I found out about the Bum Marketing Method in an ebook I was reading.

I signed up for the free e-course expecting the usual regurgitated information you can buy from one of those PLR packages. I also expected a thinly-disguised attempt to pimp some afffiliate links.

This ain't nuthin' like that. A Fresh approach to old-school Internet Marketing served up without all the back-end peddling. And Bum Marketing is very effective. I highly recommend this e-course. I don't want to to sound like one of those sycophantic testimonials however when Travis says on his home page...

GREEDY Marketers Are Charging Up To $297 For What I EXPOSE FREE here...

Believe it.

Hey! for the record, that is not an affiliate link and I don't profit from sharing this.

How To Build A Massive, Hyper Responsive List Of Eager Subscribers

by Justin Blake, CEO ViralShock.com


Every online business provides great service to generate satisfaction among their customers. As each and every customer receives satisfaction over their products or the services they get, there is a great chance that they will become a return customer and buy again. Better yet, they will recommend you to other people that could generate more business for you and your site.

As more traffic is driven to your site, you can entice many of them to subscribe to your mailing list or opt-in list. This is a list where in website visitors agree to be sent promotional materials such as newsletters, catalogs and such that could keep them updated about your site or the niche of your site. These promotional materials are sent via e-mail to the members of the list in different time intervals.

When using e-mail as the media of your marketing and advertisements, you eliminate the need for high costs. Email is free and if you can manage to make your own promotional advertisements you can also save a bundle there. With an opt-in subscribers list, you are pretty sure that what you are sending out is received, viewed and read by the subscribers and not simply being deleted. They have signed up for service and have consented in receiving it.

This means that there are constant reminders to your subscribers about all your products, new products and services as well as any promotions and special deals you are having. There is also the chance that they can be forwarded to other potential customers as they tell their friends and families about you and your site.

Of course you should be also aware that a subscriber may unsubscribe when they feel that they are not getting what they want or expected. Make sure that they are satisfied with your opt-in marketing strategies and keep them excited in receiving your newsletters and catalogs. Here are some tips that can help you build a list of eager subscribers.

Make your promotional materials interesting and fun. Try to use a little creativity but not too over artsy. Build around what your product or service is about. For example; if you are selling car parts, put some pictures of what is new in the auto parts world, a new wing door possibly that can fit any car and make it look like a Lamborghini.

Try to research what people are looking for, these way, you stay one step ahead of them all the time and you will be their bearer of new tidings. They will be eager to receive what you are sending them because they new you always have fresh and new things to share with them.

Write good articles that can be very informational but light at the same time. If your subscribers enjoy your articles, they will go to your site by clicking the links that you will be putting on your newsletter to read some more. You can provide articles that can connect to many people. Be diverse in your articles. Put something humorous, then put something informational, then put something that has both.

Are you wary about this because you don’t like writing? No problem, there are many professional and experienced article writers that can do the job for you for minimal fees. They know what they are doing and can provide the need that you have for your newsletters, the money that you pay for your articles are going to be met by the many sign-ups and the potential profit from the sales that you will get.

Create and send an E-book to your customers about anything that is related to your business or site. Use your knowledge and expertise in the field you have chosen to help other people who are similarly interested. Offer this e-book for free. You can write about anything informational and helpful to your subscribers. For example; you can do manuals and guides in so many things. This e-book could be used as a reference for many people.

Share this e-book with everyone, even other sites; just make sure that they don’t change the links in the e-book that will lead people to your site. If you want, you can always get some people to write it for you just like your articles. Your investment once again will be covered by the great marketing this will generate.

Add e-coupons in your newsletters that will help them avail to special discounts. Put a control number in your e-coupon so that they can only be used once. When people get discounts that can be found in your newsletters, they will be eager to receive your newsletter in anticipation of what you are promoting next.

If your subscribers can get benefits from your newsletters, they will be very eager to receive them. Just don’t flood your mailing list with mails so that you don’t annoy your subscribers.

- Justin Blake, CEO

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Justin Blake one of the web's foremost experts in Viral Marketing. He has recently created a brand new viral marketing resource to help online business owners radically increase their profits and subscriber base, and you can find out more about this incredible resource here: http://y--e--s.com/?i=105903/tblog/

I recently joined Free1up.com a couple of weeks ago. It hasn't gone into pre-launch yet. It's run by a guy named Richard Morris and I am pretty impressed with his dedication.

Richard is just setting this up right now and he calls it "Trial Mode." There are a whole lot of greta features to the site but few  are enabled at this early point. And there are the usual raft of bugs to be worked out before pre-launch.

This guy's patience is amazing! He personally hosts 3 webacast/conference calls every week and these usuallly last 2 hours or more. He spends the time answering a whole lot of questions from the members. Some are pretty dumb questions and other peple just want to whine about the presently inactive features. Over and over he has to explain that this is "Trial Mode."

Come pre-launch I can guarantee you this is going to be one extraordinary site. Despite the limited working features you can still generate $50 commissions... AND I AM!

I have received a bunch of $50 money orders in my mailbox. And you know what? I think I could get used to that!

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I sort of forgot I had this blog. I got too involved in the big hustle for Internet cash.

There is a gazillion ways to make money on the net.

It's easy to get overrun by all the demands of marketing ,seo, web site design etc.

There is always some new tantalizing offer. A new income opportunity,a new traffic system,list builder,script,software etc.

And guess what? All this "busy work" has brought in zero dollars.In fact, you may be putting out more than you are bringing in.

It takes both time and money to build a system that will generate a consistent income for you on the Internet.

The money should go to:
1. Tools and resources for your marketing arsenal.
2. E-books, courses, seminars and other educational material.

The time goes to learning all you can about I.M.
There will be mistakes and unexpected dead-ends.

It can be time-consuming and costly, but it seems to be a necessary part of the Internet Marketing learning curve.

Not everybody is cut-out for Internet Marketing.

9 out of 10 people give up before they see any real money.

I am not in that group. I am starting to reap the rewards of my efforts.

But don't kid yourself- nothing of value can be gained without hard work.

It took me 2 years to get this far and it is not very far at all.

Wait! What's that ahead? Could it be a light...?

Hi, David here,

Enjoy your Summer!
-David Parton

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I finally got off my procrastinating butt and got a domain. Now I am in the process of building the site.

No shortage of busy-work for this Outlaw!

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If you don't know by now one the best ways to attract free traffic to your site is with articles. You find them in your email. You find them on any website that provides useful content. Take a look and you will see they are all formatted the same way.

Attention-getting headline

Body of article ( usually offers tips or how to information)

Resource box - That is at the end and involves a blurb to plug your site or product and your link(s)
 
I'm sure if you think about it you can come up with some ideas of your own for great articles. A good place to start:
 
What is it that you would really like to know? Find the answer online with Google or go to your local library and write away!

Aside from creating helpful content your purpose is to promote yourself. Thus, the resource box. Do not include affiliate links, leave your selling for when the reader clicks through to your site.
 
Okay, you've  written an article- what now?

Submit your article to the article banks. Article banks are depositories for articles. Like a real bank you can make a deposit or a withdrawal. There are several articles on my site that I did not write. I made several "withdrawals" from some of the banks. It's a great way to get free content for your site.

 When you are re-publishing another author's article you must remember one very important thing: Never ever cut-off the resource box! They worked hard to create something useful for you. Repay their generosity by keeping the links intact.
 
And guess what? if you take your article and make a "deposit" it's free for others to download and post on their site or newsletter! You could find it scattered all over the net in no time.
 
Why is that good? Because of your link in the resource box. That link is going to bring you curious visitors which means more traffic for you!
 
I know from personal experience when I find some useful info in an article I want to find more useful stuff from the same author so I follow the link.

And because you wrote so well about your topic I will get the impression you are an expert. We both know that may not be the case, but if people see you as an authority in some area they will seek you out for tips, advice and product recommendations. That means more traffic and ultimately more money in your pocket.
 
There are dozens of article banks you can submit your writing to for free. Just do a search on the net. And submit, submit, submit! If you write it - the traffic will come.

David Parton -Copyright 2006

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Today I'm going to talk about Niche marketing with Google Adwords.

What is a niche? According to the Merriam -Webster Online Dictionary it is simply a "specialized market."

If you don't specialize you end up having to pay dearly for your keywords on Google.
Here are 2 examples of very general search terms.

·    ;       I used the Overture View Bids Tool to search for the keyword “sex.”
The highest bidder was paying $2.53 per click.

·    ;       I also searched for the keyword “computer”
The highest bidder was paying $1.57 per click.

Not Only are these words expensive but they are so general that you could get hundreds of unwanted clicks.

Here’s an example: You are marketing an ebook entitled “How to determine the Sex of your Goldfish.” If you bid on the keyword “sex” your Adwords ad will get clicked on by some window-shopper, a tire-kicker that is really looking for dirty pictures of Paris Hilton! Stick to more specific terms, goldfish, raising goldfish, information about goldfish, that sort of thing.

  Impressions of your adwords ad showing up where they don’t really belong is not going to generate sales.

Bid on relative terms for the minimum 5 cents, if you can find them. Avoid the broad terms. And try to put yourself in the shoes of your prospect. Create a mental profile of the sort of person that would desire your product.

Ø    ;   What are their interests?

Ø    ;   What products do they use?

Ø    ;   What products related to yours might they be searching for?

Regarding how you approach your copywriting : the most important questions you must ask yourself are:

Ø    ;   In what way can my product be a great benefit to my buyer?

Ø    ;   In what way can my product provide a solution to their problem(s)?

Once you have puzzled over these things for a while. Make a list of keywords and phrases targeted towards filling a need of your prospective buyer.

If your Adwords ad is pitching a “make money at home” or similar cash generating product, you may have to get creative. The competition is stiff and the keyword bids are pricey. Finding good keywords will be challenging but not impossible.

Want to find your own niche to scratch?  What are your interests? What are you passionate about? What gets you jazzed?

If you are a fanatic about Fly-fishing why not promote fishing products? Love to create new dishes? Promote Recipe/Cookbooks.
In the Offline world cookbooks outsell every other kind, year after year.

  You get the idea.

It’s a lot more fun when you are passionate! I think that sort of positive energy can really assist you in relating to your prospects. And writing a compelling ad.

Here are some more free tools.

Roboform: This automatically fills in forms for you. I find it very useful and it saves me time. As an affiliate you often have to fill out a lot of forms. Pretty tedious stuff. It does it all with one click. It remembers all your user names and passwords, too.

Good Keywords: Peppy little search tool. It compiles a list of terms related to the keyword you entered. It also shows you the number of searches on Overture for each term. It is free, too!

Keyword Wrapper: Just paste your list of keywords and it wraps them in “quotation marks and [brackets] You can then paste the new list right into Adwords.

-David Parton

Monday, November 01, 2004 11:50:27 PM PST

 Okay, from the beginning:

 I am an artist and I work at a job I don't really enjoy. A bit cliché, but there you have it.

  I thought I would sell some paintings on Ebay. I read every Ebay help file, Ebay  ebook and Auction forum I could find.

I sold one painting for less than cost. I couldn't imagine making enough money to leave my job, auctioning my art.  I kept searching.

 The first Web-marketing  ebook  I read was “The Silent Sales Machine Hiding on ebay” by Jim Cockrum. It really opened my eyes!  You can find dozens of different ways to generate income through eBay with this book. You can even use cheap eBay ads to drive traffic to your website.

 I soon discovered affiliate marketing through pay-per-click search engines. No shipping, no emails, no buying from a wholesaler and no customer contact. That last one sold it for me.

You might find, like me that Google Adwords is a good place for a beginner to start.

 Here is a list of tools I use daily to work on my campaigns and I will call it the:

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  Adword Analyzer This my favourite tool for finding affordable keywords for my Adword  campaigns. Fast and easy to use but
  it’s not free.
  


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  WordTracker This one is really good, too. It also has a free trial. You can return to the site and use the free tool over and over. 
  


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    Overture Keyword Selector&nbs p;Tool This is a free tool provided by the mighty Yahoo Search engine: Overture. You just type in a keyword and it gives you a list of related terms that have recently been searched for on Overture. Google doesn’t have a tool like this so the Overture ranking is the next best thing to determining a keywords usage and popularity.
  


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     Overture Bid Tool   Another groovy free tool from Overture.
  ” Type in a search term and we'll show you the Max Bids and listings for that term.”   That’s what it does. You can find out real fast if your keywords are inexpensive or astronomical.
  


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      & nbsp; Google Cash Virtually every affiliate using Google adwords has read this book. You should read it, too. You don’t want your competition to have an unfair advantage, do you? Chris Carpenter helped me get started with Adwords in just a few hours.
  


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       Google Adwords 123   Greg Heslin takes you by the hand and walks you through 2 successful Adwords campaigns. You will also learn how to search for inexpensive targeted keywords. Keywords from a consumer’s perspective. This an excellent companion to Google Cash and I suggest you buy one if not both of these ebooks and jumpstart your Adwords adventure!

Holy Crow look at the time! I have to crash. I have more links to add and plenty of suggestions for optimizing your Adword experience. I will continue with this topic in my next entry.

- David Parton