This post is brief and for a good reason. Darren Olander and I invested our time and money into an advertising site called ListDomino. The idea is simple, your email list can grow even if you do nothing…and it’s true.

As a member of ListDomino.com, you can have the ability to email thousands of people who join after you without the requirement of referring members. We had a pre-launch to get the ball rolling and the site has been a success so far. Now we’ve opened it to everyone so I strongly suggest taking a look for yourself.

Heck, you can hear my Voice Recording on the home page too- I thought that was pretty cool.

www.listdomino.com

~Matt

Most marketers are aware that social networks have tremendous value in growing their business, at least most businesses. More social networks scatter the internet like a severe plague – there are several dozen social networks you could join right now. However, doing so might be a bit counter-productive.

The two most popular social networks and social media sites are Myspace (existed first) and Facebook (newer to the market). Both networks have huge followings with millions of users but the user interface for each is quite different.

Now, Facebook allows you to create “Fan pages” which are perfect for companies who want to broaden their internet traffic and presence. Corporate companies are beginning to take advantage of this which is a good move to keep up with internet trends. Additionally these pages can be indexed by Google and allow you to post website links, articles, videos, etc. – it’s like having your own web page, kind of.

One of the best benefits to using Facebook is that your “Fan page” or even profile can become viral. I was talking to someone from a company who created a Fan page, started off with about 35 “Fans” (people) who were all employees at the company, and their popularity grew to over 600 “Fans” within a few months…yet they don’t actually know 95% of those fans. Additionally, it has increased their website traffic which you probably know is always a plus.

Did I mention Facebook is free to the user?

• Make it a part of your daily marketing efforts.
• Take advantage of the networking tools.
• Create a profile as a marketer
• Connect with other marketers be being their “friend”
• Have fun and be creative!

When you do any marketing, you have to decide when and where to spend money and what type of marketing you’ll do for free (or maybe you only want to do one of those). Two of the areas of internet marketing that can yield good results is in Organic and Paid Search.

Organic Search is that which Google, Yahoo, MSN, & other search engines show you when you perform a search. For example, if you do a search for “Dog House” using Google’s search engine, you see a list of results in the left hand side which are not in the “sponsored links” area. These results are considered Organic Search because they are not paying Google for the search and show up based on criteria that search engine spiders look for in order to rank the page based on the keyword – in this case it’s “Dog House”.

Paid Search also shows up when you do a search in Google for “Dog House” but the results are based on how much an advertiser is willing to pay to show up as a search result. In the right hand side of the page and above the Organic Search results you’ll see some sites listed. These sites are paying Google to show up there but do not necessarily meet your searched terms.

The difference here is that you, as an advertiser/marketer, would rather show in Organic Searches as you don’t pay for each search, clicks, or impressions. You could have 2,000 clicks on your website and never have to pay a dime for those clicks from the Organic Search results but if you had 2,000 clicks and using Paid Search, that would be a very different story…and likely paying a few thousand dollars.

Here’s the challenge – showing up first in Google, Yahoo, and MSN within the Organic Search results for your most relative keywords. If you can do that, you’re on the right path and will save tons of cash. To do so you’ll need to know the many important ways of implementing SEO into your website. No, it’s not impossible but can take some time to do it right and includes copy writing that is targeted to your keywords.

Whether you sell your own product/service, are an affiliate to sell products/services, or simply build an opportunity/business or MLM, a very crucial part to your “success” is producing sales in some way – in almost every case, a sale means you make money, plain and simple. In this case “Success”is determined by making money, above the small amount of chump change that is made by a good percentage of people.

Some if not most of the successful marketers would agree that much of their focus is around lead generation. This doesn’t mean sitting in forums and buying leads necessarily but rather the way they operate is based on generation more leads from their products/services. You may be rolling your eyes thinking “Umm…isn’t their focus on selling stuff to make more money?”…and yes, that’s precisely why lead generation is important.

The easiest way to make a lot of money over and over again is by having a list of potential customers. Think about how many mailing lists you may be on and how many of those emails you get are telling you about a product/service you can buy – most likely that will be MOST of those emails.

Now, let’s put it into the eyes of an internet marketer like yourself. Say you have 500 people in your “newsletter” or email list who you can send an email to in a matter of minutes..for practically no cost (obviously taking into consideration the cost of your email system). And, if you build a list well by connecting with your readers and removing your “salesman” approach (which I teach how), that list of 500 will not drop down more than a handful of subscribers. You have at your fingertips people who will immediately receive your advertisement, opportunity, or product link and you don’t have to wait for traffic that will probably not buy from you anyway.

What would 200, 500, 1000, 2500 or even 10,000 opt-in leads who have already agreed to receive your emails be worth to you? Do you think you could explode your income and business by having that type of following? If you don’t think so, we need to sit down and talk!

If you spend some time looking at some of the successful internet marketers that exist today you’ll see what I’m talking about – they continually put effort into growing their mailing lists. Some ways they build their lists are not as obvious as others…

Here’s where it gets good…

There are plenty of options to generate leads which not all are very effective nor worthy of your time. What you want is a system that draws someone to fill out their contact information in exchange for something such as a free eBook or tutorial – they get something and so do you, just make sure it’s free and valuable because that will make this MUCH easier.

So…how do you find such a system or create one? Well, unless you know how to make it eye-catching, I would say using an existing system would be way easier. It doesn’t have to be fancy on the back-end so long as it works; collects lead information and delivers the product to that lead. And, you don’t have to go searching for one – I’ve already created it with no monthly fees or costs involved to use it on your end. That’s right, it’s Free.

Those who are part of my club will get a first go with the system. So long as you’re in the club, you’ll learn how to use it including types of advertising to do in order to generate the leads. The system will do the “selling” for you even though there really isn’t anything for sale. Additionally, I may have an option for site/link rotation so you can earn sign-ups without really doing anything.

Sound good? Keep posted!

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~Matt