How to Make Money with Yahoo Groups by Rick Kirkham
As I was considering the purchase of a virtual advertising suite, I realized Yahoo Groups offered almost everything the virtual advertising suite was offering. Here are some of the features of Yahoo groups and how you can use them to help make money....
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How to Make Money with Yahoo Groups
As I was considering the purchase of a virtual advertising suite, I realized Yahoo Groups offered almost everything the virtual advertising suite was offering. Here are some of the features of Yahoo groups and how you can use them to help make money....
That's right, you can offer a subscribed newsletter, promote the newsletter and gain more prospective clients to whom you may supply with information as well as promote your goods and services. Yahoo takes care of the double check to make sure the subscribers actually did subscribe and, though some users attempt to make work for the group owner, unsubscribe information can be found at the bottom of every email that goes out.
Some
people, especially my primary niche group martial arts, aren't
interested in monetizing their yahoo group. Some even get upset
with the common signature file found in almost all out going
emails conveying everything from jokes to legal information. Most
group owners however have families of their own and don't fault
established group members for making a living.
When I discovered how difficult it was to find a Yahoo
group that would allow me to make book announcements for my
bookstore, I simply started my own group Martial
Arts Ads and Discussion. I was brand new to Yahoo groups at
the time and didn't realize, much like forums, you need to
establish yourself as a member before suggesting products or
services.
The opportunity to network and even make good
friends that you've never even met face to face is much greater
with the discussion feature as opposed to the newsletter function.
There's a greater chance for leaks monetarily speaking. Users
mentioning products you yourself may not be associated with, but
as an online marketing friend of mine said, "Give people what
they want and eventually you'll get what you want.". In your
discussion type group, don't spend all your time trying to sell.
Share and receive good information, network, make friends, then
make sales. It's a longer process but you stand a greater chance
of a life long customer as opposed to a quick sale. I must admit
my favorite part is the martial arts discussions themselves and
getting to know fellow martial artists.
Just
like the virtual
office for which I was going to pay $20.00 per month (older site might still
try this other one as of writing this got a free version and a $10.00 version), you can allow guests to add their
links.
Make sure you set up both messages and links so the public
can view them. Otherwise the search engines will not be able to
crawl them and your guests will not be benefited by back links in
group emails, messages or links.
Even though you set this
up for public viewing, guests must first register and be logged
into your group in order to add links and send emails. Thus you
may contact them with your offers.
You may use the files section, not only as storage for you and or your guests, but additionally as a means of sending automatic messages upon registering, leaving, banned, applying, every two weeks or every month. You can make these html messages, by uploading a web page or text messages. I do not believe text is hyperlinked by the way. Also if you are going to send html messages make sure you allow attachments in your group.
Like almost all Yahoo functions the calendar may be turned off, used by moderators only or used by you and your guests. One item lacking in Yahoo groups that the virtual ad suite has is secrenous emails to give lessons or sales pitches. Most good sales pitches providing a lesson first by the way. Recently I realized, though you cannot set an order of first to last, you can setup articles as calendar reminders so your guests can get different content automatically on different days of the week. Your guests must not have No Email selected in order to receive your articles. As of writing this I have yet to implement this idea. I have a safelist in Yahoo where guests are allowed to send each other advertisements. I believe I'll offer this function to these guests.
Final Tips
The
description should contain the keywords you'd like potential
guests to find when searching in the Yahoo database. Don't forget
to allow your group to be in the database so potential guests can
find it. A picture is worth 1000 words so be sure to include an
interesting picture that can be uploaded. Html is allowed in the
description. I use it to link to the appropriate sections of my
website. Use a blank target so a new window will open to your web
page so your guests will still have the opportunity to join your
Yahoo group without having to back track (never assume guests no
how to do that).
Be sure to add an appropriate link in the
section which allows you to do so. It will help to create more
back links to your site thus helping your search engine ranking.
If anyone has any questions feel free to join
one of my free Yahoo groups and send me an email .
About
The Author
J.
Richard Kirkham has been in sales related fields for over 25
years. Over half of that time in a health
related field. He's a dual
certified teacher and martial
arts instructor. He has expertise in alternative teaching
methods and positive reinforcement methodology. He's written
several books in the printable electronic format and has made
downloadable videos and DVDs and has published software.
His
latest release is The
Universal Affiliate Page Maker. A program so simple beginner
marketers may use it with ease to make affiliate web pages to make
the process of making money easier.
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