments. Comments can help to sell products and retain traffic on a long-term basis.

What can you do differently?

First of all, understand that most web surfers prefer to “lurk.” It takes a certain amount of emotional or logical provocation to inspire them to comment. It is important to choose topics that people are passionate about and provide original content that is coherent and opinionated.

No one is going to argue or support a statement like “blogs can help increase traffic!” So analyze your blog for content and determine if there is enough excitement going on.

Next, invite comments. This is a rather obvious technique that is often ignored. Never assume that strong statements alone will bring on a barrage of comments. It definitely helps, but if you conclude on a strong note of finality without asking for comments, your audience may feel there is nothing else to say.

For the best results, finalize your new blog with a question or even title it as a question. Random web users love answering open-ended questions, so avoid statements of finality and leave some issues up in the air.

Finally, interact with the users who are generous enough to leave comments. Be humble and kind to everyone who posts. This doesn’t mean retracting any statements you feel strongly about; after all, two minds debating the facts is always entertaining to watch.

Just stay clear of personal attacks, treating each commentator like a customer in your store. It may also help to ensure that your blog has a professional appearance. Deleting spam and “trolling” comments gives the appearance of a well-managed blog.

If you leave the comments unsupervised then new commentators may be scared away by all the nonsense.

What about you? What strategies have worked for increasing your number of blog comments?

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