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Build Your First Site-Free

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:32:00 +0000

Homestead Website Builder is the first web host I used to build my first site and I still use it today. The large software company Intuit (makers of Quickbooks software) merged with Homestead (one of the most established & well-known Website Building Companies with over 12 million sites built on their system) to create the Intuit-Homestead Website Builder. The new Website Builder has all of the same features and programs as the original Homestead plans, and Intuit has brought some new business features and software integration to the mix (for example you can now get a free version of Quickbooks business accounting software which integrates with the Intuit-Homestead Website Builder). With a massive library of website templates (2000+) and royalty-free images (250,000) for you to start with, Intuit-Homestead offers the most extensive starting blocks of any Website Builder that we’ve reviewed. They have a very inexpensive $4.99/month Starter Package that gives you up to 5 webpages and access to all the starting blocks and both SiteBuilders. They also offer two larger and more expensive plans (Gold & Platinum) which provide more pages and more storage space. I have the Platinum plan and it is still a great deal – I suggest you begin with the free trial of the Starter Package and then decide if you need more (you can upgrade at any point).

Intuit-Homestead uses a simple online interface for basic edits to your site (their “SiteBuilder Lite”) and a much more feature-rich downloadable interface (the full “SiteBuilder”) which works on PCs. If you download the SiteBuilder software you can access all the functionality this Website Builder offers, including search, video, mailing lists, guest books, polls, chat rooms, blog, maps, photo gallery, YouTube integration and Paypal integration. If all you need is a 5-page website, or you’re willing to pay a bit more to upgrade to a premium plan, then Intuit-Homestead offers the best combination of starting blocks and website-building features I’ve found.

What is Niche Marketing?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:39:00 +0000

Niche marketing is the kind of market you go for that will take at least a landing page or more. Its a matter of finding small, relatively unfound areas of a market that occupies a localized area of demand. We try to find a small corner of a sector that rest of the retailors and marketers have little or no interest in. These small segments of a market can have a huge impact on the niche marketer. You won't have to worry about the big concerns trying to squeeze you out because the market is not big enough for them. They want to attract huge amounts of visitors to make big sales off one huge website.

Suppose you wanted to sell Could you ever compete with Dell and Gateway? No! They have an advertising budget that is bigger than your annual income. There is no way to touch that market.

How about a website selling craft items. Do you think you could compete in that field? Probably. There aren't any big corporations fighting for your customers. Would you be able to make a lot of money selling craft items? Some money but no where near as much as if you sold computers. The difference is you would actually be able to attract customers to a craft site. and since there isn't a lot of competition in this field, you will be able to keep your customers for years to come.

How much could you expect to make from this type of site? Some where around $50 - $500 a month. Nice but not great.

The trick with niche marketing is to set up one niche site after another. Build a small but loyal customer base for each site. If you were to make $100 off one site. Think about the potential of having 10 sites.

Ten little websites each bringing in around $100 each month. Not bad. Now build another site and another one and another one...

Fifty little websites each bringing in around $100 each month. Hmm... This is looking pretty good.

Is niche marketing really needed in a world full of websites competing for income? Those who know how the system works will answer "YES INDEED", because niche marketing is the only system capable of filling up a gaping hole in the market by catering to the unsatisfied needs of a smaller group of customers. Needs that virtually go unnoticed by the big leagues. Through niche marketing, you will be able to gain a foothold in the market by being a needle in a haystack. Small and inconspicuous websites that attract small groups of people that need exactly what you have to offer.

There are an endless supply of tiny markets out there that the big companies with their big budgets are never even going to consider. This is where you want to set your goals. Little by little you could build a gigantic internet empire and just sit back an watch the money roll in.

But how are you going to find the time to research and build all these little websites? This is where you are in luck.

2009 seemed to be the year of niche websites. You can buy already made websites that you just upload to your server and start selling the products. There are many membership sites that you can join for $50 to $70 each month. For your membership price you will usually receive 3 new niche websites each month. Some of these sites have content and graphics only and you have to create the layout. Some of these offer plug and play websites that are set to use as is.

You will also see many websites that are offering individual niche websites that you can buy one at a time. Buy what you want when you are ready for another site. These pre-built websites are selling on an average for $15. Money well spent considering you are saving yourself a month or more in the time it would take for you to build one of these sites.

All of these types of ready to go sites that you can buy are sold in small quantities. You can find sites that will only sell 100 of any given niche. I have seen this limit go as high as 750. These limits are set so you will not have to worry about too much duplicate content out there. You wouldn't want to buy a website that 10,000 other people are buying in the same month. Then your little niche would suddenly be a big competition. 100 - 200 of any niche website is a good quantity. You can be pretty sure no one will run into two of the same websites when you consider the billions of websites out there.

The people who build these ready to go niche market websites do all the work for you. You don't have to find the small, unique markets. You don't have to create the content. You usually don't even have to find the products to sell. These niche site creators have done all the work for you. You just change a few codes here and there so you will be getting the credit for the affiliate sales and AdSense ads and you are in business.

The greatest thing about niche marketing is you don't need a separate domain name for each website. You can have one general domain name and add sub-domains for all your sites. You are never going to find a cheaper way to break into the internet income market.

Start your Niche Empire today.

reprinted with permission.

Mailing Lists

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:54:00 +0000

Is having a mailing list really all that important?

You bet it is. Without a mailing list you are at the mercy of the search engines and their ever changing regulations. Don't get me wrong, doing your SEO is vital to your business but it's not the end of the story.

If you don't have a mailing list, your online business, once it gets off the ground, will eventually die. You can not sustain business without a customer base. Online or offline, repeat customers are the backbone of any business. It's even more important online because the competition is greater and they probably have a list.

Your list is your best form of advertisement. The people who are on your list have been to your site and have an interest in your topic. You will have to remind them on a regular basis that your site is a place they like to visit.

Don't bookmarks and favorites lists work the same way?

Not even close.

What happens when you get information about the most exciting piece of software ever created? You join the affiliate program to promote the software and add a link to your website Now you have to hope someone will find it and click on it. Of course, there is a lot of other information on your website so the likelyhood of every one who comes to your site seeing that fantastic offer is pretty slim.

Let's go even one step further. Lets say the super software is very cheap right now but the price is going up in a week. Now you add this information to your website and have to remember to go back and change it in a week to reflect the new price. If you forget to do this, you are going to get a lot of angry emails when your visitors buy the software and pay a lot more than you were advertising.

OK, do you can see where you are going to have problems actually getting any sales from the super software?

Now, let's go back to the first moment you heard about the super software and the fantastic price. You join the affiliate program and immediately send a notice about this great offer out to your list.

The people on your list get an email. They open the email and see one offer. A super special offer with an unbeatable price. They don't see any other interesting information that may distract them. They see your offer and nothing else. They are totally focused on what you have presented to them. You tell them that this offer has a special price and they will have to act fast or pay more later.

Out of all the people who open your email, how many do you think are going to see this offer? 100% right? Of course. There isn't anything else to see. You have just raised your profit potential by a huge margin.

Can you see how you are losing money by only having your website and not having a list? It's pretty obvious isn't it? So, we're all in agreement, you do need a list.

How do you get this list?

First I want to tell you what you don't do. You don't go out and buy a safe list from some email address collector. These people don't want your email and you will be reported for spamming. You will have to build your list from people who are interested in your business.

Ask yourself this... who is interested in what you have to offer? The people who come to your website right? Yes! These people found your website by either doing a search in the search engines or were told about you from another site or a friend. In any case, they came to your site because you have the type of information that they are interested in.

While they are there, offer them the opportunity to join your mailing list. Have a sign up form on every page in a very prominent place. Tell your visitors that you will send them valuable information when it is available in exchange for their name and email address.

Some people think you should offer a free incentive to get people to join your list. There is a lot of controversy on this subject. You will have to decide what is right for you.

The only thing I offer people for joining my lists is future information and offers. The people who join most of my lists know I am going to try to sell them something so when they see an email from me, they aren't surprised when I ask them to get their credit card.

Be honest right from the start. Don't make your list joiners think they are on a list of freebies if you are planning on selling them products. They will quit the list as soon as you send your first offer. Trying to trick people to join your list will leave you with a bunch of angry subscribers and no sales.

If your website looks professional and you have valid information on your site, people will want to hear from you again. They will gladly join your list so they won't miss the great information you have to offer.

Treat your business like a business, not a scam, and you will prosper.

Now go build your list before you lose any more money.

Reprinted with permission

Want To Get An Ex Back?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:39:00 +0000

I have a new web site that is dedicated to men and women that are looking for a way to get an ex back in their lives after a breakup.

I reviewed several books and videos devoted to the subject and have entered into affiliate agreements to promote the programs I think are the best.

Check out the new site at http://www.GetAnExBack.com

Breaking up can be very hard and these publications help folks work through the breakup and beyond. If you are serious about getting back with your ex you should check it out.

Here is a sample of one of my PPC Ads:

Get Your Ex Back In 24 Hrs
Shocking Easy Instant 24-Hour Guaranteed
Proven Method To Get Your Ex Back Fast.
www.GetAnExBack.com

How to Optimize Internal Web Pages for Ranking and Ads

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:13:00 +0000

Page Optimazation

Internal Optimization means on-page optimization that you should take into consideration while writing your internal web pages. This is one thing you have complete control over. Besides, it has a major effect on the ads relevancy and CTR.

Meta Tags

Meta Keywords: They have low impact, BUT - they DO have impact over the ads relevancy. You are advised not to leave this part of your page as blank. Always try to make it as easy as possible for the crawlers to understand your website. Create your web page with Meta keywords. If there is NO CONTENT on your webpage, the Adsense Media bot will pick-up the Meta Tags, and show ads according to that. Search on Google for pages that top the SERPs for the keyword you have in mind. These websites will give you a good idea about what to include in Meta Tags.

Meta Description: Whatever you put in the description meta tag, it will appear as description right after the Title Text that links to your page in the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). This property of the description meta tag makes it quite important, as it has direct impact over the CTR of your link in the SERPs that leads to your website. It eventually decides how much traffic you will get from a search engine. Write description that attracts right kind of traffic from search engine pages.

Title Text

Search Engines give importance to the keywords that appear in the title tag of HTML Source code. Title has
a good impact over relevancy of ads too. For higher payouts, choose the highest paying keyword of that category for the title text.

However, this entirely depends upon your optimization strategy. If you are more concerned about competition and getting more traffic than payouts, choose a keyword with low competition keyword (competition you can handle) with relatively higher traffic. Though, I will advise you to get more traffic first, and become authority page of that keyword. Payouts will increase with the traffic.

Tip: Title text generally appears in the SERPs as TITLE link to your page. In other words, you can say, this very line controls the CTR of your website link listed in SERPs. How you design your title is entirely your own decision.

If you are optimizing it for more traffic, you will not want your title to read as it was written for Search Engine crawlers. The title has to be concise so much so that even 10 words are considered as too many. If you are optimizing it for more payouts - Go ahead!However, you can try to mix the high paying keywords with traffic attractor keywords too.

Give Headings

Its quite important to mark the main headline of your webpage with H1 tags and subheadings with H2 and H3 tags, and so on. This is because headings highlight and indicate the most important element of your web page - the actual content. It is important to use relevant keywords in headings and sub headings as these have good impact on rankings - especially when sorted by relevancy. This has an equally good impact on the ads appearing on your web page. Headings give prominence to the content on your web pages.

Again, you can use these headings either to optimize for traffic, fighting competition, or getting more payouts.

Embedding Keywords in the Content

Besides hosting useful and genuine content on your web pages, it’s important to include keywords at the beginning and end of an article. This helps search engines and Ad bots determine the theme of the web page. Good use of keywords help the Google Mediabot achieve higher Ad-relevancy for your website.Some people follow a strategy of hosting less content on a web page. This helps focus ads on specific keywords and avoids dilution of ads by other keywords that you may have mentioned even once in the web content. This works when you are optimizing for Adsense, but has some traffic drawbacks too. Furthermore, Google may consider it as SPAM. Therefore, it's never advised to host 2 or 3 lines and expect good earnings. Chances are that you will be hit by smart pricing.

On the other hand, don’t make lengthy web pages as it might mislead Ad-bots to get some wrong ads, resulting in dilution of relevant ads. Sometimes, Ad bots can be very sticky to a certain keyword you used just for a reference. If you are getting irrelevant ads, changing meta tags and Title text is the first thing to start with, then move on to your content.

Internal Linking

Internal linking of web pages has traffic as well as Adsense importance. As all your link partners may not link all the pages of your website, it's the responsibility of your web pages to hyperlink your other pages, and define the crawlers what your pages are about. In the context of Adsense, suggesting related links (related articles) to the visitor will also increase the page views of your website and also the chances of the visitors clicking on the high paying ads.

A website must interlink its pages. This can be done by displaying related articles or linking to pages with proper anchor text. This helps increase the importance of most web pages. Even a simple navigation bar can achieve that purpose.

Increasing Penetration

Write articles with more headings and subheadings. This not only makes your content more readable and user friendly, but also help the Ad Bots (and Crawlers too) to properly recognize the theme of your web page. This will make them serve you the most relevant ads. This trick also gives you another chance to mention more of those keywords in your web page. Try to include as many instances where you can specify keywords to the bots. This will have impact on your CTR and EPC. It will also help you get the target traffic. Target traffic will mean more CTR of your web page and better performance.

Check Out Our New Site eSmokem

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:27:00 +0000

We have high hopes for this site esmokem.com It should prove to be a pretty good revenue stream. We are in the SEO work, kinda moving out of sync on this one.

E Cigarettes are electronic smokes that look, taste and smoke like your conventional cigarette without the tar, second hand smoke, ashes etc. You do get a satisfying smoke with or without nicotine.

We are adding several brands as we gain affiliations with the distributers. They are pretty popular, people (at least around here) are just beginning to hear about them. Were looking for a good response and are adding different brands as the become available to us.

Halloween

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:19:00 +0000

We Have added a Halloween page to our MyShopMonster/halloweenmonster.com site.

NOW GO...BUY SOMETHING!

Now thats marketing

Another New Site

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:15:00 +0000

Here is another site we recently built. It really was'nt a big business decision but more of
a... DAMN " NewYorkButcherShoppe.com is not taken? I also have "TheNewYorkButcherShoppe.com"
and NewYorkButcherShop.com" they all point to the above. I just think they are great .com names and they have some really fantastic affiliates programs to populate them with. NYBS has an exotic meats page, a sauces page and kitchen utencils and equipment page etc. Of course its been indexed and I tested some PPC and we get a decent click through.
Go look and suggest. I want to improve this site, I really think it has good potential. Thanks

My Smoke Test

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:34:00 +0000

ESmokeEverywhere (post above) is really generating great traffic. I did some test campaigns and they really grabbed a lot of clicks and a better than average conversion.

I am going to admit now and to everyone that I commited the cardnial sin of affiliate advertising. I share this humbling moment in the hope that you will take heed.

ALWAYS CHECK YOUR LINK FUNCTIONS BEFORE YOU POST OR HIT SEND!

Yep, I sent out a campaign with bad links. Not all the links were bad but I had to change the landing page real fast. A woman from Mesa, Arizona emailed me and told me about the problem, whatta a Gal.

We are sending her a comp starter kit from Luci Brand.

Let this be a lesson learned. I've heard these stories and I did'nt follow very sage advice
Check Your Links!

Note and Hint. Notice the post date on the "eSmokeeverywhere" post. If you want to keep a post on the top "post date" it in advance and your next posts will appear under it.

What is a Mini-Site?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:36:00 +0000

I don't have any Mini Sites but after reading this article here I'm giving serious thought to the idea. This can be a great strategy for affiliate products that are worthy of a good single page landing. A mini website is a site which is devoted to selling one and only one product. Either software, an eBook, golf clubs or maybe just putters. I know you have probably seen these sites they are everywhere all over the internet. It's generally one big sales page (or two) and it's a excellent chance to presell your product or your affiliate product.

Mini Sites usually consist of a one page sales letter and a thank you page.

The sales letter is packed full of the information to tell your visitor and potential customer about all the benefits of the product or service you are offering them. This page is usually quite long as it is your one opportunity to sell your product. The sales page will have all the reasons your customer needs the product you are selling. It will also tell what the product does or how it is used with examples to emphasize the fact that your customer can't do without it. Sometimes there will be some testimonials from satisfied customers and some bonuses for a prompt purchase. At the end of the page, the customer will have the opportunity to purchase the product with a command for them to order now!

You should look at other similiarly configured pages to get the jist of how it is done. Actually go look at several different sites and look at those pages from a sellers point of view, you may have seen a thousand of them before but you have'nt looked at them from a sellers perspective. Some are very short and to the point and some, while just a page or two, are the longest pages in the history of the written word.

Once they have made their purchase, they are sent to the thank you page which has ( in the case of an eBook say) the download link for their purchase. It is important to add the download link for the purchased product in a very prominent place near the top of the page. No one wants to search for the item they have already paid for.

This thank you page should be considered a second sales page.

The great thing about this thank-you page is that you know the people reading it will buy from you. They already have! It has been proven that once a person buys something from you, they are more likely to buy more products from you if you keep offering a good product at a good price. So while you have them there, you will offer another product that compliments the already purchased product. You can string a series of related mini sites together and get several sales from the same person all at once. Don't miss this opportunity to get another sale. If you don't ask you don't get. I'm just sayin'.

Your thank you page is a good place for you to offer a free gift or a unannounced bonus. All the visitor has to do to get your freebie is fill out a form with their name and email address. Almost everyone will take you up on the free offer and you have just collected their information to send them even more offers.

The thank-you page is also a great place to add your Google AdSense or similar ads. After the customer has downloaded their purchased product, filled out the form for your free offer and looked at, and hopefully bought, the other offers you have available, they are still on your thank you page. Place your Google AdSense ads at the bottom of this page. The next logical choice for them is to click an Ad or close the window. Most people will click on an ad.

So you have your sale, their name and email address for future sales, possibly a second or third sale and a little extra cash from your content or affiliate Ads.

The beauty of this whole operation is you don't have to be present to make sales or ship goods. It is all done electronically. Once you get traffic to your mini site, it will do all the work for you. It will sell the product, collect the money, 'ship' the item, make your second sales pitch, and collect the customer information. You make 100% profit from the sale.

You check your email or Affiliate accounts every once in a while and find you have made some money!

Optimizing these mini sites for the search engines is a breeze. You only have one page to optimize. What could be easier?

PLUS... Nothing to join if your selling your product. If you don't have a product or service sign up for affiliate programs and set up the affiliate links and add your own pitch or review of the product.

So what do you need to get started?

You will need a domain name and hosting. You have to have somewhere to place these sites. This is a very minimal start up cost for your new business. You can get started for under $15 if shop for the best prices.

You can buy one domain name and host hundreds of mini sites using sub-domains. Make sure you hosting allows unlimited sub-domains.

Once you have your domain name and hosting set up, you can start uploading your mini sites. Set one up, optimize it, get another one and repeat. You can get several mini sites set up in a day and start seeing a profit real fast.

Where do you get these mini websites?

You can create your own ebooks or software and sell them or you can buy resell rights products. When you buy a product that offers resell rights, you now have the right to sell this product and keep all the profits. Just like if you made the product yourself.

Once you have your product, you only have to write the sales page and the thank you page and you are in business.

The beauty in these Mini WebSites is that you can set them up, optimize them and then just let them work for you. It's like having a whole staff of sales people working for your 24 hours a day and you don't even have to pay them.

I might try one brand of our E-Cigarettes a diet plan or maybe a Real Estate Foreclosure product. Click Here!

What is a BackLink?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:50:00 +0000

Backlinks are very important to any Blog or Web Site. They show other folks (and Bots) who has linked to your site with possible related information or products. This can create a link back to your site from others. Search Engines love linkbacks.

Backlinks enable you to keep track of other pages on the web that link to your posts. For instance, suppose you write a blog entry that I find interesting. I then go to my own blog and write a post of my own about that subject , linking back to your original post. Now your post will automatically show that I have linked to it, and it will provide a short snippet of my text and a link to my post. How it all shakes out is a way of expanding the comment feature so that related discussions on other sites can be included along with the regular comments on a post.

Provide linkbacks to anything you are referencing. It brings more visitors to your site from others.

Do I Need a Web Site to Make $$ on the Web?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:24:00 +0000

No. You don't need a Web Site to make money on the Web.

Build a website, make some money, easy everyone says. Well it really is, but there are many proven ways to make money on the internet with or without a website.

I am often asked the question "how can I make money on the internet with a website?" but I'm almost never asked "can I make money on the Web without a web site?" Well it really is not difficult, it does requires time and effort on your part. If you are interested in making money on the World Wide Web you have a couple of options. Lets talk about one option and your looking at it. A BLOG. Much like a web Site, you can monetize it, you can customize it, you make it your own.

If you are looking for a get-rich-quick scheme, you won't find that type of information here, I have'nt found that path to easy cash and I have looked. You can however, make some cash with your blog. Making money on the Web requires you to invest a lot of money or a lot of time. I want to show folks how to do it with as little of both as possible.

I started this blog not too long ago so I could have a place to bitch about things I can rave about the things I think are pretty cool. You can start a blog in 30 minutes and you can do it for FREE. You can make money here too using much the same methods as any other types of sites. The only thing you really need to make money is traffic. Traffic makes the Web go-round. I've met other bloggers who don't care whearter anyone reads their stuff or not yhey just want to vent. I don't get it but I assume it keeps them from climbing a clock tower with a high powered rifle. If you have good content on your blog or site the search engines will spider you and maybe rank you on a page for individual posts or your general content. You will learn how to do this too.

Pick a Blog Platform:

This forum is Blogger.com It is really easy to build a blog and get 'ta bitching. I like this platform but I have had blogs elsewhere. There is WordPress and Typepad that I like or just Google "blog Platforms" and you'll get lists and comparisons. Name it whatever you want (as long as that name is'nt taken). You really should have a core subject that you want to convey, a hobby, or any other focus you have an interest in and some knowledge of.

RANT...RAVE...BRAG...WHATEVER...You Own It.

You can run off on any tangent you want...it's your blog. It is important that you post regularly. This does not mean that you have to post everyday, just try to do it on a regular basis whether its once a day, a week, or month. Use the spell checker, it never catches everything but it can help you look like you had grammer class and you were'nt absent that day.

The hardest part is getting started!

Now get to bloggin'. Monetize your blog with the advertisers you want and have fun, it really is... fun!

Work @ Home Jobs - Real Legitimate Jobs

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:23:00 +0000

HATE MY JOB! I HATE MY BOSS

Well do something about it. You won't get rich at these jobs but you can pay some bills.

Contrary to popular belief there are many legitimate work at home companies out there. So don’t believe the hype or get discouraged that there are no legit work from home jobs out there. The companies listed below tend to only hire mostly virtual workers. So be sure to apply to anything of interest to you. Please keep in mind with many of these companies there may be a waiting list, most post weather they are hiring or not (most were when I checked them). But you might as well get on the list, in some cases I'm told if you keep in touch with the employer by checking on the status of your App. etc. it demonstrates a continued interest on your part. Good Luck!

If your interested in more than a day job has to offer Click Here!

LEAVE A COMMENT OR eMAIL ME AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK

Accounting & Finance Virtual Work

CheckYourBooks.com

ClickAccounts.com

ClickNWork.com

CPAMoms.us

Bookminders.com

osibusinessservices.com

Administrative & Clerical Virtual Work

Accentance.com – Transcription

AldersonReporting.com – Court Typing

AxionData.com – Data Entry

CaptionColorado.com – Caption Typing

Continental Promotion Group – Data Entry

CypherContractors.com – Remote Document Coder

Eventtranscription.com – Experienced Transcriptionists / Audio Secretaries

ExecutiveSecretaries.com – Administrative

Modern Day Scribe Transcription Services – General/medical transcription, data entry, and editing services.

MountainWestProcessing.com – Transcriber

Palm Coast Data – Data Entry Keyers

TeamDoubleClick.com – Virtual Assistants

eCallogy.com – Data Entry

ProTranslations – Experienced Freelance Translator

Accurate Typing Services, Inc. – Medical Transcriptionists

Please let me know if there are any broken links or problems with any of these..Thanks - Dave

For a complete listing of all Paycheck Jobs in the Carolinas GO HERE!

Alright here are some more Work@Home Opportunities.

Don't forget to let me know how this works out for you.

Call Center & Customer Service Representative Work

AccoladeSupport.com AcdDirect.com

Alpineaccess.com Auralog.com

BeyondMarketingOnline.com ChannelBlend.com

Cloud10corp.com Connect-DataPlus.com

CustomLoyal.com eCallogy.com

HirePoint ICT Group

LiveOps MicahTek, Inc.

O’Currance OnPoint@Home

Overflow, Inc. SCI Live

Secure Call Management Service800.com

Sterling Testing Systems TeLCare

TeleReach TelExpertise, Inc.

Time Communications – (Minneapolis, St. Paul area) Ver-A-Fast Corporation

VIP Desk VoiceLog, LLC

West At Home Agents Westat

Working Solutions XAct TeleSolutions

Again, I have'nt checked all of these links (although I have many)

Please let me know if there are any broken links or problems with any of these..Thanks - Dave

A word of caution: DaveLePorte and DBLGoSearch urge you to use caution when you are looking for opportunities on the Web.If you are asked to pay for information to work on-line it is at best a ruse to get your cash and at worst it is a scam. No one should charge you to work for them! If you shell out any of your hard earned money it should be for someone to work for you. For example, someone builds or helps you build your Web Sites or you use a company to drive traffic to your site. If they perform the service you pay for it, If you perform a service they pay for it. Period. In most (like 99.99%) don't pay for lists of anything. There are plenty of Work @ home sites for example that are legit, there are 100% more sites that will sell you the names of those sites not to mention the ones that are pure scams. You don't have to pay to find out who they are.

SubmitPlus.com Free Web Tools

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:43:00 +0000

I stumbled on a really helpful site for newbie Affiliate Marketers (that's me).

It seems stumbling is my most effective search tool sometimes.

Give Submit Plus .com a try. This was one of the most helpful Internet Marketing sites I have come across. Most of them are just trying to sell you something, SubmitPlus is trying to sell you something as well, they just have a better way of going about it. They enlighten you first.

They have several Web Tools that can be very enlightening regarding the functionality of our attempts at Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Load Time Check:

This App shows you how long it takes for you landing page to load at varying speeds.

Sure it loads up pretty quick for you, it's all cached up and cookied down.

Submit Says: "When trying to index your web pages, certain engines will time out at 30 seconds... Result... No indexing! Additionally, loading time over 24 seconds looses 40% of potential viewers due to impatience!"

Meta Tag Check:
If you don't keep a eye on your Meta Tags, Title Tags and descriptions, you have no idea how poorly they are performing.I know I didn't.

Submit Says: "Yes!... Major engines still rely on good meta content for indexing, in particular your

Spider Simulator:
This App crawls your site just like a search engine spider, it will show you what the spiders see. This was so interesting, you really need to run this app.

Meta Tag Generator:
Here's a little pay-off. Enter your Title, Description and Keywords and this app generates a really good set of Tags that spiders can read and understand.

Alexa Rank Tool:
This is a bit depressing,at least it was for me. It's an accepted value for traffic count. Enter your URL and it gives your a ranking. The lower the number the better.

These are tools you can use to help not only to build your site but a great way to monitor your progress in SEO as well.

-Dave

Used Homes

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:06:00 +0000

Good news this week in the existing home resale market both nationally and locally.

Sales of previously owned homes in the United States increased at a faster-than-expected annual pace in June, an industry survey showed Thursday, the third straight month of gains.
The National Association of Realtors (of which I was a proud member) said sales rose 3.6% to an annual rate of 4.89 million units from a downwardly revised 4.72 million pace in May. June's reading compared with forecasts for a 4.84 million unit annual pace.

The NAR said it was the first time the industry had experienced three straight months of gain since early 2004, providing some hope the higher data indicate an underlying trend. I'm sure the NAR is more than happy to be reporting some good news on any front, and this is encouraging. If you are a Real Estate Broker or Agent here is a list of opportunities to list and sell distressed properties, Click Here! foreclosures, pre-foreclosures and short sales.

The inventory of existing homes for sale declined 0.7% to 3.82 million in June. The median national home price fell 15.4% to $181,800 from the same period a year ago.
"Overall, the news is positive. We have increasing home sales for the third straight month, declining inventory and although prices fell, they declined at a less steep pace," Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, told a press conference. "The housing market is healing after four years of recession," he said.

He said the inventory of previously owned homes for sale represented 9.4 months' supply at the current pace of sales, down from 9.8 months' in May.

This was still above the historic average of six months' supply, which Yun said was consistent with a national price appreciation of around 4%, while seven to eight months' supply would be consistent with no change in median prices.

Foreclosures are still on the rise but this just affords those with the resources to make some serious money in this year and well into the next. Fore a complete list of Government (FHA, VA) Click Here!

Lawrence Yun has had his fumbles in the past particularly with forecasting, something he falls short of here, not looking too far down field. Still healing is better than hemorrhaging.

The NASDAQ market made it above 9000 for the first time since January, investors are hot on the trail of Tech stocks of hardware, phones etc. They like software as well, with a shine for social networking sites and specific social software .

Things may be looking up for a late summer push in more markets.

Television...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:06:00 +0000

Ok, does anyone agree with me that the gray haired old guy in the Volvo commercials is extremely creepy? Do you know who I'm talking about? That guy who orders that couple to look at their new car and everyone starts floating around.

Everyone I have pointed him out to thinks so. Keep the kids away from him.Ok, I pointed out to a 'friend girl' that there seems to be an inordinate amount of commercials and TV that just bash men and generally make them out to be incompetent and clueless about just about everything.

You know the Charter Cable one where the husband tells his wife that he upgraded their High Speed Internet connection and then has to convince her (to the point of pissin' her off) that it was a good idea. What the hell...it's FASTER.

How about the one (Visa Card I think) where the woman is looking at the TV, nothing but static. She goes into the other room and throws the remote at him and says something to the effect he was right, "we need a new TV". She then tells him OK but don't go crazy. Now I know (fellers'?) that I would never, I could never wait for anyone to give me permission to get a new TV. I kid you not, immedietly after I heard NO, when she got home there would be a 75,000" inch Plasma Television with the biggest ass-blastin' surround sound available bolted to the wall in the den.

Oh, I'm not done yet, some viewing rules for my 175,000" inch TV (measured diagonally).

Blocked: Oprah, LifetimeTelevision, OxygenChannel, HomeShoppingNetwork, and oh yeah, that channel with "Say Yes to The Dress".

NOT blocked: ESPN, ESPN2, SportsCenter,Versus, Speed, Spike, GolfChannel...and oh yeah "Manswers" You can see where I'm going with this?

So, my friend says "I have no idea what your talking about". I knew I was not alone, I took action...I Googled 'Man bashing TV'. Turns out a lot of smarter guys than me have been noticing this for alot longer than I have.

I'm just sayin'

Monitization Changes!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:35:00 +0000

I hope somebody noticed that the Google Adsense AD's are gone.
It's a GREAT PROGRAM. If you want an opportunity to monetize your Blog or Web Site I encourage you to go to GoogleAdSense and investigate for yourself. Once you are set up, Google will place content related Ads along the side columns you pick the type of configuration that's best.

The kicker is you earn MONEY (not credits or discounts) every time someone else clicks on you Ads. Google will mail you a check or use direct deposit, your choice. DON'T click on your own Ads.

I have partnered with SimplyHired.com a killer job search site that covers thousands of job boards all over the world. I created CarolinaPositions.com to focus on job opportunities in the Carolinas ( that's where I stay).

Please take a second to take a look and peruse some of the local jobs here. If you don't see anything you are looking for, you just might discover that perfect job for a friend! Thanks.

I have partnered with many Affiliate Sponsors to fill my advertising space
I'm looking for the right advertisers, there are literally thousands of them.

While I'm hoaring my Web Sites, UpScaleReo.com and REOSpectrumServices.com are two Web Sites that are devoted to REO's.
REO's are foreclosed Real Estate now owned by the lender(banks) or other institution (Fannie Mae). I am still in the process of populating these sites with Affiliate Ads, it's a work in progress.

Have a look and you can do all sorts of things, like look for foreclosures in your area or anywhere else for that matter.

Go here to look for foreclosures or even pre-foreclosures, locally or nationally!

Go...Go Look.

Thanks

- Dave

Sonya Sotomayor...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:01:00 +0000

Sonia Sotomayor…Sonia Sotomayor, Ijust like saying her name! I agree with little I’ve read about what she has to say.
But I like saying her name.

Entrepreneur Magazine

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:27:00 +0000

I was reading an old issue of Entrepreneur Magazine (feb ’08 I think) in the library (i think we all know I don't have a library) at work today. During my morning constitutional I ran across a story about a guy named Guy Kawasaki, founder of Truemors.com. At any rate he is a marketing guru (Apple Inc.) and an author of eight books most recently The Art of the Start. He seems like a pretty bright guy, he’s speaking about blogging “ If you can’t speak your mind on your own blog, you might as well give up and stay on the porch”.

“ If you want to evangelize your blog, think of it as a product your trying to sell and market the hell out of it”. He goes on to address the kinds of things to do towards that end, linking to others, e mail promotion etc. You can visit his company web site at http://www.truemors.com/

Microsoft: Morrow, Free Security Coming Soon

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:46:00 +0000

We knew since November last year that Microsoft plans to kill off its Windows Live OneCare service as of June, 2009 and replace it with a free offering called Morro . The new software, which is supposed to protect users from all the regular nasties that they can expect to find while surfing the web (spyware, adware, Trojans, viruses, and other malware), is currently being tested internally by Microsoft and a public Beta will be released soon.
The Redmond-based software giant has officially confirmed that it is testing the software and will release it as a public Beta in the near future. The catch is that Microsoft did not provide any specifics; it did not say precisely when it will roll out Morro Beta, its consumer-centric security offering.

Shhh...Have you heard of Cuil?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:41:00 +0000

Have you heard about Cuil? No not just the way your daughter pronounces “cool” . Cuil is a newly launched search engine that will work in rivalry with Google. It is now becoming popular all over the world as cool search engine that can display almost millions of related results in every search. Cuil is derived from an old Irish term that means knowledge. It is usually pronounced as “cool”. Some Googlers even believed that Cuil will outrage the popularity of Google in the future years.

Special Features of Cuil

Over the years, there had been plenty of search engines that tried to defeat Google. However, none of them become successful even though of the fact that the persons or teams behind the operation of these search engines were once workers of Google and other search engines companies. Here are some known names of the said workers:
Russel Power & Anna Patterson – previously belongs to the team of Google’s search index
Tom Costello – previously belong to the WebFountain project of IBM
Louis Monier – creator of the Alta Vista search engine
With the combined excellence and intelligence of the above persons, Cuil is now becoming as popular as Google and other major and know search engines.
Cuil versus Google

There are four major features of Cuil that Google does not have. With these features, Cuil is easier distinguished from Google:
Cuil has the largest index compared to Google that is very useful with topics that do not have relevant or popular results.
Cuil believes that popularity is not that everything matters as what Google is claiming. It does not focus much on the page rankings and linking to be able to display search results. Cuil gives importance on very complex searches as it try to analyze contents of every web page. The process of analysis is resulted into greater context.
Cuil is using a new page format for its displayed results. Not like Google with long list of results, Cuil displays its results in three columns and with added images if available or possible. It also offers ideas and roll-over definitions for much finer search.
Cuil does not collect user data such as personally identifiable information, cookies, names, and IP addresses in contrast with other search engines. In this way, the possibility of turning over the data to other users will never happen.

Are the displayed results of Cuil far better than Google?

According to some users, the displayed results of Cuil are quite good. It cannot be concluded that it is better or much worse than the displayed results of Google. In fairness to Google, its displayed results always depend on the needs and queries of the searcher.
As mentioned above as one of the major features of Cuil, it analyzes every search whether simple or complex. Obviously, with this feature, Cuil can be able to understand different meaning of words. One great example of the search is for the word “tiger”, the return results of Cuil for this search will display the companies with that name, the golf player and any operating system or software. Aside from the large index and analyzed results displayed by Cuil, it’s hard to conclude that it will be a Google killer.

As an initial reaction from Google, it implemented a blog post concerning to the newly released search engine of Cuil. With this move, Google had been alarmed, thus they paid attention on it.
Cuil is being supported by the top 10 optimizers of IBP. If you want to learn more on the deeper insights of how the ranking of web pages results works well, you can analyze your own website with IBP’s Top 10 Optimizers. Basically, the IBP’s Top 10 Optimizers works hand in hand with Google as it helps you how your web pages can be able to qualify for the ranking algorithm of Google.

ARE WE DONE YET?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:38:00 +0000

Are we done yet soaking up, like a sponge, the crap the mainstream media feeds us?
Unreported facts like these amaze me. The American (and World) press just ignores any facts that don’t fit the message Obama wants them to extend. Forget the finger waving by the president at CEO’s for using private jets all the while flying off to New York for a date night with his baby mamma. That trip cost us several hundred grand. Telling the american family to tighten our collective belts while the White House is throwing lavish cocktail parties (w/ entertainment like Earth Wind and Fire) every wednesday night. How ’bout that pound puppy they were going to save…nope got one cost more than my car.
•Obama’s first two major bills alone, the “stimulus” and “omnibus,” cost nearly twice as much as was spent on Iraq over six years – $1.2 trillion vs. $650 billion.
•Obama abandoned his campaign promise of “a net spending cut,” his first annual deficit – not counting bailouts – being three times the worst deficit under President George W. Bush.
•Obama’s objective in his first G20 summit – commitments to spend our way to prosperity with massive stimulus boondoggles across the G20 – was rejected out of hand.
•Obama’s objective in his first NATO summit – commitments to combat troops for Afghanistan from “our European allies,” which Obama and his party imagined were ready and willing to fight if only someone “enlightened” like him were running things – was predictably refused, with some more European non-combat contingents offered as a token.
•Obama’s Defence Department announced cuts of $1.4 billion to missile defence, the day after North Korea test-fired its long-range, multi-stage ballistic missile.
•Obama’s economics were criticized by Warren Buffet, whose endorsement had been candidate Obama’s highest economic credential.
•Obama reversed the free trade Bush policy that had allowed about 100 Mexican tractor-trailers into the United States, which the Mexican government immediately used as an excuse to levy tariffs on 90 American goods amounting to $2.4 billion in U.S. exports.
•Obama’s “tax cuts for 95 per cent” turned out to mean $13 a week from June to December, to be clawed back to $8 a week in January – as compared with President Bush’s 2008 tax rebates of $600 to $1,200 plus $300 per child, which were notably scoffed at during the election campaign by Michelle Obama.
•Obama’s campaign promise of a $3,000-per-employee tax credit for businesses that hired new workers – repeated ad nauseam for weeks before the election – was discreetly retired even before inauguration day.
•Obama abandoned his campaign promise that “lobbyists won’t work in my White House,” waiving his no-lobbyist executive order or conveniently re-defining his appointees’ past lobbying work to allow 30 lobbyists into his administration.
•Obama abandoned his campaign promise to reform earmarks, signing the omnibus bill which contained 8,816 of them.
•Obama took more money from AIG than any other politician in 2008 – over $100,000 – and signed into law the provision guaranteeing the AIG bonuses which later had him in front of the cameras “shaking with outrage” and siccing the pitchfork crowd on law-abiding citizens who had fulfilled their end of a contract and had their payment upheld by Obama’s own legislation.

The Bridge is out!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:33:00 +0000

Last week the bridge (voice & data) between my office and a remote location (where I spend most of my time) was hit by a bolt of lightening. This fried everything downstream of the rooftop antenna, I mean everything. I lost my desktop, Cisco switch, buss, surge protector, power injector, UPS, RF antenna and every inch of Cat-5 cable.

The Tech (Black Box) had me up and running Friday by 1:pm. Happy, Happy. Got in this morning… everything was back down. I got an E-mail from MIS (no IT, no DP no, Who are they this year?). Got an Email from the helpdesk…The Bridge is out. Turns out it was hit again at 9:30pm Friday night. What do they say about lightening? It was up 8 ½ hours, half of which I wasn’t around for. It was Friday…I’m out. I can catch up on Monday, right? Damn