Thursday, June 05, 2008

Harness the power of emotion

When I was a graduate student, I learned various anatomical pathways of the brain and their associated behaviors. Details are fuzzy now, but one thing I do remember.

Memories are strengthened when paired with strong emotion.

Remembering where you left your car keys or the last time you ate can be difficult. But just about everybody remembers emotionally-charged events such as the first time they hit a home run, their first kiss, and the birth of their children.

So?

Well, for me, that is reason enough to want to pull some sort of emotion out of your prospects when presenting your offers. You want to be remembered. Use emotion to your advantage to achieve that. No one will act on your offer if they can't remember it.

How do you inject emotion into your ad copy? Here is an article from copyblogger on why emotional benefits are the key to reader response. Check it out. You will be glad that you did.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Found your target - now what?

Article marketing is about driving traffic to your web site. You put out wanted information that is easily indexed by search engines and designed to entice eager readers to click your link and go to your web site. Publishing articles online not only brand you as an expert, but also cast a wide net for you to capture potential customers and funnel them to your web site.

What do visitors find when they get to your web site? Does your web site convert traffic into sales?

Private label content articles are extremely helpful with making your writing task easier, but I haven't found private label content for commercial web site design. I don't know what your web site is about, but I have a sneaking suspicion that you have a product or two for sale. Many products designed for online sales include some sort of sales page, but those pages are often not suitable for a stand-alone web site.

If you don't have one now, eventually you will need a commercial web site for all of your products and services. What do you write to make people click the Buy Now! button?

Once again I am going to send you to CopyBlogger. An excellent post by James Chartrand describes four categories of online buyers. He also makes suggestions on writing ad copy for each type of buyer.

Click here to discover four ways to target online buyers with the right words

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Define "third-party" sites

Expert list marketer, Soren Jordansen, brought an issue to my attention that I want to pass on to other bloggers, especially ones that use private label content for marketing purposes.

In his blog entry WordPress Cracks Down on Affiliate Marketing Blogs, Soren explains how the WordPress terms of service forbids use of their free blog hosting platform for marketing. What caught my eye was that the WordPress TOS specifically forbids using

…content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search
engine rankings of third party sites.

Now, what do I care? Blogger must have a similar policy, and I haven't gotten around to moving this blog to my domain. I'm probably not in danger of having this blog deleted since I try very hard not to blatantly plug my article membership site in every post. Heck, I rarely post as it is! But I have the option of moving the blog.

Question: Do you have your own domain? If not, you probably should. The cost of domain registration and web hosting will not break your budget, and it is definitely worth the freedom to post whatever you want or need to say.



Saturday, February 02, 2008

I've been tagged ....

Chilly, author of Central Perk New York blog, tagged me for the Big Bang World Record. It looks like a way to get your link into several other blogs. Kinda like a chain letter of sorts. I have no idea what all the blogs on the list are about. Not even sure I really want to be associated with any of them (except for Chilly's, of course). But I'm so excited that someone thought of this blog despite the fact that I neglect it so much, I'm game to play along!

Haven't decided if I will tag anyone yet. If you want to participate, follow the directions:

*Start Copy Here*

You don’t have to be tagged to play along. This game is simple and so are the rules.
1. Copy from *Start Copy Here* through *End Copy Here*
2. Add your site(s) to the list. Just be sure to post at each site you add.
3. Tag or don’t tag, your choice, however, the more tags you create the bigger the list will grow.
4. Let me know your blog’s name and url by leaving me a comment HERE. I will add you to the master list.
5. Come back and copy the master list back to your site, often. This process will allow late-comers to get as much link benefit as the first ones in.

1-Attitude, the Ultimate Power 2-Juliana’s Site 3-Rusin Roundup 4-Grow Rich Along With Me 5-Comedy Plus 6-lynda’s loft 7-Amel’s Realm 8-MAX 9-Speedcat Hollydale 10-Mariuca 11-Complain Complain Complain 12-Mariuca’s Perfume Gallery 13-Life Is A Roller Coaster 14-Sugar Queen’s Dream 15-First Time Dad 16-Life 17-My Life 18-The Painted Veil 19-My Thoughts 20-Euworx 21-Little Aussie Cynic 22-A Nice Place in the Sun 23-Cultured Shock 24-The Down Side OF Up 25-Ladyjava’s Lounge 26-Cat Tales 27-moms…..check nyo 28-Colorado Baby 29-It’s a Woman’s World 30-ENLIGHTENED BITS 31-My View of “It” 32-My Reviews and Finds Along the Way 33-Our Hep Chat 34-Rantings of a Woman 35-The Callalily Space 36-Mom Knows Everything 37-Hazel 38- Chronicles and Tales Unlimited (RED) 39-From the Mouth of Jabber Jaws 40-Sunny Side Up Foodie & Lifestyle 41-Carmel Corn 42-Sgt.Pepper 43-The Whole New World 44-Wifespeak 45-Slavery Bliss 46-Rooms of My Heart 47-Unpredictable Life 48-My Life, My World 49- At Your Service 50-Hubprime 51-Zwang 52-Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out 53-My So-Called Site 54-New Wife Blog 55-Tendre Poison 323 56-Nick’s Bytes 57-My Scratch Pad 58-Choc Mint Girl 59-Life Is Just Around the Corner… 60-Amori, poseia, art… virtuali by Hanna 61-Maryannaville 62-monaco - monaco’s 63-Nyumix’s Blog 64-read my mind - my keyboard monologues 65-Shower You Children With Love - The Right Way 66-Secret Agent Mama 67-Pinaymama’s Diary 68-Answers to the Questions 69-The Mantys 70-A Total Blog 71-My life, my hope, my future 72-NORTE 73-A Window to Our World 74-Life as a Mom 75-FIELD OF DREAMS 76-lisgold 77-See Me for What You 78-Caught in The Stream 79-Pinay Mommy Online - My Home 80-I’m Running To Win Two 81-CRUEL VIRGIN 82-Garden of Moments in Blog 83-So Cute 84-Love Everlasting 85-WeLcOmE To My CriB 86-WELCOM TO PINAYSMILE’S JOURNEY 87-Ice’s Icelog 88-Jenny’s Wandering Thoughts 89-Hobbies and Such 90-Sweet Paradise 91-Mommy’s Gibble Gabbles 92-Rusin Review’s 93-My Small World 94-Little Peanut 95-Online Ramblings 96-My Mood My Feeling 97-BLOG it with ALLEN 98-The Matic 99-Let’s Go Singapore 100-Top Video Hits 101-Catsy Carpe Diem 102-Every Beat Of My Heart 103-Always Da Fresh Princess 104-Listening.. Learning..Living 105-All About Mars 106-Syii From Afar 107-Some Thoughts I Have 108-From Here and Beyond 109-My Paid To Blog 110-Top Music Video Hits 111-Friendster layouts 112-“Apples of the Eyes” 113-It’s All About Play 114-The Luttrull Journey 115-RennyBA’s Terella 116-Unchained Melody 117-Out of the Blue 118-Love Text Messages 119-Maricel’s 120-my blog 121-Spiff, the Spaceman 122-Living Well 123-The Dog Log 124-Catnip Corner 125-A Piece of Idea 126-Observations From the Back 40 127-Poetry by The Redneck Gypsy 128-Odd Facts 129-Juliana’s Lair 130-My life is murphy’s law 131-lisgoldsmemoirs 132-My memories, as time goes by 133-Somewhere over the rainbow 134-Blogging by Sandee 135-Our Journey to this so called life 136-Idaho Daily Photo 137-Memories that Never Fades.. 138-Anything goes 139-Your Caring Angels 140-Little Paces 141-Laketrees 142-PoeARTica 143-fracas 144-Just FraCas 145-Archies Archive 146-Growing Up Together 147-A Woman’s Diary 148-Mother’s Got A Dot Com 149-Close To You 150-Hot Shit Form Here 151-Astro Galaxy 152-Detector 153-Beauty is in the eye of the beholder 154-My Life is Peachy 155-The Down Side of Up 156-Magical Milestones 157-In Search of Life 158-RebelationsdotNet 159-Jen Jen’s Place 160-Mimi Writes… 161-Strange but true 162-Depois de minha viagem 163-Your Perfect Wedding: 164-Text Messages 165-Primitive Ornies and Bowl Fillers 166-Vegetarian Diet Lifestyle 167-Looking Out For You 168-BENOLSATUEM 169-OtherSide 170-Hacko’s Site 171-where was I 172-Making Money Resources 173-text’s Site 174-Movie Corner 175-Rahasia Bisnis Internet 176-Online Dating Tips 177-Beauty Kissing Tips 178-Forex Trading Tips 179-Singapore Tour Guide 180-PPC vs PTR 181-Love Quotes 182-Adsense Success Stories 2008 183-Bali Tour 184-Paypal Indonesia 185-Review Bisnis Internet 186-Blog Daniel Scardua 187-Much of a muchness 188-Gagiers Amazing World 189-Clumsy Mommy 190-Leaotheblogger 191-PBDesigns Reading and Crochet Blog 192-Gagiers Striking Zone 193-DrowseyMonkey 194-Yesterday Today n Tomorrow 195-Auntie Dar’s Life 196-Sky Windows… 197-Filippino Life Abroad 198-Leao the Blogger 199-Zoop’s Rantings on Life 200-My Journey 201-A Sweet Taste of Life 202-This is a Miracle 203-Lavanderia Virtual 204-COLORADO COWGIRL IN UPSTATE NEW YORK 205-Dating Profile of the Day 206-my wooden robot 207-My World 208-urban : trendy : lifestyle 209-Lucel Juliana’s Library 210-Cooking Momster - My Life Journal 211-Anggie & Jeremy boy Online Journal 212-‘Doc Doc Doc’ 213-Transforming My Life 214-Gratitude Journal 215-Simplydunn.net 216-emila’s illustrated blog 217-AZZY’S BLOG-A-ROONIE! 218-MAMABLISS’ TREASURED MOMENTS 219-The Sky’s the Limit 220-PROJECT HEAVY TRAFFIC 221-just another ordinary story.. 222-Samuel Rolo 223-The end mission! 224-R S S Submissions 225-Laice’s Pics 226-Health and Fitness 227-Brainybimbo 228-Journey with WaterLearner 229-Zoop’s Rantings on Life (at Blogspot) 230-Ivan Girl 231-Tour the Tabon Caves 232-Book Calendar 233-Love me. Hate me 234-Everyday health and beauty 235-BLOGANDO & ANDANDO 236-Memoirs.:*CRoSs mY hEARt*:. 237-The Chic Shopaholic 238-Blogging Tools & Widgets 239-When Life Becomes a Book 240-Overtime! 241-On The Bricks 242-Central Perk New York 243-The Art of Private Label Content Articles

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If I tag anyone, it will be on my other blog.

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Strategic Content Development

I know that this could be considered the lazy way of blogging, but I want to provide useful information, and I never claimed to be an expert on anything.

Brian Clark's blog, Copyblogger, is well written and makes a whole lot of sense to me. If Brian Clark is an expert on copywriting or blogging remains to be proven definitively to me. I'll let you make up your own mind about that one. Check out his blog entry on a three-step approach to content development.

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