Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Analyzing the visitors to your Plug-In Profit Site

Once you have your Plug-In Profit Site and you've started to promote your site by building up links, article submission, Search Engine Optimization, traffic exchanges, list building, directory submission, forum posting and more, you need to know whether or not your efforts are paying off.

The obvious result is that you will start to make sales and get signups to the affiliate programs that are part of the Plug-In Profit Site. You will know when this is happening as you will begin to receive emails with the following subject lines:

"New Host4Profit Account" - From Host4Profit
"Way to go Suzanne, you have just enrolled someone" - from Success University
"New Affiliate (Joe Bloggs)" - from SFI

If you have not reached that stage yet, you still need to monitor your progress. The best way to do this is to analyze the visitors to your site. The sort of things you may want to look at are:

(1) The total number of unique visitors to your site per day
(2) Where your visitors come from (e.g. search engine, another website)
(3) What keywords are people using in the search engines to find your site
(4) Which pages on your site are the most popular
(5) Entry and Exit Pages
(6) The path that your visitor takes through your site (which pages they visit in which order)
(7) The countries that your visitor come from
(8) The length of time that your visitors spend on your site

The good news is that Host4Profit provides a tool called Webalizer that provides you with 1-5 above.

Just go to http://yourwebsite.com/stats or login to your WebEPanel and click on the stats button.

On the first page you'll see some graphs and you can find out the number of daily and monthly visitors, files, hits, pages and site. The most important stat is Visitors and you should be aiming to increase this every month.

If you then click on one of the months in the list you can see a full breakdown of your stats. Click on the Entry and Exit links to quickly see a list of the different pages that your visitors arrive on your site at and the last page they visit before leaving.

Click on Referrers to find out which websites referred your visitors. If I look at my stats, one of my top referers is Google, showing that the majority of my visitors come from the Google search engine. I can also see the URLs of article directories that I have published some of my articles on, showing that my article submission is paying off.

Click on URLs to find out which pages on your site are the most popular. The URL of each of the visited pages on your site will be listed here along with the number of times that it has been visited that month.

Finally, you can also click on Search to see the keywords that are being used to find your site on search engines.

The Webalizer stats will give you a good overall picture of how you are doing with your site promotion. You should aim to review your stats at least once a month to see how you are doing. Read the Webalizer Stats Quick Help Guide here.

If you want to go one step further I would recommend installing StatCounter. StatCounter is free from StatCounter.com and is far superior to the Webalizer stats. This will provide you with far more detail than Webalizer including information about how the visitors move between the different pages on your site (visitor paths), the length of time that your visitors spend on your site and the countries that your visitors come from.

You can see an example of the stats provided by StatCounter here.


Praveen Kumar is a success coach who has a passion for real estate investing for capital growth and internet marketing for cash flow. He has been helping others, who share the same vision, to start their home businesses and become financially free. Please click here To find the best home based business ideas and training.

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Monday, December 11, 2006

Avoiding Information Overload

It's very common when you start with the Plug-In Profit site, or any other internet marketing project for that matter to feel overwhelmed with information, especially if you are new to this.

First things first - don't panic! Most people feel like this at some point or another. It does get easier, honest :-) When I first started with my Plug-In profit site I had my moments of information overload. I knew absolutely nothing about internet marketing and would often find myself spending ages reading emails, browsing through websites, reading forums and aimlessly surfing the internet without achieving anything. Then I'd suddenly think "Arghh, there's so much to learn, how on earth am I going to do this!" and feel like I had a mountain to climb.

There are a few things you can do to try and ease these feelings:

(1) Stay positive - remember that everyone feels like this when they learn something new. You will never know everything. It will get easier.

(2) File your emails. When you start with the Plug-In profit site you will receive email training from Stone and the various affiliate programs that you have joined. You do not need to read all these emails right now. Sometimes when your inbox gets cluttered up this adds to your feeling of panic. Create some folders in your email program e.g. PIPS, Empowerism, SU, IMC, Traffic Swarm, Host4Profit. File all the emails into these folders immediately. This way everything will be much more organised and you will feel more in control.

(3) Make a to do list. Once a week or once a month have a think about what you want to achieve and write this down. Then list everything you need to do to achieve this, taking into account how much time you have available. Make sure there is time on your to do list for reading emails and training, especially in the beginning. Every day when you sit down at your computer focus on completing the tasks on your list.

(4) Follow the 30 days to Success. Stone's training program is an excellent way to get started. You don't have to do it all in 30 days though. Perhaps you can aim to do 2 days of the training each week, or more if you have time. This is exactly what I did when I started with the Plug-In Profit site and it works!

Finally, if you still feel overwhelmed, ask for help. Email your sponsor or make a post in the Plug-In Profit support forum. There are always plenty people in the forum who will be happy to help you out and encourage you.

Praveen Kumar is a success coach who has a passion for real estate investing for capital growth and internet marketing for cash flow. He has been helping others, who share the same vision, to start their home businesses and become financially free. Please click here To find the best home based business ideas and training.

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Thursday, December 07, 2006

The Colors of Success

As you begin to build your business and start getting sign ups it will be critical for you to understand the different personality types that make up your membership base. The following is an overview of the "Colors" system. I know of no other subject that when used correctly can have such a positive impact on your life and your business.

Yellows
Yellows make up 35% of the population. They are nurses, schoolteachers, UN workers … the nurturers. They give from the heart. They don't have time for themselves, because they give to everybody.

Yellows have built some of the largest organizations in network marketing... WHEN they have the belief they can do it.

How To Work With A Yellow
To color your way to the top, you need to learn to be a chameleon.
Yellows don't want to be sold. They don't like pushy, aggressive salespeople. When you talk with a Yellow, become a Yellow. Slow the pace. Contain your excitement. Lower the volume. Yellows see excitement as hype, you trying to sell them. Don’t tell a Yellow about making $10,000 a month, because they’ll turn right off.

Instead, visit with them. Skip the business. Talk about their family, their kids, their vacation.

Blues
BLUE’s “just wanna have fun.” They're 15% of the population. They're always in a sales business of some kind. They jump from program to program to program, looking for fun. These are the
planet’s most creative people.

A Blue sees the big picture instantly. They don't need or want all the details. Blues can eat an elephant, but not at one meal.

How To Work With A Blue
With a Blue, talk excited, get excited. Talk about going scuba diving, sky diving, having fun, fun, fun. That's what they want. "Hey, when you meet me at the airport, I'll be wearing a Hawaiian shirt. You'll know me. I'll have a big, funny hat on." That's what they want to talk about.

They’ll talk about vacations & family, but most of all they want to talk about fun things to do.

Greens
Greens are 35% of the population. They're the analytical people. They analyze it to death. They've missed millions of dollars in opportunities because they analyzed it too long.

How To Work With A Green
Greens believe they're the smartest people on the planet. With a Green ... in 2-3 minutes, you'll know you have a Green. They want ALL the details.

You are NOT going to sell them. Don’t even try. They have to sell themselves. They'll go to the website, they'll listen to the conference call. Then they'll go to the next website and the next link. If you have 27 links on your website, they'll go to every one. They'll read all the testimonials, all the articles, etc.

Enunciate all your words correctly for a Green. Don't speak too fast. Don't speak too slow. Be upfront. Give them all the information. Answer all their questions. Give them more websites to go to.

If you call in the meantime to answer questions, they'll be abrupt. They see that as you being pushy. Let Greens analyze the information at THEIR pace.

In a week or 2 or 3, they’ll call back for more information or ready to start. They’ve sold themselves; decided this is the perfect business. Greens want to feed a Blue the elephant in one meal. And that's the way the Green will build the business.

Reds
Reds are 15% of the population. They are money-motivated, moneyfocused.

Don't bother talking to them about your family or your vacation. They don't care. They know if you get married, you're supposed to have kids. If you have kids, you're supposed to go on vacation. End of story. Don't want to talk about it.

How To Work With A Red
They want to talk about the money, the money, the money. For them, it's a sales business.

Reds are the corporate CEOs, the "get-the-job-done" people, the ones everyone in network marketing is looking for.

But it's a fallacy. Reds are just 15% of the population, and they are absolutely not coachable. They have the biggest egos. They order people around. It works in corporate America, but not in network marketing.


Praveen Kumar is a success coach who has a passion for real estate investing for capital growth and internet marketing for cash flow. He has been helping others, who share the same vision, to start their home businesses and become financially free. Please click here To find the best home based business ideas and training.

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How To Write Great Articles Fast And Easy

What most people don't realize is that the work is already done for them, they don't need to come up with unique content from the top of their heads, they just need to look for what is already out there and improve on it.

Every possible topic has been covered and covered well by someone, but most of the time these people don't even want to profit from their work, they do it for the fun of it, which is great for you.

While you can't steal these people's hard work, (we wouldn’t want to anyway, we want to profit from our work) you can use their ideas and learn from their content to write your own. Anyone can become an expert enough in a subject to write a 750 word article on it in minutes if you have the write content in front of you.

I'm skipping ahead of myself here, but I'm going to tell you where to find this content now, then tell you how to come up with article ideas afterwards.

When I come up with an article idea I go directly to the source of the Internet's content. Online bulletin boards, FAQ pages and Article directories!

Every time I need to learn about something to write about it or just for the heck of it, I go to these places......

http://www.faq.org

http://www.goarticles.com

http://www.groups.google.com

Everything I could ever want to know about nearly every subject known to man I can find
for free there, if you're willing to dig for it.

All I then do is dissect all the information out of the articles, re write them into my words and add a snazzy article title.

Say you wanted to write an article or articles on fly fishing to promote a fly fishing e-book thru clickbank.com, here's what I would do.

I would go to Groups.google.com and type in fly fishing and see what questions people were asking.

I would also go to Goarticles.com and type in fly fishing and see what articles are already written and how many people have viewed them so you can tell which article topics are the most popular.

Then when I wanted to start writing my article I'd go to FAQ.org and look there for fly fishing Frequently Asked Questions and rewrite that content in my own words for my own articles.

****DISCLAIMER*****

I don't mean steal other peoples content when I say rewrite. I mean use the FAQ's are a place to research a topic and then use that research as a bases for your articles.

Your articles don't have to be masterpieces that are 5000 words in length, in fact it will help your sales if you keep them short 500 to 750 words and you give your readers
information they can instantly use and implement.

The most important part to your article is your article title; it will make or break your article.

When people read articles they want information that they can use straight away. Say for you instance you're writing about how to get your baby to sleep better at night, then you'd want a title something like this.

"6 Easy Steps For A Better Nights Sleep For You And Your Baby That You Can Implement Tonight!"

Ok, that's not perfect but you get the idea.

I've found if you're targeting the Internet Marketing niche you'll find your articles will get a better response and you will make more sales if you give people a plan they can use to make money straight away from your article.

For instance, let's say your promoting the "Google Cash" e-book that shows people how to make money with Google Adwords, you could write articles on the following....

• How you made money following the formula in the ebook.

• Give them a well thought out business plan they can steal and use as their own.

Or even....

Tell them how you failed using the Google Cash method but another method worked for you.

People love a story, success story or even a failure.

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Praveen Kumar is a success coach who has a passion for real estate investing for capital growth and internet marketing for cash flow. He has been helping others, who share the same vision, to start their home businesses and become financially free. Please click here To find the best home based business ideas and training.

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