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Use FeedBurner Application To Increase Blog Traffic

April 9, 2012 in Blog Traffic, Bloggging, Facebook, Website Traffic with Comments Off

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FeedBurner Application is a free service which helps you keep track of your RSS Feed traffic, It is a great way to package your existing feeds providing you a host of free and premium services that you can utilize. Feed burner can be used on the original content that you have created or just any thing that you have composed for your website. There are a number of Feed burner services which can be used in order to optimize web traffic. Here are some of the techniques and a brief description on how they are useful.

The first one is called the -Creative Commons. This is a system, which sends your feeds to various other similar content providers as you. These content providers thereby, make it available to other content providers who have the liberty to republish your articles without removing your authorship. This helps is cross linking your article to various websites, which will help in resource generation at a certain level. This will popularize your blog and people will have the wish to come to you from time to time.

Believe it or not, Newsletters too act as effective FeedBurner Application for your website. Convert your blog posts to newsletters, by selecting the squeet or feedblitz tabs. And the best part is, you do not need to be an expert HTML user to create newsletter subscriptions in your website. The FeedBurner Applications also create codes that you can copy and past in your website to create subscription forms for your newsletter.

There are also other FeedBurner Applications which will help you increase traffic to your blog. In order to do this, you need to add Feed flair to your blog site. This will create a new page, which will request users to subscribe to your RSS feed. This is a useful tool for new subscribers to your blog site. It will automatically, tell the user of the different applications they can use for subscribing.

Many a times your blog post goes unread on the user-end because of a different supporting format which the user is using. SmartFeed is the option which can help the user convert your blog format into what the reader wants to see.

Another useful FeedBurner Application that you can use in your website is PingShot. This will help in informing other websites and your users about when you have last updated your website. The more frequent you are with your blog updation practice, the better it is for your website visibility.

These are just a few of the FeedBurner Applications which you can use to optimize your website traffic. There are even more applications which you can add in order to increase blog traffic.

Cynthia ~Social Cowgirl
www.SocialCowgirl.com

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Advertising With Viral Marketing

April 3, 2012 in Blog Marketing, Blog Traffic, Facebook, Viral Marketing with Comments Off

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The name itself suggests a marketing that spreads all around and multiplies incessantly to achieve its aim in all kinds of conditions, helpful or hostile. Viral Marketing mainly projects on the weak points of the customers. This technology is a newer form of the old-fashioned word of mouth. The users would not bother to promote the product unless it is creative and attractive.

This type of marketing is the latest fad in online marketing. It brings about lots of advantages, and some misconceptions in web marketing. Word-of-mouth and email techniques are used here for targeting the market. This method is least expensive as it seeks attention from the public without involving significant costs for the advertiser.

Like the spreading of a virus, the individuals automatically pass the marketing messages to multitudes of others. Here, the individual disseminates the messages without marketers’ involvement. The creative messages are being resonated with targeted marketing. Therefore, if the viral object is irresistibly commenting, the receivers are innately, often subconsciously, forced to pass the message, making it a form of subliminal advertising.

Viral marketing has captured the attention of the marketers due to its vivid characteristics like credibility, low costs, and amazing results. Advertisers mainly put their money on viral marketing for good customer support as it creates a stir about the website. By placing a creative blog, for instance, people are motivated to talk about the site. A prominent tool of viral marketing is the implementation of games and contests.

There are still other ways to draw the attention of the public through interesting movie clips and images. Certain organizations also get inspired to use over these top techniques in order to garner the media. These websites will generate traffic flow much better than advertising campaigns. The basis of the viral marketing idea is for it to be outstandingly obscure or unusual.

Viral advertising is mainly done through email, instant messaging, text messaging, blogs, and social bookmarking sites like facebook, MySpace etc. Its relatively low cost and speed action make it exceptional from other renowned techniques. Nowadays magnetic advertising campaigns use viral marketing for an outstanding product launch. The viral message from the advertiser can build awareness to the public by producing creative promotions on the internet.

The messages are to be simple enough with an embedded line of code. The sudden expansion of this message leaves the marketer without much internet marketing work. The individuals’ existence on the internet is expanded with both traditional and unconventional ways. This form of advertising is used for both large corporate websites and small business, and any small business asset management software can control the operations easily.

Viral marketing software helps in a quick and easy way of promoting targeted visitors to the website. The software must be created to encourage visitors to return, and thus it should be completely free. The software must be embedded with a link and an additional pdf. On a customer’s repeat visit, a bonus or some kind of advantages must be granted.

Making use of the viral marketing is a relatively hard task. If proper software cannot be found then it is better to go with other options like e-books. Brand the e-book with a link to the website and the customer. On receiving this free e-book, the customer is sure to respond positively. With all these wonderful advantages, viral marketing has proved in all ways to be a complete success for many reputed marketers.

Cynthia ~Social Cowgirl
www.SocialCowgirl.com

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Five Questions to Ask Before Launching a Viral Marketing Program

April 2, 2012 in Blog Marketing, Blog Network, Facebook, Viral Marketing with Comments Off

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In the past few years, many businesses have been inspired by the success of campaigns like “Elf Yourself” and Carnival Cruise’s Pinata. Most of us have learned that a piece of media requires great content in order to go “viral” (think Giant Pinatas or Dancing Elves, NOT quarterly briefings or another laptop sweepstakes). We also know that we need to use great distribution channels like blogs, social networks and online newswires to spread the word.

But here are the five questions that you really have to answer “yes” to if you want to make your viral marketing campaign successful.

1. Are you goal-oriented?

Of course you want to say “yes” and move on. But you have to mean it. If your campaign is about getting on the national news, or promoted on 100 blogs, or driving 10,000 more visitors and 8 new sales, then put your energy into the tasks that matter. Companies that spend weeks debating Arial vs. Times New Roman or regularly edit copy a dozen or so times before publishing are not good candidates. Think of it this way: You have limited time and a limited budget to spend on your campaign. Would you rather spend those resources getting the attention of consumers and the media or deciding if your site navigation should be on the right or left hand side of your page?

2. Can you fast track legal, marketing and branding issues?

You need to have executive sponsorship to push through internal barriers. Would most lawyers have a heart attack over a giant crane smashing a giant pinata with hundreds of people nearby? Yep. Would a good branding guy say “shouldn’t the pinata be shaped like a ship or have SOMETHING to do with our brand? There’s no connection to this stunt and our brand.” And you know what? The lawyer and branding guy are right–they are doing their jobs and offering their expertise. But they are also killing you campaign. Get an executive on board who can overrule these objections and get things done.

3. Is it okay if EVERYONE hears about this campaign?

By definition, you want a lot of people to be exposed to your viral campaign. But in 2008 we received half a dozen panicky calls like this: “We just found out our competitor in Australia found out about our campaign! They are playing our game in their office. How do we stop them?” Or “Our investors in the UK called, they saw the video? How did they see it? Did you send it to them? No? Then who did?” Great viral campaigns will be seen by your competitors, your clients, your prospects, your mom, everyone. Is that really okay?

4. Can you stand criticism of your product or campaign?

Are you one of the 3.3 million people who have watched the Cadbury Guerrilla video on YouTube? Maybe you made one of the 100+ spoofs of the video. The video has been forwarded, played, modified, mashed up and circulated around the world. It is often held up as an example of a good viral campaign. But whenever I show this video during a presentation someone comments on how stupid it is. No matter how great your campaign or product is, somebody, somewhere will say bad things about it. Do you have the stomach to take this criticism? Do you believe in your product and program enough to stand up to the criticism?

5. Can you be edgy?

When talking about a campaign idea, ask yourself: “Would I forward this to someone?” “Would I talk about it at dinner tonight?” If the answer is no, it’s probably not a good campaign idea. Boring doesn’t go viral. Little pinatas get little results.

If you find your “No” list getting long, that’s okay. A lot of companies will have a great year, sell a bunch of products and be wildly successful without viral marketing. If viral marketing doesn’t fit your culture, it’s better to invest your resource other places. But if you answered yes to all the above, have great content and great channels, then it’s time to sting up your own pinata.

Cynthia ~Social Cowgirl
www.SocialCowgirl.com

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Network Marketing – Is Your Internet Business on Facebook?

March 27, 2012 in Blog Marketing, Blog Network, Business Opportunities, Facebook, More Social Media with Comments Off

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In recent years, Facebook has expanded beyond the college dorm to a valued opportunity for advertisement and promotion. Can your Network Marketing Internet Business utilize this social media?

Users on Facebook can interact in a number of ways with other Facebook users such as hosting events, use of social ads, and even send virtual drinks.

The hosting of the 2008 political presidential debate with Charlie Gibson and Facebook was the marking of yet another social marketing opportunity online.

Facebook tips and tools for some sophisticated advertisement opportunity are limitless. Can these advertisement possibilities assist you in expanding your network marketing internet business?

There are multiple blogs, ad pages, posts, and articles available online to help you choose and apply the various Facebook techniques of advertising to your marketing plan. One opportunity is a feature on Facebook referred to as news feed.

What is new feed?

The news feed based upon privacy settings allows for members activities to be chronicled and then have them broadcast to their friends. Not all members enjoy this feature for various reasons but for advertising a person or cause it can be a great feature. In some ways this interaction with friends creates a type of credibility for the individual, organization or cause.

If this sounds interesting to you, check out how to leverage this tool to peddle your product or cause to others

Steps to utilize news feed

1. Create a profile: Anything you want here

2. Host an event and post it: Anything you want here

3. Share pictures or video:

4. Post a picture: Pictures of products would work and if users of Facebook are in the pictures they can be tagged and included in the news feed

5. Post a news article: Perhaps an article that mentions our company name

6. Write a note: A great way to communicate.

Check out other opportunities awaiting on Facebook to give your network marketing internet business some additional exposure.

Cynthia ~Social Cowgirl
www.SocialCowgirl.com

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Work From Home – Common Business Opportunities

March 25, 2012 in Business Opportunities, Direct Selling, Facebook, Home Business with Comments Off

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One of the most common business opportunities for those who work from home is that of selling products. The product you sell may be tangible or intangible and the process of marketing and shipping the products can be through direct sales or through drop ship activities. It’s not hard to decide on a product, although the product will be easier to get enthusiastic about if it is something that you know about and believe in. Keep in mind that a product that would only have a few customers locally can be multiplied many times over when presented correctly on the global marketplace.

Services

Another business opportunity when you work from home is that of selling or providing services to others. The services can be such things as optimizing an existing web site or creating a new web site. It can be repair of precious photographs or transcribing audio or video materials to written form. Translation is another type of service that lends itself very well to home business entrepreneurs. As with products, providing services from home means presenting a web site that will attract the target audience and following through with the necessary information to convert visitors to buyers.

Marketing

The field of marketing products for other businesses and individuals is an easy and profitable work from home opportunity. Marketing includes such aspects as search engine optimization, placing ads and links that increase traffic to a particular business site, designing and upgrading web sites to increase traffic flow, serving as a web host for a number of small web sites so as to improve results for all of the affiliates and hosting special interest forum groups that call attention to the products or services of a particular market sector. A quite profitable living can be made just by assisting others to present their products or businesses more effectively.

Articles

Another way to work from home so that you can choose your projects and regulate your hours according to your own preferences is to write freelance materials for article directories or for clients who look for interesting and informative materials to place on forums, web sites and in article directories. Web site owners are always in need of written materials to keep their web pages attractive and able to bring new visitors to the site. If you don’t have a creative imagination but are proficient in the English language, you can also edit and reformat articles that have been written by others.

Transcription

Transcription work is another type of work from home project that is easy to begin and is relatively profitable. It consists of listening to audio files and transcribing the spoken word to a written document. Attention to punctuation, spelling and proper syntax is important on many transcription projects, and the work is more difficult if the spoken word is strongly accented or if the recording sound quality is less than adequate. Payment for transcription work is either by audio hour or by typewritten page of transcribed materials. Sometimes transcriptionists only edit and review rough transcribed files by another worker.

Cynthia ~Social Cowgirl
www.SocialCowgirl.com

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