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		<title>3 Advantages to Social Networking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>If you hope to have Internet Marketing success then you should concentrate on Social Networking. Social Networking is making connections with other people who you can help and who can help you. Three major advantages to Social Networking is to help with making and marketing your products and services, to help you get affiliates, and to make you more successful overall.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i321.photobucket.com/albums/nn395/ernie_cordell/Profile%20Comments/pinky_and_brain.gif" border="0" alt="pinky_and_brain.gif" width="453" height="339" /></p>
<p>There are many different ways to Social Network on the Internet. There are also many different – and very good – Social Networking Sites on the Internet. In addition, there are many great forums that you can connect with people on. Both of these opportunities should be used almost every single day.</p>
<p>The first thing Social Networking will help you with is making and marketing your products.  When you Social Network you will meet some very valuable people who know more than you about Internet Marketing and will be able to give you great advice and any help you might need. So if you need help deciding on what to do about a product or how to make a product then you will be able to get help from people you meet through Social Networking. The same holds true for getting help with advice about marketing your products.</p>
<p>Speaking of marketing your products, people you meet through Social Networking will also be great affiliates for you. An affiliate is someone who will help you sell your products in exchange for getting a certain percentage of the money made from the sale. The more affiliates you have the more products you’ll be able to sell. And the more people you get to your website the more people you can get on your list, which will lead to more sales in the future.</p>
<p>The final great reason to actively social network with other people is simply to be more successful. This last reason has to be a broad one because Social Networking can help you in so many ways that it’s almost impossible to list all the reasons. The bottom line is that people who Social Network have a much higher rate of success than those people who don’t Social Network.</p>
<p>Social Networking can be a very powerful tool that leads to success with Internet Marketing. Three ways that you can be helped with Internet Marketing by Social Networking is to help with making and marketing your products and services, to help you get affiliates, and to make you overall more successful. If you concentrate on Social Networking you will achieve a lot more success and achieve it a lot faster then you would without Social Networking.</p>
<p>For the moment,<br />
Duncan</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you hope to have Internet Marketing success then you should concentrate on Social Networking. Social Networking is making connections with other people who you can help and who can help you. Three major advantages to Social Networking is to help with making and marketing your products and services, to help you get affiliates, and to make you more successful overall.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i321.photobucket.com/albums/nn395/ernie_cordell/Profile%20Comments/pinky_and_brain.gif" border="0" alt="pinky_and_brain.gif" width="453" height="339" /></p>
<p>There are many different ways to Social Network on the Internet. There are also many different – and very good – Social Networking Sites on the Internet. In addition, there are many great forums that you can connect with people on. Both of these opportunities should be used almost every single day.</p>
<p>The first thing Social Networking will help you with is making and marketing your products.  When you Social Network you will meet some very valuable people who know more than you about Internet Marketing and will be able to give you great advice and any help you might need. So if you need help deciding on what to do about a product or how to make a product then you will be able to get help from people you meet through Social Networking. The same holds true for getting help with advice about marketing your products.</p>
<p>Speaking of marketing your products, people you meet through Social Networking will also be great affiliates for you. An affiliate is someone who will help you sell your products in exchange for getting a certain percentage of the money made from the sale. The more affiliates you have the more products you’ll be able to sell. And the more people you get to your website the more people you can get on your list, which will lead to more sales in the future.</p>
<p>The final great reason to actively social network with other people is simply to be more successful. This last reason has to be a broad one because Social Networking can help you in so many ways that it’s almost impossible to list all the reasons. The bottom line is that people who Social Network have a much higher rate of success than those people who don’t Social Network.</p>
<p>Social Networking can be a very powerful tool that leads to success with Internet Marketing. Three ways that you can be helped with Internet Marketing by Social Networking is to help with making and marketing your products and services, to help you get affiliates, and to make you overall more successful. If you concentrate on Social Networking you will achieve a lot more success and achieve it a lot faster then you would without Social Networking.</p>
<p>For the moment,<br />
Duncan</p>
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		<title>Joint Venture: Your Key to Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affiliate Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>In the Internet Marketing world being able to market directly to people through email is huge in determining how well a product launch goes. Obviously the way to market directly to people is to have a large list. However, to market to even more people, it’s a good idea to Joint Venture or JV with other Internet Marketers who have huge lists. In fact, getting good JVs can be your key to success.</p>
<p>Joint Venture actually refers to someone else agreeing to market one of your products to their list in exchange for a commission on the sales that are made. The commissions are usually a high percentage of the sale since the person who has the list is really doing (or has already done) most of the work for the sale. Also, usually anyone you want to get as a JV partner is an established Internet Marketer with a great list and therefore would command a high percentage.</p>
<p>It’s always very difficult for any new IMer to get good JVs. You really need to build-up a good reputation in order to even get the more successful IMers to even consider being a JV with you. However, one way you can get more JVs is by hooking-up with a mentor. A mentor is a built-in JV partner for you (usually) and any<br />
good mentor will usually be able to get his/her friends (who usually have large lists too) to consider being a JV for you too.</p>
<p>Of course, you can go about finding JVs on your own. The best place to do this is on IM forums. If you can become a positive presence on a forum then you can begin making friends that way. Over time you will develop good relationships with people who will be great JV partners. To help with this process you’ll have to be sure to make quality posts and you’ll also want to consider going out of your way to help others on the board. This will help you stand above the others posters and will greatly increase your chances of<br />
finding great JV partners.</p>
<p>Launching a product on the Internet is always very exciting. However, after the excitement dies down all that really matters is whether that product is successful or not. In order to help ensure success you need to be able to directly market your product to as many people as possible. The best way to reach people is by getting people to Joint Venture with you. In fact, getting JV partners is your key to success with any product launch.</p>
<p>For the moment,</p>
<p>Duncan</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the Internet Marketing world being able to market directly to people through email is huge in determining how well a product launch goes. Obviously the way to market directly to people is to have a large list. However, to market to even more people, it’s a good idea to Joint Venture or JV with other Internet Marketers who have huge lists. In fact, getting good JVs can be your key to success.</p>
<p>Joint Venture actually refers to someone else agreeing to market one of your products to their list in exchange for a commission on the sales that are made. The commissions are usually a high percentage of the sale since the person who has the list is really doing (or has already done) most of the work for the sale. Also, usually anyone you want to get as a JV partner is an established Internet Marketer with a great list and therefore would command a high percentage.</p>
<p>It’s always very difficult for any new IMer to get good JVs. You really need to build-up a good reputation in order to even get the more successful IMers to even consider being a JV with you. However, one way you can get more JVs is by hooking-up with a mentor. A mentor is a built-in JV partner for you (usually) and any<br />
good mentor will usually be able to get his/her friends (who usually have large lists too) to consider being a JV for you too.</p>
<p>Of course, you can go about finding JVs on your own. The best place to do this is on IM forums. If you can become a positive presence on a forum then you can begin making friends that way. Over time you will develop good relationships with people who will be great JV partners. To help with this process you’ll have to be sure to make quality posts and you’ll also want to consider going out of your way to help others on the board. This will help you stand above the others posters and will greatly increase your chances of<br />
finding great JV partners.</p>
<p>Launching a product on the Internet is always very exciting. However, after the excitement dies down all that really matters is whether that product is successful or not. In order to help ensure success you need to be able to directly market your product to as many people as possible. The best way to reach people is by getting people to Joint Venture with you. In fact, getting JV partners is your key to success with any product launch.</p>
<p>For the moment,</p>
<p>Duncan</p>
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		<title>5 Simple Ways Build Your List</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 18:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[List Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viral Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The money is in the list, the money is in the list, the money is in the list, how many times have we heard every guru on the planet say this? Hundreds, thousands?, and with good reason.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to show you 5 ways how to add quality subscribers to your list without spending a fortune.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/Fredcat/Cats%2005/Cat-CatWithPawExtendedSorryYoureNot.jpg" border="0" alt="Cat - Cat With Paw Extended, Sorry, You're Not On The List" width="499" height="374" /></p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Use Squeeze Pages &#8211; </strong>Basically, what a name squeeze page is, is a simple subscribe form that then leads them to either a free report or a sales letter. Sign up for the following name squeeze pages to get a good idea of what to do.<br />
<a href="http://www.doubleyourdating.com" target="_blank"><br />
http://www.doubleyourdating.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.fireyourweddingplanner.com" target="_blank">http://www.fireyourweddingplanner.com<br />
</a></li>
<li><strong>Add More Subscription Boxes To Your Website &#8211; </strong>Sounds simple enough, but few people actually do it. If you have a 100 page website, you should have 100 newsletter subscribe boxes on your website or blog.
<p>You can integrate a subscribe box just about anywhere in a website. You could add one just before an article starts, in the middle of an article or even at the end of the article.</p>
<p>As long as you have good content on your website, you won&#8217;t have a problem getting people to subscribe to your newsletter.</li>
<li><strong>Use Free Viral Ebooks To Get New Subscribers</strong> &#8211; Want to get thousands of new subscribers for your newsletter without spending a cent on advertising and you&#8217;ve tried all the methods above but you still want more?
<p>Viral marketing is the way to go! Writing viral ebooks that get passed aroundWriting viral books is nothing new, but it&#8217;s still a great way to get your newsletter noticed. There are a few methods you can use when creating viral ebooks.You can either create them as a free product, or charge for them and give people the reprint rights to the product so they in turn can give your product away while making some money in the process.</p>
<p>I prefer the reprint right route. Once the momentum of the first book wears out, write another and another and another and another! All in the same method, all with reprint rights and all with your newsletter subscribe from plastered in them.</p>
<p>The goal really isn&#8217;t to make money from the sales of the book, it&#8217;s to get more subscribers.</li>
<li><strong>Write FREE Articles</strong> &#8211; While it&#8217;s a given you will put your newsletter subscribe address in your resource box at the end of the article, this is not the best way to get people to subscribe to your newsletter.
<p>The best way is to write a few free E-courses that people can subscribe to via an autoresponder and weave the links into your article. Here is what I mean, and I can tell you now, HARDLY ANYONE is doing this.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say you have a newsletter on Fishing and you&#8217;re in the middle of writing a few articles to send out for publication. Here is what I would do.I would go to <a href="http://duncanchua.com/aweber" target="_blank">Aweber.com</a>, buy a monthly subscription to their service and then start writing up 2 or 3 free e-courses on all things to do with Ice Fishing and plug them into my autoresponder.</p>
<p>Now why would I want to do this if I really want people to subscribe to my newsletter? Well, article writing has come under attack by people who believe cutting peoples article bylines out is acceptable. They just steal the content as their own. So instead of trying to fight these people everyday of the week, I&#8217;ve accepted this is going to happen and I made provisions for it, and infact, it probably works in my favor.</p>
<p>So in my article while I&#8217;m writing it, I would let the readers know there is this great E-course for free they can sign up for. I wouldn&#8217;t mention it was mine. I would just weave it into my article and it looks like I&#8217;m providing them with a great free resource.</p>
<p>I would then provide them with the autoresponder link and how to sign up.</p>
<p>Also remember that when you write your resource box for your article, you don&#8217;t have to get them to go to a webpage to sign up for your newsletter.</p>
<p>You can put your newsletter subscribe information in your resource box like this&#8230;.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;To get more information on how to catch more bass on a weekly basis, sign up for our newsletter by sending a blank email to youremail@address-here.com&#8221;</em></li>
<li> <strong>Use Free Forum Posting</strong> &#8211; This is a great way to get not only more subscribers for your newsletter but recognized as an expert in your field. By posting helpful suggestions in forums in your market, you will get a lot of good attention. I&#8217;m not going to get into a whole lot about this subject as it&#8217;s pretty easy to get started.
<p>1) Find forums in your niche</p>
<p>2) Read some of the back posts and see whos the boss, who posts good content and what the rules are3) Start posting with informative information and include your little newsletter byline at the end of your post or in your signature file</p>
<p>What most people have a problem with is not writing good posts, but finding the forums to post in.</p>
<p>Now that work is done for you. Just enter the topic your newsletter is on into the website address below and you will find all the forums you could possibly want on those subjects.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.link-advantage.com/search/" target="_blank">http://www.link-advantage.com/search/</a></li>
</ol>
<p>Start using them yourself, pretty soon you’ll have a quality subscribers to your list.</p>
<p>All the best,<br />
Duncan</p>
]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The money is in the list, the money is in the list, the money is in the list, how many times have we heard every guru on the planet say this? Hundreds, thousands?, and with good reason.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to show you 5 ways how to add quality subscribers to your list without spending a fortune.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/Fredcat/Cats%2005/Cat-CatWithPawExtendedSorryYoureNot.jpg" border="0" alt="Cat - Cat With Paw Extended, Sorry, You're Not On The List" width="499" height="374" /></p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Use Squeeze Pages &#8211; </strong>Basically, what a name squeeze page is, is a simple subscribe form that then leads them to either a free report or a sales letter. Sign up for the following name squeeze pages to get a good idea of what to do.<br />
<a href="http://www.doubleyourdating.com" target="_blank"><br />
http://www.doubleyourdating.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.fireyourweddingplanner.com" target="_blank">http://www.fireyourweddingplanner.com<br />
</a></li>
<li><strong>Add More Subscription Boxes To Your Website &#8211; </strong>Sounds simple enough, but few people actually do it. If you have a 100 page website, you should have 100 newsletter subscribe boxes on your website or blog.
<p>You can integrate a subscribe box just about anywhere in a website. You could add one just before an article starts, in the middle of an article or even at the end of the article.</p>
<p>As long as you have good content on your website, you won&#8217;t have a problem getting people to subscribe to your newsletter.</li>
<li><strong>Use Free Viral Ebooks To Get New Subscribers</strong> &#8211; Want to get thousands of new subscribers for your newsletter without spending a cent on advertising and you&#8217;ve tried all the methods above but you still want more?
<p>Viral marketing is the way to go! Writing viral ebooks that get passed aroundWriting viral books is nothing new, but it&#8217;s still a great way to get your newsletter noticed. There are a few methods you can use when creating viral ebooks.You can either create them as a free product, or charge for them and give people the reprint rights to the product so they in turn can give your product away while making some money in the process.</p>
<p>I prefer the reprint right route. Once the momentum of the first book wears out, write another and another and another and another! All in the same method, all with reprint rights and all with your newsletter subscribe from plastered in them.</p>
<p>The goal really isn&#8217;t to make money from the sales of the book, it&#8217;s to get more subscribers.</li>
<li><strong>Write FREE Articles</strong> &#8211; While it&#8217;s a given you will put your newsletter subscribe address in your resource box at the end of the article, this is not the best way to get people to subscribe to your newsletter.
<p>The best way is to write a few free E-courses that people can subscribe to via an autoresponder and weave the links into your article. Here is what I mean, and I can tell you now, HARDLY ANYONE is doing this.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say you have a newsletter on Fishing and you&#8217;re in the middle of writing a few articles to send out for publication. Here is what I would do.I would go to <a href="http://duncanchua.com/aweber" target="_blank">Aweber.com</a>, buy a monthly subscription to their service and then start writing up 2 or 3 free e-courses on all things to do with Ice Fishing and plug them into my autoresponder.</p>
<p>Now why would I want to do this if I really want people to subscribe to my newsletter? Well, article writing has come under attack by people who believe cutting peoples article bylines out is acceptable. They just steal the content as their own. So instead of trying to fight these people everyday of the week, I&#8217;ve accepted this is going to happen and I made provisions for it, and infact, it probably works in my favor.</p>
<p>So in my article while I&#8217;m writing it, I would let the readers know there is this great E-course for free they can sign up for. I wouldn&#8217;t mention it was mine. I would just weave it into my article and it looks like I&#8217;m providing them with a great free resource.</p>
<p>I would then provide them with the autoresponder link and how to sign up.</p>
<p>Also remember that when you write your resource box for your article, you don&#8217;t have to get them to go to a webpage to sign up for your newsletter.</p>
<p>You can put your newsletter subscribe information in your resource box like this&#8230;.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;To get more information on how to catch more bass on a weekly basis, sign up for our newsletter by sending a blank email to youremail@address-here.com&#8221;</em></li>
<li> <strong>Use Free Forum Posting</strong> &#8211; This is a great way to get not only more subscribers for your newsletter but recognized as an expert in your field. By posting helpful suggestions in forums in your market, you will get a lot of good attention. I&#8217;m not going to get into a whole lot about this subject as it&#8217;s pretty easy to get started.
<p>1) Find forums in your niche</p>
<p>2) Read some of the back posts and see whos the boss, who posts good content and what the rules are3) Start posting with informative information and include your little newsletter byline at the end of your post or in your signature file</p>
<p>What most people have a problem with is not writing good posts, but finding the forums to post in.</p>
<p>Now that work is done for you. Just enter the topic your newsletter is on into the website address below and you will find all the forums you could possibly want on those subjects.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.link-advantage.com/search/" target="_blank">http://www.link-advantage.com/search/</a></li>
</ol>
<p>Start using them yourself, pretty soon you’ll have a quality subscribers to your list.</p>
<p>All the best,<br />
Duncan</p>
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		<title>Are E-Books Worth My Time?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 17:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">E-books are electronic books that can be sold or freely distributed through the Internet. They have a variety of information and uses. Most people love these things, as they take hardly any time at all to put together and can really help market yourself or your business. Take a look at some instances where an E-book can really take your business to the next level.</p>
<p>First, an E-book can be on most any subject you can imagine&#8211; from dogs to kids, to even Internet marketing. Most of these are very easy to read and can be very short or long depending on how much work is put into them. Of course, the more work you put into them, the better they usually are. One big advantage to an E-book is you can cater them to do whatever you like. Many businesses and individuals are using them to promote their business or whatever they are selling. This is made easier as these books can be coded with your own website links or your own products if that is what you desire.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z104/switchblade775/funny/ilikecats.jpg" border="0" alt="cats taste like" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">No longer are you at the mercy of anyone else. If you can type, then you can be a published author if you want. The E-book craze just keeps rolling on and it looks like that won’t end anytime soon either. Most people give away E-books as a way to get more people to look at their products and it works extremely well for the most part. Others package them with reports or something else so they can give more value for the buck. No matter which option you choose, the E-book is a very powerful tool that can change your business virtually overnight if you market it right. Sales from one book can equal thousands of dollars if you hire affiliates and others to promote your product. Just don’t write it and sit on it. Get it out there and see how it does for you. You may be surprised at the success you have with it and all the people that actually read it.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">One of the biggest mistakes many people make with using E-books is putting together one so fast it just isn’t worth publishing. Many mistakes can be made if you don’t do your homework, especially on the subject. This is something to always remember. You can’t fake what you don’t know, so always consider that when making an E-book. Do it on a subject that you love and know a lot about. Don’t do it on things you have very little knowledge on because it will show through very quickly. E-books can be your best friends if you use them properly or your worst nightmare if you don’t. Getting an E-book out just for the sake to say you are a published author is just not worth it. In the long run, always have quality over quantity and you will be successful. E-Books are great if used right, so keep that in mind when you decide to write an e-book.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Duncan</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">PS: Would you like to make $400-$600 A Week With Resell Rights Products?<br />
<strong><a title="resell rights report" href="http://www.duncanchua.com/resell.zip" target="_blank">Download your FREE copy of How To Make Quick Profits With Resell Rights!</a></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span class="ured"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">E-books are electronic books that can be sold or freely distributed through the Internet. They have a variety of information and uses. Most people love these things, as they take hardly any time at all to put together and can really help market yourself or your business. Take a look at some instances where an E-book can really take your business to the next level.</p>
<p>First, an E-book can be on most any subject you can imagine&#8211; from dogs to kids, to even Internet marketing. Most of these are very easy to read and can be very short or long depending on how much work is put into them. Of course, the more work you put into them, the better they usually are. One big advantage to an E-book is you can cater them to do whatever you like. Many businesses and individuals are using them to promote their business or whatever they are selling. This is made easier as these books can be coded with your own website links or your own products if that is what you desire.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z104/switchblade775/funny/ilikecats.jpg" border="0" alt="cats taste like" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">No longer are you at the mercy of anyone else. If you can type, then you can be a published author if you want. The E-book craze just keeps rolling on and it looks like that won’t end anytime soon either. Most people give away E-books as a way to get more people to look at their products and it works extremely well for the most part. Others package them with reports or something else so they can give more value for the buck. No matter which option you choose, the E-book is a very powerful tool that can change your business virtually overnight if you market it right. Sales from one book can equal thousands of dollars if you hire affiliates and others to promote your product. Just don’t write it and sit on it. Get it out there and see how it does for you. You may be surprised at the success you have with it and all the people that actually read it.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">One of the biggest mistakes many people make with using E-books is putting together one so fast it just isn’t worth publishing. Many mistakes can be made if you don’t do your homework, especially on the subject. This is something to always remember. You can’t fake what you don’t know, so always consider that when making an E-book. Do it on a subject that you love and know a lot about. Don’t do it on things you have very little knowledge on because it will show through very quickly. E-books can be your best friends if you use them properly or your worst nightmare if you don’t. Getting an E-book out just for the sake to say you are a published author is just not worth it. In the long run, always have quality over quantity and you will be successful. E-Books are great if used right, so keep that in mind when you decide to write an e-book.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Duncan</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">PS: Would you like to make $400-$600 A Week With Resell Rights Products?<br />
<strong><a title="resell rights report" href="http://www.duncanchua.com/resell.zip" target="_blank">Download your FREE copy of How To Make Quick Profits With Resell Rights!</a></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span class="ured"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><br />
</strong></span></span></span></p>
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		<title>How to Erupt Your Viral Marketing With Resale Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>You probably already know what viral marketing is about. It&#8217;s a marketing technique that encourages readers and website owners themselves to pass the messages ostensibly for free, but really to the benefit of the original maker of the message.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s an example for you..</p>
<p>Remember The Hotmail Explosion?</p>
<p>Hotmail was able to flourish magnificently in the Internet simply through viral marketing:</p>
<p><strong>Free Services</strong> &#8211; They started with the most basic of incentives: they gave away email accounts and related services for free.</p>
<p><strong>Signature</strong> &#8211; For each message sent by users with free email accounts, a simple, non-irritating signature was attached: it was a hyper link invitation to have a similarly free email account.<br />
How to virally increase your traffic with Resale Rights</p>
<p><strong>The Building of an Empire</strong> &#8211; Without even knowing, email owners are participating in the viral marketing campaign of Hotmail every time they send an email to other people. Upon reading the tagline, recipients may be induced to have their own email account in Hotmail as well. When they&#8217;ve successfully created one, each message they send to other recipients contain the very same invitation, and the cycle starts all over again.</p>
<p>So what does viral marketing got to do with Resale Rights?</p>
<p>The further you read into this, you will understand the link between Resale Rights and Viral Marketing.</p>
<p>When you sell your products with resale rights, not only you gain income from selling the rights to the books, but you also indirectly profit from increased exposure. As long as the works you&#8217;ve sold contain specific and beneficial information about your company, each time your customer sells them to other people will instantly means one more reader getting acquainted with what your company&#8217;s all about.</p>
<p>Thus your <strong>readership and awareness will increase.</strong></p>
<p>Through viral marketing, you&#8217;ll need to give your customers more reasons to resell the works they&#8217;ve bought from you and consequently solidify the presence of you in the Internet.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a list of characteristics for starting your own viral marketing virus. Your strategy should have all of the following characteristics:</p>
<p><strong>Free</strong> &#8211; There must be something for free! If not the resell rights themselves, then think of something else that you can give away for free.</p>
<p><strong>Simple and Easy Transmission Items</strong> &#8211; Articles, ebooks, and eCourses are easy to send. Podcasts, although possessing more than the usual number of bytes, are still not that difficult to transfer as many people nowadays have their own MP3 or MP4 players. Whatever format or medium you choose to convey your marketing campaign, it must be something that won&#8217;t give people headaches just to send them!</p>
<p><strong>Encourage People to Spread the Word </strong> &#8211; There must be something psychologically or socially appealing about your message vehicle that will motivate other people to spread the word or work. If your article&#8217;s totally funny or witty, it will encourage customers to sell the article to other people because they&#8217;ll be providing valuable entertainment to their customers. Find a way to appeal to your readers&#8217; ego or greed as long as it works, that should be good enough for the business.</p>
<p><strong>Paid Advertising</strong>- Although accompanied by certain fees or charges, paid advertising have the advantage of greater and more specifically-targeted exposure. Paid advertisers can ensure that the right people are seeing your ads at the right time. Examples of paid advertising are classifieds and press releases.</p>
<p><strong>Free Advertising</strong> &#8211; Don&#8217;t underestimate the use of free advertising because more exposure is still better than none. You can advertise for free in giveaways, forums, blogs, and your very own newsletters and auto-responders.</p>
<p><strong>Rely on Your Network</strong> &#8211; Don&#8217;t forget to have your links displayed by your affiliates.</p>
<p>So here you are. You are holding &#8220;Virus&#8221; button. Do you want to swarm your website with traffic, or do you want your website be a deserted island?</p>
<p><strong>FACT:</strong> The choice is yours.</p>
<p>Thanks and Good Luck,<br />
Duncan Chua</p>
]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You probably already know what viral marketing is about. It&#8217;s a marketing technique that encourages readers and website owners themselves to pass the messages ostensibly for free, but really to the benefit of the original maker of the message.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s an example for you..</p>
<p>Remember The Hotmail Explosion?</p>
<p>Hotmail was able to flourish magnificently in the Internet simply through viral marketing:</p>
<p><strong>Free Services</strong> &#8211; They started with the most basic of incentives: they gave away email accounts and related services for free.</p>
<p><strong>Signature</strong> &#8211; For each message sent by users with free email accounts, a simple, non-irritating signature was attached: it was a hyper link invitation to have a similarly free email account.<br />
How to virally increase your traffic with Resale Rights</p>
<p><strong>The Building of an Empire</strong> &#8211; Without even knowing, email owners are participating in the viral marketing campaign of Hotmail every time they send an email to other people. Upon reading the tagline, recipients may be induced to have their own email account in Hotmail as well. When they&#8217;ve successfully created one, each message they send to other recipients contain the very same invitation, and the cycle starts all over again.</p>
<p>So what does viral marketing got to do with Resale Rights?</p>
<p>The further you read into this, you will understand the link between Resale Rights and Viral Marketing.</p>
<p>When you sell your products with resale rights, not only you gain income from selling the rights to the books, but you also indirectly profit from increased exposure. As long as the works you&#8217;ve sold contain specific and beneficial information about your company, each time your customer sells them to other people will instantly means one more reader getting acquainted with what your company&#8217;s all about.</p>
<p>Thus your <strong>readership and awareness will increase.</strong></p>
<p>Through viral marketing, you&#8217;ll need to give your customers more reasons to resell the works they&#8217;ve bought from you and consequently solidify the presence of you in the Internet.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a list of characteristics for starting your own viral marketing virus. Your strategy should have all of the following characteristics:</p>
<p><strong>Free</strong> &#8211; There must be something for free! If not the resell rights themselves, then think of something else that you can give away for free.</p>
<p><strong>Simple and Easy Transmission Items</strong> &#8211; Articles, ebooks, and eCourses are easy to send. Podcasts, although possessing more than the usual number of bytes, are still not that difficult to transfer as many people nowadays have their own MP3 or MP4 players. Whatever format or medium you choose to convey your marketing campaign, it must be something that won&#8217;t give people headaches just to send them!</p>
<p><strong>Encourage People to Spread the Word </strong> &#8211; There must be something psychologically or socially appealing about your message vehicle that will motivate other people to spread the word or work. If your article&#8217;s totally funny or witty, it will encourage customers to sell the article to other people because they&#8217;ll be providing valuable entertainment to their customers. Find a way to appeal to your readers&#8217; ego or greed as long as it works, that should be good enough for the business.</p>
<p><strong>Paid Advertising</strong>- Although accompanied by certain fees or charges, paid advertising have the advantage of greater and more specifically-targeted exposure. Paid advertisers can ensure that the right people are seeing your ads at the right time. Examples of paid advertising are classifieds and press releases.</p>
<p><strong>Free Advertising</strong> &#8211; Don&#8217;t underestimate the use of free advertising because more exposure is still better than none. You can advertise for free in giveaways, forums, blogs, and your very own newsletters and auto-responders.</p>
<p><strong>Rely on Your Network</strong> &#8211; Don&#8217;t forget to have your links displayed by your affiliates.</p>
<p>So here you are. You are holding &#8220;Virus&#8221; button. Do you want to swarm your website with traffic, or do you want your website be a deserted island?</p>
<p><strong>FACT:</strong> The choice is yours.</p>
<p>Thanks and Good Luck,<br />
Duncan Chua</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>In the internet world where everything relies on online marketing and virtual selling, it is important that you have a comprehensive list of subscribers that you can sell to. Subscribers are the people who have agreed to receive your letters, marketing promotions and selling materials.</p>
<p>In order for you to create a good list of people who will subscribe to you, follow these suggestions:</p>
<p><strong>1. </strong><strong>Make a pop-up opt-in check list on your website.</strong> You should have a program that can detect the first time viewers of your website. As you sense these people, you can activate your pop-up invitation wherein they can choose to receive announcements, promotions, and other related materials from you. People who find your site helpful and useful to them would gladly accept that. Some would prefer not to, but that&#8217;s still fine. You&#8217;ll still be able to gather enough people who would likely to go for it.</p>
<p><strong>2.</strong> <strong>Promote a member&#8217;s page</strong>. In your own website, you can also make an exclusive member&#8217;s page wherein the would have the ability to customize the page, import essential links, and make the page really personal as if they have programmed it themselves. A lot of people would like to express their own selves over the internet in any way possible. That&#8217;s why blog spots are so popular. With this strategy, a lot of people will horde into your site ready to sign up. You&#8217;ll get a considerable number of subscribers, for sure.</p>
<p><strong>3. Give out member&#8217;s benefits.</strong> Compensate your members. You can give them a little something as they sign up. You can give additional free space for their personal files. You can give your new members discounts in your own internet stores, or shops affiliated with, if you don&#8217;t have one. You can also give tokens to your loyal members like a free download or other similar things as they complete a number of daily log-ons. This way, you can entice other people to join in, if only to get these benefits.</p>
<p><strong>4. Create a refer-a-friend template. </strong>Since you already have people regularly visiting your site, make it simpler for them to refer some of their friends to you. This is used by a lot of sites as a marketing strategy and it works. It would definitely work for you too. If each of your subscribers can refer even a single friend, you can double your subscription list in no time. And if your friend&#8217;s friend would refer as well, just imagine how many people would be on your list.</p>
<p><strong>5. Give freebies.</strong> You can give freebies to those people who will readily give their email addresses to subscribe in your list. These freebies need not be something big. It could even come in a form of a web money that is not convertible to cash but can be used to buy some of your products. A lot of people like free things. They love to get something out of practically nothing. Try it. You sure have a lot of subscribers to gain.</p>
<p><strong>6. Come up with a contest or a promotion. </strong>A contest or a promotion is something that can draw a massive number of people to you. A single contest with a good prize at stake could lure as many as a thousand joiners. Of course, before they can join, they&#8217;ve got to fill up some form and give their email addresses to you, together with the consent of adding them to your subscriber&#8217;s list. And a thousand email addresses is already an impressive number to add to your list. How about holding three contests? Have you estimated how much subscribers you can gain?</p>
<p><strong>7. Purchase mailing lists.</strong> Do you want a subscriber&#8217;s list that is real fast and easy? Well, you can readily purchase one. Although you must make sure that you get a list of people whose preferences fall under your line of business. Otherwise, the list may prove to be useless.</p>
<p>These are some tips on how to build a real responsive list of subscribers. These strategies are already done by many. You can try your hand in it and see how these works for you, swiftly and simply.</p>
<p>Thanks and Good Luck,<br />
Duncan Chua</p>
]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the internet world where everything relies on online marketing and virtual selling, it is important that you have a comprehensive list of subscribers that you can sell to. Subscribers are the people who have agreed to receive your letters, marketing promotions and selling materials.</p>
<p>In order for you to create a good list of people who will subscribe to you, follow these suggestions:</p>
<p><strong>1. </strong><strong>Make a pop-up opt-in check list on your website.</strong> You should have a program that can detect the first time viewers of your website. As you sense these people, you can activate your pop-up invitation wherein they can choose to receive announcements, promotions, and other related materials from you. People who find your site helpful and useful to them would gladly accept that. Some would prefer not to, but that&#8217;s still fine. You&#8217;ll still be able to gather enough people who would likely to go for it.</p>
<p><strong>2.</strong> <strong>Promote a member&#8217;s page</strong>. In your own website, you can also make an exclusive member&#8217;s page wherein the would have the ability to customize the page, import essential links, and make the page really personal as if they have programmed it themselves. A lot of people would like to express their own selves over the internet in any way possible. That&#8217;s why blog spots are so popular. With this strategy, a lot of people will horde into your site ready to sign up. You&#8217;ll get a considerable number of subscribers, for sure.</p>
<p><strong>3. Give out member&#8217;s benefits.</strong> Compensate your members. You can give them a little something as they sign up. You can give additional free space for their personal files. You can give your new members discounts in your own internet stores, or shops affiliated with, if you don&#8217;t have one. You can also give tokens to your loyal members like a free download or other similar things as they complete a number of daily log-ons. This way, you can entice other people to join in, if only to get these benefits.</p>
<p><strong>4. Create a refer-a-friend template. </strong>Since you already have people regularly visiting your site, make it simpler for them to refer some of their friends to you. This is used by a lot of sites as a marketing strategy and it works. It would definitely work for you too. If each of your subscribers can refer even a single friend, you can double your subscription list in no time. And if your friend&#8217;s friend would refer as well, just imagine how many people would be on your list.</p>
<p><strong>5. Give freebies.</strong> You can give freebies to those people who will readily give their email addresses to subscribe in your list. These freebies need not be something big. It could even come in a form of a web money that is not convertible to cash but can be used to buy some of your products. A lot of people like free things. They love to get something out of practically nothing. Try it. You sure have a lot of subscribers to gain.</p>
<p><strong>6. Come up with a contest or a promotion. </strong>A contest or a promotion is something that can draw a massive number of people to you. A single contest with a good prize at stake could lure as many as a thousand joiners. Of course, before they can join, they&#8217;ve got to fill up some form and give their email addresses to you, together with the consent of adding them to your subscriber&#8217;s list. And a thousand email addresses is already an impressive number to add to your list. How about holding three contests? Have you estimated how much subscribers you can gain?</p>
<p><strong>7. Purchase mailing lists.</strong> Do you want a subscriber&#8217;s list that is real fast and easy? Well, you can readily purchase one. Although you must make sure that you get a list of people whose preferences fall under your line of business. Otherwise, the list may prove to be useless.</p>
<p>These are some tips on how to build a real responsive list of subscribers. These strategies are already done by many. You can try your hand in it and see how these works for you, swiftly and simply.</p>
<p>Thanks and Good Luck,<br />
Duncan Chua</p>
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