The sad truth to face and the huge advantage to cash in on when using articles to increase traffic and profits

Written by Christopher Kyalo


I started out with a single article on one site. Everything happened slower because of this. Still I was amazed that I was able to get hits so quickly.

The site I started with had a counter and my eyes almost popped outrepparttar next day when I realized that within 24 hours 10 souls had already read my article. The figure these days is closer to two or three hits per day, if your headline is good. I guess it's because fewer people were using this strategy then, so there were fewer articles and more potential readers. These daysrepparttar 124580 articles are many more.

Still articles work becauserepparttar 124581 sites that post free articles have also increased dramatically. It just means that to getrepparttar 124582 same results, you have to post more frequently and on more sites. The quality of your articles also has to be quite high.

It is that counter in that first site I ever posted to that kept me going. Barely two months later and from that single article I received two serious enquiries. I was able to turn one into an actual sale.

That really got me excited aboutrepparttar 124583 possibilities. Having been a direct marketer offline for many years, it was second nature to do a quick calculation ofrepparttar 124584 response rate I was getting, which I quickly put at 5%, thinking that this was very conservative.

Well I'm older and wiser now. There are two truths you need to appreciate when promoting using articles and in fact when doing any sort of online marketing.

Firstly,repparttar 124585 response rates are much lower. Quite often lower than 1%. This means that in most cases you will need 100 hits to get one paying customer (if you've got a good product and you're lucky). There are successful online enterprises I know of that do quite well selling to just one customer out of 500 hits or even 1000! It just depends on what your selling price is and more important, what your profit margin is.

How To Have An Online Party

Written by TBA ~ Tricia, Billie and baby Ashley


Online parties are similar to home parties, but guest are able to stay at home in their pjs if they like. Its makes for a more relaxed atmosphere. You hold your party pretty muchrepparttar same way you would a home party just you don't have a display case to set up.

1) Setup online parties

A) Finding a Hostess - The first step to setting up an online party is to find a hostess. Try asking friends and family members to host an online party for you. You can also put out ads onrepparttar 124579 Internet looking for random hostess for your party. You could do a mystery hostess party where you would draw a name fromrepparttar 124580 guest and give themrepparttar 124581 hostess benefits. Another idea is to host your own party.

Here are a couple of ideas on how to get people to host for you:

Entice people to become your hostess by letting them know what they could get for free just by hosting. Most Direct Sales companies have a hostess plan, if yours seems high make up your own. You could do something like 10% off hostess order if your hostess gets X amount in sales, or an X amount GC for an X amount in sales. Show them they will get something for being a hostess, be sure to show themrepparttar 124582 harder they work forrepparttar 124583 salesrepparttar 124584 more they will get.

You could fix up a gift basket, take a picture and put it up on your site, and let hostesses know thatrepparttar 124585 hostess withrepparttar 124586 most sales during a particular month will win that basket. This will get your hostesses competing against each other forrepparttar 124587 gift basket, which will boost party sales

B) Setting a good date -You will want to grab your calendar and find a good date for you and your hostess. But you will also want to do some research on which days are good for online parties. We have seen that duringrepparttar 124588 week are good days for parties. When winter hits then weekends can be great for parties to becauserepparttar 124589 family is not out doing things together instead they are home trying to stay warm

c) Getting a Room You will need a chat room to have your online party in. There are several places onrepparttar 124590 net to get a chat room. Again you will want to do some research and findrepparttar 124591 best one for your needs. You haverepparttar 124592 option of getting your own chat room and hosting it on your site or paying for a party room. Here are some free chat rooms and some party rooms that you can get a fee.

1) Online Party Network– Offers a free chat room to active members. Members support other network members by participating in their online party. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PartyNetwork

2) Bravenet.com - Offers a free chat room to be hosted on your own chat. Bravenet offers many things great for WAHM's you can check them out at http://bravenet.com

There are many more rooms out there, these are just 2 we have either used or been in and they are good for parties

D) Figuring out Specials ~ Always know your company specials. We usually try to make up a special that is only good forrepparttar 124593 guest ofrepparttar 124594 party also. This lets them know they are getting something special for takingrepparttar 124595 time to come to your party. Good specials range from a free (small) gift with an order, 10% off price; a lot of customers loverepparttar 124596 free shipping specials. Be sure that whatever you give as a special isn't going to leave you with no profit though.

E) Games and prizes - Be sure to come up with some games and prizes to be played at your party also. Games add a little competition to your party adding more fun. There are many games that can be played at parties below are just 4 ofrepparttar 124597 games we have played before:

1) Scramble - Pick 5 - 10 words from your site or your business and scramble them up beforerepparttar 124598 party. Let everyone know thatrepparttar 124599 words are coming from your site or your business whichever you choose.

2) Trivia - Pick 5-10 questions about your site. Let everyone know thatrepparttar 124600 answers can be found on your site. The first person to getrepparttar 124601 correct answer gets a point atrepparttar 124602 end ofrepparttar 124603 gamerepparttar 124604 person withrepparttar 124605 most points getsrepparttar 124606 prize you have picked out.

3) Bingo - Have a list of words on your site and have guest pick out 5 words and email you those words, then later on when time forrepparttar 124607 game start picking words from your list, when you have call all 5 words of one ofrepparttar 124608 guest they will then call Bingo.

4) Auctions - These are a blast and we have done great with them. You make up a list of ways for guest to earn play money to bid with. Withrepparttar 124609 highest way to earn being either purchasing or booking a party Then you pick out a few prizes to auction off. This is a great game to get competitive juices going.

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