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I follow the stock market on a regular basis to see how Wall Street affects Main Street  and how those two interactions might impact online ecommerce. Back in April 2009 when speaking about the economy, George Soros said “the recovery will look like an inverted square root sign.”

Well that symbol has been ingrained in my brain ever since.

It’s so apparent to me now that even though the economy has suffered a major blow over the last 2 years, internet businesses and ‘product launches’ have never seemed more robust.  It’s a definite bull market for internet marketers.

Now, I’m in the beginning phase of my own product launch, but I wanted to write about what I have learned so far and share it with others.

So here we go…

If you have an internet business and your sales or traffic resembles the inverted square root symbol, then it’s time you flip it. Flip it good!  

Ideally, you want your sales and traffic to have a constant, forward momentum, like climbing up a flight of stairs.

*That’s Jeff Walker’s Horizontal Helix, BTW.  He is one badass mofo when it comes to product launches. 

So how do you accomplish the Helix result?  Well, let’s first review what a product launch is.

A Product Launch is simply the entire process of introducing a new product or service into the marketplace.

Typically there are 4 stages involved:

1. Research & Development
2. Pre-Launch Planning
3. Launch Time
4. Post Launch Marketing

Naturally, everyone wants their launch to have that ‘Big Bang’ effect, but as long as you are building some constant buzz and momentum up to and including the launch day, your launch can still be successful.  You should also consider taking on affiliates or Joint Venture partners to help with promoting your product for a much wider advertising base. When you just need a face lift for your existing sales campaign, then try to implement these methods:

• Article Marketing (my personal favorite)
  
• Blog Posting
• Bookmarking
• Social Media
• Video Marketing
• RSS Feed Pings
• Forum Posting
• Press Releases
• Question/Answer Sites
• Classified Ad Sites
• Blog Commenting

and the list goes on…

Typically after a hugh product launch, your sales may start to flatline, or god forbid drop!  If this happens, then you need to consider launching an upgraded version of your product or service and simply name it 2.0.  Tweaking even small changes or adding new things to your product or service can turn it into a whole new version.

Ultimately, these tried and true methods can turn your sales picture into the square root symbol and not the opposite.

Don’t be an Anonymous Shankapotomus © with your launch or sales campaign.  Whether you are working on your first product launch or a re-launch, proper planning is essential and the more time you invest in the prep stage, the smoother your launch will be.  If you want the best launch possible then consider investing in your business and get Jeff’s Product Launch Formula, or you can hire a Product Launch Manager to do it all for you.  

SHANKAPOTOMUS was a term used to insult Frank the golfer in the famous ETrade Baby commercial.  A SHANK is generally a dreaded shot for a golfer. Relating to product launches, it would be a spike sending your sales sideways instead of propelling it forward toward its intended target.

BTW, the phrase ‘Launching a re-launch’…  Is that an oxymoron?

Here are some articles I suggest reading to learn more about product launches:

http://www.articlegallery.net/Art/7706/218/New-Product-Launch-Checklist.html

http://www.articlegallery.net/Art/373519/18/4-Great-Ways-to-Manage-Your-Own-Product-Launch.html

http://ezinearticles.com/?Product-Launch-Manager-Training—Learn-How-to-Be-a-Jeff-Walker-Certified-Product-Launch-Manager&id=3127339

http://ezinearticles.com/?Product-Launch-Formula—Dont-Make-This-Critical-Mistake!&id=1056959

http://ezinearticles.com/?You-Want-a-Product-Launch-Manager?-How-to-Know-If-a-Launch-Manager-is-For-You&id=3076517

Don’t forget to check out my 7 Secrets to Article Marketing Tips that can aid in your launch marketing phase. The secrets will make your jaw drop!

Just because you submit articles to us, or any article directory, does not mean it will automatically get indexed into Google or other search engines.   Many of your web pages, articles, and social profile pages can take a LONG time to get picked up by Google, if at all.

Now, if your pages are not included in the search results, you will of course be missing out on some targeted traffic to your pages.  More importantly, any backlinks you may have pointed to these pages might not even be counted.  Nada. Nilch.  None.  It’s got to be indexed to be worth a darn.  That’s a fact, Jack!

Ultimately, you want your articles on the first page of Google, so you need to monitor them regularly to make sure they get indexed.  You also want to increase traffic to these pages for better ranking. With a little effort on your part, you can speed up the process and give your articles or pages the attention they deserve.  If you give Google a little nudge to come index your page, this will work wonders for your traffic stats.  But manual monitoring of each and every article or web page can take way too much time, so how do you accomplish this daunting task?

Here’s something easy to remember…  B Y O B:

• Backlinks – Implement an efficient, but responsible backlinking campaign.

• YouTube – Turn your article into a video for even more exposure.

• OnlyWire – It’s an all-in-one bookmarking service.  The only one I use.

• Blog & Ping – Post a link to it on your blog, then ping away.

All of  these methods will help to get your links indexed faster.

Remember, Google spiders seem to thrive on blogs and they visit these types of sites daily.  Posting on a blog can get your new links indexed within 24 hours. All you need to do to get your blog crawled frequently is to post some frequent and fresh content to the blog then ping it afterward.

You can also use a feed Mashup.  There are free services online that will allow you to create a mashup of several  of your URL’s into one feed. Then all you do is submit this new combined feed to all the popular feed aggregator sites.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could easily see which of your pages ARE indexed?

Well here’s your solution…

Andy Black’s Index Checker…

It doesn’t matter if you have just 1 URL to monitor or 1000, this tool will track them all and store the data for you.  You can easily extract all your article URLs from some of the top article directories, as well as the web 2.0 social sites.  You can also enter an XML sitemap URL and the tool will work like magic to extract those as well.

Here’s a screen shot of this awesome tool in action:

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Too many goals, so little time.

It’s very easy to get overwhelmed if you try to work on too many goals all at once. Goal-setting will be most effective and easier to accomplish if you tackle one goal

at a time. You also need to be flexible in your mission to attain these goals. Some goals you will finish, other goals will have to be  modified to keep them within reach.

Hyrum W. Smith, a time-management consultant, created this acronym to remember the key elements for effective goal-setting.

Keep this acronym in mind as you work on your own goals:

S.M.A.R.T.S

S – Specific.

Make more money, is too vague.

Increase my monthly income by 50%, is specific.

M – Measurable.

Quantify your goals.

Describe how much and how often to measure your progress.

A – Action-Oriented.

Include the actions and steps you will take to complete each goal.

Make these actions a part of your daily or monthly tasks.

R – Realistic.

Your goals might be difficult, but they must be attainable.

Make enough income from my own business to quit my day job.

T – Timely.

Set reasonable times you expect to reach your goals.

I want to quit my day job in 1 year.

S – Self-Determined.

Set goals that are personal and meaningful to you.

Become a self-employed business owner.

In a nutshell, be SMARTS, and keep is simple, stupid.  If you follow these basic principles for goal-setting, you can avoid becoming the type of person who just ’sets them, then forgets them’.  And, of course, don’t get caught focusing!

Okay, I see you staring.  Get back to work!!

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First off, let’s define what Plagiarism is…

Plagiarism is the act of copying ideas, inventions, thoughts, and writings of someone else and trying to pass it off as your own.  This also includes copying another person’s idea or work, in part, without citing the original owner or using a reference.

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Is Your Content Properly Protected?
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Have you ever had your website content copied by someone else without your permission?

Besides being illegal this has the potential to cause huge problems for your rankings because it creates duplicates of your content online.

Unfortunately due to the extremely accessible nature of the internet this unscrupulous activity happens all the time.

This nasty problem raises two big questions…

1) How do you know if your content has been plagiarized?

and…

2) What can you do about it if it has?

This is quite a big topic but none the less very important so I have chopped it up in to two emails for you hopefully making it easier to digest.

First, I have two choices for you to accomplish this task:

1)  Visit DupeFree Pro to download a free version of their duplicate content software.  Great product.  No cost!

2)  Try Duplichecker.com online.  Free and very resourceful.

3)  The best and well-respected method is CopyScape.com.

All 3 of these suggestions provide an excellent service in checking your content, however this is never a 100% guarantee of all results, as content on the internet is dynamically updated, so it’s best to periodically check on your articles to be sure they continue to be plagiarism-free.

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Now, What Can You Do If You’ve Been Plagiarized?
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First, let me just say that I am *not* an expert on copyright law or any other sort of law. So please don’t consider any of this to be legal advice.

However, I have done some extensive research on copyright and these are my findings…

Note: These points are in relation to US copyright laws, but are still relevant even if you don’t live in the US.

** Basically anything you publish in any form is technically protected by a copyright. If you write an eBook, create a software product, write original website content, you own the copyright.

** If you hire a writer to write something for you then as long as it was part of the agreement only you will own the copyright.

** There is one exception to the prohibition against reusing the work of others on the Web which is reposting small excerpts of another website when offering comments or criticism.

** One fallacy is that unless a Web site or page is accompanied by a copyright symbol (the “c” within a circle © ), it doesn’t have copyright protection. In fact your work is copyright to you by default, however…

** According to one website you can only take legal action against copyright infringement if your copyright notice contains the copyright symbol ( © ). The special html code for the copyright symbol is: ©

** Technically speaking if someone copies something copyright to you then you can take legal action against them. However, if you do take legal action you need proof you are the original author. This can be achieved through registering your copyrighted work by filling out a form and sending it to the US copyright office together with your material and a small fee. However, even if you don’t register for copyright, you do still own copyright to your
work.

These are some very handy points on copyright law. A lot were news to me!

I hope you find them useful too.

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What Can You Do If You’ve Been Plagiarised?
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Now we know where we stand with copyright, what action should we take if the time comes…

After some thorough research I discovered these steps you can take against someone plagiarising your copyrighted work:

1) – If you discover another site plagiarizing yours, first collect
all evidence to support your case.

2) – Next, find the owner of the site. Most sites include contact
information. If not, do a WhoIs search – type “whois” into Google
to find WhoIs directories.

3) – Then send a firm, but non-belligerent, cease-and-desist e-mail.

4) – If that doesn’t work, have your lawyer send a cease-and-desist
letter to the person AND to the person’s Web host.

5) – And if that doesn’t work, consider having your lawyer file
suit.

Also I’ve read in multiple places that going straight to the infringing person’s webhost can be the best and only solution that provides results. It does depend on the webhost but they tend to take these matters very seriously and can disable the person’s account in an instant. You’ll need ample rvidence however.

You can find more information on plagiarism and copyright at the
Plagiarism Today website:  http://www.plagiarismtoday.com

Here’s a link to a sample cease-and-desist letter:

http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/contract/cease.htm

I hope the above tips have been useful to you but more than that I hope you don’t need to use them. Plagiarism disputes are ugly and can get messy. Above all else it’s important to act calmly and professionally.

**  This article is shared by permission from Michael & Steven Grzywacz

with DupeFree Pro.  Grab a copy of their free duplicate content software today!

Article marketing and keyphrase research have regularly been one of the main factors in analyzing if the website advertising strategy of using articles to drive traffic for an online business will actually be successful or a total failure.

Usually, most keyphrase research is conducted using Google using the results of that research getting integrated into an marketing with articles campaign in order to market your website with the intent of attracting more traffic or visitors in the articles that are written and submitted based on those niche keywords which are uncovered in the initial analysis.

The reason behind the substantial use of articles as a website traffic generating method is due to the power behind this strategy at driving targeted visitors to your website and the beneficial results that happen from this increase in website traffic, generally in the form of realized income or profits.

Many thriving online marketers realize that a carefully researched article can be the difference between making a sale or not, which is why they focus on providing quality content using the right keyword phrases in order to drive targeted traffic to their website so that their conversion rates are higher instead of tanking..

When writing an article for submission to the various directories you have to be aware that in some cases thousands of articles are posted in the larger article directories such as EzineArticles.com. The reality of this situation is that you have to do everything you can as an author so that you can make sure your article gets noticed above the rest or stands out in the crowd. You can achieve this by doing proper keyword research.

When you know precisely what the web surfers or searchers are trying to find and what the search engines are providing back in their results you can begin to formulate your article promotion campaign by focusing on the money phrases for your niche commonly referred to as the long tail keywords or low hanging fruit.

Because article writing is part quality game and part numbers game it is important that you comprehende effect each additional article you write for a profitable keyword phrase and submit will have on your entire traffic generation functionality and website marketing success. I would much rather have a few good quality articles sending me sales, rather than a lot of low quality articles just sending me traffic.

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One way of marketing your website and product could be achieved for free. As an extra bonus, this “free” method can boost your sites and sales, doubling and in many cases tripling your income.

Articles. Among the easiest methods to advertise your blog in order to build traffic and also enhance your income.

How does this work?

Write content pertaining to your website and distribute them to “free content” distribution sites. Effortless to do, takes little time and will enhance your site traffic, product sales and lastly, your earningsgs.

Just how can articles improve traffic as well as earnings?

The article on the free articles website includes a url to your site. Readers, reading your articles, may decide to click the web link and visit your website. Having them within the free content websites is also making these articles available to other internet marketers who may decide to publish that article on their website.

When they do, your article should include a link back to your site. And anyone who reads the article on that website can still visit the web link to visit your internet site.

As the list of your published articles grow larger, and more and more of them are appearing on different websites, the total number of links to your internet site increases also. Major search engines are placing a lot of significance on incoming links to websites so they can ascertain the importance of a specific site.

The more incoming links the website has, the more relevance search engines attaches to it. This will then enhance your website’s placement in the search results.

If you site is into advertising a product or service, the links that your articles have achieved will mean more potential customers for you. Even if visitors only browse through, you never know when they might be in need of what you are offering in the future.

There are also those who already have specific things they need on their mind but cannot decide yet between the many choices online. It’s likely that, they might land upon one of your articles, gets interested by the contents you wrote, go to your internet site and became enticed by your promotions. See how easy that is?

Search engines do not just index the websites, they also index published articles. They also index any article that is written about your own website’s topic. So once someone searches for that same topic, the list of results will have your internet site or may even show the articles that you have written.

And to think, no effort on your part was used to bring them to your site. Just your published articles and the search engines.

It is no wonder why many webmasters are suddenly reviving their old writing styles and taking time to write more articles about their site than doing other means of promotion.

Getting their website known is easier when they have articles increasing their links and traffic and making it accessible for visitors searching the internet. Since many people are now taking their buying needs online, having your site on the search engines through your articles is one of the ways of letting them know about you and your business.

The good thing with articles is that you can write about things that people would want to know about. This may be achieved in the lightest mood but professional manner, with a little not-so-obvious sales pitch added.

If you consider it, only a few minutes of your time is spent on writing one article and submitting to free content site. In the shortest span of time also, those are distributed to more sites than you can think of. Even before you know what is happening, you are getting more visitors than you previously had.

If you think you are wasting your time writing these articles, fast forward to the time when you will see them printed and wide-spread on the internet. Not to mention the sudden attention and interest that individuals are giving your site and your products or services.

Try writing some articles and you will be assured of the sudden surge in site traffic, link popularity and interest. Before you know it, you will be doubling and even tripling your earnings.

Nothing like getting benefits for something you got for free.

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The modern face of successful online marketing is search engine optimization. For beginners it is often not so easy to understand what SEO articles and SEO content is all about, as it is not one magic trick rather a collection of ingenious techniques through which content on a website becomes detectable in the gigantic World Wide Web. As the name suggests, SEO is designed to capture the attention of users who search certain key phrases in popular search engines.

Think about it, what is the first thing anyone would do on the internet if they were to learn about anything they didn’t know? The answer is to search on a well-known search engine like Google. Search engine websites like Google keep an account of a huge database of information on websites and deploy crawlers to look for the most relevant information within a fraction of second. While some search engines offer paid indexing, others require you to manually submit your website URL. In the midst of this complex process, a common businessman who is struggling to bring any people to his online store, much less generate sales, has no option but to turn to SEO.

You can use the services of one of the many SEO companies on the internet, which know how to transform the content on your website to have the gravitating effect on your potential customers on the internet. They do so by putting content on your website which is rich in keyword density, is interesting and original, contains appropriate Title and Meta tag description, and design your website with the most user-friendly navigation interface. Although getting your website optimized can be very effective in boosting your business promotion online, it can be trying upon your budget. But if you are a smart online businessman, you would have to analyze the SEO company you are thinking about hiring, by learning more about them and checking out how they have helped other websites to reach the top before you actually invest in them.

While some prefer hiring the experts others like to try their own hand at SEO techniques to promote their online enterprise. Article marketing can bring a great number of potential customers to your website having a greater chance of buying your products or services. There are no mysteries as to how article marketing works. What you need to do is to produce quality content related to the niche of your business, which should really be useful and informative for people, and to submit them to popular article directories, which are like a publishing platform for article writers. These articles contain backlinks to your websites along with explicit information, which direct traffic to the website of your business.

But why you should be so confident about article marketing presenting you with the right potential customers, who would be genuinely interested in the offerings of your business? It is pretty simple, because any other kind of people would not find your content interesting enough to bother with it in the first place. And if they really desire to buy a particular product in that niche, they will click on your website URL. If you don’t have writing skills, then you can even hire the services of a writer or simply buy articles.

But before you start with article submission, you must bear in mind that it would take you to submit articles at a number of article directories before you can start reaping the benefits of this marketing technique. And even if you undertake this uphill task, you will end up neglecting your business matters by writing articles all the time. Therefore, an article submission software may well be worth a purchase. These are specialized programs that aid you in submitting articles to hundreds of online directories, saving you ample time and promoting your business to success the way you want to see it.

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Are you struggling to keep a high level of traffic flowing through the pages of your web site on a daily basis? Don’t feel like you are the first website owner to be frustrated by how hard it is to keep people clicking on your links and interested in your products and services. Website promotion is important if you’re going to make your site a success.

The fact that anyone with the right drive and ambition can start a business on the internet is both an advantage and a disadvantage. Although this gives more people the opportunity to take control of their careers, it also means that there are many mistakes to be made before success is captured.

It’s important for people to realize that website promotion isn’t something that you do when your site is new or when you are struggling to promote a particular product or service. If you’re going to be a successful website owner or blogger, you’ve got to find a way to generate awareness about your site at all times.

Choosing a professional marketing service to help you with your website promotion is important if you’re going to make the most efficient use of the advertising funds that you have available to you. This means that you should seek out a service that will offer you a package of several services all at one price.

Many people don’t realize all of the elements that go into a successful website promotion campaign, and they think as long as they have some good back links and a few advertisements on Google, they are doing all they can. With diversified promotion packages from an experienced marketing service, they will have access to social media, article directories, link directories and so much more.

If you only have a small marketing budget and even less time for website promotion, you should know that professional marketing services will often be able to get you rolling on a campaign that will continue automatically for a predetermined length of time.

No matter which website promotion services you decide to use, make sure that they offer you a proven social bookmarking element. If you spend hundreds of dollars to promote your site, but you ignore social media, you’ll be doing yourself a disservice.

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Creating great internet articles can do quite a bit for you and your business. Article marketing allows you to get exposure to your business for free, deliver fantastic content in front of the viewers you wish to target, all while drastically increasing your traffic volume. By adopting automatic article submission software, you can take your articles to greater levels by aiding you in building a credible image.

Article submission software will allow your opinions to be delivered throughout many article sites on the internet for viewing by thousands of potential customers. With these article submissions being everywhere, you may experience the problem of duplicated or repeated sections of articles. In order to work around this, it is a great idea to have software to modify your articles a small amount and complete the submission without your assistance. This helps with lessening the amount of duplicated content and allows you to concentrate on more important work like writing articles.

With the appropriate research, you can take your articles to the next level. Take the extra time to search on social networks, forums and related blogs to help you identify what topics people are searching for. From there, you can write articles that will meet people’s wants and needs and answer their questions. After writing insightful articles on those various topics, use the software to transfer it to individuals and thus give you the ability to build a reputable image.

Writing well thought out and engaging articles is of a big advantage to you, since search engines frequently search for different forms of material that web surfers might find interesting. Having your articles around the web to ensure they are found is one of the countless reasons to adopt article submitter software. The more articles you can create, the more frequently your name and web site are found, and the better your search engine ranking can become. Keep this in mind when searching for ways to target traffic to your website.

The advantage of setting up article submission software is you can add your writings to countless directories. The idea is, the more article directories you submit to, the better your chances that you will be gaining exposure by building a respectable image on the internet.

Saving time is a big deal to many people. You can save a large amount of it by utilizing article submitter software. Since the number of article sites can be in the hundreds (or even thousands), the automated software can perform the submission for you instead of adding the article to each site one at at time. Remember, the hours you would spend to submit these various articles can be used instead for creating articles, building more material for your website, and other important tasks.

While trying to be discovered through the significant number of websites on the web, you will need to make sure you leverage your time in the best way possible. Making articles for adding to thousands of web sites makes your ability to get noticed much greater.

Michael Fleischner is an Internet marketing guru with more than 12 years of marketing experience. He has been a guest on the TODAY Show, Bloomberg Radio and other major media outlets. For additional information regarding article submitter software and more article submitter information, visit ArticleSubmitterReview.com.

Article marketing is one form of online marketing that is popular with internet marketers and website owners. The reason for this is obvious – people use the Internet to find information. Thus, when you market your products or services with articles, you’ll surely get the much need targeted traffic for your business.

Article marketing is very consistent in terms of trending. Its effectiveness has not changed over the years and is definitely something that will be here to stay. Because of its effectiveness, a lot of businesses use this method to market their products and services. If you are new to this online marketing method, you might be wondering how it will be able to benefit your business. Check out the benefits of article marketing below.

If you want people to trust what you have to offer, you first have to be an expert on that particular topic first. What better way to do this than to write informative and time-relevant articles that your readers will enjoy. You might not know this, but in reality many individuals read articles in article directories for a different perspective. Therefore, if you have expertly written articles in these directories, a lot of people will be able to see it.

Subtlety is the name of the game when it comes to these article directories. You have to write a relevant article on the product or service you are offering and likewise, highlight its features and benefits. A compelling and quality article will then encourage people to visit your site for more information.

A great thing about this method of online marketing is that you are able to hit two birds with one stone. Aside from getting exposure from article directories, you can also craft your articles in such a way that search engines will pick them up for particular keywords. Therefore, you need to optimize each article for a certain keyword you are targeting. Once the search engines pick up your keywords, you’ll have an instant boost in search engine results standing.

Article marketing is also ideal for small business owners because submitting articles to the thousands of article directories in the web is free. You can write your own articles or have them outsourced. The key to effective marketing is to place a link on your resource box so your readers can follow through to your site. The more article directories your articles are published in, the more backlinks you will get. With a lot of backlinks, you can expect a large traffic volume and an instant high-up from search engines.

After submitting to article directories, you need to ping the search engines so that it will be easier for them to find your article. Bookmarking your article and pinging its bookmark URL should also be done to create more backlinks.

If you come to think about it, content is indeed king. People are looking for information everyday. Take advantage of this fact and venture into article marketing. For sure, your traffic volume will increase immensely.

Building your successful business will be dependent on using effective article marketing to gain visibility with your target audience. Using an automatic article submission group will allow you to grow quickly and easily.