Steps to Getting Started with the Race2Success Community:
1. Establish your membership account
The first step to experiencing the benefits of the Race2Success Community is to establish a membership account. Click here to view a video tutorial of how to get started with your membership account.
Learning the basics of Internet Marketing can be time-consuming and sometimes cumbersome. We have shortened the learning curve by providing a few videos that offers an overview of some of the basics needed to get started with your site and generating income. Click here to view tutorial videos.
2. Learn the benefits of joining the Race2Success Community
Network with other like-minded individuals by inviting friends within the community
Form groups with individuals of similar interests and experience this powerful tool for marketing your business
Enjoy the benefits of actively participating in our forum where you can share ideas, offer assistance, and learn from others.
Purchase the best products and services to help build and grow your business
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3. Let’s setup your first blog
Once your membership account is active, the real fun begins! Click here to view the video tutorial of how to set up your new blog. Remember, your basic membership includes two free blogs.
4. Monetize your blog
Now that your first blog has been created, let’s look at how you can generate income. There are several well known techniques that you can start with; such as Google Adsense, Affiliate Marketing, and ad space sales.
Adsense is an ad serving application run by Google. Website owners can enroll in the program to enable text, image, and video advertisements on their websites. These advertisements are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-impression basis. Adsense has become a popular method of placing advertising on a website because the advertisements are less intrusive than most banners and the content of the advertisements is often relevant to the website. Google Adsense is a fun and easy way to make money. However, there is a rule in making money with Adsense. You want to:
Always read the terms and conditions as well as program policies thoroughly.
Never click on the ads on your site or Google will ban your account.
Read everything you can about Google Adsense
Optimize your site for the most enjoyable and profitable Google Adsense experience.
It does take time and hard work. Write about something you care about.
Click on other sites that are benefiting from Google Adsense.
Click on the ads if you are interested in the product or service being advertised.
Read other blogs and comment on them.
These tips will ease you into using the program and help you evade mistakes that could perhaps cost you a lot of time or money.
Affiliate Marketing is a form of internet-based marketing in which a business rewards affiliates (that would be you) for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. This is generally done by placing a link on your website; someone clicks the link and is lead to another site where they purchase a product or service. An affiliate program, also known as “referral”, “associate” or “partner” program, allows website or blog owners to earn commissions from their websites by referring people to products and services. These commissions can range anywhere between 5% – 75%.
How can you get started with making money using affiliate programs?
Sign up for an affiliate program. If you keep track of your stats and get your page views up, you just might be able to figure out successful strategies to earning substantial income through affiliate marketing.
To make money with articles that you place on websites, you will also need a variety of good affiliate links that will help to generate revenue. It is important that you know where to find affiliates and that you choose the best affiliates for you and your niche site. These companies will pay you a commission for every product sold as a result of your website referral. All you will have to do is sign up with these affiliate companies. There are many affiliate networks offering affiliate programs such as Clickbank, Commission Junction, Pepperjam Network, and many more.
5. Build massive traffic
The key to building massive traffic to your site lies in effective article marketing, social marketing, forum marketing, video blogging, link building, SEO (search engine optimization), and affiliate programs.
Article submission is the process of posting your articles to article submission sites and directories which ultimately results in inbound links back to your site, also known as backlinking. It’s a very simple and easy project to accomplish. It also plays a large role in PR (page rank). You would want as many alternative websites as you can backlinking to your blog, the search engines love backlinks, and they are promotional tactics for your online presence.
Social Media is an instrument of communication, like a newspaper ad or radio. Think of regular media as a one-way street where you can read a newspaper or listen to a report on television, but you have very limited ability to give your thoughts on the matter. On the other hand, social media offers two-way communication in which you also have the ability to voice your thoughts, opinions, and knowledge. Social Media can be a powerful marketing tool if used wisely. Some of the most common social media platforms are Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, Friendster, just to name a few. Your blog could be successful by tapping into the massive abundance of web site traffic generated through social media; however, they need to know you exist. The sign up process for these social media platforms is somewhat quick and easy and will not cost a dime to get started. Once you get started, the important point to remember is that building relationships is the key to success with social media. Building relationships is about sharing and communicating with others, not selling.
Forum Marketing is an excellent technique for not only building traffic but also establishing yourself as an expert in your field. Forums, also referred to as message boards are comprised of net savvy individuals who are generally open to making online purchases. Forums provide a way to pick up great ideas, inspire others, as well as make profitable posts that can ultimately lead a flock of visitors to your site.
Another powerful tool for building massive traffic is through video blogging, which is a form of blogging for which the medium is video. Video is quickly becoming the most effective way to reach viewers on the internet today. It offers a more engaging experience for the user than text blogging because it combines graphics, movies, audio and text; therefore, increasing the sharing of information and emotion amongst users. Video Blogging is considered one of the top SEO options used today.
Search Engine Optimization or commonly referred to as SEO is a process of optimizing your website to get as high up in the search engines as possible. The key is choosing the right keywords that relate to your website or service. When one thinks of SEO, we generally think of Google because Google counts for the vast majority of searches. When someone enters a search term into the search engine, the software displays the most relevant web pages based on the keywords they’re filed under. In most cases, it starts with the top ten results. The real challenge is trying to convince the search engines that your site is more important than any other site in your niche. If you are able to accomplish that, it would mean massive traffic to your website.
Once you have created some Social Media and backlinking, you then can evaluate where most of your current traffic is coming from. Isolate 3 traffic sources and identify what promotion is associated with it. Keep the sources that produce the desired results but continue to look for new sources.
The strategy above should help get more visitors. Take advantage of what works. You want a higher percentage of unique visitors. Branch out and search for new sources of traffic. Don’t settle on any single strategy and when you find one that work, add it and continue to search for new ones.
6. A glimpse ahead
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