Free reports are getting more useful on the Internet nowadays. Many people who make money
online started to use them simply because it works. Reports can be in any form but no matter what the form is, a report is simply a mini e-book usually 5 to 20 pages long that contains information about a specific topic. Visitors find free reports about topics that will help them solve a problem, learn to do something or become more knowledgeable. So if you have a useful report, there will be a group of people want to read it.
Creating a report is just like creating a lengthy e-book, it involves a few steps.
Deciding a Topic
The first thing you need is of course a topic. The topic or theme you select to write for your report needed to be related to the topic of your website. You are going to offer your free report to you visitors, so the report topic have to be the same with your website in order to attract your visitors download your report.
You may choose a general topic first then narrow down the general topic to one or two specific topics.
One you know specifically what your topic is, the next move is to gather information and content about the topic you like to write. You can find information about your topic through search engines. The search engines will provide tons of information. You are going to have to do some filtering work and consolidate information that you actually want.
Starting You Report Writing Project
You need to first write an outline for your report. You need organization and form. An outline provides both.
After that, you can start writing content for your report. If you have knowledge in your topic, with the information you collected, writing a report shouldn't be a problem to you unless you don't like to write.
Alternative you may hire someone to produce content for your report. Guru.com and Elance.com are good places to find an expert writer. Just tell the writer what you want and the writer will write you a quality report.
If hiring professional writer is too expensive to you, then you have to look for third option which is using PLR content. There are PLR articles sites offer hundreds of PLR articles in different topics every month. You may join a PLR article site and merge the PLR articles of a topic into a report. You may need to re-write your PLR articles for better quality and a good outline is needed to make your information presented in a logical sequence.
Adding Income Streams to Your Report
If you report offer the content that your website visitors want to read, you visitors will want to download it to get the info and possible generate good income for you.
Build a Profitable List
Report is proven to be useful for building a list. So the most important thing you must to is to create a sign up form and place the form on your website so that your visitors can see your offer of free report and type in their name and email address to sign up and download your free report.
Every visitor who downloads your report will be opted-in to your list during the sign up process. This way you can grow your list and occasionally you can send your offers to your list. Those who trust you may purchase from you every time you send out a promotional email. This is a good and steady long term stream of online income to you.
To get even more list subscribers with your report, you can create a squeeze page specially for people to sign up and download your free report. By using different marketing methods to send visitors directly to your squeeze page, you can expect to see a great profitable list.
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2) Insert Affiliate Links into Your Report
Whenever possible, place a related affiliate links into a content page of your report to refer your readers a useful product or service. This is one of the ways that some Internet marketers applied to make lot of cash online.
But you don't want your readers feel like they are reading a sale letter, so don't place too many affiliate links into your report. Try to make it like 1 affiliate links in every 4 pages. Make sure the affiliate products that you are recommending are relevant to what the readers are reading on that page.
3) Selling Advertising Space in Your Report
You may search for advertisers who are selling products or services directly related to your report topic and contact them to offer your advertising space.
Marketing and Distributing Your Free Report
When everything is ready, it is time to market and advertise your reports to attract your target visitors to sign up and download your report. There are numerous methods to reach your free report offer to your target visitors of course:
Pay Per click Advertising
Advertise your offer on Google and Yahoo search engine is probably the fastest way to get people to download your report. But it pays to get result, make sure your set your budget not too high to keep your cost under control.
Use a Banner Ad
You can find someone to create a banner ad specifically to promote your free report. Those who click you banner ad should be send to your squeeze page instead of to your website for getting better result.
So where to place your banner ad on? I would suggest you to do some searches on Google to find sites and blogs that are related to your report and request to place your ads on these sites and blogs.
You may also search for other popular blogs that are related to your report. These popular blogs usually have large traffic, so they may send you some consistent daily traffic.
Article marketing
This is a very low cost traffic-generating method. You can hire someone to generate a few articles every day for you and submit them to big article directories like Ezinearticles, goarticles.com and ArticleDashboard for publication. Just make sure your writer is supplying articles that are relevant to your reports or website topic.
Your article pages in article directories will attract readers. Some readers will click your link inside your author bio to visit your squeeze page and get your report.
E-zines Advertising
Today, E-zines are everywhere on the Internet. Just type in the keyword 'Ezines Advertising' in Google and you will find a lot of e-zines offering advertising opportunities in different categories.
There are free and paid e-zines advertising opportunities, the free one wouldn't produce result usually, so you should directly look the paid one. Make sure you pick the categories that are related to your report when doing e-zines Advertising.
Placing paid e-zine ads can do some help in getting more people to download your report as some e-zine readers are actually reading your offer and signing up on your squeeze page for your report.
The methods to market a report aren't limited to the above methods only. There are many more other methods you can use for distributing your report. But most of these methods have one thing in common which is that they all require some time, effort and energy from you to see result and bring in money to you.
Hi Folks - It's time for a new post as the last one has generated 225 comments and is causing Blogger.com to act a bit strange. The problem is I am seriously tied up with some real world activities at the moment and don't have time to write anything useful so I thought I would give you an idea of what life is like in the middle of the Canadian wilderness.
The photo above (click to enlarge) was taken from the front deck of my Fishing Lodge and shows the end of a 380km winter road that winds through eastern Manitoba's Boreal forest. The road is built each winter across frozen bogs and muskeg in order to supply remote areas like my Lodge and several Indian Reserves with a years supply of Gas, propane, building materials and dry goods. I construct a 35km road across my lake in order to meet up with the main winter road built by the Province. The road lasts from mid January until the end of March but recent years the time frame has been as low as two weeks. Global warming perhaps?
I have about 1200 truckers pass by on their way to the Indian communities located nearby. As you can see these fellows are delivering a mobile home to a community located about 100 kilometres north of me. The trucks weigh in at 85,000 lbs and yes - they are on the ice. The ice road is about 6 feet thick at the moment which is plenty for these semi tractors - they need 33 inches of ice to travel safely on it.
The photos above and below are of the main winter road which is little more than a path pushed through the forest with a bulldozer. The clearings are for microwave towers used to transmit telephone signals from the north - there is a tower every 40km.
We have a gravel runway located on one of the islands for our main transportation year round and lots of water for float planes. The lake is about 100km end to end and approximately 60 km wide. We have close to 5000 islands to navigate around and yes I have been lost a few times...
The lake begins freezing over mid October and usually thaws in May. During these times we travel by helicopter.
Ok. I Lied... we use the chopper all year round. (It's a pretty cool way to travel) Check out some of the photos below taken from the chopper...
A winter's sunset.
Rocky and Bullwinkle
On Donner and Blixen and where the heck is Santa - a herd of Reindeer or as we call them - Woodland Cariboo
The lake freezing over near an Indian community 20km down the lake from the lodge.
Oh btw, it's not always winter in this part of the world.
We sneak in a little fishing from time to time...
Have I mentioned I have a few dogs - Alaskan Malamutes
oh... and a wolf named Max
and this would be the boss...
And there you have it - a new post so stop asking and I didn't mention "Make Money Online" once.
If you're a first time visitor then you are as confused as hell - sorry about that.
Cheers,
Griz
Don't you just hate it when you try and catch a few minutes of sleep and someone sticks a big slimy Lake Trout in your arms... And people ask me why I don't have a photo on my blog!
Update: One of my readers Wayne of Adventures in Trucking has some wonderful photos he and his wife took while traveling the Alaska Highway. Click the link and check them out - some really great shots.