If you are wondering how to make a coupon code for your own products, just click the image below.  A video will start right up on that site.

You’ll see that you really don’t need to offer a “discount” in order to offer or even make promotional codes for your business.  Coupon codes aren’t JUST for offering discounts.  The video above will show you how easy it is to create and make promo codes.

Japanese entrepreneurs have always been very clever.   They have to be.  They are a small secluded nation that relies on imports to maintain their thriving economy.

Here’s a technique that’s just begging for internet marketers to adapt online:

It’s called the “candy bag” marketing trick.  From what I understand it originates from the Ueno district
of Tokyo and it’s a sneaky little secret that gets customers in a literal buying frenzy.

Anybody who turns this idea into a script for ONLINE sales will no doubt have a winning script to sell to internet marketers

Use this promo code for the report:

Enter    japan

… in the promo code form above in the promo code box located in the middle top of this blog.

If you get some ideas for turning these ideas into online scripts please feel free to use my coders to develop something for you.  Just use Pro Software Developer located here:

Develop My Software

Oh, and by the way….

If you want to use promo codes to promote your business or product get my Promo Code Software here:

Promo Code Software Membership

Developing your own product, software, or membership site is, by far, the single most important decision you can make as an internet marketer.  Sure, you can market affiliate products but until you have your OWN product, you are limiting your success in many ways.

Take, for example, my own Promo Code Software Membership Site.  Since I own Promo Code Software, ALL my customers become my subscribers.  If I were promoting the membership as an “affiliate”, I may be smart enough to collect the names and email addresses of people who may be interested…but I certainly wouldn’t be able to collect that info on EVERY customer.

When you have your OWN product, you get the benefit of building a much larger list of customers than any of your affiliates (if you offer an affiliate program where others help you promote for a commission).

When you have your OWN product, you can market to your customers and offer related products or services as an affiliate….

This “back end” income is what really fuels the lifetime value of your customers.  Sure, you can promote affiliate programs and make a damn good living off of it online.  But once you have your very OWN product…that’s when things really start to take off for you.  Well, it did for me.

So, what I’ve done is gather the SAME coders that developed Promo Code Software for me and make them available to YOU so you can have your own product to

Introducing:

Pro Software Developer

I’d love to invite you to have your own project developed by us.  Once you see our pricing…I’m sure you’ll see the huge benefit and low risk.  Sure, YOUR project could end up being a dud.  That really depends on what you are developing.  I mean, if there is no market for it, it will likely fail.  However, if there has been something just burning in the back of your mind that you just KNOW would be a hit but haven’t had the means to put it all together, now’s your chance.

We can take your raw idea and make it a reality for you.  We can design the sales page, graphic design, complete all the coding tasks, etc.  Basically, product creation for YOU from A-Z.

Of course, once you get everything up and running, you’ll want to promote your new product using Promo Code Software…. 

Sometimes life just gets in the way.

This isn’t a normal post here on the Promo Code Software Blog. I know that there are many other people in a bad financial spot. But when you find out about someone truly fighting to hang on and really trying to do something about it…you really gotta appreciate it.

To raise some much needed cash QUICKLY, Lynn is having a blockbuster sale on mini-site graphics.

Please understand: The link below is NOT an affiliate link of any kind. In fact, Lynn doesn’t even know I’m making this post. Rest assured, all the money will go to her to help her in her tough situation.

She’s in a pretty bad situation, but she isn’t give up yet. She’s a fighter!

Apparently, Lynn’s been fighting to keep her house for months. She took advantage of a legal loophole and beat the deadline literally by just a few HOURS.

Her final deadline is closing in now and the only option she has left to keep her home is to finish raising the money to pay the bank.

Unfortunately, due to a legal technicality, bankruptcy is not an option for her. This really is a last ditch effort to save her home.

Help Lynn by getting her awesome mini-site templates and a true firesale price!!

Get your mini-site templates. (NOT AN AFFILIATE LINK)

I’ve got to thank Case Stevens. If it weren’t for his blog post:

http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com/2008/07/free-rewrite-software/

I wouldn’t have know about this whole situation. Thanks Case!!

Thanks everybody.

Twitter is an excellent way to attract attention to your marketing sites. A great way to get even more attention in your Twitter posts is to announce a promotion code that ultimately leads to your offers or name squeeze pages.

Today, were going to talk about two methods to increase your Twitter Post’s marketing power.

1. How & Why to use promo codes in your Twitter posts
2. How to automate, pre-load, and schedule your Twitter posts.

Using Promo Codes with Twitter

If you’re a returning reader, you already know that I hammer on the theme that promo codes are NOT just used to offer discounts. Utilize promo codes properly and you can use them to drive interested traffic to just about any site on the web.

If you’re using promo codes in your Twitter posts, it can create a curiosity factor that gets your Twitter readers to take action on your post.

For example, say you want people go to your newly create “best widget” site. Instead of making a Twitter post announcing your launch like this:

Typical Twitter post:

“Hey, I just opened my new site about “best widgets”. Check it out here, yoursite.com “

Better Twitter post:

“Use Promo Code: 4gt56 at yoursite.com to get insider info about “best widgets”

When your Twitter visitor goes to yoursite.com, they are now looking for the promo code form to enter the code so they can get that insider information you promised.

See the psychology here?

People are so bombarded with “click here” links to the point that you really need to get a little more creative in getting people to “click here”.

Twitter is an excellent way to drive traffic back to your site BUT it’s easy to get drowned out in Twitter just like any other medium that you may market in. It’s up to you to come up with some creative ideas to help you stick out from the crowd. Remember, the whole idea is to get people to “click here”.

Adding the curiosity factor by marketing a promo code instead of a “click here” link is just one way to get that extra attention you need in a very noisy market place.

Automating your Twitter posts

If you have a lot of followers on Twitter, I think it’s fair to say that all of them probably don’t go directly to your profile to see all of your posts. More than likely, you posts are only being viewed when they show up on your followers board.

This means a lot of your Twitter posts are going unseen.

The way to make sure your posts are getting the eyeball time by the most amount of your followers is to make several posts throught the day.

You can use Twitter Autoposter to pre-load, schedule and send your posts in the future. This way you can load up a week, a month, or even a years worth of marketing posts ahead of time.

Of course, you need to be careful with how you “market” in Twitter. Get the reputation as a SPAMMER or send too many annoying blatent ads and you will lose followers faster than a Greyhound chasing a rabbit.

What’s the BEST way to use a promo code?

How can promotion codes actually increase subscribers, visitors and sales?

What’s the difference between a promo code and a coupon code?

Well, to help answer these questions, I have a video for you and a free report. Just enter promo code: showme in the promo code form at the top of the blog.

Better yet…just enter it here:

Let me know what you think of the video. Thumbs up? Thumbs down?

Promo Code Marketing Tactics will give you over 20 ideas on how to use promotion codes in your marketing campaigns…without giving a discount.

It’s really the basis of which this blog is centered around.

Again, I’d love the feedback. Let me know what you think of the report AND the video. Enter promo code showme above in this post or at the top of the blog to watch the video.

Marketing Tools That I Use For My Online Business.

When ever someone asks me about what marketing tools I use, obviously I tell them about Promo Code Software (PCS)

Why wouldn’t I ? I created it for online and traditional off line marketers. The more people use it, the more popular it will become. The more people use it, the more they will understand that PCS is actually a platform that you can run and track online & off line marketing campaigns from…not just offer discount online coupons. So, yeah, of course I’ll toot my own horn.

In order to make things hum though, there are a couple of other tools I use which actually make me more money than my OWN product. Without these tools, I’d literally be broke and out of business.

First and foremost…

It’s my sequential email auto responder. Without an automatic email follow-up system, I’d never even attempt a web based business. I won’t go into great detail about sequential auto responders because I feel that the majority of readers who make it to this blog fully understand what an auto responder is and why it is important to have one. I will, however, talk a little bit about what service I use…and why.

I try to keep things simple. I use Aweber to handle my email marketing. I could choose to host my own email marketing script on my own server to save some money on user fees…but I don’t. I certainly have the “techncal” know-how…and, frankly, that’s exactly why I choose NOT to run

Here’s why:

I want my marketing messages to actually get delivered and Aweber does a great job at maintaining relationships with the various ISP’s to ensure that MY email makes it through the various filters. If I hosted my own email delivery system, I’d have to make sure that I was an expert on deliverability. Since I’m not, I choose to leave that up to the pros at Aweber to make sure that I’m not BLACK LISTED from false SPAM complaints or various other things that can flag my domain and slowly diminish the effectiveness of my email marketing campaigns.

I see a lot of posts on popular marketing forums that I visit discussing the benefits of hosting your own email program. The main point is cost. If you own your own script, you don’t have monthly or annual fees. The other point I see a lot is that some of the marketers say they don’t see ANY difference in their email deliverability. That second point may be true. At the moment, they may not see a decline. At the moment they may not be blacklisted. They may NEVER be blacklisted…but will they ever know? Will they know if they do get some emails blocked? How will they get un-blocked if they do. Well, that’s what they will have to deal with when and if it ever happens.

For me, my marketing messages are way to valuable to have to worry about deliverability. For me, it’s more piece of mind. Plus, the provider I use is constantly improving its services. They are now implementing some very cool tracking features that will allow me to know WHO opens their email messages…and WHAT links they clicked on. This is high quality information. It’s not just about sending out email messages to your subscribers, it’s about what your subscribers do with your messages.

Tracking, deliverablilty, and piece of mind are the reasons I don’t host my own email marketing system. I want to be in the “marketing” business, not the “email maintenance” business. That’s why I use a professional auto responder service. It’s just not worth the time or the headache to try to maintain my own.

Another marketing tool:

Here’s what I use to manage my sales, affiliate program, and digital delivery.

Rapid-Action-Profit (RAP) is what I use for my all-in-one sales and reseller management solution. It other words, this script handles all my sales, runs my affiliate program, and adds my customers to my Aweber auto-responder…100% automatically.

I particularly like the affiliate management feature of this script.

RAP allows me to instantly pay my affiliates.

This means I NEVER have to figure out who to pay, how much to pay them, when to pay them, or anything like that. PLUS, I’m a big believer in “Fast Pay Makes Fast Friends”. Know what I mean?

I’ve been an affiliate for tons of products. Sometimes you have to wait up to 60 days or more before you get paid for affiliate sales that you make today. Preferably, as an affiliate, I like to get paid a little sooner than that. So, from an affiliate point of view…I really like the instant pay feature. From and administrative point of view…I really like not having to worry about paying my affiliates. It really is the best of both worlds.

Also, with RAP, you have SECURE delivery of your digital products. Your download link is protected in several ways. You don’t need to worry about people sharing your download link all over the internet.

Secure digital deliver…

Automated affiliate program with auto pay…

Aweber auto responder integration…

It all adds up to a powerful marketing system that I really enjoy.

Here’s the link to the sales page. I highly recommend that you check it out:

http://www.rapid-action-profit.com

What Others Are Saying About Marketing Tools

Taking a look around the net, I found some other interesting articles that you may be interested and related to marketing tools for your businss.  Have a look:

What tools do you use for marketing your business?

Please leave a comment about your favorite marketing tool, method, technique…or about this post in general. in-One

Sales & Reseller

Management Solution

All-in-One

Sales & Reseller

Management Solution

Here’s something you can’t do with “coupon codes”…

If you add a promo code input box to your Facebook profile, you can drive your visitors to your Facebook page where they can enter the promo code.

I added my promo code form to Facebook using the “My Box” application. “My Box” allows you to add HTML, Javascript, and other things that you can add to a normal website.

Since Promo Code Software generates the HTML code needed to paste into your web page after you create a promo code within your membership area…it’s super easy to add your Promo Code Form right into your Facebook page too.

Now, I know that most people will be using their membership to promote discounts and sales but this is just another way to use promotion codes in other ways than just to give a discount.

Say, for example, you want to share a funny video that you found on YouTube…

Instead of directing visitors DIRECTLY to the YouTube page, you could create a promo code that directs people to the video. This way they have to go to your Facebook page to enter the promo code…to see the video.

Starting to see why this might be valuable?

Let me spell it out.

Funny videos are very likely to go viral. Once one person sees it, they want to share it with their friends.

So what do they do?

Usually they forward the email they received with the link to the video. If they forward YOUR email with the link to YOUR Facebook profile to enter the promo code…you could easily start to build new relationships with people that you would otherwise not likely meet.

Take a look at my Facebook Profile to see what my Promo Code Form looks like

With a Promo Code Software membership you can easily create promo codes and promo code forms to put on your Facebook page, blogs, websites, etc.    Place a promotion code form on your blogs and social networking sites to drive targeted traffic to your offers.

It’s a great way to drive traffic back to your sites where  your visitors may spend some time and get to know your brand a little better. 

If you use a promotion code on your Facebook, MySpace, & other networking sites you can track how effective your promotions are because each time someone enters a promo code it will be logged within your membership area.  You can actually check the popularity of your promotion by checking how many times your promo code has been used.

There are lots of ways to track your traffic to your sites using analytical tools but it’s also critical to track how well your promotion efforts are paying off by tracking how your visitors actually interact on your sites.  The tracking function in your Promo Code Software membership is just another way to see how effective you are at getting your vistitors to interact on your site.

Other Facebook & Social Network Tips:

Ok, so that’s my suggestion about tweaking your Facebook & Social Networks but I also like to take a look around and see what others are recommending.  Here are a couple recent posts from other blogs that I think you may find interesting and helpful:

8 Ways to Make Your Blog Viral On Facebook
- I’ve created a service that automatically turns your blog’s RSS feed into a Facebook application. The Facebook App Creator for Bloggers lets each blog’s users download the application, which shows the latest posts from your blog in …

From Your Blog to Twitter to Facebook in 1 Shot
- I use Twitter Feed (www.twitterfeed.com) to move posts from my blog to my twitter profile. My twitter profile links into my Facebook status - and poof - one writing is now in front of hundreds (dare I say thousands) of people. …

Be Part Of “WordPress Spotter” Social Influence Experiment
- Each and everyone helps you either integrate blog posts into your facebook profile, get your blog in front of your friends or integrate status posts from multiple social networks. And all of them do one thing - Each time you import a …

Till next time…

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Coupon directories are a great place to post you promotion codes for a number of reasons.

For one, it’s another way to get a link back to your site and hopefully more targeted traffic. You get the added benefit of having your link on a high page rank site as well.

There are literally hundreds of coupon directories online. Just do a search on your favorite search engine trying various terms like, coupon codes, online coupons, promo codes, discount coupon codes, etc and you’ll see a number of them pop up.

A number of these coupon directories allow you to anonymously submit your promo code. One example, and a favorite of mine at the moment, is Retail Me Not. It has an Alexa rating of 3270 (which is excellent) and a Google Page Rank of “6″ (also good).

The reason I prefer Retail Me Not is because it’s actually a social networking site as well. In fact, I just signed up myself. Here is my profile and official invitation to join the group I started on the site:

Promo Code Software Community on Retail Me Not

I did a basic Google search for online coupon directories and came up with a few. Keep in mind though, I haven’t fully researched how and if you can add your promo codes to these sites. I just wanted to give you a start for your research.

• Coupon Cabin - Must have 3 month Alexa usage level greater that 50,000. May be difficult to get listed.
• Ultimate Coupons - No real easy way to sign up. I sent in a request for inclusion. We’ll see on this one.
• Cool Savings - Hard to navigate. Haven’t figured out how to include or add a promo code.
• Shop At Home - Currently researching. Have a ticket in with them to contact me.

Other directories include:

• Keycode
• Couponwinner
• Currentcodes
• greatcoupons-online
• coupons2grab
• couponalbum

Again, I haven’t navigated through all these sites to see how or if you can add promo codes. I just wanted to give you a starting point to look into these as I do.

What I have found, however, is that many of these sites including some of the ones listed above, require you to pay to list your promo codes. The terms vary. For example, I was checking out ShopAtHome.com and it appears that you pay based on the traffic to your particular listing. Probably very similar to a pay-per-click system.

For now, start with RetailMeNot.com, join my community, and start listing your promo codes.

If you aren’t a Promo Code Software client yet, check out my home page:

Promo Code Software

Discover how to create unlimited, self generating, self expiring promotion codes for your business.

How would you like to acquire the names and email addresses of everyone who visits Promo Code Software?

Think about it.

If you could literally steal leads for your own use….right from under my nose. Would you?

Ok, maybe you don’t “steal”. What if I GAVE you those names & email addresses? Would you accept them? Could you do something with those leads?

The majority of people who visit the site are internet marketers. If you are already a client of Promo Code Software it’s probable that YOU are an internet marketer. As an internet marketer, you are likely to purchase AND offer other tools that help businesses with their marketing efforts. Right?

Well, so does just about everyone else who visits Promo Code Software.

So, if you could (legally) gather the names & email addresses of people who visits my site do you think you could put that to good use?

Yes?

Ok, good. Here’s how I’m going to allow you to do this.

I’m going to allow you to add your OWN subscriber form on my website. Now when someone visits Promo Code Software, you will have the opportunity to collect your OWN opt-in subscribers so that you can follow up with them with your own messages and offers.

Preferably, I would love to have you add these visitors to your autoresponder so that you can follow up with them about Promo Code Software with your affiliate links but the reality is….you can follow up with these visitors any way you wish. These will be YOUR subscribers. Not mine.

Market to these HOT leads any way you wish.

For a demo on how your opt in form could look like on Promo Code Software just enter www.promocodesoftware.com in the form below and hit submit.

Please go ahead and give it a try…

You’ll notice that an opt-in form will slide in over my site…this could be YOUR opt-in form.

Now, enter ANY website address (example: www.google.com) and see what happens. You’ll find that the same opt-in form appears. So really, I’m going to show you how to add your opt-in form to ANY site you wish to promote.

As long as Javascript is enabled in your Internet browser (most people do have this feature enabled), you should have seen a popup newsletter form slide in over the top of the website you selected. This could be YOUR opt-in form.
Ok, so now that you’ve seen how this works and if you are interested in adding YOUR optin form to my website or ANY site you wish….

Just enter Promo Code: listpro

Learn how to add your opt-in form to my site so you can follow up with them about PCS or any offers that you may have.

Powerful stuff!!