Article - THE Most Important Tip For Newbie's - Testing, Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3.......

After putting in all of your hard work as a Newbie Webmaster, you would like everything to work properly once you have published your business to the web. This one piece of advice could make the difference between your business being a success or a failure.......

A friend on mine, John, spent months putting his online business together. He often stayed up all night working on research, web design, marketing ect... His poor wife and kids hardly ever saw him. As soon as he came in from his day job, he would shut himself away in the spare room and work on 'the business'. Then finally, he declared that everything was in place. He had a great domain name and host, fantastic niche products, an impressive website, a marketing and advertising campaign already to go. Everything was uploaded to the servers and traffic was starting to hit his site. "Wonderful" he thought. But.......... He had made a vital error.........

What did John do that was so wrong?

He didn't do enough testing. Traffic was visiting his homepage, but most of the links didn't work. They where unable to navigate to other pages on his site. The important pages, such as sales copy and free downloads where 'unavailable'. If someone tried to sign-up for his eZine, nothing happened. What a disaster!!! The volume of targeted traffic to his site was quite high, but no one stayed there for very long and no one bought anything. He wasn't able to build his opt-in list Ezine subscribers that he could email with promotional material. All the months of effort resulted in a big-fat nothing. John was devastated to say the least.



So what did John do next? He could have given up. Thrown his arms in the air with disppear and cried uncontrollably. I know a lot of people that have done this, they have given up because the think that they have failed. But once again, he locked himself away in his spare room and went to work. Every link in every page was tested, retested and tested again. All the opt-in boxes and interactive options where given the same treatment.

What John did next...

He had 7 of his friends test it all over again. He asked them to go to his site and travel around it. Click the links to the pages, use his opt-in boxes. Do things that a customer would do. For their time and trouble he gave them each a free gift. A product that he was offering for sale on his site was theirs just for spending a few minutes surfing Johns site. They all did as they where asked. Guess what? No, it didn't work perfectly. In fact, there where still several glitches. John fixed them and tested again. His friends visited his site once more. Hey Presto.....Everything worked.

Beware of 'friends'.

When relying on friends to test your site and report back, there could be a 'loyalty' issue. They are after all your friends. Their opinion may not be completely unbiased. If a friend says "It was excellent John", maybe they thought it was dodgy, but didn't want to hurt your feelings. So only pick people that you know will be totally honest with you. Their brutality is for your own good. You need to know how a total stranger would feel about your site when they visit. What your Mom thinks isn't really important.

Keep on testing.........

As time goes by you have to make changes to your WebPages. Don't forget to test the new additions. Get into the habit of checking that the older links are still in working order while your at it. By spending a little bit of time testing often can save you hours if not days of trying to put a problem right when things do go wrong. Also consider the customers that you could lose if your site/links aren't working properly.

Concluding the story of John.....

John still continues to test the links on this sites. Actually, he pays someone else to do it now. Do you know why? It's because he's earning $150,000 a year and he can afford to pay someone else. He spends most of his time jet-setting with the wife and kids he felt he had neglected in the early days of setting up the business. He still does testing himself from time to time. He learned his lesson the hard way and he won't forget it, ever...... When he spends time clicking through his sites links to make sure that they still operate, he's usually found doing so on his laptop instead of on his old pc in the spare room. He sits on the balcony of his brand new house, the sun shining as he gazes out at the beach in front of him.

So the #1 tip for Newbie and old-hand Webmasters is test, test and test again. Everything. Then get other people to do the same. Compensate them for their trouble if you can. Never over look how serious this whole testing thing is. If not done properly it can result in disaster and many online businesses fail because of it. Is your business gona succeed or fail?

Here's to YOUR internet success,

Jane Harper, Webmaster

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Article - Why Free Makes It Easy.

Do you know what the most frequently used word is that people type in a search box on the internet? Knowing what this word is and using it to it's fullest extent can literally EXPLODE your sales if you run an online business. Let me explain.

The word that is used in searches on the internet more than any other is FREE. Everyone loves something for nothing. No one wants to pay for something if they can get it for free.

Think about all the times you have searched for something on the internet. Weather it was for information, a service, a product, in fact anything. Did you just type in the description, a keyword or phrase, or did you put 'free' before it? If you omitted the word free, when the search engines generated the results, I guarantee it gave you a list of 'related searches' containing the keywords you used with 'free' in front of them.

The benefit of giving something for free.

As an online business, if you offer a product, service or some information for free, it can have great returns. First of all it boosts your search engine rankings. As the word is typed into a search more than any other, having it optimized on your website will have amazing dividends. Once a customer has found you in their search results, further use of the word free will draw them in even more. Giving them something for nothing if they visit your site is a big attraction. In fact it is such a huge attraction that I can't emphasize how important it is.

How giving something for free can make you money.

When someone visits your site to claim their freebie, several things can happen. In order to get their free product, they have to give you their name and email address. This is the #1 reason for offering it to them in the first place. It is highly unlikely that someone will buy something on their first visit to a website. And unless there is an excellent reason for them to return, they may never visit again. By having their email address, you can contact them and remind them to revisit your site. You can offer them 'special offers' and affiliate sales through your correspondence emails.

It is a well known fact that there needs to be an average of 7 contacts (sales pitches, remind revisits, offers ect...) with a customer before they will actually buy something. The reasons for this are quite lengthy and are a whole other article, so lets stick to the matter at hand. By being able to have the important contact with your customers, your chances of them making a purchase have increased significantly. They learn to 'trust you', you become familiar to them and that is what often clinches the deal. You gain these things from your customers and then they buy. So, that's how you make money from giving away something for free.

The quality of free.

The item that you offer, weather it be a subscription to an ezine, an eBook, report or software, MUST be of good quality. If the customer receives their freebie and the quality is poor, they will not come back to your website and buy anything. Even if you are the best website in your niche, offering the best deals, they will never find out, because they just won't come back. On the other hand, if they are impressed by their free gift, they are more than likely to visit you website again and again. High quality, useful products are an essential if you want the 'freebie offer' to work for you.

How you can drive traffic to your website using 'free'.

Classified ads are a fantastic way to drive traffic to your website. The headline and description should be centred around the infamous "what's in it for me". That is offering them a freebie. This will entice them to click the link and visit your website. You can post classifieds for free. Just type 'free classifieds' into the search box in your browser and choose from the 1000's of results that the search engines produce. Submit your ads often and the traffic will keep coming.

Other ways to drive traffic using 'free'.

Simply use it anywhere your ads appear. If you publish articles, reports or ebooks, put your offer in your resource box. If you use pay-per-click, use the offer as your ad copy. Advertising in eZines, weather its your own, an affiliates or bought advertising, again use the free offer in your resource box.

Choose carefully.

When deciding on what it is that you will give way, there is one piece of advice that is vital. Make the free item appropriate to you audience. Whatever niche you operate it, stick with the theme. If you offer an eBook on 'how to knit fancy tea cosies' and your business sells musical instruments, you will be heading for a problem.

The customer will visit your website to get their eBook. They will download it and probably be very pleased if it contained high quality information on 'how to knit fancy tea cosies'. When you contact them via email with for example a 'special offer on violin strings', unless by some highly unlikely, random chance that they play the violin, they will not visit your website again. No matter how many emails you send them, their interest was tea cosies, not musical instruments. Why should they visit your site again? The fact is they won't. So be mindful of what your own niche actually wants and give it to them.

In conclusion, the more you offer freebies, the more money you will make. It is one of the best traffic drivers and is a straight forward concept. Now that you have this little golden nugget of valuable information, get to work.

Plan what you could offer your customers for free, to whom, when and where. Decide on a product that you can legally give away. Make it something that is useful to your own niche market. Advertise it everywhere you can and your opt-in-list will grow very quickly. After all 'the money is in the list', but again, that's another article.
Below is a perfect example of the 'free' offer. I didn't make it up, it's for real and it works.
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Article - Why do so many Internet busineses fail?

There is an increasng number of people across the world that are seeking to start an online business. They are drawn by the amazing benifits that such a career offers. Unlimited earnings, working from home, semi autopilot business that gives sooooooooo much free time. Do you blame them?

Millions of dollars are spent every year on books that offer advice on every angle of internet business that you could imagine. With so many books being sold, you would think that many successful businesses would appear. This is not the case. Why?

Ok, so they spend their hard earned cash on a book or package that is going to change their lives. They then have the opportunity to do as the manuals instructs and get rich. The problem is they don't do anything, no action. The information just sits there. They should take the opportunity and ACT on it. Only then will they get results.

Sometimes they will make a big effort and begin the process of building their business. Soon they think "Heck, this is just too hard" and give up. They were looking for a 'quick fix' get rich quick scheme that requires no work and earns then a fortune. Such a system certainly does not exist. I'm not saying that a profit can't be earned from a 'quick fix' system, but it would not be a huge profit. If you want to earn $100,000 a year, it takes a little more work.

Why is it that people buy these products and don't use them? They want the results right? Yes, but there is usually something missing from the 'success factor' that is needed to be 'one of the big boys' in internet marketing. So whats missing? Support. Not just technical support or general advice. Guidence of a different nature is called for. Guidence in 'how to think'.

Thats right, how to think. You may well be saying "I don't need to be coached on how to think". Well, the truth is you probably do. If you where already able to think like 'one of the big boys', you'd be mega wealthy already. You need to be able to react and 'think' like they do. It isn't difficult and the results are fantabulous.

This is where 99.99% of people starting an internet business go wrong. They don't think effectively. The right book/package/system combined with the best support is the ONLY way to get to the top. Struggling on your own, without learning the other side of the 'how to', will almost always end in failure.

So if you are thinking of running an online business, be mindful when you begin and get ALL the elements that you will need for success. Then you need to act. But that's a whole other article.

If you really want the same levels of success that the top internet guru's have, then by just joining our community at S.C.M. you will be giving yourself the opportunity to obtain the resources that will 'get you going'. Visit our homepage now and take a look for yourself. www.successcreatesmoney.com

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This is sooooo easy...

This is easy. This whole blog thing is really simple. It only took a bit of exploring and trial and error to find out what it was all about.

I started a personal blog so that I could experiment with different things. I mastered it in no time at all. Now I post an entry at least once a day on at least one of my blogs. I enjoy it so much that I am going to write an article on it. As soon as I have done it, I will post it here and you are welcome to let me know what you think.

In fact, you are welcome to comment on anything. Even if it isn't blog related, shoot me an email with your comment or query and I promise that I will get back to you as soon as is humanly possible.