Saturday, December 29, 2012

Your Mobile Marketing Essential Guide

Mobile marketing is becoming more and more popular among business owners and this trend is not going away. Everywhere you turn you see people on their smart phones and mobile devices. As a business owner, you want to make sure you are taking advantage of this growing trend so that you can connect with new customers and put timely offers in the hands of willing buyers.
This short report will cover the most critical items you need to be aware of when it comes to mobile marketing for your

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Friday, December 28, 2012

The Power Of Forums

In most forums registered users are allowed to add a signature line underneath their name. Your signature will show up each time you make a post, which works in your favour, because in this way you will be subtlety promoting your business without spamming anyone. It is important that you post to the forum frequently, some forum posters don't bother to look at the websites of users unless they are regular users of the forum, and then they may eventually get curious. You have to build your

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Easy Article Creation

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Being an internet marketer is difficult. That is very true, especially if one follows traditional methods of replicating web content. If you are a person like that, it is the best time to update your ways.

Apparently, the latest news about the major changes that search engines have made to their algorithms has affected many marketers negatively. And those affected people were not only black hat marketers,

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The Benefits of Tracking

What if Jonas Salk hadnt tested the polio vaccine? Or, what if Einstein never tested his theory of relativity? Do you think they would have been successful? In the science world, definitely NOT, and in the marketing world, testing is every bit as important if you want to achieve success.
Any number of tracking programs are out there from Hits Connect to Track That Ad to the new Link Brander. Even server-side tracking scripts are available for purchase. Regardless of what you use, tracking every

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Proving Your Offline Consultation Prowess

One of the most efficient ways to convince anybody that you know what youre talking about, no matter what the situation, is to provide physical proof of expertise. Sure, you can tell everybody under the sun that you play hockey like Wayne Gretzky, but its unlikely youll get much credibility on that front until you take the National Hockey League by storm. Once you have physical proof of your excellence regarding anything, people are much more willing to accept that youre a master at whatever

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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Useful Exercise for Your Promotional Marketing Materials

Here is a helpful exercise on how to research and prepare promotional marketing materials to bring the right people to your business. When I do this exercise with my marketing students, we always have a lively conversation that not only sparks solutions but also leaves participants feeling enthused, inspired, even excited about showing up in the marketplace.
The themes we explore and the fun we have doing this exercise are so central to an authentic approach to small business marketing that I

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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Why Link Popularity Will Matter Less to SEO

If you are a search engine optimizer you know how important link building is to your rankings. The problem is that these days most people are aware that link building works and have found ways to exploit and dominate the process.
I have heard stories ranging from Chinese sweatshop link builders to automated software solutions that essentially pollute the Internet with garbage (fake profiles, bogus blog comments, etc.). Anyone who attempts to game the system is usually doing everyone a

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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Niches Explained

If you haven't heard the word 'niche' being batted around by Internet Marketers then you haven't been listening. Finding a niche has become the antidote to competing in overly saturated online markets.
What is a niche?
According to Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary a niche is described as "a place, employment, status, or activity for which a person or thing is best fitted... a specialized market".
Have you noticed that despite the closing of many businesses in these harsh economic times,

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Friday, December 21, 2012

Narrow It Down - But Not Too Much

One of the best things that you can do for your business whether its online or offline is to make yourself be seen as an expert in the field. Having that sort of weight behind you draws potential customers because they can sense that you know what youre talking about when it comes to your line of work. It keeps current customers coming back because they can be confident in your products and services. This is why having a reliable blog on your site can be such a huge gain in drawing in new

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Three Reasons Why You Suck at Internet Marketing

If you spend any time browsing Internet marketing forums online you will see a disturbing pattern of people who call themselves Internet marketers. What they really do is give those of us who do the work of Internet marketing a bad name. I have come up with three things people do that will absolutely ruin their ability to make any money online.
All you do is try to sell me crap.
If all you do online is try to peddle products and offers, you might get some traffic and you may even make a sale

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

What It Takes To Be A Successful Offline Consultant

If youre looking to go into consulting, remember that the real product youre selling isnt your expertise in a subject or your knowledge or even your advice. What youre actually selling is yourself.
Who you are is a full package. This means that you need to know yourself from soup to nuts, and understand who you are both as a person and a professional, and what exactly you can bring to the table when it comes to the needs of the client. This requires a great deal of self-awareness, as well as

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Keeping Your Site Updated With Wordpress Upgrades

If you use WordPress to power your websites, there will be times you need to upgrade. Luckily WordPress lets you know this right in the back office of your website. You will get a notification that WordPRess is ready to be updated, and a handy link you can click on to do it. Should you click it as soon as you see it? I am not so sure about that, here are some things to think about:
1. Is the release brand new? If the latest WordPress release is brand new you might want to hold off for

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Monday, December 17, 2012

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Affiliate Network Due Diligence

There are many horror stories about affiliate programs and networks. People have heard them over and over again, that some are even wary of joining one. The stories they may have heard are those related to illegal programs or pyramid schemes. Basically, this kind of market does not have real, worthy product.
You do not want to be associated with these schemes. It is obvious you want to be with a program that offers high quality product that you will readily endorse. The growing number of those

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Setting Up A Blog In Just 4 Simple Steps

You have a small business, home business or hobby that you want to monetize. You want to build your online presence but have no start up cash. Do you give up? Hell, no. The web is so full of free options that you can build a new business website for free in less than half an hour. Taking it one step further you can build a trendy company blog in the same amount of time. That is right, you can have a company blog like all of the "big guys" in about the same time it takes you to shower in

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

The Power of Twitter

Video: Brad talks about why you should be utilizing Twitter as part of your social media

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

E-Books ? Profit-Pulling Powerhouses

E-Books are part of the new frontier of cyberspace. They are an entirely new medium for sharing marketing information, ideas, techniques, and expert knowledge. Each day the number of people accessing the Internet grows, causing the exposure of your E-Book to increase incrementally. It's obvious why electronic self-publishing has become so popular so quickly.
The publishing industry, I hope, does not intend to forever banish the printed word to the dustbin of history. Books in print have their

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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Smartphone App Advertisements Are Here To Stay

Smartphones have become a ubiquitous part of daily life, particularly for the younger set. Those of us who remember when cell phones first came out, roughly the size of a brick and just as heavy might be a bit bemused by the latest advances in technology. Nowadays, it seems as though the latest smartphones can do everything but physically make you dinner. There are definitely enough apps out there, however, to have the phone tell you how to make dinner, at the very least.
On that note, apps

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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Keywords And How They Matter To Off Page SEO

Your keywords are also important with regards to off-page SEO. Many people think they cant control factors that arent on their own websites, but this isnt true.
There are two important things you can do to ensure your off-page SEO is as effective as possible:
Make sure to seek backlinks from relevant sites.
Make sure to control your anchor text.
Relevancy
A relevant backlink is one that comes from a page that discusses something that is on-topic for your niche. If youre in the golf niche, you

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Where to Find Outsourcing Staff

Here are a few tips on finding professionals to whom you can outsource your work requirements.
Online Jobsites
The best place to get outsourcing professionals is the online jobsites. The following is a list of 10 of the best of these sites.
GetAFreelancer (http://www.getafreelancer.com/)
ScriptLance (http://www.scriptlance.com/)
EUFreelance (http://www.eufreelance.com/)
eLance (http://www.elance.com/)
Guru (http://www.guru.com/)
RentACoder (http://www.rentacoder.com/)
PeoplePerHour

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Internet Marketing Glossary

Video: Brad explains what all the different internet marketing terms and acronyms are and what they mean.

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Monday, December 3, 2012

Exploring Your Sub-niche To Find New Opportunities

Weve spoken about the dangers of getting too specific. Now, lets talk about the advantages of being too specific, at least some of the time.
You want to have your business appeal to as many people as possible. This means that if youre a car repair shop, being able to show knowledge of everything from tires to chassis is a great way to rope in people who are interested in all levels of car repair. Youll be able to establish relationships with these people who will hopefully become repeat

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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Bridging The Gap Between Online And Offline Companies

With the advent of the Internet over the past couple of decades, it seems as though everybody and their mother is on the Internet. Of course, the level of proficiency that individuals and companies have when working with the Internet is as varied as there are clouds in the sky. Some companies have really figured out how to use the Internet as a formidable marketing tool and are experts of the highest degree others are still wondering what www happens to stand for.
If you happen to be an

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Saturday, December 1, 2012

Customers Make Great Affiliates

So, let's take a look at what you're going to do with your long term customers in regards to turning them into affiliates. Understand that when we talk about this, it may not be suitable to do so depending on your product. Turning any one of these resources into affiliates is especially important in the world of online marketing software or info selling, because after all, affiliate marketing is at least 20% of the whole picture. That's a huge chunk.
Well, after telling you that I'm going to

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Friday, November 30, 2012

Why Dominating Low Competition Keywords Will Be Good For Your Business

If youre a savvy business owner who is looking to get into the world of pay per click advertising, then youre already aware of the salience that low competition keywords hold. For those who arent aware, heres the long and short of it: low competition keywords are less obvious words that still relate to the product being sold by the merchant. For example, auto is a lower competition keyword as compared to car. Low competition keywords arent just limited to individual words, though a keyword

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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Staying In Touch With Your Family By Blogging

If you are looking for a unique and easy way to interact with your extended family then WordPress is the ultimate solution. Creating an online family newsletter is a great way to keep your relatives up to date on your life. If you are considering doing a family newsletter, check out four reasons why WordPress is the perfect platform...
1. Price - WordPress is free, you can even use their WordPress.com service to host your site for free. You also don't have to pay any money to design your

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

4 Must-Have Tools For PLR Creators

This post is going to look at a couple of tools that I use almost everyday to help with the PLR creation process. These tools are certainly not PLR specific, but they will help address problems or needs that you may have related to the creative process.
Even if you are a long time PLR creator some of these tools might be helpful. I know Evernote which I mention below was introduced to me only a couple of months ago. I had been creating PLR for years before I found it, and now I cant imagine

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Follow the Steps and Say Au Revoir To Your Competitors

Nobody likes a bully especially small business marketers. If youve ever felt like the little guy taking punches from a heavyweight champion, you know what Im talking about. Big business has donned its gloves, and is waiting to put small business down for the count.
Ive got good news!
Sometimes the little guy wins. Heck, it isnt easy and sometimes its a close call, but little guys do win and when they do victory is sweet!
What can you do when youre being threatened by the bully down the

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Monday, November 26, 2012

Save Your Business By Following These Tips For Free!

Best things in life are free, as many would say. This especially holds true with efforts in advertising one's products or services. With free Internet marketing services, one can save a lot. Instead of shelling out for the marketing aspect of your product or services, that chunk of money could be put to other important elements of your business since many information websites now offer knowledge regarding Internet marketing services that comes with no price tag at all.
This is not to tell you

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Friday, November 23, 2012

PLR Essentials

Video: Brad explains what PLR is and how you can use it in your online

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Three Steps to Gain Link Popularity

In this quick report I will tell you how you can gain link popularity for your website and at the same time your website will be receiving targeted visitors. Increasing your link popularity will increase visitors and you will sale more. For better result promote only one URL and not the entire website. Make sure you have search engine friendly meta tag and URL.
Follow the steps below.
Step 1. Search Engine and Directory Submission
Submit your website to search engines and directories. For best

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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Advergames: Fun Marketing For Your Business

People love video games. Even those who shy away from considering themselves gamers enjoy a bit of gaming every now and then all you need to do is go sit on public transportation for a couple of hours to see the masses of people playing Tetris on their cell phones. Even those who havent made the transition to the fancier smartphones likely know how to play the snake game on their cell phones and probably use it to wile away the empty minutes every now and then.
A savvy marketer sees this and

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Monday, November 19, 2012

Why Consider Seasonal Marketing in Promoting Your Products?

What is so special about each holiday season? They all increase the selling of products. There are many reasons why you should consider seasonal marketing to promote your products, including the seven which are listed below:
1. People tend to buy more products during seasonal celebrations than the rest of the year.
2. People are determined to purchase products, so it is easier to persuade them to purchase a product you offer (assuming of course you are doing it the right way).
3. Most

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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Effective Promotional Videos

Perhaps, by now, you have already decided to join the 21st century and become part of the video advertising on the internet world. Just like many other smart business people and other individuals. We have gone what video advertising is, the types of businesses and individuals who use this media and the benefits of entertaining potential customers with this type of product.
You have now realized that video advertising is not only more effective, but may end up costing you less money in

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Friday, November 16, 2012

Life As An Offline Consultant

If you work with Internet consulting, its likely that most of the business you do is online. Most clients who already are web savvy enough to get online and go hunting for the help they need to make their businesses a success wont necessarily require you to meet in person. In fact, the beauty of working online is that it means that you can expand your clientele to around the world. Even if you live in Texas, theres absolutely no reason why you shouldnt be able to work with clients in

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Thursday, November 15, 2012

What Makes Online Businesses Successful

Starting an online business has become a very popular venture in recent years as more and more people become acclimated to using the Internet in their everyday lives. As little as twenty years ago, the Internet was new to the average consumer and not much more than a novelty; today, its rare to encounter a home in the Western world thats not stocked with at least one computer. Most middle class houses in America have multiple computers at this point.
What this means is that starting an online

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

The Three Rs that Keep the Outsourcing Tide Flowing ? Ratings, Reviews and Relationships

If you are looking for a long-term outsourcing solution, then the best way to do that is to find one good worker and continue working with them on your future assignments. Even though it seems simple, when you go into the nitty-gritty of employing freelancing outsource professionals, you will find that it is a difficult job. You need a lot of things commitment, devotion, quality, ingenuity, good price, etc. It is not always that you will hit the jackpot when you are looking at getting work

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Monday, November 12, 2012

Good Points and Bad Points of Doing My Own SEO

Video: Brad talks about whether you should do your own SEO or hire an SEO company to do it for

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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Why You Should Consider Advertising Through Email

It might come as no shock to you to learn that the most commonly engaged in activity on the Internet is email. People are connected to their email like no other function on the Internet, and we all know how popular Facebook and Twitter are. If you really want to get somebodys attention but cant or dont want to call, we reach for our emails. Email is one of the most professional and reliable ways to get in contact with somebody in the modern era, and even people who are less connected tend to

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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Add Functionality To Your Wordpress Sites Using Widgets

WordPress offers a lot of advantages when it comes to web publishing. There are a lot of reasons people use WordPress. One of the easiest to use functions of WordPress are widgets. Most WordPress themes come with "widget ready" sidebars. From the back office of WordPress you can drag and drop widgets into your sidebars. Widgets can add such things to your site as:
Calendar
Search
Recent Posts
Categories
Text/HTML
The above list is only touching on the functionality you can add with

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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Three Reasons Why You Fail at Social Media

There's no shortage of information out there about how to do well with social media, I thought I would look at things from a different perspective. Here are three things you must not do if you wish to succeed in social media.
You Try To Automate It.
I see so many people who think using social media is about the right tools that automate the experience. If a family member invited you to their wedding would you automate your interaction with them and your presence at their wedding? Too often we

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Pay Per Click Makes Real Cash

Engaging in pay-per-click (PPC) advertising has its own benefits and drawbacks.
Business nowadays is doing different kinds of austerity measures when it comes to advertising their products and services. This is because of high rates of placing ads on print and on television. But there is a fast growing approach that businessmen can utilize to bring their services closer to the people and that is through Internet Marketing.
One tool that is causing Internet marketing popularity is PPC

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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Monday, November 5, 2012

How to Use Google Analytic Statistics

Video: Brad talks about what he thinks are the most important things to look at when youre going over your Google analytics

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Sunday, November 4, 2012

Let your Business Come Out of Its Shell

Many people will tell you that to get your web site noticed you need to 'optimize' your site for the search engines. You are then led up a path where you have to keep changing your web site as the search engines change their ways of listing things. As fast as you 'optimize' your site, Google and the others have moved the goalposts, meaning you have to keep optimizing over and over again.
Now consider some facts. Most people in the world are not users of the Internet. Let's repeat that. The

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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Web Word of Mouth Marketing Revealed

Online marketing presents you with an opportunity to get more bang for your buck compared to traditional marketing. This is particularly true for word of mouth marketing.
Word of Mouth Marketing on The Web
Word of mouth marketing refers to a type of marketing that promotes something by enticing independent parties to promote the service, idea or product to friends.
The idea is to create a buzz for the subject matter. In creating the buzz, the goal is to create enough word of mouth momentum

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Friday, November 2, 2012

Tips in Email Promotion Internet Marketing

If you are trying to build a business online, then it's a safe assumption that you would like that business to make you money. After all, anything else is just a hobby. The good news is that there are many ways to earn money online, and there are also many ways to advertise your business. One of the most popular methods is email promotion internet marketing. It's inexpensive, and even more importantly, it's effective. Here are some things to keep in mind.
1. Building a list is the key to

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Finding Relevant Keywords: What To Bear In Mind?

When doing your keyword research it's very important that you don't overlook a very obvious, but frequently overlooked fact: you don't just want traffic to your site, you want targeted traffic. You want to draw the people to your website who are most likely to buy the product or service you are selling. For that reason you cannot forget to consider the relevant keyword when evaluating your keyword list.
Make sure that the keywords you are targeting are relevant to what your website is

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Social Networking: It's Definition and How It Works

Social networking is when people connect with other people on specific social websites. Social networking sites may be for specific interests like art, knitting or music, or they can be general social networking sites where anyone can join. With social networking websites you can connect with friends, family, business acquaintances and even with people you have never met before. You can actually connect with people from anywhere in the world and you can meet new people that share the same

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Sunday, October 28, 2012

Establish An Expert Reputation

One of the most important things that any business can have, whether online or not, is legitimacy. If customers think that a particular business knows how to get a job done correctly or sells flawless products, not only will they come back, but theyll also offer your name to others. And all business owners crave that word of mouth referral like nothing else, as its marketing gold.
But how to get that reputation? With online businesses, it can be a little bit more difficult to cultivate word

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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Discover One of the Fastest Growing Industries in Internet

Now you have made the decision that you want to get into the wholesale marketing business, it is now time to start making some money, this is great as it is one of the fastest growing industries on the net, actually it is one of the fastest growing industries period.
So, what have you decided to sell? Have you figured this part out yet?, or are you still up in the air with this one? There are some very important things to consider when going into wholesale Internet marketing, capital is a huge

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Friday, October 26, 2012

Make Your Blog a Success with Ease

Video: Brad discusses what a successful blog looks like. He shows the traffic numbers and how it is

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Search Engine Placement Marketing Benefits

With billions of websites on the internet, and that number being added to daily, anyone who uses their website to make money recognizes the importance of getting their website to stand out and get visitors. That is where search engine placement marketing comes into play.
If your website is only a way to show vacation pictures to friends and family than getting a lot of traffic won't be a concern of yours, but for everyone else this is a crucial issue. It can be the difference between success

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

What You Need To Know About Forum Marketing

Forum marketing can make your online business get noticed. Forum users, by and large, are tech and net-savvy and like purchasing things online. Many forum frequenters are also authorities in the topics discussed in the forum.
Forum marketing, thus, helps make a good impression in front of a knowledgeable and influential audience, which can help spread word all over.
What follows is a step-by-step guide that will tell you how to effectively make forum marketing a part of your marketing

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Monday, October 22, 2012

Uncomplicated Tips In Writing Blogs

So, you have been thinking about creating a blog, but aren't sure where to start. That's okay, this article will fill you in on what you need to know before you get started. The good news is that blogs are very easy to set up, and you can put up a basic blog in a fairly short amount of time. Here some basic tips to get you on the path to blogging success.
1. Decide what type of blog you want to have. Will it be a personal blog that is meant to be read by your family and friends? Will it be

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Advertising on Social Media

Video: Brad talks about advertising using social media platforms like Facebook and

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Friday, October 19, 2012

Getting Enough Fans For Your Business

One of the biggest things that business owners of both online and offline enterprises struggle with is the issue of getting followers for their Twitter feeds and Facebook accounts. Its easy enough to sign up for these sites and get your profile set up its even easy to get somebody to design a profile for you so that it looks as sharp as can be.
But once its set up and once its ready to go, even once you have all your content planned out then what?
This is where many people get stonewalled.

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Promoting Offline Companies On The Internet

One of the most basic decisions for any business to decide when they are getting out there in the world is how or what to specialize in. When youre an online consultant working with offline clients, the situation is no different. The Internet is a big place, after all. What parts of it do you have personal expertise in, and which would you like to promote to your potential clients?
There are two major approaches to decide between to this end: working as a generalist or a specialist. There

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Monday, October 15, 2012

Toll Free Number Linked to Ecommerce. How?

Sometimes skimping on things can save you good money. But skimping is not always the wisest business strategy. For example, I couldve written this article in the windows program notepad as opposed to Microsoft Word, and saved a good $500 and never had to buy the latest version of Microsoft Office However, wouldnt it be worth the $500 if the improved impression of professionalism put forth in all of my writings some how garnered ten times that in profit? Would you have read this far if I had

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Saturday, October 13, 2012

The Benefits of Online Printing

Customers love to help themselves. They can get what they want when they want them not when someone else is ready to serve them. This is where e-business can really make a difference, by extending your existing customer service systems over the Web. Web-based or online service allows your customers to find out what they need at the touch of a button, anytime of the day or night. Whether its actual transactions or account details, they will appreciate a better level of service, making it easier

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Monetize your Blog

Monetize Your Blog Today, It is Easier Than You Think
If you are looking at transforming your blog traffic into income then follow the five tips here and you will be able to instantly monetize your blog. If you can create a product, or display some ads, you should be able to start making money from all your efforts.
1. Products: Products are a great way to monetize your blog. If you have a loyal community they will be open to purchasing from you. You could easily use a site like CafePress

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Tips from successful Marketers

I've interviewed a lot of entrepreneurs in the past 6 years and all the successful ones share a common belief. It's the "Can Do" attitude. It doesn't matter what's going on around them, who says it can't be done, who says it can, they put on the blinders and do it. They make it happen.
Now along the way, we all pick up skills we need to develop to deal with different aspects of our businesses. As you grow and develop and learn more about how to do business and you start experiencing success,

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Monday, October 8, 2012

Blogging Can Be Fun And Beneficial To Your Business Too

Another social media outlet that is often looked over in terms of the biggies of Facebook and LinkedIn fame is the humble blog. While the word blog might make you think of a teenager with an axe to grind and Comic Sans font or a geek writing about the latest coding language, blogs can also be used by responsible adults in order to connect with others and promote their offline - or online businesses.
Undoubtedly there are blogs in your area that follow local events. Simply do a Google search

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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Advantages Of Using Mobile Video Advertisement

What if you could combine the very best of television advertising with a smartphone? Many companies are looking into doing just this, by developing what can only be called a cell phone commercial. The basic tenants of this are exactly what they sound like a video clip is sent to a customers cell phone, where they can watch your advertisements on the screen of the device. Consumers dont even have to have smart phones to be reached via this method of advertising, as even the most basic phones

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Saturday, October 6, 2012

Social Media Reaches Out To Offline Business

There are literally thousands of articles online speaking about the importance of social media for online businesses. A simple Google search will likely turn up more information than anybody could want regarding how best to use Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Facebook for the purpose of online business and these social networking sites are merely the tip of the iceberg. There are several other, lesser-known social media sites that can factor into the game for online businesses, as well.
Its

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

How to Create a Profitable PPC Campaign Management

Certain keywords or phrases that people type into a search engine lead to hundreds and hundreds of search results that pertain to that specific keyword. Businesses that want to advertise on the net using a PPC campaign have to come up with a plethora of keywords that is associated to the business that they are running; so when potential customers type in these keywords, it will lead them to their business site.
This is pretty much the whole concept that operates behind PPC. This is how a PPC

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Focusing On Getting Traffic To Your Blog

Do you care about your blog's traffic? Some people don't really care about traffic, they just write about what they are feeling. They are happy to just have friends and family find their blog. There is nothing wrong with that. For other people traffic is king. Some people use blog to make money through ads or affiliate offers. Other people use it to build a brand and direct traffic to their money sites. In either of the latter scenarios, traffic is important. If traffic is that important

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Blog Writing Tips

If you are looking for blog writing tips, then look no further. The following five tips will help you transform your blog from boring to brilliant!
1. Write Like You Talk: This is not advice that you will hear in Journalism 101, but when it comes to blogging it is an entirely different story. If you write like you talk you can engage readers quickly, because they will feel connected with you. It also helps for editing purposes, when you read over your blog post, do it out loud and you can

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Friday, September 28, 2012

The Real Deal On Social Media Exposure For Business Owners

As the owner of an offline business, theres absolutely no reason why you shouldnt be taking advantage of the incredible marketing power of social media outlets. Its no secret that millions and millions of people are on social media sites daily did you know that social media is the second most engaged-in activity on the Internet only behind email checking? And did you know that if Facebook were a country it would be the third most populous in the world?
What this means to any business online

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Creating Your Social Networking Website Profile

How you would like to meet and communicate with other Internet users, especially ones that share the same views and beliefs as you do? When it comes to easily finding and communicating online with other Internet users, social networking sites are, perhaps, the best way to go.
If you are interested in joining a social networking website, the first thing that you will need to do is find a network to join. You can easily find a number of networks by performing a standard Internet search. For the

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

How Flash Lite Could Change The Advertising Landscape

When most people think of advertising, they tend to think in more traditional terms of the word. This is natural, given that technology has advanced very rapidly in the past ten years, and most people cant keep up with it as much as theyd like. While this technological advance has been going on, however, some things have remained constant in the world of advertising. Television ads and radio ads, for example, have remained as a staple of advertising throughout all the technological upheaval

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

What Inspires You To Write A Blog?

Inspiration. Some say it is the key to great art. I think it is the key to a great many things. Most of our greatest successes and most tragic failures were sparked by inspiration. Why should our blogs be any different? What inspires you to create content for your blog? I don't mean how do you get ideas, I am talking about a higher level here. What inspires you to post? The topic doesn't matter, the feeling of wanting to post does. What gives you that feeling? A couple things that make

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Advertise your Business Online!

If your business is not on the Internet, it is not doing as well as it could. In today's day and age, if you are not advertising on the Internet, you are losing a significant amount of business.
You advertise your business in local newspapers, local television and even local radio. That is good. You are getting enough business to keep you afloat. You may receive inquiries from the surrounding cities, or even the bordering states, and that is great.
What if you could attract business from

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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Stay Organized and on Track With One Tool

When you are marketing online you are going to be constantly taking notes. You will be making to-do lists, and you will be consuming and sharing more information than you ever believed possible.
I use to have my computer full of random text notes. No organization, no way to search it and just a horrible way to stay organized. it negatively effected my efforts when I was starting out. Organization was really one of my biggest struggles starting out and I believe it stunted my early revenue

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Painless Way To Add Awesome Videos To Your Wordpress Site

Adding video to your WordPress blog post or page is a pretty simple affair. All you have to do is copy the embed code of the video and drop it into WordPress's HTML editor. Pretty simple.
What if you want to add it to your sidebar though? You could probably use the text widget but then you would have to change the code yourself to change it's size. This is fairly straight forward, but it might be something that people are not interested in doing. This is especially true if they have no

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

How To Be More Productive Online

If you are anything like me, you are always looking for better ways to manage your time. This year I have started many things in motion that have already improved my productivity immensely. I would like to share some of my tips with you.
Get Dictation Software
It might surprise you to know, that I didn't type a single word of this article. Dictation software also known as speech recognition software has been available for a long time but recently it has become extremely accurate.
I get more

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Monday, September 17, 2012

Gathering Fresh Content For Your Blogs Through Interviews

Do you have a blog? Are you looking for new content? Are you having a hard time posting everyday? If you answered yes to any of those questions then this article will show you one method that will ensure you have consistent content. There is no doubt about it, interviewing people is one of the easiest and smartest ways to generate content for you blog. These four points are sure to convince you.
1. It Is Easy: You don't have to worry about writing a funny or thoughtful post. You just have

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Sunday, September 16, 2012

Don?t Ignore The Power Of Video

It's been out there, so why don't you have a video made yet that promotes your business and gets you your share of online video traffic? If it is because you are intimidated by the whole process or are just a little camera shy then I only have one thing to say to you. Get over yourself! If you knew how much business you were losing on a daily basis you would try to build yourself a time machine to go back to the beginning and get a video out there for everyone to see right from the get-go.
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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Engage Your Blog Audience

Video: Brad discusses how to keep your audience engaged and commenting on your blog.

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Friday, September 14, 2012

Essentials of doing SEO Properly

Video: Brad discusses search engine optimization and what you should, and shouldnt be doing to get to the top of the search

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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Getting Professionals from Online Jobsites

Since the online jobsites are the best places for you to get professionals, let us look at them in a little more detail.
Here are some of the advantages of getting professionals from here:-
People you will find on the jobsites have registered here with the express intention of finding work. Many jobsites are free to join, but some require paid memberships. Being a paid member may reflect a bit more on their sincerity about being professional. Hence, you can be sure you get some sincere people

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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Why You Need Forum Marketing

Internet forum marketing is the form of marketing where you market your business through online discussion groups. First you join a forum and start adding posts to the discussions. You are though not allowed to advertise or market directly through your posts, this is called spamming.
After registering as a member of the forum you can create your own signature file.
In this signature file you can hyperlink a keyword phrase back to your website, which when clicked can bring on the traffic to

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Earn More Cash Using Affiliate Marketing

An attraction of affiliate marketing is the savings that the merchant will gain when he no longer conducts his own advertising and publicity. Some merchants, who already have a well-established affiliate marketing program, no longer bother to conduct any activity that will lead to more sales. Such may not impair the current sales of the online business, but it failed to tap into another avenue of selling that can increase the revenue of the online business.
Thus, the merchant must still conduct

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Monday, September 10, 2012

Mobile Internet Is On The Rise: Is your business prepared to take advantage of it?

Many people who own cell phones surf the Internet using them. Smartphones are no doubt the best arena to be surfing the web in, but the truth of the matter is that even the simplest cell phone these days likely has Internet capabilities. With this in mind, remember that more and more people are sitting around, stuck in traffic or waiting for their date to show up, tinkering with the Internet on their phone.
If youre a business with a marketing mindset, then this information is doubtlessly

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Sunday, September 9, 2012

How To Become A Super Affiliate In Niche Markets

Over the past years, web hosting has grown bigger than it used to be. With more companies getting into this business and finding the many benefits it can give them, the demand for web hosting has never been higher. These seem to be the trend of today.
38 million people have put up their very first websites online this year 2005 alone. It is estimated that by 2008, the Internet sales industry will top the dollar bank. And to think, majority of those sites will be offering different affiliate

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Friday, September 7, 2012

Simple Steps for Article Marketing

Video: Brad discusses article and press release marketing and shows the most effective ways to distribute your article and press

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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Keyword Assessment For Your Best Chances At Success

You should never tackle a list of keywords without first analyzing traffic and competition. Its a waste of time and resources to focus on keywords that are too competitive or dont get enough searches.
There is a specific formula I use to determine which keywords I want to focus on:
At least 1,000 monthly searches
No more than 30,000 pages in Google in quotes
No more than 10,000 results for allintitle
When you get your list of keywords from the Google keyword tool, it will tell you approximately

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Post Your Ideas With Forum Marketing

Being a part of the network marketing business youll know that participation on forums is an effective way to grow your downline if you can do the right forum marketing. If you are using forums to build your downline, these two basic things you must do regularly to get hundreds of target audience interested to check you out and then join your team.
Regular Participation
Inability to use forum everyday is quite overlooked. Most people think after joining a forum and participating for a few days

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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Setting Agreed Upon Milestones For Outsourcers

If you want to get the best people working for you, you simply cannot ignore milestones and escrows. Milestones are especially important when you are working on huge projects and want people to give you their deliverables in smaller installments so that you could manage work at your end as well. And we have already seen how escrows are important.
Some websites, like eLance in particular, help you to state the form in which you want your deliverables. You could actually set up milestones for the

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Monday, September 3, 2012

Who Should Choose Video For Marketing

After reading a little about web videos for advertising, you may be asking yourself just what type of businesses are taking advantages of this media? The answers are just about everyone who understands the concept of entertainment in advertising.
Just about every business that has a website on the internet is now adding some sort of video advertising to their sites. This ranges from car dealerships, travel agents, real estate agents and even manufacturers. They realize that they get the

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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Boost Your Blog Traffic Easily

Having a blog is just as popular as it has ever been. Sure, blogs may not get as much attention as they once did, but they are one type of website that looks as if it's here to stay. No matter why you have a blog--to earn money, to promote a product, or just as personal journal--it's only logical that you would like to know how to increase blog traffic. After all, you have it online for a reason, right? Wanting to get more traffic to it is only natural.
First, some good news: search engines

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Saturday, September 1, 2012

Building A Successful Career As An Offline Consultant

Being an offline consultant does sound like a good job to many people. After all, its generally a freelance opportunity that will allow you to set your own hours and work when and where you want. In addition, you get to help introduce people who may not know that much about the Internet to the world of online marketing, which can be a very rewarding job, particularly when youre successful!
However, theres an important question to ask yourself before you get involved in offline consulting

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Using Free Marketing To Promote Your Business

Savvy online business owners can take advantage of all the free marketing opportunities the Internet has to offer. In order to maximize the results by using free marketing, youll need to put in a little bit of elbow grease and quite a few hours of time, but once you get the hang of it, youll be astonished by how well you can get the word of your business out there and start seeing real conversions.
The best way to go about marketing your site without spending a dime is definitely the social

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Safelist Solo Ads and Solo Ezine Advertising: Which is Better?

If you have spent any amount of time looking into advertising your business online, then you know there are all kinds of options available to you. All of them seem to be screaming that they are the best method, but the truth is that any internet marketing can be effective if you know how to use it. The two methods we're going to compare are solo ezine advertising and safelist solo ads. First, let's take a look at what each one is.
An ezine is basically a newsletter that is delivered to the

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Monday, August 27, 2012

Your Offer And Your Benefits

In general, your sales copy has only a few seconds to grab the interest of a prospect and move them along to closing the sale. That means you have to provide a quality introduction to what you have to offer and follow it up with all the reasons why your product should be chosen above all others. Here are some simple ideas on how to introduce your offer and quickly instill a sense of urgency about those power benefits.
First, dont spend a lot of time on fancy words. Write the copy just as if

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Discover New Ways To Promote Your Online Business Offline

Theres been a mad rush to the Internet these days for marketing purposes, and for good reason. With so many people riding the Information Superhighway these days to find information on everything from TV channels to bread machines, smart business owners know that they need to be on that highway as well. After all, if you dont jump on the next big thing your competition will, and nobody wants to get left behind in the race for the Internet.
However, even though its of the utmost importance for

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Mortgage Marketing Tips You Won?t Ignore

For loan officers and mortgage brokers, marketing the benefits of your products to your potential customers is very important to the success of your business. It is also important that you keep up with your competitions marketing concepts.
Marketing can rear its head in many ways. Verbally, through networking. Business cards, mailers, flyers, billboards, radio, television, etc.
The point of the above named marketing methods is to get yourself and your products in front of your potential

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How To Center Youtube Videos in Wordpress Posts

If you run a wordpress powered website you have probably wanted to embed a Youtube video at one time or another. Video can add interactivity and excitement to a blog post. Luckily, WordPress and Youtube make this a very easy process. Centering your Youtube video can be a tricky process though, especially if you don't know any coding. There is a very simple fix though, that will ensure you can center any youtube video, or any object for that matter.
First you have to get the video into your

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Quick 11-Step Way To Creating Your First Wordpress Site

This is a quick, 11-step WordPress set up guide. This article won't teach you how to completely create your site but it is a good reminder of the simple starting steps everyone should take when they begin their WordPress journey.
1. Install WordPress: This is pretty self explanatory. The first step should be to install WordPress on your host. WordPress has a great guide to follow so this shouldn't hold you up. Some webhosts even have something called Fantastico, if your hosts does you are

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More Clicks With Low Competition Keywords

One of the best ways to advertise these days is through pay per click advertising. Done the right way, it can literally boost your site hits and even your revenue by millions. For those who understand how applications like Google Adsense works, pay per click advertising can be cost effective and just plain old effective in an overall sense.
However, if mismanaged, pay per click advertising could be extremely costly and just as ineffective. Many people who use pay per click advertising spend

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Seminar Marketing And How You Can Benefit

Whenever a particular interest group, home-related business associations, or any other group set up seminars, they usually go out of their way in order to get sponsorship and the like. While it may seem unlikely that you will get anything out of sponsoring a seminar, think again! Moreover, you can get the most out of a seminar without even sponsoring the event yourself.
Lets talk of sponsorships in events first. By giving the organizers a required amount of money, you will be given advertising

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5 Ways to Increase Traffic to Your Blog

If your blog is not getting the amount of traffic that you desire, you may need to employ a few simple techniques to help increase and retain your audience. In my experience successful blogging comes down to good content, frequency, social participation, effective promotion and retention.
Every blog needs to start with a base of good content. What I have learned is that it's not just the message you are delivering, it's how you are delivering it. As a for instance I have all but given up on

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Marketing On Forums - Etiquette tips

There is nothing which screams out brilliant opportunity as does Internet marketing. That is why if one does not want to lose out on serious profit making chances then one should read the basic forum rules posted on each site.
This provides guidelines as to what can or cannot be done on the forum, helping you draw your limits as to how aggressive your marketing can be on these forums. Lack of this often leads to carelessness leading to unnecessary bans, and black marking against a particular

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Building Fan pages

Video: Building

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

PLR You Can Be Proud Of

There is a lot of PLR content available online these days. With more content being created, there is more opportunity to find great PLR products. I remember even a few years ago, there was much less PLR available and the quality was a bit less impressive, generally speaking. Now that there is more and more good quality being created, it is time that people get picky.
Why?
One of the main uses and benefits of PLR is in re-branding. You can take a fully finished product and slap your name on

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

An Enticing Social Networking Script

Earn Money With A Social Networking Script
Social networking sites are big business so imagine the money you could earn if you had your own social network site. To create your own site you could use a script designed for social networking sites like Phpfox. Let's take a closer look at how you can benefit from Phpfox.
Phpfox is an amazing social network script that will allow any website owner to create their own social networking website in any niche they choose. There are new social

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Making Ends Meet By Blogging

About a year ago a friend of mine started his own home based business. I can't go into the details (upon his request), but he essentially took his favorite hobby and wanted to make some extra cash.
He is not a very technical guy so he asked me about a website. I told him he should blog and he replied with laughter. I took the time to break down how easy it would be using a platform like WordPress. That intrigued him. When I broke down how WordPress would let him have a blog and a

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Monday, July 23, 2012

Ten as Easy as ABC Marketing Tasks you Can Apply Now

1. Listen to (and write down!) the questions your clients ask. They're clues to the problems you can help them solve. They're also topics for your next article, talk and e-newsletter. Don't invent this stuff - just listen!
2. Plan and write out your next sales conversation. Got a meeting next week with a hot prospect? Write down the words you will use to find out who the decision makers are, what the budget is, the scope of their problem, and how you'll ask them to take next steps. If you have

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Basic Search Engine Optimization For Online Success

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the cornerstones to an effective online presence. It is estimated that almost 90% of all web traffic is from a search engine of some sort. A good SEO plan is a great first step in any inbound marketing efforts. If you can consistently rank on the first page of any web searches, you will be positioning your business to be found by eager consumers.
This short report will cover the most critical items you need to be aware of when it comes to search

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Essentials of installing WordPress manually

Video: How to install Wordpress manually if you don't have

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Forum Marketing Can Become an Addiction

Forum marketing is a great way of marketing if you can do it the right way. But it can be a financial equivalent of stepping on a land-mine. Forum marketing is basically showing your expertise and building a reputation. It does exactly that if you do it the right way. But done wrongly it reflects your lack of expertise and turns your name to mud.
Once you have decided the forums to use, go through their rules and regulations. Each forums rules are different. Many have some topics banned, some

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Customizing Wordpress contact forms using Contact Form 7 Plugin

Video: Customizing Wordpress contact forms using Contact Form 7

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Easily install WordPress Themes Automatically

Video: How to upgrade Wordpress themes to new versions

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The Stigma of PLR

Quick what is the first thing you think of when you hear the term PLR products?
What did you think of?
Sadly, there is a high chance that you instantly thought of something negative. Since I have been creating PLR products, I have noticed that there seems to be a stigma around the term PLR. People seem to doubt quality, how current it is and quite frankly the value.
All fair worries, because there has been a lot of subpar PLR content released over the years. The problem is for people who put

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Monday, July 16, 2012

Promoting Your Offline Business Through Social Media Engagement

One of the primary reasons that social media exists in the first place is to engage. Social media gives people a platform to reach out to each other, whether that purpose is fundamentally business or pleasure. People wish to engage with each other constantly, and social media gives people the ability to do so in real time, around the world.
This is why social media is such a popular way for people to touch base, since it can be done anywhere, at any time. While a physical storefront will

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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Your Content Is An Extension of You

I was talking with one of my coaching clients yesterday, who was complaining to me about time management problems. It seems that she can't find enough hours in the day to make videos, write articles and participate in the global conversation online.
Normally when I hear this problem I know that most people who complain about time management are actually time wasters. Case in point: my client was spending an hour each day making cold calls which she felt was a good utilization of her time.

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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Friday, July 13, 2012

Promoting a business with Ebooks

There are innumerable ways to use E-Books to promote your business and drive quality traffic to your website. Once posted on your site, you can turn them into a daily course, which brings your customer back to read the next chapter. You can use them as a free gift for making a purchase or for filling out a survey. Put your E-Book on a disc, and you will have an innovative brochure. Blow your competition away by inserting the disc into your sales packages.
The most effective marketing products

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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Getting to the Top of Google Easily

Video: Brad dispels the myth that there is some secret to getting to the top of the

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Understanding Colors and Printing in Marketing

People are basically visual creatures. They are easily turned on by what they see. The outrageousness of the design, graphics and colors teases their sense of sight. It sends excitement and thrill that generates more appetite to stare longer and be charmed.
Among design, graphics and color, the latter is the most difficult to show accurately. This is because color perception can be affected by lots of factors. First, it depends on the structure of a persons eye. The viewer may be colorblind.

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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

3 Plans to Expand Your Business That You Don't Want to Miss Out On!

1. Find Your Niche
Chances are, you already have a target audience that you are marketing your products to.
Let's face it, you're probably looking for ways to increase your market audience and profit...or you probably wouldn't be reading this article. Here's the real facts... you don't have to find a wider audience to increase you sales.
Have you noticed similar characteristics that groups within your target audience have in common?
Maybe you have a group of businessmen, a group of young

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Saturday, July 7, 2012

Easy Way To Get Into Mobile Marketing

Keeping track of the many different ways that companies can market their products and brands in the modern age is getting more and more difficult. Its getting to the point where there is no conceivable shortage of ways to market your products, but the bigger problem is that theres so many ways that figuring out the best ones for your business and how they all work can be quite a chore. Were here to help.
Mobile marketing is the cutting edge of advertising right now. The term mobile marketing

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Friday, July 6, 2012

List Of Sites To Start Making Money Now

CPC (Cost Per Click Advertisers) - These sites let you place ads on your site that when simply clicked earn you money:
Google Adsense
Adbrite
Chitika
Kontera
Clicksor
CPA (Cost Per Action Advertisers) - With these sites your web traffic must click an ad and then follow an action (usually a purchase):
ClickBank
Commission Junction
Linkshare
ShareASale
Max Bounty
Amazon
CPM (Cost Per 1000 Impressions) - With these companies you will earn a set amount of money for every 1000 displays of an ad.

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Thursday, July 5, 2012

Harness Your Gift Of Writing To Earn Lots Of Money

Creating (or buying) high quality content for your site is without a doubt one of the most important activities you can do. Content truly is king. You want to consistently add good content to your site. This is what will attract people to your site, and more importantly bring them back. Most people won't buy something until their 3rd time on a website. You want to give them as much of a reason to comeback as possible, and nothing does that better than good quality content.
Content will also

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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

In Internet Advertising Revenue. . .Sky is The Limit!

If you have been online for a while now, then you have probably heard stories of people who have become wealthy using the internet. While most people simply will not become independently wealthy this way, it can and does happen in some cases. Either way, it is entirely possible to make enough internet advertising revenue to add a nice chunk of change to your bank account. Regardless of what some of the hucksters would like you to believe, it's going to take some time, and you need to follow a

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Monday, July 2, 2012

Web Business Essential: Choosing The Right Web Host

In addition to buying a web address, an online business will need to be hosted somewhere. After all, a website is essentially a collection of graphic and text files uploaded onto a remote server so other surfers can access your files. If you dont have a web host, then what you basically have is a lot of files on your own personal computer that nobody else can see.
The first major choice that an enterprising business owner will have to make in regards to web hosts is if he or she would like a

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Sunday, July 1, 2012

Maximizing Profits Through Wordpress Sites

WordPress is a pretty simple platform. There isn't a lot of danger or ptifalls associated with it. I don't want to scare anyone but there is one issue that can be quite dire. WordPress may infect you and your site with a disease...Plugin Fever. This plugin fever will start before you know it and will have you mindlessly activating plugin after plugin until the inevitable happens...plugin fever! Symptoms include;
lethargic response time
on page confusion
ugly design lesions
In some rare

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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Targeted Online Traffic Will Blast Your Sales Into The Stratosphere

There are so many ways to get targeted online traffic to your website and it all starts with you and the product or service you have to offer. Of course it doesn't matter what it is but whatever it is you do have to promote it to be any kind of success. So, you have your product or service now what?
Three words: Promotion, promotion, promotion. You need to promote your product or service and your website. Setting up your website was the easy part. Now you have to find ways to promote it. If

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Easy Ezine Advertising Can Mean Targeted Traffic

There are all kinds of different ways that you can market your business online, and one of the best is ezine advertising. For the sake of this article we will define an ezine as any publication that is delivered to the subscriber's computer on a regular basis. The success of your promotion in an ezine will depend on a number of factors. Here are some things that will help you to make the most of your marketing efforts.
The first thing you need to do is some research. This is broken down into

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

What To Do When Choosing A Niche For Your Next Venture

Step One - Brainstorm: Brainstorm a list (big ass possible) of all of your passions and interests. Don't even think about making money at this point, just focus on getting a list as big as possible.
Step Two - Analyze: Look through your list and pick out 10-20 different interests or passions, that you feel you could promote on the internet. If you think you could make money online with all of them, then pick your favorites. It is easier to market something you enjoy.
Step Three - Adwords

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Monday, June 25, 2012

Does SEO Take too Much Time?

Video: Brad explains why it can take a long time get to the top of Google for a particular

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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Unveil the Most Compelling Way To Lend A Hand in Business

Most businesses spend a huge amount of time and money looking for NEW customers. We advertise, make phone calls, even travel cross country for meetings, all in the pursuit of the ever elusive stream of new customers.
What we're probably forgetting is that up to 80 percent of our sales growth can and should come from PAST customers. People who have bought from you before are pre-sold on you, your products, and services. It often just takes a simple reminder to get them
to buy again and again.
A

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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Choosing a Topic For PLR

When creating PLR products the very first thing you have to do is to choose a topic or niche. Obviously, if you are creating a product or writing an article pack, you have to choose what to write about. Basics.
What might not be so obvious, is what to choose! Since you are trying to make money, the key will be to choose something that sells. You need to choose niches or topics that are in DEMAND.
There is demand for PLR in a lot of niches, but having run a membership site for awhile now

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Friday, June 22, 2012

Broad is Out. Precise Is In.

You hear a lot about niche marketing online. All that means is to find a little sub section in a market, one that has decent amount of interest but not much competition and fly under the radar. To do that, you will need to find niche keywords for that niche market.
There are many great markets you can make money in online. But you will save yourself a lot of time and effort if you don't try to go toe to toe with the 'big boys'.
For example, lets say you want to make money in the weight loss

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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Making Over $1000 Fast With PLR

I wanted to share a casual case study on generating money with PLR. I found myself needing a lump sum of money last month. It was a surprise cost that kind of caught me flat footed. I had just finished paying for some software updates AND ALL of my outsourcers.
I needed to make some money quick and figured since I had all of these PLR products created I might as well use a couple.
I knew the key to making money quick would be offline. AKA I hit the streets. I know some online earners

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Social Networking Blog Benefits

There are many different social networking websites on the internet and each of them have different features that they offer. With these sites you can meet new people and make new friends as well connect with potential customers for your business. One very effective method of marketing your business with social networking is with a social networking blog.
There are two ways to market your business with social networking blogs.
1. Join a general social network site that allows you to have a

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Monday, June 18, 2012

Blogging Tips

When blogs first came out, they were typically used by people for updating their family and friends about various aspects of the blogger's lives. While some people still use blogs for that purpose, a lot of people have found a way to make good money through blogs. They have found a way to make the search engines work for them and cash in from their visitors. However, it is next to impossible to make money with a blog unless you have a good blogging guide to help you along the way.
Okay, so

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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Proper Web Page Layout

Video: Brad talks about how to set up a proper layout for web page and shows what a good web page layout looks like and what a bad layout looks

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Friday, June 15, 2012

Your Business on Social Sites

The goal of business owners is to make money. This often results with the selling of a particular product or service. However, to sell that product or service business owners need to alert the general public. Customer cannot buy a product or a service if they do not know that it exists. That is why, as a business owner, you need to advertise your business.
When it comes to advertising there are many business owners who literally cringe. Are you doing this now? There is a good chance that you

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

DO You Know How To Prevent Spam Comments On Your Wordpress Blog?

I can not guarantee success for your WordPress website. I can not guarantee traffic. I can not guarantee you will make any money with your WordPress site. However, I can guarantee you will get spam comments. Not long after you start adding content, and even before you add content sometimes, you will begin to receive spam comments.
There is software out there that does nothing but search out blogs to comment on. Once you have been discovered the spam will begin rolling in. How can you spot

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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

The Power of SEO

Video: Brad explains why it is so important to have your website optimized for the search

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Internet Advertising Business Options For You

There is no end to the methods you can use for the purpose of marketing your own business online. It doesn't matter how big or small it is, the internet can be a great tool to help you increase your revenue. The internet advertising business is going gangbusters, and it's showing no signs of slowing down.
Perhaps this is because the return on the investment of your advertising dollars goes further online than just about anywhere else. Not only that, it's very easy to track your results when

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Monday, June 11, 2012

Re-Dedication To Content Creation Can Bring Your Blog Back To Life

If you are an active blogger, you are probably doing everything you can to drive traffic. Those of you new to the game are probably building backlinks, blog commenting, on twitter, building facebook fan pages, social bookmarking etc.. This is all great and is something I take part in myself. Ever so often though I take a step back and look at what I am really accomplishing. All of these things take time, could your time be spent better elsewhere? I think so, I think it is time that people

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Sunday, June 10, 2012

The Evolution of Online Marketing

Lets take a quick stroll through the world of marketing to see what it was, what it became and what it now is
Era 1 newspaper, magazines, radio broadcasts, direct mail, telemarketing, cold calling, television, infomercials
Era 2 websites, banner ads, reciprocal links, ezine publishing, search engine optimization, pay-per-click, opt-in email, blogs...
Enter
Era 3 marketing via podcasts?
Similar to the concept of opt-in email, podcasting takes full advantage of technology in reaching a

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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Recommend What Works And You Can Earn

In affiliate marketing, there are many ways in which you can increase your earnings and maintain the account that you have worked so hard for already. Most of the techniques and tactics can be learned easily. No need to go anywhere and any further. They are available online, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
One of the more important ways of increasing affiliate marketing bottom line and sale is through the use of product recommendations. Many marketers know that this is one of the most

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Friday, June 8, 2012

Things You Should Know About Email Marketing

There are a lot of myths about online marketing. Now a few misconceptions may not matter all that much if they were harmless, but when it comes to your money, then it's always better to be well-informed. Some of the worst, most damaging myths out there revolve around business to business email marketing. With that in mind, here are some things you should be aware of before running your next email campaign.
1. Know your customer. The more you know about your customer, the better. What are their

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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Advertising Cost Explained

There is a big myth about online marketing, and that is internet advertising costs nothing. The fact of the matter is that all advertising costs something. However, one of the biggest advantages of advertising on the web is that you don't necessarily have to pay with money; at least not to get started. Instead, you can pay with your time. This is great news because it means that virtually anybody can start a business if they can spare some extra time.
You need to consider several factors

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Social Review Sites Bring Your Business Up

People love reviews. One of the reasons why Amazon.com became so popular (and theres a list the length of the Nile regarding why that site became one of the biggest deals on the Internet since Al Gore) is due to its extensive review system. Customers like to read about those who have bought the product or visited the store before they have done so themselves. Most people these days are savvy enough to realize the point of advertising they know that commercials are out there for a reason,

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

How to Select a Domain Name

Some people tell me that all the good domain names are taken, but that is not true. Follow these tips for when you search for a domain name and hopefully this will help you grab a good one.
Remember domain names are a couple of cheeseburgers and a coke a year to own, and you can really never own enough of them.
Tips for Avoiding Poor Domain Names
*Avoid using domains that are deliberately misspelled.
Ex: SellURHome2Us vs. SellYourHomeToUs
* Avoid using domains with hyphens.
Ex:

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Monday, June 4, 2012

Outsourcing and the Money Equation ? Deciding How Much to Pay and How

In any business association, money is of paramount importance because that is why business exists in the first place. So, it is extremely important that you have the money equation set right.
The beauty of looking for outsourcing professionals on the Internet is that you can benefit from a very wide range of budgets. Since it is people who are going to bid on your projects, you can select them according to what you can pay. You initially set a ballpark figure of what you can pay and most people

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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Understanding Private Label Rights

When you are creating and selling PLR material, there are many things to consider. One of these things is to choose what usage rights are you going to give away on your PLR products. Even though, by its very nature PLR is virtually wide open in how you can use it, there are still certain restrictions you can (and should) consider.
Any PLR product you create should include the specific rights you wish to grant and/or disallow. Commonly, those will be found in a plain text file that follows

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Saturday, June 2, 2012

The True Value OF SMS Marketing

While this is not the most popular form of mobile marketing in the United States by a long shot, the popularity of marketing via text message or SMS is so strong that its definitely worth a mention. There are companies in the United States that do engage in mobile marketing through texting as well, but the restrictions on place in the United States have made this a harder avenue of media marketing to break into unless you are a startup that has a lot of money to spend on advertising.
Mobile

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Friday, June 1, 2012

Affiliate Marketing - What NOT To Do

As the handbook draws to a near end and closing publication, here are some hazard signs and dangerous waters you shouldnt be treading on in the affiliate marketing scene!
So listen up
Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective and powerful ways of earning some money online. This program gives everybody a chance to make a profit through the Internet. Since these affiliate marketing programs are easy to join, implement and pays a commission on a regular basis, more an more people are now

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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Five Most Popular Social Networking Websites

Social networking sites are the big buzz around the internet and not only are they great for socializing with friends, but there are hundreds of Internet Marketers that use these sites to promote their businesses.
There are a lot of different social networking sites around the internet that you can use to market your business and the more of them that you join and use the more potential customers you can connect with.
Let's take a look at some of the Social Networking websites that are very

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

3 Way To Succeed as an Affiliate

Now every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.
There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Monday, May 28, 2012

Getting Free Marketing Through Forums For Your Offline Business

A social media outlet that people often overlook is the forum. While sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and LinkedIn get a lot of attention when people are focusing on social media, many people forget about the saliency of forums when it comes to making a reputation for your business online.
The great thing about a forum is that its an easy place to establish a reputation of expertise. What you should absolutely not do is join a forum and start spamming it with ads for your business.

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Sunday, May 27, 2012

10 Steps To Developing Good PLR

Since we began on creating quality PLR content, we have come across quite a few people wondering how they could create PLR products for themselves. I think this is a wonderful idea, and feel like the more people creating PLR content should mean the higher quality available to all of us.
With that in mind, we dont mind giving people a glimpse at the way we create our high quality products. We do a wide variety of different types of PLR so the exact process is never the same but in general we

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Friday, May 25, 2012

Popular Social Networking Sites

With the introduction of social networking websites it has enabled people to communicate with family, friends, and businesses and just about anyone that has an internet connection. It is amazing how people can now communicate with other people all over the world. Social networking is also given another opportunity for business people to make money online. Business men and women can connect with potential customers all over the world via social network websites.
Social networking sites allow

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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Essentials of Forum Marketing

Video: Brad talks about what forum marketing is and why its important to get involved in

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Blogging On Wordpress To Boost Your Chances Of Success

I am sure by now the term blog is well known by most people, if you don't know it is essentially a style of website. It is a website platform that allows the quick and easy posting of content (blog posts) on a regular basis. They first gained popularity as a personal diary, but have since became one of the most popular platforms for a website period.
Even your older traditional websites have moved towards at the least adding a blogging aspect to their website.
This will be a controversial

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Using Wordpress To Rank Your Site On Google

I am very passionate about Wordpress. It is an open source web publishing tool that is completely free and flexible. Out of all WordPress' benefits, the fact that Google seems to love it so much might be my favorite.
What is up with Google's love affair with WordPress anyways? Why do WordPress sites seem easier to get to the top of Google with? From my experience I think it comes down to a couple of factors:
1. Power of Posts - Every time you create a post on WordPress you have the chance of

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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Top 5 Mistakes Every Blogger Need To Know

If you are a blogger and you want to do the best you can then this article will help you avoid five costly mistakes. No one is perfect but everyone should be able to cut down on the mistakes below. These are not accidents, they are willful transgressions that will hurt your bottom line. Clean up these mistakes and you will already be far ahead of the pack.
1. Not proof reading: A simple mistake but it can definitely make you look bad. Spellchecking is great, but you can't rely on just that.

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Friday, May 18, 2012

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Online Web Traffic Is The Absolute Key To Making Money Online

Do you have enough online web traffic? Probably not. This is a big deal if you really want to make some decent money online. You need people coming to your site if you want to sell stuff. It is just that simple. Getting those people to your website may not be so simple though. There are many ways to try to increase traffic to your website that you may have success with.
Write articles that are targeted to your niche and have unique content. Submit them to article directories and, if they are

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Things That You Should Know About Long Tail Keywords

Keywords phrases, also called long tailed keywords, are any keyword that is made up of more than one word, usually 3 or more. This is very important for you to know since most of what you do online will most likely revolve around long tailed keywords.
Most single keywords will just be way too competitive. They will literally have millions of online marketers all competing over that word. That is why the long tailed keywords make so much more sense.
It will be much easier to rank for the term,

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

SEO Strategies in Engulfing Organic Traffic on your Site

Getting the most out of the free, organic, search results should be the goal of any online business owner. Hey, the traffic is free and ultra targeted, what more could you ask for? Finding and implementing the best seo strategies will depend mostly on your existing knowledge, if any, and your budget.
You know the saying: those that can't do... hire. Well, maybe that's not really the way it goes, but it works. If you don't know much about seo and /or don't have the time or inclination to learn,

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Monday, May 14, 2012

How To Select an Outsourcer

When you select your outsourcing professional from a freelance jobsite like GetAFreelancer or ScriptLance or oDesk, there are several ways in which you can make sure you are selecting the right person.
Firstly, you have to ensure that you make all the project details quite clear. Write about everything you expect. These are the things your project post should cover.
The nature of your work
The amount of work in total
Any milestones, like if you want the work to be completed in small chunks and

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Saturday, May 12, 2012

Improve Your Sales and Prospecting Skills

Most people starting a business forget about the most important part. They spend loads of time picking just the right product or service to sell. They'll carefully weigh the best kinds of office equipment to buy. They'll even fuss endlessly over their workplace decor.
But none of that holds a candle to what is most assuredly the core of any new business: you can't succeed until you master prospecting and selling!
"But I'm really good at what I do. Won't word just get out and people will find me

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