There are many ways to find your target market:

– Online networking is a great way to get in touch with your target market. You are already networking on Ryze, so explore other online networking venues. Yahoo groups, LinkedIn, Xing, Ecademy and others are great places to reach out to your target market.

– Publishing articles and submitting them to online directories is another great way to reach your target market. When you write articles that are of interest to your target market, your target market reads them and visits your web site. I have gotten many newsletter subscribers and web site visitors through my articles.

– Search engine optimization is fabulous for this. Over 70% of online users are using search engines to locate the products and services that they need. This means that your customers are searching for your products and services every single day. You need to find the keywords that your target market uses, and make sure that your web site can be found in search engines using these keywords.

– Business blogging can be used to show your expertise, attract your target market to your blog and get more search engine traffic.

The FREE Tutorial, How To Market Your Coaching Business discusses different online marketing methods to reach your coaching target market online.

However, it is not enough to get your target market to come to your coaching web site – you want to keep in touch with them and market to them in the future. For this purpose I recommend having a newsletter on your web site, that your target market can subscribe to.

Too many marketing things to do, not enough time to do them?

I think every business owner feels the same way – there are many things to do, but you have a limited amount of time to do them. I don’t think there is one trick to simplify everything :) (I wish there was). But there are a few tricks to save some time on marketing online:

– Prioritize your marketing. We can’t do everything, so don’t. As you are trying different online marketing techniques, see which ones are the best fit for your business, and which ones get you best results. Make it a priority to use these techniques.

– Diversify – don’t spend ALL of your marketing time on just one technique. Doing this will keep your business in front of the same groups, and might not get as much results. Learn how to apply a few different marketing techniques. This will help you gain clients from completely different groups and will expose your business to people who would have never heard of it otherwise.

– Be consistent. You don’t have to market non-stop, but you will get the best results when you do it for a short period of time every day.

– Don’t spend too much time doing it alone – get help. If you are trying to learn a marketing technique, but can’t figure it out, get help. Instead of spending months trying to figure out how to apply a marketing technique, you can get help from a marketing professional, and get it done much faster. Getting help will save you a lot of time, sanity and will let you spend your time on doing what you do best. My online business coaching program can help you do just that.

Biana Babinsky

There are two ways to increase your product sales:

1. Get more of your existing web site visitors to buy.

2. Drive more targeted web site visitors to your web site.

I would recommend doing both. Let’s see how:

1. There are many things you can do to increase sales to existing web site visitors:

– Make it easy for your web site visitors to find products they need. You can do that by having a professional and user-friendly web site.

– Make a compelling case for buying your products. Once your web site visitors find the products they need, you need to convince them that they have to buy your products. You do that by writing compelling web copy and sales letters.

– Make the checkout process easy. Even if a buyer thinks that she needs your products, she will leave your web site if the checkout process confuses her. Make the process as easy as possible.

2. Here is how you can drive more targeted web site visitors to your web site:

– By publishing your newsletter on a regular basis, and using it to drive your readers to your products pages. A newsletter is a great way to keep in touch with potential customers and increase your product sales.

– By doing search engine optimization and making sure that your products can be found in search engines. I have traced many of my own products sales to people finding them in search engines and buying them – this is a very powerful way to get new customers.

– By doing article marketing. Another one of my favorite marketing techniques. Many of my articles have been re-printed on various blogs and web sites, which increased my name recognition and sent many web site visitors to my web site.

I also recommend business blogging, holding free teleseminars and events and online networking to get more web site visitors.

The FREE Tutorial, How To Market Your Coaching Business discusses, step-by-step, how to use different online marketing methods to market your coaching business and sell more of your products online.

The concept of target market is the same for any business, whether the business is selling products or services. Your target market are people who want, need and can afford your services. Finding a good target market is the first thing I recommend that my clients do, because until you know exactly who your target market is, you can’t start promoting your service effectively.

Also, a service business does not have to stay a service business forever. Many service business owners create passive income streams by creating various products (software products, group programs, reports, e-books, audio products, etc) that they can sell on their web site, in addition to selling services. Creating products helps service business owners earn more money without having to constantly sell their one-on-one services.

Biana Babinsky

Here are some tips for you for Internet Copy writing:

– Write your copy from the point of view of your clients. This means that you need to concentrate on what your clients will get when they hire you, buy your products, subscribe for your newsletter, etc.

Use few ‘I”s and many more ‘you”s, to show your clients how they will benefit from your products. Remember, it is all about them.

– Make your web copy easy to read. Don’t go on and on, with long paragraphs and no breaks. Write in shorter sentences and small paragraphs. Use a lot of white space and subtitles to separate your web copy into small chunks. Doing this makes your copy easier to read.

Drop that jargon! While you are an expert in your field, your clients are not. Therefore they will not be able to understand your jargon.

– Use testimonials. Many people say that they bought a product online because they read lots of great testimonials about it. However, many business owners forget to include testimonials for their products.

Don’t use a testimonial if it doesn’t say great things, though, as it will do more harm than good. If you don’t like someone’s testimonial, it might just be because they aren’t sure how to write one. In this case, contact them and ask if they can change it for you. Or, re-write it yourself, and ask for their permission to use the re-written testimonial. Many times you will get permission to do so.

I will be teaching Online Copywriting Teleseminars in
January and February. The January one will concentrate
on promoting your free products to get newsletter
subscribers. The February one will be all about writing
product descriptions and sales copy for your for-fee
products.

Members of my online business coaching program, MarketingSalad.com will be able to attend the seminars FREE, so join now to attend.

Or, just subscribe to my newsletter to receive more information about the teleseminars.

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When you do article marketing, you may decide to use automatic article submission services, instead of submitting your articles by hand, or paying a virtual assistant to do that.

Here are a few tips I give my clients when they decide to evaluate article submission services:

– Look at the list of directories they submit the articles to. Are those popular directories? Are those the directories you would want to submit your articles to?

You want them to submit to popular directories, directories from which you would receive clicks and re-printings.

– Look at how they would handle your article formatting, including bolding, links, paragraphs, etc. Last year I had a customer who submitted her articles for a while, but
the links in her About Box were formatted like text, not links.

– After you use the article submission services, check each directory for the listing of your article. Use can also use search engines to check that the articles are showing up in the directories, and showing up in search engines as well.

For more information on using article marketing to get more clients online, get my Article Marketing For Profits Audio Guide. The Guide also includes a FREE bonus of my favorite Top 20 Article Submission Web Sites.

Biana Babinsky

Does marketing scare you more than anything else you can think of? Do you try to avoid marketing at all costs? Does marketing make you uncomfortable? What do you think of when you hear the word “marketing”?

Read the rest of my article Are You Afraid Of Marketing? to learn how not to be afraid of marketing and how to use it to make money with your business.

Biana Babinsky

I am sure you know how to use search engines to find the things you are looking for. You go to your favorite search engine, type what you are looking for, and search for it.

But how do coaches use search engine to make money online? They do that by making sure that their web site shows up on relevant searches. When people are searching for their products and services, their web site shows up in the search, and they earn money by being able to sell their products and services.

You can make your web site appear on relevant searches by using a process called search engine optimization, or SEO. Search engine optimization is the process of modifying web page content and meta-information to improve the search engine ranking of the page. Meta-information includes certain HTML tags (title, heading, emphasized text, keyword and description meta-tags), as well as the internal (links between pages on the same site) and external (links between pages on different sites) link structure of a web site.

To learn more about SEO, use the FREE Search Engine Optimization For Coaches Tutorial

Want to increase the sales at your online store? There are three things that you need to establish to drive traffic and sales to your web site:

– You need to have products that your target market needs, wants and can afford. Making sure that you have the right target market is crucial to your business success.

– You need to have a user-friendly web site that makes it easy for your target market to buy your products and services.

– You need to drive your target customers to your web site. In order to drive traffic, you need to apply online marketing techniques, such as search engine optimization, article marketing, business blogging and others to your web site. These techniques can be learned and are free to apply, and I recommend to my clients to use them first, and then branch out to pay per click.

Get my FREE Report, Top 5 Ways to Increase your Online Sales to learn how to sell more products online.

Biana Babinsky

Many coaches are looking for a source of customers that they can tap into every week, month or year. They are very surprised to learn that this source is search engines.

Search engines are the number one resource for consumers to research and buy products or services online. In fact, marketing studies have shown that over 70% of web surfers use search engines to locate online merchants. The ramification of this statistic is simple: if you want to reach the members of your target market you need to make sure that your business web site ranks well in popular search engines.

Search engines are the source of online customers. Every day millions of people use them to locate products and services they want to buy; if they find your web site, they will go to your web site and buy from you.

So how can you use this source of customers to direct the customers to YOU? You can get traffic from search engines by performing search engine optimization (SEO) for your web site. SEO is a crucial online marketing technique. It helps you to get your web site to appear in search engine result pages for keywords that that are relevant to your business. For example, if you are a business coach, and someone is searching for
“business coach”, it would be great for your business if your web site appears in the first 10 results.

Learn all about applying search engine optimization to your web site in the FREE SEO Tutorial. In this free tutorial, you can discover, how to get more web site traffic to your coaching web site using search engines.

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