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All that I know about GDI (Global Domain International)

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:15:00 -0700

Welcome to GDI and your own .ws domain name and website.

I recommendyou first take some time and login into your members officehttp://website.ws/members to familiarize yourself with all theinformation available. Be sure to have your payment informationlisted or your account will be cancelled at the end of your free 7day trial. In the members office click on 'account information' andthen 'update preferred payment method'. If GDI does not have yourpayment method listed your account will be cancelled at the end ofyour 7 day trial. Also please click on the 'FAQ' link inside yourmembers office as this is the best way to get answers for most of thequestions I'm sure you now have.

Global Domains International (GDI) has potential to be biggestcompanyindustry has ever seen!Read more at: http://website.ws/pdf/GDI%20Reprints%202006.pdf

(The websites below are where others can join GDI under you):

http://www.movie.ws/username

http://www.website.ws/username

http://www.website.ws/username/show (Flash Presentation)

http://www.website.ws/username/spanish/show (Spanish FlashPresentation)

http://www.website.ws/username/espanol/show (Spanish FlashPresentation)

http://www.my.ws/username

http://www.my.ws/username

http://www.freedom.ws/username

http://www.freedom.ws/username

http://www.freedom.ws/username/show_dvd (DVD Presentation)

You may provide these links to anyone around the globe, howeverpleasebe aware that the freedom website is the only site available in 8languages.With your GDI membership, you also receive your own .ws websitehttp://your-domain-name.ws/ to do with as you want, this is your ownwebsite to create anyway you like. If you don't need a website, thendo nothing at all, you do not need to create your website if youdon't want to, that is totally up to you, its your website to do withas you like. If you would like to create your website, GDI has a freewebsite builder to help you.

To use the Free GDI Website Builder to create Your-Domain-Name.wswebsite:

1) Log into the members office at http://website.ws/members

2) Click on 'domains'

3) Click on 'change setting' under your domain name

4) Click on the button next to the 'Site Builder' logo on top

5) Click on 'continue' and then 'Build my Website'

If you would like to create a new domain name or extra domain names,click on 'Domains' inside your members office to see if the name youwant is available before you add it to your account. After you'vecreated a second domain name, you can then delete your first domainnameif you like, or keep creating new domain names... as many as youwant.You will be charged $10 a month for each of your domain names youkeep.Grow Your Downline:

http://website.ws/home/wealthguide

http://www.gditeambuilder.ws/sincennes

http://www.instantbuzz.com/r/?rbresources

http://www.ibuzzincome.ws/g/sincennes/lcp1.htm

Do you have friends and family members you would like to introduce to GDI so they can get their own .ws websites also? If so, log into yourmembers office https://www.website.ws/members and click on 'Invite'onthe left side of the page. Then type in the first and last name andemail address of people you personally know, then GDI will send thememails about how they can join GDI and get their own .ws websitealso.

IMPORTANT: You may use this invitation system to send emails ONLY topeople who know of you personally (or to the opt-in leads ofopportunity seekers you may acquire in the "Order Goodies" area ofyour members office). Only use names of people you know personallyand you are 100% sure they will not put in a spam complaint when theyreceive the emails about GDI. "SPAM" emails are strictly forbiddenand grounds for immediate termination.If you are interested in earning a residual monthly income by havingpeople join GDI under you, below is some helpful information:

To buy your GDI leads ($3 each), log into your members office andclick on 'Order Goodies' and then 'Phone-Verified Leads' to orderyour leads. Then input your leads into the 'Invite' page in yourmembers office so they receive emails from GDI on how to join underyou. You should also call all your leads on the phone. Someone at GDIhas already called your leads on the phone to make sure they areinterested in receiving a phone call from you, so please call them,they will be expecting you to call them. You do not need to give yourleads a sales pitch over the phone or try to talk your leads intojoining GDI, the dvd and/or online dvd movie on your Freedom.wswebsite does the selling for you. After you input your leads into the'Invite' page in the members office, you just need to call your leadson the phone and see if they would like you to mail them the GDI dvdmovie or if they would rather watch the dvd movie online at theFreedom.ws website. Be sure to give your leads your username... thisis the access code your leads need to use on the Freedom.ws websiteso they can watch the GDI dvd movie online and join under you.

GDI has the DVD's available for us to purchase inside our membersoffice. Also available in multi-lingual versions! When you receiveyour DVD's, write your username on the DVD cover where it says"Access Code:" and then hand them out to as many people as you can.They are a great tool to get new members under you! You can alsoorder the DVD's online at http://www.dvd.ws/
GDI has banners for us to use and put on our websites that will sendpeople to our GDI movie/sign up website where they can join under us.Just log into your GDI members office and click on 'Banners' on theleft of the page.You can also find help with GDI at these websites:

http://website.ws/home/wealthguide

http://www.gdi-made-easy.ws/

http://www.inputneeded.info/

http://www.wsinternetshow.ws/

http://www.talk.ws/

Training Conference Calls:USA Phone Number: 212-990-8000 ...then enter PIN code: 8821# (Tuesday& Thursday at 9:30 pm EST)USA Phone Number: 712-824-4400 ...then enter PIN code: 28806#(Sunday:5:30pm PST, 6:30pm MST, 7:30pm CST, 8:30pm EST)Opportunity Conference Calls:USA Phone Number: 212-990-8000 ...then enter PIN code: 8821# (Tuesday& Thursday at 9:00 pm EST) USA Phone Number: 212-796-3215 ...thenenter PIN code: 7509# (Every Tues & Thurs: 7pm PST, 8pm MST, 9pm CST,10pm EST) ...Bring your friends to these opportunity calls and letus do the selling for you!

You can also listen to some of these callson the internet at http://www.website.ws/conferencecallRecorded Call Phone Number: 212-990-6640If you do not live in the USA, you can get your time zone for thecalls in your country at:
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/.
Before GDI can mail you any commissions you've earned, you need tofirst mail or fax a couple forms to GDI. You can find the requireddocuments in your account, simply follow the outlined steps below:

1. Login to your account at https://www.website.ws/members

2. Click on "Documentation"

3. Read, sign and return the last pages the following documents:'Independent Affiliate Agreement Terms and Conditions' & 'IndependentAffiliate Policies and Procedures'

4. Complete and sign the "Form W-9" under "For US residents:"In order to participate in the WebSite.ws Affiliate program, you mustprovide GDI with a Form W-9 (USA residents only) and proof ofidentification (all affiliates).
This information, along with allother information you provide GDI, is kept strictly confidential.Commission checks cannot be sent, however, until it is received byGDI.The completed Forms should then be faxed or mailed to GDI along withacopy of your Driver's License or Passport. International/non-USresidents should send a copy of a government issued ID card, Driver'sLicense or passport. Faxes can be sent to: 1 + 760.602.3099Papers can be mailed to:Global Domains International #30019701 Palomar Airport Road, Suite 300Carlsbad, CA 92011U.S.A.If you know anyone that might be interested in joining GDI, pleasehave them listen to some of these calls:

1) GDI Weekly Conference Calls:1-212-796-3215 PIN: 7509# (Tues &Thurs10pm EST in USA) or listen online at
http://www.website.ws/conferencecall -or- listen to the GDIopportunity conference calls at: 212-990-8000 ...then enter PIN code:8821# (Tuesday & Thursday at 9:45 pm EST)

2) Listen to the founders of GDI talk about this fantasticopportunity:Go to http://website.ws/rbresources and click on 'CompanyInformation'... then go down the page and click on 'Audio:23 Minute Interviewwiththe Founders'.

3) Short 1 minute message on the GDI opportunity: 1-800-693-6897 -or-1-760-494-4355To contact GDI support, e-mail: ws_support@wsdomains.ws or call theiroffice phone# 1-760-602-3000Want a low-cost way to advertise your GDI Movie? Print and hand outthese colorful GDI Flyers at:
http://1.ws/flyer.
You can also order colorful business cards inside your GDI membersoffice: http://website.ws/members

Get Visitors to Your Website:http://www.instantbuzz.com/r/?rbresources
Get 10 to 20 FREE LEADS at each of these websites below. I highlyrecommend you call all leads on the phone instead of e-mailing them.Anytime you e-mail leads from sources other then the GDI approvedleads(you can order them in our GDI members office) you run the riskof the lead sending GDI a spam complaint against you and getting yourmembership cancelled. Plus talking to your leads on the phone greatlyincreases the likelihood they will join GDI under you by signing upatyour
movie.ws website.

http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=280871

http://www.freeliveleads.com/

http://www.10freeleads.com/

http://www.leadbakery.com/

http://www.leadpower.com/

To order GDI approved leads, log into your members office and clickon'Leads'.GDI does not recommend the use of outside leads as you can notguarantee their legitimacy. Any outside leads purchased must beopt-in leads, for which you must receive records for upon completionof sale. Records must include, at a minimum, first name, last name,ip address and email address. If the company can not provide youwith this information, you should not purchase from them. In theevent that a spam complaint is reported for your email campaign andyou cannot provide the above information, you will be heldresponsible for the spam.

Another way to get leads is to chat with people online using forums,message boards, chat, joining their newsletters, etc., and then afteryou've built up a relationship with them, tell them about GDI and give them your GDI movie website.

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Courtesy to:

Randy Beck

GDI_Biz@rbresources.ws

Join GDI: http://movie.ws/rbresources

GDI Support E-mail: ws_support@wsdomains.ws

Members Login Page: http://website.ws/members

Global Domains International Phone: 1-760-602-3000GDI Opportunity (1 min. recording): 1-800-693-6897 or 1-760-494-4355GDI Questions & Answers: Go to http://website.ws/rbresources and click on 'Questions & Answers'.GDI Conference Calls:
http://www.website.ws/conferencecall or 1-212-796-3215 PIN:7509# (Tues & Thurs 10pm EST)Listen to the Owners of GDI talk about this Once-in-a-Lifetime GDI Opportunity, go to http://website.ws/rbresources and click on 'Company Information'.

FREE Website Traffic! ...http://www.instantbuzz.com/r/?rbresources

How To Make Money With GeoString : A Review

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:00:00 -0700

Hi Netpreneurs,

Welcome to my newly designed blog. Today I want to share you a very enticing affiliate program called - "GeoString". If anyone wants to make a few thousands working from home, a few minutes a week, this is a very promising new affiliate concept that you can trust on. This is not just like any other affiliate program that junks our mailbox. I believed on this program when my friend Moidul Hoque invited me to join and he show me - how lucrative the program can be if we sponsor 5 and everybody in our downline sponsor 5 each in 10 levels, investing nothing!!

There are thousands of PTR sites to join, but what goaded me to write a few lines to review this program is that- it is the gentlest PTR program, that don’t shrunk my mailbox space with garbage mails. On every TUESDAY you will receive your account status report, where you will find a CONFIRMATION LINK to confirm that you are the real active user- who visits this page each week. You will find a few banner links underneath the confirmation page- you have to visit the Sponsor sites to generate revenues for GeoString, which they pay as remuneration for our assistance to their growth through a 3x10 Matrix Plan. You don’t have to click on hundreds of promotional mails to earn a FEW BUCKS. In general, you WILL have up to 5 days to click your confirmation link. Failure to confirm email receipts three weeks in a row could result in termination of your account as well as forfeiture of any account balance.

GeoString is simply a string of your contacts and their contacts all strung together to build an incredible cash generator for the length of the string. THIS business plan is first of all FREE For All and it offers $10.00 bonus for joining the plan.

KEY CATCHES:

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$ 10.00 joining bonus

100% Free for all

Gentle: no cluttering of Junk Mails. Simple only one email/ week.

Huge Potential to earn for FREE through this 3x10 Matrix plan.

Easy to follow User Panel that lets you know all about your campaigns, your earning/ affiliate stats outright.

No brainer. Sponsor a few friends – they will sponsor others and thus the system works.

PAYMENTS :

Payout Update of My Upline Showing Her First Week Income

Payments are disbursed by check and mailed to the postal address on your profile on or before the 10th day of each month for earnings of the prior month provided that your account balance has reached your selected payout level. If your account balance is less than your selected payout level, earnings will carry forward until such month as you have met the minimum check requirement. $3 (Three dollars) is deducted from the amount of your check to cover the cost of processing and mailing your check. Again, this is deducted from your check amount.

HOW TO PROMOTE?

If you don’t have any clue on how to promote this plan, I think the next few points will help you out sponsor a few downlines easily!

INVITATION: Invite your friends first through the invitation module at your user panel. This is the simplest but cheapest method of promotion.

FORUM POSTING: Your signature on the Forum Postings can give you a few joining in a very short span, provided you participate. Post your name with your referral link. Here are a few good marketing forums where you can use your signature for promotional activities- i. http://www.freeadvertisingforum.com/
ii. www.1sitemanager.com/forum
iii. www.howtocorp.com/forum
iv. http://www.instantbuzz.com/
v. http://www.conqueryourniche.com/
vi. www.warriorforum.com/forum
vii. www.ablake.net/forum

3. EZINE POSTING: Post your eZine Ads regularly to the top eZine directories. Post your well written ad copies with your signature will help you grow your list easily. Here are a few eZine Directories for your perusal-

i. http://www.directoryofezines.com/
ii. http://www.ezines.nettop20.com/
iii. http://www.new-list.com/
iv. http://www.ezine-dir.com/
v. www.emailuniverse.com/bestezines
vi. http://www.articlecity.com/
vii. http://www.ezineadvertising.com/
viii. http://www.ezinearticles.com/

4. Social Networking Tools: Your blog and your orkut & other social networking profiles can be a good source of collecting easy leads. If you don’t have time to write your own article, you can copy this article and publish it on your blog too with your own GeoString referral link. Use TubeMogul to publish your videos to all the major video sharing sites like youtube, dailymotion etc. all through one click!

5. PPC/CPM: Through Bidvertiser you can run a very low CPC campaign to get quickest leads. Albeit it is easier for the first time PPC advertisers. Apart from that you can advertise on Clixsense and neobux at very low budget. I prefer to advertise my blog review instead of the main plan, because it will give my visitors a broad prospect to understand the plan.

That’s all for today! I hope you will enjoy the GeoString referral program very much and sponsor your friends as well to get a longer perpetual residual income. Though for any sponsorship in your downline you get $0.01 only, if you fillup atleast three levels you will start earning regular income for good. Thanks for vising my blog…

How to build your own profit pulling Flash Headers

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:44:00 -0700

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Free People Search Engines

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:57:00 -0700

Dear friends,

I have discoverd something very very impotant and probably the best people search engine on date- which I want to share with you all. If you forgot to note down the contact numbers, email address or communication address of your friends, colleagues or someone special, here is a very good people search engine for all of us called- 123people.com. The people search engine automatically collect the email addresses, link in webpages, photos, communication address and many more all at once.. very cool...

There is another good one - called Acme People Search Engine. You easily can earn $125 in 24 hours after completing the 3 success steps. Anyone can earn at least $200 simply referring just 4 members in a day.

25 Tips To GDI Affiliate Marketing Success

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:05:00 -0700

The GDI Riches- Part III

The day I joined GDI (Global Domain Internetional) I personally felt proud to be part of a great GLOBAL TEAM of Online Entrepreneurs. It was a day of excitement as the income opportunity with GDI is immense. Talk.Ws the official forum for the GDI members is specially great for any home business starter like me. People are kind & equally anxious to offer their best service & suggestions in real time...

Like any other offline business, Online Small Home Based Businesses/MLM businesses require some sort of patience, hard work, enthusiasm, and a GOOD IDEAS WITH SOUND PLANNING before you get your initial success...

"You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!" - Chris Corrigan

"When I started out in business, I spent a great deal of time researching every detail that might be pertinent to the deal I was interested in making. I still do the same today. People often comment on how quickly I operate, but the reasonI can move quickly is that I've done the background work first, which no one usually sees. I prepare myself thoroughly, and when it is time to move ahead, I am ready to sprint" -Donald Trump

Carol Rivet's article "25 Tips To MLM/Network Marketing Business Success" is something I wanted to offer to my visitors as well... because it helped me to understand the secrets for being successful Online MLM marketer. GDI is simply an MLM, based on the pyramid scheme of marketing. GDI has a very formidable productbase with higher customer satisfaction and with a very lucrative compensation plan for their referers. So in this context, I felt Rivet's 25 MLM/Network Marketing tips very worthful for the growth in our GDI business in the long run with 100% downline retention - full story on.

FREE Tools For GDI Members...

What to publish on the GDI website?

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Fri, 1 May 2009 03:29:00 -0700

In the first chapter, we got fare idea about the background, products and income opportunity involved with Global Domain International (GDI). I am invloved with many of the home business related forums. Where I have found lots of queries from the GDI members regarding prospecting, building team and getting free traffic to their site. In general when an affiliate marketer joins GDI for an alternate income, the BIG question for him like many others are-

How to choose the best domain name for your GDI website?
What to publish on the website?
How to publish a website with GDI FREE Domain hosting?
How to monetize the website?
How to get traffic to the website?

These are the basic questions that creep up in the mind of the affiliates after joining GDI. In this article, I shall try to provide a GOOD SOLUTION to these problems, specially a good answer for the first two questions often raised by the GDI affiliates. For your better perusal, I want to categorize our visitors in two helves- a) Novice b) Experts. Everyday hundreds of affiliates join GDI for an alternative income, irrespective of their expertise in the field of online marketing. So, hereby I shall look into the interests of both the classes of GDI affiliates.

NOVICE: If you are very new to online marketing, don't know/wast time in the HTML codings, content development, following up the prospects and want everything in autopilot - here is the best solution for YOU. In this process you need to choose any of the options, join and update YOUR affiliate IDs, that's all. Our dedicated experts will help you to build and upload your own money making website, following up the prospects and the marketing for you.

Option #1: Setting Up A People Search Engine
According to a latest finding- 30% of all searches on Google or Yahoo on a day is people specific. To meet the growing demand in this exploding Niche, I shall recommend you to join Tissa Godavitarne's Acme-People-Search-Engine. Tissa is the one of the top performers in the GDI Leaderboard. He has sustained his top position for a few months consistently through his own innovative idea- People Search Engine! Joining his People Search Engine you will have many advantages. First- it is a GDI downline Builder. Second- Tissa will set up your own people-search-engine on your own GDI domain, just you need to update your GDI user id and password in the Add/Edit ID's section. Third- you can tap the new rising market of People Search Engine. Fourth- you earn Guaranteed $125 just within 24 hours after you have completed the three necessary steps to success as sign-up bonus. Fifth- you gain $40 free advertising for the first month thereafter- Tissa charges only $29 for providing you all the service. Sixth- you earn affiliate commissions from more than 6 (Six) online income opportunities including Tissa's Acme People Search Engine (total $30 in three steps) by sourcing visitors to your customized people search engine. Till date, Tissa has paid more than $223,493.00 to its affiliates, of which $43,625.00 was the Guaranteed Commission. Poeple like you and me are earning hundreds of dollars - here is the PROOF.

The whole process of setting up a people search engine is so simple and lucid that anybody can make huge profit out of it!! Tissa is busy now a day developing a Forced-Matrix GDI console. The benefit will be manifold for you and me!! The chances of getting 5 referrals for qualifying the GDI bonus pool will be very high i.e. another $100 per week?
How To Choose The Domain Name of The People Search Engine? : While signing up the Acme People Search Engine, you will be requested to choose your choice from a number of domain hosting service. Acme offers three Domain Hosting services in total during registration viz- GDI (my preference), StartLogic. You have to choose any of them. Whatever domain hosting services you prefer- just I request you to spend a few hours on choosing the right domain name. I have seen many of the GDI affiliates who choose their GDI login id as the name of the domain. I think it is a very bad practice. According to the recent search engine algorithm, the domains which have sufficient keyword placements on the domain name get more traffic or search engines index these domains more quickly than the deceptive domain names. So, I think we should spend a few hours on proper keyword research before choosing the domain name. If you are using Acme, I think your domain name should be like- freepeoplesearchengine.ws, criminalrecordsearchengine.ws. You can use Wordtracker.com to make a free keyword research on the respective niche. In the next posting, I shall try to Elaborate deliberately on this issue...
Now, you are all set with your new People Search Engine! Isn't it GREAT? You have published your first GDI website, without brainstorming!! Now, you need to get traffic and build your GDI downline. What shall you do? I have a simple solution... Do nothing... just join a few traffic exchange programs and create a campaign. Promote your website or Acme referral link and earn credit points surfing 500-1000 pages a day. You will see tremendous traffic to your website in a few days as well as you make a great start without spending a dime in name of advertising. Or if you can afford $50 dollars for a PPC campaign, hire the expertise of Bidvertiser.com and promote your Acme-People-Search referral link. You get as much as $30 per referral plus $125 sign-up bonus! I recommend Bidvertiser mainly for three reasons- a) it's so simple that a child can apply b) lowest key bid rates c) highest conversion ratio.

Option #2 : Money Making Free Niche Website

TheSpiderWebsystem is the most sought after affiliate program so far. In total 22 step-by-step tutorial videos will guide you through what to do in the next step. Many of the successful GDI affiliates are resorting to this GDI downline builder. Believe me- in less than 24 hours TheSpiderWebstem Team will help you to create your own money making GDI website, after you join and complete all the SIX success steps. Weekly webiners, tutorial videos, marketing resources provided by the Spider Team will help you to obtain your desired 2nd income in very limited time. TheSpiderWebsystem is effective to build downline for more than 12 cutting edged multi-level affiliate programs from their back office.

Option #3 : Money Making Free Niche Website 2
Michael Cobb's Home Income Team (HIT) is my next preference to Acme-People-Search. Here I got some flexibilities, which are unlikely in other GDI downline builders and money making opportunities. HIT website builder generates your own readymade niche money making website in just a few minutes, which you can upload at your own domain.
Reasons for which HIT is spacial for me:

=> Michael Cobb's free money making websites come with a personalized auto-responder, enabling you to capture the leads with your personal TrafficWave Auto-responders. This way you can increase the sales by 1000%, re-utilizing your leads in the near future!!

=> You get a very professional, money making website embedded with more than 24 affiliate ids. Unlimited residual income opportunity from a single website!!

=> You can promote your own affiliate programs except those provided by HIT.

=> Weekly/monthly free webiners, training videos and marketing resources to succeed in your business.

=> Cobb's website templates are keyword dense and Search Engine friendly. My most of the visitors are organic and traffic to my blog is increasing every month...

Where to buy World of Warcraft (WoW) Upgraded Accounts

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:35:00 -0700

A series of new reports from DFC Intelligence (www.dfcint.com) forecasts, total PC game revenue is expected to reach $19 billion by the year 2013. Though PC is the leading platform for online game revenue, revenue from console online games is expected to show significant growth during this period. Thanks to the proliferation of high-speed Internet connections, Xbox Live Marketplaces, the PlayStation Stores, and the Wii Shops, which have directly or indirectly contributed to the staggering growth rate of the Online Game Business as a whole. According to a recent Bloomberg report, in February, U.S. retail sales of consoles, games and accessories increased 10 percent from a year earlier, according to researcher NPD Group Inc. The industry will expand 5 percent to 10 percent in 2009.

The Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft (WoW): is currently the dominant MMORPGs in the world with more than 60% of the subscribing player base, and with 11-12 million monthly subscribers worldwide, is the most popular Western title among MMOGs. The startling sales growth of MMORPGs seems to bucking the global melt-down these days!! Since its debut on November 23, 2004, World of Warcraft has become the most popular MMORPG around the world and have gloriously crossed the the 10 million userbase in the last year. World of Warcraft (WoW) from Vivendi Universal’s Blizzard Entertainment, now hosts over 2 million subscribers in Europe, over 2.5 million in North America, and approximately 5.5 million in Asia. The quest for the new versions of the MMORPGs is evident in the emarging markets like - Tiwan, India, South Korea, Japan, Russia and China.

Where to Buy WoW Game Cards?

I am not a video gammer. But I appreciate the way people enjoy their time with multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft with fullest patience for 8-10 hours at a raw without stress!! But I have a good news for the WoW gamers who wants to a buy 60 days pre-paid game card, CD key codes to create or upgrade a U.S or Oceanic World of Warcraft account (WoW Account). Here the vendors sell both WoW Alliance Characters & WoW Horde accounts including all classes, druid, hunter, mage, paladin, priest, rogue, shaman, warlock, warrior, and death knight accounts. Buy WoW character from their large inventory of WoW accounts. If you are loosing patience and wants to try some new Avatars buy one today!! GOOD LUCK !!

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GDI - The Product, Income opportunity and me!! Part-I

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:01:00 -0800

We searched past 3 years for a suitable online income opportunity which could fetch our financial prosperity and could give us financial back-up in the recessions.... If you are a regular visior to this blog, you might have understood that- we have promoted 100s of online income opportunities in the recent past. Among them - some were stupid money games and others were overprice materials. This is our part of business. We join and try to evaluate every business opportunity that comes in our way-at first and then we provide a review to the affiliate program for our valued visitors to attract their kind attention.

So, after a lots of brain-storming, we finally settled on Global Domains International(GDI) as our main focus because it provide some REAL product that everyone can afford and a product that is indispensible for every online marketer- a website. That is why, we have changed the theme of our blog also. Before taking the decision to shift our focus, we had participated a number of Forums and tried to evaluate GDI. The result was obviously mixed one. In the next few minutes- we will try to evaluate the GDI webhosting service and online income opportunity as well to our best knowledge. We joined GDI on 22nd of September as an active member and we have THREE active members in our downline and we get 5-6 new prospects every day. So, it is in our interest, we need to train them about the GDI business in a phased manner.

(The .Fla video gonna to save your time)

The Products: The great advantage of the GDI domains is the ability to choose a domain name of your choice. Most of the good .com names are long since gone. If you want to purchase a SEO friendly domain with the targeted keyword in your domain name- you will find hardly the best one. High targeted keyword oriented domain names are consumed by the Bigboys. Further in the case of many of the other endings like .au, .us, .uk, etc many companies exist solely in buying up the best domain names to make a killing selling them to someone else at highly inflated prices. GDI with the .ws avoids this pitfall by ensuring the domain name is not sold as a separate entity, but only with the web hosting service. .ws is still new and now is the time to get the domain name you want. No additional $20 yearly fee for just the domain name registration.

Registrants of .ws "web site" domains include individuals, small businesses and major corporations throughout the world in over 180 countries and include such notable companies as Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) and AT&T (NYSE: T).

Besides, the package cover- a wonderful site builder suit, meta-tag creator, 10 free email accounts, domain privacy service (it is not available for these TLDS .bz, .cn, .in, .la, .us), email forwarding services, URL forwarding services etc. Full GDI product overview goes here.

Income Possibilities: Income potential with the GDI is huge. Many well known affiliate programs have used GDI as the me potential with the GDI is huge. Many well known affiliate programs i.g - empowerism.com, plug-in-profitsite have used GDI as the background money maker. GDI pay 50% of their earnings to the marketers in 5 matrix levels (10% in each level). Suppose, you promote 5 active members, each paying $10/month- you earn $5 in the first level affiliate commission. When each of them refer another 5 members, you get $30 (10% of the total 30 members) in your second level... thus the trail goes on upto 5 levels deep. Besides these affiliate commissions- GDI offers Current Referral Contests & Bonus Opportunites declared by GDI is an additional opportunity to earn an UNLIMITED number of $100 BONUS each week by simply referring FIVE new confirmed affiliates in a 7-day Contest Period. Plus- GDI has declared another $5,000 Heavy Hitter Bonus for referring 1000 confirmed affiliates within consecutive 4 week period. This section shows the confirmed leaderboards for our current weekly bonus contest. For every 5 new accounts signed up by an affiliate during 6 days, they receive $100 as bonus. Only new signups that convert to paying customers on our first charge attempt on their 7th day when their free trial ends are counted towards bonuses. Minimum payout to paypal account is $10 and $50 for bank wiring paid every 15th.

Name of the Top Affiliates is removed for security purposes only

Is GDI An MLM? Yaap. GDI is an MLM. GDI offers multi level compensation to its customers in 5 matrix levels. Due to its compensation distribution structure many of the new joiners take it as an ponzi scheme. But it is not the fact. GDI has an established product base in the field of domain hosting services with its very noteworthy customer support service. If you raise an issue, you will get response in less than 24 hours. Otherwise, you are open to raise your issues in the GDI Forum also. People in the forum are very helpfull. If GDI could provide auto-responder service with its hosting pack- GDI would be the most unique business opportunity for the newbies. However, there are a bunch of GDI Plug-ins, which would help out the opportunity seekers to thrive their business. In the next part of the article, we will discuss about the plug-ins which you could use to promote GDI at best.

History & Background of GDI: This is now a well known story about two UCLA college mates who prowned the in the domain hosting business in the earnly 21st and revolutionized everything. Native Californians Alan Ezeir, 32, and Michael Reed, 31, went their separate ways after UCLA. Ezeir & Reed worked worked in sales for a variety of telecom and technology related companies. After a long houl of working years, they planned to do something innovative and ulitize their experiences gathered in their long working years for their own profits and setting up a new business. In 1996, the pair hooked up to launch Planet Earth Communications to sell long-distance phone service via the Internet. Tapping technology to the utmost, Reed and Ezeir built a business that required as little human contact with customers as possible -- allowing Planet Earth to offer variable rates frequently below those offered by the major carriers. This was just one side of their global business.

In the mid1990's when, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned each nation a country code like- .au, .us, .in, uk; Mike & Reed focused on the domain extension .WS -- which belongs to the tiny island nation of Samoa, deep in the South Pacific. "We knew that a good, easy-to-remember country code could be marketable globally as a viable alternative to .com". So, that was the starting.

Global Domains International, Inc. (GDI) is based in Carlsbad, CA, has been named one of America's entrepreneurial growth leaders by Inc magazine, is currently ranked 7th among the Top100 Security Companies and 21st among Top100 with a registered growth of 757.1% with accumulated revenue worth $15.0 million for the year 2008. Obviously, the credit of their 3digit growth goes to the marketing strategy enviaged- which is unique one.

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eBay Q4 Profit Breakups

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:38:00 -0700

EBay forecast fourth-quarter revenue of $2.02 billion to $2.17 billion, compared with $2.18 billion a year earlier. The value of goods sold on EBay's sites fell 1 percent in the third quarter, the first drop in the company's history, as international markets declined as much as the U.S.

EBay's marketplaces revenue rose 4 percent to $1.38 billion in the third quarter. New marketplace listings climbed 26 percent from a year earlier, the fourth consecutive quarterly increase, EBay said. Revenue rose to $2.12 billion from $1.89 billion, helped by growth in its PayPal Internet payments unit and global classified advertising. The company's PayPal unit logged much higher growth - 27 percent, with revenue rising to $597 million.

Gross merchandise volume, or GMV, the value of all goods that users sold on EBay's sites, fell 1 percent. The average selling price on EBay's Web sites fell 7 percent, as consumers globally were squeezed by higher fuel and food prices, job losses and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. They are buying ``fewer large ticket items,'' Donahoe said yesterday. Revenue from Skype, which added 32 million users in the quarter, climbed 46 percent to $143 million.

One thousand full-time employees and about 600 temporary and part-time workers will be fired by the end of this year, EBay said Oct. 6/2008. The job cuts will cost EBay $70 million to $80 million pretax, most of which will be recorded in the fourth quarter, and lead to annual savings of about $150 million.

EBay's number of new listings jumped 26 percent year over year to 700 million. But the number of active users - which is an important measure of how well it is doing bringing in new buyers and sellers - rose just 3 percent in the quarter to 85.7 million.

Courtesy: (Bloomberg.com)

Dicover CPanel- How to setup your Website/blog

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:30:00 -0700

Chris Morris and Bob the Teacher sharing information on how to become a master your own web hosting. The complete narrated video will teach you out how to configure your CPanel account. Bob will teach in his small brief about CPanel will teach you how to cut the cost of Middle man, that you used to hire for installing/maintaining your blog, installing scripts and maintaining databases.

In this personally illustrated video, I found a lots of information and tutorials that are best in this line. Bob Jenkins (Bob the Teacher) is renowned for coaching the bloggers, how to set up a business blog and how to start problogging as a career.

I am happy to forward this video to you, because I know this 5 minutes coaching will cut lots of administrative costs in the near future-

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5 Ways You Can Build Your Reputation With Social Networking

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:55:00 -0700

Five Ways You Can Build Your Reputation With Social Networking
By Bob Jenkins

Are you using social networks to build your reputation online? Whether you already are or you are just getting started with sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Ning, building your online reputation is your biggest responsibility.

Here are five ways to make sure you do it right.

#1: Be Proud Of Being You

The first thing is, you have to be yourself. You have to be who you are. Because although you can get away with being fake for a little while, as soon as one person realizes that you're not who you say you are, your reputation is destroyed almost instantly because of the power of social networking.

So be yourself. And don't be afraid of being yourself. Realize that you have some gifts and some knowledge that people need to know about, and those that want to learn from you are going to gravitate towards you. Those that don't think you're worth listening to are basically going to ignore you. And it's at their peril, so don't worry about them.

#2: Transparency - Never Hide From Your Audience

The second thing about your reputation is you should try to be transparent at all times. This means you keep everything real with your audience.

For example, over the last year, I used social media to show you my move from Maryland to North Carolina, including drama with the movers, picking the house, and getting it set up. I also pulled back the curtain to show what it takes to run a product launch.

When I did my last product launch, I was Twittering every day what I was doing to get ready for this site. Most of the gurus out there would keep everything under lock and key, and I was being very clear, saying, "This is what I'm doing to get ready for this launch." It actually helped me have a better launch, even though I told everybody exactly what I was going to be doing.

They didn't think that they had some surprise or whatever like most people teach; they just were excited to be part of it and part of the story. So be transparent. Let people know what you're doing and why you're doing it, and they're going to learn how to trust you.

#3: Be Positive For Positive Results

The third way to build your reputation is to be positive.

There are folks out there who generally can do a good job of being negative. I don't know about you, but I don't find that to be a very long-term profitable strategy.

It may get you some attention at first and spark some controversy, but that's not the way to go. Be looking forward to the optimistic of your industry, of your business and what the results are going to be.

It would be easy for you to go onto Twitter or onto Facebook and talk about how you're having a bad day or this product sucks or this week sucks or this relationship sucks. But you're not really there for a support network, per se.

You'll find some of that. If you have something bad happen in your life, sharing it with your followers will be very therapeutic for you and you will get a lot of support back. But when you're just blasting negative things out, you're going to get negative things in return, usually.

So try to be positive as much as possible and look for the opportunities that are out there and look at them from that positive perspective.

#4: Build Your Reputation And They Will Come

The fourth thing you must do is to be patient. This is because, initially, your reputation is going to be built only by yourself and the first initial people who get to know you. But as time goes on and you get more followers and you build a larger network of friends and peers, your reputation will solidify to allow your business to grow.

Once it hits a tipping point, your reputation and business accelerates at a very quick pace.

So be patient and let it happen. Don't try this stuff out for a week and then come back to me next week and say, "Well, it didn't really work. I didn't really get any results yet." You've got to let social networking play out over a few weeks and then a couple months and so on. A year from now your business is going to be tremendously different compared to where it is right now.

#5: Contribute To The Conversation – Every Day!

The fifth thing about your reputation is you need to be someone that people look to as a contributor, not as a leech, not as a mooch, as a contributor.

You have to be willing to be involved in the conversation, and you have to be willing to give as much or even more than what you're going to get in return. The people who do that are growing so fast it makes my head spin.

I feel that I'm a pretty giving person but I see some other folks out there that just keep on giving, giving, giving and they just build up a huge following and that social capital is a real asset to your business. So you need to make sure that you're contributing as much as possible to the conversation.

I don't mean that as just go around randomly and try to help people. Within your specific task, your specific industry, the things you know well, you need to be at the forefront of letting people know how to do what you know how to do without charging them money at first.

They'll come and find your site and your products and they'll pay you for that as time goes on and their needs grow. With social networking you need to be building your reputation up first.

If somebody has a question, you should be one of the first people who answers and you need to answer without reservation not just, "Oh, I answered that in my eBook; go buy it". They're going to find your eBook if you just talk to them and give them solutions to the problem they are struggling with at that moment.

Give people your input, your encouragement for them to get better at what they are trying to do.

Any little quick free advice you can give, give it.

Actively Build Your Reputation With Social Networking And Reap The Rewards

You've got to be in this for the reason of having fun and really building that relationship. Dollars will come, there's no doubt about that. But first, connect with people and really help them out. Understand that they'll become loyal followers of what you do and see you for who you are.

Follow these 5 steps to building your reputation online and you'll not only beat your competition, you'll have more fun doing it!

Bob Jenkins teaches business owners how to use internet marketing strategies effectively to attract more customers and get more sales without spending a fortune on advertising. Get more free social networking lessons at http://discoversocialnetworking.com/profits/?lessons=1610.

Reporter vs Expert - Why Most Bloggers Are Stuck Reporting

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:26:00 -0700

Courtesy - Yaro Starak

There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).

If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I’ll be frank; you want to be the expert.

Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven’t established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it’s easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc… experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.

Most Bloggers Are Reporters

The thing with expertise is that it requires something - experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).

There’s nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it’s a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts - there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.

Don’t Replicate Your Teacher

If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a “guru” (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.

The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry - the Internet marketing industry - not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it’s next to impossible to succeed.

Even people, who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it’s fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche - Internet marketing - and rarely have any key points of differentiation.

How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things - email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It’s a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let’s face it - making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) - your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.

If the key is to become an expert and you haven’t spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.

Report on Your Process, Not Others

The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people’s work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.

It’s okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it’s fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there’s. Frame things using your opinion - your stories - and don’t regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.

Expertise comes from doing things most people don’t do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.

You Are Already An Expert

Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don’t leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.

Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life, who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of…well fear.

Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven’t much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.

Reporting Is A Stepping Stone

If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from “scratch”, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.

Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.

Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it’s okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that’s all most experts really are.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

Here are a few video tutorials on Successfull blogging from Yaro Starak!

10 Blog Traffic Tips - From the desk of Yaro Starak

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:41:00 -0700

By- Yaro Starak

In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else's blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that's about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.

Top 10 Tips:

10. Write at least five major "pillar" articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good "how-to" lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don't have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need a easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that's the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you’ve done a good job!).

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people’s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger's article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it's sort of like your blog telling someone else’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will likely come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival often enjoy a spike in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at blogcarnival.com.

3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it's so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it's worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn’t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it's worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.

How you benefit is through what is called your "Resource Box". You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I’ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won’t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

I hope you enjoyed my list of traffic tips. Everything listed above are techniques I’ve put into place myself for my blogs and have worked for me, however it's certainly not a comprehensive list. There are many more things you can do. Finding readers is all about testing to see what works best for you and your audience and I have no doubt if you put your mind to it you will find a balance that works for you.

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Exclusing interview with Ewen Chia, Aaron Wall, John Chow etc

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:37:00 -0700

Blog Of The Day !!

www.gathersuccess.com

I am feeling myself privileged for discovering a very soft written blog on online marketing by Mr Phang. I am thankful to Mr. Alvin Phang for giving us all an opportunity to get an appearance and listening to his journey as one of the most successful bloggers of the time, that he started just one year back on his own voice.

Mr. Phang started his business on 7th October/06 as a Professional Blogger at the bare age of 24 years. On an average 25,000 visitors surf his blog everyday and more than 194,000 visitors from the day of inception of the blog.

What are the Points of Attraction?

A very lucid blog design, straight cut writing style, cleaver presentation of the money making opportunities / affiliate programs, in a synchronized way. Yes, one of the most informative Blog, that I have surfed yet.

I am especially thankful to him for arranging interviews with -

1.... the doyans of the Online Marketing like- Ewen Chia, Tracy Repchuk.
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5 Reports On Online Marketing & Home Based Business Opportunities

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:27:00 -0700

Advertising sales forecast has just been released by ZenithOptimedia - details from the report today and noted "The forecasts for internet advertising have been revised upwards. The report now forecasts 29.9% growth this year (up from 28.6% forecast three months ago) and 85% growth between 2006 and 2009 (up from 82%). Online video and local search are the new, fast-growing segments, but display, classified and the rest of search are still growing rapidly as well. Internet advertising is expected to account for 9.5% of all expenditure in 2009, fractionally up from the 9.4% forecast three months ago..... The study expects newspapers' share of world ad expenditure to fall from 29.0% in 2006 to 26.2% in 2009. Full Story on - Ahorre.com

Hispanic households tend to be younger on average than the U.S. population at large. Of the more than 10 million Hispanic households, 38 percent are currently headed by someone under 35, and an additional 25 percent are led by someone between the ages of 35 and 44 (the national average for homes with heads under 35 is 23 percent.) By 2010, the under-45 Hispanic market will increase to 8 million households, and its purchasing power will leap from the current level of less than $295 billion to $397 billion. In other words, $3 out of every $5 flowing to Hispanic households in 2010 will be in the hands of this younger-than-average segment. Full Story on - Ahorre.com

The Future of Advertising and Marketing Programs : Fundamental changes in the way marketing programs are planned, created and executed are expected in 2007, according to the Association of National Advertisers ANA. Here are ten ways the marketing landscape is likely to be transformed, as predicted by the ANA’s leadership team. Full Story on - Ahorre.com

The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced today that the estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the first quarter of 2008, adjusted for seasonal variation, but not for price changes, was $33.8 billion, an increase of 0.8 percent (±1.0%)* from the fourth quarter of 2007. Total retail sales for the first quarter of 2008 were estimated at $1,024.2 billion, an increase of 0.1 percent (±0.2%)* from the fourth quarter of 2007. The first quarter 2008 e-commerce estimate increased 13.6 percent (±1.2%) from the first quarter of 2007 while total retail sales increased 2.8 percent (±0.2%) in the same period. E-commerce sales in the first quarter of 2008 accounted for 3.3 percent of total sales. Full Story on: Census.gov

“Home-based businesses collectively generated a remarkable amount of economic activity, especially for women and minorities,” said Census Bureau Director Louis Kincannon. “Just released data also show most businesses are started by people and families who dig into their own pockets.” Almost half (49 percent) of the nation’s businesses are operated from home, and more than 6-in-10 owners used their own money to start the business, according to new U.S. Census Bureau reports on characteristics of businesses and business owners. Nearly 1-in-10 U.S. businesses -- both employer firms and nonemployer firms -- were started by owners who used personal or business credit cards to finance the startup or acquisition. Nearly 3-in-10 (28 percent) of all entrepreneurs started or acquired their business with no capital at all. Full Story On: Census.gov

More Demographic Reports on US Home Business Workers / Engterpreneurs : Census.gov. Download the Free Report on Home Business Workers in the US (.pdf)

eBay Provides Secondary income to 724,000 US Enterprenuers!!

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:27:00 -0700

Since eBay became more than just an online garage sale, many retail industry observers have wondered just how important eBay is as a selling force. A new survey by ACNielsen International Research for eBay provides an answer: very important. The survey reports that 724,000 Americans derive their primary or secondary income from eBay, a group which eBay characterizes as “professional eBay sellers.” Another 1.5 million say they supplement their income by selling on eBay.

In the first six months of 2005, eBay members in the U.S. sold merchandise worth approximately $10.6 billion. The number of eBay entrepreneurs in the U.S. has increased 68% since the last comparable study in 2003, when 430,000 Americans said they were making some or all of their income selling on eBay.

“In just 10 years, eBay has become the destination for Americans pursuing their visions of entrepreneurship,” said Bill Cobb, president of eBay North America. “We’re proud to play a central role in small business development in the U.S. and around the world.”

EBay hopes to increase that number by hosting eBay Days Small Business seminars in eight cities in the U.S. this summer.

Courtesy: Ahorre.com

A few words about PofitMart.com

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Mon, 2 Jun 2008 04:15:00 -0700

What is ProfitMart?

Any IDEA?

NO???

Then please give me a minute, so that I can explain what really ProfitMart is... What I experienced as a member... And about the opportunity...

In common parellance, is an online home based business. As an online home business opportunity ProfitMart is not a big exception to other 2-Tier affiliate programs. But what unusual I found with the affiliate program is that, it provides a basic platform to anybody who wants a establish an online business
for the future...

ProfitMart provides the basic/advanced tools, free resources and tutorials that every newbie or a webmaster will need to set-up an online venture. In the ProfitMart Bonus gift package - I found a fantastic eBook "Idiot's Guide to WebMarketing" by "Rick Davies & Ron Davies", a well written masterpiece - a text book on Affiliate Mareting for a novice like me.

ProfitMart is a 2 tier Affiliate Program. Every newly enrolled member, get a free
website just like mine - http://refdem.net, a very professionally designed website package with a Free Domain, 5 Free Sub-Domains, Unlimited Auto-Responders, POP3 eMail IDs, Free Tutorials, free pass to a Forum where I met like minded webmasters and they are equally helping and very kind hearted.

You make 50% montly residual income, plus profit from popular revenue programs like - Amazon, ClickBank, eBay, Google Adsense and your own affiliate programs you want to promote.

The differences I observed in ProfitMart is only these...

If you ask me to rate ProfitMart- I will be happy to give them 10 out of 10. Review yourself- and let me know your own experience with ProfitMart.

Below is a slideshow of the cPanel and Administrative Control Panel, to make a panaromic view of the full system !!

Here is a sample screenshot of my friend PS Thoo's Earning !!

How You Can Become a Super Affiliate

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Thu, 22 May 2008 08:45:00 -0700

The humdrum existence of going to the office day after day doing the usual 9-5 shift is a trying task for those who have lived all their lives doing so. This is why the convenience of doing work at home under amazingly flexible working hours is a dazzling prospect to them. Doing work at home that is as fulfilling as having a career working for a computer on the 19th floor of a skyscraper is already a possibility in these modern times. This is because the jungle-like network that is the internet has given birth to a business that has given some people practically new lives doing nothing but so.

This particular business allows people to work at home under flexible working hours. There is no boss to scream around putting pressure on everyone about the deadline at hand. There is no clutter of messy paperwork that needs to be completed the soonest possible time. Conveniences such as these are experienced by those who are into affiliate marketing, the newest way to earn money without having to go through all sorts of routine found in regular employment.

Those who have been in the business long enough can attest to the fact that it is a lucrative business indeed, one that can actually give people things that they could not possibly possess or experience under ordinary circumstances.

The business called affiliate marketing involves an affiliate's promotion of a merchant's website. Here the website owned by the affiliate is made to advertise and market the website of the merchant through the affiliate program that they run. Whenever someone clicks on the merchant's website promoted by the one owned by the affiliate, the affiliate is given a commission. This is in recognition of his effort in helping the merchant make a sale.

The system involved in affiliate marketing seems easy, but it also takes a lot of diligence and perseverance for one to be able to penetrate it thoroughly. Those who want to get into this type of business should possess the necessary skills to be able tread through the industry with confidence and self-assurance. Still, other factors are needed by one to be able to really break in. Knowledge about the business at hand is very important as it dictates the actions that are to be done by people who are into it.

The leading figure in affiliate marketing is the Super Affiliate. He is basically an e-mail marketer who collects large databases of e-mail addresses through newsletters. Super affiliates are also those who know the business even better than affiliate managers as a result of their knowledge about the affiliate marketing industry inside out. Those who want to be super affiliates should know that becoming a super affiliate is not easy, because it takes a lot to be able to master the marketing craft.

Becoming a super affiliate means having one's own website and autoresponder. These tools will help a lot in one's facilitation of the business. Building one's own list is another. Creating a loyal customer base and taking care of it is one secret that successful super affiliates have. Making good customer relations is also important if one wants to be a super affiliate to reckon with.
Continuing to market to the people on one's list is another must if one wants to succeed as a super affiliate. Sending out quality content in lieu of ads is an advantage as products are marketed better whenever enough information is given about them.

Building traffic to one's own site is also one of the most essential points in the affiliate marketing business. Making one's affiliate links his own business will allow him to build a strong relationship with his customers, enabling him to market to them over and over again.

The most important thing one should remember if he wants to become a super affiliate is to treat affiliate marketing as a business first and foremost. If he is capable of doing this, then he will never have to go back to the humdrum existence of working the 9-5 shift. A career as a super affiliate in the business which will change his life forever could possibly take that unexciting job's place.

How pro bloggers make money from blogs

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:26:00 -0800

By- Stelios Eleftheriou

Problogging (professional blogging) refers to blogging for a profit. Probloggers (professional bloggers) are people who make money from blogging (as an individual blog publisher or a hired blogger).

Below are just some of the many money-making opportunities for probloggers:

Advertising programs
RSS advertising· Sponsorship
Affiliate Programs· Digital assets
Blog network writing gigs
Business blog writing gigs
Non blogging writing gigs
Donations
Flipping blogs· Merchandising
Consulting and speaking

The following are a few things that you need to consider if you want to be successful in problogging:

1. Be patient. Problogging requires a lot of time and effort, not to mention a long-term vision.

2. Know your audience. Targeting a specific audience or group is a key to building a readership.

3. Be an 'expert'. Focus on a specific niche topic and strive to be the "go-to" blogger on that topic.

4. Diversify. Experiment with various add and affiliate programs that enable you to make money online (aside from blogging).

5. Do not bore your readers. Focus on the layout. White spaces, line spacings, and bigger fonts make a blog welcoming to read.

Certainly, earning money from blogs can be easily achieved. Some use it to promote their "money sites" where they sell their own products, create a relationship with their newsletter subscribers, or review affiliate programs and earn commissions.

I do a little bit of everything on my own Wordpress blog at http://www.myonlinebizsecrets.com/

Some others are creating blog after blog with a system called "Blogging to the Bank" and are earning very nice commissions with it. Whatever your own style is, blogging is one advertising medium you should not do without.

Source: http://www.imsuccessguide.com/

How To Make A Living As An Affiliate

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 07:01:00 -0800

95% of all affiliates make $0 - $100 a year. I don't know about you, but in my books, this is not a living. In this quick “How To” guide, we'll take a look at how you can become part of the 5% who ARE making their living online. This guide does not guarantee that you'll make a fortune, but it will point you in the right direction if you're interested in making a living as an affiliate.

Mindset: Get in touch with your grey matter. Program your mind with positive, committed thoughts. If you can believe it,you can achieve it. It sounds a bit like a sales seminar, but bottom line is, if you don't believe you can make a living online, you won't. You have to be committed. Commit to yourself that you will develop an income online - no matter what it takes. Think of your business as a bacon and eggs breakfast. The chicken was involved, the pig was committed!

Viewpoint: This is your business. Once you've accomplished your first hurdle and committed yourself to making this work, you have to look at your business from the proper viewpoint. No rose coloured glasses here. This is your business. You are the CEO of your own marketing company. You can choose to offer your services to one or several companies. Bottom line, you are responsible for every action in your company. Every decision you make affects your bottom line.

Learning Curve: Expect it. Becoming an affiliate is like going to college or university. You start at the beginning, learn the basics and build on what you learn. Take it step-by-step and you'll build a much stronger business. Think of it like becoming a doctor. One doesn't decide to become a doctor with the expectation of opening a successful practice one week from now. It takes time to learn the products or services you're marketing and it takes time to learn to run your business.

Budget: Time and money. Set a general budget for both. As a business owner, you'll use plenty of time developing and promoting your affiliate business. Budget as much time as you can each day and make sure you use your time wisely. Set up a budget for your monetary expenses too. You can run a business online with a shoestring budget, just don't expect a mammoth income in the beginning. The more you can invest in your business, the better. This doesn't mean that simply throwing money at your business will make it grow. Every dollar that goes out your door, needs to come back in and bring another dollar with it.

Goals: s/he shoots - s/he scores! Your goals will get you through the tough times. There'll be lots of days when you feel like quitting. If you make your goals tangible, you'll make it through the tough days. Money isn't a motivator, but what money can buy, is. Set your goals for a family vacation, a new car, boat, or home. It's much easier to get excited about a shiny red corvette in your driveway than $100,000 sitting in your bank account. Money is only numbers on a pieceof paper or a computer screen, but it can bring you a luxurious lifestyle, and that's where the fun is.

Nuts and Bolts: Once you've got your house in order, with the proper mindset, you're looking at your business from a realistic viewpoint, you've got an open mind and you're ready to learn, you've set aside some time and money and you've got pictures of your dream house, car and vacation plastered on your wall, you're ready to go hunting. The next step is to find a business that interests you and offers an affiliate program with a reasonable commission. For information products, one of the most popular and profitable online, you can and should expect a commission of 25% or more.

Look before you leap: Finding a company to represent as an affiliate is one thing, finding a company that respects its affiliates is another. Do a bit of research before you jump on the bandwagon. Send an email to the company as if you're a potential customer. 24 - 48 hours is a good response time. This shows that someone is actually running the company. It also gives you an idea of their commitment. Generally, the faster the response, the more committed the company is to doing business. The quality of the response is also important.Did the response answer your question? Was it written in a friendly, professional manor? Did they answer your question directly or simply send you to a FAQ sheet?

Flip the switch: If everything checks out up to this point,then your next step is to take action. Fill out the affiliate application form and get your affiliate URL. Now the ball is in your court. It's time to get down to brass tacks. If you freeze now, you make no money and flush your goals down the toilet. If you take action, you make it one step closer to your goals.

Build your Website: OK not really, but you do have to build it. If you want to maximize your income and be taken seriously, you need to own a website. Just like a brick and mortar business, you need a professional location to offer your products. Yes, you get an affiliate URL when you sign up as an affiliate, but promoting an affiliate link looks amateur and will help you LOSE 98% of your sales. We'll cover this in point 10.

Follow-up = Sales: Only 2% of your prospects will sign up or buy what you're offering, on their first visit. 98% of yoursales will be made from your follow up. There's a very simple method for following up and making sales automatically.

i. Check your favourite search engine to locate a free ebook, software program or report that relates to your offer. If you're promoting a website that sells peanut butter, a free peanut butter recipe book would be a good match. Your give-away must always relate to the product you're promoting to maximize the results of this system.

ii. Build a page on your website to give away your free peanutbutter recipe book. Design the page as if you were designing a sales page. Make people's mouths water until they want the recipes so bad they'd gladly pay for them, but then give it to them free. All they have to do is fill in their name and email address in the simple form and you'll send their recipe book to them instantly via email.

iii. As soon as your peanut butter prospect fills out the formon your site and clicks the send button, they are taken to your affiliate URL where they can buy peanut butter. At the same time, the peanut butter recipe book is sent to their email address.

iv. Now your peanut butter prospect receives an email from you each week with new tips and useful peanut butter information. This information positions you as a peanut butterexpert and gives you the opportunity to promote your peanut butter affiliate website once a week, to hot prospects. This is where you'll make 98% of your sales.

Although this may seem like an overwhelming amount of work for the beginner, it's all very simple. The whole process is run from an autoresponder, a simple piece of email software that automatically sends your prewritten email messages on a predetermined schedule.

Your success as an affiliate is determined by you. 95% of the people that read this simple How To guide will do nothing withit. 5% of the people that read this guide will put all the pieces in place and start making a living as an affiliate. You have to decide which side of the coin you want to be on.

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Article Directories Drive Traffic by Cody Moya

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:35:00 -0800

Article Directories Drive Traffic by Cody Moya

Today, internet marketing has become the number one method of advertising a business. The Internet works for your company 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It never sleeps. It never takes a holiday. Everywhere webmasters are utilizing the incredible marketing potential of the Internet. Every day, websites are built to help companies that might never have attracted the right customers instead reach millions. Profit increases, sales are made, and everyone is happy.

But a website is completely useless if it doesn't attract visitors. The way to make money online is by attracting an audience. And the best way to do this is to have great content on your website.

Content is the text and images of your website. The text is the most important for most searches; search engines like Yahoo! and Google seek out keywords and phrases that can only be found in text content on websites. And when the right combination of keywords and phrases are found on your website, they will move you up in the order that you're listed when someone searches for those keywords. For instance, if your site is all about "cat food," then your keyword phrase should be "cat food."

Depending on how your site compares with other sites on cat food, your position in a search list may be high or low. Ideally, you want to be within the first fifty, and higher if possible; few people look beyond the first fifty keyword matches.

But this leaves most webmasters with a problem: how to get that great content on their websites. Few webmasters are prolific writers, and it takes a lot of writing to come up with good content. And even if you have the best mousetrap in the world, if the search engines don't see attractive content, they'll skip right over you to the guy who uses a string and a piece of cheese, but can write good keyword content.

Enter Ghostwritten Keyword Articles

You don't have to write your own keyword articles. Instead, you can purchase keyword articles written by talented writers. These writers sell all legal rights to their articles, generally to a broker you work with directly, and you're allowed to put your own name on these articles as the author.

The benefits of this are:

You become recognized as the expert you are.
You can place this high-quality content on your web site, improving the ranking of your website on search engines
You suddenly gain control over well-written information you can share with your established customers
Your new customers keep coming back to your website seeking fresh content

Placing great content on your website is not a one-time investment. Web consumers are impatient, looking for information they can apply to their own lives immediately, and are always hunger for fresh data. If you're selling cat food, one article on vitamin-fortified tuna for cats isn't enough; you'll need to keep placing information online to keep customers coming back. And article brokers can help you do this, with each fresh article gradually increasing your search ranking as the search engine spiders learn that you have frequent fresh high-quality information.

But that's not all.

In addition to placing these articles on your own web site, you can register as an author with an online article directory. These directories are repositories of article content written for specified keywords by various authors. These directories allow you to search through hundreds of quality articles, choosing the ones that best express the ideas behind your website. And the service is generally free; once you have registered with the site and chosen articles, you can add the articles to your website.

So why, you ask, should you hand over the article you just bought to someone else for free?

The hitch to online article directories is that the user needs to include the resource box embedded in each article, the box leading to the author's own website. When someone uses your article, they're creating a link to your website.

Besides keywords, search engines look for links to your website when they're ranking your website. The more people who use your article, the more likely you are to see your ranking move upward. Everyone wins: the writer is paid, you have great content on your site, the other person using the article gets great content as well, and you get a link back to your website from them – free advertisement and upward movement again in the search engines.

Some of the most popular Article Directories include

Go Articles: http://www.goarticles.com

Ezine Articles: http://www.ezinearticles.com

Idea Marketers: http://www.ideamarketers.com

Marketing Seek: http://www.marketing-seek.com/index.php

Other rules and regulations apply to each directory, so you should be certain to read everything referring to agreements carefully.

About The Author:

Cody Moya writes about Article Marketing in his free 50 parts course on Internet Marketing. You can sign up for his Free Internet Marketing Course and get additional information at his Website: http://www.marketing.us/

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Friendswin.com - The Social Networking Site

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:12:00 -0800

Hi,

IT'S all about my Social Networking Site, where I enjoy the most- its FRIENDSWIN.COM!

Though this posting may seem to be too much pitchy and too much marketing oriented, its true that Friendswin have changed the whole gamut of social networking with more user oriented services...

Friendswin.com is a social networking site being integrated with VIDEO to create amazing applications. Video dating, video resumes and video conferencing are only three...

But what's the "clincher"? Friendswin has an incredible affiliate marketing program that pays commissions for signups for people actively marketing the site. With our 5x8 "SUPER MATRIX", affiliates are paid 8 levels deep, and generate substantial overrides on their downline. Check out the compensation program here!

Friendswin.com combines top online industries to make you money!

1. Social Networking - Growing 89%/yr, expected to double in the next 2 years! (Imagine being the first person in MySpace and then getting paid on marketing and sponsoring the huge numbers of new members that followed!)

2. Online Dating. This is a HUGE online industry too, with over 35 million users. But what happens when you combine Match.com with YouTube? .....it's called FRIENDSWIN.COM

3. Online Job Boards... Ever try to stand-out by posting a text based resume on Monster or HotJobs? Tell your friends to use Friendswin to host their video based resumes....and see the offers pour in!

4. The Internet Home Business Industry - Absolutely Huge! Friendswin lets you build a downline of over 450,000 people. Get paid overrides on customer purchases on all these products. And if you consider how many people will use Friendswin that you can get paid on....well, you can be in Doctor or Laywer income territory for sure....

Now you know the basics, Sign-up NOW and make sure you and your friends are with us for the opportunity of a lifetime!

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Online Casino Sites Reviewed

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:31:00 -0800

“Just how much online ad money spills forth from the gambling industry slot machine is unclear. However, insiders estimate the largest Web gambling firm, PartyGaming, spends anywhere from $100 million to $200 million trying to reach the U.S. audience; the company spends on a variety of offline and online ad media. According to PartyGaming's 2005 annual report, about $860 million -- 88 percent of its total 2005 revenues -- was derived from its poker operation, and 34 percent of those poker monies were generated through its affiliate network. Nearly 84% of PartyGaming's online players are U.S.-based” According to a report published in 2006, on the brink of enactment of Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act/2006

SEs stoped accepting paid listings, PPC advertisements. Many hoped the Industry will crush and the Google, Overture and other SEs will feel a major thrash in Ad Revenues generated either from paid listing or PPC programs. But if retrospect and see whole gamut from another angle- due to the Great Death of the Major Online Casinos the small players and popping up just like wild fire since 2006 even more vigorously. If you surf a while any Casino Directory like http://www.pro360.com/ you will be amazed by the size of the directories. More than thousand online casino, gambling and gaming sites are reviewed so far at Pro360.com

If you find the root of the evil- you find the die hard marketing of the affiliate marketers. Marc Lesnick, who runs the Casino Affiliate Convention conference series, estimates the average experienced gambling affiliate site operator rakes in anywhere from $2,000 to $25,000 a month through ad commissions from real money gambling sites.

Online gambling is becoming harder and harder for Americans to take part in because of the U.S. government. I know many of my readers bet online and are often in a fix as to what casino to go for, what is highly recommended. Pro360.com offers you to pick the casinos by choosing them ranked or game-wise. In the ranked order, the casinos are listed according to their ranking. Details of bonuses, editor rating, player rating and reviews are given. In game based ranking, the casinos are ranked according to the ranking of the particular game at the casino. The popular games available are Blackjack, Video Poker, Baccarat and Keno among others. They even have a wide selection of articles on betting, online gambling, what online casino to choose and so on.

At Online Casino Reviews they list which casinos are open to Americans so you avoid going through the hassle of downloading the program and having to delete it because it isn’t open to you. For each entry you will find a detailed review, the casino certificate, the available bonus, the editor rating and also the players rating. If you are about to take part in online gambling, take security provisions seriously. The reviews will help you out...

The Great Challange Ahead to Retailers in India!!

refdem@yahoo.com (Purna Borkotoki) — Tue, 6 Nov 2007 09:17:00 -0800

A Few Facts that Jerked my Mind:

Fact A: US online apparel sales

According to one estimate, US online apparel sales (including accessories and footwear) reached $18.3 billion in 2006 and replaced computer hardware/software as the largest online retail category i.e a 31% increase over the previous year. However, US online apparel sales constitutes only 8% of the total transactions, many optimist online marketing experts expects the figure to grow in future.

Fact B: US consumer package goods (CPG)

The food and beverage category now leads the US consumer package goods (CPG) industry in online advertising, but in 2006 it still spent only a little over 2% of its total $8.6 billion advertising spending budget online. The CPG Online report analyzes the online spending trends of one of the largest and most influential advertising categories. Representing a large part of the category, food and beverage advertisers cut spending in every major media last year—except the Internet, and eMarketer estimates they will spend $288 million advertising online in 2007, a 36.6% increase over last year.

eMarketer estimates that “US retail e-commerce sales (excluding travel) will reach $131 billion this year. As the online channel matures, from now to 2011, the annual average growth rate will slow to 17.5% (contrasting 24.7% reported in the period 2003-05), and increased spending by existing online buyers–rather than new buyers coming online–will be the driving factor.”

However, if you see the report as a whole there are still great day ahead for the online marketers.

According to another report on total online population countrywide US Online User penetration is only 63%, Germany 47.8%, followed by other emerging markets like China- 10.2% , India-2.3%. In my country India, where total Credit Card penetration is not more than 2% on the date, but the percentage hopefully to increase by 10% in next course of 5-7 years, followed by extensive Micro-Credit Financing by NBFCs. Increased issue of Credit Cards, more research and implementation of internet security provisions will definitely boost the online transactions in developing countries like India and China, worldwide in overall…

India bears great potentiality into the future, where the real consuming class/ the middle class people is to hit 63% of the total population by 2011. Luxury, Consumer Durable, Electronics, and Jewelry are among the hot favorites in the online tray of these burgeoning Middle-Class Consumers. These class of people bears large propensity to consumption. Specially, in the metropolies (where retail markets like Pentaloon & BigBazar is available) the middle-class spending lavishly on luxury and household goods. The giant retail chains like Petnaloon has even camouflaged recently on Cyber Media by introducing FutureBazar.com. In the next 3-5 years I guess, FutureBazar.com will even bit eBay.in on total volume of online transactions.

So I think, there is every possibility for a small retailer or whole-seller to nab the market from the clutches of the Big Retail Chains, by implementing technology driven sales, adding value addition in services. By the word technology driven sales, I beg your notice to the Online Marts like- US-Canadian Gift & Flower Site Sendluv.com . Sebdluve.com provide need-based sales to its customers, shipping and typically provide concessions on costlier gift items too.

Attention small business owners. If you own a small business that is primarily run on the internet, and have been searching for a company that will enable you to use reliable and easy to use shopping ca rt software. Ashopcommerce.com is an ecommerce company that provides shopping cart s oftware amongst other services.Ashopcommerce.com not only provides the shopping cart software for your company. They also offer design services such as logo design, homepage design and standard website design. So you don’t have to worry about designing your site which happens to be a common problem most business owners run into.Ashopcommerce.com also allows you to choose from Shopping cart software pricing depending on your company websites popularity.

Sendluv.com is just an example from large list of online marts. But if you think, you have competitive advantage on your products over the tycoons; you need to choose a Shopping cart software to start selling online. Ashop Commerce provides a turn-key ecommerce solution with it's revolutionary online store building software. http://www.ashop.com.au/ provide you the best solution to establish a world class-Search Engine friendly but easy to set up complete operational storefront. Ashop is accredited many awards for providing the complete solution to host shopping cart software. Its key feature includes- World-Class easy to set-up solution, Complete Inventory Control and management solution, Category wise/product based report, customizable daily sales reports, to issue customer centric discounts and gift certificates, bulk order processing, low hosting cost, integrated with major banks and to gateways and third party processors including PayPal. The software is easy to use no knowledge of html is required. They also offer a free user manual, tutorial movies and knowledge base. Ashopcommerce.com also provides free technical support through email, phone, or online chat service. If you still aren’t convinced then try their free trial.

And many more on….