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Your Book and a Great Website

2009-04-23T20:48:00.000-07:00

One of the most overlooked and easiest ways to get your book into the hands of the people you wrote it for, is having a great website.

Build a great Website. I can't state this often enough or strongly enough: you must have an attractive, easy to use Website that lets your visitors do four things:

Buy your book.
Register and download sample chapters or get your e-newsletter.
E-mail friends about your book.
Find out more about you.
Your Website should be ground zero for your book business, the place where everyone comes to buy copies, give you their contact information, communicate with you about media interviews or bulk orders, and just learn about your book and why they should buy it. It's the single most important aspect of your marketing plan.

Notice that I said, "great" Website. There are thousands of new books coming out every month, and many of them are amateurish at best. Having a sloppy, clunky, poorly written Website only makes your book look like one of those amateur-hour productions. Invest the money in a professional Web developer, someone who can design a classy, beautiful site, build your e-commerce system and give you the means to easily update your site's content at any time.

Good sites all make the books and their authors appear professional, legitimate, and smart. They're inviting information centers for people to come to and spend time getting to know both book and writer.

You should have your Website up and running before you begin any PR or sales activities, probably at least two months before your book hits the streets. Talk to several Web designers or get a referral from someone you trust. In any case, make sure your site has at least these features:

E-commerce so people can buy your book. (a great place –- http://www.bazuji.com/shopping)
A registration page that asks visitors to give you their contact information before they can download a sample chapter or get your e-newsletter.
A media section where members of the press can download your press kit as a PDF, read other media coverage, and contact you for interviews.
A contact page with all your contact information.
A bio page with your personal story.
A function that allows visitors to e-mail their friends from your site.
Sample your book in print and on the Internet.

If you have a Web site (and you should), it's simple. Just take a chapter from your book, paste it into its own file with the proper copyright information so it's a self-contained document, turn it into a PDF (Portable Document Format, a wonderful type of file created by Adobe), and place it on your Website for free downloading. Then send an e-mail to your entire list offering them an excerpt from your upcoming book free. A 10% or 20% response rate is not out of the question.

For print publications, it goes like this:

Pull together a list of target newspapers and magazines.
Contact the editors by e-mail asking if they would be interested in running your excerpt at no cost (editors love content they can get for free).
Send your chapter as a Word file to those who agree. Make sure it's completely clean and free of any typos or grammatical errors, and include an author bio at the end that lists your Web address.
Be sure to get reprints or a PDF of the printed article you can use for publicity purposes.
Start sending e-mails to editors several months before your book comes out. It usually takes a while to hear back, and even longer to actually get your sample in print.

About The Author

Dr. Jamie Fettig

Are you interested in the one seminar that has created more Best-Selling authors than any other seminar? A seminar put on by the guy who has sold more books than every other book in the history of the world except the bible? Then get yourself to the Mega Book Marketing Seminar and train yourself to be a mega-successful author and become a sought after speaker. Make the difference with your book that you want to make. To Register and for more information go to http://www.bazuji.com/book

For a great resource on easily creating an effective and cheap website for your book go to http://www.bazuji.com/tomantion.html

Your Book Marketing Plan - Winning Strategies and Tips

2009-04-03T21:51:00.000-07:00

Many authors hit a roadblock when it comes to putting together and implementing a book marketing plan. You know you need to have one, you have a vague idea of what it needs to include, but pulling it all together into a step-by-step plan of attack is not nearly as easy as it sounds.

A good starting point is to break your plan up into major categories. From there, you can further define and set up strategies for each area of your book marketing plan.

The first thing that comes to mind for most authors and self publishers is book store sales. Makes sense doesn't it? That's where people buy books don't they? It's true that making your book available to the general public through bookstores is a very vital component of your marketing plan. However, it is just that -- one single component of your plan. There are many elements that will make up your book marketing plan and arranging to have your book available in bookstores is just one of them. Let's call that component #1:

Book Marketing Plan Component #1

Making Books Available in Bookstores

Now, it's one thing to secure placement for your book on the bookstore shelves, but now how are people going to know it's there? Customers can't (and won't) buy something they've never heard of. This is where the publicity component of your Book Marketing Plan comes into play. Setting up and ongoing publicity campaign is the number one way to drive customers to the bookstore to buy your book. We'll call this component #2:

Book Marketing Plan Component #2

Setting up and Implementing a Successful Publicity Campaign

Besides book stores, you can also sell your books to nontraditional book buyers like display retailers, book clubs, catalogs, gift retailers, volume buyers (think Costco and Price Club), corporations, foundations and foreign markets. We sell thousands of self published books to buyers like these all the time and targeting these buyers should make up a good portion of your book marketing plan. This will be component #3:

Book Marketing Plan Component #3

Non-traditional Markets

In this day and age, you would be making a big mistake if you didn't include the internet as a vital component of your Book Marketing Plan. The internet is the best way to directly reach your target customers. It is also the best way to sell to them since you cut out any third parties and retain 100% of the profits. There are many ways to research the internet to ensure that there is a demand for your book and the best ways to fill that demand.

Book Marketing Plan Component #4

The Internet - Your Book Website

These are the four most important components of your Book Marketing Plan. Now you must research each component individually to customize the approach you take for your book.

About The Author

Ink Tree Ltd. helps authors publish, market and sell books. We have all the tools you need to succeed in book publishing. Let us help you make your book a success. http://www.inktreemarketing.com/BookMarketingKit.htm.

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Your Book is a Business

2009-03-23T18:39:00.000-07:00

Do you want to publish a book online or hardcover? If so, you must "Think like a businessperson," not an author.

Once the final draft is written, you’re no longer an author. You’re an entrepreneur with a product to sell, and it’s critical that you start thinking that way. Instead of spending your time on editing and proofreading, you’ve got to invest your time in marketing activities. That means finding the answers to three critical questions:

a. Who is your audience?
b. What will compel them to buy your book?
c. What methods should you use to reach them?

At this stage, you need to think about capturing leads, producing sales material, getting testimonials and positive reviews, and arranging publicity events. Your focus should be on all the ways you can create awareness of your book.

The best way to get started in thinking like a businessperson is after your final draft is done but before you go to print, sit down and write out the answers to these questions:

• What is my marketing budget?
• What resources do I have in place already?
• What people do I know who can help me?
• What are my sales goals for the year?

Keep your expectations realistic.

The average self-published book sells only about 3,000 copies, and the average book issued by a publisher sells only a few thousand more. For every bestseller, there are hundreds of books that sell moderately and disappear. So you’ve got to keep your expectations realistic, or you’ll set yourself up to get discouraged and quit trying to market your book.

Rather than worry about the overall number of copies sold, I recommend to people that they set their goals, especially for a first book, like this:

a. Monetary goals. For most authors, selling enough copies to break even is a very worthwhile goal. If you can do that, you’ve done great!
b. Career goals. Your book might give a big boost to your speaking career, medical practice or other endeavor.
c. Publicity goals. Your book could position you as an expert in your field, so that you get invited on radio programs, TV, speaking engagements, etc.
d. Publishing goals. Maybe your book is noticed by a publisher who wants to re-release it, or you are offered a chance to write future books.
e. Networking goals. You meet agents, designers, journalists and others who could be wonderful contacts for the future.

Your expectations for your book should not be centered on copies sold. Instead, focus on developing and executing a brilliant marketing and PR plan, making key contacts, and finding ways to create value for readers, for the media and for organizations who might make big bulk purchases. If you focus on those things, sales will take care of themselves.

Concentrate on meeting all 5 types of goals. That way, even if your sales are only moderate, but you do brilliantly in getting publicity and making contacts, you can consider your book a success.

Have a solid, long-term marketing plan.

Before you ever get close to even finishing your first draft, sit down and map out the basics of your marketing and promotional plan. The key questions you’ll need to answer:

• What is my marketing budget?
• When should my book be ready?
• Who is my audience and what need does this book meet?
• What will my price point be?
• How many copies do I need to sell to break even?
• How many copies do I want to sell?
• What marketing channels will I use to reach my readers?
• What relationships can I leverage to make bulk sales?
• What relationships can I leverage to get press coverage?
• Who will design my Website?
• Do I need a marketing staff?
• Will I do an e-newsletter?
• Will I hire a distributor or ship the books myself?
• Do I want to be in the bookstores?
• Will I do “guerilla” marketing?
• What ancillary products can I produce (tapes, CDs, etc.)
• How can my seminars/consulting/current business support this book?

That’s a lot of material, but it’s all important. Take a couple of months and figure it out. You can also cut some time off your learning curve by learning from others who have done it already.
About the author:

Are you interested in the one seminar that has created more Best-Selling authors than any other seminar? A seminar put on by the guy who has sold more books than every other book in the history of the world except the bible? Then get yourself to the Mega Book Marketing Seminar and train yourself to be a mega-successful author and become a sought after speaker. Make the difference with your book that you want to make. To Register and for more information go to http://www.bazuji.com/book

Books, Trend-spotting & the Gubernatorial Race

2009-03-16T19:49:00.000-07:00

Ok I admit it. I'm a Californian. We live in shorts, we dine at juice bars and our politics are nothing short of, well, a Hollywood movie. If you've been shaking your head wondering how someone with a narrow political background could be elected to a state boasting on of the 10th largest economy in the world, join the club. That, my fellow savvy book promoters, is a campaign we could all learn from.

Schwarzenegger is a guy who, while being well-known in the movie world, is far less well-known in politics. During campaigning, he carefully avoided addressing issues Californians wanted to hear about. Nor did he ever stand on any one particular political platform. So, how did he win? He found a need and filled it. With recent indicators showing Californians leaving the Golden State at alarming numbers, we desperately needed a boost.

Schwarzenegger's media team saw a need and filled it with an action hero who vowed to "terminate" traditional politics. Whether you believe Arnold will be a good governor or not, you have to admit he ran one heck of an amazing campaign.

While most of us can't afford the pro team Arnold could, we can still effect changes in our book promotion campaigns that will turn the tide in our favor. It's called trend-spotting. Many people make their living trend-spotting, and you can do the same thing with a few clicks on the web. Take a look at http://buzz.yahoo.com/ or http://50.lycos.com/. You want to anticipate a need and fill it.

To stay ahead of the trends, our team at Authors Services spends considerable time brainstorming recent issues and how they'll affect various areas of our everyday life. These emerging trends are what we focus on as we prepare or launch a campaign.

If you're planning to write a book or preparing to work on your book promotion, take some time to study trends in your area of expertise. How will these trends look twelve or twenty-four months from now? How will that affect book sales down the road? For example:

Escapism: the new vacation. Many of us no longer have time for two week vacations. Instead, we're opting for one day outings and novels to give us that quick "out" when we need it. Does your book provide a mini-vacation for readers?

What do a down-sized engineer named Dilbert and a slightly built Keebler-elf sort of character by the name of Clay Aiken have in common? They're both chart-toppers. Many have called this the revenge of the nerds. How will this affect your next book?

Trend spotter Faith Popcorn recently said that time is becoming more valuable than money. People would rather spend money to have more time. The effect? More home delivered goods, and more consumer conveniences. How can your book address this trend?

And finally... We're hearing more about "Politainers" these days: entertainers turned politicians. Are they serious politicians or figureheads? How will this affect the future of politics? Planning a political novel? George Clooney for President!

If your topic doesn't have a trendy angle, create one. Figure out which part of the trend you can grab onto and do that. Again, find a need and fill it. Keep your subject matter, book or PR campaign topical, trendy, and hip. That's what we did with this story. After all, who would have thought book promotion and a governor's race would have had anything in common?

Happy trend-spotting!

Penny C. Sansevieri
The Cliffhanger was published in June of 2000. After a strategic marketing campaign it quickly climbed
the ranks at Amazon.com to the #1 best selling book in San Diego. Her most recent book: No More Rejections. Get Published Today! was released in July of 2002 to rave reviews. Penny is a book marketing and media relations specialist. She also coaches authors on projects, manuscripts and marketing plans and instructs a variety of coursing on publishing and promotion. To learn more about her books or her promotional services, you can visit her web site at http://www.booksbypen.com To subscribe to her free ezine, send a blank email to: mail to: subscribe@booksbypen.com

How to get your book published

2009-03-10T19:08:00.000-07:00

One of the scariest parts about book publishing is the enormity of questions that cause so many new authors worry. This fear is particularly true with new authors, or those that haven't yet been published. The most common questions asked by authors who haven't yet been published are listed below. Some common questions asked by new authors are highlighted below.

{Question: Is it easy to get a book published?}

Though you should always remember that the goal is one you can accomplish, you should also know that many writers never get anything beyond rejection letters. But just because you receive a bounty of rejection letters is not a reason to give up hope. You should always remember that every successful writer has to struggle to get his or her voice heard, and that anyone you aspire to be creatively has had their share of rejection letters. Not all publishers are right for all book writers or books.

{Question: How much money can I make?}

How much money you will make honestly will depend. There are a number of varied factors that you will want to take into consideration, including the publisher in question, the genre of your book, and its length. As a general rule of thumb, books which are longer in length are considered far more "valuable" and these books will likely make more money.

{Question: Do I need to have a literary agent?}

Literary agents are universally recommended by any online resource in how to get a book published. There are indeed many publishers who will not work with you if you do not have an agent, but there are still many others who do not have this requirement. Not everyone can afford an agent at the start so, if you cannot, focus on the important part of getting your book published yourself.

{Question: How do I find book publishers?}

The easiest approach to find a publisher is through a guide such as the Writer's Market, or similar resource. These guides are a huge benefit to writers, because they separate publishers into different genres and outline what guidelines each publisher has. Many helpful internet websites exist which tell you which publishers accept manuscripts, but it is better to visit individual publishing websites for this information. They should outline detailed information, much like what you would find in printed guides for writers.

{Question: What are my chances of being published?}

There is no one determining factor that will decide how difficult it is for you to obtain the dream of getting your book published. Approaching more publishers does, of course, increase the chances you have. It is also important to note that the Writer's Market books detail for you on average how many books a publisher puts out each year. These can be helpful tools in deciding exactly what your chances of publishing with certain publishers are. Most importantly of all, don't let the rejection letters force you to quit.

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Ebook Essentials

2009-03-02T18:55:00.000-08:00

Ebook reader

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Marketing on Facebook

2009-02-24T20:51:00.000-08:00

The newest trend in the internet today is joining one of the many social networking websites. Websites like these are primarily used as a social utility that will enable people to connect with other people. Although originally started for Harvard students, Facebook has grown enormously and is probably the most well known of the social networking sites. However, social networking isn't just what you can get from this social site.

With Facebook, you will definitely be able to effectively market your website. With tens of millions of members and still continuing to grow (about 10,000 a day), you know that this place is the place to market. The marketing available on this site may be free but there are still things that need to be learned despite the number of tools they have managed to supply.

Creating a personal profile is the first step but filling it with information about you is more likely to attract people to view it. Once you establish a relationship, then you will be able to expand your network and improve your marketing strategy. Facebook as well as other social networking websites are now just beginning to see their potential. You will also be able to join groups and there is an enormous amount to choose from. You can try joining groups that have the similar interest such as yours.

It will also let you syndicate your blogs and website through RSS and will let you post on bulletins to announce or advertise your products, services and new events. This will increase traffic to your blog and build a regular readership which in turn can increase your income. With the targeted traffic you can receive using Facebook you will be able to increase sales and also continue to increase the amount of people entering your website. Through these tips, you can be sure that you will get a lot of viewers in your profile page and increase the chances of getting them in your business website or get them to buy your products or services.

How Viral Marketing Strategies can Work for you

2009-02-17T10:20:00.000-08:00

I'm sure that most working marketers decide that profitable virtual businesses rotate around a generous list of thrusting subscribers. In today's Internet business conditions, if you aren't reminding people constantly you are at a standstill your business will go bad and die!

So how do you let both hypothetical and up-to-date subscribers know that you still exist? I believe that Viral Marketing Strategies and Tools are the key to your forthcoming dreams of a maga profit.

The correct use of Viral Marketing has lead to huge real-time businesses! Everyone has heard of the Hotmail case in point. That one insignificant extract, by getting your free email at Hotmail.com., all outbound email lead to 12 million subscribers in 1.5 days! What's even more amazing is that Hotmail supposedly paid less than $500,000 on presentation and promotion!

Ok, I know what you're thinking. How is this going to help me? Don't be apprehensive, I'll explain in the rest of this helpful article.

I believe your entire viral marketing campaign depends on your aptitude to gain new ezine subscribers to your own opt-in only ezine or bulletin list.

A Huge list of ezine subscribers = A Huge paroxysm of online commercial proceeds!

This is the basic plan for an ezine subscriber list to be successful.

The easiest way to grow your ezine subscriber list is by using online viral marketing tools.

In fresh words, if you give away free eBooks and e-Reports, they must be Viral in humor.

Here's a basic viral marketing strategy:

Let's deduce that you have an opt-in ezine list related to eBook Marketing. Your subscribers are expected to look for eBook copy and publicizing tips.

You could proposition them a free eBook on "How to Submit Your eBook to the Best eBook Directories on the Internet!" On each page of the eBook, add a highly visible website link to your ezine's subscribe webpage. Here's an pattern ad and link I've used for my ProfitAvenue.com Profits Explosion Ezine:

Everything You Need To Develop A Full-time Income Online! Plus, subscribe today and you'll take delivery of Over 20 up-to-date eBooks on Internet and eBook Marketing!

Subscribe at the moment at: http://www.profitavenue.com/subscribe.htm

Then approach your eBook to your ezine subscribers first. (I forever and a day give my subscribers paramount dibs on the whole lot I create or offer) :o) Also, let everyone know that they can give away your eBook to their website invitees, support, family, and their own ezine subscriber list!

After a two weeks of downloads, your eBook will start to deliver eminence, embattled subscribers to your ezine and website.

And here's a viral example on steriods:

While creating your eBook, add associate links to your colleague package's products or additional partner database's products. This creates another motivation for people to pass the eBook around because now they can make huge profits as an affiliate. Internet Marketer, Jimmy D. Brown, has created a huge popular wired occupation with the brandible eBooks he offers!

In this standard, you have your ezine donation webpage links on every single page and eBook readers have a monetary inducement to market your eBook to others! That's
Viral Marketing in it's truest form!

The Advantages of Ebook Marketing

2009-02-10T17:43:00.000-08:00

Ebook marketing becomes more and more common. Commercial web sites as well as non commercial web sites approach ebooks. The skilled general public earn capital by writing and marketing ebooks. Even people without writing familiarity can join this promising business.

What are the ingredients of triumph?

1. Finding a Big Hit is a major concern:

The requirement of victory is to find an issue that boosts the sale of an ebook. The most admired issues among ebooks are statistics on "how to" solve a delimma or "how to" learn a specialized field. Popular issues are internet marketing, home business tips, financial suggestion, stock market tips, lifestyle, health, substance abuse. Issues of private interest also can be found among the most popular keywords and phrases on the internet.

2. You can make it or buy it!

It is not very difficult to put in writing an ebook, if one owns the needed capability in a convinced area and enjoys letters. People without proficiency in writing can also sell ebooks. They can sell in a massive amount of ebooks as affiliates. There are offers, where the general public can pick up and customize an already established ebook and sell it under their names.

3. Quick door to the market

It eternally takes a certified time span to publish a book, offline or cyber-: An edition has to be researched and compiled, the book has to be printed and enriched with pictures and graphics. This process can last for weeks or months.

The great gain of an ebook to a standard offline book is: Everybody has access to distribute it, provided the needed equipment is available: computer, internet access, reproducing software. An originator does not rely on editors who choose more or less a magazine.

4. Cross Selling:

An source cannot only earn currency by selling an ebook, he or she also can display advertisements or affiliate links in an ebook. This is a stunning advantage of an ebook. If an ebook deals with diets and influence watching, a novelist can place affiliate links to the associated products and participate on sales through the ebook.

5. High Earnings Margins:

The advantage margins of ebooks are high. There is no publication and printing company needed. No thesis and conveyance costs have to be enclosed. An ebook can be sent wholly by email as downloadable PDF-format to the end-user.

Marketing expenditure, on the other hand, are needed. The consultation has to know what is going on with the ebook. The efforts to market an ebook might be similar to the efforts to elevate a web site. A unique marketing web site with an appetizing description on the order of the pleased, some testimonials, and an authors biography has to be displayed. Advertising and mailings are to be expected to feast out the edition of a new ebook.

Market your E-Book for Free

2009-02-03T18:44:00.000-08:00

A well known insider secret that many marketers will not tell you is Free E-Book
Marketing WORKS! It has been proven to be one of the most explosive forms of online marketing ever offered. But with the knowledge of its existence, many who have attempted to utilize its power have failed. Why? Most newbies do not understand how to use it fully!

Free E-Book Marketing has been in use for over SIX YEARS. Successfully utilized by many SEO pros. These online gurus have been actively creating and promoting Free
E-Books since the ability was provided. I bet your wheels are spinning now.

Then, about the three-fourths of the way through 1999, the news broke of this powerful "new" marketing form and everyone and their brother were trying to "cash-in" on the opportunities they were hearing about.

Buying up the e-publishing software stock, many marketers began creating and compiling everything they could get their hands on. This was the beginning of the hidden surge to jump on the clickbank wagon as well.

Throwing these so called worth while Free E-Books into the world of the Web, they were actually doing more harm than good. Most did not realize the necessary steps
that needed to be taken in order to ensure their success. What they did not know is marketing requires you to produce quality, unique and beneficial content.

Let me ask you, "How many Free E-Books have you downloaded due to its sizzling title, only to find nothing but an over used report with a million and one banner ads
flashing in your face?"

Too many to count?

This is the problem. How many "bad" Free E-Books does it take before you stop downloading Free E-Books all together? Do you know what that does, not only for the
author of the Free E-Book, but other, successful Free E-Book Marketers?

Too say the least, its not good.

So what DOES make a good Free E-Book? What makes a Free E-Book successful in the sense that it does what it is meant to do? It's rather simple, and if you're at all
interested in this "old" form of marketing, than here are the TWO MOST IMPORTANT aspects you need to realize:

ONE:

Your E-Book must be focused. It should only present a single offer to its readers. It should not stray or attempt to teach everything about anything. It should be centered around one solid idea: To present your ( business )knowledge as to establish yourself as an expert in your field. To show and help the reader realize that you are a credible source of information.

After reading your Free E-Book, your reader should have a firm grasp of the concepts you present. They should be able to follow through and succeed with the resources you
provide. This will help the passing of your Free E-Book as well as strengthen your chances for future dealings with its readers. ( This is what makes you money, not the banner
ads. )

TWO:

Your E-Book must be educational. If you decide to utilize Free E-Book Marketing, than understand this: Your Free E-Book is to be created to generate leads. How do you
generate leads? You educate your prospects about what you have to offer. You show them the hows, whats and whys of how your offer works and will work to benefit them
to act upon.

You must teach the reader all that you successfully can about what the contents of your Free E-Book will do for them. Before they will hand you their money to enhance
their lives, they need to know WHY what you're offering will work for them.

By demonstrating, thus educating through the use of your Free E-Book, your reader will naturally gravitate towards you for "further" information, where in you may charge for admission, thus making you your profits.

Free E-Book Marketing is simply a matter of understanding how the marketing and psychological strategies of it work. Understanding the above is *by far* the most important aspects of Free E-Book Marketing you need to realize.

If what I have just shown you is not followed, you will only work to hurt yourself. People want quality, informative content ... and you want their money. By giving them what they want, then suggesting they come to you for more,
you will work to help each other.

Free E-Book Marketing WORKS! But ONLY if you use it right.

Online marketing books

2009-01-28T19:24:00.000-08:00

Creating an e-book is an easy way to get you feet wet in the world of online marketing books. Many people delay writing their own because they don't know where to start; some useful hints are detailed below. Although this process assumes that you're doing the writing yourself, you could hire someone else to write the articles or just produce additional material.

We all have areas where we are knowledgeable and this is the place to explore. Ebook marketing requires extensive time and research, so start by writing some articles to gauge interest in the subject; because if there is an interest, people will pay. By writing the articles it provides practice and they are easier to do but they can also can be used later to help with marketing your book in all sorts of online areas. Post several articles on various websites, as well as on the article directories and the number of views your articles receive will show you what potential your book has for making sales.

Writing the articles should help you work out in your head just how you want the e-book to look when it is complete. You book should be in three to four sections and will contain an introduction, the main body of the material, a closing chapter and possibly some additional material too. You can also increase the value of the book by adding some bonus material or sections.

Once each article has been written, place into the e-book; just how many you will ultimately require will depend on how long you want it to be. Because e-books are usually shorter than a printed version, no-one wants to read material that has been added that is not related so it is best to stay close to the topic of the book. As computer screens are notoriously awkward to read with comfortably, a shorter more concise book is appreciated.

Be aware of extra bonus material as you write because E-Book purchasers love to get bonus material. This is not too difficult if you already have this extra information in the form of previous articles or even another short report you have compiled. The bonus material should really have a value all of its own and be directly related to the topic of the e-book.

Should Blogs Replace Websites As A Sales Tool?

2008-10-19T10:06:00.001-07:00

If you do not have a blog yet do not worry because you probably will soon enough. Blogs are everywhere on the Internet today and in many cases or even replacing websites as a way to present an online presence. Let's take a closer look at whether logs should replace websites as a sales tool, or just be there to enhance them.

If you do not have a blog yet do not worry because you probably will soon enough. Blogs are everywhere on the Internet today and in many cases or even replacing websites as a way to present an online presence. Let's take a closer look at whether logs should replace websites as a sales tool, or just be there to enhance them.

One of the biggest problems a website has always presented to the average person is how to get it online. Most people do not possess the technical ability to build a website of their own.

In many cases this is extremely intimidating enough to get them to give up before they even get started. For those who understand the importance of having a website they look to a website designer to build one for them.

Depending on the goal of your website, this can be expensive and may eliminate even more people. Thankfully, blogs are easy to setup and are even free with websites such as Blogger.com.

Depending on the type of product that you have a blog might even be adequate enough to eliminate having a website altogether. Today a really good blog can even be more impressive than a website because you can make it interactive and add things to it such as graphics, audio and video.

If you're in the business of affiliate marketing blogs may not be all that you're looking for, however. Most successful affiliate marketers will use a blog to keep their website up to date with fresh content. However, they will have a website as their primary sales page.

Many of them will also create landing pages where they drive their visitors to and get contact information by giving away a free report or e-book. However, you can also put a sign-up form for things like this on your blog and do the same thing.

One idea that you can use to determine whether you should have a website or just use a blog is compare what you wanted do to what your competition is doing. You can look at your top competitors in any niche and see what they're doing to be successful.

Chances areFind Article, you will find that they have a website and a blog both. Depending on the age of the site itself this could be because blogs have not really been popular for more than the past couple of years. There are Internet businesses now that have had websites for several years.

These are a few ideas on whether blogs should replace websites as a sales tool or not. Ultimately it will come down to a personal choice and you may find that using the two hand in hand is the best route to take.

Reasons to Invest in a Web Site

2008-10-18T10:12:00.000-07:00

A website is an extremely valuable tool that bolsters your existing marketing, sales, recruitment and communications effort. So here are a few compelling reasons to put your business on the Internet.

The Internet functions 24 hours a day, seven days a week and has the most inexpensive and widespread marketing capabilities.
The Internet is an excellent way to market your business and sell your products and services as it has a broad audience base.
More and more customers are logging on, making purchases, buying services and researching choices and information through the Internet.
A good website will help you reach and retain customers; you can use it to interact with your customers send information to customers, reply to emails day and night.
You can reply to your customers or potential customers automatically without you having to get involved at all with "autoresponders"
It can be used simply to let potential customers know you are there instead to just sell, particularly those that rely on a local customer base this can be an invaluable source of additional customer enquiries.
If your business needs to produce brochures or any kind of sales literature it is cheaper to have the customer download it to his machine and print it then you to produce a brochure which you then send
You can use it to attract customers from outside you local area, you can take your products to totally new markets.
Customers expect to see you on the Internet; if you cannot meet this expectation then they will go to someone else
Many people prefer to search for a company on the Internet rather than search their local Yellow Pages or newspaper.
They are an effective and efficient way to communicate with potential customers, employees and suppliers.
They can be easily updated, keeping your product listings and prices always accurate, everyone can see updated information without having to wait.
Web sites offer an ideal way of showcasing your previous work and accomplishments to potential customers and you can build reputation, credibility and trust with potential customers.
No matter what your size, a website offers your business the same advantage as your biggest competitors so with a well designed website of even a one man operation can have the same presence as a multi-national corporation.
It gives people the impression that you are savvy and smart enough to take your business to the next level.
An interactive online catalogue makes your company's products accessible everywhere in the world, 24 hours a day, and 365 days a year.
Selling online is a cost-effective way to sell as it comes without the customary overhead of a physical store, like building leases, employees
You can put an enormous amount of information onto your web site for only a little money; you can have pages and pages of information about your company, products or services
Your web site can help with improved customer service by providing information visitors can access, there can be a list of 'frequently asked questions' about your service or product.
You can test out new services or products instantly and less expensively, simply put up a new web page setting out the relevant information, and sends an e-mail to your database of existing customers, and ask for their views.
You can combine email marketing with your web site and save hundreds on advertisements.
Your business small or big, local or international, if is not online or your existing site is unprofessional or ineffective, then you are losing business opportunities for sure.

3 Powerful Types of eBooks You Can Write and Sell Online

2008-08-14T09:07:00.001-07:00

A big part of knowing how to write and sell ebooks is understanding exactly what will turn a prospect into a hungry buyer.

As you may have already discovered in my "UltimateInformation Entrepreneur's Success Package", earningmonths and years of leveraged income from a few weekswriting has virtually NOTHING to do with your writingability, but EVERYTHING to do with understanding how toidentify and satisfy a raging hunger within markets.

When you think about how to write a sell ebooks, think about 1 of these 3 proven "types" of infoproductsthat will turn your prospects into buyers...

1. Innovator. You have identified a tip, techniqueor strategy that will go one-step further (incrementalinnovation) or take a giant LEAP forward (radical innovation) than is currently available.

To understand how to write and sell ebooks as the "innovator", you have a very good grasp of both what the prospector is really looking for and what currently exists in your marketplace.

2. Collector. The value in this type of information product is to collect sources of information from a widevariety of sources and distill it down to the "best of"or a compilation of strategies aimed at satisfying a given market demand.

3. Investigator. Yet another method of how to write and sell ebooks, the investigator seeks to discover and prove the value of a given approach.

Discovery allows you to bring value by bringing to lightlittle-known or "underground" secrets to solving specificproblems

Proving the value of a given approach is also of high valuein this age of skepticism and doubt. If you can providecase studies to support a given approach, you'll be bringing extra value to the market.

Now, each of these approaches has its advantages and disadvantages.

When most people think of how to write and sell ebooks,they think of being collectors, however adding an aspectof innovation is how you can really differentiate yourselfin your market.

Innovation allows you to claim ownership to solving an urgent and pressing problem for your market. Out of owership will come branding, and out of branding can cometremendous financial advantages.

I have used all 3 approaches and advise everyone who is serious about becoming an information entrepreneur andwants to know how to write and sell ebooks to use each approach.

In your market, you can likely come up with a combinationof innovative solutions, compilations of tips and ideas,and journalistic ideas such as key interview subjects orcandidates.

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Top 5 Tips For Creating eBook Titles That Sell

2008-08-13T12:26:00.001-07:00

Can you imagine what it would be like to not only have your own eBook with your name as the author and all of the fame, credibility that goes with it?

Or maybe you'd like to imagine the income that you will be raking in every month as a result of the sales of your new eBook.

If you say yes, then it is the right time to create your very own new ebook. The simplest way to start creating an eBook is by working on the title of your eBook.

A title is part of your eBook's front cover. Most buyers buy mainly because of the front cover. Start with a working title before you write your chapters. Include your topic, your subject and use the book's benefits in your sub title if possible. Here are the top 5 tips for titles that sell:

1) Make it easy for readers to buy. Readers want a magic pill. They want to follow directions and enjoy the benefits the title promises. For example, 101 Ways to Market your eBook can act as an instructional book for your readers.

2) Be outrageous with your book title. People do judge a book by its title. It must be so outstanding and catchy it compels the reader to either buy on the spot or look further to the description of the eBook. Take a risk.

3) Titles do sell books. Include your audience in your title. When your title isn't targeted other famous authors' general titles get the buyer. Always make your title clear and make it easy for your audience to recognize they need your eBook.

4) Create impact for your title - Check out other authors' titles by researching on the Internet as well as local bookstores. Your title must compel the reader to buy now.

5) Use power words to compel someone to buy your eBook. This strategy is used very effectively in advertisements. Words such as "Free", "How to" and a number of ways such as "101", or "1001" are attention grabbing words.

A clever title is great if it is clear, but a clear title is always preferable. A shorter title is better than a longer one. Your reader will spend only four seconds on the cover. While some long titles have succeeded, usually the shorter, the better. Start working on your titles and create your very own eBook today.

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Advance Your Business with Ebooks

2008-08-11T08:36:00.001-07:00

Ebooks have become a more popular way to offer business expansion. Ebooks come in a digital format that can be downloaded to a computer or other reader device. Usually, software programs like Adobe or Microsoft Word can be used to read the ebook. Take a look at these options to see how your business can advance.

1. Communication: It's probably often that you receive emails with the same questions over and over that take a book-length response. It could be a question like, "How do you create a basic website?" Consider writing your reply and making it into an ebook, which could be sent out as many times as needed. This will give you more time with your business among other things. The nice thing about ebooks is that you'll also be able to include your marketing information, which could mean that others may want to pass it on as well.

2. Marketing: The options for creating an ebook to help your marketing efforts are endless. It can be a very inexpensive way to produce high-color graphics and materials that can be combined with audio features. Start by using a digital camera to catch shots of your products or people using your products and services. Then, include these pictures on the ebook where you can add in more detail and descriptions of what you offer. Don't forget about the option of interactive links for sound and visual presentations. If you think you'd like some assistance in this area, consider hiring someone to help or make an investment in some worthwhile software.

3. New Products: Try using surveys or polls for creating new products. Be sure to offer a link to a website that includes a free download for those who complete your questionnaire.

4. Education: If your products or services need explanations, try using ebooks to provide education. You can create multiple versions. Make short or sample ones for trial offers or free downloads. Then, offer the full version for purchases. You can use sound, visual and interactive point-and-click features for instruction. You can also let others know you're interested in their questions and feedback regarding product and service development for the future.

5. Sales Representatives: Equip your sales reps with professional quality product or service information kits that can be introduced to local radio, television, newspapers, trade shows and events. Create an introductory page as well as an index that includes information about your mission statement, product descriptions, testimonials, contact information, history etc. This will give you the opportunity to put your ebook on CD's to give out at events, which will allow more time for people to get acquainted with your business afterwards.

Don't hesitate to get started writing! You business advancements are just around the corner.

Useful Strategy On How To Sell Your Ebooks

2008-08-10T13:54:00.001-07:00

Ebook is the buzzword of today and it is fast becoming a potential marketing tool for your products and services. Creating an ebook is easy and inexpensive and, if promoted well, it can catapult you to the zenith of money and fame. Examples are aplenty of authors who have scripted their way to success through publishing their ebooks. The reason why some authors are more successful than others lies in the methods they follow. Here are some tips that can be useful if you want to become a successful writer.

Compile your articles:

Believe it or not, most visitors tend to visit your work more and more when you show them the compilation of your best articles. The compilation helps augment the traffic to your site and therefore, you will have higher chance to sell your products and services. Try to include useful information in your articles that will catch the fancy of your visitors.

Offer sample chapters:

The best way to make your ebook famous is to offer your visitors some sample of your chapters that are a part of your work. When you let the visitors taste the magic of your work through samples, they will be tempted to subscribe to your ebook. Samples often work wonders for your sale.

Submit to directories:

If you submit your ebook to many directories that allow visitors to download ebooks, you can increase the number of your subscribers. Ebook directories act as potential tool for increasing the number of your visitors.

Let them share:

Many successful writers often allow their subscribers to share ebooks with others. This can be easily done by allowing your visitors who download your work to pass them to their friends and other visitors who could be interested. You can also let your ebooks to be rebranded with the help of a link to your visitors` website or affiliate program.

Use it for affiliate program:

Tell your visitors that if they sign up for your affiliate program, you can allow them to use your ebooks after rebranding to promote their site with their new affiliate URLs. This is a great way to attract potential visitors to your site as your existing visitors will definitely talk to others about this great opportunity and encourage them to buy the same ebooks as well.

Offer ebooks as bonus:

You can increase the volume of your sale by offering your ebooks as bonus to your customers. It will not only increase your sale but also add to the credibility and value of your products and services. On the other hand, you can use them to promote back-end products.

Sell the reprint rights:

You can sell the reprint rights to your ebooks to people who are interested in buying and would like charge money for it. When you sell visitors the master reprints rights to your ebooks, there is a mutual benefit. While your buyers enjoy the privilege of selling the master reprints to others, you increase your profit to a great extent.

Selling ebooks is easy if you follow these techniques. However, you should also give importance to the subject matter of your work as well. If you write on topics that are of popular interest, you have won half the battle. A little bit of research is required if you want to know what people are now searching for.

Moreover, you should always remember that you should make your ebooks really accessible. Put them where successful authors are placing. This is why marketing of your ebook products is vital. Once you devise well-planned strategy for your promotion, implement it and you will definitely achieve positive results.

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Google Adwords Experiment: What Spelling Of

2008-08-09T08:59:00.001-07:00

Ebooks also are hot property with many people making sizeable incomes from selling them, often using Google Adwords as a primary source of traffic. So a critical question right now is what are the smart marketers doing to boost their Adwords ads for ebooks so dominating their market *without* spending a fortune?

With Google Adwords being one of the most popular forms of pay per click advertising due to the fact that it offers rapid setup (traffic within minutes), easy control and top quality traffic it's natural that there is a huge amount of interest in the subject.

As the ads on Google are arranged based on an algorithm combining both the cost you're wiling to spend of each visitor *and* the response rate of your ad, by learning tips that will boost the cickthrough rates of your ads you'll be able to push your own ads up the page without spending any more money.

And the higher up the page your ads are, the more traffic you're likely to see.

Ebooks also are hot property with many people making sizeable incomes from selling them, often using Google Adwords as a primary source of traffic.

So a critical question right now is what are the smart marketers doing to boost their Adwords ads for ebooks so dominating their market *without* spending a fortune?I decided to test out an advert for my Ebook Sales Assistant product using the following advert:

Creating An Ebook? Learn how to build an ebook sales site. 100+ page ebook tells all. www.ebooksalesassistant.comKeeping the text of the advert identical, I split tested 3 version of the headline to test whether the spelling Ebook, ebook or eBook would get the highest response from users.

Over the course of the experiment the ad was shown an impressive 71,129 times so the results are highly significant.

The results:Creating An Ebook?: 0.9% CTR Creating an ebook?: 0.9% CTR Creating An eBook?: 0.4% CTRSo the results show that I found no difference in response rates between the spelling Ebook or ebook but the spelling eBook had a very negative impact on my ad response rate, getting less than half as many clicks as the other two ads with identical text.

There are two morals to this story:

1) When using pay per click advertising, if your ad contains the work "ebook" never spell it as eBook2) Also note how *huge* the difference in response rates are. Be aware that something as simple as changing which words have capital letters and where abouts in the word they are can have a massive effect on results. So get experimenting!Lastly, when testing my most successful ads on just Google rather than associated content sites (those displaying Adsense ads) my clickthrough rates jumped to an average of 2.9%.

And that's without actually testing different ads, just changing the capitalization.

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Creative Ways To Make Money With eBooks

2008-08-07T23:27:00.001-07:00

Here are some tips on how to increase your profits with ebooks.

You could show your prospects a sample page out of your ebook. This will make your prospects curious to buy. You could even give away a free version of the ebook and then give people an option of buying the paid version. Also let others give away the free version of your ebook.

You could divide your ebook content into reports then give people the option of just purchasing the info they want. Or you could charge people a low price to read half of your ebook. If they like it, they can pay full price to read the other half.

You could also earn extra profits from selling monthly updates of your ebook. You could also back end sell the extra never released chapters of your e-book.

You could redesign your ebook for specific niches. You can create multiple profits with very little work. Ex: Turn a business ebook into a craft business ebook. You could then divide your ebook into online newsletter issues. You could charge a reoccurring monthly subscription for people to view each issue.

You could give your prospects discount coupons on other products when they purchase your ebook. It could be your products or others that you made deals with. You could also offer freebies that are related to the ebook your selling. It could be free monthly ebook updates, free e-zine, free consulting, etc.

You could offer the reprint rights to your ebook. You can sell the rights with the regular purchase price or as a separate higher price.

You could make your ebook available for offline people. Your could turn it into a print book, report, video, audio book, print newsletter, etc.

But many people agree that one of the best way to increase your profits and sales is to bundle many products or services together into one package. You could purchase reprint rights to other people's ebooks an combine them with your in a large package deal or private ebook library web site.

This gives people more reasons to buy your products and services. People also have come to believe package deals are a better value. You want all the products or services to be closely related. For example: if you're selling a computer you could add in software, hardware, computer furniture, etc.

There are many ways to go about choosing the right products or services to bundle into one package. You could survey your customers and see what products or services they would like you to offer in the future. Spy on your competition and see what products and services they're offering or not offering. If you would like to, bundle unrelated products or services together, ask your customers which ones would be of interest to them.

Bundling can also increase your target markets which in return would give you a larger audience to sell your products and services. For example: if you're selling a baseball magazine you could add a free baseball when someone buys a subscription. You're now targeting people who want the baseball magazine and those that want to play baseball out in the yard. Some people buy a package deal just to get one of the products.

There are many sources where you can find products and services to create a package deal. You can buy them from wholesalers or drop shippers. You can buy the reproduction/resell rights to other people's
products. Team-up with your competition to create a package deal. You could joint venture or cross promotion deal with other businesses. You could also create your own products and services. Be creative!

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Writing eBooks -11 Point Checklist for Writing and Creating Your Own Money Making eBooks

2008-08-05T10:20:00.001-07:00

Have you been wanting to write your own info products but find it difficult to get started? A successful e-book creates powerful income if you do it right. I started selling my first e-book for only $10 but I quickly raised it up to $29.95 because I heard that most people under-price their products.

Today that same first product I created sells successfully at $97. Of course it has evolved into quite a different product since then. I have made a lot of money with all my e-books in the last 4 years. They pay the rent and all my other bills faithfully. Here are 11 points to help you get started making some decent money online creating your own e-books:

1.) Write About Something You Know About - Do you have a special hobby or a business that others would like to know about? If not, maybe a relative or a neighbor does. Study what other people are writing about online.

2.) e-Books That Show People How To Increase Their Income Are Popular. Before you create your product, make sure there is a market for it. I got lucky on my first book. I didn't look for a market. I just went on faith from the advice of another publisher. My first e-book has done well because it shows people how to make money.

3.) Tips Books Are The Easiest Products To write - an example would be "50 training tips for dog lovers, "99 profitable businesses to start for less than $500", "21 days to a newer you" etc. (I better shut up. I like that last title.)

4.) Write Your Sales Letter First - this helps shape your product to be what you want it to be and what you want it to accomplish. It is like building a blueprint first before building the go-cart. List all the benefits and features your e-book should have to deliver.

5.) Get An e-Book Compiler Like Adobe PDF, - as soon as I got my software I got excited about the money I could make with it.

6.) Use Digital Pictures To Enhance The Value - if you have a how-to type of book about a trade or a hobby, using your digital camera can greatly enhance your e-books' perceived value and the price. Plus it helps illustrate what your are teaching with the sharp color photos a digital camera can deliver.

7.) Give Your e-Book the Right Title - Just as a killer headline can increase your sales letters PULL, the right title for your book is just as important also for sales. Make that a Red-Hot title!

8.) Don't Over-Sell Your Book - don't over-promise or over-hype things in your sales letter just to sell your e-book or you may get too many people asking for refunds. It is better to over-deliver instead. Making it way better than they thought it would be will make them amazed.

9.) Find Related Follow Up Products For Your e-Book - find profitable "related" products or services that you can add to your book for more profits. Your readers will love the added information and you will love the extra sales.

10.) Enhance Your Product - offer an audio or video to the deal. Just as digital pictures add value to an ebook, so does adding an audio version of it or one or more videos to the package.

11.) Lace Your Products - in time you should have several e-books you are selling online. By adding information about all your other books in the back of each one of them gives you free advertising and extra orders.

So there you go. If you want to start creating your own e-books and marketing them online, it isn't that hard at all. Remember, tip books are the easiest way to start writing and creating your info-products. You can always format it without the tips once it is structured.

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This article was written by Lee Cusano. Lee has been in the publishing business since 1995 and selling on the Internet since 2004. If you would like to start making money online check out Lee's free report titled "The #1 Secret That Always Increases Your Sales Profits Every Time". Just click here to get it: http://silverdollarpublishingonline.com/mds/

All You Ever Wanted To Know About Ebooks

2008-08-04T10:27:00.001-07:00

Is writing your passion? Then a financially lucrative and intellectually rewarding career beckons you. Welcome to the world of ebook writing! As the Internet has paved the way for lucrative business opportunities for almost all walks of life, professional ebook writers are cashing in on the popular propensity to read ebooks more than anything else. If you think writing is a rare gift few people have been endowed with, take a reality check - according to the New York Times best selling author Robert G. Allen, there is at least a good book inside every one of us.

The phenomenal success of blogs on the internet shows that ebooks have a growing potentiality in this digital age where people prefer spending more time with their computers than books, novels, news papers or magazines. Communication theorists have been convinced that the science of communication has evolved from one-to-one to many-to-many. So, you no more have to be a college professor to communicate your views to the people. The ebooks have democratized the knowledge and dissimilation of information.

Benefits for the writers:

Being an ebook writer is easy, simple and uncomplicated. Gone are the days when you had to deal with rejections, editors and other embarrassing restrictions of publications. Ebooks offer you the choice of choosing your own way of publishing your material. You decide the content of material as well; you are not at the helm of any editor either. Aside from artistic liberty, ebooks are an economical means of publishing your books online. Unlike the traditional publication methods, you don`t need spend a lot on publishing them.

Benefits for the readers:

From the readers standpoint, they can access the ebooks from anywhere thanks to the technology of it. You can store, share or delete an ebook as your wish. It saves your precious time. Moreover, you can use the search option to find your targeted pages in the ebook pretty quickly. They have hyperlinks that guide you to the source of information. Moreover, you don`t need to worry about the size of the ebooks as you would incase of hardcopy books.

Benefits for the environment:

Apart from servicing the society through the power of digital communication, ebooks help you conserve the natural resource of your planet in a great way. The books you see around have come from the cutting down of some trees in the forest. The proliferation of ebooks has actually greatly reduced the falling of trees.

How to become an ebook writer?

Being a successful ebook writer may bring you two different benefits. First, you can make some money by selling your ebooks online. Secondly, you may gain popularity by which it is invaluable. However, you should approach methodically if you want to write your first ebook. The most important aspect of being a successful ebook is the ability to choose a topic which has little competition. Hence, the narrower the niche you choose, the easier it is for you to avoid the competition.

Remember, the success of your ebook may not depend entirely on the way of writing. In fact, ebook readers hardly worry about the language as long as the subject matter is interesting. Write your thoughts in a very conversional way like you explain things your friend. If you want to make your research more in-depth, there are many online sources you can count on. In a nutshell, your ebook needs to have the following three qualities such as an easy-to-read style, comprehensibility, and strategies that readers find easy to implement. So, get summon the writer inside you and get ready to run all the way to the bank.

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Make Profit From Free Ebooks

2008-08-03T09:16:00.001-07:00

Make Profit From Free Ebooks

Have you ever wandered how those marketers that give away ebooks and reports actually benefit from doing so? It might seem a little strange that someone would put their time and effort into creating a quality product and then just give it away for nothing but there is an excellent reason for marketing this way, you see, those free ebooks will generate sales and leads for years to come, all on the backend.

What is the purpose of a free ebook?

The purpose of a free ebook is to drive traffic to a website that will result in sales, subscribers, adsense clicks or any other goal you may want to achieve. The main purpose for a free ebook is presell/generate leads for a paid product, you would presell by explaining advantages and benefits subtly in the ebook and generate leads by providing links within it.

How do I create one?let's say you have a product about gardening that you sell for $47, you could then write a short report that would compliment that product such as a review, a short extract of it, a short report about gardening that would not go into as much detail as your paid product, the point is that it is very relevant to your paid product but does not have as much value, I mean you don't want to give away a free ebook that reveals all the methods contained in your paid one, you just want to generate interest for it.

How do I distribute it?You can distribute a free ebook in a number of ways such as in your signature file at forums, to your email subscribers, free ebook directories, your website, arranging joint ventures with other marketers, there are many different ways to distribute your free ebook, you just have to find where your target audience is and offer them your ebook, most people love to get stuff for free so you shouldn't have to much trouble trying to get them to take it.

How do I get my ebook to go viral?This is one of the most powerful ways to market online, viral marketing, you want your ebook to spread as far as possible and to reach as many prospects as you can so you should give people a reason to pass your ebook on to others for you. This can be done by allowing people to "rebrand" your ebook, basically you allow them to replace the links to your products with their affiliate links, therefore the people who pass on your ebook can actually make money doing so. If people have a good reason to pass your ebook on, then they more than likely will.

Free ebooks can be an extremely effective way to advertise your website and products and if you can put the effort in and make a great product, then it is possible it will generate you sales and leads for years to come.

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Sell Ebooks Using Custom Paypal Buttons

2008-08-02T09:42:00.001-07:00

Sell Ebooks Using Custom Paypal Buttons

One of the most significant website problems I needed to solve when creating and selling Ebooks online was a way to allow customers to automatically download Ebooks after completing their purchase on Paypal.

- Create Custom Download Message and Encrypt Paypal Buttons -

Selling Ebooks and other digital products online is becoming increasingly popular as the Internet continues to explode. Enabling customers to automatically download the Ebook or digital product right after they make the purchase is of utmost value to customers. However it is also just important to authors and artists to protect their work from nefarious characters prowling the Internet. Part of the solution to this problem is to provide authors and artists the ability to offer their products online, while providing security and protection during the purchasing process. Part of this protection process includes encryption of "Buy Now Buttons" from companies such as Paypal.

Paypal does offer the ability to create unique encrypted payment buttons with unique return URL hyperlinks on the final Paypal payment page, however there is a significant limitation.

By creating separate return URLs you can create separate download pages that have hyperlinks to the downloadable Ebook document. The problem, however, is that the URL is referenced (or titled) by a "Return to Merchant" button or statement on the final Paypal payment page. This "Return to Merchant" statement is vague and consequently many customers do not click on it to go to the download page. Instead they get angry and frustrated and contact webmasters like myself to vent their frustrations.

For me, the simplest way to solve this problem was to change the text "Return to Merchant" to something like "Click here to Download Your Order". However, I learned that this was easier said than done. The major reason for this was that I like most businesses; wanted to protect the location of the download files. As a result, I always selected to have my Paypal buttons encrypted when creating the Paypal buttons using Paypal's Buy Now Buttons tool. The problem with using the encryption tool under the Paypal Buy Now Buttons utility tool is that you have no way to edit the "Return to Merchant" text.

After several weeks and many hours of research I finally figured out a solution to change the "Return to Merchant" text AND encrypt the "Custom" Paypal button. The solution consists of knowledge gained from many different websites and forums and combining into a standard process. As a result of this work I have created an Ebook that documents this process. The Ebook provides easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions for solving this problem on both Windows XP and Windows 2000 computers.

I now can create custom encrypted Paypal buttons that provide clear download instructions to my website customers.

For more information on how I solved this problem see: http://www.homeadditionplus.com/Bid-Sheet-Ebook-info/Selling-Ebooks-Using-Encrypted-Paypal-Buttons-Ebook.htm.

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Over the past 20+ years Mark Donovan has been involved with building homes and additions to homes. For more home improvement information visit http://www.homeadditionplus.com and http://www.homeaddition.blogspot.com

Do ebooks sell?

2008-08-01T13:37:00.001-07:00

Ebooks have become desirable because of their instant nature. As an "InfoPublisher" you can earn a substantial income and put in far less hours than the average person working the 9 to 5 treadmill by selling ebooks. You can fit in work time when it is convenient and from the comfort of your own home.

Despite what you may be told, the answer is and always will be 'yes'.
People have and always will be prepared to pay for information in ebook format.

You see, one of the strongest human desires is to learn, to be educated and to better ourselves, no matter what the subject is. It could be ...

To live longer and healthier, to be a better parent, partner or lover, to raise children well, to earn more money, to work fewer hours or to own a nicer home or faster car, maybe play a sport better or even just bake tastier cakes, everyone wants information and nearly all would be prepared to pay for it.

Ebooks have become desirable because of their instant nature. Once ordered, all the info I need is downloaded onto my PC. No hassle, no waiting, no fuss. Instant gratification.

Have you bought an ebook online before?If yes, that's the proof it works.

As an "InfoPublisher" you can earn a substantial income and put in far less hours than the average person working the 9 to 5 treadmill by selling ebooks. You can fit in work time when it is convenient and from the comfort of your own home.

Alternatively you can put the knowledge here to work for only a couple of hours each week and you can still make a healthy second income (If you want to keep your job). How hard you work and how much you make is up to you. But nothing comes for free. . .

YOU MUST BE PREPARED TO LEARN AND THEN TO PUT INTO PRACTICE - IF YOU DO YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL, IF YOU DON'T YOU WILL FAIL.

I cannot express this strongly enough, you would be amazed at just how many people FAIL simply because they do not take action.

What Type Of eBook Will People Buy?The answer is simple - almost any type as long as it offers a solution to a problem.

There are thousands of people interested in thousands of topics the secret is: Discover a need, target the market and feed it.

What Is Your eBook's USP?If you're scratching your head, you're not alone because many authors couldn't tell you what's a USP.

An ebook's Unique Selling Proposition (USP) is a single, unique benefit that makes your ebook stand out from your competitors. Even before you start to add any words to your ebook, you must establish what it is.

It should influence everything you write.

It should be the one unique strength or advantage you and only you deliver because there are tons of other ebooks with the same topic as you have.

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Patric Chan is an internet infopreneur, international speaker and author. Join Internet Marketing Tactics Inner Circle Membership for free to get first-hand and the latest internet marketing tips at http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com

Content Site Good for Adsense

2008-07-31T11:12:00.001-07:00

Content Sites Good for Adsense. The most popular ad network for independent publishers is Google's AdSense program. AdSense is a "pay per click" (PPC) program, where you earn money each time one of your readers clicks on a Google-served ad. Since you earn money on clicks, rather than completed sales, PPC ad networks can provide a more reliable source of income for sites whose readers are not looking to make a purchase right away. Other notable PPC ad networks include the Yahoo! Publisher Network and Ad Voyager. To know why Adsense is essential for your content sites is to know first how this works. The publisher or the webmaster inserts a java script into a certain website. Each time the page is accessed, the java script will pull advertisements from the Adsense program. The ads that are targeted should therefore be related to the content that is contained on the web page serving the ad. The first reason why Adsense is essential for content sites is because it already has come a long way in understanding the needs of publishers and webmasters. Together with its continuous progression is the appearance of more advanced system that allows full ad customization. Webmasters are given the chance to choose from many different types of text ad formats to better complement their website and fit their webpage layout. Once registered with a merchant's program, you can create an ad or product link on your site using a snippet of Web code downloaded from the retailer. Some merchants go further and allow you to create virtual storefronts that match the design of your site, but where the retailer still handles all the inventory and commerce. Be careful setting up such arrangements -- unless you want customers coming to you for return and refund questions instead of to the retailer. The different formatting enables the site owners the possibility of more click through from visitors who may or may not be aware of what they are clicking on. It can also appeal to the people visiting thus make them take that next step of looking up what it is all about. This way the people behind the Adsense will get their content read and making profit in the process. The second reason is the ability of the Adsense publishers to track not only how their sites are progressing but also the earnings based on the webmaster-defined channels. The recent improvements in the search engines gives webmasters the capability to monitor how their ads are performing using customizable reports that has the capacity to detail page impressions, clicks and click-through rates. If you are certain that your content is unique and valuable enough that readers would be willing to pay for it, you'll need to select a way to handle payments from your readers. The system could be as easy as asking readers mail you a check in exchange for your putting them on e-mail content distribution list -- a method which offers the advantage of not requiring any advanced Web server security set-up. The last and final reason is that the advertisers have realized the benefits associated having their ads served on targeted websites. As opposed to those who are no using Adsense in their sites, they are given the option of having other people do their content for them, giving them the benefit of having successful and money-generating web sites. Most PPC ads are text, but some PPC networks also sell image and Flash ads. Ads are sold and displayed based on an auction system, where advertisers bid on selected keywords and phrases that appear on network websites. The ad network looks for webpages displaying its ad code, then matches what it determines the content of a webpage to be with the most appropriate keywords and phrases that advertisers have bid upon. Adsense is all about targeted content, the more targeted your content is, the more target the search engines' ads will be. There are some web masters and publishers who are focused more on their site contents and how best to maintain them rather than the cash that the ads will generate for them. This is the part where the effectiveness is working its best. There was a time when people were not yet aware of the money to be achieved from advertisements. The cash generated only came into existence when the webmasters and publishers realized how they can make Adsense be that generator. In those days, the content were the most important factors that is taken quite seriously. My name is Samuel Colon, Online Business Man, the owner of http://www.realmoneysolution.com. If you are searching for a business opportunity so you can work from home, or an online home based job or idea that can help you change your career or generate extra income. Let us help you. We have compiled a comprehensive list of opportunities and ideas for you to investigate.

Great Success Tip: A U-niversal And U-seful Truth For U To Keep In Mind

2008-07-30T14:15:00.001-07:00

"Born an original" is one of the topics I'm more passionate about. That's because I'm afraid people don't really appreciate that fact. They "know it" at the intellectual level, but they don't "get it" at the gut level. They don't grasp the full meaning of it. Ugo Betti did when he wrote "When I say 'I', I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other." Not only were you born an original, but if we take into consideration and add to the package your habits, and tastes, and idiosyncrasies, and adventures, and experiences, and talents-skills-&-abilities, and … etc., we uncover a unique individual. You are THE ONLY YOU, the one and only, not just presently, but since the dawn of time. Out of the billions of people* that have come and gone, there is not and has never been, another you. And there never will be, even if we could travel in time to the year 50,000. That makes you, and me, and each of us, SPECIAL. Unique, and special. That's what Wally Amos wrote in Watermelon Magic: "Each of us is unique and special. No two sets of fingerprints are the same. So enjoy and appreciate your uniqueness. You are a priceless collector's item." That's what you are; a collector's item, an original masterpiece, NOT a paint-by-number reproduction, not a "copy." So please, I implore you, don't die a copy, and don't live like one in the interval. Trust me on this one, I know it's hard to march to your own music, do your own thing your own way, but you must do your very best to do so! It's your assignment here on planet Earth. As Zig Ziglar wrote, "You are the only one who can use your talents and abilities; it is an awesome responsibility." On this topic, e.e. Cummings wrote, "To be nobody but yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight,and never stop fighting. In Julius Caesar, Marc Antony urged his contemporaries to "Keep your friends close to you. Keep your enemies even closer." For me, the worst enemy I have is the cookie-cutter, the tool used to make everything the same. As an author, a network marketer, and an internet marketer in a very competitive market, that same-old, same-old would spell "disaster." And as a person, that would spell "boring." I just can't have that. So, like Marc Antony, I keep my worst enemy really close. I have a cookie-cutter hanging from the ceiling over my worktable—when I write, it's dangling in front of me, inches from my face. When I go out to places where I'll interact with people, I take it with me, carrying it in my pocket so it's always near. It is a constant reminder to not be like everybody else, but to be ME. To not conform, to not think, talk, shop or buy like everyone else. I love that question posed in a Jewish folk song; "If I am like someone else, who will be like me?" Ralph Waldo Emerson sure agreed with this when he wrote; "Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous half-expression." My reader friend, let me reiterate something Useful for U to keep in mind. It is a Universal truth on which all the biologists and psychologists agree Unanimously, and say to U in Unison: U, my friend, are Unique in the Universe! It's a fact. Therefore, Uniqueness and originality are the order of the day, and Uniformity is out! U are not a Unidimensional being, but a multi-faceted one, with many Usable skills and talents. So Unite those gifts with your many creative thoughts and Use all U've got to come up with something special and unUsual. And U've got plenty. There's no need for U to Usurp other people's ideas, or try to emUlate them. Just be U! I'd like to make a recommendation, if I may. I'll use "we, us, our" so it's not just for the reader, but for myself as well. Let our lives not be a painting-by-numbers, but let it be an Irises by Van Gogh, or maybe the label of a soup can by Andy Warhol. It doesn't really matter, as long as it's U-nique. Let our lives not be like generic elevator "musak," but let's make sure it's more like Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Mozart's Die Zauberflote, Pachelbel's Canon in D, Dave Brubeck's Take Five, or The Who's Baba O'Riley, Let's create something that is U-nique. Let our passage on earth be a masterpiece so that when we leave here to go to the next realm, we can look back at our life and see an exquisite canvas in a big beautiful ornate frame and say "Wow! Would you look at that! That was ME! That was MY life! I did that. I painted that. Wasn't I something?" [* Since 40,000 BC—the dawn of modern man—an estimated 58 billion people have come and gone, according to a study by the Netherlands-based International Statistical Institute.]Daniel St-Jean is the President of The BizzBoosters Inc and he is the author of the highly-praised personal & professional development book entitled A First Serving of Milk & Cookies for Success available at http://your-marketing-tools-for-success.com/product/FSMC-1 along with many other helpful books and eBooks. He also runs a very successful direct-sales home-based business. Find out about it at http://www.MoreMoneyMoreTimeForLife.biz/Articles-Posts where you can read many more of his articles.

Article Marketing - Write your way into search results, traffic and $$$

2008-07-29T08:52:00.001-07:00

In my regular scouring of the internet marketing do's and don'ts, I come across an endless sea of opinions, many of them contradictory of other opinions by internet marketers and gurus. You may have seen something like what I'm referring to. Some internet marketers will tell you "Adsense is dead", while others assure you that "There's still life in Adsense and other Pay Per Click programs!" One of the topics that has come to my attention recently is regarding the use of articles to raise the search ranking of your website and do some honest to goodness SEO (Search Engine Optimization). There are several aspects to SEO, of course. This article takes a look at articles and how their content can be used to your advantage to build your website popularity. One opinion I've seen time and time again that has been trumpeted by scores of marketers, and that has never been contested, is "search engines love content." I'll go a step further and say, "Search engines love original content." If you want to see what I'm referring to, do a search under "article sites" and see how many directories you pull up. Article directories are out there in droves, keeping a large supply of articles that can be (and usually are) used by people publishing ezines or adding content to their sites. I've submitted articles to several of these sites for free. Here's why submitting articles is a win-win situation: Win for you: You get to include a "resource box" with your article, which can be a link back to your website (or the affiliate site you are promoting) Win for them: ezine publishers need to come up with articles every day/week/month. Webmasters want their proverbial "regularly updated content." Article directories give them the ammo they need to keep their updates regular and their content fresh. Of course, this does mean you will need to write. If you like to write already, great - get started! If writing is about as fun for you as pulling your teeth with rusty jumper cables, all is not lost. My suggestion is to look at sites like Elance (www.elance.com) and look for writers on the topic you want to cover. Elance has a bidding system, which allows you to post a project for bids and let prospective writers bid on it. Once you have your article written, you will need to submit it. There is an endless array of article sites on the web. You can also take a shortcut by trying an article submission tool. Here's one I use that works very well (In fact, this article you're reading now was submitted using this very software): http://tinyurl.com/2nhqft Something else to remember - SEO will take awhile. Even if you have submitted articles, you must give them time to make their way into the hands of those people who will publish them on sites and on the web. So there you have it - articles help you promote your web site the write way! Paul Heingarten is an entrepreneur, author and consultant. He owns several websites and has assisted business owners with website design and marketing. Find ebooks on how you can market your business on his website at http://www.theebookstar.com

Banner Advertising: Popular in the 90's, Died in early 2000, Bouncing Back in 2007

2008-07-28T09:13:00.001-07:00

A banner ad is an advertisement placed on a Web site either above, below or on the sides of the Web site's main content and is linked to the advertiser's own Web site. Banner ads are graphic images used on websites to advertise a product or service. Banner ads are displayed in many different sizes, but common sizes used are 460 pixels wide by 60 pixels high. Other common sizes include 460 by 55 and 392 by 72. In the early days of the Internet, banners ads were ads with text and graphic images. The first clickable banner ad was sold by Global Network Navigator (GNN-One of the very first commercially supported web publications and one of the very first web sites ever developed) in 1993 to a law firm. The first web site to sell banner ads in large quantities was Article Marketing hotwired.com. They sold their first banner ad to AT&T on October 25, 1994. There is a dispute over what company actually paid for the first banner: also credited as the first was a banner ad sold to Coors also in October 1994. In those early days, banner ads could contain graphic images and text but with today's technology such as Flash, banners are now complex and can be ads with text, animated graphics an sound. Banner ads were measured by the number of impressions they generated (how many times the banner was displayed). Ken McCarthy, a well known Internet Trainer, was the first back in May or 1994 to introduce the concept of a clickable/trackable ad. Ken felt that be able to measure the return on investments was the only way banner ads would prove sustainable over the long run. Banner ads are dispersed throughout the web by paid services and also free Banner Exchanges. In essence, there are two ways that you can benefit from placing free banner ads; 1. You can create a banner ad for your own products or you Affiliate products and display them on your own website. 2. You can join a number of the free banner exchanges found on the Internet. Just conduct a keyword search for free banner ads or banner exchanges and you will find as many as you wish to deal with. A Banner Exchange is comprised of a network of participating websites that display banner ads in exchange for credits that can be converted to banner ads that are displayed on other sites. There is a predetermined exchange rate. These credits allow you to display your banner ads on other websites. Members of large banner exchanges have the potential for their banner ads to be shown on thousands of other web sites. Typically, you could expect an banner ad exchange rate of 2:1 or 3:1 which means that for each time you show 2 or 3 banner ads on your site, the exchange will show your banner ad one time. Jimmy is an Internet Marketer who markets a variety of the best Email and Internet learning systems offered online. Today you can learn his secret weapon to getting tons of quality, 1 way links to my brand new websites in less than a 2-4 weeks with very little effort! Increase your Google ranking by easily using this new software program that is being secretly used by top ranked websites in Google, Yahoo, and MSN! I think you'll be surprised when you visit the website and watch the demo video and read all of the user comments... Visit http://www.jimmyoakley.com/

How Engineers Earn Cash by Sharing Their Knowledge and Experiences

2008-07-26T08:49:00.001-07:00

Every engineer has a specific engineering knowledge as he graduated from university or college. When engineers work, their working experiences develop. Each of them has unique experiences, since they work in different organizations, different companies, and various industries. Unfortunately, most of engineers do not realize the advantages they already have. Most of them do not like to compile their unique knowledge and experiences in form of writing. They just save their knowledge and experiences in their heads. If engineers want to write what they know and their experiences, they could share with other people, such like student, fresh engineers, or anyone else, who search everyday for such kind of information. Even many people would like to exchange their cash to get the information. By using the internet, engineers could compile their knowledge and experience with easy, free of charge and effective. No programming skills required. You only need to be familiar with using the internet. The easiest and fastest way is through blogging or blog. All you need to start compiling your knowledge and experience are already provided and these are free of charge. Moreover, you could earn cash while you compile the information you have, i.e. through targeted affiliate program. The most common such affiliate program is Google Adsense. Adsense is free to join and could give nice income for you. http://inside-chemical-plant.blogspot.com is an example of engineer's blog that built using the same principles. The author posts about everything inside a chemical plant, his daily engineering jobs and his own thought about an engineering issue. To build your own blog, you only need to follow five easy steps as described below. Please finish each step completely. Do not jump to the third step before completing the second step. 1.Do keywords research. Find out what keywords match with your blog's topic. Do not use keywords for your blog that currently have 10,000,000 websites or blogs competitors. Use search engine and directory for keywords research. To get good keywords you can visit http://www.goodkeyword.com or http://www.wordtracker.com. At wordtracker.com you will have chance to search best keywords based on KEI or Keywords Effective Index at a low price. 2.Create an account at blogger.com. Use the keywords you have chosen in your blog title and blog address. Having created your account, pick up a blog template that you think is suitable with your topic. Start your first post for your new blog. It may contain a welcome letter or anything else. Do not forget to publish your blog. 3.Sign up as Google Adsense Publisher. It may take about 48 hrs to get approval. After getting approval, you can start immediately insert Adsense Code into your blog. Read Adsense Terms and Conditions, to make sure you do not ignore Adsense rules. To insert Adsense code into your blog, simply click Template Adsense. You can choose text ads, link ads, Adsense referral or Google search. You may also customize the ads appearance that matches with your blog to get a high Click Through Rate (CTR). 4.Post regularly to your blog. Remember to use keywords in your post. Readers will love updated and original contents, as well as the search engines. Vary your posts, between short and long posts. It is good to insert picture to your post sometimes to make it interesting. 5.Promote you blog to major search engines and directories such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. Moreover, do not forget to add your blog to blog directories because these will generate traffic to your blog. You can find list of search engines and directories at http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55 . Other sources of traffic to your blog are link exchange with other blogs on your niche, actively involve in forums and placing good comments to other blogs. Also submit your own articles, which contain a back link to your blog, to article directories and ezines. To make people find that you have updated your blog without visiting your blog, you should prepare RSS for your blog. Do not worry blogger.com has provide it for you. Actually, if people find your blog is valuable to them, naturally they will come back to your blog and invite their friends. Your blog will grow naturally. So, always bear in mind to make your posts original and valuable. Building a blog is not a quick-rich scheme business, but a long-term business that potentially will give you a good source of income as it grows. Lukman Nulhakiem is a production engineer at a chemical plant in Indonesia. He helps people finding free ebooks from various categories with his website http://www.hot-free-ebooks-maps.com. To communicate with him, you can visit his blog http://inside-chemical-plant.blogspot.com. If you wish to share free ebooks information to others, you can post it at his blog http://free-ebooks-info.blogspot.com.

A Guide to Online Dating

2008-07-25T10:27:00.001-07:00

If you have never been to online dating, you must take following steps to find your soulmate now Given the rising popularity of online dating, there must be plenty of you out there who are tempted to try it out but not sure exactly how. Here are some useful pointers on how to go about dating online. Not only is it something you would enjoy, it can actually change the direction of your personal life. Usually the first reason singles choose online dating is they are getting no results looking for singles at bars and clubs. Apart from costing a pretty penny, it may not even get you the results you are looking for. One night out can cost more than one months membership at an online dating service. Also once you join a service you the number of potential dating partners' increases in thousands. Clarity of thought in terms of the dating partner you are looking for is important. You have more than enough search criteria to choose from to narrow it down to someone very compatible. You can then go through his/her profile, understand their areas of interest and decide if it is worthwhile to check out. People across age groups have found their soulmates thanks to online dating services. Senior people in fact prefer the anonymity it gives them till they find a partner to their liking. singles in this age bracket the internet is a perfect way to meet other singles. If you enjoy using your computer then there's another reason to start using it to meet other singles. It doesn't matter what time of day it is. Online dating services are open twenty four hours a day. You will always find someone online to chat to. Many singles are there to make friends as well. You don't have to try and start a relationship with everyone. All dating services have public chat rooms, and instant messenger services. You can even start a blog on most of the popular dating web sites now. The more time you have for logging in to your dating service the better it will be for you. Online dating services like activity from singles, and you will get your profile nearer the top of search results. As in all other areas of life, communicating well plays a great role in online dating as well. Be relaxed and open up about yourself when you sign up with a service. Express yourself lucidly in terms of what you are looking for and interesting responses will definitely start pouring in. To know much more about online dating service, please do visit at http://www.datingservices-online.net Linda Crowford is associated with online dating service. She is an author for many successful and ebooks written on romance and dating.

The Solution for Better Web Site ROI

2008-07-24T11:13:00.001-07:00

Internet advertising costs can get expensive. To get the top position in pay per click advertising sometimes you have to continually raise your keyword bids. Then in order to get enough clicks to make a sale you have to raise your budget. Banner advertising can cost you as much as $20-$50 per thousand impressions which could run you anywhere from $2,000-$5,000 per month. http://www.bmcommunications.com Text ads can also be expensive. One website charges $60 a month for a standard text ad. If you are using one or all of these advertising methods for your website you are probably losing money. How would you like to track all your ads, find out how your visitors found your website, which search terms they used to get there, when the visitor subscribed to your newsletter, and when the visitor purchased from you? If you knew all of this information then you could eliminate the advertising that is not pulling in sales, which would save you a lot of money. There is a solution for better website ROI (return on investment). AxROI is a software program that runs on your own server using your own cookies instead of third party cookies. All of your traffic and advertising tracking is kept confidential and is not shared by third parties. If you are currently using a third party tracking service most likely they are sharing your information with your competitors. AxROI also tracks all of your advertising right down to when and how your customer purchased from you. The program shows you which online ads and search engine rankings perform well and which is a waste of money. You will be able to make better search engine marketing decisions and spend advertising dollars wisely. Improve your ROI and find out which pay per click ads work for you. This program will also let you know which banner ad and text link ads lead to sales. You can earn $2 for every $1 you spend on advertising. And best of all there are no monthly fees. Visit their website today to learn more on how you can better improve your web site's ROI by tracking all of your advertising using your own secure server and save thousands of dollars on you advertising costs. For more information on AxROI visit: http://www.axroioptimizer.12w.net Ms. Cascia Talbert has been marketing online since 2003. Currently she writes reviews of marketing and advertising products that have helped her business. The product in this article has been tried and tested and proven to work.

Can Anyone Make $150-$200 A Day From Using Articles?

2008-07-23T20:53:00.001-07:00

Why is article marketing so great and why do the greatest marketers on the planet employ this method of marketing? The greatest will always remain in the front seat because they know what works. The fact that they continue to use article marketing as one of their main methods of marketing shows, well you guessed it, article marketing works for them. The possibilities for your articles are endless and it's an investment of time and not money which makes it cost effective as well. All you need is patience and commitment and you will succeed with this marketing method. The greatest marketers use this method because: It's cost effective. Actually let me tell you plan and simple, there is no cost to do this, it is absolutely free. It builds credibility and expert status on the internet on any subject there is under the sun. It drives floods of traffic to you promotions. You reach a laser targeted audience with you articles. This method has been proven to give you quality back links to your website and subsequently raise your website rankings, which equals more traffic. These are just previews of the wealth that article writing can bring to you. Although these aren't all the reasons, these should be enough reason for you to use this method of marketing. The most successful people have one thing in common they copy the best, as we can see, the best marketers all said yes to article marketing as one of their most frequently used internet marketing methods. What is the magical blue print for writing articles like the big guns? Here is the step by step blue print that the greatest use to build their articles at lightening speed: Step 1. Plan your article This may sound elementary but very few people can write articles and skip this step completely. When you plan your article it makes it easier to write on the topic that you choose. You need to dedicate time for this step because it's the doorway for the other steps to follow. Step 2. Brainstorm your article topic What are you going to write about and why? Do people want this information? Can you solve a problem that others have? Asking yourself these questions coupled with a little research can get you a long way. Step 3. Brainstorming your article points and organizing them. So you have a good topic, now what are the points that you want to discuss on that topic? Organize these topics into the order in which you want to hit on them first then expand on it. Step 4. Write selflessly about the topic to give quality information to your readers. This often separates the good from the great. People want information that helps them solve a problem. We usually get the wrong idea with this form of marketing and dive into a sales letter for a product we promote. You're not promoting a product right now, you're trying to build your credibility in the minds of readers. This will make them trust you more and be more open minded to your recommendations for your promotions. Not only will it turn off readers, it also turns off publishers to post your articles on their sites because it isn't of value to their website traffic. Step 5. Double check and triple check your article for mistakes. You don't want your articles to be filled with spelling errors and other minor or major mistakes because this will make people not like your writing. Publishers will review your pieces and if multiple errors are found, then it will not be submitted to their audience. Print out the article, read it aloud and pass it to a close friend to read it for you and give and objective opinion on what they think about your article. Two sets of eyes are better to find mistakes so use the feedback you get to write better. Now that you have a simple blue print to follow consider using it to write articles. Article marketing is the life blood for many great marketers out there and you should make it part of your marketing plans. It continuously adds $150-$200 a day to the pockets of those who use it maybe that alone could be your motivation to try. Shane Hunte is an experienced internet marketer who makes a full time income online. If you to would like to learn the simplest way to make money online then learn article marketing. Go to http://www.internetrevinue.com/to find out everything you need to know today about profiting fast using your own articles.

How to Explode the Traffic to your Website for little or no cost

2008-07-22T12:19:00.001-07:00

How to Explode the Traffic to your Website for little or no cost Incorporate the 5 different marketing tips that your going to read below, and watch as the traffic to your site will start to multply! Let me start off by saying that there are Billions of people around the world online today trying to sell something or looking for a new home based business opportunity to get involved in. The Internet is the one place where you can capture the multitude of new people coming online everyday looking for a way to make some money. So how do we get these prospects to view our website or product without spending a fortune? Find inexpensive ways to start and get traffic to your site. Listed below are 5 ways to start to get a ton of traffic to your website without having to spend a bunch of money along the way. Submit an Article to Online Directories One of the best ways to get an incredible amount of free traffic to your site is though articles that you write and submit to online directories. Website owners and Ezine publishers are always looking for good articles with fresh material that they can include in their websites and newsletters. It's really not that difficult just sit down and think of all the things about your product that people would be interested in. Right a short say 500 word article and submit it and you won't believe how fast your article will be picked up. The way you get hits to your website is through the resource box that is listed at the end of the article. This is where you say a little something about yourself and include a link to whatever you are promoting. There are 1,000's of directories to submit your article to, and the best way to minimize the time involved is to submit your article using special software created just for this purpose. If you would like a list of the best ones available at the present time, just send me an email with Article Submitters in the subject line. The one thing I must warn you is not to make your article sound too much like a sales letter for your product or the directories won't accept your article for distribution. Email Signature File This may sound obvious but many people do not include this simple method of getting free hits to their website. Include an email signature file in every one of your emails. In this signature file that goes at the bottom of your email message include a short description of the product you are currently promoting with a link attached for people to visit your site. Think of all the emails that you get in a day. With this short message at the end of each of your email replies you won't believe how many extra hits you will get to your site. It even works well with junk email that you get from other people trying to get you to visit their sites. Just reply back with something like this: Hi Thanks will check it out Best Free traffic generating source online today: http://www.1millionfreehits.com People will be curious and click on your signature file, and you will receive a bunch of extra hits from the people that were sending you junk mail. Free, Free, Free People love to get things free, whether it's an ebook you have written, or some kind of new software that will help them promote their product online. There are even ebooks out there that you can get the resale rights to and rebrand it with your name. By giving something away free is a perfect way to get new names to promote your product to. Here is how I promote a free ebook and always get a big response. Free Ebook - Traffic generation with an amazing viral idea So do some research and find yourself a couple of free items what you can promote which will again attract free visitors to your web site. Viral marketing classified site Get involved in a viral marketing classified site. The one I recommend to all my clients is http://www.1millionfreehits.com The sign up is free and there are no hidden costs down the line. Remember the illegal pyramid schemes that cropped up about 10 years ago that promised you to get rich for just a small investment if you signed up 5 people and they did the same and so on. Well this is the same concept however it's legal and works incredible with classified ads. Visit the site for full details and view the How to Promote page. Plus with thousands of new people coming online everyday looking for a money making opportunity this can literally go on forever! It's a must to include with the promotion of your website or product. New Cutting Edge Marketing Method So far everything I have mentioned in this article has been free for getting traffic to your website. There is one new piece of software that I have come across that I thing will explode the traffic that you will get to your website. I feel it's the most incredible advertising method that I have seen in a long time. The curiosity that it instills is a must to include in any marketing campaign. If you would like more information on this new cutting edge form of advertising just shoot me over an email or a sample can be viewed at http://homebusinessprofits2007.com up in the right hand corner of the website. So as you can see it doesn't take a ton of money to start to get a massive amount of traffic to your website with the things incorporated from above. If you have any questions about the items listed here please feel free to email me at mail to: freehits@msn.com and I would be happy to answer you as soon as I can. Until next time, Tony Stoffo has been a successful Entrepreneur online since the late 90's and is the author of the best selling book entitled "Money Management."

The Basics Of Putting Video On Your Website

2008-07-22T11:58:00.001-07:00

If you're not using video on your website yet, then you're missing out on a great opportunity to increase customer responsiveness to your website. With the ever growing population of broadband users in the United States, video has become mainstream. You only need to look at the most popular sites on the Internet and see that http://Youtube.com is the 8th most popular website in the world. Youtube is a site that shows videos, so broadband is essential to using and enjoying the site. It is estimated that 65% of Internet users in the United States have broadband access, and that number is expected to grow to 80% by 2010. However, putting video on a website can seem quite intimidating if you've never done it before. I know. I've been in that position. When I first started learning about putting videos on the Internet I didn't even own a video camera or know how to use one. Fortunately, technology has made putting your videos on the Internet far easier than in the past. Now you can relatively quickly film a video, add professional looking effects, upload it, and post it on your website. What You'll Need •A computer with a firewire port and Windows XP (preferably a laptop – if yours doesn't have one, you can buy an adapter) •A digital video camera •A firewire cable •A tripod •A well lit area Those are actually the only essential tools. Now there are a lot of extra tools you can add to really add professionalism to your videos, but those are for another time. I just want to focus on helping you get your first video up. Step 1 - Setting Up Go ahead and put your video camera on the tripod. Setup your laptop next to the video camera. Now go ahead and plug in the firewire cable to the video camera and then to the firewire port on your computer. Your computer should automatically recognize the camera and ask you what you want to do. Click on the capture video icon. This will open up Windows Movie Maker on your computer – a free program installed on all Windows XP computers (I'm assuming your using a PC and not a Mac since Macs are a bit more intuitive for making videos, and you probably won't need this guide) Make sure you're area is well lit. You will want it to seem really bright in order for it to look good on video. Step 2 - Recording the video All you need to do is click on capture video in Windows Movie Maker and you can record your video. When you're done, just push stop. Step 3 – Editing Your Video Once you've finished recording your video, you'll see your clip showing in the collections section of Windows Movie Maker. Click on the clip and drag the clip to the timeline at the bottom of the application. Once it shows in the timeline, you're able to edit the length, and cut out parts. You can also add music or add a title screen and credits. Step 4 – Saving Your Video Once you've finished editing your video, you're ready to save it. Just click save, and tell windows to save it in the best quality for playback on your computer format. This will keep the file from becoming huge and will make it much faster to upload. Step 5 – Uploading Your Video Go to http://Youtube.com and sign up for a free account. Once you're signed up, click on my videos and then on upload a video. Find the file you saved on your computer and upload it to Youtube. Step 6 – Publishing To Your Website Once you're done uploading your video. Go ahead and watch your video. To the right of the video you'll see a section labeled Embed. Copy that code and paste it to the website where you want you video to appear. Viola. You've just put your video online. Gary Ruplinger is the owner and operator of http://www.AVICoach.com His site helps people learn about all aspects of online video marketing. You'll find a variety of video tutorials and guides at his site. Also, be sure to download his free report on making your site sell more with video.

Internet Marketing Strategy Planning - The Eight Steps Formula

2008-07-21T08:14:00.001-07:00

Before you decide what to sell on the internet. You have to develop an Internet Marketing Strategy that is the essential part of your online success on the Internet. You have to take into consideration the following: 1. Find a large and easy to reach niche market 2. Find a Product or Service the niche market demands for! 3. Setup your website 4. Have a great sales copy (your 24/7 sales man) 5. Create an opt-in page to collect email address 6. Have a great sales process 7. Make your website scalable and search engine friendly 8. Backend, backend and backend Each step plays an important to your success in your Internet Marketing Strategy Planning. If even one step is miss out you will not be able to see the results you would like to see as each step is equally important to each other. 1. Find a large and easy to reach niche market Your first step in your Internet Marketing Strategy planning requires you to do your research and find a large and easy to reach niche market to market your product. What you can do from here is that you go to Free Keywords tools and search for niche keywords that have high click through and low competitions. Example the keyword "Dog Food For Sale", when you search that on Google there are actually 5,650,000 which is seriously not a lot of competition but you also have to check is there a demand for it by using tools from www.seobook.com to look at the KEI rate. The higher the KEI rate the better the keyword. 2. Find a Product or Service the niche market demands for! After you have found 2 or 3 keywords that you would like to target on, you would want to find products that will serve the market that demands for it. Example like the keyword "Dog Food For Sale", you would not want to promote Cat Food as it is totally not related to the topic you want to promote about. So find related products like an eBook "where to find great sale for dog food" or dog products that dogs like to eat. 3. Setup your website After you have decided what product or service you want to sell online, you would want to setup a website to promote your product. The best way to do it is by creating a Blog talking nothing but Dog Food that are for Sale. Because Google and Yahoo search engine loves Blogs so much that you virtually get listed just 24 hours upon updating compared to a normal website, which will take at least a few weeks to be cached into the search engine. 4. Have a great sales copy (your 24/7 sales man) Do not be mistaken, sales copy is not the sale. A sales copy is a page with descriptions and details to promote your product on your website. When I first heard of this term sales copy I was totally stunted how important it was to have a sales copy. Depending how good your copy writing skills are, you can get people to write your sales copy or simply teach yourself to write one. If you can try to write it yourself as copy writing is a very good skill to learn especially when you are an Internet Marketer who plans Internet Marketing Strategy. 5. Create an opt-in page to collect email address This is another important step that many do not have and its the most important. Why? It is because they fail to collect email address from their website. With the email address you can design out your sales process in the next step which I will explain further. 6. Have a great sales process With your opt-in page in place, you can used the captured email address and name to follow up with people who are interested to know more about what you are promoting in your opt-in page. This way build you list of email list and keep sent them information or promotion products to sell those products again in the future. 7. Make your website scalable and search engine friendly With all that done, you would now need to read up on Search Engine Optimization. Practicing this will allow search engines like Yahoo and Google to spider your website easily. The good thing about Blogs is that you can ping the search engines to spider your site easily and you can listed very quickly within 24 hours. 8. Backend, backend and backend Upon completion of all 7 steps, you just need to keep on sent backend information to your list from your opt-in emails that you receive and keep on driving traffic your opt-in page to get more email address to sent out promotion to your customers. If you constantly follow these 8 steps formula for your Internet Marketing Strategy Plan, you will see great massive results after 3 months upon you have setup. So do the math and start planning your Internet Marketing Strategy today! Alvin Phang is the owner of http://www.GatherSuccess.com Get the right Internet Marketing Strategy for your Internet Business with our free resource of Internet Marketing Strategy Planning, Tips, Tutorials, Videos, Reviews and click the following link for more http://www.gathersuccess.com

How To Learn Bollywood Dance

2008-07-19T09:10:00.001-07:00

There are many options available where you can learn dance steps from. You may prefer online dance videos, learning dance with videos/cassettes, hiring dance choreographers for home learning, joining academy dance school etc. Having a dancer/choreographer with you when learning dance steps will make you feel comfortable and help you learn the depth of the dances. Bollywood dances are gaining popularity around the world. People are passionate to learn bollywood dance steps as they are easy to learn and entertaining as well. Hindi Film Dances vary depending on events and occasions. You can see performances like 'Dandiya Dance' on Navratra occasion and 'Bhangra Dance' during 'Lohri & Besakhi'. Any classical dance academy or bollywood dance school should be your first choice to learn Hindi dancing; you may also opt for a choreographer for in-home classes. Dancing is difficult if you want to be perfect. But as said 'nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it'. Many great dancers start learning since their early childhood, even Nakul Dev Mahajan from www.ndmdance.com started dancing as early as five years of age. He is now running the most acclaimed academy dance school 'NDM Dance Studio' in Los Angeles , California . He is a renowned choreographer here and providing bollywood dance lessons for Kathak Dance, Bhangra Dance, Folk Dances and others. Whatever is your choice to learn bollywood dance, it should be conveniently located and suit your budget. Using dance tutorials, video learning is not as much helpful and in-home dance lessons is an expensive affair. Joining a dancing academy gives you the opportunity to learn dance steps in groups and improve your chemistry of dancing with different people at different locations. You will make friends in the process and it will boost your energy and confidence. Deepak Rajput is the author & co-creator of e-commerce websites and information products. His involvement in developing, marketing and other online businesses for himself and clients is noticiable since 2002. You can also check his blog for SEO & SEM related articles at http://www.semflicks.blogspot.com

Content Is King for Generating Traffic

2008-07-18T11:07:00.001-07:00

Surfers go online mainly to find information. If you can satisfy that need then you will increase your traffic, enhance your brand, and acquire and retain more customers. The catch is that your content-whether free on your site, distributed elsewhere gratis, or sold as an informational product-has to be killer content that's valuable in the eyes of consumers. Entrepreneur.com's Tim Knox [2004] says information is the best product to sell online for the following reasons: It's fast to create, fast to market. There's no inventory to stock. The start-up costs are low. There's an automated sales and delivery process. Customers get immediate access or delivery. There are no shipping and handling charges. Not every online business is looking toward creating and distributing information products as a revenue stream, however. Many webmasters are more interested in using the strategy to enhance their brand with visitors and with their peers. Top-notch content is also extremely effective as a marketing tool to generate traffic for your site. The branding and marketing applications are actually complementary: "Articles establish you as an expert in the marketplace, build inbound links to your sites, pre-sell your products, and help you rank higher in the search engines for your targeted keywords." [Crawford 2006] Beckart [2005] summarizes the seven key benefits of writing articles and publishing them online: Resource box. The short paragraph about the author included at the bottom of the published article is an opportunity to brand yourself, your business, and your website. Inbound links. Every time your article is published there should be a live link to your website in the resource box. Include important keywords in the link text for extra points with the search engines. Building credibility. Articles help establish your expertise. It's easier to gain a prospective client's trust when you have this credibility. Prospects that trust you are more likely to make a purchase. Receptive audience. People who receive the e-zines containing your articles are voluntarily pre-selected because they're interested in the particular topics you're writing about. Exposure. When your article is sent out to a publisher's list, it's an excellent result of your efforts. Also, many publishers place current articles on their homepage, later archiving them. Leverage. You have content that you can leverage when you write articles. Whatever you write can be used for multiple purposes. Search engines look favorably on new content. Viral marketing. Allow e-zine publishers to include your articles in their free e-books, as long as your resource box is included. Since these are being given away, your ad multiplies. The practical application is straightforward-you write (or have written for you) a useful and interesting article; make it available for use on other sites, newsletters, or e-zines either directly or through a resource site; then wait for the organic benefits to accrue. Resource sites that you can submit your articles to are popular with Web publishers of all types because they're perennially hungry for new content-often desperate for it, in fact. Several of the best resources for submitting your articles (or finding some) include: Connection Team (www.connectionteam.com). Doesn't post the actual article. They post links to the article as it appears on the author's website so the author receives the traffic. Publishers read and evaluate the articles at the author's site. (www.ezinearticles.com). Their searchable database of 100,000+ original articles allows newsletter publishers hungry for fresh content to find articles that they can use for inclusion within their next newsletter.GoArticles (www.goarticles.com). An article search engine and directory, updated daily. One of the largest article databases makes great content available to publishers when they want it, not when someone decides to send it. IdeaMarketers (www.ideamarketers.com). Writers can post their articles for free to be featured on the site and stored in a searchable database. Publishers, webmasters and e-zine editors then visit and find new content. Distributing free content like this is one of the most powerful linking and traffic-generation strategies available to you. According to Michael Klasno [2006] reciprocal link exchanges are dead: "This practice does not indicate either site as being an authority and actually gives a slight edge to the lesser ranked site. This strategy has already become obsolete and very soon the search engines will change their algorithms and teach their spiders to take it into account." But that leaves three-way non-reciprocal linking in which all three sites get a unique inbound link without having to link back in return. Seems complicated (and unlikely!) but how it actually works is very simple-you send your article (linking back to you) to another site, a third site will refer to that article and thus link to them, and finally, you may want to link to that third site to drive traffic to your article and thus back to you. All three get a one-way inbound link: It should be said that three-way link exchanges, like some other link building strategies, is not as effective as it used to be: "Despite what many people think, three-way link exchanges can be easily identified by search engines and if there are a large number of these types of links are present, it can result in a ranking drop or ban." Nevertheless, this remains a viable strategy if not overdone. The key to leveraging three-way links effectively remains, as always, the quality of the link and of the content. Delivering relevant links from relevant content is the key. [Klasno 2006] and Walsh [2005] both recommend three-way linking: "The idea is simple: you give other websites content to put on their sites in exchange for a link to your site. The beauty of distributing content for links is that the links generally generate more traffic than links on a resources page. Plus, your article will pre-sell readers on the value of your site." Branding and generating traffic by distributing valuable content is a powerful strategy that you should be using or leveraging more effectively. But the absolute key is in making sure that your content really is valuable and delivers value to the readers. Visit us at http://www.eBizTutors.com.

Using Free Methods To Generate Quality Massive Traffic Part 1

2008-07-17T11:44:00.001-07:00

While there are many ways to jump start your traffic flows, many sites don't have the required resources and knowledge that others have to generate quality massive traffic to their sites. With the versatility the Internet offers, there are many ways available to you that could help optimize the potential of your site or business in generating traffic. Free Targeted Traffic The truth is that, you don't have to spend a cent to generate targeted traffic to your site. All you need is the proper mindset, a lot of eagerness and the know-how. You also need to have the focus, drive and perseverance to do hard work and research to generate more quality targeted massive traffic for your site. You can imagine how sweet it is to have more quality massive traffic for your site without spending a single cent. It is a fact that many sites have articles that offer tips and guidelines on how to generate quality massive traffic using only free methods. Honestly speaking, because it is possible, you don't need to spend a single cent, though it may take some time to achieve your goal. Needless to say that you get better chances by paying for your advertisements. Some are not only faster but can bring immediate results. Using google's adwords can bring immediate quality massive traffic. That not withstanding, you get a fighting chance with some of these free methods I'm about to reveal to you. The Importance Of Newsletter You can take the advantage newsletters have to offer. Provide people with quality information that benefits them. The mindset of people is what is in it for them. You can therefore sandwich such interesting articles and courses with a catalog of your products. If you make it really interesting and beneficial, many people will sign up for your newsletter and recommend it to others. This is one avenue to generate quality massive traffic. They will be readily open to any products you offer or recommend. The possibility of some of them book marking your site to re-visit later depending on the quality of information available on your site and even referring their friends can not be over emphasized. The more the people who sign up for your newsletter, the more the flow of quality traffic to your site thus increasing your traffic without paying a single cent. Linking Through Forums.: You can also take the opportunities online forums and online communities offer. The great thing about forums and online communities is that you can target a certain group that fits the demographic you are looking for. You can then discuss about the niche that you represent or offer. The advantage is that you already know what you are getting into and why. So you are well prepared. You also learn new tricks and gain new insights from others within your discussion, which further help you to get better results while you are still regarded as an expert in your area of discussion. With online communities and forums you can build a reputation for yourself and your business. Show them the stuff you have and develop their interest in your business with your expertise on the subject. With that you can build a reputation and build trust with the people in your expertise and knowledge. Reciprocal Link Trading Another great idea is trading links with other sites. You may be wondering why http://www.yahoo.com has almost thirty two million links pointing to it. Those links are generating quality massive traffic to it. You don't need six million links to generate quality massive traffic to your site while at the same time you don't have to spend a cent to generate it. All you have to do is reach an agreement with other webmasters or site owners. With exchanging links, the efforts of both of you will benefit each site. Every traffic that goes to the other site could potentially click on the link of your site and visit your site as well. This works well especially when both sites feature the same niche but not in direct competition. Strategic Linking: Many site owners are getting over a million hits per month without optimizing for search engines. Many of them did nothing more than seek out link partners and only submitted a few times to each major search engine. They are almost totally depending on reciprocal and one way links for more than ninety percent of their traffic. Reciprocal and one way links alone give them million hits every month. Relevant reciprocal links can therefore do much more for you than any search engine ever will. Linking Tools.: There are many tools online that can generate thousands of reciprocal links back to your site without spamming. Many free link directories and exchanges will reduce the stress and the time wasted to search for relevant link partners. Some are even automated. All you need to do is to provide relevant information on your need. They provide you with links that you can either accept or reject. With this, you conveniently generate quality massive traffic to your site. One free valuable tool I highly recommend and use on my site is Link Management Assistant. See a short and more detailed review here This tool, though free is regularly updated. There is also a forum to assist you. One more important thing to note is to avoid the use of link farms, as search engines are more likely to penalize you for their use. It will do your site a lot of good and generate free high quality massive traffic to your site if you could link back with your keywords or a specific keyword phrase anchoring back to your site. Samuel Ifekoya is the owner of http://www.apexhomebusiness.com, The place to start your Internet Work at Home Business Opportunities today! FREE 30 Days to Success Blueprint! Top Pick of work at home business resources for you, residual income, FREE tools, FREE Video Tutorials.

Re-Charge Your Business for More Success!

2008-07-16T11:14:00.001-07:00

When you own a home business, sometimes you need to step back and see what you can do to help give your business new life, like a battery that needs to be jump started. Some things you can do to recharge your business are: Reassess Your Goals - If you have previously written down your goals, go over them to see how you have done. Have you achieved your goals? If not, you will need to try to figure out why and make some changes. If so, what will your new goals be? Remember to use your goals as a guideline. They do not have to be etched in stone! Expand Your Networking - You now have a very well established circle of contacts, but you always need to be networking and meeting new contacts. Get to know others, learn from them and let them learn from you. This is an excellent way of building a strong foundation for your business. Streamline Your Business Plan - Review your plans for your business. As with your goals, you probably need to upgrade. Keep up with the latest technology and marketing strategies so you can stay abreast of your competition. Revamp Your Website - Look over your website and see how you can give it a breath of fresh air for your recharged business. You don't need to change the entire design. Maybe spruce it up a bit with more features and/or customer benefits. Adding more content is always a wise decision. Raise Your Search Engine Ratings - Tweak your keywords and refine your content to match. Search engines take no crap so make your site the best it can be for those spiders! Tweak Your Ezine - Review your ezine, the layout, design and content. Maybe add a new section or add some reader interaction. Ask your subscribers what they would like to see in your ezine and what they don't like about it. Offer them a free gift for answering your questions. This is a greatway to find out how to improve your ezine. Refine Your Marketing Plan - Do some research. You need to keep up with the latest trends and changes in the online marketing world. You may need to make some major changes in the way you market your business. Strengthen Your Reputation - Go the extra mile for your customers/subscribers. Show them that you deserve your trust and respect. Buuild a reputation stronger then the Great Wall of China! Strive to Learn More - There is so much to learn in this business and the more we know, the more we can do! So, let's make it a point to learn all we can. Learn how to work smarter, no harder! I'm ready, are you? Ok, let's make our business more successful than ever! Terri Seymour has several years online experience and has helped many people start their own business. Visit her site at http://www.seymourproducts.com for resources, $1 resell ebooks & software, free tutorials, affiliate programs, and a free ezine with bonus report: 77 Ways to Get Traffic! "mailto:subscribe@seymourproducts.com"

Wednesday Passion

2008-07-16T09:19:00.001-07:00

Today is my Spa Day. A day of pampering myself from head to toe. Whoa!

Leather Care Caution

2008-07-16T00:24:00.000-07:00

Be careful with your new leather goods. Don't tamper with them unless you know what you are doing and tanned the leather yourself. One Hundred years ago everyone knew how to treat leather. Leather was a big part of their lives. Read "Two Years Before the Mast". Before the gold rush they sailed from New England around Cape Horn to California to buy hides. Leather was used for everything and they used a lot of it.Today nobody seems to know anything about leather or where it comes from. In a style forum recently a guy was telling readers to tan leather by leaving it in the sun. Is that a joke? No, he was serious. Look if it's leather, it has been tanned. It's called tanning because it's a process using tannic acid that takes about six months. It isn't done at the beach. When you buy leather goods, especially expensive leather goods, you want to take care of them. What should you do? Here is an email I received the other day: I just bought a top quality brown leather jacket by Andrew Marc. I treated it with water/rainproofing spray which I usually do with my leather shoes and handbags. Then I applied / rubbed with cotton, a leather conditioning balm (with beeswax) all over the jacket. Now there are dark brown spots from the balm after application. I don't like the uneven color on the jacket. Will these dark spots from the conditioning balm eventually disappear out even out? What are the possible remedies to even out the brown color? Please help! She just couldn't leave it alone. After the jacket maker bought the best leather, from a tannery that spent six months tanning and finishing the leather so it would make a quality jacket, she had to mess with it. DON'T DO THAT. As I say on my leather care page: http://www.leathergoodsconnection.com/ When we sell you leather goods, it isn't a kit... it's finished. If it needed something on it we would have done it, or chosen different leather. I also say, "If you want it to stay looking like it did when you took it out of the box, put it back in the box". Fine leather changes with use and becomes better, just use it in a reasonable manner and enjoy it. One more caution... even though I say the tanners and finishers have done all that needs to be done to the leather, there is also the part about the maker choosing the proper leather for its use. That also assumes that both the tanner and maker aren't cutting corners with quality. When buying leather goods, especially imported leather goods, smell the leather first. There are a lot of ways to tan leather other than using tannic acid. In some countries they even use urine. Sometimes they rush the process and then use formaldehyde, (which isn't allowed in the U.S.) as a preservative. You know what that stuff is, it's what they kept that frog in that you dissected in biology class. It might not be too noticeable at first, but after being stored in a closet for the summer you might find that new jacket too stinky to wear if the leather was preserved with formaldehyde. Henry Hibbard has been making leather goods since 1972. He has an information website with tutorials showing how to make leather handbags and belts at http://home.alltel.net/henryh and a group site where he answers questions for people interested in making and designing leather goods at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LeatherGoodsConnection/