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1.) Best Way to Market
~ Jay Andrassy
2.)Two Tier Affiliate Programs - Cash Cows?
~Vincent Caldwell
3.) Cavalcade of Comments re:#123
~Melody T Vargas
4.) How To Get Top Search Engine Rankings With Doorway Pages
~Jason Trepins
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~ What does this actualy MEAN?
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From: "Fred Raley" <FVRaley@erols.com>
-- Number One on Two Counts --
or,
How I Vaulted to the top as the Fastest Master Consultant
Qualification in the History of my Leads Company and at the Same Time
Qualified as One of the Top Ten Recruiters in My Company in my First
Quarter with Them"
Four things came together at once like a prism focusing the sun's
rays into a very strong, single ray for me early this year that
vaulted me into massive success in my MLM ventures. Instead of a
disoriented and unfocused approach to marketing like the last eight
years in my MLM career, everything was coming together into one well
oiled machine from all of the things I learned and had studied over
that time.
1. My study of compressed pay plans paid off. I chose one company
over all others because of a powerful marketing system which sorts,
sells, sifts, educates, excites and signs up folks for us. I started
plugging people into that system in April and have not even thought
about looking back since enjoying great success from it every week.
Being able to break even and turn a profit with only four people is a
powerful feature in any comp plan which has served me well.
2. My education and learning about proper followup with prospects
came to focus with the advent of automatic followup systems like
multiple linked autoresponders, email cgi scripts that work in
conjunction with my web site and more to allow me to do infinite
followups, properly spaced all with a single click of my mouse. The
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your benefit-laden marketing letters that drip with customer focus at
all four corners) and apply it thousands of times per day over and
over and over again without lifting a finger!
3. We plugged the one hole left in our marketing system with an
established lead company. Two key features: 1) It offered email
addresses with the leads which vastly cuts my marketing cost and
explodes the automation of my marketing system, and, 2) a pay plan
that pays high up front to get you into profit fast for a net cost of
zero for your leads. We exploited the features of the pay plan to
get folks into profit fast by limiting our own take home pay
initially. This secret tactic has vaulted me to the top position in
the company in under 75 days, a company record to my understanding.
Why everyone does not do this, I've no idea! My downliners are
achieving similar success with this killer marketing tactic.
4. Giving more back than expected or received as often as possible
is giving me payoffs beyond my wildest imagination. Example: A
competitor of mine signed up and order products from my company so he
could be in my downline and learn my internet marketing secrets. He
did but my payoff was even greater. After spilling my guts about
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Being one of the top ten recruiters in my company was quite a
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From: "Jay Andrassy" <andrassy@apeweb.com>
Subject: Best Way to Market
http://www.hotyellow98.com/cecilia/freeads.html
This is number the #1 listing placing free classified ads , I just checked
and its not . The site he built had a digital counter with 30 hits on the
home page not real bright when you have only 30 hits and then you tell
people you know all about doorway pages ? I have been on the net for 9 years
and did Cindy Margolis's first site which had up to 2 million hits a day
that's a server turned up to 150 hits a second with 500 sockets full for 4
hours solid. I design build and promote sites when your ready for real
articles email me back and I will tell you how its really done.I currently
have www.equallyyoked.com a single Christians site up to 500,000 hits a
month and number 2 in Yahoo under Christian dating and www.aoneterm.com
number 2 in Lycos under term insurance and term life insurance these have
both been there for 15 weeks each.
"Quality is never an accident, It is always the result of intelligent
effort"
Thanks, best regards
Jay Andrassy
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Note from Editor.
Jay
It looks to me like you mixed up two articles.
One was offering links to classifieds site which URL you printed at the top of
your article and the other one was about doorway pages which had different
URL and didn't have any counter.
http://freeyellow.com/members7/roann99/index.html
I'm not quite sure what was your point.
I invite you to write an article how things are really done.
Although my site recive daily about 200,000 hits I would like to know how
you achieved your 2 million.
B.F.
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From: "Vincent Caldwell" <vscaldwell@email.msn.com>
Subject: Two Tier Affiliate Programs - Cash Cows?
Hi Bogdan,
First, let me begin by telling you what a great E-zine you put out, I
honestly look forward to reading each issue.
Mr. Fabianos article hit some cords with me as I read it. I have to
definitely agree that too many of these " affiliate programs" never seem to
benefit the "affiliate". The only people realizing true benefit are the
program sponsors. They are receiving a myriad of "suckers" out there
promoting their product, site or service for next to nothing in hard costs.
I have fallen victim to a few of these programs myself, and after a few
hundred hours promoting them , I still came up empty-handed. I now only
promote one other company on my site and that of course is Adland. It's a
company that offers quality service as well as product.
As Mr. Fabiano stated, one should be very careful in choosing any affiliate
program, make sure it is a product or service you would want to be
associated with, and one you can sell. The lure of huge commissions is
usually just that...a lure.
Vince Caldwell
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==========C o n t i n u i n g D i s c u s s i o n (3.1)=============
From: Melody T Vargas <melodyt@nafe.com>
Subject: Cavalcade of Comments re:#123
Dear Bogdan and AdLanders:
In issue #123, I got way too personally involved,
resulting in an extremely high volume of comments.
Bogdan reminds us of the new discussion board at:
> http://www.adlandpro.com/ActiveForum/
I'd like to ask that if possible, a "preview"
feature could be added, so that we can see what
our post looks like before we send it. Please
put it on my wish list.
SVanBeekom@aol.com, comments(?) on the "Best Way to
Market"
> In response to people needing more visitors to
> their sites, I also need some hits to my new site:
> Its all FREE ADS! ::snip::
> Its bound to help everyone!
Well, I am not so sure about it being "bound to help
everyone" considering I was only your 40th hit and I
assume that you are using your own programs.
First of all the site isn't bad for a hotyellow site.
It was actually better than I anticipated. I also
had to find the gimmick, which appears to be the ads
leading people to your biz ops page. Which was what I
anticipated. I think that if you are trying to build
traffic to your free ad site and from that generate
sales off your biz ops, then the best thing you could
do for your site is to add commentary.
Provide some value, like how is the program working
for you. Rate the programs/ad pages or rank them, or
offer some interactivity and allow your visitors to
vote on them. Here is an example of a site that I
feel is similar to what you are trying to do, but does
what I described: http://www.jtdbizopps.com/sub.html
Add some more value for your visitors and it will help.
Also, participate in discussions in various places on
the Web and use a signature file with a simple line
"Place your ads for free at: http://www.myadsite.com"
As long as you are on topic, most places allow sig files.
Joe Schwartz < varied@countrycool.com> returns for more
help from Bogdan:
> To be honest, I use a new 56K WebTV, ::snip::
> So, I'm not using a computer, as such and there
> are some limitations to how I can use the Net.
I am going to suggest that if you want to do any
serious business building on the Web that you get
a PC or a MAC. It will greatly enhance both your
capabilities and how serious other people perceive
you as being about your business. Perception is
very valuable in business.
> I also have been laboring to go thru about 265
> e-mail acknowledgments (ads mostly) for a free
> FFA submission to a few thousand. By the time
> I got to some of the sites to check on my
> listings, they were long gone==they must stay up
> only a few hours, before they're bumped off!
First, stop wasting your time going through the
acknowledgments. Your time is better spent
learning how to build your business online,
marketing yourself and figuring out how to use
your site statistics.
::Warning - blantant promotion coming up::
I strongly recommend that you stop spending money
on submission services until you have your site
set up to really sell. The best way, in my opinion,
to do this, is to take the next $17 you would have
spent on submissions and get Ken Evoy's wonderful
book on creating and marketing websites, "Make Your
Site Sell" at http://www.sitesell.com/solution.html
I was a happy customer months before I became an
affilate, and it is the single biggest help I have
had for setting up my sites. It has a lifetime
moneyback guarantee if you find that it doesn't help
you. It offers serious, practical, usable solutions.
Jeff Neil, <jneil@sunbeach.net> asks:
> We are very new to internet marketing, so really
> need some guidance here ... just how do we reach
> internetters who are specifically interested in
> communications development / radio broadcasting?
Contact Tina Gasperson, the Radio Guide at About.com http://radio.about.com/
She offers training resource links on her site. You
can also find related links there and others to
connect with on her forum.
I think that's enough comments for one day from one
person! Everyone have a successful day.
Melody Treece Vargas
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You wrte:
I'd like to ask that if possible, a "preview" feature.
The software which is installed is built by other company
and although modifications are possible, this might
be an option at a later date.
B.F.
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From: Jason Trepins <astrochimp@aol.com>
Subject:How To Get Top Search Engine Rankings With Doorway Pages
This is in response to...
From: "Robert Olson" <ro@artelco.com>
Subject:How To Get Top Search Engine Rankings With Doorway Pages
After I read that article on How to get a Top Ranking, I felt like some
people may get the idea that it's VERY Easy to get a top Ranking with
a gateway page.
Of course, if the subject of your webpage is about something obscure...then
you may Easily end up as the number 1 position on a search engine.
Reality is that it is Very Tough to get even a top 10 or 20 Ranking using
gateway pages.
Good strategies are to put keywords in your title, page headline, Meta tags-
description and keywords and in the text of your page.
But that alone will not get you the best ranking.
Search engines have complicated algorithms that take into account things like
percentage of keywords to other words on your page, Links TO your site, links
FROM your site, Where keywords are on your site, How many total keywords you
have...etc.
Some Search Engines don't take Meta Tags into consideration.
If the search engine believes you are trying to Spam by placing Too many
keywords or keywords that have nothing to do with your site. You may even
Be BANNED from placing any more sites on their search engine.
To make things Worse, I've seen some pages ranked very high after a search
and I had NO IDEA how they achieved that ranking after looking at the source
code for their page!
It's a mystery sometimes. Even following all the recommended tips won't get
you noticed on some search engines.
Also, ALL SOME companies do is charge people to get them a high ranking on
search engines.
These companies only focus is to figure out how to get a top Ranking.
I don't know their success rates but I KNOW that they don't always succeed.
I don't know How Mr. Olson acquired a top ranking. Either he got lucky or is
a genius and isn't telling us.
Typing 'placing free classified ads' on Infoseek might get you his webpage
but typing 'free classified ads' might not show his website Anywhere. And
who knows how long he'll be number one? Pages are constantly being
bumped and search engines are always changing their algorithms give
better results.
Good Luck!
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Free4u Member
Largest Free Directory in the World.
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From: Dave Rhoten <jdrz@ctaz.com>
Subject: What does this actualy MEAN?
Hello--I got a "welcome" letter...( I'm a new guy ) that encourages
me to participate in the disscussions..and then this message was
part of the letter:
LEARN how to quote
A good message does NOT contain the entire text of the message
to which it's responding; ONLY salient points (usually, a single
sentence or sentence fragment) should be included. Do NOT quote
an entire message or an entire paragraph, and if you quote a
header or a .sig, you deserve the flames you get for it.
Does this mean I should copy and paste JUST the part of the post
that I want to comment on?..or ask about?..Scared the heck outta
this ol' cowboy...I don't want no flames..
Ol' Dave
Dave Rhoten-pres/ceo Dave's Custom Carved Signs
How to build a good income on the internet.
http://www.sixfigureincome.com/?96818
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Note from Editor.
You wrote.
>>LEARN how to quote
>> A good message does NOT contain the entire text of the message
>>to which it's responding;
>Does this mean I should copy and paste JUST the part of the post
>that I want to comment on?..or ask about?..Scared the heck outta
>this ol' cowboy...I don't want no flames..
>Ol' Dave
Dave,
Yes this is exactly what it means.
As you see I just took out part of your messge to use it as an example.
This is enough to make other readers aware what was past discussion
about.
There is no reason to be scared. Your message was just sent to about
10,500 subscribers and I'm sure that it will benefit few of them.
B.F.
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From: "Mr. Luigi Marruso" <galacticamistery@hotmail.com>
Subject: Few questions to work together !
Hi Friends !
This is my second message to this wonderful newsletter because only here I
can be sure to find many serious people ready to work with me.
Friends, for now I have still a scarce knowledge in computers and their
functions so I hope you will be able to help me with the following questions
of sure interest for the entire group; I'm also studying to better and to
become a big webmaster, this is my dream :
1 - From 15 September '99, I will begin to put online the first pages of my
new site www.hobbytoday.com. I have big projects on it but I need your help
to develop all them. For example, I created 5 discussion mailing lists for
Italian, English, French, German and Spanish people but, for some of them, I
need a moderator mother tongue. Full info about this and some other
initiatives can be found at: http://www.hobbytoday.tsx.org. Please, visit it
and let me know if you think you could be useful.
2 - My site will be fully dedicated to hobbies, entertainments,
friendship,collectors, business and free services. I would like to create a
serious program of the kind "Paid to read E-Mails" too. I'm able to find
hundred sponsors with the help of my worldwide partners but, I repeat, I
have a scarce knowledge about building a Web Site. Where can I find, create
or buy a program able to automatically create personal URLs for the
downlines of this free multilevel marketing ?
3 - I would like to manage a newsletter sent free to all our members to
update them about the new developments of our Web Site. I need a mailing
list with semplified access of the kind: hobbytoday-subscribe@hobbytoday.com
and not a sofisticated listproc. Is it possible? Who is able to answer to my
question? In few words, I need a mailing list located on my own server with
the same functions necessary to subscribe/unsubscribe from others like those
on eGroups, Listbot etc ...
4 - What kind of program is required to create an FFA Page on my Web Site
with my server address?
* DIFFERENT QUESTIONS :
5 - I have an FFA located on multilinks.net and an autoresponder located on
a different server. Can I link the autoresponder to my FFA so that it can
send confirmations to those people who will post here ?
6 - Who know well the functions of Netscape Messenger ? I need to receive
with it messages sent to one of my mails located on netscape.net. What are
the Incoming Mail POP3 and the Outgoing Mail SMTP addresses?
Sorry again for all these questions and thanks for your attention, this
newsletter is really great ! As I repeat, many members could find
interesting answers to some of my doubts ...
======================N e w P o s t i n g (3)========================
>From YONG SIN KONG <xinbing@tm.net.my>
Subject: Get Paid To E ~ Mail . . . . . . . . . .
There is an effective way-to-sell idea came across my mind recently ; in which
derives from ' Get Paid To Surf The Net ' method. The idea is just so simple !!!
Instead of using website, I started to use E-Mail as the tool. Anyone who gets
access to theinternet must use E-Mail ; hence, the use of SIGNATURE is most
familiar. Everyone knows,everytime he/she does
e-mail, no matter who/where the addressee/destination is, the
SIGNATURE should definitely appear at the bottom of the message automatically.
For instance, I am selling INSOLES ( interior sole of a shoe ) ~ an excellent
and unique health device to improving fitness ( massage your way to physical
health ).
I offer a $ 2 . 00 Commission for the participant who agrees to put my
Classified Ad. into his/her Signature File. The Classified Ad. is a simplified
one, and it draws the reader's interest and curiousity, to make an inquiry .....
The participant will then redirect/forward the inquiry to me.
When the deal is successful and done, the participant gets paid ( $ 2 . 00 on
each sale ).
The participant needs not do any sale or investing any money to get started ;
but, just copy and paste the Classified Ad. into his/her Signature File, then
sit back and wait for the inquiries arrived. Isn't it simple ???
The paid Commission is much more higher than those offered ' Get Paid To Surf
The Net '. Moreover, it does not involve spam.
I just started it not long ago, and to-date, I have more than a hundred
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"Beyond Doorway Pages..."
By Eva Almeida,
First of all, let's discuss what a doorway page is. A doorway
or mirror page, as I understand it, is an identical page to
your regular page except for the META tags will have
different keywords. This will allow you to rank high for
the same page of information with 2 separate main keywords.
Many search engines frown on these but they have started to
accept them. Here is what David Gikandi of
SearchEngineWatch.Com had this to say about doorway pages:
"According to interviews with search engine executives
in the Search Engine Watch, the search engines seem to have
adopted a whole new healthy attitude towards doorway pages!
As long as your doorway pages do not promote keywords or
phrases that have nothing to do with your Web site’s content,
and that you do not submit too many doorways with the same
keyword and clog up the search results, you are free to go
for it!"
But would you be interested in creating pages that will be
more effective and better accepted than doorway pages? You
won't have to worry about dropping off the search engines
through being accused of spamming them with useless pages.
An effective way to rank high in the search engines for your
selected keywords is to create a separate page for each
keyword and give it some unique and valuable content related
to that keyword (which has been termed Keyword-Focused Content
Pages). This goes way beyond the concept of doorway pages
where the only differences in the pages are the keywords
in the META Tags.
Why don't you select your best words and phrases for your
site or product, create a new page for each and concentrate
on using those keywords in the META Tags, Title, Headline
tags, alt tags of images, and sprinkled throughout the page
in the body of your text. In fact, you can write separate
articles about each feature and benefit of the product you
are selling then link those pages to your order page or a
stronger sales letter page. The best part is that you will
not have to worry about the percentage of keywords in your
article...you can relax and really write a useful article.
For example, if you have a marketing site that sells search
engine analysis software, you could include or write
articles or tutorials on how to submit to search engines.
Then stress each benefit of using your software to automate
the process in a separate article. Or if you are an ezine
publisher, you can archive each issue of your newsletter
in separate directories with a separate page for each
article featured in your ezine. Each article would have
one keyword associated with it as well as a link to your
homepage and subscription box for the benefit of visitors
arriving from the search engines.
This is a win-win-win situation for all. The Search Engine
is happy because its clients will access a useful report if
they click on your site, you will receive more targeted traffic
selling your software or gain subscribers to your newsletter,
and the visitors will receive help with their search engine
submission through your tutorials and the software if they
choose to purchase it. Much more effective, in my opinion,
than a small link amongst many other links to other products.
This is also preferred to just creating a doorway page with
repetitive or low-value content linking to your main page.
This is just a brief explanation on how you can get more
visitors to your site using Keyword-Focused Content Pages.
Needless to say that this is just the tip of the iceberg when
it comes to the utilizing the search engines. This idea came
from a 196 page bonus traffic-building manual that I received
with the purchase of a very useful book, "Make Your Site Sell",
which can be found at: <http://www.sitesell.com/marketing1.html>
Copyright © 1999
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Eva Almeida, Publisher of "The Marketing Edge Tip-Zine",
Co-Founder of the Marketing Course Newsletter Network.
The sale power of the internet unleashed. Get your free
copies of the only newsletters that provide you with an
on-going marketing course. Grasp the hidden strategical
ideas behind marketing tactics. Learn how to devise, create
and apply marketing tactics that work for YOUR business.
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When Ads Go Bad: Bloopers!
"Illiterate? Write today for free help."
(Sign at an auto repair garage): "Free pick-up and delivery. Try us once,
you'll never go anywhere again."
"Our qualified and experienced Mom will care for your child. Fenced yards,
meals and smacks included."
"Dog for sale: eats anything. Is especially fond of children."
"Mixing bowl set designed to please the expert cook with round bottom for
efficient beating."
"Our bikinis are exciting. They are simply the tops."
"Semi-Annual After-Christmas Sale!"
"Girl wanted to assist magician in cutting-off head illusion. Salary and
Blue Cross."
"Dinner Special: Turkey, $3.35. Chicken and Beef, $3.25. Children, $2.00."
"For Sale: antique desk suitable for lady with thick legs and large
drawers."
"We do not tear your clothing with machinery. We do it carefully by
hand."
"Tired of cleaning yourself? Let me do it."
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To be continued.....
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