As part of our BloggersIdeas interview series, today we have James Reynolds, the founder of Veravo, specialists in helping business owners get more traffic and make more sales. His company provide traffic services and training that help increase the overall responsiveness and profitability of your online marketing

Lets explore with James about his expertise.

First of all thanks a lot for coming on my blog James, you made my day by accepting my interview request. Tell me something about yourself and your educational background ?

I’m a British expatriate living in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. I landed up in Dubai after moving with a photography studio in 2006. I was general manager for the photography business, and that was my only job after leaving college. College wasn’t great for me, I dropped out twice.

What are your plans for the future?

Continue to grow a kick ass traffic agency. I love life in Dubai and can see myself based here for a while longer.

 What’s the next move for your company and what can we expect to see in the near future?

Historically we’ve been an organic search agency, but recently we’ve been investing more in our paid search division called Click Jam. I’ve taken on a key hire to head up this division and we are now better positioned to deliver fully integrated campaigns across several channels. Within our core services we offer organic search (SEO Sherpa) and Pay-Per-Click on Google, Facebook, Yahoo and a few other select platforms (Click Jam).

How to optimize 404 page errors on websites?

Keep a close eye on your Google Webmaster Tools account for any issues Google has crawling your site. Most often you would deal with 404 errors (not found pages) by redirecting the not found URL to another relevant URL on your site. This will ensure you don’t lose visitors who try to visit your site via ‘dead’ URL. You can set up search engine friendly 301 redirects via the HT Access file on your website’s server.

 Additionally I recommend you add a custom 404 error page for your site. Hint –  these pages are great for collecting leads, so consider putting an offer/opt in bribe on your 404 page. LeadPages have a great 404 error page template for this purpose.

Google Recently launched Panda and many big businesses got badly affected by it, did any of your sites got affected by it ?

Thankfully few (if any) of our customers were affected by Panda. The Panda update devalued low-quality website’s with thin content. Our customers are typically larger established businesses with substantial sites.

We did however have some customers affected by Google Penguin. In all cases these companies had worked with other agencies in the past who had implemented various manipulative link building campaigns. When Google refreshed the algorithm to filter the spammy links the sites lost ranking and impression share.

We were able to recover the website’s results by balancing out their link profile with good links.

What is the reason behind your Blogging success ?

Consistency. Most blogs fail because they lack stick sticktoitiveness.

How to increase your facebook shared post reach to your audience ? Any ideas.

Aside from share-worthy content, making your snippet appealing is important. Include a custom Facebook share image formatted to the size required for news feed and write a compelling title and description. When your link looks appealing you will get you more clicks and shares. Buzz Feed do this very well.

Without Knowing Much About Technology, How Can I Launch an Online Service Platform?

Work with specialist who do know about technology. One of the biggest challenges for entrepreneurs is doing it all themselves. No successful person ever made it on their own.

How Can I Turn Price-Sensitive Shoppers Into Customers. Any uggestions in comparison to Zopper.com(company where I work )? 

A couple of tips I got from my friend Ezra Firestone that will help to increase conversions ;-

1. Add a “why buy from us?” page on your site.

2. Use video on your products pages explaining features and benefits and what they can expect after they order.

3. Beneath the cart button add your USP’s.

How to handle guest post spam request ?

I don’t accept guest posts on my site’s so I just reply with no ?

Matt cutts is now against guest blogging. Would you still prefer guestblogging. What to do best in guest blogging ?

I love guest blogging and do as much as I can. But, guest blogging is not (directly) an SEO activity.  What Matt Cutts is against (and rightly so) is people using guest blogging, generally on low-quality sites as a way of building backlinks.

Use guest blogging to grow your reach by getting in front of other people’s audiences. Target website where your market hangs out and write your very best content for them. This will expose you to new people who may later become customers or subscribers.

What are the risks involved in Entrepreneurship Please tell us ?

There are many, but with higher risk comes higher reward.

Suppose if you were not SEO geek today, what you would be then.

A rugby player. I played for Northampton Saints who are the current English Premiership champions until I was 20 years old.

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As part of our BloggersIdeas interview series, today we have Intellectual Tony John sir Founder of techulator, indiastudychannel.com & many other blogs. Today he will be sharing his knowledge on SEO marketing strategies, blog marketing & blog engagement strategies. He has wide range of  experience with  traffic generation, Affiliate management  & has worked with many big brands.

So lets get started with Tony sir.

Thank you Jitendra, for inviting me to this interview. I’m glad to spend some time with you and your readers and share whatever I learnt so far.

 Thank you Tony Sir, for your time. Let me get started straight away. How long have you been blogging?

I started my first blog in 1998, without knowing it is going to be called a blog. In fact, it was created just for fun and I was posting my personal achievements and experience there. I never thought it would evolve as a big business eventually.

1998 to 2014 – that’s a long journey! I don’t think there are any other Indian bloggers who have that much experience to claim. How do you feel about your blogging life so far?

Yes, it’s an eventful journey indeed. Blogging went through a lot of changes in the last one decade. When I started, it was called “web log” and the term “blog” came up later. There was no term called “search engine optimization” at that time, even though we were applying various strategies to rank our websites better.

During the early stages, we all blogged for fun and with passion. There were no monetary benefits involved. Even in wildest dreams, I never thought I could make money out of it. Google introduced AdSense program in 2003 and that changed my life. Once I started using AdSense, I realised the true potential of blogging. Within next few years, I started several new blogs and many of them are getting millions of page views per month.

Niche site vs Authority Site. Which is best and why? What are the pros and cons of both?

That depends on your goals. If your goal is develop an authority site, then that’s what you need to aim for. If your goal is money, then the situation is a bit tricky. Authority sites are very hard to build, operate and maintain. For example, my blog Techulator.com is pretty popular and gets good traffic. But my cost to build this blog was pretty high. It took years of hard work and dedication to bring that blog into its current state.

However, in case of niche blogs like HondaMobilio.in, it takes just a few days of efforts and then virtually no running costs. So, in terms of ROI, niche blogs are generally preferable, unless you have a big budget and long term strategies.

However, in case of authority blogs, if you succeed in building credibility and traffic, you could make really good money in the long run. Advertisers are willing to spend huge money on well established blogs.

How people react when they know you are Internet Entrepreneur? 

I have had a lot of experience. Many times, it is very hard to convince people about my profession. Most people won’t understand what I do and when they do understand, they would want to quit their job and start a blog!

Recently, I visited a few designer houses in our city to get some ideas for building our own home. One of those house owners asked me about my profession and he could not understand anything about it. At the end, he asked just one question:

“So, your father would has earned enough for you build a house, right?”. It was the first time someone asked me that question on my face but many others would have thought the same in their mind. It is hard to convince people about making money from internet.

Please tell us about yourself and your educational background ?

I am coming from a typical Kerala village. I had never seen a computer until I joined my Masters in Computer Applications course. I possess B.Sc in Physics, B.Ed in Physics and MCA degrees. 

Is the future for link building dark or is link building dead already? If it’s alive, then your 2 cents on the best link building practices?

Most of the common link building strategies no longer work. Unfortunately, majority of the SEO service providers are not aware of the changes in the SEO world. They still depend on the old ways of blog commenting, forum commenting and guest posting.

Currently, link building still works but has to be done very carefully and slowly. Guest posting is the most efficient method which will work, if and only if done in a very limited manner.

How important is the ratio between followed and nofollowed links? 

It’s hard to read Google’s mind! They never revealed anything about this. According to my experiments, there is no fixed ratio. It depends on several other factors and overall ranking of the site. In some cases, Google would count the no-follow links as well and in some other cases, it doesn’t. Personally, I never care for the do-follow or no-follow. When I try to get a link from other sites, I do not specify whether it has to do-follow or no-follow. I will leave it to the other website to decide what kind of link to give.

Suppose today a freelancer started giving his own digital marketing services, what all strategies he should apply to get his website successful ?

If someone is offering digital marketing strategies, the first thing he has to do is, market his own business very well. In fact, I do get a lot of emails offering SEO services. I usually ask them how do their own websites rank in Google search results. They won’t respond to me after that!

A digital marketing person should be able to apply the best SEO practices on his own website and get it in the top few results of Google search for his keywords. A strong social media profile and a good portfolio to prove his work history are really important.

How to increase brand presence on social media, when someone says negatives about your brand , how should brand organizers should react ?

That’s a challenge faced by many big brands. The big brands have limitations on going after every comment about them and explain their stand. That’s where the PR companies come into picture. In many cases, some one would have some personal issues on a big brand and might choose to post negative remarks everywhere. A PR company could follow all discussions about their clients and could explain the reality behind it.

How did you enter into blogging, why did you choose blogging over your IT career. What kind of experiences you have while working in IT company ?

I started blogging just out of curiosity to check out how the web works. I was living in USA at that time and I had plenty of free time in the guest house where I was staying. One of my friends showed me his personal website and that’s where I got started with my first blog.

I was working as a software consultant at that time. Blogging was a hobby which I was doing at my free time. I started making money from it by 2004 and by about 2010, I started making more money from blogging than my prestigious job in USA as a software architect.

When I was working in the software field, I was focusing on programming and technology related blogs. Every day, I learnt new things at work, which I translated into blogs when I come home in the evening. Also, for the sake of blogging, I learnt a lot new things, which helped me in the job. Thus, by blog and job mutually helped each other to perform better in both the fields.

In 2011, I quit my job in USA and returned to India, after living there for more than a decade. I decided not to work anymore in the IT field and chose to live a semi-retired life to live the life in the way I want it.

How is your life after returning to India? 

Well, I faced a few challenges after returning to India. Since I was away from the country for more than 10 years, lot of things looked unfamiliar to me. I had to re-learn how to deal with everyday problems like dealing with government offices, utilities etc. In US, life is a lot more fun and people enjoy their life. In India, most people are struggling to live a decent life and having fun is nothing more than watching a movie or visiting a shopping mall.

I’m not talking about the elite class who enjoy everything in life, but I am referring to the common men and women. My children had a lot of trouble in adapting to our education system but everything fine now. 

What advises you would give to newbie bloggers who wants to continue their blogging journey and want to quit their jobs for that? Is it easy to leave job & start blogging, what is your take on this?

Don’t quit your job just by seeing some dollars in your AdSense account. I quit my job after blogging for more than 13 years and also only after I earned enough from it. The AdSense income could stop anytime. Or, an algorithm change could wipe out the traffic of your blogs. Quitting a good job by seeing the short term revenue from your blogs wouldn’t be a wise decision. I have written an article that talks about my experience and some tips for those who like to quit their job to become a fulltime blogger.

There are thousands of people who attempted to make blogging their full time career but only a few became successful. I would strongly recommend you to try blogging as part time job for a few years and then make a decision. In my case, I am not making any extra money by switching to full time blogging. I was making pretty much the same revenue even when I was doing it part time.

How many websites you are having currently.How much money you are making from them ?

I’m currently running about 40 websites but only 5 of them are really active. My active blogs are www.techulator.com, www.indiastudychannel.com, www.dotnetspider.com,  www.aspspider.com, www.studyvillage.com etc. It may look odd to share the revenue reports publicly but let me tell you that I was making more money from my blogs than my salary as a software architect in a multinational company in USA. So, you can guess the figures. Many other professional bloggers are sharing their revenue reports.

You can compare their revenue and traffic statistics with my websites and come to some conclusion. IndiaStudyChannel.com is getting about 4 million pages per month and Techulator.com is getting about 600,000 page views per month. During the peak period, just one of my website – dotnetspider.com alone was making more money than my American salary!

Do you like to share your secret strategies with blogging community? Please tell us.

Yes, let me tell you my secret recipe of success – unique content. I usually write on everyday problems I encounter in my own life. I solve those problems and share the solution through my blog. Such articles are getting very good traffic.

Another important reason for my success in blogging is, I was lucky to have started early. I’m probably one of the first bloggers from India who started in late 90’s and that helped me establish my blogs before a lot of competition came into place.

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As part of our Bloggers Ideas interview series, today we have Nancy Badillo of NancyBadillo.com  discussing techniques about social media engagement, WordPress plugins and other SEO strategies. She is proficient online marketer and struggle a lot to get success. I appreciate her time she took out for this interview.

Please introduce yourself to our readers. Can you tell us something about your blogging journey? How and when did you enter into blogging? And who are your blogging role models? 

First of all, thank you for taking time out to do this interview. My name is Nancy Badillo. I have been blogging for the past 3 years. You can find my blog at www.NancyBadillo.com I started blogging when the economy went downhill and my hours at work were cut. I started researching ways to make money online. I came across this YouTube channel that was own by, Lisa Irby. She explained the various ways you can make money online by having a blog. I subscribe to her YouTube Channel and joined a company she recommended called, “Site Sell.”  The company Site Sell charged $30 bucks a month and gave me all the tutorials and tools to learn all about building a successful blog.  This event marks the change of my career into blogging.

My blogging role model is Zac Johnson. He has taken me underneath his wing and has helped me reach the top 100,000 online marketing blogs.

Why Content Marketing is playing keen role in SEO 2014. Do you think that only content marketing is king other SEO techniques are dead?

Content marketing is playing keen role in SEO on 2014 because of the tremendous growth social media plays. Content marketing has the power to produce more than just links it can enhance your brand image and build potential relationships with others.

Top 10 WordPress plugins you are using for your blog? Please mention it in brief.

The top 10 WordPress plugins I am currently using are:

1. Akismet: The best plugin to protect your blog from comment and track back spam.

2. All In One SEO: All In One SEO automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines.

3. Comment LUV: It rewards your readers by automatically placing a link to their last blog post at the end of the their comment. Encourage a community and discover new posts.

4. Google Analytics: is a great plugin for monitoring and tracking the efficiency of your online campaigns and get the best results in your marketing efforts.

5. SEO Friendly Images: Automatically ads alt and title attributes to all your images. It improves traffic from your search results.

6. Ultimate Tiny MCE: This plugin adds additional text functionality for your blog.

7. WP125: Lets me easily manage 125×125 ads within my WordPress dashboard.

8. Smart Layers by Add This: Lets you add buttons to your content. By adding buttons it help you increase visitor engagement. The plugin lets you add follow buttons and social share buttons.

9. OSE Firewall Security: The security of your WordPress is important so this is the plugin I use to secure my blog. This plugin will help protect your blog from attacks and hacks.

10. Google XML Sitemaps: The plugin helps generate and update the sitemap files.

What are the best press release website you are using?

I personally use 24-7 Press Release. It’s a great way to gain exposure for your website, company, or services. The press release has help me gain visibility in front of a many people as possible and reach a broader audience.

Top social bookmarking websites that you would suggest?

As a Webmaster, I use social bookmarking as a way to increase website traffic. You should write SEO content that can improve your standing on search results so that more people are able to find you. By getting your name in as many places as possible, you will be able to start building an audience.

These are my favorite social bookmarking websites that I currently use:

1. Reddit

2. Digg

3. StumbleUpon

4. Delicious

5. Technorati

Do you use any podcast? Any websites you would suggest?

Yes, I do use podcast to learn more about online marketing. Podcast can be an effective marketing analysis tool. The podcast that I currently listen to and recommend are:

1. Smart Passive Income

2. Foolish Adventure

3. Marketing Over Coffee

Does Google Adsense is only source to earn money? Can you suggest other alternatives?

No, Google Adsense is not the only alternative for monetizing your blog. There are many alternatives ways to monetize your blog.

Here are my top 3 monetization:

1. Affiliate Marketing: Involves recommending a product to your audience and receive a commission when the product is sold.

2. Popular Adsense Alternatives:

Kontera

Clicksor

Chitika

Bidvertiser

Media.Net

3. Make Money Selling Ad Spaces

Ways to increase conversions by guest blogging?

Understanding ways to increase conversions from your guest blogging is important to make the best out of your post.

Targeting The Right Blogs: Find targeted blogs that are relevant to your niche. Writing for targeted niche blogs will help you become the expert of your field. This will give you the opportunity to establish your brand.

Quality Content: Guest blogging will help you produce great results though high quality content as opposed to mere link building. Make sure every post you write is quality content.

Call To Action: Adding a call to action at the end of the post will help increase sales.

On how many blogs have you been interviewed can you mention it here?

This is actually my second interview. The first interview was conducted by top blogger Zac Johnson. You find the interview at

Things we online marketers could all improve upon 2014?

There are many things we can improve as online marketers on 2014. I have enlisted my top choices:

Be Mobile Friendly: Mobile searches are more likely to use a site and complete a purchase when the site is mobile friendly.

Build Partnerships: Building online partnerships are vital for the success of a website. Working with an influencer to develop a brand partnership can launch and help your online brand identity.

Social Media: Use social media to engage and attract new visitors. In 2014, try to venture out to different social medias that you have not used yet. Pick a new social media and give it all you have.

Use Google autocomplete feature to enhance your brand?

Google autocomplete is critical to online branding. Information gather from Google has a profound impact on personal branding. The first thing searches see’s when they type your name into Google search box is the autocomplete suggestion.

Google Hummingbird friendly content marketing tips?

Google recently released their newest algorithm known as the Hummingbird. The main goal of their newest addition to the Google family is to make Google search more interactive for their users and to give users better and more direct answer to their searches. A Google Hummingbird friendly marketing tip is to create evergreen content. Creating evergreen content your blog is a great strategy to generate more leads, backlinks, and drive traffic to your site. The main benefit of creating evergreen content is that it keeps growing stronger in authority, ranking, and traffic over time.

How to explode your traffic and branding with blog commenting?

Blog commenting is a great way to gain links and increase traffic to your website. Blog commenting also helps get your name out there in the blogging community within your niche.

Additional Benefits Of Blog Commenting:

1. Helps Build Relationships

2. Gain Tons Of Traffic

3. Gain Quality Backlinks

4. High Search Engine Rankings

5. Gain More Subscribers

What are the best things that Webmasters need to know about Pinterest?

Pinterest gives you the opportunity to educate and inform others about your business by allowing you to post pictures that you love. To create a successful SEO Pinterest offers a business account with the option to describe your business in detail to attract customers. You want to choose an optimized business name. Social media signals factor into how high search engines rank a website content from Pinterest can show up in search engines results, leading customers to your page and creating potential clients. Pinterest is perfect in providing content that people are looking for.

What is broken link building? How effectively use it?

Broken link building is one of the most effective white hat link building strategies. Many Webmasters use the broken link building strategy to find broken links that can in return turn into a link building opportunity. Once you have found the broken link contact the website owner. You will need to encourage the Webmaster owner to replace the broken links with yours in return. Broken link building is very effective since no Webmaster wants to be penalized or want broken links on their websites.

Do people need to spend money (PPC, paid advertising) to make money with Affiliate Marketing?

It’s not necessary for anyone to spend money with PPC to make money with Affiliate Marketing. Learning how to optimize your website will helps you to become more appealing to a larger audience with out spending money.

Do you think 3rd party blog post links and e-book?

The 3rd party blogs does really well. On the other hand, I do not think e-book submission help.

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Promoting a business is never easy. You’ll need to learn the essential things you need to do so that other people will notice your brand. There are many ways you can do to promote your business. Promoting business through the use of the internet is just one example of marketing strategies you can do for you to be successful.

SEO is one of the examples of marketing strategy you can do to get the attention of other people. By doing this, you will have a higher chance of gathering clients and customers. Check this list of 7 essential types of internet marketing strategies you can try for your business.

7 Essential Types of Internet Marketing Strategies That Actually Works 2022

 

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

SEO has been an essential part of online business for the past few years. It has helped many e-commerce businessmen grow their company. Learning the basics of SEO can help you get an advantage against your competitors because of good things it can do to your online business.

Adding a FAQ page or commonly known as frequently asked questions page on your site can also help boost your SEO strategies. By doing this, your marketing team can focus on other important matters.

If you want to know more about SEO, you should try asking tips from other digital entrepreneurs or online sellers who have enough knowledge about search engine optimization. You can also try using platforms such as Google Analytics so that ‘you’ll be aware of the things that are happening on your website.

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Content Marketing

Content marketing is one of the best marketing strategies people are using today. Writing an article for your site can help you get your brand known by other people depending on the context of the article ‘you’ve written. Guest posting and blog posting are two of the things you should do if you want other people to notice your brand.

Writing articles for your site can help you connect with your visitors. Some people who like the article ‘they’ve seen often leaves good comments or feedback in the comment section of your site. Providing excellent qualities and producing content that can educate other people should be your number one priority.

 

Email Marketing

Email marketing has been proven to be one of the most cost-effective marketing strategies people are doing today because it can directly reach people all over the world without wasting time and money. It is also known to be the best replacement to direct mail marketing. Email marketing can help build a relationship with the subscribers you have.

Gathering information using demographics and other reliable platforms can help you make your job easier and faster. Using this kind of strategy can help you get more opportunities for your business. Doing some research can also give you more ideas on what are the things you need to take in mind.

 

Social Media Marketing

People around the world are now using different types of social media platforms, which is a good thing for online sellers. With the help of the internet, you can now promote your business using popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Getting other people’s attention is your number one goal in this kind of strategy.

You can also assign one of your staff or your business associates in your company to do the marketing and promote your brand on different social media sites. Using social media as one of your mediums in advertising can be very useful.

Social media marketing may not drive sales, but it gives you more chance to get your brand known by other people. This strategy can also help build links and increase engagement. You should take advantage of this because most people nowadays tend to engage or participate in the things they see in social media.

 

 

Reputation Marketing

Having a good reputation can give you more advantage against other brands because people trust your brand more compared to others. Social media, press release, and customer review platforms are the three things you need to take engage in for your brand to have a good reputation.

Reviews and online referrals are essential in an online business. Reputation marketing involves encouraging viewers or customers to post reviews or feedback, developing a distinctive brand, and responding quickly to solve or entertain any request or complains posted by a customer in review platforms or social media.

Influencer Marketing

Influencer marketing is known to be one of the latest marketing people are doing today to promote their brand. People who have a strong social following are paid to promote a company’s services and products. Asking influencers to advertise your brand can give you more opportunities which can make your company grow.

Using influencers to promote your brand can be very helpful because more people will be drawn to your brand. You can also easily persuade a lot of people by using an influencer to promote your brand. You should take advantage of social media because people are more into different types of social media platforms nowadays.

 

 

Affiliate Marketing

There are a lot of ways to earn profit and get your brand to be noticed by other people. If you want to achieve both things, you should consider trying affiliate marketing strategy. Your main goal in this kind of strategy is to sell or promote other companies brands and services so that ‘you’ll earn commissions.

Promoting another brand by posting blogs or video, and featuring ads on your website can help you achieve your goal much faster. You will receive payments once you made a sale through your links. Affiliate marketing is just one of the different types of marketing strategies you can do to earn or gain more profit.

 

 

Takeaway: Best Internet Marketing Strategies In 2022

Promoting a company or brand needs patience and a lot of planning. You will need to study every vital detail so that you will have an effective marketing strategy. You can also ask your friends to promote your brand. You should also consider going to symposiums that talks about different types of marketing strategies.

Starting your own business can be challenging at first. You will have to know all the essential things about business so that ‘you’ll become a successful entrepreneur. If you want to know more about SEO and marketing strategies that can help your business, you should visit sites that offer this kind of service and ask tips and advice from them.

Author Bio

Ivan Zoe Flores is one of the SEO Content Specialist of KKC Outsourcing Corporation. Ivan loves to write about marketing, entertainment, music, and SEO. He is currently running a small business with his friends. When not writing, Ivan spends his time watching scary movies and documentaries.

 

 

 As part of our Bloggers Ideas interview series, today we have  Tim Soulo from Bloggerjet.com who have joined SEO world about 4 years ago, mostly working full time for different projects, doing some consulting and bootstrapping some personal projects. He will be answering various questions related to  SEO, Social Media & other Internet Marketing stuffs . So lets start with the interview.

First of all thanks a lot for accepting my interview proposal. I and my readers are very pretty glad to have you . Please tell us about yourself and your educational background.

Hey Jitendra, thanks for having me!

It’s really hard to describe what I’ve been doing for living for the past 6 years: I was involved in all kinds of internet marketing; I was building websites and online tools; creating and launching new products in different markets; optimizing web business of various online companies. So I guess that is something like “online business consulting”.

And a few years back I’ve started a personal blog where I was sharing some of the lessons I’ve learned along the way. It’s called BloggerJet. As for my education – it’s totally unrelated to marketing. So everything I know I’ve learned from books, blogs and friends.

How Can I Grow My Home-Based Business?

Well it really depends on the kind of business you’re running. If you have a solid product that really solves some issue – you can try putting up a sales page and buying ads. Oftentimes it’ll work if your product is good enough.

In case you don’t have any product idea yet, you can always start with a blog about something you’re passionate about and try to use this blog to attract clients.

You may also take products of other people and promote them either with ads or with your blog. That would be affiliate marketing. I mean there are tons of ways to launch and grow a home-based business.

How Can I Pitch My Product to Large Companies?

Well there are three fundamental rules you should follow:

1. Build a killer product.

2. Build a killer product.

3. Build a killer product.

If your product is really awesome, you won’t have any issues pitching it. Large companies may even reach out to you and offer you to become a partner if your product is worthy.

What Are Some Good Business Books to Read?

I’m a huge book lover and I can easily suggest you 20 good business books to read. But I’m going to name just three which I think are crucial for any business owner:

• Tim Ferris – 4 Hour Workweek
• Daniel Pink – Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
• Robert Cialdini – Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

These three books cover absolutely different topics but each of them is absolutely crucial in running a successful business.

 If you build your site with WordPress what plugins should you install?

•  WordPress SEO by Yoast is an absolute must.
• Sharebar is perfect for displaying floating social media buttons next to your articles.
• PopUp Domination will skyrocket your email subscribtion rates with a fancy email optin form.
• TweetDis (this one developed by myself) will allow your visitors to tweet quotes from your articles with just one click

Is Guest Posting useful and how do you benefit from it? Matt Cutts recent article on guest posting had create panic situation among all webmasters.

I think Matt Cutts was referring to low quality articles that SEO companies create in hundreds and send out to every blogger in a hope that he may blindly publish it. Quality guest articles will always be a perfect tool to build traffic to your website and help it rank in search engines.

We shouldn’t stop our guest posting activities no matter what Matt Cutts says.

How do you improve your e-mail subscription rates?

The best known trick to improve e-mail subscription rate is to offer a freebie that can only be delivered to an email address of your visitors. Add PopUp Domination here and you will absolutely nail it!

However there’s a downside to offering a freebie like an ebook. After people get it they’re no longer interested in your further email updates and most of them will just unsubscribe after a few emails.So the workaround would be to turn your ebook into a series of emails and call it a “Free Email Course”.

The email subscription rates of an email form with a free ebook and the one with a free email course are exactly the same. But the people who opted for your email course will actually be looking forward to receiving those emails from you.

What e-mail management tool should you use?

I use MailChimp because it’s free and right now I don’t need any more features than those that it offers me. But I keep looking towards Aweber and Vero as well.

How do you convert social media traffic into business?

Social Media traffic is ten times worth than SEO traffic when it comes to making money with it. So most marketers I know don’t try to sell directly to visitors coming from social networks. They prefer to nurture them first.

The process is as follows:

 1. Send traffic from social media to a landing page with a freebie (preferably email course)

2. After people opt in, send tons of value their way for free to make them trust you and percieve you as an authority

3. Announce a free webinar to help them solve an issue they’re facing

4. On this webinar explain them what can they do, to solve the issue. But don’t explain HOW to do this

5. Pitch them your premium product that will show them HOW to do the things you’ve shared with them in your free webinars.

Voila! You’ve got paying customers!

How do I know if social media is generating leads for my business?

 You can quite easily setup event tracking in Google Analytics to see where your leads are coming from. Social Media is a very solid source of leads and then it’s up to you if you’re able to convert them into paying customers. But the formula I’ve shared above should really do the trick! That’s it. Thanks for having me for this interview, Jitendra. Hope that was helpful to your readers.

I hope you enjoy this interview, Tim had shared best strategies. So readers try to learn more and keep exploring in online marketing. Keep sharing knowledge and keep helping each other.

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Hey you bloggers we are back again with another stunning interview session!

As part of our BloggersIdeas interview series, today we have Freelancer & Professional online marketer Florin Birgu, he is skilled  in programming and technology, who would be sharing his experience in online marketing. He is currently working at eggmetrics.com & always keen to learn new stuff in online marketing.

Lets explore with Florin Birgu.

First of all thanks a lot for coming on my blog Florin, you made my day by accepting my interview request. Tell me something about yourself & your educational background.

I’m glad to be on your blog. Well, I’m self taught for most part. I started out as a developer since high school, but later during college I got interested in internet marketing to promote my services.

Later on I started to get good at it, so I started offering online marketing services too.

What are your plans for the future?

Currently I’m working on eggmetrics.com where I plan to launch some useful marketing tools that will help users with their online campaigns. Working in the internet marketing field is something I enjoy doing either with eggmetrics or by consulting clients.

What’s the next move for your company and what can we expect to see in the near future?

I will launch a beta version most likely next month and then depending on the feedback add more features. I plan also to develop other cool tools and write more useful guides.

Feedback and data will influence a lot our future decisions for the company, and I expect to see constant growth.

Please define term “Niche Blogging” and guide us to make a perfect Niche blog to make some money.

Niche Blogging refers to writing articles on a blog for people belonging to a particular niche, like online marketers and bloggers in our case.

Write great articles that people will find interesting like guides, the impact of important news in the industry or case studies, but don’t forget to focus a lot on catchy titles since most of the time that is what people will be seeing first and also focus on.

To find profitable keywords for your articles you can go sign in to Google Adwords and use the keyword planner tool.

Type several keywords in your niche, after that you can download the table and multiply the search volume and the CPC and this way you can find the value of that keyword.

What are the risks involved in entreprenuership. Please tell us.

High overhead costs is an important one, you have to limit spending when you are starting up. Another risk would be having a product that people don’t want, before building anything make sure you make first a MVP(Minimum viable product) to test the market.

That way you will save time by not creating a product that people won’t buy. You can create just a landing page without having a finished product and pay ads to see if people would be interested in it.

Suppose if you were not SEO geek today, what you would be ?

Most likely I would have been focusing more on programming since is something I enjoy doing. I guess I would say that my programming skills help me become a better marketer because if I ever need a tool to do a certain task then I can just create it.

For example, I needed once to analyse the backlinks of a client, but instead of copy pasting them in the browser I made a free tool to help me go through them a lot faster.

How to optimize 404 page errors on websites.

First I would make sure the response code is indeed 404, then I would have on it some links to popular resources to keep the user on the site. This way you can also lower bounce rate.

Or you can get creative with it and post something funny on it and you can submit it to funny/creative page lists like http://fab404.com/.

Google Recently launched Panda and many big businesses got badly affected by it, did any of your sites got affected by it.

No, actually some sites actually improved their traffic. Even for online shops I recommend them to write good product descriptions in order to get better rankings, copying a product description wont make you rank higher, you should add more value to it such as a review or.

Must Read: SEO Tips From the Experts [Infographic]

It’s good to monitor your rankings in order to detect a penalty as early as possible and take action. If your rankings drop because of an algorithmical I recommend visiting Search Engine Roundtableto find out what could be the cause.

What is the reason behind your Blogging success ?

Targeting good keywords, catchy titles and promoting the articles, you can’t just rely on search engine traffic, and then hope someone will link to them.

Many popular blogs today were very active in promoting themselves. Wordstream is a great example and here you can see the strategies and methods they used in order to increase their traffic.

According to you, what are the best ways to promote a Blog?

Social media and SEO for me are the best ways to promote a blog. If you don’t have many followers you could reach out to influencers in your niche to give you a boost.

Also websites like Reddit, Digg and Stumbleupon are a great way to get a boost in visitors.

How you are building relationships with your Readers? How you make them stick on your blog?

The way I accomplish this is by trying to make interesting content so hopefully they will remember the website and return to it. Another way is to offer them a reason to follow us on social networks or subscribe, for example you can offer some exclusive content available only to subscribers.

Penguin Proof, Panda Proof link building – Do those things exist? (I’ve been seeing link builders package or talk about this one on their services offered)

I would suggest to keep away from automatic links since it might be harmful in the long term if it doesn’t comply to Google’s guidelines.

Recently even churn and burn sites aren’t as effective as they used to be, so I recommend people to have a long-term strategy and build a brand through your website. Also removing spammy links can take a lot of time and effort.

What is your biggest success & failure in SEO? Please share with us.

Success in SEO is usually slow and steady, this is how you win this race. I guess one of my biggest success would be removing penalties for several clients.

And one of my biggest failures is not realizing sooner the importance of good content and actively promoting it. The benefits of it is not only the direct traffic but also the increase in SERPs.

Why do you think Online marketing industry would sustain your interest in the long haul?

It’s something I enjoy doing and it’s a growing industry. We’ve also seen a major shift of the marketing budget from offline advertising to online campaigns.

Online marketing offers a better audience targeting and detailed reporting, which means more value for the money our customers spend as compared with traditional media and offline advertising in general.

As long as there will be a need for more profits, there will also be a need for industries that can make it happen such as online marketing.

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Robbie Richards is a intellectual marketing practitioner who runs his own agency. He really knows his stuff in SEO and I met him at DMSS Bali 2019 event and he was speaking there, we met & I gave him my book, he really liked it, we sat down for a interview and he talked about SEO strategies for new websites.

Over the last 6+ years, Robbie have built and executed successful search marketing campaigns for hundreds of companies, from small local businesses all the way up to Fortune 500 brands.

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Jitendra Vaswani

Jitendra Vaswani is a Digital Marketing Practitioner & international keynote speaker currently living digital nomad lifestyle and founder of  internet marketing blog BloggersIdeas.com & Digital Marketing Agency DigiExe. During his more than 8 years long expertise in Digital Marketing, Jitendra has been a marketing consultant, trainer, speaker and author of “Inside A Hustler’s Brain : In Pursuit of Financial Freedom” which has sold over 20,000 copies, worldwide & contributor of “International Best Selling Author of Growth Hacking Book 2”. He had trained 10000+ digital marketing professionals till date and has been conducting Digital marketing workshops across the globe. His ultimate goal is to help people build businesses through digitization make them realize that dreams do come true if you stay driven.  Investor in
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