Archive for July, 2008

July 31, 2008: 2:27 am: Russell M. StewartIM articles
by Russell M. Stewart

There are web directories for everything and anything. Web directories collect listings and links to any particular topic in one location, making life much easier for people like you and me, looking for information that’s hard to find – no matter what the topic might be.

A business directory provides a comprehensive list of businesses, which generally includes both online and offline businesses with hosted websites. Business directories are mostly useful for other businesses, when they are looking for services and products not available through their own business. But, even direct consumers find business directories to be useful, especially when they prefer to make direct online purchases from the most suitable seller.

There are several standards and guidelines pertaining to the presentation of business directories. If they are to be informative and useful for anyone, they should be available in a convenient form. There are no imposed standards on how a web business directory must be presented, but certain qualities are generally expected in them.

Organisation – A good online business directory must be well-organised. Relevant categories and sub-categories must be carefully thought out and implemented. The navigation must be basic and user-friendly, with all the interconnected links in one area. A clean, concise layout is very important.

Updates – A fresh directory attracts more web traffic because everything is dynamic. Stale information only drives people off and having new links along with relevant details is a good way to maintain an online business directory. When a business directory is updated often, more businesses will submit links to them too.

PageRank – Google and other search engines provide web pages with ranks. These ranks are based on how popular a page is. While it’s different from the search engine’s organic results, having a high PageRank boosts the site’s ability drive traffic through its links.

Correct Keywords – A good online business directory must concentrate on providing traffic to their listed businesses, so using the right keywords to direct various visitors is imperative. By providing keyword-based search facility, web business directories are able to help users find the right businesses without a hassle.

By using these key characteristics to determine if an online business directory is worth your time and effort, you can choose the highest quality directory, regardless of whether you want to post your own links or just find out about a specific company.

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July 30, 2008: 3:36 am: Gordon GarzaIM articles
by Gordon Garza

Passport to Wealth is one of many home based businesses on the internet I hope this review helps. Darren Gaudry started Passport To Wealth which uses direct marketing to sell it’s products. The software bundle aides you with internet marketing and is the main product.

The price of $997.00 they say you are get internet marketing tools with a value of $75,000.00. Once you join you have the resale rights to this bundle of software. The product seems to be in demand and with a purchase price of just under $1000.00.

2-Up Compensation Plan:

Passport to Wealth adopts “aussie two up” plan. It is a well-known marketing plan. Passport to Wealth allows you to start with a cost of $997 and get the internet marketing software.

Next you now need to make your first two sales with the help of your sponsor. Remember this compensation plan is a 2-Up plan which means that you are going to give your first two sales of almost $2000.00 ($997 X 2 = $1994) to your sponsor. If you are just started this business opportunity you may find this difficult to pass-up almost $3000.00.

After you make your first two sales you can now start to make money but now you have become your sponsor’s competition. You hope you have learned all you need to have from your sponsor in the beginning. You may find it hard to reach your sponsor now, because they are busy helping their new people with their first 2 sales.

In conclusion, Passport To Wealth is not a scam. The software is a real product that you have resale rights that you can sale online. What I found an issue with is the compensation plan where you have to pass-up your first two sales to your sponsor.

With this type of compensation plan you can’t build a team. You are training people to become your competition and you only make income from their first two sales. Now that person is making one or two sales a day and you do not receive any compensation from all the sales they make.

With this said some experienced internet marketers do well with a 2-Up plan with Passport To Wealth. If you are just starting out you may have a hard time. If you don’t mind passing-up your first 2 sales then Passport to Wealth may be right for you.

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July 29, 2008: 2:25 am: Kim and Charles PettyIM articles
by Kim and Charles Petty

Networking is when two or more different businesses stay in contact on a regular basis to build and improve each others business.

There are many ways to network your business online. Participate in online business related discussion boards , e-mail discussion groups, newsgroups and chat rooms. You can communicate with other business people via e-mail, video conferencing and by using instant messaging programs. Join online business associations and clubs.

You’ll gain many benefits from networking online. You’ll learn business information that you didn’t know before. You can get advice on how to solve a current business problem. It can lead to new business projects. Negotiate joint ventures and cross promotion deals.

Learn important skills that you didn’t have before. Get constructive criticism that can improve your business. Brainstorm with others to come up with new business and marketing ideas. Before you go out and communicate with other business professionals there are a few things you should know ahead of time.

Know what kind of business information you are seeking. Figure out which professionals could give you this information. Know what questions you want to ask them.

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July 28, 2008: 9:49 am: Mark ThompsonIM articles
by Mark Thompson

Everyone who has built a website must know that the secret to success is building back links. This used to consist of hours of work finding sites and asking for reciprocal links unfortunately this no longer works as well as it did. When it comes to getting 1 way links there is a new kid on the block and that’s article marketing.

Content is the life blood of the Internet every webmaster needs it and every website needs fresh content to keep Google and the other Search engines coming back regularly. By writing articles you can provide this content and at the same time get yourself permanent back links to your website. This article will attempt to answer some common questions asked by first time article writers.

What should I be writing about?

Write about what you know and make it relevant to the content of your website this will ensure that the links back to your site are also relevant and enhance the links value in the search engines.

How are site owners going to find my articles?

Once you have written your article you submit it to Article Listing websites. These website provide a categorized list of articles that are free to use on websites as long as certain conditions are adhered to. One of these conditions is that all links must be live. When you submit your article you add a short biography and a link to your site in the resource box.

Don’t Webmasters just remove the links?

This does sometimes happen but it is often a genuine mistake. If you find one of your articles without live links a quick email to the site owner is usually all it takes to get the links restored. By using a unique pen name or a unique phrase in all your articles you’ll be able to trace them through Google much easier.

How many words should my articles contain?

Usually anywhere between 350 words and 500 words is ideal. If you find yourself writing longer article split them up into 2 or 3 separate articles

How many sites should I submit to?

There is no definitive answer to this. Personally I try to make each article unique and submit it to only 1 site. This is not as difficult as it sounds if you have the right tools at your disposal. Try to monitor the results you get and if you are getting good links from submitting to multiple sites then carry on doing it.

How many articles should I be writing?

Write as many as you can. Some people find they can only write 1 or 2 a day while others like my wife can churn our 25-30 in a day. Set yourself a target of writing 1 before breakfast everyday to start with and then take it from there

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July 18, 2008: 7:20 pm: Larry D. JohnsonAffiliate Marketing
by Larry D. Johnson

Making money online is a great thing. You don’t have a boss and you have your own interest and program. Making money online is an art rather than a “job”. That is, it requires talent as well skills. Making money online is my hobby rather than my occupation.

I am no expert on Internet Marketing, but I have been making money online for the last 4 years now. The easiest way that I have found to get started making money online is to find an existing money making program and copy it.

Since I have been marketing online for a while now, I know that the marketers who can make the most money, the fastest are the ones who have a list of prospects that they can e-mail their offers to. The old saying “The Money Is In The List” is true. When you have an list of people interested in your offer that you can mail to, that’s money in the bank.

Here is the basic process of building a list. First, you need something Free to give to people. Something of value that they can use online or off whether they have their own business or not. When you offer this Free product or service through advertising, the only way for people to get your Free product or service is to give you their name and e-mail address. Now you have a prospect to mail your offer to. You build your list by using this process over and over again.

The biggest problem that I see starting out, using this method of offering something free to your prospects to contact information, is that there is no money exchanged. You are not getting paid when you offer something free to your prospect. Granted you are getting their contact information for future promotions, but you are paying money to advertise your free offer and you are not receiving any compensation to cover advertising cost. Well I found a solution to that problem.

Here is how this unique system has solved the above problem. The offer is a program that helps anyone build a large opt-in list. Your Free offer is a Free 3 day 2 night vacation given to anyone who joins your list building program. I cost $10 bucks to join the program. You and 4 other marketers will get paid $2.00 each when someone joins. When your prospect run the same promotion and starts building their own list you will get paid $2.00 again from everyone who joins their list and so on down 5 levels deep.

The great thing about this technique is that it’s so simple and inexpensive to run. Here is what can happen when you follow the simple directions of the program. Everyone who joins this pays 5 people $2 each. That’s the $10 cost involved. You then start receiving tons of $2 payments yourself. First from your 10. Then from their 10, then from their 10, etc. If everyone were to take a full month to get their 10 this is what you can expect to earn each month… Month 1: $20 (whoopie!) Month 2: $200 (looking better) Month 3: $2,000 (lets go shopping) Month 4: $20,000 (goodbye CC debt – hello Cancun!) Month 5: $200,000 (goodbye mortgage)

If you want to get started making money online or if you are looking for a way to build a large opt-in list, and you want to get paid at the same time, you will want to jump on this program right away. With the potential to earn $20,000 in 4 months and build a list of 10,000 prospects, plus receive a Free 3 day 2 night vacation, all for $10 this offer is a no brainer. To Get the details on this program click the link in the resource box.

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: 2:31 am: Ronny TalmorAffiliate Marketing
by Ronny Talmor

There is no question that working from home can be fun. A lot of people find it hard to locate a job that can be done from home. Once they locate it, they might not be able to manage their projects. Here are a few tips for managing your home based business so it would run smoothly, no matter what it is.

Be a slave driver. You heard right. You must become the very man or woman you wanted to escape from when they were your employer. Newly self-employed folks are usually making the mistake of lacking the direction and guidance they were used to when employed by somebody else.

Stick to your prepared schedule. Do not permit yourself to be lazy. One of the greatest advantages of working from home is the freedom to set up your own hours, being able to do the things you like and work around them. The downside is that you can just as well put off your assignments and watch TV.

You must set reasonable work time and stick to it. Needless to say, if Sarah has a guitar lesson or Bobby does not feel well, you have the privilege to attend to their needs. But do not let the kids do it every day or you will not get any work done. Don’t forget: no work– no money.

Always be on the lookout. In most work at home situations you will need to keep your eyes peeled for the next assignment, the next great item to sell, or the next person to sell to, all depending on the types of work you have chosen.

When everything is going great it is easy to get self-satisfied and believe they always will. When one is successful he or she often go with the flow and do not search for new opportunities. Beware of that. If your work gets weak, so does your income. If you have a lot of work, you wouldn’t want to take up more, but always think about the future.

Always keep on top of where income can be generated. If online marketing is your thing and your income comes from being an affiliate marketer, don’t stop researching other affiliates’ methods of success and try to implement them into your business.

There is a lot of money to be made online, but to start a home based Internet business is not for the faint of heart. If you believe in yourself, then go out there and do it. You will be working for yourself from the comfort of your home and you will be making money online.

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July 16, 2008: 9:26 pm: Ridwan IbrahimAffiliate Marketing
by Ridwan Ibrahim

Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective and powerful ways of earning some money online. This process gives everybody a chance to make a free lunch through the Internet. Being these affiliate marketing programs are easy to join, implement further pays a commission on a standard basis, augmented an more people are now enthusiastic esteem this business.

However, relating all businesses, there are lots of pitfalls in the affiliate marketing business. Committing some of the most common mistakes will cost the marketers a large component taken from the profit they are making everyday. That is why it is better to avoid them than act for regretful in the deadline.

Mistake number 1: Choosing the wrong affiliate.

Many people want to earn from affiliate marketing because fast considering possible. In their rush to be part of one, they boost to cluster a bandwagon product. This is the kind of products that the program thinks is “hot”. They choose the product that is in enjoin without actually considering if the product appeals to them. This is not a very wise move obviously.

Instead of jumping on the bandwagon, try top stack up a drill in which you are truly interested in. For any endeavor to succeed, you should take some present to plan and figure independent your actions.

Pick a toil that appeals to you. Then do some research about that essay to see if they are in needle. Promoting a toil you are more passionate about is easier than promoting unequaled considering the sake of the earnings only.

Gaffe numeral 2: Joining too teeming affiliate programs.

Since affiliate programs are very easy to join, you might be tempted to span multiples of affiliate programs to try and maximize the earnings you entrust be acceptance. Besides you may think that know stuff is nonentity wrong and diddly to lose by as part of many affiliate programs.

True, that is a great way to have multiple sources of share. However, joining multiple programs and attempting to promote them all at the same time will dissuade you from concentrating on each one of them.

The result? The maximum thinkable of your affiliate program is not realized and the income generated will not exactly be as huge as you were confidence initially it would. The best way to get excellent result is by joining just one program that pays a 40 % commission at least. Since give it your foremost effort by promoting your commodities enthusiastically. As soon as you mark that it is already making a impartial good, then maybe you can now join another affiliate program.

The technique is to do it slowly but surely. There is quite no must to rush into things, especially hold back affiliate marketing. With the way things are going, the inevitable is looking real polished and it seems affiliate marketing will be staying for a lanky time too.

Mistake figure 3: Not buying the product or using the service.

As an affiliate, you foremost mission is to effectively and convincingly get behind a resolution or benefit further to find customers. For you to achieve this purpose, you wish be able to competition to the customers that certain product also collaboration. It is therefore difficult for you to do this when you yourself have not due these things out. Thus, you will pooh-pooh to promote besides recommend them convincingly. You will besides fail to create a wanting in your customers to profit any of what you are offering.

Dab the drill or assist personally first before you subscribe advance as an affiliate to see if it is wholly delivering what it promises. If you have done so, then you are one of the credible besides living testaments aware of its advantages and disadvantages. Your customers will then feel the sincerity and truthfulness in you and this leave trigger them to try them out for themselves.

Many affiliate marketers makes these mistakes and are paying dearly for their actions. To not fall into the same situation they have been in, try to do everything to avoid making the same mistakes.

Time is the key. Yield the generation to analyze your marketing strategy and set if you are in the virtuous track. If done properly, you will be able to maximize your affiliate marketing program besides carry out higher profits.

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: 6:32 am: Todd HarmonsMarketing Tips
by Todd Schuyler

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: 4:50 am: Tony HetheringtonMarketing Tips
by Tony Hetherington

Even if you focus totally on pay per click advertising such as Google Adwords to promote your website, ebook or affilliate scheme you still need to create compelling adverts and persuasive landing pages or your sales will be lost. But everything you’ve been told is wrong!

They say you need to hire a copy writer – they are wrong! Hiring a copywriter is the WORST thing that you can do. Even if grammatically correct, their copy will disappoint. It will be empty and lack that magic ingredient that your customers will love – YOU! Only you have the unique mix of knowledge, passion and experience that could create a special bond with your customers.

They say creating a great sales page is important – they are wrong! Creating great copy for your website is absolutely essential and goes far beyond the sales page. To build long term success you need fantastic content. Whether you have an ebook to sell, website to launch or affiliate scheme to promote you need to write interesting and compelling copy – copy that will form blog entries, articles, forum posts, press releases and website content. Even if you focus totally on pay per click advertising such as Google Adwords you still need to create winning adverts and persuasive landing pages or your sales will be lost.

They say you won’t understand – they are wrong! If you refuse to struggle with their 300 page stale text books or heavy academic courses, don’t hire a copy writer, don’t let pencil heads and grammarians worry or undermine your confidence you can and will succeed through simple, practical step-by-step lessons.

They don’t want you to know how to write so that you keep going back to them.

They are the mix of copy writers, dusty academics, and grammarians that like to feel superior. These pencil heads relish in pointing out mistakes we make and undermining us so we never learn. It may not even be an official conspiracy with an evil mastermind in a secret HQ but it’s still as effective. When have you ever heard a copywriter say “No, you should be writing this instead” or “You have the knowledge and passion that I can’t match”?

The answer is probably never because they don’t want you to know how to write, they don’t want you to realise that you are the best person to create your copy and they don’t want it to be quick and easy. Then they bill you. Not only do they bill you they then keep you in this trap so that you go back for more and more.

It’s time that you changed a few things and decided to create the compelling copy that the search engines and your customers will love. 1. Fire the copy writer – it is your opinions that count. 2. Answer your customer’s questions – By solving their problems they’ll come back for more. 3. Take control – only by taking ownership of all of your site including the content will you get the success you deserve.

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July 15, 2008: 2:53 am: Jay TylerMarketing Tips
by Jay Tyler

Using everyday conversation to communicate with the subconscious mind of someone sums up what is conversational hypnosis all about. The desired results are achieved by motivational speakers who are able to mesmerize their audience using conversational hypnosis. It is practiced by advertisers, businesses and professional speakers who use tones and cues in a casual, unassuming way that will control the actions of those listening.

A hypnotist who masters what is conversational hypnosis has the power to manipulate fellow workers, friends, colleagues and family members. Using subconscious persuasion techniques, the hypnotist can watch as an idea is suggested and implemented without the subject ever knowing they were exposed to hypnosis. All it takes is a rapport with person, and then specific words and techniques can be employed to control the intended subject.

Once you master what is conversational hypnosis, you can try your new approach on relatives and acquaintances. You will go through the necessary steps without them ever realizing that you are doing anything to them. They will be wholly unaware that you are beginning to control their behavior using only your voice and your words.

One area that finds the use of conversational hypnosis to be very helpful for their day to day business is sales, copy writing and even marketing sectors. Think of the benefits you would have when talking to customers, earning their trust with subliminal molding and getting them to purchase products. Or even having the ability to see a clients reaction ahead of time and prepare for it. Those are but some of the benefits you would gain once you learn what is conversational hypnosis.

Conversational hypnosis may be useful to you if you struggle with successfully communicating with others or experience difficult personal relationships due to poor communication. Practicing what is conversational hypnosis can improve your interpersonal skills and make others pay more attention to you through a casual, risk-free, revolutionary method of hypnosis.

Deceptively ubiquitous, conversational hypnosis affects people daily through sales letters, advertisements and multi-million-dollar marketing campaigns. Although it may not seem obvious, advertisements hypnotize their target audience through what is conversational hypnosis’ toolbox of seductive, persuasive and emotional tactics. Unlike direct hypnosis, indirect hypnosis focuses on using the power inherent in language to influence the behavior of the subject.

Conversational hypnosis can be a great way to overcome issues in relationships and to improve your standing in your career or business. By using what is conversational hypnosis in your daily interaction with others, you will find that your communication skills will skyrocket and help you achieve your desired results.

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