now = new Date Day = new Array //Edit the Marketing Tips below Day[1] = "Write good content for your site. Many search engines track down the keywords and keyword phrases your site uses and how they are used. Always include product reviews on your website so visitors will have an initial understanding of what the product can do for those who buy them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product." Day[2] = "Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect. You can also make use of newsletters. Provide people with a catalog of your products and interesting and entertaining articles. The more people who sign up for your newsletter, or subscribe for website updates, the more people there will be that will go to your site increasing your traffic." Day[3] = "Offer free reports to your web site visitors and readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so they simply cannot be missed. If you make it really interesting and entertaining, more people will sign up for your newsletter and recommend it to other people." Day[4] = "Pay-Per-Click (PPC) is one of the four basic types of Search Engines. PPC is also one of the most cost-effective ways of targeted internet advertising." Day[5] = "Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Take advantage of online forums and online communities. The great thing about forums and online communities is that you can target a certain group that fits the certain demographic that you are looking for. You can discuss lots of things about the niche that you represent or offer." Day[6] = "One way of promoting your website and product can be achieved for free - Article Writing! As an additional bonus, this FREE method can boost your sites and sales, doubling and even tripling your income. Write articles for publication in ezines and article directories, making sure to include your resource box. If your site is into promoting a product or service, the links that your articles have achieved will mean more potential customers for you." Day[7] = "When using article writing as a way to promote your website, try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day." Day[8] = "With traffic comes a potential customer which basically means sales which in turn means profit. While many sites have collapsed in the past with the downturn of many internet based business, many smaller sites have generated good money by concentrating on a certain niche and some subniches. Remember that only 1 out of 100 website visitors are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits to your website in a day, that means you can make 10 sales... based on average statistics." Day[9] = "The ideal world of affiliate marketing does not require having your own website, dealing with customers, refunds, product development and maintenance. This is one of the easiest ways of launching into an online business and earning more profits." Day[10] = "There are thousands of affiliate programs online. There are several factors to consider when selecting such a program. Choose the ones that have a generous commission structure, products that fit within your target audience, and that have a solid track record of paying their affiliates easily and on time." Day[11] = "Collect and save the email addresses of those who download your free ebooks and reports. It is a known fact that people do not make a purchase on the first solicitation. You may want to send out your message more than six times to make a sale." Day[12] = "Publish an online newsletter or Ezine. It is always best to recommend a product to someone you know than to sell to a stranger. This is the purpose behind publishing your own newsletter. This also allows you to develop a relationship based on trust with your subscribers." Day[13] = "Write strong pay Per Click ads. PPC search engine is the most effective means of advertising online. As an affiliate, you can make a small income just by managing PPC campaigns such as Google AdWords and Overture. Then you should try and monitor them to see which ads are more effective and which ones to dispose of." Day[14] = "If you are going to submit articles to ezines and/or contribute your articles to newsletters and other sites, DO NOT ever forget to include a link to your site. A little resource box with a brief description of your site and you should always be placed right after your articles that you have submitted. If people like your articles, they will most likely click on the link directing them to your site." Day[15] = "A resource box is what you usually find at the end of an article. What are the benefits of having a good resource box? Mainly its driving traffic to your site. Many sites would allow articles to be placed in their sites because they can make use of the articles to fill their pages. They also get affiliation with other sites that can be beneficial for them as well. For the sponsoring site, when you get people to click on your resource box, you generate traffic that can be counted upon as potential customers." Day[16] = "This is probably the easiest way to write articles... use the public domain. You do not need to scour around the library or the internet for hours for information and start an article from scratch. For webmasters who are looking for articles to fill their site and to generate a high ranking for their website in search engine results, they can just modify the article by infusing keywords and keyword phrases related to their site." Day[17] = "One good factor in using public domain articles for your site or for any project is that you save a lot of money. You dismiss the need to hire experienced and seasoned writers that some website operators use to write their articles. While a single five hundred worded article would only set you down 10 to 15 dollars, this cost will drastically increase when you need hundreds of articles to fill the needs of your site." Day[18] = "For those who need articles to generate newsletters or an e-zine, public domain articles will be very beneficial. You do not need to count on your contributors or pay writers to write down articles for your newsletter or e-zine. You can fill all the pages without any cost or the worry of being sued and sought after by the writers. You can simply copy the articles and place them on your newsletter and e-zine." Day[19] = "Public domain articles have given a great alternative for those who are cash strapped as well as do not have the time nor the skills to do their articles for themselves. Searching for public domain articles is as easy as 1 – 2 – 3. You can search for them in search engines and do searches in many directories for the topic or subject that you need. Read them and simpy copy paste them to a word processing program and simply edit them to suit your needs." Day[20] = "Always remember that when choosing a web host, choose the one that is known for its fantastic customer support. There are also many hosting affiliate programs. Residual affiliate program is also being hosted. This is the program wherein you get paid a percentage every month for a client that you refer. This can allow you to have a steady source of income. With perseverance, you can even be quite successful in this field." Day[21] = "There are a lot of niche markets out there just waiting for the right affiliate to penetrate them and make that million-dollars dream come true. Knowing which one to get into is being confident enough of your potential and the good results you will be getting. Web hosting is just one affiliate market you could try out and make some good and continuous income. Just remember that to be successful on your endeavor also means that time, effort and patience is needed." Day[22] = "Since there are already lots of people getting into affiliate marketing, it is no wonder that the competition is getting stiff. The challenge is to try and outdo other affiliates and think of ways to be able to attain this. What better way to wow your prospects and customers than to record and publish top notch, full motion and streaming screen-captured videos. Nothing like feeling your hard work getting paid by having your customers jumping up excitedly in great anticipation to buy your product right there and then. It is a proven fact; giving your customers something they can actually see can explode your online sales instantly." Day[23] = "One of the more important ways of increasing your affiliate marketing bottom line and sales is through the use of product recommendations. Many marketers know that this is one of the most effective ways in promoting a certain product. If the customers or visitors trust you enough, then they will definitely trust your recommendations. Be very careful in using this approach, though. If you start promoting everything by recommendation, your credibility will actually wear thin. This is seen especially when recommendations are seemingly exaggerated and without much merit." Day[24] = "One of the methods that have spawned many success stories in driving traffic into websites is viral marketing. Viral marketing makes use of the tendency of a person to share something he/she finds informative, entertaining or amazing. Many companies bank on this behavior to spread their products and increase the popularity of their company or their website. This ingenious form of marketing is typically low cost and is a wonderful tool for any company to utilize. The benefit greatly overshadows the cost or efforts to initialize this marketing scheme." Day[25] = "One of the easiest methods in viral marketing is using a Tell A Friend script. This is a simple programming script that you can attach to the programming of your website. Generally, Tell A Friend script are installed in pages where a media is placed so that a person can easily send the media to any of his friends or his family members. The person inputs his name, e-mail address, the recipient e-mail address and sends the media to the intended recipient much like an e-mail with an attachment. As the recipient receives the e-mail he would know that the mail is from someone he or she knows and trust." Day[26] = "The best and most proven method of making a profit out of your traffic is using advertising. The internet generates hundreds of thousands upon hundreds of thousands of traffic everyday. While some are just looking for information, there is also a good percentage that is looking for something that they need. When you have good traffic you have a good number of potential customers, customers that are willing to pour money into your offers... and companies willing to pay you to advertise their products from your website." Day[27] = "Another method of monetizing your traffic are affiliate programs. You can link up with other tried and tested sites and online companies and monetize your traffic by having a percentage of sales generated by traffic coming from your site. The basic idea is, traffic generated from your site will go to another site that can offer a product that you do not carry. When purchases are made by customers that was led by your site to their site you get a percentage of that sale." Day[28] = "Search engine optimization is utilizing tools and methods in making your site top ranking in the results of search engines. Getting yourself in the first page and better yet in the top half of the page will ensure that your site will generate public awareness of your website existence and subsequently generate more traffic, traffic that could lead to potential income and business." Day[29] = "Search engines look for certain keywords that they would show in their results page. In doing so, having the right keyword and keyword phrase is a high requirement in ranking in high in search engine results. You could write your own content or you could hire someone to do it for you." Day[30] = "With exchanging links with other sites, both of you will benefit from the efforts both of you do to enhance your sites traffic. When one site features another sites link, they could provide one another with the traffic one site generates. The efforts are doubly beneficial because it would seem like both of you are working to generate more traffic. The more links traded with more sites the more traffic could be expected." Day[31] = "Viral marketing -- like a virus -- allows you to spread the word about your company and product without any costs or, if ever, low costs only. This is a marketing method that can be quite sneaky; you can attach your company name, product or link to a certain media such as a funny video, entertaining game, an interesting article or a gossip or buzz. With this method, people get infected with the creativity and entertainment of the medium and they will pass it on to many people." document.write("") document.write("") document.write(""" + Day[now.getDate()] + """) document.write("") document.write("")