Mark Abrahams | Article Marketing
I have selected the best questions to answer.

1) Building traffic

This is the challenging part of internet marketing.
There are only really a few traffic sources worth
considering.
The main types to get are:

1) Article marketing
2) Pay per click
3) Ezine advertising
4) Search engine optimization
5) Web 2
6) Viral traffic

2) My biggest problem is making a profit with article marketing

You need to setup a marketing system that will
convert visitors into paid custoners. This starts
out by having a squeeze page with a winning sequence
of autoresponder messages. Most people will only
buy after the seventh email contact from you.
Conversion is one of the big challenges on the internet.
However, if you get your sales process to convert
you can make a lot of money.

3) NO 1 PROBLEM IS RECRUITING

If you are doing network marketing you need to use
an internet marketing system to generate leads and
follow up with. There are many people who promote
their network marketing business using a downline
builder for example Herbalife and Success University.
You need to tap into the system of somebody who is
already doing well building an organization using a
proven internet marketing recruiting system. If you
look around you should find some.

4) I cannot get my credit card facility working (probably
not really what you are wanting).

Use 2Checkout or Clickbank. This is the easiest way
to get your credit card processing sorted out quickly.
The advantage of 2Checkout is that they will wire or
deposit the money into your account and the transaction
fees are a lot less.

I cannot improve my rating of 2 for my website
www.languageonline.us after doing what I read was suitable
SEO.

You need to build a good quality site that people
will want to link to. SUbmit to the top directories
like Open Directory(dmoz.org) and Yahoo. You can also
submit to second tier directories. Write articles
and submit to the directories including a link to your
site in the resource box. Do press releases using
a free service like Prleap.com to gain additional
backlinks.

Submit your high quality posts to web 2 sites like Digg.
If they become popular you will get lots of links pointing
to it as people vote on it. Find sites that complement
yours
and ask for a mutual link exchange.

5) Mark: Finding enough opt in Web sites to send my
articles too. Some too slow in approving, some reject
articles
without any reasons. I have make about 6 lists of Web
sites, but half of them do not work for many reasons. JoAnn

The best directory is www.ezinearticles.com. Once you
become a platinum author your articles usually get
approved within 48 business hours. The article directories
are more useful for building backlinks to your site
and increasing your search engine rankings.

6) Finding the time to write anything worth someone
reading. I don’t want to publish poor quality or useless
articles.

If you are building a list short and concise 250-350
word articles work the best. If your article is too
long people will never make it to your resource box. I
would rather have imperfect articles out there working
for me building a list than have nothing out there.

7) Number one problem: Time.

I could break it down:
- Time to write articles
- Time to manage my site’s content
- Time to manage my part-time Web business while working a
full-time job
So far, I’m not buying into “easy solutions” such as
posting other people’s articles as my own. Maybe that’s my
problem, but that is my current approach. I promote my site
and I fill my site with content that I have written myself.
When I have the time.

This is a very important point. Many internet marketers
become very stressed as they try and do everything
themselves. Once you start making a good profit it will
become a
lot easier to run if you outsource many of the tasks
that take up all your time. All the big name internet
marketers do this.

building a list

The three best ways to build a list are article
marketing(include a link to your squeeze page in
your resource box), ppc advertising and having
a Squidoo page or Hub page optimized for search
engine traffic with a link to a squeeze page.

9) My number 1 problem is creating my own product.
I know what I want but I don’t know what product to make.
Creating something out of nothing is too difficult. Thanks

Start building a list in your chosen niche market.
Then send your subscribers asking them what their
biggest problem is in that area. You can create an
ebook based on that research solving those specific
problems.

Once you have written it format it using a pdf tool like
Adobe. You then need to create a killer sales letter.
So you will need to learn copywriting. This is an obstacle
that keeps many newbies from succeeding. Select a payment
processor like 2Checkout and a download facility like
E-junkie which makes it extremely easy to create and
protect your
downloads after people have purchased. It could take two or
three
tries to get it right and create a product that sells.
However, you will learn every time you fail.

10) Yes, the biggie for me is setting up the complete
system/s

Do not try to do everything at once. I suggest you first
start with the squeeze page then work your way the messages
you setup in the autoresponder. You can then start
promoting affiliate products and later include your own
products.
If you try to do everything at once it will seem to
complicated. If you break everything up into small tasks it
really does
become easy to do.

11) Finding time to write the articles. I’m a Mom of two
small children and also work for myself too so time is
always hard to
come by.

Article marketing is time intensive and can take up your
whole day to do 10 to 20 articles a day. If you get your
marketing system to convert into sales you can outsource
this and
still run at a profit.

12) Conversion

Conversion is very challenging. If you can’t get your
site to convert you will not make any money. When you
start out you will not make money from the products
that you promote. You need to track and test different
products to see what your list actually buys. I have
found that there are certain products that sell like
hot cakes while others do not sell at all. Things depend
a lot on the niche market you are targeting and how you
take care of your list. You also need extremely good
email copy and copy on your sales letter to generate sales.
However, sometimes it could not be a problem with this,
but the niche market that you have chose is difficult to
make sales.

13) Hope everything is well with you. The main problem that
I’m having with internet marketing is driving massive
traffic to my site and convert them to sales. This happens
to be one of my biggest challenge especially for a newbie like
me. Kind of need your advice in this important issue. Hope to
hear from you soon.

Please check the methods that I listed above for traffic
and also the tips that I have added for conversion.

14) hi mark, im want to sell online,problem is i dont know
what to sell and also i dont know where to start.I dont
have much money to pay for expertise either so a bit stuck here.

Start out small. Do research to find a profitable niche
market. Create a squeeze page and start building a list.
You can
initially promote affiliate products. Once you see what
sells you can
create your own products in that niche market.

15) Thanks for the many newsy emails. They have been very
educational.

I am obviously missing something when I tell you that my
biggest problem is in the area of physically implementing
your plan
(suggestions) into my computer.

Examples:

1) How to locate affiliate companies?

2) How to “hook-up” with them?

3) What to do going forward with these companies?

4) How (what) to physically implement into the computer?

Some of these questions are probably too elementary to deal
with. Should that be the case, I understand. I can pay
online marketing experts in the area to assist in this
start-up.

You can start promoting products from Clickbank.com
Sign up as a member and you will get an affiliate link.

Similarly you can also use Commissionjunction.com
These two have tens of thousands of products that
you can promote. There are other vendors if you do
a search on Google you will find them.

Your process should be to:

1) Choose your niche market
2) Generate targeted traffic
3) Build a list(squeeze page)
4) Build a relationship with that
list and sell repeatedly to them.

To Your Success

Mark

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