June 25th, 2008
Gary Huynh
Did you know that the Nintendo Wii Video Game System was first released about 1.5 years ago?
Until today, the Wii is rarely found on store shelves because every unit that is placed on the shelves is quickly snatched up by consumers. Nintendo ships very few systems to retail stores. They are intentionally increasing demand by lowering supply.
They know that anything that is in short supply has a higher appeal.
Smart marketers have used this concept with much success also. I bet you’ve bought something from a limited time sale before even if you didn’t really need the product at the time.
You may have purchased something because you’re afraid that you’ll need it later on when it’s no longer for sale. I know of several membership sites which have opened up membership for just a few days. They open up a few slots for new members and then close down again.
Each time that they accept new members, they’re sold out. In the long run, they end up having more members join than if they accepted everyone all the time.
So consider this strategy when you’re launching a membership site. If you’ve got a product to sell then consider making it limited to increase demand. You would still have to drive targeted traffic to your offer because demand can only increase if there was demand to begin with.
April 24th, 2008
Gary Huynh
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I’ve been getting into podcasting recently not only because it’s fun but also because it’s a great way to promote your sites and businesses.
With the popularity of the Ipod personal music player, you’ve probably heard the term Podcasting thrown around. This term means either an audio or video broadcast that anybody can create with a little knowledge.
When people listen to podcasts, they can click a button to listen to your audio, download the audio file to their computer or Ipod.
All you need to do is record audio using a microphone or digital recorder and then upload the file either to your own webhost or to a hosting server.
The podcast is not an audio file but rather an xml file. If you know html then xml is very similar with beginning and ending brackets to enclose certain information such as the name and description of your podcast, the location and file size of the audio file, and the date of the podcast.
Here is an example xml podcast file:
<?xml version=“1.0”?>
<rss version=”2.0”>
<channel>
<title>Choose Your Own Title</title>
<link>http://www.yoursite.com/audiofile.mp3</link>
<description>Make a description of your podcast</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>2006</copyright>
<lastBuildDate>Date Today</lastBuildDate>
<webMaster>webmastersemail@domain.com</webMaster>
<ttl>1</ttl>
<item>
<title>Today’s Headline</title>
<description>How to make money online</description>
<pubDate>Date Today</pubDate>
<enclosure url=”http://www.yoursite.com/audiofile.mp3” length=”1426573” type=”audio/mpeg” />
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
Once the file is created and uploaded to your server, you can then submit the url of the file to podcasting directories to promote your podcast.
There’s a lot more I want to cover on this topic after I get more experience. I will report back with my successes or failures so you can give it a try yourself.
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April 15th, 2008
Gary Huynh
It’s general knowledge in SEO circles that in order to get your website indexed, you need a backlink from a site that is crawled frequently by the search engine spiders.
Here are 5 sites which I have used to get indexed quickly.
1.) Craislist.org
Post an ad in one of the major cities such as San Francisco and Chicago. To get a link in your even if your ad doesn’t call for a link, you have to get creative. Use an image link and link to a 1×1 pixel image on your site. Make sure to set the image border to ‘0′ so that it doesn’t create a blue border around your image link.
Here’s a sample code for you to use:
<a href=”http://www.yoursite.com”><img src=”http://www.yoursite.com/1×1pixelimg.gif” border=0></img></a>
2.) Technorati.com
If you have a blog you can create an account here and submit your blog.
3.) Ezinearticles.com
Write an article and submit it here.
4.) Socal Bookmarking
Sign up for various social bookmarking sites and go to onlywire.com to submit your site in one swoop.
5.) Submit a press release to Webwire.com
It costs $20 but it’s worth it for creating additional buzz for your site.
You only need to use one of the above methods so take your pick.
