Archive for January 2012
Online Business – Collecting Opt-In Email Addresses
Off the Web, mail marketing is hated by customers. It’s unwanted, uninvited and stuffs mail boxes. But it’s pretty clear that it’s also incredibly popular with advertisers. Why? Because while most potential customers toss away their junk letters with barely a glance, enough take action to make it all worthwhile. They do buy–and in high enough numbers to more than cover the cost of those who don’t.
Email marketing is pretty similar, but with one important difference: on the Web, you can only send marketing emails to people who have already chosen to receive them. A bit tricky. On the other hand, because those people have already chosen to receive your emails, you can be confident that they’re going to buy.
Email is still the most popular and most used application on the Internet. It’s also an efficient means of distributing your message to large numbers of people who have requested that information. As a form of marketing, it generates high response rates–and gives you measurable results with instant feedback.
But because email marketing been so abused, it’s just not accepted any more to send emails to people who haven’t chosen to receive them. Bust that rule, and there’s a good chance you’ll be out of business. That gives you the problem of building up a list of willing subscribers.
When you’re first starting out, there’s often a temptation to simply purchase an opt-in email list. Lots of people sell them and you can easily pick up a million or so addresses for just a few bucks. But while that may appear to be a fast, easy way to build up customers, the names on the list may not be up to date, or even opt-in contacts at all. You could well find yourself inadvertently spamming.
Similarly, there are also programs that surf the Net, recording every email address they find. These will let you quickly build up a huge list of e-mail addresses–none of whose owners will thank you when you stuff their inboxes with marketing material. Forget about them; they’re not worth the effort. It’s much safer, and much more effective, to take the time to build your own list.
Online Business Systems Review – Where Are the Real Online Businessess?
From our review efforts, creating wealth for you from your own home based business is what Online Business Systems claims to offer you. This review is actually about Online Business Systems but also the idea that you need to find a SYSTEM to promote if you are looking for an online home based business.
It appears the reality of this offering is Online Business Systems is actually a back office operation of Herbalife. This info was posted on Scam.com. It went on to say that the original purchase of $39.95 consists of a video, DVD and brochure. Afterwards your contact will call you to advise you will be working with the Herbalife Company. You can then become a distributor, or get this for about $399. You then need to get your own retail site and merchant account info so their office can track you.
I have seen similar systems where you click on one thing and end up being involved in something different. That always bothered me. Why not just advertise the truth, and offer a program, with no tricky clicks and turns?
This to me is not what I would pursue based on what I assessed, because there are other systems that are a bit more hands off for the newbie. Having a system that does the “selling” for you is key, so you can work at developing your traffic building skills.
Targeted quality traffic + a system + YOU = a viable work at home business.
Remember: if your program does not have a marketing system that brings in prospects, then closes the sale, it doesn’t matter much what the product or service is.
There are many online business systems and we could spend a life time reviewing them all. One tip we’d suggest is to find one that promotes a real product that offers value to your customer. Don’t fall for those online business programs that claim to be a system but just take your money and run.
Thomas Belesis: A Paragon of Success
Greek-American Wall Street broker-dealer and John Thomas Financial CEO Thomas Belesis is one of the most popular brokers in New York. Not only is he regarded as an ace player in his field, but he is also admired by many with his unwavering passion to the equity market. Undeniably intelligent, he is one of the youngest yet most successful financial experts in New York. Added to his admirable traits is the fact that unlike any other CEOs and founders who gained wealth because they were naturally born to rich and well-off families, Thomas Belesis started from scratch and almost with nothing.
In his first years in New York, he strived so hard just to achieve what he has now and to save money for his own business. When 2007 came, he thought it was high time to build his own independent brokerage empire. Though the season may be considered as a bad timing since the equity market was going down at that time, he still pushed through with his company and believed that an excellent broker can raise the value for money now matter how low will the stock market decline.
Proving his insights right, he gradually went up the ladder of business success and served inspiration to many. Now, he is considered as one of the finest broker in the United States who empowers the workforce with two hundred in number to strive for a better customer satisfaction.
Considered as an exemplar of a businessman extraordinaire, Thomas Belesis is frequently invited to a lot of news programs such as the Fox Business News and CNBC to share his ideas and discuss the trends and updates about the stock market. Now, he is regularly speaking for various news programs about business and is called by New Yorkers as the “human dynamo” having to do all of the things he has done in just five years of being JTF’s CEO.
Presently, he has been receiving awards left and right such as the Bronx GOP Man of the Year Award by former New York mayor Rudolph Gulliani and was included in the 25 Most intriguing People of 2010 by the Greek America Magazine. He is also a recipient to numerous accolades for being one of the people who makes New York proud from coming from humble beginnings to glorious success on Wall Street.