All experience marketers know the old adage that “the money is in the list
“.Network marketers have developed contact lists in many different ways over the years. Generally a sign up form is offered with a free giveaway. Someone simply fills out the form with a name and e-mail address to “opt in” to the autoresponder and the free giveaway is provided to them. In return for that, they generally understand that they have granted permission for whoever made the offer to follow up with other e-mails with other offers.
Several years ago the singular e-mail opt-in was taken a step further when software was developed that asked the first recipient to forward the offer to 4-5 of there friends in order to qualify for the free giveaway, or perhaps even a very low priced offering. Hence, list building became viral, meaning that a single e-mail to a single individual could be multiplied in a near exponential manner as each level of opt-ins continued to forward the offer to even more people.
The Web 2.0 World
Of course the latest to trend in the network and internet marketing community is the Web 2.0 world of blogs, YouTube, Twitter and the like. The use of videos in various social networks in order to communicate and establish a following with the subscribers has become ubiquitous. The net result of all this is that seemingly the most effective way to communicate with potential subscribers, or even to acquire subscribers and customers these days is probably through the use of videos.
Videos have a number of advantages, including the ability to present yourself as a sincere and a knowledgeable person in a face-to-face way. A potential subscriber or customer is more likely to buy from someone they they feel like they know. So
consequently, it’s almost imperative these days that you use the video medium in order to communicate with potential prospects to turn them into eventual customers.
The New Viral Video World
Interestingly, a new video software system to build a contact list and potentialcustomer list virally has been introduced. Internet guru Joel Therien, CEO ofKiosk.ws, is in the process of launching very easy to use video building software called Easy Video Producer that has the potential to be a very effective way of generating contacts in a viral manner. This system is unique because the software itself is being offered as the free giveaway for this video “tell-a-friend” system. Essentially, the system will offer you free and extraordinarily easy to use video generating software that builds and posts your personally produced video and information capture form on a website or blog. A contact management system is included with the free offer as well.
The viral concept is that you would then attract traffic to introduce yourself to the prospect in a more personal way, offering them the opportunity to opt in and use the same free software that you used to prepare the video. The prospect and new contact would in turn use his free new system to attract even more potential contacts for his list and yours as well.
As in the earlier e-mail systems, the originator of the viral distribution of the free software would have access to every subscriber in the levels below him. So, what is offered is a system that provides a free and very simple (even a cave man could
do it) method of posting videos to the internet that have a specific purpose of giving away additional software in a viral manner to capture a fast growing network of contacts with whom you can continue to build a relationship.
The Issues I See
The problems with this system are not dissimilar from those in other earlier systems of using free giveaways to build a list. . You first must be able to get your video in front of an audience and in order for them to subscribe, and they in turn must have an audience to subscribe in order for the system to work effectively. It can probably be most effectively used by someone who already has a subscriber list and wants to expand it rapidly.
Another potential negative is that the the new contacts you generate with this list, both directly and indirectly, are not yet buyers and it’s likely that many of them will have no interest in your particular marketing niche. Proper strategy of course is to build credibility over time through a series of value adding free offers that are designed to help categorize their interests. Only then should you move on to the stage of offering them the opportunity to buy your stuff.
This new easy video producer software system appears to offer a simple and easy, no cost way for the experienced, and particularly the relatively inexperienced non-technical networker to make effective use of videos for viral list building, and business promotion.
As an internet marketer I am interested in keeping up with
new ideas and trends in internet marketing. Since I have
been on the internet for a long time doing things like
creating my own internet city, website promotion, making
money on the internet, I have seen the internet change by
leaps and bounds.
Today, in order to be relevant in internet marketing your
website or blog has to do more than just be a static webpage,
now you have to have content and different methods to share
that content such as having your own blog, perhaps forums,
and now the biggie, video. With increasing access to broadband,
video is now possible for virtually everyone to use. Video has
become the new must have have, not only for internet marketers
but for everyone who has a website.
Local Biz Owners who have a website can especially benefit from
video. With video, there are new opportunities to get out your
message, advertise your business, make video postcards, send
video e-mails create how-to the ideas are endless.
We website owners however, are thinking gee we want to get in
on the video thing, but it is something else we have to learn
how to do, another learning curve, and for many of us the idea
just sort of fizzles.
I am excited because I don’t have to miss out this time, because
I lack the expertise to create and broadcast videos or perhaps
I just don’t have the time.
I found a unique new software I thought I would check out, to
see if I could use it. I was hoping it would be easy to use,
to create video and then put it on my website. I also wanted
the video to look good, something I wouldn’t mind people watching
and/or downloading to pass it around.
Well I couldn’t believe it. This software made it drop dead easy
to make videos and to put them on my website. I actually was able
to make a quality, professional looking video in less than 5 min.
This sounds crazy I know, but I did it.
If video is something you have been wanting to do but felt really
intimidated by it up to this point, you might want to try this software
for yourself, because the best part is you can use the software and
it doesn’t cost you anything. That was important to me because I
didn’t know if I would be able to use the software, and I didn’t want to
pay for something I wasn’t sure I could even use.
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Who Is Robbie Bracco? Robbie started doing business online in December of 1998 with an emerging online mall and has focused on building that business to a world wide shopping mall which has enrolled over 3 Million members over the past 11 years.
Director Robbie Bracco has recently joined the marketing team of "The Crazy Foxes" Marketing Group where she has been able to expand her business by offering some of the very best marketing tools available both on and off line. Robbie has always worked with the concept that it's not enough for her to succeed but that the people who work with her must also succeed and this new venture has provided those tools to many of the people she has worked with for almost 10 years.
As with many things in life we discover that there are things available to us which we never could have imagined unless we actually searched for them and such is the case with an online shopping business. Her original Online Shopping business, while exploding in other parts of the world was faltering in the US where Robbie concentrated most of her efforts so she went on a "Hunt" to find out why. What she found was that some of the tools she had been using before were antiquated in todays market and with the help of her new found friend and business partner, "Karen Weir" founder of the Crazy Foxes Marketing Group she found a renewed exctiement as this group believes in multiple streams of income which compliment each other so a new marriage was performed.
While Robbie is new with the Crazy Foxes Marketing Group she is by no means new to Network Marketing and she is applying the basic principles which have propelled her to the highest position achievable in her previous business, to her new business which includes Lead Development, Search Engine Optimization, Team Building and Marketing. Most of what the Crazy Foxes utilize are marketing sites such as the giant "Veretekk" and a real sleeper NPNwhich provides some powerful tools such as Auto Responders, Multi-Ad Trackers,Downline Mailer,URL Rotator, Private Messenger Service, Conference Center, Chat Room, Banner Rotators and much much more.
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If you've been marketing online for any length of time you are aware of the importance of Fresh opportunity leads. Most people search all over the internet and waste hundreds if not thousands of dollar in their search for good qualified leads who are in search of what they have to and then trying to find people to push their favorite" program of the week" on. </p>
<p>People today are much more sophisticated and computer savvy to fall for that type of advertising! What you need is a system which produces those leads for you - automatically while you sleep or vacation or work or play with other things which are important in your lives.</p>
<p>I have recently started using a system which allows me to send out to a system generated list of addresses where the recipient must verify that they want to receive our information and then place those verified leads into a folder where we can then communicate with them on a personal basis and set up a group of specific letters to gradually build a relationship with them and to share the value of using a successful communication system to generate their own fresh opportunity leads or leads for any business they happen to be promoting.</p>
<p>How much more effective do you feel it is when someone comes to you instead of you going to them?</p>
<p>CLICK HERE Take a look at some of the FR*E*E tools we offer</p>
<p>Who Is Robbie Bracco? Robbie started doing business online in December of 1998 with an emerging online mall and has focused on building that business to a world wide shopping mall which has enrolled over 3 Million members over the past 11 years.</p>
<p>Director Robbie Bracco has recently joined the marketing team of "The Crazy Foxes" Marketing Group where she has been able to expand her business by offering some of the very best marketing tools available both on and off line. Robbie has always worked with the concept that it's not enough for her to succeed but that the people who work with her must also succeed and this new venture has provided those tools to many of the people she has worked with for almost 10 years.</p>
<p>As with many things in life we discover that there are things available to us which we never could have imagined unless we actually searched for them and such is the case with an online shopping business. Her original Online Shopping business, while exploding in other parts of the world was faltering in the US where Robbie concentrated most of her efforts so she went on a "Hunt" to find out why. What she found was that some of the tools she had been using before were antiquated in todays market and with the help of her new found friend and business partner, "Karen Weir" founder of the Crazy Foxes Marketing Group she found a renewed exctiement as this group believes in multiple streams of income which compliment each other so a new marriage was performed.</p>
<p>While Robbie is new with the Crazy Foxes Marketing Group she is by no means new to Network Marketing and she is applying the basic principles which have propelled her to the highest position achievable in her previous business, to her new business which includes Lead Development, Search Engine Optimization, Team Building and Marketing. Most of what the Crazy Foxes utilize are marketing sites such as the giant "Veretekk" and a real sleeper NPNwhich provides some powerful tools such as Auto Responders, Multi-Ad Trackers,Downline Mailer,URL Rotator, Private Messenger Service, Conference Center, Chat Room, Banner Rotators and much much more.</p> <p>And of course a fantastic Shopping Mall with both online and offline savings of up to 50%. Acquire Benefits Group</p>
<p>Robbie has recently been featured on the cover of "MIM Online Magazine" and you can see that Press Release Here</p>
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There’s always something cooking at the |bracco| house
Sunday - A Day For Family
Time Goes By But Some Things Never Change
It seems that as the years go by we drift further and further from tradition. I don’t know about your house but at the Bracco household we always sit down to a table and enjoy a home cooked meal where we can have some good converstion about what each other has done throughout the day. Robbie Bracco shares that Meal times are great times to be............
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Success in Internet Marketing Begins on Day One...
The idea of being mere passengers on a ship meant to sail to the farthest points does not appeal to people who like to put their destiny into their own hands. They have the desire of maneuvering the ships themselves, of being able to be the ones to take it anywhere they want to. Being aboard a ship on its way to a particularly great destination is something each and every one of them dreams of, and the knowledge that they have the capacity to steer it themselves is what makes them actually want to.
Perhaps this is the reason why more and more people are succumbing to one of the most popular home based businesses around - affiliate marketing. It is because in this business, there are no bosses to order the employees around. There are no deadlines to meet and no clutter of work do to. One only needs to be equipped with the tools needed to succeed in a business such as this, and he is bound to get what his heart ultimately desires.
Just what are the things needed to be able to succeed in a home based business? What must one have within himself to be able to do well in this industry? There is a lot of competition involved in affiliate marketing, and to be able to rise above the norm, one must be equipped with just the right stuff necessary to propel him forward. There are five things one must ultimately possess if he wants to achieve the glory he is yearning for in this business, and these five things are a must for him to possess to be able to stand out among the rest.
The very first quality one must possess if he wants to try his hand in a home based business is the willingness to learn and be trained. Treading through unfamiliar territory is scary stuff if one is not properly equipped, and he might get lost amidst a jungle of the unknown. Learning the tricks of the trade is also an important aspect of the game, and one's willingness to know it all will give him far better advantages in the business than he could ever imagine.
The second quality one must possess is the willingness to invest time and effort even if direct results do not seem at all apparent. Although several months may pass without good news, it is important for one who has his foot in the industry to hold on and wait. It is this quality which would save him from giving up after investing a lot of himself in the business.
The third quality one must possess is self-determination. If one wants to conquer the affiliate marketing world, he must have the ability to push himself ahead. Never having to say die is a quality each and every affiliate marketer should possess, and the ability to motivate oneself into scaling greater heights is an ability which would actually take an affiliate marketer there.
The fourth quality one must possess is discipline. If one knows how to teach himself to work everyday with all the energy he can muster, then he is close to achieving what he has set his heart to having in the first place.
The fifth and last quality one must possess is optimism. Negative attitudes and hearsays should not discourage an affiliate marketer from pursuing what he has to in order to make life better for himself and for everyone concerned. Neither should anyone influence his attitude toward the business, because once in it, it is a must for him to be the captain of his ship and the master of his soul.
The ingredients to success in a business such as affiliate marketing are diverse and manifold, but the most important thing one needs to be able to make it big lies in himself alone. It is he who has the capacity to do everything to be able to realize his prospects, and the desire which fuels his heart in doing so is the gasoline which should keep the engine going.
Affiliate marketing is all about putting one's fate into his own hands. The right attitude is the key to being able to steer one's ship into that part of the ocean where a certain kind of serenity can be found, one that permeates the atmosphere as the ship sails calmly on.
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When starting out with a home based business it is extremely important that you learn effective communication. In any of your communication with prospects to join you in your home based business be sure and include all of the following bullet points.
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Pictures sell, add credibility, and get attention
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Before and after shots create belief
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Subheads tell the story
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Use short paragraphs
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Use bullets, arrows, underlining, etc.
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Testimonials, results, before and after stories
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Talk directly to the prospect
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Does it answer the question, what’s in it for me?
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Why is your product/service better?
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Explain the benefits.
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Does the piece create word pictures?
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Ask for the order.
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Use guarantees and risk reversals.
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Make it easy to respond.
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Create an urgency to buy.
Follow this guideline and your home based business will get off to a roaring start!
Picking the right home based business is the single most important decision you will make. Running your own home based business is just one of many ways to make money. Starting a Home Based Business is more affordable than most people think. A home based business is just like any other business except it allows the owner(s) to work at home some or all of the time and -- generally speaking, they cost less to start because of greatly reduced overhead.
Internet
Internet Marketing: An Easy Work From Home Business OpportunitySince internet usage exploded in the 1990's, internet marketing has become a marketing tool that every business takes.
Marketing
Marketing is a continuous process, and you should not neglect it once your business is launched.
Income
All income is distributed to members on a participation basis. Home based business has increasingly become a very popular way in which to earn a primary or secondary (or tertiary) income. Advantages: Owner in direct control (your own boss) Low start-up (organizational) costs Least government regulated Ease of formation and simple structure No double taxation Business losses can offset personal income. Owner receives all profits. Having business and personal checking accounts will make it easier to track business income and expenses when tax time rolls around. A few of the most often cited are:Eliminating child care costs, Increasing family income, Being your own boss, Eliminating an expensive commute and a necessary wardrobe, Profitably expressing a special talent, hobby or interest, Combining the busy lifestyle of parenting with that of outside work, Creating flexible working hours, Establishing a retirement occupation, and Lowering the cost of starting a new business.
Products
Another type of home based business is the home based mail order business which would involve basically three components: finding and advertising products or services that sell, processing orders that arrive on the internet or in your mail box, and delivering your orders. Setting a plan on the type of business you intend to pursue, how you'll be delivering your products or services, your marketing plans, budget, target market and so on, will certain be useful in helping you organize your business.
Advertising
Lack of proper advertising and promotion can also be a huge downfall for a home-based business. So, when it comes down to it, advertising your home based business the affordable way is an absolute must, because you normally have a small budget, to start with. However, not a lot of people that start up a home based businesses are wealthy to start with, and you might find that you don`t really have a budget for advertising. This especially applies if your advertising with the larger PPC programs link Adwords. Overhead expenses include taxes, advertising, rent, office supplies/equipment, business-related travel, insurance, business permits, maintenance and repair of equipment, utilities (electricity, telephone, etc.
Customers
Your best bet is to work the same hours as your customers. Some home based businesses may involve travel or some time outside the home meeting customers, buying supplies or some other activity, but other home based businesses will require very little or no time outside the home.
Profit
People are turning their skills, hobbies and ideas into profitable ventures. The decision to go into business is based on a thorough study of factors such as thepotential market, sales promotion and advertising, location, making the product or settingup the service, delivery of the product and profit potential. This can include profit sharesor early retirement funds, real estate equity loans, cash-value insurance policies, orcredit card advances. Your new home-based venture may not be profitable immediately so consider a gradual transition from employment to business ownership.
The rest of the day your internet home based business is going to 'work' for you. The good news is that the cost of failurewith having your own home based business is very small. A successful home based business is worth the work required but might not feel like until the bank account validates the thought.
About the Author: Robbie Bracco is a Platinum Veretekk Member and Chief Executive Director with the DHS Club since 1998. She is an excellent motivator and was instrumental in the success of many network marketers both on and offline. To learn more about who she is and what she does, just google Robbie Bracco to learn more.
Affiliate Marketing is an agreement between a merchant and a website owner. Both the merchant and the affiliate enjoy some benefits in affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing programs are described as a win-win situation for both the merchant and the affiliate because of the pay-for-performance scheme. Affiliate marketing will give the product or service the maximum exposure that it may not get with other traditional advertising techniques.
Researching affiliate versus traditional marketing ideas and opportunities can help you start a new business or grow the home based business you already have. By reading this article you have taken the first step towards financial freedom. Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest and fastest ways to make a profit online while at home.
Now that you know what affiliate marketing is, let’s discuss some important ways you need to know in order to be successful at your home business.
First you need to know that your main focus in affiliate online marketing will be on promoting the product of the merchant. Your affiliate marketing system can be duplicated and replicated in any niche’ market, as long as there are products with affiliate programs in that market niche. This leaves the field of affiliate marketing open to everyone who has a desire to become their own boss. Fortunately, it does not take hundreds of thousands of dollars to be making money with affiliate marketing. In most cases you can start for Free!
The most important thing about being an affiliate is you do not have to worry about inventory, order processing, or product shipping. All the same, the best benefit of being an affiliate marketer is the opportunity to increase your income; and you can make a profit even if affiliate marketing is only a sideline business. Most affiliate marketers today make a very lucrative income as they know how to promote their companies in the correct way.
In fact, this great publicity, writing articles, is the first way I want to share with you to promote your business and is often free. You can get freelancers to do this for you if writing is just NOT your thing. This is very inexpensive at places like Elance.com and my personal favorite Team-Shuman.com You can also submit articles to article directories to generate free traffic and backlinks to your site. You can find hundreds of article directories by doing a search online for that keyword. Article marketing is one of the best free online marketing strategies to drive targeted traffic to your website and increase your sales.
The forums are also free and even small affiliates can have a big voice at places like that, which is supported by the anonymity that is provided by those platforms. Do a search on Home based business forums and find tons of them to join and learn the business and secrets shared by those doing this for a living. This is the best ’on the job training’ you can get.
Some secret weapons for succeeding at your own Home Business are as follows :
1)You MUST optimize a business website for a great start. To optimize your website using this free traffic generation technique, make sure you:
2) Build your website around your chosen keywords;
3) Write and distribute quality and unique content (articles, blogs, online journals) around your chosen keywords;
4) Exchange links with other sites;
5) Submit your site to website and search engine submission directories.
Search Engine Optimization, SEO is a free and very effective marketing technique used by affiliate marketers who are succeeding in the Home Based Business Era. You can find tutorials in many places on the internet by searching for keyword SEO.
There are a few good fully automated traffic-generation systems that can send thousands of targeted prospects to your website, every single day, for FREE. If you are a newbie affiliate internet marketer, when creating your traffic strategy you should choose three (3) free traffic methods and one (1) paid traffic method to implement and focus on. Although if you don’t have the extra money to put into this right now it will be fine to use the free ones until you start getting some paychecks in.
There are many free affiliate marketing ideas, tips and secrets the pros use available online. I hope this article has helped you to make an informed decision on whether or not to start your home business based on being an affiliate vs. traditional marketing. This type of business is not only easier, but as I mentioned earlier you do not have to worry about inventory, order processing, and product shipping, only getting your links out there in the online world.
If you desire residual and passive income to be ongoing for your future then these practices are some of the first things you need to do to be successful at your new affiliate marketing business. A word to the wise, any income you generate from your business for the first few months should be turned around and put back into the advertising of your website. This will benefit you greatly in the end.
I honestly believe that anyone who is willing to put the effort and time in, will be able to achieve Complete Financial Freedom upon starting their own Home Based Business in Affiliate Marketing.
Here’s To Your Success in the Affiliate Marketing World!
3 Most Common Affiliate Mistakes, Here's How To Avoid Them
If done right affiliate marketing is the most effective, lucrative and powerful online home based businesses. These programs give everybody a chance to make a profit through the Internet. Since these affiliate marketing programs are easy to join, implement and pays a commission on a regular basis, more and more people are now willing to go into this type of business.
However, like all businesses, there are lots of pitfalls in the affiliate marketing business. Committing some of the most common mistakes will cost the marketers a large portion taken from the profit they are making everyday. That is why it is better to avoid them than be regretfully in one at the end.
Mistake number 1: Choosing the wrong affiliate.
Many people want to earn from affiliate marketing as fast as possible. In their rush to be part of one, they tend to choose a bandwagon product. This is the kind of products that the affiliate program thinks is ''hot''. They choose the product that they think is in demand without actually considering if the product appeals to them. This is not a very wise move obviously. Don't jump on the bandwagon
Pick a product that appeals to you. Then do some research about that product to see if it is really in demand. Try the product in which you are truly interested in. Promoting a product you are passionate about is easier than promoting one for the sake of the earnings only.
When you find home based business you like and it's honest it's time to plan, for any endeavor to succeed, you need to take some time and plan out your actions. Things like; How are you going to market? What type of website to make and which one sells this product the best? Do you need an auto responder? Will you purchase leads?.... You get the idea.
Mistake number 2: Joining too many affiliate programs with out a plan.
Since affiliate programs are very easy to join, you might be tempted to join multiples of affiliate programs to try and maximize the earnings you will be getting. Besides you may think that there is nothing wrong and nothing to lose by being part of many affiliate programs.
True, that is a great way to have multiple sources of income. However, joining multiple programs with out a plan and attempting to promote them all at the same time will prevent you from concentrating on each one of them properly.
The result? The maximum potential of your affiliate program is not realized and the income generated will not exactly be as huge as you were thinking initially it would. The best way to get excellent result is by either joining just one program that pays at least up to a 40% commission or build a website that you can put multiple affiliate programs on like www.easy-profitsites.com. Now start promoting your product or better yet your web site enthusiastically. As soon as you see that it is already making a reasonable profit, then you can join other affiliate programs and start a second website.
Mistake number 3: Not buying the product or using the service.
As an affiliate, your main purpose is to effectively and convincingly promote a product or service and to find customers. For you to achieve this purpose, you must be able to relay to the customers that certain product and service. It is therefore difficult for you to do this when you yourself have not tried these things out. Thus, you will fail to promote and recommend them convincingly. You will also fail to create a desire in your customers to benefit from any thing you are offering.
Try the product or service personally first before you sign up as an affiliate to see if it is really delivering what it promises. If you have done so, then you are one of the credible and living testaments aware of its advantages and disadvantages. Your customers will then feel the sincerity and truthfulness in you and this will trigger them to try you products out for themselves.
Many affiliate marketers make these mistakes and are paying dearly for their actions. To not fall into the same situation they have been in, try to do everything to avoid making the same mistakes.
Time is the key. Take the time to analyze your marketing strategy and check if you are on the right track. If done properly, you will be able to maximize your affiliate marketing program and earn higher profits.
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It is no more the phase of national depression. Conditions have improved and employee poaching at maximum remuneration is becoming the trend. But still at personal levels discontentment and depression resulting from overwork, less payment, workplace harassment is common. Work from home is one of the many consequences of the merging workload, job outsourcing and the need for flexible work hours.
When Should You Start Work at Home?
Though there is no dearth of home business careers, but you should not plunge directly. It has been seen that the successful home business owners have made it big after considerable exposure to the works in the office.
Be it marketing, content development or business processing, you are facing a global clientele where sub-standard does not fetch anything. So, it is believed that couple of years experience in a particular job will power you with the industry standards and make you market-ready.
Should Start Work at Home?
There are many popular work at internet home business opportunities (http://www.milanodirect.biz/start-home-business.asp) such as business processing, website promotion, medical billing, online marketing and direct sales, etc. But, to make it to the top you must be prepared for the particular work and should be aware of the conventions of that job.
Say for you are taking the job of online promotion at home, but you don’t meet the deadline. In this case you might loose your money and someone else will bag that job.
Work at home idea (http://www.milanodirect.biz/stay-at-home-business.asp) should not be just a rebellion against your boss or for more monetary benefits is not worthwhile. No doubt, there is freedom, fun and financial benefits in home businesses, but the condition is that your creative self should be interested in that job.
Never be moved by the tall claims of ‘Making millions’ without doing anything. Plan for a successful home based business based on your experience, expertise and resources. Only then you will be able to turn your hobby/expertise into dollars.
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Well, you can put your talent work for you, but as per clients’ specifications if your work is something like medical billing or any type of business processing. Sales is a different ball game altogether. Irrespective of the nature of your business, it’s always better to work under a perfect mentor.
Ideas alone do not make anything. It’s people who make things happen. Suppose you planned a robust system of online direct marketing where you don’t need to do the marketing, your system does everything for you. Even then you have to manage the system and check/reply the leads.
So, a decision to start a home business by superficial motivation might make you worse off. That home business is worth considering where you have a track record so that you can evaluate and investigate and evaluate.
Remember, 90% of work at home based businesses are pure gimmicks, outright scams. First, check the authenticity of the source, credibility of the opposite party before taking any job online.
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2. Share information freely, be always in touch.
3. Experiment with new ideas but tolerate the mistakes of others.
4. Be aware of your objectives.
5. Update yourself with home based business literatures.
It's really not hard to be successful. (Although it does require having some guts and not being lazy.) Simply be willing to do what most people aren't. You've seen the ads "Make big money- No selling, no telephone calling, no work, etc". The point is if you really want to stand out from the crowd and be very successful, then do the things other people won't. Think about how little competition you will have.
I have been involved working in home businesses for over 10 years now and one thing has stood out in my mind. When I looked at people in this business who were very successful they weren't supermen or women. Oh sure a few have stood out with better skills then average, but for the most part they are relatively average people with one main characteristic. Each one has been successful because they were willing to do things the crowd wasn't willing to do.
It's an amazing feeling of confidence you get when you are willing to do things you are afraid to do. Sure you may be scared at first to pick up that phone and call someone but it gives you an amazing feeling of confidence after you do.
Have you ever noticed the most successful people also seem to be the most confident. Not necessarily in an obnoxious ego way (although some are), but in a way that you just sense something is different about them.
Some people mistakenly think that people are confident because they are successful. They say, "I would also be confident if I were successful!" However, people who think like that are wrong, those people became successful, because they were confident first and believed they would be successful. I have yet to meet the first person born successful.
You want to be confident and successful? Step out from the crowd and take on those exciting challenges that others are afraid to take. That's why the crowd at 65 is living on Social Security instead of the few who are cruising the Caribbean on a regular basis. It's a lot less crowded out there.
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According to Search Engine Land Many consider search engine optimization as a sort of black box. But once the essential features of a search engine optimal website are laid out in a concise list, SEO is not nearly as mystifying.
The Big secret is, "There is No Secret"
Every web site owner wants more traffic and higher rankings in the search engines. In the midst of an SEO campaign, however, it’s easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees. So before you change a single title, you might want to shift your focus to answer some important questions.
So what do I mean by losing sight of the forest for the trees anyway? You’ve probably heard that expression since you were a teenager at least. You may even know that it means focusing on the details to the point that you lose sight of the big picture – and with the amount of detail work that goes into a proper SEO project, that’s easy to do.
The mission of search engines is to supply their visitors with relevant results, so penalizing or banning sites that appear to interfere with that mission is a necessity. Understanding which blunders adversely impact your search engine rankings is a prerequisite to a well-optimized site.
1. Do you use pull-down boxes for navigation? Search engine spiders can’t fill out forms, even short ones with just one pull-down. Thus, they can’t get to the pages that follow. If you’re using pull-downs, make sure there is an alternate means of navigating to those pages that the spiders can use. Note this is not the same as a mouseover menu, where sub-choices show up upon hovering over the main navigation bar; that’s fine if done using CSS (rather than Javascript.)
2. Does your primary navigation require Flash, Java or Javascript? If you rely on search engine spiders executing Flash, Java or Javascript code in order to access links to deeper pages within your site, you’re taking a big risk. The search engines have a limited ability to deal with Flash, Java and Javascript. So the links may not be accessible to the spiders, or the link text may not get associated with the link. Semantically marked up HTML is always the most search engine friendly way to go.
3. Is your site done entirely in Flash or overly graphical with very little textual content? Text is always better than graphics or Flash animations for search engine rankings. Page titles and section headings should be text, not graphics. The main textual content of the page should ideally not be embedded within Flash. If it is, then have an alternative text version within div tags and use SWFObject to determine whether that text is displayed based on whether the visitor has the Flash plugin installed.
4. Is your home page a “splash page” or otherwise content-less? With most webites, as mentioned above, the home page is weighted by the search engines as the most important page on the site (i.e., given the highest PageRank score.) Thus, having no keyword-rich content on your home page is a missed opportunity.
5. Does your site employ frames? Search engines have problems crawling sites that use frames (i.e., where part of the page moves when you scroll but other parts stay stationary.) Google advises not using frames: “Frames tend to cause problems with search engines, bookmarks, emailing links and so on, because frames don’t fit the conceptual model of the Web (every page corresponds to a single URL.) “Furthermore, if a frame does get indexed, searchers clicking through to it from search results will often find an “orphaned page”: a frame without the content it framed, or content without the associated navigation links in the frame it was intended to display with. Often, they will simply find an error page.What about “iFrames”, you ask? iFrames are better than frames for a variety of reasons, but the content within an iframe on a page still won’t be indexed as part of that page’s content.
6. Do the URLs of your pages Include “cgi-bin” or numerous ampersands? As discussed, search engines are leery of dynamically generated pages. That’s because they can lead the search spider into an infinite loop called a “spider trap.” Certain characters (question marks, ampersands, equal signs) and “cgi-bin” in the URL are sure-fire tip-offs to the search engines that the page is dynamic and thus to proceed with caution. If the URLs have long, overly complex “query strings” (the part of the URL after the question mark), with a number of ampersands and equals signs (which signify that there are multiple variables in the query string), then your page is less likely to get included in the search engine’s index.
7. Do the URLs of your pages include session IDs or user IDs? If your answer to this question is yes, then consider this: search engine spiders like Googlebot don’t support cookies, and thus the spider will be assigned a new session ID or user ID on each page on your site that it visits. This is the proverbial “spider trap” waiting to happen. Search engine spiders may just skip over these pages. If such pages do get indexed, there will be multiple copies of the same pages each taking a share of the PageRank score, resulting in PageRank dilution and lowered rankings.If you’re not quite clear on why your PageRank scores will be diluted, think of it this way: Googlebot will find minimal links pointing to the exact version of a page with a particular session ID in its URL.
8. Do you unnecessarily spread your site across multiple domains? This is typically done for load balancing purposes. For example, the links on the JCPenney.com home page point off to www2.jcpenney.com, or www3.jcpenney.com, or www4.jcpenney.com and so on, depending on which server is the least busy. This dilutes PageRank in a way similar to how session IDs in the URL dilute PageRank.
9. Are your title tags the same on all pages? Far too many websites use a single title tag for the entire site. If your site falls into that group, you’re missing out on a lot of search engine traffic. Each page of your site should “sing” for one or several unique keyword themes. That “singing” is stifled when the page’s title tag doesn’t incorporate the particular keyword being targeted.
10. Do you have pop-ups on your site? Most search engines don’t index Javascript-based pop-ups, so the content within the pop-up will not get indexed. If that’s not good enough reason to stop using pop-ups, you should know that people hate them – with a passion. Also consider that untold millions of users have pop-up blockers installed. (The Google Toolbar and Yahoo Companion toolbar are pop-up blockers, too, in case you didn’t know.)
I expect many of you will look at these questions and think that they should be asked well before a site goes live, very early in the design process. That’s probably true. But it’s also true that web sites evolve over time, rather like people. They change, grow, and adapt to conditions in the marketplace. By the time a web site has been up for a couple of years (or even less), it might be a very different creature from what the site owner originally had in mind.
This kind of change is not a bad thing, per se. We all get a certain amount of satisfaction out of growing and tweaking our sites, and then watching what happens. If we’re not looking clearly at what the site is turning into, however, we can’t see what it needs.
Search engine optimization could be a tiring task but with time it sure helps you get better traffic.
Today Google Real-Time Search Changes Everything. Not being where your customer is looking could be costing you their business! Search engines are tightening up the loopholes to manipulate positioning.
So called “doorway” pages, tricks with meta tag/keyword files, etc. no longer are effective. Keyword positioning, along with indexing, is the way to be seen on today’s Internet.
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Entrepreneurs and small businesses constantly find themselves looking around asking themselves why they can’t quite seem to find a good fit for what they need from service providers.
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SEO Ranting
I do want top rankings I do NOT want top rankings.
Which one of those statements is true for you?
I am willing to invest time or money to get top rankings. I am NOT willing to invest time or money to get top rankings.
Which one of those statements is true for you?
Not many things in life are black and white...but getting top rankings for your website is.
You either have them or you don't AND you are either willing to do something to get them, or you're not.
I think a lot of people fool themselves into thinking they will do what it takes and then when the times comes to invest the time or put up money, they don't follow through.
I don't mean to be too blunt, and I definitely don't mean to be offensive but I do want to be honest and hopefully get you thinking.
It's worth repeating.
You either have top rankings or you don't. You are either willing to do something to get top rankings, or you aren't.
What is true for you and what does that truth mean to you, your business and your goals?
It has been said that inaction is action, in and of itself. So, the question is - you are already taking action in some form, so are you taking the right action?
SEO may not be for you. You may not want a lot of new traffic and leads and sales. If that's the case, that's OK.
But if you want or need traffic, leads and sales - then you need top rankings.
Not sure where that come from, but I guess that was my little rant for the day! Stay tuned for more SEO tips.
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•The vast majority of clicks occur within the top 5 positions on a search page.
•As a rule, the more competitive the business category, the harder it is to attain decent placement. Conversely, the more competitive the business category, the more important placement is to success of the business.
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The war had been going on for centuries. The war between the Eagles and the Bears. Nobody in the forest knew what started the war. But everyone know how often Bears were injured terribly or killed by dive bombing Eagles or just as often Eagles were killed in large numbers by sudden attacks by Bears or as they dove and the Bears swatted them from the sky. Far too often the ones hurt the most were the children or babies or mommies of the baby Eagles and Bears who wanting nothing more than peace to raise their children.
Nevertheless, rumor had been in the air for a long time of a war to end all wars. A final battle was coming that would pit every Bear in the woods against every Eagle and a final victor will emerge. But nobody knew when that day would come. But that day did come, before anyone was prepared for it. It came about when Bartholomew Bear was playing in the woods by himself. He wasn’t supposed to do that but sometimes children forget the warnings of their parents because they want so much to explore and learn. He was chasing a butterfly laughing and leaping at it from a log to a stump to a rock and then to the ground.
Suddenly he felt a shooting pain in his foot. He cried out before he even know what happened but he heard the SNAP of that man trap closed on his foot and he knew he was in big trouble. He must have cried for hours wishing his Mommy or Daddy would come. Little did he know they were preparing for the final battle, the war to end all wars with the Eagles.
The butterfly lit on his bear shoulder. “Can’t you get your foot out Bartholomew?” The butterfly said. “I want to play some more.”
“NO,” the little Bear cried big tears in his eyes. “This trap has my leg in these pointy claws and it really hurts.”
“There is another one right next to it.” Mr. Butterfly observed. “Make sure you don’t get your other foot in it. I will fly for help.”
“Yes please hurry.” The sad little Bear begged his friend. It was not long later that Bartholomew saw his help coming. Dozens and dozens of bears appeared on the ridge.
“Wow they sent everyone” he remarked to himself as more and more Bears lined up on that ridge and just stood there staring over at the other ridge on the opposite side of the valley Bartholomew was in.
On the other side, the armies of the Eagles were gathering. Filling the trees of the thick forest there, they dug their talons in and stared hatefully at the army of Bears just across the way not knowing the poor helpless Bear cub was trapped between them.
“DADDY HELP ME!” Bartholomew’s voice suddenly rang out. Both armies looked into the valley and recognized the plight of the child Bear. He was crying loudly as he looked up spotting his Mommy and Daddy in the Bear army on the ridge. Oh, the hearts of that Mommy and Daddy were torn seeing their child in that spot. When the battle begins in just moments, the two armies will rush into that valley and the killing will be most awful.
The Chieftain of the Eagles watched the little Bear. His heart was touched but not enough to call off the attack. “Daddy we have to stop it.” His son Edgar Eagle said to him perched on the same branch with him.
“No son.” The king of the Eagles declared. “We can only hope somehow the Bear child survives the battle.” The Chiefton of the Eagles watched the situation, unwilling to call the attack but unwilling to call it off. He did not see the tiny Mr. Butterfly light on the beak of Edgar Eagle.
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SEO link-building has become one of the main high leverage activities in any online business. The simple fact is that back-links will give you a high page rank and a high page rank will rank you higher in the S.E.R.P's. Obviously this means more traffic and more money, as reported by VodaHost General & Forum Administrator
Back-links make up 90% of your Google rank and because of this, link-building has taken on a life of its own. Most people seem to misunderstand it completely. For starters you should know that not all back links are good links. They can actually hurt you more than help you.
SEO Link-building is all about building links that are natural. Google did not design their ranking system to be manipulated. It was designed to reward good sites that get linked to it naturally. That's why getting the right links can be incredibly difficult if you try and do it manually.
Unfortunately, you have to build in links these days otherwise you will not be competitive. If you sit around and wait for sites to link to you, you might wait forever. The good thing is that this also give the "small guy" a fair shake to get good rankings in Google, Yahoo and M.S.N.
Most guys build Back-links kamikaze style; that is they go in there and just get as many links they can from wherever they can and at whatever cost. This is a recipe for disaster. Once your site gets marked by Google, you might as well start over again.
Rogue link-building techniques can render months of hard work useless, so be very careful when building Back-links. Here are the 7 deadly S.E.O link-building mistakes. Avoid them at all costs.
Mistake #1: Mass Link Packages
Obviously, some sleazy and unscrupulous people are out there selling link packages that are not even worth a mention. Most of the time they blast ads out to classified directories or other spam filled networks. These links are the equivalent of buying spam email lists. Don't do it. Your links might end up on banned sites that can really hurt your Google image.
Mistake #2: Link Exchanges
Back in the day, exchanging links was the main S.E.O link-building strategy. You link to me, I link to you and we both win. Right? Wrong! Google caught on to this when hundreds of link farms opened up. Google can easily trace reciprocal links and they simply don't count for much anymore. Getting links from big link exchange networks can actually hurt your business.
Mistake #3: Linking From Non-Indexed Sites
Most people who spend hours building those free Back-links make the mistake of building links on non-indexed sites. For your back links to count, the page on which you have your link has to be indexed. Having links on non-indexed pages means nothing. It's a waste of time.
Mistake #4: Not Using Anchor Text
At first this probably won't sound too scary, but if you build 2,000 links without relevant anchor text your site can easily pass for a spam site that just gets random links. By using anchor text that is related to your site, it gives your links link-juice; meaning it makes your links relevant and increases the perceived value of each link.
Mistake #5: Not Being Relevant
Google is getting smarter by the day. After all it is their business to provide the most relevant information for each and every search that is conducted. If they don't, people will stop using Google. That's why they protect it so vigorously. When you get Back-links from relevant and related sites that would naturally link to you, then the link will count for a lot. Unrelated and random links from any old site really does not make Google see your site as being important.
Mistake #6: Inorganic links
As I mentioned earlier, Google designed the page rank system to work organically. They are looking for links to come to your site naturally. For the most part that means, slowly and consistently over time from a variety of related sites. If you go and get 1000 links overnight from the same site then Google's alarms will go off and you might land yourself in some Back-linking trouble with the big G. Slow and steady wins the race - especially if you have a new site.
Mistake #7: Buying Links
High PR Back-links are worth gold. Quite literally. I've seen a single PR7 link sell for as much as $250 per month. There are a lot of link networks out there that make it their business to sell links on high PR sites. These links have become quite expensive, but the lure of instant results have people buying links like it's going out of fashion.
Google is catching on and there has been widespread reports of Google slapping page rank. If links are publicly traded then Google can probably trace them and penalize you.
SEO link-building is all about being as natural and as organic as possible. Always go after links that are 1-way, relevant and on sites with a high page rank. If you can get links on pages with a high page rank, even better. Don't fall for the quick-fix promise of so many link building services. In the long run, slow and steady links that look natural will keep sending more and more traffic your way.
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Many times we’re asked to present a plan for the next 30 – 60 – 90 days of a paid search program. This makes a great deal of sense when we bring a new client on board and have to fix or re-build their program. It takes time to build out a program comprehensively and laying out the priorities helps manage expectations. After that point that request for a “vision” or “plan” reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of paid search marketing as reported by George Michie .
Paid search is an amazingly powerful channel for capturing existing demand. It is not a demand generating channel. Like the yellow pages people only see the ads when they’re in the market for the advertiser’s products or services. Yellow page ads don’t make people interested in taking yoga; they convince people who are interested in yoga to try the advertiser’s studio. Paid search plays the same role, but it’s easy for marketers steeped in traditional channels to miss the implications of this fact.
For demand generating channels planning is of paramount importance. Television ads seek to 1) create awareness of a brand; 2) infuse that brand awareness with positive connotations; and 3) catapult that positive awareness into action. Marketers must plan the proper messaging and imagery for each phase, and plan the timing and budgets. Even direct marketers like catalogers must plan contact strategies, page counts and formats, circulation counts and frequency of touches. Planning is required because the marketer must generate interest and action, and the time lag between marketing investment and eventual payoff is both long and not guaranteed.
Paid search is different in every respect. Budgets don’t make sense for advertisers with shopping carts on their sites because the sales happen before they pay for the ads. We don’t have to plan what products to push or when; the ads will be served to the right audience at the right time and in the right volume to respond to consumer demand.
This is not to suggest that paid search requires no work. Paid search demands well honed processes for dealing with product turnover, landing page changes, promotional offers, seasonal shifts and more. Skilled analysts study data six-ways-to-Sunday to find nuggets of gold in search logs, in click-to-order intervals, and in new classification schemes that feed statistically meaningful differentiators to our algorithms. Reacting to shifts in consumer behavior and anticipating them whenever possible takes knowledge, skill and mountains of well-organized data.
However, it doesn’t really require a plan. Indeed, predicting what projects will be most valuable 30 days from now, or 60 is both impossible and unwise. The priorities change depending on all kinds of factors outside of the analyst’s control. Locking an analyst into an arbitrary schedule prevents them from adjusting to the priorities of the moment and thereby squancders opportunities.
Asking an analyst for a long range plan for a paid search campaign is like asking your stock broker what stocks you should buy and which you should sell 6 months from now. They can make those recommendations if you really want them, but usually you’d be wise not follow them.
Absence of “a plan” is unsettling, particularly when you’re working with an agency. You can’t see them hard at work at their desks every day, so it’s natural to wonder whether they’re asleep at the switch. This fear is compounded by the reality of PPC agencies that all too often are asleep at the switch.
Trust comes from results, and in PPC results come from smart people with great tools and great processes. Anticipating and reacting to changes in the landscape requires hard work, knowledge, skills and the flexibility to follow one’s nose.
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(No, wait — ESPECIALLY in this chaotic, soul-sucking economy. While “average” business owners are cowering in bed with the covers pulled over their head……
The top marketers are still fearlessly bringing home the bacon, even as everyone else panics and freaks out.)
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When to Run Away from an SEO Company
You probably shouldn't be charged for a couple things that many "back alley" or "strip mall" SEO companies and consultants still offer. In some cases, even larger marketing organizations are trying to push value into some tactics that are outdated or simply don't work to help rankings, as reported by Chris Boggs, Search Engine Watch, Sept 2009
No two sites on the Internet are identical. In rare instances, some of the below tactics may work. But most of the time, if your SEO company is pushing these services on you, take a good hard look at what you're paying for.
SEO Tactic Octogenarians: Time for Forced Retirement
Submitting your sites to the search engines isn't as valuable to SEO. This simply offers another way for the search engines to find your site. If all you do is submit it to the search engines and sit back and wait, you likely won't see any rankings, other than potentially for your brand name.
Search engines no longer need you to submit to them, although they still provide the functionality for you to do so. As Google says on their submission page, however, "We do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear."
Google and the other engines are fine taking this additional information, but if you're paying someone to do this once, or even monthly, then you're wasting time and money. As Google also states: "Only the top-level page from a host is necessary; you do not need to submit each individual page. Our crawler, Googlebot, will be able to find the rest. Google updates its index on a regular basis, so updated or outdated link submissions are not necessary. Dead links will 'fade out' of our index on our next crawl when we update our entire index."
2. SEO Landing Pages: Another outdated tactic is building landing pages just for SEO, although this is a temporary solution that e-commerce companies sometimes choose to take rather than spending the time fixing the actual site and navigation. In most cases, if you want long-term results without sacrificing user experience consistency, you should optimize your actual content versus trying to create circa 2001 "doorway pages."
3. Reciprocal Linking: The last outdated tactic is using reciprocal linking as a primary link building tactic. If your SEO company or consultants requires that you place an outbound link to every site that is linking to you, then you should run away. Some reciprocal links aren't bad, especially ones that occur naturally -- just be worried if this is the only link building tactic presented.
SEO Tactics on the Bubble
1. Social Bookmarking: One tactic that has very few concrete results is social bookmarking. Some people will likely argue this, but we've yet to prove ranking lift from the addition of a URL to a Delicious or StumbleUpon. These and other links appear within backlink reports, but that alone doesn't indicate that the link is helping from a SEO perspective.
Yahoo-owned MyBlogLog cleans out their bookmark links on a regular basis. As seen in this FAQ, they provide a good reason for this: "New with Me is a moving river of updates. We are not trying to re-create the Internet. We store the last 100 items and up to 25 'clusters' of events. If you're interested in looking at older updates, we direct you to the original service provider for the full archive."
It's very important to understand that not all links are permanent. Thus, to build lasting SEO value, the majority of links developed should be permanent and carry some sort of authority.
Of course, a "natural" pattern would be that some links come and go. But if you spend a large amount of time (or are pay someone else for) building links using social bookmarking or other "expiring" link tactics, you won't get full value from your time investment.
Please note that some people do this at an almost "industrial" level to help boost rankings, by building literally thousands of links, and "refreshing" the links with new ones as they age or get stale. This would only look natural to a search algorithm if the target site has tens of thousands of existing links. Those using this tactic need to keep building links over and over, and have likely budgeted hundreds of hours to support this task with the amount of hours that it would need to provide long lasting value.
2. Article Syndication: Other tactics that are "on the bubble" include large-scale article syndication and "press release over-optimization." Articles that are relevant to your site and contain links pointed back can be valuable if syndicated on a limited basis to hand-picked partners, but using mass syndication services doesn't often yield the kinds of backlinks that could be garnered from a more personalized approach. The jury is definitely still out on this tactic, but a custom approach (which takes longer) provides value.
3. Over-Optimizing Press Releases: Press release "over-optimization" is something that many readers have probably seen after setting up an RSS feed to monitor a particular word or industry phrase. I always laugh when I see the same SEO company put out a press release every time it signs a new client, because when I check even month later, they haven't climbed in the rankings for the terms they seem to be targeting.
The use of press releases and syndicating through PR Newswire or PRWeb can be valuable, but like article syndication, this tactic must be leveraged in moderation. If you're concerned about how many press releases you've sent out to support your SEO efforts, consider if you're overdoing it. For large companies with lots of relevant news, however, this is a different story -- these companies may be OK with up to two to three press releases a week, and you might as well take the time to optimize them.
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SEO Marketing Channel
SEO is the marketing channel that brings potential customers to your site who want what you offer, but don't know how to find you. These are people that will browse through the search engine listings of websites that show up for the product or service they're looking for, and choose one to purchase from. If your site only shows up for your brand name, you're not even in the game; the sale will likely go to one of your competitors who have an optimized website.
If you only want to serve the needs of people who already know your brand and aren't interested in new customers, then you don't need SEO. But if you want to use every marketing channel at your disposal, SEO is one of the most cost-effective marketing channels to bring in people who don't already know about you but want exactly what you offer.
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From Google to Yahoo! to Bing, search engines are a leading resources used by consumers looking for products and services from your business.
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A Search Eulogy For Yahoo And then there were two.
Make no mistake, Yahoo’s out of the search game. I know the spin. Better user interface, new ways to innovate, a winning play. Let’s not kid ourselves. They’re done. Not today, not necessarily in a year, but down the line at some point. Done, as reported by Danny Sullivan
And it’s sad, because they were one of the originals. There was a time when the mighty Yahoo roared above all other search engines. When people were so worried about being listed in Yahoo that they pondered lawsuits over the issue, because not being in Yahoo was like not being on the internet at all.
Sound familiar? Yeah, Yahoo was the Google of its day. Funny to write that — it should be Google is the Yahoo of its day, but that’s how the tables turned in the search space.
Yahoo started out in search as a human-compiled directory. Editors, finding sites, writing short descriptions about them. It worked at first. When it didn’t, Yahoo had partners that “crawled” the web automatically to provide “backup” to its directory results. Open Text was its first partner. Later came AltaVista, then Inktomi, then eventually Google.
Ah, Google. It demonstrated that you could index millions (now billions) of pages AND have relevancy. Why use a card catalog-like human directory when you had a tool like Google that could read every page in every book in the library and pull back the matching pages?
Eventually, Yahoo decided it needed to own crawler technology. In 2003, it bought Inktomi and AllTheWeb. It also bought Overture, to have paid search technology and got AltaVista as part of the deal. All these things it needed to own, we were told, because search was so essential that you couldn’t outsource:
Given how important search is to our businesses, we really needed to control our own destiny in this space and not be dependent on any one third-party provider
That’s what I was told at the beginning of 2003 by Jeff Weiner, then senior vice president of search and marketplace at Yahoo. What’s changed since then? How did search go back to being a commodity to Yahoo?
Microsoft squeezed it. No blame to Microsoft. Yahoo was sitting there with leadership that couldn’t communicate clearly how it was a strong second-place player to Google. It seemed weak, ripe for the picking, and Microsoft went to pluck it last year. Google tried for Yahoo itself through a partnership deal. The US Department of Justice, like Amy Winehouse, sang “No, no, no.” Do that, and we’ll take anti-trust action against you, Google.
Microsoft never went away, though to its credit, it continued to improve its own search offering making it even more credible. Bing’s a long way from being proven. Perhaps it might never have succeeded. But it got buzz. Not only was it not embarrassing, it was impressive to some. Yahoo didn’t seem as necessary to Microsoft’s plans.
We’ll never know if Bing could have succeeded on its own. Or, maybe we will, if the proposed deal doesn’t go through. It’s still just a proposal, subject to investor and regulatory approval. But if it does go through, Microsoft becomes the number two search player. It controls the core search technology. Yahoo will have “parity” with Microsoft to use the search technology, we’re told. Soothing-sounding words, but parity doesn’t matter when Yahoo seemingly has given up on search as a top attraction overall.
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has made plenty of noise about how Yahoo isn’t just a search engine. Or not even a search engine, at times. How Yahoo has some of the web’s top destinations. That’s true, all true. But search was a leading property as well, for Yahoo. Yahoo wouldn’t consider outsourcing its email or IM services. Wouldn’t decide that its Yahoo Finance area could be powered by someone else. So why’s search got the boot?
Because Microsoft wants it, and they weren’t going away. Neither was Bartz standing up to definitively say that in the long term, it made more sense for Yahoo to keep search as a core technology. That few companies had such crown jewels. That technology alone a year ago worth $1 billion to Microsoft didn’t suddenly become worth no upfront payment a year later.
But also because Yahoo seems to have no choice. It keeps losing talent. It’s fine to have a great machine, but someone’s got to run it — keep developing it. So if I sound harsh about Yahoo getting out of search, I’m also understanding. It would have been incredibly difficult to keep it.
AOL and Lycos are two examples of portals that gave up their own search technologies and watched their traffic drop. Perhaps Yahoo will be the exception. Perhaps it will surprise me and be a long-time search player — a place where substantial amounts of searches happen. Part of me hopes it plays out that way, if only for nostalgic reasons.
But I doubt it.
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Recession Sends More and More Americans Online
The recession has affected Americans in many ways, forcing people to cut back on their spending and in some cases, out of their homes. According to a new study, it seems that more and more U.S. residents are heading online in search of solutions to their financial woes states Brandon Dimmel.
In the past, community leaders and social workers were relied upon by Americans looking for help during tough economic times. However, today there's an easier way to consult experts for assistance.
Americans Hope for Quicker Solutions Online
A recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that most Americans have ventured online to get help with their economic problems. In fact, the study estimates an astounding 88 per cent of all American Internet users have employed the web in order to research the recession and solutions of their own financial concerns. (Source: Internetnews.com)
Pew director and report co-author Lee Rainie believes the results reveal Americans' desire to get the information they need to help get through this difficult period. "People are anxious about these hard times," said Rainie. "They are more information-hungry than in normal times." (Source: reuters.com)
Web Used as Multi-Purpose Tool
The unemployment rate continued to grow last month, hitting 9.5 per cent across the U.S. With more people out of work, the Internet has received increased traffic with people both searching for solutions and creating their own blogs to help resolve the problem.
However, the web isn't just being used to search for jobs or financial advice. Many Americans are using it to research products they might have otherwise purchased more impulsively.
And that means several things: for one, there is a greater market than ever before for sites dedicated to protecting and educating the average consumer. However, it could also mean more Americans vulnerable to Internet predators. The challenge for security experts will be to keep the sharks at bay with more fish in the sea than ever before.
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What do we Mean by Keywords, and Why do They Matter?
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What do we Mean by Keywords, and Why do They Matter?
Keywords are the foundation of any Search Engine Optimization or Search Marketing campaign. If you don’t know what keywords are being used in searches by the people you want to attract to your Web site, you can’t effectively market through the search engines to those people.
The terms keyword is often used as shorthand for keyword phrase. When we use the term keyword, we mean the word—or words—that may be typed into a search engine by someone carrying out a search. In fact most searches these days are not single-word searches … most searchers now type two or more words in their searches.
If you’re reading this, you probably already understand why you need to know the keywords people use when searching for products or services such as those promoted by your Web site. Just in case …
• If you don’t know the keywords, you can’t optimize your Web site properly. • If you don’t know the keywords, you don’t know what keywords to put in links pointing to your site. • If you don’t know the keywords, you don’t know which keywords to bid on in Pay Per Click programs.
Selecting keywords, then, is important. But there are two ways to select the keywords you need for your campaigns: • Guess • Do a full keyword analysis
The most popular method is to guess at the keywords. The most effective method, however, is to do a full keyword analysis (which actually begins with you guessing at what keywords you think are important, then using a free KeyWord tool to “dig” into databases of actual search terms).
What happens if you simply guess at the search terms you need, and don’t do a full keyword analysis? Typically two problems arise:
• Many of the keywords on your list will be more or less irrelevant. People simply aren’t using them in searches. • You’ll miss keywords that people are using to search for your product or service.
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• Based on these keyword phrases, it shows you what people using the Web’s search engines are actually typing into the search engines.
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How to accept credit cards for small business
The benefits of accepting credit cards almost always outweigh the risks, and the chances of this are greatly improved if you do your homework before opening a merchant account. In this article I’ll talk about the importance of accepting credit cards, what to expect as you compare merchant accounts and how to keep your merchant account in good standing once you begin processing.
Convincing a business owner that they need to start accepting credit cards isn’t as tough as it once was and it’s getting easier every day. Credit and debit cards are a staple in consumers’ wallets and the trend isn’t showing signs of letting up any time soon. For merchants, the ability to accept credit cards often translates to larger average tickets and greater gross monthly sales volumes. Of course, along with the greater sales volume comes the expense of processing credit card transactions. Fortunately, profit from increased sales typically far outweighs processing costs.Here are a few helpful points that you should know before beginning your search for a merchant account.
Merchant account fees are not standardized
Merchant account Rates and fees vary widely from one provider to the next. Aside from the amount of fees charged, some accounts will have entire categories of fees that others won’t. As you being to research your options, look at every account as an individual.
Credit card processing rates and fees are not written in stone
Haggling is the name of the game when it comes to negotiating the best merchant account rates and fees. Consider the rates and fees of an initial merchant account quote as a starting point from which you can start to reducing costs.
There are a lot of providers competing for your business
Don’t begin and end your search at your local bank or even with the providers in your town. There are thousands of merchant service providers all competing for your business. Use this competition to your advantage to get the best rates possible. Consider using a web site like CardFellow.com to get quotes from multiple providers from a national market.
Once you begin contacting merchant service providers, you should expect to encounter some pretty good sales people that may employ high-pressure sales tactics. The key is to remain methodical in your search process and look at the facts surrounding an account, not the salesperson’s interpretation of them.
The best and truly knowledgeable salespeople will use the rates and fees of their merchant account quote to help portray the benefits of their offer. They’ll take the time to learn about your business, present calculations and estimations of processing expenses using an effective rate, and they’ll take the time to answer your questions in a consultative manner. These are the salespeople to look for, but not necessarily the ones to expect.
Once you decide upon a merchant account provider and start accepting credit cards, your education about credit card processing has just begun. Don’t look at the task as complete, but as just beginning. The bankcard industry is always changing and new regulations that affect you are commonly brought to legislative attention. The phrase “knowledge is power” translates to merchants in the bankcard industry as “knowledge is money.” The more you know about credit card processing, the more you will be able to save yourself in processing expenses.
Once you begin processing credit cards, frequent reliable and unbiased sources on the subject to keep yourself up to date about the industry and ways you can optimize your merchant account to lower costs. The best sources of merchant account information are the ones that aren’t trying selling you processing services.
A wealth of Information to help businesses that start accepting credit cards find the best merchant account is available at the MerchantCouncil.org.
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SEO – The Powerful Marketing Tool
These days, SEO has become the most effective characteristic of the websites that help the administrators to enjoy the productive results. Most of the website owners consider SEO to be the most powerful tool for marketing, as Search Engine Optimization has reduced the need for door to door marketing. SEO is actually a process through which the websites can rank higher in the search engines by drawing quality traffic. However, the process of creating SEO rich websites is not that easy as it seems to be.
Some people are new to this term, but they desire to take the advantage of the technology. For such people, SEO Campaign Management sources are the best alternatives, these days that can actually help the administrators to rank higher on the search engines. These sources guide the website owners, provide an appropriate SEO strategy for their websites and make use of the SEO tricks to exert a pull on the quality traffic. In addition to this, these SEO Campaign Management sources are well acquainted with the SEO news, which helps them to incorporate the latest SEO tricks in the websites so as to serve people with the best of their services.
The SEO Campaign Management sources can also provide website owners with Professional SEO Consultants that can guide people with the finest strategies for their website. These strategies are very useful while working with keywords and keyword phrases. So, if you also want to enjoy the improved position n the search engines, opt for SEO Campaign Management sources.
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The Veretekk Marketing System is the Premier online marketing system of all time. You are probably reading this because you have recognized that fact, joined Veretekk and have been taken part in the incredible array of training, both live and recorded that is available to you.
By the way, if you are not already a member of the Veretekk Marketing System you can join here, free of charge.
The focus of much of the training is towards using the fuctionality, "how to's" of the system. The basics of business and how they are interrelated with the Veretekk Marketing System is where I start my training.
One of the most valuable aspects of the Veretekk Marketing System is that is really helps you leverage your most valuale asset - your time. From the time you start to learn the tools that are at your fingertips you will be using your time very effectively. But there are some prerequisites that you must not overlook.
I have designed my training to address those prerequisites. Many of my customers have jumped into the Veretekk Marketing System and that is great. However, in order for you to be successful in building your business you must have a plan. No, not an idea that pops into your head one day. I'm talking about the plan that EVERY business owner must have in order to be successful.
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And what about a goals? Do you have a goal and what are the objectives you need to reach in order to reach your goal? This is the focus of my second training session in this series, "Goals and Objectives - How they affect your business".
In this session we will cover what are goals and how do you build objectives to support them. Without goals and objectives you will not be able to evaluate, "track" your activities. And without tracking of your activities you will never be sure of where you will find yourself down the line.
Every business whether online, based at home, or the good old brick and mortar you have to find folks that are interested in your offering. That is where the Veretekk Marketing System comes in. Everyone is a suspect. We need to filter down to the prospects, build a relationship with them and convert them to a customer. By the way, the fouth stage of any relationship is when you and your customers a aligned closely as to be see as partners.
The next training session in this series is focused on: "Veretekk: your Business Development Toolkit".
From the business process of marketing, campaigns, advertising, reverse marketing and the like, we will tie these business processes to the parts of the Veretekk Marketing System that support them. Here we start the transition to the technical aspects of the System by directly relating them to the business processes.
Whenever you are working the business conversion process of sorting through the suspects, identifying the prospects and working towards converting them to a customer you must be organized. The most common way of doing this organization in todays environment is by using a contact manager to support the gathering of information regarding your prospects.
The Veretekk Marketing System contains an incredibly powerful contact manager. So next we address "The Veretekk Contact Manager". This training session brings the part together so you can see them more clearly. Just about every tool in the Veretekk system uses this contact manager.
From here we go into the more tactical mode and address subjects that helps you in using the Veretekk system for "Funnel Marketing" and "Using Veremail to sort out the Prospects", various other training session to help you through the "How To" series.
So join me and let's make sure you are on the right road to success.
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SEO is a procedure of placing researched keywords, that have a known searching audience, into various places on a Web page which are known to be given weight by the ranking systems and algorithms of Major Search Engines like Alta Vista, AOL Search, Ask Jeeves, Excite, Google, Inktomi, Lycos, MSN, Teoma and Yahoo.
A properly optimized Web site can go from search invisibility and zero rankings to top spots in these search engines, especially if optimization is combined with known off page ranking factors.
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Easy steps to submitting your website in the right category.
Submitting to the Open Directory Project:
Yes, the Open Directory Project is free, and yes, you can submit much more quickly. But the problem is there's no guarantee that your site will be listed. I've seen sites get into the Open Directory Project within a week or two of submission, and I've seen others that waited months without ever getting in. In addition, the submission forms sometimes don't seem to work! But don't give up. As I mentioned earlier on that, the Open Directory Project is very important. Here's how to submit:
1. Read the editor's guidelines at dmoz.org/guidelines/describing. html. If you know what guidelines the editors use, you may be able to avoid problems. It's hard to get into the directory, so you might as well give yourself the best chance of getting in.
2. Go to www.dmoz.org. The Open Directory Project home page appears.
3. Find a suitable category for your site.
4. Click the Suggest URL link at the top of the page.
5. Follow the (fairly simple) directions. Submitting to the Open Directory Project is much easier than doing so to Yahoo! Directory.
You simply enter your home page's URL, a short title, a 25-30- word description for the site, and your e-mail address. That's it. Then you wait.
But understand that the editors at DMOZ don't care about your site, they care about the directory; in fact, read the DMOZ forums at www.resource-zone. com and you'll find that the attitude tends to be "tells us about your site, then go away and forget about it."
There are all sorts of factors working against you:
- There are 8,000 editors managing over 700,000 categories.
- Many small directories may only be reviewed by an editor every six months . . . or far less frequently.
The editors regard a six-month wait, or longer, not particularly excessive.
- In some cases editors may even ignore submissions. As one editor explained, "there is no obligation to review them in any order nor is there a requirement to review them as a priority . . . some editors find it more productive to seek out sites on their own and rarely visit the suggested sites."
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Search Engine Optimization, Website Development and Search Engine Spiders
Do you have some experience with HTML and web site development, but haven't really gotten your feet wet with search engine optimization? Keep reading, because you're in luck. In this article we'll cover some of the more important aspects of SEO, focusing on the changes that you should find easiest to make to your web site. After you read this, you should know where to concentrate your efforts now and going forward.
HTML Tags and SEO
The <Title> tag is the most important part of the page. It is the tag that visitors see in search results, and it should contain your targeted keywords. The title tag can make your page rank or make it disappear from search results. Use this format for web page title tags:
Keywords | Website Name or Brand
It's okay to include only your keywords without the site name, especially if you aren't branding using other Internet marketing methods.
Your <h1> tag is very important. As with the web page title, you should include your targeted keywords in this tag.
Your <h2> tag is next in importance. You should put keyword variations in this tag It's okay to be more natural here.
Your <h3> is less important, but still very useful. Promote keyword variations or subheadings using the H3 tag. You can relax a bit with this one and mention keywords only once in a while.
Now that we've talked about the title tags, let's briefly touch on links so you can see one aspect of why getting the keywords in your title tag is important. An incoming link to your pages is typically formed like so:
Link: <a href ="http://www.site.com/page.htm" title="keyword">anchor text keywords</a>
It's very important to include targeted keywords in anchor text in inbound links. You should also use targeted keywords in internal links, including navigation. The search engines take strong notice of keywords in these positions.
This is true for links that are followed. But what about links that are designated nofollow? Many blogs and other sites make any links in comments automatically nofollow.
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So, tell me, have you heard about Web 2.0? It’s a term you see applied to a lot of Web sites on the Internet these days, but today, I’m going to go a little more in depth about its meaning. Web 2.0 describes the changing trend in the use of the World Wide Web technology and Web design that aims to enhance creativity, communications, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the Web.
Those Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development of Web communities, social networking sites (MySpace and Facebook), video sharing sites (YouTube), wikis (Wikipedia) and blogs (Blogger). Wow! You probably use Web 2.0 Web sites more than you thought, am I right? Well, let's learn even more about it!
A Web 2.0 Web site doesn’t have any technical specifications. It refers to the revolution of using the Internet as a platform. That is, using a Web site to perform a task instead of a program on an operating system. The 2.0 refers to a rebirth after the end of the 2001 dot com bubble, which I’m sure you heard about in one way or another.
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Last time we talked about Worst SEO Mistakes, this time lets discuss Alt Tag Stuffing
ALT tags are designed for blind people. Alt tags should describe images, buttons, navigation and other site elements to make browsing easier for those who can't see. Some people stuff their keywords into ALT tags, in hopes of ranking better in search results. This doesn't work. If spotted, you'll be punished.
On top of being ineffective, it's a real hassle for blind people who have to listen to the BS webmasters stuff into these tags to manipulate search engines. Use alt tags for image descriptions, and don't worry about the keywords.
Comment Spam
There are several types of comment spam.
One type uses robots to put in generic BS comments and links back to their owner's site in hopes of getting more valuable inbound links. Google discovered this and doesn't count comment links anymore. Bloggers also use the nofollow tag, so it doesn't matter if there are links in comments.
Another way to spam comments is to leave generic comments like "I did an article about this too, come check it out" in hopes of driving traffic and subscriptions.
Blog comments are designed for discussion, so saying something useful without intent to get something back plays a lot better in the long term. You get respect and eventually the blogger becomes more interested in you. Then you get your link.
Forum Spam
Forum spam involves leaving forum messages disguised as editorials, but are nothing more than ads for a website.
This type of spam looks really nasty and irritates all forum users. Don't do it. If you want to drive visitors from forums, participate in discussions, offer advice and help everyone. You will gain respect and people will visit your site from the signature. This time however, instead of saying "who the hell is that guy?!" they will land on the home page wit the thought of "that guy is good, let's see what he's built here."
Reliance on Meta Tags
Meta tag's days are not over. Keyword meta tags do work. I would spend more than just a few minutes on keyword meta tags. The description meta tag, is very useful. It is the description that shows in search results, so make sure there are clear calls to action.
Submission to a Bunch of Social Media Sites
You've probably seen those one-vote articles sitting in no-man's-land with headlines like "New marketing methods" and "Super interactive website www.spamsite.com" Those are attempts by marketers to get diggs, reddits and other types of votes. Social media marketing is a craft of its own, and a link to a generic site doesn't do it. You can learn a great deal about social media marketing over at Sphinn.
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Worst SEO Mistakes - Aggressive Search Engine Optimization Firms
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Last time we talked aboutWorst SEO Mistakes, this time lets discuss aggressive search engine optimization firms
Aggressive may mean effective. All effective SEO firms buy links, meaning that most good SEOs are official black hats. Are you okay with the risks? Many effective firms actively use spam and other black hat methods to promote their clients. Greedy ones get burned. Those who are smart watch carefully and know when to pull back -- because there is no safety net. You should know if your SEO firm does black hat up front. Rewards are great, but so are the risks.
Automated Content Generation
Automated content generation involves a bot scraping the net, mixing articles and producing low value pages camouflaged as a web site. It's often part of the link farm an AdSense site.
Duplicate content detection has improved to the point that search engines will know in no time if you're spamming.
Frames
This is not spam, but a bad mistake, like building a Flash-based web site. Frames are hard to crawl for spiders; they have no unique URLs to link to and are horrible from a usability perspective. Sites that use frames lose on all fronts.
Cloaking
Cloaking still works if done correctly. Some good SEOs still use cloaking, but if you're new, stay away from it. Cloaking presents a normal page to visitors but a super-optimized page to search engine spiders.
Hidden Text
Hidden text involves stuffing keywords onto a page and making keywords the same color as the background. This is an absolutely pointless technique since search engines discount pages if they see keyword stuffing.
If you put legitimate text or an optimized article on your site as hidden text, just to make page look shorter, it still doesn't make sense. There are CSS "hide/show" tricks that can conceal text while being search engine friendly.
Keyword Stuffing
Keyword stuffing involves putting a bunch of keywords on a page simply to get higher rankings. It's pointless. Search engines can tell when you're using too many keywords for natural content, and your visitors will find keyword-stuffed content to be difficult to read.
Doorway Pages
Doorway pages are one-page websites optimized for a specific keyword and made with one purpose - to rank in the search results. All links on the "doorway" page lead to the real website, essentially acting as an entrance, hence the name "doorway page." Search engine do not like doorway pages, but they still work.
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In this article we cover some of the worst SEO mistakes. Some of these will cause the search engines to ignore you; others will cause potential visitors to ignore you; still others may make your site disappear from the search engine results pages entirely.
We'll go over each practice and explain why you shouldn't do it. We'll even tell you what you should be doing.
Flash If you're making a new website and thinking of using Flash - stop. Though Adobe made Flash crawlable and shared technology with Google and Yahoo (leaving out Microsoft), Flash is still a bad choice.
If you don't show much content to the search engines, you will have to invest more in links. Not only does a Flash site cost more to make, but you'll need more money to optimize it. If there is no real reason to use Flash, don't. If you want cool movies and features, consider embedding Flash videos and using cool CSS styles.
No Use of Title Tags
The most powerful HTML tag you have at your disposal - Put keywords you target the page for into the tag. This is the part that shows up in search results as a big blue link, so make it count.
Another mistake webmasters make is to put something like "Welcome To...." in the title tag. Aaron Wall calls this "Welcome to low rankings."
Title Tag Duplication
Many designers create a site design without much regard for SEO, using one title tag for an entire website. Make sure to vary the title tags on your pages.
Messed up Robots.txt
It's a good idea to have a file to keep your error log clean of robot.txt requests, but if you can mess up a lot if you use it incorrectly. Here's how it looks, assuming you don't want to block ANY pages:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Not Using Keywords in Internal Links and Navigation
Your internal onsite links have as much SEO weight as some outside links. If your home page has link authority, then links from your home page to internal pages pass pagerank in the same manner as outside sites pass pagerank to your home page.
By linking from your most powerful pages to internal pages with keyword-rich links, you're doing exactly the same thing as getting
keyword-rich inbound links from high PR pages.
To make the most use of link power, make sure that your navigation consists of keyword-rich, targeted descriptions. Do the same with keywords scattered within content. Don't worry about your footer; Google doesn't put much weight on those.
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You know, a week doesn't go by when an ad says, "Advertise with us as we get 1,000,000 hits each month." But do they really?
Probably not.
You see, a "hit" is an access request to a web server, not just a visitor. So, if a page has 99 tiny graphics which make up the web page, each view of that page registers as "100 hits". And if the visitor views 5 pages, that one visitor will register 500 hits on the site.
This is why advertisers LOVE to tell you about hits because they know you think that means people when it really doesn't.
Hits vs. Visitors: Getting a Real Count on Your Traffic
Ever see the claim "We get 80,000 hits a month" on a web site? Or the scrolling counter at the bottom of a page? What does it all mean and is it accurate? What is the difference between a hit and a visitor?
A "hit" is not a visitor to the web site, but a hit on the web server. A hit on the web server can be a graphic, java applet, the html file, etc. So, if a site has 79 small graphics on the page, every visitor to the site registers as 80 hits on the server (79 graphics plus the html file). In this case, 80,000 hits translates to just 1,000 visitors.
As webmasters, designers, business owners, SEOs, etc., we are not concerned with hits to a site. We want to know the number of visitors to our site. And we don't just want to know about every visitor--we want to know about every unique visitor. So if we can't count hits, can we use a counter?
The problem with using counters to track our visitors is they are set up to measure page views, not unique visitors. Everytime someone views your page, whether it's the first time or the twentieth, that visitor is counted. And if the page times out for some reason and they "Reload," it counts them again. And if someone just wants to have fun with your counter, they can exit and enter the site several times and are counted as a visitor each time--even if they never look at product.
So if you can't count hits and you can't use a counter, how do you track the traffic on your site? Use a web traffic analysis program. A web traffic analysis program will give you vital information about the traffic coming to your site, including where visitors are coming from, what paths your visitors are taking and which pages are the main exit points of your site.
Your web host should automatically provide you with a traffic analysis program, but there are a lot of programs to choose from.
Now that you understand the difference you can fire back at those advertisers and get the real truth about their traffic levels.
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Popular SEO Myths
Search for the phrase “SEO myths” in Google (without quotes) and you’ll get 243,000 hits. With all the major search engines keeping their algorithms under lock and key, and making modifications without notice, it’s no wonder that false beliefs get perpetuated. It’s time to clear the air.
We published an article here on SEO Chat back in June 2007 about SEO myths. These things don’t seem to go away no matter how much you try to educate people. In fact, the search engines themselves contribute to their perpetuation in a sense. After all, they’re constantly tweaking their algorithms so the things that used to work simply don’t anymore – which leads to more myths when people stubbornly cling to old practices, or when a particular change makes it look like one thing is happening (i.e. a Google 30 penalty) when the actual cause is something completely different.
Many myths come from wishful thinking. My favorite along those lines is a variation of “if I just do X, I’ll score high in the search engines.” And “X” can be anything from get enough links, submit your site to enough directories, get the magic amount of keyword density – you name it. The truth is that SEO is a process with no real shortcuts, and no ONE thing will guarantee you a top position in the search engine results pages (SERPs).
Another form of “wishful thinking” myth states that “X is all-important,” where “X” can be PageRank, meta tags, or what have you. I won’t say that PageRank doesn’t matter; that’s another myth. But for most purposes it doesn’t. It really depends on what you’re trying to achieve. You can have a popular site and not have a PR of 10.
I expect this won’t be the last time we visit this topic. I’m including myths that are popular not only among practicing SEOs, but among some of the clients you might encounter. As you educate yourselves, you may also find that you need to educate your clients about actual SEO practices. The Ranked Hard comic strip that inspired this article makes that point very clearly. So without further ado, let’s bust some myths!
SEO is Smoke and Mirrors
Like the client in the Ranked Hard cartoon, you might encounter a prospective customer who tried to work with another SEO company that was secretive about its practices. Maybe they were told “our tactics are proprietary” or “what we do is far too complicated to explain.” Your prospect might even have been burned by this other company, so they may be leery about dealing with you.
Real SEO is not smoke and mirrors; it’s not a scam, and it’s not merely “a collection of tricks to fool search engines,” as Lee Odden points out in another article which debunked several SEO myths. But it’s easy to see why some people would believe that. There really are a lot of scammers out there who make incredible promises but use devious methods and care only about getting their victims’ money.
Speaking of incredible promises, let’s talk about another classic SEO myth inspired by scammers: an SEO can guarantee your placement at the top of the SERPs, thus eliminating the risk to your business. That’s hogwash; I’d use stronger language, but my boss would disapprove (especially if we start ranking for the term!). A firm that offers that kind of guarantee on your SEO is probably approaching it in a way that will harm your company.
Some companies that offer guarantees to get to the top of the SERPs will use keywords that no one else is using. So your site ends up ranking for less competitive keywords. In and of itself, this is not a bad thing, but if searchers aren’t using those keywords to find the kinds of products and services you offer, it’s pointless. If you sell raincoats in the US market, what good is it to hold a top-ranked position for “mackintosh” – unless you’re specifically selling to British expatriates living in the US?
Such firms may also use a limited selection of keywords for your website. That might work for a time, but using a greater diversity of keywords will put you in a better position the next time the search engines tweak their algorithm. Think of it as evolution in action.
Finally, another common trick for SEO companies that offer top placement guarantees shows up in the fine print of their contracts. Does it specifically say that they will use SEO to get there, or will they use pay-per-click? Just about anyone can get a top ad placement in Google if they’re willing to pay enough. But that’s probably not what you hired that SEO company for.
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This article originally intent was about explaining how advertisers can take advantage of Adsense to target specific sites. While researching this topic, however, I slammed the brakes on my theme. I noticed that Google seemed to be backing off from the "post your ad here" approach, which focused on the advertiser. You can still see that approach, but it is changing. Keep reading to find out how. Google is moving toward a method of displaying ad groups that are personalized based on a searcher's previous searches. With this discovery I am going to write this article in two sections (and hopefully one part).
The first section is going to focus on Adsense targeting from the advertiser's viewpoint. This approach, known as placement-targeted or site-targeted campaigns, allows an unprecedented level of customization and targeting by the advertiser. Not only can the advertiser target a particular website, but a particular page or a particular sub-group of pages can be targeted. We will look at how Google is allowing advertisers to pick sites from selected lists and how they set different bids for different sites.
The second section will look at how Google is remembering a searcher's previous activity and using this information in displaying Adsense results on web sites the user visits. Now Adsense is not only dependent upon the site's content, but also on the search behavior of the user, independent of cookies and even logging in -- though the user (or the computer) must have used the search engine at a prior time.
We will also quickly discuss whether, at the end of the day, any present advert placement application can realistically catch up with Google's Adsense in the next three to five years, or whether creators of such applications should simply seek another line of work -- social networking e-commerce centers, perhaps.
Adsense Targeting: Adsense For Context
Google advertisers can increase their click-through rates by creating placement (or site) targeted content campaigns, choosing to position their ads on specific sites. It's content control/placement on steroids. By picking selected sites and bidding, you can ensure that your ads get seen by a much wider audience; all this definitely changes the size of the budget, but that's why we pass on the cost of the advertising to the customer, eh?
It all started that way, and now you have site-targeted campaigns, consisting of ad groups that contain lists of Web sites, not just keywords. Placement-targeted ad groups can include all content ad types: text, static, and animated GIFs, even video with sizes ranging from skyscraper to banner to defined boxes. Advertisers can choose whether to be charged on every one thousand page impressions (CPM) or on a cost-per-click basis.
According to Google Adwords, advertisers can choose to display their ads on specific pages within a site, or even subsections of pages. For example, advertisers can choose to advertise on the New York Times Web site in the business, fashion, health, travel, or sports section.
Google's content group is huge and growing rapidly. Some say new sites are joining at the rate of at least 100,000 per month. Information on some of the top sites in the network can be found here. Almost every major media channel is represented, from leading magazine and newspaper publishers to television networks.
The ads are then placed with the sites you choose. This is a improvement on the normal placement process, which is stated by Google as Google continually scans the millions of pages from the content network to look for relevant matches with your keywords and other campaign data. When we find a match, your ad becomes eligible to run on that page. Google's extensive Web search and linguistic processing technology can decipher the meaning of virtually any content network page to ensure we're showing the most relevant ads.
Normally advertisers find which Web sites display Google AdWords content ads by using Google's placement tool, using a list of categories and keywords, and also listing specific URLs of sites, or by setting the desired user demographics. The tool digs into the pool of site publishers and lets you choose which sites will carry your ads.
As a quick rundown of what I have described in the last few paragraphs, here is what Google has to say, in brief. (This can be found here).
You can select sites for your placement-targeted campaign in two ways:
Name the sites where you'd like to advertise.
Give us a list of words that describe the type of site you're looking for.
A site must be part of the Google Network in order to be available for your placement-targeted campaign. A big advantage of winning a bid to place an ad could be that your ad could occupy the first four spaces, since you could stretch your ad to occupy four spaces. This is due to the expanded text ad specification of Adsense. If you specified that a strip of four AdWords ads should appear in a banner at the bottom of a page, placement-targeted ads will muscle the other ads off the ad unit and be displayed. Next time, People targeting
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Optimize Page Titles - BUT What about Article Titles?
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To optimize page titles keep it short. Search engines will show no more than 60 or 70 characters (including spaces) when they list your page in the SERPs. If you get any longer than that, they’ll cut it off.
- BUT What about Article Titles?
You can follow the same guidelines for your article titles. Or if you choose you can spice things up a little bit. Michael Gray wrote a very nice article on optimizing Wordpress page titles that talks about creating a page title and a post title at the same time, and explains why you might want to make the two different. He focuses strongly on keywords. Indeed, one of the reasons that you might want to make your article/post title different from your page title is that you can optimize for different keywords.
But there are other reasons you might want to make your article title different. In another article, Gray talks about Title Bait. He also includes several examples. I believe he intended them to work as both page titles and article titles. He wants searchers to see the title and feel almost compelled to click through to the article. Depending on the approach you take to page titles, however, you might prefer to limit these techniques to your article titles.
You can play on titillation to spice up an otherwise-bland topic. For example, when Gray wanted to point out that one prominent blogger was just two clicks away from adult content, what title did he use? Six Degrees of a Lesbian Porn Scraper. You have to admit, that gets attention.
You can also be controversial or, if it’s relevant, clearly show your readers that they’re about to encounter an entertaining rant. That’s the approach Gray took when he titled one article Yahoo: Yeah We Suck and We Don’t Give a Damn!
And you can always play the list card. Had I structured this article a little differently, I could have called it something like Ways to Optimize Your Page Titles.Somehow, we just can’t resist something that offers to sum up a complicated subject with just a few tips. Sometimes it doesn’t even have to be a few steps. And it doesn’t have to be a website either; there are books based on this idea. I was delighted to see, for example, that Amazon is currently selling a book titled The 100 Greatest Inventions of All Time. Why not take advantage of a marketing approach that’s as old as Moses?
For something a little more up-to-date, you can always mix some pop culture references into your title. Famous quotes or concepts work as well. How about The Silly String Theory of the Universe for an article on more technical uses for the toy (our military uses it to detect tripwires)? I admit I’m a little rusty at this; you can probably come up with much better ideas. Of course, you’ll have to rise to the challenge of being professional, informative, and humorous all at the same time, as Gray himself notes – but it can be done. Good luck!
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Great Page Titles, Short and Sweet
Michael Nguyen, writing for Social Patterns, lists eleven rules for writing page titles. Aaron Wall also lists eleven, but they’re a slightly different set. Matt McGee, writing for Gooruze, lists six. Still, there are certain things that all three of them agree upon. Here they are, in no particular order.
First, keep it short. Search engines will show no more than 60 or 70 characters (including spaces) when they list your page in the SERPs. If you get any longer than that, they’ll cut it off.
Second, be accurate, relevant, and descriptive. Give both the search bot and the human searcher a good idea of what to expect of your page’s content. If possible, front-load your most important keyword, and avoid keyword stuffing.
Third, have a unique title for every page on your site. If you don’t, the search engines might think you’re displaying duplicate content, and that brings its own headaches. Your human visitors will also have a hard time telling the difference between your pages.
Fourth, write in plain English (or whatever language you’re using for your site’s content). Yes, it’s hard not to want to get fancy. As Graywolf pointed out in his SEO blog recently, “Spring Sunglass Trends in New York City” is simply not as entertaining a title as “Specs in the City.” And in that case, the title might work. But it’s too easy to get so clever that the meaning slips past your target audience. Remember, searchers aren’t reading page titles so much as skimming them, so you need to write a title that makes it clear from the get-go what the page is all about.
Fifth, don’t stuff your title with keywords. One at the beginning is fine. Likewise, don’t add unneeded words to your title. You might be surprised by how much you can cut. Nguyen used the following example: “Click here to go to my page” could be cut to simply “my page.”
Sixth, here’s a direct quote from Aaron Wall to give you a good idea of what a page title should do: Good titles evoke an emotional response, ask a question, or promise something (that the landing page fulfills). Next time, What about Article Titles?
Page titles get seen by the search engines first and the searchers second. Write a relevant page title and you have a much better chance of showing up for the right keywords in the search engine results pages (SERPs). Think of it as receiving a reward for helping the search engines figure out how to classify your page.
The searchers will see your page title after the search engines – but it’s often the first thing they will see about your site. They will probably choose whether or not to follow the link to your site based on your page title. So you have to please both a bot and a real human being. That’s reason enough to spend extra time on your title.
Searchers will bookmark your site if they like what they see. What’s the default text used for a bookmark? You guessed it: the page title. I admit, when I bookmark a page, I’ll change the text; I usually shorten it or make it more descriptive (or both). If you don’t force your visitors to take this extra step, you’ll put a smile on their faces. And consider this: if a visitor doesn’t change the bookmark and it’s not descriptive enough, he may forget why he bookmarked your site in the first place. That makes the bookmark kind of useless to both of you.
When someone is trying to find a site that they visited and liked but didn’t bookmark, they’re likely to check their browser history. Guess how web pages show up in a browser’s history? Give yourself a gold star if you said page titles. Guess what happens if your page title isn’t descriptive? It won’t stand out in a browser history list, and you’ll lose a return visit.
Does your site feature an RSS generator? If so, it probably turns your page titles into headlines. Those headlines entice subscribers to your feed to come visit your site and read the entire article. In other words, as I’ve been saying for the past three paragraphs, good page titles not only encourage first-time visitors to check you out; they also help you get repeat visits.
Finally, there’s the matter of links. Here I am talking about an on-page optimization factor, and now I’m dragging in links?! But that’s an off-page optimization issue, right? Well, not exactly. Sometimes on-page and off-page factors feed each other, and this is one example of that. As you saw when I mentioned bookmarks and browser history lists, when there’s a link involving a web page, the browser defaults to the page title.
So do a lot of people who link to your page. So when Jazzy Judy writes her blog entry about your music store and its incredible selection of jazz recordings going all the way back to George Gershwin and Louis Armstrong, her anchor text will be your page title. Anchor text is widely believed to play a prominent role in how Google decides whether a page is relevant for particular keywords. Next time I’ll explain Great Page Titles, Short and Sweet.
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Optimize YOUR Page Title
Please optimize YOUR page title! It’s so boring I’m sure you wouldn’t want to steal it. Seriously, in this article I’m going to explain what page titles are (as opposed to post titles or article titles) and how and why to optimize them.
Look at the top of your browser, above the address bar and the line of links labeled File, Edit, etc. Next to the symbol for the browser itself you’ll find a title. That is the page title. It should not be confused with the actual title of this article, even though the two read nearly the same.
In HTML, you specify a web page’s title in its title element. You use title tags, like so:
<title>This is a web page title</title>
With some content management or blogging systems, you can specify a title tag that is different from the title you give to the post or article on that page. You might find that very desirable for SEO purposes. Other CMS platforms might not have that functionality built in, but boast plug-ins that extend their native capabilities. For example, the popular blogging platform WordPress isn’t optimized for SEO.
You may want to optimize both your page title and your article/post title. Since the two have different purposes, you may even want to have two significantly different titles. There’s nothing wrong with that, as long as both of them are relevant. You may also choose to make your page title and your article/post title the same (or nearly so), as you’ll find I do on many of my pages. There’s nothing wrong with that, either.
But maybe you’re wondering why you should optimize your page title at all. Or perhaps you’ve put a few keywords into your title and you figure you’re done. Or maybe you came up with a page title that you believe is good enough to use on every page of your site. Next time I’ll explain why you want to optimize your page titles as soon as I stop cringing.
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Unique SEO Problems
Some of the special issues that newcomers to SEO face. One of the biggest revolves around the fact that the Internet is global, but its dominant language is still English (though that might not be true for much longer). As a result, many site builders who may not be skilled in English feel compelled to work in that language. Poor English skills can inflict native as well as non-native speakers. But they can wreak havoc on your web site.
If your English is poor, build in your own language. At the very least, have your content written by someone fluent in the given language. Also, anyone writing copy needs to spell check and proofread for grammar. Nothing turns a web page from quality to garbage faster. I’ve encountered a number of sites with quality content tainted by poor use of the language; speaking as a visitor, it’s difficult to get past it when I see it. And speaking as a writer and editor, yes, it’s work, but it’s not as difficult as you might think, and the rewards are more than worth the effort.
Many newcomers to SEO see Google behave a certain way and think they have it figured out. That’s how stories like the 30-position penalty get started. So, Before releasing your unique brilliant findings about Google, do some research and save yourself some embarrassment.
Visitors, of course, are unique to every site, they can be tracked, and you can find ways to invite more of the same (or similar) to your site. Profile your target visitors. Know what they like and dislike, so you can make them welcome. Make that door a little bit wider.
While you spend your time building the best site you can and appealing to your target audience, stay away from black hat techniques or anything that produces short-term positive changes. As noted earlier, short cuts offer short-term results, and most of us are in this for the long haul. It’s like dieting, lasting results will only come from long term changes that take time to deliver their value.
That doesn’t mean you’re destined to face a long, lonely struggle with no rewards until you reach the top. Fighting for a #1 position often unwittingly wins you other prizes along the way. You might find that you’ve become an acknowledged expert in your field, and others want to interview you. You’re likely to make friends who give you good advice. You will almost certainly acquire new and useful skills. You may even gain a whole new perspective on what is important to you, the field, the future; take your pick.
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SEO doesn’t come over night. Since you’re going to be working on something for quite a while before you see success, you should choose to build your site around a subject about which you’re passionate. If you do it right, you’ll be doing it for a long time, so it really should be something you love.
The road to the top, in SEO as in other things, is rarely smooth. “If your site is less than 6 months old, expect fluctuations and concentrate on solidifying your niche instead of watching every keyword movement.”
On the other hand, you shouldn’t wait too long before you do something. Inaction can be as bad as taking too hasty action. Overanalyzing, hesitation, and procrastination are an SEO’s worst enemies.
Time and Patience
So haste is an enemy of SEOs, but so is overanalyzing your results and procrastination. It's best to take your time, and make efficient, productive use of it. This comes from practice and to some extent from reading about SEO. I will admit that I have learned about 75 percent of what I know about SEO from reading about it and asking for advice in forums and SEO experts.
With all this emphasis on patience, and the conflicting desire for quick results, it can be tempting to cut corners or use short cuts. Don’t do it. Short cuts offer short-term results. That may be what you’re looking for, but many people want to gain enduring success, and short cuts won’t take you there.
So how do you win at SEO? The best way to gain ranking in Google’s organic search results: Write intriguing, insightful, unique, quality content and then promote that material to induce natural linking from relevant quality websites. That is why, you want to choose a topic about which you are passionate. It will bring out your best writing.
While there is no way around the idea of quality content, you have a lot of choices as to the topics on which you post – which means you don’t have to struggle against sites that seem to own the most general, common, desirable, and competitive keywords.
You can get just as much traffic from 100 noncompetitive keywords as you can from some single highly competitive keywords, and do not forget the long tail's.
Keep your visitors in mind. And if that means linking to a quality website that is related to yours, so be it. There are advantages to doing so: “The link will only create more value to your page by offering relevant options. The loss in traffic will be compensated by the rank adjustment caused by the increased value” in your web page. And for the visitors clicking around your site, it behooves you to Make it simple enough for a 6 year old to navigate through. They’re your primary audience.
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Why Would I Visit Your Website Again?
Ideally, of course, a visitor would return to your site because he or she had a good experience the first time. But there’s a lot more to getting repeat business than just making your customer happy; you have to give them a reason to come back. If you publish a blog or articles that help keep your visitors up to date on their field or area of interest, you give them incentive to return. You just have to make sure they know about this offering.
Blogs and articles aren’t the only reasons a visitor might return, as anyone who has participated in a forum could tell you. For example, I browse SEO Chat’s forums myself every week, and it seems like I always come across new insights on the field from our forum members. As many Web 2.0 sites have discovered, user-generated content from a good community can keep visitors coming back for more.
What if you’re simply an online retailer and all you do is sell products? Well, you can make it easier for customers to buy from you again by capturing their information – with their permission, of course. A regular newsletter lets you do this; you at least need their email address so you can send it to them. Make sure you respect your customers’ privacy; tell them exactly what you will be doing with their information, and keep credit card information especially secure.
You can improve your business this way. “Many would think if they offer a one time sale, the job is done. Opportunities are always missed out if you are not marketing on the back end for repeat business. Once you have earned someone’s trust enough for them to spend money with you, they are more likely to spend more money with you. Don’t leave it on the table!”
Answering these three “why” questions will clarify the purpose of your website. They will show you how visitors see your website. Once you understand this, you can make sure that your SEO strategy is consistent with this vision. If you want to redesign your website, these questions will help guide you to the most important factors to consider. Good luck!
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Why Would I Stay at your site and Do Business with You?
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Why Would I Stay and Do Business with You
While you’re still in the visitor frame of mind, think about this: does your site look like it belongs to the kind of business you’d want to patronize? First impressions matter; they’re frequently hard to shake. You may want to consider having your web site professionally designed. Who would want to do business with someone whose website looks like it was built by the owner’s 12-year-old nephew?
Whether it’s a brick-and-mortar company or an online retailer, customers prefer to do business with those they trust. If they don’t feel as if they can trust who they are dealing with, they will take their business elsewhere. For a brick-and-mortar company, even on a first look, there are certain cues (many of them subtle) that let a person know a company can be trusted. That’s every bit as true with a website; in some sense, it’s even more important to generate trust, since your visitor is not dealing with people face to face.
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Once you get past the first impression, how easy is it to do business on your web site? Can a visitor find what brought them to the site fairly quickly? Think back to the previous blog post Why Would I Visit Your Web Site?. Everyone comes to your site for a reason; make it easy for them to find your articles, sign up for your newsletter, buy your product, or do whatever it was that made them click the link to your website.
To put this question another way, what do you want your visitors to do? Once you figure out the answer to that question, your job is to make it as easy as possible for them to do what you want them to do. If you’ve set up your site correctly and are sending the right messages, what YOU want them to do and what THEY want to do will be pretty close to the same thing.
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Why Would I Visit Your Web Site?
Lately I’ve become rather fond of the idea of thinking like a visitor to attract visitors. So pretend, for a moment, that you’ve never heard of your company and you’re visiting your own website for the first time. Perhaps you came in through the search engines, or someone who knows your interests sent you the link, or you may even have read a story about the site in a blog. Why did you come here?
If you said “because I saw the link,” try again. Anyone who visits a web site is looking for something.
They want to buy a product, be entertained, solve a problem, get some information…you get the idea. So what do you offer your visitor?
You can see why you need to ask this question before you begin any SEO campaign. What you offer your visitor affects everything
from the keywords you choose to the structure of your site’s content to the methods you use to promote your web site. And by the way, the field you’re in may have less effect on how you answer this question than you think.
Does that sound a little crazy?
Let’s consider a fairly mundane field: plumbing.
Are you a plumber?
Do you sell tools and plumbing parts to professional plumbers, or do-it-yourselfers, or some combination?
Is your business a plumbing school?
Do you offer a newsletter to keep plumbing professionals up to date?
Do you sell books on plumbing?
Do you publish articles on plumbing?
Do you promote a convention for plumbers?
Do you publish a trade magazine for plumbers?
Are you running a website for a plumbers’ union?
You can see from this list that there are a ton of specialty interests just in the field of plumbing. Each of these different kinds of sites will want to attract a slightly different audience. And each person who visits a site might have a slightly different reason for doing so. They might even have drastically different reasons, to be honest.
While working on this update, for example, I ended up on the web pages of a large plumbing supplier. I clicked their FAQ; after scrolling down a bit, I saw links to some interesting-looking pages (a “fun quotes” page). When I got to the top of that page, I saw links to more fun plumbing pages – a list of plumbing jokes, various words of wisdom, a founder’s page, and so forth.
A plumber might visit this site to get a part – or a non-plumber might end up here to be entertained, because some of these pages come up for their own special keywords, like “plumber jokes.” The point is that you need to be clear and focus on why your visitors are coming to your site in order to give them what they're looking for. Or, put another way, you need to be clear about what you’re offering them so that they know what to expect when they get there.
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Ask the Right Questions Before You SEO Your Site!
Every web site owner wants more traffic and higher rankings in the search engines. In the midst of an SEO campaign, however, it’s easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees. So before you change a single title, you might want to shift your focus to answer some important questions.
So what do I mean by losing sight of the forest for the trees anyway? You’ve probably heard that expression since you were a teenager at least. You may even know that it means focusing on the details to the point that you lose sight of the big picture – and with the amount of detail work that goes into a proper SEO project, that’s easy to do.
Changing the questions you ask can shift your focus back to that bigger picture. You need to know what the big picture is before you do any search engine optimization, or you’ll waste a substantial amount of effort. Fortunately, you may only need to change a few words in the questions you already ask. Ease off just a little on the “what” and “how” questions and start asking a few “why” questions. I’ll give examples in the sections that follow.
I expect many of you will look at these questions and think that they should be asked well before a site goes live, very early in the design process. That’s probably true. But it’s also true that web sites evolve over time, rather like people. They change, grow, and adapt to conditions in the marketplace. By the time a web site has been up for a couple of years (or even less), it might be a very different creature from what the site owner originally had in mind.
This kind of change is not a bad thing, per se. We all get a certain amount of satisfaction out of growing and tweaking our sites, and then watching what happens. If we’re not looking clearly at what the site is turning into, however, we can’t see what it needs.
Anthony Kirlew, who writes a blog called Old School SEO and has been in the search engine marketing business since 1999, wrote about these important questions recently. I’m not going to cover his fourth question – “how will they find our web site?” – because we all know the answer to that one: SEO, SEM, and maybe even SMO (social media optimization). Instead, we’ll look at a few “why” questions.
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GoDaddy is Charging for Spam Complaints - Ouch!
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Seems like the folks over at GoDaddy are charging their email marketing customers if they get spam complaints. Deliverability.com broke the news when they got an email with this information sent to them from a GoDaddy customer. GoDaddy will now charge customers $200 to "manage" their complaints. Even worse is that if the customer wants to then leave them and transfer their domains to another registrar they can't do it until they pay GoDaddy $75!
To cover all of their bases, it appears that if one of their customers uses an Email Service Provider outside of GoDaddy to advertise their GoDaddy-hosted site and they get complaints from one of their customer's recipients, they could be hit with a fine or other action.
Wow. Serious Email Service Providers (ESPs) usually do this as a service to customers and won't allow spammers to use their services. But let's face it, everyone gets a complaint now and then, even customers with best intentions. The difference is that serious ESPs want to help their customers learn best practices about email marketing and not turn complaints into a new revenue stream.
If you use GoDaddy to host your website be careful. And any time you're looking for a serious ESP, make sure you ask if they have a deliverability and abuse department - most serious ESPs do, looks like GoDaddy might not.
GoDaddy should stick to what they're good at, being a registrar. Leave the email marketing heavy-lifting to those who "want" to do it and help businesses grow.
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It's simple... Are you asking Google to penalize your website?
I'm sure you're probably thinking; Well, of course not! Yet daily I see new people complaining in search engine optimization forums that their websites have been banned by Google and they "have no idea why".
These people claim they've done nothing wrong and are absolutely clueless as to why their site is no longer in Google.
What NOT to do when optimizing your onpage ranking factors
How do you know if you've been banned?
First let me show you how to see if you're clearly banned by Google. Often times people think they've been banned, when in reality they've just dropped in ranking and can't find their website. There are a couple of things you can do.
1.) Check Google's search results.
2.) View the Google toolbar.
Go to Google and enter your entire URL into Google's search box and click "search"
Google says there is no information available for this URL? This means that the URL is no longer in Google's database.If you enter a brand new website into Google, you'll always get this message until the website has been indexed or the website has been banned by Google for some reason.
Another way you can quickly see if your website has been banned is by Viewing the Google Toolbar. Download the Google Toolbar Visit Here http://toolbar.google.com
Once it's installed, simply visit your website. If the Google toolbar is completely gray, this means you have been banned by Google.
Ok, so now we know how to tell if our website has been banned. What can cause your website to get banned?
There are many onpage ranking factors AND offpage ranking factors that can cause Google to ban your website. Today, we'll focus on only the onpage things that can cause your site to get banned.
Before I begin, I want you to know that many websites still get away with doing some of these things. They DO NOT help your rankings and are simply a waste of time, so don't try them. Sooner or later Google will catch up to these websites and will remove them. It's just not worth the risk, when doing them doesn't help your ranking to begin with. Banned: * Note: Most SEOs call this "gray barred". Not Banned:
Hidden Text
Hidden Text is simply text that users can't see when they visit your webpage. Some webmasters will do this so that they can add keywords throughout their webpage without it interfering with what the visitors actually see. Yet, the search engines can still see hidden text.
For example, let's say you have a white background on your website. If you wanted to hide text, you would simply make the color of your text white (#FFFFFF) and users couldn't see it.
Alt image tag spamming
This is another way that people will try to cram keywords into their website, allowing search engines to see their keywords, but not allowing visitors to notice any difference in their website. The real purpose of an alt image tag is if a user visits your website and the graphic will not load, or is disabled by their web browser, text will appear instead of the graphic. This is often used for blind people.Alt image spamming is something you want to stay clear of. Using alt image tags are good, but you can overdo it.
Meta Tag Stuffing
What I'm referring to here is when people throw in thousands of the same exact keyword into their meta tags.
For example, the following website is trying to rank well for "tents".
This is obviously ridiculous. Google doesn't use Meta Tags when ranking websites. Google WILL penalize it, but it WILL NOT help you... so, why would anyone do something like this? Stay away from it.
Title Tag Stuffing
The title is what appears in the top left hand corner of your webpage. Below is an example of Title Tag Stuffing Don't do it...
You only need to include your keyword(s) one time in your title tag. Anymore than 1 time will only dilute the effect, and if you overdo it as shown above, you may get banned.
Those are just a few of the things that people are continuing to do online. These things WILL eventually get your website banned and WILL NOT help you rank well. It's just a waste of time and effort, plus just plain ignorant to waste your time on something that doesn't work and will get your website banned from the search engines.
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The definition of the word Brand “Brand – a trademark or a unique name to identify your product or a manufacturer”, has always remained the most important criteria for companies to gain their popularity. It is very important to create and maintain your brand and brand image throughout your presence in the market. It is difficult to attain this result as the market gets saturated with every company aiming towards it. You need to keep an eye on your customers and markets regularly to achieve this branding success.
Now what and how does SEO have to do with this?
In earlier days, branding was achieved mainly with campaigns, television ads, radio ads, billboards or every other place where the company can put up their product posters or details. But every time these techniques work for every kind of customers?
The World Wide Web is a huge space. Every minute large number of sites and pages are being added on to the web. In such a scenario, where do your products and efforts stand? Where do they take you in the competitive market? Where do companies get to find their real dedicated customers or to be potential customers? You might even go unnoticed unless you put in some updated and extra effort to set your brand image really strong.
With the massive use of internet, a good and well promoted website for your company and products, can gain in more potential customers towards it. Now with internet and all the search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN., you can put forth your products and services to the more customers in a much easier process. And to create such a powerful online presence you need experience, SEO Specialist Online. SEO professionals who plan your online marketing strategy. They work with you in close coordination and create your online presence.
If you lack in this, you are giving chances for your competitors to have in more traffic to their websites and you lose in customers to them. It is essential for you to have a neat and simple website with details that are understandable and well projected. Else with any number of SEO techniques, you tend to go nowhere.
A well planned optimized website can be interesting to look and understand, while it also delivers a complete successful corporate image. Organized website structures, Website popularity, Keywords researches do it right for your site and get your website along with your company name and product well branded. Give in time to learn, explore and research on your products / services and place them in the online market. Build your site and just wait for your visitors. It will tell the potential targeted customers how effective your products and efficient your company is. Build your website, product, and company - your brand online, with SEO Specialist Online.
Submitting your website to search engines does not get your webpage better ranking. That is a misconception about Search Engine Optimization that has been going around for quite sometime. It does no harm by submitting your site to them but it does no good as well.
Just submitting your site to the search engines doesn’t give you a good spot on their pages. In order to be eligible and indexed by search engine crawlers you need to optimize your site. By using a SEO Specialist you increase your chances because Search engine optimization is an on-going process.
You need to invest enough time to get the desired success. Compared to other forms online marketing, SEO offers higher return on investment (ROI). With the growing number of users relying on search engines to find their pages, it has become essential to optimize websites and make them search engine friendly. Here are few steps you need to follow for the search engine spiders to crawl and index your site.
1. Theme: It is important to choose a theme for the pages of your website. Each page should be able to convey a message or fulfill a purpose.
2. Keywords Selection: Choosing the right keywords is an important and crucial step of search engine optimization. You need to list the relevant and searched keywords and key phrases for each of the pages. Choosing the most competitive keywords can get really frustrating hence as a beginner you can focus on less competitive, yet searched words. You can make a list of relevant keywords and use tools like wordtracker and overture keyword analysis tool to know the search frequency.
3. Know your Competitors: It is important to keep an eye on your competitors. You can study what keywords they are emphasizing on, know what websites are linking to them and where they rank. The less competition you have the better it is.
4. Optimize your Page Content with Phrases: When you select the relevant keywords for your web page, you can rank them according to their importance. You can revise the existing pages and optimize your page content starting with your top key phrases. Optimizing your site includes alteration of the meta tags i.e. title, description, keywords, headings, image alt, link and the content of the site. You can also have robot.txt file to help the spiders to crawl the pages you want them to.
5. Linking Strategies: As mentioned earlier link building is one of the important part of SEO. There are two linking strategies:
•Internal Linking: In your page content you can refer to other important pages of your website. You can make use of the keywords of the landing page for your hyperlink text. You can even use keywords in navigation structure.
•External Linking: You can build external links by various means. You can start your own blog or write articles so that other websites interested will link to you. You can ask other webpages to place your link on their websites for placing their link on your site. This is known as reciprocal linking. You can advertise your sites on directories like dmoz, yahoo directories etc. Getting backlinks from these popular sites will help you get better ranking. There are various other ways to increase your inbound links.
6. Traffic and Revenue Tracking: After your website is optimized you need to track the sales and the traffic it is receiving. You need to focus more on traffic and revenue than the page ranking. There are many software which gives you the report on your revenues by keywords, search engine, advertising campaigns etc.
7. Analysis: You need to analyze your website and make necessary changes. Search engines keep changing their algorithm, hence it is important you be updated and try the new marketing strategies. You also need to keep track of your rankings and re-optimize the pages if you need to. You can then wait for the results.
Search engine optimization could be a tiring task but with time it sure helps you get better traffic. Contact Jim Gras SEO Specialist Online 800-897-6458 USA 44-2076-694183 LONDON, UK Skype: jamiboy seospecialistonline@gmail.com for all your SEO needs.
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Keywords are the foundation of any Search Engine Optimization or Search Marketing campaign. If you don’t know what keywords are being used in searches by the people you want to attract to your Web site, you can’t effectively market through the search engines to those people.
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The terms keyword is often used as shorthand for keyword phrase.
When we use the term keyword, we mean the word—or words—that may be typed into a search engine by someone carrying out a search.
In fact most searches these days are not single-word searches … most searchers now type two or more words in their searches.
If you’re reading this, you probably already understand why you need to know the keywords people use when searching for products or services such as those promoted by your Web site. Just in case …
• If you don’t know the keywords, you can’t optimize your Web site properly.
• If you don’t know the keywords, you don’t know what keywords to put in links pointing to your site.
• If you don’t know the keywords, you don’t know which keywords to bid on in Pay Per Click programs.
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What happens if you simply guess at the search terms you need, and don’t do a full keyword analysis? Typically two problems arise:
• Many of the keywords on your list will be more or less irrelevant. People simply aren’t using them in searches.
• You’ll miss keywords that people are using to search for your product or service.
What Does an SEO Specialist Do?
• Helps you develop a list of likely keyword phrases. SEO Specialist searches other Web site’s KEYWORDS tags and searches a thesaurus, to help you create a preliminary list of keyword phrases.
• Based on these keyword phrases, it shows you what people using the Web’s search engines are actually typing into the search engines.
What do we Mean by Keywords, and Why do They Matter?
Keywords are the foundation of any Search Engine Optimization or Search Marketing campaign. If you don’t know what keywords are being used in searches by the people you want to attract to your Web site, you can’t effectively market through the search engines to those people.
The terms keyword is often used as shorthand for keyword phrase. When we use the term keyword, we mean the word—or words—that may be typed into a search engine by someone carrying out a search. In fact most searches these days are not single-word searches … most searchers now type two or more words in their searches.
If you’re reading this, you probably already understand why you need to know the keywords people use when searching for products or services such as those promoted by your Web site. Just in case …
• If you don’t know the keywords, you can’t optimize your Web site properly.
• If you don’t know the keywords, you don’t know what keywords to put in links pointing to your site.
• If you don’t know the keywords, you don’t know which keywords to bid on in Pay Per Click programs.
Selecting keywords, then, is important. But there are two ways to select the keywords you need for your campaigns:
• Guess
• Do a full keyword analysis
The most popular method is to guess at the keywords. The most effective method, however, is to do a full keyword analysis (which actually begins with you guessing at what keywords you think are important, then using a free KeyWord tool to “dig” into databases of actual search terms).
What happens if you simply guess at the search terms you need, and don’t do a full keyword analysis? Typically two problems arise:
• Many of the keywords on your list will be more or less irrelevant. People simply aren’t using them in searches.
• You’ll miss keywords that people are using to search for your product or service.
What Does an SEO Specialist Do?
Essentially, a SEO Specialist does two things:
• Helps you develop a list of likely keyword phrases. SEO Specialist searches other Web site’s KEYWORDS tags and searches a thesaurus, to help you create a preliminary list of keyword phrases.
• Based on these keyword phrases, it shows you what people using the Web’s search engines are actually typing into the search engines. for more info contact Jim Gras SEO Specialist Online 800-897-6458 USA 44-2076-694183 LONDON, UK Skype: jamiboy seospecialistonline@gmail.com
Not All Search Engine Optimization Specialist are equal
Search Engine Optimization is the process of improving your site’s ranking in search engines A professional Search Engine Optimization Specialist knows exactly what search engines look for when crawling websites and ranking pages. Working with a specialist will give your site a competitive advantage and increase targeted traffic through search engines and directories.
Accomplished SEO specialists have an indepth knowledge of how search engine spiders index HTML, and will spend a great deal of time on keyword research. The keyword research should be shared with you for your review, and the provider should work with you to incorporate the keywords into the page context and not just add the words in the metatags section. In addition, the specialist should hold frequent update meetings with you to review your site's current ranking and provide recommendations to increase your site's ranking.
Strategies:Reputable providers will educate you on the difference between search engines (ex. Google) and directories (ex. Yahoo).If an SEO provider describes Yahoo as a search engine, keep looking for someone else. In addition, the SEO provider should have two separate promotion strategies for each: one for the search engines and one for the directories.
Until relatively recently, title tags and metatags with relevant keywords gave decent rankings. However, after years of tag misuse, search engines now attach more importance to:
· Page content
· Site design (for example, spiders do not process JavaScript or images)
· Incoming links and authoritative status of referring sites
Ethical Behavior, Software and Blacklisting:Search engines want to ensure that the indexed page is the page the user will visit.
Unfortunately, programmers violate this principle by utilizing several techniques such as:
· Writing a cloaked page that is invisible to the user. This artificially boosts rankings by detecting and re-directing search engine spiders. Google will blacklist sites identified using this technique.
· Creating doorway and bridge pages that work the same way as cloaked pages, but are stored on external servers.
· Hosting gateways which re-direct users to a different website. This can indicate the use of software to generate highranking
gateways; this is considered spamming and frowned upon.
· Stuffing keywords on a page by repeating the words several times in a row, using invisible text, or text so small that it is barely legible.
SEO should be incorporated early in site design and not as an afterthought. Incorporating SEO early will save you time and money before the site goes live and is first submitted to search engines and directories.
What kinds of practices are considered best? Relevant key word rich content at a desired density, inbound links, article directory content, blog links and other honest practices can create real traffic generation into your website that can translate to subscribers, visitors and sales. Choose SEO Specialist Online with Jim Gras and you’ll get great results. Visit http://www.seo-specialist-online.com
SEO or search engine optimization is a fast moving game and getting more competitive every day due to the huge volume of information on the Internet. Algorithm technology is changing constantly. Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft Live have never been more different regarding what it takes to earn top ranking results. How do you know what to do?
Most SEO experts keep up with the changes in technology, they do optimization every day. If you are a web owner or webmaster trying to do your own optimization, the chances of getting it right without being in the know are pretty dicey?
That's why you need to know about our information and consulting services:
Here are some of the things that I have tested in regards to SEO methodologies and how they can help you right now:
What are the RIGHT strategies for Affiliate Marketing, so you avoid key mistakes?
How your current keyword strategy is hurting your business.
Is the Title Tag still as effective for SEO?
If you are in Google Supplemental Hell, my methods can help you get out.
Do paid links really get your site banned or penalized?
What are the best methods for link building?
How can a merchant recruit top affiliates and keep them?
What are the best directories to submit to? ... and a lot more ...
But SEO information isn't enough.
Often, business owners have other forces working against them, keeping them from success.
Themselves.
Because of the huge competition you can not reach top rankings with more than 1-3 keywords or phrases per page, that's why the best solution is to optimise every single page for one or two keywords or (phrases) The terms typed into search engines reveal a surprising amount about visitor intent. Know as much as you can about your potential customers, and use keywords that reveal intent to purchase your products.
Are you confident that your site is being found in the major search engines and directories? You probably know that search engine and directory searches account for 80 % of Internet traffic. Booz-Allen, a leading strategic management and consulting firm, say that less than 10% of websites are found using search engines or directory searches because 95% of all the websites out there are not properly optimized.
An increasing number of businesses are incorporating Search Engine Optimization (SEO) into their marketing strategy to ensure that the site, into which they invested a significant amount of money, receives high ranking in search engines and is prominently visible to potential customers.
SEO is the skillful art of placing researched keywords, that have a known searching audience, into various places on a Web page which are known to be given weight by the ranking systems and algorithms of Major Search Engines like Google, Alta Vista, AOL Search, Ask Jeeves, Excite, Inktomi, Lycos, MSN, Teoma and Yahoo.
A properly optimized Web Site can take you from search invisibility and zero rankings to top spots in these search engines, especially if optimization is combined with known off page ranking factors.
It is estimated that less than two percent of the commercial Web sites on the Internet have had any optimization for search engines. Those who act now, with decisiveness and confidence will lead their competition for the rest of this decade, while their competitors catch on and try to catch up. Contact Jim Gras 800-897-6458 http://www.seo-specialist-online.com for all your Keyword and SEO needs.
A Keyword Market is the total number of unique searches on the Internet that are relevant to your website. A Keyword Market is defined by the top-level or root keyword that is generally most relevant to your business. If you own a shoe store, "shoes" might be the top-level keyword for your market. "Shoes" of course is very general since there are many kinds of shoes for men and women. Top-level keywords may contain thousands of vertical keyword markets. Initial analysis on "shoes" will produce hundreds of verticals (running shoes, nike shoes, bridal shoes, golf shoes, etc.)
Understanding Your Keyword Market
Selecting the right keywords and phrases is critical to the success of any search engine marketing campaign. A thorough analysis of your keyword market(s) will ensure proper keyword selection. It is important to make an evaluation of how popular a keyword is (i.e. how many times is a keyword predicted to be searched in a 24 hour period) and how it's popularity compares with the total number of competing URLs (other sites that are returned by the search engines for the same keyword searches). An analysis of this relationship will tell you where it is smart to optimize and where it is foolish. The results of this analysis is cross referenced with your website content to determine the right page selections for optimization. Too often, web developers simply implement a client's wishes without addressing the limitations and problems that come with that solution. Ethical and knowledgeable web developers can explain why you want the opinion of an SEO Specialist.
How do you know you are using a search engine
optimization company with the right types of business practices? SEO companies
that use white hat methods will promise this in their results. They will offer
you a guarantee such as a money back guarantee that promises you won’t be de
indexed for spam or questionable search engine practices. Companies who offer
white hat business practices will tell you what they’re doing and will provide
you with detailed reports of your results. They will also provide testimonials
and proof that your money is being spent on the right kind of
promotions.
How do you find an SEO Specialist ? Search Engine Optimization
Specialistcan appear to be widely available when you start to
look. There are companies that promote through various methods and provide
various services, there are companies that cater to various sized organizations,
companies with varying price levels and there are ones who wear different
colored hats, metaphorically speaking.
Search Engine Optimization efforts can be split
into two groups including white hat and black hat SEO services. White hat refers
to ethical and honest methods of getting the results you want. Black hat SEO
refers to sneaky, underhanded or unethical ways of getting results. Black hat
optimization methods break search engine rules and any indexing will eventually
be undone when the search engine discovers the breach of their terms of service.
How do you know you are using a Search Engine Optimization
Specialistwith the right types of business practices? SEO
companies that use white hat methods will promise this in their results. They
will offer you a guarantee such as a money back guarantee that promises you
won’t be de indexed for spam or questionable search engine practices like SEO
Specialist Online with Jim Gras. We offer white hat business practices and tell
you what we’re doing and will provide you with detailed reports of our results.
They will also provide testimonials and proof that your money is being spent on
the right kind of promotions.
What kinds of practices are considered white hat?
Relevant key word rich content at a desired density, inbound links, article
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sales. Choose SEO
Specialist Onlinewith Jim Gras and you’ll get great results.
There are many different aspects that you should consider while searching for or choosing an SEO Specialist Online for improving the overall internet ranking and visibility of your business. What SEO Specialists can do is that they can use their experience and expertise to get your website on the top most positions for various targeted keywords through application of various methods.
• An SEO specialist should have a reputation or a good amount of experience in handling optimization of web sites successfully.
• The SEO Specialist will be completely and single-handedly responsible for the way your site will be displayed on various search engines as well as directories. You need to gauge how good the SEO specialist is and how much visibility he/she can offer you on various search engines so that you can get high targeted traffic as well as have a good ROI.
• The goal of every search engine marketing/SEM campaign is long-term results that are sustainable as well as effective. This basically means that your SEO specialist should avoid using anything that most search engines will consider as spam.
• Your SEO Specialist needs to have complete knowledge of what are the ranking criteria of the most popular or top search engines is and what type of deals they have in place?
• Last but not the least, one of the most important aspects is that the SEO Specialist should be able to use all the different methods of mix the various methods of search engine optimization so that you can get the maximum benefit.
The various methods he can incorporate include:
a) Keyword driven content: Finding the top keywords and implementation in your web copy and the links.
b) Tags: Meta Tags, Image Alt Tags and individualized Titles are important for ranking purposes. The SEO expert should be able to ensure that it is embedded into the code.
c) Link Popularity: He should be able to link your website with other relevant websites of good repute.
d) Social Media Marketing: A relatively new concept, it is an integral part of SEO. Always ensure that the SEO Specialist you are speaking with is familiar with the various platforms where Social media marketing can be implemented.
i) Others: The other methods he can use include Affiliate Marketing, Buzz Marketing, Article submissions, Press Releases and Viral Marketing.
SEO Specialist Online with Jim Gras would like to ask you a question. Are you saving money or Are You Wasting Money By Paying Your Web Designer for SEO?
Web site designers know that keeping the client happy is the most important thing; however, this approach often backfires when one of the client’s goals is to gain top search engine rankings. Good SEO web site design delivers a beautiful and functional website, a pleasant experience for those who use it, and a search engine-friendly design. But what happens when a web designer has a client who wants esthetics or navigation that takes away from the site’s ability to gain top search engine rankings? Do web developers go along with their client’s wishes at the expense of search engine rankings, or do they politely guide the client toward achieving all of their goals? I think you know the answer.
The biggest difference between web designers and SEO Specialist is what motivates them: creativity versus strategic thinking.
A web designer is ultimately motivated by making a website look good to the client, thus satisfying them visually. An SEO Specialist is ultimately motivated to gain top search engine rankings for competitive keywords, thus gaining visibility. More business owners are now waking up to the fact that web designers are more artists than online marketers. So it is vital to have the SEO Specialist and web designer work together cooperatively on web site design.
"We do search engine optimization, too."
Often, a web site design company does a few aspects of search engine optimization but does not really do what it takes to gain top rankings. Companies can get roped in on this claim because a firm does a great job at web site design or because the client has “one-stop shop” syndrome, and so assumes a design firm is equally skilled as SEO Specialist.
Most web developers do not consider the implications of search engine optimization during the design phase. For example, to gain top rankings for competitive keywords requires outranking hundreds or even thousands of other websites that have already been optimized for that keyword. Simply updating the meta tags will rank the site at the bottom of the "optimized" heap and will require ongoing work to gain a top ranking.
The client wants to keep costs down, so the web developer compromises the SEO to stay within budget. The client needs to know from his advisors (designers and SEO Specialist) what is and is not practical, so he can reassess the budget and design based on information supplied by an SEO Specialist. Because budget is important, developers often shortcut past this advisory checkpoint - at the expense of gaining top rankings for the client's site.
It's important to find a good web developer who will listen to your requests, and who also will advise you on the best way to implement the design and SEO. He needs to talk realistically with you if the amount of work involved is not within your budget. Too often, web developers simply implement a client's wishes without addressing the limitations and problems that come with that solution. Ethical and knowledgeable web developers can explain why you want the opinion of an SEO Specialist.
I usually reserve this kind of post for my affiliates, but decided to include everyone on today’s message because it’s such a great opportunity…
We’ve all seen the headlines continue to rack-up over the past few months about the horrendous state of the economy.
Just browse through the news today and you’ll find the following…
“Inflation survival guide”
“Crude rises in volatile trading”
“Oil speculation in House crosshairs”
“Cite midway through 6,500 job cuts”
“Gas prices up a dime in two weeks”
“Stagflation still threatens US economy”
“Wall Street braces for more layoffs”
“Britain sounds the alarm on inflation”
Makes you want to hide your head under a rock doesn’t it!?
Well there’s a silver lining to every cloud, and new opportunity with every pink-slip… It just depends on how you look at things.
Obviously people are looking to do two things right now… Save money, or make more of it.
It's no big secret that in order to get a top search engine ranking, you need other websites to link to your website. And depending on what keywords you're trying to rank well for, you may need hundreds, to thousands of links to crack the top 10 in the major search engine (Google, Yahoo, and MSN).
For example, the #1 ranked website on Google for the search term "web hosting" has well over 15 million websites linking to them!
That's right... I said 15 million other websites! I know what you're thinking. "Web hosting" is a very competitive search term. I wouldn't need that many links to get a top ranking... And you're right. You wouldn't. In most cases, you could get a top ranking with as little as a few hundreds links.
But... what I can tell you is that if you have zero websites linking to you, you will have zero ranking in the search engines. So, how do you get around this? Easy, you find as many websites to exchange links with as possible, or your site can be added to my Veretekk Platinum linking system and create thousands of links over night.
The more websites you can get to link to your website, the higher you will rank in the search engines, guaranteed!
These top ranked websites know this and they will do any and everything humanly possible to get other websites to link to them. Because a higher ranking means a BIGGER pay day!
Why doesn't everyone and their brother trade links if it gets you top rankings?
The answer is simple. It takes an awful lot of time and work to manually exchange links with other websites. Even if you're using the Link Metro directory. That's why subscribing to my system just makes sense. For more information please respond to me at this email address Click Here
"Why is Article Marketing so darn important in 2008" Part 2
If you want maximum results for your article marketing, you would be best served by adopting the following tactics:
Target the top article directories and go for a few quality links instead of hundreds of low-quality links. In other words, hit the top article directories and devote the rest of your time on the next couple of steps.
Find themed article directories / content sites that are related to the niche that your article addresses. For example, if you write about CSS, you would be looking for directories and websites that accept content on website development and more directly, website programming.
Use articles as link building tools - find high-ranking sites related to yours and instead of simply asking for links, pitch your article to them as an offer to their readers. If your article is engaging, fresh and unique, most websites will gladly publish it on their websites (or at least give you a reference link), leading to increased traffic as well as link popularity. There are a few more things that you can do to make sure you came out ahead of the search engines’ spam filters:
Avoiding Duplicate Content Penalties
Ideally, you shouldn’t publish articles that you submit on your own website – this “may” help you avoid the duplicate content penalty a bit. On the other hand, this does not address the concern that carbon copies of your article will suddenly pop up in hundreds of places on the Internet. To deal with this, you can use one or more of the following techniques:
Post the article on your website, and wait for it to be indexed by the major search engines before you submit it to the article directories. Post the full article on your website and submit “ half ” of it to the article directories (works best if you have a 1000 words+ article). Have your writer create a second, different version of the article. Then, you can submit that version to the directories while keeping the original on your site.
Deep Linking
Instead of just putting links to your main site page, link to a few inner pages of your site from within the article text. Of course, the inner pages must be relevant to the article topic. This will help spread the link popularity you receive throughout the site. Deep links are one of the ways search engines use to evaluate the value of links.
Themed Links
Use different articles for different purposes. For example, you could have one article promoting your main website, another promoting your new book (and linking to the order page), and yet another article linking to your newsletter signup page. The key is to remember that articles also mean traffic, and along with deep links, getting traffic to the key money-making areas of your site is very important.
Find Quality Article Sites
There are very few article directories (like Ezine Articles ) that have a stellar reputation within the search engines. Directories like Go Articles and ISnare are popular precisely because they themselves have managed to rank highly within the search engines.
The top ranked directories will not only get you the most link wealth but also the most traffic. However, don’t be satisfied with just hitting the general purpose article sites – make sure that you find sites within your niche that accept articles exclusively to the topic – if you can get links from within your own topical link neighbourhood, they will be worth much more than the links you get from the big article directories.
Lack of links to get the pages indexed quickly
This is another very common problem, but can be solved extremely easily. In order to get your pages indexed, you simply need links. The more links pointing to your website, the faster you will get indexed, period.
How can you get easy, fast links to your site? Go to LinkMetro.com and either sign up for a free account and manually exchange links with over 20,000 other websites listed in very tightly themed categories OR upgrade to an Advanced membership where you can get links even quicker and easier or contact me to see how you can be included into my Veretekk Platinum Marketing System for SEO Specialist Online
Whatever you decide. Go to LinkMetro.com and start getting links and I can guarantee that your pages will get indexed MUCH quicker than had you not done so.
Well, that wraps up the importance of article marketing for me today. I hope that this has taught you some new strategies for using articles as effective marketing tools for your online business and I will speak with you soon!
“Why is Article Marketing so darn important in 2008?”
If you follow the seo forums, you’ll notice that an old search engine marketing strategy is now suddenly everyone’s “seo strategy” of choice. Yes, I’m talking about article marketing .
I’ve often mentioned the benefits of article marketing, but with Google’s recent updates to its ranking algorithms, the topic merits a fresh look. With everyone even remotely interested in achieving decent search engine rankings turning to article marketing, it is critical for your website’s success that you fully understand what traditional article marketing is about and how you can benefit from it. Note that as search engines become smarter with reciprocal links, article marketing - especially the sort of marketing that guarantees good results - will require some expert knowledge.
Traditional article marketing works something like this:
You write (or pay someone to write it) a 600-word article, take out a list of 100-200 article directories, and submit your article to all of them (or you could hire someone to do that as well). In a week or so, your article is accepted and published by the article directories, not to mention thousands of websites who pick up articles from these directories.
Then, after a week or two of submitting the article, search engines pick it up and suddenly see hundreds, if not thousands, of new links to your site. Even if these are low-quality links in some cases (there are very few highly reputed article directories, and most of them are not themed), your rankings benefits thanks to the sheer number of links you’ve built. Over a period of time, after several article submissions, you notice an improvement in your search engine rankings at the next algorithm update. Yes, those links have made all the difference, and now your site is starting to get higher search engine placement.
By the looks of it, article marketing has everything search engines ask for – quality content, contextual links and even one-way links (as opposed to reciprocal links, which are less valuable).
However, to draw a parallel, just blindly submitting articles to hundreds of directories is like shooting in the dark - you’re essentially banking on getting tons of non-themed links in the hope that they will be enough to improve your rankings (you may get lucky now and then and have some big website in your niche pick up your article and run it).
Important: The reason I say that many of these article links are non-themed is because the search engines not only look at the page your link is located on, BUT also look at the “website” your link is located on. All of these article directories are probably not related to your website in theme.
If you are serious about your rankings, you’ll have to get your hands dirty and chase down the right links yourself (only at the beginning of course - as your site’s popularity increases, your articles will generate their own links and you will get requests from other websites requesting your permission to reprint your articles).
The case for adopting a personal approach to article marketing becomes air-tight if you consider the following:
Search engines are clamping down harder on duplicate content , using the “date of discovery” (when the SE spider first finds the content) and other factors to find out which article is original and which are “copies”.
Search engines are getting better at evaluating “ themed ” links – links from industry-related websites, with a greater emphasis on niche sites dealing with one or two themes rather than general purpose sites dealing with a large set of themes (like article directories).
Search engines already consider anchor text as vulnerable to spam, so if hundreds of links pointing to your site suddenly pop up (with the EXACT same anchor text), this would be a “red-flag” event.
In other words, while article submissions are excellent tools for gaining traffic and rankings, search engines are catching up to the fact that spammers may use “blind” submissions in order to artificially boost their link popularity, and are looking to implement filters that can catch spammers. This will not happen immediately and maybe not even in the next year, but as the search engine wars (between Google, Yahoo and the rest) heat up, search engines will get stricter in terms of what they allow to rank highly in their search results.
Note that when I say search engines, I’m really talking about Google (which current serves 40-50 percent of all search engine traffic). However, as article spam increases, the other search engines are bound to implement changes that will catch it as well.
That's all for now but next time we will discuss how to gain maximum results for your article marketing, The Right Way.
Hits vs. Visitors: Getting a Real Count on Your Traffic
You know, a week doesn't go by when an ad says, "Advertise with us as we get 1,000,000 hits each month." But do they really?
Probably not.
You see, a "hit" is an access request to a web server, not just a visitor. So, if a page has 99 tiny graphics which make up the web page, each view of that page registers as "100 hits". And if the visitor views 5 pages, that one visitor will register 500 hits on the site.
This is why advertisers LOVE to tell you about hits because they know you think that means people when it really doesn't.
Hits vs. Visitors: Getting a Real Count on Your Traffic
Ever see the claim "We get 80,000 hits a month" on a web site? Or the scrolling counter at the bottom of a page? What does it all mean and is it accurate? What is the difference between a hit and a visitor?
A "hit" is not a visitor to the web site, but a hit on the web server. A hit on the web server can be a graphic, java applet, the html file, etc. So, if a site has 79 small graphics on the page, every visitor to the site registers as 80 hits on the server (79 graphics plus the html file). In this case, 80,000 hits translates to just 1,000 visitors.
As webmasters, designers, business owners, SEOs, etc., we are not concerned with hits to a site. We want to know the number of visitors to our site. And we don't just want to know about every visitor--we want to know about every unique visitor. So if we can't count hits, can we use a counter?
The problem with using counters to track our visitors is they are set up to measure page views, not unique visitors. Everytime someone views your page, whether it's the first time or the twentieth, that visitor is counted. And if the page times out for some reason and they "Reload," it counts them again. And if someone just wants to have fun with your counter, they can exit and enter the site several times and are counted as a visitor each time--even if they never look at product.
So if you can't count hits and you can't use a counter, how do you track the traffic on your site? Use a web traffic analysis program. A web traffic analysis program will give you vital information about the traffic coming to your site, including where visitors are coming from, what paths your visitors are taking and which pages are the main exit points of your site.
Your web host should automatically provide you with a traffic analysis program, but there are a lot of programs to choose from.
Now that you understand the difference you can fire back at those advertisers and get the real truth about their traffic levels.
So here we are in the Caribbean, on vacation. It is amazing that each day my businesses continue to market, sell, and grow. That is the real benefit of a Home Based Business.
Regardless of which type of home business you have it will continue to thrive while you are enjoying yourself. Well, maybe not completely alone.
You see I do get online while the family is still sleeping off the prior evenings party. About a hour each morning is all that is necessary for me to keep the engines stoked. Generating leads, answering questions and providing my "Support Lite" while away is quite enjoyable with a view of the beautiful Caribbean.
But even more, when folks ask what I do for a living they are full of questions about my home based businesses. I even picked up a couple that is interested in contracting me to help get them started.
I love Home Based Businesses.
Email or Call Me Lou Veltri, 888-783-6196 (read more)
What do you need to do business on the Internet?
Well, to most people this is a significant issue because there usually aren’t large budgets and/or time available. So at the very worst case it can be frustrating and it could negatively affect your motivation. And this is a major reason 97% of the folks trying to get a business running on the Internet fail.
My business is based upon the coach methodology. I have “been there, done that” and you can benefit from my experiences and knowledge. I have been deeply involved in setting up businesses on the internet as an advisor, mentor and coach for many years. It is not difficult. It is just impossible to sort though all of the information and hype that you will encounter while trying to understand what you need to do and effectively organize yourself to get it done.
So here is a simple checklist. First, you need to select a domain name, this is how people will find your site, you may have heard the term URL. Then you will need to decide how to get your site designed, built and put in operation. Speaking of operational sites, who will be your hosting company that is the company that will provide you with the server space to put your site on. Then how will you get your site designed and built? Template, custom or do it yourself? Just these three technical items can cost you a lot of time and money.
And, that was the easy part. How will you get your website known? How will you attract potential customers? What happens when they want to buy? How do you get paid? And how do you get the product to your customer?
All of this can be a bit daunting but only because you do not have a plan and no one that you trust to ask questions and get reliable answers to help you build a realistic plan.
Let me help you by being your Coach or by simply using me as your personal Mentor.
Email or Call Me Lou Veltri, 888-783-6196 or Visit Here
There are an awful lot of claims to make you wealthy overnight. The truth be
known, only you can make you wealthy.
Today you probably work and get paid based on what your boss wants to pay you
each hour that you work. Even if you are a salaried employee you are still
getting paid based upon an hour rate. In fact, many people, maybe even you, are
making less per hour than the hourly workers you know because of the time you
are expected to put in. How often does a salaried employee work only 40 hours
per week? How often does an hourly employee not get paid additional for
overtime? See what I mean?
When you are in your own business you set your hourly rate. Another truth is
that you can earn a much higher hourly rate when you work for yourself,
especially if you leverage the internet to build and sustain your business. You
see the internet is like an employee on steroids! It will continue to work when
you are sleeping, spending time with the family, as well as when you are
attending to your business.
So how can you best use your time to get your business started and on the
road to success? You have to have a plan, time, and, of course, the drive to
make it happen. Probably the most effective way to build your plan is
to model your plan from one that is already successful. A Business Development
Coach, like me, can shorten your time to get to your goals and objectives. This
is also a great way to progress quickly as you are not spending a lot of time
figuring out what to do next, you are learning from my experience, not trial and
error, and you are acting on the plan . The result is that you will be working
your plan much quicker.
Check out my $200 a day
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That is because it does take time. So you need to get started sooner rather than
later. Sure you can have me put it up for you quicker but what will you have
learned, and how would you be able to work it if you do not understand it?
Even if you already have an online business you will find that the the free tools at Veretekk will
help you promote the online part of your business quite effectively. It will
help you find prospects, communicate with them and convert them to a customer.
Let me help you by being your coach or by simply using me as your personal
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We are a group of dedicated business owners with a passion for helping others. We are married couples, single people, moms and dads - all with one unique aspect
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A healthy business needs to grow with training, support, and good prospects. One reason we have been successful is because we stay up on new technologies to build a successful business. With team focus we will help you grow your business whether you want to work with strangers or friends, online or offline. One part of our success is getting interested prospects contacting you before you ever speak with them (yes, they actually will if you want them to!).
Serious about joining a successful team to build your business? Call me at 888-272-6701 get your questions answered. Plug into our Team.
Miracles happen when you give energy to your Dreams
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach
This is one of these videos that gave me goose bump's, re-ignited a fire deep in my heart, and sent chills running up my spine. I don't know if it will do the same for you we are all made up differently. Watch closely...
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So... what feelings did it bring out in you? For me the goose bumps came when I saw many of the athletes in the video whom I know trust Shaklee nutrition to fuel their body. The winner in the womens category Laurie Brandt is one. Anytime I am reminded of the amazing adventures that trust Shaklee for their "fuel" it gives me goose bumps.
The next feeling that came was a fire that's been way deep inside for a long time. When I saw the mountains and terran in the video all I could think about is how I want to explore mountains, valleys and everything in between. One of my dreams is trail riding in places you would only trust a mules instinct to take you through it.
This picture and message I posted on facebook is a motivational reminder for me. It's a picture of "Josie" one of our gaited trail mules. The reason for the title is.. she isn't what I consider "broke" yet (although my husband feels she is not that far from it)
This is kind of like my own "dream" board, please comment and or encourage me OK?
Our mules aren't your average mules they have been bred specifically for long distance smooth rides. They are BIG (right at 16 hands) and very athletic. Tale is built like a brick probably weighs 200 lbs more that Josie. We purchased them as babies straight out of a pasture where they were born. My husband and I have taught them everything. Both of us have extensive of experience in training animals.
The fear for me is the distance to ground, their athletic ability to jump, twist, go over tall barriers and cover long distances in a very short of time. What I fear is what I will love and appreciate the most once they are broke and on the trail.
It's been said you have a much greater chance of meeting and attaining your goals when you tell others about them. I've gotta say the desire is very strong to get those mules broke to ride and I'm confident you'll help me out with encouraging words.
The chilling part of the video for me: I got very cold and chills went up my spine seeing the needle pierce the skin of the contestant. I've got a fear of needles. It's weird I don't mind giving animals shots (probably cause I done it so much) but the idea of a needle going into human skin gives me the creeps.
So what about you. Did any part of this video move you like it did me. What are your dreams or/and fears? It's emotion that causes us to take action, what are you giving energy too?
Living the dream,
Cindy Barefoot in the Garden 888-272-6701 www.cindymcasey.com My Life's Purpose is Others' Success
May Good Fortune Be With You. May Your Guiding Light Be Strong.
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach
Taking Twitter to the Next Level
OK, so you’ve got your twitter account up and cooking, you’re using 3rd party apps to filter and aggregate search (I use tweetdeck) and you’ve got a tweeting routing down pat, now what?
Now it’s time to take a much deeper look into the social web and start looking deeper into conversation themes, discovering who’s influencing what, who’s saying what and how often, and what’s trending around a topic. There is a new breed of search engine forming around the “now search” that is plugging into social sites like twitter as well as blogs and social networks.
Below are three newish real-time search engines that allow you to take a deep look as what’s going right now.
OneRiot - this is essentially a bookmarking site for twitter. Users share tweets that contain URLs to web pages and this site keeps track and returns search results based on topics. This is a really great way to discover some new sites related to subjects and you can interact with the twitter shares right from the site by replying to or retweeting good stuff you find.
Topsy - lots of stats when you search including the a collection of authors by volume for each topic you are trending. Really like this to find people who are very active around a topic or who are your best retweeters.
crowdeye - currently a twitter only search engine it gives you results from tweets and retweets including graphs and charts.
Cindy McAsey Barefoot in the Garden
888.272.6701 ext #1
KEYWORDS: Marketing Strategies, Social Marketing, Cindy McAsey
Online Training: 6 Steps to Make your Brand on Twitter
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach6 Steps to Make your Brand on Twitter
Building your brand on Twitter is an important part of your success on Twitter. It is imperative that you not only build a targeted following, but more importantly that you create a conversation with or at a minimum provide your followers with useful information.
In this post, I am not going to go over the basics such as filling out your Twitter profile and uploading an avatar. Instead lets focus on you and your twitter brand to succeed.
Be Proactive
Many tweeps commonly have questions or problems they need help with. This is your opportunity to step in and come to the rescue by answering their question or atleast referring them to a source that may help them. By helping them, you not only solve their issue, you help establish credibility and identity among the Twitter community.
It is an even better opportunity to help someone out by offering your product or service to resolve their problem. Not only can this produce a targeted lead, but it can result in a sale.If you are not proactive in your niche or area of business, chances are someone else will come along and be proactive. They will establish the credibility among the community, build the dedicated following, while you are trying to play catch up. You don’t want that, do you?
Share What’s Happening/Be Newsworthy
If you are typically digging up the newest social media marketing trends or other industry topics, why not share them with your followers? This sort of falls into the proactive step listed above. However, providing your followers with newsworthy information, you will establish credibility of being “in the know”.
Make sure what you are sharing is important and interesting. If you are trying to share something lame, chances are no one will care and you will probably lose some credibility among your followers. If you don’t have anything unique to share, this is a great opportunity to retweet something that was tweeted to you and will strengthen your relationship of whom you retweeted.
Create a Targeted Following
What good is it to have a bunch of followers if they are not interested in what you have to say? Not much. This is why it is imperative to build a targeted following with people interested in your business or service. Chances are it will be easier to be proactive and newsworthy with them. I've found the twitter advanced search feature very useful especially for local business. http://search.twitter.com/advanced
Engage Your Followers
Not only should you be proactive and newsworthy with your followers, you need to engage with them on a more personal level. By this I mean you should take the time to respond to DM’s and @replies when you can. While it can be somewhat time consuming, ignoring followers trying to interact with you is not a great idea. Isn’t your goal to build a brand and relationship with your followers? I suggest you build relationships with those followers who ARE interested in what you have to say.
Brand Your Twitter Page
Pimping out your Twitter page is a good idea. A tricked out page not only is eye catching, but it helps to set you apart from everyone else. It shows you are actually real (not a bot) as well as an opportunity to provide your Twitter visitors with more information about you or your business.
Monitor Your Brand
Now that you are on your way to taking over the world with your brand, it is important to monitor it. Twitter makes this easy via the Twitter Search. Simply type in your business or username, then add the RSS feed to your favorite reader.(I use tweetdeck for this) Should your name get discussed (both positively and negatively) you will be aware of the conversations taking place. You can then step in to participate, both for damage control or to thank someone for their positive remarks. I would not advise ignoring negative feedback, it could severely damage your reputation if left un-attended.
In a Nutshell
So here is the quick checklist:
Be Proactive
Be Newsworthy
Create a Targeted Following
Engage Your Followers
Brand Your Twitter Page
Monitor Your Brand
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach
There are several MLM companies and distributors who say they are not MLM, but in fact when you look at the pay plan their true identity is revealed. MLM (multi-level marketing) is direct selling which involves a product or service. True multi-level marketing involves selling a product or service that is worthwhile both to the distributor and to the purchaser. When a distributor builds an organization of other distributors a percentage of the profits go to the upline (distributor) who sponsored no matter how many levels up.
Some MLM compensation plans are profitable by just reselling the products. Just reselling the products is also known as affiliate programs. Affiliate programs online are a dime a dozen. Most affiliate programs only pay out 1 level. You sell a product or service and you get a commission from the sale of the product. Also gaining in popularity are 2 and 3 tier affiliate programs. In these programs you get a small commission on your second and third level sales to. The main difference between an MLM and affiliate is the level of pay out. If the pay out goes down many levels it is considered MLM. A true affiliate program will pay out only a couple of levels down.
The first years of MLM revolved around recruiting your friends and family to purchase your products and join in. This type of marketing is also known as the warm market. Your friends and family trust you and want you to succeed so they buy into your program. The warm market method though had it downfalls, that being you run out of family and friends.
The 3-foot rule came along in the multilevel marketing arena. This notion was that you were to prospect everyone within three feet of you and sell your product whether you knew them or not. Fortunately this practice is not taught in MLM tips or techniques today.
In the 1980's and 90's newspaper advertising became pretty popular. Most of the ads were placed in the sales section in the classified ads. This form of recruiting new distributors was soon shut down by government regulations. The government contended that they were fake job ads. Today you may see MLM distributors advertise in highly targeted magazines although this type of advertising can be quite expensive.
Today, the Internet has revolutionized multilevel and affiliate marketing. Location is no longer an issue, you can advertise and sell globally if your company allows. However due to the Internet there are tons of get rich quick schemes. Additionally, there are pages upon pages of training sites and materials teaching how to build your business in MLM. I suggest that you thoroughly review each training program before purchasing.
To be successful in multilevel or affiliate marketing, you must use your product or service and have confidence in the benefits. Confidence in your product or service will show in your sales & recruitment of new members.
MLM and affiliate marketing has evolved across the Internet and I'm living proof it will provide a good stable income if you believe in your product and yourself. MLM is not a get rich quick scheme, it is an honest noble profession and a great work at home opportunity either part time or full time. When considering a multilevel or affiliate marketing business, take the steps to research the company, understand the compensation plan, and USE the product or service.
All too often people are convinced into joining a multi-level marketing company based on hype and the get rich quick schemes they promote. There are many MLM companies advertised on the Internet that promote themselves as a true multi-level marketing company but in reality, they are some illegal pyramid scheme. These get rich quick schemes usually offer no real or worthy product/service.
Online Training:What does your profile on Social Networks say about you?
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach
Imagine you are at a social networking event, such as a chamber mixer event. It's a large room of people from all different walks of life. Some of these people are dressed in business suits, some in party dresses, some in overalls like they just came in from doing chores. Who would you tend to network with?
Now imagine all of these people in this room dressed exactly the same, like they are in uniform or something. Do you think you would migrate to the same folks? Even though everyone is dressed exactly the same I bet if you really studied this group you could still tell alot about these people by the way the shape or health of their body, their hair, skin, hands and nails.
With this analogy in mind take a look into some of the groups of different social networks. In twitter it's very simple to put together a quick group of people by searching on a trending topic or keyword at http://search.twitter.com. When your profile show up in a group, how does it look compared to others the group? Does it fit? Do you think folks would migrate to you and want to connect?
Now let's go a little deeper into your profile and look at your profile picture. Is it portraying the image that best fits who you are? Is it a picture others would migrate towards? Next what site are you linking to. I don't know about you but to link directly to a lead capture page that's asking you to optin is a complete turn off to me. You should like to a site where folks can learn more about you, and maybe have an optional optin or to suscribe to your RSS feed.
One thing I really like about twitter, it's very transparent. With a quick look of someone's profile you can see if they are really using their account to network or promote. You can generally tell if they are using automated services to grow their friends and followers. If someone has over 10,000 friends/followers but has under 1000 updates it throws up a red flag for me.
If you have read the book "Tribes" by Seth Godin you will appreciate his recent talk at TED.
Why tribes, not money or factories, will change the world.
Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change.
I've got a question for you... does your profile look like a leader (of a tribe) in Social Networking?
For instance... if you are in the fitness business. Does your profile picture attract a "tribe" of folks intrested in fitness?
I honestly hope this gives you a different perspective on exactly what your current "image" in the social networks is attracting and who you decide to add to your social network. (tribe)
Cindy McAsey Barefoot in the Garden
888.272.6701 Ext 1
Online Training: Mobile Blogging Simple Instruction
A New Simple way to post to Blogger via your phone.
Last month Google released a less complicated way of linking up your phone with one or more of your Blogger blogs. It put the settings to post to a specific blog through your phone or e-mail next to each blog's title inside of the dashboard using small and simple icons. And as of today the change is now live to everyone.
This video showcases exactly how it's done with an iphone.
Now there is really no excuse for not keeping your blogger blog up to date.
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach
If you keep presenting to more prospects and you're not seeing the results you want, obviously something is wrong. Ever hear the old saying that a fool is someone who does the same thing over and over and expects different results?
The skill you need to master is communication - the ability to effectively present your business. But, there's something else to communication. You're not just trying to "make things clear". That's only a part of effective communication. You're attempting to teach someone what you know about your business - a bit more difficult.
Why is this more difficult? Let me explain:
Your prospect, before you've even had a chance to talk to them, probably has been exposed to M.L.M. Chances are they've heard some negative comments about the industry. You know: pyramid scheme, won't work for me, I don't want to be a salesperson, and on and on.
Thing is, if you allow those preconceived notions to go untouched, your prospect will never join your organization - period. Moving from one prospect to another... or... thinking that "it's a numbers game and you just need to get in front of more people", is a mistake.
Getting in front of more people is the solution when you're able to convert prospects into distributors - but not when you can't get anyone to join your downline!
All you're doing is speeding up your failure. So what's the solution? You must learn how to communicate effectively. So effectively that is causes people to react to what your message. This skill is critical to wealth building in network marketing.
Effective communication builds answers to objections into the initial communication. You'll eliminate the prospect's objections before they express them to you. Effective communication virtually eliminates objections and gets people thinking "your way".
Now, some people feel like this is manipulative. They feel everyone is entitled to their opinion and you have no right to "talk them out of it". They have a point. I agree everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Effective communication doesn't discount someone's thoughts. And, I can appreciate how someone may believe you're being manipulative if you're answering objections before they come up.
But I have a different perspective. I truly believe I'm helping someone with their life. I believe when I communicate effectively I have the best interest in mind for the person I'm communicating with. I never enter a conversation with the intent to "get the better end of the stick".
In front of a prospect, I always feel confident because I know I'm helping them.
I enter the conversation thinking I can improve their life. How? With a greater sense of achievement... an improved financial condition... and the feeling of fulfillment once they've reached their ideal position in life.
Plus, I know M.L.M is not what all those rumors say it is. Therefore, I'm helping someone see the truth. Most importantly, I feel like I'm doing a disservice if I don't communicate effectively.
What I mean is, I feel I'm truly helping people, I owe it to them to help them overcome any obstacle they have to joining my business. Comming from a teaching and training backgroud in the non-profit world puts me in the mindset of knowing deep in my heart I know I can make their life better than it is now. I brought the same mentality to network marketing.
You should too. You should know in your soul that you're helping someone.
If someone was in a burning house and you went in to save them and they were scared to leave through all the flames, wouldn't you do everything in your power to overcome their fear and get them out? It's this mentality you must bring to your communication skills. You must learn how to effectively communicate so you can help people escape their quiet desperation.
Online Training: How is your Customer Service Skills
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach
Customer Service is so important to the health and wealth in your business.
No one can make you serve customers well. That's because great service is a choice.
Harvey Mackay, tells a wonderful story about a cab driver that proved this point.
He was waiting in line for a ride at the airport. When a cab pulled up, the first thing Harvey noticed was that the taxi was polished to a bright shine. Smartly dressed in a white shirt, black tie, and freshly pressed black slacks, the cab driver jumped out and rounded the car to open the back passenger door for Harvey .
He handed my friend a laminated card and said: 'I'm Wally, your driver. While I'm loading your bags in the trunk I'd like you to read my mission statement.' Taken aback, Harvey read the card.
It said: Wally's Mission Statement:To get my customers to their destination in the quickest, safest and cheapest way possible in a friendly environment.
This blew Harvey away. Especially when he noticed that the inside of the cab matched the outside. Spotlessly clean! As he slid behind the wheel, Wally said, 'Would you like a cup of coffee? I have a thermos of regular and one of decaf.' My friend said jokingly, 'No, I'd prefer a soft drink.' Wally smiled and said, 'No problem. I have a cooler up front with regular and Diet Coke, water and orange juice.'
Almost stuttering, Harvey said, 'I'll take a Diet Coke.'Handing him his drink, Wally said, 'If you'd like something to read, I have The Wall Street Journal, Time, Sports Illustrated and USA Today.'As they were pulling away, Wally handed my friend another laminated card, 'These are the stations I get and the music they play, if you'd like to listen to the radio.'
And as if that weren't enough, Wally told Harvey that he had the air conditioning on and asked if the temperature was comfortable for him. Then he advised Harvey of the best route to his destination for that time of day. He also let him know that he'd be happy to chat and tell him about some of the sights or, if Harvey preferred, to leave him with his own thoughts.
'Tell me, Wally,' my amazed friend asked the driver, 'have you always served customers like this?'
Wally smiled into the rear view mirror. 'No, not always. In fact, it's only been in the last two years. My first five years driving, I spent most of my time complaining like all the rest of the cabbies do. Then I heard the personal growth guru, Wayne Dyer, on the radio one day.
He had just written a book called You'll See It When You Believe It . Dyer said that if you get up in the morning expecting to have a bad day, you'll rarely disappoint yourself. He said, 'Stop complaining!
Differentiate yourself from your competition. Don't be a duck. Be an eagle. Ducks quack and complain. Eagles soar above the crowd.''
'That hit me right between the eyes,' said Wally. 'Dyer was really talking about me. I was always quacking and complaining, so I decided to change my attitude and become an eagle. I looked around at the other cabs and their drivers. The cabs were dirty, the drivers were unfriendly, and the customers were unhappy. So I decided to make some changes. I put in a few at a time. When my customers responded well, I did more.'
'I take it that has paid off for you,' Harvey said. 'It sure has,' Wally replied. 'My first year as an eagle, I doubled my income from the previous year. This year I'll probably quadruple it. You were lucky to get me today. I don't sit at cabstands anymore. My customers call me for appointments on my cell phone or leave a message on my answering machine. If I can't pick them up myself, I get a reliable cabbie friend to do it and I take a piece of the action.'
Wally was phenomenal. He was running a limo service out of a Yellow Cab. I've probably told that story to more than fifty cab drivers over the years, and only two took the idea and ran with it. Whenever I go to their cities, I give them a call. The rest of the drivers quacked like ducks and told me all the reasons they couldn't do any of what I was suggesting.
Wally the Cab Driver made a different choice. He decided to stop quacking like ducks and start soaring like eagles.
How about you?
Smile, and the whole world smiles with you... The ball is in our hands! A man reaps what he sows. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up... let
us do good to all people.
Online Training: Benefits of a Gold Veretekk System
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach
I had someone ask me the benefits of a Gold Veretekk System today and thought gosh I don't think I've posted that exact information anywhere online so here it is. Many times in our little social network call Veretekk we quitely use it to promote and grow our businesses and just expect if someone is interested they will become a free silver member, become part of our close knit community, and as they access our many weekly free online training will understand. It's really tough to list all of the benefits of a gold Veretekk system, cause there are many hidden benefits but I'm gonna try Ok?
Just look at the SEO tools and features that are included with ONE Veretekk Gold System
Lead Generation: With scores of unique Traffic Portals, you are assured of attaining the best, unique, exclusive lead data. Your exclusive leads mean they are looking forward to your call. Or, you can easily transfer individual, groups or all your leads to other Veretekk subscribers that are in your downline. This can virtually create a tsunami of downline success never attainable before.
All data, traffic and search engine rankings for each Traffic Portal is fully verified and verifiable. Never wonder if your ads are pulling, if your email is effective, if your data is accurate. The systems fully account for every action you take inside the system or on other sites, you control the reports.
Traffic Initiation: Once you activate the full portfolio of marketing and promotion tools for each portal, the traffic and leads start rolling in. Just push a few buttons and your on your way. That easy!
Link Integration: Easily link up to 10 other sites, promotional services, banner exchanges, etc. with a few pull down menus and a couple of buttons to push. One of the scores of systems that pour traffic and leads into your system with every conceivable marketing and advertising system on the Internet. All of your portals are fully integration automated.
Custom Configuration: Each one of your Traffic Portals has it's own unique domain name. You can also edit the Title, Meta tags, Hidden copy and text, links, photos and look of each one of your portals. You can also setup each portal to have a different set of sequential autoresponders that start mailing when the lead verifies their email address. This system fully integrates with Inetekk's Veretap systems too. This means, Veretap subscribers can automatically choose to have their leads automatically enrolled into Veretap's tap root automated recruiting systems.
Just a glance at the full Gold System in action with 42 fully configurable lead capture pages to promote your business online. Will make some peoples head spin.
Imagine the search engine positions on Google that you, or your business could achieve in purchasing a gold Veretekk System! Veretekk stands for quality in SEO tools, training and all the necessary elements that you need to become successful with any MLM business that you may be attempting to market on Google.
You will NEVER have to buy ebooks, software programs, traffic, leads or any of the things that you now waste your money on.
Another HUGE benefit with a Veretekk Gold system you also get Veremail Gold!
Veremail Gold firmly surpasses the best emailing systems on the market with one very important benefit none of the others have:
3rd party verification validation and MAPs endorsement.
Other systems have come and gone, but only Veremail has stood the test time (online since 1996). Why? Simple - Veremail continues to be the world's only double opt-in, fully verified and verifiable, online bulk emailing system. The system is 100% spam free, allowing Internet marketers a legal, ethical, and responsible means for conducting their business online. Better yet, with Veremail you have no liability risk since all incoming and outgoing email flows through our massive email server farm - not your ISP. The system is packed with valuable features and functionality to both explode your business and let you monitor detailed statistical results - all delivered to you for a small fraction of the cost of other email systems.
It's taken over a decade to develop and refine Veremail into the behemoth you see before you today. Veremail is endorsed by World Wide Scam as the only legitimate online email marketing system. State and Federal lobbyists for responsible permission based marketing and anti-spam efforts cite Veremail as the example the rest of the industry should follow. Spam is a huge problem in the world today. It costs people money, wastes productivity, raises the cost of various services for consumers, and is just plain annoying. They say you're either part of the problem or part of the solution. Veremail is the solution.
Veremail is very easy to use. The links to the left allow you to navigate through the features and functions available. These out outlined briefly below:
1) Redirect Page
When someone clicks on the verification email you can send them to any website you want, avoiding the Veretekk pitch. You still have the option to send the verified prospect to your many Market Centers but you can also send them direct to your own website, blog, a Traffic Portal of your choice or an affiliate site. The choice is yours!
2) Enter Contacts
At its most basic level you can use Veremail to manually verify a contact by entering their information and submitting it to the system. A verification email will be sent to the contact and once they either respond to the email or click on the verification link contained in it, they will be immediately verified as a contact and added to your database. This feature is especially useful for when someone gives you a business card and you want to add them to your email database.
3) My Contacts
Here you can review and update the contact information for all of the contacts you entered into the system that have verified. You also have the ability to assign them to a Veremail Group. These groups are then available in your Veretekk system Bully Pulpit and Premium Leads so that you can organize your contacts however you see fit and send out email campaigns to any group you like.
4) Create Groups
You have the ability to create an unlimited number of Groups in Veremail. Each group is listed separately in your Veretekk Bully Pulpit so that you can send out specialized emails to each one. You can use these groups to divide and organize the contacts that you manually enter and verify through the system. However, the real reason for having groups is that the system will automatically generate HTML code that you can copy and paste into your own web sites in order to offer a signup form for your visitors to subscribe to your mailing list. The code used for each group is a little different. These transportable signup forms that allow you to add Veremail subscription systems on any web site you have access to. That means you can produce dozens of specifically targeted subscription forms each feeding into a different group. Veremail Gold is the only system of it's kind, giving you the ultimate multi ported opportunity service on the planet.
5) My Groups
This is where you manage your Veremail groups. Check the signups for the Veremail form code and update them. Gives you access to change the redirect pages and autoresponders as well as deleting old groups that you don't use.
6) Upload Email List
This is one of the most powerful features of Veremail Gold - and a major differentiator from all other systems. You can upload as many as 300,000 emails per month for verification in order to build large compliment verified email lists. Compare that to the closest competitor's limit to 2,500 per month... and they don't even have verification. (Many have gone out of business because of this in recent years. Good riddance!)
Email lists are widely available throughout the Internet. They cost anywhere from $30 to $100's each. A word of warning: You usually get what you pay for! Choose a responsible source. Veremail Gold includes a sizeable portfolio of professionally written verification sizzle letters, designed to target your markets for significant results. Each letter also utilizes Veremail Gold customization. This means your letters can be targeted and customized, yet stay compliment with all the anti-spam policies. When you upload an email list a verification email is sent to each contact to entice them to verify (by responding to the email or clicking the verification link found in it) and allowing you to send them email. Those that verify will be available for your to email to through your Veretekk Bully Pulpit as a email list group.
But, that's not all! The most powerful aspect of the email list upload process is the statistical tracking. This functionality hasn't even been conceived anywhere else! When you upload your email list the Veremail Analysis Engine will scrutinize each individual email address to determine how many of them are unique or duplicates, how many are new contacts (as compared to those you may already have verified in your database), as well as compare each email to our known spam email list and system blacklists.
7) My Email Lists
As your Veremail campaign executes and the verification emails go out, you'll get even more detailed stats to see not just how many people have verified, but also how many people simply opened the email and how many email addresses were bad (the email bounced). Having this detailed statistical data available allows you to really see how good the email list was and effectiveness of your subject titles. If you buy a list from a reputable source and it turns out to be junk, you'll have the data to go back and demand a refund! Most importantly, this information will allow you to know when you have found a good email list source. No more guessing... With this kind of knowledge, you can make educated corrections to your campaigns, allowing you to fine tune your campaign and that produces greater results. And that folks, is called marketing!
8) Unverified Leads
Finally, this feature is a spill over bonus for Veremail Gold users. Throughout the Veretekk system there are literally 100,000's of leads each day that don't respond to a verification email sent out from one of the many traffic portals that subscribers promote. These unverified leads are funneled to Veremail Gold subscribers in a round robin type fashion. Much like uploading an email list, you can select a verification letter and have it sent out to these unverified leads as a final chance for them to verify. Many of these email addresses are undeliverable, but some are real and will actually verify. (For example, their email box might have been full when the initial verification letter was sent to them.) It doesn't matter how it happens, when someone responds to your email or clicks the verification link inside it, they will be added to your database as a Veremail Capture lead. These leads show up in your Veretekk Bully Pulpit as "Veremail" leads.
If you compare the alternatives, you will discover that there really isn't any. Veremail Gold was built by the Gurus who needed a system that would give them a large sphere of influence - but also be easy-to-use, duplicatable, and spam-proof. No other system comes close. If you are marketing on the Internet, then you know several fundamental issues. Self regulation to prevent spamming isn't working, self proclaimed anti spam zealots are gaining tremendous power without any accountability or recourse. If this situation isn't reversed we may well wind up with an Internet being run by a bunch of self appointed Mid Century Land Barons in a culture over run by spam thugs who think nothing of kicking your door in and stuffing their scams and pornography in your face and rubbing it in. There is a solution and your looking at it.
Enjoy the power and ease that Veremail Gold brings to you.
I used and continue to use the veremail system to build marketing campaigns and funnel systems.
As a Platinum Control Panel System owner in Veretekk I also get people asking me what are the benefits of hooking my Gold Veretekk System to a Platinum Control Panel System. Here are a few I can think of right off the top of my head...
The benefits of having your gold Veretekk system set for you and connected to a PCP.
1. It takes about 6 hours once you know what you are doing to configure and link all of the gold portals by hand.. been there done it not fun!
2. When you are connected to a PCP (Platinum Control Panel) your RSS feeds go out to 20 blogger drones giving you lots of SEO power. I also have the ability to give you word press files already configured to place on your website with your gold system RSS feed configured in it.
3. Your gold system will get back links from other gold systems hooked in my PCP. Currently I have 42 other gold systems hooked in my PCP.
4. Your gold system when hooked in a PCP also connects you with other PCP owners RSS feeds giving you even more back linking power.
5. Through my PCP you have the ability to build web pages and send them to me to host on any or all of your gold system web sites. ... for instance is hosted on my gold "cindy" system Veretekk affiliate site. Again this gives you access to all of the seasoned Veretekk domains to host your content on. This is a VERY powerful benefit.
6. You have and inside connection with an advanced user and trainer in the Veretekk system. Someone who will guide you through all aspects of Veretekk. This alone is very powerful.
Online Training Tips for a Successful Online Advertising Campaign
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach
Online Training Tips for a Successful Online Advertising Campaign
1. Have a customized landing page, which takes the prospective customer to the exact product, or service page for which they are searching.
2. To have a cost effective online marketing strategy there needs to be enough people searching for your product or service.
For example, if someone is searching for a particular type of phone, your ad should feature that particular type of phone. The more specific you are and the less searching the perspective customer has to do once they get to your web page, the more likely they are to contact you, buy your product, or take the action you want them to take.
You will need to research which search terms or keywords are searched on more frequently than other search terms so that you can make sure that you have the largest audience possible. You can do this using Google's keyword tool. Doing just this small amount of market research can make the difference between success or failure of your online business venture.
For example, if you're selling Phone dialiers and there's only ten people a day in your area searching for Phone dialiers, you are not going to be very successful. If however, there are 100,000 people a day searching for a Phone dialiers and you only have two competitors who also sell Phone dialiers, then there is room for you in that market.
Below are some useful features of Google's keyword tool:
1. You can enter various phrases describing your businesses products or services into the search box. The tool will give you results on different phrases and synonyms matching your description. It will also tell you which search terms produce the largest amount of traffic on a monthly basis.
2. If you are targeting the entire United States then the monthly traffic column per keyword is very accurate. If you are targeting a particular state within the United States then you would need to divide that number by the percentage of population in that state.
3. Google's keyword tool also has a column that indicates the average cost per click for each search term. This can be helpful for forecasting how much to price your product or service. For example, if you are selling something for $10.00 and it costs you $10.00 to get enough people to your website before anyone buys your product then you need to rethink your pricing model. If however, your product sells for $20.00 and it only costs you $5.00 in advertising before someone buys your product, then you have a cost effective marketing campaign.
Cindy McAsey Barefoot in the Garden
888.272.6701
Learn more about Cindy McAsey and why she does what she does at www.cindymcasey.com
Online Training: Making the most of your Mind for Business
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach
Do you spend a portion of you day working on mindset? I've discovered in when you own your own business you must continually work on your mindset. If you don't your business will generally suffer. If you take 10 to 30 seconds a day and read the message below until it becomes a part of every day. It will get your mindset right to build and succeed in what ever you set out to do in life.
I believe and have for many, many years that we win with inspired people not with long "to do lists" or with systems. This doesn't mean systems and "to do lists" aren't important and useful, far from it. But if there is a secret to business or life it is that inspired people are those who will work hard, build strong and deep, and build themselves a future that is very difficult to describe.
Read the following and sit back and think about it.
Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.
So love the people who treat you right,
Forget the ones who don't,
And believe that everything happens for a reason.
If you get a chance,
Take it.
If it changes your life,
Let it.
Nobody said that it'd be easy,
They just promised it would be worth it.
Author Unknown
I use sayings like this to keep my mindset in check everyday. There are many books written on how important the mindset is to business. As part of our franchise business you have access to all of my franchise business techinques and tips.
Online Training: The Right Time the Right Business
Marketing Strategies:
Align Yourself with the Right Business at the Right Time
This channel is dedicated to many different marketing strategies. I feel so strongly about this company and the real opportunites associated by aligning yourself with our team and this company, I decided it was time you at least have this information to educate yourself.
There are many ways to grow a Shaklee Distributor Business as a Marketing Strategies Coach I make it a point to be tuned into marketing strategies for growing the business online and offline.
Duplication is something has been taught in the MLM industry for years, in my eyes this is why so many people fail. None of us come from the same mold, we all have things we like to do and things we hate doing. On our team we use a 7 step process that is designed to fit you, teaching you to delegate out things you are not good at or don't like doing, and focusing on your strengths to build your business foundation.
Sometimes when I look at the "Smoke, Mirrors and all the "Just join our program and you will be rich by tomorrow" it's no wonder many people looking for honest business opportunities get taken. It's human nature to be sucked into the lie's and promises of "it's easy anyone can do it." I just want you to know while building a business may be simple if the right steps are taken, not everyone will do it.
Let me ask you, are you they type of person who will follow through and actually do what it takes to be successful in business? If you are and you liked what you heard on this video we need to talk!
Online Training: 3 ways to use Email and Search together to reach your customers
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach
If you have been online long at all you probably know this... but a study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project says most popular Web activity for Americans is email, followed closely by searching. The two lessons you should take from these findings are:
1. It makes sense to do email marketing, and
2. It makes sense to do search engine marketing.
After all, both online channels are perfect ways to meet customers in their natural online habitats. But there’s a way to make your search marketing and your email work even better. How? Use them together. Here are three suggestions as to how to do it.
1. Use Search Marketing to Make Your Email Smarter
To get a strong response to your email blasts, you need to use just the right words and just the right message. This will make your customers want to read your email and respond to it. A good place to start looking for the right kind of language is in your Sponsored Search campaigns:
• Use your best-performing search keywords within your email subject line and body copy.
• Use your best-performing search creatives as the core of your email subject lines.
• Use your best-converting search landing pages as the model for your email body and your email landing pages.
Think about it: If certain words, messages and concepts drive searchers to convert via search, then those same words, messages and concepts should resonate with similarly minded shoppers within email. So it follows that if you want to learn how to sell to your email customers, you should ask your search customers.
2. Use Email to Make Your Search Marketing Work Better
People who have signed up to your email lists are, without a doubt, great examples of who your target customers are. After all, they’ve explicitly asked you to keep in touch with them. So if you understand your email subscribers’ online behaviors, you can read the mind of your target market.
Think about the types of wording, messages, email body and landing pages those target customers respond to best, and you can get clues as to what types of keywords, ad copy and landing pages will best capture the attention (and conversions) of people like them as they use search.
And, of course, look at the keywords, ad copy and landing pages that drove those email sign-ups to begin with: They’ve clearly worked!
3. Bringing it Together. For this last point, allow me to provide a simple example:
Consider a shopper who’s bought a specific brand of shoes (let’s say, Nike Shoes). She’s very happy with that brand, and the next time she wants to buy a new pair of Shoes, she searches for “Nike Shoes"
That’s a Sponsored Search click that’s led to a sale—and so, arguably, that’s search spend well spent.
But here’s an even better scenario: The same shopper signs up to an Nike Shoes email list. The next time she needs a pair of shoes, she doesn’t search at all—and so she doesn’t create any search click costs for Nike. Instead, she arrives at the Nike Shoes site via the Nike email, and buys a new pair of Shoes directly from the email linking to the website.
The moral of this tale? Use Sponsored Search to acquire new customers. Then once you have those customers in your database, help them bypass the search engines by putting them on your email lists. Offer a clear “email signup” link throughout your site, and suggest that shoppers sign up to your email list as part of the checkout process.
You can invest the money you’ll save into getting even more customers via Sponsored Search.
Hands down one of the best double opt in verified email system's can be found at: http://mcasey.veremail.com
Want to dominate the Search Engines without paying to be at the top? Today may be the time to discover Veretekk! Its FREE to join and look around. Take a test drive today you will be glad you did.
Secret Web Conferencing Strategies to Expand Your Customer Base
For increasing your customer base and expanding your business, you can easily select any of the options available such as hiring a marketing professional, initiating ad campaigns in trade publications and many others. However, if you do not have the funds and are looking for a low-cost solution, then it's recommended that you opt for web conferences that are just as effective and in some ways even better than many of the high-cost options.
Web conferencing can definitely help you achieve your targeted goals and objectives obviously because they allow you to add that much-needed personal touch to your marketing campaigns, something that even the most highly-paid marketing consultant will find quite impossible to deliver.
Web conference's are certainly your best bet because not only will you be able to increase your sales, but will also be able to better and long-lasting relationships with your clients.
Explained below are some standard techniques that you can use for full potential of this relatively new technology, i.e. web conferencing.
Make web conferencing the main engine of your overall marketing campaign and deliver free information by conducting events at regular intervals. This way you will create an impression on your customers. However, if you do not have the skills to conduct a teleseminar event, then just bring in a guest expert who has the necessary qualifications.
In case you are targeting prospective customers, it's recommended that you organize paid web conferencing simply because people do not attach much value to anything that is offered at no cost. Also, make sure that you provide high quality content in your paid web conferences.
Keep a recording of each of your web conferences and use them as assets for attracting new customers. For example, if you want more and more people to sigh up for your email newsletter, you can offer one of these recordings as a freebie.
Select the best of your paid web conference events and offer them as digitally downloadable product, available for a price. This way you will be able to earn additional income from virtually zero investments.
Use web conferencing to provide information about the products and services that you might be selling. Make your moves with conviction, but do not oversell because that could easily have a negative impact on customers or prospects.
Web conferencing certainly holds great potential, but it would be a waste if you keep arguing about its merits and demerits. I would recommend that you give it a try at least once and see for yourself. I can bet my life's savings that you will never look back and will definitely be forced to wonder how you ever managed to do without a web conference room.
Online Business Training: Effective Information Marketing is Key to Growing Your Customer Base
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach>
Online Training: Effective Information Marketing is Key to Growing Your Customer Base
If you believe that conventional marketing tools and techniques have lost their powerful punch, then you might consider other effective options such as information marketing techniques. It develops trust and confidence with your target market by using the idea of 'giving' rather than 'getting'.
Information marketing is all about sharing valuable information (content) with your prospective customers, something that can be done in many different ways such as sharing email newsletters, MP3 recordings, youtube videos, articles, and ebooks.
The benefits of this type of "education" are endless.. it really depends how well you design and distribute your marketing materials. If you do it well enough, you start noticing some of these benefits:
Get the respect of prospective customers:
It is natural to be drawn to people who want to help you ... you accomplish this by giving what people are looking for. When you share valuable information on topics that your customers find interesting, you instantly create goodwill and respect, which in turn automatically increases your chances they will become regular customers. Just as the farmer plants the seeds watches them grow then harvests the crops, basically you too are sowing seeds then letting nature take it's own course.
Developing feelings of trust and confidence:
Most people won't trust a stranger on the street, but will trust their roommate. Well, the logic in this statement is exactly why information marketing is an effective marketing strategy. When you share information on a regular basis, your prospective customers develop a feeling of trust and confidence. This contributes to removing skepticism that they could have had about you, your website, and the offered products and services. To put it simply, your potential customers will not hesitate to do business with you if you are successful in developing the right feelings of trust and confidence.
Increasing income by reducing costs:
Since information can be used over and over again with only a few minor changes in between, it saves you time and time is money in your own business. It will continue to augment your income, even when you might be busy with other commitments.
Carving your own niche in the market:
If you tirelessly continue to share information with your prospective customers, you will soon be able to create a niche for yourself in the market, something that will place you and your business in a better position to compete successfully with other businesses.
If you are still on the fence with this online training marketing strategy.. just try it out and see for yourself. If you don't feel you have the knowledge to produce your own materials yet... then it's time for you to educate yourself first. In the wonderful internet world the education materials are waiting for you, but you must take action and take advantage of people willing to educate you or hire someone to create the materials for you.
To your business success,
Cindy Barefoot in the Garden McAsey Enterprises www.cindymcasey.com My Life's Purpose is Others' Success
May Good Fortune Be With You. May Your Guiding Light Be Strong.
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach
Online Business Training: Are you a Twitter?
If you aren't using Twitter to grow your personal brand, business and/or strengthen your relationships with your partners or customers via Twitter, you don't know what you're missing. And you're missing a lot!
Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging platform that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which can be sent via several methods, from your cell phone, Instant Message services or several web-based and desktop platforms that are out there for Twitter.
The power of Twitter can be found in the people who follow you. People who are interested in what you are tweeting about. You can easily find yourself following thousands of people, reading their tweets and enter into conversations among multiple people at any point. And they can do the same with you!
You can use Twitter to build your personal brand and your product brand or service. Twitter has the primary benefit of developing a casual way to reinforce your brand with people and establishes you as a social personality that is connected and approachable. As Twitter grows and your influence increases, new users will be drawn towards well established Twitter personalities.
Twitter is not to be used as a place to SPAM your opportunity or product. That will result in you having NOBODY following you as those types of tweets are frowned upon and really are self serving. When tweeting, you need to bring VALUE to the Twitter world with your tweets. Engage in conversations with people. Develop connections and deepen relationships with people through your tweets. In the midst of all that, you can post a tweet on your latest blog post, the brand new product your company released, talk to your fellow marketers about the latest trend in your business, etc., etc.
The secret of your tweets with your downline business partners is that your name, products, can be exposed for all the world to see as you tweet back and forth about it. As more and more of your customers and downline members get into those tweet conversations, the more people will become curious about the passion your tweets are.
If you focus on connecting with people and are aware of the opportunities that come along in conversation to tweet about what you do or what your product can do for someone, you will experience the power of what Twitter can do for you and for your business.
Online Business Training: 10 reasons to use Veretekk as your main Marketing Tool
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach
10 reasons to use Veretekk as your main Marketing Tool
1. Lead Generation: With scores of unique Traffic Portals, you are assured of attaining the best, unique, exclusive lead data. Your exclusive leads mean they are looking forward to your call. Or, you can easily transfer individual, groups or all your leads to other Veretekk subscribers that are in your downline. This can virtually create a tsunami of downline success never attainable before.
All data, traffic and search engine rankings for each Traffic Portal is fully verified and verifiable. Never wonder if your ads are pulling, if your email is effective, if your data is accurate. The systems fully account for every action you take inside the system or on other sites, you control the reports.
2. Traffic Initiation: Once you activate the full portfolio of marketing and promotion tools for each portal, the traffic and leads start rolling in. Just push a few buttons and your on your way. That easy!
3. Link Integration: Easily link up to 10 other sites, promotional services, banner exchanges, etc. with a few pull down menus and a couple of buttons to push. One of the scores of systems that pour traffic and leads into your system with every conceivable marketing and advertising system on the Internet. All of your portals are fully integration automated.
4. Custom Configuration: Each one of your Traffic Portals has it's own unique domain name. You can also edit the Title, Meta tags, Hidden copy and text, links, photos and look of each one of your portals. You can also setup each portal to have a different set of sequential autoresponders that start mailing when the lead verifies their email address. This system fully integrates with Inetekk's Veretap systems too. This means, Veretap subscribers can automatically choose to have their leads automatically enrolled into Veretap's tap root automated recruiting systems.
5. Veremail Unlimited Autoresponders: You can set up as many different sequential email sets as you want. Each email set can contain an unlimited number of emails and be configured to send them out with whatever frequency you like. One set could contain 7 emails and send them out once a day for a week. Another could contain 52 emails with them going out each week for a year. It's totally up to you!
6. Flexible Email Content: Messages can can be plain text or HTML. You can include images, style scripts, submission forms, even Flash designs if you like. Veremail supports it all.
7. Spam Free and MAPS Compliant: Veremail enjoys reputable 3rd party validation and is fully endorsed by MAPS and follows its principles for responsible email marketing. MAPS guidelines are widely recognized as the standard for defining the legitimate process to prevent email abuse. Veremail is 100% Spam free and Spam proof. Not only does this allow you to perform email marketing in an ethical manner, it protects you from the liability and litigation associated with irresponsible marketing. Attempting large email campaigns on your own through your own ISP can quickly result in large fines and even imprisonment.
8. Fully Verified & Verifiable: Veremail is the only system in the world that requires double opt-in verification for every single email address, but also provides the public (or ISPs) the ability to query the verification database in order to produce a verifiable activity log that shows exactly when an email address has interacted with the system. Opt-in requests are processed in real time by automatically capturing the date/time and the subscriber's IP address. A global blacklist function is readily available for those who wish to block additional emails.
9. AUTOMATED TOOLS: "The Hammer" that with the click of a single button will blast out 2 BILLION ads on FFA sites getting your veretekk vanity email picked up an marketed to. Your Veretekk autoresponder system in return automatically reverse markets to them for you.(YES! You heard me right, I did say 2 BILLION!)
"The Drill" is a very powerful automated link building tool that with a push of a button posts your add to different 1-family classified sites.
10. Online Community of like minded people. What can I say Veretekk is one of the best online communities for building relationships. Live online web conference training rooms for each Veretrainer gives you personal contact with small groups of people who are building an online business just like you.
Just a glance at the full Gold System in action with 42 fully configurable lead capture pages to promote your business online. Will make some peoples head spin.
I imagine your mind is starting to get a little overwhelmed. I understand when I first saw the power of Veretekk I was a little overwhelmed too. Simple signup for any, or all of these systems and start testing the powerful tools available to you.
Personally I have been teaching and training folks online how to use Veretekk to grow their business for several years. Once per week in my state of the art web conferencing room, I host advanced training sessions on marketing strategies using Veretekk. If you start with the affiliate system, you will have the advantage of learning from someone who can guide you through the Veretekk marketing mass step by step. Learn advanced marketing strategies that will empower you to success online.
You won't waist time and money looking for the perfect tool ever again to promote your business.
Have you ever thought you have the magic software program, the ebook and all the other tools that say that they can, and will, show you how to make the first page of Google? Hey, take a deep breath and know this. There is nothing, that competes with Veretekk and the Veretekkies who use this powerhouse system." I was probably just like most people learning to market online when I found Veretekk. I had spent way to much on ebooks, software, programs and tools to learn online marketing. That money leak stopped when I found Veretekk and started applying what I learned." Cindy McAsey
Online Business Training: Simple But Powerful, What Veretekk has done for Me!
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach
In the next few minutes you will discover a parable that so closely relates my feelings towards Veretekk its uncanny. In the short 2 minute story 2 men rescue a lion from a bad situation, take the lion in and become his guardian and family. When I found Veretekk I was looking for a method to attract business partners into my business. I had built a large customer base that gave me steady month after month income, but I knew to really take my business to the next level I needed to find others to do what I did. In a sense I felt like the lion in this video (before his guardians found him) looking for direction and a way to expand my knowledge of marketing.
When I found Veretekk, went to the trainings it was like I had a new online safe haven (playground) where I could grow, learn and expand my knowledge of online marketing. Just like guardians Tom Prendergast (CEO of Veretekk) and many trainers in the early days helped me grow into the online marketer I am today. Just like the lion in this video, even though my marketing knowledge has now expanded to teaching, training and coaching others. I will always be grateful for what Veretekk has done for me.
"You know, the reality of this situation is... these two men were this cat's parents (guardians) and the reason why THEY WERE THE ONE'S WHO RESCUED AND RAISED HIM. A guardian is that entity that cares for, teaches and raises a you." Right?
Do you need a guardian (parent) and safe haven (playground) to help guide you through marketing online?
When I found Veretekk I quit purchasing all those ebooks, programs and stuff the internet gurus sell out there to the little guy teaching marketing. Oh yea, I'm still on some of their lists... but not to purchase stuff but to watch and learn from them. Veretekk is a safe haven with tools and systems already in place. Veretekk trainers are very much like guardians.. willing to share their knowledge for freee.
Just like the lion in this video to grow and mature he needed a safe haven (playground). Hands down Mike Darling (Pres. of Veretekk) is the expert at building tools and systems (playground equipment). I feel blessed and very fortunate to be in the beta group and give input for the tools and systems Veretekk develops. I'm completely blown away by the skills and knowledge Mike has. Mike Darling has truly taken the slogan "Marketing at the Speed of Thought" and made it a reality for my business.
My hat's off to you, Thomas Prendergast and Mike Darling for being like a guardians and providing a safe haven (Veretekk) for me to grow and mature into the online marketer I've become. I will always love you!
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach
Online Business Training: 80/20 Rule
The 80/20 Rule is one of the most helpful of all concepts of time and life management. It
is also called the Pareto Principle after its founder, the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto,
who first wrote about it in 1895. Pareto noticed that people in his society seemed to
divide naturally into what he called the "vital few," the top 20% in terms of money and
influence, and the "trivial many," the bottom 80%.
Pareto later discovered that virtually all economic activity was subject to this his Principle
as well. For example, this rule says that 20% of your activities will account for 80%
of your results. 20% of your customers will account for 80% of your sales. 20% of your
products or services will account for 80% of your profits. 20% of your tasks will account
for 80% of the value of what you do, and so on. This means that if you have a list of
ten items to do, two of those items will turn out to be worth as much or more than
the other eight items put together.
Here is an interesting discovery. Each of these tasks may take the same amount of
time to accomplish. But one or two of those tasks will contribute five or ten times the
value as any of the others. Often, one item on a list of ten things that you have to do
can be worth more than all the other nine items put together. This task is invariably the
one that you should do first.
The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most
complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be
tremendous. For this reason, you must adamantly refuse to work on tasks in the bottom
80% while you still have tasks in the top 20% left to be done. Before you begin work,
always ask yourself, "Is this task in the top 20% of my activities or in the bottom 80%?"
The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you
actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.
There is a part of your mind that loves to be busy working on significant tasks that can
really make a difference. Your job is to feed this part of your mind continually.
Time management is really life management, personal management. It is really taking
control over the sequence of events. Time management is control over what you do
next. And you are always free to choose the task that you will do next. Your ability to
choose between the important and the unimportant is the key determinant of your
success in life and work. Effective, productive people discipline themselves to start on
the most important task that is before them. They force themselves to eat that frog,
whatever it is. As a result, they accomplish vastly more than the average person and are
much happier as a result. This should be your way of working as well.
Make a list of all the key goals, activities, projects and responsibilities in your life today.
Which of them are, or could be, in the top 10% or 20% of tasks that represent, or could
represent, 80% or 90% of your results? Resolve today that you are going to spend more
and more of your time working in those few areas that can really make a difference in
you life and career, and less and less time on lower value activities.
Online Business Training: For the serious Online Business Owner
Have you ever thought you have the magic software program, the ebook and all the other tools that say that they can, and will, show you how to make the first page of Google? Hey, take a deep breath and know this. There is nothing, that competes with Veretekk and the Veretekkies who use this powerhouse system. I was probably just like most people learning to market online when I found Veretekk. I had spent way to much on ebooks, software, programs and tools to learn online marketing. That money leak stopped when I found Veretekk and started applying what I learned.
Just a glance at the full Gold System in action with 42 fully configurable lead capture pages to promote your business online. Will make some peoples head spin.
I imagine your mind is starting to get a little overwhelmed. I understand when I first saw the power of Veretekk I was a little overwhelmed too. Simple signup for any, or all of these systems and start testing the powerful tools available to you.
Personally I have been teaching and training folks online how to use Veretekk to grow their business for several years. Once per week in my state of the art web conferencing room, I host advanced training sessions on marketing strategies using Veretekk. If you start with the affiliate system, you will have the advantage of learning from someone who can guide you through the Veretekk marketing mass step by step. Learn advanced marketing strategies that will empower you to success online.
You owe it to yourself, and your financial future online to take advantage of this very powerful search engine optimization tool known as Veretekk. Also, be sure to check out the Platinum Control Panel that is now in beta testing. It will really make your head spin. You add the addition of several Gold Veretekk Systems, and the ability to configure all of them from one location, now that's something to write home about.
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach
Online Business Training: Is it time for you to get off the Fence?
If you are seriously wanting to grow your business online you will read and think about what I'm about to share with you. Keywords are K-E-Y to so many things online. Most of all search engine traffic and getting to the right people who are sincerely interested in the product or service that you're offering. One of the biggest and most common marketing mistakes that people make is to fall in love with a product and assume that everyone else will too. WRONG. WRONG. WRONG.
Here's the only rule that you'll ever need to know about successful sales and marketing... Find out what people want and give it to them.
O.K. Go back and read that again. Let this truth sink deep into the very marrow of your marketing bones. Done? When you get this, everything else is just execution. How do you find out what people are looking for online today? It's called keyword research, now if you aren't an expert in keyword research I suggest you find someone who is and either hire them or learn from them. That's what I did.
THE KEY ISN'T WHAT YOU WANT. IT'S WHAT THEY WANT.
Once you have determined what THEY want you have 2 choices. You go after them or they find you. (I prefer they find me) What's the greatest free source of these people finding you? Search engines, of course! And what do search engine and people looking for you crave most? Original content. If you're a content writer, which you absolutely should be, you're sitting on the golden egg that search engines and your prospects are looking for. Original content.
So, how do you get that content up online in the fastest and easiest way possible? Veretekk RSS feed hooked to a Platinum Control Panel (PCP). The quicker you realize this the faster you will take your business to the next level.
As most of you know I'm very picky when it comes to how a site looks. Now that I have my Veretekk RSS feeds hooked up with a PCP and going out to 20 blogger drones all with different style scripts, and I'm going crazy trying to clean up all of my RSS feeds.
Here's couple of tips I've found that may help you...
There is a difference between an RSS feed that's going out to many places and a blog that is just in one place. In order to make your RSS feed nice looking (on all the sites) you DO NOT want to have ANY font tags, or weird colors, or even pictures with colors that won't blend with most colors.
When our RSS feeds were just in a tiny little iframe on the Veretekk traffic portals it wasn't that big a deal. NOW it is.. at least to me!
I'm slowly making progress (little each day) cleaning up my RSS feeds... it's going to take some time for me to get to every post I've made. Here is what I've found that just doesn't work if you want a nice looking site that readers will want to return too. (in addition to what I mentioned above)
a. Header tags especially the larger ones (I'm removing all header tags) and just using bold tags
b. All youtube videos need to be resized down to: width="325" height="255" (at the max)
c. Pictures no bigger than 250 by 250 pixels and sized down too (the maximum would be like the videos depending on what you are trying to accomplish)
d. Always begin a RSS post with a paragraph and end it with a paragraph tag
e. No website page code.
f. Any open tags that aren't closed screws up EVERYTHING!
In summary first find out what people are looking for online, then give it to them using original content in your Veretekk RSS feed using CLEAN code. In the few short weeks our team has been using the Platinum Control Panel we have seen some amazing results in the Search Engines. I feel very blessed to have access to this powerful tool for our team called Veretekk Platinum Control Panel. My question for you is how serious are you about growing your business online?
Online Business Training: The difference a Phone Call Makes
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach
I feel compelled to share with you a story that just happened to me this morning. You see I've been blogging and writing before most people even came to google and look for live online training much less ones you could interact with.
The last several days I'm been working my tail off cleaning up some of my blogging content so it looks decent on forums and on different blog sites with different style scripts. I was far from done with that task, when a phone call interrupted me. The caller on the other end asked me where I was from, and I said, " a Farm in KS". That answer generally works for most people but not for this caller. He had done a google search on my neighbor "Vince Berland" and found another post I had done talking about my neighbor!
It happens that this person was looking for someone to help him grow his business. He is very interested in consulting with me, because I have done what he is wanting to accomplish in his business. And he also was in the greyhound industry and knows Vince Berland from that industry. He hadn't gotten to the post where I explained he was my neighbor, that's why he wanted to know where I lived in KS and how I knew who Vince Berland was.
The internet works in misterious ways.
Long story short, this person will be working with me in my ineractive web conference room to learn how to target his market online and how to grow his business using the technology we have available to us today.
He did mention that he might give my neighbor a call and see how he built his business. I shared with him about residual income and how it works with MLM. What may have worked many years ago it might not work quite like that today. Times do change and on the internet it changes almost daily. I tend to call this the pulse of the internet, because with a heart beat it can change that fast.
One place you can stay up with the beat of the internet is via our live online business training. This is a personal invitation to come and sit in on one of our many weekly live online business trainings, come be a fly on the wall I don't mind. Here is a link to my event schedule that I update weekly. http://events.barefootsuccess.net
P.S. Ever have that feeling, that your life, your true work, has not yet begun? Ever feel like you're here for something more than you've yet identified? And that a billion eyes are upon you, just waiting for the prophecy to unfold? Hmmmmmm.......Well, have you also ever wanted something so badly that all your wishing, hoping and praying kept you from seeing that you had access to it all along? Precisley..
Online Business Training: Generate Prospects for FREE with Online Forums
Online Business Training: Generate Prospects for FREE with Online Forums
So what is a Forum? A Forum is an online community and discussion forum for Internet users. Forums are stomping grounds for millions of prospects. Forums are stomping grounds for millions of prospects. A Forum is a place to share ideas, find answers, make friends and develop partnerships. A Forum is an organic, always growing, support resource for your entire Internet marketing business.
In addition to all of this, Forums are great places to promote free business services like we offer in our Veretekk Portals OK, that's enough talking about it. The only way to benefit from Forums is to experience it for yourself. So let's get started...
I encourage you to get involved in discussions as much as possible. Spend time in there every day just browsing, reading through topics and responding to posts as desired. My goal is for you to generate as many prospects as possible to show a franchise online business to or whatever home business you are promoting.
Therefore, every step I reveal will be geared toward the fulfillment of that goal. The thing to remember now is that you are in the up-start marketing stage of your business right now. To build your prospect list online and make money, you need to spread the word about your free veretekk traffic portals to as many people as possible. That's it. Beyond participating in forums and learning from others, you can also contribute positively and constructively in them forum while posting a sig file link that points back to your site.
What is a sig file? A sig file is a link to your website placed at the end of each of your forum posts.
What's a forum post? A forum post is when you respond to a discussion in progress (also known as a thread) by typing a response and submitting it.
Most forums contain thousands of discussions in progress. When you post to a discussion in a forum, your response will be included as part of the discussion. At the end of your response, your sig file ad will appear so that everyone who reads that thread has the opportunity to see your ad (signature file). Sig file ads in forums are generally immortal. In other words, they can remain active and help produce prospects for you forever. Even when a discussion (thread) is no longer being actively posted to, it can remain in the forum archives forever. These archives are often indexed by Google and other search engines so discussions you've participated in are often found by people using the search engines.
The more you post in online forums, the more inbound links you'll get to your Veretekk Traffic Portals. The more inbound links you get, the more visitors you'll attract. The more visitors you attract, the more prospects you'll add to your list. The more prospects you add to your list, the more times people will see your business presentation. The more people you have watching your business presentation, the more people you will sponsor into your business. The more people you sponsor into your business, the more money you will make. It's really is that simple.
Remember, generating prospects online with your Veretekk Traffic Portals is a simple matter of getting links distributed all over the Internet that point back to your website. That's it!
Here's a powerful way to get started:
Some the best out there is the work at home Message Boards. Click here to visit the site and create a new forum account now by clicking on the "Register" link at the top of the page. Then follow the simple instructions provided to get your account setup. Midway through the registration process, you'll see a field for your "Signature". There is a 200 character limit. To setup your signature here, I recommend that you promote your Veretekk traffic portal.
Once you've entered your traffic portal link and name (your want people to know who you are!) in the "Signature" field, complete your registration with forum. When you click the "Register" button to complete your registration, you'll be asked to check your email and confirm your registration. Follow the instructions given and your new forum account will be set up within a few minutes. Congratulations! Your forum account has been created.
Now we need to talk about forum posting... Before you start participating in any forum online, let's discuss what participation actually means. In a nutshell, it means contribution. Within many work at home forums, there are "millions" of discussions in progress right now.
A discussion starts when someone makes an original post. Then, people start responding to that post to create a dialogue. One person might respond to the original post, another person might respond to the person who responded and someone else might respond to that person's post. A forum discussion is a great way to see many different sides of an issue because everyone gets to share their information and respond completely to a topic without being interrupted.
You should also understand that many people reply to a discussion more than once. In fact, some people stay tuned to a discussion and post replies whenever appropriate. Forum discussions can go on for days... sometimes weeks.
It's very important to realize that your post itself should NOT be an advertisement. You are participating in the forum to add value to the discussion itself. Then, like leaving your business card for people to pick up, your signature file ad will be available for everyone who is reading the discussion to click if they want to. If you post ads within the body of your post itself, your post will probably get deleted by a moderator and other forum members will not take you or the site in your signature file seriously.
The main thing to realize is to "be yourself" and contribute naturally to forum discussions.
Right now, there are THOUSANDS of work at home forum discussions in progress on nearly every subject imaginable. You can find tons of places within the forum to make sincere, meaningful posts. Just hunt around throughout the forum until you find discussions that you can relate to. Then replies to them. In fact, I encourage you to make at least 5 new posts today in a forum.
Don't force yourself to post just for the sake of posting and getting your signature file seen. If you really don't have anything meaningful to contribute to the discussion in progress, just read it and learn from other forum members. You have 2 ears and 1 mouth for a reason. It's always best to listen first... then speak.
Put some original thought into your posts.
Be yourself.
If someone is asking a question, do some research, find the answer and post a helpful response.
If it's an opinion post, share your point of view and elaborate on it.
Never post with the single-minded attention of getting your signature file ad seen. Post consistently with the purpose of adding value to the forum. In fact, when you contribute to the forum, people will start appreciating you and some will naturally visit your site in your sig file. By the way, posting to forums is simple. First of all, if you are reading a discussion in progress, just click the "Post Reply" button. Alternatively, if you wish to start your own post, look for the "New Topic" button and click it. In each case a post editor will appear before you.
Just type your post into the field provided and when you are happy with your reply, click on the "Submit" button. Or, if you want to see what your reply will look like first, you can click the "Preview" button. After you submit your reply, your post will appear immediately (along with your sig file) in the forum for all to see.
When you've completed today's assignment, you'll have 5 more links in one of the most heavily visited websites in the world pointing back to your website. Yes, forums are consistently among the top most visited sites in the world. That's serious traffic! It's hard to find a better place to get links pointing to your site than than in forums.
In fact, I challenge you to make at least 5 posts per day in a forum for the next 25 days. Then you'll have 125 free links pointing back to your site! If you do this right and be consistent, this could be the only advertising you ever need to do! No joke.
NOW GET TO WORK!
Dozens of prospects could be just 1 post away. Once you find a discussion you want to contribute to, just follow these simple steps:
Click on the title of the discussion or topic.
Once the topic opens, read it. If you find one that you want to respond to, click on the "Post Reply" button near the top or the bottom of the discussion:
A new page will open up with a post editor that will allow you to say exactly what you want to say. You can even add bold, italics, smiley faces, etc. to your reply. Just type your reply into the box provided.
After typing your reply, you can click the "Preview" button to see what it will look like when posted.
When you're happy with your reply, click the "Submit Reply" button and your reply will be posted immediately.
Now, wash, rinse, repeat this process... at least 5 times today and every day for the next 30 days!!!
Remember to listen more than you speak. Don't feel obligated to post just for the sake of posting. Post when you have something meaningful to add to the discussion in progress. Do this and you'll be on the path to success!
Remember, it's not about advertising. It's mainly about discussion and contribution. As you contribute in a natural way to the forum discussions in progress, your sig file will work for you automatically. In fact, the more valuable your posts are to other people in the discussion, the more effective your signature file ads will become!
Don't ever go to any other forum on the Internet with the intention of just advertising your business. That's the wrong attitude to have and it won't get you anywhere! Instead, go into the forum with the singular purpose of adding real value and simply let your sig file ads show up naturally. This will pay you "BIG" dividends
Think about it...
You have everything you need on this page to build a thriving Internet business simply by getting online and talking with other people in the forums. Don't let this information slip through your fingers without making a plan and committing to take action. How much time will you invest in yourself to participate in forum discussions each and every day? 30 minutes?, 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours?... 8 hours?! The more you contribute, the faster your income will grow. The choice is yours.Do you want more forums to get involved in? After all, differentiation is the key.
What I mean by that is that it will serve you to be different from other Veretekkies who only follow the tip to get involved in the work at home forums... Fact is, there are thousands of forums to get involved with on the Internet that can help YOU learn a lot about people and the Internet as well as promote your site for freee.
One thing to keep in mind is that all forums have different rules about using signature files. Remember how I said to listen more than you speak and don't just post "me too" type posts to get your signature file seen? When this happens, forum moderators tend to get upset (I can understand why!...) and block members from posting. The main lesson to learn from this is not to abuse forums in this way so we can all continue to benefit from this powerful free marketing technique.
One way to find other forums you can start contributing to would be to do a Google search (or whatever search engine you prefer) for forums related to issues that relate to your target market. Most importantly, create accounts with those forums you find and have an interest with, setup sig files and start contributing on a regular basis to the forums you like best! There are forums just about everything.
There are forum sites for every interest... Get involved with forums, get involved with forums, get involved with forums, GET INVOLVED WITH FORUMS.
In case I haven't made the message clear enough yet. I'm telling you that you should get involved with forums and always have a sig file intact that links back to your stuff. This is a marketing strategy that can bring you a never-ending stream of free traffic and prospects interested in the freee stuff we offer in the Veretekk traffic portals and training on marketing we do in Veretekk.
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies CoachLessons we can learn from a Mule.
Sometimes I see life from a different perspective. We had this incident happen on our farm a few days ago. My husband decided it was time to do some mowing in our pasture where we keep our mules.
Mules are very smart protective animals, even though they were on the other side of the pasture as soon as we started opening the gate they were right there in the way. We decided it was best just to remove them into another pen. As we opened up the gate to the pasture and started to pull the tractor in to mow the pen, my husband discovered he had a flat tire on the tractor. He lost his temper and was ranting and raving about the flat tire. One of the mules (Tale) was watching everything that was happening.
When it was time to take the mules back to the pasture, this time it was Tale's turn to rant and rave. Here is the key he didn't start his rant until my husband who was still boiling about the flat tire entered the holding pen. I was just pulling the halter on the other mule ( Josie) as this happened. Not only was I unable to get the halter on, I had to climb the fence to keep from getting stepped on. As usual I had just flimsy flip flops on.(my mistake) After my husband and Tale went round and round ranting a few minutes, I got brave and jumped back in and haltered Josie and handed her to my husband and took Tales halter out of his hands. Immediately Tale calmed down and let me walk right up and halter him.
After we placed the mules back in the pasture and my husband calmed down he was able to walk right up to Tale put his arm around his neck without any problem. Sometimes I wonder who is training who. The mules have taught us patience no doubt.
We all loose our tempers from time to time. I know it happened to me yesterday when I discovered someone had put an RSS feed with bad html code into Veretekk's mega blog screwing up every ones feed on that site. I was pissed to say the least, many have worked very hard on delivering good clean content and to have one person post and screw everything up is frustrating to say the least. Luckily several other Platinum Control users stayed calm found the problem and got it fixed. Butch Hamilton even did a training recording and posted it on the spot so it wouldn't happen again.
Moral of this article nothing can be accomplished when you are mad and upset, be greatful for the calm cool and collected who step up to the plate to help you out. Yes sometimes it gets others to react and do what it takes to resolve the problem, but quicker you can just get over it and move on the better.
In life there are no mistakes only lessons and they are repeated till they are learned. Lessons make us who we are. On my who is page at www.cindymcasey.com I write about many business lesson's I've learned over the years.
Business Training Web Conferencing Online: What are you doing with the dog days of summer?
Every year in the customer side of my business we experience the dog days of summer for a few weeks. This summer I'm using these dog days as an opportunity to really focus on our team SEO campaign. A few years ago I buckled down and did an SEO campaign the hard way and it took about 6 to 8 weeks to hit the top of google for my keywords. Since then I have participated on a few team SEO campaigns what a difference that makes, when everybody is working as a team! I don't remember exactly how long it took to get noticed in the Search Engines but it didn't take long.
I have learned when working as a team you must focus on what is best for the team and it's members first. In the Veretekk platinum control panel you have 2 links that can be configured to what ever links you choose. At first glimpse I thought our team site RSS feed should be one link, but decided on my capture page forwarding to a rotator and our team forum instead.
Let me explain...
I know that people buy from people and they don't care how much you know till they know how much you care. Hopefully that makes sense to you. Bottom line to really have success online you need to promote yourself not the products or the company your represent. It's all about you, that's one reason social networking is working so well that many brick and mortar companies are hiring marketing people just to do social marketing for them.
So here's what we are doing on my SEO team, when someone decides to optin from my capture page they are directed to a rotator where each team members site is rotated in. This makes a huge benefit for the SEO team member. The SEO team member can take advantage of the years of experience I have online and the brand/image I've worked diligently on to create. I and the SEO team member will be working with the newest person getting them going. It's a win win situation for everyone. Over time each SEO team member will be taught to create their own brand/image online and branch off with a Veretekk Platinum Control Panel for their team.
This is has been my vision, now it's a plan that's taken action. How about you? Do you have a vision for your business? One great trait of leadership is having a vision. Have you ever heard the saying "You must stand for something or you'll fall for everything". I see this happening lots with online businesses. As a leader, you must first have a strong vision then learn to communicate your vision to the your team.
Here's how you do that...
Learn to paint a picture with words. Speak it. Write it. Draw it. Touch it. Whatever methods you can use to create a picture. Just do it, as they say. "A picture is worth a thousand words."
Ask a few of your team members to tell you in their own words about your vision. How close is it to what you thought they understood? Is your team on the same page as you?
As you work, your vision should be on your mind everyday. You should re-evaluate it occasionally so it stays current with the pulse of the Internet. Remember your team must be just as involved as you are with change. How about you does your team communicate daily and/or have weekly web conferences keeping everyone in the loop? Our team does.
A few weeks ago I shared with you my formula for success. Here it is again: Skills + Strategies + Testing + Fine Tuning Based on Results = Online Success, Now during dog days of summer is the perfect time to expand your skills and create your vision of running your own successful business.
Online Business: Is your focus in the Right Direction?
Sometimes I feel so fortunate to have the knowledge to teach and train marketers how to grow a successful online business. Just this morning I was blessed with a couple of testimonials. I think one thing that sets apart my online business is I constantly sit back and ask myself what can I do to help grow your business. Then I ask myself what is best for them. There have been several times when I finish the conversation and wonder by helping what did I gain. I have to admit many times I don't have an answer, but deep inside I know if I can help enough people get what they want somehow it will come back around.
Here is a couple of those greatful testimonies that makes online business training worthwhile.
Thanks to you, it has helped me realize that I need to find out FIRST what people are looking for and then guide them to the tool that speaks their language. Gratefully~ Lisa
Thank you for your concern. Yes, I got my order and I have never found a product like yours anywhere. It cleans my windows without streaking, which no other product that I have tried has done. Even Windex isn't streakless like they claim......I have used this product on everything proving it, and it hasn't failed me. I even cleaned my storm door while the sun was shining on it, and it never looked cleaner. I am very satified with it. Thanks to my daughter, who give me some of hers to try, I am a loyal customer for sure.
Joann Stephens
In fact, it's testimonies like these that make online business so special. You should also
know that most people in this Industry are unattractive. Why? Because they say, "Join me! Join me! Join me!" Just look at all
the magazine ads, the Internet, your email, the postcards in your mailbox. They're all the same. Nothing differentiates them.
Relationships are as close to a 'sure thing' as you'll find. So what I teach is, don't
promote a product or a company. Promote who YOU are.
Our franchise online business system helps you find good prospects, build a relationship, and help them get the training they need to be successful. I hope your starting to see something different here with how we treat people and teach people!
Now the clock is ticking every second you hesitate potential team members are slipping in ahead of you. Today might be the day to check out what all this fuss is about. http://www.afranchiseonline.com
Online Training: The Key to making Progress in Business Success
Through online training and web conferencing I come across many people that offer great words of wisdom for home businesses. A Dad of a very experienced sky instructor shared this very important fact. He said his son has been teaching young kids how to snow ski in Colorado for the past 7 years.
This young ski instructor told his dad he has discovered why some kids don't make much progress in developing skills while skiing. He said there is one factor above all else that prevents them from developing like the other kids seem to develop.
The kids who don't develop their skills are afraid of falling. Their goal while skiing is, "I don't want to fall." The kids who develop very quickly are the ones who are not afraid of falling. They try the techniques that are being taught, they ski hard and of course fall at times because everything is new. The more they keep working hard at the techniques, the more they fall. The more they fall, the better they become and of course fall less frequent.
That is the formula for online business success too!
The building of a good, strong, profitable, fun online business isn't any different. The people who have a fear of failing because they have never done it before, and do not attempt to do the work, will not make progress in building their business.
The people who forge ahead, fight their way through the learning curve, work hard at leaning the business even though they experience many setbacks, or failures, are the people we will hear about that are growing, enjoying the process of building because they have developed the skills necessary for building an online business.
Everyone has a choice. Fear stops progress, being willing to fail while learning creates skills which of course turns into online business success. It's a choice! Something to think about.
Online training for home business is skill that is developed by working your way through the learning curve. For people who who are looking for a successful business path to follow a franchise online is a good option. First you must have the confidence to stop fear in it's path. Next you should find someone who has been there done that to make your path to online business success shorter. Did you know the average time to go from zero to a millionaire is 23 years. With a mentor, 4 years.
The simple step by step process is at http://afranchiseonline.com. Learn to build with teamwork and synergy, by placing people in a streamline under others. With a franchise online the longer you hesitate others are joining a head of you, so this isn't something you should put off. The clock is ticking... (read more)
Online Training: Power of Newspaper Ads
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies CoachThe Power of Newspaper Ads
Sometimes we get so caught up on online marketing that we overlook one of the oldest most powerful forms of advertising. Good old fashion newspaper classifieds. Wether we want to admit it or not, there will always be a percentage of the population that will still go to the newspaper when looking for something. I still glance at the newspaper just to keep with the pulse of today's offline world. Since the invention of the printing press business owners have been using this method as an effective build businesses.
Newspaper advertising is a very cost effective way to market your business if done correctly. How does it work? Newspaper ads work by getting your message in front of people who are looking, and newspaper ads let you reach more people than you can normally reach by other methods. It also allows you to reach different geographic areas with ease.
What results does this form of advertising produce? Typically 20 to 25 prospects (people requesting more information by filling out my form at barfootboss.biz) for the average daily newspaper per week. Typically 10 to 20 prospects for the average weekly community newspaper. Your numbers may be different depending on what you are promoting.
Ads in the newspaper can be very effective. If placing an ad in the local paper, I recommend the classified section and running it for 3 days only first starting on Sunday or Monday only to see if it generates results. If it doesn't, don't keep running it. I also recommend testing the "business opportunity" section of the paper. Many times this section is a graveyard for advertising, but sometimes it can surprise you and turn out to be a gold mine. You will never know until you test it.
I have also found that weekly community newspapers that are delivered to peoples homes (such as a country newspaper or neighborhood newspaper) tend to produce very good results and sometimes more than daily newspapers. Never run an ad and commit to running it for numerous days on the first run. Any time you run an new ad, always run it one time only and see if it generates any responses. Only after proving itself should you run it more often.
Many newspapers work diligently in keeping any type of "business opportunity" ad out of the employment section. However, there is a simple way in getting your ad placed in the employment section if you run against any obstacles. The key to successful advertising is testing. Try one ad and measure its results. Then modify the ad or use different one to see if it increases results.
I use an online newspaper classified ad service called NationWideClassifieds. I have found they have better prices than if contact I newspapers individually, plus it's easier to keep track of your ads.
If many of my marketing methods seem like a foreign language to you, consider taking your business to the next level with some private coaching. I know when made up my mind that no matter what I was going to build a strong viable business that's what I did. Did you know the average time to go from zero to a millionaire is 23 years. With a mentor it's 4 years.
The clock is ticking,
Cindy Barefoot in the Garden 888-272-6701 www.cindymcasey.com My Life's Purpose is Others' Success
May Good Fortune Be With You. May Your Guiding Light Be Strong.
A message from... Cindy McAsey-Marketing Strategies Coach
When facing what you feel are huge obstacles it sometimes helps to know what others are facing to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Last night a tornado that stormed through Kansas just missed our farm. Our neighbors weren't so lucky... local shelters have been set up... my sis the nurse is working overtime.. 1 confirmed dead and many homes and businesses are completely gone. Kind of makes you stop and think about what's really important. There is only one thing we know for sure is one day we will die, none of us knows when that will be we just know it will happen.
In life we are always going to have obstacles that we must overcome so we can achive what we truly want. Last night was another one of those obstacles that many neighbors must deal with. It's how we react to obstacles that will either make or break us.
Obstacles are not walls meant to stop you, they are doors that lead to progress.
In my business last week I stretched my brain to the max on html code. Html code has been a huge obstacle for me. This morning my html obstacle seems like a tiny bump in the road. It was my brains creative way of telling me what must be dealt with to achieve my goals.
I'm not going to write a long message to explain what is very clear. Everyone, everywhere, doing everything and anything, faces obstacles. No person is immune from obstacles. Don't think for a minute that the successful people you hear about in all walks of life (including online gurus) haven't had obstacles to overcome.
What's my point? Face your obstacles. Be determined to figure it out. Learn from them. Work hard at it and it will free you to walk through the door to experience the success you desire.
It's simple, but not easy. Obstacles small and large will always be a part of life and those people who accept this, work at overcoming them, and keep a positive outlook on their future will be the people who continually move forward and enjoy building their online success empire.
Online Training How NOT to Social Network and more...
This morning it came very apparent to me it was time to focus on educating new marketers on social marketing. I've seen several newbie marketers trying to market with out even creating a profile picture. It's really sad to see this happen. These people are following many, have very few followers and many updates. The updates are touting their business not them. Why would someone want to follow when they don't even have a profile picture or blog where people can learn more about what makes them tick.
If you saw yourself in that last paragraph here are a few social marketing tips for you...
1. Get a social networking (myspace, facebook etc..) account. Tell your story of your life and how got into your business. Do not promote your business, but do tell your story. Big difference. After you have set an account up, type in the search bar what ever your target market is. For instance if you target market (keyword) is "pets" and you are searching at "myspace" make sure on the drop down box that you click on "myspace". There are 187,000 results! There is a huge market there.
But this is only the start. Then go to (in myspace it's) "Groups" and in the search box on that page (near the bottom) type in "Pets". 114 groups waiting for you to play with them. Did you know that the "Cats Rock" group has over 50,000 members? And the "Cat Lovers" group has nearly 20,000! This is just in Myspace... there are lots of social networking sites on the Internet. Social marketing is like no cost "Worlds of Fun" playground for Internet marketers!
Now I'm sure some newbie social marketers will tell you "Myspace doesn't work!"...they are right. If you do not know how to add value to any market, your marketing efforts will not work. However, after doing some research and finding the right keyword for your target market I think you will agree this is a great way to market. Now you must learn to market by attracting them. That takes some skill.
2. Open a Youtube Account. Get a $30.00 webcam or a VereConference Room for recording. Make some videos talking about your "keyword". Tell your story about your life and how you got into your business. Do not promote your business tell your story.
3. Spend a few weeks participating in social networking communities.
4. Get a business coach or mentor. Did you know the average time to go from zero to a millionaire is 23 years. With a mentor.... 4 years.
Get a mentor. It pays to have one. I didn't say get a buddy. I said get a mentor who has already done what you are trying to do. Make sure they can give you undivided attention. This will cost you...it will be worth it.
5. Have fun! Live your success right now. If you can see nothing but success...it has no choice but to manifest. This is Universal Law.
Web Conference: Veretekk Beta Platimum Control Panel
Just in case you missed the Veretekk State of the Week update last night I've recorded the whole session for you. This is one of those don't miss sessions. Mike Darling the master programer showed us a glimpse of the power of our new PCP. (Platimum Control Panel)
If you understand marketing online and SEO at all better put your seat belt on cause this is pretty powerful.
Now if you just listened to this and think this all sounds good, but...
A. you don't have a team of people to use the system with (or not in SEO business)
B. just don't have the funds to get your own PCP system
C. think it sounds great but don't yet understand how it works
WE NEED TO TALK! Call me 888-272-6701
I'm all about helping out the little guy online. If you are comfortable writing content, know your target market then this process will be pretty simple for you.
If you are completely new to online marketing, this process will take a little more time but can still be very effective for you once you learn a few simple skills.
Either way as an advanced trainer in Veretekk and a seasoned online marketer, I do have the ability to make a difference in your ability to successfully market online. Are you going to keep struggling online, buying into every program and ebook out there on online marketing or are you ready for some REAL help?
Lets talk and see what will work best for YOUR business.
Inneractive Web Conference Training Tuesday Morning
Veretekk the Baby Pool of Social Networks
In the MLM world it's been a well known fact that many of the old school marketers started purchasing leads after they ran out of friends and family. We in Veretekk know there are much better and less expensive ways to attract people into our business. We have classes about reverse marketing and of course "Veretekk" is the master automated reverse marketing machine.
I'm seeing a new wave on the horizon for the MLM world. The CEO of my primary company has been urging distributors to use social networking as a way to grow business for a few years now. I personally told myself I didn't have time for all that social stuff. I would rather attract people into my business via the search engines, blogging, and networking via reverse marketing techniques we use in Veretekk. Little did I know I've been in social networking group all along it's called VERETEKK!
Veretekk is great place to develop many online skills and learn marketing strategies. Social networking is both a skill and a marketing strategy. Remember the formula I use for online success? Skills + Strategies + Testing + Fine Tuning Based on Results = Online Success
Do me a favor and don't jump into the deep end of "testing" social networking before you learn the proper skills and strategies. Go into online social networking communities like a professional business person you are, not someone who is poking around and testing the waters. I consider our Veretekk network like the safe haven for networking, kind of like the baby pool. You come to training develop relationships and we will guide you in the right direction. (also tell ya NO & STOP if needed)
This week I stretched my brain to the max with html code and setting up a marketing funnel into Veretekk. That code stuff will get me every time. I know as an online business owner I need to understand and keep trying to master it, so I keep doing it.
My question for you... Are you ready to have your brain stretched a little on art of social networking? If so, you need to do what it takes to make to my training room this Tuesday morning. You know that new wave on the horizon I was talking about? I'm going to give you a glimpse of it on Tuesday. Guaranteed to bring out some ah ha moments and stretch some brains.
Online Training and Inneractive Web Conferencing News
One nice thing about social networkworking is you are in the pulse of the Internet marketers, you know what they are thinking, predicting, and talking to other marketers about. When the death of SEO talk came across on twitter it sure made me stop and take a look. As you probably know I've been marketing full time online for 6 years now. I built a large customer base by making my presence known in the search engines. Anytime I see or hear about something that might change the way I do business I take note and research the validity of it.
Don't get me wrong here, the Internet pulse is changing rapidly towards social networks and many of the things I'm seeing will take people away from the search engines in time making them not as important. BUT I don't see in the horizon moving completely away from SEO as a part bringing people to our businesses.
Facts you should know about marketing trends:
For the longest time many Internet gurus totally made their income from their list. Most of these gurus made fortunes with e-mail marketing only. And even though the spam filters make it harder and harder to deliver good content via e-mail some marketers still earn their living this way. When I started marketing online their was already a trend in place of a few e-mail's not getting delivered, that has gotten worse over the years, BUT e-mail marketing hasn't totally died. Now you just need a bigger list and provide what readers want so they look for your stuff. The days of blasting out your opportunity with out building the relationship are gone. E-mail opt in site
Not long after I started marketing online I started using web conferencing to communicate. I've never been a person who hosts teleconferences. If I host a conference it's in a web conference room. This probably why I saw a good fit when I was asked to become the head trainer and master distributor for VereConference. Even though I've never been much for teleconferencing the mainstream Internet pulse still uses teleconferences. I think we who use web conferencing are ahead of the bell curve on this one and in time the mainstream group will catch on. In the mobile society we live in I personally don't think teleconferencing will ever completely die, because we can hop on a conference from anywhere via cell phone. There is a reason I record my training as mp3 recordings. I know to capture and keep the mobile society I must have training they can access from anywhere. Link to my podcasts.
Now the buzz about death of SEO. The buzz got started from Pat O'Bryan his site is called Portable Empire. He has a Internet TV show at www.portableempire.tv. O'Bryan promotes his stuff through social networking and yes he is in my network on Facebook
and Twitter. In his message about the death of SEO he talks about the growing popularity of Adobe Air, social networks and the future of Internet users using these interfaces instead of going to the SE's to find what they want. Yes I can see this trend happening to, but I don't think mainstream Internet users will adapt to this anytime soon.
Here is my reasoning for my statement.. "SEO marketing will still be an effective way to grow your business." Yes it's important to watch the trends and take advantage of new trends as they come across the horizon. Daily I get calls from customers ordering product that don't even have an e-mail address. They had someone look up on the Internet to find my number to order the product they read about, saw on TV, or have used for up to 52 years. Do you think these people or their circle of friends will be plugging into the new pulse of these Internet tools? (don't think so)
Just as it's important to develop multiple streams of income to grow your business, it's equally important to have multiple marketing strategies. (reach out methods) As a marketing strategies coach I'm tuned into the pulse of the Internet but also know what has worked for years and continues to work for some. Marketing isn't a one size fits all and anyone who tells you to market this product or service it must be done a certain way don't believe them. I'm sure you've heard the buzz words "duplicate" and "delegate" that's all they are... buzz words. YOU must decide what is right for your business.
I don't know if you've had a chance to check out http://www.afranchiseonline.com or not, but this is one way you can get some direction and start earning a living online.
VereConference Web Conferencing Basic Features Recording
Today I finally decided to do a short recording that could be loaded on to youtube so you can see some basic features of VereConference first hand, before you get your own free room.
I've avoided doing my own training recording because when I talk to a recording I don't like what I hear. I do much better in a live situation training, but those recordings are way too long! So here it is a short 5 minute recording that will show the basic features of VereConference.
As a Marketing Strategies Coach I'm always testing different platforms of marketing. I've been hanging out in the social media networks for a some time now. I've come to the conclusion if you understand social networks it can be a powerful marketing strategy. My focus has been on facebook and twitter for the majority of my test, however I do have a presence on several networks also.
Instead of re-inventing the wheel and documenting all of my testing I've been doing, I've decided to link you over to an excellent and very through web strategist. Jeremiah Owyang. He has done many in depth case studies mostly focusing for the corporate environment. His content is excellent. Here is a link to his stuff; http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/
I gained a huge respect for him on his latest post, because he was willing to share on twitter what some might consider his competitors names. Be sure to check out his web strategy vault, it will help you get to the information you are seeking quickly.
By the way, I made contact with Jeremiah through twitter. By far Twitter has been my favorite social networking site, there are many others. Here are the top social network movers and shakers. Think of the Internet as a huge ocean and there are many good places to do business, we don't all need to flock to the same place.
After learning more about social networking and how it works, you should go into it with focus on what you want in return. Who is your target market? Focus on networking with those type of people. Through my testing I've found several marketers who have more than one social network account they do this because they have more than one target market. Social networking isn't a one size fit all deal.
In my primary business I have 2 very different target markets. The 1st one is customers, these are people who just love what we market. The 2nd one is people who want to build a business. I keep the databases separate. I very seldom send the same messages out to both groups. Each of these groups do business with me because I'm giving them what they want or need. In some instances these databases inter-twine but for the most part they are separate.
Do you have 2 or more target markets in your business? You will need to decide which one you want to focus on first. One big mistake many marketers make is trying to focus on too many targets at once. I've seen is happen way too much, they end up not being successful at anything. Yes I truly believe in multiple streams of income but focus on one at a time, once you have one going with success, then start another knowing you will still have to put a little effort to keep the first income stream going.
Web Conferencing the way to really learn online Marketing
Today I had a business associate call and talk about visiting me while she passes through Kansas next month. As our conversation progressed she asked if I would sit down with her while she is visiting and teach her some online marketing strategies. As a long time trainer of online marketing strategies I've always used web conferencing to train.
I shared with her that even my own sister who lives only 3 miles down the road from me doesn't come to my house to learn online marketing strategies. I really think you should learn in a real working environment. Our working environment is online so this is the logical place to learn online marketing strategies. If you relate this to learning to ride a horse. You can watch all the video's, read books about horse riding but sooner or later you need to get in the saddle and just do it!
Do you have a team that you would like to share your marketing strategies with? Especially online marketing stragegies? What a better place to teach but in the environment where the student will be doing it. The more I use web conferencing the more I realize I would hate to try to do a conference without it.
Yes there are still many people who teach from tele-conferences, but I'm convienced that they just haven't been educated themselves. It's just like doing anything for the first time there is always a fear of the unknown, or I think especially for a trainer they don't want to show they're weak points. Everyone when they first start web conferencing are a little unsure. The more you do it the better you get. Just like riding a horse... if you ride day after day you become pretty good.
Isn't it time to take the plunge and start web conferencing?
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Online Training: Inside Secrets of Communication
Inside Secrets of Communication
Forget about me for a minute. Let's talk about you.
If you could master certain communication skills, what would they be? What would you like to do? How does this sound: Being the person that people love to talk to. Being able to talk to anybody, grab their attention and keep it as long as you want.
In preparation for communicating on the phone people usually spend time perfecting their "scripts" and trying to get other people interested in them. Some people never worry about their script because there's a sure-fire way to create interest. It works almost every time. For example, my introduction varies (I hate "canned" scripts), but it usually goes something like this:
"Hi this is Cindy McAsey, I help people who want to earn a living in their own business like I do. I continully test new marketing strategies and fine tune my training based on results I get" That's it. Then I quickly switch the conversation topic to something that other people are always interested in: Themselves. People would rather talk about what they do than listen to you talk about what you do.
After a brief sentence about yourself (15 seconds or less), shift the topic by asking: "And what do you do?" This gets them talking. Sometimes that is the only question you need to ask. If you happen to find someone that loves what they do you've just created a conversation. But that doesn't happen all the time. So next ask: "How did you get into that?" or, if they obviously don't care for their job ask "What career would you like to move into?" Then shut up, and listen. Really listen. Pay attention to their tone of voice. Wait until they get excited about something. An aspect of their job or business. Their clients. Their coworkers. A success story. Something.
When you find that "something" ask about it. Just say, "Could you tell me more about that?" Congratulations, you've just created an instant conversation and genuine interest. What if they hate their situation? Not a problem. Just say, "I understand. But what do you enjoy?" Be careful, you could have an hour-long conversation on your hands! When you master this type of introduction you'll also need to master the skill of how to get out of a conversation and move on (that's a subject for another message).
This isn't a new concept, Dale Carnegie said in his book How to Win Friends and Influence People that "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." How true.
This isn't rocket science. It might even sound simple. It is, but it isn't. The next time you have a conversation, become aware of how anxious you are to 1. talk about yourself or 2. add your own opinion. To become an effective networker you have to have the mindset "It's all about the other person".
Keep in mind, people won't always call or approach you. If someone doesn't introduce themself to you, introduce yourself to them. To get started, here's a great icebreaker that works: "Hi". After you say hi DO NOT go into your script, skip it until they ask about you. Move right into the two questions we just talked about:
1. "What do you do?" Get the other person talking about himself or herself.
2. "How did you get into that?" Or "What would you like to do?"
Here are a few alternatives (or follow-ups) to question #2: "What is your favorite part of your career?" "Is that a life long career or a stepping stone?" (If it's a stepping stone, ask "a stepping stone to what?") What do you do when you're not working?
Now you know the secret to successful communication: Get the other person to talk about themself right away. More importantly, get them to talk about something they are passionate about. Become interested in what they're saying. If there's a synergy between the two of you, keep in contact with them. Take action to improve your communication skills, by showing up for my training Tuesday. My Veretekk training is exclusive for gold Veretekk members who are serious about building their own online business success.
Web Conferencing Online Training for People who Struggle with writing Content
For people who Struggle with Writing Content for Blogfather News Feed
In the next 2 minutes you are going to learn a skill that will lead to a strategy. Remember last week I showed you the formula I use for online success? Skills + Strategies + Testing + Fine Tuning Based on Results = Online Success
Everyone starts out at a different place when they come online and start marketing. What I'm about to share with you is for the person who is absoultly terrified to put a written word down. I have found this little freee tool online that most internet marketers are going to great lengths to figure out how to best use it. When I first saw it I knew exactly the people it could help. This little tool is called twitter. I feel one huge value it will deliver is for people who are terrified to put a written word online.
In the Veretekk web conference rooms most "veretekkies" don't have a problem chating back and forth in the text chat area. I've noticed some of the same people who are good text chatters telling me in class they terrified of writing content. This is where twitter comes in for those who have a fear of starting to write content. With twitter you can only write 140 charaters and that's it. It's a mini RSS feed and even though I don't see it as a SEO tool, it does get spidered by google.
You be the judge, get a twitter account (twitter.com), then start logging your daily activities. Basically every time you post think of it as a friend asking you what you are doing? All you are doing is answering the question. After you answer this question several times a day over a couple of weeks it will become very routine for you. When you feel comfortable answering this question over and over, start paying attention to logging what you are doing in your business. Remember you only have 140 charaters to work with, soon you will have a hard time compressing your answers in only 140 charaters.
Little by little begin placing your business answers to "what are you doing" in note pad, or what I do is just write in edit plus where you aren't limited to 140 charaters. Keep writing your content in a conversation mode, but instead of just answering the question "what are you doing" start telling stories of what happened today just like you were telling your friend. As you progress with these short stories start placing this content in your blogfather feed.
The way I look at it some content is better than no content at all. In time as you develop a habit of writing about your business you will want to start to think about who you are writing this content for and what keywords they might search on to find your content. There are many Veretekk trainings weekly that talk about choosing your target market and the best keywords to optimize your blogfather news feed for. Remember all the training in the world won't help you if you are unable to act on what you learn.
I assume you are a serious marketer if you are using the Veretekk system. Take advantage of the power of Veretekk and do what it takes to ease your way into writing your own content for your news feed. No one knows your business like you do. Every business needs customers and most businesses will partner with other businesses as a way to expand. Bottom line every business needs people wether they are customers or business partners to survive.
You must understand that people don't join companies. People don't join products. People don't join compensation plans, and they don't join systems either. The KEY is PEOPLE JOIN PEOPLE. This is a relationship business. People will be drawn to you for the positive qualities they believe exist within themselves. In a similar way people will tend to push away from those qualities they fear most in themselves. This is a good thing, wouldn't you rather do business with people whom you have something in common with?
Think of marketing online like being amoung a huge sea of people, when you write your own content you will attract into your business the people who are attracted to you by what you write.
If you have a dream to run your own business and become an online success story like I did making passive income, start plugging into my trainings. My Veretekk training is exclusive for gold Veretekk members who are serious about learning my marketing strategies to build their own business success. If this is you, take inspired action, and show up. Let me show you my event schedule http://www.barefoot-in-the-garden.com
I update this weekly.
Online Training Top 5 Reason's to Write a Press Release
Top 5 Reason's to write a Press Release
You probably already know this, but sometimes it's nice to have a reminder of what you should be doing to get results in your business. Successful Business's have been using freee press since the invention of the printing press. Just yesterday while listening to Joe Vitale's newest online video, (posted on my Barefoot Marketing Strategies Blog) it hit me it's been a few years since I've talked about the power of press releases.
Now, let me ask you a question... Can you honestly say you are using press releases to their fullest potential in your business? I decided it was time to share my top 5 reasons for writing press releases.
1. Organic Traffic
This is probably the most obvious one. If your press release is well optimized, it can be ranked in google on 2 to 3 days in the orangic listings. Generally it shows first day under the Google news and other news feeds.
2. Bloggers & Social Network Audience
Many bloggers suscribe to online press release distribution services like PRWeb. (this is a content writing hint) If your press release interests them, they might blog about it and link to your press release. If you consistantly reach out to this audience, you can get significant links, traffic and sales from this.
3. Traffic from Traditional Media
If your press release interests journalists, they will follow up with you and write a story about your business. This will most certainly lead to a burst of website traffic and sales. Did you know journalists are starting to hang out on social network sites looking for a good story? I noticed this trend in my market research of social networks.
4. Link Building
Be sure to put your important keywords linked to your revelant pages on your website. When the press release is distributed some of these links will be picked up by other news feeds.
5. Reputation Control
If someone has criticized your business, one sure way to get the criticsm off the first page of Google search results is to do mutiple press releases.
Would you like to know how I use little known online marketing secrets to maximize search engine optimization, social networking, RSS feeds, list building and more? The answer is really quite simple. I learned the right skills, developed the right strategies, and tested the strategies over and over until I found what works. Pretty simple formula, isn't it?
Skills + Strategies + Testing + Fine Tuning Based on Results = Online Success
This is precisely what I did and continue to do online that generates income 24 hours a day - 7 days a week. And you can learn to do what I do, in a fraction of time it took me. Not to mention all the time and money I invested to test everything.
That's right...
If you have a dream to run your own business and become an online success story like I did making passive income, start plugging into my trainings. My Veretekk training is exclusive for gold suscribers that are serious about learning my online and offline marketing techniques to build their own business success. If this is you, take inspired action, and show up. Here is a link to my event schedule http://www.barefoot-in-the-garden.com/eventschedule.htm I update this weekly. (read more)
Online Training Choosing an MLM Business
Online Training Choosing and MLM Business
Before you just jump into an MLM business you should do your homework and find out exactly how much time, effort, and money it's going to take to earn the income you desire.
Not only is the company you choose very important also the team you join will make or break your business. Does the team your thinking about joining have a simple step by step process that even the newest distributor with NO internet marketing experience follow and have success? Here is what we are using on our team www.afranchiseonline.com
By the way as you can see I didn't set up this website I'm just another smart distributor that understands the power of a simple automated system.
Ok now back to the company...Does the company have a consumable product that people use everyday and needs to re-order? Are their support materials easily accessable to use for marketing purposes. I'm not talking about company flyers guys.. I'm talking about real content that can be used for online marketing purposes.
You know there is lots of support materials for a company when they have to put up a whole web page with links to web sites and expalining who might be interested in this piticular site. Here is the NEW Support Link for our company. This handy support guide website contains both the URL, Site Description, and also explains who should use this site.
It's always a good idea when choosing an MLM business to pick a company that can stand with just the products they promote even if there weren't a business opportunity attached with it. I know distributors in my company that have built huge businesses just selling products NOT recruiting Distributors. To be honest that's where my bread and butter income comes from. It's customers not distributors.
I personally bring in lots of FREE customers, because I'm able to ride the wave of 3rd party validation and 50+ years of content about the product.
Did you happen to see the article I wrote called "I'm mailing Naked" about all the FREEE press our company is getting from 3rd party validators. You might be thinking so why is this important and what does that have to do with mailing naked. I tell it all in this article.
Unfortunatly because of the content in this article I'm not able to post it online but I can give you access to it. If you send a blank email too: barefoot@1-family.com thanks to the power of technology and Veretekk you will get the popular "I'm mailing NAKED" article along with an explaination of why I titled it the way I did.
Just in case you missed it... it's one of thos keeper articles just send a blank email to: barefoot@1-family.com and you will automatically get it. Don't worry you won't be flooded with email just once in a while get really good content on marketing strategies from me!
Let this be a white hat marketing lesson for you today. You know you are on to something big when other reps in your primary company feel they have to dogg the programs you use and decide to pay to have their information show up at the top of google in the sponsored listings.
This goes so against the founder of our company always said, "Don't knock the competition they are just doing the best they can." Long time Shaklee Distributors know this quote and I'm sure feel the same way I do. That's why I'll be taking the high road here and doing the best to teach and train other successful marketers not to fall into this kind of "dirty dogg marketing"
I'm sure the person who paid for this sponsored ad may possibly trick some of the people searching for me to sign up on their site.
I 'm confident that savy business minded people who will be searching for "cindy mcasey" might very well click making this marketer pay, but wouldn't get sucked into signing up under someone who uses such tatics.
A savy business minded person will continue to investigate and if they liked the Streamline Magic Wealth System would rather follow someone who knows how to conquer the competition by using VERETEKK. and getting freee top listings in google rather than paying to be there.
Just so everyone knows.... even if you have a Streamline Wealth System you still have to market the site. Yes I will be placing people under you. Yes the the reach out methods they teach are very effective and simple that any new marketer can learn. That's one reason I choose to use it, because it is very simple for a new marketer to get started and making money quickly.
The new marketers on my team Streamline Wealth Team will be taught advanced marketing strategies and step by step how to use Veretekk. To access and see my event schedule go to: http://events.barefootsuccess.net I update this site weekly.
To set the record straight Veretekk is the most cost and time effective automated marketing system on online. I rest my case. copywrite, signed, sealed and blogged by the one and only... Cindy McAsey - Marketing Strategies Coach
Marketing Strategies: Creating Viral Videos for Marketing
How to Create Viral Videos to use for Marketing
There is some greating marketing content in this video. Many of the marketing strategies I've written articles about before, but thought this content could help you in designing one of those excellent viral videos.
Just a reminder... you need to stay focused on your marketing strategies and not get too many things going at once. If video's are one of your marketing strategies then watch, take notes and learn!
Web Conferencing Screen Casting Explained and more...
What do guineas, fleas, and ticks have to do with web conference rooms?
When you live on a farm in Kansas sometimes your suroundings come through in the web conferencing recording. You will get the short story in this web conferencing recording.
I decided to save this web conference online training and load the whole file up to my server. Not that it's necessarly the best online training I've done, in fact when I re-listened to the recording I just about didn't post it.
There is time during this training that my guineas start making so much noise that I have to stop the training and close the window! If you don't mind hearing real world day to day things that happen on our farm in Kansas then this is a must listen to training.
Just so you know this recording is un-edited and everyone who was in the class text chats show so it's really pretty much like being live in web conference. In this recording I cover most of the basic features of VereConference how to use the screen casting, basic recording features, locking the room etc.
For the perfectionists watching this recording I realize I didn't have the back drop of my screen casting exactly perfect but decided to post the recording anyway. Most of you who have been to my trainings know I'm really picky about that stuff. Please overlook the imperfections to learn what this amazing web conferencing system can do for your business.
P.S. as I write this our guineas are up letting their presence be known again this morning.
Online Training: Business Building Relationships 101
Building Business Relationships 101 by Cindy McAsey Marketing Strategies Coach
One of the biggest issues keeping people from moving forward in their business is not having confidence in themself, stopping them from building new business relationships. I have a section dedicated to marketing mindset on the Barefoot Marketing Strategies Blog located in my Veretekk VereConference Room with tools and strategies to move you past the confidence barrier.
You’ve probably heard it several times the fortune is in the follow up while in many times that is true, but what do you do if you don't have anyone to talk to. Here is a common question new people ask “Where do I find people?" Once your Veretekk System is pumping out leads this isn't a problem, then the question is "What do I say to them?"I could give you all the scripts, autoresponders, and web copy but until you are confident in communicating yourself it will be difficult to build your own business relationships.
Use your appreciation of people to activate a conversation with others.
Here is an example of this: Last week while looking through Facebook groups this message jumps out at me: "WARNING SPAMMERS and ADVERTISERS:" I am deleting your crap and removing you from the group. Post this crap at your own risk as you will discover exactly why they call me 'Toe Cracker! When I saw this I just wanted to give this Toe Cracker person a high five, and proceeded to text him a message starting the conversation.
Toe Cracker replied immediately with a friendly message saying he noticed I was writing web copy and proceeded to tell me about his persuave writing skills workshop. This started a long string of friendly conversations. For the REST of this conversation listen to my FaceBook for Busines Recording in my Veretekk VereConference Room.
I share this with you to point out that people are all over the place and we can have quick conversations with them and learn lots of stuff. Then it a matter of following up. Having people to share our business with should never be an issue. We should not be asking, "Where do I find people?" But rather, "Who do I talk want to talk with next?"
When you use your appreciation of others to activate conversation you will find people with needs all over the place. Then it's just a matter of taking the next step and showing them what you have to solve their problem. Sometimes when people join us in business for what ever reason they just stop and you don't hear from them. That's when you need to treat this business relationship like a game of checkers; you move, I move, you move, I move etc. YOU quit moving.. GAME OVER!
Others are mirrors of your own self-image. You will be drawn to others for the positive qualities you believe exist within you. In a similar way you will tend to hate others who reflect back to you those qualities you fear most in yourself. You already have th answers to life's questions. All you need to do is look, listen within, and trust your intuitive powers. (read more)
Marketing Strategies: Trade Secrets of Testing and Tracking for Results
Cindy McAsey
Marketing Strategies Coach I personally don't think of myself as a big "numbers" person, however the longer I'm online the more I realize testing and tracking is just part of running a successful online business. Tracking where the traffic is coming from on your sites will help you to know what to focus on. That's how I generally know when google has ranked my sites for a certain keyword.
Many times I've thought if I could just see the click throughs of other sites it would sure take my marketing, testing and more importantly results to the next level. Now thanks to YouTube adding some new features we can see other video's Stats! When you view a YouTube video, right underneath is a NEW "Statistics & Info" tab. Before they added these tabs when you loaded a video you could choose wether or not to show these statistics. Now for the time being, all video's by defalt are showing stats.
YouTube's new Stats Tab shows only the top 5 referring sites, but this is extremely VALUABLE information. Now you can look at any of your competitor's videos and see 'where' most of their traffic is coming from. This is a great way to find new business strategies, possible business partners or content publishers in your market that would be ideal to send traffic to YOUR videos. Another nice and very viral feature YouTube just added is a link to add the video to MySpace or Facebook.
If you aren't yet tracking stats on your business I encourage you to start a routine to check stats daily. By doing this in time you will be able to visualize what the next day will look like, what's working what isn't etc. Every traffic portal in Veretekk gives you stats, it's up to you to check em and learn from what they are telling you. If one of your marketing strategies is YouTube GO NOW and do some valuable research into your competitors'videos before they HIDE the referral data. (read more)
Online Training: Inspiration for the Mind
Inspiration for the Soul
This morning I thought I would share a short inspirational movie will re-ignite your dreams and help you remember that anything is possible if you want it bad enough.
What is your hidden Secret? Too many people either drift through life accepting mediocrity or go full-steam ahead in the direction of other people’s dreams. They are basically following the majority.
Mark Twain once said, "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect”
The life of your dreams awaits you, irrespective of your age, race, religion, creed or color – However, there are a few things you have to do to get from Step 1 to 2 to 3 etc..
One Step at a Time...
Step 1: Stop and take time to reflect what you really want and WHY you want it. Your why has to be really strong, so strong that nothing will get in the way. Your why has to be at 100% don't move on til it is.
Step 2: Start planning. Lay out your plan as if it's just a matter of time before you get your dream.
Step 3: Work like your plan like there is no tomorrow.
Consider a success coach to help you with the process. Most great achivers do.
