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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:34:14 GMT

A Good Web Site Is a Web Site That Works!

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:08:16 GMT

Summary:
Questions that will let you know if your site is a good one

Keywords:
web site, good web site, marketing, internet marketing, home business

How can you know if your web site is a good website, or what is a good website?

A good website is a website that works, if you have created your website to sell some products, you can say that your website is a good website if it does sell products.

* But are you selling as many products as a good website sells, or you are only selling a few products now and then?

* Are your sales pages good enough to consider your website a good website?
* Do you have enough visitors to your website to consider it a good website?
* Do you have enough return traffic or all your visitors are first time visitors?
* Do your visitors stay enough time to consider your website a good website?
* How can you know for sure if your website is a good website?
* What kind of questions should you be making to yourself to know if your webite is a good website

ASK YOURSELF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS TO KNOW IF YOUR WEBSITE IS A GOOD WEBSITE

* Who cares?
* What are you looking for?
* What kind of visitors do you have?
* Which is your priority?
* How should you measure your success?

WHO CARES?

If the website belongs to a company, then the web pages do not belong to a single person, there�s not only one person that can say if you have a good website, so you will have to round up the people that are vitally interested

You will find the techno-geeks, the sales people, the public relations people, etc. etc. and every one of them will have their own idea of what is a good website.

But once again as the website belongs to ALL the company, the people on your company who care enough to judge the website should be asked to join the team and take some responsibility about the design of the website.

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?

Every one of the people who cares about the website will have their own idea of what they want out of a good website. Many of them will just be talking on behalf of their own departments, but you must force them to think on behalf of the company.
Every department can have their own objectives, goals and aspirations, every one has his own idea about what is a good website, but they need to think as a company, and the conclusion must satisfy most of them, and if you can, your must create a good webpage for all of them.

WHAT KIND OF VISITORS DO YOU HAVE?

Every website has first time visitors, returning visitors, curious, buyers, people that arrived by mistake, people that spend a short time at the website, people that spend a long time at the website, etc.

What kind of visitors do you want, the ones that show more often, the ones that read the most pages, buys more stuff, buys more frequently or spend the most money?

Which are the most important visitors for your company, to think that you have a good website?

Once you get them you can be satisfied that your site is a good website

WHICH IS YOUR PRIORITY?

Once you know what everybody wants, you will have to prioritize everybody�s goals.

Will you go after increasing visits, selling more products per visit, provide more information about the company and its products, improving customer satisfaction?

After a discussion that will depend on how many people is giving their own opinion about what cares most, you�ll end up with your own list of priorities, and the ones that will not be satisfied with their request, at leas will know why.

HOW SHOULD YOU MESURE YOUR SUCCESS?

How can you be sure that the numbers that you are getting are telling you that your site is a good website, It depends...

* If your main priority is to get visitors, then www.Alexa.com and its ranking can help you on that, but you can also use some JavaScript and or cookies.
* If your main goal is revenue then the sales will have the leading voice.

* If you are going after customer satisfaction then you must agree with the other members of your company how will you gather satisfaction data and how will you weigh it.

All the information that you gather must help you take business decisions. It is not a matter of getting as much information as you can, because too much information can be as bad as not enough information.

Make sure that you keep on measuring your success, make it part of a constant improvement process, because the web changes month after month.

Then you�ll really be able to tell if your website is a good website

To your success
The Elder Guru
Chauncey Penfold
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3 Main Ways to get Instant Traffic

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:09:53 GMT

Summary:
You will need to go to google or one of the other alternatives like overture from yahoo.. You may need how to use google adwords first, there is excellent ebooks on this subject, that will save you a lot of money, and avoid your ad to be deactivated.

That type or advertising is called Pay Per Click advertising.

Keywords:
marketing,internet, target market, niche,online business,home based

We have seen in our previous topic, how to increase your traffic.
In some circumstances, you may need to increase your traffic immediately or to boost it in order to spread a new product or an offer or simply to implement your viral marketing. Well there are 3 easy to do that and we will explain them now. You can: Buy targeted traffic to your site, email to your list, or make a Joint Venture(JV).

To buy fast and immediate traffic, you will need to go to google or one of the other alternatives like overture from yahoo..

You may need to know how to use google adwords first, there is excellent ebooks on this subject that will save you a lot of money, and avoid your ad to be deactivated.

That type or advertising is called Pay Per Click advertising. You will set a daily budget for your campaign, and you will only pay when some one make a click on your link. You will be able to see your ad on the right table of the page, when you search for specific keywords.

You will need to track your campaign.
For example, you can buy 3 different advertising sources, pay the same price for each, and then track with a software which advertising gives you more results.

Then go on, like that you will save your money.
The second way is to email to your list. You must understand the sale process. In a nutshell, visitors are surfing they fall on your site, but they probably won' t come back except if you offer them an incentive, or newsletter, something that will bring them back:

You can send a promotional email, twice a month or once
Send valuable information between the promotional offers.

The last tip for immediate traffic is Joint Venture.
You have to get other websites to send email to their list, place your link on their website, and you will pay them only when they process a sale.

Pay them 50 percent or more.
And make the sale easy for them, prepare for them the subject and body of the emails, prepare the affiliate link they will put on their websites, and any other material you can use. And who knows, you will maybe find some good friends out there.

Warm Regards,
The Elder Guru
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:51:35 GMT

A Brief Synopsis of the Internet

Like an opening act for a play, the telegraph, telephone, and radio all took a part in introducing the World Wide Internet. The Internet had no problem taking over and crashing many predictions about whether or not it would be successful. It has no boundaries and pays no attention to international limits or geographic locations. Instantly you are connected to scores of businesses and people all over the world.

With its origins dating back almost 50 years ago, J.C.R. Licklider at MIT recorded the first description of the communications that could be performed through networking. Between him and a host of other individuals with brilliant forward thinking, the idea of the internet was conceived.

The first email made its appearance back in the early 1970�s as a way for the developers to communicate with one another. By the mid-1980�s the internet was being used by various developers and researchers as well as being tried out by many computer businesses. It finally was given a name in October 1995.

The internet became a vital part of today�s economy. Many companies regard it as a critical part of their daily activities. Individuals rely on it for their communication to the outside world. Bills may be paid, homework research accomplished, books read, Christmas shopping accomplished, music downloaded and personal relationships established through their access to the internet.

Although it may not seem so, the internet has changed greatly in the last 2 decades since its birth. Through file sharing, remote login, resource sharing and electronic mail, it has definitely kept up with the fast-paced computer industry. Expect nothing else through the future.

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A Brief History Of The Popup Ad

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:12:20 GMT

Pop-up ads are a form of online advertising on the World Wide Web intended to increase web traffic or capture email addresses. It works when certain web sites open a new web browser window to display advertisements. The pop-up window containing an advertisement is usually generated by JavaScript, but can be generated by other means as well.

A variation on the pop-up window is the pop-under advertisement. This opens a new browser window, behind the active window. Pop-under interrupt the user less, but are not seen until the desired windows are closed, making it more difficult for the user to determine which Web site opened them.

For early advertising-supported web sites, banner ads were sufficient revenue generators, but in the wake of the dot com crash, prices paid for banner advertising clickthroughs decreased and many vendors began to investigate more effective advertising methods. Pop-up ads by their nature are difficult to ignore or overlook, and are claimed to be more effective than static banner ads. Pop-ups have a much higher click rate than web banner ads do about every 14,000th popup ad is clicked on.

Pornographic web sites are among the most common users of pop-up ads. Some particularly vicious types of pop-up ads (again, most often seen in connection with adult entertainment sites appear to have either been programmed improperly or have been specifically designed to hijack a users Internet session. These forms of pop-ups sometimes spawn multiple windows, and as each window is closed by the user it activates code that spawns another window -- sometimes indefinitely. This is sometimes referred to by users as a Java trap, spam cascade or Pop-up Hell among other names. Usually the only way to stop this is to close the browser.

Opera was the first major browser to incorporate popup-blocking tools; the Mozilla browser later improved on this by blocking only popups generated as the page loads. In the early 2000s, all major web browsers except Internet Explorer then the most popular browser and still as of 2006 allowed the user to block unwanted pop-ups almost completely.

In 2004, Microsoft released Windows XP SP2, which added pop-up blocking to Internet Explorer. Many users, however, remain unaware of this ability, or else choose not to use it. Many others are not able to use it at all, as they do not use Windows XP SP2, but older versions of Windows. Some users install non-Microsoft ad-blocking software instead.

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His first five predictions have already come true!

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:32:14 GMT

But we have been down this road many times before! In early 2003, the price of gold bullion fell 16 percent; in the summer of 2006 the price of gold fell 21 percent; from the spring to the fall of 2008 gold prices fell 28 percent; in the spring of 2009 gold prices fell 15percent-- and each time the price of gold bullion recovered and moved higher by years end.

In fact, for 11 years running the price of gold bullion has closed each year higher in price than it started the year. The recent weakness in gold bullion prices (more like a correction in an ongoing bull market) is a tremendous opportunity for smart investors.

I�m a big bull on gold. Rising inflation, a debasing U.S. dollar, out-of-control government spending, and a currency printing press that never seems to stop will continue to push the price of gold higher.

But when I look at gold, if it moves from $1,700 or $1,800 to $3,000 an ounce over the next five years, as I expect it to, my gain will be close to 100%�as an investment, that is not enough for me. I�m gunning for much bigger profits than that.

The big winners of the gold bull market will ultimately be the gold mining stocks. Look at this way. If a gold companys cost to produce one ounce of gold is $900, at a price of $1,800, they are making a 100 percent profit. But, at price of $3,000, they are making a profit of 233 percent�and the stock market will reward the stock by multiples of 233 percent.

I have found a security that goes up in value when the stock prices of junior and senior gold producers rise. We started following it at $30; it trades at $60 today. If gold bullion prices go to only $2,500, this security could triple in price to $180.

My analysts have recently completed a research report called Single Best Leveraged Play for the Gold Bull Market. We have hundreds of hours invested in researching, compiling and writing this report. My company plans to sell this report for $95. You can get it for free.

3. The euro is as done as the U.S. dollar.

I am blessed to be able to visit Europe once or twice a year to check on the economies of various European countries. Let me tell you firsthand, things are much, much worse in Europe than we read in the mainstream media.

On October 27, 2011, the euro zone leaders said they would bail out Greece, with European banks taking a 50 percent haircut off the value of their loans to Greece. This means Greece has technically defaulted on its debt. I believe Spain and Italy are not far behind.

Austerity measures are a difficult sell in Europe. This past summer, Greek police needed to use tear gas to disperse 20,000 protesters at Greeces Parliament House, as citizens demonstrated against the governments wage cuts and tax increases. By October 19, the organized protests grew to 70,000 people strong.

2012 will bring stronger citizen protests in Europe thanks to even more severe austerity measures that will be introduced this year.

Every morning, I wake up and ask this one question: when will Germany come to its senses and pull out of the euro? After all, Germany is the only real engine of the European Economic Community. Greeces GDP�it is less than 10 percent of Germany�s GDP.

The euro has declined steadily against the U.S. dollar. I actually envision a time when the richer European countries will tire of bailing out the poorer European countries it is actually happening right now, when each country will just go back to its own currency. Ultimately, the euro will die, and with it the economies of the weaker European countries: Greece, Spain and Italy.

There is a stock you can buy that goes up in value as the euro declines in value. The stock currently trades under $18�I see a $30 price tag on it this year.

My analysts have recently completed a research report called Making Money from the Sovereign Debt Crisis: How to Achieve Massive Profit from the Collapse of the Euro. We have hundreds of hours invested in researching, compiling and writing this report. My company plans to sell this report for $95. You can get it for free.

4. Inflation will become a real problem in America.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the consumer price index CPI is running at 3.9 percent per year.

While few are talking about it, inflation is a real problem in America. That is what the rise in gold price has all been about: Gold is screaming: Higher inflation ahead!

Thanks to years of monetary policies that promoted artificially low interest rates and printing presses churning out dollars in overtime mode, hyperinflation and American sovereign debt issues will become the biggest obstacles for the United States for the remainder of this decade and well into the next decade.

After falling for 30-years, short-term interest rates are bottoming out. The long-term 10-year U.S. Treasury, its yielding a pathetic 2 percent-- a 50-year low. All cycles come to end. And I believe we are near the end of a long-term down cycle in interest rates.

While it may difficult to see today, and as crazy as it may sound, the government will be forced to raise interest rates to fend off inflation�just like it did in the early 1980s..

Higher interest rates will also put the proverbial remaining nails in the coffin known as the U.S. housing market.

Now you see why I said at the very beginning of this presentation that it is not for the faint of heart. Imagine our government, the economy, housing prices and the stock market all collapsing at the same time?

But, for smart investors, there is more than just hope. As history has shown us, where there is fear, there is also profit.

We are just putting the finishing touches on a special report that reveals an ETF that rises in value when interest rates rise. It is called Inflation Hedge: Serious Profits from the New Multi-Year Trend of Higher Interest Rates. We have hundreds of hours invested in research, compiling and writing this report. My company plans to sell this report for $95. You can get it for free.

5. The stock market will ultimately test its lows of March 2009,bringing the Dow Jones down 46 percent from where it sits today.

Yes, this is my final core belief: The bear market rally in stocks will lose steam somewhere in the next couple of months and move straight down to test its March 2009 lows.

Phase One of a bear market brings stock prices down sharply. That is what happened when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell from 14,164 in October 2007 to 6,440 on March 9, 2009�a tumble of 54 percent.

Phase Two of a bear market is when the bear lures investors back into stocks. The bear gives investors and analysts the false sense that the economy is improving and it is okay to own stocks again. That is where we are today. The bear did a masterful job at convincing investors to own stocks again�and, presto, the Dow Jones got back to 12,000.

But the bear market is getting old and long in the tooth as they say. If I compare this bear market rally to the 35-month bear market rally of October 1934 to August 1937, we have a couple of months left before Phase Three of this bear market gets underway�ultimately bringing stock prices below their March 2009 lows.

How am I going to make money from this? Easy: I am not going to short the market, because that is too risky for most of my readers. I am not going to buy put options, because they are too short in nature for Phase Three of the bear market.

What I plan to do is to buy a stock that goes up in price when the stock market falls. The stock is very liquid, it trades on a major American exchange at about $18. If the market tanks like I believe it will, this stock will easily move to $100, maybe even $125.

My analysts have recently completed a research report called Lombardis Secret Stock That Goes up When the Stock Market Goes Down. We have hundreds of hours invested in researching, compiling and writing this report. My company plans to sell this report for $95. You can get it for free.

Putting it all together

At this point, you are probably saying: �Okay, Michael. Everything you have said so far makes sense. Now, how do I get my hands on these five new reports you and your analysts have just completed?

The ETF Set to Skyrocket in Price as the Devaluation of the U.S. Dollar Continues

Single Best Leveraged Play for the Gold Bull Market

Making Money from the Sovereign Debt Crisis: How to Achieve Massive Profit from the Collapse of the Euro.

Inflation Hedge: Serious Profits from the New Multi-Year Trend of Higher Interest Rates.

Lombardis Secret Stock That Goes up When the Stock Market Goes

Well, dear reader, I am not going to sell them to you. I am going to gift them to you. All five of them, yours free, and in your hands via e-mail within 48 hours!

How can I do that? These reports are very valuable. In the next few months alone, they can make or save you thousands of dollars, maybe even hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending on how big of an investor you are.

Fortunes will be made as the decline in the value of the U.S. dollar continues, as gold prices rise, as the euro collapses, as inflation sets in and as the stock market succumbs to the devastation of the economy. You need to position yourself to be among those precious few making fortunes from these five events.

Holding your hand all the way

More important than the five reports, I want to send you our new Lombardis Crisis Profit Alert. It is the first new Lombardi newsletter in two years.

There is no doubt about it. I am worried about our economic future and I know our readers are worried about our economic future. When I walk through our customer service department during the day; I hear our people on the phone with customers who are very worried about their investments.

That is what Lombardis Crisis Profit Alert is all about�helping our customers make money as everything around us falls apart.

The greenback will continue to fall in value against other world currencies�we will make money from it.

The 11-year old gold bull market will continue�we will make money from it.

The Euro will evaporate�we will make money from it.

Inflation will become a real problem in America�we will make money from it.

The stock market will proceed to test its March 2009 lows�and we will make money from it.

With Lombardi�s Crisis Profit Alert, you will make money by buying ETFs and stocks that rise in value as gold prices and inflation rise and the American dollar, euro and stock market collapse. It is not a short selling service. In fact, short selling is banned from the mandate of Lombardis Crisis Profit Alert.

I write Lombardis Crisis Profit Alert personally each month. It is a simple eight-page newsletter where I comment on the economy and the stock market. In each issue, I review our positions outlined in our five special reports:

The ETF Set to Skyrocket in Price as the Devaluation of the U.S. Dollar Continues�yours free.

Single Best Leveraged Play for the Gold Bull Market�yours free.

Making Money from the Sovereign Debt Crisis: How to Achieve Massive Profit from the Collapse of the Euro�yours free.

Inflation Hedge: Serious Profits from the New Multi-Year Trend of Higher Interest Rates�yours free.

Lombardis Secret Stock That Goes up When the Stock Market Goes Down�yours free.

You get Lombardis Crisis Profit Alert two ways: We e-mail it to you; and you get a secret password for a web site you can visit to see the issues posted online. E-mail alerts, which are separate from the newsletter, are sent to you once each month, between the newsletters. Hence, I am in contact with you at least twice a month: 24 times a year.

An unprecedented opportunity

For the financial advisories I personally write, I charge between $995 and $1,995 a year. The five special research reports we are sending you, we have priced them at $95 each: $475 total.

Since I believe we are headed for the most turbulent financial times America has seen since the Great Depression, I wanted to make Lombardis Crisis Profit Alert as affordable as possible.

Hence, I have slashed the regular subscription rate for one-year of Lombardis Crisis Alert: 12 monthly newsletters, 12 monthly e-alerts, to $295, and you get the five special, hot-off-the-press research reports I have mentioned free.

But your rate�for a limited time�is $100 less than that: just $195.

Be one of the fortunate ones! Protect yourself and set yourself up to profit from the financial Armageddon headed our way

Act now to secure your place, get your special research reports, and lock in a tremendous discount.

To recap, you�ll get:

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These five special research reports for FREE just for trying Lombardi�s Crisis Profit Alert:

The ETF Set to Skyrocket in Price as the Devaluation of the U.S. Dollar Continues

Single Best Leveraged Play for the Gold Bull Market

Making Money from the Sovereign Debt Crisis: How to Achieve Massive Profit from the Collapse of the Euro

Inflation Hedge: Serious Profits from the New Multi-Year Trend of Higher Interest Rates

Lombardi�s Secret Stock That Goes up When the Stock Market Goes Down

And, of course, everything comes with a money-back guarantee: If there is ever a time you are not happy with Lombardi�s Crisis Profit Alert, you can cancel for a refund of your undelivered issues. The five special research reports�they�re yours to keep no matter what.

I have told you about my five major predictions and how they have already come true.

I have given you critical warning number six.

And I have given you the answers on how to profit from the financial catastrophe headed our way.

The next step is up to you!

Yours truly,
Michael Lombardi
Michael Lombardi, MBA
Founder
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His first five predictions have already come true!

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:42:34 GMT

Part 1 of 2

Critical Warning Number Six

Fail to heed this final warning at your own risk!

Dear Reader:

Something very big will happen in America within the next 180 days.

It will be more devastating than the credit crisis of 2008.

For most people, it will hit them like a brick wall.

It will touch Americans harder and deeper than anything else we�ve seen since the Great Depression.

I feel so strongly about the critical warning I�m about to give you, I have decided to document it in this audio-video presentation. And I have labeled this a controversial video, because most people will not like what I have to say�they will find it hard to believe until they see all the facts as I present them.

My name is Michael Lombardi. You may have heard of me. Maybe you are one of the hundreds of thousand of investors who get my daily Profit Confidential column.

Or maybe you�ve heard of my company, Lombardi Publishing Corporation. I started it back in 1986. It�s served over one million customers in 141 countries since then.

Over the past decade, I have been widely recognized as the predictor of five major economic events.

Here they are for you in black and white:

In 2002, I started advising my readers to buy gold-related investments. Gold bullion sold for less than $300 an ounce back then. In fact, in 2002, I put all of my retirement money, and all of my wifes, in gold-related investments. I�ve been pushing gold for almost 10 years now.

In 2006, I begged my readers to get out of the housing market. I have nothing to hide. This is the exact e-mail alert I sent to my readers on March 1, 2006:

�The proof the party is over in the U.S. housing market could not be clearer to me. The price action of the new-home builder stocks is telling the true story�these stocks are falling in price daily and the media is not picking it up. The latecomers to the U.S. housing market may end up looking like the latecomers to the tech-stock rally that ended so abruptly in 1999.

Remember, I wrote the above in 2006 when the last thing on peoples minds were declining real estate prices.

In late 2006, I started predicting that the U.S. economy would be in a recession in late 2007. Here�s what I said back on November 13, 2006:

�It�s disappointing more has not been written on the popular financial sites and in the newspapers about the real threat of a recession happening in 2007. I want my readers to be fully aware of my economic opinion: I would not be surprised to see the U.S. economy in a recession sometime in 2007. In fact, I expect it.

Again, I wrote this back in late 2006�and everyone thought I was way off�until the actual recession hit.

By the spring of 2007, I was giving dire warnings to my readers about the economy. On March 22, 2007, I sent this e-mail dispatch to my readers:

�Over the past few weeks I have written about subprime lenders and how their demise will hurt the U.S. housing market, the economy and the stock market. There is no escaping the carnage headed our way because the housing market and subprime business are falling apart. The worst of our problems, because of the easy money made available to borrowers, which fueled the housing boom that peaked in 2005, have yet to arrive.

I was warning about the severe global recession we experienced in 2008 and 2009 long before anyone else.

And I totally predicted the 2008 economic massacre that later become simply labeled the credit crisis. On November 29, 2007, I wrote my followers:

�The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the other major stock market indices finished yesterday with the best two-day showing since 2002. I amm looking at the market rally of the past two days as a classic stock market bear trap. As the economy gets closer to contraction, 2008 will likely be a most challenging economic year for Americans.

Years after I wrote the above, it was widely recognized that October 2007 was the top for the stock market. And, yes, 2008 was the worst year for the U.S. economy since the Great Depression.

Finally, I correctly predicted the crash in the stock market of 2008 and early 2009. I even wrote an obituary on the stock market in the fall of 2008 that made me somewhat of a forecasting legend:

Here is what I e-mail-blasted to over 100,000 people on October 6, 2008:

�A Stock Markets Obituary: It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. After a strong and courageous battle, the Dow Jones fell victim to a credit crisis and finally succumbed on Friday, October 3, 2008, when it fell decisively below the mid-point between its 2002 low and its 2007 high.

The Dow Jones Industrial fell approximately 40 percent after I wrote this now famous Stock Market Obituary, finally hitting bottom on March 9, 2009, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 6,440.

Then�at the depth of the dark days of March 2009, I sent an e-mail alert to my thousands of readers and told them to jump into the stock market with both feet.

I turned bullish on stocks in March of 2009 and rode the bear market rally from 6,440 on March 9, 2009, to 12,876 on May 2, 2011�a gain of 99%. On May 2, 2011 I told my readers a stock market crash was headed our way. From May 2, 2011 to October 4, 2011, the Dow Jones Industrials fell 2,472 points.

To recap my big five predictions that all came true, I:

Told my readers to get into gold in 2002;
Told them to get out of the housing market in 2006;

Predicted the recession of late 2007;

Told my readers to get out of stocks in the fall of 2008; and
Told my readers to get back into stocks in March of 2009.

I did not spend the last five minutes of your time telling you about my five key predictions so I could pat myself on the back. Far from it.

In fact, I am a humble person who prefers a low-key profile. I have a Masters Degree in International Finance from one of Europes oldest universities. Most importantly, I am a successful businessman with a deep love of economic analysis and the stock market.

What I am about to tell you, my prediction number six, which is about to happen, is so off the wall, so controversial, I did not want you to think it was coming from some kind of quack. It is coming from someone with a proven track record at making economic and financial forecasts.

Lets fast forward to February of 2012, where we are today.

The economy is slowing. Retail sales in the U.S. are running at their slowest pace in five months. After trillions of dollars the government has pumped into the economy to revive it, U.S. corporations ended the 2011 with their slowest profit growth in two years.

Last year was the worst year for new home sales in the U.S. since 1963! And a glut of foreclosed resale homes still overhangs the housing market. Housing prices are set to fall again in 2012.

What economist like me really like to look at, the underemployment rate (that is the unemployment rate adjusted to include people who have given up looking for work and part-time workers who want full times work stands stubbornly at 15 percent in the U.S.

Banking is still a mess. Europes debt crisis is a huge problem for American banks; their exposure is close to $1 trillion.

Many European countries are in a recession again and I believe the United States is on the cusp of falling back into a recession. Some will call it a new recession. I will call it Recession Part II. But this is not the real problem.

While my colleagues will dance around the issue, while other economists will not utter the words, I will put it in writing:

The U.S. is technically bankrupt.

Our budget deficit this year will be $1.3 trillion. Our official national debt exceeds $15 trillion and this past summer Congress gave the Obama Administration permission to increase our debt to $16.4 trillion. Our unofficial national debt, when you take into account unfunded liabilities and entitlement to our citizens, is closer to $100 trillion.

By the end of this decade, according to the White Houses own prediction, the official national debt will surpass $20.0 trillion�not including off-balance-sheet items like old-age security, Medicare, and other government promises to its citizens.

And there is also hidden government guarantees not on the government books�

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own or guarantee half the residential mortgages in America. Who owns both of these companies now? Why, it is the U.S. government. They censured both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on September 7, 2008.

In effect, the government either owns or guarantees half the outstanding residential mortgages in this country. According to data compiler CoreLogic Inc., some five million home mortgages in the U.S. were either in the foreclosure process or delinquent last month, exposing our government to even more losses.

Politician after politician has failed to reduce government spending. Their belief is that spending more money will fix the economic problem. Well, they have spent trillions since 2008 and our economic problems are about to get worse.

The U.S. government and the politicians that run it are addicted to spending more money than the government takes in. If we look at it conservatively, and only look at the governments official figures, by the end of this decade, our national debt will be about 150 percent of our GDP�about the same level it was after World War II.

Why we will never get out of this hole

After World War II, America became a superpower. Our manufacturing base grew dramatically; the industrialized revolution was so great that the American dollar replaced gold as the reserve currency of other world central banks. There was a U.S. job boom.

Today, what do we have in America to carry us into the next boom? Nothing. The Internet is not creating jobs. Manufacturing, it is gone to Mexico, India and China. I doubt George Washington ever envisioned a future where Americans would be suffering so much. It is embarrassing, but true: Over 44 million people in this country are using some form of food stamps! Source: National Inflation Association

America, the Empire, is history. The Standard & Poor's downgrading of the U.S.'s credit rating this past August 5th, 2011 is just the beginning.

Going back in time a little�

In an e-mail blast to thousands of my followers on July 21, 2005, I said,

�The U.S. lowered interest rates in 2004 to their lowest level in 46 years. And what did Americans do with their access to easy money? They borrowed and borrowed some more, investing the borrowed money into real estate. Looking ahead, perhaps the Feds actions of 2004 will one day be regarded as one of the most costly errors committed by it or any other banking system in the last 75 years.

I was exactly right.

Artificially low interest rates are actually causing us harm.

Interest rates have remained so low for so long that inflation will become a serious problem for America in the months and years ahead. With the price of gold having risen 500 percent in less than a decade, gold is screaming, inflation ahead!

How does the government and an economy deal with inflation? Inflation is dealt with via higher interest rates. Mark my words: The artificially low interest rate policies of the past few years will come to hurt us in the form of hyper-inflation and sharply higher interest rates.

It will get worse

My prediction is not only that we are headed into Recession Part II�my prediction is that this next recession will also be much worse than the 2007-2008 recession and that it will hit as deep as the Great Depression.

You see�

Our government has no money left to bail us out during the next recession. The government is over-extended�if it was a business, it would be bankrupt right now.

The Federal Reserve has kept the economy alive the past three years by keeping its printing presses running overtime.

Lets face two important facts.

The Fed can nott lower interest rates below the zero they are at today. The more money the Fed prints, the greater the risk of inflation, and the higher long-term interest rates will eventually move, stifling the economy.

Lets move to the stock market

Did you know there is a striking similarity between the years 1934-1937 and 2008-2011?

Look at these facts:

The stock market crashes in 1929. Eighty years later, in 2008, it does the same thing.

The bear market rally that started in October 1934 lasted until August 1937�35 months�and took the Dow Jones Industrial Average from a level of 90 to 185, a gain of 106 percent. The Dow Jones then plummeted and did not recover until seven years later, 1944.

So similar it is frightening: The bear market rally that started in March 2009 has lasted 33 months so far and has resulted in the Dow Jones Industrials rising close to 100 percent.

If the current bear market rally follows the same path as the bear market rally of 1934 to 1937, we have only a couple of more months left before the next phase of this bear market gets underway, ultimately bringing stock prices below their March 2009 lows.

This time around, for reasons I have just explained, the after-effects of the next leg of the bear market could be much worse than the Great Depression.

At this point, I assume you are sitting there, watching and listening to this audio-video presentation and saying, Okay, Michael, what you say is stark and frightening. But it makes sense, the way you have laid out the facts.

So what do I do as an investor and consumer to protect myself?

The good news is that you could protect yourself from the economic devastation headed our way over the next six months. The better news is that, if you position your portfolio properly, starting today, you could actually make money during the next devastating down leg of this economy, while others struggle like never before.

Here are my five core beliefs about what is headed our way and how I plan to actually profit from them.

1. The devaluation of the U.S. dollar that started in early 2009 will accelerate as the U.S. economy deteriorates.

After World War II, our government did a masterful job at convincing foreign central banks they should have U.S. dollars as their reserves instead of gold bullion. Today, 70 percent of world central banks have adopted the U.S. dollar as their official reserve currency.

As the value of the greenback erodes under a mountain of debt and coming rapid inflation, courtesy of too many dollars in the financial system thank you, Federal Reserve, foreigners will be dumping dollars and moving away from a system where the greenback is the official reserve currency.

Chart courtesy of www.StockCharts.com

Shorting U.S. dollars is too risky and complicated for most of my readers. But there is a simple, easier way to make money as the U.S. dollar continues to devalue. There is an ETF you can buy that goes up when the U.S. dollar declines in value.

This ETF is in the currency that I believe will rise the most against the U.S. dollar over the next two years. No, it is not gold. It is a fiat currency that is up close to 10percent against the U.S. dollar over the past six months alone. It is a currency of one of the economically strongest countries in the world.

You put your money in this ETF, sit back, do nothing, and watch the value of the U.S. dollar fall as inflation and the national debt rise, and just watch this investment rise in value as the months go by.

My analysts have recently completed a research report called The ETF Set to Skyrocket in Price as the Devaluation of the U.S. Dollar Continues. We have hundreds of hours invested in researching, compiling and writing this report. My company plans to sell this report for $95. You can get it for free.

2. Gold prices will continue to rise.

When we look at the price of gold bullion today in inflation adjusted terms, it would need to be trading at $2,250 an ounce to be equal to its January 1980 price high of $850 an ounce.

But my public predictions about where gold prices are headed have been much higher. I�m expecting gold to trade at $3,000 before the bull market in the yellow metal is over.

Chart courtesy of www.StockCharts.com

Here�s an important fact I want you to be aware of:

After reaching an all-time record high of $1,921 an ounce on September 6, 2011, gold bullion prices have fallen back.

Not a Prity picture but real
The Elder Guru
Chauncey Penfold
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Top 10 SEO Tips for a Better Google Ranking

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:10:05 GMT

Top 10 SEO Tips for a Better Google Ranking

Even though there are numerous search engines available on the internet we all know that Google is the one that counts when it comes to rankings. This means that if you want your website to be successful you need to aim your SEO campaign at Google, but how exactly can you do this if you struggle to understand the complexities of the subject?

1. Create Content That Isn�t Time Sensitive

Putting good quality content on your website that won�t go out-of-date in a few weeks or months is an easy way to boost search engine optimization. By making the content you use useful now and in the future you won�t need to remove it and replace it over and over again � you can simply add to it on a regular basis.

A website with very poor content or very little content is an SEO no-no if you want good search engine rankings so get your typing head on and create some content that people will be glad to read now and in 10 years� time.

2. Think About Your Customer�s Needs

Put yourself in your customer�s shoes and think about the actual words they may type into the search box in order to find your website. Then check how popular these words are with an SEO keyword tool, such as the free one supplied by Google. One of the quickest and easiest ways to achieve good SEO is with good keyword selection. Then all you need to do is include your SEO keywords in your website content.

3. Do Some Guest Blogging

Google loves links so the more quality websites you can create guest blog posts for the better your SEO campaign will be. Make sure that the guest blogs all link back to your website and that they are relevant to the subject of your website. You should also make sure the content is top quality so that readers want to follow the link you provide.

4. Links, Links and more Links

As the above tip points out Google loves links � but only when the links are genuine and they link to and from other authoritative sites. You run the risk of blacklisting your website and ruining a good SEO campaign by either purchasing links or blogging on unrelated sites and linking back to your site. There are loads of other SEO techniques available so don�t go down this route.

5. Create an Informative Video

Informational videos with backlinks to your website are another great SEO tool. Businesses can make a short video explaining what they do, who they are etc. while vendors can demonstrate their products if appropriate. If you can, distribute your video over multiple platforms then watch as your Google rank increases.

6. Update Your Website on a Daily Basis

If you can add content to your website on a daily or bi-daily basis, Google and the other big search engines start to recognize your site as an authority in its niche. By changing your choice of SEO keywords on a regular basis as well you will begin to rank highly for a good selection of keywords and eventually the majority of keywords related to your site�s topic (or your business) will get your website noticed and ranked among the leading sites.

If you don�t have time to create new SEO oriented blogs on a daily basis, hire a blog writer to do it for you. On-going content creation is one of the easiest SEO techniques to master and one that will improve your Google rank over time.

7. Concentrate on Your Article Titles

A simple SEO tip that many people forget, revolves around the wording of their content or article titles. A lot of search engine spiders/bots initially read the first few lines of a webpage to determine the topic of the content. If you can include your top-ranking keywords in the title of whatever you�re writing, it will help your site�s SEO no end.

8. Avoid Flash-based Websites

Flash websites look lovely and stylish and expensive, but they don�t sit well with Google or your SEO efforts. It takes a number of sophisticated tricks to make Google notice Flash websites and so it makes more sense to use another platform, if you want to improve your rankings.

9. Use Article Submission Sites

Article submission sites are a great SEO tool as they distribute a single article written by you to hundreds of article directories with the aim of getting it published and noticed. The articles you submit can be published for free but any websites that choose to publish it have to include your bio and a link back to your website. Most article submission sites do charge for the service, but they can cut months off your SEO campaign.

10. Hire a Professional SEO Agency

The nine SEO tips mentioned above are quite simple to put into place but they take time, effort and patience. Not everyone has an abundance of these qualities so it may be worth hiring a professional SEO agency to do the work for you. Of course this will cost you money but if it gets your business website onto page 1 of Google within a few weeks it�s definitely a price worth paying.

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Damian Qualter is one of the world�s leading Search Engine Optimization Experts. If you are looking for FREE SEO Tips, Videos and Training then be sure to visit http://www.seotastic.co.uk.

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Enjoy 2% Daily!

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:34:55 GMT

A Search Engine that PAYS YOU to make a Search?

As editor of a large Article Directory, that currently has over 20,000 Articles, we receive hundreds of new ideas that arrive daily�.but in this past week I have received two new articles, that have both made me sit up and take notice. This is the first of those, the other I will leave for a second article.

Every day many millions of searches are performed, admittedly over 80% of those searches are currently made by internet users that go through either Google, MSN or Yahoo, but then like this new Search Engine, they too had to start somewhere. After all it was only a few years ago that Google started, now look at how big they are.

This is how the new Search Engine works:

You have your own Search Portal, in the same way that you would Search though any of the big three. Although instead of using say Google, you Search via your own personal Search Portal. The results that they supply, are both quick, and also very good, and supplied in the same way that they would be with any other Search Engine, but here is the difference!

1/. They will give you $50 just for joining, no catch, your account is credit as soon as you join up with them.

2/. You then get the personal link to your very own Search Portal when you join, which you then use whenever you want to make a Search of the internet.

3/. They CREDIT your account every time you make a Search, using your own Search Portal.

Now the potential!

The Search Portal link is specific to YOU, so the idea is for you to get your friends, and maybe even business colleagues to also use YOUR Search Portal, after all it will cost them nothing, and they will get good results. The more people you can get to use your Search Portal the better�.BECAUSE every time that it is used to make a Search by anyone using YOUR Search Engine Portal link, the Search Company pays YOU!!

It progresses even further, it is completely free to you, and you get the $50 sign up bonus mentioned above, but if your friends also sign up, they get the $50 bonus too, as do their friends, and their friend�s friends!

So there must be a catch?
I have NOT found one, and I have looked at it VERY closely. In fact I think it is a great idea, I have actually tried it, and as promised my account credit increased as they said it would. I believe that it is a very novel idea and one that could really take off. It is totally free to use, it does not cost the users anything, and so as far as I can see it really is a win win situation.

The Search Engine I am talking about, is also a Pay Per Click Search Engine, so they DO want you to use the money you earn to buy Pay Per Click listings, but then if you have your own website, and you are accumulating money for Free just by making Searches, then it also means that you are getting your �clicks� for Free too. They also have paid Membership, which I understand allows you to take the money you earn in the form of Cash Commissions, paid twice monthly via PayPal.

From my point of view, it looks like a new way of getting free traffic to my website.

So finally if you do have a web site, or maybe plan to have one in the future, would like to promote it for Free, then this is something that you should really take a look at. After all they could be the internets next big player, and you are getting in on the ground floor!

To your success
The Elder Guru
Chauncey Penfold
337-856-9461

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Copywriting - Words Matter

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:13:39 GMT

Copywriting - Words Matter

Despite the high volume of e-mail that flows invisibly all the time, there is often no substitute for talking with people. Indeed, in many organizations, big decisions are made only after in-person conversations. Many career people take this seriously. Herein lies an opening for misjudgement.

present with sincere gusto It is not uncommon to find a white-collar worker who believes that tone of voice and body language are underrated in effective speaking. Some polish their hand gestures and rehearse specific tones of voice because they believe that substance without style is weak. It's not just content, they say, but delivery. Seeking an edge, some even have the famous 7% rule memorized.

The 7% rule states:
� 55% of meaning comes from presentation
� 38% of meaning comes from tonality
� 7% of meaning comes from the words themselves.

Though this has brought confidence and success to some, there are still people who pay more than 7% attention to the words others speak. Neither is a fringe group. However, only the latter has the backing of scientific research.

still misunderstood
In 1967, Dr. Albert Mehabrian and his UCLA colleagues concluded studies in communication that yielded an astonishing result: The words you use in speaking to others do not matter nearly as much as the tone of your voice or your body language. As the press picked up the story, the idea was extended: written words also take a back seat to presentation and tonality.

good for shock value
According to Mehabrian and his team, the original studies were never well understood. They have always asserted that words matter very much. Perhaps they didn't use the right presentation and tone - or perhaps the media were hunting for shock value.

single-word expressions only
The Mehabrian studies attempted to reveal the relative impact of facial expressions and tonality on the understanding of spoken words. Subjects listened to recordings of a female voice saying single words (such as "maybe" and "honey") in different tonalities. They were also shown photos of female faces with different facial expressions. They were then asked to guess the emotions portrayed in each, and to link the recordings with the faces.

presentation and tone as guides
The results of the studies appeared in full in Mehabrian's books, Silent Messages (Wadsworth, 1971) and Nonverbal Communications (Aldine Atherton, 1972). In both books, he clearly states that for inconsistent messages or incongruent communications, body language and tonality are probably more reliable indicators of meaning than the words themselves. Presentation and tone are more reliable than words alone for interpretive guidance with single-word expressions. These are not general circumstances.

The 7% Rule is a Lie!
In a 1994 issue of Anchor Point, Dr. C.E. Johnson writes, "If these percentages were really valid, it would mean that learning foreign languages could be greatly abbreviated. After all, if the words only account for 7% of the meaning, we should all be able to go to any country in the world and simply by listening to tone and carefully observing body language, be able to accurately interpret 93% of their communications!"

Tone mightier than a sword?
In a 1997 issue of The Toastmaster, J.E. Pearson asks, "Imagine if Nathan Hale had said, 'Okay; I'm willing to die for my country,' instead of 'I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.' Imagine Winston Churchill saying, 'Don't be afraid,' instead of, 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself.'

Yes; tone of voice and body language matter very much - especially with single-word expressions. When speaking within a common language and culture do not be fooled by the myth of the 7% rule. Words matter - probably much more than 7%.

About The Author
Don Jeffre is the Owner of Don�s Sales, a computer repair business based in Vilonia, AR. USA. He owns and operates Really Unique Home Business Ideas, a blog dedicated to providing social media marketing and search engine optimization information. With over 14 years of industry experience, Don Jeffre shares his knowledge by posting daily SEO tips to his blog. Contact Don Jeffre at 501-796-2525, Skype: revenue4u, or Facebook

A Free Online Business Is Not Necessarily Free

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:51:49 GMT

Almost every hour of every http://www.ultraxproject.com/cha100 day, the Internet turns up with more advertisements to entice people who are interested in starting up their own online business. Why not start an online business, indeed? First off, it is quite lucrative, once you know what you have to do, what you need and how hard your resolution must be to succeed.

Having assured yourself of a sensible and thorough decision, you can start looking up for free online business advertisements. Weigh up your prospects and see the most lucrative of them all. However, you also need to see the reality that free online business is not necessarily free. There may only be some aspects in the business wherein you do not have to invest any amount to actually open up your online business.

Otherwise, there are bills to pay -- internet access, computer maintenance, electric bills, food, etc. Keeping this in mind will prevent you from getting bitterly disappointed.

Next, look up actual experiences of online entrepreneurs who are now earning thousands of dollars. From their experiences you may learn several things that will help you become ready than ever to launch your free online business.

- On getting a domain - Accept the fact that you cannot open up an online business without a website. In looking for a domain, there will be some free offerings while some are paid. Either you choose the free online business domain offerings or the paid ones, remember to research on the features of the domain you will get before starting any transaction. If your online business need more than what the free online business domains are offering, do not hesitate to register in a paid domain.

- On Web hosting - your online business domain must reach everywhere. Better not search free offerings for these and choose the best services, even if they might cost you some dollars. However, choose the web hosting service that offers the ones you need. Do not spend on other features that you do not require.

A reliable web host has great uptime record, offers excellent customer service and has a reputation in the search engines. You do not need empty promises in web hosting services.

- On Website stats - Your online business will rely largely on the users it attracts. It is important to have a great tracker that will actually show you how many visitors you got and be able to identify each one. You must also know their reaction to your website. Know the pages they view most, so that you can refine your website and improve your marketing efforts.

- On Ad tracker - like the website stat, advertisement tracker assists you in knowing which of your marketing campaigns have the best results.

With the advertisement tracker, you will know how many users responded or reacted to your ad. Probably not all your marketing techniques are effective. With the ad tracker, you will know exactly what marketing techniques to retain and continue doing.

- On Auto responders - these tools will assist you in following up your numerous clients requests and queries with necessary data they ask for and you think, they might need.

- On List hosts - for your free online business to prosper, you must know how to capture your target customers email address. By knowing their e-mail addresses, you can contact them on a more personal level and build a trusting and credible business relationship' with them.

Your free online business will also flourish more, if you as its manager and administrator educate yourself in making your venture prosper. Many courses online offer free online business training and comprehensive orientations.

Many free online business information from reputable websites give you tons of tips on handling your internet business. Free online business may not be very free. Nevertheless, in breaking down the aspects you need to have and know in getting started, you will find many free offerings to take advantage of.

To your success
The Elder Guru
Chauncey Penfold
337-856-9461
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Money to burn - Or burning through your money?

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:03:13 GMT

15 Ways to Start Your Internet Business Sales

1. Find a strategic business partner. Look for ones that have the same objective. You can trade leads, share marketing info, sell package deals, etc.

2. Create a free ebook directory on a specific topic at your web site. People will visit your web site to read the free ebooks and may see your product ad.

3. Brand your name and business. You can easily do this by just writing articles and submitting them to e-zines or web sites for republishing.

4. Offer daily or weekly visitor bonuses. This will increase your repeat traffic and sales because your visitors will visit regularly to get the visitor bonuses.

5. Start an auction on your web site. The type of auction could be related to the theme of your site. You will draw traffic from auctioneers and bidders.

6. Allow people to download software or e-books from your web site at no cost. Just ask your visitors in return if they will refer their friends to your web site.

7. Remember to take a little time out of your day or week to brainstorm. New ideas are usually the difference between success and failure.

8. Create multiple streams of income with your web site. You could sell your own products, join affiliate programs, sell advertising space, etc.

9. Model other successful business or people. I'm not saying out right copy them, but practice some of the same habits that have made them succeed.

10. Give your visitors compliments in your ad copy. This can earn their trust and put them in a good mood, in return they will be easier to sell too.

11. Take risks improving your business. Sometimes businesses do not want to advertise Unless it is free, sometimes you have to spend money to get results.

12. Include emotional words in your advertisements. Use ones like love, security, relief, Freedom, happy, satisfaction, fun, etc.

13. Ask people online to review your web site. You can use the comments you get to Improve your website or you may turn the reviewer into a customer.

14. out source part of your workload. You will save on most employee costs. You could out Source your secretarial work, accounting, marketing, etc.

15. Combine a product and service together in a package deal. It could increase your sales. If You�re selling a book; offer an hour of consulting with it.

To your success
The Elder Guru
Chauncey Penfold
337-856-9461

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15 Ways to Start Your Internet Business Sales

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:31:45 GMT

1. Find a strategic business partner. Look for ones that have the same objective. You can trade leads, share marketing info, sell package deals, etc.

2. Create a free ebook directory on a specific topic at your web site. People will visit your web site to read the free ebooks and may see your product ad.

3. Brand your name and business. You can easily do this by just writing articles and submitting them to e-zines or web sites for republishing.

4. Offer daily or weekly visitor bonuses. This will increase your repeat traffic and sales Because your visitors will visit regularly to get the visitor bonuses.
5. Start an auction on your web site. The type of auction could be related to the theme of your site. You will draw traffic from auctioneers and bidders.

6. Allow people to download software or e-books from your web site at no cost. Just ask your visitors in return if they will refer their friends to your web site.

7. Remember to take a little time out of your day or week to brainstorm. New ideas are usually the difference between success and failure.

8. Create multiple streams of income with your web site. You could sell your own products, Join affiliate programs, sell advertising space, etc.

9. Model other successful business or people. I am not saying out right copy them, but Practice some of the same habits that have made them succeed.

10. Give your visitors compliments in your ad copy. This can earn their trust and put them in a good mood, in return they will be easier to sell too.

11. Take risks improving your business. Sometimes businesses do not want to advertise Unless it is free, sometimes you have to spend money to get results.

12. Include emotional words in your advertisements. Use ones like love, security, relief, Freedom, happy, satisfaction, fun, etc.

13. Ask people online to review your web site. You can use the comments you get to Improve your website or you may turn the reviewer into a customer.

14. Out source part of your workload. You will save on most employee costs. You could out source your secretarial work, accounting, marketing, etc.

15. Combine a product and service together in a package deal. It could increase your sales. If you are selling a book, offer an hour of consulting with it.

To your success
The ELder Guru
Chauncey Penfold
337-856-9461

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Google Panda and Content Farms

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:52:00 GMT

Google Panda and Content Farms

Web content was the main buzz in the SEO world in 2011, mostly due to changes in the Google algorithm updates known as �Panda.�

When these changes began on February 24, 2011, many website owners woke up to find their Google search engine rankings had nose-dived and their traffic from Google had ceased. Loss in traffic means loss in income.

Panda was originally known as the �Farmer� algorithm change because significant Google ranking changes occurred in so-called �content-farm� sites. Famous URL�s such as Suite 101, eHow, DemandMedia, EzineArticles, Squidoo, HubPages, and Yahoo�s AssociatedContent were hit hard by Panda.

Google�s Panda evaluates the quality of the content found on all pages of a website. Because content farms are notorious free-for -alls which attract many amateur writers, those sites were hit the hardest.

Google engineer Amit Singhal posted this advice on the Google blog:

�One other specific piece of guidance we�ve offered is that low-quality content on some parts of a website can impact the whole site�s rankings, and thus removing low quality pages, merging or improving the content of individual shallow pages into more useful pages, or moving low quality pages to a different domain could eventually help the rankings of your higher-quality content.�

Content farms scrambled to react to their changes in search engine ranking throughout 2011, as Google made more than a dozen adjustments to Panda.

The notorious site, eHow.com, has made no recovery in Google rankings and traffic as 2012 begins. Suite101, EzineArticles and DemandMedia are still on a downward spiral since the first Panda rollout. Squidoo.com has recovered about half of the traffic it lost when Panda began.

AssociatedContent, acquired by Yahoo in mid-2010 for over $100 million, has taken the drastic measure of taking down the website and launching a revamp as Voices.Yahoo.com. The new site was launched on December 1, 2011, by uploading content from the original site, minus 75,000 pages of culled content. The URL change was made with this announcement from Yahoo: �Only content that meets our revised submission guidelines will be accepted moving forward.�

HubPages.com reacted to Panda by putting its authors on individual subdomains. This suggestion was actually recommended to the company by a Google employee. The subdomain concept puts the onus of poor quality content on the individual author. According to Alexa traffic graphs, HubPages has only recovered about a third of its pre-Panda traffic with this tactic.

Google sought to increase the quality of its search results by implementing Panda. And there are websites that have benefited from Google Panda. The mega article site Wikipedia, for instance, has experienced a marked increase in traffic.

As 2012 begins, Google Panda is still on the radar of website owners and internet marketers in the daily quest for high rankings on Google search engine results.

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Writer Fox is a Web Content Writer, providing Web copywriting information, services, and SEO help for writers and for webmasters. Writer Fox writes content to engage, secure trust, convince and push to the desired action. Read more about Google Panda and steps to take.

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How to Maximize Adsense Earnings

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:32:02 GMT

How to Maximize Adsense Earnings

Webmasters know that Adsense generates a sizeable amount of additional advertising income. That is why most webmasters use it to go after high paying keywords. They have with them the lists that tell what the keywords are and have already used various methods of identifying the right words. And yet, after putting up these supposedly high paying keywords into their pages, the money they expected is not really coming in.

What is it that they are doing wrong? Having the pages with the proper keywords is one thing, but driving visitors to those pages is another matter and often the factor that is lacking. The thing is, to get visitors to your high paying keyword pages; you need to optimize your site's navigation.

Stop for a moment and think about how visitors are using your website. After a visitor has landed on a certain page, they have the tendency to click on another page that sounds interesting. They get there because of the other links that appear on a page that they initially landed on. This is site navigation. It is all about enabling visitors to move about your site.

A typical website has menu links on each page. The wording on these links is what grabs a visitor�s attention and gets them to click on one of the links that will take them to another page of that website. Links that have the terms free or download in them are often good attention-grabbers.

This navigation logic can also be applied to driving traffic to your high paying pages. There are some websites that get a lot of traffic from search engines, but have low earnings. The trick is to try and use come cleverly labeled links to get the visitors off that page and steer them to the higher earning ones. This is one great way of turning real cheap clicks to real dollars.

Before you begin testing if this concept will work for you and your website, you need to have two things. A method to track your traffic and some high earning pages you want to funnel your site traffic to. An option is to select a few of your frequently visited pages, thus ensuring fast tracking results.

Now, the next thing to do is think of ways to get visitors viewing a particular page to try and click on the link that will take them to your high earning pages. Come up with a catchy and unique description for the link. Think of something that people do not get to see everyday. That will trigger their curiosity enough to visit and see what that was all about.

You can also use graphics to grab your readers� attention. There is no limitation to what you can do to make your link noticeable. If you are after the success of your site, you will do everything it takes just to achieve that goal. Just be creative. As far as many Adsense advertisers are concerned, there are no written rules to follow regarding what they write. Just as long as you do not overstep the guidelines of the search engines, then go for it.

Also remember that it is all about location, location and location. Once the perfect attention grabbing description has been achieved, you have to identify the perfect spot on your page to position that descriptive link to your high paying page. There is nothing wrong with visiting other websites to see how they are going about maximizing their site navigation. �Hot pages� or �Most read� lists are very common and overly used already. Get to know the ones that many websites are using and do not try to imitate them.

Another way of doing it is to use different text fonts on different pages. That way you will see the ones that work and what does not. Try to mix things around also. Put links on top and sometimes on the bottom too. This is how you go about testing which ones get more clicks and which ones are being ignored.

Let the testing begin. Testing and tracking until you find the site navigation style that works best for you site.

About The Author
Don Jeffre is the Owner of Don�s Sales, a computer repair business based in Vilonia, AR. USA. He owns and operates Really Unique Online Business Concepts, a blog dedicated to providing social media marketing and search engine optimization information. With over 14 years of industry experience, Don Jeffre shares his knowledge by posting daily SEO tips to his blog. Contact Don Jeffre at 501-796-2525, Skype: revenue4u, or Facebook

Why to Avoid Lead Generation Services and Get Your Own Leads

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:20:03 GMT

What is a lead generation service? It is a service designed to find leads for their clients. As any business owner or Internet Marketer knows, you can't sell your products if you don't have customers to sell them to. And a lead generation service is in the business of delivering those customers to you. At least, that is the theory.

But a lead generation service isn't the right solution for everyone. In fact, for many, it would be in their best interest to learn to generate their own leads. And here are some reasons why.

Money Is an Issue..

A lead generation service costs money. And the better and more reliable such a service is, the more it will cost you. Of course, as you become more and more successful as an affiliate marketer, and commissions from affiliate sales begin to fill your bank account, you might not mind paying for such a service. But, until then, you should keep in mind that generating leads yourself is cheaper. In fact, there are some lead generation methods that are absolutely free.

Where Did They Get The Leads?

Imagine this scenario. You go to a lead generation service that gives you a great deal on a list of leads. And they swear the people on the list are itching to buy a product in your niche. It sounds pretty good. Until you start contacting the folks on that list. Some of the leads are legit. But over half of them are defunct email addresses and disconnected phone numbers. So you didn't get what you paid for. But there's no guarantee that you will be able to get your money back. Or that the service you used didn't know some of the leads they gave weren't legit in the first place.

By generating leads yourself, you can be certain the leads are legit.

Are the Leads Willing?

How the lead generation service goes about getting the leads can have a major affect on how receptive the people on that list are to being sold to. You don't want to start sending messages to people who are just going to mark your emails as spam, and get you in hot water with your auto responder service.

By generating leads yourself, you can rest assured that the folks you are promoting to be open to receiving your messages and if you are scared of doing all this on your own, there is training on list building available as well.

Using a lead generation service might seem like a simple solution. But you will find that, when all is said and done, you will have fewer hassles and more peace of mind if you generate your leads yourself.

About The Author

Chuck Reynolds is the author of Chuck's Blog, a blog dedicated to providing social media marketing and search engine optimization information. With over 14 years of industry experience, Chuck Reynolds shares his knowledge by posting daily SEO tips to his blog. Contact Chuck Reynolds at 559-474-4614, Skype: chuck212, or chuck@dreams-inn.com.

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Social Apps: The Devil in Disguise?

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:34:32 GMT

Social Apps: The Devil in Disguise?

Social network applications are leaving an open door to our most personal of details.

Tending to the crops on your virtual farm, finding out who views your profile and sharing your favourite movie trailers may seem like harmless ways to use social networks but oblivious users are accepting application requests without considering who they are allowing to access their personal data.

Having �apps� connected to your Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter profiles provides an open-door for the third party behind the app to access your profile and all of your personal data within.

UKFast technical director Neil Lathwood explained the risks that this security flaw poses for social networkers: �Having all of these apps to entertain us is great, but many people do not realise that by using these apps they are effectively inviting people to use their personal data in whichever way they want. We really need to start considering the consequences of having all of our data readily available to unknown third parties.

�Facebook acts as a narration of our lives and with the introduction of the new Timeline feature, more people are filling the gaps in their profiles, adding illnesses, significant events and employment details to name a few. This information is incredibly valuable to identity thieves and cybercriminals.�

As revealed by UKFast�s security experts last year, the information that we share on social sites provides cybercriminals with the clues that they need to guess passwords and break into online accounts � from social media to online banking.

Lathwood continued: �With Facebook predicted to pass the 1 billion users mark this August, the site is a prime target for criminals to mine data from. Users must be more savvy with whom they are sharing their personal data or risk cybercriminals accessing more than just their Facebook or Twitter accounts.�

Facebook launches its latest innovation this week � Timeline Apps � which has caused further security concerns. The permissions protocol linked to the apps, �frictionless sharing� says that apps only need initial approval to post on your timeline and profile. This means that the app can continue to make posts on your behalf without asking for permission.

UKFast has issued the warnings as part of the build up to European Privacy and Data Protection Day on January 27, an annual event designed to raise awareness of data protection and online security.

Lathwood said: �Data Protection Day is the perfect time to raise awareness of the risks that we inadvertently take online. We can monitor the apps that have access to our profiles using websites such as http://mypermissions.org/ which take you directly to the permissions page of the site where you can manage these apps.�

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Previous accolades include being named the ISPA UK�s Best Hosting Provider four years consecutively. UKFast has over 400,000 web domains on its network and over 4,000 clients across all industries. Clients include Virgin, Microsoft and UKTV. UKFast is a member of the Cloud Industry Forum.

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Website Legal Compliance

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:57:41 GMT

Website Legal Compliance Congress Struggles With Protect IP and SOPA Legislation

Website legal compliance is now under serious consideration by lawmakers in Washington. The U.S. Congress is now considering two proposed bills, which if enacted into law, would provide ground-breaking weapons for law enforcement and content owners to enforce intellectual property rights. If you�re a content owner that provides content on the Internet, you have an important stake in the current legislative process.

The competing bills currently under consideration � The Protect IP Act (Protect IP) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) � are both aimed at websites that are focused on infringing the intellectual property rights of content owners. What�s both creative and controversial about these proposed laws from a website legal compliance perspective is the enforcement mechanism � shutting down the offending websites regardless of whether they�re U.S. based or foreign based websites.

The typical offenders that are the targets of Protect IP and SOPA are websites that pirate and illegally stream movies, TV shows, and music. However, if you�re a content owner with valuable content that may be the target of infringers, these proposed statutes may provide important legal remedies for you to protect your intellectual property.

The Protect IP Act

The target in Protect IP are websites that are �dedicated to infringing activities�. The key to determining if a website falls under this standard is whether it can be proved that the website has �no significant use� other than engaging in or facilitating infringement.

Remedies for violations are three:

* blocking the domain name from DNS servers and search engine results (available only to U.S. law enforcement),

* mandate that financial institutions (meaning primarily credit card processors) cease doing business with offending websites to the extent of U.S. online customers (available both to U.S. law enforcement and content owners), and

* prohibition of advertising services that provide ads to offending websites from continuing to do business with them (available both to U.S. law enforcement and content owners).

Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)

SOPA is similar to Protect IP, but there are differences. The key difference is that SOPA lowers the bar for proof requirements when determining which sites are �infringing�, meaning that content owners would have an easier task in getting to the remedies.

Under SOPA, content owners would only have to prove that an offending website is �dedicated to the theft of U.S. property�, clearly a much lower proof requirement than Protect IP�s.

Unlike Protect IP, SOPA would employ a procedure similar to the current DMCA notice and counter-notice procedure prior to bringing action against an infringing website. The notice would enable payment network providers and Internet advertising services the opportunity to cease dealing with offending websites prior to an action for a court order.

Conclusion

Given the severe remedies of both bills � shutting down offending websites � critics are numerous, particularly regarding SOPA. Critics argue that the severe remedies amount to censorship with related violations of free speech, plus they argue that there will be serious unintended consequences.

Most commentators are predicting that a statute with the same goals as both Protect IP and SOPA will eventually find consensus and be passed into law. If you�re a content owner that provides content the Internet, the outcome will likely affect you in a significant way.

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Digital Marketing

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:23:55 GMT

Digital Marketing

Utilizing online distribution methods to promote products is known as digital marketing. This approach is both time saving and cost effective. Digital marketing is done through items such as cell phones, SMS, MMS, instant messaging, websites, emails, banner advertisement and digital billboards. Digital marketing involves some of the techniques of direct marketing and Internet marketing. In digital marketing traditional methods of promotions are executed digitally. It involves marketing in two forms, pull and push.

Pull digital marketing requires the user to pull or extract the content directly. The customer has to approach the promotional matter and see the matter by himself. Examples are websites, forums and web logs. All these require clicking on a URL in order to view the content. The content that is being displayed doesn�t have to follow any guidelines. Effort is required to only display the content on the website or forum and there is no additional cost of sending the information to the customer, but the customer has to make the extra effort of reaching to the content. The customer doesn�t have to opt-in for such kind of promotion and one message is being viewed by all and it cannot be personalized. The customers who see the content cannot be traced, although the click through rate can be considered which give details about the number of clicks the message received. This is be done by enabling the click though tracking during the campaign, which records the information.

Push digital marketing technologies requires the effort of both the marketer and the customer. The marketer has to push or send the content to the customer and the customer has to make the effort of receiving it. This is a very effective kind of marketing and the investments surely earn a big return as it creates brand recognition. SMS, MMS, emails, RSS podcasting are examples of push digital marketing. Since the content is sent to individuals, it can be personalized according to the intended recipient. Whether the message has been opened and viewed by the customer or deleted it can be tracked and reported.

Information related to the customer such as name, geographical location could be traced. But when sending this king of message, certain criteria should be met as the SMS and emails sent are monitored. If the marketer doesn�t follow the rules and regulations properly, there is a possibility of messages getting rejected and blocked, before they reach the targeted audience and the message is considered to be spam. Bigger consequences involve marketers getting blacklisted temporarily or even permanently. The number would be blocked and they won�t be able to send any messages at all. Messages sent to the RSS feeders require a mechanism with an application to reach, when sent by an email marketing system.

Both forms of digital marketing should be used in consonance to achieve positive results. A smart marketer sends out emails along with SMS and uses multiple channels to market his products. The type of messages being sent should also be different from one another. They should not only be text, but animations, audios and videos. There is a possibility of using pull and push message technologies in conjunction like the email sent to a potential customer can have a URL or a banner ad, which on clicking downloads information. If there is enormous group of people to be reached via email, Email service providers can be hired who sends loads of emails to the customers on behalf of the marketer and they take measures so that the messages are not considered as spam.

Although much of the marketing is opt-in, federal laws, such as CAN SPAM Act, have been passed to protect the customers from unscrupulous marketers who would go to any extent to promote their products or hackers or spammers who have a bad intent i.e. like harming the computer or installing adware, spyware on people�s computers.

EBay Sellers: Why You Should Accept Paypal

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:11:48 GMT

EBay Sellers: Why You Should Accept Paypal

Are you looking to become an eBay seller? If you are interested in making money online, possibly even enough to support yourself, you just may be. Over the past few years, eBay has revealed itself as an online marketplace where just about anyone can make money.

Although it is relatively easy to make money on eBay, there are a number of important factors that come into play. For instance, you will want to have good: quality items to sell, detailed descriptions of those items, as well as easy to see pictures. Perhaps, those are some of the most important components of becoming a successful eBay seller but there is something else that can be just as important, your accepted methods of payment. For the best chance of success on eBay, you will want to accept a wide range of payments, including personal checks, money orders and Paypal.

Speaking of Paypal, Paypal is one of the most common methods of payment accepted on eBay. Despite being one of the most preferred ways to shop on eBay, there are still a number of sellers who do not accept Paypal as a form of payment. If you have yet to setup your eBay seller account, you will also want to take the time to set up a Paypal account. Of course, you can still make money on eBay without accepting Paypal, but your chances for success are higher when you do. That is why it is extremely important that you at least look into getting a Paypal account.

When it comes to getting a Paypal account, you will find that you can have a personal account or a business account. If you want to make the most out of Paypal and eBay, you will want to get a business account, as it enables you to accept credit cards as a method of payment. The only difference between a business Paypal account and a personal Paypal account is the fees. The fees that you are charged will vary, but you will be charged a small fee each time someone sends you a payment.

Although the Paypal fees may be a turnoff for you, you should let them be. By accepting Paypal, you are more likely to have more sales, as well as higher priced product sales, as more eBay buyers rely on Paypal to shop online. This will essentially make the fees seem minimal, as they easily pay for themselves overtime and you are still able to make a profit. In fact, your Paypal fees, from a business standpoint, can even be tax deductible.

One of the many reasons why eBay buyers like to use Paypal is because it gives them a sense of security. When using Paypal to buy items on eBay, buyers do not have to actually provide you with their bank account information or their credit or debit card numbers. This information is automatically stored in PayPal�s secure system. EBay buyers simply have to follow the instructions on the invoice that you send them, enter in their Paypal sign-in information, click a few confirmation buttons and they are good to go; no important information has to exchange hands.

If you are not already accepting Paypal, you will want to think about the many benefits to doing so, some of which were outlined above. For more information on Paypal, you are urged to visit PayPal�s online website, which can be found at PayPal.com.

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Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:08:04 GMT

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10 SEO Search-Ranking Myths

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:59:13 GMT

SEO myths become larger every year. Some are based partially in reality, and others have spread because it�s often difficult to prove what particular SEO action caused a resulting search engine reaction.

For example, you might make a change to something on a page of your site, and a few days later notice that your ranking in Google for a particular keyword phrase has changed. You might naturally assume that your page change is what caused the ranking change. But that�s not necessarily so. There are numerous reasons why your ranking may have changed, and in many cases they actually have nothing to do with anything that you did.

Mixing up cause and effect is one of the most common things new SEOs do. If it were affecting only their own work, it wouldn�t be so bad, but unfortunately, the clueless often spread their misinformation to other unsuspecting newbies on forums and blogs, which in turn creates new myths. It�s always interesting to see how people are so willing to believe anything they have read or heard without ever checking it out for themselves.

Myth 1: You should submit your URLs to search engines. This may have helped once upon a time, but it�s been at least 5 or 6 years since that�s been necessary.

Myth 2: You need a Google Sitemap. If your site was built correctly, i.e., it�s crawler-friendly, you certainly don�t need a Google Sitemap. It won�t hurt you to have one, and you may be interested in Google�s other Webmaster Central Tools, but having a Google Sitemap isn�t going to get you ranked better.

Myth 3: You need to update your site frequently. Frequent updates to your pages may increase the search engine crawl rate, but it won�t increase your rankings. If your site doesn�t need to change, don�t change it just because you think the search engines will like it better. They won�t. In fact, some of the highest ranking sites in Google haven�t been touched in years.

Myth 4: PPC ads will help/hurt rankings. This one is funny to me because about half the people who think that running Google AdWords will affect their organic rankings believe that they will bring them down; the other half believe they will bring them up. That alone should tell you that neither is true!

Myth 5: Your site will be banned if you ignore Google�s guidelines. There�s nothing in Google�s webmaster guidelines that isn�t common sense. You can read them if you like, but it�s not mandatory in order to be an SEO. Just don�t do anything strictly for search engines that you wouldn�t do anyway, and you�ll be fine. That said, the Google guidelines are much better than they used to be, and may even provide you with a few good tidbits of advice.

Myth 6: Your site will be banned if you buy links. This one does have some roots in reality, as Google likes to scare people about this. They rightly don�t want to count paid links as votes for a page if they can figure out that they are paid, but they often can�t. Even if they do figure it out, they simply won�t count them. It would be foolish of them to ban entire sites because they buy advertising on other sites.

Myth 7: H1 (or any header tags) must be used for high rankings. There�s very little (if any) evidence to suggest that keywords in H tags actually affect rankings, yet this myth continues to proliferate. My own tests don�t seem to show them making a difference, although it�s difficult to know for sure. Use H tags if it works with your design or content management system, and don�t if it doesn�t. It�s doubtful you�ll find it makes a difference one way or the other.

Myth 8: Words in your meta keyword tag have to be used on the page. I used to spread this silly myth myself many years ago. The truth is that the Meta keyword tag was actually designed to be used for keywords that were NOT already on the page, not the opposite! Since this tag is ignored by Google and used only for uncommon words in Yahoo, it makes little difference at this point anyway.

Myth 9: SEO copy must be 250 words in length. This one is interesting to me because I am actually the one who made up the 250 number back in the late �90s. However, I never said that 250 was the exact number of words you should use, nor did I say it was an optimal number. It�s simply a good number to be able to write a nice page of marketing copy that can be optimized for 3-5 keyword phrases. Shorter copy ranks just as well, as does longer copy. Use as many or as few words as you need to use to say what you need to say.

Myth 10: You need to optimize for the long tail. No, you don�t. By their very nature, long-tail keyword phrases are uncompetitive; meaning that not many pages are using those words, and not that many people are searching for them in the engines. Because of this, ranking for long-tail keywords is easy � simply include them somewhere in a blog post or an article, and you�ll rank for them. But that�s not optimization.

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Landing Page Success Tips

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:13:15 GMT

Landing Page Success Tips

Also known as squeeze page or lead capture page, you can build your mailing list by funneling all of your would-be subscribers through the creation of a landing page. Not only do you do the work just once, your traffic driving efforts can be focused onto just one effective method.

The following are tips in creating a successful landing page that converts visitors into subscribers on a very huge percentage.

Success Tip 1: Offer a freebie in exchange for your visitors email address. I very much endorse this method of building your mailing list. You can offer a special report or a sample of your paid product to your visitor in exchange for their details such as name and email address.

Success Tip 2: The landing page must be written professionally. When writing your page, treat it as if you are writing a sales letter. While you are not necessarily making a hard sale or try to get someone to buy your product upfront, being able to entice your visitors to give their details to you is just as important as selling.

Success Tip 3: Other than your opt-in form and perhaps important disclaimers and terms, there should not be any other links on your landing page.

Success Tip 4: Rub in the benefits of the freebie you are offering more than a mere subscription to your newsletter. You should focus most of the attention of the letter on encouraging your prospective visitor to download your free offer. Later, you gently remind your prospect that he or she has nothing to pay but just merely subscribe to your newsletter in exchange for the freebie.

As a final reminder and conclusion, in order to build trust, you can include your hand-written signature or a photo of yourself explaining where you are coming from and how you can help your visitor through your free report on offer.

Use Screen Sharing or Remote Desktop Sharing for Small Meetings

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:40:16 GMT

Use Screen Sharing or Remote Desktop Sharing for Small Meetings

Webinars are intended for larger groups of participants. Many times, you do not need a large web conference room, you only need to work one-on-one with a single individual or a small group. Fortunately, there are two catagories of utilities available to make this an easy task. They are screen sharing and remote desktop sharing.

Screen Sharing - When you simply need to share a screen for others to see, a screen sharing program is the preferred choice. Examples of screen sharing utilities include: Brosix, YuuGuu, and Skype, among others. With these programs, you can easily show people exactly what you are talking about.

Remote Desktop Sharing - Remote Desktop sharing allows screen sharing as discussed above, but also offers the added advantage of allowing interaction by visitors with the client machine. For example, it is possible to connect to someone's computer and click their icons to start programs, create documents, use browsers and perform virtually any function you can perform on your own machine. Both Windows and Mac operating systems have had some form of "remote assistance" built in for many years. I have used the Windows version a number of times to assist others with PC issues. The difficulties with connections, especially between operating systems, has given rise to a number of 3rd party solutions which work quite well and connect almost instantly.

Team Viewer - TeamViewer connects to any PC or server around the world within a few seconds. You can remote control your partner's PC as if you were sitting right in front of it. Features allow: Online meetings, Presentations, Training sessions, and Team Collaboration.

Mikogo - Simple & Secure Desktop Sharing - Show any screen content from your computer live over the Web to multiple people. Anything you see, they see. Mikogo is ideal for web conferencing, online presentations and remote support. Features allow: Online Meetings, Web Conferencing, Product Demos, Online Presentations, Remote Support and Webinars.

Crossloop - CrossLoop makes helping other people fast, friendly and cost-effective by empowering any two people anywhere in the world to connect live via computer. Through its easy-to-use desktop sharing software and global, user-verified Help Community, CrossLoop connects computer users with trusted, qualified service providers and friends who can provide the support they need quickly and conveniently.

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Build a Free Website using Free WYSIWYG Editors

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:20:39 GMT

Build a Free Website using Free WYSIWYG Editors

There are literally hundreds of free WYSIWYG editors available on the Internet so depending on your skill level and desired features, all you have to do is find the one that works for you. The following list will help you get started.

CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor - The CoffeeCup Free HTML editor is a text editor which offers a free version.

Evrsoft First Page - Evrsoft First Page is a text and WYSIWYG editor for Windows. It offers a lot of the features you expect from a professional web editing package.

Kompozer - KompoZer is a good WYSIWYG editor. It was originally based on the popular Nvu editor and is now based on the Mozilla platform.

PageBreeze Free HTML Editor - An HTML Editor which has both visual (WYSIWYG) and HTML tag/source modes. PageBreeze Free HTML Editor's design emphasizes simplicity and ease-of-use.

SeaMonkey - SeaMonkey is the Mozilla project all-in-one Internet application suite. The built-in Compose page is easy to use.

Trellian WebPage - Trellian WebPage is one of the few free web editors that offers both WYSIWYG functionality and image editing within the software.

This list is by no means exhaustive, there are plenty more free WYSIWYG editors, just Google it.

Warm Regards
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The New Part Played by Social Media in SEO

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:37:47 GMT

When most people start planning SEO for their website I can bet you a large proportion of them get stuck when it comes to really understanding what part social media has to play in SEO.

Social media often lags further down the priority list behind SEO for a variety of reasons, mainly a lack of clarity as to what benefits it will actually bring and the fact that it�s often difficult to relate a tweet or Facebook message to a return on investment whereas with SEO, for example, website owners can more easily attribute a growth in sales to new rankings for key-phrases.

However, the way that social media has evolved means that it now plays a much more important role in search engine optimization. Searches are now taking into account the reputation of websites as reflected in social media sites to determine rank.

What Content do Users want to Share?

A more common occurrence nowadays is the placing of social networking buttons alongside pages and various pieces of content within the website.

That�s all fair and well, but it�s only an issue if people actually bother to click on them.

Users will generally want to share some content if:

* They find it funny or amusing
* Interesting
* Educational or inspiring
* Controversial or shocking

Depending on what business you�re in, particular areas of the page can be targeted towards the above sharing factors. So if the page in question is about a product, then the focus could be on the:

* Product Description
* Price
* Reviews
* Images

The marketing principle here is relatively straight forward. Like you would plan content for SEO to ensure maximum effect � take the same approach towards social media strategy. Identify areas of content that could be of interest to users and are most likely to be shared. Don�t be afraid to adopt or add to the content to make it appear more attractive / amusing to users. At the end of the day, whatever works best for you!

Facebook Seeding for SEO

The principle behind using Facebook is to engage with, and build an army of fans who then recommend you to others which means more �likes� and help for the SEO and the domain of the website. However it�s not just that simple � to build a presence on Facebook and to attract fans takes ongoing work and management. The following tips will help you to build a suitable fan page and attract new followers:

* Design an entrance page that compels the visitor to click on the �like� button � there are many things you can do for this � be creative, clever and innovative.

* By using Facebook PPC ads you can drive visitors towards the fan page thus building a larger and more active fan base that in turn helps the SEO and brand awareness of your business.

Social Sharing Sites

Some online communities, such as Digg and StumbleUpon are dedicated to sharing content and can be very powerful ways of spreading a message about your brand and forming social media links that will directly help your SEO. Users can vote on the content and enough votes will result in being featured on the homepage. A link from one of these sites will reflect well on the SEO of your own.

Again though, it�s not enough to stick up any old content and hope for the best. If it�s unplanned and ill thought through, the likelihood is people won�t click on it. In order to stand a chance of success follow these basic steps:

* Devise an eye catching and attractive piece of content that readers are likely to share. Offer people an incentive to share it, whether that means free samples, a discount or just make it so funny, amusing or interesting that people are compelled to share it. Just making it a straight forward advert isn�t going to work � be imaginative.

* Now you need to promote it, and this means work! Create suitable profiles, engage with users and don�t be pushy.

Social Competitions

The idea of running competitions isn�t a new one, but conducting a competition using social media solely, is.

The principle is basic � get users to follow your business on social media and in return they stand a chance to win something. Entering such a competition is easy for people � all they need to do is click �follow� or �like� and that�s it.

The Social Media / SEO Relationship

This is where website owners sometimes get confused. The whole idea behind social content seeding is attracting social signals rather than the traffic. Yes traffic will come to the site via social media sites, but it will not result in conversions.

Where the benefit comes is from the organic rankings, the place where people are already looking for you. The social signals will be helping your website attain better rankings and that�s how the conversions are achieved.

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You can sell anything on EBay � Or Can You?

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:19:00 GMT

You can sell anything on EBay � Or Can You?

Over 100 million people are members of EBay. Through EBay, you can buy items in almost any category that you can imagine � at great prices. You can also sell almost anything you can imagine on EBay � people often sell items that have absolutely no real value for very high prices. There are limits, however, to what can be bought and sold.

EBay does not allow certain items to be auctioned through their website. Services are one type of �item� that cannot be auctioned � simply because it is not an item. Some sellers blatantly ignore this however. The sale of other items is illegal, even if it is not being sold through EBay. EBay restricts the sale of any type of item that is considered illegal for sale in any other selling format. Illegal items such as satellite descramblers are forbidden as well.

Anything that is copyrighted - such as copies of DVDs, CDs, or software - may not be sold through EBay auctions. You can, however, sell a DVD, CD, or any software that you bought legitimately�as long as you are not just selling a copy that you made of these types of items. EBay does not allow the sale of replicas. A replica is a knockoff version of designer items, such as purses, dresses, shoes, or sunglasses that look identical to those that have designer labels.

Items that are regulated by the state or federal government are forbidden on EBay. These items include alcoholic beverages, weapons and firearms, all tobacco products, and both prescription and illegal drugs. There are small exceptions to this rule, however. If you have a collectable, such as a tin that contains tobacco, you may sell that item if the package has never been opened, and if you state the contents of the package are not meant for consumption. There are other conditions that must be met as well when selling these types of collectables.

Any type or breed of animal or reptile may not be sold through an EBay auction. This includes animals that were once living, and are now stuffed and mounted. This rule may also apply to items that are taken from endangered species, such as Ivory. When it comes to these types of items, when in doubt, do not.

Tickets may be sold, but it is illegal to sell tickets for a higher price than you originally paid for them. This is called ticket scalping, and it is illegal. Lottery tickets are also banned from EBay auctions, as well as raffle tickets. Again, if you are not sure if your item is eligible for an EBay auction, either do not put it up for auction, or contact EBay to get an answer one way or the other. Don�t risk breaking the law!

The Reality of Achieving Top Search Engine Ranking

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:05:31 GMT

The Reality of Achieving Top Search Engine Ranking

This article is the reality of what you need to do to get to the best position you possibly can in the search engines � no hype or myths. You will finally know what it is you really need to do and what you need to do to develop a strategy to promote your website.

Let us first look at what it is that gets pages ranked in the top of the search engines. Search engines each have their own secret methods and algorithms for ranking websites with the overall mission to get the most relevant content in front of someone searching for particular keywords. There is an endless battle going on between the search engines to bring us the most relevant content and SEO experts trying to find loopholes to get their clients to the top.

The different strategies for search engine optimization fall into two categories; white hat strategies which involve working with the search engines to give them what they are looking for, and black hat strategies which involve loopholes and cheats for getting ranked at the top. Although black hat strategies can work for a period of time the clever guys at Google will soon find out what you are up to tighten the loophole and ban you from the search engine. This is known as being Google slapped and can take a long time to recover from.

Ranking factors are continually changing and to know which ones actually work you would have to be an inside man on the search engine�s top team. Below is a list of the ones that have been proven through the test of time and coincide with what the search engines are trying to achieve � �white hat strategies�.

o You need to have keyword rich, quality themed content. This does not mean a load of gobble packed with keywords. Quality means keyword rich content with well worded phrases and paragraphs linked to those keywords. The search engines are getting a lot better at reading pages and they are no longer looking for just keywords but entire meaningful content related to the keywords.

o Links to your site from other web pages. It is important to have links pointing to your website from other relevant websites. They will have no effect from non-related web pages. Although you will not lose marks for having bad quality links from link farms and other non related websites it will not aid your quest for SEO. Authority sites are the best form of links to have; sites that already rank high in the search engines containing your link will throw a lot of weight.

o Older sites will tend to rank higher because of the experience and durability factor, as long as they are active sites and updated they will rise in time. Remember that search engines want to deliver the most up-to-date relevant information so keeping it current is important.

o Links out from your website to authority sites will also show relevance and importance on your site. Be careful to check out the site you are linking to. Although you won�t lose points for bad incoming links, you will lose points for linking out to bad content.

o Keywords play a major factor. Some are more competitive than others. Start with the most specific and work your way into long tail keywords. Adding a state or town for local businesses is a great help.

o The most important factor in all these points is to have unique content. You need to have your links coming from non-duplicate sources because the search engines filter all the duplicate stuff so the links will not count.

The Myth Buster of SEO

A search engine optimization expert cannot assure you of a first page ranking, unless of course he works for the search engines and has control to put you there. All he can promise is his efforts in trying to get you on the first page. Don�t believe that an SEO expert can get you 100 Page 5 links for $100. A single link from a site this high up will probably cost you $50 a month. The higher the ranking website you want to link from, the more costly it will be.

There are only six ways to get quality links from authority sites:-

1. Buy them
2. Talk them into placing a link on their site
3. Get them enrolled in your affiliate program
4. Provide them with unique content they want on their sites
5. Get in early on a low Page ranked site and wait for the page to rise in the search engines.
6. Have such a great site that people will happily put links on their site and tell people about you.

Last myth of the day is the back link checker. Using the link command �link: yourwebsite.com� does not give you accurate results. Why? The search engines do not want you to know the truth about your links because the only people that would be interested in such a thing are SEO experts � the very same people that the search engines are in direct competition with.

A more accurate way of finding out how many links you have coming into your site would be typing this into your address bar: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=.yourdomain.+-+

This is the only way of finding out if your links have been truly indexed or not. You need to replace �yourdomain� with your own web URL leaving out the.com and www. In the first one. So What is the Best SEO Strategy

Make sure that your web pages are optimized and W3C compliant. Remove any excess code like JavaScript by storing it in external files. Make sure all the h1, h2 and h3 tags are relevant to your theme and the Meta tags also fit in with the content.

Create lots of content for your site on a regular basis, preferably daily so you end up with hundreds of relevant pages pointing links toward your site. You will eventually see your site rise up the search engines for the main and long tail keywords. When you have good content on your site, submit your site to DMOZ.

The last step will take time and will probably see more failure than success, but perseverance is the key. Contact authority sites in your niche and speak to them about putting a link on their site through an article or some other deal. The high ranking sites will need quite a lot of persuasion but will be worth the effort.

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SEO is an ongoing process that is best done slow and steady through writing articles and content for article directories and blogs. Not everyone has time to do this process which is why Adam set up his article writing services website to offer a complete SEO service through white hat search engine compliant strategies.

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10 Ways to Be Successful with Affiliate Sales

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:47:13 GMT

10 Ways to Be Successful with Affiliate Sales

Affiliate marketing is one of the fastest and most affordable ways to get started making money online. In essence, what you are doing is selling other companies� products for a commission. You can make money without developing your own product or building your own sales site. All you do is promote the product and send the customers to the company�s site to make the purchase.

Of course, I don�t want to make this sound too easy. It does take work, commitment, persistence and time like any other business. By following the ten tips below, your affiliate sales should increase and thereby increasing your monthly income.

1. Personal Recommendation � You always want to try the product before you start promoting it so you can give it a personal recommendation. A personal recommendation can be very powerful in persuading people the product is �real�. This is especially true if you are already established online and have a good clean reputation. If you are not well-known a personal recommendation will still carry a lot of weight.

2. Quality Products � Be sure to only represent quality products that you would actually use yourself. People might ask you if you do or would use the product yourself. This is another reason for trying the product before you sell it or at least do extensive research on the product.

3. Know the Product � This is another reason you need to do extensive research on the product. People will ask you questions about the product and you need to know what you are selling.

4. Know Your Target Market � What type of people come to your site/blog? What are your readers� needs and wants? If you have a health and fitness blog, you probably won�t want to promote a dessert cookbook or movies because these things will not benefit your readers. Be sure to match the products to your target market.

5. Reliable Company � Be sure to also check out the company before you sign up with them. Research any reviews, complaints, awards, etc. this company might have. Contact other affiliates and ask how the company manages their affiliate program and payouts.

6. Product Updates � Keep abreast of all product updates so you can keep your readers and visitors updated as well. Check out the company�s product info frequently. Always know the latest about the product you are representing!

7. Sales Material � Most companies will provide professionally written sales materials for their affiliates to use. They will have ezine ads, solo ads, email signatures, graphics, etc. Take advantage of these sales materials instead of trying to create your own.

8. Be Selective � Find just a few quality products to promote rather than signing up for every affiliate program you can find. Choose a few good products that complement your site and each other. This will enable you to focus more on the products and promote them more effectively.

9. Spread the Word � Don�t make the mistake of just slapping one of the company�s ads on your site and think the sales will start rolling in. Promote them on your social networking sites. Add a blurb in your email signature. Post them on forums, groups, etc. Add them to your article resource box. Mention them to your mailing list on a regular basis. You need to promote them heavily and consistently to make a good amount of sales. Keep abreast of new and innovative marketing strategies.

10. Test and Track � As with any online business you should test and track your marketing and sales strategies. Find out what is working and what is not. Concentrate more on what is bringing in sales to raise your income.

Affiliate marketing can be an effective way to make money online by itself and it can also be a supplement to your main business. Unfortunately, many people will sign up with an affiliate program, paste an ad on their site and think that is all they have to do. When I first started online, I too signed up for any program I could find and just threw up a bunch of ads on my site. This is a common mistake that can be overcome.

Affiliate marketing will not work for you unless you make it work. It is a business like any other and needs to be given the same attention and commitment!

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How to get started on eBay

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:13:51 GMT

How to get started on eBay

Would you like to use eBay to buy the products that you need or even sell items that you no longer want? If you would, you will need to create an eBay account. Although many automatically assume that getting started with eBay is a complicated task, it doesn�t have to be. All you really need to do is follow a few steps and you should on your way.

The first thing to do is visit eBay�s website at eBay.com. Once you are at eBay�s website, you can click on the link that allows you to register a new account. At that stage, you will be brought to a signup form. That signup form will ask you a series of questions. For instance, you will need to enter in your full name, your address, your telephone number, as well as an e-mail address. You will also be required to come up with an eBay screen name or sign in name, as well as an eBay password, which will be used to access your eBay account. Once you have correctly filled out the form, you will be sent a verification email from eBay.

Once you have received eBay�s verification email and followed all of the instructions, which will help you validate your eBay account, you will be able to start using eBay right away. When you first get started, you may need to sign in to your eBay account. As previously stated, you will need to use your eBay sign in name or screen name and password to do so. For that reason, you may want to write down your sign in information and keep it in a safe place. Once you have signed in to your eBay account, you can then do whatever you want; buy or sell.

If you are interested in using eBay to shop online, you will want to start searching for items to buy. This can be done a number of different ways. EBay allows you to browse through their large selection of items by categories. You can also perform a standard eBay search or an advanced one. Searches are more likely to give you accurate, tailored results. When browsing or searching for something in particular, you should be able to see a large number of auction listing all on one page. The information that you will be presented with at this time is the standard, bare minimum. If you would like more information on the item in question, such as how much shipping costs or too see additional pictures, you will want to click on the link to view the detailed sales page. Should you like what you see, follow the instructions to buy and you will have made your first purchase on eBay!

If you are interested in selling on eBay, to make a little extra money, you can also do so. The only difference is that you are required to pay fees to become an eBay seller, unlike eBay buyers who have completely free accounts. The amount of money that you are charged will depend on your auctions, particularly how much you list each item for, as well as how well each item sells. To get started with selling, you will want to click on the �sell,� link at the top of the eBay webpage. What is nice about listing items for sale on eBay it is relatively easy to do. For instance, you need to choose a category for your item, make a headline for your auction listing, write a description of your product, upload pictures of what you are selling, outline shipping costs, as well as accepted forms of payments, but everything is outlined for you, in a step-by-step matter.

Whether you are interested in becoming an eBay buyer or a seller, you can do both, in as little as a few minutes. EBay is one the most shopped at online marketplaces. For you, this means that if you are looking to make money on eBay, you should be able to do so and if you are interested in buying on eBay, you should be able to find millions of products to choose from.

Better Web Builders

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:03:02 GMT

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Better Web Online Builders

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:10:21 GMT

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Good Website Design Practices

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:50:56 GMT

Good Website Design Practices

Your website is where your business resides�it�s like the headquarters of an offline company. Hence, it is important to practice good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible. Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to navigate around your website without confusion.

Reduce the number of images on your website. They make your site load very slowly and more often than not they are very unnecessary. If you think any image is essential on your site, make sure you optimize them using image editing programs so that they have a minimum file size.

Keep your text paragraphs at a reasonable length. If a paragraph is too long, you should split it into separate paragraphs so that the text blocks will not be too big. This is important because a block of text that is too large will deter visitors from reading your content.

Make sure your website complies with web standards at w3.org and make sure it is cross-browser compatible. If your website looks great in Internet Explorer but breaks horribly in Firefox and Opera, you will lose out on a lot of prospective visitors.

Avoid using scripting languages on your site unless it is absolutely necessary. Use scripting languages to handle or manipulate data, not to create visual effects on your website. Heavy scripts will slow down the loading time of your site and even crash some browsers. Also, scripts are not supported across all browsers, so some visitors might miss important information because of that.

Use CSS to style your page content because they save a lot of work by styling all elements on your website in one go.

Tablets like the iPad 2 are the hottest items this Season

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:58:06 GMT

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The Best Blog Platforms and How to Use Them Successfully

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:14:16 GMT

The Best Blog Platforms and How to Use Them Successfully

Blog marketing is a wonderful way to connect with your audience, to provide valuable and useful information to prospects and customers, to sell your products and services, and to drive traffic to your website. However, before you begin to blog or even start to set one up, you have one very important decision to make. Which blogging platform will you use? Here are a few tips on how to use blog platforms successfully.

The Big Three and Beyond

A blog platform is essentially a product which a blog or website is based on. In many cases they�re the service you use to host and publish your blog. In the blogging world, there are three big players with a host of smaller platforms. The big three are:

* Blogger, now owned by Google
* Typepad
* WordPress

There is also MoveableType.org, which is an open source publishing platform. Another is Joomla, which offers blogging capabilities but is considered more of a website platform than a blogging platform. There are many other website hosts which offer blogging functions; however, they�re not traditional platforms.

When you choose a blogging platform, you�re looking for a few key ingredients. You�re looking for:

* Ease of use - If you have to jump through hoops and read a 1000 page manual to get a blog up and running, you�re not going to want to do it. Intuitive interfaces and easy to find information are essential.

* Functionality - It needs to be user friendly for your customers and prospects, and that means easy to navigate and easy to use.

* Features - You want your blog to be able to do what you want and need it to do, including sell products and services, host contests, take feedback and so on.

* Price � Always a consideration.

* Customization - You want to be able to make your blog look and feel exactly like you want it to without a ton of work, time and money.

* Reputation - You want a platform that�s going to be around for years and years to come so you don�t have to switch your blog to a different platform.

Before you choose a blogging platform you�ll want to spend some time determining what you want your blog to accomplish. If for example you want to optimize your blog for the first page of the search engines, you�re going to want a blog that is easy to optimize and maybe has search engine optimization plug-ins. This means making a list of your requirements before you even begin comparing blogging platforms.

Another important thing to consider is where your blog is going to be hosted. TypePad and Blogger are both hosted blogs, meaning your URL will be http://www.yournamehere.typepad.com/.

The same is true for Blogger. WordPress gives you the option. You can host your blog on WordPress or redirect it to another host so your URL is whatever you want it to be.

Read everything about your blogging platform before you go through the work to customize it and set it up. Some hosted blogging platforms do not allow advertising, for example, and if that�s something you want to do, then you�ll need to consider those restrictions before you sign on.

The good news is that blogging is free and unless you hire a professional designer to customize it then your start-up expenses are nominal. (There�s a $10 fee to redirect a WordPress blog to another host.) Choosing your blogging platform just takes a little time and research.

Happy blogging!

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Internet Marketing the Easy Way

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:49:57 GMT

Internet Marketing the Easy Way

Just like there are no magic weight loss cures or ways to earn money from home without a great deal of effort, there is no one simple solution to guarantee Internet marketing success. However, Internet marketing is not overly complicated and many business owners can enjoy at least some degree of Internet marketing success with only limited knowledge about the industry. This article will discuss some of the simplest Internet marketing strategies business owners can implement to promote their business online.

Participation in industry related message boards is one of the easiest ways a business owner can use the Internet as a promotional tool. Message boards are websites which provide a forum for Internet users who share a common interest to share information related to this subject or just socialize. Business owners may opt to join message boards which closely relate to their industry or the products or services they offer. This is important because doing this gives the business owners access to a group of Internet users who fall into the target audience for his products or services. It also gives the business owner the opportunity to promote his own website. Many message boards allow users to place a link to their own website in their signature. Business owners who do this and also contribute useful commentary on the message boards may attract potential customers via the link they place in their signature.

Additionally, some message boards may even allow users to post links in the body of the message. This gives the business owner the opportunity to offer his link in response to questions and comments when doing so is relevant and offers something of value to the online conversation. However, care should be taken to carefully review the terms of service and all guidelines on the message board before posting links to ensure this is not a violation of the policies of the message board. Failure to adhere to message board policies may result in removal from the message board or the posts being viewed as spam by other users.

Another simple, but effective, Internet marketing strategy is to hire a consulting firm with search engine optimization (SEO) experience to assist you in achieving high search engine rankings. While the concept of SEO can be rather complex and understanding the most effective strategies and how to properly implement them may take years of experience as well as continual education, the ability to hire a qualified SEO firm is as simple as knowing how to interview candidates and select the most qualified one. Handling your own SEO efforts can be rather difficult but hiring another firm to take care of this for you is not only easy but it can have a significant impact on your website traffic because high search engine rankings typically translate to improved web traffic. This is because Internet users trust search engines to serve the most relevant websites first and typically only visit the best ranking websites when they search for a particular term.

Similarly another simple way to enjoy Internet marketing success is to hire a consulting firm to plan and execute your Internet marketing strategy. Just like SEO, Internet marketing is essentially a full time job. Business owners may have a great deal of difficulty trying to run their business and organize their Internet marketing. Outsourcing this work eases the burden on the business manager and will likely produce more favorable results.

The Biggest Video SEO Secret of Them All

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:41:55 GMT

The Biggest Video SEO Secret of Them All

There are video SEO tools, techniques, and secrets that all explain how to get videos and their hosting websites to the top of the search engines. These video SEO techniques all focus on winning search on Google, the biggest search engine of them all, as well as Yahoo and Bing.

But the biggest video SEO secret? Forget about winning search on Google, win search on YouTube instead. That is because YouTube is the second biggest search engine in the world, behind Google. Furthermore, the fact that YouTube is so popular, also gives YouTube videos high ranking in search results on Google and other search engines online.

Why is YouTube so important? When people have �how to� questions where they need to learn how to do something � how to replace a key on a keyboard, how to defrag a hard drive, how to change a car�s oil � there is a video of it. Or when they want to watch a music video from their favorite band or a scene from their favorite movie, they can find it on YouTube.

Why not take advantage of this?

Think about it. Everyone is focusing all their attention on Google, using onsite search engine optimization techniques, trying to win search for their chosen keywords. But what if it was possible to win search on YouTube instead? Imagine what kind of impact this could have on regular SEO efforts.

Start paying attention to the Google search results page and see what shows up near the top of the search results every time.

Videos!

And not just any videos, but the videos that are most likely to be found during a YouTube search � videos that only have the most basic video SEO done to them will even win search on YouTube, and by default, appear high on the Google search rankings.

Since most people do not even bother to optimize their videos, it is only by luck and happenstance that most videos appear at the top of YouTube�s search in the first place. But by performing some basic video SEO techniques, it is possible to make a video appear high in YouTube�s rankings as well as Google�s.

Video SEO technique #1: Use Keywords in the Video Title

. It is not enough to just give the video a clever title. The video needs a descriptive title that people will most likely use during a regular search, like �How to change a keyboard key on a laptop� or �How to change the oil in a car.� This tells Google and YouTube what the most important keywords in the title are.

Video SEO technique #2: Use Keywords in the Description

. It is important to use the keywords or key phrase at least once, and possibly twice, in the description of the video. Just like in an optimized blog post, the description tells YouTube (and Google) what the video is about.

Video SEO technique #3: Include Backlinks in the Description

. Backlinks are an important part of regular SEO, and should be a part of video SEO as well, being incorporated into the video�s description, which helps boost a website�s ranking. But then, be sure to point several backlinks from other websites to the video.

Video SEO technique #4: Use Transcripts and Subtitles

. Another way to include keywords to a video is to include video is one person talking about how to replace keys on a laptop, or is an interview between two people, it is very helpful to include a written transcript as part of the video SEO. When editing a YouTube video, there is a window to upload a transcript or a subtitle file and have it play along with the video. This is additional text that Google and YouTube are able to index and count toward search results, which helps video SEO.

These video SEO techniques allow marketers an advantage. YouTube�s status as the world�s second biggest search engine, will help to ensure your videos show up at the top of the search results in regular Google searches as well as within other search engines, social media and article and press sites online. Follow these steps and begin ranking online!

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Article by Julie Ann Ross. With 20 years in marketing, advertising and 10 years in internet marketing, Rostin Ventures has refined video SEO practices for distribution in social media. Rostin Ventures offers video SEO, social media marketing and online reputation management services that are affordable and drive search engine ranking through Social Media optimization, Online Reputation Management, Social Marketing and Mobile SEO marketing.

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How to Improve Your Adsense Earnings

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:18:22 GMT

How to Improve Your Adsense Earnings

If webmasters want to monetize their websites, a great way to do it is through Adsense. There are lots of webmasters struggling hard to earn some good money through their sites. But then some of the �geniuses� among them are enjoying hundreds of dollars a day from Adsense ads on their websites. What makes these webmasters different from the other kind is that they are different and they think outside of the box.

The ones who have been there and done it have some useful tips to help those who would want to venture into this field. Some of these tips have boosted earnings in the past and is continuously doing so.

Here are some 5 proven ways on how to improve your Adsense earnings.

1. Concentrating on one format of an Adsense ad. The one format that worked well for the majority is the Large Rectangle (336X280). This same format has the tendency to result in higher CTR, or the click-through rates. Why choose this format out of the many you can use? Basically because the ads will look like normal web links, and people, being used to clicking on them, click these types of links. They may or may not know they are clicking on your Adsense but as long as there are clicks, then it will all be for your advantage.

2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Choose a color that will go well with the background of your site. If your site has a white background, try to use white as the color of your ad border and background. The idea of patterning the colors is to make the Adsense look like it is part of the web pages. Again, this will result to more clicks from people visiting your site.

3. Remove the Adsense from the bottom pages of your site and put them at the top. Do not try to hide your Adsense. Put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between Adsense locations can make when you see your earnings.

4. Maintain links to relevant websites. If you think some sites are better off than the others, put your ads there and try to maintaining and managing them. If there are already lots of Adsense ads put into that certain site, put yours on top of all of them. That way visitors will see your ads first upon browsing into that site.

5. Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your Adsense code in a text file, save it as �AdSense text�, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then using SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.

These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. It is important to know though that ads are displayed because it fits the interest of the people viewing them. So focusing on a specific topic should be your primary purpose because the displays will be targeted on a topic that persons will be viewing already.

Note also that there are many other Adsense users sharing the same topic as you. It is best to think of making a good ad that will be somewhat different and unique than the ones already done. Every click through that visitors make is a point for you so make every click count by making your Adsense something that people will definitely click on.

Tips given by those who have boosted their earnings are just guidelines they want to share with others. If they have somehow worked wonders for some, maybe it can work wonders for you too. Try them out into your ads and see the results it will bring. If others have done it, there is nothing wrong trying it out for you.

Affordable Advertising on Craigslist

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:44:43 GMT

Affordable Advertising on Craigslist

The advertising on Craigslist is certainly affordable. In fact there is no fee for the majority of posts made on Craigslist. Craigslist began as a non-profit organization but in 1999 it was converted to a for-profit organization. However, operating costs are supported by charging nominal fees for help-wanted advertisements placed on the San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City Craigslist websites. Additionally, there is a fee for brokerage apartment listings in New York City.

The vast majority of those posting advertisements on any of the Craigslist over 300 websites are not paying a fee to do so. This definitely makes posting advertisements on Craigslist to be worthwhile from a financial standpoint. While the advertisements are free, care should be taken to post these advertisements judiciously because although there is financial loss, poor posting can result in a loss of time and resources if it leads to poor profit potential.

Why Craigslist is Free

Although the founder of Craigslist, Craig Newmark, was approached in 1997 about the possibility of running banner advertisements on Craigslist to generate a profit, he made the decision to keep Craigslist as a noncommercial website. Even after Craigslist was converted to a for profit organization commercialization did not infiltrate the website. The points listed in the Craigslist mission statement demonstrate why Craigslist has remained noncommercial:

� Giving each other a break, getting the word out about everyday, real-world stuff
� Restoring the human voice to the Internet, in a humane, non-commercial environment
� Keeping things simple, common-sense, down-to-earth, honest, very real
� Providing an alternative to impersonal, big-media sites
� Being inclusive, giving a voice to the disenfranchised, democratizing�
� Being a collection of communities with similar spirit, not a single monolithic entity

Advertising on Craigslist vs. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is another type of marketing which many business owners find to be both worthwhile and affordable. For many, the appeal of affiliate marketing is the affiliates are not compensated for their efforts unless the business owner sees some type of gain from the advertising. This gain may be in the form of website traffic in the case of pay-per-click marketing, in the form of sales in pay per sale marketing or in the form of potential leads when a website visitor performs a specific action such as registering with a website or signing up for an offer.

While affiliate marketing is very appealing, there are others who prefer advertising on Craigslist. The advantage Craigslist offers to advertisers is, of course, that the advertisers never pay for their business advertisements and the community receives a great deal of website traffic already so driving traffic to the website is not a concern.

Why Free Is Not Always Better

However, there are some specific instances where free advertising is not the best type of advertising available. Consider a product or service for which Craigslist does not have an appropriate category. In this case advertising on Craigslist may not be worthwhile because although the advertisement is free, it is also not likely to receive a great deal of attention from members of the target audience. In this case, advertising on Craigslist may be a waste of resources.

Another example of an instance when Craigslist may not be a great advertising option is when the market is already saturated with competitors� advertisements. In this case it can be difficult to sway customer loyalty so it might be more worthwhile to pay for advertising in a less crowded market.

How to Make a YouTube Video

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:58:31 GMT

How to Make a YouTube Video

Are you interested in making your own videos to upload to YouTube and to share with the rest of the internet community? If you are and if this is your first time trying to do so, you may be wondering how you can go about making your own videos. Although the process of making a YouTube video may seem like a complicated one, it is not. Even those with a low amount of computer knowledge are able to successfully make their own videos, many of which later end up on YouTube.

The first step in making a YouTube video is to get a video recording device. Video recording devices come in a number of different formats. For instance, it is possible to use cell phones, webcams, or traditional camcorders. If you are interested in using your cell phone to help you make a YouTube video, you will need to make sure that your cell phone has video recording capabilities. You will find that most new, modern cell phones do. For the best quality videos, you want to use traditional camcorders, particularly digital ones, but webcams are also nice low-cost alternatives.

Once you have a video recording device in your possession, you can start to make your own videos. Popular videos on YouTube include video blogs, comedy skits, how-to videos, or travel videos. You can make just about whatever type of video you want, whether it is one that is staged or just recording spur of the moment activities or conversations. When making a YouTube video, it is important to remember that YouTube does not limit the number of videos you can submit, but all videos must be ten minutes or less, if you have a traditional YouTube membership account. Therefore, if you want to have videos be longer than ten minutes, you either need to upgrade your account or make your videos in different segments.

When making your YouTube video, you will want to make sure that the quality is good. For this, it is a good idea to speak directly into the camera or else use raised voices. This will help to ensure that those watching your videos on YouTube can actually understand what you are saying. It is also advised that you make sure the lighting is good. The best time to make movies is during the day. If you want to make your movies at night, whether they take place inside or outdoors, you will want to make sure that you have the appropriate amount of lighting. Nothing is worse that watching a video that is hard to see.

Although there are a number of steps, like the ones mentioned above, which you can take to ensure that your YouTube videos are quality ones, there is a way that you can fix problems later on. You can do this with movie editing software. Moving editing software allows you to preview and edit your videos, should you wish to do so before uploading them to YouTube. If you have a relatively new computer, you should be able to find movie editing software already on your computer. If you are unable to find movie editing software, you should be able to get free software programs or even purchase deluxe software programs online or from one of your local media stores.

The decision as to whether or not you want to edit your videos, before sharing them on YouTube, is yours to make, but it is advised that you at least look into doing so, especially if your computer already has a movie editing program. You will want to watch your movies and see if there is anything that you would like to edit, change, or remove. If so, the time to do it is before you post your video on the YouTube website. Editing your YouTube videos or at least previewing them first is likely to improve their quality, which, in turn, will help to improve the exposure that your YouTube videos get. Many YouTube members share videos that they find interesting with those that they know and your videos may be one of them.

Email Marketing Mistakes

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:19:55 GMT

Many business owners who opt to try email marketing make the mistake of believing any type of email marketing is beneficial. This is simply not true; there are a number of mistakes business owners can make when they organize an email marketing campaign. Examples of these types of mistakes may include allowing promotional materials to be tagged as spam, not following up with promotional emails, not being prepared for an influx of customers after an email marketing effort and not marketing specifically to the target audience.

We will begin our discussion on email marketing mistakes with spam. Spam is a problem which is reaching endemic proportions. Each day Internet users are bombarded with spam from around the world. This may include a host of unsolicited emails which are promoting products or services the recipients may or may not be interested in purchasing. A critical mistake business owners can make in email marketing is to issue emails which are likely to be construed to be spam. This may result in the emails never reaching the recipient or the emails being deleted, without being read, by the recipient. Avoiding the potential of falling into the spam category is not very difficult. It basically involves ensuring your promotional emails contain more useful copy than blatant advertising. This will make it more likely for your emails to be taken seriously.

Another email marketing mistake often made is failure to follow up on promotional emails. Sending out emails to interested parties can be very beneficial but it is even more beneficial to contact these email recipients by other methods such as mail or telephone to answer any questions they may have and offer any additional information they may require. This type of follow up can be much more effective than simply sending an email and allowing it to fall into the abyss of an overcrowded email inbox.

Business owners may also run into the mistake of not preparing themselves for an influx of customers after an email marketing effort. The express purpose of email marketing is to generate increased interest in your products or services. Therefore it is critical for business owners to anticipate an increase in business and be prepared to accommodate this increased demand for products and services. This is important because potential customers who have to wait for products or services may seek out your competitors who are better prepared to provide them with products or services immediately.

Finally a critical mistake made by business owners is to not tailor an email marketing campaign to their specific target audience. This can be a problem because it may result in the email marketing being less effective. Business owners typically make this mistake because they fall into the trap of believing that it is more important to reach a large audience than it is to reach a target audience. You may blindly send your email marketing materials to millions of recipients and only generate a few leads. However, you could send the same email marketing materials to a smaller group of only a thousand recipients who all have an interest in your products and services and will likely generate more leads from this smaller email distribution list. It is not only important to send your message to members of your target audience but to also tailor your message to suit this audience. Creating an email message which will appeal to a variety of individuals is not as important as creating a message which will appeal to members of your target

audience. You will need an autoresponder system to market with email.

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Cyber Monday Bargain Buys for every family member

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:56:46 GMT

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Advertising in Yellow Pages

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:08:48 GMT

Advertising in Yellow Pages

Some people believe that yellow pages do not receive response like other advertising methods do and this is true to some extent but not in totality. When talking about traditional yellow pages, there sure is a decline in number of people opting for advertising in it. According to a recent report, even the most attractive advertisement in a particular section is not getting the response from callers like they used to get before. On the contrary, the prices of placing ads in directories are on a rise, which speaks a different, story altogether.

In reality different categories are witnessing different rates of decline. Like the lawyers category is seeing the maximum decline, where as emergency service provider�s section has the same call rate. And sections like mobile phones, real estate and furniture are seeing a rise due to the increasing customer demand. Altering the size of the advertisement or changing the look cannot do wonders any more.

Experts suggest that relying on yellow pages to get customers isn�t enough. Other options should be considered as well along with it. With the Internet reaching every home, nearly half of the Internet users use the net everyday. They prefer to buy stuff online, from the comfort of their homes. Research should be done on the Internet to get reviews about the product. People, who don�t usually shop online, also are also opting to shop online as information is provided at the click of a mouse. It is easier for people to trust as customers who used the product give their feedback about the product after using it.

A relatively newer concept is the yellow pages going online. The good thing about them is that they are updated frequently unlike the printed directories and can be viewed from any part of the world. According to research conducted, the response increased by twenty five percent every year. So those who are interested to invest in yellow pages advertising can think of going online. Directories are submitted to search engines, which on typing a keyword or phrase bring the results. Small and local businesses, too, can land on the pages brought by the result. The cost of creating a website can be saved if all the relevant information about the company is included in the online yellow pages. Look out for the date to renew the directory listing, and if there is a need to change the advertisement, it is not a big problem on online yellow pages. Some starter websites offer to place advertisement in their yellow pages for free. Search out for such websites on the Internet.

Larger businesses can start their own websites and place links in the online yellow pages. Articles can be framed about the business and can be submitted to Ezines and websites related to the area of business. Some websites also allow posting articles for free. The purpose of the yellow pages is basically to get potential customers but that doesn�t mean that existing customers should be neglected. Steps should be taken to strengthen the relationship with them and to retain their trust by maintaining the standard of the products supplied to them. Once they are completely satisfied, the price-rise won�t bother them and they will talk about the company to people they know, which will fetch new customers.

The objective is to work smartly and select the right method of advertising. If a business isn�t using any other method for advertising apart from using yellow pages, it can cause problems and the products may not sell. Analyze how much money is spent on placing ads in directories and estimate whether the amount of customers the business gets is desirable. Whenever a call is received from a potential customer, ask them how they got to know about the enterprise. This will help to analyze which advertising method is ideal for the business. It is never late to correct the mistake and go for the right method.

Adopting Anger Management Skills that Work

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:10:06 GMT

Adopting Anger Management Skills that Work

There are many, many positive techniques and skills related to anger management. Since anger management seems to affect so many people in society, it is imperative to design and create techniques, teach skills, provide counseling and provide appropriate care and support. Since anger issues affect individuals from childhood to adulthood, obviously it is necessary to teach anger management skills that work for every age group. For the person who is dealing daily with anger problems, it is important to learn skills that will be effective in coping.

One skill that tends to help people deal with negative emotions is acupressure. This technique used as an anger management skill is achieved by tapping or rubbing the body. Using this skill, briskly massaging the body when feeling tense and upset, causes an individual�s energy to move around their body which results in relaxation. An anger management skill or techniques known as the Emotional Freedom Technique of EFT can be combined with acupressure to fight against negative emotions. EFT works to balance the brain hemispheres to help an individual admit to their problem and find forgiveness. This anger management skill would be very beneficial in helping a person release feelings of anger and relax.

Adopting positive anger management skills might involve keeping a journal. When an individual writes about the situations which upset them, it helps to get the negative thoughts and emotions out of their head. By journaling about feelings and emotions, a person is able to rid their minds of unhealthy thinking and put them on paper. This anger management activity would provide specific details and perhaps triggers which usually set the individual off. Being able to read and review reactions to situations, a person might be capable of making changes in their behavior.

When considering anger management skills, there�s one which is quite easy to adopt. Removing themselves from a threatening situation might eliminate the problem. If a person realizes they have difficulties controlling their temper, they might consider staying away from situations which may cause heated arguments. If a person has a regular pattern of lashing out during specific conversations, they ought to avoid those incidents. Some people who have anger issues seem to go looking for a reason to get upset. If aiming to adopt anger management skills, these people should attempt to change this way of thinking. Instead of going to the problem, they ought to run from the problem.

Adopting anger management skills that work is definitely an essential step when striving to cope with feelings of rage and anger. There are many suggestions and recommendations offered on Internet sites related to anger management skills. It would certainly help to visit these sites and read the information and advice. It is unreasonable to think that a person will use all of the anger management skills suggested. However finding one that works may mean trying each of them at least once. When an individual is attempting to gain control and eliminate the negative feelings normally dictating their life, exploring anger management skills is necessary to find a technique or skill which works for them.
About The Author
Don Jeffre is the Owner of Don�s Sales, a computer repair business based in Vilonia, AR. USA. He owns and operates Really Unique Online Business Concepts, a blog dedicated to providing social media marketing and search engine optimization information. With over 14 years of industry experience, Don Jeffre shares his knowledge by posting daily SEO tips to his blog. Contact Don Jeffre at 501-796-2525, Skype: revenue4u, or revenue4u@gmail.com.

Getting Started with Video Blogging

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 02:42:50 GMT

Getting Started with Video Blogging

Video blogging is the next generation of posting ideas and products over the internet. Everybody knows about text blogging. Now they use videos for a better way of expression. This form of communication may entail a lot of resources, but it is all worth it. If pictures say a thousand words, Video Blogging exceeds that by far.

A video blog requires larger disk spaces on websites, a faster server, and a whole new set of programs to support it. Video blogs can be fed through RSS. This is technology of syndicating your website to other RSS aggregators.

Video blogging works with people on the internet expressing them. Now if you put this on a business prospective, you are up to a lot of benefits. Think of it as a powerful tool in making showing your prospective customers your line of products or your services. It�s just like showing a commercial all for free. And if you video blog through RSS, then most probably you are getting your target market.

People like to see what they are going to buy. Some would like to see proof and be sure that they are getting their money�s worth before spending money on it. All of us know the influence of a thirty second commercial. The effect of video blogging is similar to that. You show your product, people watch it. If they like it, they buy it. If you present it well enough, they�ll buy the product even if they don�t need it.

Now on the web, things are pretty much static, unlike in television in which all are moving. If you post something that is mobile, it would most likely catch attention. Now imaging your product parading in all it�s glory through a video blog. You�ll get phone call orders in no time.

If your business is just starting up, you can create a video blog right at your own home. All you need is your web camera, microphone, video software, and lights. For as long as you know how to use your camera, then you can create a video blog.

Invest in a good web camera with high resolution for the best output. And you like to present your goods in the optimum way so you get the best one possible. Make a short story, or just capture your goods in one go. Just make sure you are getting the best profile for each. Get those creativity juices flowing?

Lights are important in a production. Make sure you illuminate entirely the area you are going to use to create the video blog. The brighter the area, the crispier the images will be. You can also use lighting effects for added appeal to the presentation.

Should you require sounds for your video log, you need a microphone. Record you voice as a voice over for promoting the product and its benefits to consumers. Sounds are as important as videos on a video blog. It is advisable to make your sound effects as enticing as the video.

Your video editing software can be any program. You need this to finalize your work. You can add sounds, delete some bad angles, or insert some still pictures in there too. Some programs are user-friendly and can be used even with zero knowledge on video editing. Even simple video editing programs should do the trick. Select your background carefully too. The light affects the presentation so make sure that the background and the light complements each other.

Video blogging is a great tool but it also has it downside. It may slow down the computer so others may steer clear of it. Download time may also be time consuming especially if the customer is still on a dial- up connection.

But don�t let those stop you. Let video blogging be an alternative for you, though it is best to still keep the text and pictures present in your presentation to accommodate all possible viewers of your site.

Nowadays, the more creative you are in presenting your product to the market, they more you are likely to succeed. Video blogging offers an interactive way of selling. You involve the customers. You instill in them the advantage of your goods. And at times, those are enough to make a sale.

Advertising on MySpace

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:18:15 GMT

Advertising on MySpace

MySpace is an online community where users have the opportunity to create websites where others can view personal information about them and contact them. However, savvy Internet marketers have found MySpace can also be used to advertise products or service or for the purpose of self promotion. Care should be taken to review the terms of use on MySpace to ensure none of your actions are in violation of these terms but otherwise users can advertise either directly or indirectly on their MySpace website.

Why Advertising on MySpace is Effective

Advertising on MySpace can be effective as long as it is done correctly and not in a way that is viewed as spam. The effectiveness of MySpace stems from amount of users who are currently using MySpace. This includes both members who place comments as well as nonmembers who only look at other websites. With so many daily visitors it is likely there will be visitors who are interested in the products or services you are offering on your MySpace website.

Another reason why MySpace is such an effective advertising tool is there are no fees associated with using your MySpace profile to create links to your ecommerce website or to provide more information about the products and services you offer. The best way to effectively advertise on MySpace is to follow the same guidelines that would normally be followed by advertisers in online locations. This includes knowing who your target audience is and how to effectively appeal to them. This is important because a marketing campaign which does not follow these simple rules will not likely be effective.

In addition to advertising within a MySpace website there are also opportunities to advertise in the form of banner advertisements on MySpace. MySpace is able to not charge a fee to members because they generate their income through paid advertisements. Contact MySpace administrators directly to learn more about these advertising opportunities.

Selling Products on MySpace

MySpace can be also be used to advertise products or services. This can be done either subtly or blatantly. Those who are active participants on MySpace and invest time in meeting others and making friends are more likely to benefit from selling products or services through a MySpace account. This is because most people who use MySpace are not exactly looking for information about products or services so they are unlikely to seek out this information.

However, if they have online friends who are using their MySpace account to promote a product or service they may see the advertisements and find the products or services interesting. In this case they may visit a link to an ecommerce website and consider making a purchase. However, care should be taken when advertising online. Links to your ecommerce website on your own profile are acceptable but placing comments with the same link on other members� websites will likely be considered spam by both the other members and the MySpace administrators.

Using MySpace for Self Promotion

In addition to selling products and services, MySpace websites can also be used for the purpose of self promotion. Models, actors and actresses, bands and other performers are all realizing the potential for self promotion which exists on MySpace. Members of the community can include everything which may be useful to those who wish to hire them in the future. For example, models can include professional photos while bands can have their music playing on the website for visitors to enjoy. With so many people visiting MySpace on a daily basis, it can be easy for members of the community to create quite a following for them.

Those on MySpace should also be aware that industry executives are now dedicating staff members to comb MySpace to try to find new talent on MySpace. In fact more than one major recording company has admitted to having interns spend hours each day on MySpace looking for exciting new artists.

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Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:38:09 GMT

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Email Marketing

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:19:43 GMT

How to Get the Most Out of Your Email Marketing

One of the main reasons small businesses fail is that they do not follow up with their leads. Usually it takes up to seven contacts with a prospect before they are ready to buy. Most people give up after one or two contacts. If you are not doing your follow up you, are leaving money on the table. Staying in touch with your prospects builds trust and keeps you fresh in their minds so that when they are ready to buy, they will come to you.

Email marketing is a great, inexpensive way to keep in contact with the people on your list and to form and nurture a relationship with them. If you do this correctly, you will get more business than the Average Joe and you will not have to do anything else to get clients to buy. It is therefore important to set this up correctly. Once you have done this, you can pretty much just leave it. Then you can concentrate on building traffic to your website because the system to capture leads and nurture the relationship with them is done for you automatically.

Here are a couple of ways you can improve your email marketing:

First, you have to worry about your prospects opening your emails. If you are not yet tracking your email open rates, you need to start doing so straight away. You need a good email marketing provider like Aweber (or mailchimp if you are in New Zealand). Not using a provider will give you too much work, as well as the possibility of you getting banned by your Internet Service Provider for sending bulk mail. Bulk mail just ends up in the spam folder just because it is bulk mail.

Once you have a provider, you can then set up your emails, set the frequency that they are sent as well as track the click through rates, open rates and bounce rates. You then have something to work from.

Once you have this information you will want to improve your messages so that it does not happen again. Here are some reasons why your emails may not get through to your prospects inbox:

Spam Words

Some words are triggers for the spam filter. These include: special offer, free, discount, cheap, home business, work-from-home, limited time, click here, coupon. The chance that your prospects are getting your emails if these words are present are slim. Spam filters are becoming more sophisticated, and your email can be removed before it even hits the inbox. A good email marketing provider like AWeber will be able to pick up if you have any spam words in your messages, and will alert you before you send them.

Subject Lines

The next thing you need to worry about is getting your readers to open your email. This should not be a problem if they signed up because they want to read what you have to say. However, if you have a boring headline they may want to skip reading it because they have many other emails or they are busy. Make sure they know it is from you, and have a proactive title so that they want to open it. If your emails are interesting, and give them more information related to the reason they signed up in the first place, they should look forward to it, and open it. Avoid subject lines that are full of hype or make outrageous claims. If it sounds unbelievable, you will lose credibility with your prospect. Make sure your subject lines are real, convincing and a bit mysterious.

You need to put your name or your company name in the from field so that the prospect recognizes you. Noreply or Systems addresses are less likely to be opened.

Make Sure You Send Relevant, Interesting And Valuable Content

Make sure that the content of your email is valuable. When I sign up for something because I am interested in it and then get an email that says nothing or wastes my time, I unsubscribe on the spot. Most people will do the same. Make sure you deliver on the promise you gave when they signed up.

You should only send your emails to those who asked for it. Do not use lists from somewhere else that you bought or lists that are out dated. This will just invite complaints.

Make sure your emails are interesting. Do not copy from somewhere, be yourself. You should know how you are different from your competition. This will ensure that you stand out from the crowd.

Your content should guide your customers toward a sale. Every email you write should help your prospect get answers to their problems, clarify their misconceptions on the subject, climb over stumbling blocks they may encounter, and help them arrive at your product or service, ready to buy. I use again the example of the nutritionist who uses a different illness in every email, usually related to the digestive system. She describes it in graphic detail so that you feel with the sufferer. Then she offers her special diet as a solution. In every email she also has a testimonial from someone who used to suffer this illness, but is now cured thanks to the diet. This is powerful stuff. Think of how you can offer your prospect a solution to their problem. Find all the problems, misconceptions, stumbling blocks and objections they may have and solve them one by one.

Frequency If you send out emails daily, you will be seen as a severe nuisance before long. This will get your messages deleted or result in unsubscribes. On the other hand, waiting too long between emails will make your prospects forget you. I send one email per week with good content. This ensures a list that looks forward to my emails. The only way to know for sure would be to ask your prospects. Take a survey and find out.

Adhering to these guidelines will ensure successful email marketing. Once this system is in place, you can concentrate on building traffic to your website.

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Article by Hannah Du Plessis. For more information on setting up a Lead Generation System for your Business visit Attraction Marketing today. http://masterattractionmarketing.net

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Lead Generation System

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:11:17 GMT

Why a Lead Generation System is Critical for Your Home Based Business
13 Top Reasons

Having a lead generation system for your business is critical. Leads are the lifeblood of your business. Learning how to generate leads for your business is one of the most critical skills you can posses. Yet learning these skills can be overwhelming.

Generating business leads online takes a unique set of skills. Mastering online lead generation requires Skills in copy writing, capture page creation, sales page authoring, relationship building through email messages and a long list of other marketing skills. Learning these critical skills in a timely fashion can be more than challenging.

A home business lead generation system can help you build your business more quickly and efficiently because the system will provide you exceptional training, powerful tools and a clear, exact path to perfecting the lead generation activities of your business.

Here are thirteen reasons why you may want to consider a home business lead generation system for your business.

1. Packaged Solution: Lead generation systems provide a consolidated package of training materials, tools and technologies with tips and techniques in a single spot. Everything you need to successfully generate leads for your business is at your fingertips.

2. Experience and Expertise: Systems are usually built by a single individual or a team of experts with extensive experience in Internet marketing. They have spent years mastering online lead generation. They want you to have success with their system so you will continue to use it. This means excellent lead generation training for you.

3. Step-By-Step Process (Training and Assembly Kit): Not only do they need to train you how it is done they provide step-by-step training on how to assemble your entire system.

4. Focus on Results: In order for the system to show you results quickly is must deliver results. Accordingly it must tell you exactly what to study and what to do to get results. This is they only way they can assure you will stay with the system.

5. Funded Proposal: (Money Upfront) when you pay for your lead generation system you anticipate it will give you leads but you can also expect it to help generate cash for you today. The success of a system in part will depend on how much money you are making through the system's funded proposal. This helps offset system and advertising expenses.

6. Proven Performance Testing: Lead capture pages, sales copy and auto responder messages are all tested for results before they are implemented inside a lead generation system. You leverage the work of the experts. They hand you pages and messages prepared and perfected through testing.

7. Easy Auto responder Set Up: Many systems integrate an autoreponder (email drip system) to build relationships with leads after they come into your system. They provide detailed training how to connect the two systems together.

8. Auto Pilot Messages: Having an autoresponder does not help if you do not have email messages to drip to your leads, your prospects. Writing these email letters can take a ton of time. Many of these systems have a build in messages you can use immediately.

9. Relationship building via Autoresponder: More than just having emails to plug into the system. The messages provide mechanisms for building your relationship with your leads.

10. Multiple Marketing Strategies: Once the system is in place you will need to participate in marketing activities to bring people to the system. Because marketing activities are what bring in the leads the system must teach you many proven strategies to assure your success.

11. Turn Key System on Auto Pilot: You do what they tell you in the system set up section and you have it working for you. The lead generation system takes care of all the moving parts. You are left with some personalization activities and pushing to put in place the best marketing.

12. Customizable to me! You are generating leads for your business so the lead generation system you choose will need to allow you to add in your own branding elements. The system should let you be in the middle of the turn key system.

13. Super EASY! You get all the moving parts in place. You get all the training and marketing strategies prepared by the system experts. Your home based business lead generation system working for you...easy.

So there you have it. The top 13 reasons why a home business lead generation system can be one of the best decisions for your home based business. You learn from the best experts in the field everything you need to know to set up and run your own powerful home business lead generation system. You open the door of possibilities by bringing the leads you desire into your business.

Chuck Reynolds

Advertising on the Internet

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:20:48 GMT

Advertising on the Internet

Ever since the advent of the Internet, advertising on the web has been very popular. Many corporations, companies and businesses have taken advantage of this and you can see ads on any web pages you visit. Consumers can go to any search engine and type the keyword relating to what they are looking for and hit search and they will be provided with a huge list from which they can select. This is a very cost effective and time saving method of advertising.

It has become really easy for a business to have a personalized website by which they can advertise, directly interact with the customer; provide details about their product and services. Regular newsletters, offers, discounts can be pasted on site to increase the interest of the website visitors.

Since it�s easy to reach an audience concerning any kind of business, the possibility of misuse is always there. Internet advertising is classified into two kinds of ads, legal online advertising and illegal online advertising. Legal online advertising includes online advertising directories, search engine advertising, e-mail advertising, and desktop advertising. Illegal advertising is more commonly know as spamming. This is usually done by altering some system settings with the help of external applications after which pop-ups are sent to a particular network or computer. The external applications are known as ad ware or spyware. Some of these are really harmful, the most famous being Trojans, which are very hard to uninstall and remove from the system.

With the increase in technology, special effects are being used to make advertisement more interesting. Vivid colors, good page layout and lots of imagination are involved. Typically Adobe Flash is used to design advertisements these days. Depending on the technology being used to design advertisements can be classified into various categories.

Banner ads are animations displayed on the website usually created in HTML. There is a range of type and sizes of the ads. Trick banner ads are banner ads that have an extra functionality of dialog boxes and buttons and are displayed as an alert or error message. A pop-up is an advertisement displayed in a new window that covers up the active web page. A pop-under advertisement opens in another window that is under the active web page and can be seen after the present window is either closed or minimized. Interstitial ads are those that are displayed before directing over to the desired page.

Wallpaper ads form the background of the web page. The ads that float on the screen are known as a floating ad. Polite ads download on a low pace without interrupting the normal functioning of the website. An ad that enlarges and changes the contents of the page being displayed is known as expanding ad. Advertisements which are displayed in a video form on a website are known as a video ad.

There are many ways by which advertising slots can be purchased on Internet like CPM, CPV, CPC, CPA, CPL and CPO. CPM or cost per mil means that the advertiser is meant to pay for a particular number of people to whom the advertisement will be exposed. CPV or cost per visitor means that the advertiser is meant to pay for the people to whom the advertisement was delivered. CPC or cost per click means paying for the number of clicks made on the advertisement by the visitors. Although the advertisement is put up on the website, the amount is paid only after the visitor clicks on the URL of the advertisement. CPA or cost per action means that the advertisement publisher bares all the charges of advertisement, but he gets paid only if the visitor clicks on the advertisement and purchases a product or signs-up for a service. CPL or cost per lead is similar to CPA, only that the visitor doesn�t have to necessarily buy anything; he or she can simply apply to get regular newsletters and special offers. CPO or cost per order is where the advertiser pays each time an order is placed.

Online advertisements cannot only be used to promote a product or service but in fact they can be used for purposes like promoting charity and spreading education.

SEO for Adsense

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:15:11 GMT

SEO for Adsense

If you have been using Google AdSense on your pages you obviously feel the need to somehow generate even more traffic for your website, which in turn would translate to more clicks and a higher income. But how do you do this? Well, the major way you will get visitors to see your website is to use some techniques to have search engines send more and more users towards your page, by ranking high in search results for your topics of interest.

Believe it or not this is a technique, better known as search-engine optimization or simply SEO. So here are a bunch of tips that come in handy under every amateur or professional optimizers belt. The first thing you need to take care of is the actual source code and layout of your page. This has to be kept as simple as possible. The problem comes when AdSense and the search engines themselves begin to have trouble extracting the most relevant keywords on your site because of a too complex layout.

Secondly, try to have each of your pages target only one specific topic. This way it is a lot easier for them to get indexed properly and for the AdSense ads to be consistent with the content of the site itself. Also, try not to include too many hyperlinks in your page as well. This also means you should try not to use too many AdSense ads on your page either.

If there are certain keywords you wish to target, make sure the word you wish to target is present in the title, in the first paragraphs as well as in the name of the file. While you are at it you might want to ensure the word springs up in the pages last paragraphs. And of course, it is very important for your content to have original and compelling information. How do you do this? Well the easiest way to do it is to find something you are really passionate about. That way, providing you give it a lot of effort you are bound to have a great page quite fast.

If the content you use in your site is in the public domain (which is highly discouraged) make sure that you at least give it an original title, and add an opening and a closing paragraph of your own. This takes a little while, but if, after waiting, you still cannot find your page near the top, you should try rewriting your title and your first and last paragraphs. It does not take much; often just changing a few words will give you the right results.

And of, course there is the use of keyword tools that may aid you in finding some good keywords to include on your page that will drive visitors to your site more and more. So those are about the basic techniques in search engine optimization. You can find a lot of computer tools to aid you in doing this, and of course, Google is a great place to search for this.

In the end, you will find that SEO is a complex topic, and entire books have been written on the topic as well. You might find that you have a lot of optimization you need to do in order to get more and more visitors to your site and clicking those precious AdSense banners.

Don Jeffre

How to Generate Low Cost Website Traffic

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:42:27 GMT

How to Generate Low Cost Website Traffic

There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly stands any chance of generating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results in the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money, but, it does not take a whole caboodle of cash to generate website traffic for your site.

Ever wonder how big hit sites drive traffic to their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, and big hitting websites.

You do not have to do this if you do not have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you do not have or cannot afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

Here I present to you the top five ways to generate low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of visitors, it still works especially if you get a high number of page views.

Exchange Links

This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there are no links to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they can produce more public awareness about their sites. You will soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.

A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as the other site. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.

Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines ranks high those sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic to your website without the high costs.

Traffic Exchange

This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing others traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.

Traffic exchange services are the viewing of anothers site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites contents and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your sites existence is boosted.

Write and Submit Articles

There are many ezines and online encyclopedias on the internet which provide free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can do the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.

Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.

Make a Newsletter

This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well. As your newsletter gets passed around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.

Join Online Communities and Forums

This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.

Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people.

Don Jeffre

Benefits of Registering With YouTube

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:59:12 GMT

Benefits of Registering With YouTube

Do you enjoy watching videos on YouTube? Even if you have never visited YouTube before, you are urged to do so, as you will likely find it fun, exciting, and entertaining. YouTube is a video sharing website which allows internet users, just like you, to upload and share videos that they have made. Perhaps, the greatest thing about YouTube is that it is free.

When visiting the YouTube website to watch videos, you can do so without having to create a YouTube account. Despite not being required to create an account, you may want to look into doing so, as there are a number of benefits to being a YouTube member.

Just a few of those benefits are outlined below.

One of the many benefits to registering for a free YouTube account is that it is relatively easy to do. When you signup for a free YouTube account, you need to provide a little bit of information about yourself. This information includes your name, the country that you live in, your zip code, your date of birth, as well as your gender. You will also need to create a YouTube user name for yourself, as well as a password. Your password and user name will be used to log into your account. Signing up for a YouTube account should take only a few minutes of your time, at the most.

Once you have created a free account for yourself, you can then begin to enjoy the many other benefits of having a YouTube account. One of those benefits is the ability to rate videos that you watch, as well as leave comments. As it was previously mentioned, you can watch videos on YouTube without having a YouTube account, but you cannot rate videos or leave comments for the video owner. Rating YouTube videos gives other YouTube users an idea as to which videos are high in demand, which, in turn, can lead to more of your favorite videos being found on the YouTube site. That is just one of the many reasons why you should not only signup for a free YouTube account, but also rate YouTube that you watch or leave comments.

In addition to being able to rate or review videos, registering for a free YouTube account also gives you the option of sharing your videos with other internet users. Non-registered YouTube members are unable to upload and share any videos that they may have made. If you have never shared videos online, you may want to think about doing so, as they are fun to make. Many of the videos currently found on YouTube are comedy skits, video blogs, and candid videos. All you really need to have is a video recording device, such as a cell phone, webcam, or camcorder, and a movie editing software program, which now comes standard on most computers.

As it was previously stated, creating a membership account with YouTube is free and it should only take a few minutes of your time. If you enjoy using the internet as a source of entertainment, you will not only want to visit YouTube, but you will also want to take the few minutes needed to register for a free account. In the end, you will likely be pleased with your decision to do so.

Success Tips for Affiliate Marketers

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:38:59 GMT

Success Tips for Affiliate Marketers

Every affiliate marketer is looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication. There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

1. Use unique web pages to promote each product.

Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more. Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an understanding on what the product can do for those who buy them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractively compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to read more or even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

2. Offer free reports to your readers.

If possible, position the free reports at the very top side of your page so they they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect. Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never to return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word free because there are still older spam filters that dump those kind of contents into the junk before anyone reads them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not obtain your products and services.

3. Get traffic that is targeted to your product.

Just think if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in ezines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that are focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest. Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day. Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistics.

The tactics given above are not very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part. Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end up maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do. Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving�

Don Jeffre

Your Shot at getting an iPad 2 for less than store prices

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:04:46 GMT

Hello %%name%%:

I've got one of my Apple iPad2's in an eBay Auction with a starting bid of $0.99 - yes that's 99 cents. It's my way of introducing new customers to my Ultimate Flea Market website

There also seems to be a great deal of interest in my King Tut Gold Stamps as well.

Happy Bidding and Best Wishes,
Ray Delworth
National Personalized Products+

What is EBay Drop Shipping?

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:45:57 GMT

What is EBay Drop Shipping?

If you hope to own an eBay business, and make a full time living at it, you can easily make that dream come true � even if you do not have a product of your own to sell. EBay provides many people who want to quit their corporate nine-to-five jobs with a way to make a good living, without having to put up a lot of start up capital. This is made possible with the help of drop shippers. Drop shippers send merchandise to the customers of business owners. If you have an eBay business, you are a business owner. This will allow you to offer a wide variety of stock in your eBay store, without having the need to warehouse all of those products!

All you have to do is set up your auction, and sell the product. You then pass the customer information on to the drop shipping company. The drop shipper does the rest, and they will even use your company information, as well as your company logo if you have provided it to them. When the product arrives at your customers home, they will have no idea that your company did not send it. The drop shipper will package, label, and ship the products that you sell, allowing you more time to set up even more auctions, for greater profits.

You must establish a relationship with several drop shipping companies in order to become successful. In the beginning, most companies will require you to pay for the items that your customers order before they are shipped. You need to fill orders in a timely manner, so you should pay for the items with a credit card for speedy service. Eventually, you will be able to have the drop shipper fill your orders, and then bill you for them later.

When you set up your eBay auctions, make sure that your reserve price is set higher than the price that the drop shipper will be charging you for the item. The idea, of course, is to earn a profit! Depending on the item you are selling, a markup of about 10% should be about right, but you should do some research to see if the item is selling for a lower price in another eBay auction, or through other online sources.

By starting an eBay business using the drop shipping method, there is essentially no financial risk involved. The product will be sold before you pay the drop shipper for the item. This is one of the few businesses where you can actually turn a profit before you have expenditures!

Don Jeffre

Advertising on Craigslist

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:46:47 GMT

Advertising on Craigslist

Advertising on Craigslist is worthwhile for just about any business offering products or services. Whether these products are offered through ecommerce websites or physical stores, the business owners can see financial gains through advertising on Craigslist. Firstly unlike other advertising opportunities there is very little risk involved in posting on Craigslist. With the exception of job postings and housing postings in specific markets, advertising is free on Craigslist. Users are asked to agree to the terms of service of the community and are expected to follow specific guidelines when posting advertisements but there are no financial obligations to those placing advertisements on Craigslist. This means those who post advertisements do not have to be concerned with whether or not the advertisement they place will meet their expectations in terms of sales generated.

Reaching Potential Customers on Craigslist

Another reason why posting advertisements for products or services on Craigslist is so worthwhile is the likelihood of reaching a large audience of potential customers. A review of the Craigslist fact sheet reveals pertinent information regarding the amount of traffic the website receives. According to this information Craigslist receives approximately four billion page views each month with ten million people using Craigslist each month. From these statistics it is clear that advertisements placed on Craigslist are likely to receive at least some attention from potential clients. With so many visitors using Craigslist each month the advertising possibilities are limitless, however, there are no guarantee any of these visitors will be interested in your products or services. Like any marketing campaign, your advertisements on Craigslist must be intriguing, informative and in a location where you will reach your target audience.

Finding Your Target Audience on Craigslist

We�ve already discussed the number of visitors using Craigslist each month but the key to taking advantage of these numbers is to target your advertising in a way aimed at reaching your target audience as opposed to a wide audience of individuals who have no specific interest in your products or services. It is much more worthwhile to reach a small audience of those with a keen interest in your products or services than to reach a much larger audience of those who are not interested. Those who have an interest in your products or services are your target audience. The key to reaching your target audience on Craigslist is placing your advertisement in the most appropriate locations. Craigslist has a specific section for businesses to advertise their services. This section is broken down into a number of categories. Those who are in the business of computer repair would be wise to place their advertisement in the computer section as opposed to the automotive section because individuals looking for computer help will naturally migrate to the computer section. It may sometimes be appropriate to place an advertisement in more than one section. This is acceptable as long as it does not cross the line to spamming the section.

If there is not a specific section for the products or services offered by your business there are a couple of options. Business owners can place an advertisement in the section for small business advertisements where it might be found by those doing a search in this section. Alternately the business owner can contact Craigslist to suggest the addition of a new category. They might be willing to oblige if they believe this category warrants an addition.

The Difference between Advertising and Spamming

Advertising on Craigslist is one thing but spamming is quite another. Placing an advertisement in an appropriate section of Craigslist is acceptable; however, placing the same advertisement in nearly every section of Craigslist websites for a number of different geographical regions is considered spam. Spam is ineffective for a number of reasons. First of all potential customers who see a particular advertisement in a number of different locations are likely to recognize the spamming techniques and be less inclined to patronize this business. Also, if Craigslist detects the practice of spamming they may delete all of the postings and could potentially ban advertisements from the individual in the future.

Making Your Own YouTube Videos

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:46:43 GMT

Making Your Own YouTube Videos

Are you a fan of YouTube? If you enjoy watching free videos online, from a number of different genres, you may be a huge fan of YouTube. Although many internet users only watch videos on YouTube, there are many who also post their own YouTube videos. If you have never done so before, you may be wondering whether or not you really should. To determine whether or not you should make and upload your own videos to the YouTube website, you will want to examine the advantages or the plus sides to doing so.

Perhaps, the biggest advantage to making your own YouTube videos is that your videos can be just about whatever you want them to be. Popular videos on YouTube right now include comedy skits, video blogs, how-to videos, and music videos from up and coming artists. Whether you want to make a video blog of yourself or if you and your friends want to just have fun with a video camera, you can do so.

Of course, when making a YouTube video you will want to use your best judgment. Although YouTube accepts videos on a wide variety of different subjects, you will want to proceed with caution. You should always be cautious of online predators; therefore, you will want to be cautious about divulging too much information about yourself. You might not necessarily think about it, but you also want to make sure that you do not record and post anything illegal on YouTube. It has been said that YouTube regularly works with law enforcement to help solve crimes. That just goes to show that you never really know who is watching your videos or what the consequences for posting them might be.

Another one of the many advantages or pros to making your own YouTube videos is that it is relatively easy to do. Of course, you will need to have a video recording device. What is nice is that there are a number of different recording devices that you can use. For instance, many cell phones now come equipped with video recording capabilities. In addition to cell phones, you should also be able to use traditional camcorders or webcams. For the best quality YouTube video, you will want to have a movie editing software program. Movie editing software programs will not only give you the ability to preview your videos, before uploading them to YouTube, but you should also be able to edit them, if you would like to remove something and so on.

Once you made one of your videos and uploaded it onto your computer, you will find that getting your video uploaded to YouTube�s website is just as easy. In fact, that is another one of the many advantages to making your own YouTube videos. Just like actually making the video itself, uploading a YouTube video is as easy at it can be. If you have never uploaded a video to YouTube before, you should be able to do, with ease. The YouTube uploading learning curve is so easy that you if you continue to make videos for the YouTube website you will be uploading them and sharing them with the internet community in no time at all.

Another benefit of making your own videos and uploading them to YouTube comes after the fact. After you have uploaded your videos to YouTube and they are available for viewing, anyone with an internet connection can visit the YouTube website to view your videos. This means that just one of you videos may be seen by thousands of people! In fact, if those viewers are registered members of YouTube they can rate your YouTube videos or even leave comments for you. This feature is nice because it gives you positive and sometimes even negative feedback; feedback that can be taken into consideration if and when you choose to make any more YouTube videos.

As you can see, there are a number of advantages to making your own videos to share on YouTube. As you likely know, there are also a number of disadvantages to doing so as well, including safety. However, as long as you display caution when making a YouTube video or when talking with other YouTube members, your YouTube video making experience should be a positive one.

Don Jeffre

Boosting Business with Autoresponders

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:30:24 GMT

Boosting Business with Autoresponders

These days, most everyone is familiar with an autoresponder, although many do not know why they are beneficial to businesses. If you are not familiar with autoresponders, you would probably find yourself amazed with them. An autoresponder can help your business by automatically emailing your clients and customers with a preset message that will help to increase your sales.

An autoresponder can help your list of clients grow, even send each one of them their own personalized email message. If you choose, you can also follow up each individual email with repeated emails, varying the content whenever you wish. These programs will also allow you to keep track of conversations, and send out broadcast email messages whenever you have news or new products to offer your clients.

As research in the past has shown, personalized email from autoresponders is a great way to boost your business. When you send a personalized email to one of your clients, the autoresponder can address him or her by their name � which always makes a customer take notice. While you could do this yourself using traditional email, it could take you a few hours if you have a long list of customers.

Autoresponders make sending personalized email a snap. All you need to do is set up your email template, then select where you like the name to go. You can add everyone in your customer list to the autoresponder, which makes sending emails a snap. Once you have everything ready to go, all you need to do is send out the emails with one simple click. Best of all � you do not have to set it up again when you need to send out broadcast messages.

Although there are some people who will buy products after one or two emails, most people require about seven or eight emails before they will purchase anything. Autoresponders can really help you there, as they will do all of the emailing for you. You do not have to keep sending manual emails or anything like that. All you need to do is set up the email address, type in your preset message, and then feel free to send it as many times as you like.

Through the use of an autoresponder you can really boost your business. If you run an Internet marketing business, this tool will prove to be invaluable. You can spend less time sending messages � and more time doing what you enjoy. If you have never tried an autoresponder before, you owe it yourself to check out everything they will do for you and your business. Online businesses can get a lot of emails on a daily basis � which is where the autoresponder will really start to shine and show you just how great of an asset it really is.

The autoresponder system I use is called Veremail. It includes unlimited autoresponders, follow-up emails, email broadcasting, and live customer support. Sign up for free today.

Why Use Google Adsense?

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:54:56 GMT

Why Use Google Adsense?

Undoubtedly, you�ve heard about Google AdSense and you are thinking about giving it a go. But is it really worth placing an AdSense banner on your site?

The answer is a definite yes. You could always have some other banners on your site, or even use some affiliate ad program and that would probably make you some money, given of course that your site enjoys a healthy amount of visitors. However with affiliate marketing, it is expected that the visitor from your website completes a sale before you are paid.

But that is nowhere near what you get for using AdSense. There are people who earn in excess of 100,000 dollars per year by using AdSense. And it does not just stop with making more money. Firstly, the ads are text only. That means they are by far less obtrusive on your visitors than your average, flashy banner that is designed to catch the eye of the visitor.

Sure, you will have to ensure they get better placement, so as to be noticed but despite that they do not bother viewers as much as traditional ads. Think about the many sites you have seen using pop-ups, floating banners and many other schemes that will have visitors screaming in anger every time they visit the website. You can actually do better than that, annoying people less and still making an amount of money. Secondly, the ads are generated based on the contents of your site automatically. When you use an affiliate ad program, you have to specify certain categories that your sites belong to.

However, if any page on your site falls outside of these categories, the banners are not targeted anymore. And what that means is that you�re potentially showing ads to people who do not have any interest in them and that can lead to inefficiencies. With Google AdSense that just about never happens: the ads present on your site will always be in sync with whatever your visitors are interested in and that adds to your sites value and to the revenue it produces.

What is more, the look of these banners and their size is customizable, which means they will feel more integrated with the rest of your site content, which brings an increase in your overall visual quality as opposed to a traditional approach. For many people, there is also a great problem with finding people to advertise on their site as well. AdSense is clearly the easiest solution available to this problem today.

It is free to join the AdSense program and it almost takes no time at all. The potential database of websites from AdWords is larger then anything you might encounter from any competitor, numbering over 150.000 users. This means as more people compete, the CPC or cost per click for search terms will inevitably increase.

Also, setting up AdSense on your site is a breeze, and you can complete the whole process in less then an hour. It takes a lot less to do then any form of affiliate advertising which is yet another reason to choose the easy AdSense approach.

All you need to do is add an AdSense banner on your website (other then registering with the program of course) is to copy & paste a few lines and you are all done, you get to choose where the banners go, how large they are and how they integrate with the rest of your site.

For any webmaster out there, that is a killer scheme because it lets you draw the line between your sites usability level and the amount of advertising you wish to have. Some people need the money badly while others just keep AdSense running to pay for the hosting of their website.

AdSense is a great advertising program because a lot of thought has went into making it just work for everyone. It works great for the people who use AdWords, for the webmasters using AdSense, and most importantly for the visitors of the websites.

Don Jeffre

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Advertising for Free

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:01:43 GMT

Advertising for Free

Advertising for free seems like an impossible thing when heard. But there are several ways by which the cost of advertisement can be conserved, with the help of some imagination and creativity.

A business wanting to advertise, can write articles related to their field of expertise that can be submitted to media and publications having interest in that particular field. The advertising article can have information about the company and dealership opportunity. Due to the rise in Internet users and websites, new websites have sprung up which offer free services. Articles can be written for these websites and they can be broadcasted for free, which will be viewed by hundreds of people everyday.

Once the business has gained some recognition, within no time it will gain popularity also among the crowds. This popularity can lead to them being invited on radio and television talk shows and even to interviews. Such kind of opportunities should not be missed as they provide a chance for free promotion. If it is taking a long time to get a break, the producer can be addressed with a letter that can be followed up by a telephone call or in-person visit. During the visit, the nature of expertise can be discussed about the business, which will be of interest to the viewers of the particular channel. Once a businessperson gains the status of being public-friendly, more offers start pouring in.

Free bulletin board located in the neighborhood, like in grocery stores, libraries, and salons, are another good idea. Advertising circulars can be posted on such boards for free. Circulars for mass distribution can be handed out at the mall, shopping center, bus stops, particularly on weekends when there is a big rush. Students can be hired on part time basis for this purpose.

Promotional advertisement can be printed on the envelopes used by the business firms. Both the sender and the receiver can view this advertisement. Promotional offers can be sent to customers by postcards, which should be utilized to its full, leaving only place left for writing the address.

Some of the new mail order publications offer free first time and seasonal deductions for advertisers. Other publications offer pay per inquiry space. Inquiries can be made about stand-by space, which means that the publication holds the submission of advertisement until the space is not sold and in that case, thirty three percent saving can be achieved. Usually local newspapers provide these kinds of offers.

If the business is involved in ad sheet or catalog publishing, other publishers can be contacted for the purpose of bartering an advertising exchange. They can place advertisement in their publication, in return for placing their advertisement in the business�s publication.

Free offers can be provided to the customer. This can be done by emailing or printing newsletter about information regarding the area of interest of the targeted customers and can be made popular by using tag lines. Attach a free coupon with it, which the customers can use it for shopping, if a criterion is met like minimum purchase of $ 50. By this the response will be huge and most of them will purchase something or the other to avail the free offer. The basic ingredient for advertising for free is imagination and research. Opportunities should be searched and a strong working force should be applied to increase the sales.

Don Jeffre

Affiliate Marketing and Home Business

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:37:08 GMT

Affiliate Marketing and Home Business

Many of us dream of being our own bosses. The lure of big money and flexible work hours is quite attractive. However, many are afraid to venture out on their own. They fear that they do not have the capital required to get a business started or they do not want to loose the security of their day job.

The solution could be starting a home business. The truth of the matter is that you can start your home business with no money at all. Ask yourself this, do you have a spare room or space in your house. Do you have a computer with an internet connection? Do you have a phone line? If you have these three things you have the essentials of an office from which your home business can be made. Affiliate marketing can be a great way for you to get started in your home business. Affiliate marketing will provide you with the opportunity to sell either a product or a service. With low capital and little space you may want to concentrate on services.

Once you have made the decision, you need to evaluate your skills. What services can you offer and what skills can you bring. Many people start of with affiliate marketing programs from major search engines. If you are good at website design, you could register your page with someone such as yahoo publisher. This way your site will get traffic with the help of the search engine, Yahoo. If yours is a sales website, your traffic could translate into increased sales.

The other thing you can try to do is attract traffic to other sites. Retail sites such as Amazon and EBay have affiliate marketing programs. If you can generate traffic and increase sales then you make money. Both programs offer ways to increase revenues through links and blogs. These are usually free and worth using. Remember, the more you make the more they make.

Finally, your site can make money in another way. When it is posted on sites such as yahoo publisher or Google ad sense, there will be ads placed. Whenever a visitor clicks on an ad you make money. The more clicks the more cash. The operators take care of all the advertising costs and placement. They also try to place appropriate ads to your page. If you�re selling rare books ads for fish food are not likely going to get clicked.

If you want to start working for yourself but feel you do not have the money then you�re wrong. If you have a computer and space to put it then you have all you need. You can also start you home business and work it around your job. You can gradually commit more time as your home business grows.

If you have tired of your job and really want to work for yourself then stop making excuses and do it. Though affiliate marketing programs and selling services, you will find that having your home business is easier than you think. All it takes is time and a commitment to succeed. By taking adamantine of the affiliate marketing programs that are currently available, you can make money and improve your own marketing skills. Remember, you can always expand into other areas and venture out totally on your own later. Right now, get marketing and get clicking.

Don Jeffre
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Choose Financial Freedom - How to Tell If a Wealth Creation Opportunity is For Real

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:48:38 GMT

Choose Financial Freedom with EZ Wealth..

Looking for a way out of the rat race? Feel like you should be paid what you are worth? Tired of lining your boss's pockets with the money earned by your hard work?

You are not alone. Thousands upon thousands of people feel this way, especially after the recent market crash tied them to their jobs and halved their stock values. Everyday, at least 100,000 people Google "home based business" opportunities before noon, looking for a better way.

Network Marketing

One of the simplest, cheapest methods to attain Financial Freedom in this troubled economy is through network marketing. Well-known Entrepreneurs Robert Kiyosaki and Donald Trump have both stated that if they lost everything and had to start over, they would choose network marketing as their wealth creation vehicle.

When researching a network marketing company, it is important to take certain factors into account to ensure that you will have the environment you need for your business to grow. Three factors of this industry and their importance or lack thereof will affect your direct success: startup costs, product line and training/support.

Startup Costs?

As far as startup costs, should you choose to start your own business, you get what you pay for. "Top-Tier" Direct Sales companies that sell high-ticket items yielding higher commissions, can sometimes cost $2000 on the low end and $20,000 to position yourself at the top of the compensation plan.

$20,000 to start a business at the top is far cheaper than purchasing a franchise and, due to your best efforts, may take far less time to earn money. Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad also informs us that investing in any brick-and-mortar business can take as long as 3 years without a paycheck to turn a profit.

Some network marketing companies will provide many conveniences that others do not. Do your due diligence comparing what you learn about different companies before choosing one, and be prepared to pay for these conveniences as they are there to help you out.

You simply have to decide if you are willing to invest whatever it takes for as long as it takes to reap the greater rewards. This includes time, energy and/or money. Are you willing to relentlessly work your business on the front end to achieve an easy, abundant life on your own terms forevermore?

Products?

The products sold by your business may be perks, but are not essential to a rockstar business. Do not let that fool you into thinking you have to have the best, cheapest or most efficient items to offer your customers. This mode of thinking will most certainly work against you. Remember this: Above all else, you are marketing yourself as a leader.

According to Internet Marketing Gurus Jay Kubassek and Mike Dillard, you are providing a solution to your prospect's problem, which is worth infinitely more than products. With a powerful marketing system directed at the correct target audience, it is possible to market almost any product out there. Any successful entrepreneur inherently understands this on one level or another, but the majority of people don't, which is why only 5% of people who enter network marketing ever become top earners.

"Am I the leader others will follow?"

If you are not positioned at this point as the leader your prospects are looking for, then you should look for a marketing system in which you can leverage the company top earners' successes and knowledge to attract your customers FOR you until you feel confident to present your own success story. Everyone has to start somewhere, and you should not have to suffer for it.

Never join a company that would have you create bogus success stories. EZ Wealth Solutions does not offer "bogus Success Stories.." Your prospects will sense that you are not being honest with them and will write you off as a scam, discrediting you, your products and your company.

Beyond leveraging your upline's success, you will want to invest in your own knowledge, increasing your value to society. As well as investing time, energy and advertising money into your business, you must also be prepared to spend some time in personal development, which is why network marketing is not for everyone. Ask yourself:

"Are you willing to do just as much for yourself as for your boss?"

Surprisingly, most people in the world are not. That is what keeps them in their present position, doing the same things day in and day out.

Training and Support

Different companies have different training regimes. It is possible with the right company and marketing system to have no prior experience in ANY sort of marketing and experience great success.

If you do not at first have what it takes, then you can become what it takes. This does not happen overnight, and it may challenge what others have told you in life, but as you embark on your journey, one of its greatest rewards is the passionate, self-reliant person you become.

No matter whether or not you decide to develop yourself as an entrepreneur, congratulations on having made it this far! By contemplating Financial Freedom and actively seeking solutions, you are a full leg ahead of the majority of the world content to run the rat race forever.

Now, challenge yourself to act!

You deserve to be happy! Set goals. Do your due diligence. You ARE Einstein! You ARE Mozart! Go for the prize!

Chuck

A Great Idea is Not Always Enough

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:01:42 GMT

A Great Idea is Not Always Enough

Because there are so many blogs and web sites about blogs on the internet, it can be tough to distinguish your blogging web site from all of the others. Whether you are starting up a new web site aimed at bloggers or whether you are looking to make your existing blogging site more distinctive, the key to building and maintaining a site that will capture the interest and attention of the blogging community is finding your niche. If you can fill a unique need in a way that no other web site does, you will be able to build a lasting readership among web surfers. Once you have discovered a niche, you will still have a lot to do.

Every great blogging web site starts with a great idea, and you cannot build a successful site that will last without one. There are many great sites aimed at todays bloggers, and competition for the attention of this growing demographic is fierce. To make your blogging web site stand out from the pack, you will need to offer something that no other site offers, or you will need to do the same thing that an already popular site does but in a more impressive or valuable way.

One way to discover an ideal model for your blogging web site is to look at the sites that have successfully captured a blogging audience already to determine if you can appropriate some of their strategies to help realize your vision. Of course, you will also need to add a unique flair to your project in order to stand apart from your competition. Many people agree that the web sites that do the best in todays market are the sites that have the most personality. The fiercely individual surfers who are bloggers are a demographic that responds especially strongly to personality, so consider how you can give your site a unique and attractive feeling by lending your own voice and sensibility to your site design and content.

Once you have a great idea for your site, have pinpointed a special niche that you are well equipped to fill, and have infused the site with personality, the next step is figuring out how to get the word out to bloggers. In the long run, a great idea just is not enough to propel your blogging web site to success. You will need to draft a smart and realistic marketing plan in order to draw readers to your site. Once you hook a blogger, your great content will keep them coming back, but it is vital to get that first glance or your site will not have a chance to shine.

Special Reports: Build your List and Make Money

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:59:51 GMT

Special Reports: Build your List and Make Money

Does your business enterprise need a boost? Consider using special reports to add revenue and build a business contact list for future use.

What are special reports?

Special reports are short reports that contain helpful information on a subject. The reports are anywhere from a few to 30 or so pages in length. If you have the know-how, you can write them yourself or hire a writing service to do it for you. There is very little work involved in creating them but they are versatile tools for building an online business.

One popular subject for special reports is how-tos. They direct a reader, step by step, how to do something. If you are knowledgeable with computer software and hardware, that is a perfect niche for special reports on your website. People are always having trouble figuring out their computers and you could help.

Marketing special reports

There are options for marketing your special reports. If you are trying to build a business list of customers, use these special reports as a freebie when any visitor signs up to be a part of your email mailing list. For this type of promotion, use a shorter report like a five page report on how to navigate problems with Windows Vista (if your website has a computer niche).

You can create a five-part course and use the first part as the free promotion. It is your hook. Once they sign up for the mailing list, you can grant them access to the other installments through emails that also advertise your website products. Signing up for a business newsletter subscription can also be the reason to gift a free special report.

Making money on the Internet

All of your special reports do not have to go towards list building. Besides your other products or services, you can sell special reports on your website. Many reports sell for between $5 and $20 a piece, but if you offer very valuable information, you can command a higher price. Sell single reports or create various courses to interest your customers.

People love to learn about money-making opportunities. They will pay the money for any information that is a how-to guide to making money on and offline in various ways. How have you made money? Begin there with the subject of your special reports. As your business grows, create an affiliate program. This gives customers a way to help you make more money and also make some for them. Offer certain special reports as additional compensation for reaching a certain selling level in the affiliate program.

There are a number of ways to use special reports. As you build your library and your lists, alternate the free promotional reports and continue to sell your entire library, creating combination offers such as Buy Two, Get One Free.

While your special reports are building your contact list, they are also making you money. With such a low cost to create them, your profit margin will rise.

Don Jeffre

See what a Penny can buy You!

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:28:11 GMT

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If you miss them at a penny, then find them here at wholesale prices, in small lots of 6 and up.

You can even find some great buys on Free (of monetary investment) Offers that in some cases even with shipping can also be a huge savings.

You've probably heard the express "there's nothing free in life", so let me tell you that you ARE CORRECT. In order for any exchange to be a "win-win" each party must do something, right.

So for most of these Free Offers you'll be expected to exchange referrals, or links to your contacts - so you introduce folks to the products and you get one for Free.

NONE OF THESE OFFERS ARE THOSE GOTCHA OFFERS THAT REQUIRE YOU TO SUBSCRIBE TO A BUNCH OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES THAT WILL END UP COSTING YOU A SMALL FORTUNE.

Happy Shopping ~~ Happy Saving!

Ray Delworth
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Making Money Using Squidoo Techniques

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:32:32 GMT

Making Money Using Squidoo Techniques

Author: Lawren Smith

Once you get a Squidoo lens up, you may want to see what your are earning. Earning? You can earn money using Squidoo. The web site was initially formulated as a tool to allow all individuals to show that they are an expert on something. Individuals are able to create simple, one page web pages that allow them to provide information to their readers and help increase their overall respect online. Squidoo is also a money making tool. Many people find that Squidoo is one of the easiest ways to make money online.

How To Make Money With Squidoo?

Where does this money come from? There are actually several methods you can use to make money using your Squidoo lens.

Earn from the simplest method: the ad revenue. When your Squidoo lens is published, you will notice ads will show up in the final document. Those ads will earn money from various ad programs that the company uses. With Squidoo, lens masters earn as much as 50 percent of the ad revenue.

Earn money from affiliate products and services you promote. Because you can add affiliate links to your Squidoo pages, you can promote these products and earn an income from them. Sell your own products and services. While you should not directly sell products at Squidoo, you can indirectly promote your own products and services as a solution to the problem you are writing the Squidoo page about.

Earn money from Squidoo through their affiliate program. Squidoo wants you to find others to sign up with them. When you get others to do so, you will earn an income from doing so. Drive traffic to your blog or web site where you are selling products or services. It is important to note that Squidoo is one of the largest web sites in the world and as such, it has a lot of traffic. That means the traffic can be directly to your own web site if you link to it from your Squidoo lens.

There are many methods to making money using Squidoo. It costs nothing to create a Squidoo lens, either. Therefore, there is very little to lose if you are getting started in this web site. It takes some time to make money a lot of money, but there are people making a great deal of money from their Squidoo lenses through one or more of these methods listed above.

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About the Author

Lawren Smith is founder and creator of Quest4Success Marketing, LLC, where online entrepreneurs can learn proven marketing strategies and cutting edge techniques to grow their business. For example, article marketing is an effective marketing strategy to use to build a business.

5 Keys to Creating Websites that Sell

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:38:21 GMT

5 Keys to Creating Websites that Sell

Your business website is essentially your storefront, business card and most significant marketing piece all rolled into one. How it affects your visitors and customers is then essential to your success. Provide a memorable experience and customers are sure to return time and time again. Lets take a look at five keys to creating a website that sells.

Key #1 Make your website interactive.

As the internet continues to grow and evolve its becoming more important to create a community around your business. To accomplish this you want to engage your visitors and customers. This can be accomplished a number of ways. You can:

* Provide a forum
* Post surveys or polls
* Enable visitors and customers to review or rank items. For example a How valuable was this article? question and a scale of 1 to 5 stars or a ranking from 1-10.
* Offer a blog and inspire comments and feedback
* Host contests and sweepstakes
* Publish video and audio content as well as written content. This gives users another way to access you and your personality.

Key #2 Make sure your website provides value.

People go online for a number of reasons. They go online to research a potential purchase, to seek solutions for a problem they are having and to be entertained. If your website provides all three; products, information, and entertainment then you are in tip top shape. The good news is your content can provide both the information and the entertainment and when written well, can also inspire purchases. Here are a few ideas to provide value for your customers and prospects:

* How to articles, videos, and audio
* Tips articles, videos, and audio
* Case studies
* Workbooks and reports
* Interviews with experts
* Product reviews

Key #3 Make sure your website is easy to navigate.

It takes a visitor about 20 seconds to make a decision about whether they are going to stay on your website or click away. If your site is laid out nicely, with products and services, information, prices, FAQs, and content easy to find then people are more likely to hang out � the longer they stay on your site the more likely they are to make a purchase or to return again.

To make your site easy to navigate consider:

* Keeping your site simple.
* Keep your pages uniform with the same options and appearance.
* If you have a lot of content, great! Use drop down menus and organize your content by topic for easier access.
* Offer a search function where users can search for products, services, or content topics quickly and easily.
* Provide a way for users to easily go back to previous pages. A back key is an option however if every page has the same options and drop down menus, including the ability to quickly return to the home page, a visitor will always be able to find what they need.
* Test your websites appearance on different browsers to make sure every visitor has a good experience.

Key #4 Make your website easy on the eyes.

Ever visit a website and the text was so small or the colors so incompatible that you could not read a word? Readability is critical to a selling website. Make sure:

* Your colors are easy on the eyes,
* Your graphics are not distracting
* And keep formatting like underlining, bold and italics to a minimum.
* Spacing between sentences and paragraphs is adequate
* Font size is large enough for people to read and font is easy to read

Key #5 Give them a soft sell.

People expect to be sold to and they are looking for it � they are wary. Instead of hitting website visitors with a hard sell, provide information, solve their problems and show them the benefits of your products or services. They will be much more receptive and appreciative.

Creating a website that sells requires a structured approach and a desire to create the best experience possible for your visitors. Once you have created your website, consider testing it and asking associates, friends and family for their opinion.

Don Jeffre

Single Moms Make Money on the Internet

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:00:34 GMT

Single Moms Make Money on the Internet

The goal of any business is to make money. And, we are not just talking about the short term but long term goals of increased revenue. To that end, many businesses are missing out on a multi-billion dollar market: single moms. Marketing to moms is the wave of the now and the future.

Why are moms so important?

Moms are enterprising. According to BSM Media Inc., mom spending is already over the trillion dollar mark. That is more than the budget of some third world countries.

Also according to BSM Media Inc., almost 90 percent of single moms consider themselves the financial head of the home. Her husband may bring home most of the bacon but it is the moms who decide how to spend it. They shop for everything related to the household: kids clothing, appliances, electronics, outdoor furniture, accessories and home improvement items.

Any husband that shops for these things is going to consult their wives before buying them. Why? Wives do the research into these products to find the best on the market. Moms influence as much as 85 percent of the purchases for the home. That�s over 70 million women we are talking about here. It doesn�t get any bigger than that.

Think about all of the tasks that moms handle in a day. They take care of the housework, shuffle kids from school to sporting events to other activities, cook dinner and manage the finances. In order to keep everything straight, they employ a wide variety of technology. It�s not uncommon to see a mom sitting in the park watching her kids play while listening to an iPod or browsing the Internet on her iPhone.

Moms are also savvy on the Internet. The trend for many years has been moms coming out of the workplace and starting their own businesses at home to spend more time with their kids. To that end, moms have developed a network of blogs, websites and forums designed to teach moms everything from designing websites, starting Internet businesses, marketing to other moms and managing their homes all the while. Their buying power increased exponentially with their knowledge.

Manly mistake?

Traditionally the only products marketed towards women were household products and cooking items. This goes back to the archaic thought that a woman�s place was in the home. That has been a huge detriment to many companies as they are beginning to see.

Women and moms have made an imprint in the man�s world in many areas. Women are not limited to office jobs; they are CEOs and CFOs. They don�t just surf the Web, they are becoming entrepreneurs with widening influence over Internet marketing. Having moms shun your product because you are not marketing to them means they are also spreading the word to other single moms across the world (via the Internet) and in their own communities.

The future

Moms are influenced by other moms. Several generations of moms are coming together to influence the spending habits of major corporations. In the future the trend will continue. As moms become more �connected� in the world, their spending will increase. No product is off limits to mom advertising.

Moms do rule the world. Gain the support of savvy moms with your products and your business will reap the benefits.

Don Jeffre

6 Essential Social Media Marketing Tips

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:48:50 GMT

6 Essential Social Media Marketing Tips

When you go about marketing your online business through social media, there are a few basic guidelines you should aim to follow. These can be applied to forming connections in social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter, as well as in social bookmarking services like Digg, StumbleUpon or Reddit � although, perhaps to a slightly lesser extent.

Being a success through social media is all about leveraging connections, and giving in to the fact that no website is an island. If you are completely self-absorbed and only socialize with others for your own benefit, then you will have a hard time building a loyal following. These next few tips will help get you moving in the right direction, so you can grow your network much faster by using social media.

1. Get To Know The Culture: Before you get too trigger-happy and start sending friend requests or following people all over the place, get comfortable with how people interact in your chosen network. Find out what people respond to and get a sense of the language and etiquette people use when communicating with each other. Generally people will sense a spammer from a mile away, and most often its because spammers dont interact in the same way as normal people do (or most times, not at all). If you want to avoid looking like a spammer, then learn to follow this communication etiquette.

2. Dont Grow Your Network Too Fast: Another thing that could make you look rather bad is attempting to grow your friend or follower count too quickly. Having 10 followers when you follow about 500 will make people think twice about what youre on the site for, and they probably wont want to know you. If you grow your friend count at a more natural rate then it will look a lot better, and you will get many more people interested in connecting with you in the long run. Also, another key to being successful with social media is having a good quality following � not just quantity. Having 50 friends that you have taken the time to become closely acquainted with (and turn into loyal followers) is better than a few hundred that only serve to clog up your list.

3. Show Interest In Others: One way you can grow your network really quickly is to simply show that you are interested in what others are doing � not by sending out a stock email, but by reading a persons profile, visiting their website and sending them a personalized message to show that you care about their ambitions. This will get the majority of people you send requests to accepting them, or people you follow to follow you back � hence, avoiding too much of a hit-and-miss approach for growing your network.

4. Respond To Comments: If someone writes on your wall, or mentions you in a tweet, take the time to write back to them. This reassures people that there is an actual person sitting behind your account, and helps grow the trust that followers have in you. Obviously it can become a little difficult to keep up with everyone once your network gets really big, but in the initial stages you should try to do what you can to make each of your followers feel extra special.

5. Share Content From Other People: Re-tweeting or sharing content that other people post can do a lot to increase the trust and interest that your followers have in you. First, it indicates you are on the site to participate as a normal person would, and are not just there to send people to your own web links. Any relevant content you share adds value to those you share it with, and most of the time they will love you for it as much as if you had created the content yourself. Secondly, it hints to your followers that if any of them created a quality piece of content, then there is a chance that you might take the time to share that as well.

6. Learn From Others: If you are still unsure about what you should be doing to succeed in social media, then one of the best things you can do is take a look at those who are already successful to see how they do it. Visit the people in your niche who have loads of friends or followers and watch how they interact with their network. Get to know the various techniques they use and you are likely to find a way you can use them to grow your own following as well.

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Article by Brent McCoy. Millionaire Studio is an online entrepreneurship blog that features articles on online business, blogging, marketing and social media: http://millionairestudio.com/

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EBooks: A High Profit, Low-Maintenance Business

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:43:50 GMT

EBooks: A High Profit, Low-Maintenance Business

If you are serious about making money online, there are a number of ways to do it. One profitable idea is eBooks. They require very little cost upfront and can provide lots of revenue for your business.

What are EBooks?

EBooks are digital reading media that is easy to pass along to others. Many are opting for electronic books over printed books these days for several reasons. One, eBooks are shorter versions of more traditional books that can be created and published by you.

Secondly, eBooks are easy to use and store. They fill files on your computer instead of space on bookshelves in your home. EBooks can be read in PDF format online or printed to take with you. Unlike traditional books, as soon as you order an eBook, you can have access to it in minutes.

What does that mean to you?

Do you like to write? If you have a way with words and a talent for enticing readers, you can use eBooks to bring a profit to your blog or website. Use your niche as subject matter for your eBooks. Since you already have knowledge about, say, Internet marketing, put your experience to work by offering it to others in the form of an eBook.

The cost to you is negligible. With a blog or website, you already have access to the Internet and a computer that is probably filled with software that is needed to work with eBooks: Microsoft Publisher, Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word. It is not a matter of creating the inside of the eBook. There are books and online articles that give tips for writing eBooks people will want to read.

EBooks vary in size. You may be able to charge more for longer books or you may command a good price for shorter ebooks that provide very concise and valuable information.

An eBook can be composed in a Word document on your computer. Use Microsoft Publisher to format your work and add extras to attract readers. Turn your Word document into a PDF file for easier downloading and printing by customers.

Selling EBooks

Now that you have created this eBook, you�ll need to find a way to get it into people�s hands. Marketing your eBook follows the same lines as marketing your website or blog.

Use article marketing to draw attention to your eBooks. Create an article series based on your eBook. Submit these articles to article sites and on your blog or website. Give just enough information in the articles to have the reader wanting to know more. In the resource box, mention the eBook and link to your website. Submit articles to social bookmarking sites with links to your website page showcasing the eBooks.

For customer ease, link your eBooks with your checkout process. Once the customer pays (PayPal, credit card, debit card) they will receive a link via email or automatically where they can download your product.

EBooks cost you next to nothing to produce so the money you make is all profit. Turn your writing skills and expertise in a certain area into money for your business.

Don Jeffre

Tips For Creating Powerful Headlines That Sell

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:49:51 GMT

Tips For Creating Powerful Headlines That Sell

You have mere seconds to capture a prospect�s attention. One of the single most powerful tools you have to accomplish this task is your headline. There are several keys to a compelling, and selling, headline and a few tips to help you get the job done.

#1 Tap into Your Prospects� Emotions

According to psychologists our buying decisions are based first and foremost on our emotions. Use headlines which offer your readers a strong emotional benefit or reaction. Some possible emotions are:

For example, The 20-Minute Step that Will Make You a Business Genius taps into readers� desires to feel smart and powerful.

Other emotions you can tap into are a desire to feel:

1. Attractive
2. Sexy
3. Assertive
4. Confident
5. Energetic
6. Pampered
7. A sense of belonging
8. In control of their own destiny
9. Wealthy
10. Proud
11. Respected
12. Safe

#2 Make it Active

To compel it�s important to use active language - language that shows movement and commands attention.

For example, �Stop Your Sugar Cravings Today With This Simple Step,� is a fine headline however it doesn�t command action nor does it really tap into any emotions. However, �Conquer Your Sugar Cravings With This Simple Step.� Conquer is an active and emotionally powerful word. Readers receive the benefit of feeling powerful and in control and it commands action.

#3 Let Your Reader Know They�re Important

The word YOU is a very powerful word. It let�s your reader�s feel as if you�re talking to them specifically and interested in solving their problems, issues and helping them achieve their desires. Instead of using I, Me or We in your headlines, use You. Using the headline example above compare the two options

�Conquer Your Sugar Cravings With This Simple Step.
�Conquer Sugar Cravings with Our System�

People want to know what�s in it for them and when they can assess that information in the headline, they�re going to be compelled to continue reading your copy and making a purchase.

Here are three more ideas for powerful headlines:

* Make a promise - Earn $1000 a day
* Make it newsworthy - New program guarantees you�ll earn $1000 a day.
* Ask a question � Do you want to ensure your financial future?

Three Simple Steps to Write Headlines That Sell

So now you have some ideas about what types of headlines sell, how do you begin to write those powerful headlines?

Step One � Get to know your audience intimately. What are their hopes, dreams, desires, and problems? Understanding your audience will help you create an emotional and powerful headline directed specifically at your audience.

Step Two � Determine how your products or services are going to make your prospects� lives better or solve their problems. For example if you sell fitness equipment and your audience struggles with feeling attractive then you can create a headline that highlights a specific benefit your fitness equipment offers to solve that problem.

Step Three � Write ten to twenty, yes twenty, possible headlines. Not only will this give you practice writing compelling headlines, it�ll help you hone in on that perfect headline. And if you think you have a few winners you can always test them for conversion rates to find out which headline is more effective.

Marketing and copywriting experts consider your headline to be the most import element of any effective marketing piece. Take the time to craft a compelling, and selling, headline and you�ll reap the benefits for years to come.

8 Ways to Earn Money with Digital Photography

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:32:03 GMT

8 Ways to Earn Money with Digital Photography

Are you a shutterbug? If you like to snap pictures at family events or just out in the neighborhood, put that camera to good use in ways that will earn you money for your efforts. This article mentions eight ways that you can make money with digital photography.

The world of photography has changed since the instant camera was developed. With a digital camera, you can take a not so good shot and make it perfect using a variety of software options. Best of all, pictures can be printed on quality paper on your printer or at a store kiosk for just a few cents per picture.

Technology has created memory cards much like the flash drive storage medium to file and save pictures for sharing on the Internet. You can easily upload pictures from the memory card to your friends, family and a blog or website if you have one.

1. Stock photography. This business is growing. For website newsletters, magazines and articles, publishers look for photos that capture the essence of their articles. It is not terribly convenient to go out and snap some pictures every time you need one. Selling stock photographs to businesses and individuals is convenient for them and lucrative for you.

2. Wedding photographer. Okay so if you aren�t a professional you won�t be the main photographer at first but you can be hired to take candid shots at the reception or wedding photos after the ceremony. The happy couple can order as many pictures as they want and you can create wedding CDs of the pictures you took.

3. Newspaper pics. If you are in the right place at the right time, you might capture photos that are worthy of the newspaper. When news happens, a newspaper photographer might not be on the scene. You can capture the moments and sell them to newspapers. Snapping shots at community events may also earn you some money from local newspapers.

4. Magazine photographer. Create a portfolio of photos that you�ve taken and submit them to magazines. Looking at your work, they may hire you for assignments. Magazines are a tough market to break into so cut your teeth on other smaller assignments for local newspapers.

5. Local photography business. Ever gotten a mailing that shows cars for sale or houses for sale? Someone had to take those photographs. It could be you. Hire yourself out to area businesses to do the photographs for them.

6. Event photographer. Some families like to document their events like family reunions, christenings, bar mitzvahs and birthday parties. You can be the eyes in the room catching candid shots of everyone.

7. Photography website. If you know a lot about digital cameras and photography, create a website to sell photography products. Keep visitors and customers coming back with engaging content on various aspects of photography.

8. Teach a photography class. Those cameras look easy to use but some of those symbols can mix people up. Teach others to use their digital camera and create great pictures that they, too, can market as a business.

Do you like photography? What started off as a hobby can become a new business venture.

Don Jeffre GDI Leads

8 Best Places For Building Authoritative One-Way Links

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:34:56 GMT

8 Best Places For Building Authoritative One-Way Links

For any online webmaster or marketer, two things will consume most of your time: rankings and traffic. Usually, these two objectives will go hand-in-hand, the higher your rankings the more traffic you will receive. However, as you probably already know, getting higher rankings and traffic can be somewhat difficult.

One of the best ways to achieve both, is to build one-way links from existing authoritative sites on the web.

Now, let�s be honest, building quality one-way links will take some effort and time on your part. However, this can be done much quicker if you know exactly where to look for those authoritative sites or places which will let you create links back to your site.

Here are some good places or sources for Authoritative One-Way link building:

1. Press Releases

Press releases have become what article marketing was just a few years ago� excellent way to get quality one-way links back to your site. You can use both free and paid press releases to get your message out. Many marketers have had success with PRweb, but it can be somewhat costly but highly worth it. A well written press release will usually get picked up and displayed on numerous niche-related sites, boosting both your traffic and rankings.

2. Wikipedia Type Sites

Such places as Wikipedia and Google Knol are also excellent sources of quality one-way links. These can also give you those all important in-content links, as well as links in the resource section of the article. Everything will be theme focused, so your links will carry more PageRank juice in the eyes of Google.

3. Powerful .edu and .gov Link

Mainly because they are seen as non-commercial and coming from prestige sites or institutions, .edu and .gov links are some of the most effective and powerful one-way backlinks you can receive. Try to go out of your way to build these types of links for your site. For example, if you went to a college or university, try getting links from any Alumni pages. If your college has a newsletter section, try to get links there.

4. How To Sites

Yes, we know, Google with its Panda Update and countless follow-up changes to its algorithm, have hit these kinds of sites hard. But the quality ones are still great places to build one-way links. Often if you write a great how-to guide in your niche and place it on these sites, you will get an instant page one Google listing. For starters, try sites like eHow and Squidoo.

5. DoFollow Social Sites and Profiles

If you haven�t noticed, the web has gone social. Some of the best places for authoritative one-way links are in these social networking/bookmarking sites and profiles, especially if you build up your followers and subscribers. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Google+� will all give you opportunities to build your one-way links.

6. Memberships and Testimonials

You must always be pro-active when it comes to link building, so go out of your way to get links from any memberships you may belong to. Also, giving testimonials for your favorite site or product can be another excellent way to get authoritative links as these links are usually displayed on the main/index page of a site.

7. Embedded Videos/Slideshows/Software

Many webmasters have had great success by using embedded software, videos, awards, slideshows� to create one-way links back to their sites. For example, just look at how Slideshare.net builds its backlinks. You can try something similar or use that program to share your content and build your own links.

8. Site And Blog Commenting

While many sites are cracking down or making all their links NoFollow� commenting on blog and sites is still an effective way to get those backlinks. Many online marketers create Google Alerts for their targeted keywords and when any related links are indexed in Google, they get an email. They then thoroughly check out those links to see if it is worth their while to make a comment.

There you have it, some of the best places to help you build your all important authoritative one-way links. Many marketers simply take a few minutes of each day to build these types of links back to their sites. Over time these links will increase and you will receive more traffic and higher rankings as a direct result of these powerful one-way links.

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The author is a full-time online marketer who has numerous websites. For the latest web marketing tools try:http://www.bizwaremagic.com If you liked the article above, why not try this Free 7 Day Marketing Course here: http://www.marketingtoolguide.com Titus Hoskins. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.

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Seven Important Reasons To Build An Email List

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:23:43 GMT

Seven Important Reasons To Build An Email List

Are you actively building at least one list in your niche right now? If not, you�re missing out on quite a bit of potential growth and income. Let�s talk about seven reasons why you need to build a list.

Build A Relationship With Your Readers

The main reason to build a list is to be able to build a relationship with your readers. They have to know like and trust you before they ever consider buying something through your site (be it your own product or an affiliate offer). A list allows you to stay in touch and gives them that chance.

Connecting With Your Target Market

Not only are you building a relationship with your subscribers, you�re also connecting with your target audience. This means that once you have a list, you can ask them what they want to learn more about, what problems they are facing and the likes.

Bring People Back To Your Site

An email list also allows you to bring visitors back to your site. How many times have you been surfing the net, ended up on a really great site�but half an hour later you can�t remember what it was or how to get back to it (unless you spend a lot of time going through your browser history, which no one does). With an email list, you can continually send them more and more great content that includes links back to your site.
Branding Yourself As The Expert

And speaking of great content�it, in combination with a list allows you to brand yourself as an expert. Your readers get great advice from you over and over again on a certain topic. It won�t take them long to figure out that you know what you�re talking about�which again builds the trust you need to create a profitable and sustainable online business.

Easy To Automate

One of my favorite aspects of list building is the fact that it�s so easy to automate. I set up my list once, I drive traffic to the pages of my site that contain an opt-in box and then I start adding email messages to my autoresponder. Each of these things I only have to do once, but they will continue to work for months and years to come� growing my list, making money from my list etc.

Making Multiple Offers

Another big advantage of having a list is that you can make multiple offers. Think about this�if you are passionate about gardening, you�re not going to buy just one gardening book, subscribe to one magazine and buy one set of tools. Instead you�re going to get several of each and you�ll keep spending more and more on your hobby. Your target audience is no different. By having a list you can make them multiple related offers (again, both your own products or affiliate offers or a combination of both).

Being Able To Generate Income With The Push Of A Button

Last but not least, let�s talk about the reason that brings me the biggest peace of mind. If you have a responsive list (even if it�s relatively small), you have the ability to generate extra income at the push of a button. There have been many a times when we needed a few hundred extra dollars for unexpected bills. Each time I was able to come up with the extra cash just by sending a special offer to one of my lists.

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7 Simple SEO Tips That Will Help Your Search Engine Rankings

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:15:48 GMT

7 Simple SEO Tips That Will Help Your Search Engine Rankings

With so much SEO advice being dispensed nowadays, its hard to know what you should or shouldnt believe. It can be especially difficult for Internet Marketing newbies to separate the wheat from the chaff, however, there ARE proven SEO tips and techniques that virtually every SEO expert agrees work and are very effective.

Following are 7 simple SEO tips that will help your search engine rankings:

1. Have Fast-Loading Pages

You may not be aware of this, but page load-speed is now one of the more than 200 signals Google uses to determine the ranking of web pages in the search results. As a result, it is more important than ever that your pages load quickly. Slow loading pages are annoying to searchers and affect their ability to access content quickly. This is viewed as a negative user-experience by Google and can have an adverse effect on your rankings.

You can quickly check your page speed at Page Speed Online, a free web application offered by Googlelabs. This tool tests the speed of your page and gives it a score from 1-100, based on the performance of your page. The Page Speed Score indicates how much faster a page could be. A high score indicates little room for improvement, while a lower score indicates more room for improvement. In other words, the higher the score, the better. The Page Speed Score does not measure the time it takes for a page to load � just whether or not it loads quickly. Here are some things you can do to speed up your pages:

o Avoid Redirects � a common redirect that many designers use is unintentional � they leave off the trailing slash on a URL which forces a redirect to the directory name with the slash. Redirects also happen when you move a page or site � change the URL to point to the new location when you link to a redirected page.

o Avoid 404s � while a useful 404 page is important for your customers experience on your site, you dont want to link to them, as they generate another HTTP request that provides no value. This is especially important with images on your page.

o Optimize Images � keep the images small. (Source: How to Speed Up Web Pages)

2. The Trust Factor

Believe it or not, the trustworthiness of your site � or lack thereof, has an effect on your rankings. So the more things you can do to make your site appear trustworthy, the better. Some steps you can take to improve the trustworthiness of your site include having a clear privacy policy if you collect personal information. Tell people what you are going to do with their information. They have a right to know.

Also, at the very least, provide an e-mail address on your site for customers to contact you. In addition, create an About Us page. Provide the names of the owner(s) and employees, if you have any. Be sure to include pictures and brief biographies. The worst thing you can do is give the appearance you want to be anonymous, which obviously generates suspicion.

And do not underestimate the power of testimonials. Just make sure they are legitimate and verifiable. Otherwise, you risk getting into trouble with the FTC.

3. Create an Effective Title-Tag

The title tag is a critically important factor in achieving high search engine rankings. For those of you who do not know what a title-tag is, it is the words displayed at the top of your browser. It is also used as the title of your website in the SERPs (search engine results pages). Therefore, you should put plenty of thought into writing your title tag � to make sure its as effective as possible. Your title-tag should also contain specific keyword phrases, in addition to the name of your company.

For example, suppose your company name is ABC Home Remodeling, a home remodeling company in New York, you would want your companys website to appear in the search engine results for searches on phrases such as New York home remodeling and home remodeling in New York. If you prefer to work with homeowners only in the Albany area, you would need to be geographically specific in your title-tag. For example, Albany home remodeling.

What about meta-tags? Arent they important too? Opinions vary on the importance of meta-tags, but in my opinion, they are not as important as they once were. They wont have a significant impact on your rankings one way or the other. But if you want to use them, it certainly wont hurt anything � provided you dont abuse them (i.e. keyword stuffing).

4. Publish Quality, Relevant Content

In case you havent heard, sites like EzineArticles, Buzzle and Associated Content got absolutely hammered by the recent Panda update. But why? Those sites have been around for years, and have a ton of quality content. Unfortunately, much of their content is also low-quality. When explaining the Panda update, Google said it was important for high-quality sites to be rewarded. By punishing the titans of article directories, Google sent a powerful message about quality.

But its not enough to just publish quality content. Your content also needs to be relevant to the overall theme of your site. Google places a tremendous amount of value on relevancy. So do everything you can to make sure your pages are as relevant as possible and accurately reflect your sites actual content.

5. Syndicate Your Content

Content syndication is a simple, effective and proven SEO method. When I say content syndication, Im referring to two types of syndication in particular: RSS feeds and article submission. RSS (an acronym for Really Simple Syndication) syndicates your web content, making it easily accessible to other sites and helps build inbound links, making RSS an extremely powerful SEO strategy.

If you use any of the popular blogging platform like Blogger or Wordpress, you already have a built-in RSS feed. If your website doesnt have a built-in RSS feed and you�re technically savvy, you can create your own by following the instructions in Anatomy of an RSS File. Or, if youre technically challenged like I am, you can use a service like RapidFeeds.com.

Article submission is the second type of content syndication I referred to. Basically, there are two ways you can submit your articles. 1. To article directories and 2. Directly to publishers. I prefer to submit my articles directly to publishers because it gives me control over where my articles are published.

If you submit to article directories, theres a good chance your article will get buried among the thousands of other article submissions. In addition, once submitted, your articles are available to be published by anyone. That means your articles have the very real potential of being published by low-quality sites, which could effectively damage your sites reputation with the search engines.

6. Authority, Authority, Authority

Authority sites are considered authoritative for a reason. Its because people trust their content. Thats why authority sites rank so highly in Googles SERPs.

So what exactly is an authority site?

Definitions vary, but my own personal definition of an authority site is a site that is linked to and respected by thousands of people who often reference its material.

Authority sites have quality content and consistently show keyword to content relevancy. If you write articles, instead of submitting them to article directories which have diminishing link value, instead, submit them to top authority sites like Problogger, SiteProNews, WebProNews, PromotionWorld, Copyblogger, SearchEngineJournal and others. And while it might be considerably more difficult to get your articles accepted and published by those sites, the fact that Google places such high value on links from authority sites makes it worth the effort.

7. Social Networking Matters

While only Google knows for sure how much of an impact social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and others actually have on search results, the fact that it is providing real-time social sharing is an indication that Google takes participation in social networking sites seriously. And if Google takes social networking seriously, then, common sense suggests, social networking participation will help your SEO efforts.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Jackson is a marketing consultant, and the owner of Free-Marketing-Tips-Blog.com � Powerful, free marketing tips to help grow your business! http://free-marketing-tips-blog.com

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Social Media as a Negotiating Tool

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:45:01 GMT

Social Media as a Negotiating Tool

Social media has blown onto the scene the last couple of years with the popular websites of Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and many others. Nobody can tell for sure what social media will look like five years from now, but what everyone can agree upon is that the concept of using the internet to socially communicate is not going away.

For salespeople, an important question is, Can social media help in negotiating?

My answer is, Yes, it can. I�m not saying you should directly negotiate with another person by way of a social media (although I suppose there might be exceptions where this is possible). What I am saying is that social media is a perfect tool that someone can use to help frame a situation or build their on-line reputation before the negotiations even begin.

Negotiations are won or lost in two critical areas. The first is the period of time leading up to the start of the negotiations, when both parties are preparing to negotiate. The second is at the end, when the two parties are working out the details of the negotiation.

With regard to social media, I am not an advocate of conducting business negotiations in public. The reason I feel this way is because it is important throughout the negotiation process to maintain respect and integrity for everyone involved. This can be very hard to ensure if stuff is being thrown around for others to read and see. This is the reason I say the best use of social media in negotiations is before the negotiations even begin.

Using social media before negotiations begin allows you to establish the context of who you are and what your expected outcome might be. Best example of this is Donald Trump. He uses social media tools and the media in general to let everyone know who and what he is.

Trump�s goal is to make his brand known, and his brand really is himself. He wants his brand to appear favorable. He does this by coming across as a shrewd business person, and he uses social media to further this persona. On the one hand, this gives him an upper hand in any negotiations. On the other hand it also alerts everyone who might be planning to do business with him that he most likely is going to be very tough.

Conversely, a person who has used social media to cast a tough but fair image is billionaire investor Warren Buffett. The image he has crafted in social media and the media in general is one of a very smart long-term investor known for making quick deals based on how he sees a situation. The result of this image is many people might be far more willing to enter into negotiations with Warren Buffett under the belief they would be treated more fairly than if they were negotiating with Donald Trump.

The examples I use are extremes, but you see the picture. This is why I am a very strong believer that anyone who is planning to do any amount of negotiating with others needs to make sure their internet image is the one they want.

Use social media sites to position you and your company in the manner you want to be seen by others. Be active in how you do this. If you�re not active yourself, other people may craft an image of you that is not accurate.

If you are about to enter into negotiations with another party over a business contract or anything else for that matter, the other party likely will Google your name or company to see what they can learn about you. (This is a very common practice).

The other party is going to read all they can about you, and what they read, may impact how they choose to negotiate with you.

Some people may like to believe that social media does not have a place in the professional business world. Sorry, but that is old-school thinking (or maybe I should say, That is so 2009 thinking! Today, search engines capture everything, and people expect to find out everything. When someone can�t find something on the web, they become that much more suspicious.

Finally, dont think for a moment the web is going to become any less powerful in the years to come. Just the opposite is true. Its going to become more powerful. The sooner you accept the reality that you need a solid social media strategy, the better. The strategy of what you post, how you position yourself and so forth is up to you. Choose wisely and be consistent.

Always remember that the respect you show to others and the integrity you live by are priceless. If you build your social media strategy around respect and integrity, you�ll be well on your way to positioning yourself properly for today and tomorrow.

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Mark Hunter, The Sales Hunter, is a sales expert who speaks to thousands each year on how to increase their sales profitability. For more information, to receive a free weekly email sales tip, or to read his Sales Motivation Blog, visit www.TheSalesHunter.com. You can also follow him on www.Facebook.com/TheSalesHunter, www.Twitter.com/TheSalesHunter and www.LinkedIn.com/in/MarkHunter.

Mark Hunter, The Sales Hunter, www.TheSalesHunter.com, � 2011

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Google+ Reviewed

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:38:58 GMT

Google+ Reviewed

By Jacob S Strandlien (c) 2011 Social networking has grown steadily in scope and importance over the last decade, and over the past few years, Facebook's position as the top dog of social networking services has been solid and unquestioned. Enter Google+. Google's attempts to step into the realm of social networking have been plentiful and almost undeniable failures, but Google+ is undoubtedly their strongest showing yet, and has the best chance of success. It is growing steadily in popularity, but how well does it work and what sets it apart from its competitors? Read on.

Social Networking, Google Style

Google has a long, tumultuous, and mostly unknown and ignored history with social networking. The following is a rundown of their previous attempts.

Orkut: As far as I am aware, this is Google's earliest and (until now) most successful attempt at a social networking platform. It never gained much popularity in the United States, but it is huge in Brazil to this day, and it also has a following in India and other various countries.

Open Social: Launched in 2007, it's not technically a social network in and of itself. Open Social is Google and MySpace's attempt to create a common programming interface that can be applied across several social networks, allowing programmers to easily integrate these networks into websites and other applications. This has largely been drowned out by Facebook.

Friend Connect: Launched in 2008, Friend Connect was Google's next attempt at a Facebook or MySpace style social network, but it took the approach of using various open standards (including Open Social) to create this network across different types of accounts and websites. I had not even heard of it until I started researching for this article.

Google Lively: This was Google's attempt to create Second Life style 3D environments that could be installed onto any website, where users could log in with their personas and interact with each other. It only lasted for a few months before it was discontinued in 2008.

Google Wave: This was a communications format that was intended to combine features from e-mail, message boards, and social networking schemes to enable a conversation-style information exchange (or wave) that could include various type of media added by various networked contributors. Google has basically abandoned the project, but it still exists under the name Apache Wave.

Google Buzz: A social network that has been integrated into Google's e-mail service, Gmail, since 2010. It allows people to share information with one another in a social networking format right inside the Gmail interface. Ironically, Google Buzz has barely generated any buzz at all.

So what's to say this attempt will be any better? Read on.

Circles

Circles are the core concept of Google+, and the key feature that sets it apart from its competitors. Anybody you wish to communicate with goes into one or more of your "circles", or groups of people you know. You can have a circle of friends, a circle of co-workers, a circle of family members, etc, and nobody but you can see what circles you have or who is in them. Then when you write a status update, you also choose which circles to share it with. This makes privacy a breeze, a fact that sets Google+ firmly apart from Facebook, where privacy settings are terribly complex to manage and seem to change every few months. Even better, when you're setting up your personal information in Google+, there is a place in every field to specify with which circles that information is shared. For example, I have my phone number set up to only be visible by friends and family, but I have my profession set to be visible by all my circles. It's a snap. Then when you go to look at status updates that others have posted (which is in an interface similar to Facebook in basic appearance), you can filter the information by circles with just one click. It works extremely well, and you can color me impressed.

Hangouts

Another unique feature in Google+ is the concept of a hangout. A hangout is basically a video chat room, where you can invite friends and talk freely amongst each other. Webcams are becoming very widespread, and are even built into laptops and netbooks. It sounds great, but it is not without its setup. To even get started with hangouts, you are asked to download and install the "Google Voice and Video plugin", and then you have to find a friend who is on Google+ (and is in one of your circles) who is willing to do the same thing. However, once you're done with all that, the streaming video seems to work flawlessly so long as you have a good internet connection. Even through the limited resources of a netbook, I didn't run into any hiccups. Once again, I'm impressed.

Missing Features

With all of its clean look and smooth operation, there are some features that are conspicuously missing from Google+. Most notably as of the writing of this article, Google+ lacks any way to set up an account for a business or organization (called "Pages" on Facebook). In fact, Google is actively taking down standard user accounts that are set up for organizations. They claim that they are working on some sort of platform for business accounts, but demand is high, so they risk alienating new users if they take too long. Another conspicuously absent feature is a way of setting up an event, or any sort of calendar entry for that matter.

Conclusion

Google+ is definitely a top-quality effort by Google to break into the social networking field, but only time will tell whether it can topple Facebook from its position as top dog in the pack. For my money, though, it has a good chance. It doesn't have all the features yet, but with its clean interface, simple no-brainer privacy, and fun methods of interaction, I highly recommend checking it out.
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The Bargain Finder Found more Bargains 4U

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:15:52 GMT

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Where Was God on Sept. 11, 2001?

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:14:40 GMT

Where Was God on Sept. 11, 2001? asked by Raymond Delworth

Blessed be the name of the Lord - You give and you take away.

I believe God was there and left the three parts of the World Trade Center Towers that are burnt into our collective images of that day as a reminder of His Trinity. That image, as I saw it first on that day as I was glued to my TV set pretty much all day from 9:44 a.m EST until I went to bed late that night, is burned into my brain. I see the image now again in my mind as I write this. But, while I watched a documentary the other early morning (I wouldn't sleep and got up at 12:30 a.m.) and saw the image again flashed on my TV set and listened to the testimony of one of the survivors that was resting with a lady on the 5th floor stairwell of one of the towers, I began to see another image in my mind's eye. It was the image over the door of Sk8 Church in Steam Boat Springs, Colorado. It's the image of three crosses on a hill. By acts of God, I firmly believe I was led, while on vacation in Steam Boat Springs, to that church because His plan was for me to see that image and be prepared to write this article.

He wanted to answer, after all this time, the question I have thought on at least ten occassions - "Where Was God on September 11, 2001?". Until today, my wife and I have wondered why exactly did God interrupt our vacation "plans" to go and spend time at a Church devoted to Skate Boarders - totally foreign people to us, our lifestyle, and upbringing!

Twelve firefighters. One cop. One civilian. They were mostly good "Samaratans" and the other was a hurting lady (Josephine, a 59-year-old Port Authority secretary) that they were helping. They were on the Survivors Stairwell B and I'm sure wondering why God had interupted their "plans"? Did God use Josephine to see who were going to be the Good Samaratans - stop their plans to help her and be "slowed down". All those people in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Flight 93 that day, September 11, 2001, at some point must have had death on their mind. I wonder how many had the promise of everlasting life on their minds - for those who believe in Jesus Christ - the one who was crusified on one of those crosses on a hill. I wonder how many I will see later in my eternal life. I know I will be more careful now to "slow down" my plans to help those that are hurting and in need of help!

How many of those dear creatures of God thought like Isiah thousands of years ago "woe is me! I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty."? Who were praying to the Lord Almighty and who were cursing?

Just as the testimonies of Godly encounters and experiences are recorded in the Holy Bible, I wonder how the testimonies by the survivors of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon will be recorded in writing, through audio and video for those that survive us all hundreds and thousand of years from now. How will they interpret these testimonies and what will they do with the information? Will I be able to meet any of those who experienced the trajedy somewhere, sometime in eternity? Will there be any regrets they share? Do they know the significance of how God used them to help some of God's other creations?

I believe God WAS THERE because He was needed to bring grace and mercy to all - those He gave additional time on earth and those He took away to be with Him in eternity. I believe He was there to fight the spiritual battle that He allows between Him and Satan. I believe He was there to give one last opportunity for each one in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and on Flight 93 to accept Christ as their Savior that day and spend eternity with himself.

Knowing and accepting that "we all fall short [of holiness and purity]" and that we are all sinners, I believe that the surviving people that were within those remaining parts of the World Trade Center (for all of us to see in our mind's eye for eternity) were part of His plan to remind us of something eternally important. "He sent His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life". "For God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through Him" [the one on the cross with two sinners]

I wonder did those in the presence of the trinity (within those three remaining pieces of the World Trade Center) feel His mercy and grace?

Do you know and acknowledge that God is on your side and therefore there is always hope? I share my reflections with you because the terror, flames, horror and pain felt within the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Flight 93 is nothing compared to that in eternal Hell, and I don't want any of you to live there! I invite you to respond and share your reflections. In so doing please pray for the families of those who left us that day to feel His mercy and grace in their grief. Also in so doing honor and acknowledge the police officers, fire fighters, and other emergency workers in your community.

9/11/2001

and the way we remember the World Trade Center on our visit from California in

July, 1997

Holy Bible (American Standard Translation) - John 3:16-17, Isiah 6:5
Wikepedia: The Survivors' Staircase is the last visible structure above ground level at the World Trade Center site. It was originally two outdoor flights of granite-clad stairs and an escalator that connected Vesey Street to the World Trade Center's Austin J. Tobin Plaza. During the September 11, 2001, attacks, the stairs served as an escape route for hundreds of evacuees from 5 World Trade Center, a 9-floor building adjacent to the 110-story towers.

Research Through Google - Quotes of Survivors
"God Bless You, God Bless You..." (A surviving firefighter in Survivors Stairwell B says that what he kept hearing as he ascended the stairwell with his team) "Thank god the lights always stayed on."
"Only God knows it they hadn't waited for me, they probably would have died too."
"Please God make it quick" (A Battalion Chief of NYC Fire Dept. who survived but was buried in rubble for four hours in a stairwell.)
"Oh my God this is how I'm going to die. When I opened my eyes I saw a bright light and though 'I'm Dead'." [He must have been thinking he was in Heaven]
"God please I don't want to die." as he sees his Bible laying on the floor under his desk where he dove just before the plane hit the tower in his office at his eye level. (An Assistant Vice President of a bank)
"She blessed herself and held her arms up to the sky and jumped" [to her death] (A TV news reporter on the scene).
"I can't stop thinking about the look in their eyes and how heroic they [that day's Good Samaratans] were. I remembered then that my camera was in my bag and began taking pictures of the men as they went up. I pray some of them made it out."
"The day has changed his life. He survived, basically because he went to a small church very near the site and happened to be inside the church during both of the collapses." (A Collections Manager, Photographic History Collection)
"On a day of terror, miracles were rare. For the 20 who survive today, the difference between life and death was that they could see sunlight after the collapses or were with someone who could. It was, in the truest sense, a ray of hope." (Dennis Cauchon and Martha T. Moore, USA TODAY)
"What do you think the chances of surviving something like this are?" "One in a billion," Picciotto said. "One in a billion." (an exchange between a 45-year-old canine Port Authority Police Officer and a 51 year-old firefighter Battalion Chief that survived in Stairwell B)
"They now know that it was their decision to stay with Josephine, though she gave them permission to go, that saved them in the pocket of floors between the 4th and 6th floors of Stairway B that saved them".(Documentary - the Miracle of Stairway B) "But the 14 people inside Stairway B from the lobby to the sixth floor were spared. Why? Nobody can say for sure..." (Dennis Cauchon and Martha T. Moore, USA TODAY)
Video (The Miracle of Stairwell B.) of those in Survivor Stairwell B

Blog Management � Go Blog Wild

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:36:20 GMT

Blog Management � Go Blog Wild

Maintaining a blog is about much more than simply presenting the latest news in the life of a person or a brand. A good blog is about conveying the writer�s personality and interests to his audience. To that end, the comments section should be one of the liveliest parts of a blog. In addition, there should be an array of links available to promote similar or interesting sites for the readers, and the content should be on-topic and creative.

One of the most interesting things about the web is the ease with which people can organize events. Flash mobs are a great example of this: A quick handful of tweets or SMS messages, and kids show up at a public school to perform an elaborate dance routine in protest against bullying. Blogging can take advantage of this same phenomenon, using the web to advocate causes or interests that appeal to their readers, increasing readership by making waves in the online pool.

Blog-a-Thon

The original signature blogging event, and likely the one that did the most work in bringing blogging to the mainstream that it now enjoys, Blog-a-Thon is an annual, 24-hour event. Bloggers sign up, then write posts continuously for 24 hours in order to raise money for charity. Rules vary, such as writing a post per hour, or having to write a guest post on another blog every third hour. Donation schemes also vary, with some readers contributing set amounts and others paying per post.

Above all, this is a charity event. But at the heart of it, Blog-a-Thon is also a significant publicity tool. People used to coming by a blog just a few times a week can check in constantly with their favorite blogger. It�s a creative challenge for the writer, as well, both physically and mentally. It can do wonderful things for a blogger�s career, allowing them to exercise their mind in unique ways and open up a kind of pressure valve that overwhelms writer�s block in a wave of pure content.

Blogging Circles

A blogging circle is very similar to a writing circle. A handful of bloggers, typically at least 5 but potentially many more, get together and agree to write on a particular topic. One begins the chain, putting together the initial post on the topic, and �tags� the next blogger at the end of the post. They pick up the chain and run with it, and it goes on and on as the thought evolves.

This is a great way to develop some cross-audience interest between blogs, encouraging the readers of various blogs to look into new places and grow the audiences of each. That�s one of the interesting things about blog audiences � they aren�t like political party members, only able to help one entity. If the same 500 people read 4 blogs, each of those blogs has an audience of 500. So share those readers, and try out a blogging circle.

NaNoWriMo

National Novel Writing Month is an interesting event. For 30 days in November, participants are expected to write continuously, about 1,700 words a day, until 50,000 words are reached. Depending on the focus of your blog, taking advantage of NaNo can be an interesting change of pace for your audience. It is particularly popular among creatively minded blogs, though brands focusing on activism of some stripe may also find it enlightening to participate as the blogger crafts a story about the topic the readers are interested in.

The idea here is to post either excerpts from or the entire contents of the day�s writing output. This brings the audience along in the formation of the story, very similar to the serial format of novels Charles Dickens was so famous for.

Again, this isn�t for everyone. Nuts and bolts blogs about home repair or market analysis will probably find little overlap with NaNo�s mission.

Inside the Box, Outside the Box � Whatever You Do, Think!

The idea isn�t that all or any of these events is necessarily appropriate to any given blog. Each one has its merits, but our aforementioned market analysis blog may not find any of them particularly useful. However, most blogs will, and even those that don�t can find some manner of event to participate in that can gather the attention and promote new interest from its readers.

The key is to be willing to innovate and try new things. Blogging isn�t a hard-and-fast science; as said above, it�s largely personality-driven. Talk to other bloggers and gain their insights about such events. Consider organizing a miniature blog-off of your own, or try out the writing circle idea every Friday for a month. If someone suggests a different type of event you haven�t heard of, give it a try.

The audiences on the web have a reputation for being unforgiving, but that�s only half the picture. People like routine and will stick around for their favorite sources of information even if they try a few experiments that don�t quite work out. The key is to be honest about things, and to always try to engage your audience with any particular experiment.

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Enzo F. Cesario is an online branding specialist and co-founder of Brandsplat, a digital content agency. Brandsplat creates blogs, articles, videos and social media in the �voice� of our client�s brand. It makes sites more findable and brands more recognizable. For the free Brandcasting Report go to http://www.BrandSplat.com/ or visit our blog at http://www.iBrandCasting.com/

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10 Things That Will Make Your Tweets Pop!

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:45:40 GMT

10 Things That Will Make Your Tweets Pop!

Every day we work at it: toiling away on our social media networks, doing what we can to reach our customers and broaden our client base. Twitter is one of the simplest platforms to use when reaching out to people, but you may not be tweeting to your best advantage. So, what can you do to make sure that people actually want to read your tweets and can get the most out of them?

Here are ten things that you should be doing with your tweets in order to make them stand out. The only way to reach out and grab the attention of your followers (and that of future ones) is to have some interesting things to say!

1. Be Unique

When you find an interesting article or video that you want to share with your followers, don�t just copy and paste the title into your tweet. Instead, try to put together your own unique spin on it and give them an idea of what is in store for them when they click on the link.

2. Keep It Short

Twitter limits your tweets to 140 characters, which may not seem like a lot. But really, you�re not supposed to be writing a book here. Keeping it short lets you give only the necessary information without a lot of fluff. Try to keep your tweets to around 120 characters. That way, followers can add their own opinions when they retweet.

3. Think of Your Tweets as Headlines

When writing articles, the sure-fire way of getting readers is by having an attention-grabbing headline. The same goes for your tweets. Make them easy to read and catchy in order to induce your followers to reply or click on the added link.

4. Use Interesting Facts

People love finding out new tidbits of information. These can be random statistics about a topic that is related to your own business. Giving your followers an interesting fact will be more likely to encourage them to click on a link than a boring title.

5. Tweet With Your Own Voice

Don�t tweet like an automaton. Readers want to know that there�s an actual person on the other end of those tweets, so write as you would speak. This gives your tweets a hint of your own unique personality, which followers love. 6. Get Your Timing Right

In order for your tweets to get noticed, you need to make sure you�re publishing them when your followers are the most active. Take note of when you get the most replies and retweets. This is when you should be the most interactive with your followers.

7. Add Value

There are a wide variety of reasons that people use Twitter, from how to collect stamps to the newest techniques in web design. Whatever your reasons for using Twitter, focus on tweeting about those specific topics. When you concentrate on one or two topics, followers will see you as a valuable source of information.

8. Be Interactive

When it comes to your followers, think quality and not quantity. Get them to interact with you, ask questions, and make sure you�re responding to their own questions too.

9. Add Helpful Links

Since tweets are limited, including a link will allow you to share more information. You can include links to your blog, an article, or your webpage. Use your tweet field to include an interesting way to lure them in.

10. Get Them Thinking

Your tweets should always leave your followers wanting more. You want your tweets to be thought-provoking because that�s how you get your readers to stay connected to you and want to interact with you even more.

What works for you in your tweets? Do you have any extra tips for enhancing the Twitter experience? Share with us! We�d love to know what works for you!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dawn Pigoni � Social Media Virtual Assistant http://BeSocialWorldwide.com | http://Twitter.com/dawntrenee

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Blog Writing Tips � Where to Find Great Guest Posters

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:37:15 GMT

Blog Writing Tips � Where to Find Great Guest Posters

One of the best ways to keep a fresh angle in blogging is the guest blogger. They can provide good content, take some of the work load off the primary blogger and can bring new perspectives and ideas that the parent blogger can follow up on in later posts as he or she sees fit. Guest blogging also promotes inter-community relations, resulting in shared links and audiences, and can bring together previously unrelated audiences who find they share interests. It may not be for everyone, but those who embrace guest posting have a lot going for them.

So where, exactly, does one find these mysterious guest posters?

Guest #1 � The Ascended Commenter

An active and successful blog should have an equally active comments section. Comments are a great way to gauge the level of interest a group has in the message of a blog. Sometimes a blog post will spawn a series of comments that end up being as or even more enriching than the blog itself, including links to other sites and videos that further expand on the message.

Some commenters are active, regular members of the community and consistently provide very good and insightful material on a number of topics. Those who participate in all the best discussions and are always there to provide discussion on the topics raised are a prime source for good guest-posting material.

If you have such a gem of a commenter, contact them and ask them if they�d be interested in writing up a guest post. Give them all the guidelines and style rules your publication uses, and of course draft-check their work to make sure it fits the needs of the site, but definitely recruit your commenters into your service. This will have the two-fold effect of creating guest posts and improving the quality of commentary in the blog as a whole. As guests see they can be invited to post, they will be encouraged to become more active if they want to do the same.

Guest # 2 � Fellow Bloggers

Many blogs provide cross-links to other blogs who discuss the same or similar issues. Blogs on cooking provide links to other blogs on cooking, or to blogs on cookware and appliances, and so on. Bloggers exercising good blogging judgment also go to their colleagues� blogs and participate in the comments sections as well.

Just like inviting in a member of the commentary team, calling in a fellow blogger is a great idea. As mentioned, it encourages cross-promotion of both blogs. Even though the audiences of the publications may not overlap 100 percent, each will at least see some benefit as visitors from the other blog come by to have a look. At least some will subscribe, and that�s a big overall goal.

One of the best ways to arrange this is to propose a swap. Both bloggers trade posts for a day, so that both can get the benefit of the exchange. Additionally, try to focus on bloggers with a similar but slightly different focus. The idea is to get new information out there, after all.

Guest #3 � The Celebrity

People like big names; there�s really no getting around it and no shame in it. Experts are good at what they do, and good at it for a reason. If our aforementioned cooking blog is able to get an authority figure with a big name in the community to post, they really should take advantage of the opportunity. Celebrities are often hard to get a hold of, but not impossible. They are people, too, and they often have interests that they like to follow. Sometimes it requires contacting their agent or handler, but it can be rewarding to a blog to have a star pop on and offer some advice on the topic at hand.

On the other hand, such a post should stick firmly to the message at hand. Making it a chance for the celeb to simply promote his new cause or book might distract from the goal of the blog, and nobody wants that.

Guest #4 � A Polite Opponent

There is a benefit in bringing aboard someone whose views differ from those of the core audience for the blog. The most important mode of discussion for the web today is dialog. People want to talk, they want to learn and be heard. Unfortunately, the largest mode of dialog is argument and flaming, and very little gets accomplished in this circumstance.

On the other hand, if a blog has taken a principled and reasonable stand on a topic, chances are they have an open-minded yet critical commenter or �rival� whose views differ from their own. This is common in philosophy-and politics-oriented publications.

In these cases, consider contacting a rival and asking for an exchange of views. This may seem a bit odd, but it really can make all the difference. It will show both parties that the other side is willing to talk and reason about things. It will give both audiences a sense of pride in their chosen blogger. It will create a greater dialog and benefit the web as a whole and, if handled properly, it will almost always be a hit and generate a great deal of discussion. Take the risk and see if a civil exchange of conflicting ideas is right for your blog.

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Enzo F. Cesario is an online branding specialist and co-founder of Brandsplat, a digital content agency. Brandsplat creates blogs, articles, videos and social media in the �voice� of our client�s brand. It makes sites more findable and brands more recognizable. For the free Brandcasting Report go to www.BrandSplat.com/ or visit our blog at www.iBrandCasting.com/

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Mon, 05 Sep 2011 22:16:11 GMT

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A Review of Website Builder Services

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:25:45 GMT

A Review of Website Builder Services
By Mantoo J Joinx

In the recent years the scope of the Website Builder company has increased a lot due to the expanding scale of online businesses. Before undertaking the services of some professional Website Builder Company you need to analyze your requirements and purpose of having a Web Development. Website may vary in nature according to the desires of the owner. A website can be for the promotional purpose like the directory sites. Websites are also built for to community interaction like the forum sites. Many users undertake the services of the Website Builders to set their company and the desired information related to it in the internet.

After you have finalized your purpose of having a website you have to consider the budget that you can afford for the Website Building. For this you can refer to the performas of various Website Builder companies. This will let you know the various services provided by the various Website Builder companies. You can check their service catalogue and finalize a name from which you can get all the Website Builder services suiting your requirements and pocket.

Now let us have a review of the various components of the Website Builder services. The Website Building starts with the preparation of the website design layout. Some Easy Website Builder companies may offer you the list of the website designs from which you can choose the desired one for your website. The website design can be simple website layout or some complex design prepared with the use of various website designing softwares and scripting languages. The preparation of the website design completely depends on the client's desires.

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The Low-Down on Local Places Listings

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:06:48 GMT

The Low-Down on Local Places Listings

Though the World-wide-web is often praised as the foundation for globalization, and links us across countries and continents, new developments have shown the relevance of emphasizing the local places listings and other local aspects of internet marketing.

How to SEO is Over. Local Places Listings are in. Facebook Check-in, the rise of Foursquare and Yelp, and the popularity of Google Places listings and Google Maps establish this point.

There are several main aspects to your local business listings: local directories and your business address; the content of your local listing and customer reviews.

Let us look at each of these in greater detail.

Local Directories and Address

Your address is vital as it indicates where you are positioned and which other places of business are in your area. Needless to say your location is crucial for prospects to find you and for the listing to be shown to potential buyers in your region. Your listing in local directories, such as the online telephone book or White Pages, Yelp for the US, the United kingdom and Germany, or TrueLocal for Australia, will automatically be recognized by search engine spiders and typically syndicated to other listings. By way of example Google Places draws on data from most of these directories and shows them in the final search results. Most of the time, local directory listings are created by other people, but they do need to be owner-verified. Thus, if you see your organization listed somewhere and you didn�t set-up the listing, don�t be anxious, simply go through the steps to claim the listing, or get in touch with the directory directly.

Content of Your Local Listing

The content of your local listing is critical because it demonstrates what types of products you provide. First, be selective when you choose your classification and the key terms for your business � these are the elements your ideal customers are searching for. In the listing itself you want to give your potential customers the right amount of info � neither too much nor too little. You may consider adding photographs and video clips if you have them available � the more your potential shoppers can discover about you, the better.

Customer Reviews

A truly impressive feature of local business listings is the ability to post a review. These days it is supported by most local directories and can either be great for the owner of a listing, or horrible. Nonetheless, potential prospects are much more likely to make contact with you if they find out that others have been pleased with your service. And on top of that, many times your listing will appear more frequently than others if you have more reviews. That suggests implementing a strategy to ask past and current customers to post a review is very important.

In the event that you�re receiving undesirable feedback, make certain you react to the critic as soon as possible � they may simply have a little difficulty that you can sort out swiftly and easily. And even if it�s a more substantial issue, you will know what your customers think of you and what you can do to improve your company.
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Network Marketing Leads - Choices and Recommendations

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:28:56 GMT

Network Marketing Leads - Choices and Recommendations

Author: Andrea Kropp

The lifeblood of your business is a plentiful supply of quality network marketing leads. Has your sponsor ever told you "never stop adding people to your front line" or "always be closing". This is sound advice since you never know where or when a super star will emerge on your team. But, "always" is a long time and no one has a contact list long enough to go on forever (no matter what their background or financial resources). You, as well as every person on your downline team, will eventually need a source of fresh MLM leads.

Network Marketing Leads: The Sources

The sources for network marketing leads fall into two main categories - buy or build. These are the same choices you face multiple times every week. Do I buy a garden shed or build on myself? Do I bake a cake for the party or buy one from the store? Do I take my car in for an oil change, or learn how to do it myself? How you answer each question is all about tradeoffs. Time, cost, quality and level of customization are the major considerations. This is how we will structure our discussion of whether you should buy or generate your own MLM leads.

The Choices:

Buy Network Marketing Leads
Generate Your Own (or Team) Network Marketing Leads

The Considerations

Time
Cost
Quality

Buying versus Generating Network Marketing Leads

Time- Most people incorrectly assume that buying network marketing leads is always faster. That is true if you are talking about a list of 500 leads. But, what about the time to get the first lead? To get started, you only need 1 new lead since you can only call one person at a time anyway. You don't need the second lead until a little bit later, and you don't need the 500th lead until quite a bit later. Viewed in this way you begin to see how a continuous flow of MLM leads is actually preferable to a long list all at once. When you buy MLM leads you can sometimes request a paced flow of leads. When you generate your own, you are always in control of the pacing and can turn the lead generation on or off at any time.

Cost - Both approaches cost money. Don't let anyone fool you that generating your own network marketing leads is won't cost you anything. It will. However, many business owners choose to make a distinction between a cost and an investment. Going out to eat every day because you don't know how to cook is a cost. Taking cooking lessons for 3 months so you can reduce your reliance on restaurants is an investment. You spend money now to acquire a skill or knowledge that will allow you to spend less in the future. Network marketing leads are as vital to your business as food is to your body. If you plan to buy MLM leads, you are committing to an on-going necessary expense (over which you have no price control - think gasoline!). When you decide to generate your own MLM leads, you make an investment in your business that can never be taken away from you - and that you can teach your downline organization.

Quality- The clich phrase "you get what you pay for" is appropriate here. The quality of network marketing leads is generally reflected in the price. But, what criteria are used to judge quality in the first place? The relevant quality factors are recency, specificity, amount of data provided, verification, location and the most important factor - exclusivity.

Recency: This refers to how long ago the person expressed interested. Obviously 2 months ago is bad, a few days ago is OK and real-time, right now is the best.

Specificity: This refers to how closely matched the person's interest is to your offer. For example, some network marketing companies have 90% female distributors. A list of mostly male contacts would not be specific to this opportunity.

Amount of Data Provided: The most basic lead is an email address only. The amount of data available increases from there to include phone numbers, names, zip codes, annual income, etc...

Verification: This refers to whether the name, phone number and email provides are correct or not. When you generate your own network marketing leads a few junk leads aren't a big deal. If you are buying, advanced-verification that the information is correct is a feature you can pay for.

Location: You may prefer network marketing leads that are within driving distance so you can meet with prospects live or have them attend opportunity meetings. Or, your MLM company may only operate in certain countries or states.

Exclusivity: This refers to how many other business owners (in addition to you) have access to the same lead information. This factor is the most critical consideration and the reason that generating your own network marketing leads will always trump the quality of purchased leads. When you set up the system to generate the leads...they are 100% yours alone to call or email. When you buy network marketing leads, the same lead is often sold to 3,6 or even 12 other people who you must compete with for the prospect's attention. In many cases, once the prospect realizes their information has been sold they stop answering the phone or become very resistance and combative on the phone. Exclusivity is the only solution.

Where to Learn the Skill of Generating Network Marketing Leads

We believe in 100% in "teaching a man to fish so he can eat forever" so the only recommendations we have are for learning the art and skill of generating your own network marketing leads. We do not recommend that you buy network marketing leads - not even once. Your business can wait another few weeks or another month while you learn how to generate continuous lead flow. Sponsors and upline leaders who tell you cannot wait and make a calculated investment in your business are only interested in how your activity affects their bottom line. They are not giving you sound long-term advice, and you have to call them out on it. Once you acquire the skill of generating network marketing leads on your own, you'll be able to teach that skill to your team. And, you'll be able to use the fact that your team has its own lead system as a tactic to attract highly qualified prospects to your team.

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How To Make Money On The Internet

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:04:24 GMT

How To Make Money On The Internet
Author: sana

In these harsh economic times more people are creating online businesses or are at least considering it as a means by which they can make money on the internet. It is not surprising because if you have limited resources and funding, it takes a lot less capital to set up an online business than it does a traditional "bricks and mortar" business. Therefore, the risk of not being successful will be a lot more severe offline than it will be trying to make money on the internet.

The costs of start up and running expenses may be a great deal less online, however you are not any more likely to succeed and make money on the internet than you will be with an offline business.

Unfortunately, for those with little knowledge of the internet, they can be susceptible to the "get rich quick" schemes and scams that are so prevalent on the internet today.

If you fall into this category one quick tip for you � whenever you are presented with so-called money making opportunities that promise you riches without the need for you to do anything or claims that you will become a millionaire in 24 hours, it is almost definitely going to be a scam and you risk losing any investment you are encouraged to make.

Fortunately there are plenty of legitimate ways to make money on the internet.

As one very successful internet marketer puts it � "Find the starving crowd" � not everyone will have the same enthusiasm for your pet project as you do. No matter how great you think your product or service may be, there must be a reasonable and steady demand for it or you won't make money on the internet.

Many subscribe to the argument that if you are starting out and considering how to make money on the internet, you should start by getting involved in the thing you are passionate about. That makes sense but only as long as there are enough people searching for your "thing" and are willing to pay for it, otherwise you will end up extremely disappointed.

Having said that, there are always people searching every day for the skills and expertise that they do not have but they desperately need and are willing to pay for. Some of the more popular ways to make money on the internet include:

Article and content writing for websites
Website design
Graphics design
Personal coaching in your chosen area of expertise
Freelancing
Ghostwriting
Selling other people's products through affiliate marketing
Developing and selling your own products
Selling items online via auction sites such as Ebay
Drop shipping where you sell products without holding inventory

That's just a small selection of ways by which you can make money on the internet, but what do you do if you don't possess any of the above skills, or you would prefer to make money on the internet in some other way.

It is important to also look at how hugely successful marketing offline businesses is and why these businesses are excellent examples of how to make money on the internet.

Selling knitting and crochet patterns via her website, one lady is making a full time income and there are certainly many more like her. A landscape gardener for example can make money on the internet by setting up a simple website of his services and marketing solely within his geographic area. In almost every city, web design companies make money on the internet by providing local business people with vital website related services. And there are thousands of other examples of how entrepreneurs and small business owners have taken their offline business online and have mastered how to make money on the internet.

In conclusion, whichever options you are considering on how to make money on the internet, please do your homework and do plenty of research. There is no doubt that the internet is brimming with money making opportunities, but it is a very competitive marketplace. Study your chosen niche well including what your potential competition is up to. Research who are the top performers and look at how they make money on the internet.

If you want to learn how to make money online the easy, but highly professional way, you need to visit http://www.onlinebusinessus.com/ . When you learn how to make money on the Internet you can run your own full time online business from home.

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Email Marketing � 5 Secrets To Higher Conversion Rates

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 02:20:40 GMT

Email Marketing � 5 Secrets To Higher Conversion Rates

Email Marketing, although thought by some to be old fashioned, boring and ineffective remains one of the most powerful marketing strategy any small business has to increase its profits.

By changing to an email marketing model from selling to site visitors straight �off the page� it is a very easy matter to increase your sales by 10 times, 16 times or even more than that.

But WHY is� email marketing so profitable� and if it IS so profitable why do so many people claim it doesn�t work?

Well, the answer is simple: most people get their email marketing horribly, horribly wrong and make some simple but easily corrected mistakes.

The facts are inescapable: email marketing works� but you have to be careful to do it the right way, assuming you want the best results. Simply sending �an email� is like going into the boxing ring with a world champion with the advice �just hit him� and hoping to win.

So here are 5 simple ways to make more conversions and hence greater profits from your email marketing:

1. Email more often. I know this goes counter to the advice you�ve probably had in the past, but the truth is the more often you email, the more sales you�ll make.

You�ll make far more sales because you�re both giving them more opportunities and incentives to buy from you, and developing a better relationship with them� and your conversion rates will improve tremendously. By how much?

Well, your business may vary, but in my business and my wife�s business, we get conversion rates of between 10% and 16% through email and maybe 1% from sales straight �off the page�. Yes, you�re seeing that right: it�s a massive boost of 10 or 16 times or 1,000% to 1,600%.

2. Stop being �professional�. Forget sending stuffy and formal emails � they don�t work. People want to have a relationship with you, not be addressed as if they were in court standing in front of a judge. So write from one person, one human being to another, using the words, �you� and �me�, even if you�re writing to them from a big corporation.

3. Ditch the fancy designs. Newsflash: for all sorts of technical reasons we don�t need to worry about here, fancy HTML emails invariably look a real mess at the other end and very few of your readers will see anything even remotely resembling the gorgeous email you put together�look awful in your reader�s email client. if you have images in your emails they simply don�t show up properly and your �standard� HTML formatting is butchered by non-standard interpretation by your email programme.

Either use plain text, or, if you want the best of both worlds, use simply formatted HTML that looks like plain text but allows you to use underline, italic and bold as well as use anchor text in links.

4. Have a specific call to action in every email. Make it a personal rule that every email you send will have a specific action in it you want the reader to take, whether it�s to visit a page and buy something or to do something else. But make sure you have something in EVERY email because you are subconsciously training your readers to take action when you tell them!

5. Write about anything! This is a biggie: most business owners write excruciatingly tedious and boring emails that are nothing more than tired exhortations for people to buy their stuff. Don�t do that. Include all sorts of personal stuff about your life and anything else that comes to mind, including current events, news, that kind of thing.

Remember: you�re trying to form a relationship with them and the best way to do that is to share personal details of you and your journey through life. I�ve written about all manner of things to my list, from my dog messing in the kitchen, to my son passing his karate belt (he has cerebral palsy, so it was even more of an achievement than usual), and I�ve even written about the operation I had on my toe. And my conversion rate is 10% or more!

The truth is if you do it the right way, email marketing is fast, effective and extremely cheap.

These five tips will give you a real running start.
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10 Keys to Bring Inspiration Into Your Life or How to Be Inspired

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:26:09 GMT

10 Keys to Bring Inspiration Into Your Life or How to Be Inspired
By Rochman Reese

Have you ever asked yourself what is inspiration? What is being inspired? When the word inspiration is broken down into its component parts, it simply means "in - spirit". When you are living "in - spirit" You feel excited about yourself and your life. You have a special connection with all parts of your mind and body. The question is how can you connect to your spirit at all times to take actions that enable you to be inspired?

Below are the ten keys to opening the doors to your inspiration.

1. The first key to inspiration is enjoyment. It would take a spiritual master to be inspired about doing the dishes. So find something that really excites you. It can be anything that you really enjoy. You have to have fun.

2. The second key to inspiration is love. When you are actively pouring love into what you are doing, this will guarantee that you are opening yourself to experiencing more inspiration. If you love what you do and do what you love, this will guarantee that you will be inspired.

3. The third key to inspiration is to trust in yourself. Listen to that little voice inside yourself and know that this comes from heart. This is called intuition. Intuition is the spark the sets off the fires of inspiration.

4. The fourth key to inspiration is to follow what your intuition tells you. The more you listen to it, the stronger your intuition will become. If you don't pay attention, that little voice gets fainter and fainter until you can no longer hear it. The spark goes out, and gets harder and harder to rekindle.

5. The fifth key to be inspired is to believe in yourself. Keep telling yourself "I can". These are some of the most powerful words that you can ever use. When you say this to yourself often enough, you build a bridge between yourself and your inspiration. When you are backed by a strong belief in yourself and your dreams, nothing is impossible.

6. The sixth key to inspiration is not to listen to anyone that says "no you can't". They might think that they are helping you, and try to project this negative belief onto you, but remember to keep telling yourself that, "I can!" Nothing will kill your inspiration quicker than listening to people say "no you can't do that" Understand that often what they mean is "No, I can't do that, so you shouldn't either" Its best to simply thank them for their advice, pay no attention to it and not discuss it further.

7. The seventh key to being inspired is to avoid negativity. Ask yourself, do you really need to read the newspaper or watch the news on TV every day? Nothing kills inspiration quicker than being surrounded by bad news. How you can you possibly feel inspired if everywhere you look you are getting reports of doom, gloom and destruction. What if instead of watching the news, you spent time doing what it is that you really love? What if you just spent just 1/2hr a day doing what you really love? What sort of a change would it make in your life after a whole year?

8. The eight key to inspiration is acceptance. Accept that on some days you feel much more inspired than on others. This is normal. Nobody can be completely inspired every minute of the day. So on the days when you feel flat, just know that this will pass and don't feel too troubled about not feeling inspired.

9. The ninth key to inspiration - Take action every day, no matter how small a step it seems. Action is the fuel to the fires of inspiration. Make it a daily practice to keep your fire burning. The taking of actions, no matter how small, will fill you with inspiration for taking the next step.

10. The tenth key to inspiration is the most powerful of all. Simply put, it is to surround yourself with things that inspire you. This is so laughingly simple that many people over look this. It could be inspiring music, inspiring recorded talks, inspiring books and inspirational art.

One of the most powerful ways to be inspired comes from surrounding yourself with inspirational art. Artworks come in many forms such as paintings and sculptures, and have such an amazing power to influence thoughts and emotions, to uplift and also inspire. By the careful placement of inspiring artworks, you can transform your living and working environments to be places filled with light and inspiration.

All of these 10 keys to inspiration are very simple things. Try them today and you will be amazed at what a difference it will make in your life. May your life be filled with Love and Happiness and Inspiration!

Inspirational Artist, Rochman Reese, creates inspirational artworks that will inspire you to experience more love, happiness and tranquility in your life.You can view inspirational pictures of his artworks, and read more inspirational articles at www.theartofhappiness.net - be inspired.

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Best Free Website Builder

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:10:09 GMT

Best Website Builder

If you are looking for the best website builder available online, you have landed on the right page. In this article I'll present reviews of some of the best online website builders that you can choose from.

The Internet is an unending web of connected webpages that is constantly enriched with new ones everyday. If you are one of the millions of people who wish to create web presence for yourself or your small business, then you will have to learn how to create webpages. However, if you don't want to get into HTML coding or hardcore website design, you can opt for a WYSIWYG (What You Say is What You Get) type of website builder software. There are loads of website builder software programs available online. Which is the best website builder software for you? Here are few reviews of some of the best website builders available on the Internet that will help narrow down your search. While website design services offered by most sites are free, they also provide very low cost web hosting.

Choosing the Best Website Builder
Which would be the best website builder for you? It all depends on your level of expertise in web designing, the features you want your site to have, the facilities made available by the website builder and its user friendliness. There are two main types of website builders which include standalone software programs (like Microsoft FrontPage) or online sites which act as website builders, as well as host your webpages for a yearly fee. For small businesses the second option is more beneficial.

Given below are reviews of some of the best online website builders that provide an easy-to-use web designing interface and technical support. They offer a complete web designing plus hosting solution for small businesses. If you are into hardcore web designing and want your website to have advanced features, go for software programs like Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft Frontpage. Adobe Dreamweaver is also the best website builder for Mac. If you plan to build a big site that can handle large traffic, you will have to opt for separate professional hosting services.

Best Free Website Builder: Reviews
What makes these best website builder and hosting sites ideal for small businesses is the ease of publishing webpages without knowledge of coding and low hosting costs! Here are the top rated website builders for you. All these sites specialize in small business web hosting.

Yahoo Web Hosting
Voted as the best website builder for small businesses, Yahoo web hosting is a great option to choose due to its easy-to-use online site builder interface that uses templates, support for video applications, PayPal and its excellent web hosting facilities. It also offers a downloadable free web design software that you can use. It provides you with a customized domain name, email address and 24 hour technical support. All these are offered at a price of only $7.46 per month in their standard package!

Homestead
Offering a range of more than 2000 predesigned web templates to choose from, Homestead is a great option for anybody with little or no web designing experience. Besides offering a free trial for 30 days, Homestead will host your site for a monthly fee of $4.99.

Intuit
Intuit is an award winning software that helps you build websites very easily with its highly customized set of templates. It is one of the best website builder for small businesses that need a basic professional looking website. With a 30 day trial period, it costs only $4.99 per month.

Yola
This is a business website builder that offers a free as well as paid web designing and hosting service. Its paid package of Yola Silver comes at a price of $49.95 a year and offers excellent web designing and hosting service.

CityMax
CityMax is a website builder plus web hosting service that has already launched more than 572,000 business sites since 1999. Many entrepreneurs from around the world have benefited from their service. It will cost you only $19.98 per month to get your site hosted here.

Ezweb123
This is a free web hosting and website builder at your disposal. Over 2 million webpages have been launched from Ezweb123. It easily guides you through web designing process and offers excellent customer support.

Hope the reviews of some of the best website builders available online presented here, helps you in choosing the right one for you. The Internet is a global platform for marketing and presenting your products. It is a platform for voicing your opinions in the form of blogs. It is the true embodiment of a democratic system with freedom of expression. Opt for any one of the above best website builders and create your webpages to become a part of this global platform!

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Internet Marketing Australia

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:22:28 GMT

Four Business Scenarios Improved Through Internet Marketing Australia

Author: Cath Thrupp

Quite a lot of firms consider the opportunities available with online environment with an aim of further increasing their business with the development of a good website to maximize sales and leads. With increasing competition online, the best way of capitalizing on options for your business website, is to look at internet marketing Australia. If you experience any of the below troubles with your prevalent website, then internet marketing is one leading strategy that you need to check out.

First Case: No New Clients
Many companies have a website but no traffic, so no new consumers resulting from the website. This is often an outcome of: no online marketing, website design that isn't optimized for visitors or no lead capture. It is best resolved by making use of resources like onsite optimization and search engine marketing Australia. With search engine optimization (seo), you can increase your search engine potential, so that consumers can easily find your business and you can make the most of the options of new consumers.

Second Scenario: Customers Are not able to Locate Your Website
If it is not possible for your customers to visit your website for finding out more about the goods and services that you provide, then you lose the advantages that are provided by the websites to your firm. If you are not on the first page of search engines like Google, you will not have access to a lot more than 60% of your potential clients for the reason that the maximum number of people don't look beyond page 1. The best way of improving your search engine results is to concentrate on online marketing, which is called as search engine marketing Australia.

Third Scenario: No Time to Pursue Leads
While the benefits of the online environment may be extremely interesting to your business, you may feel as though your business resources (i.e. time or cost) do not allow you to take full advantage of the prospective. If you don't have the time to learn about and do this online marketing on your own, the best option is to reap the benefits of specialized AustraliaInternet marketing services. This will help your business to progress and action a plan the makes sure your firm is not losing the benefit of all these online leads for your goods and services.

Fourth Scenario: Uncertain Where to Start
If you feel overwhelmed by all of the online options (social media tools, search engine optimization tactics, website structures, directories, video etc), the best thing to do is to get expert advice on how to make use of Internet marketing Australia. The rate of technological change and all of the possibilities on the Internet can certainly be overwhelming so it is significant to get the right advice, have a plan and prioritize the action steps that will give you the best return for investment. The vital thing is - don't let the sensation of overwhelm lead to no action for your business!
Each of these situations can easily be resolved by seeking specialist help to develop a strategy for your business and actually start incorporating search engine marketing Australia.

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Why You Need A Local Search Strategy

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:24:56 GMT

Why You Need A Local Search Strategy

Approximately four years ago, Google made a major change in their search engine results page by introducing a �Universal Search� system that blended listings with video, images and news results along with the sites it gathered from crawling web pages. Universal Search also accommodated the increase in searches for location-specific information. Instead of just searching �restaurants�, many people were searching �restaurants Louisville KY.� Search engines tested this new interest trend by placing a map and local listings at the top of the results page. Heat map reports showing how users absorb a search results page implied that users paid a good deal of attention to the map listings at the top of the page.

This research also indicates that users interact with map listings and organic search results more frequently than the paid ads. This change prompted Google to prioritize local search to the top of the search results page, and in time most engines followed suit.

Before the rise of local search, users had to enter a search term plus a geo-modifier (e.g., Louisville, Kentucky, 40299) in order to get location-specific search results. Today�s search algorithms take into account the IP address of the user, showing location-targeted results without the searcher requesting it. A search for just �dentists� from a computer in Louisville will pull up dental offices in the Louisville, KY area along with the general information pages.

Google experimented with how many local search listings to display in order to maximize user experience. Originally, only three local search listing results were displayed as flags next to the area map. Google tried increasing local map listings to a 10-pack, but found that searchers did not like how far down the page that moved organic search results. Research indicated that local searchers wanted a selection of map listings, but also valued the organic search listings. This led to the 7-pack format, which presented seven listings at the top of the search page.

The most recent iteration of Google�s local search display is called �Place Search.� This format combines the organic listings with local map listings and positions the map on the right panel. There is also an option to see only local listings by clicking the �Places� link in the left-hand panel. The latest iteration personalizes local search by allowing users to select their location to see local listings in any area, not just their current location. This change puts even more emphasis on local search results by showing more robust listings with pictures, meta descriptions and review quotes.

Bing and Yahoo have followed Google into local search marketing. However, all local search does not work the same and they have different algorithms to determine business rank. Obviously, you get more traffic if you are ranked on the first page of local search. To obtain a high ranking, you must build out your business listing using geotags, reviews, citations, product and service keywords and additional information.

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Viral Marketing Tricks

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:55:43 GMT

Introduction to Viral Marketing Techniques

Viral Marketing sounds scary, doesnt it? The first time I heard this term I thought someone should be visiting the doctors office. It never occurred to me that this had anything to do with the internet. When it finally did dawnon me that this was a promotional technique, I did not have a clue as to how powerful it could be.

In the begining

I began my relationship with this odd sounding technique by installing greeting cards on my site. I know it sounds small, but greeting cards are actually one of the most powerful techniques of all. Why? Because everyone seems to want to send ecards to their friends, lovers and relatives. Each card contains a link back to your site, which tends to produce visitors.

My next exposure

It was something called tell a friend. This is a simple script, installed in less than an hour, which allows your visitors to, well, tell their friends about your site. This is an excellent way to get people to visit, as virtually everyone will do something that their friends recommend. I have found this does not produce an incredible amount of traffic, but considering only an hour was put into installation, its not bad.

Another Viral Marketing Technique

I have tried creating an email service. I signed up a couple of domains with BigMailBox.Com, which allows me to give away web-based mailboxes. For example, I own the domain naissancefaire.Org. I could link this to BigMailBox.Com, and allow people to send messages to theirname@r... Since every single email that is send from this mailbox contains a link back to my site, it tends to produce some traffic.

Another Common Viral Marketing Technique

Now, we are talking about electronic books. In fact, this is now the big rage. Just create an ebook and give it away! Everyone will want to download it, pass it on to their friends and add it to their own websites for others to download. The truth is that a good ebook, like anything else, will indeed do exactly that. And, of course, a bad ebook will sit there and rot.

Another Great Viral Marketing Technique

(This one I have not personally tried out myself) Is creating a freeware program and giving it away on your web site. Of course links to your website are scattered throughout the program. This tends to produce quite a few visitors, assuming the program is any good.

Then there are CGI Scripts

The same kind of thing can be done with free CGI scripts. You offer the script without warranty on your site, freely given to anyone who wants it. Allow them to post it on their site for free download also. Before long, you could find yourself getting a steady stream of visitors looking for those scripts.

Another Excellent Viral Marketing Technique

Is to write articles and post them on the web, allowing other sites and ezines to post them as well. A small word of caution here: I know from experience this can produce phenomenal amounts of traffic very quickly so be prepared.

I am sure you can think of dozens or even hundreds of other ways to get in on this bandwagon. I will tell you one thing that I have learned - the search engines are worthless in comparison to link exchanges and viral marketing. Also, I have found these techniques are much more fun and much less prone to the whims of some search engine company.

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Converting Your Website Visitors One Small Step at a Time

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:36:58 GMT

Converting Your Website Visitors One Small Step at a Time

The ultimate goal of most websites is to collect leads and/or make sales. Which makes them important conversion points to measure with your web analytics program. Leads and sales are also the reason why I�m a huge proponent of optimizing services and products pages.

If a Google searcher lands directly on a page that is selling what they want, there�s a strong likelihood that this will convert into a lead or a sale. Leads and sales often come with a high price tag and are what I call �large conversions.� Any conversion that potentially costs money is going to be harder to get than one that is free.

And let�s face it, not everyone is in the market to buy right now. Some are just looking for information about your particular industry. Others may be trying to learn how to do for themselves what you are doing. And still others may be doing research for sometime in the future when they may be in the market.

Serve Them Value-Added Content

Adding value to your website through free articles, blog posts, videos, and any other type of content that may be helpful to those at the not-ready-to-buy-yet stage, is a great way to gain extra traffic. The problem (if you want to call it that) with all this �value-added� content is that it brings those very people who will rarely convert into a lead or a sale. They�re mainly there to partake of your free information. They want answers to their questions, and once they get them, they leave your website with nothing to show for it other than a �100% bounce rate� mention in your analytics report.

Converting the Freeloaders

Rather than having them bounce off your website, you should be trying to convert them in some small way. That is, providing you�re not-in-the-market-right-now site visitors (or freeloaders!) with one or more quick, painless (ideally measurable) actions they can take. These could be anything that keeps them connected to you and/or your website in some way � signing up for your free email newsletter, following you on Twitter, �liking� your Facebook page, subscribing to your YouTube channel, etc.

Be sure to feature your conversion points prominently where your free content lives.

For instance, at the bottom of every article or post add call-to-action wording such as:

�If you liked this blog post, let us email you when we�ve posted others.�

�If you want to learn more about _____, sign up for our weekly newsletter.�

�If you want to stay abreast of what�s going on in ______, be sure to follow us on Twitter.�

Clearly State the Obvious

Another type of small conversion is to get the visitor to at least click through to your services or product pages. For instance, if you have a lot of how-to content that shows people the ins and outs of the very services you offer � make sure it�s extremely clear that you don�t just teach it, but that you also provide the service. (You�d be surprised how many people don�t realize it!) There will always be some people who decide that doing it themselves is too daunting a task.

Make sure those folks see prominent and simple directions to your services pages by saying something like:

�Learn how we can help you do ______ today!�

Small Conversions Keep You Connected

Of course, if you�re going to prominently feature small, quick and painless conversion points, it�s essential that you follow through with your promises. If you promise you�ll provide industry updates on Twitter, then you darn well better do it fairly often. If you told them you�d send email when you posted new articles and they don�t hear from you for 2 months, then you�re not keeping up with your end of the bargain. It�s important to continuously give them what you said you would. Nothing undermines your credibility faster than collecting their email addresses and Twitter handles and then giving them to your sales team to start breathing down their necks. (Remember, they�re not in the market to buy now anyway!)

Pay Attention to Low Conversion Rates

If you are prominently featuring small conversions on your website but not seeing much action, it could mean that your content isn�t providing what the visitor hoped it would. Or worse, it could mean that it�s just not very good. This is common if you�re creating your content for search engines, not people. After all, why would people want to be notified when you�ve added more crap content? Take your low conversion numbers to heart and invest in content that fulfills a real need.

Small Conversions Can Lead to Big Ones

The whole idea of having small conversion points where people sign up to hear from you regularly is so that you will always be at the top of their mind and not forgotten a few minutes after they leave your website. Today�s not-in-the-market-at-the-moment guy or gal may one day be a ready-to-buy-now guy or gal. When they make their Jekyll to Hyde switch, you want them to feel that there�s nobody they�d rather purchase from than the one who�s been nurturing them along from the very beginning of their quest � YOU!

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Social Media Management: Quality Social Experiences

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:14:54 GMT

Social Media Management: Quality Social Experiences
By Enzo F. Cesario (c) 2011

You've heard it before, here and probably elsewhere: Social media is about much more than exposure or coverage. Simply putting a friend request out and amassing a ton of retweets is not enough to achieve genuine social impact.

Now there's some additional evidence that bears this argument out:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp#p/a/u/2/ofhwPC-5Ub4

In short, Google officials have said that while the search engine giant does use Facebook and Twitter as part of the input in determining a site's SEO ranking, it is a very small, low-key part. It's more of a modifier of other data than it is an actual contributor in and of itself.

But before you go slashing the budget to your social media marketing department, hear out these few issues that explain why this means more attention, not less, should be paid to social media efforts.

It's Social, not Digital

Despite being in the online realm (insert all the stereotypes about the cold, impersonal Internet here), social media is all about the first word. Social interactions are about relationships, conversations and, above all, respect and trust. Violate a trust or fail to provide respect, and you gain nothing at all. You could even find yourself blackballed as your reputation flies out of control online.

There is no magic formula to social media success, just as there is no magic formula to being socially acceptable and friendly. It involves politeness, attentiveness to the interests and needs of others (not just your own) and participation in the social scene as a whole. That's it - hard work, performed with an attitude of courtesy. It isn't complicated, just slow and requiring attention.

But Why Bother?

After all, it doesn't correspond to SEO, so why sink more effort into social media?

Because social media is the key motivating factor in whether a video, advertisement, or even random picture goes viral. The average user on Facebook has dozens of friends, and not all of those friends are the same. Say you have three people who are friends, each having 10 other friends. Only six of these friends are mutual friends among the three, which means there are 24 more people to reach. If each of them has the same ratio of friends... you get the picture.

So yes, adapting to social media does mean changing your perceptions of how marketing works. People can ignore it... they can block you online like they can't block most commercials on television. You have to engage with them directly, converse in intelligent fashion and have the respect not to bombard them with your product nonstop. You have to know when to provide helpful input about your material, and when simply to listen. But the value of it, the potential return of genuine word-of-mouth rather than abstracted "website performance" metrics, is something worth fighting for and investing the additional time and money in.

Why Does It Work?

People like to be talked to. We are social animals, by and large, and having the ability to discuss topics with others is of vital importance to us instinctively, even if not consciously.

Additionally, people can see through fakes. Everyone has a customer service story where they're told, "We appreciate your input," and realize they're just being read a line while their input is filed in the circular file. People respond far better to an honest comment, like, "We understand what you are saying, but for the following reasons we're going to do what we feel works," rather than being given the runaround. A genuine response reminds them there is another human being with their own restrictions and worries on the other side of the screen, and honesty gets a branding campaign point. Responsiveness and actual replies to commentary rather than rote recitations is also important, showing them you are listening and engaged, not just copypasting.

Indirect SEO

Believe it or not, engaging in good practices on social media sites while representing your brand will result in improved SEO for the brand whether Google directly ranks your Facebook performance in searches or not.

Word-of-mouth is still the strongest motivating factor in advertising. It's the coveted Holy Grail. As you engage with others in social media, you are harnessing this power for your purposes. People who think highly of you will be more inclined to check out your website, and tell others to do so as well. Someone to whom you provide an answer to a particular issue that your brand covers might respond favorably to a request to link to you on his site. Traffic will build in the background, enhancing your standing. A conversation might lead to an interview with an online publication, or an advertising spot with a site whose owner you've had chats with.

They key is to understand the value of delayed benefits that result from being a nice, reasonable person. Gain a reputation as someone who is worthwhile to talk to, and people will want to talk to AND about you. The effort is extensive and the value is delayed; however, it will result in long-term support to your reputation that will allow your short-term advertising campaigns to go further, with more weight and endurance than if they were performed alone.
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Website Submission Directories

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:05:59 GMT

Website Submission Directories Author: Bruno Est�v�o

Manual website submission directories are overall the easiest, simplest, and quickest link building method if you want to do search engine optimization. The site owners submit their page, and also a label and type, to any directory that has categories related to your webpage. After this is accepted, the website is approved a one-way link. These submission directories will have page rank between 0 and 8. But the problem with this type of conservative directory submission (which is done manually) is that, the submitter loses a lot of overall time because they have to go to the website directories, and then add their submissions. At this point, website submission directories come into the picture. There are many advantages of using this software � anyone can assemble a lot of back links unbound using free directories. Moreover, you will get the anchor text you desire, and you do not have to spend much time.

At hand, there exist two forms of website submission directories. One type is to be paid for, and the other is free. The ones where you have to pay differ in price from $10-$300. The pay-directories are great investments for middle-sized to large-sized companies who work to rank on Google immediately. But, it is not possible for many site providers to opt for the pay directories. This is why lots of site owners favor the free directories. The ones where you do not have to pay a fee have ads on their site, plus frequently free-directories will offer you to move to a paid listing. You can follow some easy steps for website submission directories.

Step 1: Add your website to the list. You will have put in an input of the listing of titles you would like. The title consists of the anchor text and so it is especially important that you type the keywords you want. It is advisable to enter around 5 - 10 keywords to grow loads of various links and help the link growing look natural. You will then have to enter a list of tiny descriptions. After you have done this, go down and type the address, keywords, name, email address, id, pass-word and categories for the site. Next, you will have to ensure that the auto-fill page on loading is checked. Make sure that you save the entry.

Step 2: You can make changes to the website submission directories options if you want. This includes web link directory settings, auto enter settings, special entry field presets, and proxy server settings.

Step 3: Go to the directories and choose turbo entry mode (or manual, whatever suits you). To submit your site, you will have to click on the first directory in the list resting in the left panel. On the right, the submission area will appear. Then, you will have to fill out the �captcha' and submit it. When all done with that one directory, you will be guided to the next directory. Do this repeatedly for every directory.

Step 4: Finally, confirm all the emails that you have received from all page directories. It is a simple process, but it is also wearying. You will be able to subcontract confirmation, or use program solutions found-on the internet that will achieve this for you.

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The Problem With Online Lead Generation

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:55:36 GMT

We all know how hard Internet Marketing can be, the struggles with responsive free advertising.The PPC conundrum. Which keywords, how to write an ad and how much to pay for your keywords are just a few of the problems we all have with online lead generation.

Mark J Mcloughlin Now we all think we are in the greatest MLM programs or Internet business, with fantastic products and a compensation plan to die for.

So if this is true, why is online lead generation so hard?

Why can't we all sponsor or sell more on the Internet? The simple answer is: People buy from people they like and trust, not because they think your business is cool! More free online lead generation marketing tips can be found at my blog:

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So what does this mean to you and how do you rise above the competition

* Become an expert in your given niche

* Give endlessly without asking for anything in return

* Promote the "YOU" Inc business

* Be a leader in your industry

* Become a trusted and well respected voice

* Look to be different in your approach, stand out from the noise

* Always offer free advice and guidance

These 7 guideline steps are just a few that can be taken in attraction marketing to produce online lead generation, this is totally different from anything you have read or been taught before. Promoting the "YOU" business can take time and effort, but in the long run it is valuable to anyone`s online success.

Get to no one`s self, and learn new techniques to Internet Marketing. Become the friend that everyone loves to hear from, turn yourself into the hunted not the hunter.

Online lead generation does not have to be difficult, it`s just a case of providing great coaching and training material. Think about what you would like from a mentor and what your missing at the moment, provide great content in your material and in your online lead generation training.

More free info can be found at my blog:

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How To Build Customer Loyalty Using Facebook

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 03:04:10 GMT

How To Build Customer Loyalty Using Facebook

Customer loyalty is definitely one of the most essential things that your business can possess. If you have loyal customers, they will buy from you, they re going to say good things regarding your business and they�ll tell each one of their friends and family about you and your business.

How do you get to that point where everyone wants to help you succeed? Can there be a magic button for that? No, it is hard work. Here are a few things that you should do to get that customer loyalty using Facebook:

Interact with Your Clients Frequently

If you would like loyal customers, it is important for you to communicate with them. How do you do this on Facebook?

First, it is imperative that you have a fan page that�s open and available to everyone. Additionally you need to update your page continually and as you you receive questions or comments from your customers, it is important for you to respond. It is important for you to let people realize that there is a real person behind that cute logo.

You can establish groups in Facebook to interact with similar customer groups at one time. The more you communicate and connect with your customers, the more loyal they will become.

Post the Proper Type of Content on Your Facebook Page

It�s very important that you put the proper kind of content on your Facebook page. Your articles should contain details about your business that will benefit customers the most. Rather then writing just what is of interest to you and your business, write things that would be of interest and benefit to your visitors. Write information which will genuinely help them. Don�t think of �what�s in it for me� but think �what�s in it for you�.

Ask Your Customers for Feedback

Can you be sure what�s important to your visitors? Can you be sure the things they want? You need to ask them. When you write information on your Facebook page, ask for comments from people. Ask them how they feel about something that your business is doing. Ask them the things they wish to see your business do or what products would benefit them.

You might send out a survey to your groups or consider an event? You can send out invitations to events on Facebook. What a great way to keep in touch with your prospects and to understand the things they want and what they think.

Provide Your Customers a Top Quality Product

When all is said and done, you have to offer a quality product to your customers. Make certain that they know about all of the benefits of your product by putting everything regarding your product on your Facebook page. Give them good enough information to make a decision to purchase your product and not be disappointed.

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Blog Management � How to Work Interviews Into Your Blog

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:30:40 GMT

Blog Management � How to Work Interviews Into Your Blog

Being a subset of journalism, it is no surprise that blogging shares many traits with its parent. In particular, blogging strongly resembles the feature or editorials pages of many newspapers. Not beholden to quite the same rules of timeliness or AP style guidelines as the news sections, these sections focus on matters of personal interest to the writer, or on a specific topic of particular relevance or human interest.

So, given that blogging tends to be derived from these sections, it is reasonable to look into the tactics that bring traditional journalists such success in their writing and to borrow the best ideas from them. In particular, many bloggers have discovered the value of including interviews in their publications.

An interview is fairly straightforward: a conversation between the blogger and another party, generally about a topic of mutual interest to the blogger, the subject and the readers. Some interviews are scripted, some are more extemporaneous, but at their heart they all have the mission of illuminating the thoughts of the interviewee to the audience of the publication in order to shed some extra light on the subject being discussed.

In the world of blogging, there are generally three approaches to integrating an interview into a blog.

The Writeup

This is the general, news-story style form of an interview. The blogger contacts the subject, does their interview, then writes a story around the interview using the subject�s quotations as a framework. It tends to look something like:

Recently I spoke to branding icon John Doe, asking his thoughts on the importance of personal identity. �You really need a strong name, something people can get a hold of and never forget, that�s the first thing.� When I asked him for details, John commented, �Well, if you don�t have a name that people remember, they�ll just refer to you as �that one guy� or any old thing.�

The structure is easy to follow, and very much suited to blogging as a style of writing. It doesn�t have to be in first person; it is easily adapted to any blogging style. It has the value of letting the blogger do most of the writing. This way, their style remains intact and the interview is presented on their terms to the readers, maintaining a unique voice.

The weakness of this style is that it tends to raise questions. Did the blogger use the whole interview? Are they editorializing in their choice of quotes?� and so on. For example, in the choice above, When I asked him for details could actually have played out as �Well, that�s obvious. Could you be more specific?� and our imaginary blogger simply rephrased to make himself look less confrontational. The Reprint

The alternative is simply to reprint the entire interview, without editing other than to remove little asides such as �um� and other verbal tics. This tends to look as follows:

BenjaminBrandBlog � Hello, John.

John Doe � Hello. Thanks for interviewing me.

BBB � Glad to talk with you. So, what would you say is the first thing that comes to your mind when talking about branding?

JD � You really need a strong name, something people can get a hold of and never forget, that�s the first thing.

The reprint is rather an unusual choice, very rarely seen in blogging or in print journalism. This is because it has some obvious weaknesses. For example, not every question in an interview ends up being relevant. Not all interviews follow a particular script; some go down tangents, interesting or dull asides, and so on. It is the job of the journalist to edit the content so that the material that stayed on subject gets to the readers.

However, there are some cases in which reprinting an interview is an interesting alternative. If a conversation was purely illuminating, if it covered some amazing ground that people didn�t expect, and the writer wishes to share it, then by all means share the interview itself.

The Podcast or Video

Similar to the reprint, this is the process of using recording equipment to make an audio podcast or videoblog of the interview in question. This has a number of advantages over the simple reprint, because it allows the personality of the two subjects to shine through in a way that text doesn�t always quite capture. Sarcasm and wit come through a bit more readily when tone of voice or body language are added into the subject matter, making the whole process more dynamic and interesting.

The difficulty of these formats is in their complexity. The logistics of getting recording software to work, of cleaning up audio and video for proper use on the net if they aren�t your blog�s primary medium, etc. can all make this a bit out of reach for the average blogger. They require the dedication of actual time and effort to produce, share and refine as a series. Further, not everyone is as suited for speaking as they are for writing; some just aren�t as comfortable in a spoken medium, and a skilled writer isn�t always a stunning speaker.

That said, there is strong value in this type of process, as it can add variety and interest to the usual presentation of a good blog.
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Ten Things to Avoid When Running an SEO Campaign

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:08:23 GMT

Ten Things to Avoid When Running an SEO Campaign
By Ian D Spencer (c) 2011

There are plenty of SEO companies and consultants on the Internet that can help you out and plenty of free forums and guides that will give you the basics. Even if you do decide to use the skills and expertise of an SEO firm, it is still important that you at least know the basics of SEO so that you can also work with the company to make the results even better.

There are loads of things that you need to be doing within an SEO campaign, but there are also some things that you REALLY must avoid and we take a look at some of these below with our top ten things to avoid when running an SEO campaign.

Waiting Too Long - One of the biggest mistakes most people make is waiting too long to even begin an SEO campaign. If you have a website you should be running some kind of SEO, no matter how young the site is because a good campaign can help to get a higher ranking in the early days.

Targeting Competitive Keywords - If you sell houses then the chances of you getting to the top of Google for the keyword "houses" are going to be slim, to say the least. If you are working in an extremely competitive market, then you need to look outside of the box and start looking at easier keywords that you can rank for, because realistically, it is going to take a lot of time, effort and a little bit of luck to top the charts for the most competitive search terms.

Ignoring Long tail Keywords - Many people think that they should always go for the most popular keywords, but these often tend to be the most competitive, so you need to look at the long tail keywords. If you targeted 5 long tail keywords that all attracted 200 searches a month but were less competitive than one that attracted 1000 searches a month, you stand more chance of getting the traffic you want in a much shorter time.

Writing Rubbish Content - Content is king for Google and the search engine is so advanced and sophisticated these days that it can easily spot duplicate content and also poor quality content. The main aim is to write high quality content that is useful, informative and offers the user a good experience; else you will just be wasting your time and hindering your progress.

Publishing Poor Articles - Content on your own site is very powerful, but you should also look at writing articles and releasing them on some of the more powerful article directories like EzineArticles. If you are going to do this, then make sure you only publish good quality articles, otherwise they will be rejected and once again you will have wasted your time.

Spammy Blog Comments - Although blog commenting can be a good way to get relevant links back to your site, if you go around adding poor and unrelated comments, then this is only going to backfire on you in the long run. If you are going to comment on blogs, then make sure that you post quality comments on quality sites and check out the link follow status and the page rank / authority before you even begin.

Reciprocal Linking - Swapping links used to be one of the methods used for acquiring links until like most link practices it was abused and Google started to shy away from the weight it carried in rankings. Although it can be a good idea to swap links with local businesses or related businesses, do not waste your time swapping links and also limit the number of outbound links you have on your site.

Bad Link Neighbourhoods - Always avoid linking to or getting links from "bad neighbourhoods" - sites like gambling, adult and other sites that might be considered a little bit risque. If you are found to have loads of links on these types of sites, then you are going to be in trouble, so always make sure you are careful about where links are added to your site.

Ignoring Your Own Website - SEO begins at home in our opinion because if your website is rubbish, any extra traffic you generate will be a waste of time. Add to this the fact that if your meta titles and content are really poor, you are also going to lose out on ranking because two of the biggest factors when it comes to onsite SEO are meta titles and quality content.

Running Out Of Patience - SEO takes time - fact! You cannot expect to start an SEO campaign and get overnight results; it will take weeks, if not months, before you really start to get the results that you deserve if you run a good campaign. SEO should be an ongoing thing, running for as long as you decide to keep your website alive, because SEO is one of those things that goes on forever and is a constant effort.
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A link to your own FREE Marketing System FOR LIFE

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:27:48 GMT

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Opportunity Costs Of A Sales Lead

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:50:30 GMT

Author: Craig Killick

With any online lead generation campaign, return on investment is becoming ever more demanded as a key performance indicator. And, with the advent of Cost Per Lead campaigns, companies now only need to pay for the sales leads they get rather than paying for complete campaigns.

But, how a sales lead is defined is still a contentious issue. And, when you are paying for every sales lead, is de-duping a cost saving or actually a missed opportunity?

Digital Marketing - Science or Creative?

Think of marketing people and you may well think of creatives. But, the old adage that "half of my marketing works, I'm just not sure which half" is no longer acceptable and the creatives have been joined by the number crunchers.

Digital marketing has introduced a level of measurement that is helping companies hone the way they generate sales leads and reach new customers. By adapting campaigns through constant testing, an audience can not only be reached, but increasingly engaged to take action - the next crucial step in the lead generation campaign.

But, the speed and cost savings that the Internet has introduced has also attracted a mass of �lead generation" techniques - some of which are passing themselves off as being a lot more sophisticated than they actually are, focusing on quantity rather than quality. This in turn has evolved the sales proposition for lead generation.

Cost Per Lead

The top players in the online lead generation industry have responded with a cost-per-lead model, where a company only pays for the sales leads they get, rather than by campaign.

This makes the campaign much more accountable as the customer gets more value for their money and the agency works harder to deliver quality sales leads.

Quality of sales leads is becoming ever important as companies look to keep the cost of acquisition down. So, with a higher unit price being paid for each sales lead from an agency, you can understand why customers will insist on questioning the validity and quality of a sales lead to ensure they are getting best value.

What Is A Sales Lead?

Depending on who you speak to, the answer to this question varies wildly. Sales tend to expect a fully qualified lead and marketing tend to expect someone who still needs to be nurtured through the sales lead generation process.

This expectation also varies from industry to industry and between companies with different sales and marketing processes. For example, in my experience, some companies class a sales lead as someone is is ready to buy the product, whereas for others, it's simply the name and telephone number of the relevant procurement manager.

Only Pay For What You Get

But, if a company can define what they class as a quality sales lead, they can demand just that from the lead generation company. They can also negotiate because they understand what they want to buy when they buy a sales lead.

But, this approach to keeping acquisition costs down highlights the issue of duplication of sales leads, which in turn asks the question.... are all sales leads equal?

De-Duping Data

If an online lead generation company supplies sales leads priced per piece of data, then a client tends to insist on de-duping data before they pay for the sales leads.

For instance, if a company runs multiple lead generation campaigns, and certain people have signed up to more than one, they tend not to want to pay twice for the same name.

But, is this an oversight? Are theses leads actually more valuable?

Not All Sales Leads Are Equal

If a person has shown multiple interest points in your service offering, doesn't it make more sense that the sales lead is worth more? After all, they must be more interested than someone who has shown less interest.

Rather than insisting on de-duping, a company could be paying a slight premium to understand which people are interested in potentially larger sales. After all, they must have already bought into the brand because they are saying yes on more than one occasion.

The Value Of Data

Data is the lifeblood of sales lead generation and quality usurps quantity every time as sales (in general) become more expensive to convert.

Rather than seeing data as a linear process, depth of interest and other segmentation rules could actually be saving the sales and marketing team an enormous amount of time and money and delivering more lucrative customers, for a slight increase in cost for the sales lead at source.

Summary

The more a marketing and sales team work together to define what a sales lead means to the business and, more importantly, set in place a system of defining value to data sets, the shorter the sales cycle becomes and the more the ROI increases.

Cost Per Lead continues to offer a manageable way of how to pay for sales leads, but flexibility is needed to remember that not all sales leads are equal.

Understanding your own sales process from beginning to end optimises the process and saves overall costs by delivering increased value.

Ask any marketer and they'll tell you... cost and value are two very different things.

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13 keyword research techniques

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:33:51 GMT

13 keyword research techniques
Author: Daniel De Beer

A very important area of search engine optimization is keyword research. Even before the creation of content must be clear to which keywords or keyword phrases is to entwine the page. Opportunities for keyword research A good keyword research is half the battle for the success of a website. Well not quite, it's definitely damn important. Therefore, the keyword research is an important role in the work of SEO and is taking enough time to do so should be present.

The goal of keyword research is to find best keywords or keyword phrases for your website. But why are they optimal? Keywords are optimal, which have a high search volume? Certainly not. Depending on the strength of the web site you have to check exactly which keywords you can optimize. Because the competition is so high on some keywords, not a short-term success is possible. So you should choose keywords to search for people and for which you have the chance to get a good ranking in search engines. The latter can be checked by competition analysis: Just analyze the first results on the requested keyword and assess whether a good ranking is possible. And just because the keyword research is so important, I would like to show in this paper a few ways to find keywords with high search volume.

Nothing really new is the process of the review is to focus only a few of these. Whether one can optimize his page on the keywords found with the following options, of course, should be examined via competition analysis. Note also should, if the keywords lead ultimately to conversion. This point is often forgotten. The following options provide a good chance of optimal Keywords: 1. Keyword databases In the keyword databases often are millions of keywords and search volume (usually monthly) deposit. Also in keyword databases are often more subject-relevant keywords are proposed.

2. Google AdWords Keyword Tool Google also does a lot to help the keyword search, e.g. Google AdWords Keyword Tool. Actually, the thought that the AdWords ads you want, but also great for SEOs. The data are from the previous month and can be sorted by average search volume. Especially useful for the filter "match type" is. If we choose "Phrase" or "broad", can be found many related keywords. Also handy: The column "Advertiser Competition" for the first assessment of the competition.

3. Alexa - what is the competition Who would think of himself no keywords that can just look at which keywords get the competition's traffic. Why not, is indeed legitimate. Simply enter the desired page and be amazed.

4. Google Suggest End of March was introduced Google Suggest. Even when entering search terms into the search box of Google matches are shown. Practically, even here you can find valuable keywords and phrases. Are valuable, especially those that appear high up in Google Suggest. The number of hits in the search results will appear with the same and also can be used for preliminary evaluation of the difficulty of the keywords are used:

5. Related searches for ideas Google shows every time you search the related searches. Once again, the time browsing, suggested keywords that might fit for the site. Of course, here are the search volume and competition necessary to get ideas you can always be with Google Suggest, however:

6. Twitter for short-term trends Twitter can also help you to find keywords. This option is only suitable to detect short-term trends. Who here, however, responded quickly, can also generate good traffic. Twitter itself is largely only for the English Room: Twist, you can see the trend over at Twitter at any given keyword, is a good way to examine the life of a keyword Basically, Twitter is playing in the keyword search over the role of ideas and trend spotting. 7. Google Hot Trends Again a tool from Google, which contributes to the keyword search is, hot trends. Unfortunately, there is the tool to date for the U.S. only. But maybe you come here on keywords that soon in Germany enjoy a high search volume. These so-called Hot Trends are displayed per day, you can select the date.

8. Google Insights for Search A very nice tool for keyword research, once again Google is Insights for Search. The possibilities here are endless with this tool you can play for hours and figure out which keywords are searched as often. Here, too, although there are again no absolute figures, but only relative figures exported to all searches. With Insights for Search, you can compare up to 5 keywords, the period, the country and vary the medium (Google News, Google Image Search, Google Web search, Google product search). Also suitable tool for the regional search volume to recognize at the provincial level. At the end of the page still shows related keywords, and keywords on which the queries have risen sharply in the past.

9. Google Webmaster Tools Even in the Google Webmaster Tools, there are indications of good keywords that you might not be observed at all and I know that they exist. Here you can take advantage of the rankings on certain keywords that you have anyway. The dashboard shows the top search queries and the average position. From this one can display up to 100 entries. Maybe you can still find some gold pieces.

10. Wikipedia Traffic What contributions are popular at Wikipedia tells you what people are looking for. Because Wikipedia is so well known in the Google search results. And then a look at the statistics from Wikipedia also contribute to idea generation.

11. Ebay Barometer Trend Even Ebay is yes, in principle, some huge search engine for users with buying interest. A look at the trend barometer Ebay might be worth a few words too. This tool is limited and only a few web pages for keyword research.

12. Google Wonder Wheel Yet another tool for keyword research made by Google: The Wonder Wheel. Starting from a more general keyword you can always be special, by clicking on the tips of the wheel. Piece by piece, you can begin to approach keyword areas and find me interesting security terms. The Wonder Wheel is so far only the U.S. version of Google and is not suitable even for Germany. I hope this will change soon. Just click on the search results on "More options" and select the Wonder Wheel.

13. Paid SEO Tools So far I had only shows options that could be charged. For completeness, I must mention, however, that include paid SEO tools for keyword research gold are worth. I've had two very good experiences and tools both learned to appreciate it are the two known tools So, that was a choice of ways to deal with the topic of keyword research. Not every tool is suitable for everyone and sometimes makes even the use of multiple tools in parallel sense. But that is to be assessed individually from case to case. However, it should be possible to find the tools mentioned nice keywords to search for people and to which one can dare to his side. Not make all the tools, not what may be missing a whole bunch of experience.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/seo-articles/13-keyword-research-techniques-4403368.html

About the Author
Daniel is an SEO content writer you can view more of his works at SEO and he enjoys his time as a forex affiliate and writing tutorials and articles about Forex and many other niches.

Advantages Of Using Classified Ad Submission Sites

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:46:17 GMT

Advantages Of Using Classified Ad Submission Sites

>Author: Walker Wild

The popularity of online business has also changed marketing and advertising techniques. Ads are no longer dependent on newspapers, hoardings, or telephone book listings. They have found a fertile field in classified ad websites that contain classified ads of different products or services. These are similar to the ones published in newspapers. Yet, businesses looking for classified ad submission need to find a suitable website that will do the classified ad submission work for them.

Benefits of Ads in Classified Ad Sites

Whereas publishing ads in newspapers and in other media costs a lot of money, ads in many classified ad websites are free. The biggest advantage besides saving money is that these ads are able to generate large targeted traffic to your website. Submitting ads to all these sites takes a lot of time. If you wish to utilize your precious time for other profitable aspects of your business, you can take the help of a reliable online classified ad submission site that will provide this service for a small fee. You will get value for your money because your ad will get listed in a large number of classified ad websites. As a result, the number of visitors to your site will increase considerably and consequently sales will also increase.

Another important feature of the classified ad submission websites is that they offer many promotions that will help you in garnering more visitors. More and more people will get to know about your products or services and many of them would become your customers. Moreover, the submission sites offer different packages of classified ads submission ranging from 15 to 100 submissions. This gives the flexibility to choose the package that you can afford and in accordance with the size of your business.

It is obvious that for just a small fee, your ads will reach hundreds of classified ad websites and through them to thousands of potential customers. It is a win-win situation because there is no need to spend huge sums of money on conventional systems of advertisements and you are gaining thousands of clicks on your links. Even if all the clicks do not convert into customers, search engine spiders will be following all such clicks and your search engine ranking will improve. As such, placing classified ads through classified ad submission sites will act as an effective tool for search engine optimization.

Advantages of Using Classified Ad Submission Sites

There are hundreds of classified ad sites where you can place your ads for free. These could be local community, regional, or international sites. In order to find them and to place your ads, you would need immense amount of time. Moreover, you need to be sure that when you are placing a classified ad, you are not violating the terms of service of the site. In such case you would have your IP address banned from the site. You would also risk being reported as a spammer which would lead to costly litigation. It is also important that your anchor text be in accordance with the keyword or keyword phrase on your website so that the SEO value of every link is maximized. As such, it makes a lot of sense in offloading this work of classified ad submission to a reliable submission site that has the necessary knowledge and experience of submitting ads on classified ad sites.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/advantages-of-using-classified-ad-submission-sites-5044742.html About the Author

Get quality classified ad submission services on the web. WL Marketing offers classified ads submission packages priced according to number of ads to be submitted. For booking details visit www.wlmarketing.com.

Learning Proper SEO Techniques Will Increase Your Traffic And Sales

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:30:28 GMT

Learning Proper SEO Techniques Will Increase Your Traffic And Sales

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is one of those things that can make or break an online business. It is so important to find ways to get your message out and motivate others to visit your website to get more information. It is very unlikely you will ever have much success if you don�t learn how to effectively market your sites.

Internet Marketing involves learning about and keeping up with the best marketing techniques and practices. It is not unusual to find little changes that can increase your traffic and sales. Learning to test your sales materials, landing pages, and other factors will ensure you have constant results and you�ll build upon your success.

It is highly recommended you avoid any techniques or shortcuts you may come across often referred to as �Black Hat�. These tactics might provide some quick results, however, if you wish to have a long-lasting presence and reputation, it will be better to avoid the temptation to use them. Learn from those that have employed successful practices and principles, it will be worth it in the long run.

Not only will marketing methods change, so will the algorithms that search engines use. Their goal is simply to provide their users with the most relevant search results for any given term. Changes and updates they make may affect your rankings at times. However, if you are using sound and proven techniques, you should be able to recover quite quickly with some minor tweaks.

One practice that goes a long way in helping you get that valuable traffic, so you make more sales, is learning how to find potentially profitable keywords. The key is to find those words that a lot of people use, yet there are less websites in place that you will be competing against. Many different approaches to doing this are offered online.

Once you find those high-value keywords, you can use them in domain names, or just start posting on your site, using them in the most effective ways. You�ll also use them for link building. The idea is to use them as anchor text so you start getting links that point to your website, or the page where there is more information. You can also use them when commenting on blogs and forums related to those items you�re marketing.

To increase the value of the posts and articles you write, it is important to learn how to effectively use Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI). These are words that are directly related to your keywords and when included will add relevance to what you have written. You�ll also will want to learn the best ways to make the most of all the social media sites to increase your exposure and find those interested in your offers. You�ll also get more valuable backlinks that will increase the importance of your website. All of these are things you will want to do so that over time your website will show up higher in search results for the terms you want to rank for.

The biggest advantage is that these are SEO practices that will give you long-term results. How much success you attain with your marketing efforts will depend a lot on how effectively you learn to apply these principles. At the same time, if you try to cheat the system, you�re very likely to see a loss of visitors, sales, and perhaps see your site disappear from any search engine results.
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Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:57:16 GMT

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Affiliate Marketing Tips : Use Press Releases To Gain Media Coverage

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:11:14 GMT

Affiliate Marketing Tips : Use Press Releases To Gain Media Coverage

Press releases are a powerful way to promote your affiliate marketing products. Let�s look at how you can use them to best effect.

A press release is really a newsworthy article or story that can be submitted to a variety of media outlets � including online sites, newspapers, magazines, radio. By providing journalists with a story you are satisfying their constant need for new stories to cover, whilst you can gain free promotion of your services/products or website. By preparing a press release in a particular manner, you will gain more chance of it being featured by a media establishment. So how do you go about creating a press release?

Pick your angle - the type of news the media really enjoys is news that is amusing, controversial or remarkable. If possible try to find an angle that will appeal due to it�s quirkiness or because it is a human interest story. Link to famous people if possible, but do not write anything that you cannot back up. Do not base your story on promotion of your affiliate marketing products, it really best to pick another angle to feature � but to allude to your products in the quote.

Length - your release will need to be between 300 and 800 words long for it to be most useful.

Quality - grammar and spelling will need to be correct and standard. Use the active voice as much as possible as this will read better and will also be more current than using past tense.

Headline - the headline is what will sell the story to the media and then to readers. You�ll need to attract attention and to round up what the story is about all in one. Put yourself in the media�s shoes and consider what they might find interesting.

First paragraph - this is your summary paragraph and should convey the whole story as a summary or in a nutshell. It should be strong enough to stand without the rest of the press release.

Further paragraphs - this is where you will explain more about who, why and when. Write about the benefits of the product that you want to promote. However, remember that this has to be done in a manner that does not appear to be a direct sales approach � it really is about finding an angle that the media will find of interest.

Quote - add a quote from the people involved in the story. In my experience, this is where you will add any sales type information � about what an individual thinks of a particular product.

Where to submit your press release - there are plenty of places online to submit your press release to. The best approach is to build a list of the sites available, then weed out those that aren�t going to work for you based on cost, topics covered and then over time you will learn about which sites work best as you watch the results. Try to select the sites that will provide you with information on how many hits/reads there have been of each press release. To find press release sites that might suit you, check out competition in affiliate marketing and study which sites they use.

HARO - Subscribe and follow the HARO (Help A Reporter Online) requests that are sent out twice daily. These requests are from journalists looking for people to take a story or a quote from. Quite often you can find international opportunities for promotion via well known media that beats paying for advertising and will reach your target audience.

Being successful in affiliate marketing means that you should take advantage of any opportunities that you find along the way. Press releases can be used to suit promotion of products and membership sites, it�s just honing your skills so that you produce usable and remarkable articles.
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Veretekk Marketing -The Lamborghini of Leads Generation Systems

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:53:16 GMT

Veretekk Marketing -The Lamborghini of Leads Generation Systems

As many savvy online marketers have already discovered, Veretekk Marketing is an extremely powerful set of marketing tools and features designed to allow the business owner to produce leads and customers. Veretekk has three membership levels, Silver, Gold and Platinum.

Veretekk Silver Membership - this membership level costs nothing to join. It is an entry level membership which includes an affiliate site, access to most of the Veretekk training classes, and some limited access to advertising and marketing features. Silver members can advertise their affiliate site to build a team. They earn and are paid 1st level commissions on gold upgrades, even though they are free members.

Veretekk Gold Membership - A silver membership is a prerequisite. This is the mainstream membership level where most serious marketers are concentrated. The cost of a gold membership is $54.95 a month. A gold membership entitles the subscriber to use all the standard lead generation portals, SEO portals, unlimited autoresponders, unlimited hosting, contact management tools, and more. If the features were shopped separately, a marketer could easily spend several times the monthly gold fee for a patchwork replacement system devoid of integration. This level is designed to allow the average marketer to advertise an online business to increase leads and sales. The gold membership pays commissions three levels deep. A 30 day free-trial gold membership is available, just ask your sponsor.

Veretekk Platinum Control Panel - A gold membership is a prerequisite. This system is the Lamborghini of leads and profits generation. This panel is the next generation of Veretekk power, with guaranteed results. For a limited time, a Platinum system includes 10 free gold systems which can be configured and used to promote multiple keywords or businesses. A 30 day free trial membership is available, just ask your sponsor.

Branding yourself as an expert and leader in your area of expertise is job one for building on the Internet. Whether you are applying for a job, running for public office, selling products, your prospective target will want to know who you are. When branding yourself, your keywords are your name. Before we go any further, purpose is probably the most important factor. You must be driven by a purpose, a cause a passion. This is the secret to your success and is probably why you see the potential of what the Platinum Control Panel can do for your business. A Platinum Control Panel allows its owner to build a massive sphere of followers. Whether you are building customer loyalty, political recognition or journalistic acumen, the Platinum Control Panel will give you the massive power to exceed all expectations.

The Platinum Control Panel takes you to levels of excellence in Internet Marketing few people ever achieve for a price that does not even come close for the huge value this represents. This system is surprisingly affordable. For more details, watch and listen to the presentation.

7 Unbreakable SEO Rules

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:04:02 GMT

7 Unbreakable SEO Rules
A SPN Exclusive Article By Nick Stamoulis (c) 2011

As a practice and industry, SEO is constantly evolving. Sites are seemingly at the mercy of the search engines, who usually can't be bothered to give the site owners a heads up before they update their algorithm. Every few weeks it seems like someone is heralding the death of SEO, but evolution does not equal demise. Over time, tactics and methods change to work inside the guidelines of the search engines and to meet the needs of the online user, but the core fundamentals of SEO have remained the same.

Here are 7 basic rules of SEO:

1. Understand User-Intent
Keyword research is the cornerstone of any SEO campaign. Understanding user-intent when conducting and selecting your keywords is critical to getting your SEO off on the right foot and helping the right audience find your site. For instance, are "gym shoes," "sneakers" and "tennis shoes," the same thing? For some consumers those three words are completely interchangeable. But if a tennis player were looking for a new pair of shoes, they would search using "tennis shoes" and expect a very specific result. It doesn't matter how you would search for your brand/products, it only matters how your target audience searches. Targeting the wrong keywords because you failed to understand the intent of the search means you'll miss out on potential traffic and customers.

2. Don't Rush Your Link Building
It is crucial for the search engines to see a diversified approach to link building that slowly grows over time. A blended approach demonstrates your commitment to white hat link building and building your online presence naturally. The search engines are very aware that they are playing a game with spammers and black hat SEO users, and they don't plan on losing. If you develop too many links too fast, even if they are good quality links, this can raise a red flag with the search engines and your site could be penalized.

3. Content is King
Content is anything that is public and shareable. This includes blog web page content, blog posts, articles, podcasts, videos, whitepapers and more. It is also the most important factor of a website's long term SEO success. Content should always be written for the end user, not for the search engines. You have to remember that the search engines are not going to be the ones purchasing your products or services, people are. Optimize your content so the search engines can find it, but don't forget that it has to be human friendly first.

4. Be Strategic, Not Spammy
This is especially important in regards to social media marketing and social SEO. If you really wanted to, you could create a hundred different Twitter profiles to promote your content through. But what kind of real value are you getting from those profiles other than a link? You don't have to tackle every aspect of SEO at once. Frankly, there just isn't enough time in a day to take on that much work upfront. Pick and choose your battles so you don't overdo it. Flooding the online market with low-quality SEO doesn't help build your brand or reputation.

5. SEO is Long Term
This is probably the hardest thing for those new to SEO to wrap their heads around. SEO is not a quick fix to your online marketing. No, you won't be ranking on the first page of Google for all your keywords by tomorrow, next week, or even next month. This is especially true if you recently launched your site. It takes a long time to build up your trust factor with the search engines.

SEO builds upon itself over time, but that doesn't mean that once you have reached the first page in the search engines that you get to pack it up and call it a day. The Internet is continually growing and evolving. If you want to stay at the top, you have to keep working for it. It doesn't take long for your site to slip down in the results pages if you abandon your SEO.

6. Follow Search Engine Guidelines
Google, Bing and Yahoo want you to do well with your SEO because it helps clean up their search results. A better SERP makes for a happier search engine user. Search engines are in the business of pleasing the customer, just like everyone else. If your site can't help them do that, you won't ever rank well. That's why every site owner and marketer has to read the Google and Bing Webmaster Guidelines. Consider those guidelines your SEO line in the sand. If they call something black hat, then treat it as such and avoid it. It can be very tempting to test out the black hat side of SEO, especially when you see your competition doing it and seemingly getting away with it. Just don't! Sooner or later the search engines catch on and your site will be penalized.

7. Integrate Everything
Just about all your online marketing (and offline marketing) efforts can be leveraged for SEO. One of the biggest mistakes you could make is keeping your actions in separate silos. SEO works best when it is incorporated into the mix, becoming an essential component of your online marketing. If your company has a large marketing department, don't segregate the SEO guy back to the IT department. Bring him aboard the marketing team and you'll achieve greater online success.
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Use Blastomatic Daily to over 12 Million Sites

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:36:12 GMT

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The Bullly Report: Veretekk Mentoring

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:48:20 GMT

Butch Hamilton
Veretekk Director of Marketing

Live Online Web Conferencing System

Veretekk's training system uses proprietary VOIP software. This allows you to access our training rooms where we can push web pages you view as you see and hear us live teaching the methods that leverage your success with the Veretekk system. Beginners get up and running quickly with our basic orientation rooms. There is nothing like live hands on training to get running quickly and efficiently. Advanced Marketing techniques are also taught every week. Once you get the advanced training, leads acquisition becomes a breeze and many of our subscribers are achieving success in building their business for the first time ever!But there is more. We have many guest speakers arranged to share their knowledge with marketing, networking and the Internet. These guest appearances are announced through our calendar, inside Veretekk. These guest speakers and conference will cover the following:

Email Marketing
Search Engines
eBook strategies
The spheres of influence
Building Confidence
Out of the Box with Veretekk
Success stories
Professional Grade Hosting

Email Marketing

Within the Veretekk email marketing system, we provide services, cost effective services, spam free services like no other can do on the search engines of Google. We go head to head with the big players like Aweber, Constant Contact, Prospect Response and TrafficWave and we come out heads above our competition. Why is this? Its simple. For $54.95 per month, we offer the full range of integrated services. We have the lead generation, we have the unlimited email marketing system. We have the ability to upload and send out, verification included, up to 10,000 emails per day with no additional charge. Now, can Aweber match that? Certainly Not! They will charge you an initial setup of $19.95 per month, but when you get 500 or more contacts loaded into your system, guess what? The price goes up! Not with Veretekk. We keep our prices heads above our competition in every area you can name.

Search Engine Optimization

So now, we get to the real story about Veretekk. We offer search engine optimization services and mentoring that is par excellence. We are not about making extraordinary claims, we get the work, we provide the service, we nail top positions for high traffic keywords, and our competition in the SEO industry stands back and wonders, who are those guys? Well Mr. or MS. SEO Guru, we are simply the best in the SEO industry at what we do!

eBook Strategies

We are constantly in the process of writing and publishing ebooks. We have been called the best eBook publishers on the planet, why? Simply because we know that by keeping our writing skills honed to perfection, we are able to convey our information to others effectively. Another feature we offer is this. We are the ONLY self replicating eBook publisher on Google today. We offer our Gold Veretekk subscribers, the unique ability to literally hand our ebooks out to anyone wanting great information in all areas of marketing goods and services on Google. By the way, did I mention for that $54.95 per month charge, they will have YOUR links, YOUR phone numbers and YOUR contact information in them? Oh yeah, we are all about our subscribers having every possible tool imaginable to obtain success on the Internet.

Creating a Positive Sphere of Influence

Becoming associated with other powerful online marketers within Veretekk, it is a great way to gain camaraderie. Sharing ideas, insights, systems and techniques, we all benefit greatly by helping others to succeed. You see, within Veretekk we are about helping the little guy or gal become successful. Its just what we do!

Building Confidence and Trust

We have seen people, hurting people, people who have been ripped and stripped on the Internet, come into our Veretekk system, and soon, the confidence will appear to succeed on the Internet. It is a great feeling to watch people grow and prosper by succeeding with their dreams and goals. Its just another perc for becoming associated and serious with the $54.95 Gold Veretekk System!

Professional Grade Hosting

We offer our very own proprietary brand of hosting called Vpanel. If you are currently with another hosting company, how much do you pay per month? Do they offer you the unique ability to create compelling WordPress Blogs, PHPBB Forums, PHP websites, any imaginable creation for online promoting? And, how much do they charge you for this service? Well, for the $54.95 Gold Upgrade Veretekk system, hosting is included! But wait, it gets much better than that. Within our Vpanel system, we offer a unique service. We give you, yes GIVE you the ability to create powerful subdomains from our ulta-powerful ewav.net domain! In other words, you can create a blog, and right out of the gate your Alexa.com ranking on Google will be about 150,000. Now that ranking is in the top 150,000 websites that are live on Google today! Amazing promoting power, and amazing SEO power is what we are all about at Veretekk.

Out of the Box with Veretekk

Box? Out of the box with Veretekk? Honestly, we have no box! We are visionary planners and producers that keep cutting edge in all areas of search engine optimization, search engine marketing, lead generation, email marketing, lead capture generation and much more. Is is not time to get serious about your business with Veretekk?

Veretekk even offers great advice on how to tell it's a Scam and protection is what we, the corporate staff at Veretekk are all about. Keep watch with the Calendar for these events. They will also be announced from our newsletter called The Bully Report. We are in the constant motion of keeping our subscribers in the loop as to what we are currently working on. Its all in a days work with the corporate staff of Veretekk!

Regards,

Butch Hamilton
Director of Marketing
Veretekk.com Inc.

Believing and Speaking

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:30:19 GMT

Believing and Speaking Video

Pastor Rick Haynes
Word of faith Christian Church in Montreal

The 10 Basic Rules of Social Media Marketing

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:11:24 GMT

The 10 Basic Rules of Social Media Marketing
By Allison Kahn (c) 2011

Social Media Marketing is the act of using social media (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) in order to promote a business.

Many companies will want to start their own social media marketing campaign and create a Facebook page or Twitter account. The problem with is they don't have a clue on how to run a successful social media marketing campaign. Here, I have listed 10 of the most basic rules when it comes to social media marketing. Follow these rules in order to have successful accounts with Facebook, Twitter, etc.

The 10 [basic] Rules of Social Media Marketing

1. Update! I shouldn't even have to list this as a rule, but many forget how important it is. You should try and update daily because when consumers visit your page and it has not been updated in over a month, they will assume it is inactive and decide not to follow your business. Also, they could easily go with your competitor because their page is so active they feel that business will give them better service. You do not want that to happen, so update your social media accounts regularly!

2. No pitching! You are not Billy Mays. Therefore, you do not need to yell at consumers telling them to buy your product or use your business. Social media is meant to connect, not pitch. If your consumers feel they have a connection with your company through your Facebook page or Twitter feed, they are more likely to use you over another business that does not make an earnest effort to connect.

3. Communicate with your audience. If you do not feel it is necessary to reply to comments, answer questions, or join in on conversations on your page, then social media is not for you. You need to be a part of the conversations on your page. If not, you will lose touch with your customers and what they want.

4. Choose Wisely. What you say will forevermore remain public record on the internet. Choose what you post on your page wisely. I cannot stress that enough. If you hire a company to post for you, be sure to hire someone you can trust. And, remember, if you manage your social media outlets yourself only post what you would want to see on the front page of the New York Times (or the Huffington Post).

5. Handle angry customers with class. Some customers will just have a bad day and want to take it out on your page and blame you for everything. Do not delete any negative comments. Instead, ignore it if it's only one comment (unless the comment has foul language and is completely inappropriate). If you are in a predicament like Nestle was about a year ago where everyone protested on their Facebook page, post an update saying your business is making moves to fix the problem. Never directly respond to one individual, you will never win. Also, never make promises you cannot keep.

6. Link to others. If you find something interesting (and relevant) on the web, link it on your Facebook or Twitter page. Explain why you find it interesting (and relevant) and ask for their input. Link to other companies, articles, cool websites, whatever. Just be sure to ask yourself before posting, is this relevant to my business?

7. Share! Don't be afraid to show your consumers what your company's employees are doing when they are not in the office. Take photos of your office picnic, philanthropic event, or even a run/walk for a good cause. These photos create a positive image about your company for your consumers. They want to know you're human and don't wear ties all the time. If it's casual Friday in the office, take a group photo of everyone wearing the company polo and post it immediately so others know what is going on in your office in real time.

8. Start a weekly trend. If you do something once a week, on the same day each week, your followers are bound to come back that day every week. For example, if you own a shoe store, every Monday you could post the shoe of the week. Include an image and a promotion for the shoe, such as a percentage off that week only. If you posted every Monday, consumers are bound to check every Monday to see what pair is being promoted that week and come into your store to buy. It's a great way to get customers onto your social media pages as well as into your store.

9. Link to your blog. You put so much effort into writing that awesome post about trendy heels for the spring, but no one ever reads your blog. Link it on your Facebook, Twitter, etc. Don't do it all the time, because if that is the only thing you do to update your social media outlets, people will get bored with you very quickly. But at the same time, don't be afraid to link back to your blog. You put a lot of hard work and effort into it, and you want people to read it!

10. Spread the word! If you have a Facebook, Twitter, blog, YouTube channel, etc. you really need to tell people. They are not just going to assume you have them. Put them on your company website, on your business cards, put a sign up in your store saying "Add us!" with all the little logos for each site next to the copy. Don't be afraid to tell your customers you're on Facebook. If they like you and your product, they will share it on their Facebook account and say, "Hey, I'm a fan of Sally's Shoes and I want everyone to know!"
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Word of Faith Christian Church Montreal Canada July Newsletter

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:00:20 GMT

Word of Faith Christian Church in Montreal July Newsletter:

Greetings Beloved Friends and Family: We send our love to all of you out there, from Brossard, Montreal. We have anchored down here in Brossard, rented a church building for Saturday night services and are holding services every Saturday evening at 6:00 p.m.

The Journey Deepens:

Mark 16:15 (LB) �You are to go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone, everywhere.� The Journey Deepens as we explore, discover and connect with becoming long-term missionaries in another culture. Day by day we face the challenges that go with adjusting, but are thankful for the grace of God that enables us to persevere. I have always said that live isn�t easy sometimes, but it always is a good life. As we step out and pioneer a church here, we are thankful to be in God�s will, in the right place and at the right time. One thing for sure here in Quebec Harvest Barns are very much needed! A lady in our Saturday night service said that she�d been praying for someone to come and preach the Word of Faith! Our week of opening Word of Faith Christian Church we had two people attend! We preached as though the house were full! The second week we didn�t have any attend, nevertheless we still had church! We are into our 5th week now and are standing in faith that many will hear the call, from all four corners of the city and come and hear the Word of Faith preached in truth! We continue to have one vision, one goal, one passion and that is to Evangelize wherever we are sent! Please be believing with us!

China Harvest Ministries News:
Isaiah 54:13 And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be the peace of thy children. The kids are all doing well in China. They are all becoming beautiful young men and women of the Word of God. We are so thankful that the Word has sustained them, as they step out into a world of chaos, they have foundations of truth under them, holding them up and causing them to walk in honesty and integrity. Our youngest, Xu Huan Huan has just finished grade school, and will be in going to high school in September. She has worked hard to achieve her goal. This last year her days were long and her nights were short. She went to school 6 days a week. She would leave for school at 6:30 a.m. in the morning and return home at night at 7:30. After a quick supper she had 5 hours of homework every night. On Sundays, her only day of rest, she would attend Church Sunday mornings, and then return home to do another 6-7 hours of homework. She is in the top 10 percent of her class of about 300 students. She told her classmates she goes to church on Sunday morning, (It�s an AFCM Church) Associated Faith Ministers Church. Very on fire for the things of God. She invited her classmate to go with her. We believe the young girl�s heart will be opened and she will receive salvation.

Taking Flight:

On July 11th I will be flying out of Burlington, Vermont to China. I will be gone this time for only two weeks. Those two weeks will be power packed as there are many schedules to meet. Of course, each one of the 12 kids will want their �individual� time as well. The boys are making plans to come home for a day or two while I�m there. Wu Fu Gong who graduated last July, and landed a very good job with a big company in Kai Fa Qu is working on a project in the South of China down in Guan Zhou. He found favor with his boss and he is flying him home for two days to be able to spend some quality time with me. The girls are planning an �Overnighter� in Jin Shi Tan! They are so excited about a girl�s day out since it will be the first one we�ve ever had.

United Prayer: Acts 4:24��..Then all the believers united in prayer��..O Lord, grant to your servants great boldness in their preaching, and send your healing power, and may miracles and wonders be done by the Name of Jesus!

Please unite with us in prayer regarding the planting of the church here in Montreal. As we plough the ground, we are thankful for grace and mercy that accompanies us to do the work we are called to do here. Our hearts are focused on reaching the lost and bringing truth and stability along with freedom to those who are spiritually bankrupt! We continue to have one vision, one goal, one passion and that is to Evangelize wherever we are sent!

Special Thanks:

With special thanks to all of you for making it possible for the Word of God to go forth. We appreciate your faithful prayer and financial support! Please remember to send in your prayer requests as we will agree with you on what you are believing God for, and surely it will come to pass! Sweet Blessings to all of you from our hearts to yours!

Pastors Rick and Joy Haynes
Word of Faith Christian Church in Montreal
Toll Free Number: 1-855-677-4400

Joy has returned to China

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:13:44 GMT

I took my wife to the Burlington Vermont airport yesterday, Joy has returned to Dalian China for two weeks to check on our orphan kids. If you want to find out about our work in China, go to our website.

We had 3 salvations last week at our church in Montreal. Praise the Lord.

Pastor Rick Haynes
Word of Faith Christian Church in Montreal

Six Popular Image File Formats

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:56:45 GMT

Six Popular Image File Formats: What Are They and How Are They Best Used? � A SPN Exclusive Article

As a business owner, you�re focused on your company�s products, services, and finding ways to grow and sustain your business. Your focus isn�t generally on image file formats and what�s needed in order to properly reproduce your company�s logo, letterhead, brochures, and business cards. But, if you�re a small business owner, you wear multiple hats and have the �joyous� task of managing not only the growth and success of your business, but all of the little, technical items associated with getting items printed for your company. And, you�re probably the head of your own �Online/IT Department� too.

So, in order to help you become more proficient with the IT hat that you wear, we thought it would be a good idea to introduce you to some basic file format information concerning images (for your logo/letterhead/business cards/etc).

Choosing the right file format for saving your images is of vital importance. There are six major image file formats used consistently in the design field � TIFF, GIF, JPG, BMP, WBMP, and PNG. Each format is well suited to a specific type of image, and by matching your image to the correct format, you should benefit from a fast-loading, high quality graphic. It�s also important to understand how these file formats work in certain applications. So, enjoy checking out these six image file formats:

TIFF � The TIFF (Tagged Information File Format) is a file format used for storing images such as line art and photographs. It was originally developed by Aldus (now Adobe Systems) and Microsoft. This is a popular format for high color depth images and it is supported by many image-manipulation programs such as Pagemaker, QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, PhotoShop, Paint Shop Pro, etc. Tiff is extremely high in its image quality, providing excellent compatibility with publishing and printing companies. Tiff can be modified and resaved, with the images being used an endless number of times without losing any image data. In addition, the image is extremely usable since it doesn�t require software post-processing during or after its download from a camera. It is a flexible and adaptable format.

GIF � The Graphic Interchange Format is an image file format that was originally developed in 1987 by Unisys using the LZW compression algorithm. For years it has been a standard image format used on the web. However, it has seen its share of difficulties due to licensing restrictions and requirements placed on it by Unisys. In 1989, they also developed Gif89a which allowed animated images. While GIF has enjoyed a significant presence on the Internet, it is being phased out by the emergence of PNG.

JPG/JPEG � JPEG is a commonly used compression method for photographic images. The name �JPEG� stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the name of the committee that created the standard. The group was organized in 1986, issuing this standard in 1992 and finally approving it in 1994. The degree of compression may be adjusted to allow a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. Typically, JPEG achieves 10 to 1 compression with little perceivable loss in image quality. In addition to being a compression method, JPEG is often considered to be a file format. JPEG is the most common image format used by digital cameras and other photographic image capture devices. It is also the most common format for storing and transmitting photographic images on the World Wide Web.

BMP � The BMP file format, sometimes called bitmap or DIB file format (for device-independent bitmap), is an image file format used to store bitmap digital images, especially on Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems. The simplicity of the BMP file format and its widespread familiarity in Windows and elsewhere makes it a very common format that image processing programs from many operating systems can read and write. Other reasons for its widespread use are that it�s well documented and free of patents. While most BMP files have a relatively large file size due to lack of any compression, many BMP files can be considerably compressed with lossless data compression algorithms such as ZIP since they contain redundant data.

WBMP � This is short for Wireless Bitmap, a graphic format optimized for mobile computing devices. This is a relatively new file format that only supports monochrome images at the moment. A WBMP image is identified using a TypeField value, which describes encoding information (such as pixel and palette organization, compression, and animation) and determines image characteristics according to WAP documentation. TypeField values are represented by an Image Type Identifier.

Currently, there is only one type of WBMP specified; the Image Type Identifier label for this is 0. 0 has the following characteristics:

- No compression
- One bit color (white=1, black=0)
- One bit deep (monochrome)

Any WAP device that supports WBMPs can only support type 0.

WBMP is part of the Wireless Application Protocol, Wireless Application Environment Specification Version 1.1.

PNG � Portable Network Graphics is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression similar to that of a GIF file. PNG was created to improve upon and replace the GIF format, as an image-file format not requiring a patent license. It was basically created in direct rebuttal of Unisys� licensing requirements for using the GIF format.

PNG supports palette-based (palettes of 24-bit RGB colors), grayscale, or RGB images. PNG was designed for transferring images on the Internet, not professional graphics, and so does not support other color specs (such as CMYK). PNG works very well for geometric or line drawings, lettering, cartoons, and other images with flat color and sharp borders, such as computer screenshots.

PNG is mostly superior to GIF, since it is newer, supports more colors, and is free of patent restrictions. Unfortunately, PNG cannot be used for animation. However, it does offer highly sophisticated transparency and color support, among other features. In most cases where animation is not required, it is best to use PNG over GIF.

It�s interesting to note each format�s strengths and weaknesses. Overall, each of them definitely displays benefits in certain applications. The best way to approach these is to know ahead of time what the ultimate application and use for a certain image is going to be prior to creating it. As a business owner, it�s important to find a reliable printer that can service your company�s needs. CCA is able to accept and modify virtually any image file format in order to create a high resolution, quality image for use on your company�s business cards. If you have any questions or concerns about your logo or business card file format, please feel free to give us a call or inquire on our website.

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Advantages of Advertising on Facebook

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:47:41 GMT

Advantages of Advertising on Facebook
Posted: 11 Jul 2011 07:46 AM PDT

A friend of mine was recently in a car accident. His wife posted a Facebook status update reading �Hubby in a car crash � thankfully nothing serious�. By the end of the day, she�d received twelve phone calls from insurance companies offering her no win no fee claim, services.

Where did the insurance companies get their information from? How does a Facebook status update become a targeted sales opportunity?

Let�s start with the obvious. Advertising on Facebook is advantageous because everybody uses it. There were 600 million active Facebook users as of January 2011.

Facebook offers advertisers the ability to geo target their advertising, by country; by state/province/county; and by city. It also lets them target advertising according to specific keywords, phrases and interest areas. When a user signs up for a Facebook page, he or she fills out information on his or her profile page that describes his or her interests. Facebook advertising lets the advertiser target his or her ad according to those interests.

There�s a less tangible advantage to advertising on Facebook, which is involved with the site�s own history. Facebook has always sold itself on the idea of exclusivity. You can�t see someone�s profile page unless he or she lets you. And you can�t be friends with someone unless they accept your request. The whole atmosphere of Facebook is about permission � permission to interact, permission to join groups and share interests. When targeted advertising pops up on your Facebook page, it feels like you have asked for it to be there � or at least that you have allowed it to be there. And that makes you more susceptible to its message.

Social media is constantly evolving, with Facebook as its apogee. Other Internet megaliths are getting in on the act � Google, for example, has just started trialling its �+1�, which shows you sites relevant to your search that people in your social network have tagged. The idea is one of backwards advertising. Consumers are still being directed towards products they might like to buy � but their own preferences, their likes and their plus ones, are taking them there.

The difference between advertising on Facebook and arriving at a product as a result of a +1 (which is similar to a Facebook �like�), is that the Facebook advertiser is not part of your social network. He or she is recommending his or her product rather than one of your friends. And that�s the ultimate advantage, right now, of advertising on Facebook. An advertiser, who knows exactly how to word and structure to encourage you to buy, can use Facebook to give himself or herself the status of �friend�.

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The Power of Online Video for Your Company

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:30:30 GMT

The Power of Online Video for Your Company
A SPN Exclusive Article By Gayle Hawks (c) 2011

Using video to promote your website, services, or products has become an integral component of online advertising. With the explosive popularity of sites such as YouTube (now considered the number two search engine online), Vimeo, and others - it's time to embrace video and make it work on behalf of your company and your website.

Here are some amazing statistics about online video from 2010:
* 172 million U.S. viewers watched an average of 14.6 hours of video
* Over 40% of consumers watch online videos on a weekly basis - Over 70% watch monthly
* YouTube serves over 1 billion videos per day
* YouTube (owned by Google) is expected to hit $2 billion in revenue during 2011.
* Viral video marketing campaigns increase clickthrough rates by 750%. (MarketingExperiments.com, November 2006)
* E-commerce sites that use product videos sell up to 45% more. Onlineshoes.com says it sees a 45% higher conversion rate for customers who watch videos on its website. Zappos.com says it sells up to 30% more for products that it shows in videos instead of just static pictures.
(Sources: ReelSEO, Internet Retailer)

Online video marketing first surged in 2007 and has been growing exponentially every year since. Over $3 billion was spent on online video advertising during 2010. With online video becoming such a major marketing player, it's an important advertising genre to consider embracing.

Here are a few basic concepts to keep in mind when considering the use of online video to promote your website, company, products, or services:

1. If you're going to create video to showcase a product, your services, or just introduce your business...it has to be creative and compelling. Your video needs to spark some type of emotion from the viewer. Whether it's humorous, intriguing, or somewhat controversial, you need this "hook" to create a clip that people will want to see and recommend to others to watch. The hook is at the core of any good viral campaign. Get creative and come up with a catchy plan!

2. Online video offers another outlet to showcase your brand. Make sure that you include your site logo or company logo on any streaming video that is released. If you create and submit video to video sharing websites or other channels, then using branded video clips will further increase your website and company exposure to potential customers.

3. Testimonials. These are incredibly popular and important. Again, they need to be genuine and not manufactured. Having real customers discuss why they chose your products or services and how it has been beneficial to them displays a great deal of credibility for your company. These are the videos that you will definitely want to promote on multiple social media sites!

4. Be genuine and real. If you are going to create a video about your company...film your real employees, in your office, doing real work. Don't "manufacture" a video that is fake and staged. People will see right through it.

5. Use video as a platform for your products. Show people how they work. Detail how and why your product is superior to competitors and why people should purchase your products. Highlight the benefits that customers will receive by purchasing your products.

6. If your business is service oriented, then show viewers how your services are performed. Explain to them what makes your services superior to competitors. Tell them why they should call or email you to procure your services.

7. Webinars (Web Seminars). These are what I like to tag as "stage 2" videos. These are training videos that primarily work best for websites that sell products. These webinars should be created to train your customers on how to properly use your products. Most of the time, this type of video will be much more detailed and involved. However, they are extremely important as well. When a potential customer wants to purchase a product, yet they are unfamiliar on how to effectively use it, they will be reassured to know that you have online videos available to them for additional training.

8. Once you have videos in place, continue to get creative. With the emergence and popularity of QR codes, you can now offer potential customers the ability to watch a video by scanning a QR code with their smartphone. Create and print new business cards for your company that feature a QR Code that card recipients can scan and then watch a video about your company, your products, or whatever you want them to view.

This certainly isn't an exhaustive list by any stretch. However, I hope it will compel you to think about the myriad of ways that online video can be beneficial to your company. With the constant expansion of Internet users each year, creative marketing is going to always be needed in order to succeed in the World Wide Web. Online video is emerging as one of the best and most effective ways to reach potential customers. So...grab onto it and use it creatively!
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Your Guide to Google+, the Latest Social Network

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:01:57 GMT

Your Guide to Google+, the Latest Social Network

Unless you've been living under a rock this past week, then you would have heard what practically everyone (and I mean everyone!) is talking about, Google+. The search giant last week released a brand new social network and it wasn't long before it was given the label of "the Facebook killer". But will this really be the case? Let�s take a look at Google+ in detail and I will let you decide. What is Google+?

It is Google's latest attempt in gaining some market share in the social network area. Here i``s how Google explains the new service: We realize that today people are increasingly connecting with one another on the web. But the ways in which we connect online are limited and don't mimic our real-life relationships. The Google+ project is our attempt to make online sharing even better. We aren't trying to replace what's currently available; we just want to introduce a new way to connect online with the people that matter to you. Sounds pretty cool, huh? And it is. There are 5 main features to Google+: Circles, Hangouts, Instant Upload, Sparks and Huddle.

Circles
While most social networks are about sharing with a wide audience, Google has gone in the other direction. Circles allows you to group friends, family, and various associates into groups and optimizing the flow of information to each one. This is a great way to keep your professional and private life separate and something which Facebook doesn't easily provide.

Hangouts
In my opinion, this is the coolest feature of the project and it's what sets Google+ apart from Facebook. Hangouts lets up to 10 users simultaneously video chat with each other face-to-face.

Instant Upload
This is a simple way to ensure that all the photos you take on your phone are easily accessible. While you're snapping pictures, Google+ adds your photos to a private album in the cloud. This way they're always available across your devices-ready to share as you see fit.

Sparks
Think of it as anything that is meant to "spark" a conversation. Google+ will keep a feed of content that is based on your interests which you can view at any time and then share with your friends who have the same interests.

Huddle
Huddle is a group text-chat tool within Google+ for having private conversations within a Circle. You can use this feature directly from your phone - that's if you use an Android 2.0+ or iPhone 4.0+ phone.

Other things you should know about Google+:

An Android app is currently available for Google+. Google has submitted to Apple�s App Store an iOS app for using Google+ and it is awaiting approval
Businesses looking to market on Google+ won't be left out. �Pages� similar to Facebook "fan pages" will be coming soon, according to Google's Jeff Huber. Google has already been forced to tweak its privacy setting on Google+ by completely eliminating the ability to share certain semiprivate posts to your wider network of friends.
You still own everything you put on Google+ (unlike Facebook which takes co-ownership�). The Google+ Terms of Service state "You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services." Rumors of games in Google+ are already doing the rounds in the blogosphere.
Facebook has responded to the launch of Google+ with the announcement of "something awesome" tomorrow (Wednesday 6th July). We hear it is a deal with Skype to launch a video chat service.
Mashable have already provided instructions on how to import your Facebook contacts into Google+. Now that's keen! How can I get into Google+?

That's the tricky part. Unless you have already scored yourself an invite, then you're going to be waiting a while. As of late last week, Google closed any new sign-ups for invitations as it was overwhelmed with the number of people who had joined already (including Facebook�s Mark Zuckerberg - surprised?). So for the time being all you can do is sign-up to receive notifications of when new invites will be available. You can do so here.

Will Google+ really spell the end for Facebook?

In my opinion, NO. I think it will take a lot for Facebook users to jump over to Google+. Most users of Facebook are non-techy "followers" who are quite content with the Facebook network. They are simply on there because everyone else is. So unless Google+ can differentiate itself massively from Facebook which would compel users to switch across then I can't see it happening anytime soon. While most "techy" users will love Google+ and its features, they are certainly in the minority and it will take a big shift in consumer behaviour to see so many people move to Google+. I like how Robert Scoble summed it up:

...it's clear Google has turned a corner. They have now proven to everyone that they can do social and get on the playing field. But they haven't yet proven that they can convince your mom to use it...

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How personalized children's books help a child learn to read.

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:10:28 GMT

How personalized children's books help a child learn to read.

Personalized children's books could be the key to rapid learning.
Have you ever noticed how your child learned his or her name before mom, dad or any other thing that you tried to teach him/her? His name is equal to his identity. He immediately becomes more interested in objects and concepts as it relates to him.

Story books for children that contain their name are immediately more important than a run of the mill children's book. Personalized stories with life lessons that include your child's name and some of the things she loves to do will have that much more of a chance of really sinking in. The personal data like where they live and other friends and relatives' names, included in the story will have a greater influence on your child.

Choose books that include their name, age, and activities that they truly enjoy. A book that may be helpful in making your child more successful in school and for the rest of his life is priceless. It becomes a part of her upbringing presently and a wonderful keepsake that she can share with her children later in life.

Later in life, as adults, they will be more prosperous because they will make a better impression with correct spelling, proper punctuation, and correct grammar. The more they read the more they will be exposed to all of these factors that provide a better impression.

Find a great selection of Personalized Kids Books here

To your child's success,
Ray Delworth

We Love Success - YOURS! Want to make money with a REAL Internet Business?

Encouraging Words for your Successful Business

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 04:48:49 GMT

Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try. (Dennis DeYoung)

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. (louis L'Amour)

America is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight. (StopCronicPain)

17% of your brain is conscious 83% is nonconscious or unknown to your conscious mind so 83% of your real world u made u just don't know how. (ReadPersonalizedBooks.com)

At some point u will surrender to the thoughts & feelings of "seeing it as perfect" or "seeing it go wrong". Choose to see it as perfect! (UltimateFleaMarket.com)

The outside world doesn't dictate how you feel, it can't. Only you determine how you feel about the outside world & that's what you attract. (SeeItAsPerfect.com)

A hug is a great gift... one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange. (Natasha Isabelle)

You�re never too old to dream. Even when EVERYONE is laughing at you complete your dream � AND WATCH WHAT HAPPENS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places (Andrew Mason)

If you judge people, you will have no time to love them. (StopCronicPain)

Follow your bliss, and doors will open for you that you never knew existed. (Joseph Campbell)

Without GOD, our week would be:
Sinday, Mournday, Tearsday, Wasteday,
Thirstday, Fightday & Shatterday. (unknown)

Today is the Tomorrow You worried about Yesterday. So why worry? (unknown)

Be yourself, everyone else is spoken for. (Brenda Horton)

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. ~ Josiah Stamp

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. (Katie L)

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. (Winston Churchill)

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. (Zig Ziglar)

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree, but still hold hands. (unknown)

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. (Mark Twain)

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. (Dr. Wayne Dyer)

What is dying? I am standing on the seashore. A ship sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. She is an object of beauty and I stand watching her till at last she fades on the horizon, and someone at my side says, "She is gone." Gone where? Gone from my sight, that is all; she is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when I saw her, and just as able to bear her load of living freight to its destination. The diminished size and total loss of sight is in me, not in her; and just at the moment when someone at my side says, "She is gone," there are others who are watching her coming,and other voices take up the glad shout, "There she comes!" -- and that is dying. ~ Bishop Brent

We Love Success - YOURS!
Ray Delworth, Mentor
Success Biz Academy

Veretekk Integration

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:52:28 GMT

Original Article Posted to Internet Tales and Tips

Read the words below from Tom Prendergast, the CEO and founder of Veretekk. This insight will allow you, the Google reader, to become more familiar with real marketing and search engine optimization techniques and strategies than you have known before.

I have been running Veretekk and it's predecessor for over 10 years. Prior to that I built online communities. Learning and teaching have been the constant throughout this Internet experience. People need good information to make good decisions. We make decisions everyday based on the information that is presented to us.

There are a lot of buzz words these days. Internet marketing, automated marketing, social marketing, integrated marketing, etc. Did you know Veretekk has been an integrated marketing system since it started back before the year 2000. For instance, ebooks, PDF fliers and classified ad submitters. Rss feed systems and 20+ Marketing Portals that carry your campaign out to the search engines. An emailing POP and autoresponder system to build legitimate lists and allow you to mail to them without fear of being accused of Spam.

We have also incorporated a version of Social networking internally since we first started. We just didn't know what it was called. And another major feature of Veretekk since it began has been the live web based conferences for our meetings, presentations and our trainings.

Interesting how Veretekk has quietly been doing this all these years while the rest of the Internet now seems to be catching up.

Enter Educational Marketing. The newest buzzword. With the continued massive advancements and new technologies, it is enough to make your head spin. But the way I see it, there are a few fundamentals that I doubt will change much in the coming years.

The quest for knowledge. The need for a mentor. The power of good content and information. Yes it is also necessary to build videos these days, because our culture has become media orientated and their attention is short and in demand. But the bottom line is, content.

Educational Marketing is something Veretekk has been doing within its members back office with the Veretekk training for years. That is about to change. The Veretekk conferencing system is about to open it's doors to the public with multi part presentations and seminars. These presentations will be generic in what they present. Some of the presentations you will find will be "How to determine a good autoresponder, what to look for and a thorough analysis as to all the different options you have out there. What is double opt in vs. single opt in. Deliverability rates, costs and the many functions each systems offers. Another example would be a seminar on how to get top SEO results illustrating top positions and showing what they are doing to get to the top. And yet another would be how to research and determine good keywords, purchasing domain names and how subdomains and title tags also play into the campaign. I think you understand this so far, right?

Related to Educational Marketing is a Veretekk exclusive called "Veretekk Integrated Marketing". Successful distributors would hold seminars in their specific company showing their success, their properties and the system they built incorporating Veretekk into it to achieve that success.

Education Marketing is a powerful new advertising concept that converts skeptical shoppers into informed buyers, intentional, and customer service driven education of your current and prospective clients for loyalty and longevity by direct response.

Companies find that Education Marketing is more effective than traditional "image" or "price and item" advertising. They help consumers do their "homework" by providing useful information about their product and category.

Stop selling. Start helping your customers buy.

The old "hard sell" faded long ago. Consumers avoid being sold. They embrace information that helps them buy the right products.

Build a relationship with your prospects

By providing useful information, you build a relationship of familiarity and trust. You become an expert resource instead of "just another vendor."

Veretekk's Education Marketing presentations will be available from our Veretekk presenters, specializing in helping you, our subscriber, by directing your prospects to your Veretekk site so they can attend through you to get needed information to generate new business. We'll convert your prospects into your business category and convert your "traditional advertising" into effective Education Marketing. All you have to do is promote the presentations, send them to your site to easily log in and we will do the rest. We will also give you the needed advertising copy for the presentations so you won't have to worry about that part either.

The broad appeal of education is inherent in both the learning process and the improved decision-making and performance an individual or business experiences as a result of learning. Education is recognized globally as a route to security and success. Good educators, whether they are individuals or organizations, are respected and heard.

But learning does not need to be a formal education process. Conveying knowledge can take place in a lot of forums: Whose opinion do you seek? Who taught you to ride a bike? Drive a car? Hit a baseball? Remember that moment? The gratitude? The subsequent success? Those are powerful moments. Maybe learning how to select the proper motor oil for your antique car or knowing how to pick an additive that gives your new product just the right appearance isn't quite as memorable, but you probably remember the person who taught you how.

As the names implies, educational marketing is a specific type of marketing where you engage potential customers and clients through education and consultation. It is about taking a leadership but also an expert, instructional, and training role in engaging customers and clients.

Educational marketing is often used in large businesses where a high degree of technical understanding is part of the customer-buying process. The computer hardware, computer software, Internet, medical, and pharmaceutical industry are large-scale examples of businesses that engage in educational marketing efforts. Even late-night infomercials engage in educational marketing when they demonstrate how to use new, innovative products.

How you perform as individuals is a direct reflection of their business. The individual-company relationship cannot easily be separated with the business.

Fundamentally, there are four basic ways potential customers and clients learn during the educational marketing process. They can read, listen, see, or do. They can read text information such as books, brochures, newspapers, ads, and other media. They can listen to a live or recorded audio program such as a speech, training, or presentation. They can see (watch) a video (such as instructional tapes, videos, and DVDs) or a live demonstration through a class, workshop, or seminar. Or they can practice on or work with the product itself such as product and software trial periods.

I believe powerful educational marketing tools include published books, audio programs, and videos. They are powerful because they are also the same tools used in credibility marketing. In fact, successful educational marketing efforts result in a dual benefit. Good educational marketing also translates to good credibility marketing.

I am an advocate of using published products as part of any educational marketing strategy. Even if books don't get read, they command the highest respect out of all the media available including newspaper ads, brochures, radio, CDs, videos, and TV. This stems from the academic and scholarly symbolism we attach to books to this day.

An author is often bestowed by the public with expert status on the subject they have written and published on. I often hear, writing and publishing a book is like getting a GED for the college degree. Depending on the subject and quality of your book, it may be like you getting a Bachelor's, Master's or even a PhD degree. The difference is that it takes far less time, money, and effort to write a book than to earn an academic degree. Becoming an author is a worthwhile investment for any high-achieving business professional, entrepreneur, consultant, and CEO.

Publishing a book or an audio program are excellent ways to engage in educational marketing. In addition to being great business symbols and calling cards, they help teach and spread your message. They empower your potential customers and clients with your expertise, knowledge, and wisdom.

In closing, I am a huge advocate of Educational Marketing. Large or small business, you will have to educate your customers and clients about your business, product, and service before you can sell them.

There is a misconception in service businesses that your marketing's most important function is to promote what you do, or in other words, your services. But the fact is, the most important function of your marketing should be to establish that you are knowledgeable, capable and can be trusted.

Most people don't do business with people they don't trust, especially when it comes to buying services. When they buy your services they are, in fact, buying the talents, skills, and personalities of YOU or your team of professionals.

Even if you have the lowest prices, if your prospect doesn't trust you, it will be difficult to close the sale. This is the basis for Education-Based Marketing.

Education-Based Marketing is a powerful marketing strategy that establishes trust and credibility using educational messages. It is the direct opposite of traditional marketing, which uses selling-based messages.

People are tired of hearing worn-out, old sales pitches. Barriers shoot up the moment you begin delivering a sales pitch. In contrast, people sit up and listen when you share important facts and expert information that help them make a good buying decision.

Determining Your Educational Message
Imagine stepping into the mind of your prospect and listening to their mental conversation at the very moment they decide to begin shopping for your services. What questions are they asking themselves? The secret to attracting qualified prospects early in the sales cycle is to find out the answers to those questions and use them as the basis for your educational marketing message.

For instance, suppose you are a marketing consultant. Perhaps your prospects are asking themselves, "How can I market my business at the least cost?" or "Why are my marketing efforts not succeeding?"

Now that you know what your prospect's questions are, now you can craft a marketing message that answers those questions. In the process of answering those questions you'll be building a relationship of trust with your prospect.

How To Package Your Educational Marketing Message to Generate Qualified Prospects
Once you have developed your educational message you need to package it and offer it for free in exchange for your prospect's contact information. This is critical. Effective marketing is not just a matter of getting the word out but more importantly, getting a response back.

You can package your educational message in a format your prospect will respond to such as a written special report, an audiocassette, a video tape, an email course, a CD-ROM, a live seminar, or even a toll-free phone message.

How To Deliver Your Educational Marketing Message
Now that you have developed and packaged your education message, you should develop strategies and processes to give it away. To do this you must first identify all the "customer touch points" in your business and offer your educational message at each one of those touch points. Common customer touch points are your business phone, website, advertising, publicity, networking conversations, public speaking events, social networking sites Facebook, Youtube, Skype, etc.

For instance, instead of ending your business phone conversations like this, "Well John, thanks so much for calling and if you ever need my services just let me know." End your phone conversation with an offer like this, "Well John, thanks so much for calling. By the way, I've just developed a great special report that talks about the top 10 tax breaks for people that set up a small business. If you'll give me your address I'll send it to you free of charge. Would that be okay?"

You've just accomplished three very important things with this telephone strategy, (1) you've generated goodwill by offering a valuable free gift, (2) you got your prospect's contact information so that you can continue to market to him, and (3) you now have a reason for a follow up phone call after he receives and has read the special report.

Resist the Urge to Give a Sales Pitch
It's easy to set your services business apart using Education-Based Marketing because most of your competitors are using selling-based marketing. The beauty of Education-Based Marketing is that you give prospective clients what they want, information and advice -- and remove what they don't want, a sales pitch.

By offering helpful advice, you establish yourself as an authority because prospects see you as a reliable source of information. Be careful not to give in to the urge to include a sales pitch with your educational message. This will only erode the trust you have established and make you the same as your competitors in the eyes of your prospect.

Integrated Marketing Communications
Definition: A management concept that is designed to make all aspects of marketing communication such as advertising, sales promotion, public relations, and direct marketing work together as a unified force, rather than permitting each to work in isolation.

Integrated marketing means not just looking at one element of your marketing plan and expecting results that are independent from your other marketing components. An integrated marketing mindset means that you are massively mindful of the marketing you are doing across the board to ensure there is cohesiveness in the flow of information, and to best leverage your message for maximum return on investment.

Here are four simple tips to building an integrated marketing plan:
1. Buy domain names (URLS) for any call to action you might want to use in any of your marketing plans. Good Domains like www.itsgoodbusiness.net, www.itsgoodbusiness.com.au or www.directorsclub.net to support any advertising you will run to generate leads.

2. Make sure every mailing you use has a specific call to action that will drive lead generation on the Web. For example, a flier that has a call to action, such as, "Market conditions and the current economy makes owning a small business a powerful tax credit. Put $1000 of dollars in your pocket before you even make your first sale. Go to www.itsgoodbusiness.net to get your custom weekly market report." This will be much more valuable than a simple "just-listed postcard" with no traffic driver.

3. Classified ads. I know-you are dying to ask, "Aren't newspapers dead?" The answer is no, especially if you use it as a specific driver in your Web strategy. Imagine having different calls to action that go to specific subdomains on your website to create interactivity and lead generation. Ask your local newspaper what they charge for a simple classified ad. You might be pleasantly surprised how inexpensive this strategy can be. Not to forget also using online classifieds, Craigslist, etc.

4. Stealth marketing on Facebook. The ads on the right-hand side of your profile or newsfeed screen are ads you can create and run. This is where you have the opportunity to do stealth marketing and, even better, select specific target markets that reach those people using Facebook. Imagine having an ad that says, "Is your job secure in the current economy? Click here for help." This, in turn, could take them to a specific site that addresses this problem, such as www.itsgoodbusiness.net. (P.S. - This applies for Craigslist.com, Google, etc.).

Note: When driving traffic to your website from any marketing channel to a specific form, make sure these leads go into a specific e-mail follow-up autoresponder that supports the message and connects to them.

Butch Hamilton
Director of Marketing Veretekk

Posted by Don Jeffre
Veretekk Platinum Member

Inbound Links for Search Engine Optimization, Do You Deserve Them?

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:01:08 GMT

Inbound Links for Search Engine Optimization, Do You Deserve Them?
By Scott Buresh (c) 2011

As part of a comprehensive search engine optimization campaign, gaining inbound links to your website is critical. But what exactly does this entail, and how should you most effectively go about gaining these types of valuable links? When an arduous task presents itself, it is human nature to try to find a shortcut. Sometimes, these shortcuts work, and the quality of the end result is not sacrificed. But often, the shortcut either turns out to be a short-term fix or worse, it backfires, leaving you worse off than you were before. And, in my experience, such is the case in regard to building quality inbound links to your website as part of your search engine optimization campaign.

After many years of trying to find shortcuts myself, I finally recognized that the best, highest impact, longest lasting links that point to a website are EARNED, not bought, begged for, or stolen. And how does one go about earning quality inbound links? By actually offering something of value, whether it is value found on your website or value you provide to other websites. Below are a few simple ideas that take a good deal of work, but when applied appropriately, almost always pay off for your long-term search engine optimization efforts.

1. Building an Educational or Resource Section
As I have written about many times before, an educational section of your website serves a variety of purposes. It adds additional pages to your website that can be optimized for critical keyphrases. It can shorten your sales cycle by educating your prospects online rather than over the phone. It can also garner a large number of quality inbound links, simply because you are offering content that doesn't just scream "buy here" - you are instead offering intellectual capital that helps the visitor to make informed decisions, stay on top of industry trends, etc. These are all ideal outcomes of a search engine optimization strategy. People will often link to this valuable content without even being asked, but if you do initiate an effort to reach out to webmasters in your industry asking for inbound links, they are much more likely to comply if you are offering something of value in exchange.

2. Writing and Submitting Expert Articles
Chances are that your company has a few in-house experts in your industry on staff. But did you know that by promoting these hotshots ideas, you can help your search engine optimization efforts by getting inbound links? More than likely, these staff members have important things to say about your industry where it has been, where it is heading, and what issues it currently faces. By having these experts write articles (or having them ghostwritten by a professional writer after he or she interviews your expert), you can then submit this material to popular industry websites, and thereby share that insider wisdom.

The upside to this approach and benefit to your search engine optimization goals is obvious, getting inbound links (generally provided in the author bio). In addition, people who may not have heard of your company, but are knowledgeable about your industry can find out about you from visiting a popular industry portal rather than by only finding your website. Again, the basic premise of expert article submission is that you are trading something of value for multiple benefits, one of those benefits being inbound links to support search engine optimization.

3. Creating and Updating a Blog
Much like submitting expert articles to industry publications or providing a general educational section on your site, a blog is a very specific, popular way to show off your expert knowledge of your industry, albeit in a more informal manner.

Blogs are a great part of search engine optimization, as they give your site a boost by offering fresh content (and gain inbound links from interested readers). They also help you to show off your current knowledge of industry trends and events by serving as a publishing platform for these newsworthy items as they unfold, sending a clear sign to your visitors that you are staying on top of all current issues relevant to your industry.

Over time, others in your industry will recognize the value of the information that you are providing, and many will share it with others via a link from their own site. Once again, you are providing something of value for multiple gains.

4. Offering Free, Informational, Industry-Related Tools
In almost every industry, there are tools that people might rely on as part of their decision making process, and by utilizing a valuable tool, you can actually promote inbound links. Mortgage sites offer free, online mortgage calculators. Car dealers offer similar tools such as payment calculators. This principle can also extend to most industries.

Do you sell consulting services? If so, consider offering a spreadsheet that allows people to evaluate a certain aspect of their business. Do you offer remodeling services? Then consider creating a tool where a visitor can provide room dimensions and then add the features of the room that they desire, allowing them to see what it might look like. Use your imagination.

What tools do you use internally that might be of benefit to your visitors (tools that you don't mind sharing, of course)? If it is a fresh and useful idea, you might be surprised at the number of websites that will provide you with inbound links. But again, there are other benefits for this value that you are offering, including more visitors, more brand recognition, and potentially a sense of gratitude from prospects who found your offering invaluable.

These are only a few ideas on how you can trade value for links as part of your search engine optimization strategy. We haven't touched on opportunities that exist with video, interactive games, and a variety of emerging technologies. But the main idea here is very simple, you earn inbound links by providing value. Moreover, these efforts are not geared simply or specifically for the express purpose of building links. Each of the previously mentioned examples has multiple benefits apart from link building. Of course, it may seem like a lot of work, but your efforts are sure to pay dividends in the long run.

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Building your Email Marketing Lists on Permission

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:23:49 GMT

Building your Email Marketing Lists on Permission
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Internet marketing is everywhere. There isn't one industry, large or small, which cannot benefit from marketing to an increasing and unending global marketplace. Reaching out to customers and clients, while creating your brand awareness, has never been easier which is why restaurant owners have quickly joined the game. If you are a restaurant owner, this is the perfect opportunity to increase your sales while building a loyal clientele.

What can Email Marketing do for your Restaurant?

� Sending emails that tell your customers of new menu items, coupon specials or special events � keeps your restaurant in front of their minds and their stomachs!

� Customer testimonials help build your business reputation, while creating a valuable viral campaign.

� Sending out customer feedback forms gives your clients a chance to share their views, comments, and observations. This is an ideal way to find out what your clients want, which in turn, creates repeat business.

� Increasing website traffic. If you have a website, include that in your email marketing campaigns. Directing your clients to your website, gives you another large area of marketing to your target clients, while increasing a new segment of interested prospects. Use your website to display your special dishes. Offer some free recipes. Everyone but everyone loves a good meal.

Building your Opt-in Email List
As your customers arrive simply ask them to drop off their business cards or email address. Let them know you want to keep them informed of any specials, promotions, or discounts that you may offer during the week. When you send out your email marketing campaign, don't forget to include an unsubscribe option. Don't hold them captive if they want to opt-out. Don't forget to include a forward in your campaigns. Using that option, your campaign not only builds a list of loyal clients, but at the same time, your clients will be able to send those campaigns easily to their friends, family and colleagues, as well.

Planning your Email Marketing Campaigns
What are your objectives? Successful campaigns are built on planning and research. What type of communications do you want to send to your customers? What kind of dialogue do you want to begin? As the restaurant owner, you need to know why you are sending out a campaign and what specific goals you hope to gain. Are you promoting a new cuisine, announcing the addition of a new chef, creating more repeat business, or advertising a special dinner wine? Having a set purpose of desired outcomes, helps you obtain the results you need.

How many is too many? You must determine the frequency of your email marketing campaigns. Frequency normally will depend on your personal needs and concepts. Frequency ranges from weekly - to bimonthly. Savvy marketers let their clients set the frequency range, because frequency is very subjective.

Know your Clients: Ask for customer feedback. Stay on the same page with your customers. Knowing what they want takes out any unnecessary guesswork, while leading to another successful email strategy.

Track your e-campaigns: � Obtain live behavioral stats. Tracking and analyzing your campaigns is the only way to know how your campaigns are performing. Tracking your data enables you to see if your emails were delivered, opened, and if your clients clicked through to your call to action. Analyzing these campaigns will teach you about your customers' habits and patterns.

Adding the Social Media Ingredient to your Email Marketing Recipe

Blog on your Website: � Invite your customers to share their thoughts and opinions on your blog. Read what they are writing about. Bring your personality into the discussion. Social media is growing because people want to know you.

Create your own brand ambassadors: Restaurants always have "regulars", those people that come in consistently during the week. Let them spread the good news via Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter. Sign up with the local restaurant search engines: Yelp.com, Urbanspoon.com, and TripAdvisor.com � Don't hide - be found.

Email marketers are always open to new and creative ways when looking to grow and diversify their client base. This is an essential key ingredient for any email campaign. An email marketing campaign is the perfect vehicle when looking to produce greater sales, while creating an interest and desire in your product or service. So, would why would anyone invest their time creating a dynamic campaign, if they there were no recipients wanting to read it? What a rhetorical question. No one would ever plan to do that, but that is exactly what happens when you don't build your email database lists based upon permission.

Permission Based Email Works

Permission based email marketing is a best practice that enables companies to take advantage of a solid, cost-effective proven marketing strategy, when looking to building a larger market segment while building and sustaining consumer trust. The payback is well worth it. In a report posted by Forrester Research, consumers open two-thirds of the email messages they have opted into.

When used properly, email marketing can be an exceptionally compelling and persuasive marketing method. It's a channel that makes it possible for a buyer and seller to openly and freely correspond with one another, building a sound and steady relationship founded on relevance, value, and trust. When handled incorrectly, email marketing can be damaging to your brand identity. Sending unsolicited email can cause you to be identified as a spammer, causing loss of recipients, your reputation, and possibly your ISP provider. A company's reputation once lost is not easily won back.

What is Permission Based (Opt-In) Email?

Permission-based email marketing is the exact opposite of a spammer. The significant difference, of course, is that the emails sent have been requested. Sending permission based emails increase sales, helping to strengthen the relationships you have already nurtured and developed with your clients and subscribers. Permission based email turn curiosity into clients, and clients into repeat buyers.

� Using email marketing software will automatically guide your email campaign in the right direction. With permission based email marketing software, create flawless newsletters and email campaigns. Our software will automatically manage: subscribes, unsubscribes, and bounces.

� With autoresponders, you can control the type and frequency of every email campaign you are planning to send as well as thanking your prospects and clients for signing up, automatically.

� How are your campaigns doing? You cannot manage what you cannot track. Tracking real-time behavioral patterns is essential. Building successful campaigns rely solely on accurate and dependable tracking reports. With advanced tracking reports, you can adapt and adjust your offers, tactics and strategies, automatically boosting sales and profitability.

� Creating a call to action that leads your recipients to a sign up page on your website or specific squeeze page, is a great way to increase your permission based opt-in list. Make your form simple, clear, and easy to read.

� Be Real - Be Relevant. Nothing but nothing takes the place of relevant content. Quality is always greater than quantity. Your message should get to the point quickly. Whether sending out announcements, promotions, sales, and testimonials, make sure you are not overwhelming them with graphics and unnecessary hype-filled chatter.

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Ways To Increase Your Site's Organic Traffic

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:52:02 GMT

Ways To Increase Your Site's Organic Traffic
By Jason Bartholme - Thu, 06/09/2011 - 8:54am.

Keeping Your Audience Interested

Many leading web sites are actively engaged in finding new ways to increase their online profile. As OnlineSocialNetworking.com talked about in an article, search rankings aren�t everything but they are incredibly important. But it�s dangerous to only take one approach. As many companies have done in recent years, there�s far too much emphasis placed on a site�s search and keyword rankings. Many are told that this is the only way to have a successful business but it�s not true. It�s true that an SEO Company is integral to online success, you want to also increase your organic traffic and there are a few ways to get you started.

Drafting Unique Daily Content

It�s tough to get people to your site but what�s even more difficult is keeping them once they get there. You can use SEO or other tools to get people to your site but if you�re not providing them with unique content on a regular basis you won�t be seen as an authority or viable online voice. For any user that spends a good amount of time searching the web, it�s obvious when you come across a site that�s thrown together with articles that don�t say much. Creating relevant and relatable material is essential to compete with other leading social media resources that put out massive amounts of material every day. You can also hire freelance writers to create articles for you to supplement your online content.

Content Sharing

When it comes to the Internet, there are many sites and companies that simply have greater resources than you. But one of the best things about the web is that it�s a great leveler of players. If you devise a plan to share content among other small bloggers or businesses, you can create a win-win situation for everyone. Doing things like guest blogging connects you to a whole new network of readers and provides content of the host. The more relevant and compelling the piece, the greater the reward. Using Social Media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are some of the best ways to build a greater presence.

Link Building

Link building isn�t a topic that everyone is familiar with but it�s terribly important. You don�t want it to be the main approach but not using it could result in bad things. If you�re not sure what this is, link building is the process of creating inbound links to your site. This can be through other sites, directories, newsletters, etc. It�s simply getting people to link to you. It seems a necessary evil and most SEO companies will help you with this.

You can create and work the search rankings but unless you get people to your site, you won�t be able to tell them about your products and services. Increasing your profile is only the first step in the process. Look for ways that keeps you relevant to your audience and keeps them interested.

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How to Earn A Living Online

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:22:09 GMT

It's not easy and it's not overnight, but it is possible with the proper step-by-step building block approach. If you're not dead then you're not done! That's my paraphrase of "persistence". And, you're not in it alone if you're part of the We Love Success Team: http://www.sfi4.com/11136150.3101/FREE

Viral Search Traffic in 60 seconds

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:00:43 GMT

I'm using it right now every time I search. It's absolutely revolutionary.

Scams vs Legitimate On-line Business Opportunities

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:55:34 GMT

You'll be amazed at what you can learn by typing "scams" in the various Search Engines (try more than one). Popular statements made by most of the internet frauds and the truth behind them ...

The Cost of Technological "Freedom"

Wed, 25 May 2011 14:54:49 GMT

The Cost of Technological "Freedom"

In the past, I've written about how open source software such as Linux isn't necessarily free - especially for businesses, which tend to use commercial versions such as Red Hat for which you pay a pretty penny for support. That usually generates responses informing me that claims regarding the "free" aspect of open source aren't referring to the monetary cost but to the freedom to modify the source code if you want. And there's always someone who says it's all about "freedom from the Microsoft monopoly." It seems "free" is one of those words that has many different meanings, but we usually associate all of them with good things. Well, unless you make your living creating intellectual property in a world where a growing number of people believe that "information wants to be free."

Over the years, I've often heard from readers who declare the goal to be "free from Microsoft" and that still puzzles me - especially today, when there are plenty of alternatives. Why not just use whatever the best tool is for the job you want to do (and your budget), regardless of who makes it? I use Microsoft on the desktop because that's what works best for me there. I use an Android phone because that's what (currently) works best for me. I've tried using Apple products in the desktop, tablet and mobile space and they just don't work as well for me as the others, but I have friends who swear by them. That's fine. I have friends who love to spend their vacations hurling down a mountain in the snow perched on a couple of thin slats, dodging trees and hoping not to break a leg, too. I don't understand the appeal of that, either, but to each his/her own.

I recently stumbled across a blog post by Fred Wilson, "a VC in NYC," who wrote about how happy he was to have freed himself from his Windows desktop by moving everything to the cloud, using Gmail, Google Apps/Docs, Dropbox, and such, which he accesses from a Macbook and an Android phone. He still uses Word, Excel and PowerPoint for some files but is hoping to be "completely rid of them" soon: http://www.wxpnews.com/4AKLX0/110524-My-New-Setup

Now, this particular declaration of independence isn't from Microsoft so much as it's from "the desktop." And that's what really confuses me. When desktop computing evolved out of the old model, mainframe computing, it certainly wasn't seen as enslaving. Rather the opposite; it was recognized as empowering, giving each individual user control over his/her applications and data. With a PC on your desk (or later, in your lap), you no longer had to be at the mercy of the mainframe, dependent on it to deliver applications and data to your dumb terminal. In fact, the evolution of computing during its first fifty years (from the first generation room-sized or bigger mainframe behemoths of the 1940s to the microcomputers of the 1980s that morphed into the personal computers of the 1990s) was all about giving individual computer users more control. And control over what you do is the very basis of freedom.

The pendulum started swinging the other way, though, sometime in the 1990s. IT departments wanted to take back the control they lost when desktop systems replaced the mainframes and minicomputers where all the programs and data had lived before. In the business environment, this made sense. For security and productivity reasons, companies need to be able to apply standard policies and have authority over what software users run and keep company data stored in a central location. The client-server model seemed to offer the best of both worlds, giving the company control where needed without taking the computer power away from the users. And not to be cynical or anything, but it also provided an opportunity for software vendors (Novell, Microsoft, even makers of open source software such as RedHat) to make big money off server operating systems, for which they could charge hundreds or thousands more than for a desktop OS - and then require each of those desktops that accessed it to pay for a client access license, too.

But there's more to it than that. Companies wanted to do more than just exert control; they also wanted to save money. Software and hardware vendors saw a new opportunity: sell people on the idea of "thin clients." Users would have much less powerful computers on their desktops, which would cost less (or you could even use older systems you already had sitting around). This is possible because all the actual processing takes place on the server. Sounds great - except that to do this, you need to set up very powerful (and expensive) multi-user servers to deliver all those desktops. And you need the latest and greatest version of the server OS to get the best functionality. And you might also need third party solutions and/or consultants to configure it all, since deployment could be a bit complex. There I go, being cynical again.

But hey, there's an easier way. Instead of hosting all this in-house, you could turn to a company that would do it all on their own systems and just "rent" the apps to you; your users access them over the Internet. To old timers, it sounds suspiciously like the old mainframe time-sharing model, but to younger folks, it seemed new and innovative. They tried it in the late 1990s, calling themselves Application Service Providers (ASP). Maybe that name had too much of a sting, as it never caught on. Or maybe it was because fast, reliable Internet bandwidth was too expensive. In the 2000s, they changed the name to Software as a Service (SaaS) and for the most part switched to web-based programs. That was a bit more successful, especially for targeted proprietary software such as that delivered by Salesforce.com. Now we're calling it Cloud Computing and it's being hailed as the way to "free yourself" from the desktop.

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. I'd like to think we won't get fooled again, but I'm not betting on it. Cloud computing does have some advantages. It's great for those who are just too busy (or too lazy) to deal with the general maintenance and troubleshooting that sometimes go along with using a full-fledged desktop machine. In that respect, it's sort of like renting a house rather than buying; you don't have to worry about the inevitable tasks of finding and paying for a plumber when a pipe bursts or keeping the roof repaired - the landlord takes care of all that for you (or is supposed to). There is no denying that the cloud is about convenience. If your applications all live in the cloud, if your data is all "out there" somewhere, you can access it no matter where you go, from any computer - yours or someone else's. That's important to many people in the mobile world we live in today. It's a lot easier than having to copy the data to your laptop's hard drive or to removable media and take it with you. It's easier than setting up a VPN connection back to your home computer. It's the easier possible way to have anytime, anywhere access to everything (when it works).

The cloud might even be about saving you money. It depends on what you need and the timeframe over which you need it. Renting a home isn't just less of a hassle; it can also be less expensive than buying one, especially if you move often. When you factor in maintenance costs and taxes and insurance and down payments and closing costs and so forth, you might save a little or a lot. Cloud computing could save you money, too, especially if you use a cheap netbook to access free services and apps. And many folks will be able to do what they want that way. Others will find that they need more than the free services offer. For example, you can store your files on Dropbox for no charge - well, if you have no more than 2 GB of files. A more realistic storage capacity, 100 GB, will cost you twenty bucks per month. That's $240 per year - which you could have used to buy a hard drive on which you could store 3 TB of data locally.

What about security? Cloud vendors will tell you that your data is more secure in the cloud than on your own network because they have economies of scale that let them institute the very best security protections that would be too expensive or too difficult for you to use at home or in your small business. It might be true that your data in the cloud has stronger encryption and is better protected from random hackers (although not everyone is convinced of that). However, if you're worried about law enforcement or other government agencies snooping, remember that your contract with your cloud provider probably tells you that if they get a subpoena or maybe just a request from the government, "all your base are belong to us." (Note: If you don't get it, that's okay, but please don't write and tell me that quote is grammatically atrocious). And yes, yes, I know - if you aren't doing anything wrong, you shouldn't care. Unless you do.

All in all, the advantages of cloud computing aren't insignificant. But freedom - I just don't see that as one of them. Still, going back to our housing analogy, some people consider renting to be something that frees them from the responsibilities of home ownership. Others feel far more free living in a house they own, where they don't have to ask someone else's permission to paint the walls purple if they want, and they can choose whether to replace the carpet with the cheap, ugly stuff that will be worn out again in a couple of years or put in granite tile that will withstand almost anything. I guess it's just a matter of perspective.

I'm reminded of a line from an old Kris Kristofferson song: "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." If I had nothing important to lose, I might put it all in the cloud. But I do, so I don't think I'll "free" myself from the desktop anytime soon. Oh, I'll use the cloud where appropriate, for its convenience and when it's cost effective. I don't have any desire to completely free myself from cloud computing, either. I really do want the best of both worlds, and I get that by maintaining residence in each.

How about you? Do you long for a day when you can be completely free of the desktop? Have you, like Mr. Wilson, already attained that goal? If so, have you found it to be all that you dreamed it would be, or do you sometimes get nostalgic for the past?

Your Site and the Commercial Privacy Bill Of Rights Act of 2011

Wed, 11 May 2011 11:29:34 GMT

Your Site and the Commercial Privacy Bill Of Rights Act of 2011
By Chip Cooper (c) 2011

On April 12, 2011, Senators John Kerry (D-Mass) and John McCain (R-Ariz) announced proposed legislation that could become the first federal privacy and data security law. If passed into law, The Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights will have a huge impact on how personal information is collected, used, and shared by eCommerce websites. And penalties for failure to comply could be high, very high.

The Way It Was - And Still Is

A little background information is required for perspective.

Prior to 2000, the Internet was essentially like the "wild wild west" in terms of privacy and data security. Essentially, there was no regulation. Generally speaking, except in California, privacy issues were not high on the radar screens of government regulators.

In 2000, California became the first state to have an agency dedicated to promoting and protecting the privacy rights of consumers. In 2003, California passed the California Privacy Protection Act of 2003 (OPPA), which was the first state law in the nation regulating operators of commercial websites on online services to post a privacy policy. OPPA in essence became a de facto federal statute because it applied to any person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world), and no commercial website would want to attempt to screen out California residents from participation in its services or the purchase of its products.

When OPPA became law, there was no federal privacy legislation of general application. The Bush administration essentially wanted to stay out of the way of the commercial development of the Internet.

Despite the lack of a federal statute of general application (which continues to this day), the feds did get involved with online privacy enforcement through the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Empowered by The Federal Trade Commission Act, the FTC may take legal actions to prevent unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce.

Beginning in 2000, the FTC issued a report to Congress outlining four core principles of privacy protection. Since then, the FTC has taken action against companies that fail to comply with their own privacy policies or otherwise misrepresent their information management practices.

So, although the requirement for a privacy policy originated with California's OPPA, the feds, through the FTC, are empowered to act if a website is deceptive in failing to comply with its privacy policy.

Key Provisions of the Proposed Law

If The Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act becomes law, this will change - in a big way. For the first time, we'll have a federal privacy statute of general application.

So, what's new with the proposed law? Here are some of the key points:

* Covered entities - any site that collects, uses, transfers, or stores "covered information" about more than 5,000 individuals during any consecutive 12-month period.

* "Covered Information" - personally identifiable information and any unique persistent identifier associated with an individual or networked device that may be used to identify a specific individual.

* Rights to security and accountability - included is "privacy by design" which requires the implementation of a comprehensive privacy program that incorporates privacy practices throughout the product life cycle.

* Rights to transparent notice and individual participation - notice includes clear, concise, and timely notices of privacy practices; opt-out mechanisms for (i) specific uses of covered information, and (ii) use of covered information by third parties for behavioral advertising; opt-in mechanisms for (i) use of covered information for uses other than processing a transaction, and (ii) use or transfer of previously collected covered information if there is a material change in privacy practices that would create a risk of physical harm; access to covered information; and de-identification of covered information when individual service terminates.

* Use of service providers - covered entities that use service providers are required to enter into a contract with the service provider to treat covered information as private and secure in accordance with the new statute.

* Collection of information - limited to collection of only as much information as is reasonably necessary to process a transaction or request, prevent fraud, investigate a crime or comply with a law, market using the information collected directly, conduct research and development to improve service, or for surveys of website analytics.

* Retention of covered information - retention is authorized only as long as needed to process a transaction or deliver a service, conduct research and development, or comply with the law.

* Distribution of information - transfers of any information to a third party are authorized only if covered entity performs due diligence indicating that the third party is reliable and the third party enters into a contract to use the information consistent with the new statute; combination of the information by the third party with other information is prohibited unless opt-in consent has been given.

* Enforcement - enforcement would be permitted by the FTC and state attorneys general; there would be no private of action.

* Penalties - civil penalties up to $16,500 per day for affected individuals, with a cap of $3 million for violating the security and accountability provisions, and a cap of $3 million for violating the notice and individual participation provisions.

Conclusion

If passed as proposed, The Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights will have a huge impact on covered ecommerce websites. The cost to comply will be substantial. Penalties for non-compliance are potentially devastating.

The proposed law would not only affect a website's policies for collection, use, and sharing of personal information, but they would also affect the design of websites, the design and structure of customer and prospect databases, and how websites actually function and operate.
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16 SEO Tactics That Will NOT Bring Targeted Google Visitors

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:18:47 GMT

16 SEO Tactics That Will NOT Bring Targeted Google Visitors
By Jill Whalen (c) 2011

In my day-to-day reviews of client websites, I see lots of things done to websites in the name of SEO that in reality have no bearing on it.

In an effort to keep you from spending your precious time on supposed SEO tactics that will have absolutely no effect on your rankings, search engine visitors, conversions or sales, I present you with 16 SEO tactics that you can remove from your personal knowledge base and/or SEO toolbox as being in any way related to SEO:

1. Meta Keywords: Lord help us! I thought I was done discussing the ole meta keywords (http://www.highrankings.com/ metakeyword) tag in 1999, but today in 2011 I encounter people with websites who still think this is an important SEO tactic. My guess is it's easier to fill out a keyword meta tag than to do the SEO procedures that do matter. Suffice it to say, the meta keyword tag is completely and utterly useless for SEO purposes when it comes to all the major search engines - and it always will be.

2. XML Site Maps or Submitting to Search Engines: If your site architecture stinks and important optimized pages are buried too deeply to be easily spidered, an XML site map submitted via Webmaster Tools isn't going to make them show up in the search results for their targeted keywords. At best it will make Google aware that those pages exist. But if they have no internal or external link popularity to speak of, their existence in the universe is about as important as the existence of the tooth fairy (and she won't help your pages to rank better in Google either!).

3. Link Title Attributes: Think that you can simply add descriptive text to your "click here" link's title attribute? (For example: "page1.html" title="Spammy Keywords Here"> Think again. Back in the 1990s I too thought these were the bee's knees. Turns out they are completely ignored by all major search engines. If you use them to make your site more accessible, then that's great, but just know that they have nothing to do with Google.

4. Header Tags Like H1 or H2: This is another area people spend lots of time on, as if these fields were created specifically for SEOs to put keywords into. They weren't, and they aren't. They're simply one way to mark up your website code with headlines. While it's always a good idea to have great headlines on a site that may or may not use a keyword phrase, whether it's wrapped in H-whatever tags (http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=45574) is of no consequence to your rankings.

5. Keyworded Alt Text on Non-clickable Images: Thought you were clever to stuff keywords into the alt tag of the image of your pet dog? Think again, Sparky! In most cases, non-clickable image alt tag text (http://www.highrankings.com/forum/ index.php?showtopic=43176) isn't going to provide a boost to your rankings. And it's especially not going to be helpful if that's the only place you have those words. (Clickable images are a different story, and the alt text you use for them is in fact a very important way to describe the page that the image is pointing to.)

6. Keyword-stuffed Content: While it's never been a smart SEO strategy, keyword-stuffed content is even stupider in today's competitive marketplace. In the 21st century, less is often more when it comes to keywords in your content (http://www.highrankings.com/seo-copy-tomfoolery). In fact, if you're having trouble ranking for certain phrases that you've used a ton of times on the page, rather than adding it just one more time, try removing some instances of it. You may be pleasantly surprised at the results.

7. Optimizing for General or Peripheral Keywords: You're not gonna rank for a one-word keyword. You're just not. You are likely not even going to rank for a 2-word keyword. So stop wasting your time optimizing for them, and find the phrases that answer the searcher's question (http://www.highrankings.com/ keyword-research-295). For example, most people seeking legal help aren't putting the one word "lawyer" into Google. They have a very specific need for a certain type of lawyer as well as a specific location in which they hope to find said lawyer. So rather than throwing the word "lawyer" all over your site, ask yourself this: There are people out there who want what you're providing. What are they typing into Google? Now focus on those words instead. And don't even get me started on people who put words on their pages that are barely related to what they do "just in case" someone who types that into Google might be interested in what they offer. You won't rank for those phrases anyway, but even if you magically did, they won't make you any sales.

8. Targeting the Same Keywords on Every Page: The keyword universe for any product or service is ginormous. (It really is.) Even if there are one or two phrases that bring you the most traffic, why the heck would you want to miss out on the gazillions of others as well? Stop focusing every page on the same handful of phrases and start targeting each page to its own specific set that most relate to what you're offering there.

9. Focusing on Ads as Links: Banner ads, Google AdWords links and most other forms of online advertising do not create links that count toward your link popularity (http://www.highrankings.com/buyingtextlinks). This doesn't mean you shouldn't use this form of marketing - just don't be deluded into thinking that it will have a direct effect on your organic search engine rankings and traffic.

10. Mad-lib Doorway Pages: While you may offer lots of products or services that are extremely similar to one another with just one minor change, it's not a good idea to create separate pages for each of them and making only minor keyword changes to each of them. While this may be okay for paid search landing pages, it's a duplicate content spammy nightmare for organic SEO purposes. (In fairness, I do sometimes still see this technique work (http://www.highrankings.com/forum/ index.php?showtopic=43483), but it's still not advisable to do it.)

11. Linking to Google or Other Popular Websites: It's the links pointing to your pages from other sites that help you with SEO, not the pages you're linking out to. 'Nuff said.

12. Redirecting a Keyworded Domain to Your Real One: So you have your business name as your domain (as you should), but you have noticed the unfortunate fact that Google seems to really like domains that have keywords in them. Buying one (or more) and redirecting it to your actual website can't provide you with any advantage because a redirected website [http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43300] (and its domain name) is never seen by the search engines. And besides, even if there was something magical about doing this, again, you're only talking about one keyword phrase.

13. Republishing Only Others' Stuff: While it's fine to republish an article that someone else published first, if that's all your blog consists of, it's not going to help your search engine rankings. Instead of republishing entire articles, discuss them in your own posts and provide your thoughts and opinions on what's good / bad / ugly about what the others are saying. It's all about adding value.

14. Making Minor Changes to Freshen Content: This is not going to help a thing. If any old articles or posts need to be updated, then update them. But just changing a date or a few words will not have any effect (http://www.highrankings.com/ forum/index.php?showtopic=45456) on your search engine rankings or traffic.

15. Nofollowing Internal Links: Perhaps you're not looking for your privacy policy page to be followed by the search engines, so you add a nofollow attribute to it. That's all well and good, but don't fool yourself into thinking that this will somehow control your PageRank flow (http://www.highrankings.com/ forum258) and get you better rankings. It won't.

16. Main Navigation That Links to Every Page: If linking to pages in your main navigation gives them more internal link popularity and therefore more possible weighting with the search engines, then surely linking to every single page of the site in your main navigation should be a good idea, right? Wrong! It isn't. All it does is spread your internal link popularity too thin and confuse the heck out of your site visitors. Don't do it. Choose to link only to top-level categories and perhaps subcategories (if you have a reasonable number of them) in your main navigation. This allows users to drill down further (http://www.talentzoo.com/news.php/ Bake-Your-SEO-Into-Your-Website-Design/?articleID=8440) when they're in the category sections themselves.

Did I miss any? I'm quite sure I've just touched the surface on waste-of-time SEO tactics. How about you? Do you agree with the above? Disagree?
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2010 SEO Predictions That Came True

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:17:24 GMT

2010 SEO Predictions That Came True
A SPN Exclusive Article By Warner Carter (c) 2011

Each time a year ends, we encounter countless bloggers and writers who share their thoughts about the incoming year. Some predictions are theoretically supported and some are just plain wild guesses. Predicting what's in store for the next year is almost a tradition for writers, even those not involved in SEO and Internet marketing. Sports writers, business analysts, music critics, and amateur writers - they all follow this unsung tradition. Many think that this tradition is worth following because nailing a wild guess or a well-researched fact means only one thing: respect from your readers.

It's only the third month of the year but some predictions from last year have become realities. People never expected that the realization would be this quick, but, unbelievably, many predictions are coming true right now.

The Power of Content Length
This was a common prediction that was heavily criticized. I read on some blogs last year that Google would be considering a site's content length as a determining factor for site ranking. Experts and SEO veterans commented that this was an amateur's prediction, but they all ended up wrong. As a result of this latest algorithm update, many guest blogging sites have increased their minimum article length to 450 words, and some are requiring even lengthier articles. Perhaps this recent update caused content-related terrors to some SEO geeks. They'll just have to remember that quality is still better than quantity.

Mobile Search Growth
Both local and global search benefited from the rise of high-tech phones which offer consumers mobile Web browsing. The growing rate of free Wi-Fi zones over the country also made browsing even more accessible to mobile phone users. Mobile browsing changed the way people use the Internet. Browsing the Web has become a daily part of people's lives - not only Americans and Europeans but also people from highly developed Middle Eastern and Asian countries like Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Qatar and Dubai.

Social Media Expansion
2010 was the year of Facebook and Twitter. Countless companies vied for the most numbers of "likes" and "followers", not only for branding and popularity purposes but for online presence strength as well. These two social media giants have become major advertising tools. No SEO campaign would be complete without social media and no advertising method would be fruitful without Facebook and Twitter accounts. Social media expansion is an advertising basic for many businesses.

Although confirmed as a hoax, the rumor of Facebook closure struck many businesses. It isn't easy to find a social networking site as powerful and effective as Facebook. The shocked Tweets from many businesses owners that day prove that advertising and SEO without social media is impossible. A business' online presence is major determining factor of success.

Website Speed
It took a year for all SEO practitioners to understand the value of site speed in SEO. Google first announced that site speed would be part of their algorithm in 2009, but it wasn't until late 2010 that a majority of website owners seriously incorporated it in their SEO strategies. It's not a surprise that many site owners are now aware of site speed's importance. There are reports that many businesses suffered a major decline in rankings because they took site speed for granted.

Site speed can be a determining factor for website traffic. With the millions of websites available today, a slow-loading website can force a viewer to transfer to a faster site that can provide them the information they need.

Other Search Engines
Google is still the leading and most reliable search engine today and the main reason we obsess about search algorithms and rankings. Some business owners pay large sums of money just to get their sites to the top of Google's search results. Google has set the yardstick in Web search and brought balance and fairness to the competition for rankings, so that anyone can now get first page search result placement. But, there are still other search engines we can focus on. Not all Web users rely on Google to find what they need. There is still a significant percentage of users who prefer other search engines that you too should consider when doing your SEO. Yahoo! was once the leader of the search game, and it's realistic to think that there are remaining Yahoo! loyalists out there who put less importance on Google results. Then there is Bing, the Microsoft search engine that draws young Web users because of its homepage and features.

Bing and Yahoo! are continually improving their search algorithms because they know they have a large following and an increasing number of users. It's fairly certain that these two search giants are making plans to erode Google's current standing as the Web's dominant search engine.

The Reincarnation of Blogs
Blogs never really went out of style. Business owners use blogs to reach a wider sector of their target market and audience. Many have invested time in establishing domain authority and positive online reputation management, temporarily putting link building aside. Some articles previously stated that "link building is dead", making SEO practitioners abandon the method and focus on other SEO strategies. However, many experts have reinstated and proved link building's ability to provide traffic and rankings. Link building is becoming popular again, and we all know that the best way to practice effective link building is through blogging.

In addition, local search's popularity has made blogging more appealing to a local audience. There are blogs today that specifically cater to a locality. Blogs, treated as micro websites, have proved their worth to local businesses, making blogging the most effective way of building links and networks.

Local Search Dominance
Global search has become popular over the past few years, but many people choose to concentrate on local search to get more specific results. As local search continues to escalate its way to dominance, the strength of the American local market today can be attributed to the growing number of local search users and the improvement of local SEO methods. The strength of site authority, anchor texts, and traditional link building is evident this year. Behind this strength are the ever-growing Local Listing (e.g. Google Maps Optimization) and SEO Resellers that focus solely on providing and introducing SEO to the local business scene.
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Watching Tv on the computer is becoming main stream

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:56:49 GMT

I was thinking, it sure would be nice to watch TV on my computer. Well, this is not the province of the super rich or ultra nerds. In fact watching TV on your computer is becoming more main stream all the time. Some, such as software giant Microsoft, which I feel is the wave of the future. They've actually staked part of their future on it. Your new operating system Windows 7 has features that were specifically designed for this type of functionality.

That's great, but where do you get the content? I mean, you just can't have thousands of channels pumped into your computer straight from the Internet, can you? Well, actually you can. There are very few ways to get TV on your computer. You can buy a TV tuner card. Essentially this turns your computer into a high-tech video recorder or personal video recorder (PVR - think TiVo) device. That's pretty darn cool, but there are a couple of downsides to the approach. First, as stated above, there is a question of content. Where do you get it?

With the TV tuner card method, you're limited to what is available with a terrestrial antenna, or you can hook up basic cable TV service. Basic cable does not work with this method, because the content is encrypted by the cable provider. You need their proprietary cable box to decode the really cool channels, or pay per view events. So while this method of television on the computer is nice, there are certainly limitations to it.

You can use a pay per download service of watching movies on your computer, such as Cinemanow.com. While they offer a large amount of downloadable content, there is no live TV. If you're looking for real live TV, you'll have to look elsewhere.

Another way is IPTV.
TV content streamed straight over the internet to your computer or a tuner box. There are two types of these. One is through a major service provider such as a cable, satellite or phone company. These are certainly capable of a large amount of high-quality content, but only because it is not streaming over the Internet so you can only watch reruns of Sienfeld. Not live streaming. You are basically duplicating the cable set top box approach, except the method of content delivery is using IP packets instead of analog or other types of digital cable.

You can watch streaming live TV directly on your computer or to a TV hooked up to your computer. The software streaming solutions really excel for sports such as football, motorcycles and racing bikes.

Another bonus is that you can get coverage of the same event form different networks. No matter the sport, if it's on TV anywhere in the world, you'll be able to watch it. So there are great ways to watch TV on your computer. You just need to decide how you are going to do it!

Watch Free Movies Online

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:23:35 GMT

Sure, you have the option to watch current releases with "video on demand" for a nominal fee, but only if you want to. Movies online is a wonderful experience, because it is immediate, and we want everything as instant as you can get. Fast food, microwave popcorn, instant cash ATM machines, and of course going online to get just about everything including movies. Online makes it super convenient because a movie at home on a super-size high-definition flat-screen TV or on your laptop while traveling or at work is great, (but do not let your boss catch you).

Our Flat Screen Revolution

Watching free movies online on your small, medium or king sized mega flat screen HD TV is the ultimate experience and there are lots of HD sets that let you hook-up your computer. The result is a fabulous presentation on-line.

Now your Internet movies are going to look and sound totally great - wow!

There are plenty of websites offering movies, TV episodes, videos, documentaries and more. Perform a search for the phrase free movies online, and you will find a lot of sites.

You'll also discover that some of the sites do not require you to sign up. Just select a movie, grab some popcorn, your favorite beverage, you click play - and the movie is steaming immediately.

There are also a number of sites where you need to set up a free account, while others require a fee for their services. In some cases you may need software that allows you to download programs or watch streaming movies.

Do you love movies?
Turn your PC, laptop or HD flat screen TV into your very own in-home, or a-way-from-home multiplex cinema and start enjoying movies anytime you want to be amused.

How to watch nearly every movie that has been made

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:26:42 GMT

The nature of television is changing, and it is now possible to watch nearly every movie that has been done on your TV. From silent films to the latest releases, streaming movies is now easier than ever before. If you are not familiar with the term �streaming �, in practice it means that a film is sent over the Internet. It isn�t being viewed from memory or saved to the hard drive. But this is ok, because there is no reason to save it. It is streaming live over the internet. It can be seen again and again without saving it to hard drive.

If you want to stream movies to your TV, you are going to have to do one of two things. You can connect your laptop to your TV. I have done this and it works great but there are some issues with this.

What I would recommend for streaming movies is a Roku streaming box. It costs about $60. This box connects to your TV via HDMI or RCA cable. If you have a wireless internet in your home, the Roku box will pick up the signal and stream movies to your TV wirelessly. If you do not have a wireless network at home, do not worry. You can plug the internet straight into the Roku box. Once this device is working, you can use the remote control and click on Hulu. This will allow you to stream a lot of movies that are a bit older but there is also a wide selection of lesser known films that are very good. In addition, it has a large selection of documentaries from National Geographic and Nova programs include.

To stream movies that are more recent you are going to need a subscription to Netflix. So you can see 1.000�s of new films now. You won't get to stream the latest releases but their library is very large for "instant streaming" and it is increasing constantly. We pay about $7 per month for this service.

If you would like to watch the latest movies, the ones that are still in the video store, use your Rook streaming device and click on "Amazon on Demand. It allows you to select from a list of the latest movies. It costs about $5 per movie and you get to view it as often as you like for 48 hours. This is a real nice feature, because you should not pick up or return film. This also eliminates any possibility of late fees. We have our Roku unit about 2 weeks and we use it non-stop without any problems and we are absolutely in love with it.

Give it a try, you won't be disappointed.

Landing Page Optimization 101

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:39:44 GMT

Landing Page Optimization 101
A SPN Exclusive Article By Gobala Krishnan (c) 2011

Landing page optimization is perhaps the most important Internet
marketing tactic you need to master if you truly want to succeed
online. Having an effective landing page that maximizes your
conversions will help you dominate your niche market. This
applies to both product vendors and the affiliates promoting for
them.

In fact, if you're into Google Adwords you should already know
the extreme importance of landing pages.

What is a Landing Page and Why is it Important?

A landing page, as you may already know, is a page that you drive
traffic to. It's part of your overall website, but different
landing pages can be customized to suit the product or the
traffic source. Depending on the type of landing page, it can
also be known as a squeeze page, sales page, opt-in page or money
page. However, the basic purpose for any landing page no matter
what it's called is to get conversions.

When you have your landing pages setup, you need to go out and
get traffic. You may have heard that traffic is the lifeblood of
any affiliate marketing business. The more traffic you get, the
more money you make. Although that is true, there's only that
much traffic you can get with a limited budget and time.

The real lifeblood of an affiliate marketing business is
conversions. If you can convert your traffic to sales more
efficiently than others, you'll be the dominant player in your
niche market within a short period of time. As far as
optimization goes, there are basically two kinds of tests you
can do on your landing pages.

Landing Page Optimization with Multivariate Testing

Hardcore conversion experts preach about Multivariate Testing
or MVT. In a typical MVT, you will test multiple variations of
elements on your landing page simultaneously. MVT can handle
complex experiments and deliver great results, but it has two
drawbacks.

The first flaw is that you need to get loads of traffic for MVT.
If you cannot get a few thousand impressions per day, then it
will take forever. As a matter of fact, MVT just doesn't work
well for low-traffic websites and landing pages.

Besides that, the other flaw of MVT is its sheer complexity. If
you really want to do MVT, you need to study MVT. You need to be
able to develop effective test cases and elements. You also need
to be pretty good at interpreting results. There's a tendency
for low-traffic site owners to accept variations that are not
yet proven to work. That's when MVT backfires and actually drags
your landing page conversion rates down.

Landing Page Optimization with A/B Split Testing

A/B split testing on the other hand is much more simple. You
start with web page A (the control) and web page B as a test
page. Both web pages are identical except for the single
variable you want to test. For example, both pages may be
identical except for the main headline, or the signup link.

Once you've setup your simple A/B test, you split your traffic
between the two pages and observe your sales or leads. After
both pages have achieved a reasonable number of conversions,
you'll be able to see the winning page. The losing page is
removed and replaced with another contender.

You repeat this process with different layouts, different ad
copy, and different headlines until you find the best possible
landing page. You'll know this when your split test results no
longer show any significant difference between pages.

Can you test more than two pages at a time? Of course you can,
but keep in mind that the more pages you add to the A/B test, the
longer it will take for you to get any kind of meaningful result.
That's why I recommend that you test no more than three pages at
a time.

With A/B split testing, landing page optimization gets much
simpler and faster. You can get really meaningful results with
only a small number of website visitors, and get higher
conversion rates consistently. You don't need much technical
knowledge either.

Pitfalls of Landing Page Optimization
Although the benefits of optimizing your landing pages are
immense, there are several pitfalls to avoid. The first is
inconsistency. Make sure all other aspects of your landing page
remains the same when you're doing your tests. Do not change
your landing page designs, your source of traffic or other
elements when testing a page. Doing so will only give you
skewed, inaccurate results.

Redundancy is the other big pitfall that you need to avoid at all
costs. Keep track of the elements you have already tested. Do
not repeat tests when you already know the best possible variable
for the test. It's very easy to be running around in circles
instead of moving forward.

The final pitfall in landing page optimization is ineffective
software. Keep the time you spend setting up and managing
software to a bare minimum. Instead, you should redirect your
effort and time to the content and sales process of your landing
pages. If you have to constantly upgrade or troubleshoot the
software you're using for landing page optimization, you're
really not doing your business any good.
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Article Submission Trumps Ezine Ads and Google AdWords

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:02:47 GMT

Article Submission Trumps Ezine Ads and Google AdWords
By Anthony Harris (c) 2011

You may have heard advice from Internet marketing gurus that ezine ads are one of the best forms of advertising. You may also have heard that Google AdWords and other pay per click search engines are one of the best advertising methods. But when it comes to marketing your web site, article submission trumps ezine ads and Google AdWords anytime.

The advantage of article submission is trust. Suppose you subscribe to an ezine in the form of an email newsletter. You've just sat down at your PC, coffee in hand, to read your email. There in your inbox is a copy of one of your favorite ezines, the one you read every time. Clicking on the newsletter, you see that this edition starts with a sponsor ad and then has a couple of great sounding articles and a couple more ezine ads. Sipping your coffee, one of the articles catches your attention. You read the article, and you were right. It's a great article.

At the bottom of the article, there is a link to the author's web site and a short biography. You notice the author has a link to pick up a free report with more information about the article's topic. Then you notice that right below that there's a sponsor link in an ezine ad. The sponsor's link is for a different web site, but it also offers a free report about the same topic.

Now you might click both links. But if you could only click one, which would you choose: the one by the author of the great article you just read or the one in the ezine ad?

If you would click on the one from the author of the article you just read, you're not alone. Most people would, wouldn't they?

Now suppose you're surfing around on the web. You do a Google search on a topic you're interested in, and you follow a link to a great article with some excellent advice on the topic. Again, there is a link to the author's web site and a link to a free report with more information on the topic.

Right beside it are five Google AdWords ads on the same topic. As luck would have it, they are also each offering a free report on the same topic.

You would still be most likely to click on the author's link at the bottom of the article, though, wouldn't you?

Article submission trumps ezine ads and Google AdWords because you establish a relationship and build trust with your reader. You are obviously the expert. After all, you wrote the article. And the webmaster or ezine publisher wouldn't have published the article if they didn't think you knew what you were talking about, right?

Years ago, I used to do direct sales in people's homes. I learned that one of the first things you need to do is the "warm up." You've just entered someone's home, they don't know who you are as a person, and they know you're going to be trying to get money from them before you leave.

If you don't establish rapport quickly, it's difficult to overcome people's natural sales resistance. In direct sales in the home, you do that by talking a little with people before you begin your sales presentation. They get to know you as a person, and their resistance is lowered.

Most people can't do sales because they remain the "enemy," the horrible sales person who wants to sell something. Let's face it, people hate sales people!

But imagine if you could warm up to people easily - and not just one or two people, but thousands of people. Imagine if instead of selling them something, you could educate them about something that will solve a problem and be of great benefit to them. That's entirely different, isn't it?

Article submission allows you to do exactly this, and on a massive scale. If you submit many articles to article submission sites and article directories, many will be published on web sites and in ezines around the Internet. People will read your articles and warm up to you. Solve their problems and they'll want more.

It's hard to accomplish that with Google AdWords. You only have three lines and a few words to build interest and trust and to get the click. It's also hard to achieve that with ezine ads. Even with solo ezine ads, everyone knows they are advertisements.

Article submission is the secret. Writing and submitting articles is relatively easy. Just write very helpful articles on your topic and link to your web site. Through article submission you will build your reputation. Through article submission you will gain trust. And through article submission you will get visitors to your web site that already like you, value your advice, and want to know more about what you can do to help them.

That's already an incredible benefit, but it gets even better. Article submission is usually free, or low cost if you use an article submission service. Ezine ads and Google AdWords can be very expensive, and it is unlikely you could ever get traffic coming to your site as open to listening to you and trusting you as they will be from an article submission.

This is why article submission trumps ezine ads and Google AdWords.
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Live streaming video is the ability to forward an event as it happens online

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:23:53 GMT

Live streaming video is the ability to forward an event as it happens online. Think of it as live TV without the limitations of television network subscriptions and broadcasting, or the usual delays experienced when you download something on-line. With live video streaming and webcasting, is all you need a broadcast platform, a webcam and a broadband connection.

No more studio or satellite van to handle all of these, just a simple tool that provides one-click streaming from your camera or desktop. You will have the ability to stream live from any computer or webcam.

This allows your audience to see the same video content at any given point in time making room for chatting and other social interactions. Videos can be live or recorded.

Embeddable Video Player.
Your visitors have the option to embed video player in your websites and blogs. This can be really good for viral marketing.

Interactive.
Boost interest and optimize search engine tracking. Chat with other viewers, while sending your event. Promote it in Twitter. This can be done simultaneously while the video plays.

Manageable.
Original recording of videos are simple and easy. Manage your content or we can manage it for you. Imagine something like YouTube on your site. But instead of someone else's video, you will be streaming your own events, featuring your own products, highlighting your own services, and playing your own films live! Now imagine that your audience has the opportunity to include your player widget on their sites, blogs and other social networks. How big is that? Dissipation of assets and marketing information in a cool package.

Whether you're a corporation, a non-profit organization, a retailer, a manufacturer, a marketing specialist, a publisher or an entertainer, having live video streaming in your website is a powerful way to broadcast your events without the high cost of traditional broadcasting. Expand the event via the World Wide Web! Internet TV is becoming a standard feature of websites and blogs. Why not use these and strengthen your presence on the web? When people watch your channel, the show not only has growth potential of the company, but your ranking and Internet.

It doesn't matter what type of business you have, you can use this dynamic and interactive tool to showcase your products, services and events.

Every day, the market gives birth to a new product and new technologies get developed almost nonstop. It is up to us the public to choose a product that is right for us. And for any business with a goal to grow or to be just plain entertaining, we now have a variety of technologies to choose from.
Select your choice. Choose video streaming and live webcasting. Rick Haynes:SEO

The Direct Internet TV Generatio

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:05:50 GMT

The Direct Internet TV Generation

Author: james sng

Online TV has revolutionized quite a few ways of thousands and thousands of folks who depend on the net or on the television. The ability this provides to end-users present a million of potentials and positive aspects that tends to make each and every tv event a certainly exceptional one. With the upkeep of TV audiences of their everyday leisure and academic fixes, far more companies have additionally risen to the competition only to present far more choices for viewers online. The earlier levels of Internet TV is a amazing phase in the endeavor of making the net the really vital must-have in each home whatever continent you belong.

Although most parts of the globe are constrained in their capacity, watching TV online has certainly not been a dull occurence to the end-user in spite of its challenges on world-wide-web set up and online TV availability. There still remain nations with constrained capacities of world wide web link and since a number of families prefer the old methods of television, the net has not been maximized into its full potential. For that reason, it helps make a poor alternative of not using technology with the best it should offer. The idea of Direct Internet TV can carry on to make milestones of developments. That which an consumer must consider when upgrading to the newest and most current technology is not a negative change but a positive move in the direction of producing an improved way or method of living.

Think about how you as the customer would now have the supremacy to watch your television programs at your preferred time. What previously was prepared TV schedule air times can now be planned without interference to your hectic life or performance schedules. The comfort it gives to customers does not limit but instead maximizes also their capability to stay in sync with the goal and positive aspects of internet TV. That is certainly modern in man's day to day activities.

Consider how much you can lower from your monthly bills by elliminating fees for replicate services which you can now benefit as one at once! By possessing the reliable Internet TV software, your thought of viewing enjoyment could by no means go wrong. The more rapidly your high speed set up is, the greater the enjoyment is with TV Live. And just whenever you consider this is not possible in that progressive days, far more services are providing this well-known creation bringing web visitors in-use by hundreds of thousands of households. That which tends to make far more people hold on to their seats is watching Free Internet TV shows come about on live TV devoid of the inconvenience or the requirement of being bodily there in order to witness the history happenings at the exact point in time.

Using internet TV wisely is one and each end-user's duty in order to add positively to its added benefits. Looking at at how industries happen to evolve these days to adapt to the rapid paced alteration of online TV, far more solutions are absolutely on the lookout for building just about every transfer towards advancement and development. It is a thing to be certainly grateful of as that which used to be not possible now turns into a likelihood for every single one to take pleasure in.

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James Sng is an net experienced TV fanatic as well as customer watchdog who values add his critiques and findings on the variety of softwares in the industry currently. If you want to find our more information about internet tv, feel free to browse his site at: http://www.tvworldchannel.com/

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What is Stream Direct TV?

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:11:23 GMT

What is Stream Direct TV? What is Stream Direct TV? It is software that you download on your PC and then you can watch over 4500 HD channels from around the world. This technology has not always been around. First there were news papers and then came along radio. After that was TV and then the internet. Now we can watch actual TV shows or movies streaming live from the internet.

The quality of the live streaming TV shows or movies is great if you have a computer that is fast enough to run the program. You at least need DSL or cable. The good news is this fast internet is available in many places around the world. I use to live in China and they have DSL so if do live in China and want to watch live streaming TV you can do so with Stream Direct TV.

What about Sports?
With Stream Direct TV installed, you can watch your favorite football game, rugby, soccer or any sport you want in countries live from around the world. I live in Texas and sometimes you can�t get the Dallas Cowboys. For instance when my wife and I were up north in Wisconsin, it was the Packers that was on TV not the Cowboys. But with this software, I can watch any game anywhere.

If you are from India and want to watch programs from the U.S then with this software you can watch the channels live streaming on your PC or with special connections on your actual TV.

Think of the convenience of being able to watch TV programs or movies or sports anywhere you can get a signal with your laptop and even today on your iphones.

What about Movies?
You can watch movies not only from the U.S but also from around the world. If you are Mexican and live in the U.S. you can watch all your Mexican programs from Mexico and movies you like.

I can tell you personally that when you are in another country besides your own and can�t understand the language on the TV programs there, you sure miss your own countries TV programs. Thank God for programs like Stream Direct so we can watch our favorite programs in our own language. That goes for anyone around the world. When we lived In China I really didn�t care for their programs and couldn�t understand them. It was so good to get this software and be able to watch English programs.

We have some Australian friends in China also and they missed their Australian channels. They are now able to watch their own programs streaming live in the internet. What a difference that made to them.

I just want to say I highly recommend Stream Direct TV. It is only a one time payment of under $50 and you can cancel your monthly cable bill.

Information on Internet TV

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:14:49 GMT

Tips for Internet Marketing

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:11:18 GMT

Tips for Internet Marketing

No matter what you may have read about internet marketing, it's nearly impossible to make 5,000 - 10,000 dollars a month, as there are simply too many people that are your competition. Also no money will appear in your hands without you doing anything for it.

Keeping that thought in mind, you'll find some great ideas below that will help you make money with online marketing programs.

1. Google and Overture:
All though the days of free traffic aren't completely over, they are surely slipping away fast. You can decide to work hard creating web pages that score well in the search engines, although it's very hard to do without some special SEO know how. One of the things I like about Google is that you can have them place ads on your website or blog. Just do a word search on Google for (Google Adsense) and then click on it and register. They will give you a code and you can then place that code on all your sites. When someone clicks on that ad, you make some money.

By paying for clicks with Google and Overture, you can reach the top three positions on the search engines. This is the fastest way to get traffic but can be very expensive. I have seen people spend $100�s on PPC and never made one sale so you must be careful. I believe Overture is cheaper as far as PPC goes.

2. Get your own email list:
Growing your very own email list is the ideal way to build freedom and residual income. Instead of sending traffic away from your site hoping for the best, you should instead have your own email list to which you are able to send multiple offers.

So how do you compile an e-mail list? You can buy one but that can be expensive. You must be very careful where you get your e-mail list because you can get into trouble for spam. I advise you to read up on spam compliance. If you have a form for people to sign up on your own personnel website and they sign up to be on your list. That is the safest as they chose to join your list. I have seen some people have their website shut down because they bought an e-mail list and blasted it out there and got into trouble. Be careful with your Internet marketing and stay out of trouble.

3. Increase traffic with Videos and Internet TV: One way to increase your traffic is to make and post videos on Youtube. It is easy to do on your PC with a camera. Many people are watching videos and also Internet TV. Your videos can be seen around the world and also build you back links.

Rick Haynes:SEO

There is 3 Things You Must Do Before You Submit To Article Directories

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:49:34 GMT

There is 3 Things You Must Do Before You Submit To Article Directories

To all writers and non-writers out there, now is the time to start digging up those creative writing skills back.
With modern communication technology comes the popularity of information-based marketing, which is one of the oldest and most effective techniques in getting targeted prospects to sites and converting them into buyers. This is why article writing, submissions and publications are also getting popular.
There are already many tools that people can use to make the process of distributing their articles more easily. Though this is invaluable in getting the contents more exposure, which is only half of the story. Let us take a look first at the common mistakes that some people make before submitting their contents to article directories:

1. Confusing the reason to promote the articles with the reason to write them. In article writing, there are three key benefits why you are promoting them; branding, lead generation and promotion, which are all part of your optimization efforts. But there is only one reason why you write an article, and that is to inform your audience. If the article is not focused on this primary and most important purpose, it will fail to achieve the three promotion benefits because no one will be interested in reading them.
You need to figure out first how to get people to read what is in your article, then make them click on your resource box. You can achieve this by producing better contents.

2. Failing to maximize the promotional opportunities of article marketing. You may know already that your articles can help you generate additional links back to your site. But do you know that you can get more visitors and better search engine results from that same articles?
Mention keywords at strategic places. Just be sure not to overdo them. Some are even using anchor texts which is also an effective method. But it is important to know that majority of the directories are not able to support this.
Remember that is not only about the links back to your site. Part of doing well in your article marketing is getting picked up by publishers with a large number of audiences and gaining the ability of leveraging other brands because of the quality of your work. Better search engine results also are great benefits.
But these things do not put much money in your pocket. There are other factors that can turn your article marketing efforts into an opportunity that can boost your earnings. Not just increase the number of visitors to your site.
Start out with a plan and see to it that your article will serve the function that you intended it to have.

3. Publishing content that does not help your readers. Maybe in the process of writing articles, you are thinking that all that is you wanted is links back to your site. And any visitors it can generate are fine.
Guess what? Not all article banks and directories are going to accept your content automatically. Oftentimes, they have some guidelines and specifications on the articles that they are accepting. You can double the number of sites you can submit to by writing articles that the directories want to share with other people. All it takes is one publisher with a hundred thousand readers to increase your potential audience overnight.
Write the articles that publishers want in their publications if you want your article marketing to work the most effective way for you. This also means you have to obey the standard guidelines, spell checks, researching on a good topic and even hiring a writer to produce a good content on your behalf.
In the end, it is all really a matter of choice on your part. You can start getting a little exposure from increased links back but on a very basic level. Or enjoy massive exposure from a little extra time making quality contents.
It will be your choice. You may not be aware of the fact that an article submitted on directories is not meant to have the same level of exposure as highly-targeted content ones geared on a narrow group of people.
Learn the difference between these two and it will surely help you know what kinds of articles to write and to submit.

Rick Haynes: SEO

You Can Watch Live TV Online. This is my review.

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:53:22 GMT

You Can Watch Live TV Online. This is my review.

Even though it has taken some time, people are moving in the direction of viewing more television on their PC or laptop. Stream Direct TV is another way of television viewing through your PC. This review will look at the benefits of this software product for PC television viewing.

Stream Direct TV has some great benefits that are very unique and very worthwhile. For instance, one of the great things about the software is that it allows you to tune in and view any number of TV channels at any location around the world all on your own personal computer.

Another feature is that if you have a favorite channel it can be saved so you can return and watch the programming again at your leisure. This is wonderful for anyone who has a desire for more than one viewing of a list of shows that stand out as quality television.

Stream TV gives you access to over 4,500 High Definition TV Channels via a form of streaming technology. Any concerns about whether the server is adequate to host that many channels seem unfounded. With this software you will get a reliable connection which will maintain consistency when viewing a huge number of global channels. So you should not need any additional software to use this product.

If you have special interest in Chinese or British TV programming this product should have special appeal. However, if you are a keen viewer of American TV there are also 175 US channels so there is genuine diversity of programming.

Another advantage of Stream Direct TV is that it is very user friendly and in fact one of the easiest PC TV products available in terms of its how simple it is. It is priced less than $50 and comes with a 60 Day Money Back Guarantee if you are not satisfied.

Rick Haynes: SEO

Affiliate Marketing: Why is it One of the Most Cost-Effective Ways to Advertise your Business

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:17:14 GMT

Affiliate Marketing: Why is it One of the Most Cost-Effective Ways to Advertise your Business

Ever heard of affiliate programs? These are forms of Internet advertising that rewards the affiliates for driving traffic to the advertiser or for other transactions. The advertiser pays the affiliate to place a link on their website, and the affiliate sends traffic to the advertiser in return. Simply put, it's about paying commissions to people who help you make sales. It's that easy. NOT.

Affiliate marketing has its ups and downs. It could be draining if you are not armed with updated information and the technical how-tos. But this article's sole objective is to reach out to you and not to badmouth affiliate marketing.

Here are the following reasons on why web marketers go gaga over affiliate marketing as a form of Internet advertisement.
1. Low cost
Many are scared to go on a home based business because of the capital required. In affiliate marketing, you don't have to spend much to start raking in moolah.

2. Inventories not included
Product management fuss could be very stressing. An inventory is not asked to be maintained. The merchant does the maintenance required.

3. Unlimited income through leverage
When you have a paid job, your monthly income mainly relies on whether you go to work or not. With affiliate marketing, your affiliates could all just lead traffic to your site without having to lift a finger after providing them your ad copy and links. Though not every web marketer earns limitless, it still is a fact that all the necessary matters for the advertiser or Internet marketer are all there to be successful.

4. Go worldwide
With affiliate marketing, you are dealing with a global market place. All you have to do is choose a niche product and prepare all the necessary tools for your affiliates to lead traffic from just about anywhere to your website.

5. Low risk
The very main reason for Internet marketer's enthusiasm with affiliate marketing is its having a low risk factor. Especially for those with low budget set aside for advertising, affiliate marketing is just the way to do it.

6. No closing time
With affiliate marketing, your business works every single second of the day while targeting a worldwide market! What could be better than that?

But all of these will be put to waste if you don't have the right niche product and all the other important tools to make it big in affiliate marketing, i.e., well-SEO-ed website. So better work on this first before ever considering those benefits.

Rick Haynes: SEO
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Steps To Watch Free Movies Online On Demand

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:19:20 GMT

Steps To Watch Free Movies Online On Demand

Author: Vivek Dutta

You may not always have a mood of watching movies. But when you do get the mood of watching it, nothing can stop you. The best thing about watching movies is that there is no specific time of watching it. You can watch movies whenever you feel like. With the advent of Internet, people have started watching free movies online.

Mood plays a great role in movie watching. If you prefer watching movies online in that case you may have a computer, a high-speed Internet connection, time and energy but you not have the mood of watching it. In such a case, even if you set back to watch movies online, you may not enjoy watching it.

So, to watch free movies online, it is thus essential to set up your mood at first for watching movies. Without creating a proper mood you won�t be able to enjoy the movie fully. You may have DVDs of various movies in your house but the movie that you want to watch; you may not have that one. In this case, the best way to watch movies is to watch out free movies online by making use of computer and net connection.

By watching free online movies, you can watch any movie of your choice. There is no limit to the number of watching the same movie online if the site that you log on to is free of charge i.e. do not take any amount from you for watching the movie. You can watch the movie as many number of times you feel like if you log on to free movies online site.

So, whenever you have the right mood to watch out films, utilize the time and start watching films online. Here are some steps that you can follow to watch free movies online that are on demand.

Just think about the memberships. If you wish to pay out for the movie plans, then you may be eligible to download the movies for free of cost. This is a great option.
You need to open up your account settings and simply learn about the time you need for watching free movies online that you wish to. The basic plans normally offer about 5 hrs viewing time every month.
Browse through online movie websites, jotting down the titles that you find interest in. Look out for the titles that are marked as �on demand viewing�. Write the movie length along with the name of the movie.
Add the movie length timings to know how to get the most viewing from your monthly usage. Just put star alongside your favorite title and just watch out how many you can actually fit in a month.
Then click on to the link for downloading the movie from the free movies online site. The site may even ask you to install the program. In that case, follow up the directions to enjoy the movie that�s on demand.
You can also check up the website like Hulu. This is a very popular site.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/movies-articles/steps-to-watch-free-movies-online-on-demand-1842177.html

About the Author

Vivek Dutta is a journalist, who covers the world internet related topics . He writes columns and articles for various websites and internet journals in the domain of watch free movies online, free online movies and Watch movies online.

Posted by Rick Haynes:SEO
Free Movies

How to get Internet TV Access

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:11:21 GMT

Online Business Taxes- Do You Really Have To Pay?

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:26:06 GMT

Do You Really Have To Pay?

Taxes - And Your Online Business

If you are a neophyte in realm of online business, then perhaps you have a lot of questions that are plaguing your mind and one of them may be all about whether you are obliged to pay taxes for your online business or not. Calculating and paying your duly taxes alone is already one confusing ride, and surely it will get more confusing if it will be mixed with an online business. However, as they say, there�s no problem that cannot be solved. With just a few tips and guides, you can find out how to pay taxes for your online business without any hassles or problems along the way.

The Charm Of Online Business

Before we talk about taxes and your online business, let�s discuss first why more and more people are getting attracted to starting their own online business. Well, first of all, it is very hassle-free compared to having a business in the non-virtual world. You see, in online business, you only have to type and click for your business to boom. Very minimal manual labor is needed in an online business and one can even get to work at home in their pajamas while managing their online business. Now the question is: are online businessmen or entrepreneurs exempted from paying taxes? The answer is no. All individuals who are earning money online are required to pay taxes. Sure, the government can�t possibly keep track of how much money each person generates online but then again, it�s one of the citizens� responsibilities to go ahead and be responsible enough to pay for their taxes.

The Real Deal About Most Online Businesses

The truth is, not everybody who does business online is honestly paying their due taxes. Most online businesses include shopping and it�s a known fact that most if not all shoppers despise paying sales tax and adore a bargain that is luxuriously tax-free. The Internet is actually considered to be a great venue for tax-free shopping which lures more and more customers each day. Online retailers have been using a no-tax shopping tag line to attract more online shoppers to their business.

Sounds like a win-win situation, right? Online shoppers enjoy numerous tax-free shopping sprees and online retailers don�t pay their taxes. Most people probably think that doing business through the Internet is considered to be tax-free. However, the fact is, some Internet sales are actually subject to what we know as �sales tax� and online consumers are the ones often responsible to remit any unpaid sales tax on whatever online products they have purchased.

They can actually remit it directly to their state come tax-paying time. Collecting Sales Tax The process of determining whether you should pay taxes for your online business or not may be quite confusing and overwhelming -especially if it�s your first time to get involved in online business. However, here are just some few tips you should remember: the obligation to pay the so-called �Sales Tax� can be determined by the location of the customers, and not the seller.

If a business does not actually have a physical presence in a particular state (an example of this would be your online store or business), it is not required to collect sales tax from costumers in that certain state.

Can Your Website be Sued Over the Ad Content You Use?

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:30:04 GMT

Can Your Website be Sued Over the Ad Content You Use?

If you thought your website was safe, be aware that there are cases where a corporation successfully sued an advertiser for them using a trademarked term in the copy of the ad on their website. The answer to that question could alarm you. If you thought your website was safe, be aware that there are cases where a corporation successfully sued an advertiser for them using a trademarked term in the copy of the ad on their website. Usually, this is a rare occasion because most advertisers rely on search engines such as Google to act as their intermediary when it comes to exceptions with trademark filings.

As you are reading this, there are currently ads on Google that are using the same trademarked terms on their websites and most website owners have come to rely on Google to stop them from using terms and wording that they should not use. This causes great concern with the notion of one advertiser suing another advertiser over trademarked information in their ads and not abiding by Google�s process correctly.

In the most recent case of this type of action, there were keywords that triggered the trademarked word to appear in their ads. Instances such as these make us aware of the fact they we all need to be up to date on the policies of Google and the usage of trademarks.

According to the current trademark policy on Google, anyone is able to bid on and use a keyword in his or her ads. If and when an advertiser files a complaint, Google will then make the determination of the other advertiser has the right to legally use it. One of the catches with this policy that Google uses is that a lot of keywords are actually industry trademarked. Meaning there are certain keywords such as "apple" that are coined by Macintosh computers, but if you are a produce farmer, using the keyword "apple" is completely legitimate because it is a different industry.

What can you do if you are an advertiser using a trademarked term?

1. Option One � you can file the exception to the trademark with Google. This is not always an ideal choice because if you are not the direct manufacturer of the trademarked item, you still want others to be able to use it to help marketing it.
2. Option Two � Choosing to not act. Sometimes doing nothing about the situation is the best way to go.
3. Option Three � Be selective when you are thinking about suing � determine if it is worth the costs and fees associated with it.

Sometimes it is really hard to determine if you are using a trademarked item on your website or in your advertising content. There can be very few differences between what you use and what is trademarked. If we rely on the three major search engines, which are Yahoo, Google and MSN, they need to have consistent policies in effect to create a uniform way of handling these issues. It would make things much easier on all of the marketers if they could go without the legal fines and tap dancing around the fine lines of infringing on other advertisers rights.

About The Author:
Sarah Folgea from Aceinternetmarketing.ie specializes in writing articles relating to the online Business Industry and website monetizing.
By Sarah Folgea

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Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:12:06 GMT

My Top Links Page

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Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:30:18 GMT

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Get the toxins out of your home. Go Green

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:25:28 GMT

Get the toxins out of your home. Go Green!

Did you know that nearly all over the counter cleaners have toxins in them that can injure or even kill a person or your child. Shaklee has all natural cleaning products that are 100% safe. They do a better job of cleaning and are super concentrated. One 16 ounce bottle of Basic H will make 48 gallons of super cleaning power. They have dish washing, clothes washing, hand washing, grease cleaning products and they are all completely safe and super concentrated. They will save you a boat load of money.

Rick Haynes: SEO
Shaklee Independent Distributor
254-592-2900
My Shaklee Site

Vitalea from Shaklee

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:45:22 GMT

New Document

Vitalea By Shaklee

The road to good health is a commitment that includes a healthy diet and regular exercise�as well as the daily use of a multivitamin and multimineral supplement. Why? Because even if we try our best, most of us fail to get all the vitamins and minerals we need from diet alone. Actualy fewer than 25% of adults eat the recommended five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables per day. And over a period of time, poor nutritional intake can lead to impaired immune function, feelings of fatigue, and overall suboptimal health. many of the leading nutrition experts from many organizations�including the American Medical Association and Harvard School of Public Health�acknowledge the importance of a daily multivitamin-multimineral supplement.

Exceptional Quality

Every time Vitalea is made it goes through 340 test to assure exact potency and purity. No artificial flavors, sweeteners, colors, or preservatives added. Gluten free.

100% Shaklee Guarantee

Shaklee stands behind each and every one of their products. The ingredients, purity, safety, and performance of all our Nutrition, Healthy Home, and Personal Care products are 100% guaranteed.

Look at the information below about Vitalea. It is a PDF file. HERE

Rick Haynes:SEO
Shaklee Independent Distributor
254-592-2900
My Shaklee Site

Weight loss products with Shaklee

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:19:53 GMT

Weight Loss products with Shaklee

Weight loss is on everybody�s mind these days. So many people are over weight and are starting diets. Many are looking for nutritional supplements and weight loss supplements to give them the vitamins and minerals they need as they loose weight.

Shaklee has a nutritional supplement called Cinch. The first line of defense in getting blood sugar levels back to normal is to get down to a normal weight. The Cinch weight loss program is powered by Leucine and is designed to break the diet cycle. Leucine helps you preserve your muscle mass while losing fat tissue. Many diet�s cause you to lose muscle along with your fat but this is not good. You only want to lose fat.

With Cinch you drink two delicious shakes a day these shakes are filled with all natural protein. All of Shaklee�s vitamins and nutritional supplements are all natural and 100 % pure.

Rick Haynes: SEO
Shaklee Independent Distributor
254-592-2900
My Shaklee Site

Shaklee opportunity in Spanish

Mon, 24 May 2010 08:18:06 GMT

New Document

Shaklee opportunity in Spanish

To see the Shaklee business opportunity in Spanish just click HERE

It is in PDF form.

Rick Haynes: SEO
Shaklee Independent Distributor
254-592-2900
My Shaklee Site

Are you looking for a home business? Look no more

Wed, 19 May 2010 08:30:29 GMT

New Document

Are you looking for a home business?

Shaklee has been in business for 50 years. They have a tremendous paying system. Just watch the video below.

Shaklee Opportunity Video

Rick Haynes: SEO Shaklee Independent Distributor
254-592-2900
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Shaklee Alfalfa

Tue, 11 May 2010 07:32:17 GMT

New Document

Alfalfa by Shaklee

Alfalfa is a storehouse of nutrients. It roots reach 20 ft down into the soil. It�s leaves draw in huge amounts of chlorophyll through the natural process of photosynthesis.

Alfalfa complex is a Shaklee signature formula. It was developed by Dr Shaklee. They use only the best alfalfa in California.

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Rick Haynes: SEO
Shaklee Independent Distributor
254-592-2900
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Lose weight with Cinch from Shaklee

Mon, 10 May 2010 09:16:08 GMT

New Document Lose weight with Cinch from Shaklee.
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Rick Haynes:SEO
Independent Shaklee Distributor
254-592-2900
My Shaklee Site

Living in China

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:53:46 GMT

New Document

Living in China

Joy and I moved to Beijing China in May of 1995. At time Beijing was at least one third smaller. It was a shock to be in a place that you can�t speak any Chinese and can�t order food or tell a taxi driver where you want to go.

We studied Chinese mandarin there for one and one half years. then we moved to a city in the Liaoning Province called Shen Yang. Joy taught English at a medical university.

In 2000, we moved to Dalian China, a city on the coast. It is beautiful there. We opened an orphanage and received 16 Chinese orphans. We could have taken 29 China orphans that day but we only had enough money to take the ones we got. We still have 12 of those children now. Some are in university, some in high school and one in middle school.

There are many Christian Ministries in China doing different things different ways.

Rick Haynes: SEO
China Harvest Ministries
254-592-2900

Spring Festival in China

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:24:03 GMT

Spring Festival in China

Psalm 67:6 God sets the solitary in families ; He brings out those who are bound into prosperity.

In February, as many of you know we celebrated Chun Jie, which is called Spring Festival here. It is one of the biggest holiday�s here in China. The Chinese orphan children were richly blessed during those days with good family time, and lots of good food. Many of you made it possible to buy the extra goodies, as it is traditional to eat festive foods here during that holiday. Our dinner table was graced with Chicken Feet, Silk Worms, Pig Ears, Shrimp, Fish, and other kinds of Sea Food. I was able to get a recipe and make Kentucky Fried Chicken for the kids. They were elated with the good food, and fellowship that went around the table several times during the ten day holiday! The kids had their winter holiday at that time. Before the holiday some of them went to visit relatives, which they took the good news to them as well. There were 12 kids plus myself in our two bedroom apartment. With one bathroom and no hot water it was a challenge. But love never fails, and we can endure all things, so when the bathroom line was long, and the sleeping accommodations weren�t as comfy as one would like, we all put the Word forth and left patience have it�s perfect work in us!

Invitations:

John 17:21 �..that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the word may believe that You sent Me.

The children attend the local legal Church here on Saturday nights. They have reached out to their classmates and are now taking classmates with them as they attend. At the end of each service, there is an alter call which gives them the opportunity to become one of the family. This is such good news, as so many say that the kids are so different from all others! We give our Father all the Glory for these invitations that are being accepted.

Sometimes things here don�t move along as we would like them to. There are hindrances that have to be broken through. I am making every effort to take a trip north to Shen Yang and teach some friends. Many are waiting for my arrival. Please keep this in thought so this can be carried out and our Father�s will can be done. I had planned to go this month, but the doors were not open, but I trust next month will be quite profitable.

Rick Haynes: SEO
China Harvest Ministries

The thief returns the cell phone

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:22:00 GMT

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The thief returns the cell phone

About two weeks ago, my wife was on the bus in Dalian China where we live. The bus was so crowded as it was bitter cold outside. A man stuck his hand in my wife�s purse and stole her cell phone. When she got off the bus and into a store she was going to call one of the Chinese orphans we care for.

We call them our children and they call us grandma and grandpa. We have 13 children altogether. Joy finally noticed her cell phone was gone and knew it was stolen. So she went back to the apartment and one of our girls who is studying to be a nurse, called the house. "Grandma, she said, where have you been, I have been trying to call you". Joy said "someone stole my cell phone on the bus". So Xu Ling ( sounds like Shoe Ling) called Joy�s cell number. A man answered the phone. Xu Ling said "you stole that phone from my grandma; she needs that phone as she cares for 13 children and she needs it". The man hung up.

Xu Ling calls another girl and all the other children. They start calling the man. "That is my grandma�s phone, you must give it back". "She doesn�t have the money for another". Those precious kids pestered that thief until he said, �I will bring it back, it is too much trouble�. That is what he did. That will teach him to steal from Grandma Joy.

Rick Haynes- President and CEO
China Harvest Ministries
http://chinaharvest.org
http://chinaharvestministries.com

Can you help a Chinese orphan today

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:43:09 GMT

New Document China Harvest Ministries opened an orphanage in Dalian China in September 2000. Rick and Joy Haynes founded the orphanage. They gathered 16 Chinese orphans whose parents had either been killed, committed suicide or died of disease. They still have 12 the original 16. Some are in middle school now, some in high school and some in university or trade school. China Harvest Ministries will continue to care for these kids until they finish school and go out on their own.

Rick Haynes: SEO
254-592-2900
China Harvest Ministries
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Registered black angus bull and heifer sale

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:11:34 GMT

Black angus bull and heifer sale

Donny Heinze from the Heinze Angus Ranch is having a bull and heifer sale. These are registered black angus cattle.

There is 20 bulls are 10 to 14 months old and will weigh from 850 to 1250 lb�s.

These are virgin bulls raised on all natural feed.

There is also 18 heifers that are 10 � 14 months old and weigh 600 to 850 lbs.

Contact Donny Heinze
254-977-3605

Angus Ranch info.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:45:17 GMT

New Document Donny and Janice Heinze are the owners of the Heinze Angus Ranch. Donny has a degree in agriculture from Tarlton State University in Stephenville, Texas. Tarlton State is a part of the A & M University system which is one of the top agriculture Universities in the United States.

In his early years Donny and Janice had a dairy outside of Stephenville and did very well until milk prices went down they they sold the herd.

Then Donny bought a truck and owned his own truck company for many years and now they have settled on the Heinze Angus Ranch in Tuscola, Texas.

They love animals of all kinds and and take great care in producing some of the best Black Angus cattle in the world.

Donny is now using his knowlege of cattle and farming to grow crops for his herd and to AI his cows to the top Angus Sires in the U.S. Donny and Janice are some of the best Black Angus breeders in the United States today.

The ranch is over 500 acres and has hills and valleys, with deer and wild animals. It is a beautiful place full of peace and warmth.

Rick Haynes: SEO
254-592-2900
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Blast 12 million ads

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:29:14 GMT

New Document Do you know where to place and ad online or submit a URL to sites or search engines. It is difficult to know where to go to get your sites listed in the search engines. Some place charge large fees to submit your URL or some are just scams and you never get listed. How about if you want to place an ad and don't want to spend a lot of money. Do you know what to do?

I will tell you what webmasters do. They use a free tool that I use called the Blastomatic. It will blast out your ads to 12 million places at once. Now that is SEO power. Did I mention it is FREE. If you want to get free leads and want to promote your website. If you ad this tool to your webmaster tool belt it will certainly give you a boost.

Rick Haynes: SEO
Verified Veretekk Trainer
254-592-2900
rickhaynes.seo@gmail.com
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China Harvest Ministries Jan. Newsletter

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:37:17 GMT

New Document January � February Newsletter, 2010

We had a wonderful 2009 Christmas here in Dalian. We are well into 2010, and expecting a wonderful year. Not all of the kids were able to make it home for Christmas, but all have returned for the winter holiday!

Sharing Our Faith:

Philemon 5��..Hearing of thy love and thy faith which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; that the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

On January 10th the kids began their winter holiday. They all came home from Universities, High School, and Vocational Tech School. They were relieved to have the winter break once again. This year there has been a major change in some of the kid�s lives. They were able to get jobs and work during the two month winter holiday.

They are shinning lights to their co-workers. Most would say here that it is impossible to get a job here, especially with being a student, as many people wouldn�t even consider hiring a student for two months.

Shekinah Joy is working in a factory, which provides dormitory living and one meal a day. There are 7 other girls sharing the dormitory with her. She is working ten � twelve hours a day. The work is hard, and many of the girls are easily discouraged. The dormitory mates comment that Shekinah Joy is fun to be with. They remark that she is always happy and her ring of laughter echoes out into the hallway, causing others to laugh and encouraging them to see the good things in life. Shekinah Joy is sharing her faith with the girls as she continuously has a good attitude and openly expresses her thankfulness to her Heavenly Father.

Gao Yan Ming is working in a local restaurant. He works ten hours a day. He has opportunities to display his honesty, and good character. He is eager to share his faith, and to tell what the Lord has done in his life.

Zhou Meng Sheng is tutoring 7th and 8th grade students. He tutors them in English, Physics and Chemistry. The parents of one of his students remarked about his integrity and work ethics and gave him about 5 pounds of fish. The parents are paying him by the hour, but are also blessing him with extra gifts because of his commitment to teach their children.

Wu Fu Gong is working in a local supermarket. His major in College is English, and he will be taking the Level 6 English test in March when he returns to school. The supermarket hired him to stock shelves. He will be graduating from university this summer and will find a permanent job and start out in life.

All of these kids return to school on March 6th. Their days are long, and the pay is little. They have to work for one month before they receive a pay check. They earn between $.29 and $1.00 an hour. There are many students here who wouldn�t work for those wages, but the kids believe that whatever they put their hands to will prosper.

Teaching English:
During the holiday season here, which is called Spring Festival, (China�s biggest festival of the year,) I have been asked to teach English. It is �Intensive English� which is a three week course. It has opened doors and given me opportunities to share my faith as well with the head of the school and the children.

Spring Festival:
Spring Festival begins on February 13th and lasts for ten days. We will be celebrating the festival together as a family. It�s been traditional for us to wrap jiaozi (a special kind of dumpling) on the Eve of the Festival, and then have a special supper. After supper everyone participates in games and activities, and then settles down to watch the TV specials. At 12:00 midnight the Chinese New Year is brought in with fireworks, along with cooking the jioazi that was previously wrapped. It is traditional to eat the jiaozi shortly after midnight. This is a long time family tradition that has been celebrated throughout history here in this country.

Our Appreciation:
We want you to know we appreciate all of you. We appreciate your love, prayers, and support that you extend to us on a daily basis. You have been a part in helping the kids here, and will have life long results. Your gift of love that you have sown will truly go on and on! Thank You for standing with us, for helping us, and for wrapping your arms around each one of these kids. Thank you for all that you�ve done to see the Kingdom of God advance in their lives and the lives of others.

2 Corinthians 9:8-9 says, �And God is able to make all grace abound towards you, that ye always having all sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work: (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor: His righteousness remaineth forever.)� Your prayers and financial support is definitely abounding to �every good work!�

Rick Haynes
China Harvest Ministries

Heinze Angus Ranch

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:13:50 GMT

Top quality registered Black Angus Cattle. Donny Heinze is raising some of the best bred Angus cattle in Texas. He is using the top producing Angus sires in the ABS program to AI his top quality dams with.

Donny is also a distributer of Elite Trailers. Gooseneck trailers any way you want it.

Donny Heinze
Heinze Angus Ranch
Tuscola, Texas 254-977-3605
http://heinzeangusranch.com

Update on China Orphans

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:48:23 GMT

New Document THis is Han Xiao and she came to us as a Chinese orphan in 2000 and Has been with us 9 years now.
She is enrolled in a 3year Computer Course, learning computer programming. This is her first year. She has adjusted very well and has found favor with many of her classmates and teachers. She is a very happy girl, and has a heart to help others.

> This is Zhou Li. She was also a China orphan that came to Us in 2000.
Zhou Li and Han Xiao both attend the same school. Zhou Li is in her third year and will graduate in July. Her teachers consider her to be a good example to other girls in her class, as she is very modest, and also loving and kind to all she meets.

Rick Haynes
China Harvest Ministries
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Original prints from Liu Xian Sheng

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:29:58 GMT

Original Prints from Liu Xian Sheng

In September 2000, China Harvest Ministries opened an orphanage in Dalian China. Liu Xian Sheng ( sounds like Leo She-en Shung), was one of 16 children that came to the orphanage. Both of his parents were dead and his relatives could not care for him.

Through the years , LXS has always liked drawing and painting. He studied art vigorously all through middle school and high school. He was the best art student in Dalian Kai Fa Qu. His school even paid for him to go to Beijing twice to study art there for several weeks.

This year he started his first year of university. During this past summer LXS painted all day everyday. We are selling some of his art prints to pay for his tuition and room and board. These pictures can be seen at China Harvest Ministries. Some people are buying two or three of them at a time.

Rick Haynes
China Harvest Ministries
254-592-2900
http://chinaharvestministries.com
http://bigtex52.1-family.com

Ministries in China

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:40:20 GMT

Ministries in China

China Harvest Ministries has been in China since August of 1995. Rev. Rick and Joy Haynes moved to Beijing in 1995 and began studying the Chinese language. In 1997, they moved to the medical university in Shenyang which is the capital of the Liao Ning Province.

In 2000 China Harvest Ministries opened an orphanage in Dalian China with the cooperation of the Chinese Government. Mr. Wang Yong Sheng of Kai Fa Qu received the license for the orphanage and appointed Rick and Joy to be managers. They gathered 16 Chinese orphans and still care for 13 of them today.

There are many ministries operating China today. Some help orphans and others feed the poor and still others bring in medical teams and give free medical clinics.

Rick Haynes
China Harvest Ministries
http://chinaharvest.org
http://heinzeangusranch.com

Can You help this China orphan?

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:50:03 GMT

Can you help this China orphan?

This is Shekinah Joy.

She is a Chinese orphan that came to the orphanage outside of Dalian, China back in September 2000. She was 6 years old when she came and was very small from being malnourished. Her father died first then she cared for her sick mother. Her mother had cancer and Shekinah would take her mothers cloths to the half frozen river and wash the blood out of them. Her hands and face was like leather from weather exposure.

Her mother died of the cancer and she came to live at the orphanage. Her skin began to heal after many months of good food and skin care. Rick and Joy Haynes, founders of China Harvest Ministries, worked with the government and started the orphanage in Sept. 2000.

Shekinah has always laughed and giggled. Her Chinese name is Han Xiao. It means little laughing one. It sure fits her. She is in the 10th grade now and doing well. If you would like to help support her with finances, please contact China Harvest Ministries. Po Box 2074 Broken Arrow, Oklahoma 74013 U.S.A.

Rick Haynes � President and CEO
254-592-2900
http://chinaharvest.org
http://bigtex52.1-family.com

This is Xu Huan Huan

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:23:25 GMT

This is Xu Huan Huan

Her name sounds like ( Shoe Hwan Hwan ).

XHH is a China orphan along with her older sister Xu Ling. She came to the orphanage about a year or so after it was open. I am not sure how their parents died but they were orphans. The welfare department asked if we would take them in and w did. She was just about to start the first grade when they came. What a little cutie she was and still is. When she talked, she would peep like a bird. So faint you could hardly hear her. Now she is in the eighth grade. XHH is very intelligent and does well in school. It takes about $800 a year to care for her and pay her school fees.

Would you be willing to help sponsor her? Can you help? Here is a photo album of XHH. Just click on picture.

Xu Huan Huan

Rick Haynes � President and CEO
China Harvest Ministries
254-592-2900
http://chinaharvest.org
http://helping-china-orphans.com

Chinese New Years

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:32:53 GMT

Chinese New Years with our China Orphans

Joy and I have lived in China since August 1995 and have seen many Chinese New Years Come and go. It has been special these last 8 years as we have enjoyed it with the Chinese orphans we support and care for.

Travel: This year, Jan 26 is Chinese New Year. Millions of people travel during this time by bus and train. The train stations are packed and people try to buy tickets days ahead of time. Some can't even get tickets. Many have to stand in the isle for hours or days to get home. It is very important for them to go home and be with family.

To Chinese It is there most important holiday. But Christians consider the holiday second after Christmas. It is similar to Christmas as the family gathers and has good food. Every year the kids at the orphanage along with my wife Joy make Jiaozi or dumplings. It is a tradition. It usually has pork, cabbage, vegetable and spices. They are very delicious. They boil them in water and you dip them in soy sauce with garlic. Other good foods are enjoyed such as tangerines, fruits and different snacks. Then they watch special Chinese shows with singing and comedy. They are glued to the TV.

Fire works:
I have never seen such fireworks as they have on Chinese New Years. The fireworks they use would blow a hand right off. It sounds like a bombing during a war and is constant for hours. All the cars alarms are going off. You can�t even hear a friend talk next to you. If you live on the 6th floor as many do, it sounds like the windows will blow out.
The next morning you can go out and red paper from the fireworks cover the streets and everything. It is very interesting. People spend a lot of money for fireworks.

Rick Haynes
China Harvest Ministries
http://helping-china-orphans.com
http://chinaharvest.org

Helping China Orphans

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:10:20 GMT

Hello Everyone I have just started a new website called "Helping China Orphans". As you know we have an organization called China Harvest Ministries located in broken Arrow, Oklahoma. My name is Rick Haynes and I am the president and CEO. My wife Joy and I founded China Harvest Ministries in Sept 2000. We feed the poor in China and care for 14 Chinese orphans. We consider them our children and they consider us their grandparents. Have a look at our new site and watch the video. http://helping-china-orphans.com http://chinaharvest.org Rick Haynes China Harvest Ministries

China Orphans Video

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