1. Design your web site to be a targeted resourcecenter. Choose one subject and build on it. You'llgain repeat visitors that are interested in that topic.
2. Offer something that is really free. If people goto your site and what you said was free really isn't,you'll lose their trust and they won't buy anything.
3. Add a chat room or message board to your website. People want to interact with other people thathave they same interests as them.
4. Entice people to link to your web site by givingthem something free in return. This'll increase yourranking in some search engines.
5. Trigger your reader's emotions in your ad copy.Example, if you sell a book on gambling tips, tellthem the feelings they'll get when they win money.
6. Make sure your site looks good in all browsers.You could be losing sales because it looks distortedin some web browsers.
7. Increase your sales by e-mailing full page ads toyour e-zine subscribers. Remember to tell peoplebefore they subscribe or they may consider it spam.
8. Ask people questions in your ad copy that makethem think about their problems. For example: Doyou want to be free of your debts?
9. Magnify the size of your prospects problem inyour ad; show how your product can solve it.The bigger the problem, the more sales you'll have.
10. Invest a percentage of your profits right backinto your business. Spend it on marketing, productimprovement, customer service, advertising, etc.
Quote of the Day:
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Sunday, January 27, 2008
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Starting Your Home Based Business On A Shoestring
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Whether seeking a supplemental income or a full-time income,many folks have undertaken the task to discover a viable homebased business solution to meet their personal needs.
For most folks who contemplate a home business, a low-cost orno-cost solution is not only nice, but also very necessary. Manyalso seek to find a home business that will permit them tomaintain their regular day job in order to protect their baseincome.
Taking the cautious approach to a home based business andkeeping one`s job during the start-up period is often a verygood decision. By maintaining one`s job, one can maintain thehealth of their personal finances while permitting their homebusiness grow healthy and strong.
Fortunately, most home based businesses can be started withlittle or no cash, can be maintained on a shoestring budget, andcan be operated successfully with only a part-time investment.
One day, the business will be strong enough to support itselfand its owner. When that time comes, it will make good sense forthe business owner to leave his or her outside job to dedicatemore time to growing and maintaining their new thriving homebased business. You will know when that time has finally arrived.
The nature of a home based business makes it easy and veryrealistic for most folks to take the plunge into home businessownership.
Yet, many folks put off starting their own home based business,because they have the misconception that they will have to riskthousands of their own hard-earned dollars at start-up. Thenlater, if their business fails, they fear they may be forced totake out a second mortgage on their house just to stay out ofbankruptcy.
Are you one of these folks? Do you let your fears of failurekeep you from reaching for your dreams?
If so, then allow me to introduce you to a few home businessideas that you can start for less than $100 and can be startedand operated very profitably as a part-time business.
THE LIFEBLOOD OF ALL SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES
First of all, let me advise you to search out a business modelthat will deliver steady and repeat business. It is the onething --- above all others --- that will assure that yourcompany can survive the test of time.
HOME-BASED MAIL ORDER:Home-based mail order is a good example of how one can quicklygrow a home business income. Mail order is a low cost start-upbusiness that can be launched for around $100 USD.
With proper planning, your home-based mail order business willnot require up-front inventory purchases. In the mail orderbusiness, it is not uncommon to rely upon drop-shippers forproduct fulfillment services.
By utilizing drop-shippers, we can sell the products, collectthe money and then purchase the products from the wholesaleoutlet. The wholesale outlet will then put a return address foryour company on the product packaging and deliver the productdirectly to your customer.
Your primary expense in the mail-order business is advertising.Classified advertising tends to be a relatively inexpensive formof advertising with thousands of outlets available to the smallbusiness owner.
WHOLESALE BUSINESS:Buy low --- sell high. You can acquire high quality,top-of-the-line merchandise for a fraction of the retail cost.
AUCTIONS:Auctions can be an excellent source for buying cheap and sellinghigh. Both government auctions and Internet auctions can lead tosome excellent profit opportunities. Auctions are an excellenttool for both acquiring and selling merchandise.
MAKE AND SELL YOUR CRAFTS:Crafts are a hot seller at country fairs, swap meets or anyplacewhere people gather. Make your own crafts and sell them for atidy profit!
SELLING INFORMATION:Selling information by mail is another good example of aninexpensive home based business start-up. One can gain theresale rights to information for usually about $50 USD. Othercosts will include printer cartridges, paper and postage. Thereare plenty of free classifieds sites on the Internet, in whichto successfully advertise your information.
WRITE INFORMATIONAL BOOKLETS:Write and publish your own informational booklets; sell them ata high price! All you need is a little know-how, a printer,paper and stamps. This is a GREAT home business idea! You canalso sell the resale rights to others, for extra profits. Inthis age of the Internet, you may also take advantage of thefact that selling information is one of the most profitableendeavors one can pursue online.
OFFICE SERVICES:Offer office services for hire in your local paper. You`ll besurprised at the amount of regular office business that can begleaned from one little classified ad. Word processing, typing,accounting, data entry, proofreading, transcription, promotionalletters and newsletters. All these tasks can be accomplishedright from your own home office.
AVON REPRESENTATIVE:Yes, Avon`s been around for eternity, hasn`t it? Then it`s notsuch a bad prospect as a home based business, is it? I once knewa woman who did so much business as an Avon rep. that she hadpeople calling her and knocking at her door wanting to orderproducts at all hours of the day and night! Once you are anestablished Avon representative, you, too, will turn a goodprofit.
CONCLUSION:On your search for the ideal home based business, try not to getcaught up in any scams that will run off with your money. Thereare thousands of scam artists out there just waiting for thenext sucker to come along. Remember, if it sounds too good to betrue, then it probably is. Just use your good judgement andinvest wisely in proven methods of earning extra income.
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Sincerely,
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Social Bookmarking? What Is That?
Social bookmarking is a hot topic at the moment, but what exactly is it? Well social bookmarking is where the internet is categorized by humans. Normal search engines send out robots to search the internet and split it up into categories, these robots do an ok job, but they’re not human.
Social bookmarking is where humans (not machines pretending to be humans) actually search the internet and share a list of their favorite sites with others using services like Squidoo, Google Bookmarks, Yahoo My Web, and many others.
The links generated by social networks are of a much higher quality because the person is able to assess each site individually much better than search engines. Plus social networking can make it much more difficult for webmasters to manipulate what the search engines actually think about them.
Social bookmarking is a wonderful way of using the internet, by searching for people that have interests similar to your own you can quickly and easily find a list of sites that may be of interest to you. The sites in their list are more likely to be interesting to you since the person shares the same interests as you, you should be able to find hundreds of sites that are interesting to you.
When social bookmarking is used properly it can be a great traffic generating tool, not to mention it’s free. By using social bookmarking it is possible for many webmasters and bloggers to get much more traffic.
If you do plan on starting a blog, you must update it on a regular basis. Frequent updates to your blog will encourage the web spiders to visit it and so drive more traffic to your site, and anyway you surely want something new for your subscribers to read!
The best way to get that traffic to your site is by updating your site and the links on the social bookmarking site on a daily basis. In order to be successful doing business on the internet you must make connections, the internet has the possibility of a virtually unlimited population to those with the right connections.
By increasing the back links from sites considered important by search engines this will only do your site good! This will increase your traffic, and your page rank. Starting the process is often the most difficult; it will start to snowball after no time but you must keep after your goals. Make it happen!!
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4. Team up with your competition by starting an
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5. Publish an e-zine for your employees. This could
motivate them to do a better job or fill them in on
were your business is headed
6. Search for your business' name in newsgroups
and discussion boards. Some of the comments you
find could help you improve your business
7. Attract people to link to your web site. You could
offer them a discount on the products you sell or
give them free stuff for linking.
8. Develop your own opt in email list by giving your
visitors a reason to give you their e-mail address.
Allow them sign up to free stuff and contests.
9. Create a "PR" web page for your business. List
information that could be considered newsworthy
for e-zines, newspapers, magazines, etc.
10. Give your business and products credibility by
linking to web sites that have written positive stories
about your business.
Quote of the Day:
"...if the next generation is to face the future with zest
and self-confidence, we must educate them to be original as
well as competent." -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Warm regards,
Stone Evans
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Boost Traffic With Web 2.0 Marketing
Now we’re going to look into boosting the traffic to your website using web 2.0, but before we get that far it’s important to understand exactly what web 2.0 is. It can be difficult to get a clear definition as to what web 2.0 actually means, it has many different features and many of these can be used to get traffic to your website.
This phenomenon basically focuses on an interactive web, a community shares information and details with other users, while these other users are also able to comment on the information. If your website is about a unique area then you could well end up receiving thousands of hits through using these forms of marketing.
People like to see exciting sites, and these certainly aren’t sites that contain lots of just plain boring text. For your site to be exciting it must contain photos, audio and video. People like to be able to interact with the site.
If you look at the global top 500 websites on Alexa.com then you will see that most of them are actually community websites, people visit these in their thousands every single day! If you think about it and develop a unique topic then you can get a lot of traffic in a very short period of time. You need to think about text, photos, audio and of course video.
If you can write articles then you can submit them to a number of different places, like technorati for example. Members will be able to read your articles, if they think it is good then they can vote good, if it’s bad then they will vote bad. Depending on how many people think it is good your article will become a hot topic and hopefully read by thousands of people. By increasing interest in your topic, hopefully people will also follow the links back to your website.
If you’re good at creating art then you can use this to your advantage too! No matter whether you are good at taking photos, sketching or creating digital art you can submit these to flickr.com this will we seen by thousands of people that will appreciate it for what it is. If this is done properly it can get a lot of new business to your site, and best of all this method is free. It can get thousands of visitors to your site, and it doesn’t cost a dime.
If you have created a series of videos that is funny, educational or both then you can submit this to one of the video exchanges such as youtube.com or Google video. Thousands upon thousands of people will view your video and make comments about it; this could make you a very famous camera man in just a few hours!
So web 2.0 is all about being creative, the more creative you can be the more traffic you stand to gain. With a little bit of hard work you can give your internet traffic a much needed boost.
Posted by Paul Poole at Tuesday, January 22, 2008 0 comments
10 Cool Ways To Attract People To Your Web Site
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1. Give people a free subscription to your e-zine.
Almost everyone is publishing a e-zine nowadays
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free subscription. You could offer a free gift or
advertising when people subscribe.
2. Provide your visitors with free content. Your
content will be more attractive to your visitors if
it's up-to-date or original. You could also offer
people the option to reprint the content in their
e-zine or web site.
3. Offer a free online directory. The directory
could be full of interesting ebooks, e-zines, web
sites etc. If people find your directory to be a
valuable resource they will visit it over and over.
4. Give your visitors a free ebook. You could
also include your own ad in the ebook and allow
other people to give it away. If you don't want to
take the time to write one, you could ask other
writers permission to use their articles.
5. Hold free online classes or seminars. They
could be held in your web site's chat room. The
idea of "live" information will definitely entice
people to visit your web site. You will become
known as an expert on the topic.
6. Give visitors a free entry into your contest or
sweepstakes. The prizes should be something of
interest or value to your visitors. Most people
who enter will continually revisit your web site to
get the results.
7. Let visitors download free software. It could
be freeware, shareware, demos etc. You could
even turn part of your site into a free software
directory. If you created the software, include
your ad inside and let other people give it away.
8. Offer free online services or utilities from your
web site. They could be search engine submitting,
copy writing proofreading etc. The service or
utility should be helpful to your target audience.
9. Give free consulting to people who visit your
web site. You could offer your knowledge via
e-mail or by telephone. People will consider this
a huge value because consulting fees can be very
expensive.
10. Give your visitors a free membership to your
online club. People want to belong to something,
why not your online club. You could also give
away a free e-zine for club members only.
Quote of the Day:
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discipline...too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go
in search of something to fall in love with...something
about yourself, your career, your spouse." -- Dale Dauten
Warm regards,
Stone Evans
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Friday, January 18, 2008
Is the .Com Overrated?
When it comes to domain name extensions, most people are familiar with .com. Because of this the average webmaster is scrambling to get the perfect .com domain name. Some may even forgo registering a potential goldmine of a domain name in favor of getting a less popular .com. Yet, there are dozens of other domain names available, some of which have gained popularity despite not being a .com. How can a webmaster determine if their site is going to be in such a league without the traditional .com? This article will explain how.
First, a webmaster needs to evaluate the purpose of their website. If their website is designed to simply direct people to an affiliate page, then it won't really matter what extension it has, since they are only going to visit it once anyway. However, if a website is designed for repeat visits, people may not care about the site not having a .com. Sites that contain updated information, games and message boards tend to be the type of sites that get repeat visitors.
Secondly, webmasters need to consider the memorable nature of their domain name. If a webmaster is able to create a witty domain name hack, such as del.icio.us, and their content is good, it may not matter that they don't have a .com. A good site that can allow a webmaster to register unconventional domain name extensions is New.net. This site offers extensions such as .love and .free. By looking at these extensions, webmasters can start pondering ideas for their own domain name hacks. If they need help, they can always type the word or letters used in the extension in a keyword analyzer or search engine.
Thirdly, webmasters need to determine whether or not a domain name with an unconventional extension will rank higher in search engines than a domain name with a traditional one. In fact, consider the above-mentioned example of del.icio.us. Honestly, how many people are typing such a domain name in their browser? While it is certainly memorable, all of the periods associated with it are annoying. Yet, the site still has a high search engine ranking, which is probably how it's getting its traffic.
Surfers visit it from the search engine, bookmark it and never again have to be associated with its unique URL. This is the type of success a webmaster wants to emulate. Indeed, if a domain name is keyword-rich and memorable, webmasters need to definitely go for whatever extension is available for it.
Of course, this is not to say that a person must be limited to just domain name. If they want to still use .coms after using other extensions they can. In fact, the more domain names that point to a site, the more likely a search engine bot will index it higher. So, ultimately, with this strategy, webmasters will have two domain names they can work with. They can use the one with the unconventional domain name in search engine marketing in hopes of getting indexed high, while the other one can be used in printed media, where people are more likely to be concerned with the type of URL they are entering in their browser.
Posted by Paul Poole at Friday, January 18, 2008 1 comments
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Know What A Wiki Timer Is?
Wiki Timer? What the hell is that? Read on to get a hint...
The internet is changing so rapidly it’s changing how everyone operates. Not that long ago digital calendars and diaries were just that, copies of conventional diaries and calendars. This made them very confusing to use and actually led to few people using them. Nothing seemed a worthwhile replacement for a physical reminder system like post it notes!
Thanks to new inventions in the technology that makes web 2.0 possible there may be many different solutions. The internet is now a really exciting place to be.
There are many different tools available for planning and scheduling our lives, however most people waste around 30% of their time on things like scheduling appointments. If you have a receptionist like mine then you will no doubt spend much longer than this, because every time I ask her to do something she throws it straight back at me! Maybe I need a new receptionist.
Without email and cell phones it would be impossible to schedule our lives at all. Using your computer you can look when you are free, choose a time slot, send out email invitations, and then phone up whoever hasn’t replied. One of the hardest parts about organizing a meeting is trying to find a time slot which is suitable for everyone.
There are many online services like Yahoo calendar, Google calendar, and many others all of which can help you to do this horrible task. Everyone is able to check this schedule without you having to remind people by email. There are even some calendars that allow multiple people to edit them.
If you’re a business then why not consider using these online tools to your advantage? Not only can you use them yourself, but there are a number of companies on the internet offering an unbranded system that you could use with your system brand. If you get hits to this then people will no doubt remember your brand name.
So anyway, many of the online calendars and scheduling tools are not fantastic tools. There is however one new tool that seems to be getting things right, Wiki Timer. Wiki Timer focuses on it being difficult to schedule a time that everyone can get to. It’s got a built in problem solver that uses the information you input and actually schedules the appointment for you, Wiki Timer then communicates with the invited people to work out a compromise.
Working out a meeting time can be stressful at the best of times, but Wiki Timer takes all of the stress about this, once the automatic scheduler has scheduled the meeting you will be told. It’s like having your own receptionist, although much better than mine!
This seems to be a step in the right direction for internet applications; the uses for these are endless. If you’re a freelancer then such a tool is very useful for anybody that wants to plan that annoying family reunion. However the problem is that not everybody uses the internet, and so it can’t completely cut out the stress!
Posted by Paul Poole at Wednesday, January 16, 2008 1 comments
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
10 Amazing Ways To Jump Start Your Sales
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1. Find a strategic business partner. Look for ones
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2. Brand your name and business. You can easily
do this by just writing articles and submitting them
to e-zines or web sites for republishing.
3. Start an auction on your web site. The type of
auction could be related to the theme of your site.
You'll draw traffic from auctioneers and bidders.
4. Remember to take a little time out of your day
or week to brainstorm. New ideas are usually the
difference between success and failure.
5. Model other successful business or people. I'm
not saying out right copy them, but practice some
of the same habits that have made them succeed.
6. Take risks to improve your business. Sometimes
businesses don't want to advertise unless it's free,
sometimes you have to spend money to get results.
7. Include emotional words in your advertisements.
Use ones like love, security, relief, freedom, happy,
satisfaction, fun, etc.
8. Ask people online to review your web site. You
can use the comments you get to improve your web
site or you may turn the reviewer into a customer.
9. Out source part of your workload. You'll save
on most employee costs. You could out source
your secretarial work, accounting, marketing, etc.
10. Combine a product and service together in a
package deal. It could increase your sales. If you're
selling a book, offer an hour of consulting with it.
Quote of the Day:
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's
hand and squeeze it, while there's time." -- Dale Dauten
Warm regards,
Stone Evans
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