Posts Tagged ‘lists’
List Building is back!
Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on January 16th, 2009
Hello!
I have been at my mothers again, that is why you haven’t heard much from me. The thing about my family is that they don’t really understand about internet marketing, and they don’t understand that it’s important for me to work! They do not see “playing on the computer” as work, which makes it difficult to do anything while I am there. I tend to get accused of being unsociable!
Back to traffic - the competition I spoke about in December closed and I am delighted to say that Jim Gallgher of www.kotobot.com won the prize with a huge amount of traffic. Well done Jim!
You may well notice that many of the tips I have given here are ones that Jim has suggested, what a fantastic reward for being so helpful to so many people.
Last week we had a bonus module on the coaching course by Alex Jeffreys. It was given by the wonderful Maria Andros who is also known as the Queen of Video. She is great and gave huge amounts of information and tips on video marketing. The new competition is about making a video, there will be two prizes of $1,500 dollars each. Maria Andros will help Alex judge the videos, so it’s very exciting. I am also pleased that Maria recommends one of the products that I also use, Traffic Geyserwhich is a real plus for spreading out traffic all over the internet - over forty different sites including RSS feeds and podcasts.
I am about half way through catching up with module five on the coaching programme, so I will be writing more about this tomorrow when I finish it. It is high calibre stuff, very interesting and as always Alex manages to put things over in a really easy to understand way.
So, I will be back again tomorrow to give more of the outstanding information that is provided. Until then,
Best wishes,
Ruth
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List Building - Psychology!
Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on January 7th, 2009
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Well I have been doing the usual stuff for my list building. I have also come down to Mums for a week, with number two son, and there was no wi fi on the train so today actually I haven’t even managed a classified ad.
What I have been doing is some reading some marketing material, because you know I think my copywriting - well to be honest, is sucks. So I have been trying to get my head round some information about psychology, and the psychology of marketing.
I have found this site, and I found it via copyblogger.com, it’s called psychotactics.com. Very interesting stuff, and so I am trying to change all my classified to include lots of psychological who harr, to encourage people to join my list. Apparently it’s important to empathise with the customers pain, also important to show the cost value of the product you are marketing.
I am pleased to learn that Garry Parkes has done the second edition of his fabulous newsletter. I only sent the last one out a little while ago, because people are so busy during the holidays, I thought perhaps they wouldn’t have time to read it.
I haven’t really got anything new to tell you, so I am going to say goodnight now, I hope everyone is doing well.
Will give you all the news as it occurs!
Best wishes,
Ruth
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Garry Parkes has done it again!
Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on December 31st, 2008
Our hardworking collegue Garry Parkes is putting together another newsletter! To be in it, you need to visit his this link: http://www.garryparkes.com/videos/get-positioned-for-the-1-million-prize
Anyone who got the newsletter last time will know about the high standard of information and how it is totally rebrandable making it suitable for everyones list.
So, get a wiggle on, go do a post and get the rest of the instructions and you can have your own rebrandable newsletter quick as a flash!
Best wishes,
Ruth
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List Building with Alex Jeffreys - getting traffic.
Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on December 30th, 2008
I was thinking about traffic, you know, of the cars vans and lorries variety. Real traffic. The really heavy traffic comes when everyone is heading the same way, usually around holiday time, and its usually because they are off to do something fun.
So to get traffic to our blogs, we need to make sure something fun is happening here at our blogs.
We we were kids we hated the teachers who would just stand and talk, lecturing us. We bloggers don’t want to have the same reputation as those teachers! Adults don’t like lectures either.
So from now on, I am going to tell you the things I have been doing to get traffic in a short snappy and (hopefully) sometimes humourous way.
If you look down the side bar of this blog you can see I have a new pic, about internet forums. Internet forums are great because you can go in there, help people, get a good reputation and have your url in the signature at the bottom of your comment. This forum goes one further, if you leave comments and refer people, they let you put up banners. So not only do you benefit yourself you benefit others, then benefit yourself again! Fantastic!
Second thing - you know when you see that item on QVC and you buy it, and then forget it in the kitchen cupboard? We have all done it - it seemed like a great idea at the time! Well, don’t do what I did and forget a traffic exchange I had signed up with for free, I went there today because someone had sent me a message - and realized I had credits that I could swap for traffic! So I quickly spent those to get some traffic here, of course.
Remember, if you want to learn much more about building your list, getting good traffic and building your business in 2009, sign up to the ebook, List Building with Alex. He is our guide, and the whole team are learning loads.
Best wishes,
Ruth
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You can reply!
Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on December 30th, 2008
Hello,
You can leave a reply! Well I would love to tell you that I am exceedingly clever and I worked out exactly what the problem is, but no, it’s entirely fluke!
I would just like to thank Dan, who helped, and all the other people that comiserated, especially Wendy Wood - who I accidentally ignored on forum. Still sorry, Wendy.
I will blog with traffic tips later on, but for now, I am just happy to have a functioning blog!
Best wishes,
Ruth
Article marketing and how to build a list
Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on December 27th, 2008
Hello there!
Do you sometimes feel you have lots of information swirling round your head in no particular order? I do. What I do when that happens is I do a brain dump - I write down everything I can think of thats buzzing around in there and I write it down. Great for clearing the mind. Our mentor Alex Jeffreys taught us that, among many other things.
I have written an article today and put it on to my favourite article site which is www.goarticles.com. It’s my favourite because it puts the articles up really quickly. Some article sites take weeks to put up articles which I personally find very annoying. If you have made a mistake with goarticles they tell you straight away - you cannot actually post an article with what they consider a mistake in it. Which is so much better than some of them.
The most popular one is ezine articles, which have a human check the articles and they are very strict. One thing that I learned recently is that, contary to popular opinion, you can have active links in ezine articles provided they are after the third paragraph. I am going to write one for ezines next and see if I can confirm this from personal experience. If I can, of course, I will let you know.
I have not got a great deal to tell you today about anything I have been doing about traffic. I have got myself into a little routine of doing six tasks on a daily basis. These aren’t always successful - for instance I don’t always find myself able to make ten comments on forums, but that is what I aim for. I guess with everyone being on holiday around this time, less people are online asking questions!
So, I will leave you in peace, and let you know any other ideas and thoughts I have when they happen!
Best wishes,
Ruth
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Pinging - helps with traffic, SEO and list building
Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on December 26th, 2008
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Hello there,
I have some news on pinging - I have to confess it is something that I don’t understand fully still. But from a layperson to another, pinging reminds sites that you have a new post. Now I had read that you don’t need to ping blogs because with wordpress, it pings for you. Which it does. One ping site.
How many ping sites are there? Well I don’t know but there are a lot more than one! Probably in fact there are thousands. But to get you started if you have a blog and you want to get the word out and get more traffic, more comments, more links and therefore move up higher in the SEO stakes, then you need to add these to your blog.
If you have a self hosted wordpress blog like this one, you need to go to your dashboard. You need to scroll down to Settings, click, then click on writing. If you scroll down again it will show you the box where there is one pinging site.
Copy this list and paste it in there:
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://blo.gs/ping.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogoole.com/ping
http://blogoon.net/ping/
http://blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://blogsnow.com/ping
http://blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://blogupdate.org/ping
http://blogupdate.org/sverige/ping/
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping
http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi
http://godesigngroup.com/blog/feed
http://imblogs.net/ping
http://lasermemory.com/lsrpc
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://ping.amagle.com
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs
http://ping.blogg.de
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc
http://ping.blogoon.net/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.feeds.yahoo.com/RPC2/
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se
http://ping.wordblog.de
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://pingqueue.com/rpc
http://popdex.com/addsite.php
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger
http://rpc.britblog.com
http://rpc.feedsky.com/ping
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080
http://rpc.newsgator.com
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://weblogues.com/RPC
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping
http://www.blogoon.net/ping
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.blogupdate.org/ping/
http://www.catapings.com/ping.php
http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2
http://www.focuslook.com/ping.php
http://www.godesigngroup.com
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping
http://www.imblogs.net/ping
http://www.kping.com/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.packetmonster.net/xmlrpc.php
http://www.pingomatic.com
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://www.weblogalot.com/Ping/
http://www.weblogues.com/ping/
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
http://zing.zingfast.com
Your site will get a lot more exposure now!
I would love to tell you that I had found this out on my own, but thanks need to go back to the Fortunate 500 forum (available only to Alex Jeffreys students, sorry) where I discovered this information. But sure enough, it will help bloggers everywhere and it’s great if we can all help one another!
So there you go, thats my tip of the day so far. If I find anything else of interest today, I will be sure to let you know!
Best wishes,
Ruth
P.S. Here is a video from the fantastic Matt to show you how to add pinglist to your blog.
How to update your pinglist on Wordpress blog!
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List Building and being the best you can be!
Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on December 23rd, 2008
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Well, first things first. You know some days come along and you do everything you are supposed to, and your To Do list looks the same as your Did Today list (plus a bit more, because I am a girlie swat). I had one of those yesterday. So today I bounced out of bed, thinking I could do the same today, and that perhaps I am actually becoming one of those wonderwomen that can do everything all the time!
Ooooooooh NO! Sadly, today has not been one of those days. Today was a day that I failed to get a grip on. I have done some work - I have made some progress, but with none of the smugness of yesterday. There are still things that I could have done and perhaps should have done but didn’t. Anyway, that is enough introspection, now time for the useful stuff.
I have wandered round quite a few blogs, and I have discovered a few things I really don’t like. Firstly, I don’t like being lectured to so I want to say sorry, if anyone has felt that I have done that. Secondly, I really do like pictures, especially bright ones!
I was really pleased to find this blog because this man, he has done a list of tips for bloggers, and I thought it was really very good - tips for bloggers. His name is Chris Brogan, he has a lot of experience writing blogs, and I felt he could give some good advice.
Now traffic. The thing about traffic is that you need to be able to measure it. You need your google analytics to work. Mine doesn’t, I don’t think.
I have got a traffic tip for you though. There is a company called Hits2U.comand they give you seven days free traffic, if you recommend three people though, that changes to 365 days free traffic! Cool! As is usual with these things, you can pay and then you get more exposure, but you don’t have to. I have signed up with them, I will let you know how it goes (if I can get GoogleAnalyzer to work that is!)
Another way of getting the word out about yourself and your site or blog or whatever, is to go on forums. There are many about, and you can usually put your blog or site or both in the signature box. So then if you keep at it you will get known for giving good advice. Like a blog, your reply will be there for a long time, so it can be clicked on and you can get traffic from it for a long time.
Right I am off now, going to twitter and do a few other bits and pieces.
You can follow me on twitter here: http://twitter.com/Gale10
I look forward to hearing from you all,
Best wishes,
Ruth
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List Building all over the world!
Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on December 22nd, 2008
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Hello!
Well, good morning, and it is a good morning because I got traffic in the night! I am so happy! I would thoroughly recommend Feedjit. It’s free, and it shows you not just how many people have come through your blog but also where they come from. Lots of pretty flags to go on your site. I feel like the traffic is zooming past>>>>>.
I just want a few of my lovely readers to sign up to the newsletter and maybe even get the List Building System. They will get all the information we have got to help us build a list of people all interested in their products! What could be better?
Also, regarding traffic, I have a link to an interesting article I found on ProBlogger.com. It gives three good tips on getting more traffic. It is quite an old article but the information is still relevant. Here it is:
I also noticed that there were many people who were starting out in blogging and wanted to get more tips, which proves there are people out there looking for the kind of information on traffic that we are putting on our blogs.
I actually think that its interesting finding out all this stuff - even doing the research. It feels a bit like panning for gold, I feel great when I find a useful little nugget I can include.
If I find anything else interesting I will most certainly add it.
Until then, best wishes,
Ruth
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