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Monday, August 15, 2005
Ad Tracking
Ad tracking is very important to internet marketing. You need to find out which ads are pulling people to your site, and which ones aren't working at all. Here's a list of some free ad trackers worth taking a look at.
Add2it Go-To Free:
The free version displays a small banner ad at bottom of the screen and has less features than the paid version.
http://www.add2it.com/scripts/go-to-free.shtml
Free Ad rotator with link/ad tracker:
You have to refer 2 other members before they will activate your rotator/tracker here.
http://www.bestfreewebtools.com
TD-Linc:
This one requires that you link back to them from your website.
http://www.td-soft.com/linc/description.php
Anna
Add2it Go-To Free:
The free version displays a small banner ad at bottom of the screen and has less features than the paid version.
http://www.add2it.com/scripts/go-to-free.shtml
Free Ad rotator with link/ad tracker:
You have to refer 2 other members before they will activate your rotator/tracker here.
http://www.bestfreewebtools.com
TD-Linc:
This one requires that you link back to them from your website.
http://www.td-soft.com/linc/description.php
Anna
Email List Management
I did a quick search on Google for "free email list manager" and tons of stuff came up. You might want to try that out. You could create a group on yahoo, and send from there.
These ones are widely used:
http://lists.topica.com (free and paid versions)
http://www.constantcontact.com/home.jsp (only free for 60 days as far as I can tell)
http://www.zinester.com
http://www.ezezine.com
http://www.ymlp.com
Or you could use this autoresponder. It's free, with unlimited follow-up mail and none of their ads attached.
http://www.freeautobot.com
I haven't tried these myself, but I know people who like different ones for different reasons. I guess your best bet would be to check them out and see which suits your needs most.
Anna
These ones are widely used:
http://lists.topica.com (free and paid versions)
http://www.constantcontact.com/home.jsp (only free for 60 days as far as I can tell)
http://www.zinester.com
http://www.ezezine.com
http://www.ymlp.com
Or you could use this autoresponder. It's free, with unlimited follow-up mail and none of their ads attached.
http://www.freeautobot.com
I haven't tried these myself, but I know people who like different ones for different reasons. I guess your best bet would be to check them out and see which suits your needs most.
Anna
Friday, August 12, 2005
My First $200 Day!
I ended up staying awake all of last night watching emails coming into my inbox saying "notification of payment received" to the total of $200. Imagine that! $200 in sales of MY OWN products! In a 24 hour period. God, I'm on such a high now that I'm even ignoring the pain from the dental work I had today hahahahaha.
There were a few sales of Forget The Hype but the majority of the sales were from my newest ebook Focus: The Key To Success. True to what I've written in the ebook, I set myself a goal and focused on reaching it, without letting anything get in the way. Here's what some people are saying about Focus: The Key To Success:
I just bought your book Anna and I'm impressed.
The old cliche' "Good things come in small packages" is Definitely true in this case.
For a little over $14 it's well worth the investment.
Sincerely,
Paul Short
http://www.gadgetizer.com
Hi Anna,
I felt like I had to write a little something to you about your latest book, Focus: The Key To Success. I gotta say I have read it 3 times so far and each time I get a little more. I swear, it's like you were thinking of me when you wrote it! This is a great read for any busy person that feels sometimes like they just can't "get it together" (don't we all from time to time?)
For a smallish sized book it is power packed with insights, that I think are useful to just about anyone. In my honest opinion it is well worth what you charge and then some.
Good job, yet again!
Warmest wishes to you and yours,
Dennis Edell
www.mywholesalegiftwarestore.com
Hi Anna.
Your latest eBook, FOCUS, made me do just that!
It is SO EASY to get 'off track' and your eBook certainly
details the 'negative effect' that that can have, both in
business and in your personal life as well.
I would recommend your eBook as being a very easy to
read and understand eBook, that covers the self-development
of ones self, by maintaining FOCUS and is relevant to everyone,
from all walks of life, both young AND old.
It's ALWAYS a bonus, too, when you get such information 'straight
from the horses mouth' so to speak. It makes it more believable. I
look forward to reading more of your inspirational eBooks.
Kind regards,
John in Adelaide, Australia
Author @ http://ez2sleep4.ne1.net
I have been lucky enough to receive many more testimonials like these, and will probably end up adding them to a page of their own linked to my salespage for Focus: The Key To Success someday. Hearing stuff like this about my own products just gives me a fantastic feeling of satisfaction.
If you ever thought 'I can't do that!' about anything, ever, then take a leaf out of my book and set yourself a goal, focus on your goal and really WANT it badly enough. No matter what anybody else tells you, if you do these things then you WILL create your own success.
Anna
There were a few sales of Forget The Hype but the majority of the sales were from my newest ebook Focus: The Key To Success. True to what I've written in the ebook, I set myself a goal and focused on reaching it, without letting anything get in the way. Here's what some people are saying about Focus: The Key To Success:
I just bought your book Anna and I'm impressed.
The old cliche' "Good things come in small packages" is Definitely true in this case.
For a little over $14 it's well worth the investment.
Sincerely,
Paul Short
http://www.gadgetizer.com
Hi Anna,
I felt like I had to write a little something to you about your latest book, Focus: The Key To Success. I gotta say I have read it 3 times so far and each time I get a little more. I swear, it's like you were thinking of me when you wrote it! This is a great read for any busy person that feels sometimes like they just can't "get it together" (don't we all from time to time?)
For a smallish sized book it is power packed with insights, that I think are useful to just about anyone. In my honest opinion it is well worth what you charge and then some.
Good job, yet again!
Warmest wishes to you and yours,
Dennis Edell
www.mywholesalegiftwarestore.com
Hi Anna.
Your latest eBook, FOCUS, made me do just that!
It is SO EASY to get 'off track' and your eBook certainly
details the 'negative effect' that that can have, both in
business and in your personal life as well.
I would recommend your eBook as being a very easy to
read and understand eBook, that covers the self-development
of ones self, by maintaining FOCUS and is relevant to everyone,
from all walks of life, both young AND old.
It's ALWAYS a bonus, too, when you get such information 'straight
from the horses mouth' so to speak. It makes it more believable. I
look forward to reading more of your inspirational eBooks.
Kind regards,
John in Adelaide, Australia
Author @ http://ez2sleep4.ne1.net
I have been lucky enough to receive many more testimonials like these, and will probably end up adding them to a page of their own linked to my salespage for Focus: The Key To Success someday. Hearing stuff like this about my own products just gives me a fantastic feeling of satisfaction.
If you ever thought 'I can't do that!' about anything, ever, then take a leaf out of my book and set yourself a goal, focus on your goal and really WANT it badly enough. No matter what anybody else tells you, if you do these things then you WILL create your own success.
Anna
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
A Review of Focus: The Key To Success
I had a nice mail the other day from Edmund Loh, informing me that he'd written a review of my newest ebook "Focus: The Key To Success" on his blog. Of course, I had to rush on over to see what he'd written, and I have to say, it brought a smile to my face ;~)
I have often said that focus is one of the big keys to success. And just recently, Anna-Marie Stewart of www.annamarketing.com has written an E-book on the subject based on her experience she can relate to all of us.While the subject is not new, it is however, a battle we humans have been fighting about several centuries long (no exaggeration here). This is one of the fine lines between succeeding and failing in any of our undertakings.
Read the rest of this post here.
Publishing Your Own Ezine Or Newsletter
Copyright 2005 Anna-Marie Stewart
You may at some point decide that you want your own ezine or newsletter sent directly from your website via email to your subscribers. The reasons for this could be anything from using the list to sell your products, sending out helpful hints and tips, or just sending out updates.
Personally I used notepad to jot down the rough outline of how I wanted my ezine to look, and just filled in the blanks each week until my programmer put it all online for me.
If you don't want to do it that way, you can buy ready made newsletter templates at places like http://www.templatezone.com/ or http://www.writeexpress.com
This one gives you over 150 newsletter templates, and a 60 day free trial: http://www.benchmarkemail.com
You can also do a quick search on Google for "newsletter templates" and it'll bring up tons of free ones for you.
Make sure you make it extremely easy for people to sign up for your newsletter, and have the subscription form visible on every page of your site.
Publishing an ezine that gets read is no easy task. It takes a whole lot of time and commitment. Here are a couple of things you need to do consistently if you are going to make it work for you, bearing in mind that it can quite possibly take a good couple of years before you actually start seeing some real monetary returns from the ezine.
You will need to decide if you're going to be publishing only your own content, or if you'll be using other people's articles. Both options can take a lot of time. Writing your own articles takes the time of finding topics, and writing and editing the articles yourself. Using other people's articles takes the time of actually finding and reviewing articles for possible inclusion in your ezine. Either way, make sure the content is actually worth reading, or you'll just end up with a dead ezine.
How much time are you willing to spend on promoting the ezine to get subscribers? It's not like hundreds of people are just going to chance upon your subscription form. It needs to be 'out there' and visible to as many people as possible, which means submitting it to all the ezine directories you can find, ad-swapping with other publishers, getting other people to link to your ezine etc.
Then there's the question of whether to allow ads in your ezine. Are they going to be free ads for subscribing? Or are they going to be strictly paid ads? How many ads are you willing to have in each issue?
Whilst giving out free ads to people for subscribing might bring you lots of subscribers, it could also end up making your ezine look more like an ad-rag than a really helpful and useful ezine that people want to read. So if you're going to offer free ads, think long and hard about how you're going to work it to ensure maximum interest.
When you're looking to build a subscriber base all you really need is a webpage and a subscribe box, you can even do it without your own webpage by making use of list management services. A great way to get subscribers is to create, borrow, or barter something of value. Offer it for free on your site in return for name and email address.
Tell them up front that by requesting the freebie, they are also agreeing to receive mail from you in the future, but that there'll always be an opt-out link in every mail you ever send to them. Here are a few ezine directories
http://www.ezinelisting.com
http://www.jogena.com/
http://www.directoryofezines.com/
http://www.go-ezines.com/
Ezine/Publisher Ad Swap sites
http://www.swapezineads.com/
http://solair.eunet.yu/~rottis/swap/
Ezine paid ad co-ops
http://www.mywizardads.com/publishersonly.html
http://ezineadhelper.com/join.htm
Ezine free ad co-ops
There aren't many of these around nowadays, most likely due to the fact that they in reality only build subscriber numbers for you and not necessarily 'reader' numbers. The ones I've found usually require you to have at least 2000 subscribers already to be able to join, this one doesn't ;~)
http://www.subscribeme.net/publishers.html
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For more great tips like this secure your own 74 page copy
of "Forget the Hype" today!. http://annamarketing.com/FTH
=============================================
This article is available for reprint in your opt-in ezine, web site or ebook.
You MUST agree not to make any changes to the article and the RESOURCE
BOX MUST be included. (c) 2005 AnnaMarketing.com. All Rights Reserved
You may at some point decide that you want your own ezine or newsletter sent directly from your website via email to your subscribers. The reasons for this could be anything from using the list to sell your products, sending out helpful hints and tips, or just sending out updates.
Personally I used notepad to jot down the rough outline of how I wanted my ezine to look, and just filled in the blanks each week until my programmer put it all online for me.
If you don't want to do it that way, you can buy ready made newsletter templates at places like http://www.templatezone.com/ or http://www.writeexpress.com
This one gives you over 150 newsletter templates, and a 60 day free trial: http://www.benchmarkemail.com
You can also do a quick search on Google for "newsletter templates" and it'll bring up tons of free ones for you.
Make sure you make it extremely easy for people to sign up for your newsletter, and have the subscription form visible on every page of your site.
Publishing an ezine that gets read is no easy task. It takes a whole lot of time and commitment. Here are a couple of things you need to do consistently if you are going to make it work for you, bearing in mind that it can quite possibly take a good couple of years before you actually start seeing some real monetary returns from the ezine.
You will need to decide if you're going to be publishing only your own content, or if you'll be using other people's articles. Both options can take a lot of time. Writing your own articles takes the time of finding topics, and writing and editing the articles yourself. Using other people's articles takes the time of actually finding and reviewing articles for possible inclusion in your ezine. Either way, make sure the content is actually worth reading, or you'll just end up with a dead ezine.
How much time are you willing to spend on promoting the ezine to get subscribers? It's not like hundreds of people are just going to chance upon your subscription form. It needs to be 'out there' and visible to as many people as possible, which means submitting it to all the ezine directories you can find, ad-swapping with other publishers, getting other people to link to your ezine etc.
Then there's the question of whether to allow ads in your ezine. Are they going to be free ads for subscribing? Or are they going to be strictly paid ads? How many ads are you willing to have in each issue?
Whilst giving out free ads to people for subscribing might bring you lots of subscribers, it could also end up making your ezine look more like an ad-rag than a really helpful and useful ezine that people want to read. So if you're going to offer free ads, think long and hard about how you're going to work it to ensure maximum interest.
When you're looking to build a subscriber base all you really need is a webpage and a subscribe box, you can even do it without your own webpage by making use of list management services. A great way to get subscribers is to create, borrow, or barter something of value. Offer it for free on your site in return for name and email address.
Tell them up front that by requesting the freebie, they are also agreeing to receive mail from you in the future, but that there'll always be an opt-out link in every mail you ever send to them. Here are a few ezine directories
http://www.ezinelisting.com
http://www.jogena.com/
http://www.directoryofezines.com/
http://www.go-ezines.com/
Ezine/Publisher Ad Swap sites
http://www.swapezineads.com/
http://solair.eunet.yu/~rottis/swap/
Ezine paid ad co-ops
http://www.mywizardads.com/publishersonly.html
http://ezineadhelper.com/join.htm
Ezine free ad co-ops
There aren't many of these around nowadays, most likely due to the fact that they in reality only build subscriber numbers for you and not necessarily 'reader' numbers. The ones I've found usually require you to have at least 2000 subscribers already to be able to join, this one doesn't ;~)
http://www.subscribeme.net/publishers.html
-=-=-=-=-=-=-Resource Box-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-
Starting Your Own Business Can be Scary! Don't go it alone.
For more great tips like this secure your own 74 page copy
of "Forget the Hype" today!. http://annamarketing.com/FTH
=============================================
This article is available for reprint in your opt-in ezine, web site or ebook.
You MUST agree not to make any changes to the article and the RESOURCE
BOX MUST be included. (c) 2005 AnnaMarketing.com. All Rights Reserved
All rights are reserved.
