Yellow Pages
 
[Most Recent Entries] [Calendar View] [Friends]

Below are the 2 most recent journal entries recorded in yellowusapage's InsaneJournal:

    Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
    6:36 pm
    ?Small Business Marketing | Getting Great At Article Writing
    This article looks at what and why small and medium sized business owners need to do to turn their ideas and dreams into reality by actually using article writing to grow their business.

    Using article writing as part of your business marketing can generate traffic to your website and increase your income and exposure for you and your business.

    In this article I’m going to look at why article writing is one of the easiest ways in which to market your business and why it needs to form part of your ongoing marketing mix.

    If your business has a website, a blog or an online shop then article writing is for you. You can have the best website in the world but without regular visitors and traffic to your site then it’s not really worth having on online presence at all. And there really is only 2 ways to get traffic to your site – you pay for it (pay per click, banner advertising, affiliate schemes, directory advertising etc) or you get free traffic (optimization in the search engines natural or free listings being the main way).

    Don’t get my wrong paying for traffic can really work and pay per click advertising is great as it gives you instant results and if you can convert visitors to sales then it can make you and your company money.

    HOWEVER, you can get even better results by being listed high in the natural search engine listings (or SERPS) and article writing can really help with this.

    When people use a search engine like Google they are presented with numerous listings based on what they are searching for. The sponsored (or paid) listings appearing at the top and down the right hand side and the free or natural listings appearing on the main page. Pretty straightforward yes? But what am I telling you that you don’t already know?

    Well did you know about the 70/30 rule?

    The 70/30 rule means that 70% of visitors to a search engine will click on a free listing rather than a paid for listing who just get 30% of total clicks. This means that even if you run highly successful pay per click campaigns over two thirds of people searching for your product/company/service could be going elsewhere unless you appear high in the free listings.

    Now if you have a large marketing budget then I’d recommend investing in search engine optimization (be careful though as there’s thousands of so called SEO experts out there who make big promises without delivering).

    However if you don’t have a large budget then article writing can really help you move up the rankings, establish you as an expert in your field and mean you get traffic, visitors and sales for little time and money.

    Marketing done well can transform your business from an also ran to leaders in your particular field and size of your budget doesn’t have to hold you back. Be smart with your marketing and article writing and watch your business grow – JUST DO IT!

    yellow pages | business pages

    Link

    Yellow Pages
    6:36 pm
    What Are Namesqueeze Pages and How Can Internet Marketers Benefit From Them
    It has been a well-accepted fact that in sales, leads are very important simply because without leads, there will be no sales. But then, acquiring leads these days can be very tedious, especially when it comes to online business.

    However, some strategies are built specifically to address the issue. One of the best techniques ever known to help Internet marketers build quality leads is the lead capture page or the namesqueeze pages.

    Since the inception of Internet marketing, more and more people have come to realize the importance of leads and making lists. That is why the creation of opt-in lists has been a major breakthrough in the world of virtual marketing.

    In the Internet, it is simply illegal for a marketer to send emails that are not solicited, whether they are for commercial or even personal purposes. Spamming, or sending out unsolicited emails are now considered as illegal.

    Hence, most Internet marketers consider opt-in lists as highly valuable marketing devices. With opt-in lists, you can send emails to people who have opted to subscribe in your business’ promotions and advertisements through emails. It is for this reason that opt-in lists are deemed as “gold” to most Internet marketers.

    In order to get a good opt-in list, some info-tech genius has created a device that will easily generate names and emails. This is known as the lead capture page or the namesqueeze pages. It refers to a particular page in one’s website that is built to acquire email addresses as well as names of the visitors on purpose.

    The main purpose of a namesqueeze page is to compel people to join the list or opt-in to subscribe for the lists before getting an access on the main website.

    The problem is that most Internet marketers are so desperate in boosting their sales that they often misunderstood the purpose of namesqueeze pages. Most of these people have the propensity to create some well-written scripts that would require the website visitor to answer some questions.

    Unfortunately, the visitors are not aware that they are already being lured to provide some information that would coerce them into joining a website’s mailing list even if it is against their will. This is completely unfair and against the principles of Internet marketing. Besides, the emails that the consumers will receive will be regarded as spam because they are not aware of such emails, and that is extremely illegal.

    Hence, it is important to create quality namesqueeze pages that would generate quality leads as well. This means that these leads are not compelled or obliged to do anything that is against their will.

    Consequently, a quality namesqueeze page or lead capture page can generate leads that are interested to find more information about the business. However, one should keep in mind that it is important to send emails that are packed with good and feasible information. After all, that is what the consumers are after that is why they have provided you with the information that you need, right?

    When done right, namesqueeze pages can absolutely guarantee your online business growth. Why? It is simply because consumers who opted to get into your lists are interested to whatever concept you want to tell them. Hence, creating massive opt-in lists would be very possible if you know how to use namesqueeze pages correctly.

    What matters most here is that if you know how important lead generation and list building is to your online business, then, using namesqueeze pages could be the most workable device you could ever have.

    Here is a list of some of the benefits that Internet marketers can derive from merely using namesqueeze pages or lead capture pages:

    1. Massive list building

    One of the best reasons why namesqueeze pages work is that they compel people to make some actions. The problem with the other websites that are not generating enough sales is that they do not motivate or oblige their visitors to make some appropriate actions.

    The problem with those sites is that even if they have created a good “sales letter,” but it was not able to coerce people to subscribe to the site’s mailing lists, it will not work as it was expected.

    With namesqueeze pages, people are moved into actions. This can be done by offering freebies that can only be acquired if the visitors will opt to be included on your list.

    2. Get an overall insight on the visitors’ interests

    Using namesqueeze pages will allow you to have an insight on the customer’s individual interests. This is because customers, who have opted to subscribe to such namesqueeze pages, are most likely interested to particular information that you are offering.

    Hence, you can change your topics from time to time and identify what information are highly saleable to the public. This will give you more ways to generate better leads by providing in-demand information.

    The bottom line is that generating good traffic is useless if you will not be able to convert your visitors into potential customers; and the only way to do that is to include them on your list. That is why if everything counts in, namesqueeze pages really matters.

    yellow pages | business pages

    Link

    Yellow Pages
About InsaneJournal