6 Ideas to Promote Your Website for Free

By George Matthews  |   Submitted On March 02, 2016

  

If you already have a website up and running but you're lacking targeted visitors, check out 6 free ways to promote your website:

* Using Videos

Videos are extremely powerful if done right. Choose a topic you're comfortable to talk about and create a series of videos. You can place these videos on our blog but make sure you also upload them to YouTube and other video websites. You can also choose to have just a text post on your website and the video on the video websites.

Just be creative. There are many types of videos out there. You can simply show your screen, you can record yourself, whatever you want.

Make your videos interesting and captivating.

* Podcasting

Podcasts are becoming more popular every day. They allow you to connect directly to your audience and there are many people who prefer podcasts to read a post or watch a video. Just give it a try.

* Using Forums

Start up by creating a spreadsheet of all the forums in your niche. Open an account with each one of them and create a signature with a link or two pointing to your website. Then, search for threads where you are able to give a good insight. The more answers you give, the better. This will make you not only have more links pointing to your website (within your signature) as it will also allow you to become an authority in your niche since other people on the forums will start to recognize you.

* Articles

Although they're not so commonly used nowadays, it's always good to have links pointing to your website. And with articles sites, you can have this through the "Resource Box" at the end of the article.

* Commenting on other Blogs

There are many blogs that still have their comments open. Just make a list of the best blogs in your niche, and check the ones that allow you to have a link to your website. Then, once a day, go through all those blogs you found and see if you can leave a relevant comment. Make sure not to spam or saying anything redundant. Your credibility is on the line here.

* Guest Blogging

Guest blogging is pretty common nowadays and there are many blogs accepting guest posts. Again, you need to make a list of the most relevant blogs that accept guest posts and see their guidelines carefully. Then, just follow them and try to be accepted. Make sure the blogs you choose allow you to have at least one link pointing to your website.

Each one of these methods works on its own; but it's far better to use them all to see more results, sooner. Consistency is the key and with time, you'll see a steady growth in your new visitors and visitors coming back to your website.

If you want to have a fully responsive & beautiful website ready to convert or if you're struggling with getting targeted traffic to your website, make sure to visit WebsiteSprout - http://www.websitesprout.com.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/expert/George_Matthews/2258541

How to Develop Your Own Niche Products or Services

By Wian Deleon  |   Submitted On February 15, 2016

  

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If you create a product based on what you like, or what you think people will like, you will be extremely lucky to sell one single copy, and you'll probably have to bribe the person to buy it!

The only way to create niche products or services that become best sellers is to discover what your potential customers want. What problems are they facing that you can solve. What pain are they experiencing that you can soothe.

There's only one way to get this information... You have to conduct some research. You have to uncover your potential customers needs, their pain, even their dreams and aspirations. Here are a few idea to get you going:

Use Forums

Use the search engines to find a number of forums related to the niche you're interested in. Visit these forums regularly and find out what questions people are asking and how often they are asked. The same question asked by many different people on many different forums is a possible topic for your product or service.

Use Surveys

If you own an opt-in email list, send a brief survey to your subscribers to discover the problems they are facing. If a common problem emerges from your survey, providing the solutions to this problem is a possible topic for your product or service.

If you don't own an opt-in email list, you could send a solo advertisement to a few ezines with a large subscriber base and invite people to take part in your survey by offering a useful reward for their participation.

If you own a website which receives a lot of traffic, you could use a popup to invite people to your survey.

Use Wordtracker

Wordtracker.com is one of the most useful research tools on the internet. You can use it to uncover what people are searching for on the internet.

Not only that, you can use it to find out how often people search for different topics. It is a great tool for discovering niche markets.

On its own, Wordtracker is unlikely to point you to your next best seller, but when used in conjunction with surveys you have a very powerful research tool.

Once you have discovered what problems your potential customers are facing it is time to set about creating a product to solve them using any of the following three methods:

1) Use products which come with Private Label Rights.

If you purchase a product with Private Label Rights you can do virtually anything you want with the existing product, you could:

• Insert your name as the author/creator
• Re-arrange the contents
• Add to or remove contents

Private Label Rights is by far the quickest method of creating your own product. The only real disadvantage is other people will be using the same content as their own, so if you use the contents "as is" you won't have a unique product.

2) Use products found in the public domain

If a product is in the public domain, it means the copyright on it has expired and you are free to use the contents. While not as quick as Private Label Rights products, using a product from the public domain means you can get yourself a unique product.

Do a search for public domain products and once you have found one purchase a copy and have it digitized (made into an e-book). You could do this yourself with a scanner and good character recognition software, but you will be busy for many hours proof reading and correcting. A quicker route is to have the work professionally digitized as they do all the proofing and correcting as part of the service.

You can copyright your new digitized product, meaning nobody can sell copies in that particular format.

3) Create your own product

Even going this route doesn't mean you have to do all the work. There are many people willing to write articles, write e-books and even code scripts for a price.

By going to websites such as Elance.com you can negotiate a fair price with people willing to do the work for you. Part of the contract being you keep the copyrights, they simply provide the finished content (known as ghostwriting).

The biggest disadvantage is you have no idea whether they have used other people's content. If they have you will be charged with copyright violation, not them. Before using a ghostwriter, try and do a background check and check their references thoroughly.

You can create your own website using WordPress and InstaBuilder. InstaBuilder lets you create beautiful, highly converting, marketing pages with huge functionality at the touch of a button, even if you have no technical expertise at all.

Wian Deleon is a web designer and web developer, you can visit him here cb.PHPScriptWeb.com/instabuilder

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/expert/Wian_Deleon/2250617

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Many Tools To Build Your List

By Katrina Oakley  |   Submitted On March 22, 2016

  

Building a list of prospects and customers is vital to growing your business and increasing sales. Autoresponders make it easy to keep prospects informed of specials and new products you have to offer. List building for business will make building a strong online business easy. There are many ways to build a list, use more than one to increase your business building list.

No way of list building is easier than another. All will net some signups if done correctly.

• Start a newsletter for your business. No matter what you do online, chances are new products or services come out on a regular basis. Build a list of people who are interested in what you do.
• Give away a free report. Everyone loves the word "free" many will fill in your list building form just to get something for free.
• If you have a website, pop up forms are a great way to catch people when they visit your site.
• Use social media such as Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn to build your list. Simply announce your newsletter or free report in a post on all social networks.
• Ask your faithful reader list to let their friends know about your list and invite them to join.
• Forums are a great place to get signups to your list. There are forums on any subject and many will match your list subject.
• Share a list. Chances are you are building a downline while building your list. Help your downline by introducing your readers to their list and have them include an invite to yours in their list contact.
• Have a contest. Grow your list not only by giving away freebies, have a contest. If your business includes a blog, have a contest for content. Give the winning creator top billing on your blog for their efforts. The most important thing is keep readers interested and that list growing.
• Build more than one list. Your business may include many things you can build a list with. Blogging instruction, affiliate marketing, product distribution and even building a business online. Start a list for each aspect of building your business and gain faithful followers that will soon become your downline.
• Get advice from others who are successfully building their list. Most online business marketers are very willing to share their knowledge to help you grow your business.

Your list will grow your business very quickly, be prepared with email series directly related to why they signed up for your list. Educate yourself on the CAN-SPAM Act to insure that you are building your list in compliance. If your giveaway is a report on how to blog, create an email instructional series for your list to learn more about how to blog.

Navigating the internet is challenging, Internet marketing is complicated. Coach Kat and the Team at LGT Tools are here to help anyone learn to use technology to build a strong business foundation. Don't go it alone, it is not as easy as some will say. Learn to advertise and promote to make sales and get leads. http://katstoolbox.com

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/expert/Katrina_Oakley/540858

6 Ideas to Promote Your Website for Free

By George Matthews  |   Submitted On March 02, 2016

  

If you already have a website up and running but you're lacking targeted visitors, check out 6 free ways to promote your website:

* Using Videos

Videos are extremely powerful if done right. Choose a topic you're comfortable to talk about and create a series of videos. You can place these videos on our blog but make sure you also upload them to YouTube and other video websites. You can also choose to have just a text post on your website and the video on the video websites.

Just be creative. There are many types of videos out there. You can simply show your screen, you can record yourself, whatever you want.

Make your videos interesting and captivating.

* Podcasting

Podcasts are becoming more popular every day. They allow you to connect directly to your audience and there are many people who prefer podcasts to read a post or watch a video. Just give it a try.

* Using Forums

Start up by creating a spreadsheet of all the forums in your niche. Open an account with each one of them and create a signature with a link or two pointing to your website. Then, search for threads where you are able to give a good insight. The more answers you give, the better. This will make you not only have more links pointing to your website (within your signature) as it will also allow you to become an authority in your niche since other people on the forums will start to recognize you.

* Articles

Although they're not so commonly used nowadays, it's always good to have links pointing to your website. And with articles sites, you can have this through the "Resource Box" at the end of the article.

* Commenting on other Blogs

There are many blogs that still have their comments open. Just make a list of the best blogs in your niche, and check the ones that allow you to have a link to your website. Then, once a day, go through all those blogs you found and see if you can leave a relevant comment. Make sure not to spam or saying anything redundant. Your credibility is on the line here.

* Guest Blogging

Guest blogging is pretty common nowadays and there are many blogs accepting guest posts. Again, you need to make a list of the most relevant blogs that accept guest posts and see their guidelines carefully. Then, just follow them and try to be accepted. Make sure the blogs you choose allow you to have at least one link pointing to your website.

Each one of these methods works on its own; but it's far better to use them all to see more results, sooner. Consistency is the key and with time, you'll see a steady growth in your new visitors and visitors coming back to your website.

If you want to have a fully responsive & beautiful website ready to convert or if you're struggling with getting targeted traffic to your website, make sure to visit WebsiteSprout - http://www.websitesprout.com.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/expert/George_Matthews/2258541