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Copywriting for Your Online Business

Joedel — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:53:49 +0000

There are millions of online businesses competing in the internet today and making people choose you above your competitors is a real challenge. There are many internet marketing companies out there that promise positive results by driving traffic to your website through many different ways. However, the number of people that visit your website is not what really matters but rather the people that actually pay for your products and services. The success of your marketing efforts is measured through your conversion rates and return on your investments. It is worthless to make millions of people know about your business, make them visit your website and yet not make anything out of it. This is where copywriting plays an important role in internet marketing. Copywriting is using the right words to let people know about you, make them want to check out what you have to offer and get them to do business with you.

Some business owners hire their own employees and house their own internet marketing team while others prefer getting the services of experienced SEO companies to market their websites. Either way, the number of tasks that needs to be done to promote your website can be overwhelming. There are dozens of ways on how to market your website on the web and chances are you are not familiar with most of them. For me, you only need to perfect two things to create a solid foundation for all of your marketing strategies: 1. Getting high quality links and 2. Using the right words.

The web is a huge world and the most practical way to make your website found by people is through search engines! Sure there are other ways on how to drive visitors to your website but search engines are the best source of good traffic. This is why most internet marketing strategies focus on taking the top spot of search results pages. If you want your business to be loved by search engines, you need to obtain high quality links for your website. Copywriting is one of the most effective strategies in internet marketing because it allows you to hit two birds with one stone. It is a good way to build high quality links to your website to increase search engine rankings and build your online reputation to internet users to generate sales or conversions. If done correctly, copywriting can help you improve your conversions and increase your profits.

No Shortcuts!!!

If you want a truly effective copywriting campaign for your online business, then you must not break this golden rule. Beware of automated strategies that offer you fast results. These practices do not provide long term results and they can even put your websites at risk of being banned by search engines. The best way to execute your copywriting campaign for your online business is by doing it slowly, manually and meticulously. This is the most natural way on how to build backlinks and good reputation for your website. Focus on quality instead of quantity if you want great results!

Today, the most successful online businesses are those who have succeeded in drawing concrete internet marketing plans where copywriting has a huge part and has been done correctly. If you are looking to compete with the best in the online market, then copywriting is something that you should try to perfect and use in your internet marketing campaigns.

Real Estate Developer LGTM Corporation – Really Bad Experience

Joedel — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:30:22 +0000

Putting your hard earned money in an investment is a wise thing to do. Or at least that’s what I thought before my experience with LGTM Corporation. This real estate developer so far has given me nothing but headaches. If you want to know why, read on.

Last September of 2008, I decided to purchase 2 subdivision lots with LGTM corporation. I wanted to avail of their zero percent installment plan so I purchased the lots payable in 1 year. For 11 straight months, I have paid every installment for these lots on time. There was not a single installment made past due date. And when I am about to pay for the 12th and final month, they told me that I should hold off paying it and that final payment should only be paid when they finally award the titles for the 2 lots that I purchased. More than a year has passed and dozens of follow ups are made but they can’t give me an answer on when can they give the titles for my purchased lots!

Just this September of this current year, by a weird coincidence, we found out there is a loan under our name in RCBC Savings Bank. Of course, this was shocking for us. But eventually, I came to learn that it was just an assigned receivable by the LGTM Corporation to RCBC Savings Bank. Good thing I was a graduate of an accounting course so this was not difficult to understand. However, we found out that the loan under my name, the assigned receivable, is more than five times as much as the last payment I was told to hold on to until the title can be handed to me! Well, I was of course wondering why is that the case? It has been a year since I made all eleven payments and if there was an assigned receivable under my name, it should be equal or maybe less than the amount that I am holding for the last payment. Doesn’t this also mean that the release of my titles is not being processed? From my point of view, this is still not a good sign.

This made me more impatient of waiting for the titles to be handed to me. As advised by a legal counsel, I insisted on paying the last and final installment for my purchase of the two lots and demanded for a Certificate of Full Payment:

I also asked for an undertaking agreement that should state the exact date when I should get my hands on my purchase lots’ titles:

Despite the undertaking agreement that they issued, I still don’t have the land titles of my purchased lots. This is just really frustrating!

Now do you think putting your hard earned money in an investment such as a parcel of land is still a good idea? I’m no longer sure… So far, buying a land from LGTM corporation has given me nothing but headaches.

Nuffnang and HEAVEN Ice Cream invite you to a special screening of ‘SALT’

Joedel — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:16:52 +0000

Divine ice cream pleasure is HEAVEN Ice Cream.

Give in to the richest, smoothest, and creamiest by NESTLÉ Ice Cream. Revel in the exquisite goodness of its four sophisticated flavors—Belgian Chocolate Bliss, Strawberry Dream, Vanilla Almond Secret and Butter Pecan Obsession. HEAVEN Ice Cream is made with only the finest ingredients and contains no artificial food colors. Available in 800mL(Php 175) & 450mL(Php 115) tubs across supermarkets, groceries, and convenience stores nationwide.

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How Paranoid Are You?

Joedel — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:40:45 +0000

Earthquakes, flash floods, strong typhoons and sink holes are just some of the calamities that are making people think that the end of the world is indeed very near. Whether this is true or not, more and more people are thinking of ways on how to prepare for the worst conditions that this world is expected to give us as it slowly dies. For many, being prepared means surviving these conditions. However for some, this means that a new market is about to make them money. In the internet, the owners of 2012thetruth.com, 2012survive.net and 2012supplies.com are just some of the business minded people that has started to take advantage of the 2012 Paranoia.

Is Doom the new Boom in Real Estate?

Though a few websites could now be earning a few dollars, there are those who always think big. In the middle of the Mojave Desert in California, an underground facility is being developed into an underground shelter that offers a safe place to stay in when the Armageddon arrives. The said shelter will be equipped with everything that you need and want to be able to live underground for years. However, staying in this shelter will cost you $50,000. That may be an insane amount to pay for but surprisingly; the units are almost sold out!

Watch the entire video here: In the Lap of Luxury on Doomsday

May 10, 2010 – Making the Right Choice

Joedel — Sun, 09 May 2010 16:45:53 +0000

According to the surveys of SWS (Social Weather Station) and Pulse Asia, the two candidates that are leading the race to the presidency are Noynoy Aquino and Manny Villar. In my opinion, publishing surveys about elections should be prohibited because it does affect the decision making of the voters. Don’t you think that this is not right? Publishing or broadcasting surveys about upcoming elections should once and for all be banned!

How can surveys affect the choices that voters like me make?

For me, the thought of having Villar as our new president is a nightmare. Yes he made himself a fortune from being a poor man from Tondo. He probably does have the capabilities to push this country out from poverty; but will he do it? Or will he rather take advantage of his power for personal intentions. Not for once had I ever believed that he got his fortune by being an honest man. In my opinion, the C5 scandal is as clear as it can get and it spells what can happen to our country if he ever becomes president.

There was a time when I was really scared of the thought of Manny Villar being the president of the Philippines that I wanted to vote for Noynoy. Thanks a lot to surveys conducted SWS and Pulse Asia! These survey institutes that don’t even bother to disclose if the surveys that they conducted are commissioned or not have poisoned my mind. That was until I realized that I need to vote for someone who I really believe would be a good leader for this country rather than voting for someone just because I don’t want Villar to win. When I finally came to my senses, I felt ashamed and disappointed with myself for considering voting for Noynoy just for this reason.

Senator Noynoy Aquino has no records or issues of corruption throughout his service to his country. However, he has also done nothing for this country so far and I never even felt that he wanted to do anything for our country. Not until the former President Corazon Aquino died. Just looking at Senator Aquino’s track record makes me wonder why on Earth he deserves the highest position in my country. Voting for Noynoy Aquino can be illustrated through a simple equation: Noyoy = Erap + Famous Parents – Corruption. That being said, you know I am not voting for Joseph Estrada.

I am NOT voting for Noynoy Aquino. Does this mean that I don’t like a corrupt free country? Or does this mean that I’m just one of the few Filipinos who studied their lessons and did their assignments?

After looking into all the presidential candidates’ profiles, backgrounds, achievements and platforms, it all boils down to two qualified candidates: Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro and Richard “Dick” Gordon.

There’s no question that Gilbert Teodoro is one of the most intelligent and qualified candidates to be the president of the Philippines. He has the best educational attainment among all presidential candidates. The track record of Gibo is good but not impressive. Gibo being this intelligent, capable and experienced was enough for me to choose and vote him for president. In addition to that, the fact that Gibo Teodoro is also from Tarlac (my hometown) is a plus.

If there is one thing that pulls down Gibo from the presidential race, it is the endorsement of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. But don’t you think that PGMA is not that dumb to endorse Gibo if she really wants him to win? Don’t you see that the incumbent president’s real favorite fruit is orange and not green apple? Sorry but my vote for Gibo will not be won by other candidates just because of this.

It seems that by this time, Gibo had really won my vote. However, less than 24 hours before the 2010 elections start (just as I am writing this article), I came to realize that intelligence is not everything.

When you were a kid, did any of your teachers tell your parents that: “Matalino naman po ang anak nyo, tamad lang”. And have you ever heard of the quote: “It’s not what you have; it’s what you do with it”?

Gibo was a congressman here in Tarlac for 3 straight terms but he has done nothing great about this place. People are also questioning on how he responded when the country’s capital was struck by Ondoy and Pepeng. It was also discovered that some of the weapons used by the Ampatuans in Maguindanao massacre were from the Philippine Military during his time as a Secretary of National Defense. It makes me wonder, what did he do with his intelligence during these times?

It’s time to take another look at Richard Gordon…

Richard Gordon has an impressive track record from his service as a senator, mayor of Olongapo, SBMA chairman, secretary of Tourism and chairman of the Philippines National Red Cross. Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority is also considered as Dick Gordon’s legacy. He has turned this place into one of the most disciplined and orderly place in the Philippines. Thousands of jobs were also generated for the people. Gordon has already showed his heart many times by helping those who are in need. He has responded well in the Mt. Pinatubo tragedy and worked hard as the chairman of the PNRC. There is no question that Gordon has done a great service for his country even though he is not as intelligent as Gibo.

Okay, now that I’ve seen his good points, it’s time to look at the downsides of voting him. Hmm… I think there’s a little problem….

Richard Gordon does not have any real corruption controversies, no questionable properties and not even issues about having multiple wives.

Yes Gordon does talk too much and he is not the most intelligent presidential candidate. But he has shown us that change can be done. Now he is asking us to give him the opportunity to do for the country what he has already done for Subic.
Now I know that red is the right choice.

Choosing for the right people for our country’s next leaders is a hard task and huge responsibility. It is also every Filipino citizen’s right and duty to go out and vote for who they think will serve our country best. So please, choose wisely and go out and vote!

Wealth Within Your Reach: Pera Mo Palaguin Mo! Book Review

Joedel — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:34:15 +0000

Wealth and financial independence is within the reach of anyone! This is the idea that Mr. Francisco J. Colayco shares through his book entitled “Wealth Within Your Reach: Pera Mo Palaguin Mo”. The book clearly explains basic principles and simple methods on how to properly manage your personal finance. Reading this book of his is like taking a short, simplified and practical course in personal finance that you can apply in your everyday life.

Why did I read this book?

Working as a freelancer has earned me a good amount of income and I managed to save up a little. Now I’m looking for ways on how to properly manage my money and ideas where to invest my savings to that they can provide me good returns with absolutely no risks. My wife and I went to the book store and I managed to find this book so I bought it to see how much it can help me. After reading only a few pages of this book, I already know that it is exactly what I’m looking for. The idea of financial independence was introduced to me and now it has been my long term goal.

What is Financial Independence?

When you decide to stop working and your savings and assets are earning enough to sustain your chosen lifestyle, then you have attained financial independence or freedom. Attaining this financial status is possible for all income earners. This book by Mr. Colayco aims to help the Filipinos to reach financial freedom by teaching them the proper management of their money. Whether you are OFWs, minimum wage earners, professionals or entrepreneurs, the concepts and ideas in this book will be useful for you. Here are some of the things that the book can help you with:

Identifying your Financial Life Stage and what to do in every stage.
Identifying the obstacles that can hinder or slow you down in attaining financial independence.
Knowing your strengths (or “genius” as used in the book) that can help you generate income.
Learning about the resources that can help you reach your goal.
Invest your money in financial products with little to no risk.
Identifying legitimate from fraudulent opportunities.
Beating inflation and keeping your money from losing its value.

“Wealth Within Your Reach: Pera Mo Palaguin Mo” has not only inspired me to dream of attaining financial independence but it has also given me hope that this dream is possible. This book discusses useful tips on how to effectively save your hard earned money and minimize unnecessary expenses. Suggestions on different possible financial products or where to invest your savings are also given in this book. Time deposits, treasury bills, government securities and mutual funds are some of the suggested possible long term investments. The value of time, as well as the importance of compound interests, is also given emphasis.

Mr. Colayco was successful in making his book absolutely understandable by using both the English and Tagalog (Filipino) language. Everyone, regardless of how much knowledge you have in finance, will surely understand every bit of information inside the book because they are expressed in the simplest ways possible. Stories and cited examples also made it easier for readers to understand and visualize the ideas that the author is trying to share.

Over all, this is a great book and I highly recommend it to everyone. In my opinion, every Filipino and even every person in this world should be provided with the valuable information that can be found in it. So valuable that not just income earners, but rather anyone that has money should learn about it. Children should be taught the importance of proper management of money at a young age. I think this is the key in reducing poverty in the Philippines.

Pause From Easter Bunny Tracker – 2nd PR Update of 2010 Falls on Black Saturday

Joedel — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:27:05 +0000

The Easter Sunday or Celebration of Jesus Christ’s resurrection could either be good or bad for internet people depending on the results of the latest PR update for their websites or blogs. Now it’s time to pause playing with your Easter bunny tracker application and check the results.

Website owners, link brokers and SEO people have been anticipating the second pagerank update of 2010. Some are looking forward to increasing their website’s pagerank to benefit from selling links, while it’s time to check and evaluate the links that they bought for some.

Google updates PR every three months from the last pagerank update (at least that was the trend for the past few PR updates) so many have been expecting it to have occurred on April Fools’ Day which fell on Maundy Thursday. However, Google decides to run the PR update on Black Saturday instead.

YARP and Adsense-Deluxe WordPress Plugins

Joedel — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:59:44 +0000

This week I worked on installing a couple of WordPress plugins that are expected to improve my blog. The first plugin is YARP (Yet Another Related Posts) plugin by Mitcho which provides a list of related articles at the end of each of your post. Suggesting related articles to your readers can make your blog stickier and have your readers stay in your blog longer. Here are the features of YARP that made me choose it above other “Related Post WordPress Plugins”:

It provides a list of articles that are more relevant. It also provides a relevance score beside the listed article title.
You also have an option to show the list of related articles in your RSS feed.
You have complete control of the level of relatedness, appearance, number of results and other matching options.
The plugin is easy to install and configure. There is no need to place any tags on your wordpress theme.

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If your blog doesn’t have a “Related Posts Plugin” yet, I suggest that you install YARP.

The second plugin that I installed is the AdSense-Deluxe WordPress Plugin by Acme Technologies Zeitgeist. The said plugin will allow you to insert Google Adsense on top, in the middle, at the bottom or anywhere in your blog’s posts and pages. Just like the YARP plugin, there’s no need to edit your WordPress theme just to insert the Google Adsense inside your post. All you need to do is upload and activate the plugin, configure your adsense under AdsenseDeluxe settings and insert the (or whatever adsense name you create) tag in the HTML view of your articles and pages.

It has been long proven that advertisements inside articles convert better as compared to other locations of your website’s or blog’s pages such as sidebar or footer. This wordpress plugin will allow you to maximize the potential of your blog to earn from Google Ads.

So there you go! If you are looking to improve your blog’s readership and monetize it through Adsense, install YARP and Adsense Deluxe WordPress plugins!

Philippines With World in 2010 Earth Hour

Joedel — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:08:46 +0000

If a single flap of the tiniest butterfly’s wings can cause large effects in this world, then just imagine how much Sixty (60) minutes of power conservation can do for our mother Earth.

The Earth Hour is an event that is held to raise the awareness of people about the rapid change in our planet’s climate. Started in Sydney, Australia in 2007, the Earth hour has become a yearly event that is held every last Saturday of March at 8:30 P.M. to 9:30 P.M. in local time. The World Wildlife Fund for Nature or WWF organizes the said event every year by reaching out to households, businesses and individuals to participate and spread the awareness about climate change.

Millions of people around the world participate in the Earth Hour by turning off their lights, appliances and other gadgets that uses electricity. Each year, more and more people participate not only to spread the awareness about climate change but also to show their concern for our home planet.

Here in the Philippines, Filipinos will gather in the SM Mall of Asia as we celebrate the 2010 Earth Hour in Metro Manila. Many other cities, including Davao and Cebu, support and regularly participate in the Earth Hour every year and are expected to have their own Earth Hour programs held.

Though the Earth Hour lasts for only 60 minutes, people are encouraged to continue and do their part in minimizing the causes of climate change. The WWF-Philippines shares some ways on how to show our planet some lovin’:

Document Your Earth Hour Celebrations
Host an Outdoor Evening Party
Encourage Kids to Play Outdoors
Do a Recyclables Hunt
Green That Workspace!
Involve Your Local Leaders
Clean Up Your Street
Unplug and Just Chill Out
Give Yourself an Energy Makeover
Make a Pledge for the Planet

The Earth is our home and our existence only depends in its life. Let us do our share in saving it by participating in the 2010 Earth Hour.

Hotter than the Uncensored Anne Curtis Swimsuit Malfunction Photos?

Joedel — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:58:59 +0000

Photos and videos of the sexy and alluring pinay actress and model Anne Curtis revealing her right breast after a wardrobe malfunction is now rapidly spreading in the internet. The bikini top of Anne Curtis slid down while performing a dance number in television show (ASAP XV) of ABS-CBN. Anne Curtis was dishonored, disgraced and disheartened by the spreading of her photos and videos and pleads in an interview for people to stop. However, if I were Anne, I wouldn’t count on that specially in this age when people sees the internet as an open media.

Check out the Uncensored Version of Photos and Videos of Anne Curtis Bikini Top Slip.

Now, what could be hotter than the pictures and videos for Anne? Well, it’s publishing your website’s own Privacy Policy! I recently learned that many Google Adsense publishers experience a significant increase in their earnings after they have published a Privacy Policy for their website or blog. After all, it is a requirement to all Adsense publishers to have their own privacy policy. There’s a good possibility that the Google Adsense Program awards those who follows the requirement and publishes a privacy policy while punishes those that don’t by slashing their earnings. Whether these claims are true or not, there’s no harm in having a Privacy Policy for your website. So why not have one?

Here is the privacy policy for joedelsanvictores.com that I recently published. Feel free to copy, edit and use it for your own website or blog. Linking back to this article in return is also much appreciated.

Privacy Policy for joedelsanvictores.com

The privacy of our visitors to joedelsanvictores.com is important to me.

At joedelsanvictores.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit joedelsanvictores.com, and how we safeguard your information. I shall never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files
As with most other websites, this blog collects and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer, Opera or Firefox), the time you visited this blog and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons
This blog does use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features.

I also use third party advertisements on joedelsanvictores.com to support my blog. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google uses the DoubleClick DART cookie through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Philippines real estate ads to someone in the Philippines, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing “how to make money online” ads to someone who frequently visits “blogging and making money online” websites).

You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. You can also opt out the use of the dart cookie in Google Adsense displayed in the websites that you visit by going to the Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Policy. Please note that disabling our cookies or third-party cookies can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts in this blog and other websites that you visit as well.