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		<title>Craigslist, An Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 17:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
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Written by; Michael Robinson
Presented by: Newbies Marketing Information
Have you ever heard of Craigslist? If not, you could be missing a FREE opportunity to post classified ads throughout the nation.
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<p>Written by; Michael Robinson</p>
<p>Presented by:<strong> Newbies Marketing Information</strong></p>
<p>Have you ever heard of Craigslist? If not, you could be missing a FREE opportunity to post classified ads throughout the nation.</p>
<p>You may be a seller interested in selling a one-time product, a small business owner with many products or services to sell, or any entrepreneur or marketer. But if you aren�??t using Craigslist, you are missing a valuable opportunity to drive hoards of traffic to your site.</p>
<p>Now, you maybe asking yourself, �??What is Craigslist?�??</p>
<p>For many Craiglist is a community website applying Web 2.0 technology. This website, like many others of its kind, focuses on providing users the ability to build an online community, serving more than twenty million users each month. Craigslist is among the highest-ranking sites on the Web today.</p>
<p><strong>What does this mean to you? And how can you use Craigslist to benefit you</strong>?</p>
<p>Most community forums provide a place for people to chat, get to know each other, or share common interests. Craigslist is unique in that while it does offer a forum, it is also a place where people can promote and sell. Craigslist allows users to post classified ads to a community bulletin board. Most users can place ads free, although there are charges for some services in certain locations.</p>
<p>Craigslist hosts millions of ads and has billions of visitors every year.  As more and more people turn to the Web for their purchases, this website is rapidly becoming one of the most important places people bookmark.</p>
<p>Remember, most of the more common types of ads placed on Craigslist are free. Even when you do have to pay for ads, usually you will pay far less than you would if you paid for an advertisement in a local paper (or national one). And, more and more people are using the Net to find what they need, whether they want to find a job, a new home, a new car or anything else.</p>
<p>Every month, more and more people check out Craigslist for information about products and services. Alexa.com reported that just last year the site had over 13 million unique viewers. As you can see that, is a lot of publicity. Each day, more than 500,000 companies and individuals post job availabilities. Imagine, the biggest and best place to find a job, and even post a resume!</p>
<p>There are community listings, real estate listings, even some erotic and �??massage�?? type services are listed. Founded in 1995 and incorporated in 1999, Craigslist offered listings in just nine U S sit-tees. Since then, Craigslist has expanded to include more than 450 cities across the globe.</p>
<p>The company became popular mainly by word-of-mouth as more and more people started using the site to place their classified and other assorted ads. The reason for its popularity? ads are cheap and get a lot of exposure.</p>
<p>How did the name craigslist come into being?<br />
Craig Newmark, entrepreneur, founded the site without knowing how large it would grow. His early designs were to simply create a classified listing for local and regional events. Little did he know how fast his service would grow.</p>
<p>One reason for its popularity is its simplicity. Who wants to log online and search paper after paper for job listings? Instead of posting a job in a local market, advertisers can place their ads in a forum that reaches both a national and international audience!</p>
<p>You can also search for items using a keyword search tool, thus greatly reducing the amount of time spent sifting aimlessly through irrelevant information.</p>
<p>As with any popular site, Craigslist has had its fair share of controversy, including opposition from some people opposed to the types of ads placed on the site. Some local newspapers have expressed fears that people would no longer turn to their local news listings for classified information, thereby reducing their subscriber base. Such is technology.</p>
<p>Craigslist now offers forums and message boards for its members. Among the more popular forums on the �??List�?? is the �??Erotic�?? forum, for users over the age of 18.<br />
Craigslist allows just about anyone to post information about anything they have to offer. It is also heavily policed to ensure ads are legitimate and legal.</p>
<p>Despite the controversy, craigslist has earned its reputation and status as a leader in Web 2.0 sites, receiving many awards, including Best Local Website in 2003 according to a reader�??s poll and the Best Community Site by multiple agencies .</p>
<p>Take some time finding out how you can use craigslist to make money. After all, that is why most people post ads in the first place.</p>
<p>Thanks for Stopping By.</p>
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		<title>Autoresponder Challenges</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 13:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		
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Autoresponder Challenges:
Unexpected Differences Left Rookie Marketer With Egg On Her Face
Written by: Elisabeth Kuhn
Presented by: Newbies Marketing Information; an Internet Marketing Information Resource for New Online Marketers
My autoresponders seemed to work exactly alike. Sure, if I had tested and used the diagnostics, I would have noticed sooner that something was amiss, but I was too [...]]]></description>
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<h2>Autoresponder Challenges:</h2>
<h3>Unexpected Differences Left Rookie Marketer With Egg On Her Face</h3>
<p>Written by: Elisabeth Kuhn</p>
<p>Presented by: <strong>Newbies Marketing Information</strong>; an Internet Marketing Information Resource for New Online Marketers</p>
<p>My autoresponders seemed to work exactly alike. Sure, if I had tested and used the diagnostics, I would have noticed sooner that something was amiss, but I was too busy just keeping up with the newsletters&#8230;</p>
<p>My first autoresponder was Aweber. It&#8217;s extremely user friendly and I quickly learned how to work it. My list grew too, albeit at a glacial pace.</p>
<p>To speed things up, I decided to acquire some additional leads by way of co-registration, which meant that basically the service advertised my newsletter and people signed up. Then it sent me their information, and I was supposed to import them into my autoresponder.</p>
<p>But there was the rub. Aweber won&#8217;t allow that.</p>
<p>So I needed a second autoresponder. As it happened, I figured I would need a shoppingcart system anyway, at least eventually, so I signed up for a shopping cart system that came with an autoresponder and that did allow importing my new subscribers.</p>
<p>All was well, or so I thought. I fed in the names, I wrote newsletters, but the response I got was zero.</p>
<p>I attributed that to the source of the list and stopped advertising my newsletter.</p>
<p>Until recently&#8230; when I decided to give it another shot, especially since my newsletter had gotten a lot better lately.</p>
<p>I also decided I should sign up for my own newsletter (a bit belatedly), and was puzzled when I got bunches of my messages all at once, and then&#8230; nothing. What the heck?</p>
<p>When one of my mentors mentioned that he sent out &#8220;birthday&#8221; greetings (with a special offer) to his list members on day 365 since they joined his list, I thought, hmm, won&#8217;t that take quite a bit of math to tally up all those numbers?</p>
<p>And then it hit me: Aweber and my shopping cart require different labeling systems:</p>
<p>Aweber wants me to tell it how many days after the LAST message the new message should be mailed. So I typically added a &#8220;3&#8243; or a &#8220;4.&#8221; And it worked beautifully.</p>
<p>I did the same with my shopping cart autoresponder. Alas, that&#8217;s why I got them all at once. The shopping cart sent me all messages labeled with a &#8220;3&#8243; on the third day, the ones labeled &#8220;4&#8243; on the fourth, and the ones labeled &#8220;5&#8243; on the fifth.</p>
<p>That clearly was not what I had intended.</p>
<p>As it turns out, the shopping cart autoresponder wants its emails labeled by the number of days since day zero, i.e., the welcome message!</p>
<p>I also discovered that if I added a message with a number that was lower than the number of days a person had already been a member of that list, he or she would not get that mailing at all. Which means, hardly any of the follow-up messages actually reached their intended audience since I had added them with considerable delay. Not a problem for Aweber, but a big problem for my shopping cart.</p>
<p>So I sent a very apologetic broadcast to my list and went about fixing things. I renumbered all the messages and then manually reset the affected list members to the approximate date where they had stopped getting messages to get them caught up with the back messages.</p>
<p>Hopefully, they will forgive me and remain on my list. Those that do will probably be a whole lot happier with my newsletter now that it will actually arrive when it is supposed to.</p>
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<p>About the Author<br />
Want a user-friendly, affordable autoresponder? Check out my favorite autoresponder Prefer an integrated shopping cart system? You&#8217;re in luck: The world&#8217;s best integrated system has a special 30-day FREE trial offer! <a href="http://www.myfavoritewebstuff.com/talkspot/" target="_blank">Get more of Elisabeth&#8217;s tips and recommendations at her web stuff blog</a>.</p>
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		<title>Go Niche With Your Affiliate Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 16:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Written by: Guido Nussbaum
Presented by: Newbies Marketing Information; an Internet Marketing Information Resource for New Online Marketers
There are a lot of people that are coming on the Internet who are trying to make money in some way or another. Most of these individuals are starting out with out their own [...]]]></description>
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<h3>Go Niche With Your Affiliate Marketing</h3>
<p>Written by: Guido Nussbaum<br />
Presented by: <strong>Newbies Marketing Information; an Internet Marketing Information Resource for New Online Marketers</strong></p>
<p>There are a lot of people that are coming on the Internet who are trying to make money in some way or another. Most of these individuals are starting out with out their own product or even an e-mail list.</p>
<p><strong>How are they doing it?</strong></p>
<p>They are signing up for affiliate programs and trying to get people to buy the things that those programs have to offer. This can be an excellent way to get your feet wet on the Internet and begin to make a profit. As a matter of fact, some individuals have made a living out of this form of marketing and continue to do better than many people who have their own product and tried to market on the Internet that way.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">One of the common mistakes</span> that many people make whenever they get into affiliate marketing is that they try to be everything to everyone. This is simply not a good idea. Think of yourself as more of a mom-and-pop shop than a Wal-Mart. When a person goes into a Wal-Mart store to buy a shirt, they will end up buying several other things just out of convenience. When somebody comes to your website to buy a shirt, they will buy the shirt and leave. Don&#8217;t try to sell somebody something that they are not interested in.</p>
<p><strong>People who are buying things on the Internet are buying them because they are looking for that specific item, nothing more</strong>.</p>
<p>Affiliate marketing in this way is otherwise known as niche marketing. This form of marketing can be applied to having your own product or selling a product that belongs to somebody else.</p>
<p>The real key to this is that you are only focusing on a specific group of people.</p>
<p><strong>For example</strong>, if you are in an affiliate program which is selling a product to help with headaches, you want to find people who are suffering from headaches.</p>
<p>If you do, you would be surprised with the number of them that will actually buy the product. It&#8217;s a clear-cut case of supplying something to individuals who are making a demand for that particular item.</p>
<p>There are several different ways to pull traffic that are interested in specific items. Some of these ways are very standard forms of marketing on the Internet and others are a little bit sneaky.</p>
<p>An example of standard marketing would be search engine optimization or perhaps pay per click marketing. A sneaky technique would be posting in forums and leaving a link to your affiliate program.</p>
<p>To be honest, it doesn&#8217;t really matter how you get the traffic to your website as long as you&#8217;re doing so without breaking any laws. If somebody is interested in what you have to offer, they will be happy to pay for it and you will be happy to make the sale. That&#8217;s the best way to make money with affiliate marketing.</p>
<p>If you want to make a splash in your marketing efforts, make sure that you don&#8217;t overlook the physical products. Not only can they help you to make money, they can help you to build a business.</p>
<p>About the Author<br />
If you like to discover many more proven to work marketing strategies, then head over to the <a href="http://www.profitworkfromhome.com/blog/" target="_blank">Profit Work From Home website</a>. We show new internet marketers how to successfully<a href="http://www.profitworkfromhome.com/" target="_blank"> work from home</a></p>
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		<title>Does Your Web Copy Speak To The Reader Or Does It Speak About Yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 13:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does Your Web Copy Speak To The Reader Or Does It Speak About Yourself?
Written by: Serge Dandelin
Presented by: Newbies Marketing Information; an Internet Marketing Information Resource for New Online Marketers
How to make sure that your website content is really talking to your potential customers?
Whenever you are setting up a new site with new information, are [...]]]></description>
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<h3>Does Your Web Copy Speak To The Reader Or Does It Speak About Yourself?</h3>
<p>Written by: <strong>Serge Dandelin</strong></p>
<p>Presented by: <strong>Newbies Marketing Information; an Internet Marketing Information Resource for New Online Marketers</strong></p>
<p>How to make sure that your website content is really talking to your potential customers?</p>
<p>Whenever you are setting up a new site with new information, are you appealing to the right people? When you start a new business, you have to make sure that your site and your ads are appealing to your niche market. That means you have to make sure that the people that are more likely to buy your product are the people that you are talking to.</p>
<p><strong>For example</strong>, you would not try and sell a skateboard to a grandmother, just like you would not try and sell dresses to boys.</p>
<p>Doing so is trying to appeal to the wrong market. Well, there is one more thing that you have to worry about when you are writing your web copy. Does your website speak to your reader or does it speak about yourself? This is something that a lot of people are not thinking when they are writing articles about their site, however, it could be one of the biggest sales killers out there!</p>
<p>When you are writing your web copy, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">do you have the right tone</span>?</p>
<p><strong>For example</strong>, are you talking a lot about yourself? Or are you talking to the people that are reading it?</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> Well, you should be talking to the people that are reading it</span>, because you are trying to relate to them. You are trying to appeal to that group, and you do that better by talking to them and not about yourself.</p>
<p>To find out if you are talking more to the people or more about yourself, look at the words that you are using in your web copy. Are you using things that talk about your company like: we, we&#8217;re, we will, ours, and so on. If so, then you are talking more about the company and not really relating to the people that are reading it.</p>
<p>You have to make this appeal to the people by telling them <span style="text-decoration: underline;">how it will affect them,</span> not how it will affect you!</p>
<p>Whenever you are writing your web copy, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">you need to try and say things like you can, yours, you</span>, etc. You need to be showing how your products or services are going to be helping the people that are using it.</p>
<p>Try to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">avoid</span> things that are going to talk about your company. The only place that you need to talk about your company is on the &#8220;about us&#8221; page of your website. Other than that, you need to appeal to the people that may want to buy the product.</p>
<p>If you are not a good copywriter, it may be a good idea to hire a professional copywriter to develop great copy for your website. People reading your website typically scan the page rather than read every word. Consequently, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">it&#8217;s crucial that you have the right words to grab and hold the visitor&#8217;s attention</span>. That way you are sure to get a web copy that talk to the right audience.</p>
<p>To Your Success!<br />
About the Author<br />
Do you want to learn more about Internet Marketing? I have just completed my brand new guide to Search Engine Marketing Success: &#8221;How To Consistently Drive Thousands Of Targeted Visitors Every Day With Search Engine Optimization&#8221;. Download it free here: <a href="http://affordable-search-engine-optimization-services.com/seo-course.html" target="_blank">Search Engine Optimization Success</a>. <a href="http://affordable-search-engine-optimization-services.com/seo-course.html" target="_blank">Affordable Search Engine Optimization Services.com Serge Daudelin is a Search Engine Optimization specialist and consultant who has written over 300 articles in print and 5 published ebooks. </a>Serge is dedicated to helping others and offering the best information on how to make more money online.</p>
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		<title>Affiliate Marketing From Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 15:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Affiliate Marketing From Home
Written by: Niels Bach
Presented by: Newbies Marketing Information; an Internet Marketing Information Resource for New Online Marketers
Affiliate Marketing is perhaps the hottest job opportunity of today, and going by its rapid growth, it is also expected to be THE job of the future.
Owing to the unprecedented, number of products and services available [...]]]></description>
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<h3>Affiliate Marketing From Home</h3>
<p>Written by: Niels Bach</p>
<p>Presented by: <strong>Newbies Marketing Information; an Internet Marketing Information Resource for New Online Marketers</strong></p>
<p>Affiliate Marketing is perhaps the hottest job opportunity of today, and going by its rapid growth, it is also expected to be THE job of the future.</p>
<p>Owing to the unprecedented, number of products and services available on the internet, advertisers are in continuous search of reliable companies and people to promote their businesses .. this is where you come in. If you wish to run Affiliate Marketing from home, here are some useful bits of advice to think about.</p>
<p>Begin with a little introspection - The starting point of an Affiliate Marketing from home business lies deep within you. Single out WHY you&#8217;ve chosen this route. Is it to pay the bills, make big money, leave a dead-end day job, or spend more time with the family? Go a step further, ask yourself WHAT you are truly passionate about. If there&#8217;s a product or service that you&#8217;d love to promote, follow your heart. When you&#8217;ve found the answers, you will be starting off on the right foot.</p>
<p>Understand the concept - In essence, Affiliate Marketing is simply the referral of a person to an advertiser and then being paid, either for the referral, or if it results in a sale.</p>
<p>Arm yourself with knowledge - Learn as much as you can about Affiliate Marketing from home. Consult friends or people who&#8217;ve been successful in this field. The more you understand HOW different Affiliate Programs work, the more your chances of success.</p>
<p>Scan before you sign up - Don&#8217;t join every Affiliate Marketing from home program that seems interesting to you. Scan each program carefully and sign up with one where the offer sounds genuine and the company, legitimate. Fortunately, the internet has an unlimited number of Affiliate Marketing options so you have a wide range to choose one that suits you best.</p>
<p>Coin a catchy domain name - An important first step to build trust with your potential targets and for any Affiliate Marketing from home business. Try incorporating the product or service you are promoting into your domain name. Choose a dot com address, as it is more popular and easier to recall than others, e.g., dot org or dot net. To register the domain, search the internet and you&#8217;ll find numerous, cheap places to do so.</p>
<p>Build your own website - This is one imperative and critical requirement, to become a successful Affiliate Marketer. You needn&#8217;t be a web designer to build one because even with little or no knowledge of html, there are free site building software available to guide you. Alternatively, you may use a good site builder from the many available online. However, it&#8217;s advisable to transfer your domain name instead of using their free domain and hosting services.</p>
<p>Update your site - Repeat visitors lose interest when they view the same content. Therefore, make sure to update your site regularly and give them something new, e.g., new graphics, product information, offers, company news, links, etc. Successful, Affiliate Marketing from home entrepreneurs, pay special attention to this aspect of their business.</p>
<p>To make a success of your Affiliate Marketing from home business, here&#8217;s a final bit of advice.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Plan carefully</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">stay focused</span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">be patient</span>. Keep this in mind every step of the way and you&#8217;ll achieve whatever goals you&#8217;ve set for yourself.</p>
<p>About the Author<br />
Niels Bach is the author and runs a site with affiliate marketing tips and opportunities. Find out of more about affiliate marketing by visiting his site <a href="http://www.profits-on-web.com" target="_blank">http://www.profits-on-web.com</a></p>
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		<title>Advertising Your Web Site - Creative New Ways To Advertise</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advertising Your Web Site - Creative New Ways To Advertise
Written by: David Ogden
Presented by: Newbies Marketing Information; an Internet Marketing Information Resource for New Online Marketers
There are many different ways to advertise websites. Some older, some newer, some less effective, and of course, some more effective. The web advertising market is becoming so over-crowded, that [...]]]></description>
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<h3>Advertising Your Web Site - Creative New Ways To Advertise</h3>
<p>Written by: David Ogden</p>
<p>Presented by: <strong>Newbies Marketing Information; an Internet Marketing Information Resource for New Online Marketers</strong></p>
<p>There are many different ways to advertise websites. Some older, some newer, some less effective, and of course, some more effective. The web advertising market is becoming so over-crowded, that it has become necessary to come up with more innovative ways to advertise your web site. What are some of these innovative ways? This article will give you an idea of where to start for the innovative advertising field.</p>
<p>There are a lot of ways that can be used to create innovative advertising. One of the newest ways is rather clever. All the company does is put down the slightest bit of information about their company or product, or perhaps nothing but the website name.</p>
<p>People are naturally curious, and so this advertising method is rather effective, due to that fact. There are many other advertising methods that can be innovative. Think about your site and different ways that creative advertising could be made for it.</p>
<p>Practically anything goes for the advertisement field. Consult with other businesses and even friends and family. They may be able to think of a great advertising plan that you never would have on your own. There are some specific ways that any site can use to employ innovative ways to advertise your web site. This article covers five main ways, and anyone can use them to further their web site advertising.</p>
<p>The first approach that uses innovative ways to advertise your web site is through auto responder trade. This can be done by trading ads with another web site, and giving each other an auto responder classified ad to place on each other&#8217;s web sites.</p>
<p>Another way to advertise a web site that is innovative is through the use of content swap. Creating a ring of websites that exchange different content such as top ten lists or topic articles will make advertising a breeze.</p>
<p>Tip lines are another innovative way to advertise a web site. Starting a daily, weekly, monthly, bi-weekly, pre-recorded tip related to your business on your voice mail will be an effective and innovative way to advertise your business.</p>
<p>Directory linking is also a great, innovative way to advertise. Create a website that lists other web sites that are all based on the same topic. Allow members of the directory to place a link to the site through their web sites. If you put your business&#8217;s ad on the directory home page, then you will get lots of traffic to your site.</p>
<p>The final way to create innovative ways to advertise your web site is to use whatever product you sell on your site as a bonus product for some other company. This forces people to try your products, and gives advertising to you as well.</p>
<p>These are just a few innovative ways to advertise your web site. Your imagination is the limit on what you can actually do for the advertising field. There are so many different ways that advertising can be used.</p>
<p>Think about your site and what advertising methods will work best for it. If you follow the steps outlined in this article, then you will be well on the way to having a successful, innovative advertising career for your web site.</p>
<p>About the Author<br />
David Ogden is an established online marketer who specializes in practical website resources and advice that have helped many people like you start their very own home based business. He can help you launch your very own money making website today, ready to take orders and pull in massive profits for you right now, guaranteed! Want to make money online now?<a href="http://www.affiliate-profit-masters.com/" target="_blank"> www.Affiliate-Profit-Masters.com</a> Copyright - David Ogden</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 09:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Written by: David Ledoux
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Did it ever occur to you that landscape design marketing was something that was essential to your business as are a good aesthetic sense and a knowledge of horticulture? Chances are, if you are someone who puts [...]]]></description>
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<h3><strong>Landscape Design Marketing</strong></h3>
<p>Written by: David Ledoux</p>
<p>Presented by:<strong> Newbies Marketing Information; an Internet Marketing Information Resource for New Online Marketers</strong></p>
<p>Did it ever occur to you that landscape design<a href="http://youradhere.freead8291.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=FREEAD" target="_blank"> marketing</a> was something that was essential to your business as are a good aesthetic sense and a knowledge of horticulture? Chances are, if you are someone who puts a lot of time and love into their work, you&#8217;ve never really thought about why you need to think about marketing.</p>
<p>Shouldn&#8217;t your work speak for itself?</p>
<p>Shouldn&#8217;t people be able to look at your design and figure out why your work is the best?</p>
<p>The answer is a most emphatic �??<strong>NO</strong>!�??</p>
<p>With plenty of friends in the business and with an eye towards helping them make money, I&#8217;ve seen a lot when it comes to this business, and one of the first things I noticed is how few people are making the most out of their marketing opportunities.</p>
<p>When you are thinking of landscape design marketing, you&#8217;ll find that the first and foremost thing that you need to do is think about how people are going to find your work. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Think about your web presence</span>.</p>
<p>More and more people are searching online for all of their landscaping needs, and because of this, you&#8217;ll find that if you aren&#8217;t online, plenty of people will never find you. If you&#8217;ve never put together a website before, and aren&#8217;t sure what makes a good one, it&#8217;s time to talk to a website designer. If this is your business page, you don&#8217;t want to leave it to amateurs; hey, you wouldn&#8217;t let a kid with a weed whacker remodel your lawn, right?</p>
<p>One of the nicest things I ever saw a landscaping firm do was send a thank you note to my neighbor after she had her lawn professionally landscaped. It was a very charming gesture, and they happened to include a cute little flower magnet as well, which just happened to have their name and number printed on it. If I think about it, I can still see her magnet on the refrigerator, and you can bet that when she wants to recommend landscaping to someone that she&#8217;ll just read off the name and number on the magnet.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Have you done anything to make yourself that accessible to newer customers and older ones?</span></p>
<p>If you are interested in landscape design <a href="http://youradhere.freead8291.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=FREEAD" target="_blank">marketing</a>, take some time to get some pictures of what you have done. Take some pictures immediately after you finish your work and ask the people you did it for if you can use it in a brochure or on a website. You&#8217;ll find that nothing attracts people like pictures of what their lawn could look like, so make sure that you can give them an idea.</p>
<p><strong>Remember</strong>; you should always explain what you have done and why; this is when a good website will come in handy.</p>
<p>Take some time to really think about what you can do when it comes to getting customers to your site. Don&#8217;t be one of more than 75% of landscaping companies that doesn&#8217;t have a <a href="http://youradhere.freead8291.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=FREEAD" target="_blank">marketing</a> plan; this is the way to to go, so make sure that you get started!</p>
<p>About the Author:<br />
David Ledoux is an author, speaker, trainer and mentor to entrepreneurs. His newest report The Small Business Death Sentence can be downloaded for free at<a href="http://bigmoneyfreetime.com/" target="_blank"> http://bigmoneyfreetime.com</a></p>
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		<title>How To Promote Your Internet Marketing Start-Up With PLR Articles</title>
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Written by: D. Hurley
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<h3>How To Promote Your Internet Marketing Start-Up With PLR Articles</h3>
<p>Written by:<strong> D. Hurley</strong></p>
<p>Presented by: <strong>Newbies Marketing Information</strong>; an Internet Marketing Information Resource for New Online Marketers</p>
<p>What is a private label rights (plr) service and how can it best be used to help you master the net and successfully promote your Internet marketing start-up? What are the pitfalls to be avoided in using plr articles?</p>
<p>A plr service produces a certain number of articles and even full-length ebooks every month for its subscribers. The articles are available to all the subscribers and they have the right to publish the material on their websites or elsewhere. The idea is that plr articles enable Internet marketing start-ups to build content quickly and are an option that many busy website owners are keen to use to add content to their sites under their own names. Plr ebooks may also be republished under the subscribers own name and marketed as new products or offered as incentives to visitors to sign up for their newsletters.</p>
<p>These features are said to give plr users extra credibility and make it more likely that a visitor will return to their site, or even go so far as to buy something.</p>
<p>However, remember at the beginning I asked &#8220;What are the pitfalls to be avoided&#8221;?</p>
<p>Well, there is just one pitfall, but it is a rather LARGE one that must be negotiated before you rush off to sign up with a plr publisher and start posting articles to your site.</p>
<p>That there pitfall is called &#8220;dooplicate content.&#8221;</p>
<p>Always remember: Gooogle just hates doooplicate content.</p>
<p>If you publish an article without making any changes to it, it will be identical to numerous articles found on many other sites. Your article will therefore be rated as &#8220;duplicate content&#8221; by the search engines.</p>
<p>The reason for this is that search engines aim to present their users with material that is useful, unique and relevant to their search terms. So, if 100 subscribers of a plr publisher simply paste and post the same articles on their sites, search engines that lack a &#8220;duplicate content&#8221; filter would turn up 100 identical articles for their users. As someone who probably searches for stuff on search engines, you can imagine how pleased a user would be with the results of their search if the first ten pages turned up identical sites! A search engine that did not filter duplicate content would soon go out of business as searchers would avoid it like the plague.</p>
<p>If you plan to use plr content, first check out how many other sites are using the same article before you publish it. You can easily do that by copying a sentence from the article straight into a search engine. Place inverted commas around it to narrow the search down to that exact string only. You&#8217;ll probably discover that as many as 100 or more sites have already beaten you to it and published the article.</p>
<p>If, on the other hand, you find just a handful of articles, and if it is a Google search you are conducting, don&#8217;t jump to the conclusion that your article is still quite fresh and new&#8230; Look out at the bottom of the listings for Google&#8217;s duplicate content message:</p>
<p>&#8220;In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 5 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.&#8221;</p>
<p>The last part of that sentence links to the full search results and you will almost certainly find many many more copies of the same article have been published.</p>
<p><strong>So, is there a way to get your plr articles out there without suffering any penalties</strong>?</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Yes</strong></span>, there is, <strong>but there are some steps you must take first</strong>. Here they are.</p>
<p><strong>1</strong>. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Make sure you write your own unique title for the article</span>.</p>
<p><strong>2</strong>. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Write a unique opening paragraph for the article</span>.</p>
<p><strong>3</strong>. Sorry, but you also need to<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> rewrite large chunks of the second, third and probably fourth paragraphs </span>too. Actually, once you get used to the process it is not so difficult. Read a few sentences at a time, then rephrase them, turn them around and mix them up.</p>
<p><strong>4</strong>. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Write your own closing paragraph</span>.</p>
<p>You will now have four to six paragraphs that are in your own words and that are therefore very unlikely to be counted as duplicate content.</p>
<p>Just how much of the article you rewrite is up to you. The more your rewrite and, the more changes you make, the more original the article will appear to both the search engines and your site&#8217;s visitors.</p>
<p>Well, you may ask, by the time I&#8217;ve done all that I could have written an original article from scratch. Of course, if you can write articles from scratch that is to be encouraged, and indeed, even if you use plr articles, you should still aim to write at least some articles entirely by yourself.</p>
<p>You will find that writing your own article takes longer than reworking a plr article, however. Plr articles can be rewritten in just a few minutes once you have got used to the process, so they save you a lot of writing time - and they also save you many hours of research.</p>
<p>Used properly, therefore, plr articles are a valuable tool in increasing both your personal productivity and your presence on the Internet.</p>
<p>About the Author<br />
David Hurley is an Internet marketing consultant who is based in Hiroshima, Japan. To learn more about how start and succeed with an online business that generates multiple streams of income visit <a href="http://grasp-the-nettle.com" target="_blank">Grasp-The-Nettle.com</a></p>
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		<title>How To Write Powerful, Attention-Grabbing Headlines</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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How To Write Powerful, Attention-Grabbing Headlines That Pull In More Prospects, Sales And Profits.
Written by: Serge Dandelin
Presented by: Newbies Marketing Information; an Internet Marketing Information Resource for New Online Marketers


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<h2>How To Write Powerful, Attention-Grabbing Headlines That Pull In More Prospects, Sales And Profits.</h2>
<p>Written by:<strong> Serge Dandelin</strong></p>
<p>Presented by:<strong> Newbies Marketing Information; an Internet Marketing Information Resource for New Online Marketers<br />
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<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a way to bring in more profits, then you have to look for a way to bring in more customers. This is because, the more customers you bring to your website, the more chances you have to make a sale. The best way to get people to your web site is to be able to write powerful and attention grabbing headlines that beg the reader to want more.</p>
<p><strong>So now the real question is how to your write these kind of headlines</strong>.</p>
<p>There are a few factors that are going to affect the way you write these headlines. In the end, there are two main different ways that you can go about writing these headlines and getting the attention that you crave so badly.</p>
<p>The first way to write these headlines (the cheapest) is to write them yourself. To do this you are going to know what your niche market is. You are going to need to know what kind of people you are appealing to with your product. For example, you are not going to advertise dog toys to cat lovers or bikes to skateboarders. The reason for that is simple, you are not going to get a lot of sales this way. You have to appeal to the people that want what you are selling. We call that: &#8221;Targeting the right audience&#8221;. If you are unable to corner the right audience for your product or service you are wasting your time and money. Plain and simple.</p>
<p><strong>Next</strong>, you have to think of words that draw people in. There are certain words that people like to see when they read a headline. Some of these words are &#8221;free&#8221;, &#8221;guarantee&#8221;, &#8221;lowest prices&#8221;, and &#8221;great deals&#8221;. By using some of these words in your headlines you are going to get a lot more action on your site.</p>
<p>The next way to go about writing great headlines is to hire someone to do it for you. Although this may be the easy way out, it will cost you some money. However, there are a lot of positive things that come out of having a professional copywriter doing it for you. Not only can you have a professional writing your ad, but you can rest assured that it is going to go out loud and get some attention, and that is the whole point of making these Attention-Grabbing ads.</p>
<p>If you are going to spend money on a freelance copywriter to design your ads, You might as well want to make sure that your ads appeal to the right market. A lot of times, freelance writers will know the different trends and what people are looking for in that market place. That is the kind of thing that is good to have on your side.</p>
<p>On average, 80% to 100% of people will read your headline copy, however only 30% will read the rest.<br />
The better the headline, the better your odds of beating the averages and getting what you&#8217;ve written read by a larger percentage of people.</p>
<p>To Your Success!<br />
About the Author<br />
Do you want to learn more about Internet Marketing? I have just completed my brand new guide to Search Engine Marketing Success: &#8221;How To Consistently Drive Thousands Of Targeted Visitors With Search Engine Optimization&#8221;. Download it free here:<a href="http://affordable-search-engine-optimization-services.com/" target="_blank"> Search Engine Optimization Success</a>. Serge Daudelin <a href="http://affordable-search-engine-optimization-services.com/" target="_blank">Affordable Search Engine Optimization Services.com</a>. Serge Daudelin is a <a href="http://affordable-search-engine-optimization-services.com/" target="_blank">Search Engine Optimization specialist and consultant</a> who has written over 300 articles in print and 5 published ebooks.</p>
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<p>Just a quick post to let everyone know I have added a new page to this blog.</p>
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