I realize I just recently posted about another Marketing Contest, but no worries, this is not turning into a contest blog.

I only post contests that I feel are beneficial to your marketing efforts, and I think you’ll agree that CASH PRIZES are ALWAYS beneficial!

Mattaw from MoneyBites.com, a blog about how to earn online is giving a total of 75 to 3 lucky winners. 1st place 50, 2nd place $20, 3rd place $5.

It’s super simple to enter. Simply sign up to his RSS feed via email, write a blog post with at least one link back using the anchor text “how to earn online” and your done!

This money can very nicely be spent on many aspects of you marketing, such as Advertising, PPC, Domain Names, Web Hosting or whatever!

Never stop pushing forward!
Dennis

We love promoting marketing contests here that can really boost your marketing efforts. I have a great one for you today.

Techogy.com is holding their first ever contest and giving away$500 in prizes! Most of which is CASH sent directly to your Paypal account.

How cool is that! Think of the advertising, PPC, and whatever else you can buy to give your marketing that needed boost…and it’s FREE CASH.

Up for grabs with the cash is free domain names and web hosting…sweet!

Head on over and check it out. It’s super easy to enter, so TAKE ACTION now.

Never stop pushing forward!
Dennis

Advertising your website is a matter of dollars and sense; as in, where does it make the most sense to put your dollars?

A recent survey conducted by Marketingsherpa.com (as reported in the Marketing Report newsletter) showed that search engine optimization and in-house generated email lists rank neck-and-neck as the top performers when it comes to return on investment.

A few highlights:

• Paid search ads are favored by 49% of marketers as the highest ROI.
• In-house email lists received the top rating for ROI by 47% of those surveyed.
• 34% of marketers plan to increase their spending on search engines by 5% or more.
• Search engine optimization is growing in efficacy; 45% ranked it as a high ROI compared to 33% in 2005.
• In-house blogs are planned by 35% of marketers, compared with 18% last year.

Everyone who has a website knows, or should know, that to have sales, sign-ups or whatever; you must have traffic, but not just any traffic it has to be TARGETED TRAFFIC.

What is Targeted traffic? Simply put, it is visitors to your website that are actually interested in what your website is about.

For example, people interested in buying jewelry will find jewellery websites interesting.

I know I know, you’re thinking “duh, no kidding!” well, you’d be surprised to find out how many don’t follow the simplest of logic. How do I GET the targeted traffic? Ah yes, the 64 thousand dollar question indeed! The following are just a few of many tried and tested methods. Certainly enough to get you started…

Forums: Subscribe to forums that discuss your topic. Answer questions and join in the debates there. Become an expert in the field. Then with each article reply you write have a discreet link to your website in the signature file.