Free Press Releases or paid Press Releases?

If you haven’t already read my A9 process you should probably do that before you read this article as you’ll get a better understanding of the process and how I use press releases to garner more traffic.

As you may or may not already know, I always highly recommend submitting press releases (PR) in addition to all the other steps in the A9 process, but the question is which should you use, the paid PR sites such as PRWeb.com, or a host of free PR sites? Which produces better results?

A press release can cost you a couple hundred dollars if you use the paid service. So, if you are on a limited budget I would only use them when you have something that is truly newsworthy. In this case, I think it is worth the cost because it will get passed around enough that it will hopefully bring you in a steady flow of traffic. If you have an unlimited budget, then I would highly recommend using the paid service.

Since it is our goal to drive more traffic to your site, the $200 press release from PRWeb is going to be a heck of a lot better than submitting to tons of free press release sites. You really get what you pay for. The search engines place greater emphasis on site’s like PRWeb because they know that if someone is paying to post content on a site it is probably more relevant then the content placed on the free sites.

However, for me personally, if I have an article that I turn into a press release, I’m not going to pay $200 to get that out there. I would submit them to all the free locations. Articles turned into press releases aren’t newsworthy. Just remember that.
The other thing is, paid PR sites are going to have editor reviews and all this other stuff and maybe not accept your articles anyway, so that’s the other reason why I do it that way.

I would recommend occasionally paying the $200. This is essential, but only when it’s newsworthy. The rest of the time, go to the free locations and then just submit them there.

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The JV Approach Letter

JV’s or joint ventures are a popular way that businesses partner with other businesses and leverage their products and resources to make more money. According to Wikipedia.org a joint venture is “an entity formed between two or more parties to undertake economic activity together. The parties agree to create a new entity by both contributing equity, and they then share in the revenues, expenses, and control of the enterprise”.

When you approach a potential joint venture partner what you need to do is tell people exactly what the product is, how much money your splits are going to be and how they can contact you. So when I start and go through, what you want to do is say something like, “Hey, my name is Matt and I’m looking for people that are interested in promoting XYZ product which is in this niche” or whatever. Say, “I’m going to pay out this much money per product. Contact me so I can get you started making money now.” Or something like that.

Next, once we get to the point where, after I get done with the questions, submit that and guess what? I’ll send out an email to everybody and let them know about the joint venture. Once that is done you’ll probably get people to contact you and do a joint venture. But what you really need to do is start getting your marketing funnel set up. You need to have it ready just to make it easier on everybody, is write the emails for people to market the product for. If you have the product made, you need to get the sales letter up as soon as possible.

When you get the sales letter up, you need to get emails written to drive people to that page. You want to have them written so you can just hand them to your affiliates and have them send out an email with that offer to their list. It’s a really good way to generate more sales and more traffic. You should also send the same emails to your list as well. But when you do you might want to test out various versions of the emails with your list first and then you can pass along the winning emails to your partners. You may want to say something like, “Hey, here’s some emails that I’ve used for my list. They’ve worked really well. Use these.”

Once you get a few JV deals you will begin seeing an increase in both your traffic and your revenues!

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“The 3 Requirements to Making Money Online”

By now you probably know that you can use the Internet to completely change your life. You can go from being broke to being a millionaire. If you are armed with the right tools and take action then you can earn piles of cash on the Internet.

Advertising is expensive. The cost of advertising on the Internet increases each month. Therefore, you need to know how to get free advertising.

The three requirements to making money online include:
#1: OFFER – You have to have something to sell. If you don’t then how are you going to make money? Information products are great to sell online because they have very high profit margins. You can write the information product once and then sell it over and over. With physical products you don’t have this freedom.

Make something that solves and existing problem. People buy things they want, but not necessarily need. For example, look for games that are very popular right now. Figure out an instruction book that helps people play and beat these games. Then sell this information product for a great profit.

#2: TRAFFIC – You have to have a lot of traffic to make money online. You have to find people that are looking for your offer.

#3: ABILITY TO CONVERT TRAFFIC INTO CASH – This is a huge skill. You can become wealthy if you know how to obtain traffic and convert that traffic into cash.

You must get your prospects attention. How are you going to make any money if you don’t get their attention? The main way to do this is to be in the spots where they are already looking. If you advertise in a place that your potential audience doesn’t visit then you won’t make any money.

The key formula is…
Traffic + Conversions = Sales

If you know and act on this formula then you will make money online.

You need targeted traffic and the ability to convert that traffic.

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Matt Bacak

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