Take a minute to step back and think about your internet business for a moment. Are you still enjoying it? Does it make you look forward to getting onto your computer and seeing how much money you made during the night?

Change your perspective

Or have you been lacking in that excitement of late? If you have, then now is the time to do something about it.

Just because you have chosen to get involved in an internet business under your own steam, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you won’t go through phases of feeling a little bogged down and bored with what you are doing.

The Great News

The great news is that you can change things under your own steam as well – you don’t have to wait for a boss to come along and give you permission. To begin with, think about what it is you are bored with. All internet businesses have some dull aspects – like keeping records for example. There’s isn’t much you can do about that, although you can at least break it down into small and manageable chunks to do every now and again, rather than putting it all off until it becomes unmanageable.

By identifying what part of your internet business now seems like it involves too much effort, you can take steps to do something about it. If you’ve been slogging away trying to promote a new product for three months and you are beginning to dread doing it again, then don’t do it. Drop it and move on to something else.

The whole idea of having your own internet business is that you are able to enjoy making money, especially if it’s now your full time occupation. So don’t fall into old habits of settling for something you don’t like – shake it up instead!

Have a most outstanding day.

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

Community forums can serve many purposes for the successful internet marketer. There are thousands online on just about every topic you can imagine. Some are very busy and can have lots of members as well as a high Google page rank.

Here are a few of the ways you can use forums to your advantage:

• Your forum signature appears on every post so the more posts you write, the more links to your website(s)
• Many forums have classified sections so you can utilise this to advertise your products / services
• Talk to the webmaster / admin about link trading or displaying your banner. Forum ad fees are often very reasonable
• Chat with like minded people and get some visits to your website
• Get information about your niche
• Some forums offer revenue sharing
• Some forums allow you to feed your blog(s) into your control panel

Forums: A Social Marketing Goldmine!

Not only can you meet people, sell your wares and learn about your niche but forums offer a great opportunity for off-page SEO for your own websites.  Don’t abuse them or else you might get banned but follow the rules and be a valuable member of each community you join and you can definitely reap some rewards.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

If you’re looking for ways to sell and ways to promote what you’re selling, Squidoo lenses are great tools. They’re a lot like HubPages.  These sites allow you to set up a robust looking page with all sorts of tools to help you promote including:

• polls
• pictures
• text boxes
• sticky notes
• eye catching headline boxes
• RSS feeds
• links
• and more

Not only can you use Squidoo lenses as a free online tool for link building to your other  websites but you can also monetize them.  You can add affiliate links, Google ads, Amazon links and images and more. While HubPages lets you use your Adsense ID to get paid directly, Squidoo pays you via PayPal when you reach a specified payout level.

Having a tool kit of promotion and monetization tools is a great idea. If you’re article marketing, you know that most sites won’t let you put affiliate links into your resource box. You can, however, put a link to your Squidoo lens which could contain calls to action or hoplinks.

Squidoo also has a great user community so encompasses monetization, article marketing, off-page SEO and social media.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

Conversion rates are an important factor in internet marketing. If you’re new to the field of online marketing it won’t take long before you’ll be looking very closely at your conversion rates. The rate of visitors that perform the action you want on your site is the rate of conversion. Converting traffic into customers is the ultimate marketing goal.

It works like this:

If you have 100 visitors and one person buys, you have a rate of 1%. If you sell 3 out of that 100, your conversion rate is 3. This is why traffic isn’t the only important aspect of selling online.  You need conversion.  This might equate to signing up for your offer, clicking a ‘buy now’ button or clicking an advertisement and earning you Google Adsense revenue.

Targeted Traffic Equals Better Conversion

Just because you get website or blog traffic doesn’t mean you’ll get sales.  This is why targeted traffic is important. You want traffic that is ready to buy. You want traffic who will land on your page and find just what they want.

How do you achieve this?

Write copy that encompasses long tail and related keywords.  Help the reader by solving their problems or answering their questions.  Write engaging copy and get your reader to trust you.  Keep an eye on your conversion rates and continually work to improve them through getting more traffic and giving your visitors what they want.  Will you ever reach the destination of the perfect conversion rate?  Probably not but the more you strive for success, the more likely you are to achieve it!

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

Do you want to have more subscribers on Twitter?  Do you want to maximise your marketing impact in the Twitterverse? Your Twitter people, a.k.a your “Tweeps” are interested in following like minded people and / or very interesting people.  If you try to sign up with the sole purpose of link baiting, you’re not going to get very far with this tool.  In order to maximise the impact of Twitter for internet marketing you have to treat it like a social marketing tool that requires both give and take.

Here are some Twitter tips:

-Don’t push out a link in every Tweet. More than 75% of your Tweets should be interesting rather than product related.

-Do reply to your followers who ask you a question or comment on one of your statuses via the replies button. If you don’t check this and ignore those trying to converse with you, you’ll get ‘un-followed’.

-Tweet unto others as you’d have Tweeted unto you.  That means that if you want people re-tweeting you, do that for them. Social bookmark for them, tell your followers that @user is a great person to follow, etc.   Social media is very much a tool built on quid pro quo.

Happy Tweeting!

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008