Alley Cat News 15 September 2006

Welcome to the ALLEY CAT PRE-LAUNCH NEWSLETTER !

Friday September 15th, 2006

Welcome to our New Look for the Alley Cat PRE-LAUNCH NEWSLETTER.

Each week I will have a newsletter for you. Filled with Articles on such topics as MLM, Affiliate programs, ways to make money online, how to build your business online and offline, Updated news on Internet business, Investing, trading and MUCH MORE!

Each week will be packed with information to help you build or grow your business. Whether you are looking for Part time or full time income it can help.

If you are in a company or know of one that is in Pre-Launch let us know. We may write a feature article for them.

Here's A Network Marketing Lead Tip That Will Easily Build Your Business
by Jeff Schuman

When you consider how to generate a network marketing lead it is only natural to first go to a lead generation company and see how much they are selling their mlm leads for. If you have been in network marketing for any period of time you learn real quick that you andyour group needs leads and you need alot of them.

The problem with this approach is that if you are doing it so is everyone else. This immediately lessens the value of any lead you are buying. When you are checking out leads for sale you can see that the price drops the older the lead is. I don't think you have to be very smart or even very perceptive, to realize these leads are being sold over and over.

How effective are leads like that? Do this! Buy some really cheap leads and spend a little time calling them. You will find out real fast that the quality of these kind of leads is virtually worthless. You have to go thru hundreds of leads to find one that you can talk to and maybe enroll in your business.

If your time is valuable at all you can not afford to spend it this way. So what is the the best way to come up with network marketing leads? How about using the internet to generate your own. You can do this very easily and inexpensively in 2 steps.

1. Use a lead capture web page or as it is sometimes called a landing page. All this does is capture information for you to follow up on. You can usually get these from the mlm company you represent. If you want a totally automated system use a lead capture page that asks only for the prospects name and email address. The shorter the form the more people will fill it out.

2. Go and buy a domain name and redirect it to the web address of the lead capture form. Don't use the web address the company gives you because it is long and not very presentable. Plus it looks like a company website address which will decrease the odds of someone clicking on it. Buy a name like make-money-online.com or do-you-need-more-money.com. There are all kinds of domain names out there. Don't be afraid to buy a domain name like a .net or .biz or either. It does not have to be a .com domain name

3. Advertise your new domain name that you have redirected to the landing page website address. Article marketing is a free way to do that. I am not going to go in to how to market with articles in this article, but you can learn more about that at ideamarketers.com or ezinearticles.com

4. Be sure and follow-up with your new network marketing lead. If you are using an automated follow up system your company gives you at least do one personal email or even better a quick phone call and introduce yourself. The fortune in network marketing is in the follow-up.

Now isn't that a better way to get network marketing leads for your business. If you do not want to write articles then develop an inexpensive online advertising program and again advertise your new domain name that you are redirecting to your company lead capture page.

Jeff Schuman invites you to visit his network marketing website for the most complete network marketing resources online today. http://network-marketing.team-schuman.com

Article Source: http://www.articleblotter.com

How to Promote Affiliate Programs
By Chris Chenoweth

How important is it to market your affiliate programs? It is VERY important. It is the difference between success and failure. The more time you spend marketing your affiliate programs, the more successful you are. The more successful you are, the more money you will make.

Statistics indicate that 90% of affiliates make little or no money from their affiliate programs. They spend an average of 15% of their time on marketing. Do you want to be in the 90% group or do you want to be in the remaining 10% group?

Marketing affiliate programs is challenging and requires more than 15% of your time. Not only are you trying to get people to buy a product, you are competing with thousands of other affiliates trying to sell the same product!

Spend more time marketing your programs than the other affiliates and you’ll earn more money. If the other affiliates spend more time than you marketing their programs who do you think is going to succeed?

Just because you have to work hard marketing your programs does not mean you have to spend a fortune doing so. There are many effective, low cost and free marketing methods that work very well.

MARKETING TIPS:

Learn as much as you can about search engines and how they rank websites. Once you learn how that process works, spend as much time as possible trying to get a high ranking in the search engines for your site.

Write your own articles on subjects related to your website and post them on a separate page on your site. Once you have posted them on your site, submit them to the article resource sites.

Find out if any of your affiliate programs have articles on their website. If they do, find out if you can post those articles to your site. At the end of each of those articles, place your affiliate link that links back to the affiliate site.

Use Newsgroups to promote your sites by announcing new articles that you have written. Make sure you read the rules for each newsgroup before posting to it.

Subscribe to newsletters and ezines that are related to the theme of your website. They not only provide a great source of information, they also present another opportunity for advertising your affiliate programs. Make sure you read their advertising guidelines.

CHOOSING AFFILIATE PROGRAMS:

There are many thousands of affiliate programs on the net that you can join. How do you decide which programs to join? There are two options to choose from.

First, you can join as many programs as possible. This guarantees that at least a few of them will pay off, MAYBE.

The other option is to target your affiliate programs and choose a select few. By choosing only a small number, you will be able to concentrate all of your time and effort in marketing those and only those programs. This will drive more traffic your way.

Before you decide on which programs to join, spend some time researching the major affiliate programs. Once you are equipped with enough information, it will be easier to narrow down your options.

If you are having trouble reducing your field of possibilities, find an area that you are particularly interested in. If you have an interest in selling antique jewelry and you find there are only two affiliate programs that are devoted to this, join those two programs. You can then focus all of your marketing methods specifically to those two programs.

TIPS FOR BUILDING YOUR WEBSITE:

Are you thinking of starting your own website but not sure if you should? Read the following tips for building a site that will draw visitors and make sales.

The most important advice for building a good website is content, content, content. Your visitors want good quality content and they want a lot of it. Fill your site with articles (including other people’s articles as long as they fit your site’s theme), tips, and details of all the products and services on your site

Make sure you have a page that contains your contact information. Always list your name, your email address, and any other pertinent information. When visitors see that you are available to contact, they will be much more likely to trust you and click on your links!

Use a simple, no fuss style and layout with easy to find, well-marked links. (You must make it easy for your visitors to find your affiliate links!) Sites that are full of graphics and are complicated to maneuver around in do not work for affiliate sites. Keep it simple. Also, by keeping your graphics to a minimum, your site will load much quicker.

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Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Chris_Chenoweth

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