Article marketing is biggest load of Bull^%&#
As you know, that I am huge proponent of article marketing.
And whenever I recommend it, people often email me and tell me
how it doesn’t work.
And to their surprise I often agree with them.
Why? Because I know with so many writers out there, the artilce
directories have become overloaded.
Even the so called mighty ezinearticles.com doesn’t give you
good results. Let’s just not talk about rest of them.
Of course a lot of this has to do with what you write and
how you write.
And the worse thing about this is “anyone can write an
article”. The momemnt such crowd enters into arena, it becomes
hard to breathe and produce results.
So the only thing you can do is “work smarter than them”. And
that’s good for you. Because you let others fight for low
hanging fruits. You have an option to go beyond.
And this is where I can help you.
In next 7 days eclass, I am going to take from pure basics of
writing an article to make you understand what makes your
articles stick.
For next 7 days, you can ask me any questions that’ll help you
with article writing/marketing.
Plus I’ll give you an extra 7 days to ask me any questions about
blogging and product creation.
This eclass is only open for 25 applicants. Act Quickly to
register your seat.
http://imbasics.com/eclass.html
Best Regards
Varun Pratap
PS: The skill of article writing can be translated into reports
ebooks, books, sales letter and product creation.
Register and
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100 Article Challenge
100 article challenge.
Right Now it’s 4 PM sunday and a thought came to my mind. Something that can help you build your website, your products and web traffic. On Nov 25,2009 I clocked my article writing speed at 300 words at 7 minutes 55 seconds. I know it’s surprisingly high speed and now you know it can be done.
I am calling this 100 Article Challenge.
The challenge is very simple. You are going to write 100 articles for your website (niche). It doesn’t matter in how many days you can do it. It’d great if you finish is as soon as possible.
With 100 articles written, you have content to promote for your website for next 3 months and 10 days. You can write 10 articles a day and finish this challenge in 10 days. You don’t have to worry about content and what to promote for next 3 months.
You can submit 1 article per day for 100 days (imagine how much it’ll help boost your traffic)
You can put together a few articles and create a PDF ebook to give away to your subscribers and build a list
You can expand few concepts taken from articles and create small reports (sellable at $10 – $30)
There are so many ways you can use these 100 articles.
You have 30 days to finish this challenge.
Post your results and effort on your blogs
UPDATE : Right now it’s 7 pm, and I decided to write few articles after making this challenge. I didn’t cared about how many words I am going to write and ended up 5 articles with varying length. I’ll start posting these articles (and promoting by morning).
Are you going to pull up your sleeves and take this challenge?
My 3 Simple tips to get FREE traffic
Traffic building is sore spot for many marketers. People are spending thousands of dollars just to learn how they can increase web site traffic and profit from it.
Often I am surprised at the stuff (how to get traffic) people are buying these days. Internet marketers sure have made it complicated. So what do people like You and me have to do?
I am going to share 3 of my simplest strategies which you can work right now as you finish this article. There’s no complicated Link building plans to remember, No complicated farming techniques, pure simplicity.
REMEMBER : Traffic is all about building momentum and continuing it. The more you work on building traffic, better your results will be.
So Here we go.
1. Article Writing – I am surprised how many people miss the fact that this thing works. If you notice at the top article directories (like www.ezinearticles.com), people start off with gusto but later on they lose the fizzle.
Article writing is all about content and lots of content. You should at least submit articles for first 4–6 months everyday. Only then you’ll be able to see some good results.
If you think this will take time, you are half right. I often see the difference in my traffic in 7 days. Chances are you’ll see same are very high. Provided you are working on it everyday.
Do not burn yourself trying to submit many articles per day. 1 article per day is good enough to generate a momentum.
2. Blog comments – I highly recommend you to create your own blog and start posting comments on other bloggers. Do not spam. You’ll be surprised how many people will come to your website/blog from these comments. I still get visitors from comments I left few years ago. That’s how good it is.
Again, providing and adding to the discussion of the blog will help you. If you spam, you’ll be pretty much blacklisted in no time. Often bloggers do not have patience with comment spammers.
Get into habit of daily leaving comments on high traffic blogs.
3. Answers/Groups/Forums – These are few places where people go to get answers to their problems. You should take your time out and answer few questions a day. It’ll take some time but you’ll start getting results from this in 8–10 days. BTW, DO NOT SPAM.
Again do not forget about building momentum and keeping it.
From my calculation and experience, it’d not take more than 1 hr per day to follow the above 3 tips and start getting traffic in 7 days. You’ll probably double your traffic in 30 days.
If you noticed, I haven’t touched web 2.0 at all. Why? because even with all the hype it’s not necessary to follow the crowd to get traffic.
Like I said, simplicity will win over complication in 95% of scenarios.
It’s all about results
I was going through my list of websites I have and noticed I had a website which I was not promoting at all… And it has been sitting there getting some traffic for last 6 months. I have many projects in the pipeline right now (including offline marketing) so I left it alone for last 6 months.
I noticed I was getting 2238 uniques visitors per month. Which makes it at about 73 unique visitors per day.
So right now I just commissioned a product for the website. The best way to make money in any market is by your own products. With last 6 months of traffic stats, I have the keyword, I know what people are looking for and I know where they are landing.
If I am selling a $47 product and making 1 % conversion (which is easier than you might think). I’ll be making $1000 a month.
If I do nothing then I’ll be making $12000 a year with this website. Again look the at numbers. 73 Unique visitors is nothing. Heck I know quite a few of my readers/subscribers can generate far more than this.
Of course I am planning to spend some time promoting this website as I go along. But till then I have to work with these numbers.
My plan for this website is very simple. I want it to have around 500 uniques per day and around 1% conversion to the product. That’s 5 sales per day. And I am fixing the time limit for next 6 months. I am no hurry to get 500 uniques per day. 5 sales per day at $47 = $200/day . Would you like to hit your goals like this?
I know I can add 100 unique with a week of work and another 100 with about 10 days of work… So in next 6 months. I’ll be breezing along and getting my goals.
Why I am talking about numbers in such manner?
Today you can do your worse easily. But as you go along, spend your time, get experience, your numbers and figures will improve. There’s no substitute for experience.
Things often go wrong but you’ll learn from the experience. The more you do, the better you get at it.
I am doing nothing but talking about simplest of the goals.
1% conversion with 100 unique visitors. I don’t want more than that…
When you start out, this is the best goal. What’s the worse you can do here is have no sale in next few days? Then you have to sit down and figure out where exactly you go wrong. Where you can improve? what you can do to get 1%.
If you just focus on 1% for next 30 days, you’ll see tremendous results.
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Getting Started with Blogging
I just started re-editing my Power Up Blogging Website. My plan is to provide a complete course on blogging there.
Blogging is far more mainstream than you might guess. But the best thing about blogging is about the way it creates a platform between you and your readers.
And that’s what I like best about blogging.
I’ll be updating my Power Up Blogging Website and keep posting new content here on this blog.
Ironic thing is I am not making it a blog instead a content site 
You can already read tons of internet marketing content on this blog. I don’t want to make commitment which I cannot keep.
How to write articles in 10 minutes or less?
If you have realized that article writing is one of the easiest FREE way to get traffic, then you should be writing more articles regularly to promote your website. The only problem with article writing is that people complain it doesn’t work. When the effectiveness of writing article has dropped considerably.
So what to do in this circumstances?
One thing you should forget that writing articles is always the easiest way to get one way link. Even if someone doesn’t publish your article to list of 10,000 people. You have to understand this is long term SEO planning.
Now lets come back to our original goal for this article.
How to write an article in 10 minutes or less?
Writing articles is all about consistency. When you are writing articles, it would be far better do it in one sitting. I often spend weekends on writing multiple articles on one market. As you start writing, the gears in your brain starts working, working really furiously. As they work, you’ll be able to write fast, better and informative as the information starts flowing out of you.
This is THE SECRET of writing articles fast.
Understand Speed, Consistency and Quantity is what matter in this scenario. Writing 20–30 articles in a day is not a big deal for people who’ve mastered this rule.
Think of a topic and start writing. Just start writing.
Lock out your kids, pets or fix your office. Stay away from any distraction like Phone or email. And now Get writing.
You’ll notice as you are writing for next 5 minutes, your brain will start providing you enough stuff to write a whole book. Understand that’s how your brain works.
Give your brain the right question and it’ll start giving you answers till your thrist for answer doesn’t dry up.
On side note : This article took me 7 minute 55 seconds
Click here to learn the Formula I use to write articles like the above.
The Simplest Blueprint to Internet Marketing Success
When you are starting out in internet marketing, you tend to look into secrets, hidden knowledge and end up wasting your time, money and resources. That’s what happened to me when I started out in early 2004. I spent 13 months without making any profit (I was making money but losing more every month).
Sometimes I think If I have to give myself simple advice, what I’d give?
1. Choosing a Market – I’ll tell myself, don’t try to find obscure niche markets. Go where competition is, go where people are already buying. At least you know what kind of products are selling and what not.
There’s no need to be afraid of competition. Internet is big enough to include you too.
2. Choosing an angle : Michel fortin calls it power positioning, Others call it USP (Unique selling proposition). I prefer to call “Choosing an angle”. Why? It makes easy for you to think and act upon it.
It’s better if you think how you can enter in a market and start selling immediately. Same product, same offer rarely win. Even if you have a better product, it won’t be help at all.
Same blogging course, same weight loss tips, same dog training techniques won’t work for you. Think how you can add to the existing market and profit from it.
3. Create a product : Create a product fast. Do not dilly dally. Do not waste time in getting the perfect product. Get it done. Do not take more than 7 Days to create a product. If you take too much time, your current enthusiasm will drop, your energy will be low and you’ll be surrounded by negativity (I wonder if It’d sell).
Focus on a product and get it done before any negative though process break into you.
4. Start getting traffic and improve conversion : Getting 100 unique visitors per day is not hard in any market. If you improve your conversion to 1% and your product price is $47. You are well onto making $1350 per month. Add few more products and back end. You’ll be able to generate a great livelihood from internet marketing.
5. Consistent Effort : The above figures can be true, if you put consistent effort daily.
You should be spending time out to get traffic.
You should be spending time to write more content (or create product).
You should be spending time to get to know your market.
You should be spending time to think how you can further increase your conversion.
5 Simplest advice I can give you to start right now. Not in the evening, not tomorrow, not when stars are in auspicious alignment.
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Varun Pratap
Aim for That Peak Like Mad.
Shadow Such people and Cheer Them On.
FTC made Online Business More harder???
FTC is going to regulate their new rules and terms from Dec 1, not very far. This is going to make doing business online a little harder. Their terms for affiliates, case studies, testimonials are way too vague and open to interpretations.
The Funny thing is marketers are using this opportunity to make some more money. Jeff Walker is pulling down his PLF saying all he has “case studies”, without them he won’t be able to sell it.
I was grinning ear to ear while reading his latest email. There’s one thing Internet marketing has taught me, “Sell whenever the damn you can”. It’s great philosophy to understand and live by.
Like someone said “Every communication is an attempt to persuade”. So either you are persuading someone or getting persuaded by someone. And selling is all about persuasion.
Anyways, it’s going to be really interesting to see how it effects the online world at large after Dec 1. So far I haven’t seen any large changes from other marketers. Personally I am not that worried about it.
I know sooner or later someone will hack it and sell an ebook on “How to screw around New FTC regulation?” on $10 on warrior forum (if you can’t catch sarcasm here, you need to socialize more at warrior forum 
another sarcasm attempt here).
I’ll keep my eyes open to see the aftermath of this new regulation. Till then…
Varun Pratap
Aim for That Peak Like Mad.
Shadow Such people and Cheer Them On.
Difference between Pro and Wannabe’s
My brother Bhanu is an artist, he likes to paint and create new things on canvas. Just recently I got into discussion about selling his creations. There’s a hesitation in him which is not helping his sell more of his stuff and work.
This discussion was all about Pro’s and Wannabe. I was telling him pro takes charge in his life and every step of the way. Wannabe’s sits there and wait for stuff to happen.
Pro is serious about his work and its value. Wannabe is unsure about it.
Pro is dedicated about it 7 days a week, 30 days a month and 365 days a year. Wannabe is a weekend warrior.
My thought was, “If you love your stuff, you should not hesitate to sell. If you are selling, do not hesitate to name your price. It’s your work, create the value for it by yourself”.
And this is exactly the biggest difference in most beginner internet marketers.
They do not take the business of building business online seriously.
They do not think in terms of Profit and Loss in monetary value.
They are buying stuff, expecting things to happen.
So what you can do things differently to make things happen in your favor?
1. Create a Product in your market (I don’t care if you create 10 page ebook, Just do it. On other note I just finished 16 page ebook in 3 hrs)
2. Set advertisements (PPC/PPV/CPA) to bring immediate traffic to your website sales pages.
3. Test your sales letter and find out ways to improve conversion.
Next Steps can be optional.
4. Create content to promote your content.
5. Create more ways to get traffic (blog comments, article marketing, forum comments, SEO, affiliate system etc).
6. Make a goal to at least sell 1% conversion of your sales letter.
If you just do the first 3, you’ll be better than 95% of other marketers. If you do the next 3 steps, you’ll be rarer less than 1% who acts and gets results.
I dare you to try it and see if it doesn’t change your life in next 30 days.
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