Why a Joomla Tutorial Video Can be Key to Your Success in Learning Joomla
Let’s face it – majority of us learn better by sight and sound than by reading a book and with most of us flocking to the internet to build websites with Joomla doesn’t it make more sense to find out how to build an effective Joomla web site rather than having to hire an expensive web designer that knows Joomla? Well, sure! But would you know where to start?
It really IS easier to grasp a concept when we see it, rather than just reading about it. If you’ve ever taken a course in anything you know the difference between someone standing in front of a group talking about a significant something. Some will catch on fairly quickly, others will be left in a slight fog. BUT…
Let that same instructor provide a slide show, a visual, and you can bet the majority of those viewing will have those all-important and very gratifying ‘Ahl Ha!’ moments!
The reason is because videos make you feel as if you are interacting. They ‘express’ more than just words on a page. They make you understand the how’s and the why’s. This is so meaningful and is the reason why so many now make it a point to include them in their marketing.
A Joomla tutorial video offers you that same ease in beginning to learn Joomla. Joomla is a powerful open source content management program that gives the “average joe” the opportunity to build, publish and update their own website without the help of a web designer.
Some of us venture forth in web design with some experience, some with just a little, others more advanced. Whatever, we all have a common bond and that is that ALL of us always have more to learn -and a Joomla tutorial video will help anyone who needs to understand what Joomla is and how it can work for them.
The truth is, many of us wish we had something or someone that would SHOW us what to do to clear up our understanding and, perhaps, confusion in trying to learn Joomla or anything in life for that matter. Now, there are many good Joomla tutorial sources on the internet today, but how many of them are on video?
To reiterate, videos are important because they teach in the true sense of the word. And with a Joomla tutorial video, as they teach, you learn. As you learn, you become more of a force to be reckoned with because you can stand on your own two feet with a sense of accomplishment, which in the end can save you time and money.
So, don’t throw in the towel if you can’t grasp Joomla by just reading the forums and reading the joomla installation manual. Know that a Joomla tutorial video is available to help you bring your web building dreams from fantasy land into reality.
Remember, your dreams are more than possible – they are achievable! Sometimes, you just need to be SHOWN what to do.
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http://www.joomla-videos.net, offers flash-based videos to assist with learning and installing Joomla CMS. If you publish content online you’ll learn how to create beautiful and imaginative web sites fast.
Landing Page Tutorials
Landing Pages – Ladder To Successful Ppc Search Engine Marketing
According to a reliable market research, the total expenditure on PPC search engine marketing is more than half of the total spending undertaken on web marketing as a whole! In other words, entire search engine marketing expert community world wide gives its whole hearted endorsement to PPC search engine marketing as a highly effective and hence prominent form of online marketing and advertising.
There are three factors that significantly contribute to the success or failure of any PPC search engine marketing campaign, namely
Ad quality
Maximum Bid
Quality of the landing page
Landing page, simply put, is the page on which the visitor finds oneself upon clicking the PPC ad on SERP. It is a very important page from the point of view of any commercial venture, as it decides whether the PPC ad is able to fulfil its core objectives of having PPC search engine marketing in the first place.
A search engine marketing expert from a SEO company of India is the world’s favourite SEO professional owing to his strategic advantages, including cost-effectiveness, competitiveness, proven expertise and sound infrastructure.
You can expect a SEO company from India provide you with a dedicated and thorough professional search engine marketing expert for tending to your PPC search engine marketing campaign and implement the following strategies to achieve an effective landing page:
Focus on an offer of something specific like a newsletter subscription or a tutorial or a demo and avoid irrelevant information to the offer, as it is distracting;
Focus on the first impression, as it may turn out to be the last if its not overall pleasant;
Stay away from navigation buttons as they tend to take your visitor away from the main offer;
Organize content that can be read at a glance;
Use caption in graphics as you use them judiciously;
Avoid the temptation of asking too many questions and try to gather information implicitly.
A faithful following of the above tips can actually do wonders to your PPC campaign. Worth a try, at least!
I try to set the Landing Page Facebook, but I'm having some problems. Does anyone know I could go anywhere which codes for some good tutorials or could help me? Above all, I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to add a scroll box on the page.
i want information for making project of 15-20 pages on agrarian reforms in west bengal?
guidlines:(a)land reform policies in post 70’s by communist government. (b) abolition of zamindari and redistribution of land among actual tiller of soil-”Barg Andolan”. (c) Mordernization of agriculture.
I think that You’ll find that “Please & Thank You” will go a long way towards it.
Landing pages are meant to convince your visitor to take a specific action. If the majority of your visitors are not taking the action that you wanted them to take, then your landing pages are not effective. Ideally, you should create several landing pages and determine which one is converting better. Once you know what is working, you can ditch the other pages – but in order to find out which one wins, you will have to run several test promotions, or one promotion with different links.
Start by thinking about your visitors. Who will be visiting your site? If you sell ladies shoes, you can reasonably assume that women between the ages of 18 and 70 are visiting your site. Therefore, your page and your sales copy would be targeted to women of basically all age groups over the age of eighteen. If you are selling toys for toddlers, you can reasonably assume that parents – mostly women – between the ages of 20 and 30 will be your target market.
Figuring out who your promotional material is meant for, and designing Landing Pages That Work with that promotional material is the first step to success. You can even design promotional material and landing pages for different groups of people. For instance, even though most people who buy toys for toddlers are women, men also buy toys for toddlers. A landing page that appeals to a woman will not appeal to a man. The promotional ad that gets the visitor to the landing page in the first place must also be suited to the group of people that you are trying to attract.
Get rid of anything on the page that does not have to do with getting your visitor to take the action you want them to take. Graphics are nice, but keep the graphics low and to a minimum. Get rid of links to other websites. Get rid of navigation links if possible. Have everything the visitor needs on that one page.
Take away the visitors options. Focus on one thing – getting the visitor to take the action you want them to take. Do not allow them to navigate through your website. Do not confuse them by offering more than one product for sale or by having them perform more than one action on the page. If you stay focused, and you keep your page focused, the chances are very good that your visitor will remain focused as well.
The only outward bound links on your landing page should be a link to an order form. Anything else can and should go directly on the page. If you simply want your visitor to fill out a form, put the form on the landing page. If you want them to read information, put it on the landing page. If you want them to make a purchase, put the sales copy on the landing page, with a link to the secure order form on the bottom of the page – and throughout the sales copy.
Make your sales copy scannable by using bold colors and text that stand out – but don’t go overboard and blind or irritate your visitors. Use highlights to bring the visitors attention to important information. Put the important information above the fold. Don’t make them scroll for it – have it right where they can see it as soon as the page loads.
Designing effective landing pages take a little work, and when you are done, you will be surprised at how simple the page actually is – and how well it does what you want it to do!
About the Author
Jason is an experienced Internet marketer, and gives great information like this to his newsletter subscribers all the time. To get more great tips and tricks, subscribe to Jason’s Newsletter
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Who is the blondie on page 152 of the “GQ,” July 2006 issue, posing in the picture with Will Ferrell? Anybody?
The picture is located within the article by Jason Gay & Will Ferrell – the “Classically Cliched Celebrity Profile.” I know that the photograph was by Mark Seliger, but I couldn’t find out any information on the other talent in the photos.
You can view the photo at:
http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_4513
NOTE: Click the caption under the photo of Ferrell that says “CLICK TO SEE SLIDESHOW” it’s photo #4 I believe.
I happen to still own that particular issue and there is no model inforamtion I could find PERIOD.
Don’t get mixed up with her; she is trouble in capital letters
How to Create An Information Product Online Store / Landing Page On Hot4Online.com
We are all guilty of flipping through the latest issue of Parent’s Magazine and admiring the adorable birthday cakes that grace the center pages. They look so cute! They look so delicious! They look simple! That is until we take a glance at the directions . . . and then? They look so “never-gonna-happen”.
If you don’t have the time to devote to fantastical creations that take hours to complete, you aren’t alone. In fact, the last time I cooked a “homemade” cake, I have to admit, it came from the bakery section of our local Wal-Mart. The good news is, there is “homemade” hope for we culinary underachievers.
If you are a stovetop slacker too, read on to find some fabulously simple recipes sure to please.
Caterpillar Cupcakes
Put your patterns and umpteen ingredients away all you chefs of the world. In the eyes of your little ones, our easy as pie caterpillar cupcakes will rival the likes of Emeril’s greatest hits. Bam!
Simply grab a box of cake mix and whip up a dozen cupcakes. While allowing them to cool, mix a few drops of green food coloring into a tub of vanilla icing. Once your cupcakes are cool enough, ice each one.
Now for the fun part, arrange the cupcakes in a wiggly row along the table. Allow the kids to place licorice strands on each cupcake for the legs. Decorate the “face” cupcake using your child’s favorite candies for a nose, eyes and mouth.
Helpful Hint- Have multiple children? Avoid the fight over the candy decorated “face” by dividing the cupcakes into threes to create smaller, multiple caterpillars . . . and happier kids in the process.
Gummy Bear Popcorn
Have a teddy bear that dotes on all things whimsical? Make movie night extra special with this simple recipe that takes all of three minutes to create.
Start by popping a bag of unbuttered popcorn. After cooking time, open the bag and toss in a small bag of chocolate chips. Close the bag and give a good shake. Pour the popcorn into colorful bowls and add a handful of gummy bears to the mix. This treat is a match made in sweet-treat heaven and it’s perfect for sharing!
Dino Dig Sundaes
Looking for a whimsical snack for your little archeologist? Pop in the Land Before Time and whip up these Dino Dig Sundaes for a themed treat he’ll ask for again and again. Simply place a scoop of ice-cream into a bowl, top with smashed Oreo cookies for the “dirt” and finish off with a dino-shaped cookie or gummy.
Can’t find any dinosaur shaped treats? Whoppers make for great dinosaur eggs!
Scrumptious Seaweed Dinner
A lot more appetizing than it sounds, all it takes is a package of ramen noodles, a hotdog and a dollop of mustard.
Start out by warming the hotdog and cooking up the noodles. Drain the noodles well and coat with the provided mix and a few drops of green food coloring. Place them on a plate while you work on your hotdog “Octopus”.
To make the octopus all you need to do is create four slits in the bottom half of the hotdog for “arms.” Spread each one out onto the top of the Ramen and it will stand freely. Finish off with a few dollops of mustard for eyes and viola! You have an instant seaweed dinner your little diver is sure to gulp right up!
Haunted Punch
Perfect for Halloween but magical for anytime of the year, our haunted punch will have your little ones spellbound. Simply take a clean plastic glove and fill it with water or juice, tying it off at the end like a balloon. Then, allow it to freeze overnight.
Mix a little fruit punch into a large bowl along with a can of pineapple juice. Remove the glove from the freezer and peel away the plastic. Ta-da! An instant floating “idle hand” for your punch bowl!
When it comes to culinary fun, a simple creative inch goes a long way. Get the little ones involved. Try new things, dream up new possibilities and if all else fails . . . have a food fight! It’s the most underrated culinary experience of all!
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Questions And Comments You Must Ask Your Web Designer
It is 2010, should your web designer understand how the Search Engines work and the “on-page” elements of a good SEO strategy?
Yes they should, yet many of the designers I work with both directly and indirectly are not at all knowledgeable regarding SEO and ultimately your business goals. Your designers need to completely understand both the high level business goals and tactical goals of a website. In many cases the goal is to complete some call to action: a sale, a phone call, a registration or a download
If potential customers can not find your site, well then, how are those calls to action going to happen?
Every website should have search engine optimization best practices employed. It should be an absolute pre-requisite of your marketing department and therefore your web design staff. There is no reason not to try to capture as much organic search traffic as possible, is there?
That being said here are a few must ask questions and suggestions for your web designer(s):
What technology is going to be used to design the site? Certain technologies like Flash are not as search engine friendly as others and unless there is a real need to use it, it is unnecessary and should not be used.
Websites need to be search engine friendly by having: a sitemap, strong internal linking from page to page, a robots.txt file to help the search engines navigate the site.
Proper URL naming conventions should be used. Use descriptive terms in your URL’s so someone seeing it knows what you do or are selling
Proper use of the “nofollow” tag to let the engines know not to crawl certain pages of your site that have limited SEO value
You need to provide your designer with the proper meta tags and meta descriptions for each page on the site. Do not use duplicate meta tags and descriptions.
For shopping sites:
If you have a category page, for example shoes, then each product within that category should have a separate page to maximize the number of keywords you can optimize on.
Split Categories into as many logical pages as possible. Have separate pages for black shoes, white shoes, and boots etc, therefore each can be optimized for those relevant searches and rank highly in the search engine results page.
Make sure whatever shopping cart product is used can support descriptive terms and phrases for your products, that can be easily edited.
Make sure your shopping cart can support Google Analytics
Make sure your shopping cart allows for user defined page titles, and page headers. Some carts force you to use category names and product names as your page titles and headers. This is not good!
Leave room in the footer section of each web page to repeat your page titles as H1 or H2 headers.
Include Google Analytics code in each web page for proper tracking and reporting.
Build flexibility into the design to leave room for changes and growth. Your website is a living thing, think Beta, and it must accommodate regular changes to layout, text, aesthetics and navigation.
If you are not going to use an SEO specialist to help optimize your site, then make sure that search readiness is an important part of your designer’s specification. It is much easier to incorporate a solid search strategy when building a site, then changing the site afterward to accommodate that strategy. Plan up front and have your designer fully involved in the ultimate goals of your website.
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About the Author
David Finkelstein – President www.d4bmarketing.com
David is the Founder of D4B Marketing and has been helping companies with their marketing for over 20 years. David has worked with many companies in the software, technology, media and education industries enabling them to better market their products and services and increase revenues. His experience spans the full gamut of online marketing tactics from search engine optimization, cost-per-click (CPC) strategies, affiliate marketing, email marketing, social media marketing, client retention strategies and web site analytics and surveys. David graduated from the Ohio State University
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Landing Page Design Best Practices
The Top 10 Thingies That an Awesome Web Design Team Must Posses to Get Things Rolling
Our world, as we all know, has become a very competitive and fast paced world, especially in the business world.
Because of the growing popularity of advertising or marketing on the internet, many professionals, specifically those that has anything to do with art and creativity, have turned their profession towards it.
But things aren’t also as great with those that can ride those waves, even those that can even do some tricks on it. This is because of the growing competitiveness in the world of business, and because of those hiring dudes getting smarter and smarter by the minute, which make’s landing a job, including web design, far more complicated than ever.
There are several traits that companies look at when hiring web specialists or designing team, and this includes a team that can come up and write copy, a team that can plan smart a site structure, a team that will help in getting a domain registered, files uploaded, e-mail accounts set up, and other technical details.
But aside from that, there are other thingies that companies look at when looking for an “awesome” web design team. And here’s a list of them, starting from number 10.
10.) Your Availability
Availability is one of the top 10 most important thingies that customers want from a web design company. Your team may have the best design skills but if your clients can’t get hold of you, then it’s practically useless for them.
9.) Getting the Best Service
As a team, we try our best in providing our best services as much as possible, but there will come a time that we might need another help from another entity or person. Such as installing a particularly complicated shopping cart or a site requires some heavy database programming, it is reasonable to expect that we might need some assistance. But we have to remember that we are getting paid to do what they expect us to do, it is our cost as they say. If we cannot provide the service that they want from us, then they will have no other choice but to sack us.
It shouldn’t matter if you have to outsource or if it will cost you money. The important thing is that you deliver a flawless service. If you don’t earn profit now, you’ll surely earn from a repeat project or a referral from the client in the future.
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8.) Communication Skills
We all know that you are the “God” of all webmasters and the Artist’ of the Artist’ when it comes to designing a website, but you don’t have to talk to them in languages that only R2D2 can understand just to show them how good you are. One of the most important traits that those dudes from the hiring department wants from us are our communication skills. It is important to them that we are able to convey words, or understandable words, that an ordinary person can clearly understand.
You must have that kind of skill because when your team is on the field, and that you cannot communicate properly with your client, these could cause major misunderstandings between you and your client, including the business itself. So it wont even matter if you are the chosen one that will bring peace back to the galaxy, if the only language that you speak is that of R2D2, it just isn’t gonna cut it.
7.) Project Timeline
Aside from being a team, bringing the results on time is also one of the most important thingies that they are looking for in a web designing team. It is important to them that we can provide a complete list of references of how good we are in meeting deadlines with our previous works or projects. This is to give them an insight on how efficient we are in this field. We don’t need to become The Flash just to impress them of how fast we are. All that they needed is that we work in a timely manner and meet certain deadlines on time.
6.) Your Cost
It is important that what you offer them must be in correspondence on what they pay you. We need to list down anything that is included on what services that we can provide them. The more you offer them, the more that they can pay us. The more services that we can provide them, the higher our cost. The important thing is that you can deliver quality product on time.
5.) Marketing Expertise
One of the best ways to show how good you are in marketing is to show them your portfolios. In here, you must be able to show them the things that they need to know about your marketing expertise. One of which is the usability of your portfolios. One of the traits that clients are looking for in your portfolio is the navigation. It is important that you ensure them that they can find whatever they’re looking for on our site quickly and effortlessly and that they can do the same on some of the sites in your portfolio.
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4.) Creativity
Now here is where you must excel the most – creativity. It is the nature of your business, the core of our strength and the sun that gives us the necessary energy that you need to create your masterpiece. But creativity in designing websites is not the only thing that they are looking for, but also creativity involved in the conceptual process. A web designing team must be able to provide them help with some of the most important questions such as in marketing, copy writing, and how to generate traffic.
3.) Originality
You always have to come up with original copies or graphics. You must be able to demonstrate knowledge of page layout, have a way with color and know how to place elements on a page for best appearance and web site performance. This is what makes web designers awesome.
2.) Customer Orientation
It is important for you to update your clients on the progress of your projects. This is necessary as to assure them that their projects are in good hands and will be completed on time. This trait is among of the 10 most important things that those hiring guys want the most. This is to assure that if your web design team is too busy to answer e-mails or phone calls, will they be able to keep the production schedule? Communication always plays a key role in production, so we must exercise to communicate well with our clients.
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1.) Experience
This is what they are looking for. This is the most important thing that clients are looking for. Like I said, these guys want someone that can provide all the things that they needed in a team, all packages in one as they say. Knowledgeable in protocols, web markup languages and coding utilities: HTML, XML, CSS, PHP and so on.
All of these came from experiences from some of the most “Awesome” web designing teams out there. But the only tip that they always say amongst all of these is that we should always believe in ourselves and on our team. Believing in one’s self is the main weapon in these guys when they are tackling something new. It is the foundation of their teamwork, and it is what makes their team, “Awesome”!
Google Analytics Content Reports: What Can They Tell You
The set of Content reports in Google Analytics is of great value and can teach you a lot on what is going on in your web-site. By selecting some of the default reports of Google Analytics you can receive a large amount of insight, analyze the situation & take actions that will improve your visitors’ experience on your site as well as drive them down the path you wish them to take.
With all the efforts around SEO, Pay per Click, incoming links, social media & so on, it is easy to forget that sometime it is not about bringing the (correct kind of) visitors to your site. They need to them to follow the path that they drew up for them in our site’s architecture.
The set of Content reports in Google Analytics is of great value & can teach you a lot on what is going on in your web-site. by clicking on few of the default links on Google Analytics you can receive a huge amount of insight, analyze the situation & take actions that will improve your visitors’ experience on your site as well as drive them down the path you wish them to take.
Sites’ owners and marketers obviously wish to see which pages are interesting to their visitors, are they following the navigation & internal links to see more content on their web-site, which of that content they consume and more.
Google Analytics set of Content reports is a brilliant resource to teach exactly that and to answer exactly those questions as well as plenty of more. It is advised to analyze those reports on a regular basis to see what is going on with the site’s traffic, what needs to be done and if what was designed has the correct effect and impact on the visitors arriving to the site.
The analysis should start with clicking on the “Content” link on the Google Analytics menu. The default is the Content Overview, where a high-level impression of the site’s content is presented. This report presents a lot of valuable information, but this is only the beginning. Following the link “View Full Report” under the “Top Content” table marks the beginning of the interesting analysis road:
Apart from presenting all the statistics on the pages that were viewed in the period of time being analyzed (with totals on average time on site, bounce rate & more) a breakdown is presented, sorted by the pageviews of the pages of the site & how the visitors interacted with them.
For each page it is possible to see how plenty of times it was viewed (pageviews), what was the average time the visitors spent on that page, how plenty of unique pageviews this specific page received, the bounce rate of the page & the percentage of exists that took place from this page (i.e. ended the visit on the site & left).
Each of the parameter is brilliant on its own & can be used to take decisions & actions, but it is strongly recommended to look at the parameters also as a whole, per page & by comparison between the different pages.
Moving on with the analysis, the next step is the “Navigation Summary” for this page:
On this report, per the selected page, an overview of where the visitors came from to this page (left side) & where did they go from after visiting this page (right side) is presented.
To start with, there is a split between the percentages of visitors that landed on that page (the first page they saw on the web-site) and those that came from other internal pages (and of course – the list of those pages as well as the click percentages of the source pages for driving the traffic to this specific page).
Then, a similar split related to those that left this page is presented: the percentages of exists from the web-site from this page (if it is a content page and not the finish of a conversion aim – why they did leave?), and for those that continue navigating the site – to which pages did they go? (are those the pages you wanted them to visit? are they missing a call to action to drive them down the conversion funnel from this page? is the navigation as effective as it needs to be?).
Clicking on each of the pages’ links on the report will bring up the same report, this time for the page selected by clicking on its name.
More analysis (much more actually): analyzing the “flow” of the visit. Selecting the “Entrance Paths” report from the left-hand drop down below the graph will present more details on the visits that took place, originating in the page being analyzing.
Now it is possible to analyze each of the pages by clicking their names from the same document, or by following the steps all the way from the “Top Content” report and then on to the “Navigation Summery” or by choosing the pages from the right-hand drop down that reads “Content” below the presented graph. Clicking this drop down and selecting any of the pages that got visits during the analyzed period, will adjust the report as per the page that was selected.
With the example that one of the funnels from the home page is designed to take the visitor to an information page on a product being offered and then taking this visitor to a contact details form (with a lovely bold call to action placed for that). Is it working? Are the visitors following this path? This page should help you to see the flow of the visit and to see if what was designed is working in reality.
To complete the review and analysis of the content and pages on the site, there are three more reports that Google Analytics puts under a section named “Landing Page Optimization” (as it reads on the Content Detail page) that should be analyzed
This report is organized in following way: on the left side (read “This Page“) is the page being analyzing (e.g. the home page). The table to the right of that picture contains the list of the pages that the visitors visited following that page (same as shown in the Navigation Summery page). Only now there is an additional table to the right that shows to which pages the visitors went after those steps. Clicking on any of the pages on “Then viewed these pages:” table will change the table on the right side so it is reflecting the pages visited after those two steps. This is the way to see three-steps navigation path of the site’s pages.
The next report to look at is the Entrance Sources. Part of the analysis necessary to be performed on the site’s pages contains the aspect of where did those visitors arrive from (externally). This is what this report is for.
Similar to the Top Content report, this one presents the same parameters as well, only organized by the source from which the visitors arrive to this specific page. Combining this information with the previous analysis can show if there is a difference in behavior by the source of the visit & drive actions accordingly.
The last part has to do with the keywords that brought visitors to the site’s pages and this is presented in the “Entrance Keywords” report. The same parameters but organized by the keywords that were the trigger to drive traffic to this page. Again, it should be analyzed to see if there is a difference in behavior and if traffic is coming from the keywords this page should get? Maybe there are some keywords that were not thought about? Perhaps some that are irrelevant to this page? Anything else?
Final note: it is highly important to look at those reports (actually to look at all of Google Analytics reports) in a holistic way. A lot of insight can be found from a specific report, but in order to get actionable insight and to understand patterns or possible causes, it is better to cross-check different aspect and dimensions from the different reports. Much more can be learned by following this approach.
About the Author
WSI E-Services is an Internet Marketing agency based in Antwerp, Belgium – part of the global network of WSI, specializing in Internet Marketing for SMB’s. We provide Internet Marketing and Google Analytics services that start from the business needs, its goals and its marketing strategy and aim at showing return-on-investment.
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HTML Email: 3 Easy Design Schemes for New Senders
Being a new entrant to the bulk email marketing industry is quite challenge considering that though you are in an industry that has enjoyed spends in the tens of millions of dollars, you are also in one of the most competitive industries in the world. One of the most difficult parts of making it in this industry requires that you are able to convert emails that you will send out into sales. However, this is a terminal objective and there are many enabling objectives along the way that you must target. One of these milestones is achieving a workable design.
Designing your HTML email requires knowledge of web design and understanding what works for users on the internet. Here are some design schemes that you need to bear in mind.
The first design scheme is one in which there is very little imagery and the emphasis is more on the text of the HTML email. This is a useful design template to use if the product that you are trying to sell is not something that has to be seen but its benefits have to be expressed nevertheless. This is especially useful in product lines like medicines, which don’t require an image to help the sale. In fact, the unnecessary use of imagery like a happy family in the email would not be adding any value in the eyes of the customer.
The next design scheme is one in which some imagery is required. Many products can come under this categorization and these are usually products that need the traditional touch and feel. For these kinds of products, you need to ensure that there are an adequate number of images that show all the dimensions of the product.
The last design scheme that you should contemplate is if you are in the services business. Now in this case, there is not much scope to really show a product but you can definitely showcase the benefits of your service through some kind of graphic description. For this, you can choose a design scheme that accommodates video. Video is something that actually cannot be played from within an email but clicking on it can take one to a landing page, which will allow the recipient to view the video.
These are some very general rules about design schemes that you can use with your HTML email. These are very offering specific and are a good guideline to bear in mind. However, for a more in depth view of how a mail should be designed, beyond these guidelines, requires the help of a graphic designer and someone who knows the elements of design.
One of the styles that has not been discussed is the newsletter style. This is a good way to just place in snippets of information as teasers for the recipient to just click on for more information to appear on a landing page or a website. This should only be used when in consonance with your overall marketing strategy.
About the Author
Jamie Colbs is a html email newsletter templates best practices activist advocate for Benchmark Email , a leading Web and permission-based email marketing service.
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What do you think of the drawings, the colouring etc…
Its basically about Des, a geek girl who has an eccentric personality, and because of it, and also an accident with a pool, she lands in another dimension, desperate…or not… to get back home.
Would you like to know more about this story? If it was published, would you buy it?
Landing Page Optimization Tips When we hear the words Landing Page we generally think of PPC campaigns or some other form of internet advertising. But I like to use Landing Pages for all of my off-line advertising also. However, you?re using it, a landing page is a web page, typically hidden from the site?s menu bar and other navigation ? meaning the only way you can get to the page is to type the URL directly into the browser. The web page is directly related to the ad campaign that listed the URL. Since only the people who have seen the ad will land on this page (because the URL isn?t advertised any where else), you as the website owner know exactly what the visitor is looking for and you can provide it to him immediately. For that reason, this type of web page is also referred to as a Dedicated Landing Page because it is dedicated only to the ad that brought in the visitors. Landing pages are critical to your success on line; in fact, they are often the ?makers or breakers? of your ROMD (return on marketing dollar). If you?re just getting your feet wet in the use of dedicated landing pages, I suggest starting small. Google AdWords is a great way to start small since you can easily limit your budget. Here are a few other tips to follow when creating your dedicated landing pages: ** Use a Consistent Message Many small business owners believe they need to have one message in the ad and another message on the landing page. They think their visitors will ?get bored? reading the same thing over and over. They want to showcase their expertise by talking about every single one of their skills and they want to ?maximize? their advertising dollar by getting out as many messages as possible. But this is exactly opposite of what you want to do. Today?s audience is busy and overwhelmed. Studies show you have less than 3 seconds to grab your site visitor?s attention. You want your prospect to arrive at your dedicated landing page and immediately say ?Yes, this is exactly what I came here for.? By presenting the same message that you gave in your ad, your visitor will know he is in the right place. ** Remove All Other Distractions A few years ago, several ingenious web marketers discovered that by removing all other distractions from your landing page ? i.e. take off the navigation bar, take off your logo linking to your home, get rid of any other advertising, etc. ? you can increase your conversion rate significantly. But I do want to caution, this is not a one-size-fits-all, do-or-die solution to increasing your Landing Page Conversion Rates. You?ve got to know your business, know your message, and, above all, know your market. For some audiences, the bare bones, no graphics, no branding web page technique might look like spam. If your branding is strong, your visitors might think they?ve landed at the wrong page. Extremely web-cautious visitors might think it?s a phishing scheme. Know your audience and know their expectations before you dive into this technique. ** Test as Much as Possible If you?re new to split testing, my biggest word of warning is to pay attention to the details. Just last week I consulted with a new client who advertised one landing page in Publication A and another landing page in Publication B. Since the second landing page received more conversions, he was convinced it was the ?winner? and he was ready to roll it on a full scale. However, upon further review, we discovered that the demographics for Publication A readers were very different than Publication B readers. The success of the second landing page couldn?t necessarily be attributed to the page itself, since the visitors being sent to the page were more highly qualified for the offer. After running some split tests, we decided the best combination was to advertise the first landing page in the second publication. I guess what I?m trying to say is, when you?re testing your ads and landing pages, make sure you?re comparing apples to apples. Google Website Optimizer is a great tool for running on-line split tests which will send 50% of your visitors to page 1 and 50% to page 2 (or however you decide to divide up your traffic). ** Offer Multiple Ways to Respond It?s not safe to assume that because your prospect landed on your website, she wants to respond via the internet. If your dedicated landing page is offering a product for sale, she might not want to give her credit card over the web. She might be on a computer that has scripting disabled. She might be on a shared computer and hesitant to submit personal information. She might just need a little more convincing before she takes the final leap. Whatever the case may be, different visitors may wish to respond in different ways. Be sure to include all of your contact information and allow your prospect to place an order (or request your free report, or sign up for your newsletter, or register for your webinar, etc) over the telephone, through direct mail, via Skype, by visiting your brick and mortar location, whatever is applicable to your business. ** Take Advantage of Your Thank You Page Remember all that ?other? stuff that you wanted to include on your dedicated landing page? Well here?s a great place to take advantage of some of that content. Your Thank You Page is the web page that visitors are taken to after they have responded to the call to action on your dedicated landing page. This is an extremely under-developed piece of real estate for most small businesses. Instead of presenting a plain Jane message like ?Thank you. We received your submission and will respond shortly? why not present another product for sale? Remember, customers who have recently purchased from you are the ones most likely to purchase again. Or how about presenting a freebie bonus offer to really win the hearts of your new customers? You can present a survey to gather additional customer data (your customer data is your single most valuable business asset!) explain a complimentary service that you offer, advertise an extended warranty, encourage your new customers to refer their friends, etc. The possibilities for your Thank You Page are almost endless, and since this page will typically receive a very high response rate, this is an opportunity that you definitely want to take advantage of. ** Download My FREE Report As I mentioned earlier, I like to use dedicated landing pages for all of my off-line display ads as well ? and creating display ads in another topic altogether. If you?d like to learn more about designing display ads to drive visitors to your website, download my Free Report right here: http://www.modernimage.com/readers/display-ad.htm About the Author
Karen Scharf began designing and developing websites in 1998, when she began Modern Image Communications. The marketing communications firm has since grown to provide a wide variety of marketing-related services to small businesses and entrepreneurs, including the development, implementation and maintenance of various growth initiatives: business and marketing plan development, newsletter publication and distribution, copywriting services, graphic design and print ad creation, info-product development, and strategic planning. Modern Image Communications basically serves as a one-stop-shop for a small business’s marketing needs.
Landing Pages Definition
Does Your Landing Page Do This?
The use of a landing page is normally included in most businesses located on the internet. Many however may still question what EXACTLY is it suppose to accomplish? Oh yeah we all know you’ve got to build a list and this page is where we get visitors to leave their contact information. In fact compiling a list of subscribers is an essential part of building an online business. The question here is besides collecting contact information does our landing page have any other objective? Can we ALSO try to sell a product, or sell ourselves, just promote a free giveaway, or perhaps all of the above?
Your landing pages will be the first page any website visitors will see on your site. This page, known commonly as a Squeeze Page, serves to greet visitors and sometimes gives a brief overview of the benefits to be gained from a product or service located on the sales page.
The most common intent however of the squeeze page is to get the visitor to leave their contact information. It is quite usual that the offer of a free gift is made in exchange for this information.
Like our sales page, our squeeze page needs to have a definitive purpose or intent. When website visitors arrive at this page they should have no question as to what it is you want them to do. With that said the objective of any squeeze page should be clearly understood by these visitors. Attempting to accomplish too many things on this page will only serve to CONFUSE them. This confusion usually leads to inactivity on the part of any visitor to your site.
Landing pages should accomplish one of the 5 following objectives:
1) Gets a visitor to leave their contact information granting you permission to follow-up with them via email. This is the PRIMARY goal of any squeeze page and as mentioned earlier the offer of a free gift is effective at accomplishing this.
2) Dispenses useful information to the website visitor.
3) Compels visitors to click on a link to visit another webpage.
4) Encourages a visitor to spread the word to a friend or perhaps shares the information they found on your page at their own site.
5) Convinces or persuades website visitors to purchase something.
When constructing your landing pages the need to MINIMIZE the number of objectives you want them to accomplish is critical. Choose the objective and build your page to support and accomplish this singular intent.
Your landing page is just ONE component of your overall marketing strategy so build it and allow it to focus on just that ONE thing.
The landing page plays an integral part of any online business. Consider it front doorstep of your website. By assigning this page, or any others on your site for that matter, too many responsibilities, you will be decreasing its effectiveness. This will translate into any website traffic turning away before they ever even enter your site.
About the Author
TJ Philpott is an author and Internet entrepreneur based out of North Carolina.
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I see many people putting crusader down. Do you really think they understand what the word means?
one who fights in a crusade, one who joins a medieval military expedition to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims; one who campaigns for the advancement of a cause
In the first and last of these definitions are what is going on here on this page.
very well! Even crusaders can be nice. Or at least have nice traits.
1080p HD – Explosion – Honda Civic – Car – Bomb – High Definition
Hi, Been developing new site using Dreamweaver CS3 and to check how things look I simply hit the F12 key and up pops my page in Explorer, Over the past couple of days I have been using mySQL (Im new to this) but now I cant preview my work in Explorer, I keep getting the “this will update fill on testing server”, I can up load files to my site without any bother I just cant preview them before hand, I have tried everything I can think of, but I am stumped can anyone out their in dreamweaver land help,
hi,, did u install mysql correctly?
allow its port in windows firewall, if im not wrong the port is 3306, TCP, check it in your firewall settings
Landing Page Testing
What Is Landing Page Optimisation?
Landing Pages are the first page that you land on when you enter a website. Therefore landing page optimisation is a process of improving pages to better relate to visitor searches and related expectations.
However, that is simplifying things a little. Landing page optimisation is in fact a very complicated process that requires a good understanding of audience, page layout and analysing statistical data. To effectively optimise a page you will often first have to test it.
Testing landing pages requires the creation of various changeable elements. Whether it is a section of text, the position of a call to action or placement of a ‘continue’ button, all are tested side by side. This process is quite simple, although it will take plenty of planning in the first instance and a little deconstruction of all the data at the other.
Before testing though, you really need to identify what the problems might be with your landing pages as they currently stand. Sometimes these will be obvious, in other circumstances you will need experience in determining site issues. Remedies for all of these potential issues have to be created.
Again, this might be a chunk of text, it might be a reordering of the page or it could just be a simple colour adjustment. The psychology of a searcher, either on PPC or organic search engine results, is a strange thing. We all have in-built expectations and are looking for our own information in a certain format. If a site doesn’t adhere, we turn tail and run. The internet affords us the opportunity to browse numerous sites in a minute, so why waste more time than necessary on a single one?
Problems identified can then be tested as part of the landing page optimisation process. These tests include running the website with alternate versions loading for different visitors, with a 50/50 split between the two different page layouts. After a specified period, either a time or visitor number, you can then analyse the data recorded.
Whilst it is often tight between alternating versions of the same page, clear patterns sometimes emerge. When one is clearly more popular with visitors than the other, you have a clear indication of where to start your final optimisation process. Without this thorough analysis and user testing, landing page optimisation would be lengthy and often lead to unclear conclusions. Therefore it is a crucial step of the process and certainly not one that you should be looking to avoid.
When you come to optimise your site, use the data to find which combinations worked best and then simply implement the required changes. As all elements are tested with a clear 50/50 split, you shouldn’t struggle to see which of the two alternatives was the most effective. You can then implement the changes and see how that affects your traffic flow.
Landing page optimisation is an ongoing process though. No page is ever absolutely perfect, but you can certainly work towards achieving that goal. By trying different pages, testing other elements within those pages and gaining a wealth of statistical data, you can better understand what works for your site and, more importantly, what visitors expect from it.
The whole process can be time consuming when done fully and correctly. Obviously if there are major issues on a landing page or a PPC advert is pointing to the wrong URL, these types of issues are usually easily resolved. Keywords too can play a part. If you’ve been targeting a key phrase that isn’t relevant to the landing page, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to look at researching more focussed terms to bring in quality traffic that won’t leave immediately.
First impressions are vital on any landing page, so make sure that you optimise yours properly. Don’t leave your website’s future to chance, be proactive and get more from your search engine traffic.
About the Author
Steve Logan is a professional Copywriter for Hampshire-based SEO Company Impact Media. They offer a full range of search marketing services including SEO Copywriting
Affiliate Marketing Question?
basically im a new affiliate marketer and im a little worried because I kinda spammed a couple people on myspace just to kind of test my landing page out for free since i didnt have money to test it out legit, and on my tracking it will say messages.myspace anyways im wondering once my commissions get tracked will they be able to see that I got some of my comissions through refering ppl to my site through myspace messages?
You should definitely test any landing page. Testing is like what you would do with A/B Testing or some sort of multi-variate testing. Without testing, all you will receive is junk traffic to your landing page. Traffic that is either not converting (what pays you the affiliate at the end of the day). Seek out testing services or look at some examples of A/B Testing.
If sharia courts and laws were fully put into practice in the UK ?
and a non muslim killed a muslim, at which court will he/she have to appaer in ?
is that individual subject to the law of the land or to the law of sharia ?
secondly, if a muslim kills a non-muslim person, in this country, should he/she face the sharia court of law or the court of law of this land ?
we on da same page ?
isn’t the concept of ’sharia law’ in foreign lands – flawed at every level ? since it tries to enforce islamic pov on non islamic modernised secular society who want nothing whatsoever to do with islam.
is it just one big amusing joke to the neutral ? think about it – why adopt the laws of stone age society in a land that left the stone age era a VERY long time ago ?
our laws are superior to theirs – yet why do british muslims think sharia is the best for them ?
Pointless even speculating as it will never happen.
Landing Page Best Practices
Leadmaster Best Practices In Lead Generation And Lead Management
There are many different solutions for generating and locating your next lead.
Radio & TV advertising are very popular with companies ready to spend millions for a 60 second Super Bowl spot. Some of those commercials may be memorable, but the ROI of those multi-million dollar investments can be difficult to track. Moreover, while they may be good for generating business long-term and building brand equity, they are usually not the most effective in selling more now.
Direct mail was an oft-seen but now decreasingly used marketing medium, perhaps with the rise of the Internet. While some may argue that the decline in competition makes direct mail more effective, for many companies, it’s still tough to justify a 20 page color brochure when 98% of recipients will immediately put it in the recycling bin. A less expensive alternative may be to send a postcard with a link to a 20-page online brochure. It would also be easier on the environment.
The popularity of print advertising is also on the decline thanks to the Internet. Back in March 2009, The Wall Street Journal had an article about the 10 most endangered newspapers in America. They suggested that 8 of the nation’s 50 largest daily newspapers would stop printing in the next 18 months. They included The Philadelphia Daily News, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Miami Herald, the Detroit News and the Boston Globe, to name a few. Why? As we all know, plummeting readership rates. So, not only is the effectiveness of this medium falling, but, as with radio and TV ads, it’s difficult to measure its true impact on sales. It’s like Henry Procter of Procter & Gamble said, “I know I waste half of my advertising dollars… I just wish I knew which half.”
Trade shows have always been a staple of lead generation. The people who attend are generally already looking for a solution in your market space. In fact, that’s why they’re there. But is it effective for creating new leads? The fact is, eighty percent of trade show leads are never followed up on. It seems that trade shows produce more sore feet, aching backs and hoarse voices than actual new business sales leads. While it may be a great way to see what the competition has to offer and catch up with old industry friends, creating qualified leads that turns into business is not a common feature of trade shows.
For some, the answer is cold-calling, good, old-fashioned knocking-on-doors and handing out business cards. In the early 80’s, I was a sales manager for a computer reseller in Chicago. We’d have cold-calling days. Each rep would be assigned a high-rise building in Chicago, and we’d start at the top of the building, visiting each office as we worked our way down. We had a short script, “Hi, my name is Andy. I work for Systems Source just down the block. We sell computers and office products. I’d like to leave you my card.” Sometimes we’d strike up a conversation that would lead to new business but most times not. Was that the most effective use of our time? Maybe back then, without the advances in modern technology, but by today’s standards, probably not. In fact, given that on average ten percent of cold calls actually create opportunities, most of that time prospecting is spent sifting through dead or inactive leads.
Corporate America spends a fortune on generating leads. Unfortunately, most is wasted or not able to be tracked. According to a recent survey by the Yankee Group, up to 80% of all leads are lost as they travel through the average company’s marketing/sales loop. Why is that?
The truth is, sales is about selling something today. Most sales people are focused on this quarter because if they don’t make their number this quarter they might not have a chance to close that deal next quarter. So if prospects aren’t ready to buy now, they often just collect dust in some faraway place in your database.
So how do you really generate ROI on your marketing activities? How do you make the most of your marketing investments? By utilizing best practices in lead generation. This usually consists of the following three-step process.
First, you’ll want to focus your sales energy on prospects who have demonstrated a need for your product instead of shooting randomly into the dark. Think what this could do for your business. Your sales team could interact only with qualified prospects, the ones who come to you looking for your product or service. They’d spend more time consulting with prospects to better understand their needs and even up-selling. Moreover, they would have more time for presentations and demos, instead of spending time on sifting through uninterested or dead leads; in fact, they would have more presentations and demos, period. In short, instead of wearing out shoe leather looking for prospects they’d be closing deals with qualified prospects.
Sounds pretty good, right? But how do you provide your sales team with such great leads?
This brings us to our second point, which is to incorporate a response mechanism into your marketing campaigns. Then you can easily find those who approach you for your goods or services. Now, all of the aforementioned methods of lead generation can incorporate a response mechanism, but the easiest way to generate response is through the Internet.
Everyday Google receives more than 91 million search requests. The top 5 search engines receive more than 200 million requests daily. Yes, some will be looking for what happened on last week’s Lost, but a significant number is searching for a solution just like yours. Plus, if you’re in the #1 spot of the search results page there’s a 56% chance that the reader will click on your link. And chances are, with a specific enough request, you’ll get a new prospect opportunity as well. For example, let’s say you sell hydraulic pumps and you spend enough on SEO that you land the #1 spot on search results. Most people aren’t Googling hydraulic pumps to see what it wore to the Emmy’s last night; they’re there to buy. Users click to your site because they need a hydraulic pump, and you got it. But, you’ve also got yourself a HOT new lead.
And you don’t have to be a Fortune 500 company to use Google Adwords. You can advertise a specific solution in a specific geographic area at a very reasonable cost with amazing results. With the Google content network you can get massive impressions for a fraction of traditional advertising. I’m running a campaign right now that in January had 451,863 impressions and 262 clicks for a total cost of $73.96. Not a bad deal.
Okay, so now, let’s say you’ve got all your marketing media integrated with response mechanisms. You’ve done your search engine optimization so that you’re getting qualified leads via the internet. You’re in great shape, right? Now you’re only interacting with prospects who are interested in your solution.
But not so fast. What if some of your leads don’t want to buy for 6, 12 or 18 months? It’s easy enough for your sales guys to qualify them to find out when they plan to buy so you can focus your efforts on those who are ready to buy now. But what do you do with lead that need some time on the burner? How do you stay in touch with people on a regular basis without spending all of your time staying in touch?
So there is one final step in best practices lead generation – lead nurturing. It’s fast, it’s easy and more importantly, it WORKS.
Start by sorting your contacts into groups. For example, you might sort by solution, industry, company size, interest group or some other category. Once you’ve got them in groups you can communicate relevant information to them as a group. Using lead nurturing software you can personalize the message without having to craft each individual email. You’ll want to touch base regularly but not so often that your contact sees your communication as annoying.
Also, your message must be relevant and be meaningful. Do your research. Think carefully about what you’re going to say. After all, this message might be going to 50 or 100 people who may become 50 or 100 hot new leads. Isn’t it worth the effort to take some time doing it right? Once you’ve crafted the message, you can send personalized emails to all one hundred with a single click of the mouse (with decent marketing automation software).
So, come time to buy, you’ll already be in your prospects’ thoughts. You can even include surveys in your lead nurturing track to provide additional information about your prospects’ needs and purchase timeframe. Then just keep nurturing those cold leads until they’re sales ready.
Of course, you can’t do it all with technology. Tweeting and texting are no replacement for the personal touch. You still need to pick up the phone and speak with your prospects. And you can make your conversation with them even more effective with a cloud-based CRM that records your organization’s complete prior communication with the prospect. But the point is you still need to personally stay in touch with your prospects. Even if it’s only a brief phone call once a month, talk to your prospects.
Lead generation has come a long way since I was handing out business cards. We’ve gone from walking miles on our feet from one lead to the next to emailing promotions and newsletters to hundreds of prospects instantaneously. We used to be limited to the city we lived in and the radius we could drive; now we have instant access (via email) to individuals and companies from here to Myanmar, whenever and wherever. And while some of us miss the days of person to person contact and face time (myself included), who says we can’t have both? Why not use all the advantages that modern technology affords us, but at the same time add our own personal touch by targeted emails, phone calls and touching base from time to time?
The point is this. Don’t sell yourself (and your sales team) short. You can make the best use of your time, resources and efforts, to the effect of dramatically increasing your success and the success of your organization.
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Scrapbook Idea for the importance of nature?10 points to the best answer?
So I need kind of summarize this in a scrapbook page with symbols .
The Importance of Nature
All of the Kiowa stories feature some aspect of nature. The reader quickly comes to realize that Kiowa tradition holds a strong respect for the land on which they live. Rather than take the earth for granted the Kiowa understand that without proper conservation practices the land will eventually desert them. Indeed this precept comes true when the buffalo herds are almost decimated. Without the buffalo for food, clothing, and housing the Kiowa are at a loss for how to exist. The tribe is forced to abandon their old way of life and adopt the practices of the encroaching white men for survival. However, the new way of life does is difficult to accept and before long the Kiowa fade away.
Pressed Flower art is fun . you can press with many kinds of presses.
I have one design on my picture site added below.
I do a lot of hiking and take my press with me. or I bring a small cooler with a ice pack to put my cut flowers and leaves in till I get home!
to learn how to make a press look in my craft album at
http://www.picturetrail.com/tkluxton
plus check out this great artist that is 14 .
http://www.heartsaburstin.blogspot.com/
Landing page best practices for direct mail – DMA 2010
Why can’t the yahoo page builder link show up in that box?
Below the box it says install and or turn on java, well I have java meaning I already did that but the page builder link just will not show up in the box . Please help me? I am urgent to get a homepage created OR would someone out in yahoo land like to help me create a homepage for my business.
The landing page formula provides a uniquely powerful system through which you can derive profit from multiple streams. This article will briefly discuss some of those different streams – and how you can use them to maximize your profit potential in your sales funnel.
Let’s start with the landing page itself: all traffic is sent to the landing page. From there, it will have a number of options, depending on what you have given them. Many marketers suggest that your landing page should always be an opt-in form. Others will suggest that it should simply be a salespage.
Whether it’s a free newsletter or a product for sale, the Landing Page System you create should include a “one time offer,” which will compel them to take action – subscribe, buy, etc.
Once they subscribe or buy, the landing page system you create should then re-route them to a thank you page, which opens up more means through which you can upsell. One quick way to upsell is to simply include advertisements on your thank you page for related affiliate products or for your own products. Here, again, you will want to give them a one-time offer.
Also, if you haven’t yet asked them to join your mailing list, this is where you should do it – on your thank you page. Once they opt-in to your list, you now have a whole new options you can use in conjunction with the landing page system to generate revenue.
One such option is selling ad space in your newsletter or ezine. The more people you have reading your newsletter, the more you can generally charge for adspace; however, you will want to avoid overselling to your list to ensure your advertisers actually make money.
Your next option is to endorse a product as an affiliate. You can tell your subscribers how someone has just created a brilliant product – and you can offer it to your subscribers through an affiliate link. You may even want to use other products you have has bonuses to give them something extra.
The last and most profitable way in which you can generate revenue through your newsletter is by creating and selling your own products to them.
It is important to note that you don’t have to use all of these means to generate revenue; however, the more you use, the more you earn in general.
About the Author
Westly Lager can show you how to develop a successful internet business regardless of your prior experience. See how by checking out his personal website at My Internet Business and My Internet Business Review
What is meant by landing page?
What is meant by landing page? How can we desing it?
Welcome to ideas of genious brains.
The landing page is the page you direct your ads or links to, so that when the visitor clicks on the ad or link, they land on that page.
It can have many purposes, but the most common is to capture email addresses. But you need to be able to do something useful with them after you have collected them, like sending them a newsletter, which means you need an autoresponder. If you sign up to a good autoresponder company, they will give you the code to put on your page to actually get the addresses from your visitors.
It’s up to you to write text around it that gets them to want to give you their email address.
In my opinion, the best autoresponder company is A Weber: http://www.okget.info/iz/aweber
This is because the ISPs are aware that A Weber take steps to prevent spam, so less of the mail sent out from them gets rejected as a result, in comparison with other autoresponders.
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