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From Chris Kilian, Stealth Promotions
Austin, Texas
email: chris@stealthpromotions.com
Welcome to the 27th Issue of Secrets for Success.
May 5, 1999
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Contents:
1. Guest Article: "Where's Your Community?"
2. Useful Sites: Online Gold Mines.
3. Pre IPO Offer
4. Worthy Newsletters: Add yourself as a subscriber
5. Mixed Bag: Editor Ramblings
6. Links For Your Consideration: Great offers for you.
7. Guest Article: 4 Ways Information Can Increase Your Online Income
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Guest Article:
"Where's Your Community?"
"Build a community and you're building a business."
That's the new and proven business model in cyberspace.
Hotmail.com, Geocities.com, ICQ.com. The list goes
on and on. These companies and thousands like them have
built thriving online businesses based on that model.
It's quite simple really. If enough "netizens" gather at
your site, finding a way to create revenue is easy!
You can sell them your products or services. You can
invite others to market to them and take a percentage.
You can collect advertising dollars. You can even invent
your own revenue model. The whole idea is this; when you
create an online community, a solid customer base simply
comes along for the ride.
Now, let's scale things down a bit. I realize that like
myself, many small business owners do not have the
type of capital it requires to create their own Hotmail
or Geocities business model. But that's not to say you
can't take advantage of the community building model!
Here's a prime example....
Visit http://bizweb2000.com/wwwboard and
you'll see one
of these "scaled down" communities. That URL is the
address of my "CyberMarketing InfoBoard". It is simply
a self-propelled community where anyone and everyone can
go to learn about internet marketing. Got a question?
Ask it there. Got a solution to someone else's dilemma?
Post your answers there.
Perhaps a bulletin board would tie in nicely at your
site? After all, a "Q & A forum" fits in well with
just about any subject matter, and it makes for a nice
community! If you're looking for repeat visitors to your
site, you won't find a better way to get them.
Before you jump right in though, here are a few tips to
consider before setting up a bulletin board at your site.
1. Wait until you have a decent flow of traffic to your
site before you open your board for business. A very
slow board can be worse than no board at all. If visitors
stop by your board and there are just handful of posts
over a long period of time, they may not return.
2. Choose a simple bulletin board interface like the one
I use at my board. Not only is it easy to navigate, it is
simple to moderate and remove posts as necessary. (More
on selecting an interface below.)
3. Don't try to run your board all by yourself. Hire a
small team of qualified moderators as I have done at my
board. Experts who know the value of networking will
gladly accept a position as moderator. My own moderators
spend an hour or so per week in trade for the name
recognition and new business it brings them.
Okay, are you ready to build your own board yet? Here
some details on making it happen...
A multitude of free "bulletin board cgi scripts" are readily
available on the web. My bulletin board cgi script came
from Matt's Script Archive at:
http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts
You can go to that URL and download Matt's WWWboard
or, if you prefer a different style, more bulletin board scripts
are available at:
http://www.cgi-resources.com
Once you settle on the actual script you want, you'll need
to install it at your server. This requires modifying the
files you download with the script, and uploading them
into the proper directories at your web server. Since most
scripts differ, it's best to read the "readme.txt" file
that comes with your script. It will spell out all the
details of installation.
Once your board is up, tend to it daily.
Don't allow blatant advertising or self-promotion at
your board. This makes for a board that people will not
bother to re-visit. You may want to post a "no advertising"
statement and police your board by removing undesirable
posts as quickly as possible.
As far as what posts get deleted and what stays at your
board, you have the final say. After all, you are the
moderator. It's your community. Tend to it wisely
and it will re-pay you many times over!
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Article by Jim Daniels of <http://www.bizweb2000.com>.
Jim has been helping folks profit online since 1996.
If you're interested in the latest online marketing
techniques, get the Free BizWeb E-Gazette. Visit
www.bizweb2000.com or mailto:freegazette@bizweb2000.com
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Useful Sites:
http://www.mrsmithmedia.com/ lists literally
thousands of sites that
you can contact via email with your press release. You select your
media target, address it, add your press release copy, and boom,
there it goes. They won't write it for you, and if you send junk you
can bet that any further communication will result in your emails
suffering a deleted death.
I have recently changed my new subscriber offer to include a whole
e-library. To be sure you are kept up to date, here is the information
you need to stock up on some recent E-books.
To get these books, go to the following addresses to download yours:
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(Search engines)
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(Promotion)
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(Jim Daniels)
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(Marketing)
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(HTML help)
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(Promotion)
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(Sales help)
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(Marketing)
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OK, so you see all these companies exploding online. As a subscriber
to this ezine, because of the topics we cover, we suspect you may be
more aware of the tremendous opportunity that exists online today.
A new company is now forming that offers a great value to online
e-commerce goals for both businesses and consumers.
Today, I signed up for a membership at what appears to be one of the
most amazing sites on the Net. It's basically a vast consumer community
service, which will soon be offering its members substantial discounts on
consumer merchandise as well as other various community services (like
forums, on-line shopping malls and a targeted internet consumer index).
They seem to be pretty serious! Besides, they're offering a referral
program that gives out cash bonuses of up to $1000 which could also be
applied to the purchase of the company's shares (if they complete an
IPO). They provide on-line stats, and I'd like you to help me run up my
bonus. It's easy to sign up, but their offer is limited, so try and do it as
soon as you can. Simply register at
http://www.targetshop.com/users/level1.asp?refId=145736
, (my
referral number is 145736) and tell your friends as well!
Thanks, and good luck with the bonuses!
Take care,
Chris
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Mixed Bag::
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kind
ribbing about the address I gave you last week as an experiment.
She passed the test with flying colors, seeing that the URL needed
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Maybe you will find it this week if you go to the proper address,
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Thanks for the
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Guest Article:
4 Ways Information Can Increase Your Online Income
by Monique Harris
Even though all sorts of products and services are
sold online, 'information' will always remain a top
seller. (It's one of the top 3 reasons why people
even use the Internet.)
You can profit from this never ending need for
data, by following these four steps:
1) Sell Your Original Articles as Content.
Owners of niche-based Web sites are often on the
lookout for up-to-date articles, to feature on their
Web homes. You can generate a steady flow of bus-
iness, if you tackle this market the right way.
Don't try to sell your brain food to just any and
every targeted Web site owner. You want to look for
sites that generate a lot of traffic - like 2,000 to
5,000 visitors per day. These are normally revenue
producing sites, and their owners can afford to spend
a little money to keep them in top-notch condition.
To find out how many visitors a site is receiving,
go to their advertising sales page. There, you'll
usually find a rundown of important demographic
info.
When it comes to making the initial contact, I
wouldn't recommend sending your marketing brochure
via e-mail. Instead, put together a direct mail
package featuring a list of topics you can write
about, samples of your work and a list of other
sites where your work has appeared.
2) Collect Similar Information, and Compile It
Into a Database/Directory.
I have a directory that I include as a bonus item
with one of my e-books titled, "186 Places to Promote
and Sell Your Information Product." This is very
valuable data for people who sell books, booklets,
video tapes, etc., on the Internet. (If you've ever
tried searching for such locations, then you already
know what a time consuming process it can be.)
Depending on your niche, you can build a similar
type of directory or database geared towards your
target market. For example, new artists coming on
the Net would be interested in a directory called,
"101 Web Sites Where You Can Promote and Sell Your
Art." There are too many starving artists for this
NOT to be a bestseller!
3) Sell Other Peoples Information Products.
There are many people who have created audio
tapes, video tapes, booklets, and the such,
who basically just sell their infoproducts via
their own Web site.
Locate these people within your niche. Contact
them via e-mail about setting up a joint venture
where you sell their infoproducts on your Web
site, (or through your e-zine), for 40%-50% of
the profits. Nine times out of ten, they will
say yes.
Plus, this is a better alternative than selling
via an affiliate program, because you're not
competing against 50,000 other resellers.
4) Give It Away as a Premium Item.
Jim Daniels, owner of BizWeb2000,
<http://www.bizweb2000.com>,
recently published a new e-book. He's allowing
other Webmasters to give the e-book away on their
Web sites, for free.
It's a good deal for the Webmasters, because they
get interesting content. Plus, Jim gets tons of free
publicity from all those sites giving away his e-book.
You can develop a similar type of information product
by taking 10 or so articles that you've written, and
compiling them into an e-book. Once it's created, put
up a special page on your Web site where site owners
can download it. You can also offer banners, and Web
site copy, for them to use as well.
If 10 site owners agree to distribute your e-book,
and 10 people download it from each site everyday,
you'll have exposed your marketing message to 100
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Monique Harris is the author of the brand new
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Products Online." Download it today and get a
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Until next time-
Plan your work. Work your plan. Succeed.
Chris Kilian, Stealth Promotions
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