Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Online Paid Surveys Are A Great Way to Earn Money

By Greg Shuey
Are you a single mother torn between leaving your children at home to work or a former laborer who had an accident that caused a permanent damage such as amputation or paralysis? Are you trying to look for more ways to earn more money to help with everyday expenses? Factors such as physical disability or certain commitment can affect your earning potential. There are tons of earning opportunities out there; its just a matter of knowing when to grab them and how to make the most out of them. The advent of technology has made the Internet very popular. Now that the Internet is in full swing, a lot of opportunities have opened up to us. Before, the people go online strictly for business and research purposes. Now, the world wide web has become a commonplace for everyone. People use the Internet to keep in touch with long lost friends and family, entertain themselves, and accomplish their work. But one of the most important thing the Internet has done is it opened up the door for opportunities to earn more money. One of these opportunities is doing online paid surveys. Online surveys are used by companies to gather relevant data to come up with better product development and marketing strategies. This is made possible by market research companies looking to gather data for large and small businesses looking to develop new products, change their marketing strategies, branch out to other services and know public perception about their company. And instead of going about it the conventional way of phone surveys and letters, these market researchers use the Internet, specifically the email, to get the information they need. In return for your answers to the surveys, you get cash, a lot of cash. Online paid surveys are a great way for people to earn a lot of money. It doesnt matter if you have a disability or too wrapped up with domestic chores, as long as you have a computer, Internet connection, and the desire to earn very good money, youre good to go. Here are some tips to help you get started with online paid surveys: 1. Sign up and create your own profile at a paid online survey site. http://www.surveyinferno.com/ is a directory of the different online survey sites that you can choose from. 2. It is recommended that you use a different email address for registering than the one that you personally use. 3. Sign up for as many companies as you can so you will get more survey offers. 4. Once you receive the survey form, answer it as soon as you can. Answer all surveys that you get, so companies will give you more, meaning more cash and prizes for you. 5. Read through the terms of the survey first before answering it. Doing this provide you with information such as how and how much you will get paid. 6. Be patient. This is because you may not receive as many surveys as you want. Companies will send the surveys to those whose profiles fit their target market. So make sure that your profile is complete, because you wouldnt want to be missing out on these surveys just because you didnt put in your age or your monthly income. Itching to start earning lots of cash? Start answering those online paid surveys.
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Global Domains International (GDI), Website or Online Business

By Francisco Rodriguez H.
Global Domains International (GDI), Website or online business? In this article, GDI is put under the microscope to determine this question. Also addressed here is the cost of having a home business. Is it really worth it? 1. The first thing you need to do is find your referral link. Your referral link is your unique url that will track any people that you refer to the GDI online business. Anyone that comes to GDI through that link will be added to your downline. You will find this link by logging onto your account. 2. Once you have your referral link then you need to start getting it out there so people can see it. One good way to get people to see it is by adding the link to your email signature. You may have a brief statement or sentence about it and then your link. You can set your emails up automatically to do this every time you send an email out. 3. There are many work online forums on the internet and you should join a few of them. You can put your referral link in your signature at forums also and then every time that you make a post at the forum people will see your link. Some forums also have an advertising section where you are allowed to place free ads, there is a fair bit of competition here but you may get some results. 4. Ebook marketing it a very good way to market your GDI business. You can write a quick ebook explaining about the program and then give the ebook away through forums or through a website. 5. Pay per click advertising is another good way to build your GDI downline. This option does cost money but if you can add a few new members every week through this method it will pay off as with the GDI program you will get a $100 bonus if you sign 5 people up in one week. At an affordable $10 per account, the GDI business opportunity is a great way to start-up a family organization, but be careful, this child rearing technique can quickly bump you up to the next tax bracket before the end of the year!
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Sunday, March 29, 2009

The maximum brightness Acer K10 handheld projector market in Europe

By Zou cheaponsale
Since the end of 2008 TI announced volume production of micro-chip projectors, the one public projector manufacturers have introduced a micro-projector prototype handheld more Optoma, Dell, Aiptek, 3M and other goods Licensing has taken the lead in the domestic launch of a formal product. And announced the re-return to the Mainland market, Acer projector also recently published its first micro-projector, K10. It is understood, Acer K10 handheld micro projectors with 100ANSI lumens brightness, 2000:1 contrast ratio, resolution, reached the 858 600. Used in micro-TI are Pico projector Chipset. From the appearance point of view, Acer K10 and there are no other competing products so small, weighing about 1.2 pounds (about 0.54 kilograms), volume of 5.0 inches 4.8 inch 5.0 inches (W H Long), about 12.5 centimeters 2.1 cm 12.5 cm. And prior to our evaluation off Dell M109S (smaller than a mouse! Dell hands LED projector trial) but through the S - Video and RGB connections can be expressed in brighter images. Light source, the use of micro-projectors are common LED light source, life expectancy of up to 20,000 hours. Of course, LED bulbs will not only Only are long-lived, and low power electrical energy can be saved on the users can also save costs. However, the current Acer K10 projector available for sale only in Europe, prices for 487 U.S. dollars, or about 3331 yuan.
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Olive Riley (108-year-old): World's Oldest Blogger

Believed to have been the world's oldest blogger, australian woman Olive Riley began her blog The Life of Riley in February 2007 at the age of 107 and made her final post on 26 June 2008 from a nursing home in Woy Woy, New South Wales, complaining of a cough about two weeks before she died at the age of 108. She had posted over 70 entries, as well as several video posts on YouTube. Her blog (or "blob" as she called it) was inspired by her experience with documentary filmmaker Michael Rubbo who, in 2005, made a documentary about her titled All About Olive.
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Top 20 Blog’s That Make A Lot Of Money Online

This list proves that there are so many site promising 6 figures income in a few weeks is just bull.

These sites are work on with love and dedication. Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year these guys have hung at it.

And their commitment, dedication, perseverance and professionalism has been rewarded.

Rank Website --- Owner --- Monthly Earnings ---Main Income 1 Techcrunch --- Michael Arrington --- $200,000 --- Advertising Banners 2 Mashable --- Pete Cashmore --- $180,000 --- Advertising Banners 3 Perez Hilton --- Mario Lavandeira --- $140,000 --- Advertising Banners 4 Gothamist --- Jake Dobkin --- $80,000 --- Pay Per Click 5 Timothy Sykes --- Timothy Sykes --- $80,000 --- Affiliate Sales 6 Venture Beat --- Matt Marshall --- $62,000 --- Pay Per Click 7 Life Hacker --- Nick Denton --- $60,000 --- Advertising Banners 8 Tuts Plus ---Collis Taeed --- $55,000 --- Advertising Banners 9 Smashing Magazine --- Vitaly Friedman--- $50,000 --- Advertising Banners 10 Steve Pavlina --- Steve Pavlina --- $45,000 --- Pay Per Click 11 TPM --- Josh Marshall --- $45,000 --- Pay Per Click 12 Car Advice --- Alborz Fallah --- $42,000 --- Advertising Banners 13 JohnChow --- John Chow --- $35,000 --- Affiliate Sales 14 Kotaku --- Nick Denton --- $32,000 --- Advertising Banners 15 Coolest Gadgets --- Allan Carlton --- $30,000 --- Advertising Banners 16 Problogger --- Darren Rowse --- $25,000 --- Advertising Banners 17 Joystiq --- AOL --- $18,000 --- CPM Advertising 18 PC Mech --- David Risley --- $16,000 --- Affiliate Sales 19 Shoemoney --- Jeremy Schoemaker--- $12,000 --- Private Advertising 20 Informasi Dan Tips --- Mustofa Alaydrus --- $9,500 --- Pay Per Click

Video Marketing that Get's you Noticed

By Alexis Jameson
How would you like to be treated as royalty? For some, the only time they will get to experience the magic of being treated as royalty is to be associated with one. However, with video marketing, you dont have to be with royalty to be one. Imagine yourself at the peak of your career, getting all the things you want, people going out of their way to please you and keep you comfortable and satisfied, while monitoring the steady progress of your financial accounts that attempt to reach figures that it has never encountered before. Can this be possible? Of course it's possible, as long as you are sure about the efficiency and effectiveness of the video marketing campaigns that you are doing. It will be because of this video marketing campaign that will make you be royalty. On the other hand, if your idea of a successful video marketing campaign is to submit to a hundred of well known video websites your sample videos, then you need all the luck you can get to make it work. There is still another alternative to consider; using Traffic Geyser software designed for video marketing. With it, you can place your videos to more than 70 websites that offer video posting. Posting to a limited number of websites such as YouTube will never get the job done. Many video websites are available in the Internet, just waiting for people like you to maximize its potential. Not knowing that there are a lot of these kinds of websites in the World Wide Web will just hinder you from succeeding in your video marketing campaign. Harnessing the potential of submission software for your videos can ensure that all significant video websites are tapped and submitted to. All it needs is a bit of programming, your videos, and a few minutes of your time to start the ball rolling. Your videos will be occupying a place in all video websites in a matter of several hours. You will even be surprised on the content of your email inbox. With automated submission software like Traffic Geyser, you are ensured of belonging to the top rank of results via Google search, using optimized keywords on your subject, all in 24 hours. This will definitely give you a lot more hits than just manual website submission. And still keeping with the video title, remember that keywords are man's best friend on the internet, so use them in your titles. This will not only help with your search engine optimization, but also ensure that people can find your video by simply typing in the desired keyword. Therefore if you really want to experience that royal treatment, then take the first step to video marketing. With submission software now available to help you with it, there is no reason why you cant reach your dream of being royalty.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

What is Google Adsense

By Lian Maksin
Sent by: Whirly Popcorn Maker. Powered by Google, AdSense is a high quality advertising model that relies on the relationship between ads and site content. The major benefit of this system is that it generates revenue, often representing the main financing source of small autonomous websites. The advantages of the system are manifold, but from the perspective of the Internet surfer, the sponsored links incorporated in the page content have a less intrusive and rather positive impact on a page visitor. Moreover, the ads always refer to the website domain, and so far, rich in content websites have been very rewarding in terms of success rates. Specific software is necessary for adding of the advertisements to the content, on the condition that this promotional material be relevant for the content of the sites. A brief script is applied to the pages of the website to complete the Google AdSense program start. The profit thus generated can be increased through superior traffic and advanced optimization. Google AdSense and Google Adwords are closely connected, thus advertisers use Adwords to bid on the keywords eventually pay for the ads, while the same ad clicking pays the websites displaying ads through the Google AdSense system. Good site management thus becomes a crucial condition for the efficiency of Google AdSense investments. Fresh new content attracts most of the web surfers, because people are usually looking for information. This content can be used in such a way so as to encourage visitors to click on the ads. Although it is forbidden to post messages like - Click on My Ads - web masters find ways to make the sponsored links attractive to readers. When integrated in the web page content, such links or ads have 50% more chances of getting accessed. Google search options are also available with Google AdSense for the same purpose of program support and increased availability. With Google AdSense, any web site can display a Google search box to allow the visitor to navigate anywhere while still remaining on the same site. Google shares the advertising profit generated by the clicks resulting from this kind of searches with the web site owner. One more time we need to stress out that AdSense will only make payment possible if sponsored links get clicked on during the respective searches.
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Monday, March 23, 2009

Google PPC

By Lian Maksin
Written by: Retro Kettle Popcorn Maker. Internet advertising and marketing strategies cannot be understood or designed without somehow referring to in relation PPC ads. Google Adwords for example represents that largest system of pay-per-click advertising programs that so far has not be surpassed by any competitor. Ads just like web site content have to be well written and properly researched in order to target good traffic, and this cannot be achieved without professional search engine optimization. Thus, if only relevant buyers will click on the ads, then the bid rate will be acceptable in relation with the profit. What are the benefits of ppc ads? Google Adwords opens the gate to the largest number of Internet visitors, and statistics indicate that the majority of users spend their time surfing the world wide web on Google as compared to other search engines. The explanation comes from the fact that the search engine is available in so many languages which increases the opportunity to advertise on foreign markets. The pay-per-click rates demanded by Google Adwords are five times over the standard of other search engines, but with this price the advertiser pays for a huge market exposure. PPC ads, Google Adwords campaigns, web page ranking and lots of other elements related to traffic relevance can be covered either individually or by turning to the services of specialized agencies that provide professional assistance. Despite the fact that people will aways want to keep the prices low and the budgets under control, statistics indicate that the costs of online advertising are a lot lower than for other forms of product or service promotion. To cut a long story short, Google earns billions out of the ppc ads Google Adwords system, while the user generates a revenue by the sales resulting from the clicks. However, with $30 per click for the most profitable of keywords, lots of marketers lose their money in this Internet jungle. PPC ads, Google Adwords campaigns and promotional advertising are very challenging if you are a novice marketer with a limited budget. According to statistics, only half of the Google Adwords users succeed, the rest lose their money and keep trying over and over again. Thus, you can consider yourself lucky if you spend $1,000 on ppc ads and you make $1,300 sales. This means you are having a 30% profit margin, which is really a very fortunate case.
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Work at home is not a job, it is a real business.

By Francisco Rodriguez H.
His willingness to help others make money at home coupled with his dedication to making sure those around him succeed, and his knowledge of the work at home industry are indicative of why the Work at Home Team is unrivaled in the support they give to your home based business success. Sadly, many of the work at home job and business scams we see people asking about or falling for are the very ones that the FBI and FTC (Federal Trade Commission) aggressively warn consumers about every year. Use it to start your own business online, or give it away and watch it generate income for you. Offering income opportunities for wholesale distributors operating a home based business. Each and every day, all types of people, from all over the world, are deciding to quit their jobs to work at home with their own home based business. For those who believe that they could make some money online, then read on for some useful tips. Make money online easily with a home business system that virtually runs on autopilot. A very profitable online home based business. Internet has become an amazing mean for work at home opportunities. Internet is not only used for entertainment, if it is used wisely it can be your money-minting machine. Internet millionaire guarantees you can quickly make thousands of dollars online regardless of your age, education or current financial situation. Affiliate marketing is one of the popular means to earn money online. After a LOT of research, as well as plenty of trial and error, I have learned some very important things to look for in a home based business, work at home job, affiliate program and all the other ways there are to make money at home. Affiliate marketing is a great way to start in making money online.
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Friday, March 20, 2009

Ad Swap Magic

By Steve Blalock
Here is a technique you can implement to build your mailing list for no additional cost. I call it using subscribers to make subscribers like much in the context of using money to make money. This simple list building formula can be summed up in two words: ad swap. Generally, you trade advertisements with other eZine publishers, preferably of the same mailing list size or bigger. You broadcast the eZine publishers advertisement to your mailing list while the eZine publisher endorses your ad to his list. Yes, you are actually cross endorsing or cross promoting each others offer to your mailing lists. Your advertisements goal should be to get as many subscribers possible from the other eZine publishers mailing list to sign up for yours. The result: you grow your mailing list. This method does not require money, which means it can be done for free. And the return of subscribers? Infinite! You only have to do this with one eZine publisher at least once, because his subscribers who are also your subscribers can now be followed up within the boundaries of your mailing list. Perform ad swaps with as many eZine publishers as possible and soon, you will have a huge mailing list of your own " built free.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Beauty Blogs

By charlie reese
When you browse the cosmetic, hair color, manicure and other such beauty product aisles, do you feel overwhelmed by the shelves stocked with hundreds of products? I sure do. Unless you're a professional beautician, it's certainly hard to figure out which products are right for your skin tone and which will do the job as promised. You don't want to waste your money on an inferior product, or spend more than you need to. Worst of all, choosing a hair color product can turn into a nightmare " once you've done the deed, there's not much to be done " except, perhaps to go to a professional salon and see if they can straighten out the mess. More money spent. Fortunately, there are hundreds, if not thousands of excellent beauty blogs online, maintained by professional beauticians who are up to date on all the latest products, posting frequent reviews of various beauty products, as well as how-to types of articles, such as how to apply eye shadows, hair streaking techniques that work and proper methods for makeup removal. It's their business, so you'll find reliable information you can use today. You can read beauty questions and comments from the beauty blog readers which can also offer valuable beauty tips and tricks. How about the latest trends in makeup, such as the mineral-based powders? These are a bit pricey, but give beautiful results that are far more natural looking than the old 'foundations', don't clog your pores and give your skin a fresh, vibrant look. However, knowing how to choose the best shades and which brushes are used to apply these powders does take a little know-how. Rather than take a chance on wasting money with a shade which won't work for you or waste the product by fumbling the application, visit a beauty blog to find all the answers! Women love to mess with their hair color, even though a home application may not come out anything like the lovely model on the box. Now what? Having once experienced a disaster when I decided to put a few subtle streaks in my hair, I certainly wish beauty blogs had been around then! Obviously, I did something wrong, because the streaks turned a very unattractive shade of green! I ended up making an immediate trip to the salon. The best they could do was to cover it with a rinse. The resulting color was an all-over bluish gray, which I had to live with for quite some time. Hair color technology wasn't then as advanced as it is today, but if I'd been able to investigate the pitfalls and proper techniques of streaking hair by clicking through to a good beauty blog before rashly proceeding on my own, I would have saved myself many tears and much money. Teens don't often consult Mom about makeup, hair coloring or any other beauty topics, probably because they think Mom is back in the dark ages and have no concept of what's in style. This makes the beauty blogs an especially good resource. The professional beauty blogger has the scoop on what's popular with every age group and often caters to younger visitors. Teens who take advantage of the beauty advice and secrets available on such blogs might well surprise Mom with their expertise in beauty products. Whether you're young or more, ahem, mature, visit the beauty blogs for expert advice that doesn't land you in some of the predicaments described above!
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Home Based Businesses-Writing and Websites

By Steve Blalock
Today we are going to look at creating a home-based online business opportunity. The first home based business we will look at is to become a freelance writer. This is a very good way for you to make money if you need some part-time income but it is not something that you can do on a full-time basis. It is often hard because there are so many writers out there that the amount of money one can make off of freelancing might not be enough to pay the bills. This can be a great way to start and get your feet wet working online because you'll have several different opportunities to learn about different areas of the Internet. Many authors have been given the opportunity to write and learn about different subjects. This can make you more savvy about the Internet and how you could further create a home-based online business opportunity through your talent and insights from your freelancing experience. If you are interested in learning more about freelance writing, you should look into directfreelance.com or freelanceworkexchange.com. I would highly recommend looking at freelanceworkexchange.com because if you join for a week, you can see a variety of jobs that they have to offer as well as be able to download an in-depth ebook on how to make good money freelancing. This e-book is very valuable and gives you some good ideas to make extra money freelancing or how to market yourself adequately as a freelancer. Building a website built around a particular theme or niche is another home based online opportunity. This does not take a great deal of money and if you work at this, it can build up into a very nice part-time or full-time income for you. You may not see instantaneous results but if you take time every day to work on developing your website you'll be pleased with the end result. If you want to find some underserved niches that are in need of a good website to be built around this, take a look at the following website: www.findhotniches.com. This website will give you particular information on how to build a website and a niche as well as particular niches that need some development. Has this article on creating a home-based online business opportunity given you some food for thought? We only looked into a couple of possible suggestions but if you take the lessons learned here and search the Internet and keep an open mind, you can find anything that can possibly interest you. If you look the website www.clickbank.com and look around at the different products, you may find an affiliate program that you may want to market as well. What is great about this particular website is that everything is already set up as far as products are related and all you have to do is figure out how to sell the product. This will go back to you learning more about Internet marketing and about the different strategies that you can do for this.
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Discount Designer Gucci Coach Prada Handbags

By saelical
SaleVogue.com sells just real womens handbags. We proudly stand behind the authenticity and quality of all merchandise sold on our site. We guarantee each and every product offered for sale on our site to be brand new, genuine and authentic. Start your order here from today to experience best service and fast shipping. There are many designer handbags that you can choose form nowadays because it seems like these companies are in fierce competition with each other to sell you there new style. In some cases the styles of handbags are so similar you can not tell them apart accept for the logo. When shopping for one of these handbags you want to get the best price possible so make sure that you do your research before making a purchase. Some of the most popular brands such as coach you can find at many of the outlet store around the country and this can be a great way to get the bag you want while saving money in the mean time. You must be cautious when searching online for a great deal on handbags because even though places like eBay do offer great buys there are a lot of fake handbags out there and you do not want to pay a premium price for a non authentic handbag. You want to search for things to watch out for because the quality of a replica is usually not close to as good as the real thing. With the popularity of these brands the amount fakes is on the rise as well and just be cautious when buying. Remember that purchasing your favorite designer handbag can be easy if you use the internet to find a deal. There are many places to find a great handbag at a great price and with the economy the way it is many of these handbag companies are trying to reduce the price to sell as many as they can.
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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Use your Traffic to Make Money

By Steve Blalock
Establishing your own online business is not like what it used to be. There are thousands of competitors that are all too willing to get a bigger share of the pie. Every scheme and method you can find to augment your sales would be very beneficial. To be quite honest.....most of us are into it for the money. We are not going to waste our time and effort just for the fun of it. Many sites would not wait until hell freezes over just to see their profits. While there are some who take things lightly, most online business owners would rather see profit any given day. It is commonly said that without traffic we have no business. Like any business, without any customers you dont get sales. Traffic represents all the people that get a chance to see what you have to offer. The more people who see your products the more people there would be to buy them. Nobody starts an internet business that doesnt expect profit. We have startup capital that needs to be regained. With consistent traffic, there is a fighting chance to achieve that probability. Monetizing your traffic would optimize your chances. Making Money out of your Traffic The best and most proven method of making a profit out of your traffic is using advertising. The internet generates billions of individuals counting as traffic everyday. Most of these people are searching for something specific. While some are just looking for information there is also a good percentage that is looking for something that they need. The internet has proven to be a very reliable source in finding what was deemed to be a very hard to find product. The internet has made the world a much smaller place; you can advertise a product from the depths of Istanbul and still find a buyer from the center of Chicago. Generating traffic is normally not an easy task. You have to contend with a great number of sites to generate a good number of traffic flow. But if done successfully this could open up a Pandoras Box of possibilities. One of the benefits is monetizing your traffic flow. So, to get to the core of it; the more traffic you generate, the more likely you are considered desirable in the sense that a good traffic flowing site is easily convertible to profit. Basically traffic equals profit. Advertising is the name of the game; with the good advertising scheme you can use your traffic flow to your advantage. When you have good traffic you have a good number of potential customers, customers that are willing to pour money into your coffers. Other than that these are also traffic that can be redirected to sponsored links that are willing to pay you for a sizeable portion of the traffic that you have generated. This plan is called pay-per-click. With every click a visitor of your site makes on an advertised link you will be paid. The more traffic you generate and the more clicks that happens would spell to more profits. Affiliate Programs Another method of monetizing your traffic is affiliate programs. You can link up with other tried and tested sites and online companies to monetize your traffic by receiving a percentage of the sales generated by traffic coming from your site. The basic idea is, traffic generated from your site will go to another site that can offer a product that you do not carry. Many programs can keep track and make records of transactions that were made possible because of site linkage. Clickbank makes this process very easy...and automatically pays all affiliates. When purchases are made by customers that were led by your site to their site, you get a percentage of that sale. Affiliate programs will provide you the benefit of monetizing your traffic without the actual need of carrying or promoting a certain product. There are many methods to monetize your traffic. All it takes is a bit of hard work and the desire to successfully launch a profit-earning site. The internet is a veritable source of information with many tips and guides being offered on how to monetize your traffic and make your site a good profit earner.
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Friday, March 13, 2009

Simple Ways to Produce Email Follow-Ups

By Harry Constantine
As an internet marketer, you need to devote as much time as possible to promote your online business. On average, you need to contact your prospect up to 7 times before he or she decides to purchase from you. Thats a daunting task. But you can automate your daily tasks by using an autoresponder. Here's how to do it: 1. Give out a free email course - Whenever someone subscribes to your auto responder, they begin receiving your lessons every day or every week, depending on the time interval set. Include the tangible benefits the visitor will reap by purchasing your product. 2. Include an auto responder in your eBook marketing plan - Offer a trial version of your product. Showing your visitors firsthand the valuable information you have to offer them can increase your sales. 3. Publish ezine as broadcasts or load them on specific date so your software send your ezine on the day you have scheduled it. That is the beauty of automation! 4. Delivering brief sample issues of your ezine will help you to increase the number of visitors that subscribe to your publication. This will show them firsthand the valuable content that they can expect from subscribing to your ezine. 5. Publish an article announcement list that announces when you've written a new article or articles. This will help you to get your articles published more often and increase traffic to your site.
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Friday, March 6, 2009

5 Reasons Why Blogging is the New Internet Marketing Tool

By Steve Blalock
Blogging is a concept that started in late 90s. It used to be a way to comment an existing webpage, an opportunity for visitors and readers to react or voice out ones opinion on the said page. What started as a single-sentence commentary has evolved into pages of personal take on just about anything and everything under the sun. As it continues to move forward, online advertising has tapped into the blogs potential. Here are 5 reasons why you should use blogging as an Internet marketing tool. 1.Blogging is simple. The simplest way to get your piece on the net is through blogging. No skills are necessary an average adult can read and type, or at least click a mouse. Its like having a virtual piece of paper and you just write your ideas, experiences, new products, and hope that the truth behind your articles comes out and entice your reader to also try your product. If you have a PC and an Internet connection (who doesnt?) then you can blog and advertise. 2. Blogging is authentic. In this day and age where advertising saturate our lives, we question the credibility of promoters claims. However, in blogs, real people share their real-life experiences, unscathed by paid advertising. Reading blogs about first-hand product use is like talking to people about their first-hand experience. You definitely want to buy a tried and tested product. 3. Blogging is free. Because blogging is yet to be proven as a mainstream online advertising media, most sites see it as something to augment current marketing tools and thus offer it for free. Any opportunity for free webtime is definitely a bonus especially to businesses that are starting up. Keep in mind that paid blog pages can generate more income for your seriously growing business. 4. Blogging builds credibility. As you get more and more into writing your experiences on a particular product or industry, your readers come to realize that they can depend on your posts for their own information needs. As such, you become an expert on it; as a consequence, more readers visit your site and more bloggers link to your blogs. As companies and professional organizations notice the growth of your readership base, they may soon get in touch with you for advertising on your blog page, or make you an affiliate, which pays for every referral generated from your blog site. 5. Blogging builds your market. Unless you are a Hollywood star, chances are, only your Mom reads your posts. Mom has a lot of friends, so she lets her friends know how interesting your blog site is. But you need not depend on Mom to increase your readership base. Look into the following ways to build your market through blogging: -By using your e-mail. Today, blogging is overcoming e-mails popularity in quickly reaching and expanding a market. In this age of speed and quick access, logging in and downloading e-mail is simply taking longer than clicking into a blog site. Let them explore your site by using a short e-mail message as teaser to your blog site. If your e-mail is on an entirely different subject, use your e-mail signature to give a link to the site. -By using subscription. An easy way to get your readers e-mail is to give them an opportunity to subscribe to your blogsite. Keep some exclusive information for your subscribers to entice readers to subscribe and give their e-mail address. Just be responsible in using their e-mail address, as the last thing you want is a comment on your blog that you are a spammer. -By understanding your readers. Conduct a simple survey for your readers to understand their profile and advertising preferences. Ask consumers to give you feedback on a post, an ad link, or a trial that you shared. In this way, it is like interviewing your readers without the commitment and intrusion of a face-to-face interview. -By joining a blog network "A network of blogs maybe a collection of blog sites that share the same industry, interest, readership base, etc. Consumers find credibility and convenience in clicking one link to several real bloggers about a single subject. Clearly, more bloggers are better than one. -By using RSS. RSS is the fastest growing technology on the Internet today. As such, having RSS feeds to your blog is definitely another means of generating awareness for your readership base. Having a variety of feeds can add interest to your blog site. Give your business a boost by effectively using blogging as an Internet marketing tool.
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Sunday, March 1, 2009

This Is How To Make Money Taking Surveys

By Steve Savoy
If I told you that you could make money taking surveys you would probably start to foam at the mouth. Well believe it or not there are thousands of people making an excellent additional income right now simply by filling out paid surveys from home. Below you will find some of the benefits to filling out paid surveys from home and instructions about how to get started making money taking surveys now. 1. Paid surveys pay well. Surveys from the top paid survey sites can pay anywhere from $10-$40 per survey and these surveys only take a few minutes to complete. The more you do the more you get paid, simple as that. 2. Work whenever you want. One of the great benefits to getting involved with paid surveys is that you can be your own boss. In that respect you can work as much or as little as you want. How much you want to make is completely up to you. 3. A ton of fun. You can do a lot more than make money taking surveys when you become a member of a top ranked survey site company. These sites will pay you to watch movies, allow you to try out new products or even participate in focus groups (which pay $75-$150/hour). 4. Simple. Paid surveys are very easy to get started with these days because the top survey site companies give you step by step instructions for getting started and maximizing your earnings. The above list is only the tip of the iceberg. You will find that gaining financial independence by filling out paid surveys is extremely rewarding. One word of caution to begins, stay away from scam sites that claim to be "free" sites. These "free" sites will just take your personal information and send you junk. This is the main reason why so many people get turned off the idea of making money taking surveys. Our recommendation is to spend about an hour a day (5 days a week) filling out paid surveys when you begin to pursue this home business plan. If you can fill out about 5-6 surveys each night that pay on average $10-$45 per survey it should be easy to make some very good extra income.
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