How I Learned to Create Incredible Niche Web Sites
That are Search Engine Optimized to Get Tons of Free
Organic Traffic Month After Glorious Month

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How on earth did I ever learn to create such incredible Niche Web Sites so easily. Web sites that are perfectly search engine optimized and get web site traffic for free from the search engines, month after month? How did non-technical, non-SEO savvy Morgana accomplish this??!

I had to learn.

I knew I had to learn how to build such sites – but I had no idea where to begin – I didn’t even know what I was looking for – which made it somewhat difficult to find…

I will tell you this – I first had to admit that I was wasting my time creating content for web sites that no one ever visited. Bummer…

Yes, I had to learn (the hard way) that you can’t just throw a web site together, toss it up on the net and expect anything much to happen. Friends and family will make the obligatory visit and tell you what a great job you’ve done, but that’s likely the most action your site will see. Again – bummer!

You likely already know that it takes a lot of time and effort to create a web site, and you probably want to create a web site that gets lots of traffic, or more specifically, lots of web site traffic for free – otherwise, why bother. I’m sure you’re aware that if your site isn’t getting traffic, it’s just going to hang out in the datasphere collecting cyerdust, and that’s not what you put all that work into it for!

Hmm – can you create niche website (s) that get web site traffic for free, without spending a fortune and a year of your time tracking down how to information online while you try to learn how to optimize your site for the search engines and not confuse the heck out of yourself?

Yes, you can! And wouldn’t it be fantastic if you could get all the information, tools, and education in one place?

Here is my simple solution:

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• An Online Video Class Room that takes you from Market
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• All the Software You Will EVER Need including:
• Niche Website Builder
• Market Research Tools and Software
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I simply could not recommend anything better than this for your personal success – it’s a must have home business resource. I use it every single day to create my business and my future. If I had not discovered this I would still be sitting on a website that was listed on page 299,987 of Google’s search results.

Take a few minutes and go see what it can do for You!

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Internet Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is, or should be, the single most important aspect of your website. The function of SEM is to attract a steady stream of organic traffic (which is completely free!) from the search engines to your web site, month after month, and traffic is the life blood of your web site,

To succeed at getting organic traffic you will need to be in the top 20, preferably, the top 10 search results, and there are two elements that will determine how well your site ranks at the search engines: content & inbound links.

As an example of just how important Internet Search Engine Marketing is I will use a personal bit of misfortune as an example…

Two years ago I created what I thought was an excellent web site. Much like this site it was content rich and focused on succeeding with a home business.

When I started the site I had heard of Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization. I knew they were important, but I thought they were optional. And because I was using other methods to drive traffic to my site, I wasn’t too concerned with my lack of knowledge about Internet Search Engine Marketing or SEO. Also, I was of the mind that If I Built It, They Would Come…

Sadly, at that time, I didn’t really know much about how websites and search engines interacted, but I did know that my site had all the right elements: an opt-in form so I could build a contact list, a wonderful free report to encourage visitors to opt-in, tons of great content (and I do mean tons… over 100 articles!), a nice design and pretty colors…

In my mind, my site was primo!

But, I was wrong. In the eyes of the search engines my site was not primo and it didn’t get any organic traffic. This is likely because with the very limited knowledge that I did have about SEO, I targeted keywords that were far too competitive, so though people may have been looking for what I had to offer they would never have found my site, which was likely buried on the last page of about 300,000 for the keywords I had used.

Looking back I see that I had gone entirely wrong in every way that it was possible to go wrong… It was like jumping into the middle of a cold, deep, lake without the faintest idea how to swim.

My first mistake was not educating myself about Internet Search Engine Marketing. My second mistake was thinking that even though I had used keywords in my articles – I really didn’t even have a basic understanding of how to use them properly.

That said – what should I have done? What exactly should I have focused on?

If I had really wanted good results from my site, I should have focused on what SEO and Internet Search Engine Marketing were all about!

Above I mentioned that success with SEO and SEM are dependent on content and inbound links. If you want your site to flourish with lots of free, organic traffic from the search engines, month after glorious month, here are a couple of very important things to consider.

Regarding content. Content is not merely putting words on the page. It doesn’t matter how good that content may be – it must target the right keywords. When I wrote all the articles for my first web site I focused on writing what I thought people needed to learn in order to succeed with a home business.

Silly me! What I should have written were articles based on the information that people with a home business were looking for! But, I didn’t know that at the time…

So, in order to make your content count, do a little research to find out what keywords people are using to look for information. Once you find out what information people are looking for you can serve it up in abundance using the right keywords.

Also, don’t target keywords that have too much competition. What do I mean by too much competition? Well, take for instance the keyword home business, which is the keyword I used for my first site. People search the keyword Home Business at Google about two and half million times per month.

Wow – two and a half million times per month – that sounds great, doesn’t it! That’s a lot of potential traffic! And though it is great for the top twenty sites, it won’t be for you or me.

Unfortunately, there are currently almost 4 million existing web sites that target the keyword home business. How well will a new site do using that keyword to drive traffic in its direction? Where will it end up when searched on Google?

I’ll give you a hint… somewhere near the bottom of page 299,986 of the search results… With that much existing competition it would be a long hard battle to fight your way up to the top 10 or 20 sites.

It’s simply too much competition.

So, when you are doing your keyword research you’re looking for words or phrases that have high search volume.  High search volume per month on a keyword ensures that you will get traffic for that keyword, and the fewer existing sites already targeting that keyword the better. You’re looking for keywords with high demand, and low supply.

Alright – moving right along to inbound links. Inbound links are links back to your site from other sites and they are almost as important as content. Inbound links help the search engines determine your site’s popularity and relevance.

Each inbound link to your site acts like a vote for your site, indicating to the search engines that your site ranks highly with internet users for relevant content.

How do you get inbound links? There are many ways to get links back to your site and my favorite is articles. Write some great articles and submit them to places like Ezine Articles or Go Articles. When your articles are published you will get some terrific inbound links from both your author bio and the articles themselves.

Blogging is another great way to get inbound links. Create a blog on your web site then submit your blog to a few of the best blog directories. As well, visit blogs written by others in your field and make positive and relevant comments on their posts. Each time you do you create an inbound link to your site.

And don’t forget to make use of forums – your sig file is invaluable in a forum ! Every time you comment in a forum, your sig file creates another inbound link to your site.

There is a great deal to consider when using Internet Search Engine Marketing to get traffic to your site and it would be well worth your time to learn how to use it effectively.

Don’t expect to learn it all overnight – it’s a bit complicated and there is a learning curve. It takes time to find keywords that are just right, time to write your content, and time to build links back to your site. You also need to understand that you won’t see results overnight either – it takes time to start seeing traffic.

Success with Search Engine Marketing takes time – but do give yourself and your site the time. You only have to learn it once, and it’s the absolute best way to generate a steady stream of organic traffic to your site month after month. It’s well worth the time it can take to get it.

Feel welcome to browse the rest of the articles on the site – and remember: it’s one thing to learn something, and it’s quite another to put that knowledge to work.

Warmly,

Social Networking is hands down the absolute best free internet marketing tool that you will ever use. In fact, it would be the best paid internet marketing tool… if you had to pay for it! But why pay for it when free social networking is so effective?

What makes Social Networking the very best free internet marketing tool? Two things:

1. Marketing is All About Relationships (relationships require people)
2. Social Networking is Where You Find People Online

Marketing is all about relationships – especially online. If you are not working to develop strong relationships, I would bet dimes to donuts that your business is not doing all that well. As far as any kind of online home business is concerned relationships are essential and are the life blood of your business..

If you are flogging your wares or services online here is an invaluable snippet of insight that I learned long ago: People are most likely to do business with others whom they know, like, and trust. And any social networking environment is the perfect place for just such things to occur.

What other internet marketing tool, paid or free, allows you to develop as many relationships as you can, and so easily? Where else do you have access to an entire database full of users that you can reach out to and befriend at any hour of the day? I can think of nothing that rivals Social Networking. Absolutely nothing!

And there are so many different social networking environments: There are communities like Facebook and MySpace. Twitter offers a different slant on social networking – but it’s extremely effective. Then of course there is Ning, which comes in a zillion different flavors.

And let’s not forget the dinosaurs of social networking like online forums or chat rooms. There are hundreds of online groups at Yahoo and Google, and many other specialized online communities where you can find even more people to connect with and befriend.

Believe me when I say that your online home business will be built between you and people who know, like and trust you – one relationship at a time. The very best internet marketing tool, a tool that opens the door wide for as many possible relationships as you care to build, is Social Networking .

To ensure that you are using Social Networking properly, refer to lesson six of the Smart-Internet-Marketing-Help Free Mini-Course!

Feel welcome to browse the rest of the articles on the site – and remember: it’s one thing to learn something, and it’s quite another to put that knowledge to work.

Warmly,

Regardless of what your product is, the best and most effective way to market your product online is with a general information web site dedicated to the benefits and the consumer concerns that the product will address. This is a far more effective marketing practice than dedicating a web site or web page to the product itself.

Why? Well, first of all – no one cares about your product… Absolutely no one (except you!). A product based web site is all about the product. Every product based site screams, This is what I can do for you. I do it really well. I am better than anyone else. I am the best! Pick me!!

Consumers are tired of hearing the same claims over and over again. It doesn’t get their attention as well as it used to – especially online!

Another reason a product based web site is a poor choice: Competition.

No matter what your product is, you have competition. Competition makes marketing a challenge in any arena. And competition online is fierce – especially if your product has competition from a major brand. If that’s the case for you, the competition will be far too steep.

A home business can’t compete with brand names because a home business will never have the resources required to win a market that is dominated by a major brand. Therefore, where home business is concerned, a product based website will get absolutely lost in the myriad of name brand web sites.

You need to market your product in a way that will out shine and outsmart the competition.

Is this possible? Yes!

There are a zillion products for sale both off line and online that address every possible consumer desire or need. Consumers are absolutely inundated with advertising and products at every turn. But think about this for a sec: people don’t turn to the Internet to search for a product so much as they go online to search for information.

Given this – why not give people what they are looking for rather than trying to get your product in front of them at every click. Everyone is trying to get their product in front of people. You will want to get off that bus – it’s way too crowded.

Give people what they are actually looking for. Once you have their attention and have established yourself as an authority via the information and insight you provide on your website, you readers will be open to your personal recommendation for a product that offers a solution to their particular problem.

This is a far more effective strategy for product marketing online.

As an example, let’s assume that you market a weight loss product. At the time of writing this article there are just under 12 million web sites indexed on Google that focus on weight loss.

If you set up a web site that focuses on your product you will be competing with almost 12 million existing sites. Your site will be buried somewhere on the bottom of page 1,170,000 of the search results, and no one is going to find your web site because no one is going to look on page 1,170,000 of the search results…

If, however, you can find a nice niche within the weight loss market, and build a content rich site that addresses that niche you will have a great deal of success with product marketing online.

Let’s go back to the weight loss example. I did three minutes worth of initial research and discovered what may be a niche worth pursuing within the weight loss market. My research showed that the keyword flabby thighs is searched on the Internet an average of 1,900 times per month.

I further discovered that there are less than 25,000 existing web sites that address flabby thighs.

1,900 searches per month tells me there is a demand for information on flabby thighs, and there are only 25,000 existing sites, so it looks like this could be a very win-able niche. More research would be required, but it’s looking good so far.

Let’s assume that further research proved that this indeed had the potential to be a very profitable niche. Rather than creating a website that tells people all about my fantastic products for flabby thighs, give people what they are looking for, which is likely information on how to get rid of flabby thighs.

Information, not products.

At this point you would set to work to create a web site and post a few highly relevant, keyword focused, articles about topics that people are searching for in regards to flabby thighs.

You would also want to offer a short complimentary e-course or free report to your visitors which they have to opt-in to receive – this helps you build a contact list. Over time you may wish to add some additional articles that focus on other issues concerning flabby thighs or your own personal experience with successfully dealing with flabby thighs.

You don’t have to build a huge site. You just need a small site and enough relevant, fresh, insightful information that will serve to establish you as an expert in your niche. Then as your visitors get to know, like, and trust you, you will be able to make personal recommendations for products that address their specific concerns. This is were product sales begin.

If you are product marketing online, be it your own product, an affiliate product, or a product you market through a network marketing company, you will find that giving people the information they are looking for far more fruitful than trying to get your product in front of them at every opportunity. Find a niche within your market and give it a try!

For further insight on Niche Marketing, you might also enjoy my niche strategy article.

Feel welcome to browse the rest of the articles on the site – and remember: it’s one thing to learn something, and it’s quite another to put that knowledge to work.

Warmly,

I used to pay $25 a month for an autoresponder and $45 a month for web hosting. Those two marketing resources alone were costing me $70 per month. That was a big chunk of my marketing budget.

I now pay less than $50 per month for a very sweet suite of marketing tools!

Here’s what I have added to my marketing tool box for less than fifty bucks a month:

• Unlimited Autoresponder
• Unlimited Web Hosting
• Complete Video Producer
• Full Audio and Video Online Conference Room
  (private – not shared!)
• Plus more goodies too!

For $20 less per month than what I was paying for an autoresponder and web hosting I now have an entire suite of extremely fab marketing tools to help me grow my online business! If I were paying separately for each of the items listed above I would be paying more than $600 each and every month!

Ok, let’s be reasonable – I would not lay out $600 a month… I would do without! And now, I don’t have to!

My autoresponder buzzes 24 hours a day, my websites have a great place to call home, AND I now have the capability of adding video to my websites (which I will get to soon!).

Best of all, I have an amazing live online conference room where I meet with clients, give online workshops and classes, provide support, and so much more. My online conference is my live online office where people can find me when they need me – how great do you think that is for my business?? (Pretty darn GREAT! acutally…)

Did I mention that I pay less than $50 per month for all this?? (OMG - have you any idea what this means for my new shoe account..? Hello darlings – come to mama!)

… And did I mention that you can give this sweet suite a try for only a buck?! You absolutely can! For $1 you can give the entire system a try for a full 14 days.

For details on this sweet suite, click  here

(If you have sensitive ears, turn your volume down… the intro music is a tad loud. Did I say loud… I think i actually meant annoying ;o)

Ok, the tools and resources that I use for my home business, I use each and every day. Not only do I use them – I love them, and the autoresponder I work to death everyday is no exception.

Why do I love my autoresponder? Well, any tool or resource that I use for my home business must meet certain criteria: it must be affordable, effective and reliable, easy to use, and offer excellent support. My autoresponder meets each point – so it gives me a lot to love.

My autoresponder has all the functionality that I need to help me run my business smoothly, and it’s part of a suite of marketing tools, so it offers exceptional value for my business dollar. Where my business is concerned, I am all on with value. Why spend more than I have to?

I used to pay $25 a month just for an autoresponder, which is half of what I now pay for an entire suite of tools… That’s just silly. Now I bundle my services and save a bundle too! Hey – that’s a few more dollars that I can funnel into the new shoes account every month! (and that’s good money management ;o)

What suite of tools is my autoresponder included with? Find out here.

Here is a powerful Niche Strategy that you can use for your home business: Find a niche within your market, build a small niche website and focus on providing prospective customers within your niche the information they are looking for.

You may be wondering what  a Niche Market is, exactly. It’s a small slice of an existing market. For example the health food industry is a market. A niche within that market could be vitamins, or herbal remedies, or organic  produce. Another market is network marketing tools. A few niches within that market would be: autoresponders, website hosting, and video marketing.

Why would you want to focus on just a small segment of your market? Because it’s too competitive to win a large market. Large markets have been dominated by industry giants. As a home business owner you simply will never have the resources required to win your market if you focus on the market as a whole, but focusing on a small slice of the market gives you the opportunity to win that market, and as a result, your business will grow.

So what exactly is a Niche Website? It’s a small to medium sized website that is content rich, focusing on information rather than products. That’s not to say that there are no products – there are, but with a niche site you lead with the info and follow with the product. Before you focus on your product you want to establish yourself as an expert in your niche.

The whole concept is kind of backwards from what most of us have been taught about marketing on the Internet. Most of us were taught to throw together a  website that highlighted our product/service, drive traffic to that site, encourage visitors to opt-in to our list, then harass our contacts with a steady stream of ads telling them how absolutely fantastic our product or service is, while we smack them over the head repeatedly with a buy now, buy now, buy now! message.. .

Don’t know how well that worked for you, but it didn’t work well for me – not only that, I hated it…

Fortunately a dear soul had the decency to show me a better way and that better way  became a very powerful niche strategy for my home business.

Here is my Niche Strategy:

• do a little research and identify a niche within your market
• put together a small to medium website that will focus on
  insightful information relevant to your market
• do a little more research to discover what information buyers
  in your target market are looking for
• based on your findings write 6 to 12 articles that address the
  concerns of your target market
• put an opt-in form on your site and give away a free report
  that focuses on some aspect of your niche
  
• establish yourself as an authority in your niche by delivering
  fresh, quality information that exceeds your subscribers’
  expectations
• over time, highlight how your product/service addresses
  and solves the problems and concerns of your subscribers

That is my simple, yet powerful niche marketing strategy and it works very well for me.

Why does it work? Because I provide for free what buyers in my niche are looking for and in so doing I establish myself as an expert in my niche. Over time my subscribers get to know me, like me, and trust me, and give me the opportunity to develop relationships with them.

Relationships are important because it’s a big Internet out there! Every market is incredibly competitive and there’s a ton of stuff for sale on a zillion websites. People are bombarded with ads at every turn and people don’t like to be sold to. They like to buy… but they hate to be sold.

People like it when buying is their idea, and they like to buy things from people they know, like, and trust. Using my niche strategy on my own niche sites ensures that over time my subscribers do indeed get to know, like, and trust me. The results have been quite incredible for my home business, and I know you would enjoy and appreciate the same for your business.

Feel welcome to browse the rest of the articles on the site – and remember: it’s one thing to learn something, and it’s quite another to put that knowledge to work.

Warmly,

An autoresponder is a wee bit of technology that automates the process of building your contact list and communicating with your contacts. Most online marketers use an autoresponder service, a subscription, that you pay for on a monthly basis. If you are doing business online – you need one!

What the Heck do You do With It… Exactly..?

Basically, what you want to do is take your autoresponder and marry it to your website, thereby creating a glorious, synchronistic partnership, the likes of which you have never before witnessed in your life. Said marriage will result in beautiful music for your business.

You put an opt-in form on your website which is connected to your autoresponder, and you encourage all your visitors to opt-in to your list. Once they do, you are going to use your autoresponder to communicate with your contacts and develop relationships with as many of your contacts as possible.

You need to automate this process because there is no way that you could communicate effectively with 500 to 5000+ contacts manually… Your autoresponder will keep all your contacts and all your communication well organized and in one tidy spot.

Functionality:

Your autoresponder service must give you the ability to create unlimited contact lists with unlimited contacts allowed per list. Your autoresponder system must also be able to create html code that will create an opt-in form for you to place on your website so that people can opt-in to your list from your website.

You must also be able to personalize each message, send a series of followup messages, and have a broadcast option as well.

What You Don’t Need:

Most quality autorespnders have the ability to send high-tech, fancy html messages. Some even offer templates for your messages and newsletters. However, you really don’t need to use html or templates – and here is why: deliverability.

Some ISPs spam filtering is so intense that not much gets through. Emails filled with html or images, or certain spammy verbiage often don’t make it through to your recipients, so it’s actually best to stick with plain text messages – even for newsletters. You will find that plain text messages will have the best chance of making it through any filtering done by the ISPs.

What You Don’t Want:

You don’t want your autoresponder service to cost you a lot of money. You need to be aware of the pricing structure that many autoresponder service providers use. At first glance it seems reasonable, but once your list starts to grow it gets crazy expensive!

As an example of pricing gone mad, one very well known autoresponder system charges about $20/mo for a maximum of 500 subscribers. This seems like a fair and reasonable price – until you exceed 500 subscribers and the price goes up. Then you pay your $20 monthly fee plus from $10 to $150 on top of that as your subscriber base increases from 501 to 25,000 total subscribers.

You want to build several contact lists and you want as many subscribers as possible on each list. Imagine if you had five lists all nearing 25,000 subscribers – you would be paying in excess of $500 per month for your autoresponder service!  Why spend that kind of money when you don’t need to?

What About Free?

Free sounds good, doesn’t it? But free autoresponders… not so good. Here’s why: When you send a message from your autoresponder to your contacts you want them to see your message. With any free autoresponder that I have ever seen, your message is piggy-backed under the message of a paid user of the system, and that is not a good situation.

Competition online can be fierce enough without having to worry about competing for a read within your own message!

What You Do Want:

Ultimately you are looking for an autoresponder service that will allow you to create unlimited lists, with unlimited subscribers per list, for a reasonable monthly price that will not increase as your lists grow.

You want a service that provides reliable deliverability and basic functionality:  personalization, followup, broadcast, and the ability to create the html code necessary to add an opt-in form for your website – anything more than this is extraneous.

An autoresponder is an absolute necessity and an essential home business resource. It needs to be effective, not fancy – or expensive!

Click here to see what I use and why I like it so much.

There is just no way that you can start an online home based business without a few essential resources.

Throwing together a quick website just isn’t going to do it. At minimum, you will need a simple but professional personal business website, email, instant messaging of some kind,  a web host, an autoresponder, and some means of driving traffic towards your website. As with any business, there are tools of the trade.

The Internet is an excellent place to do business, but the scope of the Internet is incredibly vast and business online is highly competitive. Starting an online home business is not at all like setting up shop on Main Street in your town…

On Main Street, you’ve got a pretty captive audience. If you hang out your shingle and you’re any good at what you do, visibility, word-of-mouth recommendations from happy customers,  and a bit of advertising will have you on your way in no time.

Not so with the Internet. You can’t just build a website and then sit around and wait for people to show up. Well – you can, but you’ll be waiting a heck of a long time! Main Street does not exist on the Internet. There are no maps on the Internet. There are no roads. The closest thing to a map that you will find on the Internet is a Search Engine (hmmm – might be worth spending a few minutes learning how search engines work…).

The articles archived in the Home Business Resource section of Smart Internet Marketing Help will highlight some very useful and valuable resources that will help you to make the most of your home business. These are resources that I use personally every single day.

These resources will help you get your work done faster (so you can get the heck away from your computer and do other things!), help you be far more efficient and professional (hey – it’s business – you have to be professional…), allow you to have fun while you work online (who doesn’t what to have fun while they make money?!), and… you can even make a little money with some of them (mmmm… I  like money) !

Simply click:  Home Business Resource to visit our Home Business Resource Article Directory.

The best practices for email marketing are very simple. First – build a contact list, and second, develop as many solid relationships as you can with the people on your list. When you send messages to the contacts on your list remember that the purpose of those messages should be to develop relationships. The sales come later.

Where most marketers go wrong, and they do go very wrong, is they get the first part of the equation right, but they fail miserably with the second part. They build their list, and then they proceed to inundate, overwhelm, and alienate their subscribers with ads, which ultimately results in loss of many subscribers.

What you must realize is that people don’t subscribe to your list because they want to be spammed to death… They subscribe to your list because they believe that some aspect of your website – your products/services, or information that you offer, will solve a problem that they have.

You will never be successful marketing to your list if you inundate them with ads. If it’s your goal to succeed with email marketing, then you’ll really want to focus on mastering the following email marketing best practices.

Email Marketing Best Practice Number 1:

Build Your Contact List

Email Marketing Best Practice Number 2:

Over Deliver Solutions and Build Relationships!

Email Marketing Best Practice Number 3:

Use an Autoresponder – but Keep it Real and Engage Your Contacts

Building your list is easy. Put an opt-in form on your website and offer something of value that encourages your visitor to subscribe.

Building relationships isn’t hard either – but it takes a little know-how and effort. All you really have to do to start building relationships with your contacts is simply ensure that you meet and exceed their expectations by consistently sending them what they are looking for: solutions.

Don’t send ad after mind numbing ad telling them what your product or service will do for them. Instead, be an expert in your field and offer insight and solid information related to your market that will be of value to your readers, and sprinkle in examples of how your product or service fits in to the solution that they seek for their problem.

Write all your information yourself, and let your personality shine through each line. Remember – people buy things from others that they know, like, and trust. In every message you send to your contacts show them that you are a real person. Use your messages as a vehicle that allows your contacts to get to know, like, and trust you.

I’ll bet you’re thinking – OMG – I can’t write to save my life! And you know – you don’t have to be a professional writer to be an engaging writer. You need to be yourself. You need to be honest. You need to be a real human being that others can relate to, and I will bet that you are all of the above.

It’s funny – people are always searching for the secret to successful email marketing – but there are no magical secrets. There are only a few email marketing best practices that you need to follow, and they are incredibly simple:

• Build your list
• Build relationships
• Consistently offer insightful information and solutions
• Use an Autoresponder – but keep it real

It’s so simple… I love simple ;o)

Feel welcome to browse the rest of the articles on the site – and remember: it’s one thing to learn something, and it’s quite another to put that knowledge to work.

Warmly,