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		<title>Sales Lead Generation Secrets - Make Money With Lead Generating Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Legg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a follow up to my last lead generation post on lead generation marketing as it&#8217;s something that has sparked a LOT of interest among my readers.

During these tougher economic times, traditional offline businesses are looking for more ways to expand their reach and gain new customers.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>This is a follow up to my last lead generation post on <a href="../lead-generation-marketing-profit-with-online-lead-generation/" target="_blank">lead generation marketing</a> as it&#8217;s something that has sparked a LOT of interest among my readers.<br />
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During these tougher economic times, traditional offline businesses are looking for more ways to expand their reach and gain new customers.</p>
<p>They&#8217;re realizing that good old Yellow Page advertising just doesn&#8217;t cut it any more.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">They KNOW they need to be online&#8230;</span> but they don&#8217;t know HOW to get online.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<h2>Help Others Generate Leads<br />
And They&#8217;ll Pay YOU&#8230;</h2>
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<p>Taking offline businesses and giving them an online presence isn&#8217;t really all that difficult - all you need to start with is a basic website and some basic on page SEO, a few backlinks and they will start getting traffic from Google.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Offline businesses are used to spending money advertising</span> in places like Yellow Pages, newspapers etc, so if you can show them a way that they can tap into the power of free traffic from Google, you&#8217;ll find many of them scrambling to write you a big fat check on the spot!</p>
<p>Infact, several years ago when I was in my marketing &#8216;infancy&#8217; I created a simple website for my Brother-in-laws business.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s in a competitive market, where each new client is worth thousands of dollars to him &#8230; annually.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">The website was little more than a 4-5 page site</span> with some basic information about the company, a few testimonials from satisfied customers, and a phone number to call for more information.</p>
<p>If I&#8217;m brutally honest, the design looked amateurish (<span style="font-style: italic;">but hey &#8230; I was an amateur back then!</span> <img src='http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> <span style="font-style: italic;"> )</span> and I knew very little about SEO.</p>
<p>After creating the site, I submitted a few articles with backlinks to the site.</p>
<p>Soon after, the site was on the front page of Google for their main keywords.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fast forward to today, and the site is #1 on Google for multiple keywords and is one of their main source of new customers</span>.</p>
<p><span style="font-style: italic;">(My brother-in-law has even had his competitors literally begging for my contact information because they wanted to pay ME to build a site for them!)</span></p>
<p>The great thing about working with local businesses is that the keywords people use to find them are very specific, typically several words long, and so are VERY easy to get good rankings for.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<h2>How To Build A Simple<br />
Lead Generating Site &#8230;</h2>
</div>
<p>Here is what I would do to create a new site for a local business&#8230;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">1) Register a domain name that is the EXACT keyword</span> they want to rank for this is typically something like www.[occupation][location].com &#8230; e.g. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">www.FederalWayDentalClinic.com</span>/org/net</p>
<p><span style="font-style: italic;">(<strong>TIP:</strong> If the .com one is gone, try .org, or even .net - so long as people are finding them through Google, it doesn&#8217;t matter what the extension is as they just have to click it, not remember it)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">2) Create a simple 3-5 page site using basic on page SEO</span> &#8230; e.g. Put keywords in the title tags, &lt;H1&gt;, &lt;H2&gt; tags, in the body of the content, in the filename of images etc.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">3) Create a series of articles and submit them</span> to different directories, linking back to the site with the keyword as anchor text. (see this post on <a href="../quick-affiliate-marketing-tips-that-wont-cost-you-a-penny/" target="_blank">affiliate marketing tips</a> for more info)</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">4) Write a simple press release and submit</span> to free press release sites, or spend $19 with WebWire.com to get a press release with 3 strong anchor text backlinks to the site.</p>
<p>Just that amount of work will usually get them on the front page of Google very quickly.  And to get them even higher, you just need to generate a few more backlinks.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<h2>How To Make Money Selling<br />
Lead Generating Services&#8230;</h2>
</div>
<p>It&#8217;s not uncommon to find <span style="text-decoration: underline;">companies spending more than $10,000 a year just in Yellow Pages advertising</span> (and who uses Yellow Page books now that Google is here??), and even more on other advertising.</p>
<p>If you could offer to build them a site that will actually bring them new customers from free traffic, and at a fraction of the cost of their annual advertising bill &#8230; do you think they&#8217;d be interested?</p>
<p>You bet they would!!</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">You can easily charge a minimum of $1,000-$1,500 for this work</span> (and you should realistically aim higher &#8230; especially once you have a &#8216;portfolio&#8217; of sites you&#8217;ve created) AND you can also charge a monthly retainer fee for updating the site, writing more articles etc.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s <span style="font-weight: bold;">NOT</span> difficult to build a professional looking site.</p>
<p>-<strong> </strong>You can get ready made professional templates from hosts like <a title="HostGator.com" href="http://cheaphostgator.com" target="_blank">HostGator</a> that are FREE for you to use (<a title="Free HostGator.com Templates" href="http://templates.hostgator.com" target="_blank">click here to see examples</a>)</p>
<p>- You can create 3-5 pages of information for the site just by writing about the company, and putting keywords in all the right places for SEO.</p>
<p>- You can write and submit an article to the major directories in 1-2 hours maximum</p>
<p>- You can write and submit a press release in the same time.  (Use the $19 WebWire.com service and you are almost guaranteed to get the press release on page #1 of Google)</p>
<p>- Add their site/business to the Google Business Center (http://www.google.com/local/add/) and get them a free listing at the top of the search results like in the image below:</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 450px; height: 421px;" src="../localbiz.gif" alt="" /></div>
<p>You can easily <span style="font-weight: bold;">get all of this accomplished in a single day</span> if you&#8217;re prepared to work at it.</p>
<p>Even if you didn&#8217;t want to do the work yourself, you could outsource this for a couple of hundred dollars and keep the rest for yourself as pure profit!</p>
<p>Just one new client a week at $1,500 <span style="font-weight: bold;">gives you an income of $78,000 a year!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-style: italic;">Not bad huh? <img src='http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
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<p><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
</span>And if there&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;ve learned about local business owners, it&#8217;s that they TALK to other business owners.</p>
<p>Once you start getting results for different clients, I promise you that the referrals will come thick and fast.</p>
<p>(Here&#8217;s another really powerful tip &#8230; Offer to give clients a $100 discount if they&#8217;ll recommend you to 3 other business owners they know!)</p>
<p>So if you still believe in all the hypey &#8217;systems&#8217; and &#8216;programs&#8217; that promise you a million dollars overnight &#8230; this may not be for you.</p>
<p>But if you aren&#8217;t afraid to put some effort into building a real business, consider becoming an offline consultant.  It can be a LOT more lucrative than regular affiliate marketing and a lot LESS work!</p>
<p><strong>Don&#8217;t forget to use the comment box below to let me know what you think!  Is this something that interests you?<br />
</strong></p>
<p>To Your Success!</p>
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		<title>Lead Generation Marketing - Profit With Online Lead Generation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Legg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Lead Generation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that businesses need to generate new leads and customers to survive.  Nobody knows this better than business owners themselves.
The truth though is that most business owners don&#8217;t know HOW to generate those new customers.
With the ever increasing dominance of the search engines compared to typical &#8216;phone books&#8217;, more and more businesses are starting [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everyone knows that businesses need to <a title="generate new leads" href="http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/internet-lead-generation-secrets-to-generating-leads-online/" target="_blank">generate new leads</a> and customers to survive.  Nobody knows this better than business owners themselves.</p>
<p><strong>The truth though is that most business owners don&#8217;t know HOW </strong>to generate those new customers.</p>
<p>With the ever increasing dominance of the search engines compared to typical &#8216;phone books&#8217;, more and more businesses are starting to realize the power of having an internet presence for online lead generation.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<h2>How YOU Can Profit From<br />
Online Lead Generation&#8230;</h2>
</div>
<p>If you have any kind of online business, whether you are a product owner, or even if your <a href="../whats-the-best-affiliate-marketing-strategy-to-make-money-fast/" target="_blank">strategy is affiliate marketing</a>, you should be trying to generate leads online.</p>
<p><strong>A list of prospects and customers is an extremely valuable asset</strong> that you can leverage time and time again.</p>
<p>If you are sending traffic directly to a salespage then a huge amount of your marketing efforts are being wasted.</p>
<p>Even with an extremely optimistic conversion rate of 5% on a product &#8230; that still means 95 out of every 100 people who visit your site will leave and never come back.</p>
<p><strong>A more effective strategy would be to send people to a <a href="../how-to-create-a-great-lead-capture-page-without-squeeze-page-software/" target="_blank">squeeze page</a> first</strong>, offering some kind of free gift &#8230; possibly a free report.</p>
<p>This way, you can capture the name and email of visitors to your site and be able to follow up with them via autoresponder as many times as you want.</p>
<p>You may experience a slight decrease in sales initially (as not everyone will optin and get to your salespage), but the people on your list will be highly tartgeted and you should find that your lifetime customer value increases dramatically.</p>
<p><strong>By testing different elements</strong> of your squeeze page, sales page, follow up sequence etc, you should be able to build a very profitable marketing funnel.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<h2>Get Paid To Generate Leads<br />
For Other Businesses&#8230;</h2>
</div>
<p>As an internet marketer, you also have many skills that offline business owners do not possess &#8230; or even understand in many cases.</p>
<p><strong>ALL businesses want new customers</strong>, and by showing local business owners how to bring their business online, you can demand very large fees.</p>
<p>The beauty of this kind of system is that, while many of the tasks may be extremely simple to someone with a little experience, to the offline business owner you look like an expert.</p>
<p>Here are just a few things you can offer to do to generate sales leads for businesses:</p>
<p><strong>1) If they have a website</strong>, offer to &#8216;optimize&#8217; it for them using relevant keywords and good on page SEO so that they can get more search engine traffic and leads.</p>
<p><strong>2) If they don&#8217;t have a website</strong>, offer to build one for them (HINT: You can use Wordpress and one of the thousands of available themes for free)</p>
<p><strong>3) If they have a website, but no list</strong>, offer to add an optin form to their site  so they can build a list, and then &#8220;manage&#8221; that list for them for a monthly fee (HINT: Use an Aweber or GetResponse account)</p>
<p><strong>4) Offer to write and submit articles for them</strong> to build backlinks to their site and help get better rankings.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<h2>Lead Generation Is NOT Hard&#8230;</h2>
</div>
<p>The truth is there are many ways to sell services to businesses.  They ALL want to generate new leads and new customers - and businesses expect to pay for advertising and promotion expenses so it can be very easy to find new clients.</p>
<p><strong>A great way to get started is to offer to create a site for free</strong> for someone you know that has a business, in return for a testimonial, or recommendation.</p>
<p>This way you get to perfect your skills and start building a portfolio at the same time.</p>
<p><strong>(BIG HINT</strong>:  If you feel you can&#8217;t do any of this, you can also outsource all of the work to people on places like Odesk.com who can do it inexpensively &#8230; You can still charge the business owner more and make money as a &#8220;project manager&#8221;)</p>
<p>Ok&#8230; so by now your heads should be overflowing with new ideas <img src='http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>All you have to do is take action!</strong></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget to use the comment box below to let me know what you think!<br />
To Your Success!</p>
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		<title>Internet Lead Generation - Secrets To Online Lead Generation Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Legg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Lead Generation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/?p=167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Internet lead generation may be a relatively new concept technologically speaking, but from a marketing point of view lead generation is a sound business practice that&#8217;s proven successful (and profitable) long before the inception of the internet.
However, the internet gives you (both large and small) the ability to reach a whole new set of customers, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Internet lead generation may be a relatively new concept technologically speaking, but from a marketing point of view lead generation is a sound business practice that&#8217;s proven successful (and profitable) long before the inception of the internet.</p>
<p>However, the internet gives you (both large and small) the ability to reach a whole new set of customers, and do so in a virtually automated fashion.</p>
<p>Even as an <a title="affiliate marketing strategy" href="http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/whats-the-best-affiliate-marketing-strategy-to-make-money-fast/">affiliate marketing strategy</a> for marketers without your own product, generating an optin list can be extremely valuable.</p>
<p>So are you doing enough to build your business?</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Explode Your Business With<br />
Lead Generation Marketing</h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">A list of targeted prospects is an extremely valuable asset to have.  When you are able to communicate to a large number of people, all interested in the products or services you have to offer, you can literally generate cash windfalls on demand.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">But before you start builing your list</span>, you need to make sure that you&#8217;re building it the right way and at the same time, making it easy for yourself to grow your list quickly and on autopilot.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Super Simple Online<br />
Lead Generation Tips</h2>
<p>Here are some tips to remember when trying to build your list of leads online&#8230;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 1) Targeted Traffic = Targeted Leads</span> - It&#8217;s no good sending golfers to an optin page for a needlework product!</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 2) Relationship is Key</span> - People buy from those that they know, like and trust.  With so many distractions online, it&#8217;s up to YOU to stand out from the crowd.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 3) Provide VALUE First</span> - This helps with #2 above &#8230; If you can show people the value in just being on your list, they are going to be much more receptive whenever you have an offer to mail to them.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 4) Constant Communication</span> - Things move quick online, and you have to constantly be in your prospects email box.  If you wait 3 months between mailings, chances are they&#8217;ll forget who you are.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">How To Start<br />
Generating Leads Online</h2>
<p>The first thing you need is a way to capture leads.  Online, the simplest lead capture system is an optin page (also called <a title="squeeze pages" href="http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/free-squeeze-pages/">squeeze pages</a> or lead capture page) that typically asks the visitor for their name and email address.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Depending on your market, other information can also be input</span>, although the more information you ask for, the lower your optin conversion rates are likely to be.</p>
<p>(If you&#8217;ve got no idea about the &#8220;techie side&#8221; of things, simply visit this page which contains a video on <a title="how to create a squeeze page" href="http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/how-to-create-a-great-lead-capture-page-without-squeeze-page-software/">how to create a squeeze page</a>.)</p>
<p><strong>You&#8217;ll also need a service such as Aweber.com or GetResponse.com</strong> to store and maintain your database of leads.</p>
<p>While it may be tempting when you&#8217;re starting out to use the &#8216;free&#8217; options here, I would highly recommend that you do NOT.</p>
<p><em>Speaking from my own personal experience, the free services are free for a reason &#8230;they simply don&#8217;t work well.  And it&#8217;s even worse when one of these free sites goes out of business and shuts down their site&#8230; along with your entire list</em> <img src='http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':-(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Once you have the optin form in place, it&#8217;s simply a matter of driving traffic to that page</span>. You can use whatever traffic sources you like for your internet lead generation e.g. article marketing, ppc, but whatever you do, make sure that it&#8217;s targeted traffic!  (Visit the following page for a video on how to start <a title="get search engine traffic" href="http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/how-to-get-free-targeted-traffic-to-your-website/">getting free search engine traffic</a>!)</p>
<p>Before you go &#8230;</p>
<p>Use the comment box to let me know your thoughts on this blog post.</p>
<p>I enjoy making these training posts and videos, but want to make sure that they&#8217;re useful for people reading them so leave a comment below and let me know what you think!</p>
<p>To Your Success!</p>
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		<title>What&#8217;s The Best Affiliate Marketing Strategy To Make Money Fast?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Legg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Affiliate Marketing Tips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/?p=139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people start out trying to make money online through affiliate marketing, but unfortunately most people lack a reliable affiliate marketing strategy - a &#8220;plan of action&#8221; that they can follow (and more importantly .. stick to!)
If you are going into any kind of business, whether it be online or offline, a plan is absolutely [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many people start out trying to make money online through <a href="../quick-affiliate-marketing-tips-that-wont-cost-you-a-penny/">affiliate marketing</a>, but unfortunately most people lack a reliable <strong>affiliate marketing strategy</strong> - a &#8220;plan of action&#8221; that they can follow (and more importantly .. stick to!)</p>
<p>If you are going into any kind of business, whether it be online or offline, a plan is absolutely essential if you want to increase your chances of succeeding.</p>
<p>So before you do anything else, I want you to ask this question of yourself&#8230;</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">What&#8217;s YOUR Affiliate<br />
Marketing Strategy??</h2>
<p>Unfortunately, I see far too many people desperately trying to make a few extra bucks online and failing miserably.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">This isn&#8217;t always the fault of the affiliate marketer</span> &#8230; It&#8217;s often the fault of the person &#8220;teaching&#8221; them.</p>
<p>How many times have you seen a clickbank product with an affiliate tools page that just gives you a link and tells you to &#8220;use it&#8221; and you&#8217;ll make hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in commissions?</p>
<p>Sounds easy, huh?</p>
<p>If you want to give yourself the best chance of success, you need to sit down and think through your process before you waste time sending spam emails to friends and family, trying to convince them to buy the next big thing.</p>
<p>Here are a few things to consider &#8230;</p>
<p><strong>1) </strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">What market are you going to promote?</span> Is it a market you know about and can write about?</p>
<p><strong>2) </strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">What product are you going to promote?</span> Does it have a professional appearance, a record of good conversions, and good reviews online?</p>
<p><strong>3) </strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">Are you going to do a direct promotion?</span> You should consider sending traffic first to one of your <a href="../free-squeeze-pages/">squeeze pages</a> so you can build a list and follow up with your leads.</p>
<p><strong>4) </strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">How are you going to drive traffic?</span> Are you going to use pay per click (Google Adwords) or are you going to focus on getting <a href="../quick-traffic-tips-to-get-your-first-1000-visitors-free/">free traffic to your website</a>?</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Plan Your Way To<br />
Affiliate Marketing Success&#8230;</h2>
<p>It may not sound very &#8217;sexy&#8217; or fun, but developing a good affiliate marketing strategy is not only going to give you a better chance of actually making money, it&#8217;s also going to make it easier for you to work.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Once you have a set of instructions or blueprints to follow</span>, you no longer waste time sitting at your computer, wondering what to do.</p>
<p>Remember, if you want this to be a successful business you have to treat it like a business - and that may mean coming up with your own business plan.</p>
<p>If you find difficulty doing this, imagine that you were going into see your bank manager to ask for a loan.</p>
<p>This is a great excercise because it FORCES you to think in terms of having a real business.  After all, would you go into a bank, looking for a business loan to just &#8220;sell stuff&#8221;? <img src='http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Affiliate marketing *is* a great way to make money online</span>.  Even as a product owner myself, I put a lot of focus on promoting other products as an affiliate, but you need to know how, what, where and why you&#8217;re promoting a particular product.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What Are YOUR Favorite<br />
Affiliate Marketing Tips?</span></h2>
<p>One of the reasons I enjoy writing and sharing content like this is I know I&#8217;m helping people get over many of the hurdles with starting online.</p>
<p>But if YOU have your own suggestions or comments to share with others, whether tips and tricks, or things you are doing, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">feel free to share them using the comment box below</span>.</p>
<p>They say two heads are better than one &#8230; so imagine what 10, 20 or even 100 heads could come up with!</p>
<p>To YOUR Success,</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>&#8212; UPDATE &#8212;</strong></p>
<p>I just watched this free video on a really cool technique for making more money with affiliate promotions (or even your own products).   It is a &#8220;pre-launch&#8221; video for a product but the free content is REALLY good and something that you can start applying today.  Click the link below to watch it &#8230;</p>
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		<title>Best Free Squeeze Page Templates - What Should YOU Use?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 21:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Legg</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A squeeze page is an invaluable tool when it comes to building your own list of targeted prospects in any kind of market online and in order to build your list as quickly as possible, you need to use a <a href="http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/what-is-the-best-squeeze-page-template-to-use/">squeeze page template</a> that converts the maximum number of visitors into leads.</p>
<p><strong>So what are the elements you need</strong> to consider to create the best squeeze page template possible?</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Short Squeeze Page Templates&#8230;<br />
&#8220;Optin or Leave!&#8221;</h2>
<p>Some people prefer to use a short squeeze page that has a few bullet points (or a video) and then an optin box to the side.   The types of squeeze page templates have all of their content &#8220;above the fold&#8221; so that the user does not have to scroll down to optin.</p>
<p><strong>The benefit of this template</strong> is that the desired action for the user is clear - they can either optin or leave.</p>
<p>A potential downside to this is that you may not have enough space to adequately &#8220;sell&#8221; the optin by explaining how the user will benefit by opting in.</p>
<p align="center"><img title="short squeeze page template" src="http://richard-legg.com/blog/squeeze1.jpg" alt="short squeeze page template" /></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Longer Templates &#8230;<br />
&#8220;<em>Sell</em> Them on Your Freebie&#8221;</h2>
<p>The opposite to the short template is a longer one with more sales copy explaining to the user just what they can expect after opting in.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Make the squeeze page 2-3 pages long</strong> (or even longer) typically.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Place the optin form at the bottom</strong> of the &#8217;salespage&#8217;.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>An advantage of this is that you can get higher conversion rates</strong> because as people read through your copy, they can become more excited by what you are offering, and be more compelled to give you their name and information i.e. you will get much more optins from people who take the time to read your page.<br />
A dis-advantage to this design is that your sales copy needs to be good enough to keep people wanting to read and scrolling all the way to the bottom.  If they get bored and never make it to the bottom, they wont see your optin box and wont sign up.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img title="long squeeze page template" src="http://richard-legg.com/blog/squeeze2.jpg" alt="long squeeze page template" /></div>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">The Best Template For Maximum<br />
Optin Rates??</h2>
<p>Consider using a mixture of the two &#8230;</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Use a short video and optin form</strong> at the very top of the page for people who want to sign up immediately.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Below this, have some longer copy</strong> that explains the benefits in a little more detail, along with another optin form at the very bottom.</li>
</ul>
<p>This optin page template gives the user two opportunities to sign up, and helps maximize your conversion rates.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">The Only Way To Guarantee<br />
High Conversions &#8230;</h2>
<p>The only real way to know which one is going to perform better is to test each one against the others.  Only when you have real results will you know which is going to be best for your market and audience.</p>
<p>If you need help creating the optin page from scratch, make sure to read my post on <a href="http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/free-squeeze-pages/">free squeeze pages</a>.</p>
<p>Other elements you can test include:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Adding your picture to the page</strong> (to increase trust)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Adding your signature to the page</strong> (as above)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Adding graphical elements</strong> to make the site look more professional, and to show people what they are getting i.e. image of the free report.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Using strong calls to action</strong> and graphical cues to lead the users eyes to the optin form.</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Download Your Free<br />
Squeeze Page Templates&#8230;</h2>
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<p>To YOUR Success,</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 20:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Legg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Goal Setting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Working for yourself is not always as easy as it sounds.   Staying focused and motivated can be difficult but you should always be working towards a goal, whether that be trying to increase website traffic or build a squeeze page for your site.
Goal setting is something most people forget about and is just one of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Working for yourself is not always as easy as it sounds.   Staying focused and motivated can be difficult but you should always be working towards a goal, whether that be trying to <a title="increase website traffic" href="http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/how-to-get-free-targeted-traffic-to-your-website/" target="_blank">increase website traffic</a> or <a title="create a squeeze page" href="http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/how-to-create-a-great-lead-capture-page-without-squeeze-page-software/" target="_blank">build a squeeze page</a> for your site.</p>
<p><strong>Goal setting is something most people forget about</strong> and is just one of the reasons why so many people fail to have any kind of success online.</p>
<p>You NEED to have a plan of action, and a series of steps to take you where you want to go.  Just like with any road-map, you need complete directions, distances and specific locations you need to get to.  Anything less and you won&#8217;t make it to your destination.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Download Your Free<br />
Goal Setting And Business<br />
Success Training.</h2>
<p>Recently I was fortunate to interview two of my marketing friends who are also experts in their individual fields.</p>
<p><strong>Richard Butler</strong> is from Ireland and is a business (and life) success coach who helps people set real, achievable goals and works with people to bring those goals to fruition.</p>
<p><strong>Terry Telford</strong> is an expert internet marketer and speaker who&#8217;s focus is on teaching people the fundamentals of marketing and breaking it down into such a way that anyone can follow to be successful.</p>
<p>During the course of the interview, Richard shared some of his best tips that YOU can use to start setting real goals for your own business to give you the direction you need.  Terry also shared some of his tips for creating websites that make people WANT to buy from you.</p>
<p>You can download the MP3 of the call from the link below, as well as a free goal setting &#8220;worksheet&#8221; than you can fill out to assess your own goals and create steps to help you achieve them.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://richardlegg.s3.amazonaws.com/webinars/RichardAndTerryCall.mp3">Right Click Here To Download The Call</a></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Need Step By Step Coaching?</h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">Richard and Terry have also put together a step-by-step training and coaching program for anyone who wants to learn how to build a successful business online.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">As well as in depth video training, they also provide weekly live coaching calls to answer any of your questions that you may have.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Places are limited (and going fast at their special price) but you can grab your spot with the link below:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.iclickuniversity.com/richard" target="_blank">Click Here To Get In-Depth Training And<br />
Personal Coaching From Richard And Terry.</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<p style="text-align: left;">Make sure to go through the call right now and take notes.  I promise if you follow the steps they outline, it will help your business.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Don&#8217;t forget to comment below and let me know if you want me to do more calls like this!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<p style="text-align: left;">To Your Success,</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
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		<title>Free Squeeze Pages - How To Build A Squeeze Page For Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 18:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Legg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[How To Create A Squeeze Page]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/?p=69</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Having to create a squeeze page is something that many beginners fear for one reason or another.  Whether it be the technical side of things of creating and uploading the squeeze page, or perhaps not even knowing what to put on the page.
But if your goal is to build a targeted list of prospects [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Having to <a title="create a squeeze page" href="http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/how-to-create-a-squeeze-page-that-sucks-in-leads/">create a squeeze page</a> is something that many beginners fear for one reason or another.  Whether it be the technical side of things of creating and uploading the squeeze page, or perhaps not even knowing what to put on the page.</p>
<p>But if your goal is to build a targeted list of prospects in your market, then you need to have some way of capturing the information.</p>
<p><strong>The good news is that once you know how to make a squeeze page, </strong> it becomes almost second nature to do it again and again everytime you need to.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re just starting out from scratch, here is the process you need to follow to build a squeeze page that sucks in leads.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Choose A Squeeze Page Design<br />
That Makes YOU Want To Optin.</h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you&#8217;re to have any chance of getting people to optin, you need a squeeze page design that motivates people to want to learn more.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Some of the best lead capture page templates are simple forms that offer the reader only one choice - &#8220;optin or leave!&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Simplicity is also key to getting good conversion rates.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>*AVOID* things like:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Multiple navigation links on the page</strong> - this just confuses your prospect.</li>
<li><strong>Multiple calls to action</strong> e.g. trying to get them to do more than one thing.  The one goal should be to optin.</li>
<li><strong>Making your message difficult to see</strong> e.g. by using harsh colours, or fonts that are too large or small.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Take a look at other people&#8217;s squeeze page designs</strong> and see what attracts you to THEIR pages.  What are the elements that catch YOUR attention?</p>
<p>Consider using a similar design for your own optin page.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Only Use Squeeze Page<br />
Elements That Increase<br />
Your Conversions.</h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">Often when creating an optin page, people will include elements that <em>they</em> think look pretty, or cute, or clever but they don&#8217;t test whether or not it affects conversion.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Your primary goal with your squeeze page</strong> is to get people to optin, and you should only include elements on your <a title="free squeeze pages" href="http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/free-squeeze-pages/" target="_blank">free squeeze page </a>that help you do that e.g. fancy graphics may look nice, but they may take people&#8217;s attention away from your message.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Things that can help conversions include:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Strong headline </strong>- Something that grabs the readers attention.</li>
<li><strong>Video/audio</strong> - Video especially can be a powerful communication tool, and people are often more willing to watch a short video rather than read a bunch of text.</li>
<li><strong>Arrows or graphics highlighting the optin box</strong> - These help make the call to action clear and draw the readers eye so they know exactly what they should do.</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">How To Create A Slick<br />
Squeeze Page In<br />
Under 10 Minutes&#8230;</h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">If you&#8217;re looking for instructions on the step-by-step &#8220;how to&#8221;, check out this video on <a title="how to create a squeeze page" href="http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/how-to-create-a-great-lead-capture-page-without-squeeze-page-software/" target="_blank">how to create a squeeze page</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Remember, once you&#8217;ve created one squeeze page</strong>, you can use the same basic template over and over again to make as many as you like.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Don&#8217;t forget to test different designs to see what works best for you.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Video squeeze pages have worked well for me in the past and even if you don&#8217;t consider yourself to be the next Steven Spielberg, you can always create a short powerpoint presentation of your main product benefits and turn that into a video.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The important step is to actually take action, try new things and measure results until you&#8217;ve made it as effective as it possibly can be.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Download Your Free<br />
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<p>To get 2 free professionally designed squeeze page templates that will help you rapidly build your list on autopilot, simply enter your name and email in the box below.</p>
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		<title>How To Create A Squeeze Page That Sucks In Leads</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Legg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When you go to create a squeeze page, you need to make sure that you have a clear offer for the visitors/prospects who are going to be landing on your site.
The sole purpose of the squeeze page should be to capture leads and nothing else.  That means if you want to maximize your conversions, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you go to create a squeeze page, you need to make sure that you have a clear offer for the visitors/prospects who are going to be landing on your site.</p>
<p><strong>The sole purpose of the squeeze page</strong> should be to capture leads and nothing else.  That means if you want to maximize your conversions, don&#8217;t include other distractions on your squeeze page such as Adsense ads or long lists of links to other pages on your site.</p>
<p>The more options you give people, the less likely it is that they will complete the one you want.</p>
<p>This post will give you some tips on what elements you need to include on your site for maximum response.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t know how to setup your optin page, check out this post first: <a href="http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/how-to-create-a-great-lead-capture-page-without-squeeze-page-software/">How To Create A Squeeze Page</a></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Use a Strong Headline to Grab<br />
Their Attention and Keep It&#8230;</h2>
<p>In order to get people to optin to your lead capture page, you first need to stop and get their attention long enough for them to read your marketing message.</p>
<p>The headline is likely going to be the first thing they see.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Your squeeze page headline</strong> <strong>should be big</strong> and bold so that it stands out.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>It should be benefit driven</strong>.  Focus on the main benefit that your product/service/report will give to the end user.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Decide on your visitor&#8217;s biggest problem</strong> and how it can be solved, and make these part of the headline.</li>
</ul>
<p>A good headline will grab their attention and get them reading the rest of your page.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">List Benefits That Get Them<br />
Begging To Know More&#8230;</h2>
<p>Your squeeze page should ideally be getting someone to optin in exchange for more information, or a free report.</p>
<p><strong>Giving away something for free</strong> will help increase conversions, but you can also increase them more by building extreme value in the prospects mind.</p>
<p>List out the main benefits that the user will get from opting in.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Make it an irresistible offer</strong> so that they would be insane to pass up getting the report that you are giving away.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Focus on the wants, needs and desires</strong> of your prospect.  Always let them know what&#8217;s in it for them.</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Use a Strong &#8220;Call to Action&#8221;<br />
That Gets Them Scrambling<br />
to Optin&#8230;</h2>
<p>People often need to be told what to do.  This is particularly true on the internet where people are distracted easily and bounce around from site to site, often without any real purpose.</p>
<p>If you want someone to enter their name and email address TELL them to enter it.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Repeat the call to action if you need to</strong>, but make sure that somewhere on the page you show people what you want them to do.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Include arrows or other graphical elements</strong> to show people where they need to enter the information.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Make the call to action clear</strong>.  (Again, your squeeze page should only have ONE main call to action i.e. getting the optin)</li>
</ul>
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<li><strong>Use a short video on your page</strong>, end the video by telling them to optin, include an arrow that shows them where the optin is.</li>
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<li><strong>Make the end of the video be a live &#8220;demo&#8221;</strong> of how to fill out the form - just record your screen as you do it so there is NO confusion on what needs to be done.</li>
</ul>
<p>See this post for hints on some of the best <a href="http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/what-is-the-best-squeeze-page-template-to-use/">squeeze page templates</a> to use.</p>
<p>All of these elements can add up to give you the best possible squeeze page that sucks in leads and gets them salivating for more information!</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Download Your Free<br />
Squeeze Page Templates&#8230;</h2>
<p>To get 2 free professionally designed squeeze page templates that will help you rapidly build your list on autopilot, simply enter your name and email in the box below.</p>
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<p>To YOUR Success,</p>
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		<title>More Search Engine Traffic &#8230; The EASY Way!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Legg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Traffic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re looking for free traffic, there is no better source than search engine traffic.  I&#8217;m a huge fan of getting all the free traffic I can from search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Even though it involves consistent work (and often patience as well) it can be a much less risky way to generate [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re looking for free traffic, there is no better source than search engine traffic.  I&#8217;m a huge fan of getting all the free traffic I can from search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.</p>
<p><strong>Even though it involves consistent work</strong> (and often patience as well) it can be a much less risky way to generate super targeted visitors to your webpages.</p>
<p>With this post I wanted to show you a really quick (and easy!) way to get MORE traffic from Google.</p>
<p>(If you don&#8217;t know anything about SEO, then you should read this post on how to <a title="get search engine traffic" href="http://www.richard-legg.com/blog/how-to-get-free-targeted-traffic-to-your-website/">start getting search engine traffic</a> first.)</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">The Easy Way To Increase<br />
Search Engine Traffic</h2>
<p>I&#8217;m not going to lie to you.  Search Engine Optimization DOES require work &#8230; BUT &#8230; There are ways to cut down your work load and focus on things that you KNOW will get you results.</p>
<p><strong>By examining your current SEO &#8216;assets&#8217;</strong>, you can quickly and easily find the right keywords to target, and exactly where to target them.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to show you one of my favorite ways of getting more search engine traffic, with minimal amount of effort.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Step #1 - See Where The<br />
Traffic Is Coming From</strong></h2>
<p><strong><br />
</strong></p>
<p>If you&#8217;re serious about SEO you simply MUST be tracking where your traffic is coming from, and how it is getting to your site.</p>
<p><strong>One of the best free tools that I use</strong> is Google&#8217;s Analytics (www.Google.Com/analytics).  You simply paste a piece of code into your site and it gives you a wealth of information on your site&#8217;s performance.</p>
<p><strong>The &#8220;Traffic Sources Overview&#8221; shows you</strong> in graphical format where your traffic is coming from.  For example, in the screenshot below, you can see that my site is getting almost a third of the traffic from the search engines.  To see exactly what keywords are generating this traffic, simply hit the &#8220;View Report&#8221; link at the bottom.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone" title="Google Analytics" src="http://richard-legg.com/blog/blog1.jpg" alt="" width="425" height="235" /></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Step #2 - What Keywords<br />
Are Bringing You Traffic?<br />
</strong></h2>
<p>By looking at the keyword report below I can see that most of the visits are coming from people searching for my name, but the second highest performing keyword is the phrase &#8220;how to create a squeeze page&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>This is one of the many training posts</strong> (just like this one) that I post to my blog on a regular basis.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone" title="Keyword Report" src="http://richard-legg.com/blog/blog2.jpg" alt="" width="425" height="206" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Now that I know what keywords are bringing me traffic</strong>, I want to see if I can improve the performance.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Step #3 - Find Out<br />
Where You Rank<br />
</strong></h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">The next step simply involves going to Google and typing in that exact search phrase and see where my site is ranking.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">From the screenshot below, it&#8217;s telling me that my blog post is #4 out of over 7 million for that keyword phrase.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone" title="search engine rankings" src="http://richard-legg.com/blog/blog3.jpg" alt="" width="425" height="454" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>I know that being in position #4 is bringing me traffic</strong>, so it&#8217;s a pretty safe assumption that moving up in the search engines will bring me even more traffic.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Step #4 - Build Backlinks<br />
</strong></h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">This simple procedure took me less than 5 minutes but now I know a lot of useful information &#8230;</p>
<ul>
<li>I know what KEYWORDS are bringing me traffic.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>I know what PAGES that traffic is going to.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>I know what RANKING those pages have for those keywords</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: left;">All that needs to be done now to increase rankings and get more traffic is build backlinks to those pages, with that keyword as the anchor text.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<strong>The benefit of this system is</strong> that it removes ALL the guesswork.  By the end of it you know exactly what to do, where to do it, and WHY you&#8217;re doing it.  And you&#8217;re not wasting time on something that&#8217;s not going to work.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">After you&#8217;ve worked with one keyword, go to the next highest performing keyword and repeat the process.  Pretty soon you&#8217;ll see all of your high performing pages moving rapidly up the search engines.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Be sure to leave a comment in the box below</strong> to let me know what you think about this post.  I&#8217;d also love to hear some of your results once you start using these tips!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">To YOUR Success,</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<p style="text-align: left;"><img class="alignnone" title="Richard Legg" src="http://www.trafficuncut.com/me.jpg" alt="" width="125" height="131" /></p>
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		<title>Top Search Engine Ranking Tips - Do You Want This Product Free?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Legg</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Increase Website Traffic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest problems faced by nearly all marketers is traffic.
When it comes to getting targeted traffic it boils down to a couple of options:
1) Pay for it e.g. with Google Adwords
2) Get it for free from the search engines
(You can also &#8220;borrow&#8221; traffic from JV partners &#8230;  but obviously you need to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the biggest problems faced by nearly all marketers is traffic.</p>
<p>When it comes to getting targeted traffic it boils down to a couple of options:</p>
<p>1) Pay for it e.g. with Google Adwords</p>
<p>2) Get it for free from the search engines</p>
<p>(You can also &#8220;borrow&#8221; traffic from JV partners &#8230;  but obviously you need to build those relationships first)</p>
<p>I personally don&#8217;t like paying for traffic all that much, so I prefer to get it for free when possible and over the years have got pretty good at learning how to get good search engine rankings.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Improve YOUR Web Site<br />
Search Engine Rankings&#8230;</h2>
<p>Recently, a friend of mine asked me to create some in-depth traffic training to add to his new product (which costs hundreds of dollars).</p>
<p>Being a higher priced course, he wanted to make sure the content was top notch and really step-by-step, so that all his customers could benefit from it.</p>
<p>The result was over 70 minutes of REAL, useful video training that anyone can use to get good search engine rankings, even on a new site.</p>
<p>I gave away some of my best secrets - including ones that have helped me get #1 rankings on Google for highly competitive keywords &#8230; within 16 hours or registering the domain name!</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://richard-legg.com/blog/screen.jpg" alt="" /></div>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Do YOUR Sites Pass The<br />
&#8220;Search Engine Ranking Test&#8221;?</h2>
<p>I&#8217;m turning this video training into a full blown product that will probably sell for $67-$97 BUT before I do, I want to get MORE feedback and MORE testimonials from people who&#8217;ve used it.</p>
<p>So &#8230; if you&#8217;re looking to get more traffic and improve search engine rankings I want to *give* you this product.</p>
<p>But &#8230;</p>
<p>There are a couple of conditions, because I only want to share this with SERIOUS people, not someone who&#8217;s going to download it because it&#8217;s free and then never use it.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>** Important Update (March 3rd 2009)&#8230;**<br />
</strong></div>
<p>Thanks to everyone who reviewed the course, the feedback so far has been amazing, with lots of reports of people getting front page rankings in a short space of time.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re only seeing this post for the first time now, I apologize that the course is not available for free anymore &#8230; However, you can get a free transcript of a 60 minute SEO mastermind call I did with marketing expert Willie Crawford.</p>
<p>Simply &#8216;right click&#8217; and select &#8220;save as&#8221; on the link below to download the PDF.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://richardlegg.s3.amazonaws.com/instanttrafficshortcuts/ScientificTrafficSecrets.pdf" target="_blank">Click Here To Download The Free PDF</a></p>
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