Internet Marketing & Sales
This category is about internet marketing strategies and sales conversion strategies for your online business. This will include information on copywriting and psychological triggers.
Demo Squeeze Pages
I am thinking of offering some background images as a free WSO – here are some demo squeeze pages made with some of the images. http://mark-salmon.com/squeeze-demo http://mark-salmon.com/squeeze-demo-2 http://mark-salmon.com/squeeze-demo-3/ http://mark-salmon.com/squeeze-demo-4/ http://mark-salmon.com/squeeze-demo-5/ http://mark-salmon.com/squeeze-demo-6/ http://mark-salmon.com/squeeze-demo-7 http://mark-salmon.com/squeeze-demo-8/ http://mark-salmon.com/squeeze-demo-9/ http://mark-salmon.com/squeeze-demo-10/ http://mark-salmon.com/squeeze-demo-11 http://mark-salmon.com/squeeze-demo-12 I thought that I could offer Easy Web Page Graphics as an upsell and a lesson on Photoshop Actions … Read more
List Building With Kindle
Have you ever considered list building with Kindle? I’ve just read about this strategy and it sounds very interesting to me because the KDP Select program gives you the ability to enroll your books in a Free Book Promotion i.e. Amazon will get the traffic for you. If you include links to your squeeze page inside … Read more
Demo Sites For My Website Design Business
I have created some demo sites for my website design business. You can take a peek by clicking the image below. This will take you to a page where there are links to each site – there are 5 or 6 sites in total.
Story Telling With Email Marketing
I’ve been studying about how to do story telling with email marketing – specifically reading Auto Responder Madness by Andre Chaperon. At well over 300 pages, it is an ebook that I have had on my computer for quite a while and failed to read properly because of its length – indeed, I refer to … Read more
My Daily List Building Routine
It’s important to have a system or routine when building your list. That’s why I’m sharing mine – it may just help you. Step #1 – I start my day by checking my stats for the previous day. I can get immediate feedback on number of clicks, optins and sales through my link tracker. … Read more
What Is List Spark?
What is List Spark? List Spark is an all-in-one viral email list building system. It combines absolutely everything you need in order to start making money online. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never made a dime online, you don’t have any money to invest, you have no previous experience in the field and that you … Read more
List Spark – A 100% Free Viral List Building System
I joined List Spark today – this is a 100% free viral list building system with an optional PRO membership on the back-end. This is my initial List Spark review. I was introduced to List Spark by Ed Newman, one of my online colleagues, who I know is very good at list building. He tells … Read more
The 7 Core Pieces of Every High-Converting Sales Funnel
This article covers the 7 core pieces of every high-converting sales funnel. This is a brief summary of a webinar that I listened to following the purchase of Funnel Trax which is an app for recording and tracking your sales funnel stats that has just been launched by Mark Thompson. I thought long and hard … Read more
Powerpoint To Video Promotions
Today I’ve created some Powerpoint to Video promotions for my web design site at Salmon Web Design. Whilst you can view them on that site, I thought that I would also add them to this site as it represents yet another method of creating animated style videos for video marketing purposes. Here are a few … Read more
How To Build Your List Of Subscribers…Fast
In this article I will discuss how to build your list of subscribers quickly and why this must be your absolute #1 priority as a business. The business of internet marketing is about putting people onto lists, sending them emails and them clicking on the links in our emails, purchasing products and services that we … Read more
Classified Ads Website Completed
I’ve just completed a classified ads website for a client. The site is called Homestay Pals and is specifically to enable anyone with a spare room in their house to advertise for paying guests – a small home business opportunity which is quite common around the world. The difficulty in creating this site was creating … Read more
Promo Sketch Video For Astles
I have just created a promo sketch video for Astles of Nottingham. I decided to create this video as an added-extra just to keep my hand in with creating these types of videos. Like anything else. you get better with practice!
The Law of Averages
This article about the law of averages was inspired by a recording by Jim Rohn that randomly cropped up this morning when I was listening to my ipod whilst walking the dog. If you do something often enough a ratio will appear. It’s amazing. Once a ratio starts, it tends to continue. This information is … Read more
Salmon Web Design – Web Design Stratford-upon-Avon
Web Design Stratford-upon-Avon. I have just created Salmon Web Design specifically to sell my web design services in Stratford-upon-Avon. However, my services are not limited by geographical area as I can design websites for any English speaking customer. I have created a website that showcases some of my web design talent at http://marksalmon.biz. The … Read more
Web Designer Occupational Hazards
In this article I want to discuss web designer occupational hazards. This is prompted by the fact that I have just completed a difficult project that measurably increased my blood pressure by 30 points. Right at the planning stage of the website we established the colour scheme that we proposed to use. Having completed the … Read more
The Process Of Creating A Website For A Client
In this article I am going to outline the process that I use for creating a website for a client. This is the process that I have used to develop a website for Astles of Nottingham – this is a new florist and greengrocers shop based in Nottingham that also wishes to establish an online … Read more
New Websites For My Daughter
I have just created two new websites for my daughter who is working from home offering a number of health, weight and fitness products. My sister has been working in the nutrition industry for a long time now and is an international speaker on all things related to nutrition and health. So when my daughter … Read more
List Building With Optin Hurricane
I am about to start list building with Optin Hurricane. I have been exploring if there are better and faster methods for building a list. In the past I have relied upon SEO to drive traffic to my website and then had various optin or buying options on my website. I have also built lists … Read more
Internet Marketing Snake Oil
Internet marketing often feels a bit like dealing in ‘snake oil’. It’s often sold as the cure all remedy for those that want to work from home and make a lot of money at the push of a button. Whilst you can make money by simply sending emails, getting people onto your list in the … Read more
Lead Generation Using Warrior Special Offers
Warrior Special Offers are a great method for lead generation. You pay $20 for a WSO sales thread and you can put your special offer in front of the traffic on the Forum. I have noticed that a number of Warriors create free WSO’s – these convert at around 50% or better. If you were … Read more
One Minute Squeeze Page Briefing
‘One Minute Squeeze Page Briefing’ is a short report on the process that I use to create squeeze pages that convert exceedingly well. This is a system that was taught to me by Mike de Vincent in Squeeze Page Laboratory where he was getting 50%+ optin rates. I’ve adapted his system slightly, which I felt … Read more
Marketing Scams Revealed
In this article I want to talk a little bit about marketing scams. Having run an offline manufacturing business myself for 12 months, I know what it is like to have to find someone trustworthy to outsource marketing jobs to because there are plenty of untrustworthy agencies in the marketplace – these are the pirates … Read more
Landing Page Templates
I have been experimenting with landing page templates to try to uncover a page design that I really like. In reality, it’s not what I like that really matters – it’s all about how the page converts when I put traffic through it. But first you have to create a page so that’s what I … Read more
How To Write Powerful Email Copy
I have been learning more about how to write powerful email copy from three top products: The Tao of Email Copywriting by Matt Furey Kickass Copywriting Secrets by John Carlton Autoresponder Madness by Andre Chaperon Last night I finished going through the Matt Furey product (which retails at $197). He is reputed to be one … Read more
Sales Funnel Training
We are shortly going to launch a sales funnel training product because the importance of having a sales funnel in your business cannot be under-estimated. If you do not have a well-designed sales funnel in your business then you will be leaving a lot of money on the table. However, it is one thing to … Read more
Creating A Logo Reveal With Adobe After Effects
I have created a logo reveal with Adobe After Effects. You can see the results of my first project below. I have never used Adobe After Effects prior to creating this logo reveal so I am pretty pleased with the results (particularly because the training video was created by someone with a foreign accent who … Read more
Life’s Big Question – How Can I Make More Money?
I came across the image below in Carl Picot’s Copywriting Forum with the headline – Life’s Big Question – How Can I Make More Money? I thought that this was a terrific headline that made me stop and ponder a second… Because this IS an important ‘life question’ that we all ask ourselves from time to … Read more