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Email Marketing Metrics - How To Measure the Success of Your Emails I years). Of course, I haven't written just one eBook since I have been marketing online, I have written several and each one of them is a little traffic generator.When you are emailing, you must have a way to measure how effective your emails are, and what parts of your emails are more effective than others.Sure, you can evaluate an email by how many dollars it produces, but since many of your emails are going to be content emails, this will be hard to implement across the board.Sometimes you can identify one single problem in your email campaign, for example, a particular headline or email, and the responsiveness will go up for your entire campaign.Here are some common email marketing metrics:Delivery Rates:The deli Another example of 'old fashioned' marketing is writing newsletters and articles such as this one. Again, something I have been doing for years and something which is still very effective at driving traffic to sites today. Email marketing is another example. Fair enough, getting emails delivered has become far more difficult in recent years because of spam/junk mail filters etc but it is still a very effective way of reaching custo Business Consultancy - An Overview I was chatting to a friend the other day and we got talking about Internet marketing. During our conversation, he asked me what the latest 'thing' online was and what actually works these days?What is business consultancy anyway? To answer this let’s start with some common definitions of Consultancy on the Web:Definitions of Consultancy on the Web:- A contract to provide services which meet all the following criteria: expert analysis and advice which facilitates decision making of a specific task or a set of tasks involving skills or perspectives which would not normally be expected to reside within the Department making the decision.- The practice of giving expert advice within a particular field or area.- The practice of helping companies to improve When I asked him to clarify exactly what he meant by 'works', he said, 'Oh you know, what's the best way of getting traffic and making sales?' When I took a step back and thought about it, there is no 'latest thing'. The things which work tend to be exactly the same things as worked a year, two years, even five years ago..... Let's take getting traffic as an example. Broadly speaking you can spilt traffic into two main camps: free traffic and paid for traffic. Free traffic can come from a variety of different sources such as organic search results, affiliates, virally via eBook links and so on. Paid for traffic can also come from a variety of sources including pay per click advertising and general banner advertising. Five years ago (actually probably longer than that), a large percentage of my traffic came from organic search results from the main search engines such as Google. Nothing has changed today - Google and the other engines still send me tens of thousands of visitors every single month. So clearly this still works :-) I was a couple of years into my Internet marketing career before I really discovered the true power of affiliates but again, going back five years, my (much smaller) team of affiliates were sending me a reasonable number of paying customers each month. These days I rely far more on affiliate traffic and I would say it is probably my favourite type of traffic. Not only is it great when someone sends you a new customer but it also makes me genuinely happy to send my affiliates their commissions every month. I am all for earning money with the minimum of effort and if I can help someone earn a few hundred dollars a month for doing nothing more than having a link to one of my sites on one of their sites then I am all for it! I wrote my first eBook over five years ago and I still sell the same title today (albeit a more updated version). In addition, countless people have purchased resale rights to this product which means I have a small army of resellers distributing the eBook on my behalf. The eBook contains links back to some of my websites and every single day these sites receive traffic as a result of these links (as they have done for the past five years). Of course, I haven't written just one eBook since I have been marketing online, I have written several and each one of them is a little traffic generator. Another example of 'old fashioned' marketing is writing newsletters and articles such as this one. Again, something I have been doing for years and something which is still very effective at driving traffic to sites today. Email marketing is another example. Fair enough, getting emails delivered has become far more difficult in recent years because of spam/junk mail filters etc but it is still a very effective way of reaching custom Dealing With Emotions When Calling To Collect Your Money lt traffic into two main camps: free traffic and paid for traffic. Free traffic can come from a variety of different sources such as organic search results, affiliates, virally via eBook links and so on. Paid for traffic can also come from a variety of sources including pay per click advertising and general banner advertising.When you are in business for yourself, it is not easy to make those collection calls. Emotions, both subtle and forceful can come into play, on both sides. But as a business owner with outstanding Accounts Receivable, making the calls to collect your money can make or break your bottom line!Let’s examine three uncomfortable emotions, and give you some tips on how to collect your money with less stress.Emotions: * Dislike of calling, so constantly put it on the bottom of the “to-do” list * Dislike of confrontation over the money owed Five years ago (actually probably longer than that), a large percentage of my traffic came from organic search results from the main search engines such as Google. Nothing has changed today - Google and the other engines still send me tens of thousands of visitors every single month. So clearly this still works :-) I was a couple of years into my Internet marketing career before I really discovered the true power of affiliates but again, going back five years, my (much smaller) team of affiliates were sending me a reasonable number of paying customers each month. These days I rely far more on affiliate traffic and I would say it is probably my favourite type of traffic. Not only is it great when someone sends you a new customer but it also makes me genuinely happy to send my affiliates their commissions every month. I am all for earning money with the minimum of effort and if I can help someone earn a few hundred dollars a month for doing nothing more than having a link to one of my sites on one of their sites then I am all for it! I wrote my first eBook over five years ago and I still sell the same title today (albeit a more updated version). In addition, countless people have purchased resale rights to this product which means I have a small army of resellers distributing the eBook on my behalf. The eBook contains links back to some of my websites and every single day these sites receive traffic as a result of these links (as they have done for the past five years). Of course, I haven't written just one eBook since I have been marketing online, I have written several and each one of them is a little traffic generator. Another example of 'old fashioned' marketing is writing newsletters and articles such as this one. Again, something I have been doing for years and something which is still very effective at driving traffic to sites today. Email marketing is another example. Fair enough, getting emails delivered has become far more difficult in recent years because of spam/junk mail filters etc but it is still a very effective way of reaching custo Internet Marketing on Steroids le month. So clearly this still works :-)You have heard it before – you have to build a big list.And you have heard that you can drive search engine traffic with article marketing.But what happens when you combine the two? What happens when you use article marketing to drive your first effort traffic, then use list building to create a relationship with your visitors, then use list building to drive second and third effort traffic?You see, I have done just this. I have combined article marketing and list building in a way that is like no one else online, to the best of my knowledge.How do I do it?< I was a couple of years into my Internet marketing career before I really discovered the true power of affiliates but again, going back five years, my (much smaller) team of affiliates were sending me a reasonable number of paying customers each month. These days I rely far more on affiliate traffic and I would say it is probably my favourite type of traffic. Not only is it great when someone sends you a new customer but it also makes me genuinely happy to send my affiliates their commissions every month. I am all for earning money with the minimum of effort and if I can help someone earn a few hundred dollars a month for doing nothing more than having a link to one of my sites on one of their sites then I am all for it! I wrote my first eBook over five years ago and I still sell the same title today (albeit a more updated version). In addition, countless people have purchased resale rights to this product which means I have a small army of resellers distributing the eBook on my behalf. The eBook contains links back to some of my websites and every single day these sites receive traffic as a result of these links (as they have done for the past five years). Of course, I haven't written just one eBook since I have been marketing online, I have written several and each one of them is a little traffic generator. Another example of 'old fashioned' marketing is writing newsletters and articles such as this one. Again, something I have been doing for years and something which is still very effective at driving traffic to sites today. Email marketing is another example. Fair enough, getting emails delivered has become far more difficult in recent years because of spam/junk mail filters etc but it is still a very effective way of reaching custo In Advertising Bigger isn't Always Better rt and if I can help someone earn a few hundred dollars a month for doing nothing more than having a link to one of my sites on one of their sites then I am all for it!If you have been following the recent advertising news you will notice that more and more major advertisers are looking to smaller ad agencies to handle their campaigns.Is it because they feel bad? Is it because they are cheaper? Or is it because they see the level of creative talent of smaller agencies?Lets take a quick look at why this is happening and how this is good for the consumers and the advertisers. When I use the term smaller it doesn’t mean that it’s a one-man show, but that they aren’t part of the “BIG 6”. Now with I wrote my first eBook over five years ago and I still sell the same title today (albeit a more updated version). In addition, countless people have purchased resale rights to this product which means I have a small army of resellers distributing the eBook on my behalf. The eBook contains links back to some of my websites and every single day these sites receive traffic as a result of these links (as they have done for the past five years). Of course, I haven't written just one eBook since I have been marketing online, I have written several and each one of them is a little traffic generator. Another example of 'old fashioned' marketing is writing newsletters and articles such as this one. Again, something I have been doing for years and something which is still very effective at driving traffic to sites today. Email marketing is another example. Fair enough, getting emails delivered has become far more difficult in recent years because of spam/junk mail filters etc but it is still a very effective way of reaching custo Direct Mail Campaigns: Tips For First Time Solution Providers years). Of course, I haven't written just one eBook since I have been marketing online, I have written several and each one of them is a little traffic generator.Direct mail campaigns are a great way to reach many prospective clients in one shot. There are many tips and tricks that will help you get the most out of your direct mail campaign. Rather than having to learn the hard way, we've assembled some of the most effective techniques for maximizing the return on your direct mail campaign efforts.Direct Mail Campaign Secrets If you are going to mail more than 1000 pieces, consider testing two headlines to see which one draws more inquiries.Also remember to test which one of the headlines in your direct mail campaign converts more in Another example of 'old fashioned' marketing is writing newsletters and articles such as this one. Again, something I have been doing for years and something which is still very effective at driving traffic to sites today. Email marketing is another example. Fair enough, getting emails delivered has become far more difficult in recent years because of spam/junk mail filters etc but it is still a very effective way of reaching customers and staying in touch. It's the same story with paid traffic although the main downside with this is that the costs have risen sharply in the last couple of years. However, with the right product and sales page, it can still be worth buying traffic and I know many marketers who do exactly that week in and week out. So once you have a visitor at your website, what's the latest technique to persuade them to get their credit card out? Again, in many cases, exactly the same as would things as would have persuaded them five years ago..... An informative and well written sales page which outlines the benefits of the given product to the buyer. A choice of payment options. Fast shipping if it is a physical product and clear instructions if it is a download. In short, a site which makes it quick and easy for a potential customer to make a buying decision and gain access to their purchase. To support this view, I have sales pages which I wrote years ago and which I have only slightly tweaked since originally uploading them and they still convert at very satisfactory levels today. The bottom line therefore is that even though things do change very quickly online, the basic rules of marketing often stay the same. When I launch a new product or website, I tend to stick to the same procedure as I have done for years. Why? Because it works. Sure there will always be little twists and new techniques which help to improve results but these are normally things to be tried AFTER you have adhered to the basics in order to squeeze a couple of extra sales out of your visitors. Stick to the basics and you won't go far wrong :-) Copyright (c) 2006 Richard Grady
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