I learned about the one hypnotic command that always works from hypnotists. A good hypnotist will never give a subject a choice or offer a list of “reasons why you should fall asleep right now.”

Instead, a good hypnotist will simply issue a command, “When I count to three, you will close your eyes,” or, “When I snap my fingers, you will bark like a dog.” The subject responds because they want to please the hypnotist and because they don’t have much of a choice.

Your prospects are nearly the same. Give them too many “reasons why you should buy” and you risk boring them, overwhelming them, or irking them. Give them the “one hypnotic command that always works” and they will do your bidding.

Want proof? Okay. Answer me this: Why are you reading this article?

I’m betting the title for this article promised you something you felt would be worth your reading to get. You want to know the one hypnotic command that always works so you can use it to increase sales, get more dates, or in some way get more of what you want from people. Right?

But note that I didn’t have to tell you all those reasons to read this article. I gave you *one* sentence—the title to this piece—and you decided to read it based on it alone. Any further reasons for reading this were supplied by you, not me. Read the rest of this entry

Something every business needs, be it online or off is traffic. Brick and mortar businesses need to choose the location in order to bring those off the street and an online business needs to go to where the traffic lives for their chosen niche. There is as many traffic generation methods online as you can possibly imagine. One study showed the possibility of some 700. What I want to give you is some of the more common methods.

There is a lot of emphasis put on free traffic, and with good reason. There are far more free methods than there are paid methods for receiving web site traffic. But which ones are the best methods to master and when I say master I mean this is something that you truly have to master in order to survive online. This where most all of you energy is going to be placed and unfortunately far to many online business do not spend anywhere near the amount of time needed on marketing and get caught up with tasks that take them away from the important things like driving an adequate amount of web traffic that creates profits.

It doesn’t matter which business model you have chosen, it is all about how good you are at driving traffic. Getting people who matter to see one’s website is a difficult undertaking if he or she tries to consider the fact that there are rivals everywhere waiting to pin him down. So lets get into a few ways that are the most effective. Understand clearly that web site traffic generation is a very time consuming process, but the most necessary part of what you do. Read the rest of this entry

Hello, Marlon here.

If you’ve never used Yahoo Groups before, it’s basically a free service that allows you to setup a group (or join an existing group) where everyone can send system-wide emails to everyone else. A group can consist of virtually anyone. There are groups for mothers and for pilots. There are also private groups for family members, close friends, and alumni of a particular university. In our application today, I’m going to suggest that you join a group, rather than create one. I’m also going to suggest that you be careful in how you select your groups…

For starters, it’s important to understand why you’re using Yahoo Groups, and what it could potentially offer you as an affiliate marketer. If you plan to join spam groups, where every member sends out a slew of advertisements to all other members, you may be better off ignoring Yahoo Groups and trying something different altogether. You aren’t likely to make a lot of money sending out repeated advertisements to people who want to advertise – not buy.

Now, if you are patient and willing to put in a little work, then you can use Yahoo Groups to your advantage. However, rather than seeing it as a pulpit for spam, see it as a means of seeking out and communicating with potential customers. Think about it as you might think about participating in forum discussions – the more you do it and the more you contribute, the more people will respect you and consider purchasing what you offer. Read the rest of this entry

When anyone starts even the thought of starting an online business, they usually get bogged down with the technology aspect of it,  and it tends scare many, until they find out just how easy it is and with the right programs and the right tools they can have site a site up in day, fully functional and ready to take orders.

But the biggie is getting you site notice amongst the millions upon millions of sites out there. This is probably the single most important part of being a raging success, because without hundreds of visitors coming to your site daily you can’t present your offer, you can’t tweak your sales page and sales funnel you can’t build a list and your site becomes essentially useless.

I want to talk about free methods that can be used to get a steady flow of  new daily visitors to your site.

Forum Marketing- this is a very under utilized form of traffic, and even when people do attempt to use it, they usually get it wrong, and the biggest way they usually get it wrong is, in their haste they want to be done with it quickly. This is not the way to, and there is a simple solution to that thought process, and when you have found forums in your given niche, you want to block off a couple hours, and really concentrate on the value of the information you are offering. This is what is going to make others want you. Read the rest of this entry

While copy writing is considered by many to be a complex skill, it really isn’t as hard as you might think, as with anything these are learned behaviors, just like anything else that has to do with being in business online. I have mentioned in previous post, Your headlines are by far, one of the key factors for getting your response rates up and in many cases get your responses to soar through the roof. In this post I want to hand you a few of the formats used when writing your headlines that should get you off the ground.

The headline is so important in fact,  it is responsible for for about 80 % of your copy. I am always asked what is the most important part of online business and after the mechanics of a your website has been accomplished,  is all about traffic and writing killer sales letters that get people to take action.

There is a formula to anything that has to do with creating a profitable business online or off , and being a good copywriter is definitely at the very top. Below I am going to give a few formulas for writing great headlines and hopefully this will help you come up with some very profitable ideas. Read the rest of this entry