February 3, 2012

What Graphics Do You Need in Your Toolbox?

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Almost every marketer needs graphics.  Many graphics are available pre-made.  You don’t necessarily need to have every single graphic customized for your use only.  Some graphics should always be custom made, but others can easily be stock material.

If you’re making sales pages of any kind, there are a few types of graphics you should almost always have.  You don’t necessarily need a header and footer, but you can’t get away with having no graphics at all.  Some of them are absolutely essential!

The most important thing you need if you’re selling an eBook, software package, membership site, or other digital products is a good eCover.  This will have to be customized with your product name.

A good eCover graphic lends credibility to your product.  If your eCover is poorly done, a lot of people will think the product itself is sub-par.  If your eCover is especially attractive, it will make it seem like your product has a higher value.  A good eCover is essential, especially if you’re selling to other marketers!

A guarantee graphic is also important.  Guarantee graphics help draw attention to your money back guarantee.  A guarantee is vital if you want to achieve maximum conversions, because so many people have been burned on Internet products before.  If you don’t have a clear-cut guarantee policy on your sales page, or if visitors don’t see it, you could be throwing sales out the window.

An attractive order button that draws attention is almost as important as your eCover.  The order button is what people need to click in order to purchase your product.  If they somehow miss the button, or if it’s difficult to see, people might get frustrated and leave.

Also, some people specifically look for the order button on your site first.  The price of a product is usually near the order button, so some people will instinctively scroll down to the order button before they even read the sales letter.

If your order button is especially tempting, your price is good, and your eCover is exceptional, they may hit the order button and buy without even reading the sales letter.  This is especially true if they’ve already heard a lot about your product before they make it to your sales page.

Bullets or accent graphics can also be important.  They help draw attention to essential benefits and features.  They should be used sparingly.  Using bullets to accent everything on a page takes away from their usefulness, because they should only be used to draw attention to your most important benefits.

If you’re running an affiliate program, you must have a selection of banners for affiliates to use to advertise your site.  Although some affiliates will only promote you through text links or emails, a lot of affiliates will still need banners for websites and blogs.

Remember, pre-made graphics can really save you time and money, but it can also pay to have part of your graphics custom made.  Great custom graphics can really help skyrocket sales.  Save the stock photos for use on Squidoo lenses and in your blog to stay in line with the niche theme.

 

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Building Your Opt In list

Building your optin listIn this internet marketing age, one of the most important assets your website or business can have is a targeted list of email subscribers, a list of people that are interested in your particular niche or topic of interest.

The average subscriber is worth approximately $12.00 per year to the list owner. Now $12.00 may not seem like a whole lot of money, but when you start building your list generating just 10 new subscribers per day means 3650 subscribers a year. Now if you do the math, what this means is about $43,800 each and every year. Not bad, considering for many website/business owners this isn’t even their primary source of income. The great thing about this is 10 is a very realistic number, and easily achievable…let me share a few tips to get you started.

1. the most obvious, yet often overlooked is having the opt in form in the first place, if you don’t have anywhere for me to sign up, how can I? I recommend locating the opt in form somewhere above the fold, and easily seen. For PLR Internet Marketing I’ve chosen the top right hand corner, now I could easily have placed my absence code here, but is my adsense going to generate $43,800 for me each year? Probably not. If you notice our Opt in form can be seen on each and every one of the pages on PLR Internet Marketing.

2. Don’t just have the opt in form; offer your readers something of value, this does two things, 1. It gives your readers something of value, which helps build trust. I spent 3 months writing and editing E-Business; “The Insider’s Edge” and could easily have continued to sell it at $19.99, but instead decided to offer it to my readers for free in order to provide them with value, and also build trust with my readers. 2. There is something powerful in business called “The Law of Reciprocity”, now what this means is that when you do something for someone else, they feel a compelling urge to reciprocate. Now as we’ve established both trust, and given something of value to the reader, if they are in the market for a service or product you are offering or recommending, they will now be much more inclined to purchase it from you rather than some stranger, or website they have no previous relationship with.

3. Design a professional squeeze page or sales page with your offer and then drive traffic to that page. If you go to http://www.plrinternetmarketing.com/e-business/ you will see the squeeze page I had designed to offer my eBook to people. This page is a great way to convert new traffic sources into both customers, and readers for many years to come.

4. Add a lightbox hover. This is the opt in box that fades into the page promoting your offer. You can set it up to show every time (I don’t recommend), you can have it show up once per visitor as I have done, (note will also show up again if cookies are cleared), or you can set the duration…e.g. every 30 days. My conversions increased by 30% after I added this.

5. Do you have a Twitter account? Have your offer sent in a direct message to new followers. I receive anywhere from 30 to 100 new followers each day. Twitter accounts for a whopping 50% of all my subscribers. You can use a free site like Social oomph to automatically send your new followers to your squeeze page offer, again…the better the offer, the higher your conversions will be.

6. Does your website or business have a Facebook fan page? If so, make sure you’re capturing leads there as well. Setup an opt in form as your landing tab, so that your new fans have the opportunity to sign up for your offer or gift directly from there. I’ve recently started an Internet Marketing fan page, that has quickly grown to 3000 fans, each of whom had the opportunity to sign up for my free eBook.

7. Run promotional ads for your eBook, ecourse, giveaway, etc. Google’s Adwords, Facebook Ads, etc. are a great way to drive traffic to your your offer. If you set the value of each subscriber at $1.00 per month, then you know that if you can acquire each new lead at or around this figure your already ahead. I know that if I pay $1.00 for a lead, that I can recoup that cost in as little as a month, with each successive month being pure profit. It’s important to know the value of your subscribers so that you can calculate at what point you’re still profitable.

These are just a few tips to help you build your own opt in list up to a profitable level. Remember, your list if used properly will easily be your most profitable asset. If I lost every other aspect of my business tomorrow, but still had my list, I could still make money each and every month!

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