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In the Internet Marketing world, there are “teachers” and there are “learners” or students.  The Internet Marketing industry is always changing and evolving along with all new ways of doing certain things online.

Internet Marketing Guru

The proverbial “Guru” is a term that either makes an entrepenuer excited or almost disgusted depending on their experiences with so called Gurus of the past.  Now the question often comes up “How much weight should I put on any so called Guru I come accross?”

Well, in the name of information overload, it’s highly important to pick and choose your tutors wisely.  It becomes fairly easy over time to spot someone who is truly successful or just talking big with the screenshots of their Google Adsense account or Clickbank account.  Heck, I ran into one just the other day with an obviously altered Adsense check right on their sales copy.  I mean come on, how hard is it really to photoshop anything these days?

Now every now and then I have to take an e-mail list inventory and cut the fat off of the e-mail lists I belong to.  Now, you seriously do not want to cut all ties, because that will only hurt you, your income and any buzz you may want to tap in to.  But you don’t want to get caught up with 350 e-mails from every different list filling up your inbox with useless crap and telling you to buy the next big Affiliate Marketing Tactic, SEO Secret or some untold and mysterious website traffic technique that miraculously happens with a click of a button.  Now anything that easy doesn’t work, and if by some chance it does, it can’t last and won’t put out long-term results.  So keep this in mind.

The people I subscribe to are those that have been good to me by either providing me with quality content and don’t throw sales pitches every e-mail they send.  This is just good business as usual.  A truly expert Internet Marketer (or atleast an expert in e-mail marketing) will build your trust and do their absolute best to earn your trust.  And in return, you may buy a product or two from them instead of from Joe-shmoe Internet Marketing Guru who treats you like a number.

Now only do you want to listen and keep on the lists of those who give you great content and useful information, you’ll also want to take notes on why they are probably so successful and piggyback from their successes.  If it works for them, over time, it can probably work for you too!

Another great way of managing the e-mail lists you belong to is find the top professional on each subject and only subscribe to one pro from each topic you are interested in.  For example, if you wanted to learn more about Internet Marketing with Blogging, you’d probably join Yaro Starak’s mailing list.  If you wanted to learn more about List Building and Opt-ins you’d may want to join Ewen Chia’s e-mail list.  If you wanted to learn more about monetizing your website with Google Adsense Ads, then Joel Comm’s list might be a good one to be on… and so on and so on.

Every Internet Marketer has their strengths, and it’s important to learn from those you feel are the best at what they do, and in return, keep your inbox clear of fluff and useless crap I know you don’t want to have in their.  The Entrepenuers listed above, for example, I feel to be extremely knowledgeable, professional and the best at what they do.

To make a long story short, surround yourself (and your inbox) with those that are successful in what they do, and in turn, you can learn from the best.  Remember, not everyone that claims to be a Guru really is, and most of the time, if they are, they aren’t going to brag about it up and down and make a spectacle of themselves.  Whether you use the term Guru, Teacher, Professional, Trainer, etc. it all comes down to the quality of information in which they do or do not provide. 

So take this inconsideration when sifting through hundreds upon hundreds of e-mails in your inbox, and for the sake of filling your brain with valuable information and not information overload.

To Your Success,

Gabe Killian

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In the world of Internet Marketing, Mindset is crucial in creating success with your online business.  In order to be successful, one must hold on to the picture of success in their own mind, and NEVER let it go.

The Internet Marketing world is waaay to competitive not to.  Don’t get me wrong, their is tons of room for growth, although many so called “Guru’s” would argue that their is not.  But never has their been more of a need to build an income online, than right now. 

In the state of the economy, more and more people are being laid off.  People are losing their jobs and living off of unemployment.  In Oregon and Washington, finding a job is almost a downright joke. 

However, when one has a self-sustaining business as an Internet Marketer, they no longer need to wait at the unemployment office.  They’ve taken complete control over their own income and sustainability… atleast ideally.

I’ve written a lot on the mindset of success and it’s importance in the Internet Marketing world.  It is extremely easy to get caught up in the latest marketing craze, whether it’s getting massive traffic free, or a new source of online income, or whatever.  All to often a silent concept is preached in a lot of the sales copies, e-mail copies and in the information products that are being bought day in and day out.  And this “silent concept” is a killer, atleast from an Internet Marketing / Online Business standpoint.  The concept simply states that “The Internet Marketing world is too hard and near impossible… unless you buy my product!”

I mean, as Internet Marketers, we are taught to find the “pain” in people and act on it.  The same principles apply to the brick and mortar sales world.  It can truly make you feel defeated, if not careful and can dampen your spirit, creating a feeling of success being unattainable.

It is extremely important, I mean really, really, really important, that when we look in to the newest information product or Internet Marketing service, to keep in mind the following:

1.  Anyone is capable of success, if willing to accept it and go for it.

2.  Anyone who is willing to put in the effort deserves success.

3.  There is no “eternal” secret to long-term Internet Marketing success.  You simply can’t press a magic button and rake in the cash.  This may work for short term success, but it will never last.

4.  Success is built by endurance and gradual growth and following a system that is time tested and works and being able to make small tweaks or adjustments along the way.

5.  Repetition of a successful system brings more success.

So next time you read a sales letter telling you that you can’t achieve success unless you buy their product, don’t let it fool you.  Yes, information products can teach us successful techniques and provide us with extremely valuable information, but DON’T sell yourself short.  Inside everyone are the keys to success.  Most of us know more about Internet Marketing than we realize and simply cut corners or waste our time on some push-button plan that wastes our precious, valuable time, energy and money.

When it comes down to it, we have to treat Internet Marketing as a true business and not a hobby.  Many of us make that mistake and it takes a lot of time before we realize that is just what we are doing.  When we start taking our success and our Internet Business seriously and take action, then is when we truly achieve Internet Marketing Success.

Til Next Time…

To YOUR Success,

Gabe Killian

Profit From Articles | Phenom Marketing | Inferno-Marketing | XSite Pro Truth

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In the Internet Marketing world, building a good sized list and keeping your list happy is essential for e-mail marketing success.  Below are some basic list building tips and e-mail marketing strategies that you can use to start making money through e-mail marketing.

list building strategies and e-mail marketing tips

But first, lets take a look at the numbers!

Let’s say, for arguement sake, you have a list of 5,000 people.  You sell 1 product each month that’s worth $150.00, but…. You offer a special deal of only 19.99.

Now, if 5 out of every 100 people bought your product, that would be a whopping…..  drum roll, please…

$5,000 Dollars in YOUR POCKET IMMEDIATELY

Plus, you can do this over and over again every other week if you want.

Easy and Fast List Building Tips for E-mail Marketing

So now you atleast get a little taste of why e-mail marketing should be implemented by every Internet Marketer on every website they make.  Look how many Clickbank advertisers use name squeeze pages to catch leads on their sites.  If you don’t have a list or an auto-responder service, you need to get one now and START BUILDING YOUR LIST RIGHT AWAY!

1.  Use a good auto-responder service.  I recomend either Aweber or GetResponse since they are the two major leaders in e-mail marketing services.  Having a good auto responder service can allow you to not only mass e-mail all of the people on your list, but they can show you how to build your list and keep your list happy.  They provide e-mail marketing tools that can help you achieve success.  I personally I use Aweber and personal feel they are the best in what they do.

Aweber and Get Repsonse E-mail Marketing and List Building Services

2.  Have every site you own capture names and e-mail addresses to build your list.  Both Aweber and GetResponse both provide you with the tools to do so.  Start now, because it will take a while building your list up to where you can start making money from it.  Like planting a seed, and watching it grow, so shall your list!

3.  Give something free or fairly inexpensive for signing up.  Create your own free e-book or some sort of information product as incentive for signing up with your list.  Also, try to throw in some bonuses.  Make your list a bunch of happy subscribers and give them something to remember you by.

NOTE:  You can also imbed your affiliate links in the information products you give out and get sales on the back-end.

4.  Write to your list often.  Don’t let your e-mail subscribers forget about you.  You want them to know who you are, and that your someone important who wants to help them.

5.  Be personal in your e-mails.  Talk about something that happened to you that day, or talk about your family.  Let those on your e-mail list know that their is a living, breathing human behind the e-mails.  Your list will be more in-tuned to buying what you have to offer if you don’t just throw sales pitches at them one after another.

6.  Provide real value.  Don’t just sell products, if you find something cool online, share it with your list.  Give them a reason to trust in you and what you do as a business.  Providing valuable information will also help you build rapport with your prospects.

7.  When building your list, try to narrow down the reach of your list.  Use a little bit of Niche Marketing in your Internet Marketing!  Instead of having an Online business list, try having a list focused on something like “list building” or something of the like.

These are just a few tips on building your list, e-mail marketing and keeping your list loving you and providing you with sales after sales.

Now, if you want to get down and dirty with you list building, I highly suggest getting Ewan Chia’s Opt-In Profits!  Ewan Chia is the HANDS DOWN Master of List Building and E-mail Marketing.

I purchased his product the other day, and I must say, HE definitely knows his stuff.  If you want to succeed in e-mail marketing and make a SIX FIGURE INCOME, I highly suggest getting Opt-In-Profits!

To Your Success,

Gabe Killian

PhenomMarketing.com | ProfitFromArticles.com | Inferno-Marketing.com | XsiteProTruth.com

P.S.  I highly encourage you to take advantage of Ewan Chia’s Opt-In Profits.  It’s worth every dime and more!  It truly shows how anyone can make a six figure income through e-mail marketing alone!

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Generating traffic to your business website is vital if you want to make any revenue online.  This is the hard truth of the matter.  Website promotion and traffic generation is one of the most valuable skills as an Internet Marketer.  Article marketing is website promotion via writing articles and submitting them, thus providing  you extra exposure, backlinks that provide a SEO (search engine optimization) benefit, thus giving your website more and more traffic.  The question still remains however, if that is all there is to getting traffic to my website, why isn’t my website getting a massive stampeted of visitors, flooding my bank account with tons and tons of Internet Marketing sales? 

If site promotion and traffic is what you need whether for yourself or your business website then it should use a fine blend of On-Page and off-page SEO Strategies, Link Building, Advertising and other variations of website promotion strategies to have a well balanced promotional campaign. 

Traffic Generation Secrets, Website Promotion Tricks and Article Marketing Strategies

In the world of Online Marketing and Internet entrepenuership, website promotion is essential for any sort of success on the Internet.  Whether you are an affiliate marketer or have your own e-business, if you don’t have traffic, your website isn’t doing you any good at al.  There are a huge variety of ways to promote your Internet business and no single method is usually enough.  Heck, you should be doing everything you can to drive traffic to your website.  The following are website promotion strategies, traffic generation tips and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) How-To’s to help get your website as much traffic as possible!

*  Write and Submit Press Releases – Press releases give you the clear and blatent opportunity to share all the many great things that your website has to offer.  You can promote your business unlike in article marketing (you have to be sneaky about it with article marketing).  In addition, press releases are one of the few places you can use direct promotion and generally get a high pageranking site to link back to yours.  Many press release sites tend to have higher pageranks and their links provide valuable SEO benefits as well.  If you aren’t using press releases in your website promotion campaign, then you are missing out on a huge source of traffic.

*  Use Link directories to submit your website to.  Using Link Directories are a great way to gain pagerank and promote your website.  This gives you exposure and a link from a niche-specific directory.  Directories like Yahoo and DMOZ have extremely high pageranks and are looked at as authority websites – Great for SEO!

*  Promote your website through blogging and writing in your blog often.  Blogs, or web-logs, are great for driving traffic to your website by providing updated content freshly delivered all the time.  The search engines love blogs, and so should you!  Every great business should have a blog linked to them, prefferably on their own site.  Many great SEO experts will tell you, it pays to have a blog!

*  Pay-per-click and other forms of paid advertisement are a great way to supplement your SEO strategy and another great form of website promotion.  Google Adwords, Kontera and other ad networks play extremely important roles in driving massive traffic to the websites they advertise for.

Article Marketing Secrets, Traffic Generation Strategies and Website Promotion Tips

*  Article Marketing (Hand Submission)- This is where a great portion of traffic comes from.  Writing and submitting your articles to article submission websites offers a good number of benefits in these ways: 1.  Provides a generally highly valuable one-way link back to your business website which will help you in ranking higher in the search engines 2.  Helps in portraying yourself as an authority in your specified field, thus building consumer trust and interest and 3.  Depending on the article submission website, your article itself could rank extremely high in the search engines giving your website extra exposure.

*  Automatic Article Submission Software or Service – In addition to hand-submitting your articles to various article directories, it is also highly recommended that you purchase some form of automatic article submission software or service.  This can save tons time and money (Since money is time!).  What automatic article submission software or services do is they automatically sydicate your content to hundreds of websites accross the internet, providing TONS of backlinks and TONS of exposure.  So why not just do this?  Well, by hand-submitting your articles you have a higher chance of approval and getting your article on the actual article site.  By hand-submitting your Internet Marketing articles, you can choose the various article sites that you want to submit to based on ranking, popularity or other.  This is most often not the case with automatic article submission services or software.  Your article marketing strategy should include both hand submission of articles as well as using an automatic article submission service or software -  This will provide you with a more well-balanced website promotion strategy.

*  Social networks like Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and many other websites give you the option to create your own profiles offering yet another chance for great and free exposure.  In these social networks, the more you participate, the better, the more exposure you’ll get, and the more traffic you’ll generate!  Web 2.0 marketing has grown a lot in popularity as well as social interaction.  More and more website are adding various socializing tools integrated in their websites.  Take advantage of this!

*  Social bookmarking is another great way to share your various information accross the Internet.  Submitting your articles, press releases, blog and web content (and websites) to social bookmarking sites can significantly help your rankings and drive even more traffic to your sites.  The more valuable and useful the content, the better social bookmarking will work for you.  Want to save time?  Onlywire offers a social bookmarking submission tool that submits your content to most of the major social bookmarking sites!

*  E-mail marketing, like paid advertising and organic SEO strategies, should always be adopted as another form of traffic generation and a way to keep repeat business and build consumer trust.  Sending out various promotional e-mails and newsletters gives personality, builds relationships and another income stream to your Online business.

Whether its press releases, submitting your links to link directories, blogging, ppc advertising or other forms of paid advertising, hand submission article marketing, using automatic article submission services or software, social networking and bookmarking or email marketing, every method has its strict importance in the Internet Marketing world.  Instead of adopting and using only a single method, try to learn and use a little bit of each and become a web-promotion “jack of all trades”.  By doing so you’ll be able to tap in a plethora of traffic channels thus supercharging your website promotion and making more money and increasing your business revenue in Internet Marketing.

To Your Success,

Gabe Killian

PhenomMarketing.com | ProfitFromArticles.com | XsiteProTruth.com | Inferno-Marketing.com

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The Time is Now…

If you want to become one of the Beta-Testers for my new 6 Figure Wealth Creation Plan for Internet Marketers.

I am going to be launching this program to the general public for a price, but before I do, I am offering the program to a limited amount of Beta-Testers absolutely free!

What this plan entails:

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So do you have the drive to create Abundant Wealth? 

If so, then YOU WILL benefit from this program! 

And remember, ONLY BETA-TESTERS GET IN FREE!  All I ask in return is an honest effort (which isn’t much to ask, because YOU will be the ones benefiting from the program) and a little feedback in the form of a short survey.  That’s IT!!

So if you want to take part in my Wealth Creation Program,  Simply fill out the form below, and in about 24 hours, I will send you an e-mail instructing you what to do next.

This opportunity doesn’t come around too often and shouldn’t be missed!  I am a firm believer that there is more than enough to go around for anyone willing to do the work.  That is the basis behind my program.  All you need to be 100% successful is to believe in yourself, stay focused on the prize and have enough drive and motivation to do what it takes to make your dreams come true.

I wish you the best in your endeavors!

To Your Success,

Gabe Killian – Phenom Enterprises

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