by Robert Plank August 14, 2011

How To Make Sure Your Members Log Into Your Membership Site Every Single Day

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When you're creating a membership site, whether it's a free one, single payment or recurring membership site you need to make sure that your members login every single day to consume your content, keep the contact with you and apply whatever expense they are making. You can do this using three techniques, e-mail updates, announce upcoming content and have some kind of community.

Many membership owners overlook the possibility of e-mail updates. When I join your membership site I want you to send me an e-mail at least every few days, or every week, telling me why I should keep paying for your site, what content is new, what content may I have missed. This is very easy for you to do. Simply go to your auto responder follow up sequence and create a very short message for each week listing what new content is available, or even what existing content any member of your site should check out, then link back to the site so people can easily login.

It's just that simple, someone is a member of your site and tell them each week what they should be looking at, but also when someone logs into your site you should list what kind of content is coming up. WordPress has many plug ins and widgets that you can put on your side bar that will tell people what posts are coming up in the future. Even if you don't know how to add that kind of functionality you can add a short message at the bottom of each of your membership site posts or pages telling people, in three days I'll be posting about this subject, or in seven days I'll be posting about that subject. Just so people know what's coming up, what they have to look forward to and why they should keep paying you and logging in.

Finally, one easy adjustment you can make to your membership site is enabling comments. In WordPress you can check one box and now anyone who's used any page or post on your site can leave their own comment underneath. Don't worry you can also set it so that you have to moderate or approve each comment, you can still police the discussion, but people can now make friends and new connections with other members in your same membership site.

Be sure that your members should login to your site every week, or even better every single day, by announcing e-mail updates, letting people know about upcoming content and having some kind of community where they can interact with one another.

I'll show you step by step how to create a membership site of your very own from start to finish at www.membershipcube.com.

by Robert Plank August 13, 2011

How To Organize and Modularize Your Membership Site

When you're thinking about what content you're going to add to your one month, six month, twelve month, or even longer membership site, you might be wondering how are you going to keep it all organized and how is anyone going to be able to find the information they're looking for when they login to your site and see all the content you have added. That's why I want to share three easy tips you can apply to any present or future membership site, right now, to make it more organized and easier to access.

First, group your content into modules labelled 101, 102, 103 and so on. Cross reference your content by having posts in multiple categories at the same time. Create a dashboard page and have a search widget so anyone can access all the information at any time.

One of the first things I do in a membership site is I will name the different categories or modules. For example, I might have a membership site that teaches list building, product creation and membership sites. What I will do is create a category called 101: List Building. Another category called 102: Product Creation. A third category called 101: Membership Sites. When I group my content into these categories and someone joins the site they can easily jump to the list building, product creation or membership site categories, but they can also see that I've managed to group them in a logical, step by step, order.

It's not enough to just assign your post to a 101, 102, 103 category, we also need to make it easy for people to jump to various assignments, bonuses or core training. That's when I will create categories called training, bonus and assignment. When I make a new post I usually assign it to two categories or more. I'll make a post and I'll say this belongs to the 102: Product Creation category and it also belongs to the Assignment category. This way anyone who logs into the site can view just one module at a time or view all the assignments in all the modules. That way the site is cross referenced.

One other thing that's easy to do is create a page that links to every single post and page in your site. You can get creative with this, I prefer to create graphical icons for each of my posts or categories and create a table in the page that links to the various parts of the site. This makes it easy for anyone to jump to any part of the site.

Finally, one final finishing touch, is to go into the appearance widgets menu in the WordPress dashboard and add a search box. That way if someone doesn't understand the organization of the site they can type their question in the search box and usually find the content they're looking for.

Get your membership set up correctly, the right way, at www.membershipcube.com.

by Robert Plank August 13, 2011

Should You Focus On Writing Articles, Guest Blog Posts, Magazines Or Books?

When you are writing for the web you might be wondering what should you focus on. Should you write articles, blog posts, or should you try to get your writing into magazine or full fledged books?

You should write a monthly guest blog post, a weekly article, and worry about the book and magazine stuff later.

The one piece of writing that will get you the most exposure and the most traffic is to publish what you have to say on someone else's high traffic website, and it's easy to write an article.

If you think of your writing as an article, but then published it as a blog post, it's easier to write and easy to repurpose as something else.

If you are brand new just starting out, focus on writing just an article a month, and if you can write an article a week that is even better. But, if you can write just one thing per month and then contact the high traffic blogs in your niche, you can do your best to get yourself published in one of these high traffic publications.

The good thing about being published on someone else's blog is you can introduce yourself and have an about box, or a bio box underneath that content linking back to your site.

I have published a few guest blog posts that still result in one to two affiliate sales per month from just that one blog post that took me only a few minutes to write.

In addition to writing that monthly guest blog post, you should focus on writing at least an article a week. The good thing about an article is that you can use it on your own site in addition to someone else's site. That means you can post the same article in an article directory, and post it on your own blog.

What you will find is as you write more and more articles, and put more ideas down into words - some of your articles will simply have too much information, might be too long or just of too high quality to give away for free on an article site or on your blog, and those are the best articles. Those are the ones you should save to publish in a printed magazine, or even save up for your own report or print book.

When you are thinking about focusing on articles, guest blog posts, magazines or books, you should target yourself to write at least one monthly guest blog post, create one weekly article and blog post for your site, and then save your good stuff for a book and magazine later.

Get your ideas down, create your next product, and make 100 articles as fast as you want at www.makeaproduct.com.

by Robert Plank August 12, 2011

How Many Articles Should You Write In Order To Get As Much Traffic As Possible?

When you are writing content for the internet in order to get people back to your site and fill up your blog with content, you need to write as much as you possibly can. That means a minimum of at least one new article per week, and you should make it a habit to always be coming out with new articles and also look at how many articles your competitors have. That way you have a nice goal to reach for.

It's easy for people to forget about you, whether they are your email subscribers, your blog readers, or even people who stumble across you on the internet.

It's very valuable when someone searches your niche keywords, or searches for your name and can find dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of articles or pieces of content with your name demonstrating value and teaching something.

That is why you should make it a habit to at least write one article per week. Think about it, does it take you 10 minutes to write an article, then make it a habit that every Monday the very first thing you do that day is set aside 10 minutes to write and publish an article.

Write in whatever mode works best for you.

I have written articles directly in the blog interface for WordPress, I have written articles directly in the control panel for EZineArticles, but you need to come up with at least one article per week.

Even though the first month you write an article or several articles, you are motivated to come up with many of them, but keep in mind that you are never really finished writing articles. That's okay, because you will always have new ideas and new offers to promote.

Any time you are thinking about something that you are doing or learning about, keep in mind will this make a good article. That way you can always be coming up with new great ideas to contribute to the internet and to other websites.

When you are writing this one article per week, or even better one per day, look at how many articles your competitors have. Search your niche key phrases in Google, get those people's names and look on article sites to see how many articles they have. Look at what categories you have placed your articles in on article sites, and look at the top authors.

What would it take for you to become a top 10 author in your category? What about top 5 or even first place?

When you are writing articles, write at least one per week, write consistently because you are never finished, and look at how many articles your competitors have to give you a nice goal to reach for.

I want to solve all your article writing problems at www.makeaproduct.com.

by Robert Plank August 11, 2011

How To Brand Yourself To Be Seen As An Expert In Your Niche

When you are creating an internet presence online you need to make sure that when someone does their research or homework on you, and looks up your name they get lots of search results that demonstrate that you know what you are talking about.

You can be seen as an expert by putting lots of content in article sites, in other people's blogs, have interviews, have your blog posts and create products and books.

The first thing you need to understand is that whatever your name is, unless it is a very uncommon name has tons of pages around the internet and blog posts, and tons of search engine results.

You need to make sure you rank as high as possible and you have the most content associated with your name. This means that you have a website. You should register whatever your name is dot com. You should be posting on forums, you should be writing and posting articles, and basically getting as much of your words and thoughts related to your niche online as you can.

If two people are identical and I am thinking about buying from one of them, but one has only 10 articles on article sites, the other has 1,000 articles. I am going to buy from the one that has more articles.

A very painless way to create much of this content is through interviews and blog posts. With an interview you simply find an expert in your niche. You can do this by searching on Amazon.com, searching high traffic and popular blogs in your niche, or even asking on your local niche forums, or asking your very own subscriber list.

An interview is very interesting because it has your name on it, and the person you are interviewing as well. This means that when someone is looking for this other person they are not associated with you because there are press releases, blog posts, web pages announcing this interview, and maybe even the interview itself.

Additionally, if you post on your blog on a regular basis about once a month even if it's a short blog post, these are more and more pages that have your name on them.

Nothing will help you as much as having your very own product and/or book on the market. Making an info-product is very easy, just type a report up in your favorite word processor, save to a PDF file, upload it and now you have an information product.

To have that long line as a book, you can publish with Amazon Kindle, or Amazon Create Space if you would like a physical copy.

To be seen as an expert in the field, put out lots of content, run interviews and blog posts, and put out products and books.

Get as much content as you want written in your own voice, written as fast as you want at www.makeaproduct.com.

by Robert Plank August 10, 2011

Turn A Simple Article Into A Report, Turn That Into A Blog Post, And That Into An Autoresponder Segment

When you are writing for the internet, it is difficult to decide if the idea you have should be an article, report, blog post, or auto-responder message.

When you are writing your latest tip, guide, or step by step manual which should you go for?

The answer is, you should go for all of the above.

I find that the easiest way to make writing seem fun and easy is to write anything first as an article. Think about it, if you wrote a lot of articles and you weren't sure which one's to use in your book, or to give away for free. Look at your latest 10 or 20 articles, and figure out which half are of okay or average quality. You should use this half for article marketing.

Now the half that is left over is your really good stuff, the stuff that is too good to simply give away. Now this could go into your book, but it helps to write anything to begin with. When you are thinking of it as an article, you keep it short and you do it in a short amount of time.

If you have a lot of those articles, and they are all very good and you can arrange them into a logical step by step format, now you have a report. It's very simple, just open up a word processor, or Microsoft Word paste your articles in, format the title so they look as if they are a chapter or section title and save them to a PDF.

Now you have taken your best articles and put them together as reports.

What you should do in your articles and your reports is have some kind of a message or "call to action" at the end. The call to action at the end of your article is to go to your website. The call to action in the end of your report is to go to your website as well.

When you take some of these articles or report chapters and give them away for free on your blog, they are already at your website. When you repurpose your writing for the web as a blog post, it should remind people that they should comment below the blog post. If your comments are turned off, link to whatever valid offer you are discussing.

For example, if you wrote several articles on weight loss put the best ones in the report, the okay in article sites, and save the even better ones for blog posts. You should then ask them what action they have taken, or what best weight loss tip they have recieved to try and get some kind of discussion going. If you don't have comments on, then link to your weight loss report, link to your weight loss newsletter, or link to an affiliate offer at the end of that blog post.

Robert Plank wants to help you to create articles out of thin air in a minute and a half at www.makeaproduct.com.

by Robert Plank August 9, 2011

What Length Should Your Articles, Blog Posts Or Reports Be?

When you are submitting or publishing your content on the internet size does matter. By that I mean if you have an article that is too long or too short, you won't be able to use it on many sites. Likewise if your blog post is too long or your report is too long, you will actaully lose visitors, lose traffic and lose sales and customers.

Make sure that your articles are about 400 words long, your blog posts are 100 to 1,000 words long and that your reports are 1,000 to 2,000 words long.

An article is supposed to be a quick blurb or piece of text that solves a simple problem. If you wrote a 4,000 word article it would be a very long rant or very detailed manual. We want to make sure that our articles are 400 words in length, or about two thirds of the page.

Many article sites will accept articles as low as 250 words or as long as 2,000 words but the best range is 400 to 600 words. I recommend you get your articles closer to 400 words because you want to write and publish as many articles as possible. This means you can cover more subjects and you can get more links back to your site which means more traffic for you.

Remember the length of the article does not necessarily mean it's better. I can take a 400 word article I have written and add lots of fluff and make it an 800 word article but the shorter 400 word article is better.

When you are writing a blog post you have a little bit more freedom and control. I have published blog posts that are simply lists of bullet points, or a couple of paragraphs and that's it.

The reason for this is because many people on the internet have short attention spans, and you want to accommodate them and make it easy and quick for someone to read your content so they can take whatever action you want them to take after reading that blog post whether that is clicking a link or even commenting below that blog post.

The funny thing about a blog post is it can be super long as well. For example, if you have lots of videos, images, or lists you can make a blog post that is not really meant to be read start to finish, but where people simply scroll through and pick what they want. This is why you might see gallery blog posts that say things like, the top 50 WordPress PlugIns, or the top 100 Website Designs.

The don't expect people to look at every single link, picture or video, but to scroll down, choose their favorite and talk about it in the comments below or maybe even click on the site they are linking to.

When you publish your report you have even more freedom, but I recommend that you make any report a minumum of 1,000 words. This ensures that the report is at least 3 pages long and makes it worth clicking on the PDF file and opening it up in the reader.

When a report gets to be more than 50 to 100 pages long, you are in trouble, keep it as short as possible. Think of your report in a very similar fashion to your article. People open it up, they get a step by step plan and then they are done, your report is finished.

When you are writing web content, make your article 400 words, make your blog post 1,000 down to 100 words, and make a report 1,000 to 2,000 words.

Conquer Writer's Block forever and produce an unlimited amount of content in your name at www.makeaproduct.com.

by Robert Plank August 8, 2011

Instantly Overcome Writer’s Block When You Are Writing For The Web

It's very easy to get stuck no matter how good of a writer you are and when you are about to write that latest blog post, article, report, book, or even forum posts it is easy to get stuck. But getting stuck doesn't help you. You are the most productive when you get a task done and it's done forever.

That is why to conquer Writer's Block you need to get over "blank page syndrome", you need to get excited about what you are writing, and you should write quickly exactly the way you talk.

One of the worst things you can look at when you are already stuck about what to write is staring at a black page.

Let's say you are sitting down and you wanted to put together a simple step by step guide on how to set up an email auto-responder sequence, and you look at a blank page and you have no idea where to start. That is why it's important to put something on that blank page.

I know of people who simply start typing whatever it is they begin thinking, even if it's gibberish, even if it's just the exact words that come into their head.

I know of other people who will type the outline or the thoughts, or at least the title of the article they are writing on the page so at least they are not looking at that blank page.

As soon as you put some words on your page, you are at least the first step forward to getting over that Writer's Block.

How do you start writing and keep writing?

The answer to that is simple, it's easy to write about things that you are excited about, so find some way to get excited about what your topic is. If we were talking about setting up an email auto-responder account, log into your own auto-responder and see how things are going. View some videos on YouTube and see what other people have been doing with their auto-responders, and even talk to someone about this idea you have that you are about to share about email auto-responders.

I deal with so many people who tell me that they can't write a simple article but they can talk your ear off for two, three, even four hours on end about some silly idea. If you get excited, it's easy to write something.

Finally, to make sure that you write that article or chapter to completion, write quickly and write exactly the way you talk. I know that school may have taught you to use big, fancy words, and aerobatic language but really you are going to have the easiest time writing if you write in short simple sentences, and use short words, and type exactly the way that you talk.

If you need to dictate your article, or learn how to type faster in order to type so fast you don't have time to think that is fine, but get in the habit of making your first draft your final draft and not editing any sentences.

Your writing doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to make sense.

Overcome Writer's Block for the web, put something on your blank page so you overcome "blank page syndrome", get excited about your topic, and write quickly the exact same way you talk.

Robert Plank wants to show you how to create an unlimited number of articles at 90 seconds a piece at www.makeaproduct.com.

by Robert Plank August 7, 2011

Are WSOs or Warrior Special Offers About To Put All Internet Marketers Out of Business?

One very popular way for internet marketers to make a handful of sales, get a lot of traffic, and in general test a new product in the marketplace is by making a special offer on the Warrior Forum. With this system it used to work out where you would post a private offer just for members of that forum. In other words, you might have a product for sale for $20 outside the forum and $10 in the forum.

That has changed recently because now affiliates can promote these special offers inside of the Warrior Forum. But luckily, these will not put you out of business if you do them right because this Warrior Forum is used to the $10 mentality, many of the products are low-quality and you can still market in and out of the Warrior Forum if you use this as a traffic source, as a source of lead generation.

One difficulty I have with many internet marketing forums in general is that the buyers are used to $10 products. That means if you post a $10 offer on the Warrior Forum it will convert great, you will get a lot of sales. But if you price at $30 or $100 on that forum you will not do as well. That's okay but just keep in mind that if you want to post a mass market product, especially in a forum or message board where people are not your subscribers, people have not heard of you yet you should post at around a $10 price point.

Another piece of good news is that because anything goes on internet, on many forums - many of the products that are posted are of a very low-quality that means that if you post a product that shows great results, a step by step system, a bold promise, some of your own case studies, or all the above you will convert very well.

The key is just have something that seems brand new. If you have ten hours of great training for $10 and it something you have used, others have used and gotten great results from whether that is extra money, saves time or just any problem they were having difficulty with before you will convert very well. And what you can do is then plug-in to the WSO plus system and get others to promote these offers for you as affiliates.

Even though it may seem like I said some bad things about the forum such as they will rarely buy above $10 and there are a lot of low-quailty offers, you need to look at this as a source of lead generation. Build a list off buyers, make an offer for $10 even if it seems like a ridiculous offer, even if it seems like it is priced too low, post it get affiliates to promote for then get them on your email subscriber list and promote bigger, better, and higher priced offers to them.

In order to adapt to Warrior Special Offers go to the Warrior Forum and post a $10 offer right away. Make sure you differentiate yourself from a lot of the low-quality offers out there and get your buyers on an email list so you can upsell, speak to, and market to them later.

Robert Plank will show you how to set up your website so that you can begin making money online this week at www.newbiecrusher.com.

by Robert Plank August 7, 2011

Follow Up Or Multi-Part Content Versus Stand Alone Content

When you sit down to write your latest article, blog post or report it's very tempting to add multi-part or multi-volume information.

For example, if you explain a complex step by step process such as setting up a website, you might write one article about getting a web host, one article about registering a domain name, one article about setting up a blog. These are all separate articles.

When you are limited to such a short length, you're choices are either to cram all the information into one article and then not have much to say, really only have an overview or, split up your content into multiple parts.

I am here to tell you that you need to write as if you are writing stand alone information, and that means that if you write about setting up a WordPress blog you assume someone has gone through the earlier steps without directly referencing them.

This makes it easier for you to reuse your content and when you put these together as auto-responder emails they are very easy to connect.

What you can do as well is then place these separate articles into a report and add a few sentences here and there referencing the earlier chapters so it all becomes on cohesive guide.

This might have seemed confusing, but when you first write content you should write it all so it stands alone.

There are many reasons for this. First of all, if someone comes to a blog post and you have titled it Part 3 of 6, they are either going to click over to Part 1 or give up in frustration.

You want someone who arrives on your site to begin reading immediately. In addition, many sites that accept articles and guest blog posts do not want you to have multi-part content for the same reason because what if you posted Part 3 of something on their site and Part 1 of something on your site. Now it becomes very confusing for the reader and they won't find the information they need.

Make your articles stand alone on their own.

Then what you do is if you have some kind of an email newsletter you can easily add a sentence or two at the top or at the bottom bridging the gap between the individual lessons. Here is what I mean, I mean you might have that multi-part course on which steps someone should take to set up a webiste, and they join your email newsletter, and get the edition about getting a domain name. At the end you stay tuned tomorrow because I will be sending you a message on how to get a web host. In the next email you say yesterday you learned about getting a domain name, today you will learn about web hosting and at the end of that email, you say tomorrow we will talk about a WordPress blog.

Now when you have these bridges in the content in your emails, it makes for a very nice little report and what you can do in that report is link to the various resources and even link back to chapters. For example, at the start of the blog chapter, you can link back to the chapter about getting a domain name.

The important thing is when you put content out in the wild for free to be syndicated on other sites, make is stand alone and then it is much easier to entangle the content once you use in your email auto-responder list and put it together in your report.

Find out everything you need to know about making a PDF report, setting up a download page, installing a membership site, and even making an email auto-responder follow up sequence at www.newbiecrusher.com.

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