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Are You addicted to Twitter?

Shirley Grant — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:07:24 +0000

Lets See How much You are addicted to twitter?

Take the IQ Challenge!

Shirley Grant — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:03:27 +0000

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The Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet

Shirley Grant — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:16:13 +0000

Product Review:

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Making Your Way Into the Blogging World

Shirley Grant — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:44:46 +0000

By Mark A. Abrahams

In the last few years internet web-logs and journals have become the new, vogue way to impart information and opinions. It seems these days everyone has their own journal, and some even make money from them. But, before you hit ‘post’ there are a few tips and tricks you should keep in mind.

The best advice for creating a successful blog is to just keep writing. You don’t need to spam post your readers with a post an hour, but failing to update frequently will make people forget your blog exists. Some writers post content daily, some weekly. Find a happy medium that works for you. If you find you only have enough content to fill a post every two or three days, then set your personal goal to post every other day.

Another good tip is to find a niche to write about. A search on the web might find dozens or even hundreds of other net-izens writing about the same topic as you. However, a keen writer can find a niche to make their blog unique. Don’t be afraid to write with personality, and inject a little bit of yourself into your posts. The best blogs are not only informative, but entertaining and personal. Having good information is important, but your blog will really stand out if people enjoy reading it.

So, you think you want to blog? Go ahead and find your topic, your niche, and start posting. With a little dedication and a good topic you’ll soon be on your way to internet stardom.

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Will Subscribers From Free List-Building Giveaways EVER Buy Anything

Shirley Grant — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:48:40 +0000

By Willie Crawford

One of the ongoing discussions in the world of Internet marketing is whether it’s worthwhile to participate in free “list-building giveaways” as a contributor.

In these events, sometimes several hundred marketers ban together on a big list-building project. Each marketer contributes a gift related to the theme of the giveaway. Some events allow more than one gift per contributor.

The marketers list their gifts on the main giveaway site, but generally require those collecting the gifts to visit their individual sites and join their mailing list, prior to giving them access to the gifts.

This is how you build your list as a contributor.

The question is, “Since these new subscribers were forced through a squeeze page and may not have otherwise joined your list are they good subscribers?”

A second question is “Since they just finished downloading a TON of free gifts, why would they turn around and buy anything from you.

Let look briefly at both of those questions.

In response to the first question, I teach that you have to take your time and build a meaningful relationship with your new subscribers. Deliver genuine value and they will stay on your list. Then, if you offer things that they need, they will buy from you because they feel a connection.

Building that relationship STARTS with offering a quality gift on that very first contact. So many people who participate in free list-building giveaways offer gifts that they would be INSULTED if someone offered the same gifts to them.

I participate in free giveaways with excellent results. The gifts that I offer are often brand new audios, software, and ebooks that I create especially for the giveaways. I do reuse them later. I always make sure that the gifts I offer has high perceived value.

When you give your new subscribers something that actually helps them, they are likely to stick around, and grow to “know,like and trust you” because they see that you actually care about them.

In response to the second question, I sometimes offer low-priced products right on the download page where I give the free gift. If the offer is enticing enough, a high percentage of these customers will buy.

However, I also understand that part of my job as an ezine publisher is to serve as a filter. If my new subscribers did indeed download lots of different items from a free giveaway, and a percentage of them were… JUNK, but mine was high quality, then they learn to expect quality from me, and will pay more attention to future offers from me than they will from the marketers who filled their hard drives with a bunch of useless “fluff.”

So to the question, “Will subscribers from free giveaways EVER buy anything? the answer is an unequivocal YES, provided you did your job.

What was your job though?

It was to treat the new potential subscribers that visit these free giveaway sites with the same respect that you’d like to receive. It’s to treat these new “customers” as the life’s blood of your business. Treated right, they will be.

Willie Crawford has been successfully marketing good and services on the internet since 1996. He does use free giveaways as one method of building his lists. For a highly-recommended free giveaway that you can participate in and start growing your list RIGHT NOW, visit: http://SageMarketer.com/ListBuilding/

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Choosing a Web Hosting Provider – What to Consider?

Shirley Grant — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:44:44 +0000

By Alvin Tan LH

With thousands of web hosting providers in the market today competing against each other and offering different packages, it can be challenging to find a web hosting company that truly provides an excellent hosting solution at an excellent price.

Today, I was just asked this question by a friend who plans to start a self-hosted WordPress blog: “Which web hosting company offers the cheapest web hosting?”

Well, choosing a hosting provider for a WordPress blog or website is a not a small decision especially for those who want to build a profitable online business. It is always good to find out as much as possible about your prospective web host. So, price should not be the only or the most important factor in choosing your web host. You also need to take other factors into consideration.

Let me share with you the factors that I have taken into consideration when I choose a hosting provider for my self-hosted WordPress blog:

1. Excellent Customer Support

An excellent hosting provider must offer 24/7 customer and/or technical support. I cannot accept a host does not have their staff working on weekends or public holiday.

2. Reliable Hosting Infrastructure

They should also offer at least 99.9% guarantee on its network availability or network uptime. It’s not acceptable to have my website down frequently because I do not want to lose my visitors or readers.

3. FTP Access

We need a FTP program like FileZilla to transfer the WordPress files to the hosting server directly from computer. So, FTP access is mandatory.

4. WordPress Auto-Installation Script

This is another mandatory. The hosting provider must provides WordPress auto-installation script such as Fantastico and InstallCentral.

5. Popularity

It is probably a safe bet if I choose a popular or Top 10 web hosting provider. I always refer to this site for further review and comparison: Web-Host-Rankings.com

Changing from one host to another is not always easy, so I really hope that you can make your decision right the first time.

Alvin Tan is an aspiring Internet Entrepreneur. He currently works on http://www.undeniableprofits.com where he aims to help ordinary individuals to make money online and succeed online. Head down to his website now! – Make Money Online with UndeniableProfits

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How to Have a Focused Business Blog

Shirley Grant — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:41:43 +0000

Your business blog is probably the single most important tool you can use to gain added traffic to your business and/or your business website. Whether your business blog is part of your website or a separate entity, it is important to know how to focus your blog to help drive customers to it which, in turn, ultimately drives customers to your business.

A focused blog is one that has a specific purpose. Your business blog’s specific purpose it to get others to want to buy your products and/or services. Therefore your business blog should include lots of details about your business including: stories about how your company began, how you came to be the owner of it, where it’s located (if it’s brick and mortar), etc.

In order to have a focused business blog, you want to avoid getting into too much personal stuff. Some is good and valuable, as it connects your customers to you, but you want to avoid venting about your personal life, your family members and so on. If your business is family owned, obviously you want your customers to know this, and it is valuable to include in your business details.

Your business blog should naturally talk about what sales or specials you have going on currently and should link directly to the sales page on your website. If you don’t have a website, then your blog is the place to post all the details about the sale or special and directing them to your place of business.

Details of the services you offer are another great way to focus your blog. If you’re adding a service to your business, your business blog is the place to get the word out to the public. Also if you’re discontinuing a service your blog can let your customers know this as well.

You can write a single blog post about a specific product by talking about how your product can help them, whether it’s for personal use or business. You can also create posts about an entire line of products that you carry, as a series of posts. The more your readers know about a product or line of products the more apt they are to purchase.

Another very important aspect of a focused business blog is to let your readers and customers know you are there for them. The whole point of your business, of any business for that matter, should be to help others in their personal or business lives. Talk about what you have to offer as being a way to help them succeed in whatever they’re doing. Show your customers how your products and services can help them. By doing this you’re creating clients that will continue to return to not only your blog, but your business as well because they know they can count on you and that you’re there to help them and not just for your personal gain.

As you continue to build your blog, you will be building your business as well. By having a focused business blog and using specific key words in your titles and posts, you will soon be driving the traffic you want to your business blog, which in turn will drive them directly to your business!

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4 Reasons Why Most Internet Marketers Fail Miserably

Shirley Grant — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:22:10 +0000

By Willie Crawford

An often-quoted statistic is that that 95% of all Internet businesses fail. The reality is that the vast majority of businesses in the offline world fail too, so the picture is not bleaker online. In-fact, it’s better online since most aspiring Internet marketers could never even find sufficient capital to start a business in the offline world.

The sad part is that many of these failing online businesses fail for readily identifiable reasons. Often the business owners are even aware of the reasons but do nothing about them.

Let’s look very briefly at four of these reasons:

1) Selling The Wrong Products

Once you have identified a profitable niche, one in which customers happily spend money to solve their problems, then the next step is to identify what is it that they really,
really want.

If you offer your customers what they tell you that they want, and what they are already buying, then they will buy it from you.

If you try to convince your customers that they want something that they’ve already told you that they DON’T want, then you’ll soon be out of business.

Many failing marketers simply need to drop “a loser,” and start marketing something that is WANTED!

2) Trying To Do Everything Yourself

In “Think And Grow Rich,” Napoleon Hill taught nearly a century ago that “specialized knowledge” is a success essential. You need to find one or two things that you do really well, and that people are willing to pay for, and then you need to do only those things.

Everything else involved in operating your business should be done by someone better at doing those tasks.

The disconnect we run into there is that, as a business owner, your job is to grow and manage the business. So what if that’s not what you’re good at? Then you may need to find a way to market whatever it is that you ARE good at. You may also need to hire a business or operations manager!

In a recent mastermind call with Rich Schefren, where he interviewed a dozen top Internet marketers, most earning over $1 million a year online, we all shared that our greatest business growth started when we stopped trying to do everything ourselves.

If you’re still trying to do all of your own programming, copywriting, graphics, customer service, database management, script installations, article writing, video creation, traffic generation, product creation, audio/video editing, pay-per-click management, etc., then you are so bogged down in the minutiae of “working in your business” that it’s impossible for you to even identify which things are essential for “working on your business.”

This is a tough decision for many of us, but you absolutely have to identify the things that you MUST do, and then you need to outsource most of the rest. As an example, my talent seems to be copywriting, so copywriting is really the only thing that I focus on aside from planning and managing business growth.

I do plan product launches for client, but that still falls under planning and managing business growth.

3) Very Poor Time Management

Dan Kennedy once observed “You will never finish all of the things on your to do list.” That tells me that I shouldn’t try to, but should instead frequently ask which things I personally need to do, which things I need to get others to do, and which things don’t really need doing at all.

For the online marketer, good time management is really just establishing some new habits, and breaking some old bad ones. Common habits that need changing include:

– Don’t let email dominate your time. Many online marketers spend many hours each day just digging out from under the deluge of email. For help in that area, I was coached by
Brad Semp, going through a course he nicknamed Taming The Email Monster. You can find it just by googling the phrase.

I spend now about 30 minutes per day on email. Brad’s training is what allowed me to take back control of my life.

– Turn off the television during work hours. If you were working for someone else, say in an office, I’m sure that you wouldn’t expect to be allowed to sit in front of the television

all day with your laptop perched on your lap.

Unless you are VERY different from me, you cannot focus on your work while watching television. Not only that, but watching a lot of negative programs (news included) will completely zap your energy and shift you out of a productive mindset.

– Establish work hours. Tell your family and friends when you’ll be working, and let them know that when you’re really focused on work, you shouldn’t be disturbed any more than you’d expect to be disturbed if you worked at a regular job.

Explain to them that you can get more done in one hour if you really concentrate that you can in five hours with frequent interruptions. Explain that letting you really focus at
designated times gives you MORE free time to spend with them… and you’ll have more money to spend on them too.

4) Too Many Projects That Are Never Completed. My friend Mike Filsaime likes to point out during seminar presentations that if you have a dozen projects started but not completed, you’ll make less money that having just ONE project completed and on the market.

CHOOSE one project that you want to get completed and on the market. Focus exclusively on that one until it is finished before doing anything else.

Since you are an entrepreneur, and probably come up with a new idea “once every five minutes,” keep a note pad handy to jot down new ideas. When you get a new idea, jot it down on the note pad, and then knowing that it won’t be lost, go back to what you were working on previously.

Another option if you’re an idea person, or great at starting projects, is to partner with “finishers.” Instead of letting projects bog down, and never reach the market, partner with
someone who will push it through to completion, splitting the profits with them.

If you don’t like that idea, consider how much those unfinished projects are making you. Would you prefer 50% of whatever that finished project makes, or 100% of nothing (which is exactly what most of your unfinished projects earn).

We’ve just looked very briefly at four reasons why most Internet marketers fail miserably. Now that you have acknowledged that these ARE problem areas for you, the question becomes what are you going to do about them.

Sadly, many people will read this article and then choose to do absolutely nothing about these problems. Nothing will change! However, you’re different, and therefore destined for online success.

Willie Crawford has been teaching Internet marketing for over 9 years. Take advantage of his insights and experiences by subscribing to his free, very popular newsletter at http://WillieCrawford.com/ezine.html

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9 Sure-Fire Ways to Build Links

Shirley Grant — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:58:19 +0000

If you spend any amount of time building web sites and getting backlinks for them, you’ll undoubtedly come across several people that will gladly share their link building strategies. The catch is that these strategies rarely work for everybody. It may take a little longer, but there are some strategies that are like black shoes. They always work and never go out of style. Here are some of them so you know what to do when the latest fad strategy isn’t working for you:

1. Press Releases:

Send out press releases related to your niche along with inline anchor text links. That will help with your search engine rankings.

2. Related Niche Directory Submissions:

Get your links from related directories first, and you’ll boost the relevancy of your backlinks.

3. Bookmarking Sites:

These are a great way to get permanent links, but be careful about spamming them. Get your account deleted, and you’ll lose everything you’ve built. Social networking sites are becoming an increasingly useful tool for link building.

4. Forums:

Find forums related to your niche and start making posts. You might even find some forums full of people that will be more than willing to help you start out your business. Make posts, participate in a variety of threads, and get yourself known (or at least recognized), and people are bound to see your links. Pretty simple, but again, try not to spam them. Some forums are very strict about spam and other unwanted
content- some even go so far as to change the content of your posts and leave your name up- read: spam a forum, shoot yourself in the foot.

5. Directory Listings:

Find good directories- ones that have lots of bad links won’t help you much.

6. Blog Reviews:

Find blogs related to your site and post comments on them- get your name out there.

7. Yahoo Answer:

Write related articles; search engines crawl here all the time.

8. Submit Articles:

You can get a lot of traffic by submitting your articles either to article directorys or ezine publishers. You need to make sure that you have an effective resource box at the end of your article with a link to your site.

9. Blog on Your Site:

Regular blog updates using anchor text keywords helps your site rank higher on search engines as well as driving traffic to your site.

These link building strategies have shown their usefulness time and time again, with varying degrees of success. Play with them and see which one works best for you and your niche.

ABC’s of Web 2.0

Shirley Grant — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:26:53 +0000

Article Written By Sharon Housley

Web 2.0 is a perceived transition of the Web to web-based applications. Web 2.0 is the next generation of technology solutions where interactive content is the norm.

There is no agreement on exactly what Web 2.0 means. Depending on who you are speaking with, you may receive different explanations. At it’s heart, Web 2.0 is about the maturity of the Web. While many refer to Web 2.0 as companies that employ powerful web technologies, the key components of Web 2.0 are said to include: the Web as a platform, collaboration, and syndication.

Here are the “ABC’s” of Web 2.0…

A – Ajax

Ajax is an abbreviation for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, and is a web development technique for creative interactive web applications. Many Web 2.0 websites use Ajax to interact with website visitors.

B – Blog

Blogs are web logs that are updated regularly, usually on a daily basis. They contain information related to a specific topic. In many cases, blogs are used simply as daily diaries about people’s personal lives, political views, or even as social commentaries. The truth of the matter is that blogs can be shaped into whatever you, the author, want them to be.

C – Collaboration

Collaboration is a hallmark of Web 2.0. Building communities and developing content from multiple contributors is part of what is unique about these second-generation websites.

D – Dynamic

Content Dynamic content refers to content which is obtained from another source, and which is automatically updated whenever the source content changes.

E – ECommerce

Ecommerce comes from the phrase “Electronic Commerce”, which basically means selling things over the Internet. Many websites now conduct financial transactions over the Internet. Ecommerce is simply a vehicle for collecting payments online.

F – Folksonomy

Folksonomy is a means of classifying and categorizing data on the web through collaborative efforts from the online community. While not strictly synonymous to the term, this is more commonly known as “tagging”, where keywords are associated with items or links. The keywords are used to classify the items.

G – Global Navigation

Global navigation refers to a somewhat standardized navigational menu structure that encompasses all the main pages on the website. Regardless of the particular web page you are on, you can navigate to any other part of the website using the global navigation system.

H – Hosted Application

Hosted applications are typically interactive programs that reside on the Internet, and are designed to run on the Internet rather than being downloaded and installed on the user’s computer.

I – Information Architecture

Information architecture describes the structure and methodology by which information (such as website content) is organized.

J – JavaScript

JavaScript is a cross-platform, object-based scripting language developed by Netscape for client and server applications. It is commonly used in web pages to add interactivity and to dynamically update content.

K - Knowledgebase

A knowledgebase is a collection of facts, rules, and procedures that are organized into a searchable format. In Web 2.0, website knowledgebases are usually interactive.

L – Long Tail

The phrase “long tail” pertains to search engine results. The “long tail” of search follows the thinking that the combined total results of multiple less-popular terms will exceed the results of a single more-popular term. Many webmasters have given up their hope of ranking well for the extremely popular terms, and instead are focused on ranking well for the less-popular but more abundant terms or phrases.

M – Mashups

Mashups are the result of merging content from a variety of different sources, and thus creating new content based on the merging and filtering of the resulting content.

N – Newsreader

A newsreader is a software tool or web application that is used to read and manage RSS feeds.

O – OPML

OPML stands for Outline Processor Markup Language, and is a standard for people wishing to import or export their RSS feed subscriptions.

P – Podcasting

Podcasting is online audio content that is delivered via an RSS feed. Many people equate podcasting to “radio on demand”. However, in reality, podcasting offers far more options in terms of content and programming than radio does. In addition, podcast listeners can determine the time and the place of their listening, meaning that they decide what programming they want to receive and when they want to listen to it. Listeners can retain audio archives to listen to at their leisure. While blogs have turned many bloggers into journalists, podcasting has the potential to turn podcasters into radio personalities.

Q – Query

A query is a phrase or a group of words, possibly combined with other syntax, used to pass instructions to a search engine or a directory in order to locate web pages.

R – RSS

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and is a standard for syndicating content online. RSS feeds are used to provide real-time information to interested parties.

S – Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking and social networks are collaborative efforts that use democracy and voting to influence the importance of items that are bookmarked.

T - Tags

Tags are descriptive keywords that are used to classify and categorize items or URLs on social networks.

U – User-Generated

Content User-generated content refers to website content that is created by the users themselves. It can be in the form of message posts on discussion groups, blogs, comments on blog postings, wiki entries, etc.

V – Vlog

Vlog comes from the phrase “video blog”. This is a blog that mainly publishes video content rather than audio content. Video podcasting is sometimes called vodcasting.

W – Wiki

Wikis are a collaborative environment that is built around input from community users.

X – XML

XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. XML is often used to update dynamic web content.

Y – YouTube

YouTube is a highly popular Web 2.0 video hosting website that allows users to submit, view, and rate videos.

Z – ZeeEnd

About the Author:
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editing, publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages marketing for RecordForAll http://www.recordforall.com audio recording and editing software.