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Advertise Your Blog Or Site With Graphics

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:41:00 +0000

If you have a blog or website and would like to advertise it in websites like Adgitize or Entrecard, I personally think that its more effective when your blog or site have a corresponding unique 125x125 customized graphic in it instead of just using the generic graphic or text provided. This is basing on my experience when I look for blogs that I wanted to advertise my blogs into, I usually look pass those generic graphics and ended up clicking the blogs with customized 125x125 graphics in them.

Here are some of my 125 pixels x 125 pixels graphics creation for some of my blogs:

If you dont know how to make one, I can create one for you (its not free though), just feel free to message me anytime. JWXR77SSG6XE

Get More Traffic For Your Site

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:03:00 +0000

Its been awhile since I posted any article here at doingE blog because i got really occupied with a lot of things. But I just done updating the layout of this blog and Im really ready to get this blog going again!

Few days ago, I encountered a new way to advertise blogs thru Adgitize. I just done signing up some of my blogs with Adgitize and I feel really hopeful that Im gonna get more blog traffic this way. I noticed that there are already a lot of bloggers utilizing this online advertising medium, and i like how the site encourage their members to visit other blogs by giving them points which will then be converted into cash, and bloggers make money! Not only that, Adgitize have really good affiliate program, so be sure to check that one out too if you want to make some money in your blogs/sites, all you need is your blog, and they provide you the affiliate ad code that you can insert in your site.

I also tried advertising one of my website with them thru their paid advertising and I really like how advertisers can pay with Paypal, so there is not a lot of hassle. As advertisers, I can monitor how many people click my ad on a daily basis, that way I can monitor how effective my advertising with them is, and if its worth what I paid for.

Online Shopping Advantage

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:06:00 +0000

With the all-time high price of gasoline and diesels, most of us are watching our gas consumption very closely. Most of us try our best not to go places unless its necessary, plan the grocery trips to get more items in one visit instead of making multiple trips that are basically flushing the savings away because of the cost of gas that you need to fill your car to get to the store.

The good news is, we have the option to do our shopping online! There are so many online stores that are open 24/7 a week, meaning you can shop whenever you want, at your own time and pace. The great thing about online shopping is that you dont need to use a single gallon in gasoline in your car. Just let your fingers do the clicking of the mouse, and your order will arrive at your door. With online shopping, orders will come to you, and you dont even need to travel to get it.

Online shopping comes very handy specially when you are a busy individual and you have so many task at hand that a trip to the department store and buy yourself new clothes is almost impossible! So take advantage of new technologies and let it work for you. Online shopping has been here for years, been practice by millions and millions of people, and it is here to stay.

What To Blog About

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:25:00 +0000

One of the most common challenge that many bloggers face today is what to post about! Blog used to be some kind of a personal diary, where you write about your daily happenings and experiences with friends and family. But since then, blogging evolves more than that. Nowadays, blogs are being utilized to share things that you know and have adequate knowledge of. YOu can blog about things that you use that work or not work and give people heads up about the products or items. You can use your blog to share your opinions and reviews about anything and everything around you! Blogs are no longer just a personal diary telling everyone what you did from dusk to dawn. Blogs nowadays are more informative and great source of informations and perfect for some to do research about particular things.

So if you are one of those bloggers that are struggling to find what topic to talk about, if you have a general blog, then you can choose among almost limitless topics! But if you have very specific blog, which talk mainly about one thing, for example cars or quilting, then you need to be very passionate about this topic and love dealing with it inorder for you to come up with postings and reviews related to cars or quilting almost on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Depends on how you setup your blog, as general or specific, that will affect what postings you can do. But even if you have very specific topic in your blog, it should be okey to talk something else, which is related to your original topic, just make sure that you will not detour your audience or readers all the time because they might get totally confused completely. So if you write about cooking, talking about grocery shopping or a farmers market is a related topic and it should be okey to insert these topics for your cooking blog.

If you own or maintain your own blog, the great thing about it is that you have the option to get creative and stylish as you can and you can choose whatever topics works for you bests that you are comfortable writing about. A blog is a center stage for you, with the world as your audience! So your creativity and imagination will play an important rule in how will you handle your blog!

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Blog Traffic Could Lead To Success

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:57:00 +0000

Most of my blogs are still young and still need enhancements and a lot of promotions to be known and be considered successful. Ive been blogging for few months and I realized that updating and promoting blog is not as easy as it sounds. Blog requires a lot of time and effort inorder to be successful. If you have a ton of budget for promotion and can pay someone else to do the hardwork for you, then that is another story, of course. Most bloggers are self-made bloggers, blogging on their own and maintaining their contents mostly by themselves. For blogs that have good amount of visitors, these blogs success surely didnt happen overnight.

Here are some common ways that most bloggers do inorder to improve their rankings and exposure in the world wide web:

Directory Submission. There are plenty of websites that are developed as directories. And with the growing popularity of blogs, a lot of these directories have categories mainly for just blogs. Each blog will be listed in the categories depending on the topic and content of the blog. So if you have a blog, why not submit it to blog directories inorder to expose your blog to more audience. There are a lot of internet surfers who rely in categorized directories to find sites that they are interested in because they usually get more accurate and relevant results.

Search Engine Submission. Can you imagine having a blog about lightings, and everytime internet surfers will enter the keyword lightings in the search engine such as Google, Yahoo, or MSN, you are on top of the list? If there are one million people type the word lightings in a single day, and your website link is on top of the search engine, then the chances that your link being seen and getting click is very very high, if not extremely high. So it is necessary that your blog will be included in the search engine if you dream of having tons of traffic in your blog or site!

Pay Per Click Advertising. I would like to relate Pay Per Click marketing to the phrase: It takes cash to get cash. If there are so many competing websites that are similar to yours, then you might have to take an extra step to stand out in the crowd, by paying for marketing. Just like traditional advertising, you pay for exposing and displaying your business and companies. With Pay Per Click, companies who offer their services post your links or ads to related websites, and everytime a person see your posted ad, click it and go to your website or blog, you pay for such click, so it is like paying every person that enters your gate. A lot of times, Pay Per Click works and give you traffic because your ads will usually be displayed in related websites in mostly noticable and visible locations of the page.

Easier said than done, but if you work hard enough to achieve atleast one of the above methods, you have better chances of gaining traffic in the end, so all the hardwork or cost may be worthwhile.

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Branding Using Your Name

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:58:00 +0000

There are definitely great advantages of using your name as a brand name, and then eventually use it as a domain name for your company website. One obvious advantage is the branding. Everytime you market your brand, you are marketing yourself. The more you market and expose your brand, the more your name become known and familiar to many. With great exposure of your name as a branding, more and more people will likely become familiar with it, and if you have history of great quality products and/or services, then chances are, people who are familiar with your name/brand will likely try and utilize your new products and services as well.

The only main pitfall of using your name as a branding is that, it will be harder for you to sell your business since you are currently carrying the same name, and if someones else will buy your company or business, then you are more likely to give them the license to use your name as well, if you are selling your business with its current name. Although, the business buyer may change branding or name, but they will have to start from scratch promoting a new brand. When someone will buy your business from you, after purchase, you normally will have less or no longer have any control to the operation and reputation of the company, its operation, and what the company will become. So if you have plan to ever sell your domain name or business later on or in the near future, it would be better if you dont have to sell it with your name as the business name or brand. But if you have no plans to sell your business, then less worry.

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Online Business Card That Works Hard

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:21:00 +0000

In the offline world, everyone is probably familiar or have seen a business card, one way or the other. Normally a standard business card measures around 2 in x 3.5 in cardboard paper containing your name or business name, contact information, and other data that relates to you or your company.

In the online world, a new way to hand or distribute a business card is EntreCard. Where you will have a space where you can add an image or graphic, a short information regarding your website and what it is all about. And then you will be given a html code that you can post in your site so that other people who already signed up for Entrecard can drop their Entrecards to yours, to let you know that they were there and you will know where to find them. If you came across any website with EntreCard drop off, then you also have the option to drop off your EntreCard there, so that the site owner will know where to find you.

The great thing about Entrecard is their point system. You earn point everytime you drop your card. You also earn point when a visitor to your site drops off their card in your EntreCard drop off area. As your points accumulate, you can use these points to buy box ads from other EntreCard owners to invite more traffic to your website. The box ad is your 125x125 EntreCard image which will appear in the EntreCard drop-off area of the particular site where you bought an ad from. Other EntreCard members can also buy ads from you using their points. The more ads you accept to advertise in your website, the more points you earn which in return you can use to buy ads from other EntreCard members. Whatever you do is a win-win-win situation! So why not checkout Entrecard today, to get idea of how it works.

If you are looking to have your EntreCard image designed and customized, please do not hesitate to contact me too. I do graphics and photos.

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Disclosure Policy

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:03:00 +0000

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me.

This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post may not always be identified as paid or sponsored content.

The owner(s) of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers' own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

This blog does contain content which might present a conflict of interest. This content may not always be identified.

Effective Date: January 1 2007

Acceptable Topics For Your Blog

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:37:00 +0000

Blogging these days is definitely growing and becoming more and more popular, not only to people who like to write a journal and keep a personal diary of their day to day living and experience, but as well as for several different companies and businesses who realize this new valuable online tool, blogging, that allows them to reach out to more costumers and more people. Gone are the days that blogging is just a diary to write down their day to day personal experiences and family stories, blogging has reach new heights, where its becoming a method of advertising for products and services for some businesses and companies, giving bloggers plenty of opportunity to earn while blogging.

But if you own a blog and want to tap into these growing new way of advertising, by writing articles and postings that are sponsored. It is so easy and tempting to jump in to every oportunity that comes along, and just accept whatever topic comes in your way. If your blog is about travel, or garden, but you came across an opportunity to write about gaming or medical stuff, are you willing to accept such opportunities just to earn some dollars?

I personally think that if you have blog with very specific topics, you should always try to retain that specific topic, and you only accept writing jobs and advertisings that are related to your specific topic. If your blog or site is not a general topic, because you originally intended to write certain topic like makeup, or decorating, or animals, then it might not a good idea to add a post there that talk about online gaming, or surgery, etc. If you do this, your blog will lost focus and your unrelated contents may possibly turn off your readers and viewers specially when its totally off-topic. In trying to earn few dollars, you may be slowly harming your blog reputation, by accepting topics that are totally unrelated to what your blog was originaly intended for.

For the sake of longer terms, if you want to retain your blog reputation intact the whole time, its good to know the purpose of your blog, what topics are acceptable and you are willing to include in your write ups, without harming your blog or site in the long run.

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Why Comment Moderation Is Important

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:11:00 +0000

Few years ago, I managed an online forum related to the website that I managed as well, but I ended up discontinuing the forum part of it because of the spammers postings nothing but irrelevant advertisings of their products and services, mostly fake rip-off handbags, prescriptions drugs, enhancement products, and more! And some of these postings were obviously done by automatic programs, also known as robotic spammers. And if you dont moderate your comments or guestbook sections of the blog or site, then you could possibly ended up with a lot of these entry junks, which is a huge turn-off for your site visitors and readers. If you cannot control the contents of your site or blog, specially when it comes to all the spams and junks added, then it wont be long when most of your human readers, who wanted to read your entries, will not stay when they have to deal with all kinds of unwanted spams.

So its important that all entries including your guestbook and comment entries must be moderated by a human being to make sure that everything that will be seen in your blog or site is something that you actually want to show to your readers and visitors. You dont want to damage your blog or site reputation due to the dirty works of spammers out there. Keep your site and blog as desirable as always, dont let unwanted postings crawl their way. Thats why we have the option to moderate comments and guestbook entries, to have total control of all entries and hopefully keep it that way.

There are several extra measures that you can take to control all comments and entries to new heights like graphic verifications, image identification, numerical operations questions, and more. All these require that the postie need to think and see or hear inorder to determine the answer to the question or verification, that she/he can type the answer in the space provided to distiguish between what is human and what is automatic program.

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Advantage of Having Your Own Domain Name

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:19:00 +0000

Do you own a website or a blog but currently dont have a webhosting account? Then you are probably battling whether to get and register your own domain name or not. A hosted blog or website with generic domain name means that you are currently using a blogging platform provided by a blogging company and at the same time use their free server space to store your data and the current URL address of your blog or website is formatted like this: YourDomain.BlahBlahBlahXXXX.com. While, o the other hand, having your own domain name means that you own and register your own URL address for your blog or site that looks like this www.YourDomain.com

So what are the advantages and disadvantages of having your own domain name instead of using the generic URL address? First and for most, i personally think that there is no major disavantages of having your own domain name, except for the cost of maintaining and keeping the domain name year after year. But regardless of whether you own your domain name or you are using a generic URL address, you are stil going to take time and effort to promote your blog or website, either way. And that is where the main advantage of having your own domain name comes in. If you own your own domain (with format www.YourDomain.com), then you are promoting your own brand and your name. Even if you change or switch from one platform to the next, your domain name will remain the same, and all your time and effort promoting your domain name will not be wasted because you will always have the same domain name that will point to your blog or website, even if you change servers, hosting companies, or software platforms.

The only time that your effort will be wasted completely trying to promote your own domain name is when you decide to change your domain name to another name. If you rename your domain name. then you have to start promoting your new name all over again.

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www.DOINGE.com Transition

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:16:00 +0000

To all my blog readers and visitors, I would like to let you know that I finally got the domain name running for this blog, DOINGE. Instead of the old one, doinge.blogspot.com, the new domain name for this blog is now www.DOINGE.com The old one still works, and will be automatically forwarded to the new domain, though.

It took me awhile to have the domain name hook up, because my registrar could not figure out my request several times. I finally have it running, hopefully you will the take time to ADD my new domain name www.DOINGE.com in you blogrolls or links too, i would truly appreciate it! Thank you so much and have a wonderful day to you.

Get Some Traffic To Your Blog

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:01:00 +0000

You probably have a very brilliant idea, very interesting articles in your blog, but if you dont have traffic, who would appreciate all the hard work that you work so hard for? I dont think you write and prepare every single post in your blog so that you can read it all by yourself, do you? Like many other bloggers, I am also new to the blogging world, so I am still learning as I go along. But here are few areas things that will help you start fueling your blog engine, get some traffic in your terrific blog, and let the tires rolling and drive:

MyBlogLog.com is a great community of bloggers, where members can submit each of their blogs in one place, create an about me page, and let other bloggers get to know you and know more about the blogs you have. Each of your blog will have a special page where you can add short introduction, add some tags, a space where the the site display the latest feeds of your blog, and where other members can join your blog community and get updated for new postings you have.

BlogCatalog.com is also a great community of bloggers, where members can submit each of their blog, and if approved by the management, it will have great chances of being seen to many bloggers and readers who are members of the site. Each blog will have a community page, where any member can subscribe and join if they are interested to receive new updates and news regarding your blogs. There is also group discussion where you can discuss topics that you like and get the opinions and thoughts of other bloggers who are interested in the same topic.

Leave Comments. Be genuinely interested in what others have to say, not just yours. Remember, that others have opinions and minds, too. Other peoples views might be different from yours, and you will discover more of these if you read their blogs. If you read other peoples blog, you can genuinely leave feedbacks related to their post. The main rule is, never leave feedback just to advertise your blog, that is spamming, it is not being nice, and they will not visit your blog when you try to advertise your blog in their comment section. Comment section is there so that you can leave comment related to the post at hand, not so you can advertise! If you leave comments, feedback and reactions related to the topic of the post, the blog owner and other readers of the same blog might notice your comment, what you have to say, and click your name to find out more about you and your blog! So the key is, be genuinely sincere in leaving comments related to the post only. Do not post in the comment section something like: Visit my blog at blah blah blah. You are most likely a candicate for being block listed.

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Reading Level of this Blog

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:42:00 +0000

I got this really cool tag from my blogger friend Joy thru my other blog Honestly FRESH. I decided to determine the reading level of this blog as well, and this is the result:

Get a Cash Advance

If you would like to test the reading level of your own blog as well, please feel free to grab this tag and test your blog as well and see!

Ways to monetize your blog

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:21:00 +0000

You heard it right, make money while you blog! There are several ways that you can possibly monetize your blogs:

PAY PER CLICK - One of the most popular Pay-Per-Click advertising today is Google Adsense. All you have to do is apply with Google for a Google Adsense account and once you have a valid account, you can start posting Google ads in your website(s) or blog(s), and everytime your site/blog visitor will click on the Google ad, you will be paid accordingly thru your Google account. The best thing about this type of advertising is that you can fully customize the look and feel of the ads to make it look like it is really part of the site. It is a target advertising, which the ads that will be displayed in your account will be based on the topics contained in your site, this way, your visitors are more likely to click the ads because the ads are related to the topic of your site which is a topic that draws them to your site in the first place.

PAY PER POST - mainly for blogging and is becoming a very popular means to make money out of your blogs. Although, not all blogs and/or will be qualified for this, you need to meet the minimum criterias of the PayPerPost companies to have your blog get accepted. Many Par Per Post companies will require that your blog must be active, fresh, and running for months. But once you passed the application process, you can start earning money by blogging about the companies products and/or services. Usually, you will be paid per post. Pay Per Post companies will have clients known as the Advertizers who are willing to pay cash to bloggers who can talk/blog about their product/service. These advertizers are willing to pay because they got marketing gain in return.

AFFILIATIONS - there are endless of affiliate program that you can apply and join. Most online companies have affiliate programs to help promote their products and services. In most cases, the company will provide data like approved banners and text advertising that you can utilized and post in your websites and/or blogs. Each affiliate program is unique, depending on the companys rules and terms. There are some affiliate program that give you a certain percentage of the sale if you lead your site visitor to their site and make a purchase or avail a service. Other program will pay you for the leads. It works best if you know your audience and you sign up for affilaite programs that are of interests to your audience. For example, if your audience are mostly males, it might be best to sign up for programs like machineries or related topics to your site so that you have better chances of successful leads and click-throughs.

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Is blogging for you?

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:38:00 +0000

Blogging is more like a diary, a daily journal, to write an article or a post daily or every other day. You can basically write about anything, your stories, your knowledge, your business, your skills, your experiences, your expertise to name a few. But blogging takes time, a time to write and post something in your blog to keep your audience up-to-date with the topic related to your blog. The question is, do you have time? Are you willing to spend several minutes or an hour or two of your time almost everyday to blog? This is what blogging is all about, taking time to gather your brain and write something for anyone to read and be willing to share that information to almost anyone!

When you blog, you need to be current, up-to-date, and post as much postings every month to encourage your readers to come back. To help you get motivated to write as frequent as you can, you need to have some good knowledge and some skills related to the topic that you are focusing on your blog. Some peoples motivation for blogging is making extra cash, other is to help change the world, others want to promote themselves and/or their business, while others just want to share their life stories, their life.

So the answer to the question: Is blogging for you? Relies solely in each one of us, whether you have time to write, whether you are willing to share your knowledge and stories with your readers, or whether you are motivated enought to try to make money out of blogging, or just you have plenty of time to enjoy writing about your passions.

Anyone can blog, its just a questions of what to blog and if you have the time to write posts for your blog everyday or twice a week?

Avoid getting ripped off online

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:40:00 +0000

One of the most popular and widely used marketplace online is eBay, utilized by millions of people internationally. Unfortunately, where there are huge number of people in one place, there are also bigger chances of encountering with scammers. There many different stories of people who got ripped off by other members on eBay either as a buyer or as a seller. But there are ways to minimize your chances of being victimized by these scammers.

Here are some tips you might want to try:

Always check member feedback. Ebay provides feedback system as an aide to help tell the reputation of each eBay member. More positive feedbacks given by more fellow members means that such member have history of great, pleasant transactions with other members and is more likely the right eBayer that you want to buy from or sell to. Negative feedbacks says it all, negative, take it as a warning for you. More negative means more warnings for you. If an eBay member have zero feedback, be more guarded and cautious as well.

Too good to be true. Some deals might be too nice to believe. Trust your instinct. Most reliable eBay sellers are not selling on eBay because they feel like they need to give away like a Santa Claus. One way or another, many people try to make some bucks as supplementray income for their family. So if you feel like you are getting such a deal, too good to be true deals, ask the question why? If an item is worth $100 in stores, and you are getting the product for $5, do you think its for real? Do you think the seller will be reliable, worth dealing with?

If in doubt, ask! If seller provides any unclear description, unclear photos, ask seller for clarifications or verifications. That way you will not be assuming and guessing. If you are buying used item, ask seller if there are any flaws or damages to the item, specially if the description seems short and sound shady and incomplete. Conditions that says excellent, great, good, fair, mint tell you something about the actual condition in general about the product, not specifics. So if specific description is not indicated like why is it fair not excellent? Ask the seller before you bid or buy.

For eBay sellers, its always a great idea to require clearing period for any Money Order or Personal Check payments prior to shipment of any orders to make sure that such payment is not fake check or not be cancelled. Since such process will affect the delivery time, make sure that you mentioned the clearing period in your descriptions, specify days like 8-10 work days.

For eBay sellers, having a confirmation or tracking number for any items being shipped will basically tell the seller if the buyer received the item or not. Its also always good to know if the packages are successfully shipped that way.

If you are receiving emails from eBay, make sure that it really originated from eBay site. If you are not sure, you can also login to eBay site directly and use the MyEbay > Messages instead, where all real eBay messages are also sent.

So if you follow some of the tips mentioned above, you minimized your chances of being a scam victim. Remember, its always good to trust your gut feeling, be cautious and be observant.

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Towards A Successful eBay Business

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:42:00 +0000

Making it on eBay is very possible. In my opinion, eBay have changed the way the world do business and trading, its has become a global phenomenom. There are probably millions of users everyday that shop on eBay all over the globe. So if you are a business inclined individual and want to tap in this huge marketplace, its always wise to consider listing on eBay for the possibility of being seen by a huge numbers of global audience.

Having a business on eBay is very promising but at the same time it is also very tricky and very challenging. Just as there are lots of buyers on eBay, there are also a lot of sellers, so expect rough, tough, and high competitions so you wont get disappointed and break right away. But if you have found great product that is in high demand, and there are not a lot of eBay sellers competing with you, then you will really have a great chance of making it big.

But basing on my eBay experience both as a seller and a buyer, listing on eBay is NOT just all about having the product to sell. There are other several factors that make or break the deal. As simple as days of the week, timings, photos, listing categories, product prices, product descriptions, feedback score, customer service, and more are all critical factors that definitely affect and highly contribute for the success or failure of your eBay businesses. So I would highly suggest you provide clear, close-up photos of your products, provide honest and correct description of your products, never lie because they will get you in the feedback anyways. Your eBay feedback is very important to your reputation specially if you are an Ebay seller. A lot of ebayers visit the feedback history of a member prior to buying/selling to make sure that they are dealing with a reliable, and honest person. So if there are flaws, tear, breaks or damage in your products, make sure that you will mention these in your item description as well, and possibly provide photos of these flaws too. When prospect buyers ask questions regarding your products, try your best to answer their questions before the listing or auction ends, that way they will feel assured that you are really there, you are within reach, and it will also help develop buyer trust confidence to buy from you. It is also very important to list your products at the proper times of day, proper day of the week, and proper month of the year. There are not a lot of people shopping for Halloween stuff in the month of January or February because most people are busy shopping gifts and decors for Valentines Day. Listing your product on the right category also affects the exposures of your products. There are several categories on eBay, each category is unique, some categories have a lot of sellers, some have few sellers. If the product you are selling have several competing sellers, meaning there are more listings in such category then your product exposures will lessen and get buried right away, so try to consider availing some eBay listing upgrades like bold text, thumbnails, box ads, gallery.

So if you want your business to make it big on eBay, it sure is very possible, but it will surely take to have the right product and lots of works and efforts from you.

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Winning eBay Auctions

noreply@blogger.com (JAZEVOX) — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:56:00 +0000

There is nothing as frustrating as wanting so badly something you found on eBay, bidding on it, and found out that you lost the auction. Based on my eBay experience as a buyer or bidder, here are some of my tricks to make sure I have bigger chances of winning the item I want:

Bid on an item and then also place your maximum bid, so that eBay program will automatically increment your bid for you if someone else is bidding on the same item. Mostly bidders set their maximum bid according to how much maximum price you are willing to pay for the item.

Turn on your outbid message alert in your MyeBay preferences. Bid on the item that you want the moment you see it, and if other eBayers will bid on the same item, eBay program will automatically notify you by your eBay email address that you been outbid, that way, you can place another bid.

Sign-in to messenger alert that is incorporated with eBay website, so that you will be notified by eBay thru your messenger if you been outbid or not.

Some auctions are listed as dutch auctions, where the seller have several similar items available and the seller is listing them as one single auction with multiple availability. Example of a dutch auction is a seller list an auction as dutch with 10 pieces available, if you bid on such auction listing, you will have 10 chances of getting a winning bid because all top 10 bidders of such auction listing will ended up winning one (1) piece of item.
Turn on your second chance offer setting in MyeBay preferences, so that if all tips above fails and you still didnt win the auction and you have decent maximum bid, the seller will possibly offer you a second chance offer if they have the extra available items. A second chance offer is an optional way provided by ebay that a seller can choose to offer to those who bid the item but didnt win. Second Chance offer price will be based on your maximum bid of the item you didnt win. Seller have the choice who she/he want to offer the second chance among the non-winning bidders, your chances to get this offer is bigger if you have decent maximum bid.

Good luck on your treasure hunting on eBay!
DISCLAIMER: I am not affiliated with eBay in anyway, this article is based on my opinion and experience related to the topic.

Selling on eBay

noreply@blogger.com (JVOX) — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:30:00 +0000

Selling on eBay can possibly be a very rewarding experience financially because of the huge international audience that eBay can provide to its users. But as easy as it sounds, there are several challenges and factors to consider to be a successful eBay seller. Basing on my eBay experience as both a buyer and seller, having a product to sell on eBay is not enough. There are other several factors that you need to consider to be a successful ebay seller.

There are millions and millions of eBay users worldwide. These millions include both buyers and sellers. Chances are, if you are planning to sell on eBay, you have competetions. When you are competing with other sellers, dont forget to consider how low can you go in your prices and actually make some profit after cost. More sellers than buyers in a particular product type may mean that you need to adjust your prices lower to compete with other sellers and make a sale. But the question is, how low can you go and still make a profit after cost?

eBay provides several product categories. To improve your chances of being seen by the right audience, try to list your products in the proper category. If you are selling auto parts, I dont think it is wise to place your listing in the jewelry category because buyers who visit the jewelry categories are mostly ladies and they are not the likely audience that would usually buy auto parts.

Timing is everything. Know when the proper timing to list your items. Know when is the perfect timing to list your product with best chances of being seen by more potential buyers. Try not to list your halloween products during the months of January and February because most people are busy shopping gifts and products related to Valentines Day. There might be some few collectors that will actually buy during off-season, but if you want more traffic in your listings, get the proper timing. Its also important to consider the best time of day, best day of the week, and best month of the year.

Provide accurate and clear photos of your products because these are the only basis that your potential customers can see your products. Your photos will be a major deciding factor that could make or break the sale. If you provide blurr photos, some buyers might suspect that you are hiding something. Besides, buyers dont just spend their money in something like a mystery or something they are not so sure what they are getting.

Provide honest and accurate item descriptions. If there are flaws, imperfections or damage in your product, never fail to mention it in your listings. Buyers have the right to know these stuff, so if possible, provide clear photos of these flaws as well, or atleast describe the flaw in your listing. Let your buyers know the condition of the item that they will be paying for. Besides, if you are not honest, dishonesty will most likely show in your feedback.

Maintain great feedback score. Many ebayers check the feedback history of each member before they attempt to buy and sell because many ebayers need to know who they are dealing with online. They want to know the history of your previous transactions to be able to decide if you are a reliable and trusthworthy seller. And your eBay feedback will be the one that helps other ebayers to know your reputation.

DISCLAIMER: I am not affiliated with eBay in anyway, this article is based on my opinion and experience related to the topic.

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Can a personal website be lucrative?

noreply@blogger.com (JVOX) — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:13:00 +0000

I define a personal website as personal not business. Meaning no products to sell, no services to offer online.

But even if you dont have a product to sell or services to offer online, personal website can still be very lucrative investment for yourself depending on the contents of your website. If the content of your website is about yourself, your bio, and what you do and your profession, its obvious that no one can buy anything from there, but it can still possibly be lucrative because you are promoting yourself and your capabilities, and could possibly get you a lot of great transactions and dealings offline by knowing you a little bit more thru your personal website. The more people trust and know you, the more likely they will feel confident to transact with you offline making your personal website a worthwhile and lucrative investment.

Personal websites like personal blogs and talking about your hobbies and interest also allows you to generate revenue and make money online. Some ways to earn revenue in your website is thru banner ads from affiliate programs, pay-per-click advertisings, or website space advertisings in your website. And if you have really good online traffics, then the advertising could really make it lucrative and generate revenue.

How lucrative your personal website can be, will solely depends on how popular your personal website is. It will surely helps to market your personal website online to generate more traffic.

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Guide to better website design

noreply@blogger.com (JVOX) — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:46:00 +0000

To build a good website, you need to determine first what are your goals and what you want to achieve with your website. Some of the most common goals of having a website is to make your website visitors stay longer, to convey the message that you want to relay your audience, to make the visitor successfully complete a transaction, a purchase, or whatever your site offers. There are several factors that needs consideration that may help achieve your website goals:

EASY NAVIGATION. Make your website easy to navigate. Provide easy-to-see, and accessible menus containing links to other subpages of your website. Try to be consistent with your website format in all pages, so that they will have a feel of the same format all throughout.

EASY TO LOAD. Graphics are pretty, colorful, and cool, but they also take more time to download online. If you use too many photos in one page, or too big size photos in one page, it may cause a major delay in downloading your whole page. A lot of readers dont have the patience to wait that long, and you dont want them to leave your site because you put too much graphics. To prevent that from happening, try to optimized your photos for web usage. Use thumbnail photos with links to bigger version of each photo if your site visitor want to view the bigger version.

UPDATED CONTENTS. Make your content fresh, new, and up-to-date. When somebody will visit your website, make them feel like you just added content a minute ago. You dont want your visitors to find out that your Latest News articles is dated years ago.

MAKE IT SIMPLE. Instead of putting all your contents in one page that may possibly overwhelm and confuse your readers, try to split the topics and make sub pages. Focus on one topic per page instead of talking and merging everything all in one page.

AVOID HORIZONTAL SCROLLING. Too much width in your page that requires horizontal scrolling is usually very frustrating specially if the visitor needs to scroll down as well. It would feel like your website page is all over, scroll sideways, scroll down..

READABLE FONTS. Use easy to read type fonts and easy to read size fonts. Most common use font size is around 10-12. Size 6-8 might be too small for reading messages. Size 14-16 might be too big. Your goal is to be able to covey your message to your visitors, so right size and fonts may affect your website visitors decision to leave or stay and or continue reading depends on how patience they cab be. Try to consider that not a lot of people know how to adjust the font size in their monitor, or other may know how to change font setting but do they really want to change setting temporarily just to read one website then change back after to read other website?

Hope the tips above helps and good luck!

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Making your first website

noreply@blogger.com (JVOX) — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:49:00 +0000

Ways to create your personal web page:

1. Create the website yourself with HTML coding. HTML mean HyperText Markup Language, is the main language of website coding. To use this the basic coding method, you need HTML knowledge. With your HTML knowledge, there are several HTML editors to help you aide your web design process, or if you dont have these fancy editors in hand, you can also use the regular notepad that is usually available with most computer software package.

2. Create the website yourself using WYSIWYG editors. This method is more simpler and user-friendly than doing it by HTML coding. With this method, you dont need to do the coding by hand. The WYSIWYG which stands for What-You-See-Is-What-Your-Get are mostly click-and-drag software that allows you to create the website without HTML coding knowledge. I think this method may be easier to do but much harder if you want to fully customized your website look and feel.

3. Create the website using pre-created templates. There are several types of website templates available, some complex, some simple designs. Most templates are priced based usually on the quality of the designs. If you use templates t create your website, you need basic computer knowledge to be able to edit the contents of the templates and make it your own. You generally dont have to worry about doing the physical appearance of the website at all, just edit the texts according to what you want to put in there. Although there are complex and more advance templates that requires HTML knowledge to edit. Most templates are royalty-free so expect many the same similar website designs live online, because others may possibly buying the same template from the same source. Its harder to fully customized a template specially if you want to make some physical changes on the overall look and feel of your website.

4. Create the website by hiring a Website Designer. If you dont want to be bothered by the complexities and lack of knowledge in website designing, there are Website Designer that are available to do the work for you for a fee. Fees varies mostly on how customized and how complex you want your website requirement are. Static website with no e-commerce capability are generally cheaper ranging from $100-$1000+. Dynamic and or e-commerce website can cost you around $400-$6000+, depends on the complexity of your website.

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How-To Make Your Website User-Friendly

noreply@blogger.com (JVOX) — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:30:00 +0000

AVAILABLE NAVIGATION. Arrange your site in a way that your users will be able to navigate your site easily. Provide a menu in the same location in all your web pages so that users can go back or proceed to another page easily. If you send your readers to a detailed page of your article, make sure the detailed page will have a menu that goes back to your homepage, or other links of your website.

SIZE MATTERS. Make your font size readable. Usually font size 10-12 is the most comfortable size for many people. Having fonts too small easily scare your viewers away, if they cannot read your site, what is the point? Remember that not everyone knows how to change font settings, so always use the friendly-size fonts. Fonts too big, is just as frustrating as fonts too small. Big fonts, you will have a hard time finishing reading an article, because you can only see so much words at a time in the monitor.

CONTENTS MATTER. Keep your contents up-to-date. If you make an update in your site and know that you cannot update your site daily, monthly, I would highly suggest not put information like: last updated Jan 2004, when its already 2007. News are usually up-to-date, if a user will go to your site and the latest news you have is 2 years old, then it might be a sign that your site is not maintain.

OPTIMIZE GRAPHICS. Graphics are cool, but they also take more time to download online, and could create frustration among users that could prompt them to leave your site. Make sure that your graphics are web-friendly, have it fully optimized for short time download. Provide thumbnails of your photos and if users want to view bigger version, they can click individual photo to view the bigger version. That way, no big photos will need to be download in one single page.

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Introduction to Web Hosting

noreply@blogger.com (JVOX) — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:28:00 +0000

Web Hosting is the ability to store your digital data into a virtual memory storage like a computer server. A digital data includes but not limited to your saved computer files like photographies, digital documents, music files, movie files, etc. Your laptop or desktop computer have the ability to store all these digital files, so you are probably left with a question, why you need web hosting for?

Many personal computers like laptop and desktop are only accessible by their owners or by members within a company or home network. Although you can still make a website and have it stored in your own personal computer, but the problem is you are the only one who can see it. But if you want the whole world to see your website, you need to store your website files in a data server which is commonly refered as a web hosting.