Outsourcing your marketing task tends to be thought of as something that only top marketers can actually afford to do, but this is not the case.
The truth is that there are a lot of tasks any marketer can outsource and it does not need to cost you very much.
One of the first things you could look to outsource is article writing. We all know that article marketing is great for SEO and for driving targeted traffic to our sites or blogs. The problem is that article marketing is very time consuming.
To outsource your article marketing you can go to sites like ellance.com or try one of the marketing forums such as the warrior forums. The warrior forum is a better option as you do not need to pay any fees to advertise a job. In the warrior forum there is a section where warrior’s offer their skills for hire.
You can usually get a article written for you for about $5 or less. You could then maybe even negotiate a price say for 10 articles and get each article for $3 each. Never pay for your articles in advance always wait until you have read the article first.
Another site you can use is fiverr.com this site is where people offer to do tasks for $5. You can get anything from an article written for you, to having someone post comments on your blogs, or even get testimonials for your products.
The other tasks you could look to outsource is link building, traffic generation and any task that you have to do on a daily basis. If you use fiverr.com for the cost of just $5 you could save yourself hours of work each day, or you could just outsource the jobs that you hate doing.
This will leave you plenty of time to concentrate on the important things like making more money.
Outsourcing is just as accessible for the newbie or small marketer as it is for the so called gurus, and it does not have to cost you hundreds of dollars per week to do it.
One of the things I use to be guilty of doing or in this case not doing, was planning my time to be more productive each day. This has now changed and I now get more done each day and this is a simple strategy that anyone can do and I would like to share with you how I do it.
I am sure that there are tasks that you do each day to improve your site ranking with seo or posting articles or creating products.
The simple way to maximise what you achieve is to give yourself a time limit to get each task done. For instance if you normally spend some time writing articles each day set a time limit to do that. So you could set 9am – 10am each day for writing articles.
By setting a specific time you will find that you will be more focused to achieve that task in the allotted time.
There are however certain jobs as an online marketer that you must do each day. Whatever tasks you set yourself I would recommend putting the following 2 tasks as the first thing you do each day.
Traffic Generation
Getting traffic to your site or blog is crucial for your success online. I spend the first 60 minutes of each day doing things to drive traffic to my site.
These will include, forum or blog posting, article posting, PPC in fact whatever it takes to drive traffic I will give it a try and I will do some form of traffic generation every day at least 5 days per week.
Answering Comments
I always make sure that everyday I answer any comments that appear on my blog and answer any emails I receive from my subscribers. Doing this simple task helps to build a good relationship with your visitors and subscribers.
It also shows them that you are interested in what they have to say and that they can rely on you to give them feedback if they require it.
So if you are not allocating a specific amount of time to each task you need to do why not give it a try. I am sure you will be surprised at what you manage to fit into the time slot for each task.
Share with us how well it worked for you by posting a comment, or maybe you have another strategy for getting your tasks done each day that other visitors may want to hear about. Why not leave a comment and share it with us all, not only that buy by putting a link to your blog or site at the end of your comment will get you a back link for free.
As I mentioned in the previous post that it is important to try different ways of maximising opt in. One the best ways to increase opt ins is to actually remove something from your squeeze page.
No usually you would be looking to make a change or add something more to your squeeze page to increase opt ins, but one of the ways that will increase the number of people who sign up is by removing part of the opt in box itself.
Normally you would have a place where people have to add their name and main email address. If you remove the box where you ask for their name you will more than likely find your opt ins increase.
This is because people do not like to give away private information so by not asking for their name they feel safer and more comfortable in just giving you their email address.
Personally I prefer to have someone’s name and email address as I think you give a more personal touch to emails or newsletter if you use their first name.
Do not be put off by trying this though because if you find yourself really struggling with getting subscribers the above trick can give your email list building a boost to get you going again.
Testing the ways you present something as an Internet marketer is essential. If you are taking part in add swaps to help build your list then you need to test different versions of your squeeze page.
Yo could try altering the order in which you have the opt in box,s. If your opt in page has the email opt in box above the name one, try changing them around and see if that increases the amount of people subscribing.
You could try a different lay out to the page or try different bullet points. Try changing the background colour. You need to maximise your sign up rate with your squeeze page so that you get the most amount of sign ups possible.
When doing split testing it is important though to only change one thing at a time, and to keep a record of what works best. By doing this you will eventually be able to maximise your opt in rate.
Here is one of the best ways to increase your opt in rates when doing add swaps. Change the free report you are offering every couple of months.
Sticking to the same free gift every time you do an add swap will cause the number of opt ins to decrease over time.
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Well I am pleased to say that it looks like the summer months have finally arrived in the UK. I am sat in the garden with the thermometer just into the 70′s, that’s Fahrenheit by the way!
Here in the UK the first bit of sunshine and everyone goes mad throwing off jumpers and coats and replacing them with thin tops and t-shirts and shorts.
So what has this to do with summer time sales? as well as times like Christmas and Easter the lead up to summer can be a great time to get some boosts to your marketing sales. Most of us want to look good for the summer and the number of weddings taking place in summer months rockets.
If you are in the health and fitness niche then this could be a great time to really start pushing out those summer bargain offers regarding weight or fat loss programs, or workout programs for creating that toned and firm look.
If you are in the making money online niche then you could be looking to drum up sales by asking if your potential customers would like to be more finacially secure before the winter months set in, or target those that are already saving up for holidays or Christmas.
As a marketer you should be looking at every opportunity to make the most of different times of the year and be planning for the coming seasons well in advance.
I am already starting to lay down some strategies for maximizing my Christmas sales later this year!
The biggest step you can take in internet marketing is the step from doing nothing to taking action. If you are not taking action every day then you are not moving forward. There is a saying that goes
“You can only fail if you do not try”
And if you are taking action by planning sales in advance then you cannot fail.
Right time for me to get back to my book and soaking up all this lovey warm sunshine which does go to prove that the saying is true about only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun…..
