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Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Internet Marketing Tools For Coaches

I thought that readers here would find the selection of tools and resources that I have placed on the Squidoo Lens Internet Marketing for Coaches Helpful!

One of the things that I hate about the whole Internet Marketing world is the endless promotion of “must have” tools or resources! You know the sort of thing I mean don’t you? The overpriced tools that claim to do just about everything except make the coffee - if some marketers could get away with it they would probably claim their latest hyped up piece of software could do that too!

So the difference with the following list of tools and resources for the webmaster is that they do what they claim and do it extremely well!

Whether you are looking to generate more traffic to your websites, manage your many web projects, stop serial refunders, make One Time Offers to your visitors of manage all the domains you own - they do it!

Take a look and see what you think - I believe you will be pleasently surprised!

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Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Blogging for Coaches and Success - A Free Report

Blogging is something which I do a lot of both because I enjoy it and also because of the many benefits it brings me.

I thought I would share a report with you which you can download without having to sign up for anything - that makes a nice change doesn’t it!

You can download Blogging Success by right clicking on the link and saving it to your own computer. Do make sure that you make a note of where you save it so that you can find it - in order to read it!

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Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Are The Social Bookmarkers Doing It For Your Coaching Business?

Social bookmarking is the electronic version of leaving a breadcrumb trail. After all, you can have a great Coaching Business, but without enough traffic to your website, it’s just another nice site. Even if you have a faithful marketing list, you constantly want to reach new online viewers.

The options for connecting with social bookmarkers are exploding. That’s why you need to surf around and see what’s out there, and then set up a series of “regular” social bookmarking accounts to use.

StumbleUpon is one of the leading social bookmarking sites that’s both easy to use and powerful. Once you create an account, you can add the toolbar interface. Then all you do is click the Thumbs Up icon to recommend a site. You can do this for your own sites, or ask your friends to submit a Thumbs Up rating for you. Besides the rating, you can add comments about the site.

Can you Digg it? That’s not just a line from a 70s movie - it’s a widely used social bookmarking site. Digg functions much like Stumble Upon with raters given the chance push the ratings of a site to the front page. Making it to the front page of Digg gets your information in front of thousands of viewers and it helps traffic flood in to read your newsworthy submission.

Clipmarks describes itself as “scissors for web pages.” As with other social bookmarking sites, you can submit items that are sent to the web - including to Facebook or to an iPhone. As a one stop service and huge time saver, sign up with OnlyWire.

You begin by installing a plugin for your browers, and then you only need a single click to submit your item to multiple sites. To make this work, you still need to sign up at bookmarking sites that you plan to use. After that, you can use OnlyWire to handle the multiple submissions.

Make sure your site viewers know how to rate your site. You can’t reward or bribe them for bookmarking your site. That’s the social bookmarking version of stuffing the ballot box at voting time.

You can put links to the bookmarking sites on your sites as a gentle reminder. And don’t be shy about submitting your new information to the networks yourself – just make sure you also submit other sites so that you don’t appear spammy. Let people know what you’ve got and where to find your site and they’ll share that information with others.

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Monday, May 26th, 2008

Get More Traffic To Your Coach Website or Blog

There is one hard and fast rule in generating income fron your website and that is a steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it doesn’t have a chance of generating an income.

BUT, it doesn’t have to take a whole wad of cash to generate traffic for your site.

Have you ever wondered how some of the big websites drive traffic to their site? The reality is that most of them are spending lots of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many different advertising campaigns and varied forms of marketing schemes and gimmick to attract visitors. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

However you don’t have to do this if you don’t have their resources. There are many ways to generate free or low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

Here are some ways to generate free or low cost website traffic that could help your site. Even if you only get a small percentage of visitors who convert to buyers or clients it is still effective if you can get a higher volume of website traffic than you are currently getting.

Exchange Links

This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they generate more general awareness of their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.

A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites, in order to generate targeted traffic is being in the same niche or a complimentary niche to the other site. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the information provided to both your visitors and theirs.

Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a higher ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines ranks high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website without the high costs.

Write and Submit Articles

There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias on the internet which provide free opportunities for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can do the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.

Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can sense your obvious knowledge about the subject and will therefore be encouraged to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines on the subject or niche your site relates to.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.

Make a Newsletter.

This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.

As your newsletter gets passed around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.

Join Online Communities and Forums

This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche as your site.

Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are about the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, helping it to become known as a source of knowledge on your subject.

See here to discover more about generating: Free Web Traffic

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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Learning About Internet Marketing For Coaches

Internet marketing is not overly complicated but it is also not a process in which anyone can excel without making attempts to learn more about the subject. coaches who do not know a great deal about Internet marketing but who wish to implement Internet marketing into their overall marketing strategy should carefully study the basic principles of Internet marketing before launching their online marketing campaign. Fortunately for these coaches there are a variety of options for learning about Internet marketing. These options may include online research, reading published books and studying successful Internet marketing campaigns.

Researching Internet marketing online is one method which can be used for learning more about this topic. This type of research can be very informative and can provide the business owner with a great deal of advice and other information. However, it can also provide the business owner with a great deal of misinformation. When researching any subject online it is very important to note that not all of the information available online is accurate.

This may be due to a variety of factors including content which is written by those who do not have a great deal of knowledge about the subject matter as well as content which was written years ago and is outdated. This can be frustrating but fortunately coaches can still learn from the Internet. This just means they should be more cautious about accepting information as being accurate and may wish to verify the information they obtain before implementing an Internet marketing strategy.

Published books are another valuable resource for learning more about Internet marketing. There are a variety of books available which focus on this subject and provide a wealth of useful information. When selecting a book for use as research material it is important to seek out a book which received independent reviews which were positive. It is also important to seek out books which were published recently. This is important because the Internet marketing industry is evolving continuously and a book that was published only a few years ago may be outdated and may lack information on some of the new developments in the industry. The appeal of using published books to learn about Internet marketing is you can keep the books on hand for easy reference when you launch your Internet marketing campaign.

Finally coaches can learn a great deal about Internet marketing simply by studying successful Internet marketing campaigns. Try the Internet marketing blog at www.jeremyburns.com/blog for some great starter tipe. If your business offers products and services in a particular niche consider entering relevant terms in popular search engines and studying the websites of some of the highest ranking businesses. This can provide you with a great deal of insight into what these coaches are doing which may be contributing to their success.

Examining everything from their website design to their search engine optimization strategies and even the content on their website can help you to determine why they are more successful than you. You should also consider how they are marketing their website which may include banner ads, affiliate marketing programs or other types of advertising. Armed with this information you can take the opportunity to implement changes to your own website and marketing strategy which may help you to gain a greater degree of success. Care should be taken to not copy anything directly from your competitors but to rather try to emulate their degree of success in your own way.

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