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If you want to promote your capture pagei without using the social bookmarking and networking weblets, you will need to go to the capture or landing pagei you would like to promote, and copy the URL from the url bar of your browser (it will look something like http://bizxusa.com/name-of-page.....)
If you want to invite someone to sign up for BIZxUSA, you can just forward the same URL you used to sign up. When you want people to view the content that makes up your campaigni, the social bookmarking and networking weblets automatically generate the link. For example, if you edit one of the blogi posts or landing pages you have created on BIZxUSA and click to put a checkmark in the checkboxes to send your content to social bookmarking and networking sites, the URL to your blog or landing page is automatically generated and sent i(whether you use the Automated or Semi-Automated options). It is also sent automatically when using the "Share" drop-down that appears under any of your content, which will also send your content to social bookmarking and networking sites, but is not as automated.
We are actually working on such an example. We will have the example on the site within the next few days, and will also be creating a new tool that automates the process of creating a flow chart for your campaigni. Until then, you can simply write down the steps you would like the prospect to take. You will want to create the relationship first (usually with blogs or articles), and those blogs or articles could point to a capture pagei where they can enter an email address to subscribe to a mailing list. The mailing list could send a set of autoreplies, that each link to a landing pagei that has a free report, a video, or other information that will help them to understand why they would want to do business with you. This is an example of a simple campaign. You can create more complex campaigns if you wish.
Those emails can come from three different places:
1. Email addresses imported through your Contact Tool. You can import these automatically from any of your webmail or email programs, or sites such as Plaxo and LinkedIn, then subscribe them to any of your mailing lists.
2. Emails entered on capture pages you have created (you can link to a capture page from your blogi).
3. You can import email addresses directly into the Email Tool. These addresses can come from almost anywhere, including lists you have purchased.
First, you would create a campaigni, which could include any combination of email autoreplies and newsletters, and landing and capture pages. You would then create blogs and/or articles that link to the starting point of your campaign (usually the starting point would be a capture page, which you create with the Landing/Capture Page Tool). Then you would use the social bookmarking and social networking weblets to semi-automatically (and in some cases automatically) send your blog entries, articles, and other content (you can even send out landing/capture pages directly through these tools) to everyone on the Internet. Many social bookmarking sites show your bookmark in the public area, which causes some initial traffic right away, and some sites simply increase the link popularity to your content on the search engines. These types of sites (especially the networking sites) are very social, and can create a lot of interest and discussion for your content. At the very least, it can generate quite a bit of traffic to your content. The more content you post, the more traffic you can generate through your campaign (this is easiest to do with short blog entries each day).
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Suggested by Robin (10) on August 6, 2008
You can either create a new template in the Landing/Capture Page Tool by clicking the Suggest New Style Template (or you can view the style templates, and create a new one based on a current one), or you can add it to the appropriate area of your Landing/Capture page, or blogi (this is the easier option).
To add images to your header or sidebars on a landing or capture pagei, just click "Advanced Options" when creating or editing your landing or capture page. You will see an option to upload a logo for the header, enter various SEO meta tags, and also an area to edit the left and right sidebars. You have the option of using the image icon on your rich text editori to upload an image to those sidebars.
The same options are available for your blog. You can either use the advanced options for a particular blog post, or you can edit the settings of your entire blog so that every page of your blog (the blog, as well as all of the blog posts within that blog) has the same look and feel. Since you can have multiple blogs, each blog can have a different look.
A rich text editori is a place to enter content, where you can see the content as it will appear. Basically, all of the HTML code that is used to make the text look the way it does is hidden, unless you click the "HTML" button within the editor to see the raw code. You may simply type plain text into the editor, or you may use the various buttons available at the top of the editor to enhance your text, create links, create tables, or enter images or smiley faces.
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A capture pagei is similar to a landing pagei, except that it includes a subscription form for a mailing list. Typically, you would have only a single capture page for each campaigni. Normally, your blogs and/or articles would point to your capture page, and that is where your prospects enter their email address and subscribe to your mailing list.
In your case, the best course of action would probably be to create a capture form on this site, then link your Wordpress blogi to the capture form. You can still use all of the bookmarking and networking tools with your external blog. In the social bookmarking and networking weblets, there is an option to create an external link. Create an external link to your blog (you can create a link to the main page of your blog, as well as links for each blog post). When you edit your links, the checkboxes to send them to social bookmarking and networking sites will be available. In addition, when you view your content, your external links will be available, and the links to send to social bookmarking and networking sites will be available for each one. There is a more detailed explanation about the external links on the social bookmarking and networking weblets.
What page are you not allowed to access? If you are not logged in, or are not signed up as a gold or silver member, you will not be able to access certain pages. Also, if you are logged in, you will not be able to access the registration page (since you are already registered).
Click on the Weblets link in the left sidebar, then click Enter in the Blog Weblets box. You can then click on the "View blogi" link to view all of your saved blog posts.
When you click on an image from the Zemanta tools, the image will be added to the body of your content. If you click on another image, it will replace the first image. To add multiple images, you must drag them from the Zemanta tools to the body of your content. All Zemanta images automatically show up to the right of the text, with the text flowing around them. This is easy to fix in Internet Explorer. Just click on the text that appears just under the Zemanta image. This should give you a set of small squares around the image and text under it. If this is what happens, skip to the next paragraph. Getting around this is a little bit tricky if using the Firefox browser, but possible. Highlight the text under the picture, as well as the picture itself by using the mouse to click and drag the cursor from the end of the line of text under the picture up to the picture, so that both the picture and the text under it are highlighted.
Once both the Zemanta image and text under it are selected together, click on the "Edit CSS Style" icon, which is the first icon on the bottom row of the rich text editori tools. A new window will open. Click on the "Box" tab at the top of the new window. The option on the top right of the "Box" tab is called "Float." If you highlighted the text and image properly, it should say "right" in the drop-down box. Select "left" or "none" to change the alignment with respect to the text. If you choose "none," the image will be on its own line. If you choose "left," the image will appear on the left, with the text flowing around it.
When you upload your own image using the Insert/edit image icon (more information on this can be found in the Glossary), the alignment is easy to edit. Just click the "Appearance" tab and choose the "Alignment" you would like. You will see a preview of your choice on the right. This will not work properly when editing a Zemanta image, as the Zemanta images are attached to the text under the image, so you will only be aligning the image with respect to the text under the image.
To change the size of any image, just click on the image. Small squares will appear around the image. Drag one of the squares on one of the corners of the image to change the size, while keeping the aspect ratio. If you drag one of the squares on the left, right, top or bottom of the image, you can change the vertical or horizontal size, which will distort the image. Unfortunately, the Zemanta tools do not always work well in Preview mode. All of the other tools should work fine in Preview. Preview is not necessarily needed, however, because of the type of editor we use. When using the rich text editor, you are basically seeing everything as it will appear on the page.
When you edit your blogi posts, you will see checkboxes at the bottom for submitting your post to social bookmarking and social networking sites. These checkboxes are available when you create or edit your blog posts, so you don't have to check them when you first create your blog post. You can read it over and make sure it's what you want before submitting. When you are ready, check those two boxes, and follow the instructions. If you have never tried this step before, you will be presented with a list of sites where you can register, then save your usernames and passwords. If you save your usernames and passwords, this step only has to be completed once. From then on, you will go directly to the page where your post is submitted. It is a single step. Your teaser, title, and other fields will be presented for final inspection. Just click the submit button, and your done!
In addition, when you view your blog post, you will see a number of links at the bottom. Included in those links are "Social Bookmark This," "Social Network This," and "Invite to This." Click on each of those links to get your blog out on various bookmarking and networking sites. "Social Bookmark This" will present you with a number of Automated and Semi-Automated links that will allow you to bookmark your blog in a public area that many other people will see. "Social Network This" will allow you to send messages about your blog to social networking sites. There are registration links for each site so you can sign up for each one.
To use the automated options, click the "Add/Edit Social Profiles" link to enter your usernames and passwords for the social networking and bookmarking sites. There are links to register for each of the sites on that page as well. Once your profiles are saved, you will have new automated links to click. Clicking a link for an automated option will present you with a simple form. All of the information will be filled out, and you may make some changes to it if you wish. Just click submit to send your blog. We will continuously add new automated options, to make submitting even easier!
To use the semi-automated options, you must be logged in to the site for which you would like to send your blog. Clicking on one of the links will take you to another page with a single link. Click on the single link to open the bookmarking or networking site in a new window. If you are signed in on the bookmarking or networking site, you will be presented with a form. Finish the form and submit to submit your blog. If you are not signed in, the window will require you to sign in, and then you may have to close the window and click the link again.
The "Invite to This" makes use of the Contact Tool to send your blog to your current contacts. You may use the Contact Tool to import your contacts first, then use the "Invite to This" link on your blog to send your blog to all of your contacts, or a single category of your contacts at once.
Click on Filter again to remove the filter search. You must have some text typed in the body of your blogi, article, or landing pagei in order for this to work. Please note that the images change depending on the text you have typed. You can press the "Update" button to the right of where it says "Zemanta" to update right away. Otherwise, it will only update after a certain number of words are written. Please also note that the images may be different every time you create new content, as the default images are based on the current popular images across all the image networks.
First of all, you should only use keywords that are contained in your content, because this improves the search engine link popularity, so people will more likely find your content. The easiest way to figure out which keywords to use is by using the Keyword Tool to extract the relevant keywords. Just paste the text of your content into the Keyword Tool and click the "Run Query" button. The result box will show the extracted keywords. If your content is very long, you may have to do this in two parts (the tool can only handle about 1200 words at a time). If you wish, you can submit your content, use the Keyword Tool to extract the keywords, then go back and edit your content to enter the keywords. Another nifty tool on the Keyword Tool is the Search Trends area. You can look at the hourly search trends to find popular keywords that relate enough to your content, that they can be incorporated. If you find any, be sure to use the full term or phrase in both your content and keywords.
You can drive traffic to any of the content you create on BIZxUSA. Using the Social Bookmarking and Social Networking, as well as the Contact Tool and Subscription link on your Blog and Article Tools, you can send links to any page of content you create. This includes blogs, articles, landing pages, and capture pages. What you really want to do is plan a campaigni, then send people to the starting point of your campaign, so they go through all the steps you want them to take.
For example, you may start with a capture page that will subscribe them to your mailing list, and that mailing list will send out a series of autoreplies. Each autoreply would link to the next step, and each of those steps could be a landing page. The capture page could offer them a free report that your company offers if they subscribe. Then the first autoresponder would send them a link to the free report, which you could put into a landing page. The next autoreply may send them a link to another landing page that contains a video, and so on to create a relationship. Once the relationship is established, it will be easier to convince them to buy what you are selling, or sign up for the plan you are promoting.
You could start everything off with a blog or article. In fact, you could write a series of short daily blog entries that each link to the starting point of your campaign. The blog entries themselves could be a way to create a relationship until people become more familiar with you, and are willing to check out that first page of your campaign. Each blog entry, as well as that first capture page, could be sent to all the social sites using the Social Bookmarking and Networking Tools. This will create some quick initial traffic, then quite a bit more traffic over the coming weeks as the search engines crawl through all those bookmarking sites, and through your campaign. As you build relationships, your traffic will become higher quality, because people will truly care about reading what you have to write.
Yes, this is possible. You may create multiple campaigns, which can target one or more companies that you may represent. This can be done by creating multiple mailing lists that have separate sets of autoreplies and newsletters. You can then create multiple sets of landing or capture pages, and separate capture pages can include subscription forms for separate mailing lists.
We have a number of simple style templates available in various colors, which you can select when creating a landing pagei. You can also add video from various video sites to the body of your landing page quite easily using the instructions under the "How to Add Video" link in the left sidebar.
You must have a Google Calendar account in order to use the Calendar Tool. Go to http://www.google.com/calendar to set up your calendar. When entering your Google Calendar login information, use the same exact username and password you use to sign in on Google Calendar (http://www.google.com/calendar). For some Google Calendars, the username is an email address. Since the email address is a username, it will be case sensitive. Google will not accept the email as your username unless you enter it with the same case you signed up with, and use to sign in on Google Calendar. The Calendar Tool will then be able to extend the functionality of your Google Calendar beyond what Google allows on most cell phones.
When entering any content on the site, you may click the page break button within the rich text editori (the last button in the editor's toolbar) to create a teaser break. The teaser break will allow you to have a "teaser" or summary for your content. The summary will show in lists of content, and is used when sending a summary of your content to other sites using your Weblets.
When you do not specify a teaser, the main body of your content will be used, but will be cut off after a certain number of characters. You have the option of separating your teaser from the main body of your content so that it does not show within the main body by unchecking the "Show summary in full view" checkbox above the rich text editor.
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