Besides that, they also put in your website’s ranking in the different countries, on the same page for our reference.

I feel that these data is useful to me, especially to judge where do the bulk of my visitors come from. In my case, it is mostly from Singapore (which is my hometown) and United States. This particular information is important when your product is specific to a particular countries or groups of countries. Also, Alexa has included the traffic rank in other countries, which let you observe if your website has progressed in ranking in the countries of interest. Another way to see these information is the places of opportunities. For our case, we have been targeting mostly the United States and United Kingdom traffic. However, from these two data alone, we can see that Hong Kong is another area which we can look into. That is, another area of opportunity which we never thought of. Perhaps, you can also find something which you havent thought of by looking and analysing the information from Alexa.

Next, there is some changes to the way they present the reach for the website being searched. Instead of showing the exact number of internet users visited the site per million, they are giving in terms of percentage, which is kind of simple to convert it back to the exact number users. For the other two indicators, the rank and page views, they are still the same.

Though there are many websites or articles which mentioned that Alexa ranking can be easily manipulated, I find that most of the time it is the owner of the websites who manipulate the statistics, which I thought they are just cheating themselves. If the contents of the website is good, then there is no need to increase your own rank or page views. Readers will be attracted to your website to read your post and be hungry with what you have to say. In fact, I find that one should not even try to visit your own website, so that you can get the actual picture of what your website is getting. Hence, whatever data you are analysing will not be corrupted by your own actions.

In the next post, I will be mentioning more on Alexa website.

Tags: Alexa, traffic rankings, reach, page views evosuccess

1. Guarantee an ON TIME Delivery

By now, it is only left with 3 days to the V day. If you can guarantee that your product is able to reach your customers on time and SUPER FAST, you have won more than half the battle already. They wouldnt want a situation whereby they are unable to give their bg/gf present on that day. (Trust me, gals will most likely remember that forever. Haha.) So if you are willing to fork out a bit from your pocket to send your products to the customers by air and make the delivery real fast, they will more likely to buy from you. If you unsure if your customers can give you the order on time for you to deliver, you can give a cutoff time after which deliver cannot be guaranteed. For instance, “We need your confirmation by 12:00 pm EST, Monday, Feb 12, to ensure on-time delivery on Valentine’s Day.”

Remember to feature this selling point prominently.

2. Additional Services like gift wraps and cards

On top of the main gifts which you are selling, you can provide additional services like gift wrapping services and cards as well. This will give you some additional income on top of what you sell. Have some e-forms for the customers to write down their thoughts on the cards and let them have 2–3 choices of cards and wrapping papers. Limited choices will help them reduce their headache of choosing again and this will also help you to have less hassle to get so many kinds of cards and wrapping papers. 

In fact, you can also tweak your delivery options so that the products can be delivered to the person receiving the gifts, instead of the buyer himself. This will save the customers some time from waiting to receive the gifts, then giving to his/her significant other. This will surely be another plus point to buy from you.

3. Emphasise INSTANT delivery

If you are able to provide instant delivery, that will be the BEST of all. Usually, that will be ebooks or whatever items which can be delivered electronically and it can be delivered as fast as your autoresponder could! Do allow your customers to print out in hard copies, if you are selling ebooks. Besides ebooks, you can also sell gift vouchers. For instance, the lady may know that his bf like something on computers. However, she is quite a computer idiot. Hence, she can just buy some online gift vouchers for him. This will allow the guy to get whatever he really needs. Besides, gift vouchers are easy available and can be delivered instantly!

In all, try to tweak your business strategies so that you can make a killing before this Valentine’s Day.

Tags: Valentine’s Day, Last minute gifts, instant delivery, guarantees

Autoresponder – Some may have it, while some are still thinking of whether there is a need to. However, I feel that every internet marketer should have it so that he can start collecting a list.

Blog – I seriously believe every internet marketer should have one.

Chocolate – After so much stress and excitement while working on your products/ projects, you may want to eat some chocolate. Haha.. But watch out of your weight. But jokes aside, you can look out on your conversion rates to observe how many of your readers actually become your customers.

Domain name – Getting a going-to-expire domain name may be useful since the previous owner may have done some things to attract traffic to this website already.

FTP – You may need this so that you can transfer your files more easily.

Google – A powerful search engine which you cannot underestimate. On the other hand, do make full use of it, since it is so powerful.

HTML – You cant avoid this. So try to learn this.

Impression – Each time your advert appears on the website, that is one impression.

Javascript – This is used to create interactive websites.

Keywords – Search for the keywords to optimise

Link – Do I have to explain more???

Marketing – Same as the above explanation

Netiquette – Though nobody is seeing you face-to-face, you do have remember to mind your manners.

Original – Remember to be creative and original in your posts. You dont really want to hear from your readers that your posts originated from others’ blogs.

Paypal – Register an account there so that you can do your payment there.

Quit your job – That must be one of your ultimate goal when you are doing internet marketing. If it is not, then please be focus in your present job.

Rush – When you are writing a sales copy, make sure that you create that rush-to-buy-your-products feelings in your potential customers.

SEO – Search Engine Optimisation. Read up more in this post.

Tea time – Though you are working hard all day, do take a break at times and relax your eyes. After that, think of more ways to attract traffic.

Unique visitors – Keep track of where your readers come from. This may give you some ideas about their interests and characteristics.

Viral marketing – A good way to get people to pass on the message.

Web design – In whichever website, do have a professional web design. People DO look at appearance.

X-rated – NO! You would want any of such things to be associated with you if you want to build up your reputation, unless you have other things in mind.

Yahoo! – Another search engine which you shouldnt neglect.

Zzzz – You will need lots of sleep and you will get to sleep alot when you are into internet marketing.

If you noticed, I have left out E. Hence, last but not least,

Evosuccess.com – You can forget about the above, but you can get everything you need here. So bookmark it!

Tags: abc, internet marketing, Autoresponder, Blog, Domain name, FTP, Google, HTML, Impression, Javascript, Keywords, Link, Paypal, SEO, Viral marketing, Web design, Yahoo!

I know there are some of you out there who are really good in writing. Be it something on what you are interested in or some topics which you have done much research on. You write well and you have the rich source of content and information. If you don’t mind, why don’t you be a ghostwriter?

For those who are new to this concept (those who understand this, bare with me), a ghostwriter is one who gets paid and helps others to write a piece of work. It can be an article, post or even a book. However, the credit of the work goes to the person who pays the ghostwriter.

You see, being a ghostwriter isnt a bad idea. You will get rewarded, sometimes quite handsomely, for your work. It might be what you know and have experience on writing the topic. Then, it will be just a piece of cake to you to earn that money. Even if you are not sure of the topic which your client demanded, it gives you a chance to research on that topic when during normal days, you wouldnt even think of checking it out. (I have personally done ghostwriting before and I have once being asked to write about bedbugs, which I thought it was quite unusual.)

So if you are interested in picking up your pen and do some ghostwriting, you might want to post your service on elance.com or guru.com. Another method to “announce” to the world that you are providing ghostwriting service is to join forums and online communities. Then, introduce yourself and mentioned that you are providing ghostwriting service. Perhaps, you can even design your signature, under your posts, that defines your ghostwriting service and an email or website URL.

With this, enjoy writing and start earning money out of your talent!

Jasmine

Tags: ghostwriting, elance, guru.com, writing, earning money

Indeed, the mind is an extremely powerful weapon. Many times we think that we cannot make achieve some targets and in the end we will get very restless and unmotivated to move towards our goals and aims. Eventually, when we really cannot reach our goals, we will be disappointed and just believe that it is our fate that we failed or we are just plain unlucky. However, the actual fact is that we have already lost half the battle when we believe that we cannot make it, right in the beginning! Just imagine, when you are the leader of an army and you are about to lead in a war, will you tell your soldiers that you all will be going to die? NO! You will be telling your soldiers that they have prepared and practised hard enough and they will be tasting victory at the end of the day. Similarly, your brain is like the leader of an army. You will have to condition your mind to tell yourself that you will succeed in the end.

Though we used to say birds of the same feather, flock together, do we really think deep into it? To me, I find that it is so true. People who have shared visions will usually get together. They will tend to encourage each other, or at least spur each other on. At least for myself, when I read on other internet marketers’ blogs/website, I will be motivated to continue to work hard.

Hence, remember to:

1. Condition your mind that you will succeed in the end.

2. Continue to be motivated in whatever you do.

Tags: law of attraction, Henry Ford, mind, internet marketing, blogs, motivation

Would you sell your blog for a few thousand dollars? It may seems like a lot to many of us, but I wouldn’t sell it since I spent lots of time and effort to build my blog. Your blog also reflects your identity and voice on the internet. Selling it is almost equivalent to selling yourself.

You may not agree with me on this. Because you might argue that you can easily build another one to replace the one you sell. Some of us may even have the idea of building more blogs to sell. Guess that will be another lucrative business for you and me.

Well, go here now to check the value of your blog before you decide is it worth it to sell your blog if there are buyers.

Tags: Blogs, Technorati