Use FaceBook To Get Traffic To Your Website

Facebook Fan Pages can be a very useful tool for drawing massive traffic to your websites, Facebook page or blog. Fan pages are better than profile pages because of the ability to have “Fans” which will constantly be updated on their feeds by whatever you post on your Fan page.

The way to draw massive traffic through a Fan page is by getting your Fans to interact with the content you post on your Fan page. Here’s a few techniques for making that happen:

-Ask questions. One way is by simply asking questions of those who ‘like’ us on Facebook. Every day or two we pose a simple question that asks readers either for their opinion, to share an experience that they’ve had, to tell us something about the stuff they are interested in and so forth.

-Highlight important updates. The benefit of highlighting what’s happening on your Facebook page is it boosts the numbers of responses to the questions that you ask. Also, people who just joined the page can get into the latest updates on the site.

-Start a landing page. Just like how the usual landing page or opt in page works on your website, you can include one on your fan page and encourage people to “like” the page so that they can get a free download to a free gift. This can help you to build your subscriber list fast and send them back to the Fan page for more updates.

-Advertise on Facebook. Advertise on Facebook and draw passive traffic into your Fan pages (preferably send them to your landing page). The more “Likes” you get, the more your business will get exposure on the newsfeeds of the fans and the more traffic you will get.

-Provide lots of useful content and send them to your blog. Use the Facebook Fan page as an “outpost” for your fans to get updates on latest blog posts or news on your website and encourage them to visit your website.

Be Blessed!
Todd

How to Maximize Profits From Your List…

While there are many ways that you can make money from your list of subscribers including; selling your own products and promoting affiliate programs, one of the most effective ways that an email marketer can maximize profits from their list is through a one time offer, often referred to as an OTO.

Generally, one time offers appear only one time during the sign up or sales process. Most of the time these special offers are presented right before or immediately after a customer makes a purchase. However, when it comes to list building you can offer your new subscribers an irresistible one time offer immediately after they have confirmed their subscription to your list.

While there is some debate as to whether or not including an OTO it in your list building process to increase profits is a good approach, because it doesn’t allow any time to develop a solid relationship with your new subscriber before trying to sell them something.

The argument is that if you aren’t considered an expert in your market, and your subscribers aren’t familiar with who you are presenting them a one time offer immediately after they sign up for free information can actually damage your reputation with your new subscriber.

If you want to play it safe you and still use this technique you can build a special offer page to send your subscribers to only after that have been on your list for a few days and received free content that they signed up for. You can then send out an email broadcast letting your subscriber know that you have a very special one time offer available.

To make this process easier, all you have to do is load your autoresponder with pre-written messages. This way as soon as a new subscriber joins your list they will immediately be entered into the series and they will start receiving follow up messages that are sent out automatically on specific dates. Try to keep the first few emails content rich and designed towards building a relationship with your new subscriber.

A good rule of thumb is to send out the first email (that includes the download link for the free product) instantly, and then set your autoresponder to send out one email per week until the series ends.

As I mentioned above, with regards to sending out promotional email, the broadcast feature in your autoresponder system is a much better option, especially if your promotions are time sensitive. Most autoresponder systems come with this feature ant it allows you to instantly send out an email to your entire subscriber base at one time, instead of including it into the autoresponder sequence.

When it comes to the frequency in which you send out email broadcasts to your list it is completely up to you. Many online marketers will suggest once a week, while others think that the more often you send your messages the sooner you’ll be able to build a relationship with your subscribers. Ultimately it is up to you!

The process of building a responsive mailing list it will take some time and you will want to train your subscribers to expect both free content and promotional emails from you. Remember to create a balance of content filled and promotional based emails and above all only promote quality products and affiliate offers to your subscribers.

After all you worked very hard to get them to join your list and you don’t want to drive them away by offering them information and products that don’t meet up to their expectations of you.

Be Blessed!

Todd

Build Your List Using Giveaway Events…

Participating in a giveaway event is a great way that you can build your mailing list quickly. It works like this; you join as a contributor, provide a free gift to the event, generally in the form of an ebook, software or some other type of downloadable digital product. You then create a squeeze page with an optin subscription form on it. People fill in the form and join your list in exchange for the free gift.

This is how I got my start on the Internet… It was Mark Hendrick’s Christmas Giveaway over 12 years ago… Before this giveaway I had no list and had never made any sales other then some web hosting customers.

This strategy of list building is extremely well known by online marketers worldwide. Often you will see hundreds of online marketers gather together to build their lists with these events, because they have learned that providing free gifts in giveaways is a terrific way to build a list quickly.

These type giveaway events come in many sizes and on a wide variety of topics and they are held nearly year-round. To find possible events to join all you have to do is perform a quick search online for “giveaway jv” and this will return a list of sites that are hosting giveaway events.

Before you jump right in and begin contributing to these types of events you may want to sign up for a few of them first. This way you can get a good idea of how the process works, download some free products and join the lists of other marketers so that you can study how they are setting up their giveaway system. Not only is this a good way to spy on your competition, it’s a great way to get your hands on products that you can use to build your own list.

After you participate in a few of these events you will begin receiving a lot of email and even though it may be tempting to opt-out of these lists, you don’t want to be too quick to unsubscribe. Keep in mind that you are trying to learn how to get the best results by using giveaway events, so it is important that you study the techniques that other marketers are using.

I recommend setting up a folder on your desktop and keeping track of the products and emails that have the most impact on you. You will notice that the more experienced marketers will send you a number of emails, thanking you, offering you additional free gifts. They will then try to entice you into their sales funnel with a good low cost offer. These are the people that you need to keep a close eye on, because they are proficient at converting subscribers from these types of events in to paying customers.

Every giveaway is a little bit different, however they almost all run based on the same basic principle, so once you become familiar with one, you’ll have no trouble with any others. After your first couple of events you will be able to develop your own process for creating and submitting gifts, which will make it easier for you to improve your results over time.

Don’t be concerned if you only obtain a small amount of subscribers at first. With each event that you join it will be possible to add a growing number of subscribers to your list that you can use to your advantage for future giveaway events.

Keep in mind that your main goal is to convert your new found subscribers in to long time customers, so treat them well.

I’d love to hear from you! Please let me know if you need any help or have any questions.

Be Blessed!

Todd