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Viral Marketing Goes Mobile

Mobile devices, mobile phones and PDA’s are one of the last great frontiers of viral advertisement opportunities. However, we have become experts at filtering everything, our air and water, our e-mail and pop-ups, and our mobile devices as well. We are good at filtering.

The very idea of unwanted advertising streaming through our Blackberries is abhorrent. Mobile devices are the ultimate opt-in medium and, therefore, a great way for marketers to connect with users…if that’s what the users want. “WANT” is the key word here. How should marketers approach the medium?

There are three main ways to achieve this. They are:

1. Offer exclusive content. Anyone can offer ring tones. It’s the unique content, such as exclusive mobile images of new brand concepts, that drives interest and calls them out in other media like e-mail campaigns, newsletters, websites, etc. So a wireless campaign is most effective when it offers exclusive content for wireless devices.

2. Make it useful and timely. Think about what would be handy and helpful to have on a mobile device. Last year, for example, Food Network enabled Sprint customers to download shopping lists for their Thanksgiving dinners. There was a lot of “Sprint-envy” going around among non-sprint customers.

3. Clearly define objectives. Usually, one of two business objectives drives successful mobile experiences: incremental revenue of brand intimacy. On the intimacy factor, a text message usually takes priority over almost any other form of communication. Why? Because we haven’t yet been saturated with mobile spam, and this is what causes us to prioritize wireless messaging over voice.

Mobile marketing has been out there for a while but we marketers have new territory to explore. Video offers fantastic opportunities for engagement. Consumers already bypass their filters for highly useful or entertaining content and will do so for rich exclusive, compelling content.

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Who Should Consider Becoming an Affiliate?

Have you ever thought that your skills and expertise were being wasted? You apply all of your creative know how and ability for your boss and their company for very little reward. Have you ever considered taking those skills and making them work for you instead of someone else? Have you looked into your own business enterprise only to realize the capital you need is way beyond what you can raise? If you have answered yes to any of these questions then becoming an affiliate could be the answer your are looking for.

Many of us would love to start our own businesses but two things generally stop us. The first being money and the second being risk. You need a significant amount of capital to start even a small sole proprietorship. Even though financing is available there is still the risk factor. A fairly large percentage of small businesses fail in the first year. If you make it through that first year then there are still several challenges that have to be met. It could be five years before you see any real profit. Most of us cannot wait this long. We need a constant flow of money coming in to meet our daily obligations.

Becoming an affiliate can get you started on the road to independence with no risk to you. By becoming an affiliate you work to sell or increase the revenues of another company. This can be done in a variety of ways. You can work, selling a particular line of products. The head company takes care of the advertising and creation of the items; you simply work out how to sell them. You are paid for your performance. The more you sell the more you make.

You can also create an online affiliate marketing business. If you’re creative and handy at making websites then this could be the perfect opportunity for you. By allowing your site to become an affiliate site with a major search engine, you could make large amounts of profit with ad revenue. Companies such as Yahoo publisher and Google ad sense can help to get you started. They handle all of the advertising costs and placing allowing you to concentrate on bringing traffic to your site. There is no cost to you and absolutely no risk.

People who enjoy independence and flexibility in their work make good affiliates. Those that desire or need flexible working hours can gain the most from being an affiliate. You paid according to how well you perform, not on how many hours you work. You can schedule your work around other things such as families or other commitments. If you’re independent and a self starter than a career as an affiliate is perfect for you.

If you are creative, motivated and driven then possibly consider becoming an affiliate. You can run your own affiliate business from home with no cost or obligation to you. If you are good at working independently then as an affiliate you can’t go wrong. You’ll have the freedom to work as and when you please and will realize the rewards of your own hard work. Start putting your skills and creativity to work for you rather than someone else. What you receive in return will be well worth it. Consider a career as an affiliate, you nothing to loose and everything to gain.

4 Tips to Landing Page Success

Also known as the “name squeeze page” or “lead capture page”, you can build your mailing list by funneling all of your would-be subscribers through the creation of a landing page. Not only do you do the work just once, your traffic driving efforts can be focused onto just one effective method.

The following are tips in creating a successful landing page that converts visitors into subscribers on a very huge percentage.

Success Tip 1: Offer a freebie in exchange for your visitor’s email address. I very much endorse this method of building your mailing list. You can offer a special report or a sample of your paid product to your visitor in exchange for their details such as name and email address.

Success Tip 2: The landing page must be written professionally. When writing your page, treat it as if you are writing a sales letter. While you are not necessarily making a hard sale or try to get someone to buy your product upfront, being able to entice your visitors to give their details to you is just as important as selling.

Success Tip 3: Other than your opt-in form and perhaps important disclaimers and terms, there shouldn’t be any other links on your landing page.

Success Tip 4: Rub in the benefits of the freebie you are offering more than a mere subscription to your newsletter. You should focus most of the attention of the letter on encouraging your prospective visitor to download your free offer. Later, you gently remind your prospect that he or she has nothing to pay but just merely subscribe to your newsletter in exchange for the freebie.

As a final reminder and conclusion, in order to build trust, you can include your hand-written signature or a photo of yourself explaining where you are coming from and how you can help your visitor through your free report on offer.

Wealth Funnel System

The premise of The Wealth Funnel System Two is to develop a virtually 100% Automated process for your home business. By virtue of this automation, you can sign up $1,000 sales without having to cold call prospects or convince them of anything. The web sites Derrick Harper has set up will take care of that for you. This leaves you the time to devote to driving traffic to your web site. What Is At The Core Of The Wealth Funnel System?

What Derrick Harper developed with The Wealth Funnel System.

With more than 12 years of Internet Marketing experience behind him, Derrick Harper has taken all of his knowledge of how to make money online and created a system for anybody to make money online from anywhere in the world.

The Wealth Funnel System Two is a home based business with it’s cornerstone being the education of it’s members. It is this education which provides you with $1,000 sale after $1,000 sale. You will be trained to advertise, promote and earn money.

Probably the biggest reason for the abysmal failure rate in home based businesses is the fact that most people can not communicate effectively with their prospects. This is where having a system in place such as The Wealth Funnel System is essential. And this system shines in this area. They even have a call center so if you are dealing with a prospect and can not answer a specific question you can bring some one from The Wealth Funnel System on the call to answer the question and help close the call. Now there are other systems out there, but none of them actually educate you on how to market or help you to close sales. They just take your money and wish you luck. Not The Wealth Funnel System. This system has been developed by Derrick Harper and other Copy Writing Experts to create a high converting funnel that produces the desired results. There are certain psychological conversion tactics that are necessary for success. Most other systems do not use these tactics. Derrick!

Harper has a background that includes many Fortune 500 companies and he and his experts have used a great deal of resources to make this a truly high converting system. With enrollment with the wealth funnel system two it automatically activates your global resorts network membership and plugs you into their $1000 commission pay outs. Just imagine if you had 10 people working for you making just 2 sales a week at a $1000 each ( because you make a matching $1000 on your employee’s sales as well.) Think what that would amount to?

Make Your Home Business Work

The biggest reason I’m where I’m at right now is the fact that I have a website that is “Proven” and thoroughly “Researched” with home business opportunities for people looking to work from home. I was able to find a great mentor who believes in the same things I do. In this business it’s important to be truthful and not sell something on your website that scams people. A lot of the things I offer on my site are based on information. I do sell some home income opportunities; I’m belong to a few of them myself so no one can tell me they don’t work.

Once you have something you can offer someone you need to get people to your website. I’ve found advertising to be even harder than getting my website built and off the ground. Granted, I tweak my website almost once a week, but advertising keeps me very busy everyday. One of the biggest elements of learning advertising is constant work. Everyday I work on advertising even if I don’t see immediate results. As a matter of fact I hardly see immediate results. Usually it takes weeks and sometimes months to see results.

One of the main reasons people give up in this business is because they are looking for instant gratification and quick money in their pockets. I’m here to tell you that will not cut it. Tons of people are looking to make money from home and if it was easy everyone would be doing it. I’ve been at this for six months and I’m finally seeing some very positive results. I was able to get over that hump where I was spending more money than I made; for a lot of people this is the cut-off point. The ones who are successful in this business are tenacious and believe in their abilities.

Back to advertising, in order to make money in this business you have to do a lot of advertising. Advertising on Google Adwords is very tough and competitive; don’t give up, I didn’t and now I’m getting some pretty descent results. Also be sure to use a variety of different ways to advertise. I have a buddy who just started a rug business. He’s in the beginning stages, but I’m worried for him. He has a website and numerous people he knows who can spread the word for him. The problem he will face is advertising his business. With the internet playing a huge role in the advertising world, it’s almost impossible to beat out your competitors if you don’t know how to advertise on the net.

Whether you’re just starting or looking to expand on your home business remember to always have fun. It’s tough out there and if you’re not willing to have fun and work hard you will never make it. Even though you’re working from home it’s still hard work; I know a lot of people who just started to try and work from home and are very miserable because they thought it would be a cake-walk. Listen, it’s called “work from home” for a reason. The great thing about it is once you become successful you won’t have to work as hard. Bust you’re your butt and you will be REWARDED!!!!