Saturday, January 31, 2009

What are the Benefits of Article Marketing?

By Brent Sweet

I think articles are probably the easiest cheapest form of marketing on the internet. To begin with they are free to post on as many directories as you can. There are people who actually read articles, plus webmasters publish them as content. They lend credibility to you and your business. The key factor to getting benefits from writing an article is to make sure it shares good information and is not a sales pitch.

Some of the benefits to article marketing include:

Business Credibility - As you provide information to your readers in articles they will begin to believe in you as an expert in your field. This not only builds your personal reputation, but your business and your brand. The end result is that people begin to trust you, your business, your products, and your recommendations.

Increase Inbound Links " Professional SEOs use article marketing to increase the relative one way links to your site. This is like food for the search engines. The resource box at the end of your article contains your information and a link to your site. To publish your article, the resource box has to be left intact. Other webmasters pick articles to publish on their website, and when they do this they also end up linking to your site with the resource box.

Better Search Engine Positions - As you start to build one way links from webmasters pulishing your article, you increase your search engine ranking. The only important thing here is to make sure your resource box link contains anchor text equal to the key words you want to rank for.

Finding proof that your article is effective:

If you publish an informative article, more webmasters are likey to republish it and link to your site. If you want to see how many webmasters published your article, search for the title in quotes on the major search engines about one to two months after publishing it. This will give you a count of how many times it was published.

Once you have submitted a few articles you will see your marketing spiral if you article is done correctly. There are thousands of webmasters who use articles for content on their sites.

If you hire somebody to do optimization for you, they usually will provide a report of all the submissions they have done. A lot of these services will charge either a flat fee for one article, or will submit multiple articles as part of a subscription. You need to go out right now and find these services, it is time you get your business on track and noticed!

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What to Expect with a Web Design Company

By Jordan FeRoss

There is a procedure you will need to pursue when working with a Dallas web design expert. You will want to work with a Dallas SEO expert throughout the whole progression and you should be kept up to date at all times. It is vital to comprehend what they should do for you so you can be sure things are going in the right direction.

The first thing the Dallas web design company will do is to take a look at your website or sites and the objectives of your business and whether or not you are reaching your goals. They will not only look at the appearance of your website an how it functions, but the Dallas SEO experts will want to take a look at the content that is on your website.

You will go over the list of problems with your Dallas SEO expert. It is of your best interest to take the advice of the expert if you want increase your profits from your website. You can always get a second opinion if you don't agree with their advice. The Dallas web design consultant will ask you to sign and agree to a contract of the services they are going to provide. Be clear on these services and what you are going to expect. The duties should be laid out and you should understand the results also.

After you have a signed contract with a Dallas web design company the process will begin. Any broken links will be repaired and other functionality that is causing problems on your site. The look and feel will be focused on first. If they have to completely rebuild your site the Dallas SEO company will recommend that too. Sometimes a site is so messed up it is just easier to rebuild.

A Dallas Web design expert will also strive to make your website work with the search engines effectively. A Dallas SEO expert knows how to write content that will focus on improving your website ranking by generating as much traffic to your website as possible. This way, you will be able to cancel any monthly fees you might pay for keywords to the search engines.

Proper internet marketing is another service that a Dallas SEO expert can handle. This may be included in your package or added on by your choice. Ask questions of your Dallas web design specialist and find out what they can do for you. Good internet marketing increases traffic by creating publicity and interest in your website which results in making more money.

When you use a Dallas web design professional to help you with your online site there is a process required and a contract to be signed. Never sign the contract without agreeing entirely and understanding what they are going to provide and the results you should expect. A Dallas SEO company will fix problems with functionality, advertise, work with search engines and much more. You can expect generating more revenue by attracting relevant traffic that is excited about the products you offer.

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2009 Real Estate Good Bad and Ugly

By Edwardo Jimenez

The real estate market in 2009 can be looked at as a positive or a negative depending on whom you are asking. For those looking to purchase a house, or building the new low prices are great. Those looking to sell their property are probably not as in favor of the plummeting prices. There are different types who may be for or against the pricing. For different reason they may be in favor or against. Those with property in hand may definitely be hard press to get the price they originally were seeking, but those looking to buy a house may be surprised at the prices they find when they are ready to purchase.

Newlyweds looking to find the perfect house to start their new family now is the time to look, as they will find great prices, a few years ago this would not be so. Its uncanny, but only a few years ago a new couple would have been hard pressed to find their dream house. Today it is a new world and its become a buyers market. Now great houses with affordable prices are available. Here the young or anyone seeking a house would definitely be in favor of where the housing market is at currently.

For those who already have the family and the house, but for unforeseen reasons need to sell their home the market can be devastating, as they wont achieve the price they believe is fair. The value that their house may have been estimated at only a few short years ago will more than likely have dropped. These sharp plummets have left a lot of people in disarray and they will obviously not be in favor of the current market. If possible try and hold out as long as you can before selling, renting may be an option until the market rise again in the future.

Business owners may also see both sides of the argument as they can benefit or struggle due to the new market. If you are looking for a spot to start up or move your business to then you might want to buy your building as oppose to rent. If you can afford to buy you will save more in the long run. Landlords who have seen the value of their property drop may be tempted to raise the building s rent to compensate. So, for the business owner to pay the rent that a landlord has established may no longer be feasible.

With the market currently in a down state the best advice that can be given is for those with property to hold on to it as it will definitely rise again in the future. Real estate is and always will be the best type of investment and should be treasured no matter where the market is at the current time.

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Getting opportunities during crisis

By Masami Sato

What we should do when things go bad.

When the financial market is in chaos all across the world, people consider clinging on to whatever they have and also reduce expenses. And they think that everybody does so, mainly because newspapers proclaim as such.

However, each and every person ISN'T doing so. There are sections of the society which prosper, come what may. Those, who feel surprised about this odd equation, can find the clue for it in a most obvious place where they might have missed it. It might be worthwhile to analyse it together.

When a current is going downward, whatever the reason be, the way to survive is by rowing against the current. If we let ourselves to be swept away by the current, we may sink deep down and survival might become difficult.

The truth is that when we know how to steer ourselves and be our own masters, we will able to stay afloat or swim against the current, come what may. Let us see how we can manage it.

'Go-getters' or 'Go-givers'

Let's say we want more - more profits, a pay raise, more holidays, more freedom, and more opportunities.

When we have a desire for an object, our first tendency is to straightaway go and have it. That just makes us 'Go-getters'. And a 'go-getter' is surely a self-motivated person, an activist and a natural leader. Such a vision is a proven way to succeed in life as we have heard. Still, there is some sort of a snag. When this plan is brought into play, the results are somewhat surprising though in a way it is foreseeable as well.

Because after 'getting' and 'having' it what tends to follow is 'losing' it. We either lose it physically or we lose interest in what it was we got.

And when we are tired of one thing we concentrate on getting something new. And these fresh cravings never end. The more we go in search of newer things, the wider the chain of desire that makes us continuously yearn for things. It simply becomes an addiction!

But what if we turned our 'getting' into giving?

You've probably noticed that giving always creates a great feeling. And it comes from gratitude rather than from fear or greed. We can continue to give more and receive more on our now, ever-fulfilling journey.

Our charitable and contributing approach will produce charitable and contributing customers and group mates whereas our concern about the cost and "getting tendencies" would bring in only like-minded co-workers. Companionship with such people is surely not welcome for us!

Creative capitalism

Most ventures are today aware of the inspiring role of capitalism. They are ever ready to contribute more through many avenues. The idea has strongly impacted the business world as they realise how giving is central to business interests. A typical example is Bill Gates, who expounded the philosophy of 'Creative Capitalism' in July 2008 in a TIME magazine article.

He opined that the idea of providing for others could become a crucial factor in encouraging people to buy one product rather than another.

The gist of what Bill Gates is saying is that when an enterprise is associated with the idea of providing in any manner, that enterprise and its products become more appealing to clients. It carves out a niche for itself far above that of others.

Creative Capitalism is about rising above what we reluctantly settle for to reach what we truly aspire to. When we can capitalise on our ideas and imagination in a way that benefits and nurtures the wider community and network; we stop wasting our resources, efforts and talents in trying to temporarily win. We start creating the real win for ourselves and for the sustainability of our global economy.

The charm of effective giving

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the phrase that's often used to describe giving back at a corporate level. It's becoming almost a required part of corporate business practice. Yet when it's done out of a sense of obligation or with the intent to just make ourselves look good, people eventually get what it is. It still is a temporary strategy.

Business ventures and people who 'donate' become popular. The zeal and sincerity that prods them to act is recognized by the people with whom they interact. This response is on top of what is spun by way of the company's public relation efforts.

So, what happens if we allocate some of the marketing budget to go toward giving?

From the act of giving rises something that transcends us. The act of contributing results in revelation. And this revelation ensues only when it reverberates across those whom we want to arouse. And we are aroused when we become part of the happening totally. We cannot be satisfied with the narratives that are passed on to us. Those tales have to be lived in. in the end it is human nature to yearn for the satisfaction of making our own donation - to our kith and kin and organizations and society.

Transaction-based giving causes it to happen on its own

A far better atmosphere for donating has become possible because of an idea (or we can call it a 'phenomenon') by the name Buy1GIVE1 (Buy One Give One). Buy1GIVE1 is the abode of transaction-based giving. Transaction-based giving overhauls everything. Let us put to use our resourcefulness and decide why.

How wonderful is the situation where every time someone buys an ice cream, a child somewhere in an underprivileged country gets a cup of milk?

Equally exemplary would be the situation where whenever someone subscribes to a magazine, a tree would instantly get planted in a barren patch in another continent? Or, if every time one eats a hamburger another would instantly get at least a handful of rice?

Or supposing you are undergoing some training. How wonderful it would be if another eager student far away is also getting the necessary training as a corollary (believe it or not, the training does not cost the training institute more than 60 cents a day).

Where a motivational speaker at a conference is connected with a charity, part of his income might go to helping kids who have speech problems due to facial defects. It will be a matter of great satisfaction for the participants at the conference to know that their very participation is helping a deserving cause.

Imagine now if you could apply transaction-based giving in your own unique way to match your main products/services to engage your customers and team members to be part of the giving story. Here's how.

The economy where all benefits

Already, companies right around the world are 'getting' the power of this transaction-based giving. Just one example-the UK's leading supermarket chain, TESCO now gives a school uniform to a child in Kenya whenever a customer buys a pair of school trousers.

Mineral Water Company Volvic also rolled out their transaction-based giving program successfully last year. For every 1 litre of Volvic people buy, Volvic gives funds to build wells in Africa in a program they call Buy1 GIVE 10 (since every 1 litre sold essentially creates a flow of 10 litres in the well.

Middle level and comparatively small enterprises are now in the forefront in widening this global giving phenomenon through Creative Capitalism. Buy1GIVE1 (www.b1g1.com), a Singapore-based Social Enterprise came up with an effective strategy which has turned this transaction-based giving into a movement that anyone who wants can participate in.

Buy1GIVE1 is the home of the most impactful transaction-based giving in the world because it connects any business of any size to any cause in the world. It's creating a global community of business givers and for SME`s, Buy1GIVE1 connects businesses, their customers AND charities in a way that hasn't been done before. And it all happens automatically.

You can enrol yourself as a citizen of this marvel of universal giving by simply getting a Buy1GIVE1 `VISA` directly from the Buy1GIVE1 site at www.b1g1.com. And if you are an entrepreneur, you can become a B1G1 Business through making an online application and choosing the requirement for which you would like to donate and your product or service through which you would prefer to do it to initiate the giving. Buy1GIVE1 forwards the whole of the donation to their international Worthy Cause Partners (with more than 528 projects to choose) making the giving entirely satisfactory.

Do you know?

* Half the population of the globe -about three billion people-is forced to survive on less than two dollars a day.

* Even in the 21st century, which is the age of the internet, there are about a billion people who have never put a pen to a paper.

* According to UNICEF, 30,000 children die each day due to poverty. That is about 210,000 children each week, or 20 children every minute.

* A mere 12 percent of the world's population uses 85 percent of its water; and these 12 percent do not live in the Third World.

* Medical aid is not available for one billion people of the world population.

* 63,000 square miles of rainforests are destroyed each year.

Statistic From Global Issues

Buy1GIVE1 Businesses- scrutinize these examples

* Buy1BUILD1 (www.sunsplashhomes.com, www.arkgroup.com.au)

* Instruction to Instruction (www.kipmcgrath.com.au)

* Medical treatment helping in medical aid (www.primanora.com)

* Telephone card helping in communication (www.ultimatecomms.com)

* Meditation to restoration (www.meditate.com.au)

* Weight loss to kids' meals (www.bodychain.com)

* Aesthetic blinds to lights to schools (www.blindscouture.com.au)

* Socks for comfort to feet free of frostbite (www.socksforhappypeople.com)

* Coaching to educate social entrepreneurs (www.b1g1forcoaches.com)

* And for an overall look, simply go to www.b1g1.com.

Unearthing what we are looking for-Nature's eternal secret

So let's come back to where we started-economic turmoil and getting what we want. What we all really want is actually very simple. You can sum it up with 'C' words - connection, collaboration and community.

When we can pool resources and not segregate and when we can divine a proper way to augment what every one has got and not cut down from what each has got, we understand that there is a veritable cornucopia of sources to be had in the world. And when we bond, jot just with our physical persona, but with our intrinsic selves, we discern something completely fascinating -that we're all ONE. Then we comprehend how uncomplicated it is to form a universal community from something as ordinary as giving.

The secret was always alive in nature

In nature, bees and butterflies pollinate flowers and create sustainable flower gardens for many generations to thrive on. It's been in front of us all along!

When a crisis hits the world, we can see an opportunity to get back to the simplicity. It is now actually time to be grateful for what we have in order for us all to keep thriving.

And when a person opts to begin giving today itself, the sense of euphoria would be much more, notwithstanding the economic problems. And with this sense of elation comes a reawakening of hope that will remind him of how the power and direction of tide can easily change. And his giving might be that which brings about this change.

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Dirt Devil Vacuum - Best for Family Cleaning

By James McTriddle

Are you looking for the perfect cleaning tool to make your life easier? Need power and reliability? Then what you need is a Dirt Devil Vacuum Cleaner. Covering a wide range of vacuum cleaners, the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaners, are an ideal choice for you. That is why; Banks Vacuum Super Stores have given you a broad selection of Dirt Devil Vacuum Cleaners, to choose from. They are available in all types and not only that, Banks Vacuum Super Stores are your one stop shop, covering all of your cleaning needs, providing you will the best support and accessories available in the market.

There is a complete range of Dirt Devil Vacuum Cleaners to choose from, which include different styles such as the upright models, canister vacuums and the hands vacuum cleaners. If you are interested in the standard upright vacuum cleaners, you will find a choice between bagged and bagless here. You can pick from a range of bagged Dirt Devil Vacuum cleaners, at a price that is surprisingly affordable, considering the high quality and reliability you will be bringing home. These models include the jaguar, feather light, breeze light weight, and ultra swivel glide vacuum cleaners.

As far as the bagless vacuum cleaners go, you will find a wide selection of them to pick from as well at Banks Vacuum Super Stores. If you are interested in the canister style vacuum cleaners, Dirt Devil has been a popular choice for many, and you will find plenty of options here at Banks vacuum Super Stores. The Dirt Devil canister vacuum cleaners come with a powerful package making them a natural selection for individuals looking for an easy solution to their cleaning problems. Coming with a one to two year factory warranty, the Dirt Devils are a bargain at the offered prices.

Extremely effective in areas that need it the most the Dirt Devils canister models, come with a power nozzle, that is very practical and can be used to, not only clean out a troublesome area with minimum hindrance, but also prevent damage too your hard floors as you do it. Having potent ability to clean up wherever it goes; these Devils leave a spotless home in their wake.

Another popular item is the Dirt Devil Hand Vacuum, these little Devils sure pack a punch and deliver high performance cleaning, wherever it is needed. These come in two options as well, the corded hand vacuums, with a direct power cord, and secondly, the rechargeable hand vacuums, to take you to the places where direct line power can not follow, making them the perfect travel partner. The Dirt Devil Scrubber Portable is one of the most effective hand held vacuums around, with a highly efficient rotating power brush that takes care of most unwanted trouble spots. And when talking cordless, you need to check out the Dirt Devil Extreme Power Wet/Dry Hand vacuum, providing you 14.4 volt cleaning power with a cordless advantage. To see a complete range of Dirt Devil products, come to Banks Vacuum Super Stores, and find what you are looking for.

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Turnkey Home Business For Moms - 3 Secrets To Keeping Your Sanity

By Kylon Trower

Are you coming out of the corporate world looking for a turnkey home business for moms to accommodate your hectic lifestyle? If this is you, I'd like to share with you what I believe are the 3 most vital characteristics of the perfect home business for ex-corporate mothers.

Now I'm no mother but I have permission to speak for my wife in this regard. In light of my role as messenger, I'll be speaking from her perspective from here on out. Here are the three vital areas to be aware of in searching for a turnkey business for moms:

1. Automation - technology has leveled the playing field and allowed busy mothers to get more done in a few hours than many do all day. My wife literally runs circles around me in this regard and automation and embracing technology has played a major role in her success.

2. Leverage - the power of leverage and the ability to get paid whether you are present (actually there) or not is huge. It's amazing to see my wife come home from running errands and come home to check her computer to find that she made a few bucks during her short time away.

3. Outsourcing - the ability to hire an expert to do the little things you're not so good at or just don't enjoy is very important to your long term success. Losing momentum because your are stuck plowing through arduous tasks you can't stand is not my idea (or my wife's) of an enjoyable work at home career.

I'll warn you, many businesses aren't designed to accommodate the busy work from home mother. Many of them require meetings, events and other time commitments that aren't so easy to accommodate. See the turnkey business for moms that my wife seems to enjoy provides flexibility and the opportunity to take time off and not miss a beat. With our family being her first priority, flex time and working her own hours (even if its after the kids are down) is perfectly fine with her.

The points I've made about automation, leveraging and outsourcing make working from home easier and more realistic than the rigid confines of some so called "Turnkey Home Businesses". Remember, it's always a lot sweeter when you enjoy what you're doing. Ask my wife!

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Online Marketing Tips for Small Businesses

By Brett Franks

When it comes to running any business successfully, you cannot do so without proper web marketing. After all, if people don't know your business exists, how can they become a customer of yours?

There are many web marketing tips that you can use to the advantage of your business. By taking the time to inform yourself about the best web marketing tips, youll be able to succeed.

One of the best web marketing tips is to let your business is market itself. That will only require you to setup your business and website properly. It doesn't take a lot of time or effort to build your website so that it can do this. You just need to have the right information and know-how to do this. For starters, focus on using SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, on your website. You can do this by finding relevant keywords and using them in your website. For example, using popular searches relating to your real estate business, such as real estate, will be good.

Be careful not to use too much SEO, though. Proper SEO will get you good search engine rankings without much effort on your part. Keyword stuffing, or using too many keywords, will likely get you banned from the rankings.

Other web marketing tips include the use of social networking sites and other free advertising tools. Use sites like Facebook or blogging sites to build social profiles for your business. By doing this, youll connect with people on a personal level. People tend to be more interested in businesses when theyre befriended, rather than given a sales pitch. The social network is taking over the internet, and if you want to succeed in business you should embrace it and use it to your advantage.

After all, its great that you can advertise your business for so many ways for free. Older businesses might not have been this lucky, but the internet is making marketing more affordable for everyone, and more accessible, too.

There are so many web marketing tips that you can use to grow your business. You simply need to know what works in todays world. Often, people are too caught up in what used to work to realize that things are different now.

The new world of internet marketing has no use for marketing practices of past years, even if they're only a few years old. Hard selling and making sales pitches will no longer work like they once did, so you should embrace the social interaction that marketing has become. If you simply take the time to learn about the social web and how the free marketing can help your business, you'll see the success you want and deserve.

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Friday, January 30, 2009

Network Marketing Success Keys: Do You Know Them?

By Carlos Alston

Today there's a plethora of labels for what multilevel marketing actually is. Here's my two cents: multilevel marketing is a business model using word of mouth as its primary means to distribute products and services. Doing this through a network of others generates business revenue for the company which can produce residual wealth over time for you.

To me these are the most important pieces to a multilevel marketing enterprise: (1) Marketing efforts to generate potential leads (2) Prospecting your leads and building a relationship with them (3) Promoting products and services to a customer base (4) Training your new distributor business owners to do the same

These parts may sound simple, but if it was you probably wouldn't be reading this article :) The naked truth is that only a smattering of folks really understand how important ALL these multilevel marketing puzzle pieces are and how to arrange them successfully. And these are the convention stage walking, pin-level jumping, you wish-you-were-them, successful network marketers you keep hearing about.

Generating leads for your business is really all about MARKETING. And marketing is all about crafting an influential and ideally ongoing communication to a TARGETED prospect in order to get them to take action. That action could be to download a free ebook, opt into a list, send for a dvd, fill out a survey, buy your product, or join your network marketing business. The bottom line is if you don't really understand marketing, you will spend a great deal of time spinning your wheels in your network marketing business.

Prospecting your leads and building a relationship with them involves understanding what motivates people but also HOW to talk to people answering questions and dealing with objections. With multilevel marketing, once you generate leads you WILL need to talk to them at some point and build a relationship. The nature of that relationship will determine whether they decide to join your business or buy into your service. Believe it or not, they aren't joining your business, they are joining YOU based on how much they know like and trust you and how influential they see you as a leader and how much they believe you can help them succeed in network marketing. Therefore you need to learn how to talk to people and how to influence people so they see you as solution to their problems. This in my book in part of becoming a LEADER.

Promoting products and services - If you're not getting the word out either through word of mouth or in combination with a marketing strategy.Your network marketing business is DOA everyday you aren't moving any products or services or the business and the word isn't getting out. Ideally you should have a marketing system that does the bulk of the telling and selling for you. But you should have a basic understanding of your product/service/business, what it does and why your distributor/customer should obtain it or join.

Training others - Once someone enters your business - hooray! You've gotten past a big hurdle. Most don't even get THAT far. Here's your next big challenge. You need to train your new distributor to do what you've just done. This is where systems can be extremely helpful. If you have a proven standardized training system then you can and should plug your new distributor right into this program. Training is key because statistics show that if a new distributor isn't making any money after 90 days they will drop out. Most distributors have a hard time at this point because they haven't themselves been trained properly by their upline. You need to make sure that YOU have the proper training yourself so you can go ahead and train your own downline and they can train theirs, maximizing your multilevel marketing business success.

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Simple Copywriting Trick

By John Anghelache

Gary Halbert was both a great copywriter and a great teacher of the art. He had a knack for making the process of creating great ads simple.

A great lesson Gary taught was how to use winning advertising and business models. Instead of creating your own from scratch. Pretend you decide to write a special report on horse racing.

What should you do?

Should you study weight loss science? Should you spend years doing clinical trials? Should you roam the world looking for the perfect diet plan or diet pill? Well not really. Because there is a much easier way to access the most cutting edge weight loss science, clinical trials and new diet breakthroughs. Without doing all the work yourself. Curious? Then listen to this.

Forget about all that work. It won't pay off any more than taking the easy road. Gary's advice would probably be to acquire all of the best books and report written about horse racing. The hot selling ones. Read them and note all of the exciting little secrets horse racing fans want to know.

Take your notes and write that report on horse racing. And this report will contain the best of the best tips, secrets and tricks that you took out of the books and reports you read. The final result is a valuable report packed with great information horse racing fans will love.

Easy does it best.

Gary also taught that you should do the same thing when writing ads. Especially if you're in a hurry and need to bang out an ad... website letter... or whatever fast.

What we're talking about here is referred to as swiping in advertising circles. The process simplifies everything for the ad writer. Halbert was big on swiping. He taught it during a copywriting seminar in the mid 1990's. Almost the entire even was about the process of how to swipe to create your own profitable ads.

Forget about learning how to write like the best copywriters. That takes way too much time and is unnecessary. Once you learn how to swipe putting together promotions that bring in money is much easier.

When you do, here's what'll happen as a result...

** You'll eliminate writer's block forever. Because now youll access a starting point for your ads. You wont be guessing at what to write. The swipes reveal exactly what to write in your ads to make them effective and responsive.

** You'll crank out ads in record time. The swipe ad is there to help you write faster. You no longer have to figure out what to say to a prospect. Everything is there for you in the swipe.

** Your copy will be up to 300% more effective. Whenever you model success the odds of success are on your side. When modeling a successful ad you stand a much better chance of writing a winner.

The moral of the story is: start swiping.

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Instantly Blog News Stories

By Ian Pelham

One of the most exciting, yet controversial, aspects of blogging is the ability to blog things just as they happen. The blogosphere is an active part of the internet and there is the ability to blog almost instantaneously.

Unlike news delivered by these types of media, blog news doesnt require editors and others who administrate the news so it gets to the public eye much faster. There are advantages and disadvantages to this medium.

One of the most notable cases of news hitting a blog before appearing in other media took place in July 2005 when terrorism struck London.

Pictures were taken of the passengers at the scene and within an hour, they had hit the press. Such first-person accounts were seen by blog readers everywhere in an uncensored and personal way.

The crisis felt really immediate to those who were reading it without the eyes of an editor on these raw pieces. The blogging was very personal to those who were reading it.

This has the potential to be the beginning of an exciting new era of reporting, one that takes "New Journalism" to it's logical next step by putting the power to shape how the news is written and read directly into the hands of the public.

Many bloggers and cultural commentators who are champions of the weblog movement feel that this growing trend of individuals who getting their news from blogs is a good thing, because it makes the flow of information more democratic.

It decentralizes the world of news and allows more voices to debate on the issues at hand. Others, however, are just as adamant about not having this as a method of news dissemination.

There arent any fact checkers in the world of blogs and there is no journalistic accountability. This could lead to the spread of bad information. More than one piece of misinformation has been spread through this fashion.

The questions about whether blogging news as it happens is ethical or not are very complicated, but no matter where you stand on the topic of current events blogs you are almost sure to agree that this movement has the potential to revolutionize how modern people get their news.

If you are interested in blogging, consolidation, debt, and other financial topics are sure to appear in many of the blogs that you regularly read. Techniques to make and manage money are some of the most popular topics for bloggers to explore on the web, so it is little wonder that so many bloggers turn their attention to dealing with debt.

Falling into debt is all too easy, and getting out of debt can be very difficult for people who do not have a lot of financial expertise. For people who have a knack for dealing with finances, blogging about their insights and knowledge can be a great way to literally and figuratively share the wealth.

If you are considering getting into blogging, consolidation, debt, savings, and investment topics can prove to be very fruitful things to write about. Many professional bloggers who make a living off of their blogs spend their days writing about money.

If you know all about load consolidation, negotiation of settlements with financial corporations or any other money topic, consider using what you know to be a successful blogger.

By sharing your expertise, you may be able to help your readers get out of debt while you reap sizable monetary rewards for your time and knowledge.

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News Stories On Your Blogging Website

By Ian Pelham

One of the most exciting, yet controversial, aspects of blogging is the ability to blog things just as they happen. The blogosphere is an active part of the internet and there is the ability to blog almost instantaneously.

Unlike news delivered by these types of media, blog news doesnt require editors and others who administrate the news so it gets to the public eye much faster. There are advantages and disadvantages to this medium.

One example where blogs hit the media before the press took place during the bombing of a London subway in July 2005.

There was an explosion and, as passengers were getting out of the subway, one guy took several photos and uploaded them online. The first-person stories of the even showed up on blogs and there were those all over the world reading the exact words of the bloggers and survivors.

The crisis felt really immediate to those who saw those images spread directly from those who were involved in the crisis across the globe.

Blogging has the potential to become a new era in journalism by putting the power of words into the common person who happened to be at the wrong place at the right time.

Many in the blogging world as well as cultural commentators in the blogging movement believe that this is a good trend and one that makes the dissemination of information a democratic process.

It decentralizes the world of news and allows more voices to debate on the issues at hand. Others, however, are just as adamant about not having this as a method of news dissemination.

There arent any fact checkers in the world of blogs and there is no journalistic accountability. This could lead to the spread of bad information. More than one piece of misinformation has been spread through this fashion.

There are complicated issues around whether or not blogging news as it happens is an ethical thing. No matter where you stand on the issue, however, you are sure to agree that this is a fascinating new method that is destined to change the news industry.

Those who are interested in blogging will find that debt, consolidation and other financial topics are being blogged about. Techniques designed to help you make and manage your money are among the most popular topics for bloggers.

Unfortunately, getting into debt is much too easy, and many find that getting out of debt is a difficult proposition. For those who really understand the process, blogging in order to help others is a way to share the wealth with others.

If you are trying to get into blogging, the topics of savings, debt, consolidation and investing topics are ones to consider blogging about. Many professional bloggers use advertising to blog every day about money and make a decent living off of it.

If you find that youre knowledgeable on negotiating settings with credit card companies, loan consolidation and other money issues, share that knowledge in a worthwhile blog.

When you share what you know, you may be able to aid your readers in the process of getting out of debt while you make money from selling advertising space.

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"The Truth About Project Payday"

By Frank Scott

Project payday has recently emerged on the internet as a way for the average person to from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars a month in part time income. At first glance, Project Payday is a pretty attractive opportunity, but does it work and if so, how?

Here's how Project Payday works:

To get started in Project Payday you can either sign up for one of the free trial offers or pay the $39 dollar fee (pretty cheap as far as online business go). This trial offer is the heart of the Project Payday business.

The trial offer will prompt you to enter your credit card information and you have roughly 30 days to cancel your trial subscription or you will be billed for it. Now, even if you return the item and cancel the subscription (which is what you should do) you will still be qualified to participate in Project Payday.

Sounds pretty easy so far and if you remember to cancel the subscription, you have no out of pocket cost as of yet, but if you forget to cancel and return your product you will be stuck with the product and the fee.

How You get paid from Project Payday:

After joining Project Payday you are given access to online forums. The forums have posts from other Project Payday members with offers. . The posts will direct you to contact a Project Payday member who will give you a link to a free trial. Fill out the free trial offer and the you will earn 15 or twenty bucks from the member who made the post. In turn that member is being paid a few dollars as well for you filling out the free trial.

The next step to earning with Project Payday:

a couple of trial offers and you will be able to find your own offers to post on the Project Payday forums and here's how that works. A company with a free trial offer will offer to pay a hundred bucks to have 5 people submit their information and credit card for a free trial offer. In turn you will now post on one of the Project Payday forums and offer ten dollars to anyone filling out your offer. If 5 people fill out your offer you make 50 bucks.

Being as the prices vary, somedays you will make a little more, somedays a bit less.

There is a lot of computer work and filling out forms to get ahead in the business and although you stand to make a few bucks, it's more of a part time job than a home business. If you are looking for a few extra bucks a month, this might be for you, but there is no chance of Project Payday earning a full time income

The risk factor with Project Payday is little to none (then again, nothing ventured, nothing gained), you biggest risk is getting stuck with some 30 or 40 dollar products that you weren't able to return.

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Finding a Good Job in the Bay Area

By Alex Wu

The Bay Area is considered to be a wonderful place to live, due to the wide selection of cultural events, and the beneficiary location. In addition to the many advantages, the Bay area is full of employment opportunities, with good revenues and health benefit packages.

When looking for jobs in the Bay Area you should always keep in mind that there are several ways to get informed on the job opportunities in the area. Local papers specializing in employment classifieds on websites online that help you upload your resume and look for particular jobs, or get notifications on the new job opportunities or even the classifieds uploaded by particular companies and corporate groups.

Since we are referring to the Bay area, we cannot avoid indicating the importance of the IT sector and field in the area, with the numerous large or small businesses offering a wide selection of job opportunities. High qualified experts will always be in demand in this particular area due to the increasing involvement of the Internet in our lives.

The Bay area features a large number of health related facilities and amenities, of all kinds, covering a wide range of both Western and Eastern Medicine, along with alternative practices. This consequently leads to the increased demand of health practitioners, medical personnel and doctors or healers all along the coast.

In a place where diversity and minorities set the tone, the needs for administrative jobs referring to several fields of the public and private sector are more than increasing and significant. At the same time, most of the companies have openings in the HR departments, which is a hotspot in the current employment world. The same rule applies to the technical field, where the needs and demands for skilled personnel of all types, from architects to mechanics and everyday technicians, go hand by hand, supporting the local economy to an impressive extent.

The West coast and especially the Bay Area are infamous for their technical professionals, thus many job openings regarding this sector can be found. The region though boast large numbers of media and agencies related to news and journalism, or any kind of creative art, which opens the road to the demand of skilled writers or editors of all kinds, photographers, and people who are willing to test their competence in alternative forms of Culture, education and social jobs.

According to statistics retrieved by employment websites, in the Bay area you can find some good 4000 jobs every month, while the majority of them exists in the City, and in Oakland or San Jose. However, many smaller areas along the coast of the Bay offer numerous positions to young professionals and college graduates who wish to work on the field of their studies and gain some significant experience.

The great advantage of those job related websites is that they give the chance to both employees and employers to find what they want and need. Especially in the Bay area where salaries and benefits are more than good, jobs are attractive to both savvy professionals and young inexperienced ones.

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A Fantastic Idea For a Blogging Site is Just The Beginning

By Alan Edmunds

As there are so many websites about doing blogs and blogging itself, it can be difficult to make your website unique above all 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 have the ability to fulfill a unique need, you can build an active leadership among those who read blogs. When you have discovered what your niche should be, there is still a lot to do. On the other hand, there is no better place to start than with your niche.

Every good blogging site begins with an excellent idea and you need to have one in order to build a successful site. There are a lot of excellent sites that are aimed at blogging itself. The competition is dramatic for websites like this.

In order to offer more to the populace, youll have to provide something that no one else is doing or you will need to do something that is done in a more valuable or impressive manner.

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.

You will still need to add some of your own voice to the blog so it is truly unique from your competition. The websites that do the best in todays internet are those with the greatest in personality.

Bloggers are fiercely individual and respond particularly to personality. Consider, in fact, how you can lend your own voice and feeling to a blog site. It will make the contact so much more personal and easy to read.

When youve decided on an excellent idea for your blog site and have identified a special niche that you can fill, youll need to put personality in your site. The next part involves getting the word out to the bloggers.

In the long run, a great idea just isn't 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 get a blogger hooked, the content you write will keep them coming back for more. They just need a first great glimpse of your great site and then it all starts to happen.

Those who are running a smaller company may find that blogging for business owners is the way to go. Blogging is an excellent way to get the word to the various customers youve worked so hard to keep all these years. You can let people know about new services or products youve got out there and it can even inspire employees to be more loyal.

If you want to take your own business to a new level, consider what a blog can do for you.

Blogging by businesses is related to other kinds of blogging, but it is unique, with pitfalls of their own. The way to have a good business blog is to keep clear your goals and be concrete all along the blogging adventure.

It can be so difficult to remain on task, especially if youre just learning about the blogging process but if youre looking toward success, remain as focused as possible.

Write up a plan for how often you will update, how you will promote your blog and retain readers, whether you will feature photographs or video, and other aspects of your blog, and then stick to it with the same kind of determination that you used when you built your company.

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Affiliate Marketing Tips - How To Make It Big In 5 Simple Steps

By Kylon Trower

For people who want to feel in control being a passenger on a ship doesn't have much appeal. These type of people want to be at the helm, they want to have an upfront view of the direction their taking. Developing a top affiliate marketing business is all about charting your course and reaching your destination with confidence.

So what do you really need to succeed in the affiliate marketing business? What must you have within you to make it long term in this industry? There are five characteristics you must possess if you are going to achieve the prize you truly desire in this business. These things are an absolute must for you to cling to if you are going to stand head and shoulders above the rest.

1. Initially you must possess a trait that allows you to be willing to learn and be trained in affiliate marketing. Going through uncharted territory can be hazardous without the proper preparation. Learning the vital tips of the trade is an extremely important aspect of the journey.

2. The second thing you must have is the willingness to invest time and energy even if you don't see immediate results. There may be months that pass by without any good news, but your patience is very important if you are going to survive. This characteristic will save you time and money as it will keep you from quitting after investing so much in your business.

3. The third is self-determination. If you want to make it as an affiliate marketer, you must charge ahead no matter what. A never give up attitude is what you will need to survive in this competitive business. Being self-motivated and persistent will beat out any other quality in the end.

4. The fourth quality you need is discipline. Once you know how to propel yourself to work everyday with all the energy you can muster, then you'll be much closer to achieving your goals as an affiliate marketer.

5. The fifth and last essential you absolutely must have is optimism. Don't let Your negative attitudes or thoughts hinder you from pursuing what you need to do everyday to make your business successful. Nor should you allow anyone elses influence to alter your attitude about your business goals. Your Motto needs to be, once I'm in, I'm in.

The essentials to succeed in the affiliate marketing business are diverse, but the most important thing you need to reach your goals are within you. When you have an insistent desire to do everything you need to realize your goals, then you'll have the essentials to keep going and make it big. Affiliate marketing is all about putting your destination into you own hands. A determined attitude is vital to steering your ship through turbulent waters to ensure the peace of calm waters will be found ahead.

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Using A Telemarking Firm To Find Quality Clients

By Terry Stanfield

During a down economy any business is facing currently, it is necessary to see where budget cuts can be made. Cutting sales and marketing is detrimental to the growth of the business but finding lower cost alternatives to replace expensive current activities can help the business. This article will explain why a prospecting company can be one such lower cost alternative.

A recession makes you want to keep your staff as productive as possible. With sales, the key is to focus upon what you are good at doing. If you are more successful at closing sales, using a prospecting company will allow you more opportunities to close business, thus lowering your cost per client.

Sales are dependent upon the communication of your message to prospects and this occurs through marketing. In this business climate, it is about maximizing your marketing dollars and an outbound prospecting firm is one of the most efficient uses of those dollars to increase sales.

Many companies do not watch their advertising dollars very carefully. Using an outbound prospecting firm can allow you to closely track your return on investment and often is more cost effective than expensive television advertising campaigns.

One of the first areas of spending any business cuts during a recession is marketing. If you have to cut your marketing spending, you can reallocate dollars to outbound telemarketing and increase your sales at a lower cost to your marketing dollars.

Any business in this tough economy will watch their dollars very closely and want to be extremely frugal with them. Using a prospecting firm can allow you to free up current staff to work more closely with existing customers to gain more market share while still filling a new customer pipeline.

Many businesses and individuals will fail to respond to outbound telemarketing firms over the phone when times are good. A recession makes these people and businesses more receptive to talking with others about how to save money so you can avoid costly mailings and increase sales with a telemarketing campaign.

Companies try to reduce all expenditures during a recession simply to maintain their current business. This offers you the opportunity to build your business by using an outbound prospecting company because few of your competitors will be attempting to acquire new business.

Studies have been done showing that those companies who maintained and increased marketing during a recession enjoyed an explosion of natural growth well beyond those which reduced expenditures. Using a prospecting company will put you in this path of great natural growth because prospects are aware of what you have to offer.

You can use a prospecting company as part of your marketing strategy and allocate your dollars to the most productive activities. If you find that the prospecting company is more effective than advertising, you can reallocate marketing dollars to the prospecting company which lowers your cost per new client. Cost per client is an important measure to see that you can grow new business in an efficient manner. An outbound telemarketing company offers you a way to test if you can lower that cost per client while still increasing sales|business|the bottom line.

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How to Create the Best Quality Videos for Youtube

By Marcus Richard

You know youve done it. Youre part of the YouTube generation and youve not only watched videos but uploaded them as well. Once you did that though you realized the quality of your video just sucked. You tried a variety of things and still arent happy with the quality.

There are several variables that you yourself can control prior to uploading the video to the service. Of these the most important are outlined below.

Resolution " Lets face it, YouTube is now HD Ready like the latest LCD and Plasma televisions. So that means you need to adapt to their system in order to get them to play nice. Their native resolution? Its 720p, a 1280x720 pixels of resolution. Its HD quality, so youll need a video source that can handle it if you want HD quality videos. When you save that video for YouTube make sure you do that in 1280x720 and YouTubes compressor will love you for it and reward you with some better quality and give you the luxury of having a watch in HD link on your videos.

Bitrate " Youre asking what the heck that is right? Well simply its now much information your video will contain per period of time. Normally this comes up in Kilobits or Megabits per second. Obviously in this regard the higher the better. However if you go too high the video files will far exceed the limitations of YouTube so you need to learn balance Grasshopper. In this case you still want a high number but you dont want it to be sky high. Somewhere around 6Mbps to 8Mbps is a good range. Then when the video gets to the YouTube compactor itll have enough data to retain quality. YouTube can handle up to 1GB of file but only 10 minutes so pay attention to that also.

What else can you do to help YouTube make your video the best it can be? Well you can make sure your audio tracks are set to MP3 or AAC encoding (44.1KHz Stereo) for one. Another thing you can do is make sure the file format is H.264, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 format because quite simply, YouTube doesnt really like much else. You can get yourself a video editor that handles multiple formats to help you with all of this and so that you can convert and edit as you need. You neednt pay a lot for one, even Quicktime Pro is only $30. Finally you can keep your video file above 30 frames per second and this will help reduce jitter after the compression process.

Now that youve got that all set, save your file and upload to YouTube. Having set many of your settings at or better than YouTube you are making it a touch easier for them to compress. So wait until its done and voila! You have got yourself a good looking YouTube Video.

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Cost Of Finding New Clients Costing To Much? Get Some Help

By Storm Castle

This tough economy causes anyone to look more closely at the bottom line and how any resources can be changed to improve profits. An outbound prospecting firm can be one such resource. This article will explain why you will want to look at a prospecting company to gain more sales at a lower cost.

Prospecting Companiestakes care of the outbound telemarketing that can communicate the benefits of your business. This can free up your salespeople to focus on other activities that they do well. The dread of outbound telemarketing can lower the productivity of your salespeople so placing this task on the shoulders of an outbound prospecting company can help you increase the bottom line.

Sales are dependent upon the communication of your message to prospects and this occurs through marketing. In this business climate, it is about maximizing your marketing dollars and an outbound telemarketing company is one of the most efficient uses of those dollars to increase sales.

Many companies do not watch their advertising dollars very carefully. Using an outbound telemarketing company can allow you to closely track your return on investment and often is more cost effective than expensive television advertising campaigns.

Most businesses reduce their expenditures during a recession. You can choose to spend less money but use an outbound telemarketing company because this is a fast and inexpensive way for you to develop leads, increasing sales in your company.

Any business in a recession will watch their dollars very closely and want to be extremely frugal with them. Using a prospecting firm can allow you to free up current staff to work more closely with existing customers to gain more market share while still filling a new customer pipeline.

Businesses or individuals often are more receptive to ways to save money during a recession. prospecting companies can have greater success due to this cost consciousness during a down economy than during an economic boom.

Companies try to reduce all expenditures during a recession simply to maintain their current business. This offers you the opportunity to build your business by using an outbound telemarketing company because few of your competitors will be attempting to acquire new business.

Using a prospecting company can be very simple for you track and see how much it costs for you to get new clients. You can build a fixed number into your budget so that you can achieve a certain number of new clients.

Prospecting firms focus on telemarketing and this is an area most salespeople struggle. Using these specialists means that the number of calls can increase with the quality and quantity of prospects greatly increased. If you want to grow sales but at a reasonable cost, you will look closely at how much it costs to get a new client. It is necessary to try different tactics to lower this figure and an outbound prospecting company is a tactic you can watch and carefully measure.

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Marketing Firms Can Help Grow Your Business In Tough Economy

By T. W. Stan

This tough economy causes anyone to look more closely at the bottom line and how any resources can be changed to improve profits. An outbound prospecting company can be one such resource. This article will explain why you will want to look at a prospecting company to gain more sales at a lower cost.

An outbound prospecting company focus on the activity most people hate. One of the hardest jobs for any salesperson is to do prospecting. Using outbound telemarketing firms can allow your salespeople to focus on current customers and their needs so that business can increase both with current customers and with new customers.

Using an outbound prospecting company can allow you to spend less time on the phone with uninterested customers. You can focus yourself on those activities which help grow your business.

Many businesses do not have a very unstable business pipeline. Using a prospecting firm can keep the sales pipeline full so that more sales can increase as a result of this full pipeline.

One of the first areas of spending any business cuts during a recession is marketing. If you have to cut your marketing spending, you can reallocate dollars to outbound telemarketing and increase your sales at a lower cost to your marketing dollars.

Any business in tough times will watch their dollars very closely and want to be extremely frugal with them. Using a prospecting firm can allow you to free up current staff to work more closely with existing customers to gain more market share while still filling a new customer pipeline.

Many customer driven salespeople do not have time to find new clients because most of their time is spent in current sales processes and do not have finely honed prospecting skills. Using an outbound telemarketing company allows you to have people whose primary focus is new business focus on finding new clients.

With marketing budgets decreasing, few of your competitors will be apt to do business over the telephone. Using a prospecting company can allow you to increase your market share so that your sales increase either at that point or in the future when buyers reopen their wallets.

McGraw-Hill did a study to compare maintaining marketing activities and dollars versus reducing them during a recession. They found that those who maintained and increased this dollar amount enjoyed a 275% increase the first year after a recession and this is a spectacular argument why to spend money on a prospecting company.

Prospecting firms focus on telemarketing and this is an area most salespeople struggle. Using these specialists means that the number of calls can increase with the quality and quantity of prospects greatly increased. If you want to grow sales but at a reasonable cost, you will look closely at how much it costs to get a new client. It is necessary to try different tactics to lower this figure and a prospecting firm is a tactic you can watch and carefully measure.

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The Best Business Gifts Are Promotional Leisurewear

By Matthew Calvin

Promotional clothing has emerged as the most practical of promotional gifts. Basically, it is their use that makes them the preferred brand promotion articles of many companies. Promotional jackets, T-shirts or polo shirts are the best accessories that can be given to your customers. The clothing products, in general, show the love and warmth of the giver towards the recipient. If you supply a set of printed leisurewear that carries your brand imprint on them, you will be able to conquer the minds of your customers very easily. Having a large print area on them, the clothing products provide a lot of scope for publicising the brand name to the outside world.

Promotional clothing as a brand promotion device differs significantly from other promotional products. Promotional clothing is worn by all types of people all across the country. Their large area for marketing messages allows them to surpass other promotional gifts in their utility.

The marketing power and the utility of promotional products are both pertinent when considering their value. The more adaptable they are with regard to utility, the greater is their ability to promote the brand. There are a few highly rated online collections of promotional clothing available. Visit them to see the extensive collections of clothing they offer, from T-shirts, ball caps, hats and visors, to shirts, fleeces, jackets and sweat shirts.

An added advantage of promotional clothing is that it works longer to promote the marketing message. Promotional clothing is often worn for several years, and each time it is worn in public, it conveys the message it bears to the masses. It can be worn to sports clubs or public markets, but no matter where it is worn, it is acting as a moving billboard for the company's message.

Promotional clothing has shown itself to be the most effective type of corporate gift available. All people enjoy receiving promotional clothing as a gift, and displaying a logo for a company has become a popular way to dress in a snappy and stylish way. If you are beginning a new advertising campaign, promotional clothing will provide a good return on your investment.

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Buy Board Game

By Cantu Terrell

What's that thing in the "Obscurity Knocks" video? It's called a Rube Goldberg machine and the best thing to compare it to is that setup when you played the board game Mousetrap.We keep enough supplies in stock to fill orders within 24 hours. Since all production is centralized, we can provide expedient turn-around times.

Q How does my annual subscription work? A You decide which e-mail address you want to use for your games. Once you have subscribed, that e-mail address is entered as paid, in the subscription database software. Each time you play, your e-mail address is checked by the software, and if it is found as subscribed, it lets you continue playing, this only takes a few milliseconds. It is VITAL players only use their subscribed e-mail addresses, for all of their games.

How many earned runs is a reliever allowed before "flipping" to his "B" grades? Relievers have NEVER "flipped" based on any number of runs (earned or unearned) - only batters faced.

Are there different versions of the rules? Yes, several. There have been a large number of different versions published in the U.K. alone. In the U.S. the rules have been copyrighted six times: 1959, 1963, 1975, 1980, 1990, and 1993. The 1963 edition refers to the 1959 version as "the original French rules". The U.S. rules have subtle -- and some not-so-subtle -- differences from edition to edition, and many of the rules that have been "standard" in the U.K. editions for some time have only recently made it over to the States.I like that I am low vision. I think GOD created me that way for a reason, and, I am not going to fight with HIM about why HE did.The starters' bonus rating is the easy one! If a starter allows at least four earned runs, he normally becomes fatigued and switches to B grades with the next base runner allowed. But if he has a bonus inning (a raised number following his regular S rating) then he gets to stay on his A grades through the end of his bonus inning. Example: Joe Fastball is rated S64..

Q How do I challenge a play? A We do ask players to agree which dictionaries to use, prior to play, in the new game invite. If a word(s) played is not in the dictionary agreed, then that play can be removed using the Challenge Play link found at the top right hand of your game board page.

What kinds of games did the Vikings play? The Vikings played a lot of card and board games, especially during the winter. One of the games Vikings used to play is a board game called Hnefatafl which means "king's board or game" in Old Norse. This chess-like game of strategy simulated a Viking raid and the object of the game was to trap the King's piece.Missions are offered in some versions of the rules as an alternative way to win the game (see Q2.2). Missions have been available in European editions for a long time, but have only recently appeared as a variant in the U.S. Missions are used only if there are more than two players.

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Email Marketing and The Mailing List

By Sam Ernie Orion

We all know that every aspect of Internet marketing has a specific tool that helps to drive traffic and sales, and any email marketing campaign is no different. What you need to concentrate on here is developing and building up a mailing list since that is the real cornerstone of any successful email marketing campaign. Remember that there is no denying the power of a well run email marketing campaign and with that in mind there are specific things you can do to ensure that your mailing list is strong and healthy.

Offer Something For Free

One of the oldest advertising gimmicks in the book is still one of the more effective. Its important to keep in mind that you really want your mailing list to have opt in clients. Those are the people that are much more likely to read what youve got for them, and offering this kind of incentive will push them to sign up. One of the more effective techniques is to get a content writer to write a free ebook and then offer the use of it as a bonus for signing on.

Contests

People love to be included in interactive events. Sponsoring a contest on your site draws people in to sign. There is one drawback that youll need to be aware of if you travel this route. Not everyone who subscribes in this manner will eventually convert into a sale. Many of the people that you attract this way will be people habitually playing all the contests looking for the latest freebie.

Article Marketing

This is one of the most tried and tested methods used today. Hiring a ghost writer who will work for a reasonable fee all but ensures that youll get a series of professional articles submitted that cant help but eventually build your mailing list.

Directories

Again, this is one of the more traditional but effective methods used on the Internet. Business Directories are a great way of getting your name out there in cyberspace so that you can draw the kind of attention that will help to build your mailing list in the end.

Of course there are other methods that include ad swaps and hover ads, but the major point here is that you want to have people subscribe to your mailing list. That way, youll already have their willing attention and the buildup on your mailing list will result in a solid email marketing campaign.

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Website Marketing Hints You Don't Want To Do Without

By Simon M Skinner

Search engine optimization is something which an increasing number of site owners are awakening to the importance of. If you have just built your first website, you're probably wondering what exactly I'm talking about when I say search engine optimization (or SEO for short). There is a lot to know here and a number of things which you must do to ensure proper SEO for your site. The following are the most important things you need to do to get started.

Tip #1 - Read Everything You Can on SEO - One of the most important tips to remember if you are new at marketing online is to make sure that you read everything that you can on SEO. There are many great SEO books out there that you can purchase to read that provide excellent tips and strategies that will help you out as you work with search engine marketing. So, if you're interested in internet marketing and you're just getting started, reading all that you can is so important.

Tip #2 - Use the Right SEO Tools to Build Your Site - Another important thing that you have to keep in mind is that you must use the right tools to build up your site. There are a variety of excellent tools out there today that can be a huge help with site building. If you really want to rank in the top 10 results on Google, it will all have to start out with you building up your site with SEO in mind.

#3 ? Use keywords in your URL. Search engines give a lot of weight to your URL, so use your primary keyword sin your URL if you can. Don't overdo things and make your URL a convoluted, hard to remember mess though. Additionally, as you build links between your pages, use hyphens, not underscores ? these will be seen as spaces by search engines.

#4 ? Research your keywords before you build your site. Use the best possible keywords to build your site around. There are keyword research tools which can make this an easy process; find the best keywords to reach your niche and use them from the ground up; you don't want to have to go back and change things later.

Tip #5 - Try Using Pay Per Click Marketing - Once you're ready to start driving traffic to your site, one of the best things to do is to try using pay per click marketing, and one of the best options available is Google AdWords, which is one of the best SEO tools out there today. It will cost you, but it is definitely worth the investment that you will need to make. You'll also find that pay per click provides faster results for your website as well.

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One way links and search engine behaviour

By reklicom

This is a big question, plays on the apperception of about all seek engine optimizer. There are abounding forums and blogs, area it is getting discussed to accomplish it easier for the SEO analysts to apperceive the best way to aback links. Now we all apperceive what can added and added Backlinks beggarly that a web site, if its achievement in seek engine after-effects side.

Let us aboriginal analyse the case of alternate links or two-way links. You would wish your website by a PR3 and on the spot. This is usually accessible if you acquire a PR3 website contrarily the added website ambassador may not be applicative to all absorbed parties from accepted reasons. But in case you acquire a page rank lower or no PageRank at all, again there will be a actual difficult process. Why should a PR3 website hotlink to your site, if you acquire a aught PageRank?

It is aswell one added acumen why you should try to anticipate two options, links but there may be added aback links. Added and added approachable links will abate the all-embracing PageRank of the site.

Also today, added and added pages are committed to admission access and that one-way links. This is accessible by Commodity post. Large texts if they can access to hundreds of PageRank. You can seek for online autograph on sites that acquire them with a hotlink to your site.

Sites that accommodate simalar appurtenances or agreeable to castigation are the best sites to get links on, if you advertise cat aliment you wish links on cat aliment sites - what use would barter or cartage from a shoe supplier be.

Never get involed with affairs that action to get you bags of links pointing to your website in an instant, google can peanalise you for it so beware.

Accomplish abiding your hotlink on addition website has ballast argument with it, already afresh if your affairs cat aliment affection this in the ballast argument and do not cover things hotlink bang actuality bang me ect ect.

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Using An Outbound Marketing Firm To Growing Your Business

By Terry Stanfield

During a tough economy any business is facing currently, it is necessary to see where budget cuts can be made. Cutting sales and marketing is detrimental to the growth of the business but finding lower cost alternatives to replace expensive current activities can help the business. This article will explain why a prospecting company can be one such lower cost alternative.

A down economy makes you want to keep your staff as productive as possible. With sales, the key is to focus upon what you are good at doing. If you are more successful at closing sales, using a prospecting company will allow you more opportunities to close business, thus lowering your cost per client.

One of the biggest obstacles for most companies is an inconsistent sales pipeline. The consistent use of a an outbound telemarketing company can help keep your sales pipeline full so that your sales can increase.

You are able to focus your valuable time prospecting the individuals who are interested in your business. This lowers your cost in finding new clients because you do not have to deal with the tedious process of identifying interested individuals.

The example of a sales funnel is often used with prospecting. You have to talk to many people before finding interested people but you can conserve your time by outsourcing the funneling of prospects down to the few interested ones coming back to you.

This tough economy dictates that you must be extremely attentive to how you spend your marketing dollars. Using an outbound telemarketing company can allow you to track your dollars closely and help you increase sales while spending the amount of money available in your marketing budget.

Many businesses and individuals will fail to respond to a prospecting company over the phone when times are good. Tough times makes these people and businesses more receptive to talking with others about how to save money so you can avoid costly mailings and increase sales with a telemarketing campaign.

Many prospecting companies have telephone automation systems that normal businesses do not have. This allows them to touch sometimes five to six times as many prospects as your salespeople do.

Using a prospecting company can be very simple for you track and see how much it costs for you to get new clients. You can build a fixed number into your budget so that you can achieve a certain number of new clients.

Many firms have layoffs during a tough econmic times and pare down their spending. If you find that you are in a similar boat and do layoffs, you can continue to increase sales with less staff by using an outbound telemarketing company. A recession will cause you to look at the bottom line very closely. Watching how much it costs to gain a new client is one such way to grow sales and one way to grow sales in a cost-effective manner is through using an outbound prospecting company.

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Cost Of Finding New Clients Costing To Much, Look At This

By T. W. Stan

During tough times any business is facing currently, it is necessary to see where budget cuts can be made. Cutting sales and marketing is detrimental to the growth of the business but finding lower cost alternatives to replace expensive current activities can help the business. This article will explain why an outbound telemarketing company can be one such lower cost alternative.

Outbound telemarketing firmstakes care of the outbound telemarketing that can communicate the benefits of your business. This can free up your salespeople to focus on other activities that they do well. The dread of outbound telemarketing can lower the productivity of your salespeople so placing this task on the shoulders of a prospecting firm can help you increase business.

Sales are dependent upon the communication of your message to prospects and this occurs through marketing. In this business climate, it is about maximizing your marketing dollars and a prospecting company is one of the most efficient uses of those dollars to increase sales.

Many companies do not watch their advertising dollars very carefully. Using prospecting companies can allow you to closely track your return on investment and often is more cost effective than expensive television advertising campaigns.

Most businesses reduce their expenditures during a recession. You can choose to spend less money but use an outbound telemarketing company because this is a fast and inexpensive way for you to develop leads, increasing sales in your company.

Most people are not interested in telemarketing and put this activity off. This reduces the sales pipeline and increases the costs to find new clients.

Many customer driven salespeople do not have time to find new clients because most of their time is spent in current sales processes and do not have finely honed prospecting skills. Using an outbound telemarketing company allows you to have people whose primary focus is new business focus on finding new clients.

Companies try to reduce all expenditures during a recession simply to maintain their current business. This offers you the opportunity to build your business by using prospecting companies because few of your competitors will be attempting to acquire new business.

Using an outbound telemarketing company can be very simple for you track and see how much it costs for you to get new clients. You can build a fixed number into your budget so that you can achieve a certain number of new clients.

Prospecting firms focus on telemarketing and this is an area most salespeople struggle. Using these specialists means that the number of calls can increase with the quality and quantity of prospects greatly increased. If you want to grow sales but at a reasonable cost, you will look closely at how much it costs to get a new client. It is necessary to try different tactics to lower this figure and prospecting companies is a tactic you can watch and carefully measure.

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How to Increase Business through Using a Prospecting Company

By Terry Stanfield

A recession causes anyone to look more closely at the bottom line and how any resources can be changed to improve profits. A prospecting company can be one such resource. This article will explain why you will want to look at a prospecting company to gain more sales at a lower cost.

A prospecting firm takes care of the outbound telemarketing that can communicate the benefits of your business. This can free up your salespeople to focus on other activities that they do well. The dread of outbound telemarketing can lower the productivity of your salespeople so placing this task on the shoulders of a prospecting firm can help you increase sales.

One of the biggest obstacles for most companies is an inconsistent sales pipeline. The consistent use of a prospecting company can help keep your sales pipeline full so that your sales can increase.

Many companies do not watch their advertising dollars very carefully. Using an outbound telemarketing company can allow you to closely track your return on investment and often is more cost effective than expensive television advertising campaigns.

Most businesses reduce their expenditures during a recession. You can choose to spend less money but use an outbound telemarketing company because this is a fast and inexpensive way for you to develop leads, increasing sales in your company.

Any business in a recession will watch their dollars very closely and want to be extremely frugal with them. Using a prospecting firm can allow you to free up current staff to work more closely with existing customers to gain more market share while still filling a new customer pipeline.

Businesses or individuals often are more receptive to ways to save money during a recession. Outbound telemarketing companies can have greater success due to this cost consciousness during a recession than during an economic boom.

With marketing budgets decreasing, few of your competitors will be apt to do business over the telephone. Using a prospecting company can allow you to increase your market share so that your sales increase either at that point or in the future when buyers reopen their wallets.

McGraw-Hill did a study to compare maintaining marketing activities and dollars versus reducing them during a recession. They found that those who maintained and increased this dollar amount enjoyed a 275% increase the first year after a recession and this is a spectacular argument why to spend money on an outbound telemarketing company.

Many firms have layoffs during a recession and pare down their spending. If you find that you are in a similar boat and do layoffs, you can continue to increase sales with less staff by using an outbound telemarketing company. A recession will cause you to look at the bottom line very closely. Watching how much it costs to gain a new client is one such way to grow sales and one way to grow sales in a cost-effective manner is through using an outbound telemarketing company.

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