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Advantages To Building An E-mail List

Advantages To Building An E-mail List

I personally am still very new to marketing and online blogging, the more and more leaders I follow the more I have learned the importance of building an e-mail list. I thought I’d write a brief post on this subject for those of you who run your own blog or website and are not currently building an e-mail list.

I wanted to use this site as a way to provide readers useful and resourceful information about SEO, list building, social media and any other tips or tricks I’ve learned myself. My e-mail list will be a means for me to share useful information as well as discuss some products or software I personally have had success with. My biggest pet peeve is when people message me via e-mail or social media trying to ‘sell’ me something. I noticed the most successful marketers make recommendations and ‘share’ what works for them, best of all a lot of these leaders share plenty of information for FREE!

There is a great resource for building your email list here you should also check out.

My main purpose for building an e-mail list will be to do just that, provide something useful that my readers will enjoy reading or provide something to them that they can apply to their own business. There are plenty of reasons why this is very important. I recently watched a video by Derek Halpern that talks about list building, he wrote a post you can find here about this. Checkout the video while you are there.

I have not acquired it yet but I have heard amazing things about Aweber, I plan on signing up once I have built a more solid list myself.

Get on their list!

These are the following leaders that I have signed up for their ‘list’ on their blogs, I enjoy reading the e-mails they send out and find the information they provide on their blogs to actually be very useful. I will be editing this list later but for now this is just a small list to get you started.

Rob Fore

Ana Hoffman

Derek Halpern

Todd Warren

I setup a primary directory in my Outlook that I filter into separate folders for each person’s name, this allows me to go back and review each e-mail as time allows.

As I said, building an e-mail list is very new to me but it’s something I wanted to remind those who may not be thinking about this at all! I plan to post more useful content and share new information with my subscribers. If you would like to subscribe to my blog just fill in the form on the top right of this blog and look forward to more updates from me!

-John

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TweetAdder Review

TweetAdder Review

So I recently discovered a program called TweetAdder that allows you to automatically follow others on Twitter! In this TweetAdder review I will go over how this program works and how it can benefit you for targeting traffic for your business or personal use.

*UPDATE 11/20 I have created a video where I show you how I use TweetAdder

My TweetAdder Review – How does it work?

Once you have registered your license key you can setup each Twitter profile, once you have added at least one user you can now setup your search terms, follow settings, thank you message, RSS Feeds for each specific user.

Tweet Search:

I happen to run a music video website called Metalcore Kingdom for a specific genre of metal music called Metalcore. I created a brand new profile for promoting Metalcore Kingdom about two weeks ago. I wanted to setup some example search queries for common bands or music genre’s that are similar to this type of music.

In my example below I setup an automatic search for metalcore, post-hardcore, deathcore as well as some popular metalcore bands. I am now able to automatically follow a set number of users every day. When someone sees that I follow them they also receive an e-mail they are being followed. Of about 1300 follows I have as of today’s date received about 300 followers back in just two weeks!

Just to give some idea of how powerful TweetAdder is, I have been running Metalcore Kingdom since April 2012. My site has received 4500 unique visitors and has a giant “Facebook Like” area on the right pane of the home page. I have received a total of 90 Facebook Likes in 7 months (I have not promoted it in anyway beyond just getting visitors to my home page). Just running TweetAdder for two weeks I have gained over 300 Twitter followers! If I run this program for several months I will have not only hundreds but thousands of followers! The best part is I’m also targeting these followers in a specific niche, I am attracting new people to my website hence creating an awesome way of getting targeted traffic.

Here are my settings for each follow option (Click on each photo to see a larger photo):

Follow Settings:

Follow Back:

UnFollow Settings:

Tweets:

You can also add a preloaded list of tweets that can be randomly tweeted at different intervals. I use a large list of over 25,000 quotes, this is an easy way to keep interaction going with users on complete auto-pilot. If you decide to purchase Tweetadder through my affiliate link I will share this list with you! You can contact me once you have done this.

RSS Feeds:

I have an RSS feed for my website Metalcore Kingdom that automatically posts to Facebook for each new music video I post. I can also have these posts get tweeted automatically with TweetAdder just by adding my RSS feed, this is a great feature for blogs.

Thank You Messages:

You can setup an automatic Tweet response once a new user follows you, this is perfect for getting traffic to your website. I simply have a basic tweet that says something like “Thx for adding me, checkout my website http://www.voicesofmarketing.com

My TweetAdder Review – TweetAdder Costs

You can essentially add a set number of Twitter accounts depending on what license you purchased. Currently you can purchase 4 different license types:

1 Twitter Profile $55

5 Twitter Profiles $74

10 Twitter Profiles $110

Unlimited Twitter Profiles $188

I personally decided to buy the license that includes 5 profiles, I don’t see myself doing much more than that. The price was also convenient for me so this was a big plus for me. Looking for a discount code to save 20%?

You can use the discount code JR20 when you purchase TweetAdder.

Well I hope you found my TweetAdder Review to be useful, please feel free to comment, Tweet, Like and +1 this post!

Connect with Me on Google +John Shea

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IBOToolbox Review

IBO ToolBox Review

I recently discovered an interesting free online social network for entrepreneurs called the IBOToolbox, I wanted to write an IBOToolbox Review and share some of my thoughts after using this for the past few days.

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So what is the IBOToolbox?

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Basically this is a network of like minded people that are sharing, commenting and marketing each others content.

The Basics:

The dashboard on the left pane shows the common activities you can do to get started with IBO.

– I started by signing in and setting up my profile and general information about myself, this earned me 100 credits. I get more into this below.

Posting a Press Release (Blogging) You earn 40 credits x2 a day when you post a press release. This is spread across to the wall on IBO and is also posted to local pages hosted by IBOToolbox such as ibosocial.com for others to view and read. This helps create backlinks to your sites and increases views. Others will comment, like and share these press releases and increase that potential even more.

Recent Wall Activity, just like Facebook you have a ‘wall’ that you can post comments or links on, this is just another way to promote your websites on IBOToolbox.

Recent Referral Activity, you earn 200 credits per person that signs up on IBOToolbox through your referral link. If you like my post and decide to sign up, feel free you use my link here. I would really appreciate it.

Recent Advertising Activity, you can create advertisements that link to your content. Since most people that are visibly going to be interested in online marketing the Empower Network opportunity may be something people will be interested in learning about. You will need credits to setup these ads, more on this below as I continue my IBOToolbox Review.

Recent Comment Activity, it only makes sense that you participate in the IBOToolbox community by commenting on others posts, ‘liking’ the posts or sharing them on one of many social networks. The more you post, the more people will see your own content and visit your profile.

There are many more features to this platform, I highly suggest checking out the site and browsing through all the training. The piece that confused me most was that most primary functionality behind the site is within the ‘IBO Tools’ at the top once logged in.

My IBOToolbox Review & The Credit System

You earn 100 credits upon filling out your basic profile information on IBOToolbox, this will also allow you to setup your first ad that you can use. 100 credits can be converted into 500 impressions, impressions are essentially someone visibly seeing your ad. So if I browse through IBOToolbox, the right hand pane contains many ‘text’ based ads created by other IBOToolbox members. Each time I see one of these ads, an ‘impression’ is being taken as I have visibly seen the ad while browsing the site. 5 impressions are taken away for each click.

I noticed from one day after setting up a banner ad I had zero clicks but a text ad ran through 500 impressions and I got 9 clicks over night. I’m not going to complain considering all I did was setup my IBOToolbox profile and participate in the community a little bit.

Credits break down:

Logging in = 5 credits

Posting 2x press releases (blog posts) a day will give you a total of 40 credits or 20 for each.

Refer someone to IBOToolbox = 200 credits.

Credits of course can also be purchased for money if you choose to do so.

More on my IBOToolbox Review – Tips for new users:

I request many people for association (friend others) and try to ‘like’ and comment on their blogs, you will find many blogs actually contain useful information and are well written posts.I only signed up three days ago and I already have 13 likes and 188 visitors to my IBOToolbox site along with about 15~ clicks on some simple ads I created. All for FREE! Overall I really like this site and see nothing but positive results coming from using this for a small amount of time every day to market my online ventures.

IBOToolbox also allows you to setup some Google Adsense ads for free, I added two ads into my Adsense account just for this purpose. No reason not to advertise to make some extra $$ on the side.

Well I hope you liked my IBOToolbox Review, share your thoughts. If you are curious about how I utilize IBOToolbox, see how you can make money using sites like Empower Network to make profits by blogging here!

Join me as an associate at IBOToolbox!

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Connect with Me on Google +John Shea