Merry Christmas Everyone !
December 19, 2009 by Jeffrey
Filed under Jeffrey's Corner
Hello to those that are trying to follow or at least visit this site. I want to thank you all for stopping by. As you have no doubt read, I have had some real problems with this blog. Don’t ask; Don’t tell ! (Really it’s just too hard to explain and would take too long)
As I continue to refine my blogs and online business, Internet Money Systems.com is taking shape as the site where I will deal, rant, blog about all things having to do with marketing yourself online. I never really did know what to do with this platform when I bought it. But now through the work with my other sites I can see clearly where this site needs to go.
I am, by Internet Marketing definitions, a blogger. I really love it. And while in the pursuit of perfection I ran up on a comment by David Risley where he stated that most bloggers really suck at marketing. Or so David says. When you look at Bloggers Market.com, (which is where I live) that’s about as hot a blog as you can get. I mean smokin hot. However, I suck at marketing. Arghhh ………..
So I have decided that this is to be one of the best sites on the web when it comes to marketing yourself online and I hope while helping you reach your Internet Marketing goals, I can reach mine.
I still have work to do here before I can open it up, but I do expect that I should be ready to make waves by the first of the year. Until then …………….
Merry Christmas to all !!!
Blogs For Sale
June 12, 2009 by Jeffrey
Filed under Jeffrey's Corner
I thought I would give you a quick post in my corner on the benefits of owning a blog. I will be going into this subject in a featured article in the future. But for right now, I’d like for you to look at the listings for the blogs that are for sale on this site, on the right hand side of the page.
When it comes to earning money online, the blog is nearly the perfect vehicle. Especially WordPress and the Many Premium Themes that are avaliable today on the market.
I don’t think that you can find a more flexible platform from which to conduct your business. Even the giants of E-Commerce such as Amazon and E-Bay have their own blogs.
What a perfect way to start your online career !
See Ya Soon ………. and thanks for stopping by.
Off and Running
June 4, 2009 by Jeffrey
Filed under Jeffrey's Corner
Well after two and a half months, I’m finally here to post. I’ve had some rippin problems with this site that have kept me at bay while I worked them out. Thanks for your patience.
As you can see by the site, I have made a number of changes that will help all concerned. Over the next few months you will see continued changes as the needs of my readers become apparent.
As for now, here I am, and here I will be. On your mark, get set, go !
Welcome
March 25, 2009 by Jeffrey
Filed under Jeffrey's Corner
Hello and Welcome to Jeffrey’s Corner. I’m Jeffrey Morgan. I’d also like to take this moment to Welcome you to Internet Money Systems.Com Here You will find all the latest news and information on producing Income Online. Make Yourself at home and relax. I promise you that your time here will be well spent. Again, Welcome and Thanks for the visit !
Info Marketing Rocks!
March 16, 2009 by Jeffrey
Filed under Blogging, Information Marketing
Information marketing is incredibly powerful, and there are many reasons for this. If I had to choose a single business model to focus on, and I was forced to drop all other aspects of my business, I would stick to information marketing.
Here’s why information marketing rocks!
1. The profit margins are incredible! There is no other business on earth where you can create a product and sell it over and over again with no additional costs for production and raw materials. Once you’ve made back your initial costs for creating the product, the rest is almost pure profit!
2. Creating information products is so much simpler than creating physical products. You don’t have to buy supplies and raw materials. You don’t have to build factories. You don’t have to hire employees to work in your factory. In fact, if you have the skills, you can create every product yourself!
3. There’s no inventory or shipping. You don’t have to stock shelves with merchandise. You can’t “run out” of an information product, unless you purposely limit sales, and you can’t have the item lost by the shipping company. Sure, you may have to deal with people who don’t know how to download the product, or other minor issues, but it doesn’t cost you anything but time to send the buyer another download link.
4. You can have hundreds of products of your own very quickly. In physical products, creating hundreds of product lines would probably take you many years to accomplish. Online, you could have hundreds of products just by hiring writers and designers to create the products for you.
I feel that information marketing is simply the easiest and best business to get started in. Even if you have no experience at all, you can outsource every single step. You can have a business up and running in days, and it costs almost nothing to get started. What can beat that?
Top 5 Article Directories
March 16, 2009 by Jeffrey
Filed under Bum Marketing, Featured
There are thousands of article directories you could submit to, but I generally submit to only 5. I only submit to those directories that have an Alexa ranking of less than 10,000, because those are the ones that have the best traffic.
Personally, I’m not after backlinks only. The backlinks are great, sure, but I prefer to get backlinks AND traffic, because it multiplies my efforts.
There are currently only 5 directories I know of that have an Alexa ranking of 10,000 or less. These are the directories I submit to. I will occasionally submit to a few others if I have some spare time, but most articles are only submitted to these five.
3. Buzzle.com
I don’t bother with other directories simply because I don’t get enough traffic from any of them to make it worth my time. I may get a trickle of traffic, or the occasional hit here and there, but no other article directory gives me the level of traffic that these do.
If you find a directory that consistently sends you great traffic, by all means submit to it! This list is purely based on my own experiences, and my own opinion. If you find other directories that work for you, that’s great! But personally, these 5 are the only ones that send be decent traffic on a regular basis.
HubPages vs. Squidoo
March 16, 2009 by Jeffrey
Filed under Bum Marketing, Featured
HubPages and Squidoo can both be great money makers, but which one is “better”? Which one should you use?
Well, I’ll be honest with you, I use BOTH. There’s no reason to NOT use both. In fact, I use other sites, too. (Like Weebly, Wet Paint, and others.) But I do tend to focus most of my energy on Squidoo.
There are a couple of reasons for this. First of all, I just find Squidoo’s interface a little cleaner and easier to use. I also find their actual pages more attractive. They do contain a lot of links, but they are well-organized, and the AdSense ads blend in nicely.
On the other hand, HubPages interface seems a little awkward to use. Their pages are cluttered, and the AdSense ads don’t blend. In fact, their method of randomly choosing AdSense styles and colors can make their pages absolutely ugly. HubPages is also very picky about advertising, and you have to be careful to follow their rules. Squidoo is MUCH more relaxed towards marketing.
I also find that my Squidoo lenses tend to rank a little higher than my HubPages hubs. HubPages seems to perform slightly better in MSN for me, but Squidoo does better in Google. Remember, this is just my experience. Yours may be different!
Overall, I vastly prefer working with Squidoo, but I do use both equally. I would prefer to have TWO pages on the front page of Google whenever possible, rather than just one. If I can get a Squidoo lens and a HubPages hub listed on page one for the same keyword, I could potentially get double the traffic.
So the bottom line is this: use both. You may prefer one over the other as I do, but there is absolutely no reason you shouldn’t be using both and getting more traffic. I like to create a mirror on HubPages for every lens I make on Squidoo. (No, I don’t mirror the content!) I just write new content for the same keywords, potentially doubling my search engine listings.
Create Information Products
March 16, 2009 by Jeffrey
Filed under Blogging, Information Marketing
Creating digital products is time-consuming. The average ebook may take anywhere from 8 to 100 hours to write, depending on the length, complexity, and speed of the writer. But there are ways you can speed this process up, and even create an info product in an hour or two!
1. Dragon Naturally Speaking
Dragon Naturally Speaking is a software program that lets you speak words instead of typing them. Most people speak far faster than they type, so you can save a lot of time by using this software! Some people double or even triple their product creation speed with this tool.
2. Interviews
Interviewing people via telephone or Skype is a super way to create a product. Find an expert in your niche, ask them for an interview, and create an audio product. You can have this product transcribed relatively cheaply, which means you will have both audio and a written product to sell. A one hour interview with an expert could be sold for a great deal of money if the information is good!
3. Videos
Creating a video can take a lot less time than creating a written product. Let’s say you want to show someone how to create a Squidoo lens. You could create an entire video showing the process from start to finish in the time it takes you to create the lens. This might be an hour, for example. But it would probably take you at least 20 pages to explain the process in writing, not to mention the necessity of creating screenshots to show people what you’ve done. A written product might take 3-4 hours. By creating a video, you could accomplish the same thing in 1/4 the time! Plus, video products usually sell for a lot more than an ebook because the perceived value is greater!
Remember to get creative. You might think of some new ways to shave time off of your product creation, and you might find that your products sell even better when delivered in a new format.
5 Steps to More Blog Traffic
The biggest question people have about blogging seems to be, “How can I get more traffic to my blog?”
Getting traffic to a website or blog is no easy thing to do. There are millions and millions of websites and blogs on the internet, and you’re probably competing with thousands, of not millions of sites in your niche. Why would a visitor come to your blog instead of one of those other sites or blogs?
Well, it’s all about saturation and visibility. You need to make sure that no matter where a visitor goes on the internet, they’re almost assured of running into a link to your blog. If they visit another blog in your niche, they should be able to find a link to you from it! It’s a lot of work, but it can pay of big time!
So let’s look at the ways you can get more visibility and saturation:
1. Comment on other blogs. You should comment on as many blogs as you can in your niche, but be sure to leave quality comments! Don’t just stop by and say, “Nice post.” Tell them WHY you like the post, or comment on what you DON’T like about it. Just make sure you contribute something to the conversation. Leave your link in the URL field, but do NOT put it in the comment itself!
2. Use social bookmarking. Bookmark posts on your own blog, and encourage readers to do the same. Use social bookmarking plugins to encourage readers to bookmark posts, and to make it easier for them to do so.
3. Write guest posts for other blogs in your niche. Ask other bloggers if you can author guest posts for them for free in exchange for a link back to your site. Many bloggers would be thrilled to get high-quality content for their blog for free, so it doesn’t hurt to ask.
4. Write articles and post them to article directories. This gets you valuable backlinks to help improve your SEO, but can also drive traffic straight to your blog.
5. Take the time to do proper SEO. Keyword research is crucial, so be sure every post you make contains keywords that could attract search engine traffic. Use SEO plugins to make sure you get the most search engine traffic possible.
Anything you can do to get more links to your blog is great. Spend a few minutes each day looking for new ways to get links back to your blog. The more saturated the ‘net is with links to your blog, the more traffic you will end up getting.
5 Vital WordPress Plugins
There are thousands of plugins available for WordPress, and many of them can be very useful. It can be tempting to add dozens to a single blog, but this can be time consuming, and isn’t really necessary. I don’t recommend adding more than a handful of plugins to each blog, because you’ll have more to update and keep track of.
So let’s look at the 5 WordPress plugins you should absolutely be using on every blog you create!
The Platinum SEO Pack is an update version of the old All-in-One SEO Pack. It takes things one step further by automatically doing a 301 redirect any time the permalink of a page changes, so you don’t lose any PageRank or SE listings. If you only add ONE plugin, this is the one!
A sitemap is very important on any site, but especially on larger sites. It helps Google (and other search engines) find all of the pages on your site. This plugin helps you automatically generate a sitemap, which you should then submit to Google Webmaster Tools.
This plugin will remind visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed a certain number of times. It may alert them only the first time they visit, or you could set a specific number of visits, or you could set it to display all the time. It puts the reminder at the top or bottom of each post, as you specify.
Comments are the lifeblood of a blog. You should always encourage readers to leave their comments, and this will allow you to easily respond to specific comments. It will turn your comments into a type of forum thread. It’s very crucial for building a community on your blog.
Repeat visitors are also very important for blogs. When users subscribe to comments, they can be notified if someone responds to a comment they made on your blog. This can make visitors come back weeks or even months later when someone responds and digs up an old conversation! This is a super way to encourage repeat visitors.
Overall, you want plugins that bring in traffic. Each of these plugins focuses on bringing in new or repeat traffic, and encouraging visitors to return again and again. Other plugins may be fun or cute, but make sure you have these important plugins in place first!
