Multiple Streams of Internet Income

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Getting Started With MSI (Multiple Streams of Income)

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THE SCIENCE OF MMO (Making Money Online)

1. Building online store

These web sites can help you build your own online store quickly, easily and securely. No need to know web designing, HTML or programming at all! Everything needed for e-commerce, including hosting, administration, catalog, search engine, shopping cart, merchant account, credit card processing, transaction processor, online and offline ordering, event calendar, shipping calculator, e-mail account and even more, is ready just by your clicks!

2. Get paid for visiting and viewing
Receive cash after you visit certain web sites and view some ads!

3. Get paid for surfing
First you need to download a small application and let it running while you are online, then you'll get paid according to the time you have spent online. There are quite a few other ways that can help you earn more at the same time!

4. Get paid for setting your start page
By setting your start page to certain pages, every time you start your explorer you'll earn money!

5. Get paid for reading emails
It is very simple: just register and agree to receive e-mails. And how much you earn depends on how many e-mails you do read! These sites also offer some other ways for you to earn more!

6. Get paid for playing games
Play free games and win great money or prize! If your referral wins you win too!

7. Get paid for listening
Earn money while you are listening to music or radio online!

8. Get paid for referral
Earn money if you can refer your friends to register, join or sign up. Usually you can earn for several referral levels.

9. Get paid for your Blogs, opinion and suggestion
Your opinions are valuable! Get money after you complete surveys, write reviews and answer questions!

10. Get paid for joining affiliate program and signup
Get real money after you join affiliate programs. And you can earn more for your referrals.

11. Earn income from your own website
If you already have your own web site, why not make money from it? Here are many ways you can use to make money!

12. Multiply programs(HYIP, MYIP, LYIP, FOREX)
Here are great websites which offer you multiply ways to earn real money!

13. Get paid in miscellaneous ways
Here are some miscellaneous and interesting ways to earn money with 17 Streams of Internet Income i have listed below in the forum topic such as

I have gathered at least 40 Streams of Internet Income and in the process of final editing an ebook and it will soon be release free for members to read, meanwhile you can download an ebook as a gift from me freely with 21 streams of income at the bottom of this post.

1. Make Money Online with Affiliate Programs

2. Make Money Online with Blogs

3. Make Money Online with eBooks

4. Make Money Online with ebay Referrals

5. Make Money Online with Your Own Niche Directory

6. Make Money Online with an Internet Radio Show

7. Make Money Online Selling Stock Photos

8. Make Money Online Interviewing Experts

9. Make Money Online with a Classified Advertising Site

10. Make Money Online with a Local Real Estate Portal

11. Make Money Online Creating Your Own Software

12. Make Money Online with Telesminars & Webinars

13. Make Money Online with Residual Income Programs

14. Make Money Online with Audio eCourses

15. Make Money Online as a Coach/Consultant

16. Make Money Online with a Content Site

17. Make Money Online as a Virtual Assistant

18. Make Money Online a Local Online Mall

19. Make Money Online with a Social Networking Site

20. Make Money Online Providing Helpdesk Support

21. Make Money Online with Your Own Membership Site

22. GPT (Get Paid To)

24. Payment Processors & E-Currencies

25. Personal Finance

26. Real Estate - online

27. Stocks, Options, Futures, & Mutual Funds

28. Buying, Selling & Trading

29. Investment Programs (Non HYIP)

30. eCurrency Exchange Services

32. Money Cyclers

33. Referral, MLM, & Network/Affiliate Marketing

34. Autosurf & Manual Surf

35. Other Investments - Commodity Trade

36. HYIP (High Yield Investment Program)

37. Forex - Retails

38. How to - SWISSBANK account

39. Non Resident - US BANK Account

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The Science of MMO Part 16

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Million-Dollar Ads Secrets

Want a little secret to turn your advertising into an irresistible magnet for customers?

Dale Carnegie knew the secret, and that's one reason his book "How to Win Friends and Influence People" has sold more than 15 million copies. In fact, British Airways recently named it, "The Business Book of the 20th Century."

It's a great book. But if Dale had titled it "How to Remember People's Names and Curb Your Incessant Urge to Argue," do you think it would have sold as well? Probably not. There's great power in good titles.

What you may not realize is the words "How to Win Friends and Influence People" are not only the title of the book. Those words were also the headline of a mail-order ad, which sold the book. The ad ran successfully for many years and sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

So what does this have to do with turning your advertising into an irresistible customer magnet?

Here's what. Behind the title and headline is a "secret code" that makes it powerful. Dale knew it. Great advertising copywriters know it. And now, you're going to know it, too.

The "secret code" is actually a generic formula that gets attention and creates desire in your prospect's mind. Every winning headline has a unique generic formula hidden inside. Here's the formula in Dale Carnegie's book title and headline:

How to _____ and _____.

Let's see the formula at work. Say you are an executive Recruiter, and you help companies find new executives. In reality, your biggest problem is finding the executive candidates in the first place. So, to increase your group of candidates, you decide to run an ad in your local business journal. Here's how you could use this formula to write a headline for your ad:

How to Get a Better Job and Make More Money

…and right away anyone who's even a little interested would read your ad. Then, if your copy (text) is even halfway decent, you'd get plenty of calls.

Or, let's say you run a martial arts school. Here's how you could apply the formula in an advertising headline to get you new students:

How to Stay Fit and Protect Yourself

Do you see how powerful that is? You've just zeroed-in on people who are likely to be interested in learning martial arts.

The brutal reality of advertising: An ad with a good headline, and even mediocre copy, will get you a response and generate sales. But with a poor headline, even the most brilliant copy will get you little or no response. Why? Because without a good headline to get their attention, most people won't read any further.

The good news is, once you have identified a good headline that works in one industry or market, you can adapt it (like we did with the Dale Carnegie headline, above) for your own business. Great headlines work as subject lines in emails, titles on Web pages, and of course as headlines in print ads and sales letters. Great headlines will literally transform your sales.

How does this work in today's economy?

Recently a client asked me to help him introduce a new service to Internet Service Providers. (Note: To understand what you are about to read, you should know that ISPs call their suppliers "backbone providers.") I wrote a direct mail letter and my client sent it out to ISPs. Because my client was revealing new information his prospects hadn't heard before, we used the following "teaser headline" on the front of the envelope:

What Your Backbone Provider Isn't Telling You

Was this an entirely original headline? No. I had seen a similar "teaser headline" on a successful mailing to promote an investment newsletter:

What Your Broker Isn't Telling You About High-Tech Stocks

So I merely identified the "secret code" in the original winning headline, and applied it to my client's market, ISPs.

The response to the mailing was overwhelming! Nearly 10% of the entire ISP industry responded to our letter -- and my client has added eight figures of new annual revenues as a result of the business that developed.

I'm telling you this not to brag, but to point out the awesome power of good headlines. While many people spend hours and hours trying to come up with "the perfect headline" for their ads, there is an easier way. Find proven headlines that already work for another business in another industry, and adapt them to your business.

Then prepare for a flood of new customers!

The Science of MMO Part 15

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How to - Web Site Promotion

In order to be successful online, whether you have a new web site, product or service, you must continuously promote it, EVERYWHERE. There are many ways you can go about promoting just about anything. In this lesson we will be focusing on both online and offline promotion.

Creating a successful Internet presence involves much more than designing a great website or having the "perfect" product. Listing your website with the Search Engines is your first step, however, you must not solely rely on the Search Engines to bring you traffic. You must design a complete promotional strategy and work it every day.

If you're launching a new website, your first step will be to submit your site to the Search Engines and Directories.

Search Engines:

Below, is a list of the major Search Engines. These sites should be submitted to manually. Click on each link and follow their instructions.

Google
AltaVista
Lycos
Overture

Once you've manually submitted your main pages to the above Search Engines, visit SelfPromotion.com to automatically submit your pages to a number of additional Search Engines and Directories.

A good way to organize your promotions is to set up a web page, for your personal use, that will contain your complete strategy. This page should be stored on your hard drive and not uploaded to your server. Your page should contain four sections.

• Daily Promotions
• Weekly Promotions
• Monthly Promotions
• Miscellaneous Promotions

Each of these four sections should contain the appropriate information for each of your promotional resources such as website name, user ID, password (if applicable) and hyperlinked web addresses for each website you plan to use for your promotions. This will enable you to open your web page each day and visit the sites you have listed.

Daily Promotions

Placing Links

Your daily promotions should include posting your ads to a list of free classified ad sites. Although this promotional technique isn't as effective as it once was, it will provide you with some additional links to your site.

There are several websites that will enable you to submit your classified ads to an entire network of sites with just one form. Here is a list of resources to get you started:

Yahoo Classifieds
AdlandPro Networked Classifieds 5000+
Web Sitings Networked Classifieds 40,000+
Epage Networked Classifieds 16,000+

Discussion Boards:

In addition, visit some popular discussion boards and share your expertise. Although you may not advertise on discussion boards, you can include your signature file with your post. Before you begin posting to discussion boards, make sure you lurk a while and see exactly how the board functions.

Click here for a complete listing of some of the top discussion boards.

Weekly Promotions

Ezine Advertising / Ad Swaps:

Your weekly promotions should consist of placing a paid ezine advertisement and/or arranging ad swaps with fellow publishers. Visit the Directory of Ezines for a complete listing of hundreds of publishers and contact information for advertising.

To organize your ad placements and swaps, place the publication names, publisher names, ad dates and hyperlinked web addresses within your weekly promotions list.

Monthly Promotions

Your monthly promotions should include writing an article in the area of your expertise, promotional exchanges with similar websites, and offline promotions.

To organize your monthly promotions, place the names and hyperlinked web addresses for each of your promotional resources within your monthly promotions section.

Writing Articles:

Writing articles that may be freely published with your bylines is one of the best promotional methods online. Your article may be published in hundreds of ezines, on websites or even in magazines.

If you've been on the Internet for a while, you've probably subscribed to a few ezines. Many ezine publishers will include an article written by a guest author. At the end of the article is a few lines of text about the author referred to as bylines. These lines of text are basically just an advertisement for the writer. They usually contain a couple of lines about the author and a web address.

The writer gives the publisher permission to publish their article, free of charge, in exchange for the publisher including the author's bylines.

By writing articles and allowing them to be freely published, your articles will have the potential to be viewed by millions of Internet users. They may be published by several ezines with subscriber bases of a few hundred to several thousand. In addition, they may be displayed in ezine archives or on high traffic websites.

Most ezine publishers prefer short articles between 500 and 750 words. Short "tip" articles of just a couple of paragraphs are also very popular. Articles should be formatted to 65 characters per line or less, including spaces, and written in short paragraph sections.

When you begin writing your article, avoid using your standard word processing programs, as they do not allow for proper formatting. Instead, use a text editor such as NotePad. It should already be installed on your desktop.

When you begin typing your article, use a hard carriage return (hit enter) when your text reaches 65 characters, including spaces, and leave a space between your paragraphs. This will enable publishers to easily copy and paste your article into their publication. By taking the time to properly format your article, you will increase your chance of being published significantly.

If you don't feel comfortable formatting your article, click here and instantly format your article right online.

Most publishers receive many article submissions each week and only select a few to be published. Here are some basic guidelines to assist you in getting published:

Make sure you follow the publishers' submission guidelines. Articles submitted to publishers that don't follow the submission guidelines will most likely be deleted.

Make sure your article is properly formatted. Publishers won't take the time to format your article. They'll simply delete it and move on to the next article submission.

Keep your bylines down to 6 lines or less. Publishers will not publish articles that contain excessively long bylines.

Select a descriptive title to intrigue your readers. Use a powerful headline that demands attention and try to keep it all on one line.

Use proper grammar and spelling. Publishers will not take the time to edit your article. Make sure you read your article several times and use spellcheck.

Avoid articles that are nothing more than a sales letter. Publishers want quality content and will simply delete an article that is written like a sales letter.

Avoid referring readers to an affiliate URL. Articles containing affiliate links may appear to be biased and untrustworthy.

Write your articles with a sincere desire to teach and inform. Talk to your readers and share your expertise.

Once you've written your article, you'll need to develop a list of publishers that may be interested in publishing it. The best way to accomplish this is to display your articles on your website. Let your visitors know that they may freely publish your articles as long as your bylines are included. Place a subscription box on each of your article pages to enable your visitors to subscribe. Each time you write a new article, you can mail it to your list of publishers.

In addition, you can visit some ezine sites to locate publishers who may be interested in your articles. A good
place to start is eZINESearch.

Search through the database for publications that may be interested in the type of article you've written.

Another great way to promote your articles is to submit them to article announcement groups. These groups
enable writers to submit their articles to an entire group of publishers, completely free.

Article Announcement Lists:

Article Announce - Provides several article announcement groups including:

Article Announce - All types of articles

Targeted Article Announce Groups:

AABusiness - Business related articles
AAInternet - Internet related articles
AAHome - Home & Family related articles
AAHealth - Health related articles
AAGeneral - General interest articles

PublishInYours
Subscribe

Articles Archive
Subscribe

Free Content
Subscribe

Make sure you review the submission guidelines prior to posting your article to an announcement group.

Here are some additional promotional resources to help you get published:

IdeaMarketers
EzineArticles
WorldWide Information Outlet
Syndicator
Author Connection
Marketing Seek
Go Articles

Writing and distributing free articles on the Internet will be one of the best promotional decisions you'll ever make. Not only will it provide you with free publicity, but if your articles are good, you'll also become a trusted professional in your area of expertise.

Promotional Exchanges:

Cross promoting is a powerful technique used by many Internet marketers to increase the exposure of their products, services or publications. You simply decide what type of promotional exchange you would be interested in and contact fellow marketers to discuss an exchange.

The most effective technique used in cross promotions is recommendations. By providing each other with a personal recommendation you can increase your response rates tremendously.

Here are some popular cross promoting techniques you can use to boost your business:

Link Exchanges

Exchange links with websites similar to yours, but not in competition. Many Search Engines are now utilizing a system that tracks and ranks sites according to the number of links pointing to a particular website. By exchanging links with similar websites, you will not only increase your Search Engine ranking, but you will also increase your website traffic.

Ezine Ad Swaps

Exchange subscription ads with other ezine publishers. Ezine advertising is one of the best forms of advertising on the Internet. By swapping ads with fellow ezine publishers, you can run your ad in other publications free of charge.

Subscription Exchanges

Exchange subscription information with fellow ezine publishers. Provide recommendations within your ezine's welcome message, thank you page and even on your multiple subscription ezine form.

Ezine Column Swaps

Partner with a similar publication and provide content for each other. This may be a weekly tips column, question and answer column or whatever you'd like.

Byline Exchanges

Write articles and allow them to be freely published. Exchange byline information with fellow writers and provide recommendations.

With each article you write, you are entitled to include your author bylines. Bylines are nothing more than an advertisement for you, your website, products or services.

Instead of including your standard bylines, use half the space for yourself and the other half to promote the writer you've partnered with.

Signature Exchanges

A signature or SIG file is a few lines of information about your business at the bottom of any form of Internet communication. Exchange SIG file information with other marketers and provide recommendations.

Ebook Exchanges

Partner with fellow Internet marketers and create free ebooks to freely distribute. The ebook should mutually benefit and promote both of you, while providing valuable information for your visitors.

Private Web Rings

Set up a private web ring and partner with websites that are similar to yours, but not in competition. Provide recommendations for each site within your ring.

Ride Alongs

A ride along is any extra information (advertisements) sent along with a direct mailing. You can use this same technique with any ezine solo mailings you may run by including an exchange recommendation within your mailing. In addition, you can include recommendations within your thank you letters you send out when you deliver your products.

Upsells

An upsell is used when your customer is in the process of ordering your product. Another product is introduced, for a small additional cost, just as you're closing the sale. This technique is used with many infomercials when the customer calls in their order. The operator will introduce an additional product for a minimal extra charge. You can use this same technique on your order page. Trade product recommendations with fellow marketers.

Free Bonuses

Free bonuses are used as an incentive to increase sales. Exchange bonuses with other marketers. This technique will not only increase your sales, but will also promote your products and services.

Forum and List Moderation

Trade forum or list moderation duties. Partner with similar websites or lists and share in the moderation duties. Place short BIOS with links at the top of the forum or within each list post.

A quality recommendation will pull a much higher response rate than just a link or banner. Cross promote with individuals you truly respect and believe in, as your professional reputation is on the line.

Cross promotions provide Internet marketers with a powerful way to reach new potential customers. There is power in number, so get out there and start cross promoting!

Offline Promotions:

Promoting your website offline is another great way to increase your traffic. Below, are several resources to assist you:

IDit Plates (highly recommended) - Put your web address on your vehicle. IDit Plates are a great way to continuously promote your website. They're triple chrome plated and blend in well with your vehicle.

Magnetic Signs - Full size magnetic signs for your vehicle. Get a customized sign that magnetically adheres to each side of your vehicle, advertising your website.

Visit iPrint for your printing needs. From business print items to promotional items, iPrint has it all.

Place ads in newspapers, magazines, on the radio, or on TV. Visit these links for complete listings:

Gebbie Press
NewsDirectory Newspapers
Newspapers Online

For even more promotional products, PromoCity can add your logo to any one of over 500,000 items.

Press Releases:

CanadaOne provides a free interactive press release builder.
Gebbie Press provides over 10,000 links to print and electronic media on the Internet.

Dr. Kevin Nunley will write your press release and send it to 5,000 media contacts.
Automated Press Releases will enable you to send your press release to over 10,000 media. You write your press release or they'll write it for you.

Once you've created your promotional web page, open it within your browser and add it to your favorite places or bookmark it for easy daily access. Set up a specific day for your weekly and monthly promotions and perform your miscellaneous promotions as needed.

Once you've implemented your promotional strategy and continuously work it each day, you'll be amazed with the results of your efforts. Consistency will be the key to driving massive traffic to your site

The Science of MMO PART14

noreply@blogger.com (MSII) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:20:00 +0000

Online Advertising Strategy

A powerful ad is one of the most important aspects of your success. The secret to a successful ad is your HEADLINE. You only have a split second to grab your targets attention. Your potential customer will most likely scan the ads and only read one if it catches their attention. Write your ads with passion, excitement, and benefits.

Use this powerful approach when creating your ad copy.

A
-Attention -Grab your targets attention

I
-Interest -Create curiosity

D
-Detail -Provide details

A
-Action -Call for action

Create an urgency to act now. Creating a successful ad will take a great deal of time and effort. You'll need to write it and re-write it over and over again before you come up with a great ad.

We all know the importance of a powerful headline. However, writing a great headline isn't as easy as it sounds.

An effective headline will literally force your potential customers to learn more. It will instantly ignite a certain emotion and intrigue them to read on.

In order to write an effective headline, you must learn how to use specific words to achieve a specific reaction.

Before writing your headline, you must first learn a little bit about the basic human motivators. According to psychologist Abraham Maslow, human behavior is always
the result of one or more of five basic needs. He listed these needs in a sequence that he refers to as "the hierarchy of human needs."

He believes that until a less important need is met there won't be any desire to pursue a more important need. Below are the five human motivators, beginning with the basic needs and continuing to the most important needs.

Physiological - Basic human needs include hunger, thirst, shelter, clothing and sex.
Safety (Security) - Human need for physical, emotional and financial security.
Social (Affiliation) - Human need for love, affection, companionship and acceptance.
Esteem (Self Esteem) - Human need for achievement, recognition, attention and respect.
Self-actualization - Human need to reach their full potential.

When you are aware of the basic human needs, you can incorporate these needs into your writing. A great headline will appeal to your potential customers' emotions. You must feel their needs, wants and desires and write your headlines with passion and emotion.

When writing your headlines, keep in mind, you only have a few seconds to grab your potential customers' attention. If your headline doesn't immediately catch their attention, they'll simply move on and never return. Below are several different formulas used by professional copywriters to write compelling headlines.

How to

"How to Increase Your Sales Up to 500% by Using This One Simple Strategy"

Headlines beginning with 'how to' are very successful, as the Internet is all about information. Internet users have a strong desire to learn. A headline beginning with 'how to' immediately grabs your potential customers' attention and forces them to read on.

Question

"Are You Sick and Tired of Working For Someone Else?"

Headlines written in the form of a question are very effective, as they appeal to your potential customers' emotions. When they read a headline written as a question, they'll answer the question in their mind. If the question identifies a specific need, want or desire, they'll read on.

Command

"Double Your Income Within the Next 12 months -- Guaranteed!"

A command headline focuses on the most important benefit your product or service has to offer. It instantly demands your potential customers' attention and intrigues them to read on.

News

"Announcing a Brand New Breakthrough in E-Publishing"

News headlines are very effective and used to announce new products and services. They are written in the form of an announcement or introduction and create curiosity.

Testimonials

"Internet Marketing Exclusive is Pure Genius -- Our Sales Have Increased by 40%!"

Headlines written in the form of a testimonial are very effective, as they instantly begin building trust.

When writing your headlines, certain words, when combined together, will literally draw your readers' attention to your ad. Below are of few of these "Power Words" that consistently work.
Breakthrough
Discover
Discovery
Easy
Free
Guaranteed
Hidden
Incredible
Love
Master
Money
New
Powerful Profits
Proven
Results
Revealed
Scientific
Secret
Shocked
Shocking
Ultimate
Uncovered
You
Your

According to a Yale University study, the following words
are the most powerful words in the English language.
Money
Discovery
Save
Easy
New
Love
Health
Proven
You
Results
Guaranteed
Safety

Just as certain words ignite different emotions, certain
subjects have a broader interest than others do. Some of
the most popular subjects include wealth, love, health
and safety.

Take your time and try the different formulas according to
your needs. Use a combination of the power words and write
a headline that sells. By learning the art of writing headlines
that focus on the basic human needs and emotions, you can
increase your sales considerably.

Testing and Tracking Your Strategies

Developing and implementing a strategic marketing plan is an essential part of your success. However, unless you're testing and tracking your strategies, you may be losing a great deal of time and money.

You can dramatically increase your sales simply by taking the time to test and track your results. Not only will it help you to determine what's working and what's not, but it will also enable you to focus your efforts on the strategies
that produce results.

When testing your marketing strategies, keep in mind, a strategy that produces results for one person may not produce results for you. There is no 'set in stone' strategy that works for everyone. You must develop your own style and technique and test your results to determine what works for you. Below are some ad tracking resources to assist you in your testing and tracking endeavors.

Ad Tracking CGI Scripts

LnkinLite

If you're looking for a simple way to track clickthroughs, then LnkinLite may be your answer. This free script will enable you to easily keep track of the number of clicks a specific link receives. Instead of using your standard link within your advertising, you can use a link created by this script. It will track the number of clickthroughs and instantly redirect your visitors to your URL.

Willmaster's ProLinkz

This powerful script is a link creator, tracker, disguiser and manager all in one. It will enable you to create uniquely coded links that redirect to any URL you specify
and count all hits and referrers. Cost - $45.00

AdTrackZ

This script will enable you to set up an entire ad tracking campaign including statistical reports for referring URLs, what browsers your visitors have installed, what operating systems your visitors are using and much more. Cost - $47.00

Ad Tracking Services

LinkCounter

A free service that tracks the clickthrough rates of your links. In addition to tracking your links, LinkCounter hides the URL of the link destination. This will prevent users from removing or changing your affiliate ID when visiting an affiliate site through your link.

HyperTracker

The PRO version of HyperTracker contains a number of advanced features including: unlimited advertising campaigns, tracking of sales and actions, special scripts that let you promote your own website address in your campaigns and much more.

Adminder

An online tracking system that will enable you to track an entire advertising campaign. It will enable you to see how many visitors were generated by each of your ads, keep track of sales that were generated by each ad and calculates the
cost-per-click, cost-per-sale, and click-to-sale ratios for each ad.

If you'd rather not use any of the products and services listed above, you can use some alternative methods. Below are some example tracking methods you can use to track your response rates:

URL

You can track your ads simply by adding some special coding to your URL. To code your URL, add a question mark followed by a special tracking code to the end of your web address. Your coded link will still open your web page. Your code
should look something like this:

http://www.yourdomain.com/?ad1

The text after the question mark should identify a specific ad. You can code it however you'd like.

To view your results, you'll need to look at your log files. Your code will be displayed within your log files beside your URL.

Email

You can track your email responses to specific ads by using the email subject. Select a specific word to be placed within the email subject for each ad. Although you can request that a certain word be placed within the email subject, many times it won't be supplied. To avoid this problem, you can create a special email link that will automatically fill in the subject when clicked on. Your link should look something like this:

mailto:you@yourdomain.com?subject=ad1

Testing and tracking your strategies is an essential part of doing business. By concentrating your efforts on strategies that produce results, you can not only increase your sales, but you'll also save yourself a great deal of time and money.

Ezine Advertising

Ezine advertising is one of the most effective forms of advertising used on the Internet. Many ezines sell ad space that may include sponsor ads and/or solo ads. However, solo ads will produce the best results.

Visit the Directory of Ezines for a complete list of publications.

Sponsor Ads

Another great way to promote your products and services is to run sponsor ads in ezines.

Below, is a list of large, highly responsive publications that accept sponsor advertising. Please note, prior to spending any major money, make sure you always test your ads first. A good way to do this is to start out by running an ad in AIM. They offer ad space reasonably priced for just this purpose. Once you have an ad that's pulling a good response rate, you can then buy a more expensive ad.

Active Internet Marketer (AIM)
http://www.inetexchange.com/inet-mailer.html

DEMC E-Magazine
http://www.demc.com/Advertise/advertise.html

Web Marketing Today
http://www.wilsonweb.com/ads/2-line-ad.htm

BizWeb E-Gazette
http://www.bizweb2000.com/ads.htm

Advertising Resources

Clickbank's Login Page Place your 40 word text ad in front of thousands of ClickBank affiliates for 700.00 per month. This provides massive exposure.

Google Adwords Enables you to manage your own account, with ads sold on a cost-per-impression (CPM) basis. There's no minimum deposit required. Your ads appear on the right side of the Google search results pages.

Google Adwords Select™ Enables you to manage your own account, and with cost-per-click (CPC) pricing, you pay only when users click on your ad. You control your costs by setting a daily budget for what you are willing to spend each day.

Ezine Advertising.com is the Internet's Search Engine for Ezine Advertisers. Their database includes Email Newsletters and Discussion Lists that accept sponsorship and/or classified ads.

Google Adwords

If you're looking for a low-cost, yet highly effective means of advertising your products and services, then Google AdWords may be your answer.

Google AdWords provides a simple way to purchase highly targeted advertising, regardless of your budget. Unlike other sites selling banner ad space and pay-per-ranking, AdWords provides advertisers with highly effective text ads that are displayed with the search results. Studies have shown that highly targeted keyword advertising produces an average of four times the industry standard clickthrough rate.

Google, one of the premier Search Engines, receives over 29 million searches each day. Their popularity most likely stems from the speed and accuracy of their search results. Needless to say, placing your text ad with Google Adwords will be a highly effective way to advertise your products and services.

It is a well-known fact that text ads perform much better than banner ads. What better way to target your audience than through a popular Search Engine? Your potential customer is there for a reason -- they're looking for something. When a Google visitor types in their keywords, they are almost instantly presented with their search results. On the right side of the results are colored text boxes containing targeted advertisements that match their search terms.

When you place your ad with AdWords, you will have the ability to select a list of tightly targeted keywords including all of the following:

Keyword Matching - Shows your ad when a search includes your selected words.

Phrase Matching - Shows your ad when a search includes your selected phrases.

Exact Query Matching - Shows your ad when a search contains your exact keywords and no others.

Negative Keyword Matching - Will not show your ad if a search contains certain words you select.

This unique targeting technique will enable you to create a highly targeted ad campaign and test your ads with a high rate of accuracy. What's more, you can even target your ads to a specific country or language.

The great thing about advertising with Google AdWords is that you will have complete control over your ad and how much you'd like to spend. You can open an account with a credit card with no minimum deposit required. Once you place your ad, it can begin running almost immediately.

Their advertising rates are very reasonable. The amount you spend on your advertising campaign will depend on two factors: (1) the number of times your ad is displayed and (2) the position, one through eight, in which your ad appears. The advertising rates are as follows:

Position 1 - $15 per thousand ads shown
Position 2 - $12 per thousand ads shown
Position 3 - $10 per thousand ads shown
Position 4 - 8 $8 per thousand ads shown

The position of an ad is determined by how well it is performing. Ads with a higher clickthrough rate will receive a higher position and in turn will cost more.

In order to increase your clickthrough rate and spend less money, try to select keywords and phrases that specifically target the product or service you're offering. Avoid using common words, as these will use up your ad displays very rapidly. Instead, select words that specifically target your product or service.

For example, instead of using a general keyword like 'software,' use a keyword that focuses on a specific software such as 'FrontPage 2002.' Or, a little less focused, 'web design software.' In addition, make sure you use your keyword phrase (search term) as the title of your ad. This will increase your clickthrough rate considerably.

When you set up your account with Google, make sure you use a different ad for each search term. Not only will this increase your ad's relevance in the search results, but it will also increase your clickthrough rate.

Once you place your ad, you can easily track your ad's response rate and make adjustments instantly. This is a great, low-cost way to find out which ads are performing the best.

Google AdWords provides Internet marketers with a cost-effective alternative to banner advertising. If you want to increase your traffic and sales, give AdWord a try -- you'll be glad you did.

For further information, visit Google AdWords:
http://adwords.google.com

Pop-Windows

It's a proven fact that the use of popup windows is a highly effective marketing technique that produces great results. However, they can be very irritating to your visitors. How can you use this powerful marketing technique without offending your visitors? Compromise and use a popup window that only displays the first time your visitor enters your site.

Your first step in creating your popup window will be to create an HTML document that will contain your window contents. The key to using this technique effectively is to give your visitors a reason to respond to your offer. For example, if you're using your popup window to gain new subscribers to your publication, offer a free gift just for subscribing. This will increase your response considerably.

Below, is an example popup window that you can use to gain new subscribers. It is set up with "tables" and will adjust to fit your new window. Copy and paste the following code into your HTML and edit as needed:

Claim Your FREE Gift

Claim Your FREE Gift!

Subscribe to YOUR PUBLICATION for a wealth of information
to assist you in YOUR PUBLICATIONS SUBJECT. "red">ALL new subscribers will receive YOUR FREE GIFT.

Close Window

Save your new document as "popup.htm" and upload it to your server where you store your HTML documents.

Your next step will be to place the following script within your HTML
after your tag.

If you saved your new window document as anything other than "popup.htm," you'll need to change the "popup.htm" text within the script to your new file name. You can also change the width and height settings to whatever you'd like.
However, make sure that all of the information within your window is visible.

Popup windows provide Internet marketers with a great way to gain new subscribers, introduce new products and announce special offers. Their response rate is outstanding. With the use of this great script, you can use the power of popup windows without continuously nagging your visitors.

The Science of MMO PART13

noreply@blogger.com (MSII) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:10:00 +0000

Web Site Traffic

So you've designed this great web site, gotten your own domain name, found a great host, listed your site in the Search Engines, etc., but how do you go about getting more traffic?

Your Own Affiliate Program

One of the most effective methods you can use to drive targeted traffic to your web site is your own affiliate program.

If you're selling your own products and/or services online, having your own affiliate program will not only assist you in making more sales, but it will also provide you with hundreds or even thousands of links pointing to your web site.

Having your own affiliate program is the absolute best way to drive traffic to your site.

If you're just starting out, I recommend using a great company called ClickBank that will not only enable you to instantly accept credit cards, but it will also run your entire affiliate program for you.

Offering a Free Service

Another great way to drive traffic to your site is by offering a free service. To give you an example, websources.com offers a free syndication service. This service provides web site owners with free content that is automatically updated each week. Each article also contains a link back to Websources.com, which drives traffic back to our site.

For further information about our free syndication service keep following the next chapter.

Paying for Traffic

Pay-per-click Search Engines provide an extremely effective means of obtaining highly targeted traffic to your website. The concept is simple. You bid on targeted keywords for as little as .001 per click and receive targeted traffic to your website.

The key to using this technique effectively is to focus on one specific product and select highly targeted keywords. This will help you to weed out all of the window shoppers and attract your specific target audience.

Viewing Search Terms

Most pay-per-click Search Engines will enable you to view exact "search terms" that have been used to perform searches. Use this to your advantage. You can find out exactly what "search terms" are being used for your target market and place your bids accordingly. Try to create a list of as many relevant keywords as possible. The more keywords you bid on, the more traffic you'll receive.

When bidding on keywords, keep in mind, in order to be successful, you don't have to be listed at the top. Although receiving a listing in the top three positions will produce major traffic through Overture, most of the time, you must have a large advertising budget to compete.

Before placing your bid, perform a search to find out how much your competitors are paying per click. Try to place your bid so that your listing will appear on the first page to increase your chance of success. By selecting highly targeted, less popular keywords, you'll not only attract a more targeted audience, but you'll also obtain a higher listing for less money.

Your Ad Copy

Your headline and and ad copy are the most important part of your entire strategy. Your headline must grab your potential customers' attention and force him/her to read on. Your copy should tell them exactly what you have to offer and convince them to visit your site.

When writing your ad, make sure you don't mention free stuff, as you want to avoid attracting freebie hunters. By weeding out those potential visitors expecting to get something free, you will attract a more targeted audience of potential buyers. There is no need to pay for visitors that weren't interested in buying anything in the first place.

When placing your link within your ad, make sure you direct your potential customer directly to your sales page. In other words, if your product isn't on your main page, then don't direct your potential customers to your main page and make them search for your product. Direct them to your product's page.

Reviewing Your Reports

Once your campaign begins, make sure you take the time to review the reports provided by the pay-per-click services. These reports will provide you with information in regard to how well each of your keywords are performing and enable you to adjust your keywords or change your bids accordingly.

To increase your traffic even further, don't just stop with one pay-per-click Search Engine -- try several at time. The more streams of traffic flowing to your site, the better.

Here is a list of some of the top pay-per-click Search Engines:

http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/
http://www.Bay9.com
http://www.Win4win.com
http://www.Findwhat.com
http://www.7search.com

Click here http://www.payperclicksearchengines.com/ for a complete list of over sixty pay-per-click Search Engines, reviews and tips.

If you're serious about your business and you're ready to drive a stampede of targeted traffic to your website, then give the pay-per-click Search Engines a try. They're well worth the small investment.

Networking / Reciprocal Linking

Create partnerships with sites similar to yours, but not in competition. You can promote one another, provide recommendations or exchange prominent links.

Be cautious when selecting your networking partners and making recommendations as your reputation is on the line. Only partner with individuals you have personally dealt with and you truly believe in.

Developing quality online business relationships is one of the best ways to create a partnering venture.

Writing Articles

If you really want traffic, this is the way to get it. Write articles in the area of your expertise. Ezine publishers are continually in need of quality content. If you sit down and write an article just once or twice each week, within a years time, you could have 52 - 104 articles floating all over the Internet. Who knows how many times each article will be published. If they're good, you can expect them to be published by hundreds of ezines and even displayed on various web sites. All linking to you.

When you write an article you are entitled to include your Author bylines also referred to as a resource box, promoting yourself.

Example byline:

----------------------------------------------------
William Alexander is a published author of four
highly acclaimed Internet Marketing books. Visit
his site to subscribe to his free Internet Marketing
ezine to learn some of his powerful techniques. http://www.williamalexander.com

----------------------------------------------------

Articles have the potential to be viewed by millions! Imagine your article being published by just a handful of publications with over 100,000 subscribers each...

If you've been on the Internet for a while you've probably subscribed to a few ezines (newsletters). Most ezines will include a feature article written by the editor or a guest author. If you've ever read an article written by a guest author then you've probably noticed, at the end of the article, a few lines of text about the author referred to as "bylines" or "resource box."

The writer gives the publisher permission to publish their article free of charge in exchange for the publisher including the author's bylines. The bylines are basically just an advertisement for the writer. They usually contain a couple of lines about the author and a web address.

By writing articles and allowing them to be published free of charge, your articles will have the potential to be viewed by millions of Internet users. They may be published by several ezines with subscriber bases of a few hundred to several thousand. In addition, they may be displayed in ezine archives or on high traffic web sites.

Most ezine publishers prefer short articles between 500 and 750 words. Short "tip" articles of just a couple of paragraphs are also very popular. Articles should be formatted to 65 characters per line or less including spaces and written in short paragraph sections.

When you begin writing your article, avoid using your standard word processing programs, as they do not allow for proper formatting. Instead, use a text editor such as NotePad. It should already be installed on your desktop.

When you begin typing your article, use a hard carriage return (hit enter) when your text reaches 65 characters, including spaces, and leave a space between your paragraphs. This will enable the publisher to easily copy and paste your article into their publication and significantly increase your chances of being published.

Most publishers receive many article submissions each week and only select a few to be published. Here are some basic guidelines to help you increase your chances of being published:

- Your article must be properly formatted. Publishers
won't take the time to format your article, they'll
simply use another article that is properly formatted

- Keep your bylines down to 4 lines or less

- Select a descriptive title to intrigue your readers

- Use proper grammar and spelling

- Avoid articles that are nothing more than a sales
pitch, as your chances of being published will be
minimal

- Avoid referring readers to an affiliate URL as this
will make your article appear to be biased and
untrustworthy

- Write your articles with a sincere desire to teach
and inform. Talk to your readers and share your
expertise

In addition, you can visit some ezine sites to locate publishers who may be interested in your articles. A good place to start is eZINESearch.

Search through the database for publications that may be interested in the type of article you've written. Contact the publisher and ask them if they accept article submissions.

Here are some additional promotional resources to help
you get published:

The Syndicator
Article Announce
Ideamarketers
Ezine Articles

Writing and distributing free articles on the Internet will be one of the best promotional decisions you'll ever make. Not only will it provide you with free publicity, but if your articles are good, you'll become a trusted professional in your area of expertise.

Distribution

Visit some ezine listing sites and put together a list of publishers that may be interested in your article's topic. Contact each publisher and ask them if they accept article submissions.

Subscribe to Article Announce and announce your new article to our entire list of ezine, newsletter, web site and magazine publishers.

Contests

Contests provide a great way to drive traffic to your site. Not only will they bring traffic, but they will also enable you to develop a targeted list of potential customers.

Set up a form on your site for your visitors to fill out to register for a prize. You can obtain a variety of information by including questions that will help you determine their interests.

Freedback - Free fill-out forms for your web site that will email you feedback from your visitors. You do not need access to CGI on your server and you don't even have to know CGI. Freedback automatically generates the HTML for you. All free.

Response-O-Matic - Lets you design your forms any way you want, asking your visitors as many questions as you like. The form submissions are emailed to you every time a visitor to your Web site submits a form.

Offline Promotions

IDit Plates - Put your web address on your vehicle. IDit Plates are a great way to continuously promote your web site. They look like chrome and blend in well with your vehicle.

Magnetic Signs - Full size magnetic signs for your vehicle. Get a customized sign that magnetically adheres to each side of your vehicle, advertising your web site.

Visit iPrint for your printing needs. From business print items to promotional items iPrint has it all.

For even more promotional products, PromoCity can add your logo to any one of over 500,000 items.

The Science of MMO PART12

noreply@blogger.com (MSII) — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:55:00 +0000

Creative Ways to Finance Your Home Business

When it comes to starting a home business, funding can be one of the greatest barriers to success. Fortunately, there are many excellent ways to find money and resources to get your business up and running. While it may take some effort, exploring some of these avenues can lead to big rewards.

“If you can find someone with similar goals who shares your vision, a partner can be a valuable source of support. A business partner can aid the cause by contributing his or her own financial resources or helping with the search for outside funding.”

Ask Friends and Family for Help

One of the best ways to look for financial support is to turn to the people who know you the best. Since your friends and family already have a vested interest in seeing you succeed, these supporters are generally more likely to pitch in.

This type of financing is most appropriate when your start-up costs are relatively low. Some friends or family member may be willing to offer an outright gift, while others will expect repayment once the profits start pouring in.

Find a Business Partner

Another way to bring more financial resources to your business is to take on a partner. If you can find someone with similar goals who shares your vision, a partner can be a valuable source of support.

A business partner can aid the cause by contributing his or her own financial resources or helping with the search for outside funding. If you choose this option, always be sure to find a partner who is easy to work with and truly committed to the success of the project.

Get Outside Investors Involved

Finding outside investors can be challenging, but the right approach can lead to major results. The first step is to create a highly detailed business plan. A well-crafted plan should include a thorough analysis of the current market and the existing competition.

In addition to this basic information, you plan should outline your marketing strategy, budget, management plan and operating procedures. Be prepared to make your business pitch and expect to face an uphill battle to convince potential investors that your business is worth the risk.

Consider a Home Equity Loan to Finance Your Home Business

A home equity loan is another creative option to consider. However, there are many different factors to consider before making this choice. If the housing market is stable and you can secure a fixed-rate loan, this might be an excellent option.

If the market is unsteady or if you opt for a variable-interest loan, rising costs might make it difficult or even impossible to pay back the loan. If you are not willing to take this risk, consider a different method of financing your home business.

Ways to Finance Your Home Business -- Credit Cards

If the start-up expenses for your home business are relatively low, using credit cards to cover the cost is a potential option. When using this method, it is essential to be judicious with spending and create a solid repayment plan.

Failing to repay this debt can tarnish your personal credit record, so it essential to make each payment on time. Focus on paying back more than the minimum payment each month and keep an eye on interest rates.

There are a number of excellent ways to finance your home business, but it might require a little creativity and hard work to make these strategies a success. Always start by evaluating your needs and considering all of the available funding sources. With a little planning and research, you can find the money you need to make your business a true success

Start From Zero base

Then you might consider to joint at least top 40 affiliates program on the net and accumulate some income within few months and then start your home business online

The Science of MMO PART11

noreply@blogger.com (MSII) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:40:00 +0000

Professionalism

If you’re doing business on the internet, one of the most important aspects of your businesses success is your web site. If your web site doesn’t look professional, no matter what product you’re offering, your chance of success will be minimal. Take your time and make sure you understand the full picture before you begin.

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The appearance of your website is one of the most important aspects of your success. Your product or service will literally be judged by the appearance of your website.

Poor web design is one of the leading causes of small business failure. There are literally thousands of home-based Internet businesses struggling to make a living online. The problem is, they don’t take the time to learn how to properly design their sites.

Web Design Guidelines

Your main page should specifically let your visitors know exactly what you’re offering. If your potential customer can’t find your product or service, they definitely won’t waste a lot of time looking for it. They’ll go on to the next site and probably never return. They’re visiting your site for a specific purpose. They want something your site offers.

Create a page to display your Privacy Policy in regard to the personal information you collect from your visitors. Explain your reasons for collecting the information and let them know if the information will be given to or shared with a third party. We’ll talk more about this later.

Create a page about you and/or your company. Include your name, company name, photograph, biography, address, phone number and email contact information.

Display your copyright information at the bottom of each page. It’s best to include both the word Copyright and the © symbol, as some countries don’t recognize one or the other.

Your copyright might look like this:

Copyright © year Company Name
All rights reserved.

Keep in mind, your visitors may enter your site from pages other than your main page. Make sure you include good navigational links on every page. Place your navigation links together at the top, bottom, left or right side of the page. Use tables to neatly align your links and maintain a nicely organized and uniform appearance throughout. Try to keep the number of clicks required to get from your main page to any other page on your site down to three or four and place your company logo on each page.

Use caution when selecting your background and text colors. Busy backgrounds make text difficult to read and draw the attention away from the text. In addition, always be consistent with your background theme on each page of your site.

Select your colors very carefully, as colors affect your mood and will have an affect on your visitors as well.

Bright colors such as yellow and orange, cause you to become more cheerful or happy, while colors such as blue and purple have a calming effect. Dark colors such as brown and black have a depressing effect. A good rule of thumb is to use colors based on the type of effect you’re trying to achieve.

ALWAYS check and double-check your site for spelling and grammatical errors, and make sure your images and links are all working properly. If you have several errors, this will make your site appear to be unprofessional. If you are designing your site using an HTML editor, use spell check.

If you must use frames, use them sparingly. Frames, if not used properly, can make your site look unprofessional. Avoid making your visitors have to scroll from side to side to view your content. This can be very irritating and cause your visitors to leave. In addition, it is difficult for Search Engines to index sites made up of frames.

If you must use Java on your site, use it sparingly. Consider using JavaScript instead.

If you’re using pop-up windows to display special offers or ezine subscription info, try to use a JavaScript that utilizes cookies. That way the window will only be displayed to your visitors the first time they visit your website.

View your website through different browsers and screen resolutions so you can see how your visitors will view your site.

href="http://bobmo786.wsnet2.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=BOBMO786" target="_top">Click Here! to test your site’s browser compatibility.

Always be consistent when using font styles and sizes. Avoid using large font sizes, as this looks very unprofessional.

Never use tables with standard borders, as they look very unprofessional. If you’d like to use tables with borders, consider using a color border that is size one or two. You’ll learn more about tables and borders later.

Continually add new content to your site. Give your visitors a reason to keep coming back.

Web Design Tips

When designing your website’s main page, instead of trying to cram all of your information into one page, consider creating sections. These sections can contain highlights of your information with a link to further information. You can set your sections up in tables with colored heading sections for information such as news, articles, products or whatever you’d like.

It’s much better to keep your main page down to the most essential elements. You can then use links to additional pages to provide the detailed information. A good rule of thumb is "less is more." In other words, keep your main page as small as possible, while at the same time, include your most important elements.

To enhance your page, you can format your text using bold headlines, colored table cells, and graphic bullets and/or arrows.

If you use the same graphic bullets and arrows throughout your page, you can enhance your page’s appearance, but you won’t add any additional time to your site’s load time. When you reuse an image, your image only has to load once. When the image has loaded, it will instantly be displayed in all of the other locations.

Web Design Mistakes
Poor load time
Poor overall appearance
Spelling/Grammar mistakes
No contact information
Poor content
Poor navigation
Broken links and graphics
Poor browser compatibility
Large slow loading graphics
Too many graphics
Pages scrolling to oblivion
Multiple use of animated graphics
Animated bullets
Too many graphic and/or line dividers
Busy, distracting backgrounds
Multiple banners and buttons
Poor use of frames
Large fonts
Pop up messages
Over use of Java
Poor use of tables
Poor organization
Different backgrounds on each page
Over powering music set to AutoPlay
Confusing
Too much advertising
Large Welcome banners
Multiple colored text
Text difficult to read
No Meta tags
Multiple use of different fonts
Under construction signs
Scrolling text in the status bar
Large scrolling text across the page
Poor use of mouse over effects

Take your time and design your site very carefully. It may take you a little longer, but it will be well worth the extra time in the long run.

Getting Started

If you’re new to web page design, let’s first begin with how a web page is created.

A web page is created using a language called, Hypertext Markup Language, better known as HTML. You can write your own HTML within a plain text editor, such as Note Pad, or use an HTML editor, which will write the code for you.

HTML codes, also referred to as tags, are enclosed by the lesser than (<) and greater than (>) brackets and may be written in capital or lower case letters.

The opening bracket is followed by an element, which is a browser command, and ends with the closing bracket.

An element may also be followed by attributes, which are words describing the properties of the element, and further instruct the browser.

Attributes are only contained in the opening tags to the right of the element and are separated by a space and followed by an equal (=) sign.

The value follows the equal sign and is enclosed in quotes.

Basic HTML Document Structure
Below is a very basic HTML document structure. It contains the opening HTML tag, the TITLE tag enclosed between the opening and closing HEAD tags, the opening and closing BODY tags and the closing HTML tag.

All of your text, graphics and any additional HTML codes will be placed between the .. and .. tags.

..
..
Your Web Page Title
..
..

..
..
Each HTML tag above contains an opening tag and a closing tag. The opening tag is written with the command enclosed with brackets.

Example: ..

The closing tag contains a forward slash followed by the command enclosed with brackets.

Example: ..

The opening tag is telling the browser to begin the specified action and the closing tag is telling the browser to end the action.

The proper way to write HTML is to place your closing tags in sequence with the opening tags.

This is an example of a properly written code:

Example

This is an example of an improperly written code:

Example
Creating an HTML Page
Begin writing your HTML by creating your document’s basic layout. Copy and paste this code into your text or HTML editor.

..
..
Your Page Title
..
..

This area will contain everything that will be visible through a web browser, such as text and graphics. All of the information will be HTML coded.

For a complete list of HTML codes and examples, visit our HTML Codes Chart.

..
..
.. - Begins your HTML document·

.. - Contains information about the page such as the TITLE, META tags for proper Search Engine indexing, STYLE tags, which determine the page layout, and JavaScript coding for special effects.

- The TITLE of your page. This will be visible in the title bar of the viewers’ browser. - Closes the tag. .. - Closes the .. tag. .. - This is where you will begin writing your document and placing your HTML codes. .. - Closes the .. tag. .. - Closes the .. tag. For a complete list of HTML codes and examples, visit our HTML Codes Chart. Saving an HTML Document Once you’ve written some HTML, you will need to save your document with an htm or html extension. If the page you’re saving is the main or opening page of your web site, it must be saved as, index.htm or index.html. When you acquire your own domain, your server will look for a file called index when your link, http://www.yourdomain.com/ is clicked on. If you’re saving a page other than your main page, try to save it using the page’s primary keyword phrase for higher Search Engine ranking. Your file name should look something like this: index.htm Viewing an HTML Document If you’re using a text editor to write your HTML, and you’d like to preview your work, you must view your new page through your web browser. Open your web browser and go to "File" - "Open" on the browser toolbar and then "Browse" through the folders to locate the new page you created. Double click on the file to select it and click on "OK" WYSIWYG Editors If you decide to use a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, which is highly recommended, here are a few of the most popular: Coffee Cup DreamWeaver HotDog HotMetal Pro HomeSite Microsoft Frontpage Although this mini tutorial provides you with a basic overview to assist you in creating your own web site, there is much more to creating a successful web site than simply learning the basics. For a complete step by step web design course, and over fifty free web page templates, visit my Web Design Mastery site. Click Here!<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://infomediainc.s3.amazonaws.com/affurl/banners/1/9/49.jpg</div> </article> <article> <h1>The Science of MMO PART10</h1> noreply@blogger.com (MSII) — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:04:00 +0000 <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s277/BobMo786/MoneyGrowingOnTree2-3.jpg"></a> Your Internet Marketing Strategy Developing and implementing a strategic marketing plan is an essential part of your Internet success. Your plan must include both short-term and long-term strategies in order to succeed. Short-term marketing strategies are those that bring you a temporary boost in traffic. Although these techniques are very important to your overall plan, they are only a temporary traffic source and must not be solely relied on. Short-term marketing strategies include: • Purchasing advertising • Bulletin Boards • Search Engines Long-term marketing strategies are those that bring you a steady stream of targeted traffic over time. These strategies will continue to produce results even years down the road. Long-term marketing strategies include: • Opt-in Lists • Freebies • Content By creating and implementing a balanced marketing strategy, using both short-term and long-term strategies, you will drive a steady stream of targeted traffic to your website. Creating a successful Internet presence involves much more than designing a great website or having the "perfect" product. Listing your website with the Search Engines is your first step, however, you must not solely rely on the Search Engines to bring you traffic. You must develop a complete promotional strategy and work it every day. Search Engines: A significant amount of website traffic originates from the major Search Engines. Most Internet users will go to a Search Engine, type in a keyword phrase and look through the top 10 - 20 results. Most of the time, they’ll find what they’re looking for in the first 10 results. The percentage of click throughs is even smaller. Listing near the top and grabbing the attention of your target audience is the top priority. Your first step will be to optimize your web pages to the best of your ability. Visit http://www.searchenginewatch.com for a complete overview of the Search Engines and optimization. Opt-in List As soon as your website is up and running, you should immediately begin building an opt-in list. An opt-in list is a list or database containing email addresses of individuals who have chosen to receive your email messages. Your messages may be web site updates, product updates or an ezine. They provide you with a direct line of communication with potential customers and enable you to promote your products or services. Refer to topic Ezine. Organizing Your Strategies A good way to organize your promotions is to set up a web page, for your personal use, which will contain your complete strategy. This page should be stored on your hard drive and not uploaded to your server. Your page should contain four sections: • Daily Promotions • Weekly Promotions • Monthly Promotions • Miscellaneous Promotions Each of these four sections should contain the appropriate information for each of your promotional resources such as website name, user ID, password (if applicable) and hyperlinked web addresses for each website you plan to use for your promotions. This will enable you to open your web page each day and visit the sites you have listed. Daily Promotions Link Exchanges: Exchange links with websites similar to yours, but not in competition. Discussion Boards: Visit some popular discussion boards and share your expertise. Although you may not advertise on discussion boards, you can include your signature file with your post. Visit the following web address for a complete listing of some of the top discussion boards: Weekly Promotions Your weekly promotions should consist of placing a paid ezine advertisement and/or arranging ad swaps with fellow publishers. Visit the following web address for a complete listing of hundreds of publishers and contact information for advertising. To organize your ad placements and swaps, place the publication names, publisher names, ad dates and hyperlinked web addresses within your weekly promotion list. Monthly Promotions Your monthly promotions should include writing an article in the area of your expertise and promotional exchanges. To organize your monthly promotions, place the names and hyperlinked web addresses for each of your promotional resources within your monthly promotions section. Writing Articles: Writing articles that may be freely published with your bylines is one of the best promotional methods online. Your article may be published in hundreds of ezines, on websites or even in magazines. Visit the following web address for further information: Promotional Exchanges: Cross promoting is a powerful technique used by many Internet marketers to increase the exposure of their products, services or publications. You simply decide what type of promotional exchange you would be interested in and contact fellow marketers to discuss an exchange. The most effective technique used in cross promotions is recommendations. By providing each other with a personal recommendation you can increase your response rates tremendously. Here are some popular cross promoting techniques you can use to boost your business: • Ezine Ad Swaps • Subscription Exchanges • Ezine Column Swaps • Byline Exchanges • Signature Exchanges • Ebook Exchanges • Private Web Rings • Ride Alongs • Upsells • Free Bonuses • Forum and List Moderation Miscellaneous Promotions Promoting your website offline is an often overlooked way to increase your traffic. Your web address should appear on all of the following: • Business cards • Letterhead • Envelopes • Receipts • Invoices • Sales letters • Brochures • Flyers • Post cards • Fax documents • T-shirts • Pens • Pencils • Mouse Pads • Phone book listing • Voice mail message • Newspaper/magazine ads • Vehicle Below, are several resources to assist you: IDit Plates - Put your web address on your vehicle. http://www.iditplates.net/new/2711/index.html Magnetic Signs - Full size magnetic signs for your vehicle. http://www.magneticsigns.com Visit iPrint for all of your printing needs. http://www.iprint.com Place ads in newspapers, magazines, on the radio, or on TV. Visit the following websites for a complete list of resources to assist you: Gebbie Press http://www.gebbieinc.com/ NewsDirectory Newspapers http://www.newsdirectory.com Newspapers Online http://www.newspapers.com/ For even more promotional products, PromoCity can add your logo to any one of over 500, 000 items. http://www.promocity.com Press Releases: CanadaOne provides a free interactive press release builder. http://www.canadaone.com/promote/pressrelease.html Gebbie Press provides over 10, 000 links to print and electronic media on the Internet. http://www.canadaone.com/promote/pressrelease.html Dr. Kevin Nunley will write your press release and send it to 5, 000 media contacts. http://www.drnunley.com Automated Press Releases will enable you to send your press release to over 10, 000 media. You write your press release or they’ll write it for you. http://www.automatedpr.com Once you’ve created your promotional web page, open it within your browser and add it to your favorite places or bookmark it for easy daily access. Set up a specific day for your weekly and monthly promotions and perform your miscellaneous promotions as needed. Although these promotional strategies are far from complete, they provide you with a basic overview to get you started. Once you’ve implemented your promotional strategy and continuously work it each day, you’ll be amazed with the results of your efforts. Consistency will be the key to driving massive traffic to your site.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://infomediainc.s3.amazonaws.com/affurl/banners/1/9/49.jpg</div> </article> <article> <h1>The Science of MMO PART9</h1> noreply@blogger.com (MSII) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:24:00 +0000 <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s277/BobMo786/MoneyGrowingOnTree2-3.jpg"></a> Developing Your Credibility An important part of building a successful Internet business, is developing your credibility. Although the Internet has opened a whole New World of opportunity for all of us, it has also created a breeding ground for scam artists. Internet users are very reluctant to order online and share their personal information. For this reason, you must take every opportunity to build your credibility. Domain Name The first step in establishing a credible Internet business, is to invest in a domain name. This will instantly convey to your visitors that you take your business very seriously. Websites hosted on free servers are not taken seriously and will suffer a serious loss of business. Your visitors may feel that if you don’t have your own domain, you may not be a credible company. They’ll simply take their business elsewhere. Contact Information It is very important that you provide your visitors with your complete contact information. This information should include your "real" postal address and not a Post Office box number. A business that hides behind a PO box loses credibility. It’s perfectly acceptable to use a PO box as long as you also include your postal address. A great way to display your information is to create an "About" page. Your "About" page should include all of the following: • A personal or professional biography • A photograph of yourself • A complete description of you and/or your company • Your website and/or company objectives • Your name, address, phone number and email address An "About" page is a very important part of building your credibility -- especially if you’re selling a product or service. You must do everything in your power to put your potential customers’ mind at ease. Privacy Statement A credible business should let their visitors know exactly what their policies are in regard to the personal information they collect. A great way to disclose your policies is to create a "Privacy" page. Your "Privacy" page should include all of the following that apply: • How do you plan on using your visitors’ information? • Is your visitors’ information sold or shared with a third party? • Why do you collect your visitors’ email address and how will it be used? • Why do you track your visitors’ IP address? • Let your visitors know that you’re not responsible for the privacy issues of any outside websites you may be linking to. • Do you run contests and what do you do with the information? • Do you have a discussion forum or message board? Let your visitors know that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and caution should be taken. • Do you have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under your control? If so, let your visitors know. • Let your visitors know how they can opt out of your mailing lists. • Provide your visitors with your contact information, should they have any questions in regard to your privacy policies. Testimonials A great way to convey your credibility to your potential customers is to display customer testimonials. Your testimonials should include your customers’ name and web address. In addition, try to avoid using testimonials that you have to ask for. For example, instead of using a testimonial like this: "John is a great web designer and I have been very happy with his services." Display unsolicited testimonials like this: "John, your web design services are absolutely fantastic! My sales increased 200% the first day! Thank you so much for providing such an exceptional service." Can you see the difference? The second testimonial is much more believable and will have a much greater impact on your potential customers. Make sure you always ask permission to use your customers’ words prior to displaying their testimonial. You can find a nice script that will rotate your testimonials each day here: http://willmaster.com/master/dailycontent/index.shtml Money Back Guarantee In order to put your potential customers’ mind at ease, you must completely remove their risk. Provide them with a solid, no risk, money back guarantee. This will not only build your credibility and put their mind at ease, but it will also build their confidence in you and your product. In addition, you must honor ALL refund requests in a timely manner with complete professionalism. No matter what you’re selling or how great your product is, you will receive refund requests. It’s just a part of doing business. Don’t take it personally or try to argue the point with your customers -- simply give them a refund. You may be surprised to learn that the customers who ask for a refund may purchase other products from you in the future. Feedback Many times, your potential customers will have questions in regard to your products and services. To further build your credibility, provide your potential customers with an easy way to contact you. Create a page on your website called "feedback." Place a form on this page to enable your visitors to contact you. It is very important that you answer any questions you may receive as quickly as possible. Your personal response to your potential customers can literally determine whether or not you’re going to make a sale. A feedback form will also enable you to gather testimonials and receive suggestions to assist you in improving your website, products or services. Secure Server If you’re processing your customers’ orders online, you must place your order form on a secure server. This will protect your customers’ personal information, while at the same time, provides them with added confidence in placing an order with you. In addition, make sure you let your visitors know that their information will be processed on a secure server. Share Your Expertise Another great way to develop your credibility is to share your expertise. You can do this in a number of ways including: • Writing Articles • Providing Free Tutorials • Offering Free Courses • Writing Reports • Distributing Free Ebooks • Publishing an Ezine Sharing your expertise will enable you to promote yourself as an expert in your field. Not only will it assist your potential customers, but it will also develop your credibility. By taking the time to build your credibility with your potential customers, you will increase your Internet sales considerably.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://infomediainc.s3.amazonaws.com/affurl/banners/1/9/49.jpg</div> </article> <article> <h1>The Science of MMO PART8</h1> noreply@blogger.com (MSII) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:56:00 +0000 <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvszEwQ_615dDud64Hjc60Ep0SiNURb_z7bTSXCWU2UtvogqHoPG3iMJpEkLVkuA7cA8Bd6QbJtd9GdoEloi8oJHqq-0BO9GWtIOa3yEbuohlDELOCDJA01rV_46MJH-TJ1r05hmIOfAc/s1600-h/Money+Growing+On+Tree2.jpg"></a> Automating Your Business Running a successful Internet business can be a very time consuming venture. Not only must you design and market your website, but you must also develop your products, fulfill your orders and answer customer support requests -- the list goes on and on. Although there will always be daily tasks that you must handle personally, there are a number of your daily tasks that you can automate or at least partially automate. For example, if you’re receiving the same basic support requests or questions over and over again, there are two different ways you can automate your answers: 1) Create a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page for your website and/or products. Your page should include a list of commonly asked questions and provide the answers for each. 2) Create a text template for each of your frequently asked questions that contain the answers. When you receive a commonly asked question, simply open your text file and copy and paste your pre written answer into your email message. You can then customize your message for each recipient. The above example will assist you in partially automating some of your daily tasks. However, there are some tasks that can be completely automated simply by placing your information within an autoresponder. Autoresponders are one of the top promotional tools available online today. They are also known as mailbots, automatic email and email on demand. They were derived from the very popular fax on demand and designed to automatically respond to any email message sent to it with an automatic response. Autoresponder programs vary from software set up to run with your desktop email program to a script that runs on your server. The script may run a web-based autoresponder system that utilizes a web page form, or it may run with your pop email account on your server. It is programmed to automatically send out a predetermined message when a message is received to a specified script address or email address. Below is a list of tasks that you can completely automate: Articles If you’re writing articles to promote your business, you can place them within an autoresponder. This will enable your visitors to quickly and easily retrieve your articles on demand. Ad Rates If you’re selling any type of advertising space, you can place your ad rates within an autoresponder to enable your visitors to request them at any time. Business Opportunities If you’re promoting a business opportunity, you can provide your potential customers with further information via autoresponder. Free Courses In addition to the standard autoresponder systems, there are also autoresponders that can send an unlimited amount of follow-up messages. These follow-up messages can be set up to automatically be sent out at predetermined intervals. In other words, you can set up your autoresponder to automatically send out a new message each day for as many days as you would like. Follow-up autoresponder systems will enable you to set up a free course used to increase your sales. As you may know, it may take up to seven contacts with a potential customer before closing a sale. By setting up an autoresponder and offering a free autoresponder course, you can completely automate a portion of your marketing efforts. The examples above can be set up with any of the following autoresponder services: GetResponse http://www.getresponse.com/ AWeber http://www.aweber.com/ In addition to autoresponders automating some of your daily tasks, there are also scripts that can be used to automatically respond to form submissions. For example, if you’re processing your customers’ orders yourself (with a merchant account, secure server, etc.), you can use a form processing script to not only process your customers’ information, but to also do all of the following: • Send out an order confirmation message • Add your customers’ information to your database • Send out download instructions • Send you a copy of the order If you’re using a third-party credit card processing company, there is a way you can automate your ordering process as well. Third-party processing companies require that you provide a web address that is used to direct your customers to once their payment has been processed. This page is usually used to provide your customers with download instructions. However, you can use this page to collect your customers’ information prior to directing them to your download page. Simply use a script like the one mentioned above. Please keep in mind, there aren’t many form processing scripts that will send out an autoresponse file -- most won’t. However, the following form processing script will: http://bignosebird.com/carchive/bnbform.shtml In addition to using a form processing script to automate your ordering process, you can also use a web based mailing script. Instead of setting up your "download" page with the above form, place a subscription form within the page. This form will be used to collect your customers’ name and email address. Once completed, your customers’ information will be added to your database and an autoresponse message will be immediately sent out. This message should be used to thank your customer for their purchase, and provide them with download instructions. The great thing about this technique is that you can personalize your autoresponse message with your customers’ name. In addition, they are automatically added to a database, which will enable you to send out product updates or introduce new products. Please keep in mind, not all web based mailing scripts will send out an autoresponse message or enable you to personalize your messages. However, the following scripts will: 1-2-All Broadcast http://www.activecampaign.com/12all/ A complete list management system including HTML or plain text newsletters, MySQL database, personalization features, automatic removal links and more. AutoResponse Plus: http://www.autoresponseplus.com/ Complete list management including unlimited lists, HTML or plain text mailings, MySQL database, customizable auto-personalization of messages, automatic removal links, unlimited folow-up autoresponses and more. Automating portions of your Internet business is an essential part of your success. Not only will it lighten your workload, but it will also free up your valuable time.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://infomediainc.s3.amazonaws.com/affurl/banners/1/9/49.jpg</div> </article> <article> <h1>The Science of MMO PART7</h1> noreply@blogger.com (MSII) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:16:00 +0000 <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikd-jJwvwWYcqm0RYOEOJb7cpb0V4VNjNvZSzK_DMlTebqggJ_pqqMjI63Pia4llifUNwIAKhR19NUt47YnklCbWq9-L8yJHl37SREpVFIMMiOVk9-fYQ6YKmP3w9vuyONQpisPILjvSA/s1600-h/Money+Growing+On+Tree2.jpg"></a> Accepting Credit Card Payments through Your Web Site Accepting credit card payments through your website is an absolute essential part of doing business on the Internet. If you’re not accepting online credit card payments and processing orders online, you’re losing a massive amount of business. Studies have shown, you can increase your online sales up to 400% simply by accepting credit cards. In addition, by offering a combination of payment options, you can increase your sales even further. With today’s advanced technology, you can start accepting credit card payments through your website almost instantly (depending on the service you select). Preparing your website to process orders online can be as simple as pasting some HTML code within your web page. Accepting Credit Cards There are many professional companies online that will enable you to accept credit card payments through your website without a merchant account. These companies are known as third party payment processing companies and provide an invaluable service for homebased businesses. Most companies will enable you to accept all major credit cards and electronic checks. Some companies will also provide telephone billing and recurring billing for paid subscription and membership sites. There may or may not be a set up fee and there are usually no monthly fees. Some companies charge a "percentage" and a "per transaction" fee. While others simply charge a set percentage fee per transaction. They will process your orders and send you payment for all your orders processed, minus their fee and a reserve fee. Credit Card Reserve Fee A reserve fee is withheld to cover any charge backs you may have. If you have no charge backs within a period of time, your reserve will be refunded to you. Each company has their own guidelines in regard to reserves. Credit Card HTML Code Once you’ve applied with a company and/or have been approved and paid the setup fees, you can immediately begin accepting payment. You will then be provided with special coding to place within the HTML of your order page. When your customer clicks on your order link or image, they will be taken to the processor’s secure server to process their purchase. Once their order has been processed, they will then be directed back to a page on your website that you specify. This page may be a download page, or even a "complete your purchase" page that you can use to collect your customers’ name and email address and then direct them to your download page. Once your customer places an order, you will instantly receive an email notification letting you know that you’ve made a sale. Your account will be instantly credited, minus the company fee, and you will be paid according to the company’s payment schedule. Third Party Credit Card Companies Third party processing companies are great for startup businesses, as if you don’t make any sales, you won’t be charged a fee. You are only charged a fee when and if you make a sale. The following third party processing companies will enable you to accept credit card payments through your website: => PayPal http://www.paypal.com PayPal will enable any business or consumer with an email address to securely send and receive payments online. You can also accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover credit cards and electronic checks. You can sell with PayPal through an online auction, on your own website, or as part of an online marketplace. They also offer recurring billing. There are no setup fees. They charge 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction. Services available for US and non-US merchants. => ClickBank http://www.clickbank.com ClickBank will enable you to accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Eurocard, Visa-Debit, MasterCard-Debit, Novus credit cards and electronic checks. They charge a one-time $49.95 activation fee, and a $1 + 7.5% fee per sale. There are no monthly fees. The great thing about this company is that they’ll enable you to run an affiliate program. Services available for US and non-US merchants. => 2Checkout.com http://www.2checkout.com/ 2Checkout.com enables you to accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover credit cards. They also offer recurring billing and a free shopping cart. There is a $49 set up fee. There are no monthly fees. They charge 5.5% + $0.45 fee per sale. Services available for US and non-US merchants. Accepting credit card payments through your website is an essential part of your online success. Don’t put it off another day. Take your time and select a company that will best suit your needs. It will be well worth your effort.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://infomediainc.s3.amazonaws.com/affurl/banners/1/9/49.jpg</div> </article> <article> <h1>The Science of MMO PART6</h1> noreply@blogger.com (MSII) — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:37:00 +0000 <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyjRqCex-sHaw2yeLu2ImyRgDxtAeJOUkG9yFc6-PtlLjdzU5udUhmPGKncvKk7l54po-qKpc4c37RLTBdqhHUcXlx5hxy2Vqqh5L6XjhbOkeSwQgm3s0sBH1rWcrXvgbAcjPpvSo0QGE/s1600-h/Money+Growing+On+Tree2.jpg"></a> Designing Your Website When preparing to design your website, you must first decide on your website’s focus. If you’re designing a mini-site, your website should focus on one particular product. However, content sites are a bit different. If you’re developing a content site, your site should focus on a subject on which you have a great deal of knowledge. And, should relate to your products or services. In addition, your images, ezine and content should also relate. Designing Your Site When you begin designing your site, your top priority must be your products. If your potential customers can’t find your products, you’re not going to make any sales. It’s that simple. Every part of your website should have one specific purpose -- to lead your potential customers to your products. For example, if you will be providing your visitors with tutorials, these tutorials should relate to your products or services. They should identify a problem, provide instruction to assist your visitors, and promote your products as the solution. Your Storefront The main page of your website is your storefront. It should load quickly and provide your visitors with a complete overview of everything your website offers. Instead of trying to cram all of your information into your main page, consider creating sections. These sections can contain highlights of your information with a link to further information. You can divide your page into sections by using tables. These tables can contain colored heading sections for information such as news, articles, products or whatever you’d like. It’s much better to keep your main page down to the most essential elements. You can then use links to additional pages to provide the detailed information. A good rule of thumb is "less is more." In other words, keep your main page as small as possible, while at the same time, include your most important elements. Load Time According to two surveys conducted by Forrester Research and Gartner Group, ecommerce sites are losing $1.1 to $1.3 billion in revenue each year due to customer click-away caused by slow loading websites. The main page of your website should load within 8 seconds or less with a 56K modem. There are many things that can cause a web page to load slowly including: => Large graphics => Too many graphics => Animated graphics => Too many banners => Special Effects => Large pages Optimization You can significantly decrease your site’s load time simply by optimizing your graphics. This process will decrease your graphic’s file size without sacrificing the graphic’s quality. You can optimize your images right online. Visit GifWorks for further information. http://www.gifworks.com/ Enhancing Your Site There are a number of ways you can enhance your site without using a lot of graphics. For example, if you can use the same small images such as bullets or arrows, it will give the illusion that you’re using a lot of graphics. However, your graphic will only have to load one time. This will enable you to "recycle" your images to keep your page’s load time down, while at the same time, enhancing your site’s appearance. In addition, you can enhance your site by using tables with colored backgrounds instead of images. If an image doesn’t enhance your page in some way, you’ll be better off to just leave it out. Tables If you’d like to set up your web page using tables, try to place your Heading text above your table code. If this isn’t possible, make sure you include your most relevant keyword phrase within your top left table cell. This will assist you in ranking higher in the Search Engines. Screen Resolutions When designing your site, keep in mind, your visitors will have many different screen resolutions. The resolution of a monitor refers to the total number of pixels. The higher the resolution, the greater the number of pixels. Higher resolutions present higher quality images. To accommodate the majority of your visitors, use a standard screen resolution of 800x600 pixels. Another way to ensure that your web page will look great to all of your visitors is to set it up using tables. Instead of using a fixed width within your table code, use a percentage. This will enable your web page to span a certain percentage of your visitors’ screen size. For example, if you set your table width at 90%, your web page will automatically resize and span 90% of your visitors’ screen size, no matter what screen resolution they’re using. Colors Although there are an unlimited number of background and text colors you could use for your web page, a white background with black text will be your best option. You must be very cautious when selecting your background and text colors, as reading on a computer screen is much more difficult than paper. You must make your web page as easy to read as possible. You can add color to your pages using tables with colored cells. Web Browsers Before you begin the actual design process, I highly recommend that you download and install two web browsers -- Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. These are the two most widely used browsers on the Internet. Why download and install both browsers? So you can view your pages through both browsers, as they are not created equally. Your page might look great when viewed through Internet Explorer, but may not display well when viewed through Navigator. Internet Explorer http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp Netscape Navigator http://home.netscape.com/computing/download/index.html or Firefox It is very important that you take the time to design your web pages to accommodate both browsers. In addition, you can also visit AnyBrowser to view how your site will look through different browsers and screen resolutions. http://www.anybrowser.com Above all else, your product must be your main focus. Your product should be displayed above the fold of your web page. This is the top portion of your web page that is visible when your page is first loaded, without scrolling. This is the most important part of your entire page -- use it wisely. Take your time and plan your website very carefully. There is much more to web design than meets the eye. Do your homework and learn how to design a website that sells. It will be well worth your time and effort.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://infomediainc.s3.amazonaws.com/affurl/banners/1/9/49.jpg</div> </article> <article> <h1>The Science of MMO PART5</h1> noreply@blogger.com (MSII) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:58:00 +0000 <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6FnETFK_QPIku3jzSSn0u_EE_f6Mp04oROjW_u6xijYoSF4_ghb0SyyzuWDz52zvlpm_iqaNmmL_byLNnuz0t2CiT2nkWyFQR_BEfoeJn58sMIFYwJsNsTrcwxY_vdw3SDF77JCPo3C0/s1600-h/Money+Growing+On+Tree.jpg"></a> Planning Your Website Strategy Developing a professional website strategically designed to sell your products or services is one of the most important factors in determining your success. However, it is only the first step. Before you begin the actual design process, you must first determine your overall strategy and design your website accordingly. Internet marketers have basically two choices: Design a content website that includes not only your products and services, but also information and resources that will be of interest to your target market. Design a mini website that focuses on just one product or service, with no other content of any kind. Although both types of sites can be effective, your success will ultimately depend on your site design and marketing strategies -- both will play a very important role. Content oriented sites are sites that provide visitors with content such as articles, tutorials, free ebooks and resources. This type of site attracts their target audience with incentives. Their products and services are mentioned on the main page with a link to further information. Content sites usually profit by educating their visitors. For example, a content site selling pet supplies might provide a basic tutorial to assist their visitors in learning how to groom a dog. They provide this tutorial completely free; however, the main purpose for this tutorial is to educate their visitors. And in turn, plug their products. When you provide your visitors with quality information that teaches and informs, you are not only gaining their trust in you by sharing your expertise, but you’re also building your credibility, which is very important on the Internet. Once you’ve gained your visitors’ trust, they will be much more apt to purchase your products or services. However, above all else, you must never abuse their trust in you. You must be completely honest with your visitors and have a sincere desire to assist them. If your sole purpose in developing your own Internet business is for financial gain, your chance of success will be minimal. The key to using this technique effectively is to provide content that targets your potential customer. This content is used to presell your visitors through education. Mini-sites are different from content sites, as they don’t provide any content. They usually contain one or two pages and completely focus on one product or service. Basically, the site is just a sales letter for the product. A mini-site should be neatly designed in standard HTML with no Flash or fancy plug-ins and very few graphics. There should be no banners or outside links of any kind -- nothing that will distract your visitors’ attention. The sole purpose of a mini-site is to attract highly targeted traffic. The more targeted the better. For example, if you have a website that sells a number of products, a good mini-site would focus on one specific product instead of all of the products. You could create a mini-site for each product you offer. No matter which type of site you design, keep in mind, your website is a direct reflection of you and your business. The appearance of your website is the most important factor in determining your website’s value. If your site doesn’t look professional or pleasing to the eyes at first glance, its perceived value will be low. The perceived value of your website will have a great impact on your success. Not only must your website have a professional appearance, but it must also be specifically designed to sell. Everything within your website should have one specific purpose -- getting your visitors to take action. Every part of your website must be strategically designed. From your overall design to your sales copy -- each will play a very important role. Your website is the most important sales tool you have. A professional website should possess all of the following: • Your Own Domain (www.yoursite.com) • Quality, Dependable Web Host • Customized Email Addresses: - service@yoursite.com - support@yoursite.com - info@yoursite.com - admin@yoursite.com • Target Your Potential Customers • Professional Appearance • Professional Looking Graphics • Quality Products/Services • Effective Sales Copy • Easy Ordering Process • Automated, Personalized Thank You Letters • Customer Database • Personalized Follow-up Letters • Opt-in List • Well Organized • Easy to Navigate • Load Quickly • Search Engine Optimized Take your time and do your homework prior to designing your website. Look at the entire picture and plan each step very carefully. Your website is the storefront of your business. Make it shine.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://infomediainc.s3.amazonaws.com/affurl/banners/1/9/49.jpg</div> </article> <article> <h1>The Science of MMO PART4</h1> noreply@blogger.com (MSII) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:04:00 +0000 <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQZYU8IXMRYUB6HJZqtGqyWHH8MJ5Im-WMUhrOOLy1no8Szm5xuFU12vqiDXTp5y0CeQe-85CVKWmfavg7naXO3obyZ7iDjjHRQinqX4l7IMoNYpgO5NwBKBWf6KLXkmz7pU5cPZhd6mk/s1600-h/Money+Growing+On+Tree.jpg"></a> Developing Your Internet Business Plan Developing a strategic business plan is an essential part of your success. Not only will it assist you in visualizing your business strategy, but it will also give you an organized approach to achieving your goals. Your plan will be used as a step by step guide to assist you in accomplishing your goals. Without a solid plan of action, you won’t have any direction. You’ll travel in circles and ultimately never reach your goals. Your Internet business plan should include all of the following: Business Summary Your business summary will completely summarize your entire business strategy from start to finish. Objectives Your business objectives will consist of a description of your products and services, and exactly what you want to accomplish. Marketing Plan Your marketing plan should consist of all of the following: Identify your target market If your product or service doesn’t have a market, you definitely won’t be successful. You must identify who your customers will be to determine whether or not there will be an interest in what you’re offering. Your product should not only fill a void, but should also be unique. The less competition you have, the better. If you enter a market in which you’re competing against hundreds of other products similar to yours, your chance of success will be minimal. Develop a high-quality product that fills a void and provides people with exactly what they want. Identify your competition You must know who your competition is in order to compete. What are they offering? How are their products priced? How is their website designed? How are their products delivered? In order to compete with your competition, you must continuously keep an eye on them. Do a search at the Search Engines to locate your competition and evaluate their business. How do you plan to advertise? Although setting up a website is an essential part of your advertising plan, it is only the first step. You must develop an advertising plan that will drive a continuous stream of targeted traffic to you website. Your first step will be to submit your site to the Search Engines. Although there are many Internet marketers that are constantly trying to maintain a top listing in the Search Engines, in my humble opinion, it’s simply a waste of time. Each Search Engine is different and has different guidelines in regard to how they rank a web page. In addition, their guidelines change very frequently and it is literally impossible to keep up with them. Your best option will be to optimize your website to the best of your ability, submit your pages to the Search Engines and forget it. (Resubmit your main pages any time you make any significant changes.) Your time can be better spent using other marketing techniques other than fighting the Search Engine wars. If you really want to build your business online, you must be willing to invest a portion of your profits back into your business. There are many advertising opportunities available on the Internet that will enable you to purchase targeted advertising very reasonably. Ezine Advertising http://www.ezineadvertising.com/cgi-bin/pz.cgi Pay-per-click Search Engines http://www.payperclicksearchengines.com/ Pay-per-lead / Pay-per-sales http://www.clickaffiliate.com/ How will your product or services be priced? Although pricing your product or service may seem like a simple task, it is a little more difficult than you may realize. If you price your product too low, it may be perceived as a poor quality product. Remember the old saying, "You get what you pay for?" A higher price is naturally perceived as a better quality product. However, if you price it too high, your product may not measure up. Make sure you take your time and select your selling price very carefully. Visit your competitor sites and see how they’re pricing their products. Test different prices to determine the best price for your product. How will your product or services be delivered? If you’re selling a tangible or physical product, what shipping options will you offer? What shipping prices will you charge? Will you charge higher shipping rates for orders outside your country? If you’re selling an intangible or electronic product, will you have security measures in place? Will your product be password protected? How will your customers retrieve your product? Will your product delivery be automated or manual? How will you accept payment? How many payment options will you offer your customers? Will you have a merchant account to process credit card orders? If you don’t want to get a merchant account, will you be using a third party credit card processing company? Which companies will you use? Will you accept checks and money orders? If you decide to get your own merchant account, you will also need access to a secure server and a shopping cart system. A secure server will protect your customers’ information. A shopping cart system will provide your customer with a running total of what they’ve ordered and the total cost. The following website can provide you with a merchant account: Total Merchant Services (TMS) http://www.totalmerchantservices.com/MOTOAccounts/ If you’d rather not have your own merchant account, third party credit card processors will process your credit card orders for you. There are usually no monthly fees. They charge a "per transaction" fee and send you payment for all your orders processed, minus their fee and a reserve fee. PayPal https://www.paypal.com ClickBank https://www.clickbank.com/affiliateAccountSignup.htm?key= If you’re just starting out, you may want to use one of the third party credit card processors, as this is the easiest route. Each company provides you with step by step instructions to assist you in getting your website set up to accept credit cards. The great thing about third party credit card processors is that they handle everything for you. You don’t have to hassle with processing your credit card payments or charge backs, as everything is taken care of for you. Developing an Internet business plan will provide you with a road map to achieving your dreams. Plan each step very carefully and fully research your options. Plan your work then work your plan and you’ll be well on your way to achieving your goals.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://infomediainc.s3.amazonaws.com/affurl/banners/1/9/49.jpg</div> </article> <article> <h1>The Science of MMO PART3</h1> noreply@blogger.com (MSII) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:24:00 +0000 <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6zIErZ5cVHSEySO_dgjxHADQdvecpOnH7G304MCjs0qHliaApRU7uOlW4Z6Z4ROcqMybpa3vfki6mkEkRmUB1Re6JKevdmKfA3SxmXmyGh9hFa-MZBGeXtY4SChOLxkFf_kV7yP1H5mc/s1600-h/Money+Growing+On+Tree.jpg"></a> Essential Software An essential part of running a successful Internet business is quality software. Software will play a major roll in your success. You must be willing to invest in the software you’ll need to assist you in running your business. Email Program The first and most important software you’ll need is a quality email program. Although most Internet Service Providers include email accounts for their customers, these accounts aren’t adequate for an Internet business -- especially if you get a large amount of email. Not only do the email addresses contain your ISP’s name, but they are also very limited on features and options. There are many email programs available on the Internet. However, the best program I’ve found is Eudora. Eudora is a standalone email program that works with any ISP. It will enable you to easily organize your email by filtering your messages into specific mailboxes. This feature alone can save you a great deal of time. What’s more, your email address will be your own domain -- not someone else’s. Eudora http://www.eudora.com Mailing List Software Collecting your visitors’ email address is one of the most important parts of developing a successful Internet business. You must develop a database of potential customers if you truly want to succeed. Publishing an ezine is a great way to accomplish this. In order to do so, you must have a good mailing list program that will enable you to send your potential customers personalized messages. Mailloop http://www.marketingtips.com/mailloop/ Group Mail http://www.shareasale.com If you’re using a software program that resides on your computer, you’ll also need a good form processing script to enable your visitors to subscribe: Master Form http://www.willmaster.com/software/commercial/index.php?hop=wsnet If you’re an American Online customer, you won’t be able to use a software program that runs on your computer. You’ll need to use a program that runs with your web browser. AutoResponse Plus http://www.autoresponseplus.com/ 1-2-All Broadcast Email http://www.activecampaign.com/ Subscribe Me http://www.siteinteractive.com/subpro/ HTML Editor Your website is the storefront of your business and is one of the most important factors in determining your success. In order to design your website, you’ll need to get a good HTML editor. Coffee Cup http://www.coffeecup.com/editor/ DreamWeaver http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/ HotDog http://www.sausagetools.com/ HomeSite http://www.allaire.com/Products/HomeSite Microsoft Frontpage http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage Before you begin the actual design process, I highly recommend that you download and install two web browsers -- Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. These are the two most widely used browsers on the Internet. However, they are not created equally. Your page might look great when viewed through Internet Explorer, but may not display well when viewed through Navigator. It is very important that you view your website through both browsers, and design your pages accordingly. Internet Explorer http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp Netscape Navigator http://home.netscape.com/computing/download/index.html Graphics Editor Graphic design is an intimidating subject for many Internet entrepreneurs. However, most of us must learn some basic design techniques in order to avoid the high costs of hiring a professional designer. In order to create or edit your graphics, you’ll need to invest in a good graphics program. The most popular program used by Internet marketers is Paint Shop Pro. This powerful program is the only program you’ll need to design professional looking graphics. Paint Shop Pro http://www.corel.com Zip/Unzip Program Zip files are used to compress and transport file archives over the Internet. It is the preferred method used for electronic file distribution, as rather than downloading several different files, you can simply download one Zip file. In addition, the download time will be minimized, as the files within the Zip archive are compressed. Once a Zip file is downloaded, it can be easily opened and extracted (unzipped) with a Zip/Unzip software program. Although there are many Zip software programs available on the Internet, WinZip is the most popular. WinZip makes working with file archives simple. WinZip http://www.winzip.com/download.htm FTP Program File Transfer Protocol, better known as FTP, is a procedure used to upload and download files to and from your web server. In order to use FTP, you’ll need to download and install a software program on your computer. The most widely used FTP program is WS FTP Pro. WS FTP http://www.wsftp.com Text Editor Text editors have a variety of uses such as writing HTML, editing scripts, and writing ezine articles -- just to name a few. NotePad is an excellent text editor and is most likely already installed on your computer. However, it can’t handle large files and is better suited for smaller files. You may find that you’d like an editor that is a little more powerful. I use a great program called NoteTab Pro. This powerful editor will enable you to edit large files, format your text, convert your text to HTML, and even includes a spellchecker and thesaurus. NoteTab Pro http://www.notetab.com/ Ad Tracking Testing and tracking your marketing strategies is an essential part of your success. I recommend using a great script called LnkinLite. It’s simple to use and will assist you in tracking all of your strategies. LnkinLite http://www.dtp-aus.com/cgiscript/lnkinlte.shtml Financial Management In order to keep track of your business financial matters, you’ll need to invest in a good financial management software. The best program I’ve found is Quicken. However, as this program is very difficult to use and understand, you may want to use a spreadsheet program, such as Microsoft Excel, and set up your own system. Quicken http://www.quicken.com Tax Program Filing your taxes and keeping up with the ever-changing tax laws can be very intimidating. However, if you keep good records and use a good tax program, you can file your taxes with ease. I highly recommend using Turbo Tax. This great program will make the process a lot easier and even enable you to file your taxes electronically. What’s more, it will even allow you to import your Quicken files. Turbo Tax http://www.turbotax.com Although this list of software is far from complete, it will provide you with a basic guideline to get you started. If you’re serious about your business and you really want to succeed, purchasing software is an absolute must. Do your homework and select software that best suits your needs. It will be well worth the investment.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://infomediainc.s3.amazonaws.com/affurl/banners/1/9/49.jpg</div> </article> <article> <h1>The Science of MMO PART2</h1> noreply@blogger.com (MSII) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:58:00 +0000 <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJCKvMd0hKS0mECsGCCOWRYQn9AItHiMfc4R51KK8heltqbg8Cys9EilI-JoTaodSwJfk-T1hFYUtC6oFvi8ZL7BOxHv1t7MCHRIPuYsbmd1soSMZkJ4qYpLWUw-T_5Tfjnx2Xb84TNPI/s1600-h/Money+Growing+On+Tree.jpg"></a> The Tools of the Trade An important part of developing a successful Internet business is setting up your office space. Whether you operate your business from an office building or out of your home or even have a home office (SOHO), having your own "space" is an essential part of your success. Your office space should be used exclusively for your business and be set up to best suit your needs. Below, are some suggestions to assist you in setting up your office: <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirElEdfiascMduuyrKg0Lq5_-rf_ACFmUVMBJIBFprIQhNwAVikfSBtblwb4UD7zu5gAE6cveFeKaPTZxqWtmpHsRCtwQYlh12deaAfhxyUvot3gtkZ0gV-SzsvdljZX-ijGO8HIThscE/s1600-h/Office_Desk.jpg"></a> Desk and Chair When selecting a desk for your office, make sure you get a desk that is specifically designed for a computer. Computer desks provide plenty of room for your monitor, a cabinet for your computer case, a shelf for your printer, and a slide out shelf for your keyboard. When selecting a chair for your desk, keep in mind, you’ll be sitting in this chair for many hours. Make sure it is very comfortable and that you try it out before you buy it. Take your time and select a desk and chair that you’ll be very comfortable with. If you don’t, you may find that you’re straining yourself in one form or another (back, neck, arms, etc.), which will result in poor work performance. Computer Equipment If you haven’t purchased a computer, make sure you purchase one that will grow with you. If you don’t, you’ll find that you’ll either have to upgrade your system or purchase another one a few years down the road. In addition, make sure you purchase your computer from a reputable company that will provide you with quality customer support. Printer When selecting a printer, you will basically have two options -- laser or ink jet. You should select a printer depending on your needs. If you’ll be doing a large amount of printing and speed and high quality are important, your best option will be a laser printer. Laser printers produce better quality black text than most ink jet printers, and are much faster. However, an ink jet will enable you to print in color, which is a big advantage. Another important consideration is the printer’s resolution. The resolution determines the print quality, and refers to the number of dots per inch on a page -- the higher, the better. Most printers today support a 600 x 600 dpi resolution that will produce a good quality for most print jobs. Keep in mind, although a printer may support as high as a 1200 x 1200 dpi (dots per inch), you most likely won’t notice any quality difference, when compared with a 600 x 600 dpi, with most print jobs. Scanner A scanner will enable you to scan photographs and documents into your computer. For example, if you’d like to place a photograph of yourself or your products on your website, a scanner will make it possible. Fax Machine With today’s advanced technology, you can use your computer to send and receive faxes. All you’ll need is a telephone line, fax modem and software. Digital Camera A digital camera will enable you to take pictures of your products, or whatever you’d like, and transfer them into your computer. They provide a great way to create your own images for your website or product development. Telephone A business line will enable your customers to contact you. Even if you’re using your telephone line to connect to the Internet, most phone services now offer voice mail. Voice mail will enable your callers to leave a message while you’re connected to the Internet. There are also software programs and devices that will enable you to take calls while you’re connected to the Internet. Filing Cabinet A filing cabinet will enable you to organize your paperwork such as your receipts, tax information, and business records. In addition to the basic office equipment, you’ll also need to stock up on some supplies: • Pens • Pencils • Pencil Holder • Pencil Sharpener • Address/Phone Book • Business Cards • Note Pads • Envelopes • Printer Paper • Ink Cartridges • Log Books Files • Excedrin Migraine, Motrin IB, Advil, Tylenol or whatever your favorite headache medicine may be. You’re going to need it:) Take your time and set up your office according to your budget. Start out with the essentials such as a computer and an Internet connection. You can add additional equipment and supplies as you go. Setting up your office space is an essential part of your success. Not only will it designate a specific area as your business space, but it will also provide you with some added motivation to work towards accomplishing your dreams. Or you might thinking off a <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy_OjNq_1cFW1sR3wHT4dgSyaZwr7e2sOkN_gtebzh51gFLW_bnq9ZPZduoyZ3weA7KRNLpADffwPF-3VeRHV1WW0G1VowUJ0LW0wzWUzOK-trUHh-vWdpm1sW-pqBSCOAuUKcHbQrC1M/s1600-h/virtual-office.jpg"></a> Virtual office is a term for shared office services, which normally includes business address, mail & courier services, phone services, fax services, answering services, web hosting services, and meeting & conference facilities. Certain providers of virtual office services will provide other in-house or outsourced services such as corporate secretarial services, accounting services, or legal services. Professional firms such as law firms and accounting firms often provide registered address services as part of their service offerings. Most of the virtual office providers are located in major cities (e.g. New York, London, Hong Kong some have international rep. office link), due to high popularity of its prestigious-looking business address. However, there are growing numbers of providers in industrial parks & science parks around the world, including NETPark Net - a Virtual Science Park which offer's Virtual Office services and are attracting technology or manufacturing-based companies its all depends on your startup budget.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://infomediainc.s3.amazonaws.com/affurl/banners/1/9/49.jpg</div> </article> <article> <h1>The Science of Make Money Online-MMO PART1</h1> noreply@blogger.com (MSII) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:22:00 +0000 <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOb1UzYr7F-aDLSzifbl-m7ePSW9WyoygNzg8VJHHLOKfYzZtvF5H7YpufKAYRL4soGy_i-rZmIYGdX8hX1FXRIiNJ_Dy7qArVaivaDbVtHw6WZ7p_JZmIgozvUQvcUqo-SmAaAe8R65M/s1600-h/Money+Growing+On+Tree.jpg"></a> Developing a successful Internet business is the ultimate goal of the Internet entrepreneur. However, statistics show that most Internet businesses never make any real money. Making money on the Internet isn’t easy -- it takes a great deal of time and effort and requires a total commitment. You must be completely passionate about your business and have a sincere desire to succeed. Anything less will be a complete waste of your time and will most likely result in failure. You must also realize that success isn’t going to happen overnight. There will be many obstacles along the way and a great deal to be learned. However, anything worth having is worth working towards and won’t come easy. There will be many long days and sleepless nights. However, if everything falls into place, and you plan each step very carefully, the end will justify the means. The largest obstacle you will ever encounter is fear -- fear of the unknown -- fear of change -- fear of failing. Fear is the root of failure and prevents dreamers from living their true passion. They fail to try. Above all else, you must take the first step to overcome your fears. With each step you take, you will become a little closer to achieving your dreams. As long as you keep trying, you’ll never fail. There are many common characteristics shared by successful Internet entrepreneurs. Below are some of the most important: Set Your Goals Set your goals and write them down on a piece of paper. Set short-term reachable goals and long-term higher goals. However, don’t set them too high, as this will cause you to become discouraged if you don’t achieve them. Work consistently towards accomplishing your goals each day, each week and each month until you reach your short-term goals. When you have attained your short-term goals, set them a little higher each time. Ultimately you will achieve your long-term goals. Self-Disciplined Get up early each day just as if you were working outside your home. You have to take your business very seriously and be completely self-disciplined. Self-Motivated Set up a daily schedule and stick to it. Your own personal drive will have a great impact on your success. You must have the ability to work independently and stay on task. Positive Attitude Your attitude is one of the most important factors that will determine your success. Your attitude will either guarantee your success or guarantee your failure. If you have a positive attitude and believe in yourself above all else, you will succeed. Organizational Skills Create a list of all the things you want to accomplish during the day. This will give you an organized approach to each day. Attention to Detail Whatever you’re doing, do it to the best of your ability. Pay close attention to detail. Nothing is ever going to be perfect, as you’re only human. However, if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing right. Developing your own Internet business is one of the most difficult, yet rewarding experiences of a lifetime. It is a continuous learning experience and will be filled with many valuable lessons you will carry with you for the rest of your life -- some good, some bad, but lessons still the same. Although there aren’t any shortcuts to achieving your dreams, there is something you can do to speed up the process -- Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Follow in the footsteps of successful Internet entrepreneurs who are already successful. Not only will you save yourself a lot of time and money, but you’ll also have a road map to success.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://infomediainc.s3.amazonaws.com/affurl/banners/1/9/49.jpg</div> </article> <article> <h1>8 Reasons to start an online business in 2009</h1> noreply@blogger.com (MSII) — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:58:00 +0000 <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBHWGOrOye5CgSNNp1wFHtCcnxc3XY0BI_N6oQ46qZGI40HtDXELFPpp4riE6r_CuFYjzfyIY8Rm7Z2Djgp3faSRluEVQVujmtDxXHvAMjEM1szOouxnvzbzR23Uc263yOUNXrRxq0z4k/s1600-h/Money+Growing+On+Tree.jpg"></a> The economy is down, we’re in probably the worst financial crisis since the great depression, and unemployment is shooting through the roof. Sounds like the worst time to start an online business right? Wrong! 2009 could be the perfect time to start a business if you are smart about it. Here’s the reasons why: It’s Easy to do Starting an online business is simple to do. It’s not like starting a normal business. It doesn’t take as much money or time to create an online business. There are many different ways to make money online including retail stores, affiliate advertising, creating a successful blog, article writing, or website/graphic design etc. All those ideas are legitimate online businesses that have made a ton of money for a ton of people who are doing what they love. You can even create a successful online business in your spare time. You don’t have to quit your day job to be a success. It’s Cheap Creating a website is extremely cheap compared to starting up a store or office. Even if you don’t design your website yourself you can pay someone else to do it and you can get it done cheap by free lancers through sites like <a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vR3VydS5jb20=" target="_blank">Guru. com</a>. After you get your site designed you will need to pick a domain name. You’re going to want to pick a domain name that relates to what you are selling. After that you will need to pick a web host. Web hosting is a service that takes all the files that make up your website and stores them on a server that is connected up to the internet 24/7/365. From their users will be able to access your website all the time. You can find reliable web hosting for $10-$20 a month, (Learn How to Pick the Right Web Host). After initial start up costs, the cost of maintaining a website are very small which allows you to be very profitable. All the choices you have to make here are extremely important ones for your site, but they can all be very cheap. Creating a Website is Easy Now! You don’t have to know HTML to create a good looking website now. Using programs like Adobe Dreamweaver allows you to create the design of your website and it creates the HTML that goes along with the design. There are simple tutorials all over the internet that tell you how to create a website. You can use sites like Yahoo’s Site Builder to drag and drop pictures to design your website. If you wanted to create a blog you can use free blog hosting sites like Google’s Blogger and create a blog in minutes. E-commerce is Succeeding even in a Down Economy While regular brick & mortar stores are struggling to even stay in business, e-commerce business is growing. According to the Department of Commerce U.S. Retail E-commerce sales numbers are up all around. The 2nd Quarter of 2008 saw $34.6 billion in sales which was a 2.9% increase from the 1st quarter and a 9.5% increase from the second quarter of 2007. Just recently on “Cyber Monday” (the online world’s “black Friday”) the online world saw another positive sign, consumers spent $846 billion on cyber Monday which was an increase of 15% over 2007’s cyber Monday. Marketing is better/faster/more measurable online Marketing online is all around better online. There’s an estimated 1.5 billion people who use the internet worldwide. That’s 21.9% of the world’s population. It has grown 305% from 2000-2008 and that number will only continue to grow as the populations in emerging markets like China, the Middle East, and Africa continue to get modernized. The Internet is a force that you cannot ignore. There’s a lot of people that use the internet and the great news is they are easy to reach and easy to target. A survey by Hearst Electronics Group and Goldstein Group of business to business marketers showed that the “migration of communications budgets from traditional media to online has accelerated to the point where nearly half of all spending, 47 percent, is spent on online marketing techniques today.” The businesses are doing that for a reason, they can track their marketing methods online a lot easier so they can understand what their ROI is and decide where to put the money. Also it is easier to target people online than it is in the real world so it takes less money to make more sales. Some of the ways to advertise online include search engine optimization (SEO), pay per click ads, article marketing, blogging. All but the pay per click ads can be free. SEO is the technical term for optimizing your site and link building with the goal of getting to the top spot in search engines for a certain keyword. This is important for the success of your online business because the majority of online users use search engines like Google to find what they are looking for. Being at the top spot in Google gets you the most traffic for the cheapest amount….free! There are tons of easy and cheap ways to market your website online. Tracking…Online Analytics I touched on this in the previous paragraph but this deserves more attention. Tracking how your business is doing in all aspects is important, no matter what type of business you have. When I say tracking your business I mean figuring out if you are putting your dollars in the right place. If users are leaving your site right away (a term called “bouncing”) maybe it’s because your site is not user friendly so you must re-design your website, if users are reading the content of your site but then leaving during the check out process maybe it’s time for a new shopping cart, it’s also important to know where your users are coming from and where they are going. You can tell all of this by using analytics software that you can get online. Google Analytics is perhaps the best program that you can use to track your website and the best part is it’s completely free. All it involves is placing code that Google provides you on every page that you want the program to track. On a daily basis you can check to see how many people visited your site, what they looked at, how they came to your site, how long they stayed, where they exited from, and most importantly if they were a conversion and how they got there. That type of measurability is critical to any business and that and so much more is possible online. Starting in a Bad Economy is a Good Thing! Starting up a business in a bad economy can be a good thing if you are passionate about what you are doing. As Paul Graham pointed out in his essay the economy does not necessarily affect a startup it is the founders that make or break the company. Just ask Bill Gates of Microsoft or Steve Jobs of Apple both of which were started in the terrible economy of the 1970’s. A down economy is an opportunity if looked at in the right light, by opportunistic entrepreneurs. A down economy means less competition, more companies/people looking to make deals, people looking for ways to save. It has become a well known fact that online is the place to get deals on just about anything you need. Retailers offering aggressive online discounts this year were able to increase sales from last year because they were able to adjust to a down economy because of the flexibility of online business. Online businesses are cheap to start up and cheap to maintain, those saving get passed onto the customer in the form of great discounts. At the same time do not ignore the economy creating a website that shows people creative ways to save money would be a great site in a down economy, or a debt consolidation website, or shop and compare sites, or a community forum that lets people share the best deals. There are countless opportunities waiting to be filled in the online world. It’s About Time You Start Doing What You Want to Do! Who doesn’t want to own their own business? You get to be your own boss, make your own hours, and feel the joy of successfully having your own company. If you’re tired of your job or even just want to turn your hobby into a profitable venture an online business is the way to go. The best part is it does not have to take over your entire life. With an online business you can do a lot of the work in a short amount of time which means you do not necessarily have to quit your day job. Do you like writing? Become a blogger, blogging is the hot thing in the online world right now and it takes all of 5 minutes to create a blog on blogger and not too much more time to create your own site with a Wordpress themed blog. You can write what you feel like writing about and make money doing it. Do you like a certain topic and you know a bunch of other people do? Why not start an online forum about it, that’s a great way to do what you want and profit off of it. There are plenty of businesses out there and an online business is the easiest way to get started. As you can see there are great reasons to start an online business in 2009. It’s the easiest, cheapest, fastest way to start your own business and it’s a growing market that basically anyone can be successful in, if your passionate about what you are doing. Make 2009 your year to start an online business, Get out there and Get Started.<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://infomediainc.s3.amazonaws.com/affurl/banners/1/9/49.jpg</div> </article> <article> <h1>Getting Started with Multiple Streams of Internet Income</h1> noreply@blogger.com (MSII) — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:09:00 +0000 <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGzjaTQC30ZMVTFbbLpY05Mf0R2mPOj0wBMIsijZmpyu-EsQ41c9Fu5DIUxpRHVpQx6JNvNgWLk1jmJjnrhko-be3xRvAjMSm0yrtHuk8qIJUk2XOc-OuVEeXYvFBRlENIGqUBtBhs-oY/s1600-h/Money+Growing+On+Tree.jpg"></a> Are you sick and tired of your job? And worried about your daily cash flow at night? If you've always dreamt of earning cash that gushes out like toothpaste, then let me show you exactly step-by-step How To… “Set Up Multiple Streams of Income, Have Fun Earning Cash from Home, and Secure your Financial Freedom in Double-Quick time — Even if You're a Complete Beginner” When you Get Hold of these REAL Insider Secrets, you can Create Massive Fortunes using YOUR OWN Cash Machines and have Total Control over your own Financial Destiny. Your Family will be Happy and Safe because you'll have a Big Fat Wallet Stuffed Silly with Unlimited Cash... 100% Guaranteed The Content of this blogging THE SCIENCE OF MMO (Making Money Online) 1. Building online store These web sites can help you build your own online store quickly, easily and securely. No need to know web designing, HTML or programming at all! Everything needed for e-commerce, including hosting, administration, catalog, search engine, shopping cart, merchant account, credit card processing, transaction processor, online and offline ordering, event calendar, shipping calculator, e-mail account and even more, is ready just by your clicks! 2. Get paid for visiting and viewing Receive cash after you visit certain web sites and view some ads! 3. Get paid for surfing First you need to download a small application and let it running while you are online, then you'll get paid according to the time you have spent online. There are quite a few other ways that can help you earn more at the same time! 4. Get paid for setting your start page By setting your start page to certain pages, every time you start your explorer you'll earn money! 5. Get paid for reading emails It is very simple: just register and agree to receive e-mails. And how much you earn depends on how many e-mails you do read! These sites also offer some other ways for you to earn more! 6. Get paid for playing games Play free games and win great money or prize! If your referral wins you win too! 7. Get paid for listening Earn money while you are listening to music or radio online! 8. Get paid for referral Earn money if you can refer your friends to register, join or sign up. Usually you can earn for several referral levels. 9. Get paid for your Blogs, opinion and suggestion Your opinions are valuable! Get money after you complete surveys, write reviews and answer questions! 10. Get paid for joining affiliate program and signup Get real money after you join affiliate programs. And you can earn more for your referrals. 11. Earn income from your own website If you already have your own web site, why not make money from it? Here are many ways you can use to make money! 12. Multiply programs(HYIP, MYIP, LYIP, FOREX) Here are great websites which offer you multiply ways to earn real money! 13. Get paid in miscellaneous ways Here are some miscellaneous and interesting ways to earn money with 17 Streams of Internet Income i have listed below in the forum topic such as GPT (Get Paid To) Payment Processors & E-Currencies Personal Finance Real Estate - online Stocks, Options, Futures, & Mutual Funds Buying, Selling & Trading Investment Programs (Non HYIP) eCurrency Exchange Services Money Cyclers Referral, MLM, & Network/Affiliate Marketing Discussion Autosurf & Manual Surf Discussion Other Investments - Commodity Trade HYIP (High Yield Investment Program) Discussion Forex - Retails How to - SWISSBANK account Non Resident - US BANK Account For futher readings on all the topics above click here <a href="http://www.blogcatalog.com/group/multiple-internet-streams-of-income-misi/"> Misi Group forum . </a><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://infomediainc.s3.amazonaws.com/affurl/banners/1/9/49.jpg</div> </article> <article> <h1>Social Aggregation: The Next Logical Step In Social Networking</h1> noreply@blogger.com (MSII) — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:06:00 +0000 <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS3Bm-518EeCuljnrk6JRFDRcSlsGjSER3ayfoan-V7g6cktnkm2R46K5edKAg3WThRS5ZaZJY86FJxPR-s3BGfuC9bTKJKAyGWt7IW5tkuUM6FcSPcJTwmrM5tItHs3Q_lanckOrv9P8/s1600-h/Money+Growing+On+Tree.jpg"></a> Let’s face it, it’s challenging to absorb the ‘know how’ and pros of social networking sites without feeling overwhelmed and getting everything in a systematic fashion. And yes, for a strategic social marketing plan of action, a ’social system’ is essential for your sanity. Here are 10 pros of social networking sites with a few excellent resources attached: 1. Facebook The granddaddy of them all. According to Alexa rankings, Facebook is the 5th most popluar site in the world today. Facebook is the perfect place to develop relationships online and now boast with more than a 100 million users online. Unfortunately, to many marketers have adopted their tacky ‘MySpace Mentality’ in Facebook by pasting endless links on your profile wall. This is enough to make anyone cringe. Lots of potential for marketing, if you are prepared to build relationships first. Best Resource will be Mari Smith, relationship and buzz marketing specialist. You will find plenty of golden nuggets on her fan page which can be found by doing a search on Facebook. 2. Squidoo There’s been plenty of debates whether Seth Godin’s (the king of marketing in my honest opinion) collection of half a million pages still delivers quality traffic after a not so recent Google Slap. But, like Seth mentions, Google is famous for rewarding pages that are worth while, so if you Squidoo lens provides quality content, Squidoo has endless benefits for your web presence. Check out Rena Klingenberg’s Squidoo Traffic Power lens for great tips and resources. 3. Hubpages Hubpages are relatively the same as Squidoo. Instead of a lens, you build a hub. Hubs with blatant affiliate promotions will not get approved. Only original, relevant content will cut it. You will find plenty of excellent ‘how to’ hubs on hubpages itself which will help you get started. 4. StumbleUpon This site absolutely rocks! Install the ’stumble’ button on your Firefox browser to vote sites a thumbs up or down, or simply bookmark a favorite while doing research on the fly. 5. Mashable Mashable is the worlds largest blog to focus on all the web 2.0 and social networking news. Very popular amongst bloggers and social networking fanatics with an influential demographic which increases daily. 6. Digg Digg is a community-based social news site with a readership who is extremely tech savvy. You can submit your articles, blog posts, videos, pictures, etc and if the community ‘diggs’ it, you get, well, digged. If a link to your content gets submitted to Digg and gets voted for by the community, you can receive hundreds to even thousands of visitors in as little as minutes. Look out for Dean Hunt. Dean Hunt’s content has been featured on the front page numerous times and provides a excellent free report on his blog called ‘Confessions of the Buzz Content Hustlers’. 7. Technorati Simply said, the Google of Blogs. Technorati was founded to help bloggers collect and share information for online global conversation. Technorati currently states it is tracking over 112.8 million blogs. Once you have sufficient content, you need to claim your blog with Technorati. A good idea is to let your friends and others favorite your blog with Technorati. 8. MyBlogLog The key to global conversation throughout the blogosphere. MyBlogLog enables bloggers to talk amongst each other and learn about their readers by checking out their blogs and active communities. This generally made possible via a widget in the sidebar displaying your most recent visitors to your blog. MyBlogLog enhances your existing presence on the Web and connects it with communities of like-minded readers and bloggers, adding context to the conversations in which you take part. 9. Propeller Several years back when Netscape.com was acquired by AOL, Netscape wanted to follow in Digg’s footsteps and added social news. So, Propeller was born. Propeller is a social news portal which, like Digg, is controlled by the popularity which is voted for by the community. Make sure your content is newsworthy and original when you submit to Propeller. 10. Mixx Direct competitor of Digg who is receiving a lot of attention from CNN, who now adds a ‘mixx it’ buttons with all their content. A fun group of diversified personalities consisting of a ex-banker, a blackjack dealer, an ice skater, a self-professed geek and a rabid cricket fan. Be sure to add Mixx for strategic social marketing. And of course… Twitter! The list cant be complete without adding Twitter to the portfolio. Twitter’s microblogging 140 character conversations is taking over the web, literally. CoachDeb has created the ultimate guide to Twitter, so if you are still in the Dark about how Twitter works, download the TwitterHandBook. 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