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Groove Funnels vs. Round Clicks (Which is Better for Building Landing Pages?)

2020-12-06T14:10:00.002-08:00

Round Clicks

I was really encouraged and hopeful when I signed up for Round Clicks 30-day free trial. Ultimately, I created 2 landing pages and 2 sales funnels, and although, they were relatively easy to create, they all had problems which I could not fix. The first funnel I created would not open at all in any browser I tried, from Google Chrome, to MicroSoft Edge, to Safari, to Firefox. After writing to support 3 times, they finally fixed it. Then I created a landing page, which STILL after 28 days and writing to support will not open in any browser. Then I created another funnel, which opens, but the browser window shows a url for a ultimate male enhancement supplement pill (very,very bad!!☹). I ended up copying most of the source code, and making a copycat site on Google Sites (which is free). After writing to support multiple times regarding this issue over 28 days, it still is not fixed. Then I created another landing page, which also will not open in any browser window. So, overall Round Clicks was a big disappointment, and I would never spend money on Round Clicks, and I could never, in good conscience recommend Round Clicks to anyone.

Round Clicks Pros

1. Easy to use

2. Low price $49.00 per month for basic plan after 30-day free trial

3. Affiliate program pays 25% commission

Round Clicks Cons

1. Virtually non-existent customer support

2. Pages rarely open in browsers after they are created

3. Suspicious urls show up on pages that do open

Groove Funnels and Groove Pages

As I write this, currently Groove Funnels/Groove Pages allows users to crate 3 landing pages/funnels for free. I don't know how long this promotion will last, but free is one of my favorite prices. Groove Funnels/Pages have a lot of pre-made templates to use as a starting place, so all you have to do is edit the content, or you can start with a blank page. At the top of the editing page, there are 5 icons of various device screen orientations. One of the most difficult and frustrating parts of this platform, is getting all of the elements to be where they are supposed to be in all 5 of the device orientations.

Groove Funnels and Groove Pages Pros

1. Three sites for FREE

2. Two-tier affiliate program paying up to 40% recurring comissions

3. Lots of pre-formatted templates to start from

Groove Funnels and Groove Pages Cons

1. Difficult to get elements aligned properly so they display where they are supposed to display accross all device type screens.

2. Upgrading can be expensive, but also rewarding.

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The Key Elements to Internet Marketing A DIY Guide

2020-10-19T04:59:00.001-07:00

The Key Elements to Internet Marketing A DIY Guide

So you have a website, and you want to increase your traffic to sell your product. There are thousands of the websites just like yours, so how will you be seen? There are basically 3 options. You can pay some company thousands of dollars to market your site for you; you can hire someone full time to do the marketing for you; or you can do the marketing yourself. This guide will give you the basic knowledge you need to market your website successfully at your own pace.

First, you need to have realistic expectations. Web sites do not get in the top 10 in search engines over night. There is a lot of hard work that needs to be put into a site for it to rank high. I would grab a pen and paper and write down your main competitors. Then I would use the Google Toolbar to check their pagerank and incoming links to see how they rank. The higher the pagerank and more links pointing to your site, the higher your site will be in the search engines. Once you see how many links are pointing to their site and how good their pagerank is, you have an idea how much work is needed to get your site listed.

Link trading is the process in which you will get these links pointing to your site. You need to contact other similar, good ranked pages and tell them how trading links will benefit both sites, and then link to them, and in exchange they will link to you. The more pages linking to you the better, but remember quality, relevant high pagerank sites is what your looking for, you want your link to be on a pagerank 2 site as least, preferably 3+. Managing your link exchange program takes time, some software on the market can do this for you, some of the software is good, some bad. I would recommend adding the links to your site manually to start, until you get a better understanding of the SEO world.

Articles are another good method to establish links to your site. Unlike a regular link exchange which is just a sentence with a link, publishing an article you wrote will give other websites quality content about your business / products and also link back to your site. Most article sites do not require a link back to them, so when your link is published search engines count that link better then a standard link exchange because you are not linking back.

One-way links is just that, a link to your site, but in return you do not link back. Articles are great one-way links, but so are directories! There are numerous directories on the internet ranging from shopping to home improvement. You can go to these sites, and either for free, or a small fee you can submit your site to them. Having your site listed in the major directories benefits your site in 2 ways. First, you get a link back to your site, increasing your link popularity, and second, people searching the directories for your product may see your site and buy from you.

As you can see, getting your site listed in the major search engines will take some time to do, you need to manage a link exchange program, submit your article to publishers and directories, and maintain your current website, but remember if you take your time, and establish your presence steadily over time, then your website will begin climbing in the search engines, and you will begin to enjoy the benefits of increased traffic.

Dear California:. This is NOT the Time to Steal Gig-Workers' Livlihood

2020-08-16T07:01:00.004-07:00

Hey, California-Do you understand that you are a Covid-19 hotspot, and gig economy driver's, such as GrubHub, DoorDash, InstaCart, UberEats, Cavier, PostMates, etc , are actually essential workers and they Do Not Want to be employees? These drivers are helping keep restaurants that are now relying on food deliveries to keep their businesses open.

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With overwhelming unemployment, these gig workers rely on their earnings from providing delivery services to support their families, and to stay off of unemployment. The lawmakers in California evidently have not done a very good job thinking about the negative ramifications of making this law effective, because the consequences will be that all of those gig companies will leave California-and any other states that follow suite.

The result of those companies leaving states will not only hurt the gig drivers, the gig companies, the restaurants, but it will also hurt the finances of those states, due to tax revenue losses, local tax losses, and tax losses even to the Federal Government, PLUS the added burden of more people on the unemployment rolls.

In California vote yes to Proposition 22 which will keep driver's as independent contractors rather than employees, because you will be doing the right thing for the gig companies, the gig drivers, the federal, state, local governments, and the restaurants that relying on gig delivery drivers to stay in business.

Also, it will have a negative impact on the elderly and those with underlying health issues, who don't want to or can't do their own grocery shopping and who rely on services such as InstCart to get their groceries.

If your state government tries to reclassify gig workers as employees, raise your voice! Write to your congressman, write to your senators, write to your governors, write to your district attorneys, write to your president too! It comes bad no surprise to me that the majority of the states that want to do away with Independent Contract worker status, are states that are run by Democrats. This could also impact independent truckers, and other businesses that utilize independent said that aren't paid by the hour.

It's reasons such as these, in addition to the fact that there is no such thing as job security, that everyone should have multiple side-hustles.

Did You Ever Wonder............?

2020-08-10T06:43:00.001-07:00

What it would be like to have enough money to pay ALL of your bills for the month on the first day of the month? Did you ever wonder what it would be like to no longer need a job? Did you ever wonder what it would be like to be able to travel, anywhere, at any time, and be making money 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, the whole time you are travelling? Did you ever wonder what it would be like to pay cash for your dream home? Did you ever wonder what it would be like to pay cash for the luxury, sports, classic, or antique car of your dreams.

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to pay off all of your children's and grandchildren's debts? Did you ever wonder what it would be like to own your own airplane, and have a private pilot? Some links in this article are affiliate links from which we may receive a tiny commission at no additional cost to you should you visit a merchant via our link and subsequently make a purchase.

Did you ever wonder what it would be like if you could live on a cruise ship 12 months out of the year, and all you would need is an Internet connection to continue funding your laptop lifestyle.

Are you tired of work-at-home programs that promise pie-in-the-sky but only deliver doggy doo doo?

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How Dwayne Johnson’s Passion Makes Him Unstoppable

2020-08-07T08:43:00.001-07:00

How Dwayne Johnson’s Passion Makes Him Unstoppable

There are many people who you might think of when you hear the word ‘success’. One who springs to my mind though is Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. He is a celebrity who started out by conquering the world of sport as a wrestler and who then went on to become one of the best paid actors in Hollywood. Meanwhile, he has also started a successful business, become a highly influential social media presence and maintained an incredible physique all the while. Meanwhile, some people are now saying he may one day run for president!

How has one man achieved so much from humble beginnings? What is the secret to his success? And is it something that we can learn to emulate?

The Answer

There’s actually one very simple answer to what makes The Rock so unstoppable and that’s his passion. Johnson’s passion is so overwhelmingly strong, that he has no problem doing whatever it takes to make his way to the top.

When someone is that busy and has that many plates in the air, how can they possibly attain the kind of physique that he has? One of the answers is to get up earlier and to train before the rest of the world even wakes up. And that’s exactly what The Rock does. If you follow him on Instagram, then you’ll quickly find that a lot of his pictures pertain to his early morning training. These are images of his phone alarm going off at 4am, or of him in the gym alone before any other patrons have arrived.

Simply put, he is in that incredible shape because he has the will to train when most people wouldn’t even consider having the energy to do so.

And he puts that same passion into everything. This is how he finds time to be in so many movies each year, how he finds time to promote himself so actively on Facebook: it is all driven by his passion.

Yes, the Rock has unstoppable determination and motivation. But that comes from his passion. You can see it in the way he talks; he is absolutely thrilled to be doing what he is doing and that is what makes him jump out of bed in the morning. Have you ever seen him look sullen and disinterested? Can you imagine him coming home, getting into pyjamas and watching rubbish TV while eating a pot of icecream?

How Passion Makes You Magnetic

It’s also the same passion that makes The Rock so exciting to watch. The Rock talks and smiles and gesticulates in a way that is genuine and larger-than-life and that makes him incredibly persuasive and likeable. Once again though, this comes from the fact that he loves what he does.

Studies show us that we rate people as more charismatic when they gesticulate more. When do people gesticulate more? When they are passionate about what they’re talking about. People who love their subject speak with their whole body and that makes them highly magnetic.

So what is the secret to Johnson’s success and how can you tap into it? Simple: find your passion!

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Original Ways To Make Money With No Money-a Short Education

2020-08-05T09:00:00.009-07:00

Original Ways To Make Money With No Money-a Short Education

An opportunity should never be bought into. By definition, an opportunity is something that people will never sell you. From franchises to swamp land in Florida, to patents and inventions, it makes no difference. There's nothing wrong with any of the things mentioned, however if somebody is trying to sell you these things, then they are not opportunities by definition.

An "opportunity" is an advantage that you can see that others cannot. I don't care about the dictionary definition, this is the real world definition. Opportunities are free. They don't cost money to observe. Of course I don't mean they won't cost you money, you may need some money to act on it. But if you are paying money so somebody can sell it to you (a sales commission) You should run for the hills.

So, getting back to my definition of an "opportunity."

“Its an advantage that you can see that others cannot”

So what that means is that you have vision while others do not. We are awash with money around us. Money or “value” is everywhere. As “Hayden Muller” says, “it permeates our lives like oxygen” The difficulty is not finding opportunity. It is literally everywhere all the time. We are suffering from snow blindness if we still work for a living when such abundance is around us in our every day lives.

The difficulty is not money either. Having access to a few hundred dollars is all you need to take advantage of a million daily opportunities that present themselves in our daily lives. Anyone with some determination can find that much.

No, the real difficulty is knowledge, or education. It's what separates action from indifference. The question becomes, “so what?” “so what if I took this opportunity and made a few dollars, what next?” You see, without education, opportunities are meaningless. They lead nowhere because we lack vision. Don’t worry, I lacked plenty of vision myself.

Today you could drop me out of the sky into any free city on the Planet with nothing but the shirt on my back, a device with Internet connection, and I would be living well within 3 months and be financially secure within 2-4 years. I know I can do that because my vision tells me I easily could. Some links in this article are affiliate links from which we may receive a tiny commission at no additional cost to you should you visit a merchant via our link and subsequently make a purchase.

Put me in the middle of New York, I would immediately find markets to deal in. Even before I found a place to sleep, I would begin learning about what free markets are available and what they most want and need. I would quickly establish contacts with suppliers and retailers to become the “middle man” my favourite place to be. Yes, I am the "middle man" for a wide variety of companies, from jewelers to travel agencies to Amazon, and it didn't cost me a dime.

Within a week, I would have a few hundred dollars saved. I would use those funds and pyramid my purchases for faster and faster turn over until I had enough to buy small assets that are in high demand. Cars, boats, anything that was being sold that I could find really cheaply. My charm and good looks would make sure I got the best deals and sold them for the highest price (winks)

Charm and good looks aside, the one thing you need is a clear plan. A master plan that gets you from A to B

Making money with no money is easy and rudimentary. Its the opportunities you spot that makes the real difference. But really its the propensity to take action that delivers the results. Before you can take that action, you need to know where you are going.

Your situation is a lot better then the scenario I presented above. You live in a place where you know. You have intimate knowledge of the markets available already present. You have skills and have contacts already that can be of use.

Get a quick short education and go to it. Your first million is not as difficult as you may imagine.

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What if there was a “side hustle” you could do::

2020-07-24T08:45:00.006-07:00

What if there was a “side hustle” you could do:

- Anytime.

- Anywhere.

- With little to no experience.

- Even if you’re not the greatest at sales.

- Even if you only have little free time.

- Even if nothing else has worked before.

- Even if you don’t believe a word I’m saying to you right now.

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Well, because if we were you, we’d think this was way too good to be true.

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So here’s the link again:

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We just want a chance to follow up with you.

So we can send you some additional side hustle success stories.

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Pop it open, save it to your calendar - arrive ready to write down some important notes.

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If you like what you see and hear, then take the next step.

Then, use this simple strategy to:

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Get High Quality One Way Links Using Articles

2020-07-24T04:48:00.003-07:00

Using articles to get one way, high quality back links is an extremely effective and successful linking technique. Why? When you write an article, you’re providing the fresh content that search engines love and you’re demonstrating your expertise and abilities.

By writing articles, you’re establishing yourself as an authority in your field and creating a positive feedback loop which, in turn, will drive more traffic to your website.

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Follow this three step process to start your article marketing strategy.

Step 1: Research and Write Your Article

The obvious first step is to write your article. Before you turn on your computer and open your favorite word processor, you should spend time planning your article. If you begin typing without any planning, you probably won’t get very far.

You need to brainstorm at least 10 different topics, all relating to your website. You will develop these 10 topics into 10 separate articles.

Once you have your 10 topics, you’ll write one article, 400 to 500 words in length, about each one. Each topic should differ enough to allow you to reach the minimum word count. The topics should be related and easily tied together, but they need to be sufficiently different.

Since you’re writing articles that will be posted to other websites, make sure that you use shorter sentences and shorter paragraphs. Most people on the web will skim the article looking for main points.

Your title should speak directly to the main content. They don’t have to be cute, fancy, or obsessively creative. In fact, you can actually mislead readers if your title is too creative.

Use your main keywords with a quick synopsis of what the article is about (e.g. High Top Shoes Choosing the Right Pair for Your Sport). Simple, direct, and to the point, that’s all you need.

Once you have your article written, it’s time to add your resource box

Step 2: Add a Resource Box for Impact

You need to develop a persuasive resource box that makes its point clearly with a strong call to action. In order to do that, you need to ask yourself these questions:

1. Why should or would the reader of this article click on my link?
2. Would I click on this link?
3. Does the article compel me to seek further information or take action?
4. If I wouldn’t click on the link, why would anyone else?

A five to six line resource box is not unheard of, but a resource box of three to four lines is most generally well received and very successful.

You must give the reader a reason to click your link without sounding like a sales pitch. So, forget the “buy one get one free” offers and the “limited time only” jargon. Just compel the reader with facts and tried not to sound like a salesman.

One critical and often overlooked point is your hyperlink. Make sure that your link’s anchor text includes the keywords that you want to be ranked for in the search engines. Don’t use your personal name or website URL unless those are the terms you want to get ranked for.

Also, make sure the link is functioning correctly and is pointing to the correct page you’re promoting. I see this mistake all the time; you click on a link and get a 404 page not found error. That’s not a good way to make a first impression.

Last but not least, proofread the article. My own technique is to write the article, do a cursory check, then a second check. I do one last proof a day later. I’m amazed at how many mistakes I catch by waiting another day before I start the promotion process.

Step 3: Promote Your Articles

I prefer to write all my articles at once and then promote. You may want to write one article and jump to the promotion right away. You’ll have to determine for yourself which way you like best. Either way works fine.

Now that you’ve written your articles, applied your formatting, finished your proofreading and added your resource box, it’s time to start promoting.

There are several places you can start promoting your articles:

1. Article submission sites and directories

2. E-mail announcement lists

3. Ezine publishers and webmasters that share your target audience

4. Submitting your article to high page rank and high ranking websites

Another great way to promote your articles is to package and distribute them by bundling them according to popularity and creating a free e-book, report, or course. You can set up an autoresponder on your website where visitors can sign up and receive your e-book as a free download. Encourage them to distribute the ebook freely.

Get out there and promote your ebook on other sites. Push it around. Get it into the hands of as many people as possible.

Article Marketing – An Effective Strategy

Writing and promoting articles is an effective way to get high quality back links to your website. When you write an article and include a link back to your site, you’re getting a link from a site without the requirement to link back to that same website. Hence, you’re getting a one way link. The article also serves as a PR or marketing vehicle for your site. The article is serving “double duty”. You’re not only getting one way back links, you’re also getting visitors who click through your article’s links.

If you take your time, do your research, and write good, quality informational articles, you will be on your way to higher search engine rankings and more sales. I can almost guarantee it!

The Incredible Affiliate Marketing List Giveaway Technique

2020-07-08T09:21:00.000-07:00

You are probably leaving a lot of money on the table while promoting you affiliate program and don't know it. Any big time affiliate marketing program owner who sees this article will be screaming, No! at the top of their lungs. You on the other hand will be cheering, Yes!

When you use and affiliate page or link, you are sending traffic to the owner of the program's site. On the surface, that seems great. You send people to look at the product, opt-in, buy it, and get paid. What could possibly be any better?

This is what could be a lot better. You could be the one getting what you just gave away, to market other products in the future or even now. What is it? Its the name and email address of the person. That's right, the information that you just gave away, is the most valuable thing you could have and you probably don't know it.

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That name and email address is worth everything to you. This is why. You could use it to send your promotional mailings to that person about anything you offer. If you don't have it, you have no way to contact that person. However, the owner of the program you're promoting does. You can bet that they will use it to send their offers out to people on the nice shiny list that you just helped them build. They are thanking you and, at the same time, laughing at you hysterically.

This is just one way solve the problem. Build a landing page that offers the program or service with your own opt-in box. If you don't know how, learn how, because you're loosing a fortune. Then you just take the affiliate link and place it in the section of the code that would go to your thank you page. So, after the visitor signs up to be on YOUR list, you are automatically sending that person to your affiliate page. Then you are getting the best of both worlds.

Can you think of one good reason to give your list of potential customers and profits away? Internet marketing gurus have big enough lists. Makes sure that you are building yours first. You wouldn't leave $1,000,000 on a table in a city bar. At least I hope you wouldn't!

MARK THE RICH

2020-07-08T04:30:00.000-07:00

MARK THE RICH

In a country, in a kingdom far away, once upon a time there lived a merchant, Mark the Rich; and, what with all his estates and revenues, you couldn’t count them. He lived, and was merry, and never suffered the poor man to come to his door, so ungracious was he.

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One day he had a dream: “Make ready, Mark the Rich, and wait. God Himself will be thy Guest!” In the morning Mark got up, called his wife, and bade her make a banquet. He covered all of his courtyard with scarlet velvet and golden brocade, and at every side-path he posted journeymen and servants to keep out all the hunger-brothers and scare them outside. Then Mark the Rich came, and sat awaiting the Lord. The hours went by, and never a guest. And then the poor heard that there was a great feast at the house of Mark the Rich. They all gathered round for the hallowed gifts; but the journeymen and servants drove them all away. But one poor beggar, bent with age, and all in rags, went up to the door of Mark the Rich. And as Mark the Rich saw him from the window, he cried out in a fierce voice: “Hi, you sluggards and louts! Eyes and no eyes? Look at the beast that is traipsing up and down our courtyard: get rid of him.”

And all the servants scampered up, laid hold of the poor old fellow, and rushed him out the back way. One good old woman saw him, and said: “Come to me, you poor old beggar; I will feed and rest you.” She took him in, fed him, gave him to drink, and laid him 62to sleep; and thus Mark the Rich had never found the Lord for whom he was waiting.

At midnight the lady had a dream, and heard some one knock at the window and ask: “Old and righteous man, are you sleeping here to-night?” “Yes,” said the old man. “In a village near by a poor peasant has had a son; how will you reward him?” The poor man said: “He shall be lord of all the domains of Mark the Rich!” Next day the poor old man left his hostess and went forth to roam. The old peasant woman went to Mark the Rich and told him of her dream.

Mark went to the peasant and asked for the baby. “Give him to me—I will adopt him; he shall grow up; I will teach him well; and when I die he shall have all my wealth.” This was what he said, but his thoughts were quite different. He took the little boy, went home, and threw him into a snow-drift. “Lie there and freeze; that’s the way to become master of Mark’s wealth!” But that same night hunters, passing by, hunting for hares, found the boy, took him home, and brought him up.

Many years passed by, and much water flowed in the river, and one day Mark the Rich went out with those huntsmen, saw the young boy, heard his story, and spoke about him, and knew it was the same he had cast forth.

So Mark the Rich asked the youth to go home and take a letter to his wife; but in that letter he bade her poison the boy like a dog. The poor foundling set out on his road; when on his way, he met a poor man with nothing on but a shirt; but this beggar was Christ Himself. He stopped the wayfarer, took the letter, and held it for one minute, and the letter was changed in all it said. The wife of Mark the Rich was to receive the bearer with all honour, and marry him to her daughter. It was said, and it was done.

Mark the Rich returned home; and was very wroth at 63seeing his new son-in-law, and said: “In the evening go to my distillery and look after the work”; whilst he secretly told the men to hunt him into the burning cauldron as soon as ever he appeared. So the boy made ready to go to the distillery; but a sudden sickness befell him, and he had to go back home. Mark the Rich waited his time, and went to see what had become of his son-in-law, and tumbled into his own distillers’ clutches, into the burning cauldron!

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So You Want To Start An Affiliate Internet Marketing Business?

2020-07-06T04:00:00.000-07:00

So You Want To Start An Affiliate Internet Marketing Business?

Do you wish you could work from anywhere in the world on your own terms? Would you like to have a business that runs on auto pilot for you? Do you want a business where you don't have to go door to door, cold call people, or work your so called warm list? If you answered yes to all of those questions then you are on the right track. You can build your online business so you don't even have to talk to anyone period if you don't want to.

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To be quite honest with you, it was only about 5 years ago that I actually learned how to even turn a computer on. Don't laugh; its true. If someone told me I was going to have a successful Internet Marketing business in the future I would have laughed at them.

I still don't have a clue how to build a website. And frankly the technical stuff doesn't interest me. You do not have to be an expert to have your own online business. Just get someone else to do it for you like I did.

Things you need to know before you start

The fastest way to get to the top is to role model someone else who is already doing what you want to do. Follow the recipe as it is called. If someone else is doing something and you do exactly what they are doing then you will have the same results. If you try and bake a cake and miss half of the ingredients you will not have very good results.

You could try and reinvent the wheel like some people and spend a lot of youre hard earned dollars. Believe me you will spend a lot as there is a lot of fluff out there.

You are probably wondering how you go about finding someone that is successful in the Internet Marketing business. For starters, don't waste your time with people trying to push their products on you. Most of it is just garbage that only gives you bits and pieces of the puzzle. You wouldn't want someone to give you the tools to build the house but not the actual plans would you?

Find the right people to help you

Find someone who will build you your own site exactly like their own, will give you a how to guide to success, and will actually support you through the process. Trust me if you are new like I was you will have tons of questions.

There are lots of people out there who will build you a site for free. Now keep in mind everything won't be free. You should expect the fact that you will have to pay to register and host your own domain name. The person who is building your website should have a list of affiliate companies they are already using to make money online. Some of the affiliate companies charge to become members and some don't. My advice is when you join them is not to upgrade anything right away until you actually start referring people. Use the money you make off of your profits to pay for the upgrade as this will also increase your profits.

One Last Reminder

When building any business dont expect to have things happen overnight. You will have to work at it a few hours every week. In an online business you build up your client list first and then let it do the work for you. Oh and the most important part; don't wait until you learn everything. Take Action Now! Motion beats meditation any day of the week.

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Affiliate Marketing-The Time to Strike is Now

2020-07-05T04:13:00.000-07:00

The real step-child of online marketing is affiliate marketing, a tried and trusted method for creating sales and advertising websites or products online. Many e-commerce sites owe a great deal to affiliate marketing methods namely Amazon.com and CDNOWs WebBuy system. Affiliate marketing is a highly efficient way to create brand awareness and generate leads and business.

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Affiliate marketing encourages affiliates to sell or advertise a merchants products by means of a revenue share or commission system. In the early days of the web when affiliate marketing started (about late 1994) most merchants made use of a Cost-Per-Click system (known as CPC or CPM) where an affiliate made money from every click to the merchants website generated from the affiliates site. Because of bad management and many fraudsters taking advantage of this system in various ways, only about 1% of affiliate marketing is now done this way. 80% of affiliate marketing is now on a cost-per-sale basis, where the affiliate receives commission for every actual SALE generated on the merchants site that is due to a referral from the affiliate and the last 19% of affiliate marketing is on a cost-per-action basis, where the affiliate receives a revenue-share if the person referred from their site actually subscribes or registers with the merchants website.

Affiliate marketing is done through different types of techniques or publisher websites – blogs and RSS feeds becoming quite a predominant method, as well as shopping and comparison websites, loyalty websites and others.

Affiliate marketing involves the use of affiliate management companies, in-house affiliate managers, and third party vendors, who use e-mail Marketing, Search Engine Marketing and RRS Capturing and Display Advertising, to ensure the success of the product. Web traffic, being critical to online marketing, can be traced with the help of a third party or own affiliate programs. Yes, this process requires a lot of effort. When it first started, this method involved a lot of spamming, false advertising, trademark infringement, etc. With the invention of complex algorithms and enhanced security that make it safer for doing business online, affiliate marketing became more popular as it offered more opportunities. However, at the same time, affiliate marketing has also increased the competition in marketing.

The Time to Strike is Now

Such pressure led to the introduction of out-sourced programs. These services are offered by companies with expert affiliate and network program managers, who have various affiliate program management techniques. In addition, these affiliate networks also have association with publishers to help them on the advertising aspect.

When was affiliate marketing started? It was started by cdnow.com that had websites related at music. A list of music albums can be found on the website. One is paid if he put those links in his website and a visitor bought an album through his site. Shortly thereafter, a woman approached Amazon with a similar marketing strategy. The woman would sell Amazons books on her website and she would be paid a certain percentage in return if she sold Amazons books through her site. This triggered the Amazons associate program.

Affiliate network started to gain popularity and has since been adopted by different businesses, such as travel, education, telecom, retail and subscription sites, just to name a few.

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The compensation methods vary from one affiliate program to another. Amongst the methods, we have the Cost per Sale (CPS), Cost per action (CPA), Cost per mile (CPM) and Cost per click (CPC). The CPS and CPA are most commonly used today. In CPM and CPC, the advertiser may not capture the target audience as a click would be enough to generate commission. On the other hand, for CPS and CPA, the visitor has to click the link and buy something or sign up for some services, which proves that he is among the target audience, before the affiliate is being paid. What is important here is to send as much targeted traffic as possible to the advertiser in order to increase his returns. Therefore, affiliate marketing is also known as performance marketing because the success of the product really depends on the performance of the affiliate. Is there a difference between an affiliate team and a sales team? Yes, from the nature of the job! It is the job of an affiliate team to generate traffic, and it is the job of the sales team to follow on from there, to influence the visitor to buy the product.

Affiliate marketing is very effective and many businesses have shared and attributed their successes to this method of marketing.

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Adsense Mixed With Affiliate Marketing

2020-07-03T09:17:00.000-07:00

The more you understand about any subject, the more interesting it becomes. As you read this article you’ll find that the subject of Google Adsense Profits Mixed In With Affiliate Marketing is certainly no exception.

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Are you a webmaster who needs funds to keep your website running? Or is your website the only way for you to earn income? Whichever you are, for as long as you are a webmaster or a web publisher and you need cash, affiliate marketing may work well for you. With affiliate marketing, you may get a lot of cash pouring into your bank account easily. And if your website is rich in great content and you want to earn more profit, why not get into the Google Adsense program as well?

Why Affiliate Marketing?

Well, simply because affiliate marketing is the easiest and probably the best way to earn profits online, unless otherwise you are a businessman and would rather sell your own products online than advertise other businesses products on your site. But even online retailers can benefit from affiliate marketing programs, because affiliate marketing actually works for merchants as well as for the affiliates.

Affiliate marketing, simply said, is a relationship or agreement made between two websites, with one site being the merchants website and the other being the affiliates site. In the relationship, the affiliate agrees to let the merchant advertise his products on the affiliates site. The merchant, on the other hand, would agree to pay the affiliate in whatever method they have agreed into. This would generally mean easy income for the affiliate, as he would do nothing but place the retailers ad on his site. This would also be very beneficial for the merchant, as getting affiliates to advertise their products would be a lot more affordable than hiring an advertising firm to promote their products.

There are a variety of methods on how the merchant would compensate the affiliate for his services, and for the webmaster, these methods simply translates to the method by which he would earn easy cash. Among the more common methods of compensation are the pay-per-click method, the pay-per-lead method, and the pay-per-sale method. The pay-per-click method is the method most preferred by affiliates, for their sites visitor would only have to visit the advertisers site for them to gain money. The other two methods, on the other hand, are better preferred by merchants, as they would only have to compensate you if your visitor becomes one of their registrants or if the visitor would actually buy their products.

Getting much profit on affiliate marketing programs, however, does not depend so much on the compensation method is it does on the traffic generated by your site. A website that can attract more visitors would generally have the greater chance of profiting in affiliate marketing programs.

You can see that there’s practical value in learning Google Adsense Profits Mixed In With Affiliate Marketing. Can you think of ways to apply what’s been covered so far?

What about Google Adsense?

Google Adsense is actually some sort of an affiliate marketing program. In Google Adsense, Google act as the intermediary between the affiliates and the merchants. The merchant, or the advertiser, would simply sign up with Google and provide the latter with text ads pertaining to their products. These ads, which is actually a link to the advertisers website, would then appear on Google searches as well as on the websites owned by the affiliates, or by those webmasters who have signed up with the Google Adsense program.

While one can find a lot of similarities between Google Adsense and other affiliate marketing programs, you can also see a lot of differences. In Google Adsense, all the webmaster has to do is place a code on his website and Google takes care of the rest. The ads that Google would place on your site would generally be relevant to the content of your site. This would be advantageous both for you and for the advertiser, as the visitors of your site would more or less be actually interested with the products being advertised.

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The Google Adsense program compensates the affiliate in a pay-per-click basis. The advertisers would pay Google a certain amount each time their ad on your site is clicked and Google would then forward this amount to you through checks, although only after Google have deducted their share of the amount. Google Adsense checks are usually delivered monthly. Also, the Google Adsense program provides webmasters with a tracking tool that allows you to monitor the earnings you actually get from a certain ad.

So, where does all of this lead us?

Where else but to profits, profits and even more profits! Affiliate marketing programs and the Google Adsense program simply work, whether you are the merchant or the affiliate. For the merchants side, a lot of money can be saved if advertising effort is concentrated on affiliate marketing rather than on dealing with advertising firms. For the webmaster, you can easily gain a lot of profits just by doing what you do best, and that is by creating websites. And if you combine all your profits from both the Google Adsense program and other affiliate marketing programs, it would surely convert to a large amount of cash.

It never hurts to be well-informed with the latest on Google Adsense Profits Mixed In With Affiliate Marketing. Compare what you’ve learned here to future articles so that you can stay alert to changes in the area of Google Adsense Profits Mixed In With Affiliate.

People Just Like You Are Making Bank

2020-06-30T02:30:00.000-07:00

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The Potential Of Affiliate Marketing As A Home Based Business

With more than 15 million Americans now running Home Based Businesses, what are the benefits, if any, to choosing an Affiliate Marketing Program as a part-time Internet Business!

Affiliate Marketing Programs are a great way for anybody to start a home-based Internet business. They offer a wide range of products and services that can, once you have mastered the skills of driving traffic to your website, make you good money.

Due to its almost unlimited potential, it is now one of the most sought after ways to make extra income quickly. The most common reason that so many people get started in Affiliate Marketing is because by selling other peoples products you save yourself a lot of the headaches that normally go with starting a business.

The number one benefit for most people is there’s no need for you to invent, produce or stock anything. No need for staff or customer service. All these burdens are taken off your hands by the product or service provider. All you do is promote their products and services on your website. Your only real concern is how to increase your income.

Number two on my list of benefits for Affiliate Marketing is the great variety of products and services at your disposal. To help you with your Affiliate Marketing, there are lots of training materials that will help you enhance your Affiliate Marketing capabilities.

Due to the large number of products and services that are out there in the market place, it is advisable to choose products and services that interest you. This will help you to effectively advertise and promote these products or services. Do not select products that you do not know or are not familiar with. The main reason I say this is because your interest and passion for a product or services will prompt you to be creative.

The most popular benefit of Affiliate Marketing is the small matter of being able to earn money while you do other things like go shopping or while you are sleeping. We all like the idea of making money from doing nothing.

Is it really that easy? Well the answer to that question is Yes and NO. For you to earn a lot of money, you MUST drive traffic from your website to the providers and this is easier said than done. The most common reason for failure is putting up a website with nothing but Affiliate Links. Lets think about this. Why would anyone come to your website? How would they find your website? The most popular sites on the Internet are those with content, things people can read. What do we really use the Internet for Research. On the Internet today, CONTENT IS KING and with so many subjects to talk about, it should be easy to fill your website with content that people will want to read.

Choosing subjects that interest you will help you keep the site interesting. You can always tell when someone has a real passion for the subject they are talking about. Not everyone will agree with your point of view and that's OK too. Anything that keeps them coming to your website will help you make sales from the products and services you promote.

SALES WITHOUT SALESMANSHIP

2020-06-24T09:45:00.002-07:00

SALES WITHOUT SALESMANSHIP

BY JAMES H. COLLINS

"Say, you're a funny salesman!" exclaimed the business man. "Here I make up my own mind that I need two motor trucks and decide to buy 'em from your company. Then I send for a salesman. You come down and spend a week looking into my horse delivery, and now you tell me to keep my horses. What kind of a salesman do you call yourself anyway?"

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"What made you think you needed motor trucks?" was the counterquestion of the serious, thick-spectacled young chap.

"Everyone else seems to be turning to gasoline delivery. I want to be up to date."

"Your delivery problem lies outside the gasoline field," said the salesman. "Your drivers make an average of ninety stops each trip. They climb stairs and wait for receipts. Their rigs are standing at the curb more than half the time. Nothing in gasoline equipment can compete with the horse and wagon under such conditions. If you had loads of several tons to be kept moving steadily I'd be glad to sell you two trucks."

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"Suppose I wanted to buy them anyway?"

"We could not accept your order."

"But you'd make your commission and the company its profit."

"Yes; but you'd make a loss, and within a year your experience would react unfavorably upon us."

So no sale was effected. Facts learned during his investigation of this business man's delivery problem led the salesman to make suggestions that eliminated waste and increased the effectiveness of his horse rigs.

About a year later, however, this business man sent for the salesman again. He contemplated motorized hauling for another company of which he was the president. After two days' study the salesman reported that motor trucks were practicable and that he needed about five of them.

"All right—fill out the contract," directed the business man.

"Don't you want to know how these trucks are going to make you money?" asked the salesman.

"No; if you say I need five trucks, then I know that's just what I need!"

A new kind of salesmanship is being developed in many lines of business—and particularly in the rebuilding of sales organizations made necessary by the ending of the war and return to peace production. "Study your goods," was the salesman's axiom yesterday. "Study your customer's problem," is the viewpoint today; and it is transforming the salesman and sales methods.

Indeed, the word salesman tends to disappear under this new viewpoint, for the organization which was once charged largely with disposing of goods may now be so intimately involved in technical studies of the customers' problems that selling is a secondary part of its work. The Sales Department is being renamed, and known as the Advisory Department or the Research Staff; while the salesman himself becomes a Technical Counsel or Engineering Adviser.

Camouflage? No; simply better expression of broader functions.

As a salesman, probably he gave much attention to the approach and argument with which he gained his customer's attention and confidence. But, with his new viewpoint and method of attack, perhaps the first step is asking permission to study the customer's transportation needs, or accounting routine, or power plant—or whatever section of the latter's business is involved.

The experience of the thick-spectacled motor-truck salesman was typical. Originally he sold passenger cars. Then came the war, with factory facilities centered on munitions and motor trucks. There being no more passenger cars to sell, they switched him over into the motor-truck section. There he floundered for a while, trying to develop sales arguments along the old lines. But the old arguments did not seem to fit, somehow.

It might have been possible to demonstrate the superior construction of his motor truck; but competitors would meet point with point, and customers were not interested in technicalities anyway. He tried service as an argument; but that was largely a promise of what motor trucks would do for people after they bought them, and competitors could always promise just as much, and a little more.

Company reputation? His company had a fine one—but motor-truck purchasers wanted to know the cost of moving freight. Price? No argument at all, because only one other concern made motor trucks calling for so great an initial investment.

So Thick-Specs, being naturally serious and solid, began to dig into motor trucks from the standpoint of the customer. He got permission to investigate delivery outfits in many lines. Selling a five-ton motor truck to many a business man was often equivalent to letting Johnny play with a loaded machine gun. Such a vehicle combined the potentiality of moving from fifty to seventy-five tons of freight daily, according to routing and the number of hours employed; but it involved a daily expense of twenty-five dollars.

The purchaser could lose money in two ways at swift ratios, and perhaps unsuspectingly: He might not use his full hauling capacity each day or would use it only half the year, during his busy season. Or he might underestimate costs by overlooking such items as interest and depreciation.

Thick-Specs' first actual sale was not a motor truck at all, but a motorcycle, made by another company. Within three months, however, this motorcycle added two big trucks to a fleet of one dozen operated by a wholesale firm. That concern had good trucks, and kept them in a well-equipped garage, where maintenance was good. But at least once daily there would be a road breakdown. Usually this is a minor matter, but it ties up the truck while its puzzled driver tries to locate the trouble.

When a motorcycle was bought for the garage, drivers were forbidden to tamper with machinery on the road—they telephoned in to the superintendent. By answering each call on his own motorcycle—about an hour daily—the repairman kept equipment in such good shape that valuable extra service was secured from the fleet each day.

The salesman-adviser did not originate this scheme himself, but discovered it in another concern's motor-truck organization; in fact, this is the advantage the salesman-adviser enjoys—acquaintance with a wide range of methods and the knack of carrying a good wrinkle from one business to another. He brings the outside point of view; and, because modern business runs toward narrow specialization, the outside point of view is pretty nearly always welcome, provided it is honest and sensible.

In another case he had to dig and invent to meet a peculiar situation.

There was a coal company working under a handicap in household deliveries. Where a residence stood back from the sidewalk coal had often to be carried from the motor truck in baskets. This kept the truck waiting nearly an hour. A motor truck's time is worth several dollars hourly. If the coal could have been dumped on the sidewalk and carried in later, releasing the truck, that would have saved expense and made more deliveries possible.

A city ordinance prohibited dumping coal on the sidewalk except by permit. Coal men had never tried to have that ordinance changed. But the salesman-adviser went straight to the city authorities and, by figures showing the expense and waste involved, secured a modification, so that his customer, the coal company, got a blanket permit for dumping coal and gave bonds as an assurance against abuse of the privilege. Then a little old last year's runabout was bought and followed the coal trucks with a crew to carry the coal indoors, clearing sidewalks quickly.

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This salesman-adviser's philosophy was as simple as it was sound. Confidence is the big factor in selling, he reasoned. Your customer will have confidence in you if he feels that you are square and also knows what you are talking about. By diligent study of gasoline hauling problems in various lines of business he gained practical knowledge and after that had only to apply his knowledge from the customer's side of the problem.

"Put it another way," he said: "Suppose you had a factory and expected to run it only one year. There would not be time to get returns on a costly machine showing economies over a five-year period; but if you intended to run your factory on a five-year basis, then that machine might be highly profitable.

"In sales work it was just the same; if you were selling for this year's profit alone, you'd close every sale regardless of your customer's welfare. Let the purchaser beware! But if you meant to sell on the five-year basis, then confidence is the big investment, and the most profitable sale very often one you refuse to make for immediate results."

He had a fine following when the draft reached him; and during the eight months he spent in an Army uniform he utilized his knowledge of gasoline transportation as an expert in Uncle Sam's motor service. Upon being discharged he returned to his job and his customers, and to-day the concern with which he is connected is taking steps to put all its motor-truck salesmen on this advisory basis.

War shot its sales force to pieces—the Army and the Navy reached out for men and tied up production facilities; so there was nothing to sell. But war also gave a clean slate for planning a new sales force.

As old salesmen return and new men are taken on for sales instruction, this concern trains them—not with the old sales manual, by standard approach and systematic sales argument, but by sending them out into the field to study gasoline hauling problems. They secure permission to investigate trucking methods of contractors, department stores, wholesale merchants, coal dealers, truck owners hauling interstate freight, mills, factories and other lines of business. They investigate the kinds and quantities of stuff to be moved, the territory and roads covered, the drivers, the garage facilities. They ride behind typical loads and check up running time, delays, breakdowns, gasoline and oil consumption.

Engineering teaches people to think in curves. This youngster had to make a curve of the grocer's trucking before he could visualize it himself. His curve included factors like increase in stuff that had been hauled during the past three years and additions to the motor equipment. When you have a healthy curve showing any business activity, the logical thing to do, after bringing it right down to date, is to let it run out into the future at its own angle. This was done with the grocery curve, and its future extension indicated that not more than three months later the grocery house would need about four more five-ton motor trucks.

Closer investigation of facts behind the curve revealed an unusual growth in sugar hauling, due to the increase in supply and removal of consumer war restrictions. And that grocery concern bought additional trucks for sugar within two months. With the insight made possible by such a curve a salesman might safely have ordered the trucks without his customer's knowledge and driven them up to his door the day the curve showed they were needed.

"Here are the trucks you wanted to haul that sugar."

"Good work! Drive 'em in!"

What has been found to be sound sales policy in the motor truck business applies to many other lines. Yesterday the salesman of technical apparatus sought the customer with a catalogue and a smile—and a large ignorance of the technical problems. To-day that kind of selling is under suspicion, because purchasers of technical equipment have been led to buy on superficial selling points and left to work out for themselves complex technicalities that belong to the manufacturer of the equipment.

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In the West during recent years a large number of pumps of a certain type have been sold for irrigating purposes. Purchasers bought from the catalogue-and-smile type of salesman, hooked their pumps up to a power plant—and found that they lifted only about half the number of gallons a minute promised in the catalogue. Manufacturers honestly believed those pumps would do the work indicated in their ratings. They had not allowed for variations in capacity where pumps were installed under many different conditions and run by different men. The situation called for investigation at the customer's end; when it was discovered that these pumps ought to be rated with an allowance for loss of capacity a half to two-thirds of the power, due to friction and lost power.

It might have been dangerous for the salesman to show up again in an irrigation district where a lot of his pumps were "acting up," armed only with his catalogue and smile. But when an engineer appeared from the pump company to help customers out of their difficulties, he won confidence immediately and made additional sales because people felt that he knew what he was talking about.

The superintendent of a big machinery concern found that his expense for cutting oils was constantly rising. Salesmen had followed salesmen, recommending magic brands of the stuff; yet each new barrel of oil seemed to do less work than the last—and cost more in dollars.

One day a new kind of visitor showed up and sent in the card of a large oil company. He was not a salesman, but an investigator of oil problems. The superintendent took him through the plant. He studied the work being done by screw-cutting machines, lathes and other equipment operated with cutting oil. Where salesmen had recommended brands without technical knowledge of either the work to be done or the composition of the oil, this stranger wrote specifications that cut down the percentage of costly lard oil used on some work; and he eliminated it altogether on others.

Moreover, he pointed out sheer losses of oil by picking up a handful of metal cuttings from a box, letting them drip, measuring the oil that accumulated and recommending a simple device for reclaiming that oil before the waste metal was sold.

This new viewpoint in selling is developing in so many lines that to enumerate them would be to make a national directory of business concerns manufacturing milling machinery, office devices, manufacturing and structural materials, equipment for the farm and the mine.

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People who purchase such products have been accustomed to meeting two different representatives of manufacturers: First, the salesman skilled in selling, but deficient in technical knowledge.

"This chap is here to see how much he can get out of me," said the prospective consumer to himself; and he was on his guard to see that the visitor got as little as possible, either in the way of orders or information.

The other representative came from the mechanical department to see how present equipment was running, or perhaps to "shoot trouble." He was long on technical knowledge, but probably dumb when it came to salesmanship.

"This fellow is here to help me out of my troubles," said the customer. "I'll see how much I can get out of him."

Presently manufacturers of equipment woke up to the fact that their mechanical men—inspectors and trouble shooters—had a basis of confidence which the salesman pure and simple was rapidly losing. Moreover, the technical man gained a knowledge of the customer's requirements that furnished the best foundation for selling new equipment.

The salesman discovered the technical man and went to him for tips on new equipment needed by customers whose plants he had visited. The technical man also discovered the salesman, for it was plain enough that equipment well sold—skillfully adjusted to the customer's needs—gave the least margin for trouble shooting.

So there has been a meeting of minds; and to-day the salesman studies the technicalities, and the technical man is learning salesmanship, and their boss is standing behind them both with a new policy. This is the policy of performance, not promises—service before sales. Under that policy the very terms salesmanship and sales department are beginning to disappear, to be replaced by new nomenclature, which more accurately indicates what a manufacturer's representative can do for the customer, and gives him access to the latter on the basis of confidence and good will.

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Blogging on the Run

2013-05-12T11:17:00.004-07:00

As I mentioned in a previous post, we never know when a sudden inspiration is going to hit us. Lots of people can access the Internet with their iPhone, or other wireless devices. Personally, I am not a fan of iPhones. That's not say that there is anything inherently wrong with them, but I think they are over-priced and not a good value for the money. Although, I must admit having Internet access that fits in your pocket is not really a bad idea. I; however, personally prefer my Acer Aspire One Netbook computer. It's small, easy to carry, has wireless Internet, and fits perfectaly into a Penn State Nitany Lions 10.5" iPad case.

I take it with me wherever I go, because there is usually some place near wherever I might happen to be that has wireless Internet service. As a matter of fact, right now, I am sitting in a Burger King in Quakertown, PA as I write this. There is only ONE thing that I don't like about the Acer Netbook that I have, and that is that the keys are flat instead of cupped (like for finger indentations). But, I've learned to accept it, and all-in-all it is great little computer.

Be Perfect at English Grammar and Spelling

2013-05-12T10:49:00.003-07:00

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that English grammar and spelling will have a lot to do with keeping the interest of your readers. If your readers have difficulty understanding your content because you are not proficient in the English language it can hurt you in the long run. People won't come back and re-visit a blog that they can't understand. If you are not a native English speaker you have a couple of options.
1. Pay someone to proofread your posts before you publish them.
2 Take ESL language courses (many times they are free).
3. Study on your own with self-help English grammar books.
4. Invest in Rosetta Stone for English

The benefit of having perfect grammar and spelling will be that your readers will come back if you are writing content that gives them value for the time they spend reading. If you chose the option to invest in Rosetta Stone, keep in mind that there is American English and British English. If you are going to write content for an American audience, then get the American English version. If you're writing for a British audience, the get the British English version. I can attest to the quality of Rosetta Stone, as I have used it to study Russian and my Russian wife has used that in conjunction with ESL to study English. We have managed pretty well in being able to communicate with each other by using these two language aids.

The Indispensable Blogger Memory Jogger

2013-05-11T19:22:00.000-07:00

In today's age of technological marvels, most of us almost always have some electronic way to save our ideas on the fly. But, sooner-or-later there is going to come a time when you find yourself without an electronic scratchpad, and you'll have an idea which has just struck you as having incredible awesomeness and you certainly don't want to forget it. My recommendation is that you ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS carry a small notebook and a pen or pencil in some convenient place, whether it be your back pocket, our purse, or hidden in the Maxwell Smart Shoe Phone compartment.

It doesn't have to be anything fancy, just a convenient spot to write down ideas as they come to you if you don't have any technologically advanced media storage device on your person at the time. You can see some of my recommended products below. The first notebook displayed, is much less expensive than the one displayed below it; however, the binding is not leather, nor is it refillable. This doesn't mean that it isn't a good little notebook, but you have to make a decision which one fits your needs the best. Personally, I like the idea of being able to refill my notebooks when I'm out of pages. The advantage of the less expensive notebook is that it is compact, flat, and a bunch of them can easily be stored together for future reference.

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Word Press Plug-Ins That Can Help You

2013-05-05T16:25:00.001-07:00

If you are writing a blog on a WordPress platform, there are some plug-ins that in my opinion are must-haves, because they will probably benefit you (and perhaps boost your traffic a little bit.) First and foremost, as the CommentLuv Plug-In. This is a great little plug-in, because it allows anyone who comments on your blog to get a link attached to their comment back to their own blog. This can benefit both blogs with more traffic. Along with CommentLuv, I also use "Simple Trackback Validation" and "GASP." Simple Trackback Validation lets you establish some criteria for Trackbacks that you will approve, and it automatically eliminates a lot of SPAM trackbacks.

GASP stands for "Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin" and is also very helpful in reducing SPAM attacks.

The next must-have plug-in is NextScripts Social Network Auto-Poster (SNAP for short). This plug-in will auto-post

all your new content to your Facebook Fan Page, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Delicious, etc.
The free version has some limitations; howeve with the paid version you can be auto-posting
to all your social networks at the same time from an assortment of blogs. HOWEVER; I
caution you, that even though this plug-in can also be used to auto-post to "Blogger," the kind
people at Google DO NOT LIKE SNAP. I set it up originally to auto-post to three of my Blogger
blogs, which were shut down by Google immediately for being "SPAM" blogs, even though
they weren't. Google says that you can appeal their decision, and they'll look at the site in
twenty-four to forty-eight hours, because this decision is actually made by Google robots. So,
I notified Google about the three Blogger sites that were shut down erroneously, and I have

been waiting over a month for a response from them. Just be warned, DO NOT USE this plug-in

with Blogger

CommentLuv Enabled Blogs

2013-02-27T12:54:00.000-08:00

I'm sure you've heard the terms "backlink" and "content is king" if you are a blogger or if you are thinking about becoming a blogger. Obviously, in order for a blog to be successful, people have to be aware of it's existence and that just doesn't happen all by itself. Firstly and most importantly, what is written on your blog needs to be as unique as possible. That means you either write content yourself, pay someone to write content for you, or a very attractive third option is to invite guest bloggers to write content in exchange for putting their own links in their content. The more unique content you have on your blog, the better your chances of getting ranked higher in the major search engines. But, ranking high isn't the only way to get traffic to your blog.

I very handy way to drive traffic to your blog is to look for CommentLuv enabled blogs that are DoFollow blogs. If you find blogs that are relevant to the content you already have on your site, you can make a comment on these blogs. CommentLuv enabled blogs will allow you to link one of the posts from your blog to the comment, which can drive readers of that blog's comments section to your blog. If you're going to write comment, don't be mundane about it. Actually read the post that you are commenting on make some worthwhile comment. Don't just say something like "great blog." That isn't helping either the blog owner or you.

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There are other comment sections in other types of blogs that will allow you to enter your site URL, but that isn't as specific as being able to pick out one particular link. The best driver of traffic to your site is to comment on sites that are ranked on the first page of Google, Bing, Yahoo! or Ask.com. Commenting on first page blogs will help generate traffic faster to your site, because you have the chance to have more eyes upon you.

If you have a WordPress blog, CommentLuv is a free plug-in, and I recommend that you had it to your site so commenters on your site can take advantage of the commenting features as well. If someone who has a highly ranked blog comments on your site, this also helps your site to get better rankings.

The Scorpion Nest: A Short Story

2012-09-30T13:49:00.001-07:00

The Scorpion Nest: A Short Story

Increase Your Facebook Likes

2012-09-30T12:30:00.001-07:00

Increase Your Facebook Likes

2012-09-30T12:28:00.001-07:00

The whole point of creating a Facebook Page for your
business is to build a fan base of people interested in
your product or service, right?

Facebook Pages are a great tool for interacting with
your fans on a regular basis and for them to discover
whether or not your product or service is right for them.

But to build a HUGE fan base you need people clicking
the all mighty "LIKE" button. Yep, the tiny little button
sitting at the top of your page. :-)

Gone are the days of "Become a fan." Today, it's all
about the "LIKES" and YOU WANT THEM (a lot of them!)

Because without them... you have ZERO reach. If you
have zero reach, you make ZERO dollars. <a target="_blank"

And this is where most Page Admins fall flat on their
face.

Let me explain...

Have you ever visited a Facebook Page for a business,
only to land on their "Wall" where you see the comments
and status updates?

If so, did it make you want to "LIKE" the page?

Probably not.

Allowing your visitors to land on your "Wall" is the #1 mistake
Page Admins are making all across Facebook.

But it doesn't have to be this way...

Because as a Page Admin, you have the ability to create
a custom landing page AND set this page as your "Default
Landing Tab" for your Page.

You'll first need to install an iFrame application into your
page (which is beyond the scope of this post unfortunately.)
This will allow you to create a custom tab on your Page.

Once you have your custom tab, you will want to create
some type of "offer" along with a "call to action" to entice
people to "LIKE" your page.

An example offer would be something like this:

"Click Like Above To Get Access To _______"

It's proven that you will get more "Likes" just by making
this one small change to your Facebook Page.

Good luck!

- James Grandstaff

James Grandstaff is an Internet Entrepreneur and all
around good guy. To find out how he got 52.94% more
"Likes" to his Facebook page, check out his amazing
FREE presentation Click Here.

Discovering The World Of Pinterest | One Stop Retirement Income Ideas

2012-09-30T12:10:00.001-07:00

Discovering The World Of Pinterest | One Stop Retirement Income Ideas