If you are into an Internet business, you most definetly have heard about the concept of website traffic. Essentially, traffic means the number of people that visit your website. It is equal to to the concept of shoppers in a mall or a supermarket. It is quite easy to understand why traffic is important.  The higher the number of people that visit your website, the greater the the chance of success that you have.

However, it is not all that easy. When we speak about Internet traffic, what’s most important to us is to know the difference between cold and hot traffic. Cold traffic is a term used to describe everyone that comes to your website. People who have accidentally stumbled upon your site by a search engine result constitute cold traffic. These people don’t have any preconceived notion about your website and they aren’t actually interested in you. They are just curious about what your website is about. It is highly unlikely that these people will do any business with you.

What’s infinitely more important is hot traffic, also known as targeted traffic. These are the people who have come to you by actually hearing or reading about you somewhere. Probably they read an article you wrote, got impressed by it, and then clicked your website link below it. Or probably they read your blog and liked it. They might have visited your social networking profile and thus got interested in your website. Such people definitely matter more to you. They already like something about you. They are more likely to do business with you.

It is necessary for an online business entrepreneur to understand the difference between cold and hot traffic. It is of no use if you have a million fleeting visitors a month if they are just going to drift away without doing anything. But if you have even 100 visitors who actually do something that you want them to, your online business is a success.

Hence, your efforts must be directed at getting hot traffic to your online business website. Write articles, blog, make yourself generally popular on the Internet. This is what will bring the right kind of people to your online business website, people who will really matter. As your popularity increases, your name and the name of your business will act as direct draws in bringing these people over to your website.

It’s vital to get the right Internet Network Marketing Training.  I recommend subscribing to Learn the InterNetwork Marketing Secrets SEVEN Steps to Getting YOUR System Setup Quickly.

Jerry

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You are working your network marketing business from home using the Internet. You made that decision some time ago, and it was a great decision to make. But do you have a business blog for Internet Network Marketing business yet?  There are several ideas for running work at home Internet businesses — you might have an affiliate marketing business, you might have a website about a topic of your interest, you might be running a membership site, you might be into network marketing, etc. But, whatever your theme of business is, you need to have a business blog to promote it.

Why is a blog so vital to your business?  Let us count the ways here.

1.  A business blog is the best interactive tool that your business can have. Blogs allow you to write original posts and take them to people who will really be interested in reading them. Then these people can put in their own comments on what you have written. Certainly this keeps them interested and they become more potential candidates for your Internet Network Marketing business.

2.  Business Blogs help you find your niche. This is because all search engines—especially, Google—love blogs. They love the fact that blogs are updated frequently and that they always have original content. That is why, if you have spruced up your blog post with meaningful and purposeful keywords, people who search for that kind of information will find your blog. Now, this is very good for you, because these are your targeted people. They are the people who might actually do business with you.

3.  Blogs are free tools most of the time.  Blogger is a free blogging tool. You can make a business blog in a zap using this tool and have it live. You will have to contend with the ads though. If you want a blog to call your own—without ads that means—and make it look very professional too, go for a Wordpress blog. Some are free but it really adds value to your work at home
business.

4.  You get free content. When people comment on your blogs, the content is yours to use in whichever way you deem fit. You will find that other experts also comment on your blogs if your original post is good enough. So, you don’t just get ideas; you actually get things that you can use in other ways.

5.  Blogs can be used to generate leads. Write an eBook—or get it written—and put it up on the blog for free download. When people want to go download it, make them go through a lead capture page where you ask their email ids. You will get their ids and those will become your leads.

Hence, there are various ways in which blogs can enhance the prospects of your work at home businesses. Do not ignore this important tool.

Jerry

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We’ve done it through junior high, it took it to another level in high school, then on college it became chapters. No matter how many times a person has done it, writing articles has proven to be a task many have not wanted to do.  Now at a time when writing articles could help your job or work, facing the job at hand can be still faced with a negative feeling.

While there are a great number of people who do not feel the same way abouit article writing as others, there are still those who would rather walk across a bed of glass than do some article writing. What sets other people apart from the crowd towards article writing is that they are prepared and have certain processes they follow when it comes to their writing articles.

One of the best methods you can use to get ready for the task of writing an article is creating an outline first. Creating an outline for all your articles makes you organized. You have an idea of what to do first and make a plan for your complete process. Being prepared makes the job easier and faster. Being organized will allow for disorientation to be put on the back burner.

An outline can act as the design or blueprint for your article. This will take you step by step in creating the introduction, body and conclusion of your article. Use this as an example, to start off you can write down some of the ideas and sentences that you feel will look good in your article. This could be some of the focal point that could help make your article creative, interesting and appealing to your readers.

A carefully planned and organized article would guarantee and ensure less problems while creating a worry free process that can virtually go without any hassles. Creating an outline for all your articles will get you ready and help you breeze through writing an article in no time at all. In this brief, I will provide you with some tips and guidelines in how to create an outline for all of your articles.

Do a couple of brainstorming sessions and jot down your most brilliant ideas first. Think of some ways to attract the interest of your reader. Designate a time frame where you can write down all the ideas that you can use for your articles. By this time you should have done all your research and information gathering.  Review and reread your ideas and notes, gain mastery and sufficient familiarity with your topic so that writing them down later will be easy for you.

The next step is to discover your sub topic and sub titles. As you would provide a first sentence for your article, one that would immediately grab the attention of your reader, you would need some as well for your sub topics. To be detailed, you would need to get all the facts that will support and go against your point.

These are the frames or skeleton of your article, now its time to add the flesh and the meat of your article. You will need to connect all your paragraphs and sub topics. This will form the body of your Article. While the introduction will move in the ideas of your paragraph, you will need a conclusion. The conclusion will wrap up your points and drive in what you are saying in your article.

The outline for your article would also require you to write a draft first. This may take more than one attempt but remember that it is called a draft for a reason. Your outline shall be perfected as each draft is written and this draft is meant for your eyes only so there’s no reason to feel ashamed. As you go on, you will clearly see the bigger picture and write an article that will perfectly suit what is demanded of it.

Reread and reread what you have written down. Always refer to your outline so that you wont drift away from what you had first written down. Its not hard to be caught in the moment and get lost in your writing frenzy. Your outline will help you keep in track. All those hours spent in outlining your article will not go to waste. This will serve as your guide in writing articles. Trust and rely on your outline because this will prove to be a very helpful tool in writing all of your articles.

Jerry Clark

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Article marketing has been around for such a long time now and it’s a great way to promote your products, services and network marketing business to a large audience for free. Even if you are not the imaginative type, it’s not very difficult to assemble a 500 word article from nothing. In fact, it’s rather simple. You can easily research and pull all the data you need right from the web and then simply generate a new article to submit to the directories. Here are four steps that will help you be more successful with your article submissions.

1)    Before you press “article submit” remember to include your author information at the bottom of every article you write. You’ll also want to include a link to your website or affiliate product. One of the nice things about article marketing is that you don’t really even need your own website. You can simply use affiliate programs to write reviews about and then link to the product sales page from your article.
2)    Be honest about what you are saying to people and they will be more likely to see you as a resource for information. The idea isn’t to do a hard sell to anyone. In fact, you want to do the exact opposite. Write your articles with character and honesty and your readers will appreciate your effort. You will be rewards with affiliate sales if you do this step correctly.
3)    If you still can’t seem to be able to create an entire article on your own, you have one other option to consider. You can search the article directories for topics you are interested in, then, write intro/summary paragraphs and enclose the article. Then you can resubmit the article with your new content and affiliate or website links. This is also a great tactic if you run a blog.
4)    Stay on target within your niche. Don’t write about something you have no idea about. Stick with topics that interest you. You will be less likely to lose interest in the project if you can find a way to make it more entertaining.

Article submitting for profit will not create traffic to your site over night, but it can give you the opportunity to start with something small and then build your way up massive traffic with consistency using the right tools to speed the process.

There is basically no investment other than your time and energy. You can be very successful if you treat it as a real job and not just some side project.

Jerry

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I found a VERY cool plugin for your Wordpress blog, if you want to link all your posts to your Facebook wall.

Just go here > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordbook/ and download and install the plugin.  It steps you though everything.

Very cool too.

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The World Wide Web or the Internet is an information superhighway. Information in many formats is available on-demand 24 x 7, 365 days per year. Most information is read using web browsers because it’s mostly text.

On the Internet,  audio and video are quickly gaining popularity because of it’s great quality experience versus plain ol text.  Audio and video is much more appealing than text.

But how do you use web video in marketing?

The simple answer to this is “to educate your viewers”. Decisions are made much easier when the user is educated.  The decision does not have to be a buying one.  Many people browse the Internet to find a solution or for research.  A web video is the best way to help the viewer to get educated about his subject.

Why is video preferred more than text base information?

It’s quite obvious, because a video shows a proof that real human beings can solve their problems by using the information in the video. Most people only believe things they personally have seen.  If your video is successful in presenting them proof of their achievements using a particular book, machine, service then it can quickly create emotional triggers into viewers mind to make a buying decision.

An impulse like “hey, it worked for him, even want to try it” makes it possible to convert a viewer into a “customer”. On the other hand it is also possible that after watching a video a viewer may say, “no, this is not what I am looking for”.

So you see, “education” makes a person capable of making decisions quickly and can guide him towards the your product or service.  If your product doesn’t solve his problem then you have saved yourself from the misery of an unsatisfied customer and web video is the easiest way to do this.

One of the greatest benefits of web video is that it can be played “on-demand”.  The video resides on your server or at a video portal and anyone interested can view it anytime he/she wants. That is why web video is becoming the new age marketing vehicle for marketers around the globe and you must give it a try, without any hesitation.

Plus the biggest benefit of web video is the search engines index it at a higher ranking than keywords in the body of your website text.  So if you’re looking to gain traffic to your website, posting videos on all the video sites will be a benefit to you.

Stay tuned because we will be focusing a lot of this topic in coming posts.

Jerry

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What is Internet Network

Marketing?

Internet Network Marketing is a method used by MLM business associates (distributors) to build a network marketing organization using the internet.

These methods primarily focus on how to prospect distributors for your network marketing business online.

There are three strategies that make up internet network marketing.

Each strategy is a completely different approach to internet network marketing.

Because these strategies are all referred to as internet network marketing they are often confused with one another.

The first strategy is email prospecting.

With this strategy you use the internet as a communications tool to communicate with people / prospect online about your network marketing business.

How does this work?

Let’s say you meet a prospect at the grocery store.

You exchange business cards.

You then email the person your company web site so the he / she can take a look at it.

Another example, let’s say you purchased some business opportunity leads. You load the leads up in an auto-responder. The auto-responder sends people emails encouraging them to go to your web site.

This is email prospecting.

Email prospecting is probably the most basic and crudest form of prospecting.

In this form of prospecting you are still relying on traditional network marketing strategies to build your network marketing business.

The only difference is that you are using the email and internet to support your marketing efforts.

The second strategy is internet advertising prospecting.

With this strategy you use the internet as an advertising tool to promote your business to prospects and generate leads for your network marketing business online.

How does this work?

Let’s say you create an ad on the Google pay per click search engine network promoting your business opportunity.

The ad includes a link to your network marketing company’s replicated web site, which contains a video promoting your business opportunity.

Another example, suppose you purchase a banner ad on a high traffic web site.

When people click on that ad, it takes them to a web site which promotes your business opportunity.

This is internet advertising prospecting.

Internet advertising prospecting is obviously more advanced than email prospecting.

In this form of internet marketing, you are actually using the internet as a lead generation tool.

The benefit is that you are now taking steps to get prospects to come to you instead of chasing prospects.

However, it’s still not the ultimate form of internet network marketing.

The third strategy is internet attraction marketing.

With this strategy, you use the internet as a prospecting, qualification and revenue generating tool to generate prospects for your network marketing business.

How does this work?

Let’s say you add friends to your profile on Myspace.

On your profile page you offer a free report that teaches how you made $1000 last month in your network marketing business without sponsoring anybody.

Another example, suppose you posted to a discussion board about network marketing with a link at the bottom of your post promoting a free video that reveals “Why the leads companies hate your guts and would do anything to put you out of business.”

This is internet attraction marketing.

Internet attraction marketing is the best method of internet network marketing.

In this form of internet marketing, you are able to limit your time to talking to the best prospects for your business.

This is because you use the information products as a sorting and pre-qualification method.

Prospects that take the time to request free content related to building their business are more serious prospects than prospects that respond to a generic ad promising to show them how to make more money.

Prospects that actually PURCHASE information related to building their business are even more serious prospects than any other type of prospect you could come across.

So make sure you understand the difference between the different ways you can prospect using internet network marketing.

If you prefer to use one of the most effective ways, you should use the internet attraction marketing method.

Best,

Jerry

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One of the keys to driving traffic to your website or BLOG  is  to post the audio files on the Internet.

1. If you want to add in your Network Marketing affiliate link at the end of the audio, you can use this free audio tools. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
   
2. Speak and record your Network Marketing affiliate link URL using Sound Recorder. It’s available for free in all Windows based computer. You can record something like – “This audio is brought to your by “www.secondstreamincome.com” Once done, save the audio into your computer. If you don’t like Sound Recorder, you can also use Audacity to record.
3. Open up Audacity software and mix your Network Marketing audio and your recorded audio together.
4. Export it as mp3. You may need additional plugin. Just follow the instruction mentioned.
5. Once done, submit your Network Marketing audio mp3 to the sites below.
6. Get ready to receive targeted traffic to your Network Marketing site.

   http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcasts.html
   http://music.aol.com/radioguide/podcasting
   http://digg.com/podcasts
   http://www.podblaze.com/
   http://www.podcastingnews.com/topics/Add_Your_Podcast.html
   http://www.podcastalley.com/add_a_podcast.php
   http://www.podfeed.net/add_podcast.asp
   http://www.digitalpodcast.com/
   http://www.mirpod.com/addpodcast.php?lang=en
   http://www.idiotvox.com/index.php?spid=7
   http://canada.podcast.com/home.php
   http://www.podcastblaster.com/directory/add-podcast/
   http://www.blubrry.com/createaccount.php
   http://www.ibizradio.com/add.html
   http://www.pod-planet.com/suggest1.asp
   http://www.godcast1000.com/
   http://www.audials.com/en/music_download_videos/index.html
   http://www.everypodcast.com/modules.php?name=
   Web_Links&l_op=AddLink
   http://www.audiofeeds.org/submitfeed.php
   http://www.amigofish.com/catcher/user/login

I hope this post was helpful because it does work wonders.

Pass it on!  Pay it Forward.

Jerry Clark

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InterNetwork Marketing is the ability to create content that you can post on the Internet that will invite people that are looking for a business to your website.  Sounds simple, and it really is.  By posting articles on network marketing or teaching how to drive traffic using the Internet helps Google find your site. 

The biggest frustration the majority of network marketers faces is such that they are not getting enough prospects and leads to join their business opportunity.

If you are still cold calling your families, friends or strangers, it is time to wake up.

It’s the Internet Age!… The methods for cold calling, doing hotel meeting and chasing after strangers are NOT working as effective any more.

This is the reason why we created Second Stream Income Team

Here’s just a small taste of what Second Stream Income Team can do for you :

1. ATTRACT hoards of new prospects and leads to your business opportunity
2. Quickly propel you into a “Network Marketing Guru” status even if you are new to the industry
3. Send your website or blog to the top of the search engine rankings
4. Create useful bonuses that you can give to your prospects or members

With that said, here’s how you can attract prospects and leads to your network marketing business.

1. You can post the articles to your website or blog. You can load up all the articles to your blog and pre-set it to publish every 2 days. This way it will free up your time and the articles can last up to one month.
2. If you want to submit the articles to the Article Directories (I suggest you to), you would need to re-write the articles. You can either do it yourself or get someone to do it for you. You can outsource your articles at http://www.GetaFreeLancer.com(Please do NOT submit the articles without re-writing it)
3. Once you have re-written your articles, submit them to the Top Article Directories:
   

   a)	http://www.EzineArticles.com
   b)	http://www.GoArticles.com
   c)	http://www.Buzzle.com
   d)	http://www.IdeaMarketers.com
   e)	http://www.ArticleDashboard.com
   f)	http://www.ArticleAlley.com
   g)	http://www.Articlecube.com
   h)	http://www.Amazines.com
   i)	http://www.EasyArticles.com
   j)	http://www.ArticleBiz.com
   k)	http://www.ArticleCity.com

4. Get ready to receive targeted traffic to your site.
5. Another way to drive hoards of visitors to your website is to look for websites that accept author content contribution. Beside article directories, there are other websites out there that constantly want content. Look out for sites like this and submit your contents to them.

I will post even more Article Submission websites in a subsequent post

Get started today!

Jerry

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