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Ssshhh! Did you hear that?

That… Right there… Just listen…

Still can’t hear anything?

Neither can I. And that’s exactly what I’m talking about. It’s called silence.

And it’s what happens when you don’t know what your hook is if you’re trying to drum up some publicity for you, your book or your business.

What’s a hook?

It’s the brass ring… the prize in the bottom of the CrackerJacks box… It’s the cherry on top of the cake.

Your hook is what makes you interesting… fascinating… or simply irresistible to someone in the media and the general public.

So…

If you’re getting ready to start a book tour - in person or on the internet…

Or you want to promote your latest products or services…

Or you want to become known as an expert in your field or industry…

Publicity is one of the best, fastest and longest lasting routes to get you where you want to go.

It’s like being able to use one of the secret passages in the board game Clue to go from one room to another in just one move.

Or getting a lucky “Chance” card and moving right past “Go” and collecting an extra $200 dollars in Monopoly.

The problem is, when it comes to getting publicity, it’s next to impossible to do if you don’t understand the rules, or how to play the game.

Rule #1 in getting publicity is that you’ve gotta have a hook.

So what’s yours?

(Hint: It’s NOT about you or your business or your latest product and its NOT about your book. At least, not really.)

A hook should be either: entertaining, informative, current, emotional or controversial.

And - here’s a “secret” most authors and writers don’t seem to get…

A hook should always be presented as what we call a “blind” or open question.

In other words, a hook is a question that can’t be answered with a “yes” or “no.”

Good hooks are questions that start out with “Why” or “How” or “How to”…

Sometimes you can use a “What” in your hook…

Such as… “What To Do If You’re All Alone and Someone Breaks Into Your Home”

But a better hook might be… “What You Absolutely Have to Do First If You’re All Alone and Someone Breaks Into Your Home”

And you could add a little extra bait to your hook by adding a sub-headline… “Not knowing this simple little thing could cost you or your loved ones their lives…”

In order to be effective, and practically guarantee you’ll get the publicity you’re looking for, your hook needs to touch on a dominant emotion…

Such as Fear, Excitement, Greed, Joy, Lust…

These are all dominant emotions - and we all have them. (Even if we’re not proud of having them or don’t want to own up to the fact that we’ve got them - they’re still there.)

So when you’re planning a particular publicity campaign, or you’re getting ready to sit down at your computer, stop and think for a few minutes about what underlying emotion you want - or can -use as a hook.

And here’s the next thing you need to remember - I mentioned it up above. This isn’t about you.

I know, I know. That can seem a little weird, especially if you’re about to write a media release about your latest book.

But the sad truth is… Nobody - except maybe your mother, your best friend or the people who want to be able to say they know a “famous” author - cares about your book. Or that you’re about to go on a virtual book tour.

The media doesn’t care about it.

And the general public doesn’t care about it.

Yet.

That’s why you need a hook. A hook is what grabs them… Stops them in their tracks… And makes them wonder about what else you have to say.

Why? Because your hook has given them just a hint of something they REALLY care about…

Themselves.

And what’s in it for them. (This is commonly known as the WII-FM channel - the “What’s In It For Me?)

We’re always more interested in something if we feel like we might be missing out on something… or that something’s being kept from us, or that we might benefit from something - and we just almost HAVE to know what it is.

That’s a hook.

For the media, your hook needs to be something they think will be of interest to their audience.

And for the audience, your hook needs to be something that appeals to their self-interest.

That might be protecting themselves from something, learning something that will benefit them, discovering something that almost no one else knows or learning how to do something.

And that’s what leads back to you, your products or services or your book.

Suddenly people are interested.

That’s all there is to it. Now that you know what a hook is, get back to your keyboard, and create yours.

And I’ll be seeing you in the news.

A PPC firm is a company like Google Adwords that permits you to pay for traffic. The term pay per click accurately describes the theory. You pay for each click that takes a visitor to your internet site. The PPC firm manages the ad and keeps track of the clicks for you. When you apply for an account with a PPC firm, you bid on a certain keyword.

You may select a keyword that someone that would have an interest in your products might search on. Or you simply purchase a certain number of clicks on that keyword without bidding. Google Adwords is the top PPC firm, with Yahoo! Search Selling and Microsoft Ad Center rounding out the top three. All of them use bid based selling, so you would bid against others for the keyword. There are many other PPC corporations available that don’t employ a bid based model. With those corporations, they are set a single charge for each click each keyword, and you would simply pay for the amount you need. This could be a cost acceptable way to get a top keyword without bidding and going over your position.

But recall, the results would possibly not be as good as they’d with one of the top 3 corporations. Once you are selected the keyword, you can decide how much you wish to spend each day. Your ad will be displayed until enough folks click it every day to use up the amount you are budgeted, whether or not that’s a hundred clicks or 5 hundred. Once the folks click thru the announcement, the PPC company has done its job. They track the clicks for you, but after the push the responsibility isn’t theirs. If the person that clicks makes a purchase or signs up for your mail list is now up to your internet site. If your site has quality content and is appealing, at the least the person may bookmark it to return later. But some will click once and never again. A PPC firm cannot guarantee anything apart from a specific quantity of traffic.

They will not promise you a purchase, or a person will ever return after their 1st visit. You need to make sure your internet site inspires them to get or join future info. There are certain firms that offer results based selling campaigns that charge so much per purchase, or so much per newsletter signup. So if you have an interest in something similar to that, you may need to look into those kinds of firms.

You may wish to create an affiliate marketing program for your product so you that you can get more folks advertising your product and helping you sell it. For sheer traffic, though , PPC is excellent. And since the PPC firm tracks for you, you can simply see whether the traffic you get is worth the price, and change your plan if necessary.

Adwords pay per click is definitely the top PPC engine in the business. People love to search on Google, and for that reason this is what most people use to bid on advertisements. Making use of this in your business can be an excellent decision!

Before you get started with Adwords, however, you definitely need to have a good grasp on the system. There has been more than one business owner who has lost their shirt by not understanding how to bid, which keywords to choose, and how to prevent losing a ton of money!

The first thing you should do is read Adwords’ own help section on the topic (found on adwords.com). It is actually quite helpful, and will answer many of the questions you have. Unfortunately, it does not go into many of the ins and outs of working with Adwords.

For that reason, many people turn to a pay per click coach. This can be extremely expensive — especially when you are finding it difficult to pay for Adwords in the first place. If that is the case with your business, the best option is to purchase a guide or e-book to learn everything you can on your own.

The good news is that this is not as difficult as it seems. It can even be quite fun and addictive to start bidding with Adwords pay per click! It can also be very lucrative if you know how to get your bids down and create targeted ads.

In fact, one of the biggest mistakes people make is creating the wrong kind of advertisements. You actually don’t want as many people as possible to click on your ad! While this will get you more traffic, it will not bring you the targeted traffic that will lead to the best customers. By simply reading a guide by an experienced marketer you can save yourself thousands of dollars that you’ll find is wasted during the testing on your own.

Another important thing that you should understand about Adwords is that there is a quality score. The higher your quality, the lower your bids tend to be. If you have a poor quality landing page, you’ll get what is called “Google slapped,” and it will be nearly impossible for you to bid on your desired search terms.

Once again, reading an Adwords guide can make all the difference in the world between running a profitable campaign and running out of money before you get a chance to.

Jim Yaghi recently came out with a video course on pay-per-click advertising specifically targeted to network marketers and I had the privilege to be part of the beta group that had the first opportunity to benefit from the program.  Jim Yaghi is a protégé of Mike Dillard of Magnetic Sponsoring fame and in this course he details how he used Google pay-per-click to explode his business online.  In this article, I will provide you some background about Jim Yaghi, provide some details about the course, and help you decide if this course is for you.

Who Is Jim Yaghi

Jim Yaghi is the # 1 affiliate for the “Magnetic Sponsoring” ebook by Mike Dillard. That has got to tell you that this guy knows his stuff. He started out in network marketing in July 2006 knowing absolutely nothing and through trial and error with newspaper advertising, Ebay advertising and then Google ads, he became a very successful internet network marketer.

What Do You Get

Included in the course you get a series of 14 online video, 3 pdf format resources, and 2 recorded Q&A calls. The videos are very detailed and take you step-by-step through the process of developing a successful and profitable Google ad campaign. And you don’t have to be a techie to understand what Jim goes through. He assumes that you are a newbie so everything is covered and no knowledge is assumed. The format of the videos is the tutorial followed by a hands on workshop where you do the steps that Jim has just taught you. By the time you finish the course, your specifically targeted Google ad campaign is ready for launch.

Video Series

Forward Video – About Jim Yaghi. In this video Jim provides some background about himself and his history from university student to successful internet network marketer.

I. Preparing To Advertise

Video 1: Introduction: The Sales Funnel. Jim goes through the components of a good internet selling system which includes a lead generation page, a sales letter, an auto responder, and a funded proposal product.

Video 2: The Perfect Prospect. Jim gives you the questions to ask yourself regarding who would be the perfect prospect for your business and who your target market is. He then describes the marketing relationship that you will develop with this prospect and how. This section is key for creating a targeted Google ad campaign.

Video 3: Domain Names: Getting Your Internet Street Address. In this video, Jim provides some great tips on how to choose the most appropriate domain name for your internet network marketing business.

Video 4: Landing Pages: How to Create a Welcome Mat that Turns Visitors into Friends. In this video, Jim talks about the purpose of a landing page and the key components of a landing page. Jim then helps you develop your landing page.

II. AdWords Concepts

Video 5: Introduction to Pay Per Click Marketing. Jim goes into the basics of pay per click advertising.

Video 6: Getting a Hang of the Basics: How to Setup Your Google Account for the First Time. Jim shows you how to setup your Google account and shows you how to set up your first ad and campaign.

Video 7: The AdWords Command Center: A Guided Tour of the AdWords Interface. Jim goes through the AdWords interface and helps you to refine your ads.

Video 8: Targeting Prospects to Capture: How to Match Keywords to Search Strings. Jim goes into how to target your prospects with various strategies including using the different keyword and keyword phrase matching options provided by Google.

Video 9: The 3 Minute Work Day: How to Use Split-Testing to Slash Click Cost and Boost Returns. In this video, Jim details how to make your ads more effective with an eye to reducing your cost of conversion. Jim shows you how to do split-testing. He also gives you a 3-minute routine to do every day to tweak your Google ad campaigns to increase ad effectiveness and reduce ad costs.

Video 10: Finding the Hot Buttons: How to Write Effective Sponsored Ads. In this video, Jim shows you how to write an effective ad.

III. Increasing Exposure with Keywords

Video 11: Keyword Reconnaissance: How to Uncover the “Money” Keyword Terms. This video really gets into the keywords that are relevant to the network marketer.

Video 12: Keyword Reconnaissance 2: Tools for Keyword Research. In this video, Jim goes into more detail regarding keywords for network marketers. He also describes a number of keyword research tools that you can use to fine-tune your Google ad keywords.

Conclusion Video. Jim provides his closing remarks and suggestions as to how to get started and the marketing budget you should start out with.

Additional Resources

· Stage 1:The Pain Mind Map. This describes the different pain points experienced by unsuccessful network marketers. This is key in targeting your prospects.

· Stage 2: General Network Marketing Information Queries. These are the searches that someone that is just starting out researching network marketing or business opportunities on the web would make.

· Stage 3: Queries Specific To Opportunity. These are the searches that someone that is further along in their network marketing or business opportunity research would make and would include the company name.

Conclusion

Jim Yaghi’s PPC Domination is a comprehensive video course that covers pay per click advertising for the network marketer whether they are a newbie or an experienced internet advertiser. The step-by-step guidance in the tutorials and the homework assignment helps the student to come out with an effective targeted Google ad campaign upon completion of the course. What makes this really relevant to the network marketer is this course is specifically for the network marketer and provides keyword ideas that are not covered in any other course. I would highly recommend this for any network marketer who wants to kickstart their internet network marketing business. I would also recommend it to those network marketers who are building their internet network marketing business with social media and attraction marketing as those techniques take some time to generate traffic while a properly tweaked Google AdWords program can generate traffic almost immediately. The final version of the Pay Per Click Domination course is launching shortly (January 19, 2009) so make sure you keep an eye out for it.
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Just about everybody is buzzing about social media and its implications for the practice of public relations. Not just the specialized public relations New York area firms offer, but in the world at large. While a number of New York-based public relations firms have created practice areas devoted to social media, others have added social media initiatives to existing practices to offer clients a complete arsenal of marketing communications tools. However, the rise of social media has greatly impacted the area of crisis communications and we at Makovsky + Company, a New York public relations and investor relations firm, offer insights into how you can safeguard your company’s reputation in this brave new world.

First, a look at what’s changed from a crisis standpoint since the rise of social media. In years past, when traditional media were the primary delivery vehicle for the dissemination of news and information, a company typically had a little time to implement their crisis communications program. With the advent of social media and the increasingly powerful position it occupies in the in the media world, all of that is changing. Social media is immediate and viral — rumors and news can spread rapidly throughout the Internet via blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, informing the traditional media (often, journalists housed at traditional media outlets will maintain blogs that are updated with a degree of frequency).

In addition, the media landscape is also changing. With the well-publicized cutbacks at newspapers and other traditional media, there is a void which is being filled by bloggers, who outnumber traditional journalists by a wide margin. Also growing into the millions are the numbers of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter users.

In essence, this means you — as a practitioner of public relations New York based companies turn to — must be ready to respond instantaneously to protect the reputation of your client’s company and/or products. We offer a checklist on how to utilize social media in your crisis communications planning:

* Monitor — Know the high-authority bloggers who cover your industry and diligently monitor what they are saying about you and your industry. This could serve as an early warning detection system as to emerging issues.

* Identify Allies — While it is always a good idea to keep your enemies close, you should have a good idea of who your company’s potential supporters are within the digital world. These are relationships worth cultivating as they could become “ambassadors” for your company in times of crisis.

* Utilize Social Media — Having an active presence in the realm of social media can assist greatly in building your company’s reputation and marketing its products and can also be utilized to deliver key messages to a variety of constituents during troubled times. Think of this effort as building a reservoir of good will.

* Be Mindful of Disclosure — Corporate disclosure within the SEC’s guidelines is important. All communications via social media should be vetted by legal counsel and, of course, should involve your company’s investor relations department to avoid inadvertent disclosure.

* Update Your Crisis Program — Basically, your crisis communications plan should be updated frequently and, perhaps with greater frequency given the rapidly changing world of social media.

The emergence of social media has forever altered the landscape of the battle. While a crisis once take hours to unfold, companies can now find themselves engulfed in a troubling situation in the time it takes to click a mouse. Makovsky + Company is among the public relations firms to pioneer to use of social media in business-to-business applications. The firm understands the critical importance of integrating online and traditional campaigns to ensure your company’s reputation is protected in the online marketplace. As a result, it has forever changed the practice of public relations New York financial services and healthcare companies expect and rely upon.

More and more households are discovering the benefits of smart meters and using the increased accuracy that the meters bring to make significant savings on their energy bills.

After a gas and electricity provider has replaced a standard energy meter with a smart meter, the provider will be able to monitor that household’s usage constantly to a very high level of accuracy. This cuts out the need for regular meter readings and the worry of receiving inaccurate energy bills when energy usage is estimated by the supplier. As the meter reading process is fully automated, there is not even any need for the customer to take readings.

Since smart meters allow the customer to take control of their energy usage they can save up to 10 per cent on their energy bills each year. They should also help eliminate the confusion caused by old-style bills – research by the Energy Savings Trust has found that some 33 per cent of customers find it hard to understand their energy bills.

Every one of the new smart meters features a wireless – and therefore portable – electronic display which shows a full read-out of energy consumption, along with the associated financial and carbon costs. The information can be seen by both the supplier and consumer, ensuring no disagreement on the level of energy usage. It also gives the consumer the ability to monitor their energy consumption over set periods of time – from one day to one year. This enables households to spot which times of the day lead to the highest levels of gas and electricity consumption and which appliances use the most energy.

Energy suppliers can differentiate the tariffs and services that they offer via a range of different means of displaying energy consumption – such as through mobile phones, online or using digital television.

Such information can be used by the customer to help make energy savings, as well as by the supplier, who can offer tailor-made energy saving solutions. Smart meters also have another advantage. Customers who generate their own electricity through the use of wind turbines or solar panels can make even more savings by selling their excess energy back to the national grid and  smart meters allow the provider to pay them more accurately.

Earning money on the Internet is becoming an increasingly easier and more popular way to earn a second or even primary income. Internet business opportunities are everywhere and can be found in just about any type of business. No matter what type of product or service you want to sell, there is someone out there who will want to buy it from you. The first step you should take is to research the opportunities available to you.

Opportunities to Earn Money on the Internet

You can earn money on the Internet by marketing your own products and services or by marketing the products and services of other people. There is a niche for just about anything online, along with an open door for you to walk through and begin earning money on the Internet.

Once you have developed or discovered an idea that you want to earn money from, you need to narrow your methods of marketing that idea. There are lots of opportunities available that offer different ways to do this. Examples of these opportunities include:

* Writing Ebooks

* Joining affiliate programs

* Writing marketing articles

Writing Ebooks

Millions of Internet surfers wander the World Wide Web daily, absorbing all sorts of information like giant sponges. For every new product, service or idea, there are surfers trying to locate information. This is where the Ebook comes in.

Ebooks are digital versions of books designed to provide interested buyers with the information they seek on a particular topic. It can be a topic of wide interest to the masses. Or, it can be a topic that is relatively obscure and of interest to a small niche market. No matter which category the topic fits into, you can earn money on the Internet by writing an Ebook about it.

If you have a hobby or special interest in a particular subject, you can write one or many Ebooks about it. Perhaps you have discovered a product that someone else has developed that you believe in. You can write an Ebook about that product.

Joining Affiliate Programs

Affiliate programs are designed to make money for the owner of the product or service and to provide commission sales to others who are willing to do the marketing. There are massive amounts of affiliate programs online through which you can quickly begin earning money on the Internet. The basic process involves learning about the product, marketing it and posting a link to it that identifies you as the lead generator for that potential sale. For every item that is sold via your link, you earn a pre-determined percentage of the sale price in commission.

Some affiliate programs even offer tiered programs through which you can make additional commissions from future sales to the same customer. Sales that same customer has generated by recommending the product to others may also earn you added commissions.

Affiliate programs can help you to earn money on the Internet in two ways. You may be the affiliate marketer for someone else’s product. Or, you may own the product that other affiliates sell for you.

Writing Marketing Articles

This is another method of earning money that works two different ways. You can get paid to write articles for other people’s products or services. Or, you can earn additional income on your own products and services through article promotion.

Article marketing is based on keyword use and back linking. The article is designed to be written using keywords that the average person would type into the search box of their favorite search engine. The better the article is written using strategic keyword placement, the more back links it will bring to the product or service it is promoting.

These are only a few of the many ways in which you can earn money on the Internet. The opportunities are only limited by your imagination and your level of ambition. To learn more about earning money on the Internet, consult with an expert who can give you even more marketing ideas to help you get started with your online ventures.

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