From press releases to articles, this free report will help “jog” your memory to remind you to do the simple things that will build name recognition.

After reading this free report, you may also want to check out 50 Ways To Create Online Name Recognition.

Success During Tough Times

The following tips will be helpful to you as you create a strategy for increasing traffic to your website and gaining more from your efforts:

- Include revenue sharing opportunities or affiliate marketing efforts into your marketing strategy for your blog.

- Invite guests to ‘speak’ on your blog and comment on your posts.

- Increase your credibility by linking to article sites, forums, or other online sites where people can see articles you have authored.

- Assert yourself as an expert by citing timely data, information, and updates in your particular blog area of expertise. Stay focused on your topic.

- Read other blogs in a similar topic area and comment on those blogs. This increases your exposure and draws traffic to your website.

- Include surveys, polls, or other interactive components on your blog so people will be engaged and entertained – they’re likely to return more often to view results and participate in more interactive activities.

- Pay attention to keywords in your content. Use keywords and phrases in blog postings that people are more likely to search for using search engines.

- Use creative titles for blog posts and make sure to include keywords and phrases that will attract more traffic and search engines.

- Consider article marketing to increase your exposure across the Internet. Sites such as Ezine.com, Suite 101.com, and similar websites are good places to promote your blog through article writing.

- It is also possible that you can promote your own website or sell your own products directly from your blog. Just be careful that the products add value and do not overshadow the basic premise of blogging which is to communicate information to people for free!

As you look for ways to increase the value of your blog, use these ideas to get you started. You don’t have to spend money to find ways to expand the exposure of your blog. Creative thinking, a commitment to quality and value, and consistency in focus of the blog topic will make a difference in your success.

9 more ways you can start making money blogging today…

Industry giants know that when it comes to sales, creating a sense of urgency is absolutely crucial. The window of opportunity for making a sale is only as large as a busy reader’s attention span.

Did you know that if a customer clicks away or walks away to “think about” the purchase, he probably won’t be back?

The psychology behind making a purchase involves many complex factors, the most critical of which is feeling a need for a product. A great sales letter may make a product seem like a wonderful enhancement for the customer’s life, but the moment her mind wanders to other concerns, the sale is lost.

Your challenge is to give your readers that sense of need and bolster it with a sense of urgency. Your readers must feel that the product is needed and can help them right now, at this very moment. The luxury of “thinking it over” is one you can’t afford to give your readers!

You must avoid this sales killer!

An incredible tactic for avoiding the dreaded walk (or click!) away, is OTOs or “one time offers.” OTOs are a powerful tool because the customer is faced with the choice of either making an immediate purchase or losing the bargain.

To maximize the impact of such strategies, consider including a countdown clock to visually remind the customer that as they consider the purchase time is passing and soon they will lose their opportunity for a deal. A stark visual reminder like a countdown clock can create a tremendous sense of urgency that will definitely get customers moving!

As you may realize, hard, factual numbers make the information real to customers. The addition of real-time data demonstrating the plunge in stock as purchases are made can create a literal buying frenzy. No one wants to miss the opportunity to snag a great bargain, and the competitive element of purchasing before someone else purchases the last one is phenomenal.

Consider including a limited time discount offer to create a buying frenzy!

Don’t make the mistake of giving your customers time to think their purchase over. The minute they click elsewhere, your sale is dead!

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But for the most part, that’s all text content. Namely, articles, ebooks, reports and newsletters. While this sort of content CAN help you establish yourself as the niche expert, don’t forget about video marketing. Indeed, video marketing should be a part of your overall niche domination strategy.

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TIP: Are you an article marketer? If so, you’ll love this tip…

Instead of posting your usual two line ad in your article byline about getting a free report, let readers know that they can watch a video about the article they just finished reading! Then watch your click through rate explode as prospects rush to watch your instructional video!
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Here’s what you need to know about using video marketing as part of your niche domination strategy:

* Create videos worth sharing. The more useful, controversial, entertaining, funny or otherwise engaging your video is, the more likely it will impress your prospects. That means they are not only more likely to follow your call to action (e.g., join your newsletter list), but they are also more likely to share the video with others.

* Consider the length of your video. Make it short. People are more likely to watch (and then share) a short two minute video versus a long video. After you’ve established yourself as the niche guru, people will be happy to watch your longer videos. But if you’re still establishing your expertise, you need to prove yourself with short videos.

* Circulate your video. You can’t just post your video on YouTube.com, Break.com or other video-sharing sites and expect to get an instant rush of views. You need to promote your videos. That means telling your list about it, blogging about it, writing articles about it, asking your JV partners to tell their visitors about it and so on.

Will posting a video on YouTube instantly establish you as an expert in your niche?

Of course not – at least not with one video (but it does help). In order to discover the secrets of completely dominating your niche, take a look here http://endlessprofits.com/niche-expert-secrets.

It sounds pretty simple, right? And maybe taking more than a minute to think about what name you’re using in your niche sounds like you spent a minute and 45 seconds too long giving it consideration. But that would be mistake.

Here are the three issues you need to consider:

1) Be consistent. If you want to position yourself as an expert, then part of what you’re doing is building brand recognition for your name. But if you don’t use a consistent name in the niche, then you’re not doing yourself any favors.

This means you should use your real name as your username on blogs, forums and other social media or membership sites that you frequent.

Also, all content you publish should use the same name. Don’t go by your first and last name on one article and then later use just a first initial and a last name on a different article, as your prospects are unlikely to connect that you’re the author of both articles.

2) Associate a slogan to your name. You can help people remember you and your name by branding it with a slogan. For example, “Bill Gates, The Software Guru.”

3) Use different names in different niches. Finally, you should use different pen names across different niches. That’s because you don’t want the members of your Christian singles site to search for your name and stumble on your poker sites.

Once you work on total niche domination, the above three tips will help ensure you employ a good branding strategy. But that just leaves one question: How do you dominate your niche?

The answer: Position yourself as the ultimate authority in your niche. And you can discover these positioning and niche domination secrets at http://endlessprofits.com/niche-expert-secrets.