"you Have To Give In Order To Receive"
By Wayne Perkins, Thu Dec 8th
Have you ever heard the expression, " the quickest way to reachyour goals is to help others reach their goals?"
I remember this expression and use it as my Internet product-marketing plan. It has paid off with 3 best selling books for mein the past year. It has also allowed me to build a businesspresenting teleseminars on and on e-book marketing.
How does it work in Internet product selling? Let me explain.
Websites generally have three characteristics that help themconsistently remain in the top search engine standings:
1. The most popular website must add and change its contentoften. Change and add information daily.
2. The popular website must offer an e-zine or newsletter. Thetop websites offer newsletters and e-zines that are deliveredvia e-mail every day.
3. The highly visited website will usually have its ownbookstore with an affiliation or association with Amazon.com oranother affiliate program to allow visitors a method ofpurchasing books and products that complement the information onthe website.
Top websites spend a great deal of time and money to remain atthe top of the heap. Everyone wants to be there, but only a fewcan hold down those top positions.
Understanding these three characteristics have enabled me toachieve my goals by helping websites achieve their goals.
Step One: Search for the Big Guys on the Internet
I have two areas of expertise. I am a hypnotist who writes booksand e-books on how to achieve success through hypnosis. I amalso an E- book Marketing Consultant and write books on how towrite and sell e- books.
In order to find top websites that may be interested inhypnosis, I search on broader topics like "health" and "mentalhealth." For my books on E-book marketing I search on topicslike "Internet marketing" and "E-commerce."
Even though there are hundreds of search engines and thousandsof directories, I begin with searching on Yahoo. Yahoo is adirectory that is difficult to get into and even more difficultto maintain a high ranking.
>From my own experience once I made the top of the heap inYahoo, under "hypnotism" my web traffic more than doubled andstayed that way over the past three years.
Therefore, I conclude that the websites that arise to the top ofYahoo will be much more highly visited than through other searchengines and directories.
Step Two: Help the Webmaster Offer More Content
Once I search under the two major categories that fit my topic,I send e-mail to the webmasters at those sites sending along myarticle or sample chapter.
I tell the webmasters I would appreciate them posting my articleto their readers in return for a short bi-line or description onwhat I do and a link over to Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com,Infopost or my own website in return for the favor.
Sample e-mail article submission request Template:
Dear Webmaster,
Enclosed is the following article I wrote and would like you topublish and use as a resource on your website.
I only ask that you include the following author's by-linelisted at the end of the article complete with the hyperlink.
Title: