Sunday, November 30, 2008

Participating in the UK Lottery

By Susan Renolds

National lotteries like the United Kingdom's allow citizens to participate in raising funds for community causes in return for the opportunity to win cash prizes. The focus, however, tends to be on the winnings rather than the giving. Take a moment to learn who is benefiting from the UK National Lottery.

28 per cent off all the money that goes into the lottery is given away to charities, totaling over 22 billion pounds so far. Most people in the United Kingdom live close to a lottery-funded amenity. Those who are chosen to receive lottery money must serve a charitable or socially beneficial function. The biggest contributor among UK lotteries is the Big Lottery Fund. It distributes most of the money raised by the lottery. There are many beneficial projects funded by the Big Lottery Fund in the fields of education, health, the environment and many others.

In addition, Good Causes have three specific categories: arts, sports and heritage. Each of these categories receives 16.67% of the Good Causes funds.

Group of four National arts councils and two film councils are Granted ,for funds awarded related to the arts and cinema.For example, a grant to the Yorkshire Film Archive will improve the accessibility of this highly popular collection of historical amateur and professional video via an online database,3m was granted to myfilms.com,high-quality website that will help individuals ,non-mainstream films from the past and present.

The lottery distribution entities, five in number, and the Big Lottery Fund disburse the funds to the sport category. Expenses for purchase of land, building and equipment and construction are met from the grant funds. Local community needs are fulfilled by these projects and it is also intention that the source of funding cannot be only from the lottery. The Inclusive Fitness Initiative is a project devised with this intention and is responsible for making facilities and services available to the many disables persons.

The Lottery Fund has granted more than 39 billion to many of the heritage projects since 1994 and this is due to keeping hold of heritage of the UK with museums, other buildings, certain language or tradition. The AN in Wales has 365,000 to bring important manuscripts.

Go to the Department of Culture, Media, and Sport fo a total list of projects that are funded by the lottery.

There are two problems associated with a lottery that goes to a charitable cause. Opponents say masking it as a charity instead of gambling is a gimmick to get more people to play. While a good cause truly is a great marketing message, the money really does go to good causes.

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Use Article Marketing To Expand

By Rob Metras

\"Search Engine Optimization\" also known as SEO, and \"Article Marketing\" began developing rapidly after the introduction to the internet took place. Many people know what SEO is but are unfamiliar with the term article marketing and what is is about.

Article marketing is huge for online marketers and web developers. This is due to the fact that it's extremely simple to get your work published on the internet. You do not have to be a profissional writer like you do with getting your articles published in print media.

What are the various steps involved in Article Marketing? Who does Article marketing? The first step involved in Article Marketing is the creation of an article. There are a few rules to be followed while writing an article. For example, there should not be grammatical errors and the right keyword density must be maintained.

After writing an article, you need to publish it on the World Wide Web. There are many web sites which allow you to contribute articles whenever you wish, provided your articles are not plagiarized. Depending on the popularity of the category in which your article falls, and the quality of your article, you can earn a decent income.

Now you may be wondering who does article marketing? Just about everyone,, directly or indirectly, in the electronic commerce field uses article marketing. Some of these people include writers, business owners, web developers, and search engine optimizers. Besides people in these professions, search engines even use article marketing.

Article marketing is dependent on the success of its affiliates to be a productive market. However as it increases in popularity, many people have great success stories to tell due to affiliate marketing. The use of affiliate marketing really benefits both parties involved.

These are the people who have applied the tricks of Article Marketing to increase their earnings exponentially. Doing affiliate marketing with articles is an amazingly successful and lucrative business. Where can one find an aarticle of internet marketinga? The answer is simple- Search Engines.

Search Engines allow you to find almost everything available on the Internet within seconds. However, for refining your search results, you should make use of relevant keywords. You can also watch free videos about Article Marketing on the World Wide Web.

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Tips - Viral Marketing

By Marc Foster

This is a virtue of a site must have to lead the race in the ruthless competition in the Internet-based business. With so much competition and rivalry going on, each method of marketing should be employed and used. No matter whether you have a product or a murderer fantastic website, if people do not know they exist, it does not matter, and that is not going to do great. Worse of all, that companies can only get killed.

Although there are many methods and systems used by so many e-commerce sites today, there are still some who can help you with an additional impetus to the popularity. One is what is known as viral marketing. Although the term viral easily depicts a virus, a word very feared by all owners of a computer, it's not what it seems. It does not have to use a computer virus to spread your business; on the contrary it could kill you. Everybody is fed up with all these advertisements pop up and spy ware.

Viral Marketing also known otherwise as Viral Advertising is a marketing technique used to build the public awareness of one's product or company. They use many forms of media to reach out to the public without actually promoting the product by riding on in other forms of addictive means that could get a person hooked and be obliged or amused to actually pass it on, with the product or company advertisement along with it.

In a nutshell, companies are riding on the notion that if people like the contents of a media they will transmit to their friends and family. They sponsor some of the media, as a flash game cool, funny video, and such amusing story, which can be given to another with the trademark or logo of the company or product description or any other content to contribute to the promotion of the company or its products.

Viral marketing has become a popular means of advertising and marketing because they are relatively low cost. To avoid being tagged as spam mail, viral marketing counts on the eagerness of one person to pas on the product. If a person sees the name of the person they know as the sender, they won't block it and open it as well. Many companies offer incentives such as discounts and rebates when they help in spreading their viral marketing. They rely on the number of recipients a viral marketing gets from one person in determining the amount or number of incentive they can be attributed with.

The main advantage of viral marketing chief is that you get a lot of publicity and public awareness about your site and your business. You get to generate a stream of traffic that is potential customers. With a little ingenuity and imagination, as well as some incentives or prizes, you can reach a large number of people and announce your existence. Each site and most companies are fishing on the effectiveness of Viral Marketing and Advertising. Do not use it could kill your business. With other systems and methods in the promotion of your site, as search engine optimization and as a result, the viral marketing you can easily push forward in the classification of games.

Viral Marketing could be a sneaky way to get people to know about you and your company. You get them to pass your advertisement along. They are also very low cost that not investing in it could be downright a business suicide. All it takes is a great idea, a good addicting game, a funny story many ideas are still out there. Create a gossip or a buzz; many movies are promoted by using scandals and gossips to make them moir popular. Remember the movie "The Blair Witch Project"?

Many big companies have tried viral marketing and have had many success stories with it. A classic example is Microsoft's Hotmail. They were the first known big company to utilize the scheme and it has worked wonders for them. Now it's your turn to use viral marketing to work wonders for you. Act now and reap the benefits Viral Marketing will provide for you and your sales figures.

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iBuzz Pro Voice Broadcasting Changes the Face of Marketing

By Matthew Loop

IBuzzPro is the latest buzz in the world of network marketing and Multi-Level-Marketing (MLM). This is a tool with the help of which, one can easily expand his business to full capacity. Ibuzz Pro helps you to broadcast your business opportunity to thousands of prospective customers with in a few minutes. This type of technology was present in the market for a long time but it was quite expensive. However, the revolutionary Ibuzz Pro is available at an unbelievably cheap cost, and this is what makes it far more superior to its predecessors.

Now with the new Ibuzz Pro any network marketer can reach out to many customers, at the click of their mouse. Ibuzzpro uses a highly sophisticated broadcasting system, where you can record the details of your business, upload as many leads as you want and then, send them with a click of your mouse. There is a compensation plan attached to each of your voice broadcasts, and a fully automatic follow-up service, within an assigned period.

This system is so effective that with this, you can easily double your business, with in phenomenally short time span. The best part of the deal is that this system comes with a ready to use 1000 pre-qualified leads, to those you can readily reach and promote your idea. This means it acts as platform for most of the new comers in the industry to set up a demand and awareness for their products.

Another feature of this ingenious software is that, it comes with database of 1000 free leads, who are interested in listening to the new business that you are going to broadcast. That practically means that if you are a new comer in the business, then you actually get a platform from where you can create a demand for your product base.

Ibuzz pro offers you a broadcasting platform, from where you can make unlimited calls to your potential customers. In this way, you can reach out to large number of highly prospective clients in a very short span of time. The best part of the Ibuzz Pro is that you pay 3.9 cents per minute per call, which is connected. The rates are the cheapest in the market.

While purchasing ibuzzpro software, you have to pay only a one-time fee and from then on only charges that you pay are for the calls that you make. So, that means, you get to promote your business and at the same time be as economical as possible. The customer support available all the time, and is very effective too. They also conduct various training programs for the new comers in the industry.

Next best thing about the Ibuzz Pro is, the client list which derive from it, does not contain the names of the customer who do not wish to take any calls, which means that at the end of the day you get a list of those clients who are genuinely interested in your business. The software can also record all the outbound calls that you make. Another good thing about this software is that it comes with self-affiliate program, which renders you the opportunity to generate a side stream of income.

The biggest aspect which decides whether a company is going to be successful or not is the speed with which it can reach out to a given number of potential customer, and ibuzzpro helps you to do exactly the same. You can broadcast your business ideas to countless customers with in a very short span. So, take your venture to new heights with the all-new ibuzzpro.

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Good SEO Cannot Compensate for Faulty Business Models!

By Amy Nutt

Over the years, the industry of internet marketing has developed to the point where incorporating an online marketing plan is absolutely essential for any company wanting to succeed in the future. Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are the most popular forms of internet marketing as they can drive lots of targeted traffic to your website. Down below is a list of some of the most important lessons about the strengths and weaknesses of search as a medium:

- Search should not be thought of as a stand alone marketing medium - PPC (Paid Search) is better for accomplishing some goals than SEO is - SEO is better for accomplishing some goals than PPC is - Content is KING - Content is KING (did we say that already?)

Perhaps one of the most powerful of these lessons however, is that as powerful as search is, it CANNOT compensate for a faulty business model.

Faulty Business Model

Sure, in the short term a good SEO can help. Those rankings will often bring in some business through targeted traffic from the major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. Unfortunately, those same good rankings can also help to conceal problems within the business model.

What is a Good Business Model?

What does a good business model consist of? It's usually a direct function of the relative value:price ratio for a product or service amongst competitors, sprinkled with a whole lot of common sense.

However, if anything is amiss - the company is doomed for failure, expert SEO or not.

Why Are Companies with Faulty Business Models Doomed?

Companies with faulty business models are doomed for a number of reasons. Primarily however, they're doomed because search engines want to recommend sites that SATISFY searcher's needs. Almost by definition, companies with faulty business models cannot satisfy clients and searchers, because either:

- Their price is too high given the value of the product or service - Their value is too low given the price of the product or service - Common sense is lacking, severely distorting the value:price ratio - and we suspect this is by far the most common

Long term (in a few more years - not yet though) this means search engines will look at your friend's preferences and opinions (aka social search), and the behaviour patterns of thousands of other searchers, and will rearrange rankings based on those indicators. The result - faulty business models lose.

What Does This Mean for SEO's and the Industry of Internet Marketing?

As a result, SEO and internet marketing companies in the future will have to make some interesting business decisions:

- do we accept or retain clients with faulty business models? - how do we identify clients with faulty business models - what are the signals? - do we attempt to become management/change consultants too?

What Does This Mean for Businesses?

Ultimately, this means that companies must focus their time and efforts on what it is they do best. They need to ensure they've got solid defensible business models. The more sound the business model, the easier it will be to rank for relevant terms. If not, make the tough decisions, and correct the issues, or Google will!

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The Ultimate Affiliate Marketing Opportunity

By Fisiwe Owen

There are no great secrets to affiliate marketing, just create a website for each product you are promoting. Affiliate marketing is a great way to sell other peoples products etc, while earning a commission. Often small sites are the most profitable and they do not take long to create either. This is an ideal way to earn money for new internet business entrepreneurs especially when they have no product of their own.

Before you start you will need to have a product to market so how do you go about this task? However the tedious part that must be carried out: reading the terms and conditions, you fail to do this at your own peril. If you are taking your business seriously then this is something you would do in the ordinary world so do not be fooled by the ease with which the virtual world appears to work. It is quite normal for certain companies that cannot send items to other countries to restrict where their members can live.

While some affiliate programs seem to be over generous with their payment structure (70 percent or more) those with less than a fifty percent payout should be avoided unless turnover is high. A good place to look for products is click bank. Although it is possible, most reputable affiliate programs do not ask for a fee from their members so be wary of those that do. If you are new to this it is best you stay with companies that are reliable; two such are: Clickbank and Paypal (from ebay) both of which allow you to become a member at no cost although they do charge a small fee for transactions. At a later stage, trying different companies to handle payments will be fine but your inexperience in affiliate marketing at this point could lead you to making mistakes that are unnecessary.

For ebooks and other sites that can help with your marketing affiliate products business just do a search online, you will be surprise just how much information is out there. Do not concern yourself about the number of urls you see in ebooks, some but not all, have affiliate links for the author; you are under no obligation to buy anything. The best advice is to try using as many techniques as possible that are free while you are learning and only start spending money once you start earning some. This can benefit you because if the free programs etc.

Of course the way to increase traffic to your affiliate marketing project is to use other forms of advertising because people can miss your online efforts but this can help direct them to your site. All you need to do is show people how to learn more at your website and let it do the rest. A good way to find where all the traffic is being directed from is by using tracking, something that all professional affiliate marketers use regularly. With affiliate marketing it is easy to work for as many companies as you feel comfortable with. Do not spend too much time learning about this because some people become permanent learners, never actually doing anything to ear money.

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The Secret Trait of True Professional Copywriters

By DK Fynn

Wanting to hire your next copywriter--one who's truly a professional?

Are you stuck, and don't know what to do next?

In the next few minutes, I'm going to share with you one of the most important secrets you need to know when hiring a copywriter. I call this a secret because a lot of people don't know that they should be looking for this trait. The other side of this secret is that it won't be very apparent with most other so-called copywriters.

So what is this secret?

Avoid contracting with someone who's "just a copywriter." That's the secret.

In other words, you want someone who's more than a copywriter.

You're probably asking, "What do you mean by that?"

Well, quite simply, there's a lot more that goes into your business' success than just the copy. The copy, or the advertising and marketing, is part of a bigger picture. For your business to succeed, you need a professional who understands this bigger picture, and who can develop a marketing strategy that meets your objectives.

This is the reason why professional freelance copywriters use the following titles:

Copywriter and marketing strategist

Freelance copywriter and marketing strategist

Professional website copywriter and business strategist

Of course, these aren't the only titles of a professional copywriter, but the message is clear: In addition to copywriting services, these copywriters also provide strategies to make sure the work they provide for you is most effective.

In other words, not only will they provide the copywriting you know you need, they can develop the entire marketing strategy that you've been missing. It's this customized strategy, combined with all the other success factors, that will help your business succeed.|Again, the promise of all this is that if you pick a true professional to work with, you'll either be handed a strategy that they think will work for you, or they'll be able to take your marketing plan and create copy that fits perfectly into that plan.

That's why you need a professional copywriter who's also a marketing strategist.

Having a strategic understanding of your prospects, your happy customers, and the gap in between them is a critical business trait. Working with a professional who understands the bigger picture can increase the success of your project dramatically, since their experience has given them the know-how to bridge the gap between prospects and customers.

That's why you need a professional copywriter who's also a marketing strategist.

Right now, this may seem like a very small distinction, but it's one that can make the difference between a small success and a record-setting sales period for you. You'll know exactly what I mean when you work with a professional copywriter who also understands the ins and outs of marketing. You'll want to keep that professional around for life.

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Resources - Affordable Advertising Agencies

By Lara Crevena

Low cost Internet advertising agencies are the most ideal and recommended ways to make your product or service known for its Web site to make money. There is a very wide range of Internet advertising agencies that are now accessible on the Web.

There are various advertising agencies on the Internet according to the type of product or service they provide. Here is a list of some of these types of agencies online marketing.

Web design agencies: They focus on building Web pages for a website. Many web developers are now offering affordable if you just know how and where to find them.

Logo services: Production of logos site is the main concern of those agencies. Hundreds of logos designed in advance could be bought or even customized to complement your website better.

Copywriting Agencies: In adjunct to search engine optimization, these agencies provide quality content that targets the attention of the market you intend to tap. Looking for the best deals with copywriting services will be a cinch if you know where to look. If you prefer freelancers, they are often found with their own websites.

Business SEO: These companies analyze and modify websites with the aim of achieving the highest search engine ranking. Improve your website design and content to attract more traffic better. Link building could also be employed by these agencies e-marketing to benefit your business. They are in fact a combination of all the above-mentioned services. Occasionally, they also receive the name of Internet marketing consultancies or something of that nature.

Registration Services domain: the name of your company on the web is the business of these companies. Looking for the best from a wide range of these agencies is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But if you are determined enough to do your homework with these marketing services, the results were more than satisfying. Just make sure that you do not register for those whose sole intention is to rip off those who can not afford the most reputable agencies Domain Registration.

These are just a few of the Internet advertising agencies that a web marketing newbie could turn to. Examining your needs first will better your chances in getting in touch with the cream of the crop of these Internet marketing agencies minus the hefty price tag.

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Chiropractic Marketing That's Recession-Proof

By Matthew Loop, DC

It's hard to believe that three years have passed already since I introduced the chiropractic profession to Web 2.0 social media marketing. What first began as marketing on just social networks like Myspace, YouTube, and Facebook, has expanded to encompass the vast, new and rapidly growing online media outlets. If you were to take a snapshot at the growth of this Web 2.0 phenomenon back in 2005 and compare it now, it would appear like a virus that literally doubled every 24 hours. Now, I'm not just speaking about huge-growth of a new phase of the internet and communication. I am also referring to the massively profitable nature that comes with this technology for your chiropractic practice and the ability to easily generate multiple sources of income at a staggering rate.

There was once a time when chiropractors paid ungodly amounts of money on marketing and advertising. Actually, chiropractors are still doing that. But the difference is that those tactics do not work in this age. In fact, they're a huge waste of money and chiropractors are suffering because of it. When you step into the present and embrace the methods that are working today, you're giving your practice a chance to survive and even thrive in these difficult times.

I know the economy of this nation is bleak, but my part of the economy is actually succeeding, and there is a short list of other chiropractors that are finding tremendous success and countless new patients during this time. How are they doing it? They've tapped into the goldmine of Web 2.0 and social media marketing. So, do you want to strike gold, or be left out in the cold?

Below is a quick-list of a few sites that I readily frequent (and I highly recommend you do as well) in my Web 2.0 marketing endeavors for my chiropractic practice and the other streams of revenue that continue to flow. Begin at YouTube.com, Digg.com, Squidoo.com, EzineArticles.com, StumbleUpon.com, Facebook.com, Twitter.com, Myspace.com, Free-Press-Release.com, Wordpress.com, Photobucket.com, Furl.com, and eHow.com.

There are greater than two-hundred websites that are empty canvases for your marketing masterpiece. For the sake of example, I only named a few. If you really want to tap into the full power of it, you need someone who is knowledgeable in all of these sites, and the specific tactics for how to milk them. The good news is, you don't need to do it alone. Your profession and skill is at being a chiropractor, so you need to find someone who can expertly do these things for you, and teach you along the way.

Even the incredible time saving and leveraged-based tools I use and recommend can be easily shown to a CA or marketing director for use. The most important thing is to be coachable, as this may be a new language to many chiropractic marketing newbies and veterans.

There are even ways to monetize your existing chiropractic practice online with Web 2.0 social media. I can't even begin to tell you how great it feels to wake-up in the morning with consistently more money in my bank account without doing any work. Sometimes I think that I'm dreaming but this is a reality, not just for myself, but for many other chiropractors that are hitting it hard with social media.

Establishing other systems of passive income along with your current practice will make you recession-proof. Bigger thinking is required in times like these and those that are constantly scouting innovative methods for attracting new patients will thrive and prosper.

Start by providing something of value to current and future patients online. When you put yourself and your practice in front of the world audience, you are greatly increasing your ability to communicate with a greater pool of people and sharing your talents. And believe that you have something to offer and talk about on the web! There are people out there that you can help, and they want to hear from you. Develop a YouTube video channel around a weekly series discussing some aspect of your chiropractic field. This is just an example of something helpful and informative that you could do that will simultaneously draw more people to your practice.

Be creative and you will find this new, powerful virtual world will bring you boatloads of new patients, build social proof, and allow you to generate multiple streams of residual income.

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Don't Make These Common 4 Affiliate Mistakes!

By Amy Stewart

Myths concerning affiliate marketing are appealing and attractive. People who do not know the entire system the wrong way round are prone to believing that it is something capable of giving them great fortune overnight. Stories concerning affiliates who earn tremendous amounts of money swim in their heads, and while these stories are as true as they can be, there are those who believe that they are going to have the same fortune once they indulge in this particular business.

It is true enough that affiliate marketing is financially rewarding. People who have gone through everything to be able to succeed in this business are reaping the seeds that they untiringly sowed. Many of them enjoy the kind of existence that was not possible for them to have had under ordinary circumstances. Having gone through the A-Z of affiliate marketing, however, these people are the ones who know that while such business is lucrative, there is absolutely no easy money in it.

Ignorance of this fact is one of the main reasons why there are people who fail miserably in the internet business. There are those who believe in myths concerning the easy money involved in systems such as affiliate marketing. They do not know that there are those who have wasted time, effort and too many resources in trying to pursue the life of ease that they believe this business will give them. And so they go into affiliate marketing armed with nothing but myths and fantastical notions of wealth swimming in their consciousness, never realizing that they bound to make mistakes that would prove to be their downfall.

What may be the reason why in businesses such as affiliate marketing, many are called but few are chosen? Perhaps the answer lies on the fact that many affiliates make mistakes that result from their ignorance of facts concerning how the entire business runs. Affiliate marketing is not as simple as an affiliate promoting a merchant's wares through his website and getting paid for it. It is also about knowing the market and the customers at hand.

Discovering what the most common mistakes affiliates make can perhaps dispel the gloom about myths surrounding affiliate marketing by correcting some wrong notions about it. It might also be able to make those concerned understand that like any other business, there are dos and donts involved in this one if they want to make each of their steps count. The first common mistake affiliates make is their lack of knowledge concerning principles involved in their business. This refers to the affiliate's knowledge of search engines in particular.

Affiliate marketing involves advertising, and advertising through the internet could not have been better without the existence of search engines. What every affiliate has to do is to make these search engines his best friend through studying search engine optimization closely. This way, he is able to know what to do in connection with building a better website to ultimately use for his business.

The second is that affiliates make the mistake of stuffing their sites with banners that do not provide enough information about the product at hand. The best way to battle this mistake is to provide good content hand-in-hand with such banners. It is important for customers to know and understand the features of a product, and good content will be able to help them realize this goal.

The third is that there are affiliates who make the mistake of promoting only one product. Consequently, customers are not given enough options to choose from. There is also the risk of generating fewer sales as compared to having more options for customers ponder about. It is always better to give them a few better alternatives than to give them only one.

The fourth is that there are affiliates who make the mistake of promoting too many products. As a result, customers are confused and end up beyond making a choice. It is perhaps good to give them only the best choices. This is because it is ultimately up to them to judge which one is the best for them to patronize.

All in all, affiliates that are doomed to fail in this business are those who do not exert enough effort to understand everything involved in the industry that they are in. Knowing their path step by careful step will prove to be beneficial to them, as there is no other way to succeed than to go through any path slowly but surely.

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Top - Free Article Conten

By article24

Article directories are websites that house free articles. These articles are usually put there by whoever owns the copyright to them as a promotion method. Each article has the owners byline placed under it so that those who eventually read the article will know who wrote it (or at least who owns it) and will be able to get in contact with or visit their website for further information.

When you start your search, you may want to begin with a very small group of articles, just in case you happen too hook up with a writer that you are less than thrilled with. It is important to keep in mind that there are several different types of writing and each writer might be highly skilled in one area, yet lack in another. For example, there is creative/fiction writing, biographical writing, news writing, general informational article writing, critical writing, copy-writing, poem/verse writing, technical writing, medical writing, essay/report writing, and sports writing. Although a writer may be highly skilled in one area, many freelance writers spread themselves out into others areas as well. So, it is critical that the writer you choose can produce the type of content that you need.

Problem #1 - Search Engines Search engines will only look down upon your site if it has the exact same duplicated content than other sites. The more sites that share your content, the less it will help you achieve good search engine rankings. Good search engine rankings are essential in getting visitors to your sit so that they have a chance to click on your affiliate links. If you cannot even get visitors, then will never make an revenue. Working on the search engine optimization of your site so that you will eventually be high enough in the results to get customers, should be priority one.

Problem #2 - Getting visitors to click Although getting your site high on search engine result pages and acquiring site visitors is hard work, unfortunately this is only half of the battle. You must also be able to convince those visitors to click on your affiliate links. If your visitors see the same content they have seen on a multitude of other sites, they will be least likely to click on your links. This is because most people want to buy things that are recommended by people that they trust or whom they feel like are an expert on the subject. If your content is just duplicated from other sites, you will be exposed as someone who does not really know what they are talking about and therefore will not look heavily on your product recommendations. This will reduce the number of website visitors who will be willing to click through.

Problem #3 - Author Bylines Most free content is only given to you if you agree to place the authors byline under the article (you can get into trouble if you try to use it without following the stipulated rules). This poses a problem because most author bylines include links. When a reader gets done reading a really intriguing article, there is a strong possibility that they will click on the author's byline link rather than your affiliate links. This is the entire reason why these authors offer free content to begin with, so that they may get their name and links out there to the public. Using this type of content may mean shooting yourself in the foot and losing possible profitable website visitors. Once you put these three problems together, you are looking at a serious decline in revenue simply because you used free website content from article directories. Although it may be the only option for some, if you have the funds to buy your own original content, then you should go this route. If you don't have the finds, however, you may be better off writing your own content and then hiring professional services once you have made a profit to work with.

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Saturday, November 29, 2008

You Can Master Cisco Router Keys with Basic Simple Tutorial

By residualsuccess

Knowledge is power. This is valuable information. A very basic Cisco Router guide for those of you out there that want to get their feet wet with the Cisco Router. Click here now!

Do you want to learn the Cisco Router but don't know where to start? Are you confused as to how to configure your Cisco Router? Do you have limited time and need to learn the Cisco Router quickly? If you answered yes to any of these questions, now is your chance to get immediate access to a Cisco Router Basics Tutorial.

"Why would you want to learn the Cisco router? I'll tell you what happened to me... I went from making $8.00 per hour to $30.00 per hour just by getting some basic Cisco Router knowledge!!

Actually, I got pretty lucky... Let me take you back to the early 90's. I had been doing very basic desktop support and some light Windows NT Administration and one day the main Network Engineer of the company I worked for got in a fight with the boss and walked out!

My boss was desperate yet he knew that I had interest in learning Cisco Routers. He sent me to a 5 day Introduction to Cisco Routers course. I am so glad this company was willing to drop $2000 for this course, but I admit that is a HUGE price tag to learn the fundamentals of the Cisco Router. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't complaining.

$30.00 per hour in the early to mid 90's was a great starting point. I didn't stop there... I kept learning and growing and ultimately started my own IT Consulting company and now charge at least $100 per hour for Cisco Router consulting.

The main point I want to make is this, not everyone has opporunities fall in their lap for a company to drop $2000 for a basic Cisco Router course. I realize that. So what I decided to do was put together the absolute fundamentals that any person needing to learn the Cisco Router needs into one easy to read package at a very affordable price.

Let's face it, knowledge is power! The choice is yours on what you do with valuable information as it becomes available to you. This is valuable information!

Another point I want to make and I'll be very blunt and upfront about it. Network Engineers with Cisco Router experience make good money! Click here now!

I enjoy helping people learn and grow. I wrote another ebook called PIX/ASA Firewall Keys which has helped catapult many people into greater understanding of the PIX Firewall, and with that comes greater income.

One of the main things I kept hearing from those people who read PIX/ASA Firewall Keys was the request to come up with a very basic guide to the Cisco Router, taught in the same down to earth style. So here it is!

This tutorial is going to teach you the very foundation that you need to know to make it with the Cisco Router. Once you understand and grasp these concepts you can go on to more advanced routing tutorials.

Of all the comments I get from the readers of my tutorials and ebooks there is one common thing that stands out and this is one that I take great pride in - it is that I can break down these concepts in a very simple, down to earth and straightforward way." Eric S. Severson, author of Cisco Router Keys

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Master Cisco Router Keys with Basic Simple Tutorial

By residualsuccess

Knowledge is power. This is valuable information. A very basic Cisco Router guide for anyone out there that wants to get their feet wet with the Cisco Router. Click here now!

Do you want to learn the Cisco Router but don't know where to start? Are you confused as to how to configure your Cisco Router? Do you have limited time and need to learn the Cisco Router quickly? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this is your opportunity to get immediate access to a Cisco Router Basics Tutorial.

"Why would you want to learn the Cisco router? I'll tell you what happened to me... I went from making $8.00 an hour to $30.00 an hour just by having some basic Cisco Router knowledge!!

Actually, I got pretty lucky... Let me take you back to the early 90's. I had been doing very basic desktop support and some light Windows NT Administration and one day the main Network Engineer of the company I worked for got in a fight with the boss and walked out!

My boss was really desperate yet he knew that I had interest in learning Cisco Routers so he sent me to a 5 day Introduction to Cisco Routers course. I am so glad this company was willing to drop $2000 for this course, but I admit that is a HUGE price tag to learn the fundamentals of the Cisco Router. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't complaining.

$30.00 per hour in the early to mid 90's was a great starting place. But I didn't stop there... I kept learning and growing and ultimately started my own IT Consulting company and now charge at least $100 per hour for Cisco Router consulting.

The main point I want to make is this, not everyone has opporunities fall in their lap for a company to drop $2000 for a basic Cisco Router course. I realize that. So what I decided to do was put together the absolute fundamentals that any person needing to learn the Cisco Router needs into one easy to read package at a very affordable price.

Let's face it, knowledge is power! The choice is yours on what you do with valuable information as it becomes available to you. This is valuable information!

Another point I want to make and I'll be very blunt and upfront about it is that Network Engineers with Cisco Router experience make good money! Click here now!

I enjoy helping people grow and learn. I wrote another ebook called PIX/ASA Firewall Keys which has helped catapult many people into greater understanding of the PIX Firewall, and with that comes greater income.

One of the main things I kept hearing from those who read PIX/ASA Firewall Keys was the request to come up with a very basic guide to the Cisco Router, taught in the same down to earth style. So here it is!

This tutorial is going to teach you the foundation that you need to know to make it with the Cisco Router. Once you understand and grasp these concepts you can go on to more advanced routing tutorials.

Of all the comments I get from the readers of my tutorials and ebooks there is one common thing that stands out and this is one that I take great pride in - it is that I can break down these concepts in a very simple, down to earth and straightforward way." Eric S. Severson, author of Cisco Router Keys

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How do You Hang Posters in a Display Booth

By Amy Nutt

When you own a business, setting up a trade show booth at a convention or a trade show can be a great way to sell and showcase your products. Why would you want to set up a trade show booth? Well, it's because doing so is a great way for you to get new customers. You create leads and you get your company's name out there for people to see and recognize. In the meantime, you're doing something that they remember such as giving away free items, conducting contests, and playing games. But you have to bring attention to your display booth before people will take the time to stop by. Using hanging displays in your exhibit booth is one way to do that.

Hanging posters

There are several ways in which you can hang posters in a display booth. First of all, you can get a screen to place in the background. These screens allow you to hang signs posters, and other types of media. However, you do have to have something such as a snap frame to keep the poster from curling up. This also keeps you from having to attach the poster at all corners. A snap frame allows you to attach the poster in one or two places.

You an also look into easels. You can place your posters in frames and set them up on easels in front of your display booth. Then again, you can get tabletop easels and let them sit on top of your table. The only downfall to that is the fact that they may be too large. When they are too large, they can cover up your product or place a barrier between you and the customer.

If it is allowed, you may be able to hang your posters from the rafters of the building you are in. That is if you are in a building. Some trade shows are held outside, so that can make this a bit difficult. However, inside it can be quite beneficial, especially if your posters are large enough to see from across the arena. If they are not large enough to see from across the arena, you may find that hanging them from the ceiling is something that will not work out too well.

Whatever you do, make sure that you keep them as close to eye level as possible. Now hanging from the ceiling is not eye level, but people will see them from far away. It has something to do with how we look at things from a distance, which is why there are many who will take advantage of the ceiling if they can.

Placement is key

Just know that placement is key when it comes to hanging posters on and around your trade show display. You have to make sure your posters are seen, but you need to ensure they are not covering up anything important. You have to make sure they are attractive enough to get your trade show display the attention that it deserves. Something that is dull and dingy is not going to get the attention that you wish to have. You want something that represents you and will leave a lasting impression. Nevertheless, you don't want to be annoyingly loud.

So if you're looking for a great way to bring attention to your trade show display rental, posters are a great way to do that. How the posters are displayed will make an impact because people respond to placement and display method. Never hang a poster without some sort of framing because it can roll, wrinkle, and so much more.

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Cold Calling Mistakes - 8 Tips To Avoid

By Brian McCoy

1) Purpose Of The Call

Before you even make the call, identify the purpose and end goal of your call. What action do you want your prospects to take after the call? If you don't have a goal, you won't get the result that you want in the end.

2) Don't Give It All Away Too Fast

When your prospect says, "Send me some information," that does not translate into them reading that information. Do not oblige them and send information just as a means to get off of the phone. Find out if they really want the information, or if they are just trying to get rid of you.

3) Poor Telephone Manners

Good phone etiquette seems simple enough to achieve. However, when you are in a stressful situation, you might not even realize what you are doing. Do not chew gum, snack, or attempt to multi-task while you are making a call. Your prospect will be distracted by your poor manners and they may get the wrong impression of you.

4) Listen To Your Prospect

If you want to know what your prospect is thinking, just listen to them. Make sure that you do not monopolize the conversation. Poor listening skills will lead to failure.

5) Don't Make Your Fears Theirs

Just because your prospect does not have the time to talk to you right now does not mean that they never want to talk to you. Do not jump to conclusions. You may have just caught them at an inconvenient time. Ask them when would be a better time to chat and reschedule your appointment.

6) Not Asking Enough Questions

To find out what you need to know about your prospects, it is critical that you ask enough questions so that you can qualify them. Everyone loves to talk about their own life experiences, their family, and other things that interest them. By asking the right questions, you will build rapport and show interest in what is important to them.

7) Preparation In Key

You would never dream of speaking to a room full of people without having prepared ahead of time. The phone is no different. You really need to take some time and go over what you have to say. Ask a friend or family member to do some role playing with you. There's nothing worse than fumbling over your words when you are talking to a prospect.

8) Request What You Want

You want to push your client to action. Ask them to do their due diligence and research what you're telling them. By asking them to do something for you, you will be creating an opportunity for a callback to make sure that they have followed through with their end of the deal.

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iBuzzPro Voice Blasting Software Crushes Cold-Calling!

By Matthew Loop

There's been a swarm of buzz lately about the new high-tech types of voice broadcasting software. What these systems do is automate the cold-calling process so you can literally send thousands of calls per hour with the press of a button. But, is this technological advancement for business owners the real deal or just a well-dressed scam? Let's review just a little, as to make a better educated decision, though.

There are many ways to advertise and market websites in today's world. The time and effort spent on the traditional methods is now outweighing the return which is not giving any successful results and is becoming a waste of time for business owners. Social networking sites such as Craigslist, YouTube, Facebook and Myspace are a good way of reaching many people but can take more time than they are worth. Another form of advertising has en postcard drops, which again are more expensive now due to rising stamp prices and are a lot of effort for little profit.

If you are looking to be the most productive, you must find the easiest, most time-effective, rapid way of marketing on a massive scale. What is the key, then? One word, automation! Automating systems allow you to leverage your time, energy, and efforts effectively so you can make money in your sleep. At the top of the automation food-chain is iBuzzPro voice blasting, otherwise known as voice broadcasting.

Ok, so I guess you're curious of what makes iBuzzPro voice broadcasting so incredible, right? Off the top of my head, the word speed and the word effectiveness stick in my brain. If you intend that the world know about your new business opportunity, network marketing program (mlm), or any other business venture, then this is the best thing to do. When the software is in your hands, the only thing you need to do is select the quantity of people you want to receive your phone-call. After that, simply click your computer mouse and sit back and relax as your messages are automatically sent.

iBuzz Pro is one of the hottest names on the market at the moment. Many small business, corporations and home businesses are reaping the benefits of using this outstanding software. The interface and back office are very simple, clear and useful as well as being extremely user friendly. It is inexpensive and fabulous value for the products and revenue you will receive with its use. The owner and CEO of iBuzz Pro, John Breck, takes his service one step further and offers live webinars, video tutorials and step by step instructions so that users can set up and start using the voice broadcasting software quickly and easily. He simplifies the technological side so that everyone can understand use the system effectively.

If you have had experience of people screaming at you and being annoyed with cold calling and getting constantly rejected or getting busy signals then you will find this software to be your best prospect. Voice broadcasting makes an awful lot of marketing sense as you can cheaply send phone blasts to hundreds of people in minutes and you will receive many return phone calls requesting information about your business. These are the people who will be potential clients and are worth talking due to their interest.

If you are after hundreds of people calling your company and lots more interest in your business then voice blasting software is the ideal tool for you. For all kinds of business, not just marketing and direct sales you will find this system indispensable to your profit and success. Immediate direct response methods are vital to the growth of income for a company and this is one of the best on the market.

To throw money away on high postage prices and pay-per-click advertising is a thing of the past. When you make the decision to go with iBuzzPro voice broadcasting, your product or service message gets expedited to thousands of individuals at lightning speed!

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Google Adsense Profits Mixed In With Affiliate Marketing

By Deborah Collins

Are you a webmaster who needs funds to keep your website running? Or is your website the only way for you to earn income? Whichever you are, for as long as you are a webmaster or a web publisher and you need cash, affiliate marketing may work well for you. With affiliate marketing, you may get a lot of cash pouring into your bank account easily. And if your website is rich in great contents and you want to earn more profit, why not get into the Google Adsense program as well?

Why Affiliate Marketing?

Well, simply because affiliate marketing is the easiest and probably the best way to earn profits online, unless otherwise you are a businessman and would rather sell your own products online than advertise other businessman's products on your site. But even online retailers can benefit from affiliate marketing programs, because affiliate marketing actually works for merchants as well as it works for the affiliates.

Affiliate marketing, simply said, is a relationship or agreement made between two websites, with one site being the merchant's website and the other being the affiliate's site. In the relationship, the affiliate agrees to let the merchant advertise his products on the affiliate's site. The merchant, on the other hand, would agree to pay the affiliate in whatever method they have agreed into. This would generally mean easy income for the affiliate, as he would do nothing but place the retailer's ad on his site. This would also be very beneficial for the merchant, as getting affiliates to advertise their products would be a lot more affordable than hiring an advertising firm to promote their products.

There are a variety of methods on how the merchant would compensate the affiliate for his services, and for the webmaster, these methods simply translates to the method by which he would earn easy cash. Among the more common methods of compensation are the pay-per-click method, the pay-per-lead method, and the pay-per-sale method. The pay-per-click method is the method most preferred by affiliates, for their site's visitor would only have to visit the advertiser's site for them to gain money. The other two methods, on the other hand, are better preferred by merchants, as they would only have to compensate you if your visitor becomes one of their registrants or if the visitor would actually buy their products.

Getting much profit on affiliate marketing programs, however, does not depend so much on the compensation method is it does on the traffic generated by your site. A website that can attract more visitors would generally have the greater chance of profiting in affiliate marketing programs.

What about Google Adsense?

Google Adsense is actually some sort of an affiliate marketing program. In Google Adsense, Google act as the intermediary between the affiliates and the merchants. The merchant, or the advertiser, would simply sign up with Google and provide the latter with text ads pertaining to their products. These ads, which is actually a link to the advertiser's website, would then appear on Google searches as well as on the websites owned by the affiliates, or by those webmasters who have signed up with the Google Adsense program.

While one can find a lot of similarities between Google Adsense and other affiliate marketing programs, you can also see a lot of differences. In Google Adsense, all the webmaster has to do is place a code on his website and Google takes care of the rest. The ads that Google would place on your site would generally be relevant to the content of your site. This would be advantageous both for you and for the advertiser, as the visitors of your site would more or less be actually interested with the products being advertised.

The Google Adsense program compensates the affiliate in a pay-per-click basis. The advertisers would pay Google a certain amount each time their ad on your site is clicked and Google would then forward this amount to you through checks, although only after Google have deducted their share of the amount. Google Adsense checks are usually delivered monthly. Also, the Google Adsense program provides webmasters with a tracking tool that allows you to monitor the earnings you actually get from a certain ad.

So, where do all of these lead us to?

Where else but to profits, profits and even more profits! Affiliate marketing programs and the Google Adsense program simply work, whether you are the merchant or the affiliate. For the merchant's side, a lot of money can be saved if advertising effort is concentrated on affiliate marketing rather than on dealing with advertising firms. For the webmaster, you can easily gain a lot of profits just by doing what you do best, and that is by creating websites. And if you combine all your profits from both the Google Adsense program and other affiliate marketing programs, it would surely convert to a large amount of cash.

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Top - Article Writing Submission For Marketing Success

By Marta Furani

Simply because affiliate marketing is the easiest and possibly the best way to earn money online, unless otherwise you are a businessman and would rather sell your own products online than advertise other businessman's products on your website. So, you're spending a lot of money, time and efforts, struggling like mad to market your business, website, blogs using the most powerful Internet marketing strategies, hoping to make your business a success to earn you a modest living. Most probably, you have been one of the hard chasers, extremely busy writing ad copies, articles, press releases, sending them to media outlets and popular publications, working night and day to promote your business using the most powerful Internet marketing strategies.

The most important affiliate marketing secret to keep in mind is the reason why affiliate marketing remains the most effective way of marketing any online business. Writing your own articles and publishing them can be free as opposed to paying for Pay Per Click Advertising and the more articles you write the more well known you will be and the more targeted site traffic you will get. Although affiliate marketing is promoted as one of the easiest and most successful ways to earn money online, it's not as easy as it sounds.

Many people do not know it but a free marketing article can be much more powerful than a mini site and can also do a lot more to drive targeted traffic to a targeted site. There's no question, the three most popular ways to drive targeted traffic to your website are pay per click advertising, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and article marketing. But by themselves they don't put money in your pocket - there are a myriad of factors that can turn your article marketing efforts into an opportunity to increase your income, not just the number of visitors to your site.

There's no question, the three most popular ways to drive targeted traffic to your website are pay per click advertising, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and article marketing. But by themselves they don't put money in your pocket - there are a myriad of factors that can turn your article marketing efforts into an opportunity to increase your income, not just the number of visitors to your site. Many people do not know it but a free marketing article can be much more powerful than a mini site and can also do a lot more to drive targeted traffic to a targeted site.

You don't even really need to know much about the subject you are writing the article about since there are resources available that you can use to provide a basis that would have enough informatiom in it to get your article started. It is impossible to predict which sites will pick your article up, but it can be very exciting to find that a piece that you created has been published by a site with Page Rank of 4 , 5 or possibly better. Investigate and construct a list of all the free article directories you can find so that you can simply submit your articles to the sites on your list when you've finished writing. Based on my experience both as an author and a creator of niche focused content sites, think very carefully before leaping on the wagon of the newest trend in article publishing. Keep in mind that Article Marketing is not an ad, so you can not just start writing about how great your product or service is but rather supply helpful informative content for people.

Every article you have published is absolute advertising for your website as at the end of your article you will have printed an 'about the author' section (also called bylines), this advertises you and your website and builds free traffic to your site and trustworthiness for you if your articles are of good individualism. If you want to write articles purely for the sake of getting a lot of low quality links back to your website, you are going to have to play the numbers game - lots of low quality articles submitted through cybernated tools to the various article directories. Writing your own articles and publishing them can be free as contrasted to paying for Pay Per Click Advertising and the more articles you create the more well known you will be and the more functional website traffic you will get.

You've most likely heard by now that article marketing can help you build links back to your site. Most people do not know it but a free marketing article can be much more powerful than a mini site and can also do a lot more to drive valuable traffic to a targeted site. While article marketing is a function of many factors that may not lend itself to an exact computation of absolute interest in monetary terms, we can't run away from the fact that when it comes to the profitability of any online business, we have to think in sums of dollars and cents.

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Making Money with EBay

By Giuseppe Lo Monaco

When it comes to making money on the web EBay makes it easy. There are so many ways to use EBay to make money from home but most of us think of it as an online auction only. While eBay's online auction is a great way to make some extra cash there are some great new features you can take advantage of to make money from home.

Many people have been able to pull in the extra money they need by selling new or used items on eBay's online auctions. This auction is so popular that eBay is now letting people cash in on the sites high traffic levels with online stores. EBay offers a simple way to set up your own online store. You can use one of eBay's simple store templates and have your products available in a few short minuets. Whatever type of products you make eBay has a store template and the traffic to help you sell it.

If you don't make your own products you can still have a store through eBay. A turnkey affiliate program will allow you to sell products from other retailers. All you do is use their simple store template software to set up a store in a niche market and eBay will feed products into your store. You will do nothing but market your store and receive a percentage of the profits.

EBay is not the only way to set up a turnkey affiliate store but they certainly do have the traffic it takes to be successful. EBay also offers extensive help through their help forums. You can log on and ask other store owners to help you with any problems you come across. Other online retailers like Amazon also offer similar programs that you can compare to eBay before making a final decision.

No matter what type of turnkey affiliate store you decide to create, you can use eBay to market your site. EBay has a very popular forum with a category for just about any niche market. By going onto eBay's forums and posting your own messages or leaving comments on other topics you can increase awareness of your site. EBay also has a place where you can start your own blog. By linking back to your site in your blog you increase your incoming links and improve your Google rating.

EBay has been a great option for anyone wanting to make some money from home for a long time. With all the new options available it is not just an online auction anymore. You can log in and explore all the marketing avenues open to you on eBay and then start up a store and start selling. Your future awaits.

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Creating Multiple Streams of Affiliate Marketing Income

By Martha Morris

Have you ever heard or read the phrase "multiple streams of income" before? Do you know what this phrase means? For many businessmen, creating multiple streams of income online or offline is one way of securing themselves as well as their businesses in the future. They also believe that it can also save them from the so-called famine effect in the business industry. Once you are engaged in affiliate marketing business, it is advisable if you have multiple streams of affiliate marketing income so that if one of those income streams vanished, it will not upset you the way losing your sole stream would. If you depend on just one source of income and this single stream has been downsized or has lain off, you'll surely find yourself bankrupted and hopeless. Try to ask the most successful online entrepreneurs, and you'll discover that they have established multiple streams of online income.

There is a businessman that said and attested that the very first step you must take in creating multiple streams of income is to assess or evaluate your resources. Start by assessing yourself first. Jot down your answers to the following questions: What are the talents, abilities, strength and gears that you possess? Are you gifted with excellent and creative writing skills? Can you do well at sales? Are you good in communicating with people? Are you born with an artistic skill or unique ability that other people don't have? Through this, you can determine the kind of business where can possibly excel.

Next, look around and write down you assets and physical resources such as computer, color printer, scanner, digital camera, cell phone, CD or DVD burner. Write these all down because it can be used as a resource. Consider also your friends and family. Find out what do they possess that you have access to. Remember that no man is an island. You can use the talents, abilities, knowledge and resources of everyone you know.

That's basically the initial step if you want to create multiple income streams. But if you're already a webmaster or a site owner, you definitely have an edge. Why don't you join affiliate marketing business to help you gain extra income out of your own website?

Being involved in affiliate marketing is one of the most desirable ways to make multiple sources of income. It is because affiliate marketing programs come in various shapes and forms. There are a large number of affiliate marketing programs that you can sign on with and start gaining bucks right away. In affiliate marketing, you can make money by promoting and reselling your affiliate products and by recruiting new affiliates. What's good about this is that you can find widest array of training materials that can enhance your marketing abilities. In affiliate marketing, you can be sure that there are genuine products to promote and sell and there is real income to make.

Either part time or full time, being an affiliate marketer is an excellent way to create multiple income streams by means of promoting products and services from web merchants. Here, you can get affiliate commission without investing big bucks in making your own product and without worrying about book keeping, customer support and ecommerce. All you have to do is to promote and resell the products and services in your site and pass on potential customer's the merchant's site.

In affiliate marketing, it is advisable to promote more merchants in your site so that your visitors will have variety of destinations to choose from. Using multiple merchants in the same site or niche means only one thing ? you have multiple streams of affiliate income. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this business strategy because this is one of the best ways to protect your business and expanding your horizons. Through this, you can be assured that you won't experience crisis if ever one of your web merchants closed his/her program.

However, you should choose only those affiliate programs that interest you so that you can effectively advertise and promote them. Don't ever be tempted into signing up for numerous affiliate programs in the hope that one of them will bring income. Select wisely and don't be engaged in selling products you know nothing about. Go with the stuff that jives with your enthusiasm; your passion can capture your client by the nose and guide him/her to your affiliate link.

You should also work hard to make your multiple streams of income more stable. You can do this by embracing some strategies and tactics and by developing within yourself, some traits that can help you become successful in any kind of business such as patience, persistence and thirst for knowledge.

Lastly, just remember the adage that says "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." So that if one of them is lost, you can still have some to make omelets. And what do these eggs have to do with multiple streams of affiliate income? Well, it goes without saying that the more streams of income you possess, the bigger and better your money lake becomes.

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Is it possible to find the best business printing company? Yes!

By Frank Nathe

There's a way to sort through the many here-today-gone-tomorrow business-printing companies and come up with the one that truly is the best, state-of-the-art business printer.

With so many digital-printing companies vying for your business-printing needs - and each company touting itself as "the best" and "state-of-the art" - is it possible to find the business-printing provider that really is the best? The company that is truly the next generation of business printing?

Yes. It's actually quite possible to find the perfect company to meet your business's requirements when other companies can't - whether it be offset or digital printing, posters, convention printing, trade show printing, poster printing, banner printing, high-volume copying, design, binding, or whatever your specific needs are.

First, look for an established company that was in business back when starting a business meant more than registering a domain name - back when word-of-mouth and reputation meant something. Now, with the Internet, starting a business is as simple as registering a domain name. By choosing established businesses, you'll avoid the here-today-gone-tomorrow businesses.

Next, make sure the company offers many printing and communications options, so they have the technology to fit your job, instead of making your job fit into their technology. Look for a printer that allows you to choose offset or digital printing. And because digital communication takes many forms - not just printing - make sure the company can help in all of the digital-communication areas.

Equally important is making sure that regardless of the technology used, the company's mission is all about you, the customer, so that your job is done your way and you are treated as a partner. That includes finding a company that offers various levels of service, so there's something for everyone. Some customers prefer to use automated sales options, with instant price quotes and online file uploading, so transactions can be done with a few clicks of the computer mouse 24/7. Other customers are more comfortable with personalized full-service and custom quoting. This is an option for customers who prefer dealing with a human being and being led through the printing-order process step-by-step.

Search for a company that offers many services - being a full-service communication provider isn't just about printing anymore. Find a company that continues to grow and offers additional services like variable data printing (personalized printing), video production, OCR scanning and archiving of documents or fine arts, DVD replication or wide format posters and banners, and more.

Of course, it's important and responsible to opt for a printing and communications company that's "green." The paper industry is the largest user of water and the fourth largest user of electricity in the world, according to the Institute of Sustainable Communications. So go with a company that takes steps that can benefit the planet and energy consumption - like using environmentally responsible eco-friendly inks, recycled papers and electronic document delivery whenever possible.

NextGeneration Printing, Copying & Digital Communication, the leading fast-turnaround offset and digital print provider, is one of these companies. When it selected the name NextGeneration, it knew the company would always have to be on the cutting edge of the printing and communication industries. NextGeneration has been chosen to produce critical and time-sensitive printed materials by companies in England, Germany, France, South Korea, Australia, Mexico, Russia, Ireland, Barbados, not to mention almost all U.S. states, and many more.

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The Newest Web Design Trends

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There are too many business owners out there that don't know anything about web design. Sure, they know what they want to say on their website, but when it comes to putting it on the computer they fail to get everything on the page in just the right way that allows customers to find what they are looking for. Most often, these business owners are just novices at designing websites, which is why they fail. If you are unsure about what your business website needs because you don't have the experience, here is what you need to know.

The first step is to write down a blueprint for your website. Most people find that writing something down on paper makes it easier to follow and change than figuring out how it should look on the computer. Plus, when you have a hard copy of something, you can show it to others, ask them for advice and to proof it for any mistakes. It isn't essential that you put in every detail and every word of text in this mockup, just put in the basics of what will go where.

In the past, a lot of website design was to get your website to the top of the search rankings. Sure, it is still important to get your website to the top, but you are going to want to do it in a more subtle way. Before, there was a lot of keyword stuffing with a lot of nonsense and rubbish pages out there, and your website could be high up in the rankings, but no one would want to look at it. Now, getting your website SEO optimised is going to be done more stealthily, and it's going to end up being better for both you and your customers. Remember that web design isn't just about getting your website to the top of the search engines; it's also about it looking nice and being easy to use.

Remember the small details like tags on your website. If you aren't familiar with HTML, ask someone else to do this part of the job for you because it is important. You absolutely must use meta tags and page descriptions correctly to get your page off to the best start.

Getting the best website design for your business is going to depend really on what you are selling. Keeping it clean, simple and easy for consumers to use is going to be your number one priority. If you want, a web design company can help you out and will probably give you some excellent advice, but most people should be able to do it themselves with little trial and error and a lot of hard work.

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9 Ways Search Engines Can Personalize Your Search Results

By Jeff Quipp

Personalization of search results is very important to the future success of any search engine, and its an effort well underway with many of the big 3 search engines as we speak.

If its true that the key success factors of search are:

a. reliability
b. ease/speed of use

Then it stands to reason that the more often a search engine optimization provides searchers with the exact information they are looking for, the more often they are to use that search engine in the future, and the less likely they are to switch to another search engine.

Personalization is not however, a magical phenomenon or crystal ball interpretation. It is purely based on observed patterns, and resulting probabilities. To put this into perspective, here are a number of patterns that search engines are likely to track, and that will permit search engines to calculate probabilities - namely the probability of increasing either reliability or speed of use.

1. Location Based Personalization - serve you personalized results based on your current location (eg. pizza). Eg. search engines have a very good idea where you are (based on IP) when you perform a search query. So someone searching for "pizza" from a location in London, is very likely looking for a pizza location within 10km (6 miles) of their inferred location. This works well for some types of keywords, and not as well for others (eg. paper manufacturers).

2. Interface Based Personalization - serve you personalized results based on the interface you are using.
Eg. if a search engine knows you are performing a search for "hospitals" from a BlackBerry, they can typically surmize you are looking for a hospital within a given radius of your current location, and could reorganize the results with the closest hospitals first. Keep in mind, small screens aren't great for general surfing or researching. Large screens are much more efficient.

3. Query History Based Personalization - serve you personalized results based on a logical sequence of keyword queries.
Eg. if you performed a search for "crayons" 10 minutes prior, and now search for "pens", personalized results should show gel pens results above Mont Blanc pens.

4. Input/Output Mode Based - personalize the mode through which you receive your results.
Eg. if you use Goog411 and input your search query by voice command, then you're more likely to want to receive the results via voice also (or at least a combination of voice and visual output). This will become more of an issue going forward.

5. Time Based Personalization - serve you personalized results based on times it perceives you are typically working.
Eg. searching for "Trains" has a different meaning at the office (think - book train tickets to Montreal), then when you're at home with the kids (think Thomas the Train). Perhaps Google has identified the pattern that most of your queries are business oriented between 9:00am and 6:00 pm, and more child oriented in all other hours.

6. Individual User Behaviour Based Personalization - serve you personalized results based on your actions in the past. Eg. Did you click on this site in the past in response to a similar query? Did you abandon it immediately, or stay on it and interact with it? Your previous interaction with the site offers insight into whether its a better match this time or not.

7. Group Based Behaviour Based Personalization - serve you personalized results based on the actions of all who have made similar queries in the past. Eg. If 90% of people who click on a certain search result in response to a specific search query abandoned it after 5 seconds (while others hold user attention much longer), then there's a high probability that the listing in question is not highly relevant to the search query and the search results should be reorganized as a result.

8. Social Search Based Personalization - imagine Google or Yahoo knowing who your friends are (perhaps through Facebook, gmail, or any number of social media sites).
Eg. Then imagine the search engine can either:
a. aggregate all friends positive and negative reviews of certain sites, and reorganize the search results with those sites with the most positive reviews first.
b. aggregate all friends user behaviour patterns associated with sites appearing in the search results, and then reorganize your specific search results accordingly

9. Virtual Personas/Assistants Based Personalization - serve you search results through a virtual persona you created.
Eg. Think of Star Trek or Terminator if you will. When you talk to a computer, it feels uncomfortable. We often feel the need to assign a personality and persona to it. Now imagine we can customize the appearance and sound of that persona. You can choose the accent, the sex, the age, and much more.

Conclusion:
While it is possible to improve the efficiency of search through each of the personalization methods above, they infact work best when operated in conjunction with one another, acting as a checks and balances mechanism. When used in conjunction, the inferences truly become more probable, and lead to dramatically better search results.

If you think this type of personalization is a long way off - think again. Google, Yahoo, and MSN all are trialling various means of personalization. See for yourself - perform a few search queries, then ask a friend in another part of the country to perform the same searches and compare results.

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Top - internet advertising solution

By Article24.info

As Pay per click's name suggests, you only pay for actual click through to your web site. Inexpensive Pay per click internet advertising lists your web site according to your bid for a certain search keyword. Of course, Web sites which pay more are ranked higher.

Due to the considerable growth in figures of internet users and because of the inexpensive internet advertising solutions, it has more capability for multimedia subject matter. It could capture texts, images, video and audio. The advertisers could produce logos, moving banners, animated and 3d imagery. With these in hand, advertisers mix these forms to produce successful and low cost internet advertising solutions.

1. Web design agencies These are focused on building web pages for a website. Many web developers are now offering affordable services if you just know how and where to find them.

There are many low cost pay per click internet advertising solutions available in the internet. All you have to make sure is that the advertising solution guarantees your satisfaction and your web site's traffic.

In determining good quality and affordable pay per click internet advertising service, make sure to run very carefully planned and structured promotions in order to boost the targeted traffic to your web site and increase guest conversion rate.

These companies analyze and modify websites in order to achieve the highest possible search engine ranking. They improve your website's design and content to better attract more traffic. Link building could also be employed by these e-marketing agencies to benefit your business. They are actually a combination of all the services mentioned above. Sometimes they also go by the name of Internet marketing consultancies or something of that sort. 5. Domain registration companies

Your business's name in the web is the business of these companies. Looking for the best amongst a wide array of these agencies is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But if you are determined enough to do your homework with these marketing services, results would be more than rewarding. Just make sure that you don't register with those whose only intention is to rip off those who can't afford the most reputable domain registration agencies.

For successful pay per click internet advertising, you and the solutions should identify appropriate landing pages. If needed, a number of changes are suggested to construct the perfect landing page which would work for an entry point to your website.

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