All Bloggers should join Ojeez!

All Bloggers should join Ojeez! Why do you blog? ...To make money?

Then blogging becomes a home business. ...As a hobby and for fun? Then you need more readers. Where's the fun if no one reads your 'fun stuff' or 'hobby stuff'? ...Other reasons?

You still want more readers. Whatever the reasons may be, I suggest you take a really close look at Ojeez and join the community.

Good place for you, I believe so. Ojeez is the place to network all your home business opportunities, get connected and find more prospects while at the same time build your Ojeez Network to Earn Company Shares! "One Stone, Two Birds" Wouldn't it be nice!

Network your business at MySpace Social Networking

The growth in popularity of social networking sites has been phenomenal for online business owners in recent years. Communities such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook, etc, each has millions of members from around the world. As a network marketer my preference is Myspace : - It boasts 200 million profiles, 350K new members/day, 110 million uniques/month. - American MySpace hits 60 percent of 18-24 year-olds, 25 percent of 15-25 year-olds and 36 percent of people 35 and older Myspace is no longer just a site where teens go to post their personal blogs and make friends. The site now gets millions of adult visitors everyday and countless business people are using the site to advertise their goods and services with the hope of gaining potential clients. The site offers many features that attract people to the different pages the site contains. By utilizing a few simple techniques, you can advertise your business to the many people that visit these pages. One way to advertise on the site is to set up a personal profile that includes a link to your business. Use the page to reflect not just your business side but your personal side as well. Start a blog page and begin posting articles on the topic of goods that you’re selling. This will establish you as an expert in your field. Post at least once a day and by the end of the month you will have 30 articles. Make the articles interesting so that you build up a readership and be sure to include a link to your business site in each post and ask your readers to visit your site. Invite your readers to add you as a friend. The more readers that you have will increase the percentage of people that will be drawn to your business website. Another way to advertise is by posting bulletins on your personal page. List the sales and special offers of the goods and services listed on your business site. You can also post bulletins on the pages of your friends to increase the exposure of your business to others. Remember that each of the people that you add as a friend has friends of their own. The more people who see your bulletin, the better chance you have at securing potential clients. Using the “groups” section of the site is an excellent way to advertise your product. The groups are listed alphabetically and you can join the ones that pertain to the goods and services that you are selling. Join more than one group and start posting in their forums. Get to know people there and engage them in conversations. Ask the group owners if they will endorse your product. A group owner who’s members number in the tens of thousands is a powerful ally to have in your corner. Be warned that they may charge you a fee for the endorsement, but if it will increase your profit margin, it’s worth it. Making friends on the site is a sure way to help your business grow. It’s important to be sincere about developing friendships. Your friends will want you to be successful and will let you advertise on their own pages to help you to do so. People who don’t know you won’t afford you the same respect. Each friend that you make has other friends that they can refer to your business site. Making friends is not just a way to advertise your business. It’s a way to enrich your personal life as well.

Using Email Marketing to promote your Affiliate Products

Email marketing can be one of the most effective methods to promote affiliate products, IF * You've already built an opt-in email list, and * You've already established your credibility with your subscribers In fact, I'm such a big believer in promoting affiliate products through e-mail that I've written and tested many different e-mail campaigns over the past few years. The key to successful e-mail content is to imagine that you are writing the letter to one friend, rather than a large group of customers who are all strangers to you. Writing with a single person in mind will help you avoid writing that's too stiff and formal, and make sure your claims are not overstated. Here are seven simple steps to write effective content for e-mail promotions : 1. Keep it personal: Write your letter as though you were sending it to a close personal friend. This is one of the best ways to guarantee that you avoid any exaggeration or hype that will scare away interested potential customers. 2. Tell them "Why": If you believe that you’re recommending a good product that your readers will benefit from, tell them. Be specific about why you think it’s such a great product and how they stand to benefit from checking it out! 3. Be honest and real: If you’ve had personal experience with the product, then let your customers and subscribers know how you’ve personally benefited from it. Results speak for themselves. 4. Be knowledgeable: If you don’t have personal experience using the product, familiarize yourself with it by taking a few minutes to read the product information. Think about how it will benefit your customers and subscribers, and express this in your letter. 5. Keep it short: An effective e-mail shouldn’t be any more than a page and a half. Remember that your job is to get the reader to click through your affiliate link to the product information page with full details. 6. Keep it simple: Don't fall into the trap of trying to fill your letter with big words and complicated sentences to make it sound more 'official'. That kind of language is a surefire way to turn people off. Think about what you want to say in your letter, then imagine that you're sitting down with a friend and telling them these things in a casual conversation. That's the tone you want to capture. 7. Test it! Before you e-mail the letter to your entire opt-in e-mail list, consider e-mailing it to a test group to gauge the response. If the results aren't what you hoped, you can always go back and 'tweak' it before you send it out to everyone. New to email marketing ? Or, your email marketing effort isn't really paying you well? Perhaps you ought to take a look at our Email Secrets to discover how the professionals are doing it !

Marketing Tips To Remember

Here are a few marketing tips to keep in mind when you're considering launching a new campaign.
Most businesses will get 80% of their sales from 20% of their customers. Know exactly who those 20% are and aim your advertising to that segment.
Research is a vital part of your marketing plan. Your effort should produce answers to who your prospects are, and where, why, when, and how they are converted into active buyers.
As your business grows, prepare a strategic marketing plan looking at how your product or service will meet the long-term needs of your customers.
Dramatically increase your odds for a direct mail response by including a self-addressed, stamped or postage paid envelope.

.::Networking on the Internet - Part 2::.

Now, how can you use all this information to network? Here are some of the most common ways:
Bulletin Boards -- These are web pages where you can view and post questions and comments on a specific subject. Answering a posted question is an excellent way to demonstrate your expertise, become known to the people who frequent the board, and get to know others in your field.

Don't be overly self-promotional when posting, just include a signature line at the end of your post, e.g. "Ingrid Gustafsson, Nordic Design." If you see someone else on the board who you would like to get to know in a collegial way, e-mail them. But never directly approach for business the people you find there. You might find yourself banned from membership.
Discussion Lists -- These are like bulletin boards, but are e-mailed to members of the list daily, weekly, or whenever a new posting arrives.

When posting to these lists, you can include more information about yourself in a signature box at the end of each e-mail. Keep it short, but include some reason for people to get in touch with you outside the list, such as, "Subscribe to my free newsletter," or, "Visit my web site for a free resource guide."
In addition to locating discussion lists through search engines as described above, you can find them through online community hosts such as Yahoo Groups or MSN Groups.
Live Chats -- Many online communities sponsor real-time chats on specific topics. Participating in these chats is an excellent way to meet people interested in the subject being discussed. Chat rooms that require membership are best, because you are more likely to encounter professionals seriously interested in the topic instead of people just looking for a date.

Attending chats featuring a guest speaker can be more valuable than you might think. If you ask a question during one of these, don't be surprised if people contact you by e-mail during or after the chat to offer you more resources related to your question. You can make exactly the same type of contacts when you are the one who has something to offer.

Articles -- Notice who is writing them and who is being written about. These people are likely to be leaders in your field, or at least highly visible. That makes them good contacts for you. Send them an e-mail complimenting them on the article and suggesting you get acquainted for mutual benefit. Make a specific suggestion about what you can offer, e.g. referrals or resources.

Others in Your Field -- These may be colleagues, competitors, vendors, or potential clients. Approach them collegially with ideas about how a relationship could benefit you both, such as exchanging referrals, pooling resources, links on each other's web site, or trading endorsements or articles in each other's ezine.

If you can't find a board, list, chat, or site with the exact focus you want, consider starting one of your own. While hosting one of these communities takes time and effort, it will also put you in the center of the network that forms around it instead of on the outskirts.

.::Networking on the Internet::.

Networking is one of the most effective ways to find clients for any consulting or professional services business. But if you limit your networking to only what you can do in person, you'll be missing out on a huge number of possibilities.

Networking is more than entering a room full of people and exchanging business cards. It's creating a pool of contacts with whom you can exchange clients, referrals, resources, ideas, and information. Networking can happen by phone, by mail, over coffee, and increasingly, over the Internet.

The growth of the Internet has created many new ways to network without ever leaving your home or office. Pick a topic, any topic, and there will be multiple web sites and online communities devoted to it. Almost any type of Internet presence offers opportunities for networking.

In your favorite search engine, type the name of your profession or specialty, e.g.
"interior design" or "marketing communications." Or, if you have a clearly defined target market, you can use that, e.g. "baby boomers" or "biotechnology." Skip the sponsored links or banner ads and focus on the detailed results. What you will find is the following:
Professional Associations & Schools -- Many association or school sites provide member rosters, resource pages, back issues of newsletters, event calendars, and bulletin boards or discussion lists. Not all of these features will be restricted to members or students.
Resource Sites & Online Communities -- These include directories of people in the profession, vendors, articles, event calendars, bulletin boards, discussion lists, live chats, and links to even more resource sites.
Publications -- Magazines and newsletters maintain sites that offer everything from back issues to complete online communities.
Job Postings -- These may appear on any of the above sites, and often include opportunities for independent professionals, not just those looking for full-time employment.
Colleagues & Competitors -- Colleagues and competitors may be exactly the same people, depending on your relationship with them. Their sites will tell you more about them and their work, and may offer many of the same features as resource sites.
Potential Clients -- Their sites will tell you about the work they do, current and upcoming projects, and even the names of executives and managers.
Also, if you subscribe to an online service offering interactive "channels," like America Online, CompuServe or MSN, there may be an entire area dedicated to your profession or target market. Some of these resources are available to non-members as well.