Wednesday, December 31, 2008

5 Biggest Mistakes of New Internet Marketers

By Amy Nutt

Internet marketing has become increasingly popular over the past few years and many people are just starting to venture into earning money online. Unfortunately, if you don`t know what you`re doing, you`ll be quite likely to make some mistakes that could cost you big time. Being aware of what the biggest mistakes that newbies make is a good step toward being successful.

Here, we`ll be looking at the top five mistakes that internet marketers make in their first year. By understanding what goes wrong, you will be better able to avoid these same errors yourself.

1. Underestimating the workload. If you believe everything you read online, it seems that you can simply throw up an automated website, grab some email addresses and you`re off to the races. Unfortunately, the real world doesn't work that way. Even the big name gurus who would like you to believe that you can magically rake in the money overnight had to work at it. Internet marketing is definitely a good way to earn money and it can eventually become relatively passive income, but you definitely need to put in the work at the beginning to make it work.

2. Jumping into the "earn money online" niche. Just look around the internet and you`ll find hundreds of people telling you how to earn money online. How many of these people actually earned money online before telling others how to do it? You`d be amazed at how many internet marketers are struggling, even as they attempt to lead others. If you aren`t earning online, don`t even think about trying to teach others. Look for a niche that is less competitive and one that you can actually stand out in.

3. Throwing money at the problem. Every business requires some start up money, but that doesn't mean you have to go crazy about it. You can learn a lot online just by reading articles and then making a few well thought out purchases. Most newbie internet marketers go ahead and start up pay per click campaigns to help drive traffic. While PPC can be a great way to bring in traffic, if you don`t fully understand how to use it, you`ll just end up losing money. Take the time to research and understand where your money is going.

4. Being too general. A sporting goods website might do alright, but in most cases, there is just too much competition for general ideas. Instead, look for micro-niches, like "protective sports footwear", which will have less competition and still a healthy amount of traffic. It pays to get specific. Even if you are thinking of doing this with several micro-niches, stick to one until it works, then you can branch out.

5. Giving up too soon. It`s a sad fact that most new internet marketers give up just before they could have been successful. Just because your idea didn't hit pay dirt in the first week doesn't mean it`s a bad idea. If you continue on, you`ll likely find that with a bit more publicity and hard work, you can make it happen, just so long as you stick with the original idea.

Internet marketing isn't quite as easy as the gurus make it sound, though it is definitely a great way to earn a living. As long as you go into it with realistic expectations and ready to stick with your plans and ideas for the long haul, you are quite likely to find success. Make sure you do your research, investigating everything you can on your topic and then just go on and do it. You`ll never succeed if you don`t try.

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Koolphone is the Best Way to Get Your Free Wireless Phone

By Free Wireless

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How do you choose a cell phone and calling plan that is right for you? Over the life of your phone, the calling plan service will cost more than the phone itself. Especially if the phone is free. You should choose the most cost-effective calling plan from a carrier with good coverage in your area. With all the competition for subscribers among carriers, monthly and per-minute costs of wireless calling has gone down dramatically.

Subscribers can keep their existing wireless phone number and even their landline based numbers when starting or transferring service to a new carrier. With the right calling plan, a wireless phone should not cost much more than a landline phone. Every day people are switching to wireless and giving up their landline service altogether.

There are a few terms you need to be familiar with. TALK TIME: The total amount of phone use, typically measured in minutes, for both calls placed and calls received. PEAK MINUTES: Talk time minutes used during the prime calling periods when the carrier networks are most active, typically between 6am and 9pm Monday through Friday. OFF PEAK MINUTES: Talk Time minutes used outside of prime calling periods. ROAMING: Refers to any wireless phone used outside of a customer's home calling area or carrier network coverage. MOBILE-TO-MOBILE MINUTES: Minutes used for receiving or making calls from another customer on your carrier's service network.

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How to Start an Employment Agency

By Alice Sy

An employment agency can be a prospective business. Since the demand for workers is high, with more businesses being established that prefer getting their workers from an agency, it can promise a good income. If you have any interest in putting up a business like this, here are some pieces of advice for you:

Consider your budget. To start up a business like this, you should have sufficient money. You can never start a business with the absence of capital. There will be some equipment to buy and some people to hire. You should be able to assess which should be bought and which should be rented. If you will need to hire some people to make up your staff, know what positions should be filled in. You need to avoid unnecessary staffing.

Try to find out how things are with your business competitors. Make sure that your business will be competitive enough. Check on their rates as well to give yourself some ideas on how you should charge.

In putting up a domestic helper agency, you will be required to secure permits and other necessary documentations. You cannot operate legally without these, so be sure to gather all the information that you will need in line with this issue such as the "where tos" and the "hows".

The business site is an important factor. It should be accessible to your applicants. If your home is located in a good area, you can opt to place your office there. It will be more convenient for you and it will make you save a huge amount of money because you won't have to pay for transportation and monthly rental fees.

Apply for a dedicated phone line. As much as possible, this phone should only be used for business purposes. Keep it open for your clients and applicants. You can also choose to divert the calls to your residential phone after working hours. Hiring an answering service is also a good idea or you can simply install a voice mail or an answering machine to resolve this.

Now, here are two of the best parts --- marketing your services and getting job orders. You can obtain them fast enough if you have some good marketing strategies which are ready to be applied. You can create print ads or announce your business through various directories and classified ads online and offline. You can hire skilled marketers or establish a reward system which will entitle anyone who can bring in new clients to a commission.

No matter what, it's quite important for your business to keep on finding jobs to give to your applicants. There may be many applicants but what's the use if they will have no employer to go to?

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Social Network Chiropractic Video Marketing Secrets

By Matthew Loop, DC

No one could have guessed how phenomenally successful social networks like YouTube, Facebook, and MySpace would become. The power and potential of these top sites are mind boggling. When in 2005 I began to introduce the power of these sites to chiropractors and show them the impact it could have on their marketing, I knew that web 2.0 could bring all of them phenomenal marketing success in these difficult times. Knowing all this, I still couldn't even fathom the remarkable success that was really still to come.

The amount of leverage that social media sites allowed me was tremendous. It was truly remarkable how much of my time was freed up by using the power of Web 2.0, and leveraging out the marketing work to other employees. This kind of marketing is absolutely free, so no longer was I in the hole due to overpriced marketing firms that yielded no results. I began 3 years ago to meet people in my community through MySpace, and the number of my new acquaintances grew to 50 people almost every single day. The traffic that this was bringing to my website was phenomenal. As I optimized my profile and experimented with different things, the phone calls from future patients just started to pour in. I was amazed by what was happening.

The results and success that I experienced with this kind of online marketing was almost instantaneous. In fact, I experienced dramatic results within 24 hours. I successfully was able to brand myself as the chiropractic authority in my community, and therefore entice countless new patients to utilize my services. I was able to constantly keep in touch with my new friends online and send information to my massive amount of subscribers. When you're keeping in touch with several thousand people on a regular basis, there's basically an avalanche of success that begins to flow your way.

One of the things that I was able to capitalize on very early in my social network endeavors was simple chiropractic video marketing. Making videos and uploading them is a fairly simple, quick process yet so few chiropractors have even thought to marketing to their community this way. A word of advice, though. After you shoot your video from a video camera or digital camera, many times you will need to compress the actual file using Windows Movie Maker (if you have a PC) or iMovie (if you have a MAC). Then, you will be able to edit or upload to a video sharing website like YouTube.

I first noticed years ago that videos were getting a wonderful index status on the major search engines. We are visual creatures, and people respond more to watching videos online than they do to articles and blogs. When someone can see your face and hear your message, they automatically feel like they know you and can trust you. This is pure gold for your credibility in your community and in the chiropractic world. These videos are available to be viewed 24/7, so you know the internet is working for you, even when you're sleeping! I carry my camera and tripod everywhere I go so that when I'm inspired to make an informative video, I can just do it. Some of the best I've made used the ocean or beautiful mountains as a background.

There has never been a better time to begin to learn chiropractic video marketing for your practice. In fact, did you know that over 50% of all online content today is video? More and more folks turn to and search the internet every day for solutions to their aches and pains. If they begin to see you blanket the search engines, this will build social proof just by the sheer number of listings and videos that you have. You can be your own PR machine and untouchable by the competition.

It's truly awesome when you have the ability to give people a tour of your office, so that they can really see where you work and the environment of your practice. I know it sounds funny, but I carry my video camera and tripod with me everywhere, because I'm always inspired by some new idea for an informational video and promo for my chiropractic practice. I've shot videos everywhere! It says something about the success of my practice that I've made promo videos in the office, at home, in the mountains, near oceans, and even in Costa Rica! Wouldn't you like to hear answers about your back pain from someone sitting in a majestic location? Viewers come with me on this journey, and are better able to trust me when I speak to them in the flattering natural light.

It's important that you put out 1-2 videos a month as a minimum. This is how you can canvas the search engines and come up in multiple places. You must keep pumping out material so that your position stays strong in search engines. There's no need to outsource your videos because it will cost a lot of money and it's so easy to do yourself.

It's so important to have a good time when you're making these videos. If you're relaxed, having fun, and educating people, then you're putting yourself in the best possible light, and that will mean that people will see you as someone they want to turn to when they need a chiropractor. When you continuously put out information that people enjoy hearing and want to learn from, then your power in the community rapidly expands.

Lastly, find a chiropractic coach with a proven track record who's been leveraging social media and social networking the past several years. Since the social media landscape is so vast, it's a good idea to find a consultant that solely specializes in this type of chiropractic marketing. This is not the type of material that can be effectively taught for an hour at a multi-topic seminar. After you find your mentor, hang-on for one incredible ride. Your chiropractic practice and business live may never be the same again!

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New Slatwall Shopfittings for Versatile Retail Display

By David Murphy

The quality of the slatwall components used in slatwall displays, can make or break the display! Quality slatwall components, that are durable, will lead effortlessly to more efficient retail displays, as well as a longer life of all displays. Whether a display is freestanding, full glass, or glass front, a kiosk, video shelving, a custom checkout, or any other custom display, the slatwall components are an integral part of any display's overall success.

Existing fittings on walls that require a solid slatwall panel, can be taken down effortlessly, by replacing the solid panel with a slatted panel, saving costs to the retailer in both fixtures and man hours to complete the changes. These panels are usually the panel of choice for displays requiring a tiered effect, with retail items displayed in as many tiers as wished, top to bottom. This "viewable" set up can be a great sales booster and one of the many reasons the slatted slatwall panels continues to be so popular.

Because quality slatwall components are versatile, back panels can also be changed to conform to changing retail needs, replacing slat panels with solid or perforated panels within a few minutes.

Making space is almost a necessity in many businesses and homes, and the shopfitting industry as a whole is seeing an upsurge in purchases of their products from both businesses and homeowners.

For new shopfittings, the panels are also space effective, leaving more floor space available to merchandisers. The total use of wall area is also another great feature of the slatwall panels. The panels usually provide a very neat appearance, with a clean look to the display.

Space utilization is also a premium with panel store fixtures, as all available wall space is utilized effectively, while still maintaining much open flooring and a clean and vibrant look to the store layout. This minimalist approach has led to the longevity of the panel as a retail favorite and the panel store fixtures have increased the already existing flexibility enormously.

Mouldings are either joining mouldings, edge mouldings, or corner mouldings, and can be used solely or together to exhibit goods with the utmost of ease. Joining mouldings are a simple choice for joining two panels together, while edge mouldings come in a variety of sizes and shapes for the development of more complex displays.

Making space is almost a necessity in many businesses and homes, and the shopfitting industry as a whole is seeing an upsurge in purchases of their products from both businesses and homeowners.

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What Are The Most Popular Types Of Display Stands?

By Amy Nutt

When it is time to promote your products at a trade show, the right type of display stand can make or break the event. There are a number of different types of display stands available for purchase that can enhance the look of the trade show display and each one have a number of different properties that may make them more or less appropriate for your particular display. When choosing a type of display stand for your trade show display, it is important to keep in mind what type of area the display stand will be used in, the amount of space available, and what you will need to have displayed.

One of the most popular types of display stands used for trade shows is the table top display. These display stands are typically designed as a tri-fold display and are proportioned to be able to stand on the top of the typical display table. These are some of the smallest types of display stands available, even though they can be found in multiple sizes from small to large. These are also some of the most inexpensive types of display stands as they are typically created from inexpensive materials that are completely covered by colored paper or fabric.

Another popular type of display stand for a trade show display is the banner display stand. These display stands are one of the tallest types of display stands available, but are not very wide. The banner display stands are typically purchased in pairs to place on either side of the trade show booth and will either display the name of the company or the name of the product that the people at the trade show would be interested in. Many companies like these type of display stands because they are attention getting and are high enough to be seen over other types of display stands.

If the person is looking for a larger display stand that is easy to set up, they may be interested in a pop up floor display stand. These display stands are typically between 8 feet and 20 feet long and come in a number of different styles, including curved wall and straight wall styles. The pop up floor display stands can be ordered with fabric panels or with a custom design printed on paper covered panels. A matching podium can also be purchased to create a well put together trade show area.

There are a number of different styles of display stands available for use in trade show booths and many of the styles can be combined to create a unique configuration for the trade show. It is very important that the person ordering the display booth rentals stand have an idea of how they would like their items displayed before calling to order the display stand to make sure that they are ordering the right display stand for their needs. Having a great display stand to showcase your company or your products can be invaluable for attention during a trade show and, in many cases, that is what gives your company the edge over the competition.

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Employment Classifieds Where to Look

By Alex Wu

If you are looking for a job, the employment classified ads are where you are likely looking. This is where you will find the most updated job listings. Classified ads are usually posted under the headings of the type of job such as medical, industrial, manufacturing, and sales, just to name a few headings.

There are the local paper classifieds that one can go through to find a job. There is also a place where people looking for a job may post an ad. As an employee your job will probably not get much exposure in the local paper. As an employer you will get a lot of applications, and many will be from unqualified employees.

If you will be moving to another state, you can also access their employment classifieds online. This is great if you have a spouse that got a job transfer or promotion, and you need to find something for yourself.

There are many websites, and they offer different services and different prices for both employer and employee to place an ad or post a resume. This may be cheaper than what you pay for a newspaper ad. It will reach a larger audience because so many professionals are using the Internet these days to find employment.

As an employee if you will be moving to another state, you can search their employment classifieds online, and possibly have a job lined up for when you arrive. You can at least find out what the job offering are in that state and city. This is very helpful, because you used to have to send away for the classifieds and once you got them they were often outdated. Online employment classifieds are kept up to date, so you know you are applying for a current job opening and sending your resume for a purpose.

As an employer you can easily find a match for your job by looking through posted resumes and also by posting a targeted ad for a person with specific qualifications and experience. You should include a salary range and benefits if there are any, this will help to bring more qualified people to apply for your position. Prospective employees like to know what the salary and benefit package is before they send in a resume.

The cost of placing an ad on these employment websites vary from free to a fee. You can make the choice that is best for you. The fee for placing an ad may be cheaper than what your local paper costs to place an employment classified ad, and it reaches a wider audience.

This is one of the best ways to match employers to qualified employees. These websites are matchmakers for the employment field, and they do a good job of it. It is a very effective way to find a qualified employee, or find a good job that meets your needs.

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Affiliate Tracking Tips - How It Can Help You

By Lara Crevena

If you own a retail store or online run an online business that sells a specific service, you may be looking for ways to increase revenue. There are a number of different methods you can use to do this, however, only one method is more effective than most. This method is creating your own affiliate program. To determine if you can benefit from this advertising method, we advise you to find out more. You may find yourself surprised by what you have learned.

The affiliate programs are designed to put you in touch with the webmasters. Webmasters are individuals who own and operate their own website. Online, there are an unlimited number of sites. Many of these sites have different focuses, but there is a good chance that some of these sites are, in one way or another, related to your business. By striking a partnership with one of these webmasters, you may be able to increase revenue. However, to make a partnership with webmasters, you often give them something back. That's where affiliate programs come in.

With affiliate programs, you will provide webmasters with pre-made banners and links. These banners often show pictures of the products or services that you offer for sale. By placing your banners and links on a related website, especially one that receives a large amount of internet traffic, you should also see an increase in your page views. If you have a wide selection of products or services available for purchase, you may also see an increase in sales.

They key to start an affiliate partnership with webmasters is to offer an incentive. The incentive works best is money. By allowing its affiliate partner to make money off of each sale they bring is not only making money, but they also. For many business owners, perhaps including you, the hardest part is getting started. Many business owners automatically assume that it would be very difficult to track how they are generated each sale. This process can be difficult, unless you use tracking software affiliate.

Affiliate tracking software programs are programs that designed to make it easier for all business owners, just like you, to start their own affiliate program. These software programs will often work in conjunction with your links, banners, and your website's checkout program. Each time that a sale is generated, the software program will automatically outline whether or not that sale was generated through one of your affiliates. In addition to outlining which affiliate, if any, generated the sale, it will also assign the appropriate amount of money to that affiliate. This can be done as soon you enter your business and affiliate information into the software program.

When it comes to obtaining affiliate tracking software, you have to decide what kind of software you want to use. There are a number of individuals and companies that have designed their own unique software. This software can often be purchased for a reasonable price, online. The only problem with this software is that many programs still need to monitor and pay each participant on their own. However, there are other software programs that will be responsible for the issues important to you. This software is often referred to as third party affiliate tracking software.

Third-party affiliate tracking software is also known as a network of affiliates. This is because such firms not only provide software affiliates, but also control most aspects of their affiliate program for you. In addition to monitoring and the outline of participants who helped him generate sales also are paid and maintains a detailed report of the payments. If you are looking for an affiliate software program that requires little or no work, this may be their best option.

Regardless of which affiliate tracking software you choose to use, if you choose to use any at all, you should be able to seen an increase in sales by starting your own affiliate program. With a large number of webmasters looking to make money, you shouldn't have a difficult time finding affiliates; in fact, many of them will come to you.

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The FQL Factor and Your Internet Profits

By Dominic D. Johnstone

Do you know your unique FQL Factor? Well first, allow me to explain that the FQL Factor is a success measure called Financial Quantum Leap Factor. So let me pose the question again.

You may want to consider what your FQL is for 2009. What is your 2009 FQL factor?

We are all painfully aware of the state of the global economy. Multinational corporations and huge US banks are failing and the US economy is totally unstable. We are witnessing significant economic collapse in proportions not known since the late 1930's.

The world is aware of the current economic crisis, and millions of people are waiting for the next news story regarding the unfurling financial disasters that may impact them - and possibly wipe out their life savings.

So how does that relate to the question about your 2009 Financial Quantum Leap factor?

Lets face reality folks. Cutting directly to the chase, you can either be an activist in the cause of your own financial well being, or you can be one of the billions of people who put off any action, and just be a victim of the circumstances that affect you. Do you honestly want to subject yourself to the negative news about the economy and allow that to influence your financial destiny?

All the nations of the world are focused on the darkening financial forecast, and social causes have taken a back seat to self propagating worries. There is a far better way to look at the coming year! First off, note that the political change in America is a prime opportunity for the US to get it right and put corrective measures in place now.

President Obama has a plan to correct the seemingly catastrophic damage Bush had afflicted on the US and the world through his time in office. It is going to take Obama two terms in office to correct the economic conundrum, but he can and will do it. He will begin positioning the US shortly for an economic turnaround.

Barack can only do so much at one time, but he can and will navigate the country until crisis is over and affluence is upon his country once again.

This is a huge opportunity for you to look at this as a chance to make measurable changes in your life and in your mindset towards your financial abundance. This article regarding your FQL Factor for 2009 is not a suggestion to make a New Years resolution, but rather it is a call to action (CTA) to commit yourself. I am committing myself - to explosive, and I mean genuinely exponential financial growth in 2009 and in years to come.

You see, even in the worst economies, there are those who rise above the crises, and commit themselves to their absolute success.

Your FQL Factor for 2009 may be to take yourself from 0 to $10,000 in sales this year. It may be to take yourself from $10,000 a month to $100,000 a month in online sales. I am recommending that people " entrepreneurs like you - look to not only double or triple their sales but to plan for and to commit to an Order of Magnitude Increase in their wealth in the coming year.

That is right. Wherever you are at, look to making 2009 the year when you earn AT LEAST 10 TIMES more wealth than you had in the past year.

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Resources - Your Customers Wallet

By Jonas Milkei

One way to promote your website and the product can be achieved for free. As a bonus in addition, this "free" method can boost their sites and sales, doubling and even tripling their income. How does this work? Write articles related to your site and submit them to "free content" submission sites. Easy to do, it takes little time and can increase your website traffic, sales and, of course, your income.

How can article writing boost traffic and income? The article on the free content site contains a link to your own website. Readers, after reading your articles, may choose to click on the link and pay you an unexpected visit. Having them on the free content sites is also making these articles available to other webmasters who may wish to publish that article on their site.

If so, the article include a link to your website. And anyone who read the article on that site could still click on the link to visit your site. As the list of articles published grow larger, and more and more of them appear in different sites, the total number of links to your site also increases. The major search engines are placing a lot of emphasis on links to websites so they can determine the significance of a particular site.

The more incoming links the website, more importance attached to the search engines. This certainly increase the placement of your site in search results. If site is to promote a product or service, the ties that have reached their articles mean more potential customers for you. Even if just by browsing visitors, you never know if it might be the need for what you are offering in the future.

There are also those who already have specific things that they need in their mind, but still can not choose between the many options online. Most likely they can face in one of its articles, is interested in the content that you wrote, go to your site and became attracted to their promotions. See how easy it is?

Search engines do not just index the websites, they also index published articles. They also index any article that is written about your own website's topic. So once someone searches for that same topic, the list of results will have your site or may even show the articles that you have written. And to think, no effort on your part was used to bring them to your site. Just your published articles and the search engines. It is no wonder why many webmasters are suddenly reviving their old writing styles and taking time to write more articles about their site than doing other means of promotion.

Getting their site known is easier if they have articles increasing their links and traffic and making it accessible for visitors searching the internet. Since many people are now taking their buying needs online, having your site on the search engines through your articles is one way of letting them know about you and your business.

The good thing with articles is that you can write about things that people want to hear. This can be achieved in the slightest, but the mood in a professional manner, with a little less obvious sales pitch added. If you think about it, only a few minutes of your time is spent writing an article and submitting to the free content site. In the shortest period of time, too, are distributed to other sites you can think of. Even before you know what happens, you get more visitors than you.

If you think you waste your time writing these articles, fast forward to the time when you see them printed and widely on the Internet. Not to mention the sudden attention and interest that people are giving to your site and your products or services. Trying to write a few articles and will surely was a surge of traffic on the site, link popularity and interest. Before you know it, you will need to double or even triple your earnings.

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Custom Logo Designs: Inexpensively Brand Your Business

By Caressa Waechter

Every successful business needs to have a corporate identity, which is the steps taken by a business to reflect positively in the eyes of its customers and consumers. A business logo fits into the corporate design aspect of corporate identity and is important, as it visually represents your small business.

Many business owners don't understand, or put much thought into, how important a corporate logo is for the identity of their brand. Many logos you see clearly had little effort put into their creation, which reflects badly on the company.

Poor logo design can be understood when you realize that not every entrepreneur can create a logo design, so they have to pay someone to do it, which may be an expense they don't want to endure. Having a custom logo designed use to mean spending many thousands of dollars with a graphic design company to design they might like. Now, any business can afford a custom logo with online logo design companies charging under $200 for a custom logo design.

Does the saying hold true that you get what you pay for when it comes to custom logo design? Not necessarily. Will spending less than $200 get you a quality logo you can be proud of? Yes, you absolutely can get a quality logo designed for a low price. These inexpensive logo designs fit the needs of the average small business owner quite well.

It is most likely true that in order to get the best quality possible custom logo design, you do need to deal with a custom logo design company that specializes in corporate branding. For thousands of dollars they will get to thoroughly know your small business and come up with what might be the best way to proceed with your corporate branding.

Spending a small fortune for a complete corporate identity package is way beyond the reach of the average small business owner. Making use of an online logo design firm is the perfect solution for small business owners who can't afford to spend thousands of dollars on their corporate identity.

When you use the services of an online custom logo design company, you receive a totally unique logo that has been designed just for your business. This is a great way to improve your corporate identity without having to spend a small fortune.

If you own a small business and need to have a custom logo designed for you, check out what is available online for affordable, custom logos. You will find that there are many inexpensive logo design options for the small business owner.

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Revolution of supply chain management due to internet

By Zach Halon

The traditional vision of Supply Chain management represents only one dimension of a business environment that is growing increasingly multidimensional. Modern day Supply Chain Management is the e-commerce of manufacturing. With the emergence of the Internet, customers seek out specific products they want at the prices they're willing to pay.

Modern supply chains focus on the customer. Manufacturers need to precisely gauge what a customer might want, how to package it and where to ship it. There is no such thing as one size fits all. When the customer wants a change, they need to be prepared to shift directions quickly. As a result, business and manufacturing processes need to be just as agile and scalable.

Manufacturers who do not adopt proven methods to succeed today may be out of business tomorrow. The Internet supply chain will be a means of communicating and doing business with suppliers and customers. Fractured, unpredictable supply chains have become less and less tolerable primarily because customers will not absorb the associated costs and long lead times.

It is important to bear in mind that your customer is just a mouse click away from your competitors. Enabled supply chains assist companies to optimize business processes both within and outside the four walls of the enterprise and to more efficiently deliver the new products customers want, when they want them and where they want them. Supply chain has been viewed as an inflexible series of events that somehow managed to get products out the door. It often involved questionable inventory forecasts, rigid manufacturing plans and hypothetical shipping schedules. The Internet has changed all that. It has transformed this old-fashioned process into something closer to an exact science.

An Internet-enabled supply chain helps companies, avoid costly disasters, reduce administrative overhead, reduce unnecessary inventory, decrease the number of hands that touch goods on their way to the end customer, eliminate obsolete business processes, reap cost-cutting and revenue-producing benefits, speed up production and responsiveness to consumers and garner higher profit margins on finished goods Effective integration of an Organizations supply chain can save millions, improve customer service and reduce inventories.

The key to getting optimum value out of automating your supply chain is to make sure you have your internal systems working well before you start extending them out over the Internet. One should envision the business as a whole including its current strategy and where it wants to go. Supply chain strategy is increasingly being integrated with overall corporate strategy. The cost of training people to use new software should not be underestimated. Sending information around the world takes lesser time than it takes to get into someone's mind.

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Sights, Activities and Crafting in Arkansas

By Qandishah Brown

Arkansas is a state frequented by many because of what it has to offer. It has both natural sights for you to see and various outdoor activities that you can do. These numerous sights and activities make this state a must see. Even for those who stay here, you'll find that there are so many things to do.

Art Galleries, theaters and restaurants are only some of the places which you can go to in Arkansas. Other than these, frequented events in Arkansas are the craft shows, fairs and festivals. If you enjoy such things then you will surely going to these various events. If the Martha Stewart in you is waiting to be unleashed, then wait no more.

If you belong to the same description then you will certainly enjoy being a part of a craft fair.You don't need to go to a craft fair and feel like you could be doing the same thing; because you can! If you enjoy the same things then there is no reason for you not take part of the fun and earn some money. You can be part of a craft fair no matter what you have to offer. There will always be a place for you in something like this.

This provides you with a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the things that you do best. At the same time you will also be making money. If you are looking towards building a business then this is the perfect place for you as well. You can show others what you have to offer and build a name; all this without having to pay for much rent or advertising.

If you don't know where to start you can start off by finding out when the next craft show is happening. You can do this by checking with local officials or using a calendar of events. There are calendars online which you can refer to and they will give you a complete listing and update of such events. Knowing in advance is vital since it allows you to be able to prepare.

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Lead Generation Can Help Your Mlm Business

By Jeff Dedrick

Lead generation is the latest buzzword in marketing and is even being touted as the future of targeted advertising. Several businesses in myriad different fields have tasted incredible return on investments (ROI) and soaring sales figures using online lead generation. MLM businesses are not far away either. Nowadays, more and more MLM businesses are using online lead generation in order to get quality MLM leads.

And the truth is that, the life of any MLM business is the constant supply of leads. Though the cost might seem expensive, it is also possible to generate free leads online. Free MLM leads also help you to boost your return on investment (ROI).

Video marketing, on free sites such as YouTube is a popular online lead generation method. The leads generated by video marketing are mostly good quality leads that are pre qualified, and hence there is a higher chance of such leads being converted. The videos should not only be informative, but should also include interesting tips that would get a viewer hooked on to them. You can even include short video presentations on your website that answer frequently asked questions. This helps build credibility for your MLM business.

In order to attract quality traffic, try optimizing your website for relevant and targeted keywords. By 'quality' traffic, I mean visits that get converted to leads. Your website does affect your sales figures, believe it or not. Successful businesses realize this and strive to create a strong web presence. How can you create a strong web presence? Let's us start with your website. Your website should be able to address the visitors' concerns. A website for MLM business should be as informative as possible and should be able to capture leads through forms such as 'contact us' or 'request for information'.

You might consider adding a call back option which can be used by interested visitors. Create a blog and include useful information regarding the product or services you market in your blog posts. Update the blog regularly because search engines love fresh content.

Submitting Press Releases and posting article (with rich keywords) also help you to generate quality leads to your site. The article must contain information which is relevant to your niche and the Press Release must be remarkable. You must include'Media Contact' in the PR. This helps you in two ways, the first thing is it helps to build a strong link back to your website and increase search engine rankings. And the second benefit is, out of 10 people at lease 3 who read you articles and PR will visit the website, and some may even contact you directly by getting info from Media contact. You can generate hundreds of leads by making implementing these kinds of strategies.

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How to integrate internet communication online

By Zach Halon

The issue of internet advertising effectiveness is part of the broader question about the effectiveness of advertising in general. As a result, internet advertising effectiveness should be examined in a similar fashion as traditional advertising.

However, internet advertising is different from traditional advertising in that the internet has capacities to extend the function of advertising far beyond what traditional media are able to accomplish. Consumers can click on a banner ad for an e-book, check the table of contents or review others' comments, place an order, and download the e-book to their computers, all through the internet. None of traditional advertising media could offer such a combined channel capacity of communication, transaction and distribution.

The expanded function of internet advertising comes from its horizontal integration of three key marketing channel capacities (communication, transaction and distribution) and vertical integration of marketing communications, including advertising, public relations, sales promotion and direct marketing. In order to better understand the effectiveness of internet advertising, therefore, we must examine unique characteristics of the internet advertising formats and develop new criteria by which the effectiveness of internet advertising can be assessed.

The internet provides the means for "interaction" between buyers and sellers to such a degree that some have suggested this is the defining characteristic of the internet. This interaction can be human-machine, machine-machine and human message; among others.

Interactive Communication refers to human-message interaction where the user relates to and, in some cases, modifies the message with which he/she is interacting. Clicking on banner ad represents a low level of interaction of this nature while choosing an ending among many for an online movie represents a higher level of interactive communication with a message.

Interactive Media on the other hand, refers to a carrier of messages which provides for the possibility of interaction with messages conveyed in that medium. So, the internet including the Web is an interactive medium which provides for the possibility of interactive communication with messages. However, the internet is of many interactive media. Mobile phones and interactive kiosk are also interactive media.

However, the convergence which is rapidly taking place between notebook computers, personal digital assistants, mobile phones, and cable television make such distinctions less clear. While it may be the case that any discussion of advertising effectiveness in general will apply to the internet, it may also be the case that any departures from general understanding of advertising effectiveness issues may be due to the special characteristics of interactivity associated with the internet. In particular, there has been a special interest in delineating advertiser-controlled versus consumer-controlled aspects of the internet stemming from interaction issues.

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Want A Blog To Help Explode Your Physical Therapy Marketing?

By Samuel Awosolu

Online blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject such as sports, news, music or a hobby. Most blogs online function more as personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on photos, audio podcasting, videos, or all combined together.

Many physical therapists who have private practices, physical therapy products, and continuing education courses can use blogs to keep in touch with their readers or create a community of readers interested in their subject matter. If you are a physical therapist who focuses on total knee rehab you can talk about total knee surgery and treatment. If your expertise is in rotator cuff injuries you can blog about rotator cuff injuries and treatments. By offering quality expertise in your field you gain trust among your readers and possibly a potential patient or walk-in.

Blogs are affordable compared to the cost of building a website. Most blogs are free or have a low monthly fee to maintain. The most common blog programs available are wordpress blogs or blogger. Both are easy to use and update. Blogs are also very search engine friendly so it will also assist in getting you found easier online.

Here are some things you can do with a blog:

Post daily tips and information to your readers.

Share your expertise and become the go to blog for useful posts about a specific topic.

Search Engines like to spider Blogs because the content is always fresh and constantly being updated!

There are a lot of directories catering to Blogs online. Some directories allow you to "Ping" them when you add new content to keep their directories updated.

Have your visitors subscribe to your blog by leaving a subscribe button on your blog so that interested visitors can get notified when you post.

Use Google adsense to get residual income from PPC targeted advertisers.

Have your blog offer RSS feeds and Podcast feeds of your posts.

Place links to important information from your website like the services you offer, continuing education courses that you offer, your physical therapy product information, and etc.

The important social and interactive aspect of blogs is its ability for visitors to post comments on your post. Creating dialogue shows your reader you are a live person behind the blog.

You do not need to be a programmer or coder to get a blog up and running. For the most part it is very user friendly and easy to start one up.

You can customize the design and layout of most blogs to cater to the look and feel of your business brand.

If you haven't noticed blogs are here to remain in cyberspace. If you are a physical therapist with a private practice, a physical therapy product or an instructor for a continuing education course, you need to start planning on getting a blog running now. Any business looking to gain traffic and create a social presence in web 2.0 should have one.

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Get Graphic Design Logos From Logoworks for an Affordable Price

By Caressa Waechter

Companies use logos to distinguish their brand from the competition. When a logo is correctly designed, it can cause someone to instantly identify the company that owns it. Ensuring that you have a logo that truly represents your company is vital to the health of your company.

Not that long ago, when a small business needed to have a quality logo designed for their business, they would have to spend many thousands of dollars to have a professional design business produce corporate logo design. Luckily, that isn't the way it is now days, ever since you can get a quality logo designed online.

A leader in the online logo design field is Logoworks. As a division of Hewlett-Packard, they have the ability to design for your company a completely one of a kind graphic logo.

No small business has an excuse for not having a corporate logo, since Logoworks has logo design packages starting as low as $299. Their range of logo design packages means that there is something for every sized business.

When you use Logoworks, you are provided an initial number of unique logo design concepts for you to start with, from which you choose which one you want to proceed with. Once the decision is made, the unique logo design is revised and you end up with a custom logo created just for your company.

Depending on which logo design package you choose, you will have a certain number of logo designers working on your project. This ensures that you get a good selection of original logo concepts, so you can find the logo that suits your business.

What makes Logoworks unique is that you have the ability to actually pick up the telephone and talk to them about your logo design. Many places that offer cheap logos do not allow you to actually talk to somebody, so you only can do business with them using online means.

Look at Logoworks' offerings if you are in need of a logo for your small business. A custom logo will set your company apart from those you compete with and will give you back much more than what the logo ended up costing you.

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We Listen to Women - Surveys to Take for Extra Money!

By Hailey Gates

Stay at home moms usually could use some extra cash. Most don't know that they are the perfect candidates for surveys to take about products they use in their home every day. It's simple and fast - most surveys take less than 20 minutes - and there's no obligation. Just answer the questions and get paid!

In many households, the moms are the ones making the decisions about everyday products to use for daily tasks or needs. Each household is run a little differently, and every woman has her own particular preferences when it comes to what they buy. Some purchase only name brands; others, generics - and some buy whatever is on sale!

Companies who manufacture the products you buy want to know which ones you prefer, what other things you buy, and how happy you are with the items that are available. They need this information so badly that you can get paid taking surveys that provide them with your opinion! The research is always ongoing, meaning there is never a shortage of surveys to take.

Signing up with a few major survey sites online is the fastest way to find surveys to take. You shouldn't be asked to pay money to sign up - the survey sites will already be getting a kickback for providing the companies with people to take the surveys. You are supposed to being paid by them, not the other way around!

The short list of things you will need to prepare before you go looking for sites to register on include a new email address (to keep your survey emails organized) a username to login to sites with, and a random, easily memorized password for security purposes. Don't use a password you use for your personal matters.

After you go through the registration process, watch your new email inbox for a confirmation email. Check to be sure it is from a site you signed up with before clicking on the verification link - links from sites you have never heard of should NOT be clicked on as they could crash your computer! Once you have been verified with the survey site, prepare to get paid taking surveys!

One last step you might be asked to complete is to fill out some demographic profiles. These collect information about you so the survey site can qualify you for surveys to take. Once you have given them the required information, you can get paid taking surveys on a wide range of products. Just keep an eye out for notification emails that let you know a survey is waiting!

If are serious about getting paid taking surveys, you will want to respond promptly each time you qualify, and show the survey site that you are dependable. Gradually you will receive more and more surveys to take, and each one will be worth more! Best of all, how much you work is always up to you.

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

How Much do Portable Display Stands Cost on Average?

By Amy Nutt

Having a trade show display is something that more companies need to try. This is because a lot of people come to trade shows. They not only come to see what they can get their hands on, but they like to see what the different companies are offering. Yes, some do come just for the freebies, but there are plenty of individuals who come for the educational value of it all. That is why it is very important to have portable display stands as a part of your trade show display.

There are different types of portable display stands that you can use for your trade show display. It is basically up to you which you get. You can base it on your budget and your style.

Different types of display stands

First of all portable display stands can have several different holders. This means that you will be able to hold more than just one brochure or flyer. You're going to be able to hold much more than that. So here is a rundown of what you may encounter when looking for the right portable display stands for your trade show booth:

- You can get curved display stands or a literature rack that holds multiple pieces of literature for anywhere between $175 and $200. These are units that sit on the floor, but they can set up quickly. They usually fold up in some way.

- There are fabric displays that can cost you under $100.

- You can find tabletop displays for under $100 and still hold multiple pieces of literature.

- You may even find that a rotating magazine rack is the way in which you can display your literature. This is something that may still cost you anywhere from $90 to $125.

- There are lighted displays that may cost you around $500. This is one of the most expensive units you can invest in.

There are so many different types of display stands. What you pay depends on what your style and of course if you decide that display booth rentals is the way to go. You may choose something super sophisticated, which will come packed with a sophisticated price. Then again, you may choose something that is modest with a modest price. You have so many choices and so many price ranges to choose from. That means you're not going to have a hard time choosing the right display stands for your trade show booth.

Why use display stands?

When distributing literature, you don?t want to have to lay the literature down flat upon the table you're using in your trade show booth. This is because it gets knocked around and can look really messy. People will sit their things on top of them. Fanning them out on a table also means you're using up space that could be used to display your product or something else important. Even using a tabletop display stand will save a lot of room and keep things organized.

So for the sake of your image, it is a good idea to use portable display stands for your literature. That way you look really professional and people are able to freely grab information about you and your product. People like it when literature is made available to them and you're going to like it too. You?re going to like it because that means you have possible new customers. That means you're going to make even more money, which is made possible by setting up a trade show booth and being organized with that booth. That means you have made the trade show and your display work for you. It's just a matter of finding the materials that will serve you best.

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All About Affiliate Marketing Program

By Don Bethune

Affiliate marketing programs allows advertisers to reimburse webmasters for the space of putting up advertisements on their webpage or even within the e-mails they send. These advertisers pay for space on the internet, much as they would on a billboard or in a magazine or newspaper.

Due to its simplicity of operation the affiliate marketing program has become the most famous methods of how to make money from home. This program can suit to anyone and everyone on this planet. Even housewives who dream of a ahome business work at homea can earn from this.

So just how do advertisers pay the webmasters hosting their ads? First, it is important to understand how sites are ranked when someone searches the web. Simply, the more hits a website receives per day the higher it is listed when a user performs a web search with a search engine. This in turn makes a frequently visited website have even more hits.

The more traffic a website receives, the more likely someone browsing it is to click through an ad link placed on the website. Paying for ad space on more popular sites can result in hundreds of new customers each day. Advertising space is therefore priced based on the hits that the website receives.

Advertisers using affiliate marketing programs pay based on the several types of actions that occur as a result of a website user clicking on their ad. Some pay per click, per thousand click, per action after click, per lead, per completion, and many others.

In a pay per click the advertiser pays the webmaster each time a web site user clicks on the hosted ad. Likewise, in the per thousand click scale the webmaster is paid for every thousand times a web user clicks on the ad's link. A per action scenario requires that the web user must not only click through the ad link, but also complete a particular action, such as filling out customer information, signing up for a contest, or perhaps completing a purchase before payment is generated to the webmaster. Another payment scale type is cost per lead which is similar to cost per action, but the webmaster sends potential customer information to the advertiser much like one company you purchase airline tickets for might sell your information to their credit card company.

How do you as a webmaster choose the right affiliate marketing program for your websites? Many webmasters simply search the internet! The best way to determine which program best suits your site is to search for affiliate programs, evaluate the payments schedules offered, and determine if ad placement is suitable for your site based on size and location requirements.

Income from affiliate marketing can vary widely and is highly dependent on the number of hits your website receives. Another consideration is that part or all of the income generated may be considered taxable income on the city, state, or federal level; it is best to check with your local tax office. Regardless, the income potential is boundless and worth looking into if you have the space on your website.

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To Do Article Marketing or Not To Do Article Marketing

By Brent Sweet

If you have any clue what you are doing, you can make money from article marketing. I think that everyone would agree that article marketing is the way to go right now. I use article marketing to promote my sites regularly. I use it to earn money through getting my sites moving in search engines, as well as bringing traffic to my sites. I believe that article marketing is not a way to waste your time. If you have the time, and you desire to improve your business, you need to get writing.

You can get eBooks all over the internet to help you get started in article marketing. Some eBooks train you to write persuasive articles, while others teach you to use my methods. I let my website do the selling, but I use articles to help promote my website, especially to move it up in the results in the search engines. My articles are just informative pieces that people may want to use for content on their websites.

I agree that article marketing is a great way to drive free traffic to your website. There is so much information now days, on the internet, however, that does cause the amount of traffic to be limited from article marketing. The time invested in article marketing, however, is worth it from the rewards your site will get from the search engines. If you are trying to promote affiliate links through article marketing, however, quit wasting your time. Get a website and promote it.

I have been really rewarded doing article marketing. I recommend it to anybody willing to give it the effort to get results. One thing is sure you can write one article and expect it to deliver. I write several articles every day. Sometimes I feel like I work for a magazine. The neat thing is that I do see results of my effort though, and I see them faster than any other form of marketing. The key, write as many unique articles as you can, and submit them with efficient submission services. Be an expert in your field, and live with passion.

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Building Your List

By Rick Freeman

Even if you have a great website, if a person visits and leaves, it is likely he or she will not come back if you do not give them a reason to. When visiting ten pages or more a day, it is not hard to forget the names or addresses of one specific site that we might have visited. As any good webmaster realizes, if 1,000 visitors visit your site and never come back, they take all the potential revenue they could spend with them. Making a profit from those visitors is something you could have done. Still, if you want your customer to comeback, you need to convince them to join your mailing list!

Creating unique content is a helpful factor, but it is not the only solution. The only long-term solution to the problem of attracting repeat visitors is by getting visitors to subscribe to your mailing list. Though many visitors may not make a purchase on your website, they will still consider signing up for you mailing list if you have a simple opt-in. Email addresses and names are gathered on the opt-in form.

Your mailing list will allow you to follow up with your subscribers through email. You can get your subscriber to consider your offer, or endorse another offer to him or her. By getting as many visitors as you can to subscribe, you will increase your pool of potential customers and profit.

If you truly want to increase your subscribers, you should try building a list. The web is full of popular article directories, one of which is eZine articles, where people write and submit articles on a variety of topics.

Viral marketing can be rewarding when done through article writing. The articles provide a way to market your product, but more importantly, allow you to show your expertise in the area.

Mailing lists grow through the use of the resource box that is attached to the article. This tool, also called a bio box, should include information about you, such as what your site is about, and the URL of your site. The URL you include should send visitors to the place on your website where they can sign up for your mailing list in order to maximize the size of your mailing list.

As long as you write a decent article, the publishers of the online sites will approve it and republish your article - along with its helpful resource box. Viral marketing doesn't get much easier than that. The details that you include in your article are the key parts to making this an effective tool.

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Business success strategies revealed

By Jay NaPier

Focusing on the positive is very important during challenging times. Today's ever changing economy makes it tough on business owners, but the smart business owner focuses on the positive and asked great questions. One of those being what can I do to increase the revenue in my business.

Start out by taking a close look at what you sell. How profitable is it? Could it be more profitable? Are there additional products or services that you could sell to make more profit? When was the last time you increased your price? These are just a few of the questions you should be asking yourself to increase the profits in your business?

staying connected with your customers and clients is important to every business. It easier to keep a customer than it is to find new ones. What are you doing to thank your customers for their business? Are you sending out Christmas cards? Anniversary discounts? what about wishing your customers a happy new year and letting them know that you're not increasing your prices for the new year?

It's easier to keep the customers you have that is to get new ones. Smart business owners know that there are only two ways to increase your business, get the customers you have now to purchase more product or purchase more often. Packaging your products or services together makes it easy to increase your bottom line. A dry cleaner might price their shirt services at $1.25 per shirt or $10 for 10 shirts. They could also offer to clean customers close by the pound, which is cheaper and simply charge a monthly membership fee.

We've all seen those punch cards that give you free items on your fifth 10th or 20th purchase. It's easy to offer great discount programs we have a reason for your customers to continue to do business with you. a lawn care company might offer free leaf cleanup when the customer does business with you all season long.

Take a look at your advertising budget. The Yellow Pages has become one of the easiest ways for you to eliminate costs in your advertising. many business owners are spending hundreds of dollars each month to advertise in the Yellow Pages, when most people looking for a business are going online. Today it's easier to Google a company or service that is to pick up the Yellow Pages. People like to key in what they're looking for, press the search button, and have many options to choose from without the hassle of thumbing through the Yellow Pages. a well run each commerce campaign will get much better results for less money.

Build a list. This might be one of the most obvious answers to the financial challenges of today for business owners. When you have a list of your customers you can very easily send them an e-mail with specials that you're having, so if you have a bad week you simply send a promotion out to your list. This process is easily done and can make you thousands of dollars over a 12 month period.

Started buy local campaign. Everyone love to support their local community, you simply have to remind them from time to time. Start with your own business first. When possible, by everything from a local company. Now expand to your family. Build a group of 50 to 100+ business owners who'll commit to help promote a local portal designed for your community. Each business owner will put a sign in their window that notes the website and the buy local logo that associates you as a part of the local community campaign. "A recent study found that for every $100 spent in a chain store, $14 went back into the local economy. For a locally owned business, it was $45," , says Stacy Mitchell author of"Big-Box Swindle. Most chambers of commercedo not invest in the marketing required to fully assist local business owners.

Staying profitable during challenging times is easy when you focus your efforts working on your business instead of in your business.

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How To Increase Website Profits

By Matthew Henage

Whatever Your Visitors Want, Give it to Them

Too many times a web master will create a site that has meaningless information about their business. The problem is, web traffic cares less about your business and more about the what they want. Don't appeal to their interests, and you've lost them.

Its simple in theory to keep your visitors on your site because all you have to do is, "Give them what they want." To do this though you must answer the following question, "What do my visitors want?" To answer this question, you'll need to research the following three sub-questions: Who are your visitors? What attracted them to your site originally? What do they want when they come to your site? Knowing more about your visitors, what attracted them to your site and what they are looking for on your site makes it easier to retain them and keep them coming back for more.

So now your wondering how you find this out about your visitors. luckily there are plenty of tactics to help you do this. First tactic, just ask them. Find a way to speak to them and ask them, you'll find that this is a very helpful tool. Another tactic is using analysis software like Google Analytics. This software is easy to set up, and can tell you mounds of valuable information about your visitors. These are very helpful ways to learn more about your visitors, and in turn, helps you to provide unique and very valuable content to them.

Attract More Visitors

By catering to your customers needs you'll see an increase in traffic from past visitors returning to your site. But by extending your marketing reach you can compound the number of visitors your site will recieve. In this section we talk about some of the most important traffic building methods used by professionals each day.

The quickest way to build traffic to your website is by using Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising. This method of advertising can become expensive, but if done correctly, it can become a very lucrative method. To start, it is recommended to use a low budget with Google Adwords (a very popular PPC resource). The beauty about using Google Adwords is that it connects wonderfully with Google Analytics. If set up properly, you can discover if your advertising efforts are worth the money, and take the necessary steps to improve your ROI.

Albeit a slow method, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a necessary tool for the traffic hungry enthusiast and to build your website profits. In a short definition, SEO is about bringing relevant traffic from search engines (Like Google) to your website. The more valuable, unique and search engine friendly your content on your website is the more traffic you'll see from the search engines.

Monetize Your Website

While you want to provide your web traffic with the content that they want, you also need to make it easy for them to make you more money. Does your website make it difficult for your visitors to sign up for a membership or make a purchase? Why? Make it easy for them, and your visitors will respond appropriately.

You'll need to keep your site clean, but you also need to get their attention to key areas of your web page that encourage them to make a profitable action. You can do this by changing the contrast, color, style and/or font. Try different ways to draw attention to get your visitors to do what you want on different pages.

Don't stop there, there are other ways to increase your online sales. From branding, and benefit centered marketing to cross promotions and improving "Call to Action" you will see a major bump in website revenues.

Partner with an Expert

If a lot of the concepts discussed in this article seem relatively new to you, honestly, it will be easier and more profitable to turn to a professional to help you out. In choosing an expert partner, make sure they have a marketing background and are focused on building your profits.

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Why even Join an MLM Company?

By Dennis Hampton

If you are like most people you probably got into a network marketing business because you wanted to work at home and have the opportunity to make a lot of money. Or, maybe you joined because you loved your company's products. But, nobody told you it was going to be this hard. In fact, they said it would be easy.

Most MLM companies teach their people to make a list of one hundred names and start making phone calls. And they wonder why 95% of the people that join their MLM business fail. Maybe it is because only 5% of the people who join a network marketing business know enough people who are interested in a work at home business.

This is why learning to create your own network marketing leads is vital to your success. By learning how to create a lead generating system of your own you can finally reach the top levels in your company and make all the money you want to make.

Why don't the top people tell you this when you start? There are a variety of reasons. Some of them joined and succeeded with the "old school" methods because they have been with the company ten or twenty years. Many of them used classified ads which were in those days what the internet is now. But they only tell you how to prospect your "warm market" and pass out business cards to strangers because many times this is what the company approves.

You see, your MLM company is afraid of you making a website with their name on it and misrepresenting who they are and what they do. This is why you create a generic lead system that brands you and not any specific MLM companies. This allows you to comply with your company's rules and still benefit from an incredible lead generating system.

This is why learning to create your own network marketing leads is vital to your success. By learning how to create a lead generating system of your own you can finally reach the top levels in your company and make all the money you want to make.

The network marketing leads you generate yourself will actually call you! These people know exactly what they are getting into and are sincerely interested in working from home with your MLM business before you even speak to them for the first time. How much easier would it be to talk to people who are already interested, not only in working from home, not only in an MLM business, but specifically in working with you in your MLM business? This is the true beauty of generating your own network marketing leads.

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Effective methods of online advertising

By Rohndra Tanderly

Everyone knows that an online presense is important in growing a business. You won't sell what you have to offer if people don't know you exist. With the advent of the internet, advertising is a little more complex than it has been in the past. Not only do you have the traditional options for your advertising dollars, you also have many options for online advertising.

Start by thinking like one of your clients. Think of keywords that you would use to find your product or item. This will help ensure that you are marketing to the correct people.

Pay per click (PPC) advertising creates a link on a page which is triggered by a keyword. You only have to pay for this advertising when a person clicks through to your website. Google AdWords is an example of this type of advertising.

Want people driven to your website? Simply use text link ads to do this. Text links are links on websites within that sits content pointing to your site.

Classified advertising lets you place an ad on a free classified website similar to newspaper classifieds. These options vary from free to paid. If you go this route find a high traffic site or one that offers classified ad syndication so that your classified ad gets the exposure it needs.

Start today. Use these methods to start bringing cheap traffic to your website.

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Case Study: Does Hypnotic Writing Really Work?

By Dr. Joe Vitale

If you've ever wondered if the words on a website were very important, then keep reading.

Brad Yates is a master at EFT, or Emotional Freedom Techniques. EFT is a method for tapping away psychological issues so you are free to have, do, or be what you want.

Some people call is "psychological acupuncture." You use a finger or two to "tap" on certain areas of your body, which releases stuck energy so you can move forward without any internal blocks.

Snicker if you like. EFT has been used for well over ten years and is now practiced by tens of thousands of people. They can't all be faking problems and then faking resolutions. EFT works.

Brad Yates was one of my guests when I did my "Attract a New Car" teleseminar a while back. I liked him and told him about an idea I had for a series on "Money Beyond Belief." It would be a course to help people remove their barriers to having money. Brad would teach people EFT so they could remove their blocks to receiving money.

Brad loved the idea, we conducted the seminars, and then quickly put up a website to sell the audios. Now, Brad knows EFT but he doesn't know marketing, so the site wasn't the strongest in the copy area. The words left something to be desired. I offered some advice but didn't have the time to rewrite the site. So we left it alone and opened it for business. You can see it at http://www.bradyates.net/page45.html

Take a moment and look at the site.

What do you think of it?

Is the copy strong?

Is it hypnotic?

What's missing?

And here's the million dollar question:

Does the copy make you want to buy the product?

Brad and I told our lists about our product. We stood back and waited for orders.

And waited.

And waited.

Orders trickled in.

Weeks later, we still didn't have enough orders to make either of us very happy. We ended up using EFT on our disappointment.

While I wanted to rewrite the site, I just couldn't get to it with my books, projects, media appearances, travels and more. Thank goodness a young copywriter by the name of Sam Rosen came to Brad and offered to help. Sam had studied all of my Hypnotic Writing materials and was game to prove his skills.

Sam completely rewrote our site. You can see the new copy at http://www.MoneyBeyondBelief.com

Take a moment and look it over.

Now here are the same questions as before:

What do you think of it?

Is the copy strong?

Is it hypnotic?

What's missing?

And here's the million dollar question:

Does the copy make you want to buy the product?

Here are the results:

The first website, which we'll call exhibit A, bombed. It barely made 100 sales in 100 days.

The second website, exhibit B, blew down all the doors and made $8,500 in sales in only one day.

So, does copy make a difference in selling?

Consider:

* The product was the same. * The price was the same. * The audience we promoted it to was the same.

The only change was the writing.

Please note: The only change was the copy.

The next time you scratch your head and wonder if hypnotic writing will help your sales, re-read this article.

And then expect money beyond belief.

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Monday, December 29, 2008

Best SEO Optimization Tool

By Herbert Castillo

I recently came across what may be the absolute best tool for SEO online today. It is a program called Unique Article Wizard.

I can't tell exactly how the program does it, but it creates unique content from the articles you write. It then puts links in the pages it submits leaving you very powerful and relevant links back to your site.

I wrote 3 articles in under an hour, and the program was able to create over 2,100 articles from the content I wrote. And if you opt to, you can get some of the generated posts sent to your email or blog to give you unique content for them. At only $67 a month it is a very good deal if you actually use it.

Other auto linking systems like BMD only get you cheap bookmark links which aren't relevant to your niche and aren't valuable in Google's search engine. BMD is $120 and you get no money back guarantee.

By creating the content your self, you are able to generate posts that are 100% relevant to your niche and since the links are placed in articles instead of bookmarking pages the links are really valuable.

The best part of all is that you get a 30 day no questions asked, money back guarantee! If you don't like the program you can get a full refund within the 30 day period.

It is totally worth it to try. Click the link in my signature that says Unique Article Wizard. Use the program a few times, and if you don't like it get your money back. It's super easy to use.

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