Opinions about websites are many; however, a few things are just overwhelmingly important if you intend to produce income through your website. If you don’t incorporate the following top ten factors into the development of your website, it is likely to become just another pretty face on the web, instead of an income generating tool…

Factor #1 - Attracting qualified traffic

Qualified traffic consists of visitors from your target market interested in your products or services. There are many internet marketing tactics to attract such traffic, but search engine optimization is the cheapest, most effective way to market your website. Keywords and keyword phrases your target market uses when searching for information, products or services need to be identified and professionally incorporated into your website during the design and development process. Additionally, each webpage has to be submitted to the top search engines following the search engine guidelines. A search engine listing, which is adequately prepared for your target market, is the best way to get qualified traffic to your website.

Factor #2 - Dependability

Most people give little thought to selecting a web host. They usually choose the cheapest or even a free hosting package. Bad decision! Dependability is critical when it comes to an income generating website. Every second your website is offline, you could be losing money. Also, a slow loading or user-unfriendly website is sure to lose customers. Choosing a cheap or free web hosting package may be your worst nightmare, because usually they aren’t very dependable. You may experience downtime, slow loading or poor navigation. Even worse, your website may be lost when the servers go down if your web host doesn’t maintain backups. It’s also good to have total control of your website through a control panel in order to make changes yourself and manage your content. A reliable web host and a sufficient hosting package with control features are essential.

Factor #3 - Functionality

The functionality of your website can make or break you. Your website should load fast, be user-friendly, easy to navigate and above all, it shouldn’t have broken links. If it doesn’t meet those standards, you are likely wasting your advertising dollars and losing leads from your target market. There is nothing more annoying to website visitors than a website that doesn’t work. If they run into glitches, they are likely to leave your site and go straight to your competition.

Factor #4 - Lead generation

If you get someone to your website, they should be considered valid leads and your website should attempt to collect their contact information for follow-up (at least a name and email address). This is usually done through a squeeze page which is designed to collect email addresses for an opt-in email list by offering to send visitors more information. A well-designed squeeze page will leave readers with a sense of urgency and a desire for more information about the topic. When a visitor first visits your website, they may not buy anything. They may just be researching at the time. By getting them to sign up for opt-in email list, you will be building leads for future contacts - lead generation at its finest!

Factor #5 - Following leads while they are hot

If someone signs up for your opt-in list, they have already expressed their interest. It’s very important to follow-up right away with desired information. You can subtly market to them later. Autoresponders are the best way to take care of the follow-up and ongoing communications. You just setup the timing and the messages once and the messages will be delivered automatically. Autoresponders can even be personalized with the name of the recipient. It sure beats chasing leads and following up on them individually.

Factor #6 - Establishing credibility

Establishing credibility is fundamental in any business, but in an online business it is much more difficult. Your website has to take on the many roles of representing your business. It has to show your expertise, gain the readers’ confidence, overcome any obstacles, and offer customer service, as well as making and closing sales. Offering free, informative, useful articles and newsletters is a great way to display your expertise and gain confidence. By constantly providing how-to articles, email tips and so forth you will add value to your business in the eyes of your prospects and customers.

Factor #7 - Sparking interest

Factors 1 through 6 are the basics an income producing website desperately needs, but they are often neglected. Just paying attention to the sales part will make a website fail in the mission of abundantly producing income. On the sales page, you have to capture interest first. Otherwise, visitors will likely not read the page. Landing pages should contain headlines your target market can relate to and are interested in.

Factor #8 - Creating desire

Landing pages or sales pages should take on the role of a salesperson, which means it has to create desire, conquer objections, build confidence, and a need to purchase your product or service. It should relate to the problems or desires of your target market and offer solutions. Testimonials are great for building confidence and conquering objections. A well-written sales page will make the readers have an “I’ve got to get this” reaction.

Factor #9 - A call to action and completion of the sale

Even after desire is created, readers are still in an information stage. Your sales page absolutely has to have a call to action. If you don’t ask them to buy your product or service, most will just continue to think about it. No matter how creative your web writing is, it is worthless without an effective call to action. Completion of the sale also needs to be accomplished on your site using an ecommerce system, preferably with a shopping cart. If your website completes the sale and processes the payment, you don’t have to worry about losing your customer in the mix involved with outsourced services.

Factor #10 - Design

The design of your website is somewhat important, but it isn’t necessary to have all the bells and whistles that some designers tout, especially if it will slow down the loading of your site or diminish its effectiveness. Your website design should be created with your target market in mind. Choose a design that they will like and find appealing. It doesn’t matter if you like it, it is more important that your target market likes it and that it will cause them to respond!

BONUS Tips…

Tip #1 - How to sell on the internet

When selling on the internet, you don’t really want to offer your highest priced product or even provide a list of all of your products. Why? It is just overwhelming to website visitors. Instead, I recommend a funnel system of selling. Ideally, you want to lead people through a series of products or services, with their own benefits and features, which the customer could purchase at a certain price point. Once they purchase you can up-sell to them at another price level. If they cannot afford the next level, then you have met their need at the price point they purchased.

Tip #2 - Systems vs. Websites

To have a real, income generating website which is abundantly successful in producing revenue, you need much more than a website. What you need is one finely tuned system that integrates all of the 10 most important factors which work in harmony with each other to produce revenue.

Donald Flor is a business development expert, speaker, trainer and author of the book “How to Build & Grow a Successful Business… no matter what happens”. Go to http://www.IncomeGeneratingWebsites.com for a free evaluation of your product, service or idea.

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Whether you are an account executive working in an aggressive corporate environment, or you are the entrepreneur who just started their own home based business, these simple tips will give you free outlets for your marketing endeavors.

1- Become the expert

If you are an expert at what you do, then this step should be easy. If you are not yet considered an expert, then delve into as much educational materials as you can get your hands on. The foremost authorities in marketing and advertising spend thousands of dollars a year on newsletters, seminars, books and audio cd’s in order to stay on top of the growing trends.

Moving on, become well versed in your particular field and then begin to market yourself (not your company) by providing news publications valuable and well-researched articles that address the needs of that publications readers. By simply doing this not only to you advertise yourself for free, but you set yourself apart as an authority and by default people will believe what you say. At this point any further contacts you make from within that particular marketing piece will now be more receptive and willing to do business with you. Find a resource, Become a resource.

2- Create a presence

Whether you are a Corporate Joe or Sally Home Maker, create for yourself a professional presence that can display your expertise. This can be easily done for free through blogs, my personal favorite being the blogspot which is operated by Google. You can add site feeds, news feeds, and even ads which mirror the content on your blog making your blog more fluid. This presence should also serve less as an affiliation with whatever particular income source you have right now, and more as a resource guide on that particular industry. This can also easily be done by linking a variety of other similar resources on your blog.

3- Synergize your efforts

This can be accomplished very easily if you have followed the two steps above. Now that you have an ample amount of written publications in circulation, you have a source blog which displays your own personal thoughts on the industry, it is time to pull these two together and create an explosive marketing campaign which sets you apart from all the other hokey ads out there.

This particular step may be more difficult for some than others, however it can create a binding effect which will bring together your previous efforts and create more exposure than each individual marketing piece.

Create a website that links all of these together. If you can successfully accomplish this than I have now given you some basic strategies that SEO companies use on their own clients. You have just saved yourself hundreds of marketing dollars simply by being informed. The ability to link your different materials, place your person website in the core of this information, and set yourself apart as an expert is the key to becoming a presence online.

4- Integrate with the Traditional Advertising

Most people do not limit themselves to online marketing, and yet they somehow fail to miss the simple step that will substantially boost their qualified lead rate. In every form of direct mail, e-mail, newspaper ads, signs, banners, calendars, etc., make sure that it all points to your website. However if you really want to retain these qualified customers, simply input a form on your website that will offer your potential client or customer some form of information or service upon entering their own information. These forms are free and easy to find all over the web. Simply do a Google search for “Free input forms for website” and you should find a plethora of pre-coded forms to copy and paste in your websites HTML code.

5- Create an urgent CALL TO ACTION

In every form of advertising, in every publication or print ad, make sure that in some way you are letting your customer know that if they do not respond to your website in some way they are missing out on something valuable. Each industry differs in which way you would do this, but for a Mortgage Broker it might say, “Get a free quote from me on your next loan - mywebsite.com”.

Some other proven methods have been using negative words to create curiosity. “Best Consulting Nationwide - Don’t Believe it? Don’t Call. 1-800-mynumber”

There are various ways to inspire a person’s curiosity, you have to determine which way your target market will most likely respond to. One of the most amusing examples of this I have seen is:

“Liberals Hate It. 99.99FM”

Whatever form of marketing you are using, these steps should serve as a simple outline with some free tips on how to synergize your marketing efforts and create a free presence online without spending thousands of dollars on SEO companies or advertisements.

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OK, almost everyone in Internet Business marketing is talking about how
great it is to make Internet Money with articles and being your own webmaster. The Big secret to writing articles is all about content. Articles are a great and easy way to bring massive traffic to your Internet business, Making Internet money Online can be easy if you know what to look for.. And the best part is that there is more than one way to do it.

First you can create Articles that generate Free Traffic to your
website and make Internet Money for whatever it is you are selling.
Those same articles can send a lot of traffic to websites you are
promoting as an Affiliate Internet Business and get you long term Residual
Income and Royalties in the form of Affiliate business Internet Money.

Second you can create Affiliate business websites full of useful content and run
AdSense ads, Yahoo or any ads that are similar to your content on your web pages to generate Internet Money. By selling targeted advertising to people that are looking for massive targeted traffic you win every time. Giving away free stuff is a great way to attract readers and build an Internet Business List . You can quickly create your own e-books and sell them on their own separate pages or sites.

The truth is, there are many ways to make Internet Money by writing
and submitting quality articles. You need to learn the most
profitable and simply ways make Internet Money. Also, how to create
great articles that generate massive traffic quicker and better as you go. Have fun and blend baby blend that is the Big Secret to Internet Business.

Also use Blogs like Wordpress and others that are free to use for your first blogs. You can add pictures and Insert/Edit links which forwards a person to another link specified by you. Makes text or Pictures Clickable. The problem with using a Free Blog is that you want to be Branding yourself so Make your own Blog under your URL if you want to play the game to it’s fullest. When your looking through the Internet over the next week or so really focus in on where the sites are placing Advertisement. Google AdSense does a great job explaining where they have found the best place to put Ads on your sites.

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I’ve been doing keyword research for so long I could probably do it in my sleep. I sometimes dream keywords and get up the next day and tweak my campaigns a little bit more, whether they be for articles or what have you. But how many people really understand how important it is to target your keywords as pinpoint as possible in order to get the optimum results? This article is going to, by way of examples, show you just how to target your keywords so that the visitors that come to your site are ones that have the best chance of you turning them into buyers.

Let’s take the word acne. Now it’s pretty safe to assume that most people know that this word is just not targeted at all. This is the easy example. If you’re selling a product that is going to cure or treat somebody’s acne, you’re going to at least want to use the keyword acne cure or acne treatment. But what if your cure is for a natural acne treatment? If somebody were looking for a cure and wasn’t interested in natural methods because they didn’t believe in them, they would go to your site through your keyword phrase and not become a buyer because your product wasn’t a close enough match. However, if you used the keyword phrase “natural acne treatment” then if somebody went to your site, having looked up that keyword, your product WOULD be something they’d be interested in.

Let’s take the keyword “make money online” and suppose that your site was one that taught people how to do this using paid surveys. Well, if you just used “make money online” and somebody went to your site and wasn’t interested in doing paid surveys, that’s a wasted visitor. However, if you used a keyword phrase such as “make money online with paid surveys” then most likely somebody going to your site WOULD be interested in your opportunity and would be a better candidate for your product.

The key is to make your keyword phrase as specific as possible. The more targeted it is, the better the chance that the person who is coming to your site is actually going to become a buyer of your product or service.

Now, doing this is very simple. Just go to Wordtracker, or the keyword tool of your choice, and look up the main keyword for your niche. Wordtracker will then return a number of like terms that are more highly targeted. You simply pick out the ones that fit your product or service.

It’s not rocket science. If anything, it’s a very easy process and one that will increase the effectiveness of your promotions greatly.

To YOUR Success,

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What most people don’t realize is that we as human beings have some pretty hot buttons that when pushed just right, make us do things quickly. Sometimes these buttons make us do things that we wouldn’t normally do. This is no more true than when we go to make a purchase. There are just certain keywords that when we hear them, make us want to purchase the item that is associated with the item. So what’s my point? Well, if you can incorporate these keywords naturally into your ad copy, you have a very good chance of increasing the number of sales that you make. In this series of articles, we’re going to examine these killer keywords, starting with the word “fast.”

Let’s face it. People don’t want to wait for things. Think about it. Why do we go to fast food restaurants? We certainly don’t go to them because the food is so great. I mean, it’s okay, but you’re certainly going to get a better meal at a fine diner.

Why do people buy microwaveable dinners? For that matter, why is the microwave such a popular item? The reason is simple. With our hectic life styles, we don’t always have time to prepare an elaborate meal. Sometimes we just want to take a box out of the freezer and pop it into the microwave, thus the invention of the microwave dinner. Something else that is fast.

Did you ever go to a Jiffy Lube? Well, if you don’t know what a Jiffy Lube is, it’s a place that will change the oil in your car in under 15 minutes. Why are Jiffy Lubes so big? Because people don’t want to wait around for an oil change. They’ve got more important things to do.

But the word fast is not only associated with convenience. Did you ever think about why people like to watch race cars? There is something very exciting about things that go fast. That’s why the Corvette is such a popular car. It goes fast. And guys like cars that go fast. If the car went slow, or even average speed, would as many people buy it?

Fast is power. Fast is energy. Nobody likes the slow poke. They like the person who can run fast. That’s why we have races, to see who the fastest person is, not the slowest, who we ultimately end up laughing at.

Steady may win the race, but fast is what attracts people. So if you can somehow incorporate fast into your business advertising, you have a good chance of making more sales. Maybe you have a product that will help somebody speed up their productivity, like a high speed printer. Great! Make the customer aware of this. Let them know how my DPI it prints in how many seconds. Throw specs at them. They may not understand them all, but they will understand one word. Fast. Put that word in your ad copy and use it for all that it’s worth and you will see your sales increase.

It’s all about psychology.

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The simple process of putting your ad.

1: Go to craigslist.org

2: Click on a state from the list of us states (EX: ALABAMA)

3: Choose a city (EX: AUBURN)

4: Click on “Post to classifieds” on the top left

5: Click on “Services Offered”

6: Click on “Creative Services”

7: For the “Posting Title” always put a different title for each different ad you place. EX: “==>Logo Design Alabama”

8: Put your ad text in: “Posting Description”

9: Always use a different ad text each time you post

10: put your email address 2 times where it says: “your email address”

11: Click “Continue” at the bottom

12: Go to the bottom of the page and enter the code in the picture and click on continue

13: on the next page click on: “ACCEPT terms of use”

14: Go to your email and click on the message from craigslist( will say: post/edit/delete…..)

14: open the email

15: click on the blue link

16: if a message pops up saying “this page may contain secure and nonsecure items” just click YES

17: You will see: Publish Edit Delete

18: Click on “Publish”

19: if a message pops up saying “this page may contain secure and nonsecure items” just click YES

Simply repeat theses steps for each ad you place.

You can also use pictures to display your ads, if you have a website, simply use your website to host the ad and paste the html picture in the craigslist Posting.
The whole point of craigslist is for local people to find you so don’t try posting in other countries! It just won’t work!

You can also use craigslist as an optimization tool, it will not help your website increase rankings but if you optimize the content of your ad and use the proper text and keywords, people searching on the net may find your ad and click on the link to your website.

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You have taken the first step in starting your own online business, researching your options. As you may know, there are hundreds of online businesses out there and hundreds more being started every day, in order to compete you have to make sure you have the solid foundation necessary to run a successful online business. You also may be wondering what it takes to set one up and make it a success.

Different Online Business Options

- Affiliate programs

- EBay

- Internet Marketing

There are only a couple of options available to you. The first, Affiliate programs are simple, and have a low start up and maintenance cost. If you are not sure what an affiliate program is, basically, it is a program where you agree to sell company products, on your website. Depending on the program, the prices may be fixed and you receive a commission or they may allow you to set the price for the item. If you are setting the price when an item is sold there is usually an amount of the sale price plus the money received for shipping that needs to go to the affiliate company. They handle all shipping and inventory, customer service and return requests as well. It can be an key to internet success.

EBay, this can either be used with an affiliate program or through maintaining your own inventory. You can simply purchase items and sell them on eBay. Many people use eBay itself to purchase the items for resell.

In Internet marketing, there are programs like Ad words and Ad sense and involve creating or placing advertisements. Depending on the program, you either receive increased traffic and therefore sales or you receive payment for the number of times a visitor clicks on the ads from your page.

A few beneficial things to help you run a successful online business :

- Customer lists

- Auto response system

- A good website

- Good email copy or ezine

Customer lists can either be customers you have already had or a list of potential customers. There are varieties of ways to generate these. Existing customer lists can be created from shipping databases or by asking customers to include an email address while making a purchase. Gathering potential customer lists is easy. You can create one by asking customers to register on to your site or sign up for a newsletter.

Auto response systems, are usually email systems that send out an automatic response every time something is sent to a particular location. For example, you can use an auto response system to let customers know when their shipment went out or to thank them for signing up for the newsletter.

A good website is the essential component of an internet marketing. It needs to be easy to navigate with relevant content and has to be updated frequently. Updating your customers with either an Ezine or an email copy is a great way to generate and maintain business.

Benefits to an Online Business

- be your own boss

- Make your own hours

- More family time

- Work from home

These are just some of the benefits you can gain from having your own online business.

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Opt-in lists are an important part of online marketing. If you are wondering, what an Opt-in list is. You have probably joined dozens without even knowing. Every time you join a mailing list, subscribe to a newsletter or subscribe to a business or website by giving them your email and telling them it is all right for them to send you information you are opting in or adding yourself to an Opt-in list.

Just having a list is not enough:

Just creating an Opt-in list is not enough to get customers to purchase from you. You have to convince your subscribers of your online business and your products. Sales are made on trust.

- Gain knowledge of your market

Part of having an Opt-in list work for you is to know your market. Take the time to do a little research into your target market. By gathering information on your online market, you can tailor the information you are sending to the customers and potential customers to meet their needs and show how your product can address their needs.

- Be personal

Advertisements, deals, spam, emails from all different companies flood people’s inboxes on a daily bases. Set yourself apart from the crowd by being personal. When your customer’s sign up or add him or herself to your opt-in list, do not just ask for their email, but ask for their name as well. This way you can start by addressing them properly and write your email to them with something about how your product may meet their needs.

- Keep your promises

If you promise to send out an email, newsletter, or ezine every month, then make sure you do so. If you cannot send it out, let your customers know. If you promise to sell your customer list, or not to spam them, make sure, you do not and include an opt-out option with your emails. Also, if you are looking to attract customers to sign up, offer them something like a discount for registering when they make a purchase.

- Do not be afraid to ask for advice

If you are just starting into the opt-in list process, it is a good idea to get in touch with someone who knows how to create a successful one from experience. Experience is one of the best teachers; you can learn a lot of tips and tricks for being successful at creating Opt-in lists if you ask someone who has gone through the process. Read articles on Opt-in lists and do not be afraid to ask questions

When looking to create a successful Opt-in list it is important to take the time to research your market, be different from the pack by keeping your promises, offering something in exchange for a customer signing up, and be personal and learning from people with experience. Following these steps will help you create a successful Opt-in list to assist you as part of your approach to market your business on the internet.

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These days, when you surf the internet, it is not long before you come across the term ‘blog’. Over the past few years, the blog has become increasingly popular and more and more people are choosing to have a blog of their own. So just what exactly is a blog and what are its uses?

The Meaning of a Blog

A blog is mainly a type of online journal where you can write practically anything that you want to write. It could be that you write all about your life, what you have been getting up to lately, what you want for the future, or they could be used for start an
online business purposes, too.

Blogs let people get to know you better and they can be fun to write. However, if you use them for internet business purposes, they can also be quite lucrative.

How Blogs Can Help Business People

If you own and run your own successful online venture business, you may be wondering whether a blog could help you. The short answer is yes and the reasons are because it helps to bring traffic to your site and to provide your potential customers with an insight into what you are offering and the latest news for your business. You can also add other links including Google Adsense and you can have more keywords in them than you can in an article.

Many people believe that by having a blog on their business website, it will make people take them less seriously. However, people love nothing more than to learn new things about people. So while most of your blog could be about business related details, it could also be a chance to show your customers that you are actually a human being, too. If your customers feel slightly connected to you, they are likely to trust you and want to do business with you. So it can be clever online business marketing to have a blog on your website. Just be sure to update it regularly to keep your customers informed and wanting to come back.

How to Make a Good Business Blog

“Creating a good business blog takes quite a bit of thought”. Can you write about a certain product that you are offering, for example, and link off to it? Could you advertise your competition and get paid through Google Adsense for each click that each customer makes?

Think of how your blog could help you and use it to your advantage. Think about the style of the blog, does it look eye catching? If not, the chances are people will not really bother to read it. So make it short, keep it eye catching and you should be ok.

Overall, blogs can help you just as long as you give them plenty of thought and update them regularly. It is a chance to sell your services and products and it gives customers a slightly more personal view into your life and your online business.

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In order to run a successful online business blog, you will have to think about making it more SEO friendly. It will help you to gain more traffic and therefore encourage more sales. So just what exactly is SEO and how can you add it to your blog?

What is SEO?

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and it is used to make your website rank higher in search engines. You do this by using certain keywords that show your site on search engines such as Google and Yahoo. However, it can be difficult getting your website noticed on the major search engines as they usually prefer your website to have been up for at least a year or two and having it linked to from other websites, is also sometimes needed.

How to Use SEO for Your Blog

If you are looking to use SEO to promote your online home based business blog, you will need to take various factors into consideration. The first is that it is good to use as many keywords as possible to highlight your site, you should never use too many.

If you do use too many keywords, the search engines that you want to help you will actually ignore the site. They do not want you to overstuff your website with SEO content because if you do, it is likely not to be of a good quality. So, you need content in your website that reads well and has a good amount of keywords, but not too many.

The good news about a blog is that you can generally get away with using more keywords than you can in an article. This is because it makes more sense in a blog because it is shorter and it is a summary of whatever it is that you want to say. However, saying that, it would still be a good idea to limit the keywords and ensure that the blog does make sense with them all included. Hence you can improve your, internet business opportunity

Finally, the main thing to keep in mind with SEO and blogs is that you need to make any external links that you may provide relevant to your website. If, for example, you have a website about cars, it would be pointless having a link to site about office furniture. The search engines will pick up on all of the links that you have and they will simply push your website down the list if they notice anything funny about your submission.

SEO in your blog can help you to gain more business, make extra money and it can help you to get higher rankings on various different search engines too.

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