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10 Must Have Web Sites for Online Marketing

Provided here is a compilation of useful sites that I refer to often within my daily online business ventures. By sharing these sites it is my sincere hope and desire to shed some light for entrepreneurs in the areas of online marketing, web site optimization and site advertising. Here are a list of a few websites:

 

1) Freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

This is a great site for searching keyword phrases that are highly searched. This site is great because it highlights the most used keyword phrases in connection with a single keyword. I go here often when I’m keyword brainstorming and searching for a host of particular keyword phrases.

2) Alexa.com

This is an extraordinary site that will give you a ranking based on the incoming traffic that your site receives. This is a great site to refer to when building your traffic and attempting to achieve a higher ranking to your site.

 

3) Directorysubmitter.imwishlist.com/

Directory Submitter is a great software program. It is free to download and easy to use. With Directorysubmitter you can input your information such as your name, website name, title of your site, description of your site and a few other variables only one time and DirectorySubmitter will provide hundreds of free sites where you can submit your website for free. DirectorySubmitter makes it much easier for you by automatically submitting your information into these sites and all you have to do is click send. Go here and take a look at the video and it will give you a short tutorial on how to use Directory Submitter and how it can benefit you in getting free one way links to your site.

 

4) Articlesubmitter.imwishlist.com/

Article Submitter works in the same way Directory Submitter does except you’re submitting your articles to online article directories. Like Directory Submitter it’s a great tool to attract viewers to view your content and to your website. With Article Submitter, you only have to input your site and article information once and Article Submitter will provide you with hundreds of Article Directories for you to choose from. All you have to do is pick which sites you want to submit your article to and Article Directory will automatically submit your information then you’ll just hit send. Just that easy. Go here to download and view a short tutorial video on how to use Article Submitter and how it can also benefit you in gaining exposure to your articles.

 

5) Toolbar.google.com/

This site gives you a free downloadable google toolbar that can be placed at the top of your internet browser. It’s very helpful because it gives you the google page rank of every page you visit. It has a google search bar there so you don’t have to go to google’s home page to search for a term you can just key it into the toolbar and it will take you strait to the SERP listings. I use it and I have found it to be a very good resource.

 

6) LinkPopularity.com

Link Popularity is the total number of websites that link to your site. LinkPopularity.com is a great tool for finding what sites are linking to your website or your competitors websites. Go here and scroll down to the bottom and key in the website you want to analyze backlinks.

 

7) "SEO Made Easy" free ebook

Through out many of my blogs I’ve mentioned Brad Callen’s free ebook "SEO Made Easy." It’s a wonderful tool for webmasters or bloggers who are optimizing your pages. The link to download the free ebook "SEO Made Easy" is http://www.homebiz-direct.com/SEO-made-easy.html.

8 WordPress.org Blog sites are one of the many ways to voice your thoughts on certain ideas or topics. Many bloggers will blog to gain an audience in an attempt to expose their personal life, politics, business, or an effort to market their business online. WordPress.org is a free site that gives you access to a more secure blog site which gives you more tools and freedom than some of the many well known blog sites such as blogger.com and others. WordPress also offers many plugins that you can download for free at: Wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ However with WordPress you will need to host your blog.

9) Hostgator.com Hostgator.com is a hosting site that supports WordPress. It offers a hosting plan for about $4.95/month which in my opinion is well worth it due to the security that you get that some of the free blogging sites don’t offer. Just as an FYI, for $7.95/month you can host an unlimited number of sites through hostgator.com.

 

10)online-income-101.com/series/becomea/blogger.html

For those of you who have tried Wordpress.org or are in the process of setting up your blog, the above link features outstanding hands-on tutorial videos that take you step by step on how to set up your blog. I know for me, in the process of setting up my blog the tutorial videos just mentioned were very helpful. I have found all of these sites to be conducive in my daily online business ventures. I was fascinated by how useful these sites were and thought I’d put them on here and provide awareness for many entrepreneurs. Many of these sites are are well known but for someone who is just starting these tools could be a lifesaver. And indeed… that is what my ultimate reason for starting this blog is to provide awareness and help smooth out some of the rough edges in this long but well worth it journey of online marketing.

 To your success,

 Jarrod Clark

Running Out of Your Warm market?

If you are involved in network marketing, and you are just getting started, you have probably become discouraged after targeting your warm market.

 

 However, there are some individuals who haven’t been as successful targeting their warm market. They get rebuttal after rebuttal and they have yet to be able to achieve much success in the area of your warm market. If this sounds like you and you are running out of your warm market, do not be discouraged.

 

There are many plentiful sources and ways to market your network marketing business online. One of the best ways to market your business is by focusing on your target audience. Your opportunity may have a typical product or a distinguished product, it doesn’t matter, what matters is how you market it.

 

By taping into search engine optimization, and focusing on people who are your target audience, you will acquire prospects who are calling you and not the other way around. Below you will find an intuitive outline of helpful tools of marketing online:

 

• Posting blogs online. - Blogging is a derivative of the word "web log" which essentially means logging your thoughts on the web. Blogging is effective because it’s a great way for search engines to pick up your message. Search engines will then give your blog a ranking. Based on your keywords, the search engines will place your blog in order of it’s ranking throughout the search engine’s listings. This will, in turn, draw targeted traffic to your blog based on your blog tags or keywords. Do a google search on blog resources and you will find a number of blogging resources. One resource that has been helpful for me is www.blogger.com

  
  

• WordPress Blog is also another great resource.

 

• Posting your articles online. - You can find a number of sites where you can post your articles for free. Posting articles are a great resource. Posting articles is also a great way to expand your readers and get your message out to an even greater audience. If you have a website and you want to draw traffic to it, posting articles is a great way to draw traffic to your site. Also it’s a good idea to post articles for search engine rankings. Search Engines see this as a one way link to your website and you will be rewarded for it.
  

 

• Free Article Submitter Software

• Free Directory Submitter Software

• Marketing on Myspace.com - Contrary to what some people think about the safety of myspace, it is a great way for you to market yourself and your business. It is a great tool for you to network with others that share the same interest as you do. Myspace has fundamentals like online groups and forums targeted toward specific categories. There you can join those groups and meet other individuals who are looking for what you have to offer as well as share ideas with other people who are successful in the area of network marketing. Myspace is also a great place for you to blog as mentioned earlier.

 

• Marketing using video blog web technology. - Video blogging is the same concept as blogging except you are video taping yourself verbally speaking your message. It’s very helpful, if not the most helpful tool, because it gives your audience the face to face advantage that they would get if they were in the same room talking to you. It is also my understanding that people join people not companies. There are sites where you can market yourself and your business that are key in helping you to be successful. One site that is well known is www.youtube.com is a great place for you to video blog.

 

There are many other ways for you to market your business opportunity and gather prospects that are looking for what you have to offer. I would like to add that I am not bashing the outside marketing ideas. It is a great way in addition to online marketing to achieve the level of marketing that you would like to achieve. I’m simply elaborating on the fact that there are some people who have a struggle with putting out flyers and walking up to people in the mall and pitching your presentation.

 

If this sounds like you then I would like to encourage you and enlighten you. There are more ways of marketing your opportunity than just approaching your warm market and approaching people on the streets. Explore and study ways of marketing online through google and other search engines. There you will find results and ideas that suit you in discovering your niche in online marketing.

To Your Success,

 

Jarrod Clark

 

 

Is Your Dream Alive?

This is a topic that hits right home for me. I, like many people, have many ambition’s and aspiration’s that I am determined to accomplish. I know with the right mind set I can do anything in this world. Philippians 4:13 simply says "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." This scripture acts as a catalyst in the heart of many believer’s like myself because even though I can’t see the outcome, I know that with mustard seed faith I will see my increase.

 

To those who are reading this, I would like to inspire you by giving you some questions to think about:

  

• Are your life long priorities in line?
• Are your past time priorities the same as your current day priorities?
• What are you passionate about?
• Have you given up on your lifetime visions & dreams, or have you let them fall by the wayside and put them on the back burner?

 

 Sometime ago, I was examining some priorities and aspirations of my own and it turns out that one of my many goals is to become skilled in music production.  I am a musician and I have been playing drums now for about 16 years. However, although I am very passionate about being a drummer, I’ve always had a desire to express myself in a much greater way than drumming alone. I want to be able to compose music that will effect and change the lives of many others. A few years ago, I found myself at a place where I was really absorbed in making that happen. However, somewhere down the line that dream slowly deminished. I found myself becoming busy and wrapped up in other things and my focus was deterred. Although, in the back of my mind I sincerely wanted to start back where I left off, I kept putting it off with the intentions to start back on a later day in time.

 

Procrastination can be our worse enemy. Sometimes you can believe and become so absorbed in something until you literally can’t think about anything else. If that sounds like you, I want to encourage you to take hold of your passion. Don’t ever let your dream go. Hold on to your dream for dear life. I am a firm believer that having faith and believing in something is more than just literally hoping and beliving. Taking action is the biggest part to accomplishing your ambitions.

 

Remember to keep your candle lit and strive to be "All you can be," as they say in the Army. Never give up on your dream’s and passion’s. Surround yourself with positive people and role model’s who are moving forward and accomplishing their dreams. Avoid hanging around people who will bring you down and convince you that what you are striving for is impossible. Focus your thoughts on things that are in line with your ultimate goal in life. Proverbs 23:7 says "As a man thinketh so is he…" It is very important to think positive and uplifting thoughts.  Remember to study the word and have a consistant prayer life. Do things that make you happy and feel good and the end result and reward will be much greater.

To your success,

 Jarrod Clark

It’s not your fault if you’ve failed at Network Marketing

I’ve had the pleasure of studying Network Marketing secrets and acquiring knowledge that most network Marketer’s who’ve just started, like myself, don’t know. I’ve been network marketing now for 2 years and I consider myself new due to the fact that I haven’t been consistent. I’ve been with a few companies and I’ve done it all just about. I’ve made my list of family and friends, i’ve put flyer’s out, i’ve done word of mouth, i’ve purchased leads and i’ve even put ads in the newspapers. I’ve got some people in but not enough to be a pro. Although, I realize it takes some time and practice. I’ve always wondered if there was just something that I didn’t know.  I’ve always wondered if there was some secret that the pro’s knew that I didn’t know. I was the type of person who was afraid to pick up the phone and call the prospects because of the tension level you get from them due to their skeptism about your business. Although, the system was in place with my company, phone scripts for instance, it didn’t seem to work for me when I first started.

 

It wasn’t until recently that I was doing some studying online and I discovered a wonderful mentoring program, Mentoring for Free. It’s a free program that was founded by Michael Dlouhy that provides a free ebook entitled "Success In 10 Steps." This outstanding ebook goes into great details about the right way to go about network marketing. It teaches you that network marketing is not a sales business it’s a relationships & people business. It goes into great detail about how people don’t join companies, people join people. If when you talk to people and they feel like you care about them with no agenda or you can help them to be successful and they feel that they can trust you, then they will want to join you. It teaches that about 92% of the population don’t like pushy aggressive sales people. So the good thing about those of you who say to yourself "… well i’m not sure if network marketing is for me because i’m not good at saling…" then I say to you GREAT! Thats okay! If you are great at building long lasting relationships with people and following up with them, then that’s what is key to network marketing.

 

It is not your fault if you have been failing at network marketing in the past. Many people who sponsor people tell them to make a long list of their family and friends. I have learned that it’s not a good idea to talk to your family and friends. It is best to look for your "target marget," people who are actually looking for what you have to offer. Many people who get into network marketing have sponsors who will tell them, that they have to change… they will often say you have to be exciting and the excitement will sale your prospects.  So these are some of the reason’s why people are failing because they are approaching friend’s and family or prospects with a sales pitch. I do believe it’s a good idea to build relationship’s, especially with your cold-market, because I can’t stress it enough, people join people not companies! I have learned that when you call your prospects the first thing they look for is who is doing the presentation. They look to see is this someone who I like or is this someone who I can trust to help me to be successful.

 

So in conclusion I want to let you know that it is not your fault if you have not been successful in network marketing. Although, it is important to have a great company that is stable and gives you great potential to earn a generous income, it all comes down to YOU! If you take out the time to figure out what people like and what makes them tick and you give them what they want and need, then you will be a monster in network marketing. To find out more about how to build better relationships with your propects go to: jarrodclark.successin10steps.com and download the free ebook "Success In 10 Steps." There’s nothing in it for me just the comfort and assurance of knowing that i’ve helped someone who may be struggling in network marketing.

 

To your success,

 

 Jarrod Clark