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Here we will focus on exactly how to use iContact Autoresponder.

Why iContact? That’s simple, it’s the one I know how to use- it works for me and has excellent delivery.

If you’re unsure which autoresponder software to use, check out this article where I compare two leading autoresponder software systems.

Here’s the article >>> Email System Autoresponder Software: A Comparison of AWeber and iContact

1. Create an Account

The first step in learning how to use iContact Autoresponder is creating an account.

Go to iContact.com

Click the tab that says, “sign up for a free trial”.

The cool thing is you don’t even have to give a credit card for the free trial.

Next, fill out the form.

2. Create a List

The second step in learning how to use iContact Autorsesponder after you log in to your account is to create a list.

Click on the “My Contacts” tab.

Go to the box that says “My List” and click on “Create a List”.

Give your list a name and a description and make it value based.

For example: the list name could be “Dry Skin e course”; the description could be “mlm email leads that have opted in to my dry skin capture page”.

Next, check the “send notifications when contacts are added/removed” box. This is so you know when you get a new contact.

Decide whether or not to check or uncheck the welcome message box. You can use their welcome message or you can use the first message in an autoresponder attached to that list

Now, hit save.

3. Create an Autoresponder

Step three in learning how to use iContact Autoresponder is to create an autoresponder.

Click the Create tab.

In the “My Autoresponders” box, click “create an autoresponder”.

In the “Autoresponder Name” box, give your autoresponder series a name.

In the “Autoresponder Description” box describe your autoresponder.

Then, in the “Source List” drop down box choose the name of the list you want to use.

Underneath, you will see the “Autoresponder From Name” box. Put your name in the box.

Under the name box will be the “Autoresponder From Email Address” box. You should use an email that is associated with your domain name. (Read more about why using a matching domain name here is important!- link to article on domain names)

Now Click Save.

4. Create an Autoresponder Message

Step Four in how to use icontact autoresponder, is creating your first message.

Click on to the Create tab.

Go to the “My Autoresponders” box and choose “My Autoresponders”.

There you will see the list of your autoresponders you have created and the list attached to it.

Click the green plus sign next to the autoresponder list that you want to add a message to.

Fill in your subject. Put your body content into the add body html section.

Click “Copy” to put your html body into the plain text box.

Write the day number in the “Days from initial Subscription” box. If it is your first email, put zero. Then, have emails go out every three or four days.

Click Spam Check and send the email to yourself. If the email is ready to send to your MLM email lead, [link to flagship article]create save.

Add additional email messages and when your MLM email lead opts in, your MLM opt in email lead [link to article] will get your messages.

5. Enable Your Autoresponder

Step Five in how to use icontact autoresponder, is enabling your autoresponder.
Click the Send tab. Go to the “Enable My Autoresponders” box and click.

Look for the autoresponder you want to enable. In front if it is a “piece of paper” with a green circle on it.

Click that circle.

You now know how to use icontact autoresponder.

If you want to learn more about email campaigns, creating a list building mini site, copywriting, autoresponders and monetizing your emails, check out my “Savvy MLMers in Training” Course “Put Your MLM Biz Online”.

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Email System Autoresponder Software: A Comparison of AWeber and iContact
Email Tracking System: How to use iContact’s Email Tracking System
Also check out the overview article “MLM Email Lead”

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In this post I will review email system autoresponder software.

You’ve learned that you need an MLM mailing list and an “email system autoresponder”. Now, you’ve got to choose a specific email autoresponder.
There are three features I’m going to compare.

•    Cost

•    Deliverability

•    Ease of Use
Cost Comparison of Email System Autoresponder Software (as of the writing of this post)

•    AWeber – $1 for the first month;

$19 per month for 0-500 subscribers,

$29 per month for 501-2500 subscribers;

$49 per month for 2501-5000 subscribers; and up.

•    iContact – Free trial for the first 15 days;

save 10% if you pay for the entire year, otherwise;

$9.95 per month for 250 contacts;

$14 per month for 500;

$19 for 1000; $29 for 2500; $47 for 5000; and up.

Conclusion: So it seems that looking at cost alone,  perhaps your best bet is i Contact.

Also,  iContact gives you the option of having only up to 250 contacts and spending less money until you need the extra contact plan.

Comparison of Deliverability of Email System Autoresponder Software

AWeber - This email autoresponder doesn’t list deliverability rates, but this is what AWeber says on its website

At AWeber, we pride ourselves on getting your requested email delivered by:

•    Enforcing a zero tolerance anti-spam policy.

•    Authenticating all email campaigns using SPF and Domain Keys.

•    Establishing and nurturing relationships with major ISPs.

•    Automatically processing unsubscribes and undeliverable addresses.

•    Proactively seeking out and resolving potential delivery issues.

•    Providing content filter-checking tools to all users.

iContact states on its website that it has a 98-99% deliverability rate.

Conclusion: So in terms of deliverability, it’s hard to say-

but it would seem they are both pretty much in the same category (i.e. good!)

What about the Ease of Use of each Email System Autoresponder Software?

•    AWeber – This system has a series of tutorials, articles, and a live getting started video website.

If you are the type of person, who tries to put something together without reading the instructions, you’ll need to use their tutorials.

I used to use Aweber, but I didn’t find it intuitive to use. I needed detailed instructions to use it.

•    If you want to use both plain text and html, then you have to copy and paste your message into AWeber twice.

Once for html and once for plain text.

•    AWeber does let you know if your messages are spammy,but I haven’t figured out how to tell what they consider the problem to be.

•    In adding to its autoresponders, you have a setting that asks you to enter  how many days from the last message.

E.g enter “3 days” after last email. (In iContact, you have to enter how many days from original opt in, each time you add a new email to the autoresponder.

This can lead to mistakes as you have to check each time what the previous email’s “delivery day” was, and then add the additional days onto that.

E.g last email was sent out on day 17, next email sent out on day 20 etc.)

•    iContact – This email autoresponder has a very clean cut layout. On it’s home page after you log in it has a section called iContact Assist.

There they lead you in detail through the various features.

•    Another thing I really like about iContact is how easy it is to convert you html text to plain text. All you have to do is click the button “Copy Text”.

•    iContact also has a check spam feature. When you check it, it tells you want the problems with your message are.

•     iContact also allows you to import your previous mlm email lead list without making your subscriber re opt in.

This is especially helpful if you collect leads through an affiliate system such as Magnetic Sponsoring.

•    When you add to an iContact autoresponder, you choose how many days the new message is sent after your mlm email lead has opted in.

Conclusion: To me iContact appears to be easier to use. It seems more intuitive.

It helps you make sure your messages aren’t too spammy.

In iContact it is easy to have both html and plain text messages without a lot of extra work.

Which email system autoresponder software do I use?

I use iContact. It has all the features that I want and did not confuse me with the advanced stuff it can do, but wasn’t yet ready for, when I started.

It is user friendly, has an excellent deliverability rate, does not require a double opt-in, and it is used by none other than Mike Dillard and his company Magnetic Sponsoring.

I have to add though, that AWeber has MUCH more flexibility in terms of opt in forms (you can design your own submit buttons, customize the forms more and track opt ins better, as well as split test different variations of the forms from within AWeber.

AWeber  also allows pop ups, (forms that pop up on a website while you are reading, to entice you to opt in) and other features like this- that can raise your opt in rate considerably.

They also have a cool feature that allows you to hook your blog up to your autoresponder list and send out a “weekly digest” of your previous week’s blog entries- sort of in a newsletter format.

Your readers are automatically kept updated, yet they are not bombarded every time you add a post, because you can set it to a weekly interval.

Even though I started with I contact and it was so EASY to learn, I now regret that decision and would recommend everyone to get going with AWeber right from the start.

(Aweber also integrates with WordPress Wishlist Member Plugin- a cool tool if you’re needing software to manage your membership site. I- contact does not (at the time of this post).

Which of the two  is your favorite email autoresponder and why? Tell us in the comment section below.
Ready to purchase one of the email autoresponders reviewed in this blog? Click on the picture of the email autoresponder you want to use.
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What’s the difference between broadcast and follow up emails?

First lets take a look at what a broadcast and a follow up email are.

Follow Up Emails are a series of emails you place in your email autoresponder.

If you offer a free-ebook, then your opt ins can get onto your opt in list by receiving the free ebook and giving you their contact details in return.

Other ideas for giving away free advice (in order to get opt ins)- are video courses, newsletters, and ezines.

So if someone opts in to your list, they will get the first FOLLOW UP email, then the second, and so on.

These follow up emails are “evergreen”- meaning that no matter when the lead opts in, the follow up emails they receive are relevant.

If, for example, an MLM email lead opts in to your list in September, and you created the email follow up campaign in July, the lead who opted in in September will still get the first email that you created in July.

Of course, the emails go out in the order that you set them.

You should set the first email to go out the same day as when your MLM email lead opts in.

You will probably want to send them an email for each day for 3 to 5 days and then pace them between 3 and 4 days apart.

Conceivably, MLM opt in leads can receive emails you wrote two years ago and put into your autoresponder.

Of course, you will want to freshen up your autoresponder series from time to time.

You want to make sure you have something unique and useful in your emails.

Don’t just sell, sell, sell…. That’s a good way to get MLM email leads to unsubscribe from your list.

Broadcast Emails are emails you send to your list once.

For these types of emails, your MLM email lead is already on your list, and you’ve probably already established a relationship.

This is similar to how you use your personal email. You have something to say, you write your email, and you press send. (It is usually time sensitive.)

ONLY the people on your list – at the time of sending the email, will receive it.

A “broadcast email” can be a news alert. For example: the skin care company that you are distributor for is having a one day sale.

You don’t put this type of email in your email autoresponder because it may not be true when your list gets it.

Other times you would use broadcast emails are when you are inviting people to a webinar or teleseminar.

Personal special events are also appropriate for broadcast emails. For example, you may get married. That’s something you can share so that your list can get to know you better.

Let’s Summarize - Follow up emails are series of emails you program into your autoresponder to be used over and over again.

You’ll want these to be “evergreen”. In other words, do not refer to specific days, dates, holidays, etc.

Broadcast emails are emails that are sent one time and can refer to specific days, dates, holidays, and special occasions.

Now you know the difference between broadcast and follow up emails.

Want to learn more about this email series? Then read the “MLM Email Lead” overview article.

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Now, we will talk about “effective email copywriting”.

Effective is the most important part of the concept of effective email copywriting.

You can write a million emails, but if no one opens them and reads them they are pointless.

David Garfinkel (none other than the author of The Renegade Network Marketer, Ann Sieg’s,

copywriting coach) teaches that there are Five Key Components of Effective Email

Copywriting:

Five Key Components of Effective Email Copywriting:

1.    A Compelling Subject Line – If you’re like me, unless it is someone I know or admire, the subject of the emails have to be very

interesting in order to get me to open them up.

2.   A Compelling Opening – This is what keeps the MLM email lead reading your email.

3.   Personalized Conversational Tone – The most effect email copywriting seems like you are just talking to an old friend.It’s not academic, abstract or technical.

It makes your read feel as if he/she are the only person you are talking to, even though, they know you are sending this email to everyone on your list.

Don’t forget to use people’s names often.

4.    Focus, Clarity, and Conciseness – Once you have your conversation down, edit your email.

You want to get your point across quickly while still being entertaining and informative.

5.   It Asks for Action – You tell your mlm email lead what to do next.

Don’t assume they know what to do.

Their idea might be to delete the email.

Ask them to go to your website, comment on your blog, or buy something from you.

I can hear you saying, “but Tania, what do I write about?”.

We’ll tackle that question now.

Watch the video below to find out what to write!

Ideas to write about in an Effective Email:

•    Think of 3 or more questions that people ask you about your niche that you can answer.

Use those questions and answers in a series of email messages.

•    Ask your MLM email Leads for questions and then answer around three each in new emails.

•    Use Results of people who take action. After people have bought a product or service from you, ask for their results and use them in a subsequent email.

(FYI, make sure you follow the FTC requirements on testimonials.)

•    One of my favorites is to discuss books and movies about your topic.

If you are an affiliate of Amazon, you could put you affiliate link in the email.

That way if someone clicks on the book link and buys it from Amazon, you get a little commission.

•    A really easy one is to go to Ezinearticles.com or my blog and copy articles from there to put in you email.

Don’t forget to put the author’s name and resource box and DON’T change anything in the article.

•    Bob “The Teacher” Jenkins uses this next suggestion. Every few months I will get an email from him asking me to take a survey

(SurveyMonkey is great for this and it’s free!).

He asks me to rate the areas in my business I’d like to see him teach about.

Usually he has a combination of multiple choice and open ended questions.

•    A final suggestion is to talk about the questions you had when you first started learning about your niche. Using your personal stories is always a great technique when doing effective email copywriting.

Use your imagination, and don’t forget that if you have your own blog to use it.

You can copy enough of your blog as a teaser to your article and then send your MLM email lead to your blog post.

Have fun writing those emails.

If you have other suggestions about what to write about in emails, share with us all in the comment section below.

Go HERE for the overview article on this MLM Email Lead series.

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MLM Opt in Lead – What to do with Your MLM Email Lead Once They Have Opted In

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Hey I thought you’d enjoy this pic of my son flying his first aeroplane!!

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Ask yourself this question: “Since you’ve been online, how much information have you
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Do you really need more information or
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I believe you already have enough knowledge.

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with one on one personal weekly attention-

the specific implementation steps for your very own, unique business.

Here’s the news:

I have recently teamed up with a friend of mine, Carolin Hauser ( you might have seen me mention her a couple times in previous emails)

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These projects as you can see are a huge success.

People created their own

•    sales funnels (list building mini sites with opt in pages and sales pages)
•    blogs
•    autoresponders
•    social and viral marketing for traffic strategies
•    video marketing
•    much much more….

So what we decided is to make this program available to not just our own downlines-
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Especially those of you who just need  people around you doing the same thing
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Check it out below

But first – another photo of my son  (can you tell I am a proud mommy!!)

Here are the details:

As some of you may know, we are offering a special CATALYST Coaching to an exclusive group of online business owners wanting to kick start their online businesses in 2010.

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To sum it up you get:

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Starting Date: Monday 11 January 2010  (Group Coaching)
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Because of the high return on investment for this type of mentoring
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This is not some theory course.

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And in fact, thats the price range we’ll be charging the next time we run this course.

But just because you are the FIRST intake of 2010- we’re giving you way over 50% off the price!

And we’ve made it easy to pay:

It costs $450 Payable in one payment or 2 payments of $ 225-

One due immediately before program starts, and one a month from the first billing. (11 Feb 2010)

If you are interested or want to ask questions, send me an email to:

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with

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Remember it starts on 11 January- so we will close registrations on Monday 11 January.

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Don’t forget to ask yourself the question:

Do I want more information, or do I want transformation?

Hope to see you on the inside!.

Warmly,

Tania
+ 27 82 495 3702
Skype: taniaatct

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MLM Opt In Lead

You’ve now got a MLM opt in lead.

Now you’re wondering what to do with it.

When I got my first “MLM opt in lead”, I was so excited.

Then, I quickly became panicked.

I kept asking myself, “What do I do with an MLM opt in lead once I get it?”

Well, if you’ve gotten their phone number (and don’t panic if you didn’t), you can place a phone call and thank them for visiting your website and asking if there is anything you can do to help them.

Your opt in email lead will probably be shocked to hear from a real live person and not a recording.

Don’t let the phone scare you, but that’s a discussion for another day.

The #1 Mistake Made by Most MLM’ers

Using your emails to sell, sell, and sell some more.

Personally, I have opted out of some very famous internet marketing guru’s lists because the perception I was getting was all I was good for was to sell, sell, and sell some more to.

If you’re not well-known, it will probably be easier for your “opt in email lead” to unsubscribe.

What should you do with your opt in email lead?

1) Tell, Don’t Sell
You should provide valuable content that solves some type of problem your MLM email lead has.

For example if you’re niche is in skin care, you can tell your opt in email lead to go to your blog post on how to cure dry skin.

You will want to tell them things like “drink lots of water” and other tips to keep their skin from being dry.

Instead of your blog post, you could offer to send them a free report, sign up for a
webinar, answer a survey, get them to call you or email you, and much more.

Let your imagination go!

2 Lead Them Down the Yellow Brick Road

When writing your email, the first important words your mlm opt in lead will see is the header or title.

If the title/subject line doesn’t sound intriguing, they aren’t going to read the rest of your email.

In fact they probably won’t even open it.

The next important part is the first paragraph.

You want to make your opt in email lead interested enough to read the second paragraph.

The second paragraph should lead them to the third and so on until you have hooked them into taking an action….like click a link.

This article gives a thorough overview of how to get an MLM Email Lead.

If you want to learn more about what to do with your MLM mailing list, click on the picture and check out my

Put Your MLM Biz Online training course.

The Email Section of the Course Covers:

• Creating Effective Email Campaigns

• Strategy for Marketing to Your Lists

• Walk through of an Autoresponder Set Up

• Make Money With Your Emails

• Add Consultation Request Form to Thank You Page

• Add Paypal Button to Thank You Page

• Affiliate Marketing on Thank You pages Example 1 (MLM Product Customer)
• Affiliate Marketing on Thank You pages Example 2 (MLM Business Builder)

• Add Paypal button to Emails and Create a Redirect

• How To Become an I contact Affiliate and earn as you use the tool!

• Create an MLM Distributor list

Example: MLM Reps Lead Capture Pages and Autoresponder Emails

• Doing Auto Responder Swaps and Using Templates to look Professional

• How to Create an Online Newsletter Archive for your Readers and Feed Your Emails through RSS Channels To Your Blog

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MLM Opt in Lead: What to do with Your MLM Opt in Lead Once They Have Opted in

What’s the Difference Between Broadcast and Follow Up Emails?

Email System Autoresponder Software: A Comparison of  AWeber and iContact

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You’ve been hearing, “The money is in the [MLM mailing] list”. Now you’re wondering what are MLM mailing lists and why I

need them? I know that when I started learning about internet marketing that I heard that phrase often.

In this blog post, I’m going to tell you:

•    What an “MLM mailing list” is

•    What the different types of lists are

•    The importance of changing an MLM email lead from a “lead” list to a “buyer or distributor” list

•    Suggested types of products to offer to your MLM email lead.

So what are MLM Mailing Lists?

They are a list of people who have opted in (given their contact details on a form) to get more information from you.

You may have your own lead capture page or you may get your leads from an affiliate program- by looking inside your  back office.

For example, I have my own product lead capture pages and I also promote my affiliate link for Renegade Professional. (One of the affiliate program’s I have joined) .

When someone opts in for more information they will be placed in a lead list in my Renegade Professional back office.

The Four Types of MLM Mailing Lists.

1.    Product List  – This is a list of your current product customer base.

2.    Network Marketing  – This list consists of people who are looking for a Network Marketing Opportunity.

3.    Home Based Business  – These are people who are looking for a business to work from home.

4.    Prospective  Business Builders – These are people who are researching and wanting to learn more about YOUR MLM as a business opportunity. These are the HOTTEST leads!!

Moving your MLM email lead from a Lead list to a buyer or distributor list

With good traffic strategies and opt in rates, you’ll quickly generate a fast growing MLM Mailing List.

Then, once they’re inside your “sales funnel” you can pick up the phone and talk to them. Chances are they’ll  either buy a product from you or  become a distributor or both!

The next step is to move them from the Lead list (inside your autoresponder software program) to your “buyers” or “distributor” list.

At this point you are probably thinking, “Why do I need to do that?”

Well the answer is simple.

Your new customers/distributors may get annoyed at receiving emails that no longer pertain to them.

After all, the purpose of your MLM email lead list was to get them to buy your product or become a distributor.

It’s time to start marketing to their new need.

For example, your new customer has bought a product from a skin care line your company offers.

You no longer have to offer them that product.

You may want to introduce them to other products, keep them up to date on any special promotions, and so on.

There is an exception to this move.

If you have a new distributor, they may want to stay on your MLM lead list so that they can learn the types of emails you send to your leads.

Types of Products to Offer your MLM email leads

Most leads will not buy your product or join your company.

That does not mean that you can’t profit from them. (Statistics quote as high as an average 95% leads say “no” to your MLM product/Service)

For example, you could email your network marketing list some good content about marketing MLMs online.

Every sixth or tenth email you may bring up a problem they may have and tell them of a product that could solve it.

Imagine your MLM email lead – looking for training on how to put their MLM business online in a step by step manner.

You discuss the importance of doing so and you state that you have done just that by using a certain product.

Next you tell them to check it out and you give them your affiliate link.

(Affiliate marketing like this is also a cool way to earn up front cash BEFORE your lead even joins your MLM opportunity or buys your MLM product)

Share with everyone what you do with your MLM mailing lists in the comment section below.

This article gives a comprehensive overview of  how to get an MLM Email lead.

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Low cost lead generation is a desperate need amongst MLM Network Marketers.

Being able to “stuff your sales funnel” full of targeted MLM leads at LOW COST is the name of the game.

Those who do it (and are able to convert them) win.

Those who don’t learn the art, never make it.

Its as simple as that.

This is the first article in a Series of low Cost Lead Generation Methods.

This one deals with Squidoo as the first of our low cost lead generation methods.

I’ve called it low cost, because although its FREE to use, there is a cost involved:

You will have to pay with your Time- both to learn and to implement.

Squidoo is a powerful social site that is free to join.

Low cost lead generation with Squidoo is a powerful strategy Network Marketers can use.

Here’s why:

Anybody can write and post articles there about literally any topic.

In fact, it is one of the few sites that encourages you to shamelessly promote yourself and your business.

Most social sites have elaborate rules about how many links to your site you are allowed and ban
you if you are overly promotional. Not Squidoo.

An article is known as a “lens”, and because Squidoo is a very highly ranked site on Google, lenses that feature on Squidoo often come up high on the search engine rankings easily and quickly.

Of course, the thing to do, as always, is to choose your keywords first and then write some unique, interesting content!

Don’t be discouraged if your lens is not immediatley given the green light (published).

It sometimes takes a couple of days to be accepted.

Squidoo Modules

Lenses are made up of different content pieces known as modules.

Generally speaking, the more modules -including pictures, writing, video, links lists, RSS feeds etc that you have on a lens, the quicker your lens gets accepted.

Squidoo Drives Traffic to Your Site

You can use Squidoo to encourage your reader to visit your business site or blog.

This will increase traffic.

Your individual lens on Squidoo can actually “pull” your business site up the rankings and generate traffic.

Google loves squidoo lenses and often you’ll find your Squidoo lens will rank higher than your blog
or site.

You can create as many of these keyword-targeted lenses as you want!

So try to dominate as many keywords as you can (each lens focuses on one keyword)

by creating links to the different pages on your site.

Squidoo is also a Social Networking Site

Squidoo is a site where there is a social side to it.

It has features that allow you to become a fan of another lensmaster, send emails (promoting your new lens) to your fan club, rate lenses, offer comments on lenses and generally build an audience.

People can click on your bio and find out more about you or be taken to your site. (Its a good idea to have your blog in your profile!)

There are great traffic and tracking tools (click on dashboard>> my lenses>> tracking>> choose a lens and a time period,>>choose traffic)

Learn from Other LensMasters

A new feature I learned about recently is to do with tagging.

I learned it from Lewis Smile, who has loads of squidoo fans!

He has a giant Squid icon and a star under his name, so I think he must be a hot shot Squidoo lensmaster!

Anyway, I found his lens very helpful.

It’s all about how to get more traffic and increase your search engine ranking using only tags.

You can check to see what keywords were typed in on the search engines that brought up your page.

If you haven’t included those keywords into your tags section, you can include them with one easy click- making your chances even better of getting more hits.

Squidoo Tagging

Here’s how: (Thank you Lewis Smile)

* Go to your Squidoo Lens Dashboard.

* Click ‘Stats’ to the right of one of your lenses.

* Now click the ‘Traffic’ tab under the title of your lens.

And now you will see a list of words or phrases that Google surfers typed in to get to your lens.

* The ones with the crosses next to them are the terms you DO NOT have as tags on your lens.

* Its easy to get the word or phrase added to your lens tags. Just click on the cross (+)

This should strengthen your search engine ranking for that word or phrase.

Just remember to republish the lens afterwards!

Here is a great squidoo lens that explains everything about tags and tagging on Squidoo.

Squidoo Lens Promotion

If you want to know how to generate traffic from outside your Squidoo lens, this lens tells all.

Click here for more on Squidoo lens promotion.

Be prepared- it will take some work, but it’s a goldmine of information!

Low Cost Lead Generation: Squidoo Training Course

I have found an excellent resource on EVERYTHING you need to know about doing Squidoo Lenses.

It’s called “Squidoo Secrets” by Bob the Teacher.

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Enjoy!